| 1 | A related form of IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming. The title of a new installment is used as a reference to the title of a previous work, especially common when it's used as a {{Sequel Episode}} or to indicate a OnceASeason event. Other times it may just be akin to SimilarlyNamedWorks and there is no intended narrative link. Also can be used across different members of a SeriesFranchise. |
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| 3 | If the two titles fit together to make a phrase, that's CompoundTitle. |
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| 6 | !!Examples: |
| 7 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 9 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 10 | * The first chapter of ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'' is "Matsuri, Suzu, and the Ayakashi", while the last is "Matsuri, Suzu, and the Grand Conclusion". |
| 11 | * ''Anime/EurekaSeven'' had four episodes with the word "acperience" in the title: "Acperience 1", "Acperience 2", "Acperience 3" and "Acperience 4". |
| 12 | * Any chapter of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'' featuring Yoshikage Kira as the focal point will have his name in it: for example, the first chapter with him is called "Yoshikage Kira Wants A Normal Life" and the chapter where Stray Cat is introduced is called "A Cat Likes Yoshikage Kira". |
| 13 | * ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'': |
| 14 | ** Several chapters focusing on Kaguya's (Ice) persona reuse old chapter titles, just with (Ice) added to the end (like "Kaguya Wants to Eat (Ice)", or "The Swallow's Cowry (Ice)"). |
| 15 | ** The first chapter where Fujiwara unknowingly faces off against one of the Four Ramen Emperors of Tokyo is called "Chika Fujiwara Really Wants to Eat". The second time she faces off against one of them, its "Chika Fujiwara Really, ''Really'' Wants to Eat", and the third is "Chika Fujiwara Really, Really, ''Really'' Wants to Eat". |
| 16 | * ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' employs this is several place. Sometimes it is a bit subtle, because every episode has two titles: |
| 17 | ** has two early episodes about EmotionlessGirl Rei Ayanami, with the alternate titles of "Rei I" and "Rei II". Much later in the series we get an episode called "Rei III". [[spoiler:Because the 3rd clone is pulled out of the jar in that episode.]] |
| 18 | ** Also done with the endings of the show. The last two TV episodes, Episodes 25 and 26, have the alternate titles of "Do You Love Me?" and "Take Care of Yourself". ''The End of Evangelion'''s two halves, Episodes 25’ and 26’, have titles that seems to be direct replies to these, as they are called "Love is Destructive" and "I Need You". |
| 19 | * ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'' has episodes titled: "The World of Swords," "The Land of Faeries," and "The World of Guns." Each is an episode in which Kirito enters a new game. |
| 20 | * The final three episodes of ''Anime/TransformersCybertron'' are "End," "Unfinished," and "Beginning." (At least, [[DubNameChange in the West]]. Japan typically prefers a [[ExcitedEpisodeTitle different sort of title]].) |
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| 23 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 24 | * The first and last issues of ''ComicBook/TheFilth'' were called "Us vs Them" and "Them vs Us", respectively. |
| 25 | * ''ComicBook/TheInvisibles'' featured two separate storylines in which King Mob's cell infiltrated the same military installation in Dulce, New Mexico: "Black Science" and "Black Science II". |
| 26 | * ''ComicBook/{{Lucifer}}'' began as a miniseries called ''The Morningstar Option''. One of the last issues of the main series was called "The Gaudium Option". |
| 27 | * One of the ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'' story arcs is called "The Good Prince". The spin-off, ''ComicBook/JackOfFables'', had a story arc called "The Bad Prince". |
| 28 | * ''ComicBook/AtomicRobo'''s 2009 Free Comic Book Day story is "Why Atomic Robo Hates Dr. Dinosaur", and covers the first encounter between the two. Issue 3 of ''Atomic Robo and Other Strangeness'' is "Why Dr. Dinosaur Hates Atomic Robo", and covers the events immediately prior to and following said encounter. |
| 29 | * The DC crossovers ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'' and ''ComicBook/BrightestDay'' which both reference the Green Lantern oath. |
| 30 | * ''ComicBook/ALetterFromHome'': The alternate title "The Old Castle's Other Secret" is a reference to Creator/CarlBarks story "The Old Castle's Secret". |
| 31 | * Two ''ComicBook/SupermanBrianMichaelBendis'' storylines are "The House of El" and "The House of Kent". Both involve Superman dealing with the unexpected return of family members (Jor-El in the former, Jon and [[spoiler:Conner]] in the latter.) |
| 32 | * The ''ComicBook/DetectiveComicsRebirth'' storyline "A Lonely Place of Living", which stars Tim Drake, is titled after the storyline that introduced him: "A Lonely Place of Dying". |
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| 35 | [[folder:Fanfiction]] |
| 36 | * ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'': Chapter 18 is “Rise and Shine,” and Chapter 19 is “Shine and Rise". |
| 37 | * ''Fanfic/AllThatShimmers'': Chapter 12 is "Running the Other Direction", and chapter 13 is "Running the Same Direction". |
| 38 | * ''Fanfic/PokemonMysteryDungeonWhatCameAfter'': ''Alesia Versus the Law'' and ''Three Klefki Versus the Law''. |
| 39 | * ''Fanfic/UniverseFalls'': The "Fusion Fiascos" storyline, which introduces [[FusionDance Stevonnie]], as well as fusions of Steven with Mabel (Maven) and Dipper (Stepper), is divided into three parts titled "Alone Together", "Together Forever", and "Forever Alone". |
| 40 | * ''Fanfic/AThingOfVikings'' has chapters that are grouped together by titles that, when joined together, make a longer sentence. Examples: |
| 41 | ** Chapters 16 and 17; "Bindings..." "And Partings" |
| 42 | ** Chapters 24 and 25; "Your Only Hope...", "...Hide, and Pray That It Does Not Find You" (a reference to the entry on Night Furies in the dragon training guides from ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'', before Hiccup befriended Toothless.) |
| 43 | ** Chapters 42-44; "The Pen...", "...Is Mightier...", "...Than The Sword" |
| 44 | ** Chapters 54 and 55; "We Are Who We Are", "And Who We Make Ourselves To Be" |
| 45 | ** Chapters 60 and 61; "A Threat Perceived" "Is A Threat Achieved" |
| 46 | ** Chapters 74 and 75; "It's Planting Seeds In a Garden..." "...You Never Get To See" (a reference to ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'') |
| 47 | * The ''Fanfic/StoryShuffle'' series has the chapters involving Octavia, a musician, have MusicalThemeNaming: |
| 48 | ** The first anthology, ''Fanfic/StoryShuffle1'', has [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/216813/31/story-shuffle/coda "Coda."]] |
| 49 | ** The second anthology, ''Fanfic/StoryShuffle2DoubleMasters'', has [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/469652/6/story-shuffle-2-double-masters/vivace "Vivace."]] |
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| 52 | [[folder:Film]] |
| 53 | * The original ''Franchise/StarWars'' trilogy consisted of ''Film/ANewHope'', ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' and ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''. The prequel films ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' and ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' each mirror the original trilogy movies in different ways. Not to mention that ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' was originally going titled '''''Revenge''' of the Jedi'' but was changed as the heroic Jedi shouldn't/wouldn't seek revenge and the new title had a more optimistic feel. ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' is a nod to the original title of Episode VI and the Sith ''do'' seek revenge. |
| 54 | * ''Film/BatmanBegins'' and ''Film/SupermanReturns'' are films about DC's two biggest super heroes, named after the hero followed by an action. The next film for each hero is also simply named after the hero's primary epithet: ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' and ''Film/ManOfSteel'', respectively. |
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| 57 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 58 | * Creator/MichaelMoorcock: The Literature/{{Corum}} series: ''The Knight of the Swords'', ''The Queen of the Swords'' and ''The King of the Swords'', followed by ''The Bull and the Spear'', ''The Oak and the Ram'' and ''The Sword and the Stallion''. |
| 59 | * Only one of Creator/IainMBanks' [[Literature/TheCulture Culture]] novels is a direct sequel to another: ''Literature/LookToWindward'', which follows ''Literature/ConsiderPhlebas''. Both titles are taken from a single sentence in Creator/TSEliot's ''Literature/TheWasteland''. |
| 60 | * ''Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'' |
| 61 | ** Three Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures novels by Creator/AndrewCartmel, which followed their own TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture storyline: ''Warhead'', ''Warlock'' and ''Warchild''. |
| 62 | ** A cross-publisher example: Justin Richards wrote two Fourth Doctor technothrillers featuring monsters called the Voracians: the ''Literature/DoctorWhoMissingAdventures'' novel ''System Shock'' and the ''Literature/PastDoctorAdventures'' novel ''Millennium Shock''. |
| 63 | * In ''Literature/FiveChildrenAndIt'', a chapter is called "Wings", as the children wish for them. The next chapter is "No Wings", when their wings disappear while they are asleep, leaving them stranded on a church tower. |
| 64 | * In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'', the first chapter is called "Owl Post", [[BookEnds the last is called]] "Owl Post Again". |
| 65 | * The first chapter of ''Literature/TheHobbit'' is titled "An Unexpected Party". The first chapter of its sequel, ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', is titled "A Long-Expected Party". Other cross-referencing chapter titles in ''The Lord of the Rings'' include "Many Meetings" with "Many Partings" and "The Black Gate is Closed" with "The Black Gate Opens". |
| 66 | * ''Literature/NeroWolfe'': |
| 67 | ** Rex Stout wrote three novels called ''Too Many Cooks'', ''Too Many Women'' and ''Too Many Clients''. And a short story called "Too Many Detectives". |
| 68 | *** Hence the ''Literature/LordDarcy'' Wolfe pastiche being ''Too Many Magicians''. |
