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| 21 | Examples of IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming in western animation. |
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| 23 | * The length of episode titles of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfPussInBoots'' are related to their production season. All the episode titles in seasons 1 and 2 are one word long, the ones in seasons 3 and 4 are two words long, and in seasons 5 and 6 they're three words long. The only exception to this is the two-part GrandFinale; "The Moving Finger Writes" and "And, Having Writ, Moves On" are four and five words, respectively, instead of three. |
| 24 | * Every episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' is "The [noun]", the noun being whatever the episode is about. The only exceptions are the first Halloween and Christmas episodes, which are simply titled [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Halloween" and "Christmas"]], respectively. |
| 25 | * All episodes of ''WesternAnimation/AnimalMechanicals'' follow the pattern "Mechanica (Noun) Island". Only six episodes were exceptions. |
| 26 | * Episodes of the surreal HBO series ''WesternAnimation/Animals2016'' are titled "(list type of animal here)." |
| 27 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' would typically throw the episode's character of focus somewhere in its title (For instance, "D.W. Flips", "Buster's Dino Dilemma", "Sue Ellen Moves In"). This wasn't always followed as a good chunk of episodes have no character names in them, but it primarily stems from the show's early years when the episode would usually use the same title as an ''Arthur'' book it was adapted from, which fittingly enough would have Arthur or D.W.'s name somewhere in it. The show no longer adapts from any of the books, but the practice has stuck. |
| 28 | * ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'''s second season had two naming themes (and some in the middle that didn't match either). It started with "Super" ("Super Birthday Snake", "Super Hero", "Super Bowl"...) and ended with "The" ("The Cubing", "The Clowning", "The Dressing"... including an episode named just "The". The season ended with "The Last One", which was purportedly short for "The Last [Expletive Deleted] One of 2003") |
| 29 | * In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', each season is called a book and is named after one of the four elements (Example: Book One, Water), and each episode is called a chapter. The sequel, ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', continued the season titling with its first season, "Air." After that, since all four elements had been covered, the following seasons were titled "Spirits", "Change", and "Balance". |
| 30 | * Both ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheRaccoons'' give their episodes titles ending with exclamation points. |
| 31 | * All episodes of ''WesternAnimation/BeatBugs'' are based around Beatles songs and thus titled after the one featured in the episode. |
| 32 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheBeatles'' episode titles were all titles of Beatles songs. Each cartoon co-related to the title in some fashion and the title song for each cartoon was performed. |
| 33 | * ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'' episode titles simply sum up what the plot is going to be about, usually in one or two words. The sole exception would be "Mages & Mazes". |
| 34 | * ''WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill'': Every episode of the first two seasons was named either "Blinky Bill's (X)", [[CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase "Blinky (Bill) and the (X)"]], or more rarely, "Blinky (Bill) (Does a Plot-Related Thing)". The only exceptions to this were season 1's "Detective Blinky", "Mayor Blinky Bill" and "Who is Blinky Bill?", and season 2's "Blinky the Hypnotist", "Blinky Bill is Kidnapped" and "Blinky and Gretel". |
| 35 | ** Mostly [[AvertedTrope averted]] when season 3 dropped the naming scheme, but there were titles that were similar to the first two seasons, being "Flap's New Family", "Leo Leads the Way", "Blinky's Birthday Surprise", "Tico's Choice" and "Tico Takes Charge". |
| 36 | * ''WesternAnimation/BluesCluesAndYou'' has most of its episode titles called "(Episode subject) with Blue". One episode, "The Thinking Squad", strays away from this format. Season 2 uses episode titles called "Blue's (subject)" or "Blue's Big (subject)". |
| 37 | * ''Brad Neely's Harg Nallin' Sclopio Peepio'' episode titles looked like as if the episode was a dedication to some female celebrity in a way, each starting with "For ______" (e.g.: "For Streep", "For Johansson", etc.) |
| 38 | * All the episodes of ''WesternAnimation/BradysBeasts'' are titled "How to..." followed by something related to the plot, except for the pilot, "How the monsters came to Ravenville". |
| 39 | * Most episodes of ''WesternAnimation/BubbleGuppies'' feature [[ExcitedEpisodeTitle exclamations]]. |
| 40 | ** ''WesternAnimation/ButterbeansCafe'' and ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'' did the same thing. |
| 41 | * Most episodes of ''[[Creator/RichardScarry Busytown Mysteries]]'' are titled after the mystery featured in the episode, while featuring the word "Mystery" somewhere in the title. There are some exceptions, "Where's Junior?" being an example. |
