Themed episode titles in TV series

degsyhufc · 11/06/13 - 02:34

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?

woot_whoo · 11/06/13 - 02:37

degsyhufc wrote: »

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?

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.)

21stCenturyBoy · 11/06/13 - 02:40

Blackadder Series 2 all had one word titles, and Series 3 all had titles spoofing Sense & Sensibility (such as Nob & Nobility)

mikebuk · 11/06/13 - 02:48

Some 'Bottom' episodes included titles like Smells, 's Up, Gas and 's Out.

Elanor · 11/06/13 - 02:53

21stCenturyBoy wrote: »

Blackadder Series 2 all had one word titles, and Series 3 all had titles spoofing Sense & Sensibility (such as Nob & Nobility)

And didn't Goes Forth have army rank with names, with secondary meanings? Corporal Punishment, Major Star, that sort of thing?

SillyBillyGoat · 11/06/13 - 03:20

I think One Tree Hill episode titles were all song titles.

Continuum has a variant, all Season One episodes had "Time" in the title, and all Season Two episodes have "Second" in the title.

degsyhufc · 04/08/13 - 22:40

Was browsing the EPG and saw this

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.

derek500 · 04/08/13 - 22:58

Desperate Housewives used song titles from Stephen Sondheim musicals.

Steven Oliver · 04/08/13 - 23:20

Dad's Army and Hi-De-Hi! were good for doing this. Dad's Army additionally played on titles of well-known films, with "The Four Feathers" being the inspiration behind the episode "The Two And A Half Feathers".

Sharon87 · 04/08/13 - 23:33

Supernaturals episodes well a lot of them are after classic rock songs or movies!

Dan_Cbbc · 05/08/13 - 02:04

God knows who came up with The Bill episode titles but some of them were genius and CITV show Bernard's Watch all had Time in the title.

degsyhufc · 02/09/14 - 20:57

SillyBillyGoat wrote: »

I think One Tree Hill episode titles were all song titles.

Continuum has a variant, all Season One episodes had "Time" in the title, and all Season Two episodes have "Second" in the title.

Just watched S3 and they all have Minute(s) in the titles.

Paul1511 · 02/09/14 - 21:00

Law and Order:SVU used to do one word titles until more recent seasons.

Cougar Town used Tom Petty song titles.

beemoh · 02/09/14 - 21:09

Scrubs was always "My [something]", except for the final series, which was "Our [something]"

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.

JAS84 · 02/09/14 - 21:18

Matt Smith's final three Doctor Who episodes were all something "of the Doctor".

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.

degsyhufc · 04/09/14 - 16:16

Elanor wrote: »

And didn't Goes Forth have army rank with names, with secondary meanings? Corporal Punishment, Major Star, that sort of thing?

The series aired for six episodes broadcast on BBC One on Thursdays at 9.30pm between 28 September and 2 November 1989, ending nine days before Remembrance Day.[1] The titles of the first five episodes, "Captain Cook", "Corporal Punishment", "Major Star", "Private Plane" and "General Hospital" are puns based on the pairing of a military rank and another word related to the episode's content. The final episode, "Goodbyeee", was the title of a period song

Also, alternative titles were prefixed with Plan A, Plan B, Plan C... etc.

Not sure which is the official?
Captain Cook
Plan A
Plan A: Captain Cook
Plan A - Captan Cook

???

lady_xanax · 04/09/14 - 17:53

The second series of This Life spoofed famous film titles, with episode titles like 'Diet Hard' and 'From Here to Maternity'.

degsyhufc · 15/06/15 - 21:45

See Dad Run has titles starting with "See Dad...."

Ollie_h19 · 15/06/15 - 21:51

I'm Alan Partridge. The writers talk about this at length in the DVD commentary.

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'.

aquasplash3 · 15/06/15 - 22:47

Birds of a Feather - Series 7. The episodes each have a title which is also the name of another sitcom.

degsyhufc · 27/06/15 - 22:25

Most of the Hannibal titles are food based

djfunnyman · 27/06/15 - 22:32

All Seinfeld episodes started with "The" and then what the episode was called e.g. The Calzone

Some episodes of The Simpsons had titles which were puns e.g. Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire

ilovewallander · 28/06/15 - 07:52

The 80s comedy Watching used one word titles for each episode which told the story of each series. For example, the last series was:

Migrating
Uncoupling
Helping
Engaging
Wandering One
Wandering Too
Knotting

JamieHT · 28/06/15 - 10:18

2point4 Children's were all named after songs or films I think.

MeicY · 28/06/15 - 11:38

The first few episodes of Family Guy had titles with "Death" in them, although mostly completely unrelated to the episode's content. Seth MacFarlane said they gave up pretty early on on trying to keep that particular idea alive as they ran out of titles.

This may be interesting reading:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming/LiveActionTV

degsyhufc · 20/12/15 - 22:10

degsyhufc wrote: »

Just watched S3 and they all have Minute(s) in the titles.

Season four continued the theme with Hours.

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