History IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming / LiveActionTV

* ''Series/That70sShow'': Starting with the fifth, each season picked an appropriate band and used their song titles for every episode. (In order, the bands were Music/LedZeppelin, Music/TheWho, Music/TheRollingStones, and Music/{{Queen}}.)

* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'':
** Uses a subtler convention, in which each episode follows the pattern "The _____". What followed was a term or important aspect of the episode's story like "The Chinese Restaurant" and "The Serenity Now." The only exception in the entire show's run is the second episode "Male-Unbonding".
** Apparently the reason they did it was so they wouldn't spend a whole lot of time thinking of an episode name that people would never see anyway.
** Some episode guides list the title as "The Male Unbonding" to bring this one in line with the others.

** In season one they're all three words ending in "[[PrecisionFStrike as Fuck", like "Insecure as Fuck" for the pilot.

** ''Series/ResshaSentaiTokkyuger'': Every episode is a "Station". The season finale is the Terminal Station.

* ''Series/LASFinest'': Almost every episode of this ''Film/BadBoys'' spinoff is named after a movie that the movie's(and series') executive producer Creator/JerryBruckheimer produced. Since "Bad Boys" was obviously off-limits, one episode is called "[[GenderFlip Bad Girls]]."

** ''Series/KamenRiderDenO'': Titles either make reference to time travel aspects (kind of like ''DoctorWho'') or ancient Japanese references, because of both the time travel aspect and the Imagin, Oni-like monsters, playing a big part of the show.

** ''Series/KamenRiderSaber'' is the next season since ''Hibiki'' to have specific nomenclature for its episodes, calling them Chapters as part of the season’s book motif. Episode titles themselves are written as descriptive sentences, broken by commas (、) and ended by periods (。) as well. The Special Chapter includes ''Series/KikaiSentaiZenkaiger'''s pun, being a crossover with it, and the Bonus Issue ends with a comma instead to show that ''Saber'' may be finished, but ''Revice'' is now the new page of ''KamenRider''.

** All the sixth and final season's episodes are three-word phrases in the format "X and Y" (e.g. "Hit and Run", "Wine and Roses").

* ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'': 102 out of 132 episodes worked "Dick" into the title. (Among the exceptions: "Brains And Eggs," "Big Angry Virgin From Outer Space," "Sally And Don's First Kiss," "Feelin' Albright," "The Big Giant Head Returns" and "[[SeriesFinale The Thing That Wouldn't Die]].") That's what happens when you downsize standards and practices. For those who don't know, [[MrExposition that's the name of the male lead.]] On a DVDCommentary, one of the writers explained that they created these titles to amuse themselves, thinking they would never be seen by the public due to the series having no EpisodeTitleCard. They were wrong.

* ''Series/LawAndOrder: L.A.'': Every episode of this short-lived show was named after a neighborhood or area of Los Angeles.

* ''Series/TheCakeBoss'': Uses three-word titles with AddedAlliterativeAppeal that are typically about the cakes they're making plus some hijinks the bakers get up to. For instance "Robots, Rollerskates, and Relatives" had a robot cake, a rollerskate cake, and Buddy's sister and nephew driving him and the staff insane.

*** In seasons 13 to 17 of ''SVU'' they switched to two-words titles. The next few seasons didn't follow any particular theme and starting season 20 all episodes have long, three-or-more-words titles.

*** In seasons 13 to 17 of ''SVU'' they switched to two-words titles. The next few seasons didn't follow any particular theme and starting season 20 all episodes have long three or more words titles.

* ''Insecure'' Every episode has a PrecisionFStrike in the title - "_____ as Fuck" - the first episode is "Insecure as Fuck."

* ''Series/Titans2018'': In the first two seasons, every episode is either someone's or a group of peoples name(s) (ie "Hawk and Dove", "Doom Patrol", "Aqualad", "Deathstroke", "Conner", "Nightwing", etc.) or some other one-word noun or adjective (ie "Together", "The Asylum", "Atonement", etc.). The only real exception is season two episode eleven, "E.L._.O.". However, when you watch the episode, you learn that [[spoiler:it actually is the name of a place, Elko, Nevada, where Donna Troy (aka Wonder Girl), Dawn Granger (aka Dove), Koriand'r (aka Starfire), and Rachel Roth (aka Raven) meet up with]] [[spoiler:an illusion of Bruce Wayne.]] The convention is abandoned come the third season.

* ''Series/UnbreakableKimmySchmidt'': Each episode title is "Kimmy [does or is something][[ExcitedShowTitle !]]" other than "Sliding Van Doors," a ''Film/SlidingDoors'' parody episode that takes place in an alternate universe.

** All the sixth and final season's episodes are three-word phrases in the format "X and Y" (e.g. "Hit and Run", "Wine and Rose").

** All of the Season 1 episodes are a single word (hyphenated in one case) ending with "O" ("Uno", "Mijo", "Nacho", "Hero", etc.) ... except for episode 5, which goes by the ungainly title "Alpine Shepherd Boy". Apparently the working title for the episode was "Jell-O", but since that's a registered trademark ...

* All of the Season 1 episodes of ''Series/BetterCallSaul'' are a single word (hyphenated in one case) ending with "O" ("Uno", "Mijo", "Nacho", "Hero", etc.) ... except for episode 5, which goes by the ungainly title "Alpine Shepherd Boy". Apparently the working title for the episode was "Jell-O", but since that's a registered trademark ...

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** ''Series/AustinAndAlly'' episodes are an alliterative "_____ & _____" (examples being "Secrets & Songbooks", "Bloggers & Butterflies" and "Girlfriends & Girl Friends"; the only exceptions so far are "Zaliens & Cloud Watchers", "Everglades & Allygators" and the {{crossover}} with ''Series/{{Jessie}}'' "Austin & Jessie & Ally All Star New Year" - though it also has the alternate episode title "Big Dreams & Big Apples"), but the alternative episode names for the episodes "Hunks & Homecoming" and "Fashion Shows & First Impressions" ("Ally's New Crush" and "Austin's New Crush" respectively) may also count as exceptions too.

* The fourth season of Series/GoodTrouble uses song lyrics from relatively well-known songs as episode titles, but specifically not the titles of the songs. Previous seasons had no theme.