| 42 | * Every episode of ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' had two names, separated by colons, such as "Escape to Beer Mountain: A Rope of Sand" or "Film Fest: Tears of a Clone". This was subverted in the second episode title, "Episode Two: Election Blu-Galoo". Supposedly this was a joke based around the theme of clones within the show. These were dropped in the second season of the revival (with the exception of one episode), but returned in full force for Season 3. |
| 43 | * Every episode of ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' has a title of the form "Operation: ______", where the ______ is always an acronym that both fits the theme of the episode and [[FunWithAcronyms expands to a phrase that fits the theme]]. The full acronym is always revealed just after the title. |
| 44 | * The majority of the episode titles for ''Literature/CharlieAndLola'' are essentially statements from Lola, often in a humorously protracted fashion. Examples are "I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato", "We Do Promise Honestly We Can Look After Your Dog" and "I Do Not Ever, Never Want My Wobbly Tooth to Fall Out". |
| 45 | * The episodes of ''WesternAnimation/ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'' had descriptive and increasingly lengthy titles (apart from the last episode, entitled simply "The Last Episode Ever"). The longest was that of the second-to-last episode, "Dante and Randal and Jay and Silent Bob and a Bunch of New Characters and Lando, Take Part in a Whole Bunch of Movie Parodies Including But Not Exclusive To, The Bad News Bears, The Last Starfighter, Indiana Jones and the Temple Of Doom, Plus a High School Reunion". |
| 46 | ** Before it was deleted, the Website/{{Wikipedia}} page for that episode had to be labeled as "Clerks: The Animated Series episode five" because the actual name was [[{{Cap}} too long to use as an article name]]. |
| 47 | * Only five of the 16 episodes of ''WesternAnimation/ClueClub'' were not titled "The ______ Caper." |
| 48 | * In ''WesternAnimation/DanVs,'' every episode's title is just whatever [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Dan]] is trying to avenge himself on this week ("The Wolf-Man", "New Mexico", etc.), with a title screen reading "Dan Vs. ___" during his [[OncePerEpisode trademark]] SkywardScream. |
| 49 | * ''WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood'' usually has episode titles formatted in the style of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "(character) (action related to the episode)"]] (for instance, "Daniel's Very Different Day" and "Katerina Gets Mad") but some, like "A Trip To The Crayon Factory" and "Wow At The Library", don't follow this format. A majority of the make-believe songs are titled "(object) World". |
| 50 | * Most episodes of ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' had pun-laden titles. One pun was usually enough, and by and large they were simple variations on stock phrases, like "[[Recap/DarkwingDuckS1E55SlimeOkayYoureOkay Slime Okay, You're Okay]]", "Whirled History", and "Water Way to Go" or well-known movie titles, like "Dry Hard", "Planet of the Capes", and "Steerminator". A few, like the two-part episodes "Darkly Dawns the Duck" and "Just Us Justice Ducks" were not puns, but were still obviously wordplay, while some, such as "Smarter than a Speeding Bullet" fit the variation on stock phrases form, without being puns. |
| 51 | ** Punny episode titles were also common on WesternAnimation/{{Disney|Afternoon}}'s other comedy/adventure AnimatedSeries, such as ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' and ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop''. In addition, ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' and ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'' also had [[PunBasedTitle punny series titles]]. |
| 52 | * Every episode and online short of ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperheroGirls2019'' has its title in the format of a hashtag ([=#SweetJustice=], [=#AdventuresInBunnysitting=], [=#HateTriangle=], etc.). |
| 53 | * Every season finale of ''WesternAnimation/{{Disenchantment}}'' has the word "falls" in the title, except in the last season, which has "falls" in the second-last episode instead. |
| 54 | * Every episode of ''WesternAnimation/DorgVanDango'' has the eponymous character's first name as the first word in the title. |
| 55 | * Every episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' had "Doug" or "Doug's" as the first word of its title, making the process of incorporating the show's {{episode title card}}s more convenient (for Porkchop, at least). |
| 56 | ** Every Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} episode did, yes. When it became ''Brand Spanking New Doug'' (i.e. the Creator/{{Disney}} era) this continued for the most part - but Patti got one while Judy had two, and every Quailman episode had a title beginning with his name. |
