2000s Flashcards
What thing severed Dr. Robert “Rocket” Romano’s arm in a season 9 episode of the medical drama ER? Another one crushed him to death a season later, remarkably.
Helicopter
Who’s the only Law & Order: SVU cast member to have been a regular for the show’s entire run?
Mariska Hargitay
Name the highly anticipated and promoted NBC drama series that debuted in the fall of 2006 and was set backstage at a Saturday Night Live-like sketch comedy series. It was named after the building in which the fictional show-in-a-show was set, featured a controversial and irritable network head named Jack, and was not 30 Rock.
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Perry the Platypus, a government spy and foil to the evil Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz, is also the pet of the titular stepbrothers in what animated television series?
Phineas & Ferb
Aliens abducted Mulder on “The X-Files,” so Scully got partnered with this “Terminator 2” actor.
Robert Patrick
Gosselin is the last name of the titular ten from what television series, which ran in this version from 2007 through 2009 (first on Discovery Health, and later on TLC)?
Jon and Kate Plus 8
In an episode of the TV show Firefly (not set in Russia), the ship’s crew pulls a “Crazy Ivan,” a move popularized in what film (which was also based on a novel)?
Hunt For The Red October
Before kicking off her music career, a 15 year old Lady Gaga appeared in a Season 3 episode of what television show.
The Sopranos
While many of the actors who played the title characters in 2001’s Ocean’s Eleven have had successful television careers, only one starred in his own, namesake sitcom. Who is that actor, whose series aired on Fox from 2001 to 2006?
Bernie Mac
Ever since the Marquesas Islands edition of Survivor, ties with four players remaining have been broken, in a particularly dramatic fashion, in a contest involving a rope and what specific activity?
Firemaking
Human-vampire hybrid Eric “Blade” Brooks has made it his life’s mission to rid the world of Dracula’s bloodsucking kind. Blade was famously portrayed by Wesley Snipes in a blockbuster film trilogy, but if you blinked, you may have missed his short-lived 2006 Spike TV show. What rapper-turned-actor starred in Blade: The Series?
Sticky Fingaz / Kirk Jones
When Jamie Lynn Spears announced that she was pregnant at age 16, rumor had it that her Nickelodeon show was canceled as a result. However, the show had finished production before the news broke. Name the show.
Zoey 101
Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie’s reality show The Simple Life featured occasional appearances by one of Hilton’s assistants/friends, who helped with such tasks as organizing Hilton’s closet and administering a pregnancy test to Hilton’s dog, Tinkerbell. Name this woman, who may have had an inauspicious start but has more than made up for it.
Kim Kardashian
“Complications” was a suggested title for this ABC drama that was renewed for a 15th season in 2018.
Grey’s Anatomy
Which 2003 ESPN original TV series about a fictional professional football team called the Cougars earned high ratings and critical praise for its gritty and unflinching portrayal of the lives of pro athletes, yet was cancelled only after one season due to pressure from the NFL?
Playmakers
After several years of well-recieved film roles, an American actress of Honduran ancestry made her career breakthrough (including a Primetime Emmy) in a 2006-2010 TV series which, itself, is a remake of a 1999-2001 Colombian telenovela starring Ana María Orozco. Give the first name of the title character.
(Ugly) Betty
Yesterday she told me my show was bourgeois. I pointed out that anything that had mass appeal could be said to be bourgeois. She then said that my argument was bourgeois. Which I found to be jejune. What sitcom title character famously uttered this line in a 2002 episode?
Frasier Crane
In the year 2000 at 18 years and 161 days old, what singer became the youngest person to both host and simultaneously serve as Saturday Night Live’s musical guest?
Britney Spears
Best friends Austin, Pablo, Tasha, Tyrone, and Uniqua were the title characters on what animated series that debuted on Nickelodeon in October 2004?
The Backyardigans
