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* {{Hypocrite}}: Howard mocks Sheldon for being beat up by Penny even though the same thing happened to him just the previous season.
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-->'''Leonard:''' There wasn't going to be a winner! There was going to be a selfish and petty person with a ring and three people who used to be his friend! Is that really what you guys want? 'Cuz if it is, fine, I don't want anything to do with you!
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-->'''Leonard:''' There wasn't going to be a winner! There was going to be a selfish and petty person with a ring and three people who used to be his friend! [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Is that really what you guys want? want]]? 'Cuz if it is, fine, I don't want anything to do with you!
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* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure:
** Howard jokes that his DisappearedDad must have gone to Melmac, the home planet of ''Series/{{Alf}}''. However, ALF mentioned that his planet Melmac exploded in a nuclear war and so there is nothing left of it, all the surviving Melmacians fled to other parts of the universe. Therefore, Howard's joke is inaccurate and shows he doesn't have an accurate recounting of ALF.
** Penny claims she doesn't know who Adam West is, aggravating Sheldon. A RunningGag on this show is that Penny is unfamiliar with works of art associated with superheroes, sci-fi and fantasy that the men cherish.
** Howard jokes that his DisappearedDad must have gone to Melmac, the home planet of ''Series/{{Alf}}''. However, ALF mentioned that his planet Melmac exploded in a nuclear war and so there is nothing left of it, all the surviving Melmacians fled to other parts of the universe. Therefore, Howard's joke is inaccurate and shows he doesn't have an accurate recounting of ALF.
** Penny claims she doesn't know who Adam West is, aggravating Sheldon. A RunningGag on this show is that Penny is unfamiliar with works of art associated with superheroes, sci-fi and fantasy that the men cherish.
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* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure:
** Howard jokes that his DisappearedDad must have gone to Melmac, the home planet of ''Series/{{Alf}}''. However, ALF mentioned that his planet Melmac exploded in a nuclear war and so there is nothing left of it, all the surviving Melmacians fled to other parts of the universe. Therefore, Howard's joke is inaccurate and shows he doesn't have an accurate recounting of ALF.
**PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Penny claims she doesn't know who Adam West is, aggravating Sheldon. A RunningGag on this show is that Penny is unfamiliar with works of art associated with superheroes, sci-fi and fantasy that the men cherish.
** Howard jokes that his DisappearedDad must have gone to Melmac, the home planet of ''Series/{{Alf}}''. However, ALF mentioned that his planet Melmac exploded in a nuclear war and so there is nothing left of it, all the surviving Melmacians fled to other parts of the universe. Therefore, Howard's joke is inaccurate and shows he doesn't have an accurate recounting of ALF.
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* LackOfEmpathy: When the guys return to the apartment with a box of random junk they bought at a yard sale instead of Chinese food as planned, Penny is left bitter over left waiting for nothing and makes several sarcastic comments to Leonard, which he completely ignores. The next day at the Cheese Cake Factory, Penny checks on the guys if they are enjoying their good, and sneaks in another sarcastic comment over how she "actually brought them food like she promised instead of a box of random crap", with Leonard commenting "the sarcasm’s a little stale" in response.
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* LackOfEmpathy: When the guys return to the apartment with a box of random junk they bought at a yard sale instead of Chinese food as planned, Penny is left bitter over left waiting for nothing and makes several sarcastic comments to Leonard, which he completely ignores. The next day at the Cheese Cake Factory, Penny checks on the guys if they are enjoying their good, food, and sneaks in another sarcastic comment over how she "actually brought them food like she promised instead of a box of random crap", with Leonard commenting "the sarcasm’s a little stale" in response.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Penny's sarcastic comment to Leonard about how he might need a new girlfriend, and closing the episode saying "I gotta go back to dating dumb guys from the gym!" foreshadows her and Leonard's break-up next episode.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Penny's sarcastic comment to Leonard about how he might need a new girlfriend, and closing the episode saying "I gotta go back to dating dumb guys from the gym!" foreshadows her and Leonard's break-up next episode.soon.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Penny's sarcastic comment to Leonard about how he might need a new girlfriend, and closing the episode saying "I gotta go back to dating dumb guys from the gym!" foreshadows her and Leonard's break-up next episode.
