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href="/wiki/Template:Close_relationships" title="Template:Close relationships"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Close_relationships" title="Template talk:Close relationships"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Close_relationships" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Close relationships"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Speed dating</b> is a formalized <a href="/wiki/Matchmaking" title="Matchmaking">matchmaking</a> process with the purpose of encouraging eligible singles to meet new potential partners in a very short period of time, so that interested pairs can continue meeting each other after the event.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Organization">Organization</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Speed_dating&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Organization"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Usually, advance registration is required for speed dating events. Participants are rotated to meet each other over a series of short "<a href="/wiki/Dating" title="Dating">dates</a>" typically lasting from three to eight minutes depending on the organization running the event. At the end of each interval a signal (e.g., a ringing bell, glass clinks or a whistle blow) is given to alert participants to move on to the next date. When the event concludes, participants can submit a list to the organizers of candidates they would like to share their contact information with. The organizers will forward the contact information if both participants included each other on the list. Contact information cannot be exchanged during the initial meeting to reduce pressure when accepting or rejecting a suitor face-to-face. </p><p>There are many speed dating events now in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. Requirement for each event vary with the organizer. Specific age range based on gender is a common restriction for events.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Many speed dating events are targeted at particular communities. The documentary film, "Age of Love" describes a speed dating event organized for older adults.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other groups have included: <a href="/wiki/LGBT" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT">LGBT</a> people, <a href="/wiki/Polyamory" title="Polyamory">polyamorists</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> skiers,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Christians.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Practice">Practice</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Speed_dating&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Practice"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Participants are given a time limit in which they can talk to a potential partner, then are asked if they liked the partner before moving on to the next one. They can come alone without feeling out of place; alternatively it is something that women who like to go out in groups can do together.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to the New York Times, participants in speed dating receive an average of 2-3 out of 10 matches. Online dating participants are said to find a compatible match with 1 in 100 or fewer of the profiles they study.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> reports, in the "Science of Love", that it takes between 90 seconds to 4 minutes of face-to-face interaction to determine attraction, which may give speed dating an advantage over online dating.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Speed_dating&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the 19th century, there was a custom in some areas of the United States called New Year's Calling. On New Year's Day, January 1, many young, single women would hold an "open house" (a party or reception during which a person's home is open to visitors) where they would invite eligible <a href="/wiki/Bachelors" class="mw-redirect" title="Bachelors">bachelors</a>, both friends and strangers, to stop by for a brief (no more than 10–15-minute) visit.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The earliest documented example of speed dating was by Aryeh (Alan) and Rena Hirsch of Los Angeles in early 1996, who developed speed dating as a solution to the problem of typical single events where "only attractive women and outgoing men have success at the end of the evening".<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>"SpeedDating", as a single word, is a registered trademark of <a href="/wiki/Aish_HaTorah" title="Aish HaTorah">Aish HaTorah</a>, who began hosting such events in 1998.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>, speed dating and all other dating events were paused out of caution of contracting the disease.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However in 2023, speed dating and other in-person meetup mixers have increased from before the pandemic.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2024 in-person singles events continued to grow by 41% year over year driven by dating app fatigue. <sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Scientific_research">Scientific research</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Speed_dating&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Scientific research"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There have been several studies of the round-robin dating systems themselves, as well as studies of <a href="/wiki/Interpersonal_attraction" title="Interpersonal attraction">interpersonal attraction</a> that are relevant to these events. Other studies found speed-dating data useful as a way to observe individual choices among random participants. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="First_impressions">First impressions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Speed_dating&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: First impressions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A 2005 study at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Pennsylvania" title="University of Pennsylvania">University of Pennsylvania</a> of multiple HurryDate speed dating events found that most people made their choices within the first three seconds of meeting. Furthermore, issues such as religion, previous marriages, and smoking habits were found to play much less of a role than expected.<sup id="cite_ref-upenn_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-upenn-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A 2006 study in <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a>, Scotland showed that 45% of the women participants in a speed-dating event and 22% of the men had come to a decision within the first 30 seconds. It also found that dialogue concerning travel resulted in more matches than dialogue about films.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a 2012 study, researchers found that activation of specific brain regions while viewing images of opposite-sex speed dating participants was predictive of whether or not a participant would later pursue or reject the viewed participants at an actual speed dating event. Men and women made decisions in a similar manner which incorporated the physical attractiveness and likability of the viewed participants in their evaluation.