Room 101 (TV series)

BBC comedy show that has been running on-and-off since 1994, named for the Room 101 from the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. When hosted by Nick Hancock (1994-97) and Paul Merton (1999-2007), it was a chat show where that week's featured guest nominated some of their pet hates and argued why they should be consigned to Room 101; the host then had to decide whether or not they had made a persuasive enough argument.

In 2012, a revamped edition hosted by Frank Skinner began, with the programme now taking the format of a Panel Game as three different guests argued across a series of categories to try and get their chosen items into Room 101.

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Tropes used in Room 101 (TV series) include:

• Even Evil Has Standards: The room once 'vomited' out Piers Morgan, on the grounds he was 'too toxic'.
• Take That: The point of some of the nominations.