Even though there never was a regular round. Here are some questions for fun. I don't have any particular answers in mind; just name whatever you can.

1. Name a show in which a main character gets amnesia because of a blow to his/her head. Also name the character.

2. Name a show (and character) where the main male character doesn't get along with his mother-in-law.

3. Name a show with a Rashomon episode, where the same events are retold from the points of view of various characters.

4. Name a show where feelings of guilt causes one of the characters to have a nightmare that we see onscreen.

5. Name a show where one of the main characters runs for local office. Must be a single episode but two-parters will be accepted. (ie, West Wing and Mr President will not.)

6. Name a show with a '12 Angry Men' episode, where a main character or two has to serve jury duty.

7. Name a show where the main character(s) join the army or other armed service for one episode only.

8. Name a show with an episode where one, some or all the main characters get stuck in an elevator or bank vault. Other rooms don't count.

9. Name a show with an episode where the main character(s) go to a reading of the will when a rich relative passes away.

10. Name a show with an episode where one character is offered a role in a play/movie/commerical/etc and ruins it by 'going all Hollywood.'

When you have to name an episode, you don't have to look up the episode title and certainly not the episode number. Just describe it enough to jog anyone's memory.

If you enjoy these kind of questions, feel free to add some more. Just pick a common tv cliche and form a question from it.

6. Dead Zone - I don't know the ep. title, but it's the 2nd ep. of season 1, if they're shown in correct order.

8. Due South, Vault - Frasier pulls Ray inside the Vault

1. I am Kirork, I am God of the Metal Tower (Paradise Syndrome, Star Trek, tos)

1. General Frank Savage, 12 0 clock high, SoldiersSometimes Kill

1. Gilligan Island, Skipper fixes the radio in his sleep?

3. Mash, Hawkeye 's court-martial, where Frank is the Co everyone tells a different version of the same events

(I maybe wrong)on some of the details)

3. X-Files "Jose Chung's From Outer Space"

10. Happy Days -- when they're in Hollywood.

1. "Mama's Family" (Naomi gets knocked out)
3. STTNG (Riker's trial in "A Matter of Perspective")
6. "All In The Family," "Murder, She Wrote," and "Matlock"
7. "Get Smart" (Max and the Chief join the Navy)
8. STTNG ("Disaster" - Picard in the turbolift with the kids), "Get Smart" (Chief and Larabee get stuck in a bank vault and Smart gets "Freddy the Forger" to break them out by shooting ink into the locking mechanism)

1. The Incredible Hulk - David Banner, head injury in plane crash, episode "Mystery Man"

2. Bewitched - Darren & Endora, various episodes

3. The Incredible Hulk - episode "Of Guilt, Models & Murder" - the murder is told from the point of view of three different characters

8. Monk - don't remember the episode title, but its the one where they go to New York - Monk & Sharona get caught in an elevator with at least one other person & Monk keeps hitting the button saying "Lobby, Lobby, Lobby," over and over

8. Friends, "The One with the Blackout". Chandler is trapped with model Jill Goodacre in an ATM vestibule (does that count as a vault?)

8. Practically any sitcom where someone is going to have a baby.

1. The Dick van Dyke Show had the most realistic (for a sitcom) version of this. I remember I Dream of Jeanie doing this. I think it was Tony who got the blow to his head, and, of course, he got his memory back with a second blow. Gomer Pyle might have done it as well.

2. Honeymooners.

3. Good Times. A fire starts in the apartment and each character tells how they saved everyone. Really bad episode.

4. Mom always said, 'Don't play ball in the house!'

5. Again, Dick van Dyke and, again, the Honeymooners.

6. The Odd Couple. I think it was a flashback to how Felix & Oscar first met. Funny because Klugman was in the original movie. Also, the Dick van Dyke SHow. Can you tell that's my favourite? One more--and definately not my favourite--Happy Days. Fonzie and the father together on the same jury, of course. Eleven votes for 'guilty,' one for 'innocentamundo.'

7. Didn't both Happy Days and Lavern & Shirely do army episodes? This is a stretch, but the pilot of Gomer Pyle occurred on the Andy Griffith Show.

8. Braney Fife got locked in a bank vault, in drag no less. Archie Bunker got stuck in an elevator (and yes, with a pregnant woman but not a main character). Rob & Laura Petrie got stuck in an elevator with Don Rickles on the DvD Show. And Laura was pregnant.

9. Once more. Dick Van Dyke.

10. Honeymooners and, I think, Flintstones.

1. Different Strokes.
Mr. Drummond got amnesia, but I’ m not sure if it was through a blow to the head.

I think an episode of The Flintstones had Fred getting hit with his bowling ball. Or was this not amnesia, but just a reduction to a drooling child-like personality?

2. Too Close for Comfort. Henry didn’t get along with Iris.

The Flintstones. Fred didn’t get along with Pearl.

