# I describe the episode, and you name the tv show **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [November 10, 2025, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-describe-the-episode-and-you-name-the-tv-show/1024717 "2025-11-10T05:44:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 17
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2025, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-describe-the-episode-and-you-name-the-tv-show/1024717/17 "2025-11-11T01:10:25Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > I’ve posted about that too Ninja’d by two years: > [@Absolute WTF, 'what were they thinking' plots and subplots in old movies and TV shows](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolute-wtf-what-were-they-thinking-plots-and-subplots-in-old-movies-and-tv-shows/995229/129): > > A while back I was watching The Dick Van Dyke show. Rob and Laura had a new neighbor and decided to set him up on some blind dates. Afterwards, they asked which one he would go out with again, to which he told them that he wouldn’t go out with either of them again. As it turns out, he has a habit of hitting women that he likes, so he doesn’t want to go out with either of his dates again for fear of what he might do. I mean, it shows great restraint on his part, but a bizarre topic for an episo… > [@Absolute WTF, 'what were they thinking' plots and subplots in old movies and TV shows](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/absolute-wtf-what-were-they-thinking-plots-and-subplots-in-old-movies-and-tv-shows/995229/130): > > Interestingly, they could have left that out and just made the part about him being divorced (at least) 3 times as the controversial reveal that would have scared everyone off. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-describe-the-episode-and-you-name-the-tv-show/1024717)._