| 57 | * Every title of an ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode is based on an aphorism or pop-culture reference with "Ed" inserted into it somewhere ("One of Those Eds", "X Marks the Ed", "[[Film/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill1951 The Day the Ed Stood Still]]", etc.). The only notable aversions to this are the Valentine's Day special "[[Recap/EdEddNEddysHankyPankyHullabaloo Hanky Panky Hullabaloo]]" and the FinaleMovie ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddysBigPictureShow'' whose titles don't reference any pre-existing phrase or media. |
| 58 | * ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/FamilyGuy was supposed]] [[SubvertedTrope to have this]]. Each episode was supposed to have a FilmNoir-ish death-themed title that had nothing to do with the plot of the episode. The practice was quickly abandoned when it became difficult to tell which episode was which during the production process. The first four episodes retain these names: "Death Has a Shadow", "I Never Met the Dead Man" (both of which were originally titles for episodes of the classic '40s RadioDrama ''Suspense''), "Chitty Chitty Death Bang", and "Mind Over Murder." |
| 59 | ** Creator/ConanOBrien's TalkShow ''Conan'' has fake titles similar to ''Family Guy'''s: "Baa Baa Blackmail," "Murder, She Tweeted"). |
| 60 | * Every episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fangbone}}'' uses a snowclone title in the format of "The X of Y", mimicking Fangbone's StrangeSyntaxSpeaker tendencies. It's also worth noting this trait was carried over from the original ''Literature/FangboneThirdGradeBarbarian'' books, with the second and third books being called "The Egg of Misery" and "The Birthday Party of Dread". |
| 61 | * Every episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fishtronaut}}'' is titled "The Case of the "<X>" or " The <X> Case", with "X" referring to something related to the plot. |
| 62 | * Every episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Franklin}}'' has the word "Franklin" in the title, and almost all the titles begin with "Franklin". Same goes for its newer CGI adaptation ''Franklin and Friends''. |
| 63 | * With only a couple exceptions, all episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' are {{Punny Name}}s taken from ScienceFiction or popular culture that are simultaneously relevant to the plot. "I, Roomate" is taken from Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/IRobot'' and the episode inolves Bender, a robot, becoming the main character's roommate. "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?" is taken from the [[TheFifties 1950s]] hit song "Teenager in Love" and deals with Zoidberg, an anthropomorphic crab, in biological mating season. |
| 64 | * ''WesternAnimation/GetBlake'' has every episode titled "Get _____!" |
| 65 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatNorth'' has nearly every episode title end with "Adventure". |
| 66 | * ''WesternAnimation/GreenEggsAndHam2019'': |
| 67 | ** Episodes from Season 1 titled after an element in [[Literature/GreenEggsAndHam the original book]] (ie. "Here", "Mouse", "Fox", etc.). |
| 68 | ** Episodes from Season 2 are puns on the titles of spy movies (ie. "The Mom Identity", "Tinker Tailor Mother Spy", "Goldenguy", etc.). |
| 69 | * ''WesternAnimation/HarryAndHisBucketFullOfDinosaurs'' episode titles are simply a one to three word phrase that follows whatever Harry's problem is in the episode. The title is also coincidentally the first words of the episode itself, popping up right after the phrase is said. |
| 70 | * ''WesternAnimation/Hero108'', for the most part of the first season, has episodes that follow the trend of being titled "______ Castle" (sometimes with "II" appended if it's a sequel to the first part), with several exceptions (though some of those also follow a trend, like "Pitched Battle of ______"). In the second season however, [[AvertedTrope the trend gets dropped]] and the episodes begin utilizing more varying titles, with but a couple of episodes still sticking to the aforementioned trend. |
| 71 | * ''WesternAnimation/HeyDuggee'''s episodes are titled "The (Noun) Badge". |
| 72 | * Another DFE series, ''The Houndcats'', used titles of the form "The ________ Mission". |
| 73 | * The episode titles of the Fox sitcom ''WesternAnimation/HouseBroken'' is named as a question beginning with "Who...", following a theme of things you'd say to one's pet. |
| 74 | * The majority of episodes in ''WesternAnimation/IAmWeasel'' are titled "I Am/I Are/I.R. _________" (depending on the episode's theme). |
| 75 | * ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'': Every episode is titled "The [Noun] Car", after either [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the location of that episode's most significant events]] (e.g., "The Beach Car") or, if the characters are still in the same train car as last time, the episode's subject matter (e.g., "The Past Car"). |
| 76 | ** There is an exception virtually OnceASeason, where an episode doesn't follow the rule but the name still relates to something revolving around the train. Said episode is usually the season finale, with the exception of Book 2's "The Wasteland", which is the eighth episode of that season, and Book 4's "The Twin Tapes", which is the first episode. |
| 77 | * Every episode of ''WesternAnimation/JeffAndSomeAliens'' is titled "Jeff & Some _____". |
| 78 | * All the episode titles of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' have Johnny's name or first initial on them. |
