TV Shows — Missing Vowels

Rules & what counts

Missing Vowels: TV Shows — Rules & What Counts

Missing Vowels shows one TV show title with every vowel removed. An underscore marks each vowel the title lost.

A TV show title is often more than one word, so this quiz also marks the spaces. A dot sits in each gap between two words.

"BR__K_NG · B_D" is BREAKING BAD. "G_M_ · _F · THR_N_S" is GAME OF THRONES.

A run lasts three minutes. Name as many TV shows as you can in that time.

Read the title in the middle of the screen. Each underscore is one vowel and each dot is one space.
Type the title of the TV show. The game accepts the title as soon as you spell it — you do not press Enter.
You can type the spaces or leave them out. "the wire" and "thewire" both count.
A correct title scores one point and draws the next show.
Select Skip to draw the next show. A skip costs no point, but it costs time.
The clock starts on your first keystroke, so you can read the first title first.
The game saves your progress. You can close the page and continue within one hour.
Select Review words on the result screen to see every title of the run and its answer.

The pool holds 92 well-known TV shows, from I Love Lucy's era to Adolescence. It mixes sitcoms, dramas, animation and streaming hits.
No two titles in the pool share a pattern, so every puzzle has exactly one answer.
Each run deals the puzzles in a random order, and no pattern repeats inside one run.
Score is one point per show named. Skipped shows score nothing.
The leaderboard ranks the number of shows named in the three minutes.

The five vowels are A, E, I, O and U. Y is a consonant here, so FAMILY GUY shows as "F_M_LY · G_Y".
Only the exact spelling counts. The mask shows every consonant, so it tells you the letters the answer needs.
Titles that need punctuation are not in the pool. The mask can hold letters and spaces only, so Grey's Anatomy, The X-Files, M*A*S*H and 24 are left out instead of being misspelled.
Each show uses its main title alone. The Office is THE OFFICE, with no country tag.
Capital letters do not matter. "friends" and "FRIENDS" both count.

This quiz shows no poster and no still. TV artwork is under copyright, so every TV quiz on this site is built on words alone.
A title with many vowels loses the most. EUPHORIA shows as "__PH_R__" and keeps three letters of eight.
The longest pattern in the pool is HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, at 21 characters.
Consonants carry most of the information in written English. That is why you can still read a title with no vowels at all.