Speed Dating on TV
Speed dating has appeared on many TV shows. Some instances include:
- Frasier. "Sliding Frasiers" (2000): Frasier attends a speed date, describing it as "all the stress and humiliation of a blind date, times twelve."
- Gary The Rat. "Spring of Love" (2003): Wall Street attorney-turned-rat Gary Andrews is ordered by his boss Jack Harrison to attend a clientele dinner party and to bring a date. After several unsuccessful attempts to find someone on his own, Gary consults a dating service which sends him to a speed dating session. Each prospective woman turns him down with a highly discouraging "You're a rat."
- Sex and the City. "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (2000): Miranda, the lawyer, pretends to be a stewardess at the event after telling her first few "dates" that she is a successful lawyer scares them off
- Providence. "The Mating Dance" (2001): Syd goes to a "speed dating" event.
- Kath and Kim. "Gay" (2002): Kim, estranged from her husband of 2 months, goes with her friend Sharon to a speed dating event.[16]
- Reba. "Switch" (2002) : Reba's daughter, Cheyenne, convinces her mother to try speed-dating.
- Monk. "Mr. Monk Goes to the Theater" (2003): Adrian Monk tries to talk to a suspect at a speed dating event.
- Yes, Dear. "Speed Dating". Jimmy hits it off during a speed dating session.
- Greek (2007)- "The Popular Vote" Rusty and Cappie take part in a speed dating event, meanwhile Casey and Ashleigh discover a cassette tape in Frannie's room.
- Dead Like Me. "Hurry" (2004): Daisy goes speed dating to take the soul of one of the men participating.
- Gilmore Girls. "But Not as Cute as Pushkin" (2004): Featured Rory's friend Paris attempting speed dating after the death of her professor boyfriend.
- Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. "Queer Eye For The Shy Guy" (2004): a straight man is made over to attend a speed dating party.
- 60 Minutes II. "60 Minutes II" (2004): Featured speed dating in the segment called "Love in the 21st Century"
- The Vicar of Dibley. "Happy New Year" (2005): Geraldine Granger receives a ticket to a speed dating event for her 40th birthday
- Beauty and the Geek. "Episode 204" (2006): Featured speed dating as one of the challenges faced by the "geeks".
- The Bill. "Episode 405" (2006): Yvonne Hemmingway persuades Honey Harman to go with her to a speed-dating event.
- The L Word. "Lifeline" (2006): Alice and Kit go to a speed dating event.
- The Simpsons. "Regarding Margie" (2006): Marge Simpson, during a bout of amnesia, went on a speed-dating event.
- Various dating game shows such as The 5th Wheel
- Music video "You" (2006): performed by R&B artist Lloyd featuring Lil Wayne
- Psych. "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, He Loves Me, Oops He's Dead" (2007): Shawn and Gus connect supposed "alien abductions" to a speed-dating event at a local bar, and attend undercover to solve the kidnappings.
- The Friday Night Project. "Series 5, Episode 8 - Guest Host: Rupert Everett" (2007): Justin Lee Collins and Alan Carr take Rupert
- Everett to a When The Music Stops speed dating event in a London bar.
- NCIS. "Season 4, Singled Out": Officer Ziva David goes undercover as a participant in a speed dating event to uncover a potential kidnapper of a Navy officer.
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. "Starved" (2005): When a speed dating service is linked to three rapes, Detective Benson goes undercover to catch the culprit.
- ICarly. "Season 3, ISpeed Date" (2009): On an broadcast of ICarly, Sam offers Carly as a date to every teenage guy near Seattle, and ends up setting up a speed date to meet all of them for 15 seconds apiece.
- House (2010): In the Season 6 episode "Private Lives" House, Wilson, and Chase go to a speed dating event.
This list was taken from Wikipedia, a free source of information. Speed dating has appeared in many movies too.
How long is each date on a speed dating event?
On a speed dating event, the amount allotted to each date varies; often times it depends on the company organizing the event. As the name suggest, 8 minute dating, for example, holds events that are 8 minutes each. Other companies have events that range from 2 minutes to 15 minutes each.
LA First Dates' speed dates are usually 5 minutes each. They can be shorter or longer depending on the amount of people in attendance. If we do a speed dating marathon with 100 people in attendance, then each date would be 2 minutes each. At an average event you can expect 10-15 couples in one evenining, so about 20-30 people, and in this case each date would be 5 minutes..
What if I am looking for Speed Dating in New York
If you are looking for speed dating in New York, we recommend our sister company NY Minute Dating. It has been around since 2011 and holds about 7-10 events per week, including speed dating and singles parties.
If you are visiting or moving to New York City, and you are looking to go out, make new friends, or find a date, NY Minute Dating is the perfect choice for speed dating NYC. In fact, more people attend NY Minute Dating events than those of any competitor in New York.
Take a look at their Speed Dating NYC events schedule.
Where to go on a first date with someone you met speed dating
So you went speed dating and met 15 potential love interests, and you got your match results in the morning, and now you are wondering where to go on a first date.
For a first date we recommend that you keep your meeting simple. Go out for drinks, or, if you want to have deep talk during the date, sit down in a nice restaurant. Los Angeles is full of great places to eat.