| 69 | ** Other Literature/NeroWolfe novels by Stout are ''The Mother Hunt'' and ''The Father Hunt''; there are also the novels ''Death of a Dude'' and ''Death of a Doxy'', and the short story "Death of a Demon". |
| 70 | * Sholem Aleichem has two successive and descriptively named stories, typically translated as "Tevye Strikes It Rich" and "Tevye Blows a Small Fortune". In the first, Tevye has a run of good luck after transporting well-to-do clients in his wagon, and at the end of the story is in a position to better his family's position. However, in the very next story, he is convinced by a distant kinsman, Menachem Mendl ([[CrossOver another Aleichem series character]]) to invest in a harebrained financial scheme and loses everything he had gained. |
| 71 | * In Literature/LordOfTheFlies, chapter 5 is called “Beast from Water” (in reference to the suggestion that the beast might live in the sea and come out at night). Chapter 6 follows up with “Beast from Air,” in reference to the dead parachuter the boys later mistake for a monster. |
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| 74 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 75 | * ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'': The season one episode "End of the Beginning" and finale "Beginning of the End" respectively open and conclude the "Uprising" arc. |
| 76 | * ''Series/AmericanHorrorStory'' |
| 77 | ** ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryMurderHouse'' has the two last episodes "Birth" and "Afterbirth". |
| 78 | ** ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryHotel'' has "She Wants Revenge" and "She Gets Revenge". |
| 79 | * ''Series/BabyEinstein'' has "Language Nursery" and "Numbers Nursery." |
| 80 | * ''Series/BabylonFive'': had two episodes late in the final season: "Objects in Motion" and "Objects at Rest", references to Newton's First Law of Motion. |
| 81 | * The 1960s ''Series/Batman1966'' series did this all the time, as most of their episodes were two-parters. These would usually take the form of a rhyming couplet. Some were clever ("Hizzoner, the Penguin"/"Dizzonner the Penguin"; "An Egg Grows in Gotham"/"The Yegg Foes in Gotham"; "The Riddler Goes Straight"/"Not Yet, He Ain't") and some were not ("That Darn Catwoman"/"Scat! Darn Catwoman!"; "Batman's Anniversary"/"A Riddling Controversy"). |
| 82 | * A handful of episodes in the first season of ''Series/BestFriendsWhenever'' began with the phrase "A Time To...". |
| 83 | * The series premiere for ''Series/BlackHoleHigh'' is called "Wormhole". The season 2 premiere is called "Wormhole Part 2". |
| 84 | * ''Series/TheBobNewhartShow'' had a trio of season 3 episodes titled, respectively, "Bob Hits the Ceiling", "Emily Hits the Ceiling", and "The Ceiling Hits Bob". |
| 85 | * ''Series/{{Bones}}'': The 4th season finale is called "The End in the Beginning", while the Season 5 finale was "The Beginning in the End". |
| 86 | * ''Series/BreakingBad'': |
| 87 | ** The Season 2 episodes "Seven Thirty Seven", "Down," "Over," and "ABQ" feature flash-forwards to a pink teddy bear being fished out of Walter's pool and [[spoiler: their names form a sentence explaining how the bear got there.]] |
| 88 | ** The Season 3 episodes "Half Measures" and "Full Measure". |
| 89 | ** The Season 3 episodes "Thirty-Eight Snub" and "Shotgun". |
| 90 | ** The Season 2 episode "Peekaboo" and the Season 3 episode "I See You". |
| 91 | ** The Season 4 episode "Problem Dog" and the Season 5 episode "Rabid Dog". |
| 92 | ** The Season 3 premiere, "No Más", has Walter leaving the meth game behind after seeing the wreckage. The episode where he decides he wants to get back in the game? "Más". |
| 93 | ** ''Series/BetterCallSaul'': The title of season 6, episode 11 is "Breaking Bad." Saul made his debut in ''Breaking Bad'' season 2, episode 8, "Better Call Saul." |
| 94 | * The Franchise/{{Buffyverse}}: |
| 95 | ** The Franchise/{{Buffyverse}} went across shows and episodes. The episode where Angel sleeps with Buffy and turns into Angelus on ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'' is called "Surprise". On ''Series/{{Angel}}'', when Angel once again sleeps with someone and we ''think'' he is going to turn into Angelus, but he doesn't, the episode is called "Reprise", calling back to the ''Buffy'' episode two years previous. |
| 96 | ** Also, the Season 3 episode "Bad Girls" where Faith tries to get Buffy to enjoy her slaying but ends up [[spoiler: accidentally killing the mayor's aide]], and the Season 7 episode "Dirty Girls" where Faith returns from L.A. to help with the fight against [[spoiler: the First Evil]]. |
| 97 | ** The episodes "Smashed", "Wrecked" and "Gone", all of which dealt with both Willow's addiction and Buffy's destructive relationship with Spike, were so named because they were all euphemisms for "drunk" or "high". |
| 98 | * ''Series/{{Bunkd}}'' had the fourth season premiere called "Who da Boss? Lou da Boss!" the fifth season premiere was called "Lou's Still the Boss, But Now There's a Ross" |
| 99 | * ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'', most of the episodes concerning Beckett's mother from season 2 to the first episode of season 4 have a fighting motif: "Suckerpunch", "Knockdown", "Knockout", and finally "Rise". |
| 100 | ** Some of the two-part storylines have titles that reference each other; "Tick, Tick, Tick..."/"Boom!" (season 2), "Setup"/"Countdown" (season 3) and "XY"/"XX" (season 8). |
| 101 | * ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'''s first episode was called "Something Wicca This Way Comes". The seventh season finalé, which looked for some time as if it would be a series finalé, was called "Something Wicca This Way Goes". |
| 102 | * ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' had a series of episodes revolving around the gang's feud with rival bar Gary's Old Towne Tavern. The first one[[note]]Actually, the ''first'' one was Season 4's "From Beer to Eternity", but it didn't have a cross-referenced title with the others[[/note]] was [[Franchise/StarWars "Bar Wars"]] (season 6). Then came "Bar Wars II: The Woodman Strikes Back" (season 7), "Bar Wars III: The Return of Tecumseh" (season 8), "Bar Wars V: The Final Judgment" (season 10), "Bar Wars VI: This Time It's For Real" (season 10) and "Bar Wars VII: The Naked Prey" (season 11). (For some odd reason there was no episode titled "Bar Wars IV".) |
| 103 | * The first season finale of ''Series/CobraKai'' is titled "Mercy". This is followed by the season 2 premiere "Mercy Part II" and the finale "No Mercy". |
| 104 | * The two parts of ''Series/{{Community}}'''s PaintballEpisode are titled "[[Film/AFistfulOfDollars A Fistful of Paintballs]]" and "[[Film/ForAFewDollarsMore For A Few Paintballs More]]". |
| 105 | ** There's also the season 3 Finale, "Introduction to Finality" and the season 4 finale "Advanced Introduction to Finality", and the two TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons based episodes "Advanced Dungeons and Dragons" and "Advanced Advanced Dungeons and Dragons". |
| 106 | ** Other examples include "Pilot" and "Repilot" "Modern Warfare" and "Modern Espionage", "Cooperative Calligraphy" and "Cooperative Polygraphy", "Course Listing Unavailable" and "Curriculum Unavailable", "Basic Story" and "Basic Sandwich", "Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking", "Documentary Filmmaking: Redux" and "Advanced Documentary Filmmaking", |
| 107 | * ''Series/{{Coupling}}'' (written by Stephen Moffat, who is rather fond of this trope) had several examples: |
| 108 | ** "The Girl With Two Breasts", "The Man With Two Legs" and "The Girl With One Heart". |
| 109 | ** Two consecutive episodes titled "Naked" and "Dressed". |
| 110 | ** The final series begins with "9 And A Half Minutes" and ends with "9 And A Half Months". |
| 111 | * ''Series/CriminalMinds'' frequently uses this for a SequelEpisode or a MultiPartEpisode ("The Fox"/"Outfoxed", [[CompoundTitle "To Hell..."/"...And Back", "Hit"/"Run"]], "The Inspiration"/"The Inspired", "Angels"/"Demons", "Lucky"/"Lucky Strikes", "Profiling 101"/"Profiling 202"). |
| 112 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'' |
| 113 | ** Every multi-Doctor story during the classic series was named "The [number] Doctors": 1973's [[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E1TheThreeDoctors "The Three Doctors"]], 1983's [[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors "The Five Doctors"]], and 1985's [[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E4TheTwoDoctors "The Two Doctors"]]. This made its way into the expanded universe as well, with the first ''Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures'' novel being called ''The Eight Doctors''. |
| 114 | ** In the 1980s, three consecutive Dalek serials had titles beginning with R: 1984's [[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E4ResurrectionOfTheDaleks "Resurrection of the Daleks"]], 1985's [[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E6RevelationOfTheDaleks "Revelation of the Daleks"]] and 1988's [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks "Remembrance of the Daleks"]]. Chris Chibnall's run brought this back, with [[Recap/DoctorWho2019NYSResolution "Resolution"]] (of the Daleks) and [[Recap/DoctorWho2021NYSRevolutionOfTheDaleks "Revolution of the Daleks"]] (both of which were New Year's specials). |
| 115 | ** In both the classic and revival series, there are many Dalek episodes where the title is "X of the Daleks". |
| 116 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks "The Daleks"]] was the episode that introduced the titular creatures. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek "Dalek"]] reintroduced them in the revival series. |
| 117 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E6TheDoctorsDaughter "The Doctor's Daughter"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife "The Doctor's Wife"]], although not connected: we meet the Doctor's namesake relation but with a twist. |
| 118 | ** ''Doctor Who'' celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2013 with a linked series of stories titled [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor "The Name of the Doctor"]], [[Recap/DoctorWho50thPrequelTheNightOfTheDoctor "The Night of the Doctor"]], [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor "The Time of the Doctor"]]. |
