We have two winners of the TV Episode Naming Convention Trivia Contest. Their answers came in piecemeal, but when all was said and done they pretty much came in at about the same time and answered ALL correctly, so Walter James Earls and MD November will both get custom posts by yours truly on a topic of their choosing.
Here are the answers:
1. All episode titles have exactly one word.
Smallville
2. All episode titles are 1 hour blocks of time (e.g. 7. a.m. – 8 a.m.)
24
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)
La Femme Nikita
4. Each episode title begins with the word “The” (no other commonality, so the answer to #8 doesn’t apply here).
The O.C. (Not Seinfeld as I originally intended. Both Walt, MD and Upyernoz figured out my error here. The 4th ep of Seinfeld is called “Male Unbonding”)
5. All titles have the word “Versus” in them.
Chuck
6. All titles have the word “Vs.” in them (season one only!)
The Tick (animated)
7. All titles are also song titles (there are at least six answers to this one, you only need to give one).
(answers given)
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Supernatural
Grey’s Anatomy
Life on Mars (U.S.)
Alf
(other options)
Desperate Housewives
May to December
Goodnight Sweetheart
(I suspect there are more…)
8. All titles begin with “The One…” except for the finale, simply called “The Last One”
Friends
9. Almost all titles begin with “My,” and when they don’t, the word “Story” is the last word in the title.
Scrubs
10. The word “Night” appears in every title.
Wild, Wild West
11. The word “Love” appears in every title.
Love, American Style
12. All titles begin with the letter “L”
The L Word
13. All titles begin with a lowercase “i”
iCarly
14. All titles begin with “Everybody Hates…”
Everybody Hates Chris
15. All titles include the word “Raid”
Rat Patrol
Bonus Question: There are three shows whose season one finales all share the same seven word title. Name the shows and the title.
The shows are:
Sports Night
The West Wing
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
The episode title is:
“What Kind of Day Has It Been”
As you may know, those are all Aaron Sorkin shows. Why he did that, I don’t know. (If you do, please write in.)
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