“Bottle” episodes of television series
- “Two’s a Crowd” All in the Family (the “Shoe-booty” episode)
- “Fly” Breaking Bad
- The Tholian web - Star Trek TOS
- The first season of Cheers
- Most Episodes - The Honeymooners
- Nearly every episode - Barney Miller
- Cooperative Calligraphy- Community (in which Abed was conscious of being in a bottle episode)
- “Midnight” - Doctor Who
- “Maude Bares Her Soul” - Bea Arthur solo, talking to her (unseen) psychiatrist for 30 minutest. No other actors appeared
- “O.R.” - MAS*H
- “My Name is Alex” - Family Ties 2-parter where Alex talks about a (previously-unreferenced and never mentioned again) friends death with a psychiatrist. Bonus in that he was in a black room, the shrink was never seen, and the rest of the family didn’t appear either (to the best of my memory.)
- Road Runner cartoons
Warner Brothers gave their animators a tight budget and schedule. Road Runner cartoons were cheap and easy to make. So the animators would make some of them to put themselves ahead and then use the time and money they had saved to make more elaborate cartoons.