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* LackOfEmpathy: When the guys return to the apartment with a box of random junk they bought at a yard sale instead of Chinese food as planned, Penny is left bitter over left waiting for nothing and makes several sarcastic comments to Leonard, which he completely ignores. The next day at the Cheese Cake Factory, Penny checks on the guys if they are enjoying their good, and sneaks in another sarcastic comment over how she "actually brought them food like she promised instead of a box of random crap", with Leonard commenting "the sarcasm’s a little stale" in response.
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Removing a shoehorned and biased example against Penny.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: Penny complains to the guys that it's not fair he didn't bring her any Chinese food but she brought them burgers at the Cheesecake Factory. The situations are different because as a waitress at that restaurant it is her job to bring customers the food they order, whereas their failing to bring her Chinese food last night was, at worst, a broken promise, not a failure to perform a basic job function.
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* ParentalSexualitySquick: While fighting over who can hold on to the ring longer, Howard and Rajesh try to psych Sheldon out by invoking this about his beloved maternal grandmother, Connie Tucker.[[note]]However, in the ''Young Sheldon'' episode [[Recap/YoungSheldonS1E21SummerSausageAPocketPonchoAndTonyDanza "Summer Sausage, a Pocket Poncho, and Tony Danza"]], Sheldon took an excessive interest in Prof. Sturgis spending the night with Connie and even surveilled his grandmother's house through binoculars the next morning. The boy was happy to see that the professor's bicycle was still parked at Connie's house.[[/note]]
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* ParentalSexualitySquick: While fighting over who can hold on to the ring longer, Howard and Rajesh try to psych Sheldon out by invoking this about his beloved maternal grandmother, Connie Tucker.[[note]]However, in the ''Young Sheldon'' episode [[Recap/YoungSheldonS1E21SummerSausageAPocketPonchoAndTonyDanza "Summer Sausage, a Pocket Poncho, and Tony Danza"]], Sheldon took an excessive interest in Prof. Sturgis spending the night with Connie and even surveilled his grandmother's house through binoculars the next morning. The boy was happy glad to see that the professor's bicycle was still parked at Connie's house.[[/note]]
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past tense verbs for Young Sheldon episode
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* ParentalSexualitySquick: While fighting over who can hold on to the ring longer, Howard and Rajesh try to psych Sheldon out by invoking this about his beloved maternal grandmother, Connie Tucker.[[note]]However, in the ''Young Sheldon'' episode [[Recap/YoungSheldonS1E21SummerSausageAPocketPonchoAndTonyDanza "Summer Sausage, a Pocket Poncho, and Tony Danza"]], Sheldon takes an excessive interest in Prof. Sturgis spending the night with Connie.[[/note]]
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* ParentalSexualitySquick: While fighting over who can hold on to the ring longer, Howard and Rajesh try to psych Sheldon out by invoking this about his beloved maternal grandmother, Connie Tucker.[[note]]However, in the ''Young Sheldon'' episode [[Recap/YoungSheldonS1E21SummerSausageAPocketPonchoAndTonyDanza "Summer Sausage, a Pocket Poncho, and Tony Danza"]], Sheldon takes took an excessive interest in Prof. Sturgis spending the night with Connie.Connie and even surveilled his grandmother's house through binoculars the next morning. The boy was happy to see that the professor's bicycle was still parked at Connie's house.[[/note]]
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in my opinion, Entitled Bitch and Its All About Me are shoehorned here; not entirely certain about Insane Troll Logic but leaving it in for now
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* EntitledBitch: Penny lazily waits around for the men to give her free food rather than cooking for herself even when they've been out for a long time. %% but hadn't they promised her that they'd bring her food? the men then broke their promise
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Penny lashes out at Leonard for not bringing her Chinese food last night as while she herself honestly brought food for Leonard at the Cheesecake Factory. Since it's not his job to bring her food but it is her job to do so for him, Leonard isn't the slightest bit sorry to Penny when she complains she's still bitter at him for last night's dinner being unexpectedly cancelled.
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* ActuallyAGoodIdea: Sheldon insists that they keep the Ring and only take it out to go to the park and re-enact their favorite scenes from the movie. Howard declares that it is somewhat embarrassing how awesome it sounds.
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* ActuallyAGoodIdea: Sheldon insists that they keep the Ring prop ring and only take it out to go to the park and re-enact their favorite scenes from the movie. Howard declares that it is somewhat embarrassing how awesome it sounds.
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* DaydreamSurprise: Sheldon wakes up to find that he's the only one holding the ring, and excitedly runs to the bathroom to wash it. Then he looks at the mirror and discovers that he's turned into Gollum. He screams and wakes up for real.
