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* ''ComicBook/KaijuDayz'': Preytara talks Big Mama into going to a mixer for kaiju organized by the Genki Twins, albeit only with the promise of free food, as Big Mama has ''not'' gotten over the death of her mate a decade prior and is ''not'' interested in finding a replacement. [[spoiler:While Big Mama eventually hits it off with Zillgar, his callousness towards the possibiltiy of her kids being killed leads to her implicitly killing--or at least severely injuring--him.]]
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* Several sketches in the last season of ''Series/LesGuignolsDeLInfo'' revolved around this concept; two contestants are given five minutes to seduce and please each other, and see if its a match or not. Some ended in a success (eg. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skKZlz2ooaQ Neymar and Edinson Cavani]]), while others ended in failure (eg. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXvOOHgKR04 Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un]]).

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* Several sketches in the last final season of ''Series/LesGuignolsDeLInfo'' revolved around this concept; two contestants (regardless of gender) are given five minutes to seduce and please each other, and see if its a match or not. Some ended in a success (eg. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skKZlz2ooaQ Neymar and Edinson Cavani]]), while others ended in failure (eg. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXvOOHgKR04 Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un]]).
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* Several sketches in the last season of ''Series/LesGuignolsDeLInfo'' revolved around this concept; two contestants are given five minutes to seduce and please each other, and see if its a match or not. Some ended in a success (eg. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skKZlz2ooaQ Neymar and Edinson Cavani]]), while others ended in failure (eg. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXvOOHgKR04 Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un]]).

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* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': A serial rapist played by Creator/DeanCain used speed dating to hunt for victims. [=SVU=] put the pattern together after three victims and sent Olivia undercover. Her last date before the perp was with a guy who collected Pez dispensers.
* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': A murder victim recently attended a speed dating event, so the team sends Ziva undercover in case she met her killer there and he shows up for the second night. The catch is that they decide Ziva ought to assume the personality of the victim to try to attract the same man... and the victim was a ''big'' computer nerd.
* ''Series/{{House}}'': Wilson learns that every woman in the world knows someone who died of cancer, House {{Sherlock Scan}}s a woman who Sherlock Scanned him, and Chase [[SpringtimeForHitler tries as hard as he can to turn women off]] and [[SoBeautifulItsACurse fails]].
* ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'': Moze arranges this for Ned after Suzie moves away. Tip for girls: Telling a guy you only shower once a month is not attractive. Every girl he met had a flaw so cringeworthy (i.e. a horse-like laugh, shaving her neck, or having a man's voice) that Ned ultimately decides that the hottest one was a ''cross-dressed Cookie''.
* ''Series/{{Psych}}'': First-season episode "[[Recap/PsychS01E11HeLovesMeHeLovesMeNotHeLovesMeOopsHesDead He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, He Loves Me, Oops He's Dead]]" centers around men who get robbed blind after a local speed dating event, one fatally so.
* ''Series/{{Monk}}'': Monk went to a speed-dating event to get a chance to talk to a suspect, and in the meantime was awkward and uncomfortable with all the other women he had to talk to first.



* In one episode of ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley'', Geraldine tries speed-dating. Her prospective partners turn out to comprise all the regular characters. Including the HappilyMarried Alice and Hugo. ''Together.''

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* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': In "Sliding Frasiers", one episode of ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley'', Geraldine tries speed-dating. Her prospective partners turn out the possible timelines sees Frasier going to comprise a speed dating event where he gets stuck talking to a woman who makes terrible jokes throughout their eight minutes. Frasier ends up going home with no phone numbers and considers the whole evening a bust.
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all the regular characters. Including stress and humiliation of a blind date... times twelve.
* ''Series/{{House}}'': Wilson learns that every woman in
the HappilyMarried Alice world knows someone who died of cancer, House {{Sherlock Scan}}s a woman who Sherlock Scanned him, and Hugo. ''Together.''Chase [[SpringtimeForHitler tries as hard as he can to turn women off]] and [[SoBeautifulItsACurse fails]].



* One episode of ''Series/{{Reba}}'' had Cheyenne send Reba to a speed dating event to help her get back on the horse after her divorce. Reba's friend comes along because it's "like little bite-sized man samples!" Reba ends up getting a date out of it, while the friend doesn't.
* ''Series/YesDear'' has the episode "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Speed Dating]]". Billy drags Jimmy along with it due to Billy's lack of confidence, but then Greg does it when he wishes to get more matches than Jimmy to prove his own manhood, and then Greg and Jimmy try to compete over a woman who separately becomes a match for both of them...
* ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' had a speed dating episode once Sabrina had moved on to college. One of her friends, not getting the concept, demanded to be seated with a particular man. When the emcee told her he'd be at her table in three rings (the signal for the men to move), she simply rang the bell three times and smugly returned to her seat.
* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': In "Sliding Frasiers", one of the possible timelines sees Frasier going to a speed dating event where he gets stuck talking to a woman who makes terrible jokes throughout their eight minutes. Frasier ends up going home with no phone numbers and considers the whole evening a bust.
-->'''Frasier:''' Basically, it's all the stress and humiliation of a blind date... times twelve.