| 119 | ** Ten of the twelve episodes of Series 9 (the 2015 series) are two-parters with cross-referenced titles: [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E1TheMagiciansApprentice "The Magician's Apprentice"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E2TheWitchsFamiliar "The Witch's Familiar"]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E3UnderTheLake "Under the Lake"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E4BeforeTheFlood "Before the Flood"]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E5TheGirlWhoDied "The Girl Who Died"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E6TheWomanWhoLived "The Woman Who Lived"]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E7TheZygonInvasion "The Zygon Invasion"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E8TheZygonInversion "The Zygon Inversion"]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E11HeavenSent "Heaven Sent"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent "Hell Bent"]]. |
| 120 | ** The last episode of Series 6 (airing in 2012) was [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong "The Wedding of River Song"]]. The 2015 Christmas episode was [[Recap/DoctorWho2015CSTheHusbandsOfRiverSong "The Husbands of River Song"]]. |
| 121 | * ''Series/DogWithABlog'' had an octet of episodes that begin with "Guess Who...". |
| 122 | * Each episode where Captain Cold plays a major role in ''Series/TheFlash2014'' has the word "rogue" in the title, referencing his position as head of the Rogues: "Going Rogue", "Revenge of the Rogues", "Rogue Time", "Rogue Air", "Family of Rogues", and "The New Rogues", (he only appears in that one in a flashback and as a hologram, but his absence plays a significant role). |
| 123 | ** The two-part crossover with ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' that serves as a BackdoorPilot for ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' has both episodes cross-referenced with both each other and the latter show -- "Legends of Today" for ''The Flash'', "Legends of Yesterday" for ''Arrow''. |
| 124 | ** "The Man in the Yellow Tie", which introduces [[spoiler: a version of Eobard Thawne who doesn't rembember being Reverse-Flash or hating Barry]], is an obvious reference to "The Man in the Yellow Suit". |
| 125 | * ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': |
| 126 | ** The pilot, in which he agrees to look after his dad, was titled "The Good Son". A later episode, where he considered putting him in a retirement home, was of course "The Bad Son". The first episode of the [[Series/Frasier2023 revival]], where Frasier moves to Boston to be closer to his son, continues the tradition by being titled "The Good Father". |
| 127 | ** Episodes featuring the return of old ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' characters were given titles in the "The Show Where ______ Comes Back/Shows Up" format. While this sounds like a ShoutOut to the "The One Where..." titles from ''Series/{{Friends}}'', the first one - with Lilith - aired months before the ''Friends'' pilot. |
| 128 | * The last episode of the first season of ''Series/{{Friends}}'' was "The One Where Rachel Finds Out", where she finds out how Ross feels about her, realises she feels the same way, and discovers he's met [[RomanticFalseLead Julie]]. Seven episodes into season two, there's "The One Where Ross Finds Out". (Much later there was "The One Where Everybody Finds Out", but that was a different RomanceArc entirely and is probably a coincidence.) Season 2 also has "The One Where Joey Moves Out" and "The One Where Eddie Moves In". |
| 129 | * The season 3 ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' episode "Subject 13" is a WholeEpisodeFlashback about Walter's experiments with young Olivia. The season 4 episode "Subject 9" is a present-set episode about another Cortexiphan kid, one whose life has been ruined by PowerIncontinence. |
| 130 | * ''[[Franchise/ASongOfIceAndFire Game of Thrones]]'': |
| 131 | ** ''Series/GameOfThrones'' |
| 132 | ** The season two finale is titled "Valar Morghulis". The season three opener is called "Valar Dohaeris". "Valar Morghulis" has since been translated as "all men must die". "Valar Dohaeris" is apparently the traditional response (Melisandre and Thoros use it at their meeting); it means "all men must serve". |
| 133 | *** The season one premiere is entitled "Winter is Coming", the house words of the Starks. The season one finale is "Fire and Blood", the house words of the Targaryens. |
| 134 | *** Two episodes in season three are "The Bear and the Maiden Fair" and "The Rains of Castamere"; these are the two most popular songs in Westeros and both have been sung on-screen. |
| 135 | *** Season four episode "Oathkeeper" and season six episode "Oathbreaker". |
| 136 | ** ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'': One episode os Season 1 is titled "Second of His Name" in reference to the ''Game of Thrones'' episode "First of His Name". |
| 137 | * ''Series/GilmoreGirls'' used these several times: The episode recounting Rory's first day of high school is titled "The Lorelais' First Day At Chilton", and the one about her first day of college is titled "The Lorelais' First Day At Yale". An episode titled "Tick Tick Boom" was followed by "Afterboom". |
| 138 | * ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' had three episodes with "Ebb Tide" in the name. "Ebb Tide" and "Ebbtide's Revenge" were somewhat related, about the deaths of Blanche's father and Sophia's son/Dorothy's brother, respectively. The third, "Ebbtide VI: The Wrath of Stan" is not related. |
| 139 | * ''Series/TheGoodNightShow'' has "Where We Live" and "Where We Sleep," both from Season 4. |
| 140 | * The last two episodes of Season 4 of ''Series/{{House}}'' are titled "House's Head" and "Wilson's Heart". |
| 141 | * ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'': |
| 142 | ** The last two season 2 episodes "Something Borrowed" "Something Blue" and the last two season 8 episodes "Something Old" "Something New" are references to [[OldNewBorrowedAndBlue the famous tradition for weddings]]. The season 2 ends with the wedding of Marshall and Lily while season 8 ends with the preparations for the wedding of [[spoiler: Barney and Robin]]. |
| 143 | ** "Slapsgiving", "Slapsgiving 2: Revenge of the Slap" and "Slapsgiving 3: Slappointment in Slapmarra" all involve Marshall giving a slap to Barney because the latter lost a bet. |
| 144 | ** Season one episode "The Slutty Pumpkin" and season 7 "The Slutty Pumpkin Returns" both have the girl who dresses as a sexy pumpkin for Halloween. |
| 145 | ** Season 7 episode "Good Crazy" and season 8 episode "Bad Crazy". |
| 146 | ** Season 2 episode "First Time in New York" and season 9 episode "Last Time In New York". |
| 147 | * ''Series/JohnDoe'': Most of the episodes have unique names. A few, though, try to reference the title of the show as much as possible, usually involving wordplay. Examples: "Doe Re: Me", "John Deux", "John D.O.A.", "Doe or Die". |
| 148 | * The first episode of ''Series/KamenRiderOOO'' is "Medals, Underwear, and a Mysterious Arm". The last episode is "Tomorrow's Medals, Underwear, and Arms Held". |
| 149 | * ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' had a episode titled "Night". The various plot threads were concluded in the ''Series/LawAndOrderTrialByJury'' episode "Day". |
| 150 | * ''Series/{{Lexx}}'' featured a mystery episode titled "The Net", followed by its solution, titled "The Web". (The episodes are so similar that in syndication, "The Net" is usually omitted.) |
| 151 | * ''Series/{{Lost}}'' did this quite often. |
| 152 | ** Season 2 episode "One of Them" and Season 3 "One of Us", both dealing with individuals who may or may not be affiliated with the Others. |
| 153 | ** "White Rabbit" and "Through the Looking Glass" invoked Jack's ''Alice in Wonderland'' motif, while "The Man Behind the Curtain" and "There's No Place Like Home" invoked Ben's ''Wizard of Oz'' motif. |
| 154 | ** Season 4 had "The Constant". An episode in season 5 is titled "The Variable". |
| 155 | ** "What Kate Did" from Season 2 and "What Kate Does" from Season 6. |
| 156 | ** "House of the Rising Sun" from season 1 and "Sundown" from season 6. |
| 157 | ** "Everybody Hates Hugo" from season 2 and "Everybody Loves Hugo" from season 6. |
| 158 | ** The premiere of the fourth season -- the first episode after the end date was set -- was "The Beginning of the End". The series finale was "The End". |
| 159 | * ''Series/TheMagicians'' first two season finales, "Have You Brought Me Little Cakes" and "We Have Brought You Little Cakes". |
| 160 | * ''Series/{{MASH}}'' |
| 161 | ** Season 10 episodes "Snap Judgment" and "Snappier Judgment". |
| 162 | ** "Mail Call" (season 2), "Mail Call, Again" (season 4), and "Mail Call Three" (season 6). |
| 163 | ** Not forgetting the various "letter home" episodes, which were usually titled "Dear .....". |
| 164 | * ''Series/{{Maude}}'': About half the episode titles were named "X's Y", with X being a character and Y being something they deal with in the episode. |
| 165 | * ''Series/MiamiVice'' has "Forgive Us Our Debts" and its SequelEpisode "Deliver Us From Evil." |
| 166 | * ''Series/MurderSheWrote'' had the season 10 episode "A Killing in Cork" and the season 11 episode "Another Killing in Cork". Apart from the setting, and the return of the same police sergeant, the episodes are unlinked. |
| 167 | * ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' did this with season 6 episodes "Cloak" and "Dagger", season 8's "Enemies Foreign" and "Enemies Domestic", and season 12's [[Literature/PeterPan "The Lost Boys" and "Neverland"]]. |
| 168 | ** Any episode with Gibbs, Fornell, and their mutual ex-wife Diane starts with "Devil's Tri-". |
| 169 | * ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'' has the season 1 episodes "Missing" and "Found". |
| 170 | ** ADayInTheLimelight episodes for a character follows the "Surname, First Initial" pattern ("Callen, G.", "Blye, K.", "Granger, O."). |
| 171 | * ''Series/NewsRadio'' writers, when pressed for episode titles at the end of Season Two, named nine episodes in a row after Music/LedZeppelin albums. "In Through the Out Door", "The Song Remains the Same", "Zoso", "Houses of the Holy", "Physical Graffiti", "Led Zeppelin", "Presence", "Coda", and "Led Zeppelin II" have little in common besides their titles. A later episode in Season Three is titled "Led Zeppelin Boxed Set". |
| 172 | * ''Series/NightCourt'' had a series of episodes all hinging on the conceit that the docket must be cleared by midnight: "A Day in the Life", "Another Day in the Life", "Yet Another Day in the Life", and "Still Another Day in the Life". |