3. A Different World. After Dwayne and his friend have a disagreement with three white kids cheering for the opposing team at a football game, the three kids spray what appears to be the beginnings of a racial epithet on his friend’s car, leading to all of them being arrested, and racially biased versions of the event being told to the arresting officer in the jail cell.

Star Trek: The Next Generation. Riker is accused of murder in A Matter of Perspective, with several different versions of what happened shown in the holodeck.

4. Too Close for Comfort. After Munroe screws up yet again, Henry chases him out the apartment door, leading to him falling down a set of stairs. Henry feels so guilty about it that a portrait of Henry recently hung on a wall begins to age, ala The Picture of Dorian Grey.

5. Mama’s Family. Mama ran for (IIRC) mayor.

The Family Guy. Lois ran for (I think) city council, and Peter ran against her because she supported keeping a rebellious bohemian teacher that mentored him as a student on prescription meds that made him dopey.

6. Happy Days. Fonzie served, and convinced his irate fellow jury members that the accused was not guilty-amundo.

(MacGuyver also served jury duty, but that episode didn’t involve him in the jury room trying to convince the other jurors, so the Three Angry Men motif isn’t there.)

7. Happy Days. Fonzie reported to duty for a day, and I think Richie and the boys did too.

Night Court. Dan was drafted as a paratrooper (I think he was technically still enlisted in the armed services), and dropped somewhere in Alaska, where he was rescued by an Inuit family.

8. Night Court. Roz and Dan get trapped in an elevator with two sumo wrestlers, and Roz has to keep Dan calm.

Star Trek: The Next Generation. Picard gets trapped in a turbolift with three kids in Disaster.

9. Can’t think of one, but a customer at Janet’s flower shop on Three’s Company once left her a vase in his will during the last season.

10. Perfect Strangers. Balki and Larry both got a part in a commercial for the newspaper they worked for, with Larry getting the main part, and Balki just hired to walk across the mailroom and put some mail on his desk, but Larry goes so Hollywood that the fed-up director gives Balki the meatier part.

Also, various episodes of Friends in which Joey screws up his auditions for this reason.

3. An episode of Maude, in which several characters told how a punch bowl got broken ("How about these apples?")

Also, an All in the Family about how the refrigerator got broken. ("A little apple on my shirt which is always nice")

AND an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond, in which we see Ray's and Debra's versions of an argument over a can opener. ("Tuna juice!")

Forgot that episode of All in the Family. Dick van Dyke also did a Rashomon episode about an argument. Also Gilligan's Island did an episode that told each castaway's version of a previous episode, with a Japanese soldier still ont he island since WWII.

For question four (guilt dreams--the least answered one?), Dick van Dyke did an early episode with Rob feeling guilty about not seeing his son's school play.

1. Well, the final "Newhart" show has Bob getting amnesia after he's hit in the head by a golf ball.

2. I Love Lucy (Ricky and Lucy's mother don't get along)

8. There was a Designing Women episode where they get stuck in an elevator at a hospital while visting Julia. I just saw it two days ago!

Some show with 'Lucy' in the title (don't ask which one, but not 'I Love Lucy) had her and her boss (Mr Mooney probably, but I think his name changed once or twice along with the series name) get locked in a bank vault together.

Probably "Here's Lucy" or "The Lucy Show"

On "Newhart," Dick didn't get amnesia, he woke up (as Bob).

Jack Klugman was not in the original movie of The Odd Couple. Oscar was played in the classic film by Walter Matthau, who probably wasn't acting there, just being himself. Try this.

#5 - Cheers: Didn't Woody run for (and get elected to) some local office in the last episode or two?

#8 - All In The Family: Archie gets stuck in an elevator with Roscoe Lee Browne, Hector Elizondo, and Edith Diaz, who of course has her baby then and there.

Maybe I misunderstood. Klugman was one of the original 12 Angry Men, and one of only two who are still living as I write this (the other is Jack Warden.)

Yes, I meant he was in the original 12 Angry Men, not the original Odd Couple. I have both films.

#9: The Nanny
Maxwell's father dies, they go to the reading of the will, and find out he had another child (the cad!) who, of course, gets all the money, since the other kids are already rich.

Round two.

1. Name a show with an episode in which one or more of the characters goes on a game show. Bonus points if it's a real game show.

2. Name a show in which two or more characters divide their shared living space with a white line after having a spat and neither is allowed to cross the line.

3. Name a show with a 'battle of the sexes' episode.

4. Name a show with an episode where one of the characters is picked to do a commerical.

5. Name a show in which the main characters move to a new house for the rest of the series' run.

6. Name a show in which one or more of the characters finds a wallet, turns it in to the authorities, and the owner turns up at the last minute or just after.

2. Name a show in which two or more characters divide their shared living space with a white line after having a spat and neither is allowed to cross the line.

