Episodes

Family Ties: 7 seasons

It’s a fun game my father and I created recently and I’m going to ruin all of the good ones for you here.

Perfect Strangers: 8 seasons

The intent is to present your opposing player(s) with a popular—but preferably bad—television sitcom or drama from the past 10 to 50 years (or so).

Maude: 6 seasons

The opposing player guesses the number of seasons. My father named the game “Episodes”.

Gilligan’s Island: 3 seasons

Then, one of you looks up the answer on an internet phone. So have an internet phone.

Sister, Sister: 6 seasons

Mock the audacity of the American public to sustain such programming.

Three’s Company: 8 seasons

Poke and prod and pour your favorite citrus juices into the open (still? really?) wounds of Firefly, Party Down, and… I don’t know… The Cape?¹ fans.

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.: 5 seasons

Rinse.

Combat!: 5 seasons

Repeat.

Family Matters: 9 seasons

There are no points, no scoring of any kind, and the only winner is nostalgia (there’s no winner).

Home Improvement: 8 seasons