# Was "The Trouble with Tribbles" a bottle episode? (Star Trek: TOS)

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**Created:** [September 26, 2025, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-trouble-with-tribbles-a-bottle-episode-star-trek-tos/1023422 "2025-09-26T22:58:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 29, 2025, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-trouble-with-tribbles-a-bottle-episode-star-trek-tos/1023422/41 "2025-09-29T00:19:21Z")

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A classic.

Twelve bottle episodes

> [@Bakers Dozen](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/17132):
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> “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…

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