| 79 | * Episodes of ''WesternAnimation/JojoAndGranGran'' are titled "It's time to _____". |
| 80 | * ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' used a combination of this trope and a MythologyGag by using various DC comic series as titles, most being sub-lines of Justice League titles. "Secret Origins," "In Darkest Night," "The Brave and the Bold," "Wild West Stories". One episode was "Panic in the Sky", which was originally an episode of the live-action ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperman''. |
| 81 | ** Also, earlier ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' had had "World's Finest" and "In Brightest Day". |
| 82 | * Every single episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' starts with the words "Let's Play"... even if it makes zero sense (such as "Let's Play Goodbye, Mr. Cat" when just "Goodbye, Mr. Cat" would have sufficed). |
| 83 | * ''WesternAnimation/KidCosmic'': Nearly every episode is called "[[CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase Kid Cosmic and the (X)]]". "Kid Cosmic y la Niña Gigantica" seems like an exception, but it just translates to "Kid Cosmic and the Gigantic Girl". The only episode that doesn't abide by this naming convention is "Earth Force Enforcement Force". |
| 84 | * ''WesternAnimation/KidVsKat'' has episodes that feature the name of main character, Coop, or a word that explains the plot added to existing phrases. For example "Coop D'Etat," "The Incredible Shrinking Coop," and "Kat to the Future." |
| 85 | * Every episode of ''WesternAnimation/LazorWulf'' has some phrase for its title that generally [[NonIndicativeName doesn't indicate what the episode is about]], with the exceptions of "Dying to Eat" and "Still Dying to Eat", which are somewhat related to the plot. |
| 86 | * Every episode of ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' is named after the episode's featured experiment, except for the {{filler}} episodes "The Asteroid"[[note]]which recycles the premise of one episode of ''Series/HoneyIShrunkTheKids''[[/note]] and "Bad Stitch".[[note]]Where Dr. Hämsterviel masquerades as a behavioral correction doctor in an attempt to capture Stitch.[[/note]] There's also "Rufus"[[note]]Named after the TeamPet from ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' due to being mistaken for an experiment; the experiment's real name is Launch.[[/note]] and "Mrs. Hasagawa's Cats".[[note]]The episode focuses on a large number of experiments that Mrs. Hasagawa thinks are her cats.[[/note]] |
| 87 | * Most episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheKoalaBrothers'' feature the name of the character who is central to the plot, and thus the friend Frank and Buster are helping in the episode. |
| 88 | * Each episode title of ''WesternAnimation/TheLittlePrince2010'' is an asteroid number followed by "The Planet of __". |
| 89 | * Most episodes of ''Literature/LittlePrincess'' are titled "I want X" (uttered by the princess herself), with said X being the main subject of the episode. |
| 90 | * For a while, almost every ExtraLongEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' and its SpinOff ''WesternAnimation/TheCasagrandes'' had a VerbedTitle with an exclamation mark at the end. This trend stopped for the most part since Season 5 of the former and Season 1 of the latter, now being mostly relegated to specials (which were already the most common episodes to be titled that way before then). |
| 91 | * All ''WesternAnimation/{{Maisy}}'' titles are one-word, describing something featured in the episode: "Bath," "Rabbit," "Train," etc, or at most two words, i.e. "[[ChristmasEpisode Christmas Tree]]." |
| 92 | * Every episode in the first series of ''WesternAnimation/MaxSteel'' had titles beginning with the letter S. Possibly, if Greg Weisman had been kept on as developer, this would have carried on for the rest of the show. |
| 93 | * Every episode of ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries'' was named "The _____ Syndrome". |
| 94 | * Most episodes of ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' use an AntagonistTitle referring to the MonsterOfTheWeek. In Season 5, the naming scheme changes to words ending with the suffix "-ion", as the focus shifts from fighting the akumatized villains to getting the Miraculouses back from Hawk Moth. |
| 95 | * Every episode of ''WesternAnimation/MiraRoyalDetective'' follows the multiple formats relating to a mystery, such as "The Mystery of...", "The Case of...", "Mystery at/on..." or "The (Great) [Noun] Mystery" relating to whatever mystery Mira is solving in the episode. |
| 96 | * Each episode of ''WesternAnimation/MissionHill'' had an EitherOrTitle--a normal title that describes the plot, which would be printed in TV listings, and a racy one containing a vulgar pun. Example: "Andy Joins the PTA (or Great Sexpectations)". |
| 97 | * Similar to ''Beat Bugs'' above, episodes of ''WesternAnimation/MotownMagic'' are titled after songs by famous black singers, which are simultaneously featured in-episode. |
| 98 | * Nearly every episode of ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'' have episode titles that have the word "Bogus" or "Bogie" in them. Examples would be "[[Recap/MrBogusS1E1MeetMrBogus Meet Mr. Bogus]]", "[[Recap/MrBogusS1E2ClassClownBogus Class Clown Bogus]]", "[[Recap/MrBogusS1E6BeachBlanketBogus Beach Blanket Bogus]]", etc. |