| 173 | * The six episodes of ''Series/{{Nikita}}'''s final season are three pairs: "Wanted"/"Dead or Alive", "Set-Up"/"Pay-Off", and "Bubble"/"Canceled". |
| 174 | * The ''Series/OnceUponATime'' episode that showed how Snow White and Charming met was called "Snow Falls". A later episode, in which their meeting was disrupted by time travelers, was called "Snow Drifts". |
| 175 | * The last two episodes of ''Series/OrphanBlack'''s second season are "Things Which Have Never Yet Been Done" and "By Means Which Have Never Yet Been Tried". They come from the same Francis Bacon quote (allowing them to fit in with the season's IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming) but narrowly avert CompoundTitle by the second phrase not directly following the first in the original text. |
| 176 | * ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'' did an episode in season 2 entitled "Ron and Tammy" which involves Ron sleeping with his evil second ex-wife named Tammy (his first wife and mother are also named Tammy). Tammy Two returns in season 3 in "Ron and Tammy: Part Two" where they briefly remarry. Tammy Two, the much scarier ex-wife Tammy One and Ron's mother Tammy show up in the season 4 episode "Ron and Tammys". The season 7 episode "Ron and Jammy" has Tammy Two in a relationship with Councilman Jamm. |
| 177 | * Cross-season teamup episodes of ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' often cross-reference the title of the previous season, such as the ''Lightspeed Rescue''/''Time Force'' teamup, "Time For Lightspeed", or the ''Ninja Storm''/''Dino Thunder'' teamup, "Thunderstorm". Also, the first episode of ''Power Rangers Dino Thunder'', which reintroduced a character from the franchise's first season, was titled "Day of the Dino", a reference to the series premiere, "Day of the Dumpster". |
| 178 | ** Within single seasons, ''Lightspeed Rescue'''s premiere was "Operation Lightspeed" and its finale was "The Fate of Lightspeed"; and ''SPD'' did the same with "Beginnings" and "Endings". |
| 179 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersBeastMorphers'' would return to this trend, with the first episode of season 1 being named "Beasts Unleashed" and the finale of season 2 being named "Evox Unleashed". |
| 180 | * ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'': |
| 181 | ** Season 4's premiere "A is for A-L-I-V-E" and finale "A is for Answers". |
| 182 | ** Season 6's premiere "Game On, Charles" and midseason finale "Game Over, Charles". |
| 183 | ** Season 6's second and third episodes, [[Literature/SongsOfInnocenceAndOfExperience "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience"]] (respectively). |
| 184 | * ''Series/{{Psych}}'': |
| 185 | ** Art thief Pierre Desperaux is introduced in season 4 "Extradition: British Columbia" and returns in "Extradition II: The Actual Extradition Part". |
| 186 | ** Season 1 episode "Cloudy... With a Chance of Murder" was remade in season 8 under the title "Remake A.K.A. Cloudy... With a Chance of Improvement". |
| 187 | * ''Series/RedDwarf'': Series 3's "Polymorph" is about the crew facing off against the titular [=GELF=]. Series 6's "Emohawk: Polymorph II" is about the crew facing off against a domesticated version of the polymorph, the Emohawk. |
| 188 | ** "Back To Reality" is about the crew being trapped in a halluncination caused by a Despair Squid. "Back To Earth" is about the crew being trapped in a halluncination caused by an '''Elation''' Squid (a female Despair Squid"). |
| 189 | * Episodes of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' featuring the InnerMonologue of characters other than J.D. comprise "His Story", "His Story II", "Her Story", "Her Story II", "His Story III", "His Story IV", "Their Story" and "Their Story II". |
| 190 | * ''Series/ShadowAndBone'''s two season finales, "No Mourners" and "No Funerals", make up the Crows' motto, "No mourners, no funerals." The latter is a NonIndicativeName since there is a MeaningfulFuneral in the episode. |
| 191 | * ''Series/{{Sliders}}'': The fourth season starts with "Genesis" and ends with "Revelation". They have no connection to the season three two-parter called "The Exodus", though. |
| 192 | * On Creator/AaronSorkin's first three series, the first-season finale was called "What Kind of Day Has It Been". The fourth, ''Series/TheNewsroom'', saved the title for its series finale instead. |
| 193 | * ''Series/StargateSG1'' is fond of these. |
| 194 | ** The original TimeTravel episode was titled "1969", for the year it took place. Later, an episode set in an alternative future, in which the characters used the same form of TimeTravel, was titled "2010", for the year ''it'' took place. When the events described as leading to that future started to occur in the present (but were eventually stopped, of course), the episode was titled "2001" -- which was the year the episode was made and aired, making it the year '''''it''''' took place. Adding yet another layer of meaning, in "2010", an plan going on in the background involves converting Jupiter into a star (a major element of the Arthur C. Clarke novel ''2010''), while the main alien plot has some similarities to another Clarke novel, ''Childhood's End''; and of course "2001" refers to the most famous Clarke novel (to which ''2010'' is a sequel), ''2001: A Space Odyssey''. |
| 195 | ** Perhaps the cleverest example involves the ''SG-1'' episode "Grace", in which a concussed Samantha Carter hallucinates a young girl named Grace. ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' would later feature an episode titled "Grace Under Pressure", in which a concussed [=McKay=] hallucinates Samantha Carter -- at the bottom of the ocean, where the water pressure is a problem. |
| 196 | ** Similarly, the ''Atlantis'' episode "38 Minutes" is in part a recapitulation of the ''SG-1'' episode "48 Hours" -- both involve people who are stuck dematerialized inside a stargate, and the title of the episode is the length of time everyone else has to figure out how to get them out. |
| 197 | ** Three of the Replicator-centered episodes are titled "Nemesis", "Enemies" and "Menace", which all have similar meanings as well as phonetic structure. |
| 198 | * ''Franchise/StarTrek'': Many of the cross-franchise stories played on this: |
| 199 | ** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' |
| 200 | *** The first season featured "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E2TheNakedNow The Naked Now]]", in which the Enterprise crew faced the same virus that had afflicted Kirk's Enterprise in "The Naked Time". |
| 201 | *** OnceASeason Q would show up and his name would feature in the title, such as "Hide and Q" or the more punny "Q-pid". The exceptions would be the series premiere "Encounter at Farpoint," SeriesFinale "All Good Things..." and mid series episode "Tapestry." This was repeated across ''Deep Space Nine'' and ''Voyager'' episodes and some novels too. |
| 202 | ** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' visited the original series' episode "The Trouble With Tribbles" in its "Trials and Tribble-ations" |
| 203 | *** And ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' had "More Tribbles, More Troubles". |
| 204 | ** ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' visited the mirror universe of TOS's "Mirror, Mirror" with "In a Mirror, Darkly". Several episodes of ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' also featured the same alternate universe, and also had the word "mirror" in their titles. |
| 205 | ** ''Deep Space Nine'' also had episodes titled "Profit and Lace" (referring back to its earlier episode "Profit and Loss") and "Who Mourns for Morn?" (referring back to the TOS episode "Who Mourns for Adonais?"). |
| 206 | *** Other examples from Deep Space 9 include: |
| 207 | *** "In the Hands of the Prophets" (season 2 finale) and "Tears of the Prophets" (season 6 finale) |
| 208 | *** "Duet" (season 2) and "Waltz" (season 6) |
| 209 | *** "Children of Time" (season 5) and "Time's Orphan" (season 6) |
| 210 | *** "Defiant" (season 3) and "Valiant" (season 6) (both episodes share the name of ''Defiant''-class starships) |
| 211 | ** There were also the occasional unintended echoes: the Voyager episode "Blink of an Eye" was originally titled "Wink of an Eye", until someone realized there'd been an unrelated (but named for the one story element both episodes share) TOS episode with that title. |
| 212 | ** ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' had an episode referencing the ''TNG'' two-parter called "Unification", about Spock's attempts to reconnect Vulcan and Romulan cultures, revealing that this had been achieved by the 32nd century was titled "Unification III". |
| 213 | * ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': |
| 214 | ** The season 4 premiere is titled "Lazarus Rising" and [[BookEnds the finale]] "Lucifer Rising". The season starts and ends with someone escaping hell: Dean and Lucifer respectively. |
| 215 | ** "Slash Fiction", "Meta Fiction" and "Fan Fiction", although having distinct plots, all have meta jokes. |
| 216 | * In the serie, ''Series/TheMentalist'' until the moment they caught the main antagonist, all the chapters had the word red, referring to his name, which is Red John. |
| 217 | * ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' has season 4's "Us" and season 5's "Them", and two episodes in season 5 titled "Remember" and "Forget". |
| 218 | * Episodes of ''Series/TheXFiles'' and ''Series/Millennium1996'' featuring Charles Nelson Reilly as the same character were titled "Jose Chung's ''From Outer Space''" and "Jose Chung's ''Doomsday Defense''", respectively. |
| 219 | * ''Series/ThirdWatch'''s [[{{Premiere}} first episode]] was called "Welcome to Camelot", its GrandFinale was called "Goodbye to Camelot". |
| 220 | * ''Series/TheZackFiles'': 13 of the 26 episodes of Season Two include Zack's name in the title. "Run Zack Run" is the only such episode of Season One. |
| 221 | [[/folder]] |
| 222 | |
| 223 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 224 | * Newton Faulkner's first two albums were named "Handbuilt by Robots" and "Rebuilt by Humans", however all his other albums have broken away from any naming pattern. |
| 225 | * Live albums are often titled by a play on the title of a previous album or song. Music/DeepPurple did this twice, with ''Made in Japan'' and ''Made in Europe'', and later ''Perfect Strangers'' and ''Nobody's Perfect''. Music/BlueOysterCult named ''Extraterrestrial Live'' after their song "E.T.I.". Music/{{Motorhead}}'s ''No Sleep 'til Hammersmith'' was followed by ''No Sleep at All''. |
