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[FranEssi]

But for Jim to admit he gets "most joy" from Shenny scenes (what about the spanking?) has left me a little giddy with happiness.

He talked about how he enjoys the Shenny scenes the most in an interview he did before season 7 started too. It was his interview with Gold Derby editors about his Emmy nomination. Here is the link to the interview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtBngUkKSEY

It's a long interview. Due to my very slow Internet connection at the moment, I'm afraid I can't say at what minute of the video the comment about Sheldon and Penny happens. IIRC, Jim also talks about the spanking scene, and it's interesting that he says he was very angry when he was asked to do that scene. Apparently, according to the script, the actual spanking was supposed to happen off screen. The script had Sheldon saying that he was going to spank Amy and then the camera was supposed to pan out or something. But they suddenly decided that it would be funny if they had Sheldon actually spank Amy. Jim talks about how he is not very good at multitasking (I guess meaning that he likes things to remain the way they have been written in the script and have been rehearsed beforehand) and that's why he was angry when he was asked to do the spanking scene. Of course he made the "I've never been angrier..." comment quickly and in a good-natured manner while laughing it off, and went on to say how that scene and its takes made them laugh behind the scenes, but I think that brief comment does show that he was not very OK with doing the scene.

He then praised Mayim as an actress and her ability at being spontaneous and at multitasking, because apparently, unlike Jim, Mayim was OK with the sudden changes to the script and with being asked to do the spanking scene on the spot. While he praised her as an actress, he didn't say anything at all about enjoying his/his character's scenes with Mayim/her character.