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Subconscious_preferences">Subconscious preferences</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Speed_dating&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Subconscious preferences"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Malcolm_Gladwell" title="Malcolm Gladwell">Malcolm Gladwell</a>'s book on split-second decision making, <i><a href="/wiki/Blink_(book)" class="mw-redirect" title="Blink (book)">Blink</a>,</i> introduces two professors at <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a> who run speed-dating events. Drs. <a href="/wiki/Sheena_Iyengar" title="Sheena Iyengar">Sheena Iyengar</a> and Raymond Fisman found, from having the participants fill out questionnaires, that what people said they wanted in an ideal mate did not match their <a href="/wiki/Subconscious" title="Subconscious">subconscious</a> preferences.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Olfaction_and_the_MHC">Olfaction and the MHC</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Speed_dating&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Olfaction and the MHC"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A 1995 study at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Bern" title="University of Bern">University of Bern</a> showed that women appear to be attracted to the smell of men who have different <a href="/wiki/Major_histocompatibility_complex" title="Major histocompatibility complex">MHC</a> profiles from their own, and that oral contraceptives reversed this effect.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The MHC is a region of the <a href="/wiki/Human_genome" title="Human genome">human genome</a> involved with immune function. Because parents with more diverse MHC profiles would be expected to produce offspring with stronger <a href="/wiki/Immune_system" title="Immune system">immune systems</a>, dissimilar MHC may play a role in sexual selection. </p><p>A speed date lasting several minutes may be long enough for the MHC hypothesis to come into play, provided the participants are seated close enough together.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Olfaction_and_pheromones">Olfaction and pheromones</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Speed_dating&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Olfaction and pheromones"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The TV <a href="/wiki/News_magazine" title="News magazine">news magazine</a> <i><a href="/wiki/20/20_(US_television_show)" class="mw-redirect" title="20/20 (US television show)">20/20</a></i> once sent both a male and a female set of twins to a speed dating event. One of each set was wearing <a href="/wiki/Pheromone" title="Pheromone">pheromones</a>, and the ones wearing pheromones received more matches.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Age_and_height_preference">Age and height preference</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Speed_dating&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Age and height preference"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A 2006 study by Michèle Belot and Marco Francesconi into the relative effects of preference versus opportunity in mate selection showed that a woman's age is the single most important factor determining demand by men.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although less important than it is to men, age is still a highly significant factor determining demand by women. </p><p>The same study found that a man's height had a significant impact upon his desirability, with a reduction in height causing a decrease in desirability at the rate of 5% per inch. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Selectivity">Selectivity</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Speed_dating&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Selectivity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Studies of speed dating events generally show more selectivity among women than among men. For instance, the Penn study<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> reported that the average man was chosen by 34% of the women and the average woman was chosen by 49% of the men.<sup id="cite_ref-upenn_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-upenn-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> New studies suggest that the selectivity is based on which gender is seated and which is rotating. It was shown that when men were seated and the women rotated, the men were more selective.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Spin-offs">Spin-offs</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Speed_dating&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Spin-offs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Speed_dating_wikimania.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Speed_dating_wikimania.jpg/220px-Speed_dating_wikimania.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Speed_dating_wikimania.jpg/330px-Speed_dating_wikimania.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Speed_dating_wikimania.jpg/440px-Speed_dating_wikimania.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland" title="Wikimedia Deutschland">Wikimedia Deutschland</a> "speed dating" at <a href="/wiki/Wikimania_2012" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikimania 2012">Wikimania 2012</a>, experts pairing up to discuss their specialist fields</figcaption></figure> <p>The popularity or charm of speed dating has led to at least one spin-off: <a href="/wiki/Speed_networking" title="Speed networking">speed networking</a>. A structured way of running business networking events with the goal of making meeting potential business contacts easier and more productive. </p><p>Speed networking has also been used in China as a way for business people to meet each other and to decide if they have similar business objectives and synergies.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2008)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> It offers participating investors and companies an opportunity to have focused private meetings with <a href="/wiki/Target_audience" title="Target audience">targeted groups</a> in a compact time frame. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Speed_dating&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Frasier" title="Frasier">Frasier</a></i>. "Sliding Frasiers" (2000): Frasier attends a speed date, describing it as "all the stress and humiliation of a blind date, times twelve."</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Peep_Show_(British_TV_series)" title="Peep Show (British TV series)">Peep Show</a></i>. "Jeremy's Broke" (2008): Mark goes speed dating but has little luck: "Ohhh, Saz, she implied she might be ticking. Maybe she did tick! Maybe the data wasn't collated correctly! Maybe she's my hanging chad!"