| 226 | * ''Music/{{Gorillaz}}'' songs "Film/DirtyHarry" and "Creator/ClintEastwood". Also "Every Planet We Reach is Dead" versus "O Green World," and "Tomorrow Comes Today" versus "El Manana." |
| 227 | * Pond's "You're Not An Astronaut" and "My Dog Is An Astronaut, Though". They aren't directly connected, but both deal with space travel and are on the same album. |
| 228 | * Lambchop's [[DistinctDoubleAlbum simultaneously-released albums]] ''Aw C'mon'' and ''No, You C'mon''. |
| 229 | * From {{Music/Brentalfloss}}'s first album: "Introspective {{VideoGame/Duck|Tales}} in Space". From his second album: "Introspective [[VideoGame/MegaMan2 Man in Blue]]". From his third album: "Introspective [[{{VideoGame/Metroid}} Bounty Hunter]] in Space". All three songs are piano arrangements of another song in the respective album. |
| 230 | * Lazerhawk's "So Close", from ''Redline'', and "So Far Away", from ''Visitors''. |
| 231 | * {{Music/Nine Inch Nails}}' EP "Broken" and the remix EP "Fixed". |
| 232 | * Music/TheBeautifulSouth's first two albums had songs titled "I Love You (But You're Boring)" and "I Hate You (But You're Interesting)". |
| 233 | * Music/PizzicatoFive had the songs "Tokyo Mon Amour" (from ''Romantique 96'') and ''Mon Amour Tokyo'' (from ''Happy End of the World''). Aside from the titles, they're unrelated. |
| 234 | * Music/RichardSwift had "Mexico (1977)", a retro 70s-sounding pop song from his ''Walking Without Effort'' album, and "1977 (Mexico)", a minimalist electronic song from his ''Nothing to Do with Foxy Boxing EP''. |
| 235 | * Four Tet's album ''Pause'' and the remix EP ''Paws''. |
| 236 | * Music/BadReligion's album ''Into The Unknown'' and its eventual follow-up EP ''Back To The Known'' - the former was a NewSoundAlbum that temporarily broke up the band, so the EP title was a nod to them returning to something closer to their original style. |
| 237 | * The first four tracks of Helium's ''Pirate Prude'' have paired titles: "Baby Vampire Made Me" followed by "Wanna Be A Vampire Too, Baby", and "XXX" followed by "000". |
| 238 | * Music/PaulMcCartney: The album titles ''All the Best'' and ''Kisses on the Bottom'' combine to describe the way he usually signs autographs, "All the best, Paul [=McCartney=] X X X". |
| 239 | * Music/StarsCanadianBand: Two songs from ''Set Yourself On Fire'' are titled "Your Ex-Lover Is Dead" and "One More Night (Your Ex-Lover Is Still Dead)". Both songs are about an ended relationship, though it is ambiguous if they are about the same couple. |
| 240 | * Music/HankWilliamsJr's best known song, "All My Rowdy Friends Are Comin' Over Tonight", cross-references an earlier, more somber tune named "All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down)". |
| 241 | * The Music/{{Rush|Band}} album ''Music/{{Signals}}'' has one tracked called "The Analog Kid" and another "Digital Man". |
| 242 | * Music/AphexTwin has four different songs scattered across his discography with the name "[color] Calx": ''Music/SelectedAmbientWorks8592'' has "Green Calx", ''Music/SelectedAmbientWorksVolumeII'' has "Blue Calx", ''Music/RichardDJamesAlbum'' has "Yellow Calx", and among the mountain of unreleased tracks uploaded as part of his initial 2015 [=SoundCloud=] dump is "4 Red Calx". |
| 243 | * Music/TheRealZebos: |
| 244 | ** ''Strictly Platonic'' has two consecutive songs called "Get Down" and "Get Around". |
| 245 | ** Their 2022 album ''no style'' and their 2023 EP ''even less style''. |
| 246 | [[/folder]] |
| 247 | |
| 248 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 249 | * ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' audio dramas are fond of this, usually to indicate a series of linked stories such as the Excelis trilogy (''Excelis Dawns'', ''Excelis Rises'' and ''Excelis Decays'') but also sometimes apparently for the heck of it, such as the two largely unconnected Eighth Doctor audios set on Martian moons that have become holiday destinations called ''Phobos'' and ''Demios''. There are also audio dramas cross-referenced to TV stories, such as most of the stories in ''The Diary of River Song'' Vol 5, which are cross-referenced to the story they're a POVSequel to (the one exception uses the TV story's WorkingTitle), or the multi-Master stories "The Two Masters" and "The Day of the Master", which riff on the multi-Doctor stories "The [Three/Five/Two] Doctors" and "The Day of the Doctor". |
| 250 | [[/folder]] |
| 251 | |
| 252 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 253 | * ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' example: The second sets in the Lorwyn and Shadowmoor blocks were called Morningide and Eventide, respectively. There are also numerous examples of cross-referenced card names and even FlavorText in the two blocks, including [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=39439 Blinkmoth Nexus]] and [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=213731 Ink moth Nexus]]. |
| 254 | [[/folder]] |
| 255 | |
| 256 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 257 | * Creator/BenJonson wrote a comedy in 1598 called ''Every Man in His Humour''. The following year he presented ''Every Man out of His Humour''. |
| 258 | * Records exist of a play by Creator/WilliamShakespeare called ''Love's Labour's Won'', which is either a lost sequel to ''Theatre/LovesLaboursLost'' or an alternative name for a known play that calls back to it. |
| 259 | [[/folder]] |
| 260 | |
| 261 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 262 | * ''VideoGame/{{Braid}}'' has a few repetitions (The Pit, Hunt!, Lair, There and Back Again) of level names, a few with question marks in later levels (Phase and Phase?, The Pit and The Pit?), and two paired sets (Movement by Degrees and Movement, Amplified; Fickle Companion and Fragile Companion), all of whose names are meant to tie the levels together and offer occasional hints to train the player. |
| 263 | * Many level names in ''VideoGame/ChipsChallenge'' build on each other or use sequel naming and synonyms, but the best example by far would be Totally Fair and Totally Unfair ([[spoiler: the latter is solved exactly the same as the former, but the tooth monster in the maze must be manipulated without the player's ability to see it]]). |
| 264 | * The original tutorial zones for ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' and ''City of Villains'' were called Outbreak and Breakout, respectively. |
| 265 | * The Platform/PlayStationPortable port of the first ''{{VideoGame/Disgaea|HourOfDarkness}}'' game carries the subtitle ''Afternoon of Darkness''[[note]]except in China, where the SuperTitle64Advance trope is invoked instead with the title ''Disgaea Portable''[[/note]], referencing the original game's subtitle of ''Hour of Darkness''. |
| 266 | * ''VideoGame/StarcraftI'': |
| 267 | ** Episode III (playing as the Protoss) is titled The Fall, and Episode IV (again as the Protoss) is titled The Stand. This can be a little confusing, as Episode III starts with the Protoss preparing to make their stand against the Zerg, and Episode IV starts with them abandoning Auir; but technically the former shows the fall of Auir, and the latter shows them making their stand on Shakuras. |
| 268 | ** In the UED campaign, the mission of final assault against Mengsk is titled 'Emperor's Fall', but Mengsk manages to escape. The very next mission is spent hunting him down, until he runs away again, and is titled 'Emperor's Flight'. |
| 269 | ** The fourth UED mission is your initial invasion of Korhal, and is appropriately titled 'Assault on Korhal'. The fourth Zerg mission oversees the UED being driven off of Korhal, and fittingly enough is titled 'Liberation of Korhal'. |
| 270 | ** Finally, the eighth and final mission of the UED campaign is dedicated to capturing and enslaving the Overmind, and is titled 'To Chain the Beast'. The Zerg mission dedicated to killing the Overmind (also the eighth oddly enough, but not the final one), is called 'To Slay the Beast'. |
| 271 | [[/folder]] |
| 272 | |
| 273 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 274 | * ''WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland'': |
| 275 | ** First was episode 9 title "Insectophobe's Nightmare", where the challenge was for the teams to play in a “6-legged race” (the viewers didn’t get the titles joke, as insects have six legs), next was episode 24, “Insectophobe’s Nightmare 2”, where Flower accidentally hatches a whole horde of bugs that chase the remaining cast, and in 'WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIslandAgain'', epiosde 2, “Insectophobe’s Nightmare 3”, the challenge was to for the teams to kill all of their bugs. |
| 276 | ** From the first season of BFDI we have episode 17 ("The Reveal")and episode 18 ("Reveal Novum"). |
| 277 | * ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': One of the site's earliest cartoons was "The House That Gave Sucky Treats", an interactive HalloweenEpisode where Homestar and his friends went trick-or-treating and the viewer got to pick candy to give them. Roughly fourteen years later, the 2015 Halloween cartoon was entitled "The House That Gave Sucky Tricks", and was about Strong Bad dreaming up his own idea for a haunted house attraction. |
| 278 | * ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' opened with "Why Are We Here?", and episode 100, which ended [[WebAnimation/RedVsBLueTheBloodGulchChronicles the first story arc]], was "Why Were We Here?". On Season 14, an OriginsEpisode was "Why They're Here". Also, season 3 had "Calm Before the Storm" right before season finale "The Storm", and Season 13 had "The End Is Near" followed by the SeriesFauxnale "The End". |
| 279 | * ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': |
| 280 | ** In Volume 3, the episode "[[Recap/RWBYV3E7BeginningOfTheEnd Beginning of the End]]" is when the villains make their move against Beacon Academy, and "[[Recap/RWBYV3E12EndOfTheBeginning End of the Beginning]]" is the end of that battle. [[spoiler:Salem sums up the conclusion of the battle by saying "This is the beginning of the end, Ozpin, and I can't wait to watch you burn".]] |
| 281 | ** In the Volume 1 episode(s) "[[Recap/RWBYV1E4E5TheFirstStep The First Step]]", the students are thrust into the woods, where they will form teams for their new life at Beacon. In the Volume 4 episode "[[Recap/RWBYV4E1TheNextStep The Next Step]]", [[spoiler:Ruby and JNR walk through the woods, debating their new team name as the story establishes their new life after Beacon.]] |