* DisappearedDad: Howard mentions his dad walked out on him and his mother when he was 11 when discovering the ALF doll in the box.
* EntitledBitch: Penny lazily waits around for the men to give her free food rather than cooking for herself even when they've been out for a long time.
* FourManBand: Discussed when Leonard complains about being the one who has to carry the box they bought. Sheldon gives a partially inaccurate explanation for how the 4 men fit this.
* DisappearedDad: Howard mentions his dad walked out on him and his mother when he was 11 when discovering the ALF doll in the box.
* EntitledBitch: Penny lazily waits around for the men to give her free food rather than cooking for herself even when they've been out for a long time.
* FourManBand: Discussed when Leonard complains about being the one who has to carry the box they bought. Sheldon gives a partially inaccurate explanation for how the 4 men fit this.
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* DaydreamSurprise: Sheldon wakes up to find that he's the only one holding the ring, and excitedly runs to the bathroom to wash it. Then he looks at the mirror and discovers that he's turned into Gollum. He Gollum (a character in the movie who refers to the ring as "my precious"). Sheldon screams and wakes up for real.
* DisappearedDad: The ALF doll in the box of collectibles prompts Howardmentions to mention he was 11 years old when his dad walked out on him and his mother when he was 11 when discovering the ALF doll in the box.
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* EntitledBitch: Penny lazily waits around for the men to give her free food rather than cooking for herself even when they've been out for a long time. \n %% but hadn't they promised her that they'd bring her food? the men then broke their promise
* FourManBand: Discussed when Leonard complains about being the one who has to carry the box they bought. Sheldon gives a partially inaccurate explanation for how the4 men four of them fit this. this trope.
* DisappearedDad: The ALF doll in the box of collectibles prompts Howard
* EntitledBitch: Penny lazily waits around for the men to give her free food rather than cooking for herself even when they've been out for a long time.
* FourManBand: Discussed when Leonard complains about being the one who has to carry the box they bought. Sheldon gives a partially inaccurate explanation for how the
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* GameOfChicken: In order to decide who gets the ring, the guys all grab hold of it, the last one to let go being the winner. Leonard is the first to go after Penny lures him away with something from Victoria's Secret. The other three keep at it, even driving to and from work while still holding the ring.
* HypocriticalHumor: After giving the other three guys TheReasonYouSuckSpeech on their obsessive behavior on the ring, Leonard is revealed to have hoarded the ring for himself.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Penny complains to Leonard that it's not fair he didn't bring her any Chinese food but she brought him a burger at the Cheesecake Factory. Her grievance is very unreasonable since by her own logic she's comparing Leonard to a delivery boy (his real job is being an experimental physicist at [=CalTech=]) all the while ignoring that she herself is a waitress.
* HypocriticalHumor: After giving the other three guys TheReasonYouSuckSpeech on their obsessive behavior on the ring, Leonard is revealed to have hoarded the ring for himself.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Penny complains to Leonard that it's not fair he didn't bring her any Chinese food but she brought him a burger at the Cheesecake Factory. Her grievance is very unreasonable since by her own logic she's comparing Leonard to a delivery boy (his real job is being an experimental physicist at [=CalTech=]) all the while ignoring that she herself is a waitress.
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* GameOfChicken: In order to decide who gets the ring, the guys all grab hold of it, the last one to let go being the winner. Leonard is the first to go after Penny lures him away with something from Victoria's Secret. The other three keep at it, even driving to and from work to Apartment 4A while still holding the ring.
* HypocriticalHumor: After giving the other three guys TheReasonYouSuckSpeech on their obsessive behavior on the ring, Leonard is revealed to have hoarded the ring forhimself.
himself. Sheldon suspects this is what happened, and confirms it at the end of the episode.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Penny complains toLeonard the guys that it's not fair he didn't bring her any Chinese food but she brought him a burger them burgers at the Cheesecake Factory. Her grievance is very unreasonable since by her own logic she's comparing Leonard to The situations are different because as a delivery boy (his real job is being an experimental physicist waitress at [=CalTech=]) all the while ignoring that she herself restaurant it is her job to bring customers the food they order, whereas their failing to bring her Chinese food last night was, at worst, a waitress. broken promise, not a failure to perform a basic job function.
* HypocriticalHumor: After giving the other three guys TheReasonYouSuckSpeech on their obsessive behavior on the ring, Leonard is revealed to have hoarded the ring for
* InsaneTrollLogic: Penny complains to
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* ParentalSexualitySquick: While fighting over who can hold on to the ring longer, Howard and Rajesh try to psych Sheldon out by invoking this about his beloved grandmother.