3. Name a show with a 'battle of the sexes' episode.

4. Name a show with an episode where one of the characters is picked to do a commerical.

5. Name a show in which the main characters move to a new house for the rest of the series' run. - Kevin

I Love Lucy. It's possible that Lucy even did a game show ep. Offhand, I don't recall one. But I think it's possible. But the others, yeah, I'm pretty sure it was done on ILL.

1. Honeymooners - Ralph goes on a game show but I dunno which one
3. Friends - the quiz to see if they swap apartments
4. I love Lucy - "Vita-meata-vege-min"!
5. The last season of LaVerne and Shirley. Lucy and Ricky moved to hollywood, too.

I was watching the I Love Lucy season one set which is what made me think of the round two questions. And yes, there was a game show. It was a radio program, and not a quiz show format, after the show, a man would come to Lucy's apartment and she had to introduce him to Ricky as her first husband. She had to keep him convinced until midnight to win the money.

I have a feeling there may be an even crisper example, but I might be thinking of one of her later seires.

On "Angie," they went on Family Feud.

I Love Lucy almost completely satisfies the entire category--remember Lucy in Connecticut?

"The Munsters" also had a "white line" episode. Apparently Herman & Grandpa had a feud.

2. Name a show in which two or more characters divide their shared living space with a white line after having a spat and neither is allowed to cross the line.

In a pretty funny episode of The Munsters, Herman and Grandpa are feuding. Grandpa claims that half the house is his, so they paint a white line right down the middle of the house. Even Spot was not immune to the feud.


5. Name a show in which the main characters move to a new house for the rest of the series' run.

In the sixth season of My Three Sons, the Douglas family moves out of Bryant Park, and transplanted themselves to California for the rest of the series run (a total of 12 seasons). Not coincidentally, the show switched networks (from ABC to CBS) at that same time.

You're one minute late, Adam! ;)

I already mentioned "The Munsters"

Guess we were writing our entries at the exact same time, John.

Ralph goes on a game show but I dunno which one.

A fictional one, called "The $99,000 Answer." Ralph famously bombed out on the first question.

Name a show in which the main characters move to a new house for the rest of the series' run.

Does this count?: Mary Richards moved to a new apartment for the last two or three seasons of The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Name a show with an episode in which one or more of the characters goes on a game show.

Didn't Cliff of Cheers appear on Jeopardy?

Game show: There was the one where Ricky had watched a show being recorded, and Lucy was convinced he was a genius, and then had to steal the answers when they did the show on the Radio.

Who are three people who have never been in my kitchen?

1. Night Court. Bull went on a question & answer show.

2. Gilligan's Island. I think the episode where the Howell's found out they weren't really married after all.

3. Friends. One or two eps, in fact. An earlier one in which they played poker against one another. Yet another in which Joey and Chandler faced off against Rachel and Monica in a trivia game devised by Ross to see how knew more about the other. Although one side was male and the other female, I'm not sure if this qualifies under your rules.

4. Perfect Strangers and Friends, (See my 10.6.05. post.)

5. Laverne & Shirley. I'd say Three's Company too, but that was in the last scene of the series finale, and turned into an entire new spinoff, Three's Company, so I don't think it qualifies as "rest of the series' run."

6. Can't think of one.

3. Friends Don't forget the episode where Joey was auditioning for the host of "Bamboozled!"

Oh yeah.

And as for #1, wasn't there a sitcom in which the characters went on Family Feud, or something?

FIRST ROUND:

#1: The Fugitive: In the second-season episode "Escape Into Black", Dr. Richard Kimble contracts amnesia after receiving a head injury in the explosion of a diner's oven. When he learns his true identity, he wonders if he is really guilty and considers turning himself in to Lt. Gerard.

#5: The Prisoner, I'm not sure but I think the episode is called "Free For All".

#8: In the Incredible Hulk episode "Captive Night" David Banner gets trapped in both places specified and each instance triggers his transformation into the Hulk. First he is locked in an elevator shaft with the elevator about to come loose from its cable and drop on him. Then, he is later locked in the money vault of a department store.

#10: The Brady Bunch: The Brady family gets chosen for a role in a detergent commercial, but the director becomes fed up with their "method acting" approach.

ROUND TWO:

#1: On an episode of the A-Team, Dwight Schultz's Howling Mad Murdock character appears on Wheel of Fortune.

#2: Happy Days, when Ralph and Potsie shared an apartment. (I'm not sure at all, but I think something similar may have happened on Welcome Back Kotter when Vinnie got his own apartment).

#3:#10: The Brady Bunch: TWO seperate instances. In the earlier episode, the boys go up against the girls in a card-house building contest for the right to determine how a book of stamps will be spent. In a much later segment, Greg faces off against Marsha in a driving contest in which the two try to stop as close as they can to a traffic cone without knocking an egg off of it. The girls win both contests, albeit the first time on a technicality (Tiger knocks over the card house on the boys' turn).

#4: Again, The Brady Bunch. See number 10 in the "Round One" listing.

#6: Yet once again, this happened in The Brady Bunch, a veritable repository of TV sitcom cliches.