| 99 | * Starting in 1953 every ''WesternAnimation/MrMagoo'' cartoon released theatrically had Magoo's name in the title ("Magoo's Masterpiece", "Magoo Goes West", "Gumshoe Magoo", etc.) Earlier cartoons in the series didn't have this naming format. |
| 100 | * Every episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheMrMenShow'' has a title that is [[RunningGag again]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin what the episode is about]]. For example, the episode "Books" is about books. |
| 101 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' generally has {{Pun Based|Title}} or {{Double Meaning Title}}s related to AnAesop in the episode, e.g. "Dragonshy" is about Fluttershy overcoming her fear of dragons. |
| 102 | * About half of ''WesternAnimation/TheMysteriesOfAlfredHedgehog'' episodes has a title of which the form "The ______ Mystery" or "The Mysterious ______" is utilized. |
| 103 | * Every ''Nudnik'' short has the title character's name in the title ("WesternAnimation/HeresNudnik", "Nudnik on the Beach", etc.). |
| 104 | * Sav! The World's series ''WesternAnimation/ObanStarRacers'' names most of its episodes in the form "X Like Y", where Y is the name of the MonsterOfTheWeek. X is always an adjective that begins with the same letter or sound as the antagonist's name -- "Playful Like Para-Dice", "Agile Like Aikka", et cetera. Unfortunately, this meant they were forced to use the word "Cruel" twice. |
| 105 | ** Probably related is Viz Video's practice of giving its ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' releases -- first on videotape and later on DVD -- names that were puns or parodies of the titles of other works well known at the time in North America. For example, the theatrical film ''Ranma 1/2: Kessen Tôgenkyô! Hanayome o torimodose!!'' (literally, ''Ranma 1/2: Battle at Togenkyo! Get Back the Brides!'') was released as ''Nihao My Concubine'' (referring to the 1993 Chinese film distributed in the United States as ''Farewell My Concubine''). Other such titles included ''Like Water For Ranma'', ''Smells Like Evil Spirit'', ''One Grew Over The Kuno's Nest'', and ''Big Trouble in Nekonron, China''. |
| 106 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Olivia}}'': Every episode title has Olivia's name in the beginning. |
| 107 | * Most episodes of ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'' are titled "Pups Save X" or "Pups and X", i.e., "Pups Save a School Day." |
| 108 | * Every ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' movie and television special had Charlie Brown's name in it, except the second movie, "Snoopy Come Home", the musical ''Snoopy: The Musical!'', the lesser-known 1991 television special ''Snoopy's Reunion'', 2015's ''WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie'' and several of the Creator/AppleTVPlus specials under the "Snoopy Presents" banner (with the exception of ''It's The Small Things, Charlie Brown''). |
| 109 | ** Many ''Peanuts'' specials began with either "You're" (''You're in Love, Charlie Brown'', ''You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown'', etc.) or "It"/"It's" (''It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown'', ''It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown'') in the title. One special (''It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown'') even had both at the beginning of their titles. |
| 110 | * ''WesternAnimation/PegPlusCat'''s episodes are all titled "The (Noun) Problem", save a select few such as "The Breeze in the Branches". |
| 111 | * Every episode of ''WesternAnimation/PeterRabbit'' is called "The Tale of..." something, in the style of the original storybooks. |
| 112 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther'': Every short made in the 1960s and 1970s has the word "Pink" in the title. This trend would continue in the 2010 revival ''WesternAnimation/PinkPantherAndPals''. Similarly, every short in DFE's ''WesternAnimation/TheInspector'' series, with the exception of "Transylvania Mania", has some French wordplay in the title. |
| 113 | * Every episode of Season 1 of ''WesternAnimation/PJMasks'' features one of the heroes' names, showing who is the focus of the episode. This was mostly dropped in Season 2 however. But it still appears from time to time with other characters used as well, with 2 formats commonly used, character and X, (i.e., "Romeo's Crystal Clear Plan") and X and character, (i.e., "Big Sister Motsuki".) |
| 114 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016'': |
| 115 | ** The four episodes that have Man Boy as the main villain have the name "Man Up", with all but the first also having a subtitle that reference the events that happen in the episode. |
| 116 | ** All but one of the episodes that feature Bliss have her name in the title. |
| 117 | * Obscure 1960s cartoon ''Q.T. Hush'' named each story arc "The ________ Caper". The names of the chapters for most arcs also followed the naming format. For example, all 10 chapters of "The Doomsday Caper" was named the "____ of Doom" (ie: "Quicksand of Doom", "Flash of Doom", etc.). "The Carnival Caper" had all of its chapters start with the word "Carnival" (e:g., "Carnival Chaos"). |