| 282 | ** The Volume 2 episode "[[Recap/RWBYV2E2WelcomeToBeacon Welcome to Beacon]]" has Haven Academy students arriving at Beacon. In the Volume 5 episode "[[Recap/RWBYV5E1WelcomeToHaven Welcome to Haven]]", Beacon Academy students arrive at Haven. |
| 283 | [[/folder]] |
| 284 | |
| 285 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 286 | * ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' has several, particularly back when every strip had a title: |
| 287 | ** "There Was Once A Nanase From... Wait, That Doesn’t Rhyme!" and "There Nanase-from-Somewhere-that-Doesn't-Rhyme Goes Again!" |
| 288 | ** "Girls Who Have Kissed Sarah Count = 2" and "Girls Who Have Kissed Sarah Count = 3" |
| 289 | ** "Shields Up! Evasive Maneuvers!" and "Hull Breach! Decompression Imminent!" |
| 290 | ** "Bad Graduates To Worse" and "Worse Evolves To All Sorts Of Bad" |
| 291 | ** "If You Were To Ask, She Would Say You Already Know Her" and "This Wouldn't Be True, But She Would Not Be Lying" |
| 292 | ** "Remember Today's Comic" and "Remember Today's Comic As Well" |
| 293 | ** The ESG:NP storyline "Not A Date At The Mall" (Ellen and Nanase) and the regular storyline "So A Date At The Mall" (Elliot and Ashley). |
| 294 | ** The first two chapters in "The New World" are called "The Legend of Diane" and "The Secret of Sam". |
| 295 | ** The major arcs "Sister", "Sister 2", and "Sister 3" are much later followed up by "Brother" and "Father". |
| 296 | * ''Webcomic/FindingYourRoots'': Chapter 6, "[[TheNounAndTheNoun A Girl and a Dragon]]", references Chapter 1, "A Girl and an Egg", once the egg hatched. |
| 297 | * ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'': "Chapter 36: Red Gets a Name" and "Chapter 61: Red's Friend Gets a Name Too, I Suppose". |
| 298 | * ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'': |
| 299 | ** The three strips featuring the Crazy Old Man Who Only Speaks In Limericks (not counting his [[https://www.housepetscomic.com/comic/2017/11/17/descent/ cameo]] in "Temple Crashers 2") are "[[https://www.housepetscomic.com/comic/2009/11/18/everyones-new-favorite/ Everyone's New Favorite]]", "[[https://www.housepetscomic.com/comic/2011/10/10/everyones-old-favorite/ Everyone's Old Favorite]]" and "[[https://www.housepetscomic.com/comic/2013/12/11/everyones-nostalgic-favorite/ Everyone's Nostalgic Favorite]]". |
| 300 | ** A strip [[https://www.housepetscomic.com/comic/2011/08/08/the-artist-makes-no-claims-to-the-accuracy-of-the-views-expressed-herein/ satirising the way art and literature are taught]] is called "The Artist Makes No Claims To The Accuracy Of The Views Expressed Herein". The [[https://www.housepetscomic.com/comic/2011/08/10/the-artist-makes-no-claims-to-the-accuracy-of-the-view/ following strip]] in which Duchess thinks Sasha has been watching too much daytime TV is called "The Artist Makes No Claims To The Accuracy Of ''Series/TheView''". |
| 301 | --->'''AltText''': I apologise deeply for the pun title; some things are just irresistable. |
| 302 | * ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': |
| 303 | ** A strip titled "Belkar Unleashed" early on, and much later (when Belkar gets [[RestrainingBolt the Mark of Justice]]) "Belkar Leashed". |
| 304 | ** "The Semi-Secret Origin of Elan and Nale" and "The Significantly-More-Secret Origin of Tarquin and Nale". |
| 305 | ** Three strips in a row: "Green Means Go" (referring to the green aura that lets Roy do extra damage to undead), "Red Means Stop" (referring to [[spoiler: Durkula]]'s anti-life shell) and "Yellow Means Caution" (referring to the aura that surrounds the clerics when talking for their gods). |
| 306 | ** "Sound Reasoning" has Lien conclude their attacker is "someone new, not connected to Xykon". Three strips later is "Sound, But In This Case Inaccurate" where we see [[spoiler: the attacker is working with Redcloak and the Monster in the Darkness]]. |
| 307 | * ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'': |
| 308 | ** The sequence of strips in which Faye discusses her dad's suicide and its effect on her were "The Talk" Parts 1-10. The much later strip where she compares her own situation to his is "The Talk II: Talk Harder". |
| 309 | ** Two successive strips in the storyline where Hannnelore's mother sends her a personal assistant named Tilly who is trying ''way'' too hard to be a HypercompetentSidekick are "[[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3615 Tilly Has No Chill]]" (in which they ''climb over the counter'' to help ''after'' being told they're not allowed behind it) and "[[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3616 Absolutely Zero Chill]]" (in which they ''burst into tears'' because Hanners made ''them'' a coffee). |
| 310 | * ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': Chapter 11 is [[https://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/chapter-11-page-4 "Flotsam"]] and chapter 12's original title was [[https://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/chapter-12-page-03 "Lagan"]], highlighting the different directions Undine and Tessa's lives have taken since the start of the comic. Flotsam refers to wreckage that is floating on the sea or has washed ashore, and lagan is wreckage lying on the bottom of the sea; both girls' lives have been wrecked, but Undine has had more support and is in a relatively better place emotionally, while Tessa is more isolated, and becomes more so during the course of her chapter. |
| 311 | * ''Webcomic/SquareRootOfMinusGarfield'': "The Sinister Mind of Odie Arbuckle", and seven years later, "The Sinister Mind Of Garfield Arbuckle". |
| 312 | [[/folder]] |
| 313 | |
| 314 | [[folder:Web Video]] |
| 315 | * ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'': |
| 316 | ** Episode 13 of Campaign Two, "Lost & Found", is mirrored later with episode 26 "Found & Lost". Both episodes center around the character Mollymauk Tealeaf, but in different ways. |
| 317 | ** The title of episode 96 of Campaign One, "Family Matters", would be referenced by episode 96 of Campaign Two, "Family Shatters". Both episodes involve the respective team's cleric reuniting with their long lost family. |
| 318 | * The title of [[WebVideo/MatthewSantoro Matt Santoro's]] video ''Winter is WICKED!'' is a reference to the title of one of his previous videos, ''Autumn is AWESOME!''. |
| 319 | * ''WebVideo/SMPLive'' highlight videos from different perspectives tend to do this frequently: |
| 320 | ** The Assassin Event, featuring numerous {{Assumed Win}}s has the hilarious trinity of Joko's "I WON THE ASSASSIN EVENT (kinda)", Connor's "Winning the SMP Live Assassin Event", and Gold's "WE WON THE SMPLIVE ASSASSIN EVENT? Sorta..." |
| 321 | ** Michael's "They Think I'm Herobrine..." and Connor's "Killing Herobrine on SMP Live". |
| 322 | ** Travis's "The Great Minecraft Bird Heist" and Gold's "MY FRIENDS OBLITERATED MY BIRD FOR MONEY..." |
| 323 | [[/folder]] |
| 324 | |
| 325 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 326 | * ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' |
| 327 | ** The season 3 episode "Too Young" and season 5's "Too Old", both of which involve a conflict with the Earl of Lemongrab. |
| 328 | ** Season 2 has "Mystery Train", which is followed in season 5 with "Mystery Dungeon" and "[[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Dungeon Train]]". |
| 329 | ** The last episode of ''Stakes'' (the first {{miniseries}}) is "The Dark Cloud". The last episode of ''Islands'' (the second miniseries) is "The Light Cloud". |
| 330 | * ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' had Season 2's "Four Little Words" and Season 4's "One Little Word", both of which are about Stan's relationships with his wife and his boss and both of which involve him going to extreme lengths to avoid the "words" of the title (in the former he doesn't want to hear Francine say "IToldYouSo", and in the latter he doesn't want to tell his boss "No"). |
| 331 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': |
| 332 | ** "The Long, Dull Winter" and "The Short, Quick Summer" are opposite in both plot and title. In the former, Arthur and his friends try to create a holiday to make the time go faster, and in the latter, Arthur fears that he won't have time to do everything he plans over the summer. |
| 333 | ** "When Carl Met George" and "He Said, He Said" are both Carl episodes whose titles allude to romantic films. |
| 334 | ** (Character)'s [X] Trouble and variations thereof are commonplace. Season 1 in particular had "Arthur's Teacher Trouble", "Arthur's Spelling Trubble", and "Arthur's Substiture Teacher Trouble". Later examples include "D.W.'s Time Trouble" and "Arthur's Toy Trouble". There's also variations that alliteratre but have a similar meaning, such as "Arthur's Dummy Disaster", "Muffy's Soccer Shocker", and "Binky's Music Madness". |
| 335 | ** A few episodes after season 16 are based on popular phrases, such as "Based on a True Story," "Baby Steps," "Just the Ticket," "Opposites Distract," "All Thumbs", "Some Assembly Required", "Too Much of a Good Thing"... |
| 336 | ** "Night Fright" and "Fright Night", 21 seasons apart. "Night Fright" focuses on Binky not wanting anyone to know that he sleeps with a night light, while "Fright Night" follows Buster and Arthur's attempts to catch a mythical creature after hearing a scary story. |
| 337 | ** "The Butler Did... What?" and "The Butler Did It" both focus on Muffy and her family butler Bailey. |
| 338 | ** "Postcards from Binky" is a reference to the ''Arthur'' SpinOff ''WesternAnimation/PostcardsFromBuster''. The plots are also similar, with Binky making a video postcard for his grandparents, while ''Postcards from Buster'' is about Buster recording his travels to send them to his friends back in Elwood City. |
| 339 | ** CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase titles are common: "Arthur and the Big Riddle", "Fern and Persimmony Glitchet", "Prunella and the Haunted Locker", "Brain and the Time Capsule", "Francine and the Soccer Spy", "Pal and the Big Itch"... |
| 340 | ** "D.W., Dancing Queen", "D.W., Bossy Boots", and "D.W., Queen of the Comeback" all focus on D.W. |
| 341 | ** "Waiting to Go" is about Binky and Brain waiting to be picked up from soccer practice. The later episode "Waiting for Snow" is similar in concept, with Ladonna hoping to experience her first snow in Elwood City. |
| 342 | ** "The Great Sock Mystery" and its SequelEpisode seven seasons later, "The Great Lint Rush". |
| 343 | * Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse: |
| 344 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' the episodes involving Kyodai Ken are "Night of the Ninja" and "Day of the Samurai". |