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* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': A serial rapist played by Creator/DeanCain used speed dating to hunt for victims. [=SVU=] put the pattern together after three victims and sent Olivia undercover. Her last date before the perp was with a guy who collected Pez dispensers.
* ''Series/{{Monk}}'': Monk went to a speed-dating event to get a chance to talk to a suspect, and in the meantime was awkward and uncomfortable with all the other women he had to talk to first.
* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': A murder victim recently attended a speed dating event, so the team sends Ziva undercover in case she met her killer there and he shows up for the second night. The catch is that they decide Ziva ought to assume the personality of the victim to try to attract the same man... and the victim was a ''big'' computer nerd.
* ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'': Moze arranges this for Ned after Suzie moves away. Tip for girls: Telling a guy you only shower once a month is not attractive. Every girl he met had a flaw so cringeworthy (i.e. a horse-like laugh, shaving her neck, or having a man's voice) that Ned ultimately decides that the hottest one was a ''cross-dressed Cookie''.
* ''Series/{{Psych}}'': First-season episode "[[Recap/PsychS01E11HeLovesMeHeLovesMeNotHeLovesMeOopsHesDead He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, He Loves Me, Oops He's Dead]]" centers around men who get robbed blind after a local speed dating event, one fatally so.
* One episode of ''Series/{{Reba}}'' had Cheyenne send Reba to a speed dating event to help her get back on the horse after her divorce. Reba's friend comes along because it's "like little bite-sized man samples!" Reba ends up getting a date out of it, while the friend doesn't.
* ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' had a speed dating episode once Sabrina had moved on to college. One of her friends, not getting the concept, demanded to be seated with a particular man. When the emcee told her he'd be at her table in three rings (the signal for the men to move), she simply rang the bell three times and smugly returned to her seat.
* In one episode of ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley'', Geraldine tries speed-dating. Her prospective partners turn out to comprise all the regular characters. Including the HappilyMarried Alice and Hugo. ''Together.''
* ''Series/YesDear'' has the episode "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Speed Dating]]". Billy drags Jimmy along with it due to Billy's lack of confidence, but then Greg does it when he wishes to get more matches than Jimmy to prove his own manhood, and then Greg and Jimmy try to compete over a woman who separately becomes a match for both of them...
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* ''Series/{{Psych}}'', in the episode "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, He Loves Me, Oops He's Dead"

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* ''Series/{{Psych}}'', in the ''Series/{{Psych}}'': First-season episode "He "[[Recap/PsychS01E11HeLovesMeHeLovesMeNotHeLovesMeOopsHesDead He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, He Loves Me, Oops He's Dead"Dead]]" centers around men who get robbed blind after a local speed dating event, one fatally so.
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* ''WebVideo/{{Aces}}'': In the first episode, Tom's mother has set up a series of quick dates for her son, who is UsefulNotes/{{asexual}} and uninterested in dating, much to his mother's chagrin.
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Would you like to have a month's worth of dates in one night? Want to shop for a potential mate but hate all the leg work? Need a service that can help you find your true love without dealing with the {{Prank Date}}s and [[DatingServiceDisaster other inconveniences]] of online dating? The 21st century's answer to all these problems is speed dating.

Designed by Rabbi Yaacov Deyo in 1998 as a way to help Jewish singles meet each other, speed dating is now a common practice enjoyed by people of different religions, ages, sexual orientations, etc. The rules may vary by event, but the general idea is that men and women sign up for the event, held in a bar or a club, the men move down the line of women (or from table and table), and you have a limited amount of time (say 1, 3, or 5 minutes) to figure out if the person is worth getting to know better before time runs out and it's time to switch. Participants don't personally exchange or solicit any contact information; you turn a list of names/id numbers into the organizer, and if there's a mutual attraction, they'll connect you.

The obvious advantages of speed dating in RealLife are that it provides a way to meet a lot of people in a short amount of time, eliminates pressure to ask for phone numbers, and doesn't allow much time for things to turn awkward. It has a lot of potential in fiction, too: it can serve as a great hunting ground for the perp in an episode of a detective drama, or it allows you to show a fun {{montage}} of the main character(s) meeting lots of weird and/or annoying people, like a personal TerribleIntervieweesMontage sequence, or it can provide AnAesop about first impressions. Using the last one is probably not the best idea because one of the reasons speed dating makes a lot of scientific sense is that we actually ''do'' decide whether or not we're attracted to someone [[LoveAtFirstSight very quickly]], some studies say within the first thirty seconds. Yes, love ''is'', quite literally, [[LoveIsACrapshoot a crapshoot]]. If there are NoSparks now, there won't be later, or so it would seem.

