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The One with the Prom Video

"The One with the Prom Video" is Friends season 2, episode 14 (NBC, February 1, 1996), written by Alexa Junge, directed by James Burrows. The gang watches Monica and Rachel's prom video, revealing Ross's devotion; Rachel kisses him, and a 2004 USA Today poll of 1.6 million votes named it the show's best episode.

The One with the Rumor

The One with the Rumor, also known as the Brad Pitt Friends episode, is season 8 episode 9 (November 22, 2001), a Thanksgiving installment in which Pitt's Will Colbert and Ross reveal their I Hate Rachel Green club and its intersex rumor.

The One-Armed Boxer (独臂拳王)

The One-Armed Boxer (獨臂拳王, Du bei chuan wang), also released as The Chinese Professionals, is Jimmy Wang Yu's 1972 Golden Harvest kung fu film about a one-armed fighter defeating foreign martial artists; followed by Master of the Flying Guillotine (1976).

The Onedin Line

The Onedin Line, BBC One drama (1971-1980) created by Cyril Abraham; eight series, 91 episodes; follows Captain James Onedin's Liverpool shipping line, 1860-1886, through the sail-to-steam transition, starring Peter Gilmore with the Khachaturian Spartacus theme.

The Oner

The Oner is episode 2 of The Studio (Apple TV+, March 26, 2025): Matt Remick visits Sarah Polley's set and ruins her magic-hour single-take shot, while the 25-minute episode is itself a stitched oner; it won two Emmys.

The Ones That Got the Plays

The Ones That Got the Plays, Katy Perry's first greatest-hits compilation (Capitol, May 13, 2026), 22 tracks, 79:55, titled after the viral "The One That Got Away," peaking at UK No. 8 and certified BPI Gold.

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, Ursula K. Le Guin short story (1973, New Dimensions 3; Hugo Award 1974). Utopian city's happiness depends on one child's suffering; some citizens walk away. Subtitle: Variations on a Theme by William James.

The Onion

Founded in Madison, Wisconsin in 1988 by Tim Keck and Chris Johnson, The Onion is an American satirical media company known for its parody articles.

The Only Good Indians

The Only Good Indians is a 2020 horror novel by Blackfeet author Stephen Graham Jones in which a vengeful elk spirit hunts four Blackfeet men.

The Only Living Boy in New York (film)

The Only Living Boy in New York is a 2017 American drama directed by Marc Webb, written by Allan Loeb, starring Callum Turner, Jeff Bridges, Kate Beckinsale, Pierce Brosnan, and Cynthia Nixon; a college graduate enters an affair with his father's mistress.

The Only Living Pickpocket in New York

The Only Living Pickpocket in New York is a 2026 Noah Segan crime drama starring John Turturro as aging Bronx pickpocket Harry Lehman, who steals a USB drive worth nearly $1 million; Sony Pictures Classics, 88 minutes, Metascore 83.

The Only Son (一人息子)

The Only Son (一人息子, Hitori musuko) is Yasujirō Ozu's first talkie, a 1936 Shochiku drama in which a widowed silk worker sacrifices to educate her son Ryosuke, then finds his Tokyo life a disappointment.

The Only Way Is Essex

The Only Way Is Essex (TOWIE) is a British structured reality series set in Brentwood, Essex, created by Ruth Wrigley and Tony Wood, on ITV2 from 10 October 2010 and later ITVBe; BAFTA Audience Award 2011, real people in planned but unscripted situations.

The Open Championship

The Open Championship, golf's oldest major, first played at Prestwick on 17 October 1860; Willie Park Snr won the Challenge Belt, succeeded by the Claret Jug in 1872; organized today by The R&A over links courses.

The Open Door

The Open Door is Evanescence's second studio album, released September 25, 2006 on Wind-up Records. Made after Ben Moody's departure with Amy Lee in full creative control, it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 447,000 first-week copies and produced the hit "Call Me When You're Sober."

The Open Group Architecture Framework

The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) is an enterprise architecture standard published by The Open Group, centered on its Architecture Development Method and maintained since 1995.

The Open House

The Open House is a 2018 American Netflix horror thriller, also called Open House, directed and written by Matt Angel and Suzanne Coote. Dylan Minnette and Piercey Dalton play a son and mother stalked in a mountain home; 94 minutes, TV-MA, 7% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Open Society and Its Enemies

The Open Society and Its Enemies is Karl Popper's two-volume 1945 political philosophy work, published by Routledge, written in wartime exile in New Zealand, attacking historicism and indicting Plato, Hegel, and Marx as totalitarian.

The Open Source Definition

The Open Source Definition is a ten-criteria statement by the Open Source Initiative specifying what a software license must allow for software to be called open source.

The Opening of Misty Beethoven

The Opening of Misty Beethoven is a 1976 hardcore adult film by Radley Metzger (as Henry Paris), a Pygmalion adaptation starring Constance Money and Jamie Gillis, widely ranked the greatest adult film of its era.

The Opening of the Field

The Opening of the Field is a 1960 poetry collection by the American poet Robert Duncan, his breakthrough work, first published by Grove Press in New York.

The Operative: No One Lives Forever

The Operative: No One Lives Forever (NOLF) is a 2000 Monolith Productions stealth FPS for Windows, published by Fox Interactive, starring 1960s spy Cate Archer; famed for humor, never re-released due to divided rights.

The Opium War (鸦片战争)

The Opium War (鸦片战争) is Xie Jin's 1997 Chinese historical epic about the First Opium War, Lin Zexu, and the cession of Hong Kong; a 100-million-RMB record production that won Golden Rooster Best Picture but lost money.

The Oppermanns

The Oppermanns (Die Geschwister Oppermann) is a 1933 novel by Lion Feuchtwanger following a prosperous Jewish family in Berlin as Nazi persecution destroys their standing and business.

The Opposite Sex

The Opposite Sex (1956) is MGM's Technicolor musical remake of The Women (1939), from Clare Boothe Luce's play, directed by David Miller, starring June Allyson, Joan Collins, and Leslie Nielsen, notable for adding men, music, and color.

The Opps

The Opps are a villainous AEW wrestling stable formed in early 2025 around Samoa Joe, Hook, and Katsuyori Shibata, later adding Powerhouse Hobbs, Anthony Bowens, and Action Andretti; they held the AEW World Trios Championship 276 days.

The Oprah Winfrey Show

The Oprah Winfrey Show (奥普拉脱口秀) was Oprah Winfrey's syndicated daytime talk show, nationally broadcast from Chicago 1986–2011 over 25 seasons; the highest-rated daytime talk show in US TV history, drawing 12–13 million daily viewers at its peak.

The Optimistic Tragedy

The Optimistic Tragedy (Оптимистическая трагедия) is a heroic-revolutionary play by Soviet dramatist Vsevolod Vishnevsky, written in 1932 and set in 1918 during the birth of the Red Army.

The Oracle (The Matrix)

The Oracle, the Matrix character played by Gloria Foster (films 1-2) and Mary Alice (film 3, games), is a guide revealed in Reloaded to be a sentient program, the Matrix's 'mother' who created the prophecy of the One and engineered the trilogy's peace.

The Orange Box

The Orange Box: Valve's five-game 2007 compilation (Half-Life 2, Episodes One and Two, Portal, Team Fortress 2), released October 10, 2007 for $49.99 PC/$59.99 console; Metacritic 96, Portal won 30+ GOTY awards.