The One With the Trivia Contest

May 13, 2009 |  Filed under: Blog |  Comments (4)

Once an obscure piece of industry minutae, the name of an episode of television is now an easy-access item, so much so that some television shows choose to put their own signature on how they name their episodes, knowing these names now have an audience. (For example, all episodes of Monk have the words “Mr. Monk” in the title.)

See if you can name that TV show based on the episode naming convention.

Good luck!  Winner gets a custom post from yours truly (like this one I did for the winner of the Denzel Washington trivia contest):

(Note: Naming conventions may not apply to the pilot, which is often just called “Pilot”)

1. All episode titles have exactly one word.

2. All episode titles are 1 hour blocks of time (e.g. 7. a.m. – 8 a.m.)

3. The number of words in the episode title correspond directly to the season in which that episode appears.  (e.g. season two episode titles have exactly two words each, season three titles have three words and so on)

4. Each episode title begins with the word “The” (no other commonality, so the answer to #8 doesn’t apply here).

5. All titles have the word “Versus” in them.

6. All titles have the word “Vs.” in them (season one only!)

7. All titles are also song titles (there are at least six answers to this one, you only need to give one).

8. All titles begin with “The One…” except for the finale, simply called “The Last One”

9. Almost all titles begin with “My,” and when they don’t, the word “Story” is the last word in the title.

10. The word “Night” appears in every title.

11. The word “Love” appears in every title.

12. All titles begin with the letter “L”

13. All titles begin with a lowercase “i”

14. All titles begin with “Everybody Hates…”

15. All titles include the word “Raid”

Bonus Question: There are three shows whose season one finales all share the same seven word title. Name the shows and the title.

You can put your answers in the comments if you’re not afraid of everyone else seeing them, or you can e-mail me the answers or DM me in Twitter.

4 Responses to “The One With the Trivia Contest”

  1. upyernoz Says:

    re: #4

    there’s actually a single exception to that rule. the fourth episode did not follow the “the” convention.

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  3. M-D Says:

    There’s actually another possible answer for #4 beside the obvious one, and it keeps the convention all the way through the series (albeit in a much shorter run).

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