| 345 | ** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' has the episode "Speak No Evil" that references the episode "See No Evil" from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''. Both allude to the MonkeyMoralityPose. |
| 346 | * ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' |
| 347 | ** The episodes "Whatever Happened to Della Duck?!" and "Whatever Happened to Donald Duck?!", two key points of the Season 2 StoryArc. |
| 348 | ** Season 3 has the episodes "The First Adventure!" and "The Last Adventure!". |
| 349 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': |
| 350 | ** The "Spaced Out" trilogy, which consisted of "Spaced Out", "Totally Spaced Out", and "So Totally Spaced Out", the first three episodes featuring the Yugopotamians (minus the HalloweenEpisode). |
| 351 | ** "Fairly [=OddBaby=]" and "Fairly [=OddPet=]" are both {{Wham Episode}}s that introduce a permanent new character. |
| 352 | ** "Scary [=GodParents=]" and "Scary [=GodCouple=]" are both double-length episodes. |
| 353 | * The ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Foreign Affairs" has Bonnie planning to cheat on Joe in France because their marriage is on the rocks. The next season's "Internal Affairs" has Peter and Quagmire convincing Joe to cheat on Bonnie to return the favor. |
| 354 | ** A small trend of titling episodes include ending with "Guy" such as "German Guy," "Amish Guy," "Business Guy," and "Ratings Guy" and SelfDeprecation on part of the series' name as typified by the duo of "Family Gay" and "Family Goy" which perhaps non-coincidentally rank as two of the most controversial episodes in the show's history. |
| 355 | ** There's also the "Road to X" episodes which all involve Brian and Stewie embarking on some kind of crazy adventure. The naming scheme is a shout out to Music/BingCrosby and Creator/BobHope's series of ''Road to...'' comedy films. |
| 356 | * The five parts pilot of ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' is titled "Awakening" and the [[BookEnd first season finale]] is titled "Reawakening". |
| 357 | * ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episodes "Dipper vs. Manliness" and "Dipper and Mabel vs. The Future". |
| 358 | * ''WesternAnimation/KampKoral'' has "Help Not Wanted", referencing the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' premiere, "Help Wanted". |
| 359 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' has two episodes named after episodes from the previous series, ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': "The Earth Queen" after "The Earth King" and "Korra Alone" after "Zuko Alone". |
| 360 | * ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': The title of "[[Recap/MollyOfDenaliS2E3ComeBackBirdieWinterIsComing Come Back Birdie!]]" is a reference to the prior episode "[[Recap/MollyOfDenaliS1E5BirdInHandByeByeBirdie Bye Bye Birdie]]." |
| 361 | * The first episode of Creator/SkyOne's ''[[Literature/TheMoomins Moominvalley]]'' was "Little My Moves In". The fourth episode of the second season was "Little My Moves Out". |
| 362 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' had three episodes each named for one of the three {{Monkey Morality Pose}}s (except for one called "''Ear'' No Evil"). The title cards were even the same three drawings of Jenny doing the poses, but with a different one in the center each time. |
| 363 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': |
| 364 | ** Many episodes revolving around the Cutie Mark Crusaders have the word "Mark" in the title. |
| 365 | ** Season 2 episode "Sisterhooves Social" and season 5 episode "Brotherhooves Social". |
| 366 | ** Fluttershy-centric episodes "Stare Master" in season 1 and "Scare Master" in season 5. |
| 367 | ** Season 4 episode "Daring Don't", season 7 episode "Daring Done?" and season 9 episode "Daring Doubt". |
| 368 | ** The two-parter that opens season 8 is entitled "School Daze". The two-parter that ends season 8 is entitled "School Raze". |
| 369 | ** The two-parter that opens season 9 is entitled "The Beginning of the End". The two-parter that ends season 9 is entitled "The Ending of the End". |
| 370 | * The second to last episode of ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'' is titled "Into the Unknown". The last episode? "The Unknown". |
| 371 | * ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'': The second-to-last episode, which concludes the show's MythArc, is titled "[[Recap/OKKOLetsBeHeroesS3E18LetsFightToTheEnd Let's Fight to the End]]", after a line from the opening theme (which [[ThemeTuneExtended gets an extended version in the episode]]). The DenouementEpisode afterward is titled "[[Recap/OKKOLetsBeHeroesS3E19ThankYouForWatchingTheShow Thank You for Watching the Show]]", after the last line from the ''closing'' theme. |
| 372 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'': |
| 373 | ** "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E21ThePatrickShowSellsOutNeptunesBall The Patrick Show Sells Out]]" and "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS2E1ThePatrickShowCashesInStarGames The Patrick Show Cashes In]]" both deal with themes of merchandizing and brand recognition. |
| 374 | ** "Shrinking Stars", "Super Stars", and "Movie Stars". |
| 375 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' has the first episode "Monkey See, Doggie Do" and the later "Monkey See, Doggy Two". Both involves Mojo Jojo trying to turn the citizens into dogs with the bust of Anubis. |
| 376 | * ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' has "[[Recap/ReadyJetGoS1E5HowComeTheMoonHasCratersBackyardMoonBase How Come the Moon Has Craters?]]" and "[[Recap/ReadyJetGoS1E6HowComeTheMoonChangesShapeNightOfABazillionStars How Come the Moon Changes Shape]]?" Both of these episodes answer questions about the moon. |
| 377 | * ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' has "Guys Night", "[[SequelEpisode Guys Night 2]]", and "Fries Night". |
| 378 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 379 | ** ''WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'': The first involved a series of "scary" stories exchanged in Bart's treehouse, and was named "Treehouse of Horror". Subsequent entries were named "Treehouse of Horror II", "Treehouse of Horror III", etc., despite the fact that the rest don't even have a [[ArtifactTitle passing reference to a treehouse]]. Since then, there has been "Halloween of Horror", a canon HalloweenEpisode (although a Treehouse episode did air that same year). "Thanksgiving of Horror" is a ThanksgivingEpisode take on the regular Treehouse formula. |
| 380 | ** There are lots of titles built around puns on Homer's catchphrase, both in its standard form ("D'oh-in in the Wind") and the way it's designated in the show's scripts ("I, [Annoyed Grunt]-Bot"). The current count is D'oh: 13, (Annoyed Grunt): 4. |
| 381 | ** "Bart Gets an F", "Bart's Dog Gets an F", "Lisa Gets an A", "Bart Gets a Z", and "Lisa Gets an F1". |
| 382 | ** "Marge vs. the Monorail", "Bart vs. Australia", etc. -- this pattern even has a sub-pattern involving ordinal numbers: "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment", "Homer vs. Lisa and the Eighth Commandment", "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the 3rd Grade", etc. |
| 383 | ** "Little Big Girl" and "Little Big Mom" are both episodes that focus on Lisa. |
| 384 | ** "The Last Temptation of Homer" and "The Last Temptation of Krust".[[note]]The "y" in Krusty's name being left out in order to sound more like the Biblical event both titles allude to.[[/note]] |
| 385 | ** Four episode titles are a pun on the Mona Lisa: "Moaning Lisa", "Moe'N'a Lisa", "Mona Leaves-a", and "Loan-a Lisa". |
| 386 | ** Over 20 episodes have "[character] the [position]" titles: "Bart the Genius", "Lisa the Greek", "Marge the Lumberjill", "Bart the Fink"... The most overt references between these are "Homer the [[TheDragon Smithers]]"/"Homer the [[TheBartender Moe]]" and "Lisa the Beauty Queen"/"Lisa the Drama Queen". |
| 387 | ** There are two episodes almost 20 years apart both about Moe trying to improve the fortunes of his bar, season 3's "Flaming Moe's" in which Homer invents (and Moe steals) a massively popular flaming cocktail, and season 22's "Flaming Moe" in which Moe and Smithers reinvent the bar with [[WhereEverybodyKnowsYourFlame a completely different use of the word "Flaming" in mind]]. |
| 388 | ** Two Ned Flanders-centric episodes both reference Gilbert O'Sullivan's song "Alone Again (Naturally)" in their title: "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily" and "No Loan Again, Naturally". |
| 389 | ** "Mypods and Boomsticks" and "Rednecks and Broomsticks", which deal with Islam and Wicca respectively. |
| 390 | ** Titles based on ''Literature/TheOldManAndTheSea'' include: "The Old Man and the Lisa," "The Old Man and the C Student," "The Old Man and the Key"... |
| 391 | ** There was also a short lived "X in 'Y'" theme, as seen with "Homer Simpson in 'Kidney Trouble'" and "Marge Simpson in 'Screaming Yellow Honkers'". |
| 392 | ** {{Christmas Episode}}s "'Tis the Fifteenth Season" and "'Tis the 30th Season". |
| 393 | ** "Duffless", "Puffless", and "Screenless", all episodes about overcoming an addiction. "Bartless" also follows the pattern. |
| 394 | ** "Lisa the Vegetarian" and "Lisa the Veterinarian". |
| 395 | ** "Love is a Many Strangled Thing" and "Love is a Many Splintered Thing" are both episodes starring Bart. |
| 396 | ** "To Surveil with Love", "To Cur with Love", and "To Courier with Love". |
| 397 | ** "The Kid is All Right" and "The Kids are All Fight". |
| 398 | ** "Much Apu About Nothing" and "Much Apu About Something" are both Apu episodes. |
| 399 | ** "Holidays of Future Passed" and its sequel, "Days of Future Future". |
| 400 | ** "The Winter of His Content" and "The Winter of Our Monetized Content". |
| 401 | ** The title of "Homer Goes to College" is directly referenced later with "Homer Goes to Prep School". However, while the former is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, "Prep School" focuses on Homer joining a group of doomsday preppers. |
| 402 | ** "Moe Baby Blues" and "Moe Letter Blues" are Moe episodes. Similarly, "Flaming Moe's" and "Flaming Moe" both involve Moe trying to boost his business. |
| 403 | ** "Gone Maggie Gone" and "Gone Abie Gone". |
| 404 | ** "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" and "Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou?" |
| 405 | ** "Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife" and "Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life". |