| 118 | * ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' does this sometimes. There are a number of episode titles based around a question: "How Come the Moon Changes Shape?", "How Come the Moon Has Craters?", "Which Moon is Best?", "What's a Satellite?", etc. |
| 119 | * Most episodes of ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' use the title characters' names as puns, including "Rick Potion #9", "Rixty Minutes", "Something Ricked This Way Comes", "Mortynight Run", and many more. |
| 120 | * ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' finds a new idiosyncrasy almost every season: |
| 121 | ** Most of the Season 1 episode titles are rejected names for the series ("Junk in the Trunk", "Toy Meets Girl", "Atta Toy") |
| 122 | ** The titles of the first half of Season 4's episodes form a letter written by someone trapped in a DVD factory [[BlackComedy who's missing his thumbs]]: |
| 123 | --->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.\ |
| 124 | Love, Maurice\ |
| 125 | PS: Yes, in that way. |
| 126 | ** And the titles of the second half form the DVD factory's response: |
| 127 | --->Dear Consumer,\ |
| 128 | We are a humble factory. Maurice was caught unionizing our labor. [[ChineseLaborer 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, [[BitingTheHandHumor especially the animal Keith Crofford!]] |
| 129 | ** Season 5 episode titles are movie title mash-ups, generally with one film being praised by critics and the other panned, e.g. "{{Film/Saving Private|Ryan}} Film/{{Gigli}}", "[[Film/SchindlersList Schindler's]] [[Film/TheBucketList Bucket List]]", and "{{Film/Catch Me If You|Can}} Film/KangarooJack". |
| 130 | ** Season 6 titles apparently come from a list of ways to die: "Disemboweled by an Orphan", "Crushed by a Steamroller on My 53rd Birthday", "Collateral Damage in Gang Turf War", etc. The last episode of the season is instead titled "Immortal". |
| 131 | ** Season 7's titles are also mashups using the names of movies, TV shows or other things combined with something else, usually the name of a shopping or food franchise, e.g. "Film/BatmanForever 21", "Series/TheWalkingDead Lobster", "Chipot[[Literature/LesMiserables le Miserables]]". |
| 132 | ** After seasons 8 and 9 went back to using random titles, season 10's titles use the pattern of "(fictional person) in: (fictional movie)", with the exception of the [[MilestoneCelebration 200th episode]] being simply titled "Endgame". |
| 133 | ** Season 11 titles use the pattern of "May Cause _____". |
| 134 | * Every episode of ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' had [[EitherOrTitle two titles]]: One very punny, and one alliterative. |
| 135 | * ''WesternAnimation/RubbleAndCrew'' has all its episodes follow the format "The Crew Builds/Fixes/Finds [Subject]". |
| 136 | * Episodes of ''WesternAnimation/RuffRuffTweetAndDave'' are all titled "A (Noun) Adventure". |
| 137 | * ''WesternAnimation/RustyRivets'': All episodes begin with Rusty's name. |
| 138 | * ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' would use some form of "[[CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase Jack and the...]]" or "Samurai versus..." (or "Jack versus..." and "Samurai and the..."), making it idiosyncratic and effectively descriptive of the episode. |
| 139 | ** This was due to each episode being considered a 'chapter' in the story. The DVD menus, for example, don't list the episode titles but rather, the number (i.e., Jack and the Scotsman is XI). |
| 140 | ** This trope was dropped for the Season 5 episodes, which just go by their Roman numerals. |
| 141 | * On ''WesternAnimation/TheShnookumsAndMeatFunnyCartoonShow'', the ''Pith Possum'' segments all had titles with the words "dark", "darkness", "black", or "night" in the title, with DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment in full effect. e.g. "The Phantom Mask of the Dark Black Darkness of Black". |
| 142 | * The second and third seasons of ''[[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo]]'' [[note]]The 1980 and 1981 episodes, originally running under the "Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show" title[[/note]] made liberal use of using a noun or phrase, then immediately using Scooby's name, thereafter: "Lighthouse Keeper Scooby", "Dog Tag Scooby", "Way Out Scooby", and "Punk Rock Scooby" are among some of the many examples. |
| 143 | * ''WesternAnimation/SkunkFu'' uses "The Art of ____". There was even an episode where they did "[[ShapedLikeItself The Art of Art]]". |
| 144 | * ''WesternAnimation/SolarOpposites'': Each episode is named after an invention in the episode (usually beginning with a "The"). The only exception is the season's penultimate episode, "Terry and Korvo Steal a Bear", which is actually referring to a [[HeroOfAnotherStory vague sub-plot in the episode]], while nearly the entirety of the story is about the people in The Wall. |
| 145 | * Almost every episode of the first season of ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'' had the word 'Sonic' in it, despite how little it would have to do with the actual plot. This was discarded in season 2. |
| 146 | * The title of every ''WesternAnimation/SpecialAgentOso'' short is a play on the title of a Franchise/JamesBond film. |
| 147 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' overlaps this with MeaningfulName episode titles themed around "the education of Peter Parker." Three episode (sometimes four) arcs are named after concepts of a specific subject. These include: |