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* ParentalSexualitySquick: While fighting over who can hold on to the ring longer, Howard and Rajesh try to psych Sheldon out by invoking this about his beloved grandmother. maternal grandmother, Connie Tucker.[[note]]However, in the ''Young Sheldon'' episode [[Recap/YoungSheldonS1E21SummerSausageAPocketPonchoAndTonyDanza "Summer Sausage, a Pocket Poncho, and Tony Danza"]], Sheldon takes an excessive interest in Prof. Sturgis spending the night with Connie.[[/note]]
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!!Plot
When the guys discover an actual One Ring prop from ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', they argue over what to do with it, with Sheldon becoming a real life Gollum.
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When the guys discover an actual One Ring prop from ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', they argue over what to do with it, with Sheldon becoming a real life Gollum.
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When the guys discover
Howard, Leonard, Raj and Sheldon buy a box of assorted collectibles for $60. The most valuable find is a replica of a ring from
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Raj starts a videoconference with his cousin Venkatesh (Creator/FrankMaharajh), who is a lawyer, though not a very good one. Venkatesh argues the ring should be sold and Raj be given two jet skis. Leonard flatly refuses the deal, and Venkatesh quickly folds.
The only way out of this impasse might be a game in which each of the four guys try to hold on to the ring until the other three drop out. Somehow the four idiots make it from the Caltech cafeteria to the front door of Apartment 4A. Penny returns to her apartment, Apartment 4B, after shopping at Victoria's Secret. Leonard decides that seeing what lingerie Penny bought for herself is more important than winning the ring, and drops out of the competition.
Later, at Apartment 4A, Howard, Raj and Sheldon wake up and realize that they have lost track of the ring. Leonard comes in and claims that the ring is in a [=FedEx=] box on its way to Creator/PeterJackson's office in New Zealand. But that night Sheldon discovers that the ring is around Leonard's neck as he sleeps.
!! Tropes
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* PottyEmergency: When Sheldon starts mentioning things like 'waterfalls,' 'drippy faucets' and 'leaky gutter' in an attempt to get Raj and Howard to let go of the ring and go to the bathroom, it backfires and all three of them end up needing to relieve themselves.
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* PottyEmergency: When Sheldon starts mentioning things like 'waterfalls,' 'drippy faucets' and 'leaky gutter' in an attempt to get Raj and Howard to let go of the ring and go to the bathroom, it backfires and all three of them end up needing to relieve themselves.themselves, and make a mess of it no less.
-->'''Leonard''': And I don’t know what happened in that bathroom, but I am not cleaning it up!
-->'''Leonard''': And I don’t know what happened in that bathroom, but I am not cleaning it up!
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-->'''Leonard:''' There wasn't going to be a winner! There was going to be a selfish and petty person with a ring and three people who used to be his friend! Is that really what you guys want? 'Cuz if it is, fine, I don't want anything to do with you!
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-->'''Leonard:''' There wasn't going to be a winner! There was going to be a selfish and petty person with a ring and three people who used to be his friend! Is that really what you guys want? 'Cuz if it is, fine, I don't want anything to do with you!you!
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Leonard very quickly drops out first in the ring game when Penny comes back home with a Victoria's Secret bag.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Leonard very quickly drops out first in the ring game when Penny comes back home with a Victoria's Secret bag.
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* ActuallyAGoodIdea: Sheldon insists that they keep the Ring and only take it out to go to the park and re-enact their favorite scenes from the movie. Howard declares that it is somewhat embarrassing how awesome it sounds.
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* HypocriticalHumor: After giving the other three guys TheReasonYouSuckSpeech on their obsessive behavior on the ring, Leonard is revealed to have hoarded the ring for himself.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: Penny complains to Leonard that it's not fair he didn't bring her any Chinese food but she brought him a burger at the Cheesecake Factory. Her grievance is very unreasonable since by her own logic she's comparing Leonard to a delivery boy (his real job is being an experimental physicist) all the while ignoring that she herself is a waitress.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: Penny complains to Leonard that it's not fair he didn't bring her any Chinese food but she brought him a burger at the Cheesecake Factory. Her grievance is very unreasonable since by her own logic she's comparing Leonard to a delivery boy (his real job is being an experimental physicist) physicist at [=CalTech=]) all the while ignoring that she herself is a waitress.
