Television series with themed episode titles

I think all *Seinfeld *episodes are “The ______”

Most of The Waltons episodes also were “The ______”

Wild Wild West-“Night Of The …”

Most *Futurama *episodes, likes Simpsons episodes, are takeoffs on movie, book, etc. titles:

“Fear Of A Bot Planet”
“Why Must I Be A Crustacean In Love?”
“Roswell That Ends Well”
“The Cyber House Rules”
“Jurassic Bark”
“Parasites Lost”

I don’t know about Mike Hammer, but all “Perry Mason” episodes started that way.

Episodes of “Bones” are all structured similarly; "The (or a) [something] in (or on) [something].

e.g. “The Soldier on the Grave”, “The Gamer in the Grease”

“Where No Fan has Gone Before”
“The Devil’s Hands are Idle Playthings”
“Amazon Women in the Mood”
“I, Roommate”
“A Bicyclopes Built for Two”
“Bendin’ in the Wind”
“Hell is Other Robots”
“The Cyronic Woman”
“A Fishful of Dollars”
“My Three Suns”
“I Second That Emotion”
“Fry and the Slurm Factory”
“How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back”
“A Tale of Two Santas”
“A Pharoh to Remember”
"A Leela of Her Own
“30% Iron Chef”
“Teenage Mutant Leela’s Hurdles”
“Obsoletely Fabulous”
“Spainish Fry” (Woooo!)

All from memory, natch. :stuck_out_tongue:

Every episode of Two and a Half Men has as a title a random (hopefully funny) quote from the dialog. Example: “She’ll Still Be Dead at Halftime.”

The UK series Bottom tried to name their episodes to sound funny prepended with the word “Bottom” but I don’t think they were that great. The most obvious title like that was “'S Out”.

Scrubs all started with “My…” except for a few that were “His Story,” “Her Story” and “Their Story.” This new season all starts with “Our…”

Episodes of Remington Steele all used the word “Steele” in the titles. Sometimes to better effect than others.

Personal fave: “Steele Crazy After All These Years.”

Family Guy titles started out with a “Death” theme, but the writers quickly lost interest in it. the first four episodes are:

“Death Has a Shadow”
“I Never Met the Dead Man”
“Chitty Chitty Death Bang”
“Mind Over Murder”

We just watched the final *Wonderfalls *- all of them are animal-themed, such as “Lovesick Ass,” “Lying Pig,” and “Caged Bird.”

At least so far in our viewing, every *Leverage *is “The ________ Job.”

Everybody Hates Chris episodes all took the format “Everybody Hates X”

Aside from the pilot, all of the episodes of the L Word begin with an L.

Most of the eps from NYPD Blue are clever puns.

Many Dragnet episodes (both on TV and on the radio) followed the pattern “The Big _______.”

Damages does this too. The titles are inconsequential lines spoken by various characters.

Examples:
“The dog is happier without you”
“All that crap about your family”
“I look like Frankenstein”

Before Chuck, the animated version of The Tick used the versus titles for a while.

“Tick vs. the Idea Men”
“Tick vs. Chairface Chippendale”
“Tick vs. The Common Cold”

My favorite is still the titles for the old “Police Squad!” episodes. The title would come up on screen, and narrator would read out a completely different title.

If the title read “Ring of Fear,” the narrator would say “A Dangerous Assignment!”

Joey episodes were all in the form of “Joey and the _____” or “Joey does _____”.

The earlier episode titles in Family Guy all involved death, but that was quickly abandoned because it got hard to keep track of the scripts.

Smallville generally goes with fancy one-word titles, often a reference to the villain of the episode.

In the first two seasons of the Batman TV series from 1966, when two episodes were shown per week, the names of the episodes were rhyming pairs.

For example: Hi Diddle Riddle/Smack in the Middle

Fine Feathered Finks/The Penguin’s a Jinx

The Penguin Goes Straight/Not Yet, He Ain’t

The Puzzles Are Coming/The Duo is Slumming

All Are You Afraid of the Dark? episode titles began with “The Tale of…”

For a while at least, all the Cougartown episodes were named after Tom Petty songs.