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Would you like to have a month's worth of dates in one night? Want to shop for a potential mate but hate all the leg work? work and two-hour-long dinners with nap-inducing bores? Need a service that can help you find your true love without dealing with the {{Prank Date}}s Date}}s, {{catfishing}} fakers, and [[DatingServiceDisaster other inconveniences]] of online dating? The 21st century's answer to all these problems is speed dating.

Designed by Rabbi Yaacov Deyo in 1998 as a way to help Jewish singles meet each other, speed dating is now a common practice enjoyed by people of different religions, ages, sexual orientations, etc. The rules may vary by event, but the general idea is that men and women sign up for the event, held in a bar or a club, the men move down the line of women (or from table and table), and you have a limited amount of time (say 1, 3, or 5 minutes) to figure out if the person is worth getting to know better before time runs out and it's time to switch. Participants don't personally exchange or solicit any contact information; you turn a list of names/id first names/ID numbers into the organizer, and if there's a mutual attraction, they'll connect you.

you. If the attraction wasn't mutual, that's the end.

The obvious advantages of speed dating in RealLife are that it provides a way to meet a lot of people in a short amount of time, eliminates pressure to ask for phone numbers, and doesn't allow much time for things to turn awkward. awkward if there's a poor fit. It has a lot of potential in fiction, too: it can serve as a great hunting ground for the perp in an episode of a detective drama, or it allows you to show a fun {{montage}} of the main character(s) meeting lots of funny, weird and/or annoying people, like a personal TerribleIntervieweesMontage sequence, or it can provide AnAesop about first impressions. Using the last one is probably not the best idea because one of the reasons speed dating makes a lot of scientific sense is that we actually ''do'' decide whether or not we're attracted to someone [[LoveAtFirstSight very quickly]], some studies say within the first thirty seconds. Yes, love ''is'', quite literally, [[LoveIsACrapshoot a crapshoot]]. If there are NoSparks now, there won't be later, or so it would seem.
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* In an episode of ''Series/CSIMiami'' a speed dater's death kicked off the plot; in the ColdOpen, Caine quips accordingly:
--> "Well, you know what they say, Frank..." *sunglasses* "...speed kills." [[MemeticMutation YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!]]

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* In [[Recap/CSIMiamiS03E8 an episode episode]] of ''Series/CSIMiami'' ''Series/CSIMiami'', a speed dater's death kicked kicks off the plot; in plot. In the ColdOpen, Caine quips accordingly:
--> "Well, you know what they say, Frank..." *sunglasses* "...[[TitleDrop speed kills.kills]]." [[MemeticMutation YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!]]
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-->-- Dr. Greg Series/{{House}}, Season 6, '''Private Lives'''

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-->-- Dr. '''Dr. Greg Series/{{House}}, Season 6, '''Private Lives'''
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* ''Webcomic/BugMartini'': The narrator [[http://www.bugmartini.com/comic/love-in-the-fast-lane/comment-page-1/#comment-94990 says]] liked to try, not speed dating, but a speed ''[[UpToEleven relationship]]''. This includes everything from short runs on the beach to quick little spats to [[SpeedSex very brief sex]] but [[GenderFlip not for the reasons you think]].

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* ''Webcomic/BugMartini'': The narrator [[http://www.bugmartini.com/comic/love-in-the-fast-lane/comment-page-1/#comment-94990 says]] liked to try, not speed dating, but a speed ''[[UpToEleven relationship]]''.''relationship''. This includes everything from short runs on the beach to quick little spats to [[SpeedSex very brief sex]] but [[GenderFlip not for the reasons you think]].
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Would you like to have a month's worth of dates in one night? Want to shop for a potential mate but hate all the leg work? Need a service that can help you find your true love without dealing with the {{Mailer Daemon}}s and [[DatingServiceDisaster other inconveniences]] of online dating? The 21st century's answer to all these problems is speed dating.

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Would you like to have a month's worth of dates in one night? Want to shop for a potential mate but hate all the leg work? Need a service that can help you find your true love without dealing with the {{Mailer Daemon}}s {{Prank Date}}s and [[DatingServiceDisaster other inconveniences]] of online dating? The 21st century's answer to all these problems is speed dating.
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* WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb built a speed dating contraption (though Phineas, still too young to understand romance, misunderstood the "dating" aspect) to help Candace quickly meet lots of new people when she feared Jeremy wasn't interested in her anymore.

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* WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' built a speed dating contraption (though Phineas, still too young to understand romance, misunderstood the "dating" aspect) to help Candace quickly meet lots of new people when she feared Jeremy wasn't interested in her anymore.
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* One of Q's punishments on ''Series/ImpracticalJokers'' has him attending a speed-dating event with a pair of large turkey legs attached to his wrists -- and he can't leave until he's eaten both of them. When he's finished, he's very nauseated from eating so much turkey at once.

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