Quote from Frasier in Sliding Frasiers
Frasier: All right, if you must know, I'm just about to leave for something called a "speed date." Roz: What's a speed date? Frasier: Well, apparently it's the latest thing. Twelve men and twelve women get together in a room. They spend eight minutes talking to one other and then move on to the next person after a bell rings. Basically, it's all the stress and humiliation of a blind date times twelve.