| 148 | ** Biology: "Survival of the Fittest," "Interactions," "Natural Selection" |
| 149 | ** Economics: "Market Forces," "Competition," "The Invisible Hand" |
| 150 | ** Chemistry: "Catalysts," "Reaction," "The Uncertainty Principle" |
| 151 | ** Psychology: "Persona," "Group Therapy," "Intervention," "Nature vs. Nurture." |
| 152 | ** Engineering: "Blueprints," "Destructive Testing," "Reinforcement," "Shear Strength" |
| 153 | ** Human Development: "First Steps," "Growing Pains," "Identity Crisis" |
| 154 | ** Criminology: "Accomplices," "Probable Cause," "Gangland" |
| 155 | ** Theatre: "Subtext," "Opening Night," "Final Curtain" |
| 156 | * Episodes of ''WesternAnimation/SpiritRidingFree'' follow the formula "[[CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase Lucky and the...]]" |
| 157 | * ''WesternAnimation/StoppitAndTidyup'' episodes were named after whatever character they focused on. For example, Clean Your Teeth's episode is called, well, "Clean Your Teeth". |
| 158 | * Every episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheStrangeChores'' is named for the chore that the main characters have been tasked with. |
| 159 | * ''WesternAnimation/StreetSharks'' was nothing but constant in squeezing the word "Shark" into every title, from "Card Sharks" to "Shark Father" to "Shark-Apocalyse Now". |
| 160 | * ''WesternAnimation/StressedEric'': Always uses one-word titles. |
| 161 | * ''WesternAnimation/SumoMouse'': Every episode title began with "That's a..." |
| 162 | * The Creator/HannaBarbera series ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperGlobetrotters'' had every episode titled "The Super Globetrotters Versus [Villian of the Week]". |
| 163 | * Like [[WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest its predecessor]], ''WesternAnimation/{{Supernoobs}}'' puts "Noob" in every title. |
| 164 | * Every episode of ''WesternAnimation/ToadPatrol'' tells you what's gonna happen in the episode (for example: "The Fire", "Castle Of The Ancients", "Crystal Caverns", and "Trapped") |
| 165 | * Episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' usually have a title that refers to a piece of dialogue delivered at some point. And if it isn't this, it's usually a well-known song lyric, like how "Hey You, Don't Forget About Me In Your Memory", is named after a line in Simple Minds' "Don't You (Forget About Me)'' and how "Rain On Your Wedding Day" was named after a line in Alanis Morissette's song "Ironic". |
| 166 | * The first Creator/{{Terrytoons}} from 1929-1930 had their titles based on a food from whatever country the short focused on, such as "Scotch Highball", "Indian Pudding" and "Hungarian Goulash". The first two were simply titled "Caviar" and "Pretzels". |
| 167 | * All of the episodes in the first season of ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'' had titles of the form "The Tick vs. ______" -- for example, "The Tick vs. Chairface Chippendale". This was mostly abandoned for the second season, where only two episodes followed the pattern, then mostly brought back for the third, where only three episodes ''didn't''. |
| 168 | * ''Animation/TicketyToc'' uses the pattern of "_____ Time" to reference the characters living in a clock. |
| 169 | * ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa'' used titles containing the names of countries or destinations: "Boara Boara," "Never Everglades," "Swiss Missed," "Oregon Astray" (with the wrong pronunciation), "Maine-iacs." When the series resumed on the Disney Channel with different producers, the gimmick was dropped. |
| 170 | * ''Animation/TingaTingaTales'' episodes all follow the formula "Why (whatever animal does here)". |
| 171 | * ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' has a few of these examples: |
| 172 | ** Episodes with "Day" at the end of the title - "Psychic Fun-omenon Day", "Best O' Plucky Duck Day", "Viewer Mail Day", "New Character Day", "Henny Youngman Day", "New Class Day", "Music Day", "Best of Buster Day". |
| 173 | ** Episodes with "Toon" in the title - "Sawdust and Toonsil", "Love Among the Toons" (from "Spring in Acme Acres") "Career Oppor-Toon-ities", "Tiny Toons Music Television", "No Toon Is An Island", "High Toon", "Playtime Toons", "Toon Physics", "The Just-Us League of Supertoons" (from "New Class Day"), "What Makes Toons Tick", "Toons Take Over", "[[Series/TalesFromTheCrypt Toons From the Crypt]]", "Washingtoon", "Toon TV", "[[ItsAWonderfulPlot It's a Wonderful Tiny Toons Christmas Special]]", "Tiny Toon Spring Break Special", "Tiny Toons' [[Series/NightGallery Night Ghoulery]]". |
| 174 | ** Episodes with "[[AcmeProducts Acme]]" in the title - "[[Literature/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth Journey to the Center of Acme Acres]]", "[[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 The Acme Acres Zone]]", "Spring in Acme Acres", "The Acme Bowl", "Dating, Acme Acres Style", "The Return of the Acme Acres Zone", "The Acme Home Shopping Show", "Acme Acres' Summer Olympics" (from "Son of the Wacko World of Sports"), "K-ACME TV", "Acme Cable TV". |
| 175 | * On ''WesternAnimation/ToddWorld'', many of the show's stories are titled in the format of "It's OK To..." or occasionally "It's OK Not To..." This originates from the books by Todd Parr which the show was inspired by. |
