11. The Precious Fragmentation
Season 3, Episode 17
Title Reference: The boys fight over the One Ring. The boys find a ring from the Lord of the Rings which turns out to be a prop from the actual movie and fight over who should keep it and what should be done with it. Raj wants to sell it to buy a jet-ski, Leonard wants to return it Peter Jackson and Sheldon wants to keep it safe and only bring it out to reenact their favourite scenes from the movie. Leonard decides to give it to Penny to keep safe until they can decide what to do with it. One night Sheldon tries to steal the ring from Penny's neck while she sleeps, but she wakes while he is in the process and punches him in the face. The next day the guys (including a bruised Sheldon) decide that whoever is the last one to hold onto the ring gets to decide its fate. Leonard drops out when Penny returns home with a bag from Victoria's Secret while the others bad mouth each other's mothers and Sheldon's "meemaw". The 3 fall asleep on the sofa after which Sheldon wakes as the sole holder of the ring. He runs to the bathroom where he begins to talk like Gollum while cleaning the ring, then it is revealed that he looks like Gollum. He wakes from his nightmare to discover the ring has gone as Leonard has sent it back to Peter Jackson.
Best Moment: Sheldon is punched in the face by Penny while trying to steal the ring.