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Themed episode titles in TV series
degsyhufc
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What do you think of these?
e.g.
Friends:
"The One with the Sonogram at the End"
"The One with the Thumb"
"The One with George Stephanopoulos"
The One with.........
The Big Bang Theory:
"The Big Bran Hypothesis"
"The Fuzzy Boots Corollary"
"The Luminous Fish Effect"
The theme is titles to sound like scientific theories
Do you think it's a nice touch to the series or a bit of a waste of time?
Any others you can think of?
e.g.
Friends:
"The One with the Sonogram at the End"
"The One with the Thumb"
"The One with George Stephanopoulos"
The One with.........
The Big Bang Theory:
"The Big Bran Hypothesis"
"The Fuzzy Boots Corollary"
"The Luminous Fish Effect"
The theme is titles to sound like scientific theories
Do you think it's a nice touch to the series or a bit of a waste of time?
Any others you can think of?
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I think that the titles of nearly all Goodnight Sweetheart episodes were the titles of old music hall and wartime songs (e.g. 'Have You Ever Seen a Dream Walking; In the Mood; Nice Work if You Can Get It.)
And didn't Goes Forth have army rank with names, with secondary meanings? Corporal Punishment, Major Star, that sort of thing?
Continuum has a variant, all Season One episodes had "Time" in the title, and all Season Two episodes have "Second" in the title.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sonny_with_a_Chance_episodes
A play on the phase "Sunny with a chance of rain" or similar
Several episode titles are a variation on a theme
"Sonny with a Chance of Dating"
"Sonny in the Kitchen with Dinner"
"Sonny with a 100% Chance of Meddling"
"Sonny with a Kiss"
etc.
Cougar Town used Tom Petty song titles.
Space Cadets- the 90's sci-fi panel game, not the 00's elaborate reality prank show- had episode titles, all "[Some monster trope] vs [Some other monster trope]", which was unusual for such a show, since the names were basically meaningless (Unlike Only Connect, where the episode titles explicitly reference the teams in question)
Theme episode names are a nice bonus for fans, and are wonderfully ripe for parody.
Power Rangers had a word number pattern going for a while - all of SPD's titles are one word, all of Mystic Force's are two, all of Operation Overdrive's are three words and all of Jungle Fury's are four.
By the way, this thread shouldn't have been in the UK shows section when both shows mentioned by the OP are American.
Not sure which is the official?
Captain Cook
Plan A
Plan A: Captain Cook
Plan A - Captan Cook
???
The titles are all film titles with one word substituted with 'Alan'. The episode should bear no relation to the film but will be relevant to the content of the episode.
So for example the one where Alan spends the episode at a lose end is 'Basic Alan', and the one where he does the video for a canal break is 'Watership Alan'.
Some episodes of The Simpsons had titles which were puns e.g. Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire
Migrating
Uncoupling
Helping
Engaging
Wandering One
Wandering Too
Knotting
This may be interesting reading:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming/LiveActionTV
Season four continued the theme with Hours.