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Working Title: Stock Episode Titles: From YKTTW
Tanto: Putting on my Citizen cap for a moment, it might behoove us to mash together titles that are different only via an article or lack of one. There's really no difference between "The Enemy Within" and "Enemy Within".
alliterator: Done.
Ecliptor Calrissian: Not only that, but in ones where the only difference is a space or lack thereof. For example, "End Game" goes from 25 to 45 if you throw in the times it's written as "Endgame." I'd change that one, but wouldn't know how.
alliterator: Ooh, I didn't notice that, thanks. Added that and "Fall Out" (because I remembered The Prisoner's series finale was named that).
nlpnt: What about "A (name of show) Christmas"?
Inkblot: What show uses the most of these titles? I know Star Trek and it's spinoffs use a lot of these, but...
Andrew Rodland: Trek does use quite a few (listed below for your convenience, or something...) but it tends more to the Literary Allusion Title. On a completely unrelated note, right in the middle of the table there's a weird Bowie discography moment, with "Ashes to Ashes", "Under Pressure", and "Changes" :)
Anyway, the ones I was able to find were:
- Reunion (TNG)
- The Homecoming (DS 9)
- Legacy (TNG)
- The Gift (VOY)
- 'Til Death Do Us Part (DS 9)
- Endgame (VOY)
- Eye of the Beholder (TOS and TNG)
- Resurrection (DS 9)
- The Enemy Within (TOS)
- Family (TNG)
- Genesis (TNG)
- Metamorphosis (TOS)
- Shades of Gray (TNG. Blech.)
- The Enemy (TNG)
- Through the Looking Glass (DS 9)
Elise: Because I have absolutely no life, I sat down and counted up all the Buffy The Vampire Slayer episodes that make the list. Holy crap, there's even more than I first thought there were:
- Homecoming
- The Gift
- Halloween
- Teacher's Pet
- No Place Like Home
- Surprise
- Family
- Choices
- Sleeper
- Beauty and the Beast(s)
- Graduation Day
- Consequences
- Fear Itself
- Shadow
- The Prom
- Chosen
- Lessons
- Tabula Rasa
- Enemies
- Nightmares
And I might have missed a few. That show loved it some stock titles.
—- Do we really need to put 'Pilot' here? Pretty much every show on the history of the planet has 'Pilot' as the title of the first episode.
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No "The Sins Of The Father"?
trimeta: Looks like that would definitely qualify, but if you want to add it yourself, you probably should also update the counts for the rest of the table...now there's an undertaking I don't anticipate.