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sex_and_the_City" title="Sex and the City">Sex and the City</a></i>. "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<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Providence_(American_TV_series)" title="Providence (American TV series)">Providence</a></i>. "The Mating Dance" (2001): Syd goes to a "speed dating" event.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kath_%26_Kim_(Australian_TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Kath & Kim (Australian TV series)">Kath & Kim</a></i>. "Gay" (2002): Kim, estranged from her husband of 2 months, goes with her friend Sharon to a speed dating event.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Reba_(TV_series)" title="Reba (TV series)">Reba</a></i>. "Switch" (2002) : Reba's daughter, Cheyenne, convinces her mother to try speed-dating.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Monk_(TV_Series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Monk (TV Series)">Monk</a></i>. "<a href="/wiki/Mr._Monk_Goes_to_the_Theater" class="mw-redirect" title="Mr. Monk Goes to the Theater">Mr. Monk Goes to the Theater</a>" (2003): <a href="/wiki/Adrian_Monk" title="Adrian Monk">Adrian Monk</a> tries to talk to a suspect at a speed dating event.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dead_Like_Me" title="Dead Like Me">Dead Like Me</a></i>. "Hurry" (2004): Daisy goes speed dating to take the soul of one of the men participating.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gilmore_Girls" title="Gilmore Girls">Gilmore Girls</a></i>. "But Not as Cute as Pushkin" (2004): Featured <a href="/wiki/Rory_Gilmore" title="Rory Gilmore">Rory</a>'s friend <a href="/wiki/Paris_Geller" title="Paris Geller">Paris</a> attempting speed dating after the death of her professor boyfriend.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Queer_Eye_for_the_Straight_Guy" class="mw-redirect" title="Queer Eye for the Straight Guy">Queer Eye for the Straight Guy</a></i>. "Queer Eye For The Shy Guy" (2004): a straight man is made over to attend a speed dating party.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/60_Minutes_II" title="60 Minutes II">60 Minutes II</a></i>. "60 Minutes II" (2004): Featured speed dating in the segment called "Love in the 21st Century"<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Vicar_of_Dibley" title="The Vicar of Dibley">The Vicar of Dibley</a></i>. "Happy New Year" (2005): Geraldine Granger receives a ticket to a speed dating event for her 40th birthday.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Beauty_and_the_Geek" title="Beauty and the Geek">Beauty and the Geek</a></i>. "Episode 204" (2006): Featured speed dating as one of the challenges faced by the "geeks".<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Bill" title="The Bill">The Bill</a></i>. "Episode 405" (2006): Yvonne Hemmingway persuades Honey Harman to go with her to a speed-dating event.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_L_Word" title="The L Word">The L Word</a></i>. "Lifeline" (2006): Alice and Kit go to a speed dating event.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Various <a href="/wiki/Dating_game_show" title="Dating game show">dating game shows</a> such as <i><a href="/wiki/The_5th_Wheel" title="The 5th Wheel">The 5th Wheel</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Psych" title="Psych">Psych</a></i>. "<a href="/wiki/He_Loves_Me,_He_Loves_Me_Not,_He_Loves_Me,_Oops_He%27s_Dead" class="mw-redirect" title="He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, He Loves Me, Oops He's Dead">He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, He Loves Me, Oops He's Dead</a>" (2007): Shawn and Gus connect supposed "alien abductions" to a speed-dating event at a local bar, and attend undercover to solve the kidnappings.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Friday_Night_Project" class="mw-redirect" title="The Friday Night Project">The Friday Night Project</a></i>. "Series 5, Episode 8 – Guest Host: <a href="/wiki/Rupert_Everett" title="Rupert Everett">Rupert Everett</a>" (2007): Justin Lee Collins and Alan Carr take Rupert Everett to a When The Music Stops speed dating event in a London bar.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Law_%26_Order:_Special_Victims_Unit" title="Law & Order: Special Victims Unit">Law & Order: Special Victims Unit</a></i>. "Starved" (2005): When a speed dating service is linked to three rapes, Detective Benson goes undercover to catch the culprit.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/ICarly" title="ICarly">iCarly</a></i>. "iSpeed Date" (2009): After spitting in her crush's eye, Carly becomes humiliated and tries to find a new date for a popular school dance. Sam feels for Carly's frustration, and hatches a plan to get her a date. During the webshow, Sam handcuffs Carly to a chair and duct-tapes her mouth shut while asking boys from the Seattle area to apply for Carly's date. When the gang is overwhelmed by the number of boys who show up at the meeting place (Groovy Smoothies), they set up a speed-dating session. Carly then tells Sam that she must ask Gibby to go to the dance if Carly had to go with a random iCarly fanboy. When Sam goes to invite Gibby to the dance, he surprisingly turns her down. She discovers Gibby has a girlfriend, Tasha. When Carly's pick, Austin, keeps interrupting her conversations, she reaches her breaking point, she screams "shut up" at him and then tells him to "get out of here". The episode ends when Sam returns to the Groovy Smoothie and sees Carly and Freddie dancing a slow dance. Upon seeing this, she silently leaves.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Valentine_(film)" title="Valentine (film)">Valentine</a></i> (2000)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Let%27s_Be_Friends_(film)" title="Let's Be Friends (film)">Let's Be Friends</a></i> (2005)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hitch_(film)" title="Hitch (film)">Hitch</a></i> (2005)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_40-Year-Old_Virgin" title="The 40-Year-Old Virgin">The 40-Year-Old Virgin</a></i> (2005)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Speed-Dating" title="Speed-Dating">Speed-Dating</a></i> (2010)</li> <li>In the UK, the <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_Association" title="Local Government Association">Local Government Association</a> with the Solent Peoples Theatre developed "political speed dating" in 2004. 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"Episode 2" (2010): Kirk becomes jealous when Amy flirts with the other male speed dating attendees.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Geek Love (2011-2013)<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Angry_Birds_Movie_2" title="The Angry Birds Movie 2">The Angry Birds Movie 2</a></i> (2019)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Speed_dating&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Blind_date" title="Blind date">Blind date</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Online_dating" title="Online dating">Online dating</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Speed_Networking" class="mw-redirect" title="Speed Networking">Speed Networking</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Speed_dating&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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