| 406 | ** "The Way We Was" and "The Way We Weren't" are both flashback episodes to Homer and Marge meeting. "The Wayz We Were" similarly deals with a defining romance in someone's life, this one between Moe and [[spoiler:his eventual fiancée]] Maya. |
| 407 | ** "Brother From the Same Planet" in Season 4 had the [[LongRunner rare honor]] of having its title referenced ''thirty seasons later'' with "Step Brother From the Same Planet" in Season 34. |
| 408 | ** "Kamp Krusty" and its SequelEpisode "Kamp Krustier." |
| 409 | ** "Million-Dollar Abie" and "Million Dollar Maybe". |
| 410 | ** Due to this tendency of the show, any UnInstallment will be this: |
| 411 | *** In "Weekend at Burnsie's," Marge dresses a scarecrow in items of the family's clothing in a ContinuityCavalcade pointed out by footnotes onscreen, which ends by citing the scarecrow's hat as appearing in the non-existent episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E25WhoShotMrBurnsPartOne Who]] [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E1WhoShotMrBurnsPartTwo Shot]] Grampa's Hat?" |
| 412 | *** "The Spy Who Learned Me" ends with the promise that [[TuxedoAndMartini James Bond expy]] Stradivarius Cain will return in "Lisa Gets a B+." |
| 413 | *** "Kamp Krusty" sequel episode "Kamp Krustier" ends with a sequel hook for a supposed third installment, "Kamp Krustiest," to appear [[SequelGap in 24 more seasons]]. |
| 414 | *** "Lisa the Boy Scout," while a real episode, has a very NonIndicativeTitle referring to the nonexistent, StrictlyFormula ''Simpsons'' episode which the bulk of its plot supposedly "interrupts." The story is largely a BizarroEpisode about two hackers taking over the broadcast. |
| 415 | * ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': |
| 416 | ** Four episodes had titles which [[AnnualTitle all ended with the number "2000"]]; they were the first episodes of the year 2000 and satirized the way ''everything'' had "[[AdvancedTech2000 2000]]" slapped on it at the time. |
| 417 | ** There were also "200" and "201". |
| 418 | ** Also "Go God Go" and its sequel "Go God Go XII". WordOfGod (amusingly), said that this was to make it sound series-like, [[UnInstallment where all this stuff had happened and we'd missed it]]. |
| 419 | ** "Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut". "Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut". |
| 420 | ** "Tweek vs. Craig" was followed ''16 years later'' by "Tweek x Craig". |
| 421 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': The season 3 finale is divided into two full-length episodes, "Divide" and "Conquer". |
| 422 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': |
| 423 | ** Originally, every episode of in which Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy made an appearance was entitled "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy," followed by a Roman numeral (even when the characters only appeared for about a minute as in "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III"). This theme naming ended with "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture" and episodes starring the two characters now have more original titles. |
| 424 | ** There's a naming scheme for episodes featuring characters who [[TheBusCameBack return after not appearing for a while]]: "Squilliam Returns", "Bubble Buddy Returns", "Spot Returns", "Man Ray Returns", and "Dirty Bubble Returns". |
| 425 | ** "Pat the Horse" and "Pat the Dog" are both episodes about Patrick pretending to be an animal. This also gets followed up with "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS14E5MomageddonPetTheRock Pet the Rock]]". |
| 426 | ** In "Home Sweet Pineapple", [=SpongeBob=]'s pineapple house gets eaten and he needs to find another place to live. In "Home Sweet Rubble", his pineapple rots and his friends help fix it up. |
| 427 | ** Some [=SpongeBob=]-centric episodes use the title format "[Adjective]/[Noun] Pants". This includes "Scaredy Pants", "Nature Pants", "Funny Pants", "Gullible Pants", and "Scavenger Pants". |
| 428 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS7E10ThePhantomApprentice "The Phantom Apprentice"]] nods to the movie ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''. An appropriate title, considering that it's part of a story featuring Darth Maul, who was the Sith apprentice introduced in the movie. |
| 429 | * ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': |
| 430 | ** The show [[ParodiedTrope parodies]] this with [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E10StevensLion "Steven's Lion"]]. The next episode where Lion plays a major role is called "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E17Lion2TheMovie Lion 2]]: [[TitleTheAdaptation The Movie]]". In it, Steven rides Lion with his friend Connie [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin to the movies]], only to get side-tracked by a trip to an old armory owned by Steven's mother Rose Quartz. After that, the next one is called "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E35Lion3StraightToVideo Lion 3]]: [[SequelSnark Straight to Video]]". It's about Steven getting a video tape from Lion [[spoiler:that his mother made]]. Three seasons later, we got "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS4E20Lion4AlternateEnding Lion 4]]: [[RevisedEnding Alternate Ending]]", which has Lion take Steven to a secret location where an alternate version of the tape from "Lion 3" is hidden. |
| 431 | ** The two-parter introducing Lapis Lazuli is titled [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E25MirrorGem "Mirror Gem"]]/[[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E26OceanGem "Ocean Gem"]]. |
| 432 | ** Two episodes in which Rose's belongings play a major role are "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E19RosesRoom Rose's Room]]" and "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E45RosesScabbard Rose's Scabbard]]". |
| 433 | ** The episode where Steven befriends the Centipeetle is titled "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E23MonsterBuddies Monster Buddies]]". The episode where the Centipeetle returns and [[spoiler:tries to communicate with Steven]] is "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E14MonsterReunion Monster Reunion]]". |
| 434 | ** Episodes where [[CreepyChild Onion]] plays a major role are titled "Onion [noun]": "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E15OnionTrade Onion Trade]]", "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E16OnionFriend Onion Friend]]", and "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS4E7OnionGang Onion Gang]]". |
| 435 | ** "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E9TigerMillionaire Tiger Millionaire]]" was followed three seasons later by "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS4E18TigerPhilanthropist Tiger Philanthropist]]". |
| 436 | ** Two episodes focusing on Lars are titled "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E10TheNewLars The New Lars]]" and "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS4E22TheGoodLars The Good Lars]]". |
| 437 | ** Season 4 closes with the episodes "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS4E23AreYouMyDad Are You My Dad?]]" and "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS4E24IAmMyMom I Am My Mom]]". |
| 438 | *** Taken further with the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'' episode "[[Recap/StevenUniverseFutureS1E19IAmMyMonster I Am My Monster]]". |
| 439 | ** Three episodes are called [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E23BackToTheBarn "Back to the Barn"]], [[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E23BackToTheMoon "Back to the Moon"]], and [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E8BackToTheKindergarten "Back to the Kindergarten"]], though there isn't much story connection between them. |
| 440 | ** "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E25TheAnswer The Answer]]" is about how Ruby and Sapphire first fused and joined the Crystal Gems. "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E21TheQuestion The Question]]" is about Ruby dealing with the emotional fallout of TheReveal a few episodes earlier, and [[spoiler:popping ''[[WackyMarriageProposal the]]'' question to Sapphire]]. |
| 441 | ** [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E37AloneTogether "Alone Together"]] and [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E26TogetherAlone "Together Alone"]]. Both episodes involve Steven and Connie [[spoiler:accidentally fusing]] and going to a dance. In the first, the two are locked in a metaphorical prison while surrounded by everyone, while in the second they're locked in a ''literal'' prison after [[spoiler:all their friends get poofed]]. |
| 442 | ** The first episode of ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'' is titled "Little Homeschool", and introduces the eponymous school where Steven teaches gems how to adjust to life in Era 3. The ninth episode is "Little Graduation", where the first class graduates and [[spoiler:Steven decides to stop being a teacher]]. |
| 443 | * ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}: WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' featured ''Other Voices'' (parts 1 and 2), ''Other Visits'' (parts 1 and 2), and ''Other Victories'' (single episode). All revolved around a mysterious alien race and their interference in the Beast Wars. |
| 444 | ** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' has "Operation: Breakdown", about Breakdown being captured by MECH to be dissected, and "Operation: Bumblebee", a two-part episode about MECH stealing the part Bumblebee needs to transform. |
| 445 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Vampirina}}'' had an episode called "Nanpire the Great", which was eventually followed by the episode "Nanpire and Grandpop the Greats". |
| 446 | * The ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' episodes "The Day" and "The Night", which also seemlessly transition as if they were a single episode and feature an HourglassPlot: in "The Day", Wander is sleeping and Sylvia has to make sure he stays asleep while keeping the two safe from Lord Hater and his {{Mooks}}, and in "The Night", Sylvia is sleeping as a result of the events of the previous episode, and Wander has to make sure she stays asleep while keeping the two safe from Lord Hater's Mooks. In addition, the last scene of each episode serves as the first scene of its sister episode. |
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