# Television series with themed episode titles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 6, 2010, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-series-with-themed-episode-titles/535120 "2010-04-06T06:41:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abby_Emma_Sasha)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-series-with-themed-episode-titles/535120/61 "2010-04-07T17:09:18Z")
I’m slapping my forehead because I totally forgot about _Desperate Housewives_. Each title is derived from a Stephen Sondheim song lyric. Examples: “The ladies who lunch” “One wonderful day” “Smiles of a summer night” ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-series-with-themed-episode-titles/535120/62 "2010-04-07T17:59:06Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > Something they did for **Breaking Bad** , which I thought was quite awesome, was that every episode title from Season 2 in which the episode began with a pink teddy bear floating in a pool, spelled out what that scene was about, and what happened in the finale: Episode 1: 737, Episode 4: Down, Episode 10: Over, Episode 13: ABQ. > > “737 down over ABQ” Season 4 of _Robot Chicken_ made two messages with its episode titles. They’re scrambled if you go by air date order, but by production number order, they’re: ``` * Help Me * I'm Trapped * In a DVD Factory * They Took My Thumbs * Two Weeks Without Food * Tell My Mom * I Love Her * But Not In That Way * Love, Maurice * P.S. Yes, In That Way ``` and ``` * Dear Consumer * We Are a Humble Factory * Maurice Was Caught * Unionizing Our Labor * President Hu Forbids It * Due to Constraints of Time and Budget * The Ramblings of Maurice * Cannot Be Erased, So Sorry * Please Do Not Notify Our Contractors * Especially the Animal Keith Crofford! ``` ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-series-with-themed-episode-titles/535120/63 "2010-04-07T19:37:01Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > My favourites are the recent two parter: > “Tick, Tick, Tick…” > “Boom!” Which are two movie titles. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-series-with-themed-episode-titles/535120/64 "2010-04-09T02:09:22Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > …I bet they’d notice fraternal incest, though. > > Much to the chagrin of the filthy-minded fangirls. > [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Who you calling a filthy-minded fangirl? 😃 > [@Dean Winchester](#): > > They do know we’re brothers, right? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-series-with-themed-episode-titles/535120/65 "2010-04-10T00:29:41Z")
**One Tree Hill** episode titles are all taken from song titles. Examples: “The Trick is to Keep Breathing” (Garbage), “Crash Into You” (DMB), “The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows” (Brand New)… ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-series-with-themed-episode-titles/535120/66 "2010-04-10T00:35:41Z")
_Cowboy Bebop_ named it’s episodes after musical albums, or puns based on album names. > **[List of Cowboy Bebop episodes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cowboy_Bebop_episodes)** > > The Japanese anime series Cowboy Bebop consists of 26 episodes, referred to as "sessions". Most episodes are named after a musical concept of some sort, usually either a broad genre (e.g. "Gateway Shuffle") or a specific song (e.g. "Honky Tonk Women" and "Bohemian Rhapsody"). The show's first run, from April 3 until June 26, 1998, on TV Tokyo, included only episodes 2, 3, 7 to 15, 18 and a special. Later that year, the series was shown in its entirety from October 24, 1998 to April 24, 1999, o ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-series-with-themed-episode-titles/535120/67 "2010-04-10T00:42:50Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Many **Dragnet** episodes (both on TV and on the radio) followed the pattern “The Big \_\_\_\_\_\_\_.” just saw this thread and was about to say that it applied to the most (by far) of the episodes of the radio show and all the episodes of the 1951 tv series (later series not so). ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-series-with-themed-episode-titles/535120/68 "2010-04-10T07:31:28Z")
The series \*24 \*has themed episode titles, but not in a very interesting way. They are very literal, for example: “Day 8: 3:00 AM - 4:00 AM”. ETA: This would be an episode in the 8th season. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-series-with-themed-episode-titles/535120/69 "2010-04-10T15:08:32Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > 😛 What Dean doesn’t seem to realize is that a lot of people not only know they’re brothers, they _like_ that they’re brothers. There’s a reason I call them _filthy-minded_ fangirls. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-series-with-themed-episode-titles/535120/70 "2010-04-10T15:09:11Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > The series \*24 \*has themed episode titles, but not in a very interesting way. They are very literal, for example: “Day 8: 3:00 AM - 4:00 AM”. > > ETA: This would be an episode in the 8th season. I can’t believe I didn’t think of this. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-series-with-themed-episode-titles/535120.md?page=3)