| 176 | * ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' had nearly all the first season episodes being a {{pun}} or a spin on a common saying such as "If You Can't Take the Heat", or "Not So Happy Campers". Most, like "Dodgebrawl" and "Hide and be Sneaky" also gave clues to the challenges. |
| 177 | ** In ''Total Drama Action'', each episode had a title that both fit with the movie genre and parodied a famous movie title: ([[Film/DialMForMurder "Dial M for Merger"]], [[Film/CrouchingTigerHiddenDragon "Crouching Courtney, Hidden Owen"]], and "Top Dog". The only exceptions are the Aftermaths, which used the contestant that had the main focus in the title, as in "O-win or lose". |
| 178 | * ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' went through a phase in the third season where most episodes had titles ending in the word "Much?" (e.g. "Head Shrinker Much?"), reflecting the ValleyGirl-esque way Clover sometimes speaks. |
| 179 | * ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}: WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' had a StoryArc featuring the characters coming into contact with mysterious aliens. These arc episodes were the only ''Beast Wars'' episodes with idiosyncratic names: "Other Voices" Parts 1 and 2, "Other Visits" Parts 1 and 2, and "Other Victories". |
| 180 | ** The Japanese dub of ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'' used TheXOfY for all its titles. |
| 181 | * The second season of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' has a set of four SynchronousEpisodes with the names "Tunnel Vision," "Triangulation," "Triage," and "Toxicity." The third season has "Plus One" and "Minus One," which bear no particular connection except for similar titles. |
| 182 | * All episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TreehouseDetectives'' follow the format "The Case of the (insert two word mystery here)". |
| 183 | * ''WesternAnimation/TwelveForever'' has every episode's title being "(noun/adjective) Forever". |
| 184 | * Almost every episode of the ''Super Secret Secret Squirrel'' segment of ''WesternAnimation/TwoStupidDogs'' is named after that installment's [[MonsterOfTheWeek villain]]; e.g., "Queen Bee" and "Greg". |
| 185 | * ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' uses episodes under "The _______" pattern similar to ''Gumball'', although here it's not limited to just one word. The sole exception was the season 2 episode "My Fair Hatey", a MusicalEpisode. |
| 186 | * ''WesternAnimation/WelcomeToTonkaTown'': While this might just be a coincidence due to only two episodes (well, TwoShorts) of the show existing, both episodes have their names following the format “X In Tonka Town”. |
| 187 | * In keeping with [[ComicBook/WhatIf its source material]], the title for each episode of ''WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021'' is a question beginning with "What If...". |
| 188 | * Every episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Wishfart}}'' is named after a line uttered in the episode, except taken completely out of context to make it seem like a total non-sequitur. |
| 189 | * The 26 episodes of the second season of ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' were all named in the form "(letter) is for (word starting with that letter)", and in their proper sequence run from "A Is for Anonymous" to "Z is for Zenith", without repeating or dropping any letters. |
| 190 | * Nearly every episode of ''WesternAnimation/WonderPets'' is titled "Save the [x]!" with [x] being the baby animal or other creature the trio is saving that episode. A few episodes use "Help the [x]!" instead, or a diferrent verb, like "Climb Everest!" There are some exceptions, such as the WholeEpisodeFlashback "How It All Began," the OffToSeeTheWizard episode "In the Land of Oz," but most other episodes breaking the format at least maintain the exclamation point. |
| 191 | * ''WesternAnimation/XavierRiddleAndTheSecretMuseum'': Much like the books, the episode titles from this series start with "I Am" and the name of the historical figure featured in it, save for the ExtraLongEpisode "I Am Madam President" since it features four historical figures. |
| 192 | * ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'': |
| 193 | ** The first letter of each episode of ''Outsiders'' spells out "Prepare the Anti-life Equation." |
| 194 | ** The first letter of each episode of ''Phantoms'' spells "Invitation to Kneel Before Zod." Additionally, in the case of ''Phantoms'', each story arc has their own theme. |
| 195 | *** M'gann and Conner's arc has one word titles. |
| 196 | *** Artemis' arc has titles referencing literary works. |
| 197 | *** Zatanna's arc has titles that are spelled backwards. |
| 198 | *** Kaldur's arc has titles pertaining to the ocean. |
| 199 | *** Rocket's episodes are bombastic phrases that end with an exclamation point, mirroring the naming style of Creator/JackKirby's comic books |
| 200 | *** The final arc has episode titles that are all two words with "and" between them, "Rescue and Search," "Ego and Superego." |
| 201 | * In ''WesternAnimation/ZekesPad'', every episode title is a play on words relating to the visual arts. |
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