Amy Farrah Fowler: I think it's more like, uh, like Lord of the Rings, and you're the Fellowship. Uh, someone's got to go to Gondor, someone's got to go to Mordor, someone's got to hold off the demon of shadow and flame.

Leonard Hofstadter: You mean the Balrog?

Amy Farrah Fowler: I mean my mother.

Sheldon Cooper: That is a perfect metaphor, Amy.

Amy Farrah Fowler: Thank you.

Sheldon Cooper: Because it also involves a ring that binds me in servitude forever.

Amy Farrah Fowler: Aw, he said forever.