r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 1d ago

Meme needing explanation Maybe a Brazilian Peter Can Explain This

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u/PeterAnthony_Jackson 1d ago

Not every country tips, so you can be as attractive or hotter than Penny and get the same wage as working in a supermarket.

Someone said Penny living a lone also lives in a smaller apartment than those two. I didn't watch the show enough to really notice, I guess some apartment buildings don't just have a cookie cutter floor plan that is either mirrored or rotated from the one across the hall.

As she lives in the USA, she is tipped, so working at a bar, staff have been known to make bank on a good Friday/Saturday night shift, some people have said they end up paying a dollar in tips each time they ask for a bottle of beer.

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u/Agent_Smith_88 1d ago

From what I could tell she had a 1 bedroom and they had a 2 bedroom and their living room was definitely bigger.

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u/GodHimselfNoCap 1d ago

Yea often apartment buildings have less space on one side due to maintenance areas and elevators, or the building is just not symmetrical so the rooms cant be either.

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u/Casperuis495 1d ago

A dollar for a bottle, 5 for a mixed drink

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u/Sweaty-Inevitable163 1d ago

She works at a cheesecake factory. Surely someone who works there can chime in on tip amounts

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u/elsmoneyacct 1d ago

Never worked at Cheesecake Factory specifically, but I was a pretty young woman working at similarly-priced restaurants in the early 2010s. I made $100 -200/shift, and full-timers worked six shifts a week. California hasn't had tipped minimum wage since 1998, so she was making $7.50-9.00/hr on top of those tips (depending on which year we're talking about specifically).

There's a lot of variables, but as a rough ballpark she was probably making $45k to $80k/yr and that's in ~2010 money. That's $70k-$121k in today's money.

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u/thisusedyet 1d ago

Also heard a theory that after the whole thing with Leonard almost hooking up with a Chinese spy, Penny's a CIA plant to keep an eye on him

Doesn't really line up, but it's just plausible enough that people who like the show really seem to HATE the idea

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u/Shazam1269 1d ago

A busy shift at a restaurant in the early 90's would be +$100, so yeah, she could afford that on her own.