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.
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