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7	* A short-lived Australian TV series titled ''Above the Law'' was set in an apartment complex situated above a police station.
8	* ''Series/AlienNation''. Both as in a nation of aliens, and "alienation" (isolation or exclusion).
9	* ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment''
10	** The show's title has several layers - the overall plot is about the head of a development company who's been arrested, the characters themselves are in various states of arrested development, and (initially at least) the company's development work is pretty much on hold ("arrested," one might say), because of the arrests.
11	** Almost all the episode titles are pun-based, eg. "Key Decisions", "Pier Pressure", "Marta Complex", "Shock and Aww".
12	* ''Series/BabesInTheWood'', which is about three young women who live in St. John's Wood in London - hence, "Babes in the Wood".
13	* ''Series/Batman1966'': Several episode titles contain puns. For example, "Ice Spy" ("I spy"; the episode features Mr. Freeze) and "The Purr-fect Crime" ("the perfect crime"; the episode features Catwoman).
14	* ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse'' has an episode called "Share, Bear", a pun on the name of a character from ''Franchise/CareBears''.
15	* ''{{Series/Beforeigners}}'' comes from "before" + "foreigners". It's about people from the past being brought to the present day and is intended as an {{Allegory}} for the plight of refugees.
16	* ''Series/BestOfFriends1963'''s third episode was titled "Stars and Strife", a play on "stars and stripes".
17	* ''Series/BetweenTheLions'', a Creator/PBSKids series about a family of lions running a library.
18	* The fourth ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'' series is called - what else? - ''Blackadder Goes Forth''.
19	* ''Series/BlackOps'' is a comedy thriller about two undercover police officers. Who are black.
20	* ''Blind Justice''- a reference to the principle of objectivity in law and [[{{Irony}} the incredibly hard to guess]] disability of the lead character, Det. Jim Dunbar.
21	* ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' is a pun on the expression "BoyMeetsGirl". Also, several episodes have this type of title, such as "No Guts, No Cory".
22	* The ''Series/BreakingBad'' episode "Face Off", in which [[spoiler:the season antagonist literally gets his face blown off.]]
23	* ''El C.I.D.'': Pun on ''Film/ElCid'' about an expat British Criminal Investigations Department detective in Spain.
24	* ''Changing Rooms'': turn the adjective into a verb, and you've got yourself a home makeover show.
25	** A documentary about dead bodies being exhumed to be moved to a new graveyard was titled ''Changing Tombs'', punning on what was already a pun to begin with.
26	* ''Series/CharleysGrants'' is a play on ''Theatre/CharleysAunt'', reflecting how Lord Charley wants to get his hands on some arts grants.
27	* Most episode titles of ''Series/{{Charmed\|1998}}'' are puns, especially puns that involve the words "witch," "charmed," etc., or the names of the characters.
28	* ''Series/{{Chuck}}'s'' IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming occasionally veered into puns and {{Double Meaning Title}}s (most often the latter).
29	* Some 90% of ''Series/CornerGas'' episodes are titled with puns combining two or more of the episode's storylines. (I.e. "American Resolution", which focuses on New Year's resolutions and a character fighting a perceived American identity.)
30	* ''Series/{{CSI}}'' had a few, including one called "Organ Grinder," which had nothing to do with that type of musician and everything to do with bodily organs being ground up; for once, the killer wasn't the one doing it; the Medical Examiner had to as part of an experiment.
31	** They liked to play around with movie titles, too, as evidenced by "Rashomama" and "What's Eating Gilbert Grissom?"
32	* ''Series/CSIMiami'' had its share:
33	** Grave Young Men
34	** Freaks and Tweaks
35	** Cyber-Lebrety
36	** CSI: My Nanny
37	** Guerillas in the Mist
38	** Raising Caine
39	** You May Now Kill the Bride
40	** Won't Get Fueled Again
41	** Raging Cannibal
42	** And They're Offed
43	** Smoke Gets in Your [=CSIs=]
44	** Wolfe in Sheep's Clothing
45	** Chip/Tuck
46	** In Plane Sight
47	** Miami, We Have a Problem
48	** Mommy Deadest
49	** Sleepless in Miami
50	** Look Who's Taunting
51	** Sinner Takes All
52	** A Few Dead Men
53	** Rest in Pieces
54	** Law & Disorder
55	** Habeas Corpse
56	* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' had a number over its run as well:
57	** Outside Man
58	** Zoo York
59	** Fare Game
60	** Oedipus Hex
61	** Raising Shane
62	** A Daze of Wine and Roaches
63	** What Schemes May Come
64	** Happily Never After
65	** Unfriendly Chat
66	** Clue: SI
67	* ''Series/DocMartin'': After the British footwear brand Dr. Martens, commonly referred to as "Doc Martens".
68	* ''Series/DoctorWho'': [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E4ArachnidsInTheUK "Arachnids in the UK"]] riffs on the famous Music/SexPistols song "Anarchy in the UK".
69	* The second episode of ''Series/DocumentaryNow'' parodies ''Film/NanookOfTheNorth'' with its own mockumentary, "Kunuk Uncovered". Both are set in the Canadian Arctic. "Kunuk" is pronounced almost the same as "Canuck", a derogatory term for Canadians.
70	* ''Series/DonkeyHodie'', the title of which is a wordplay on the classic novel ''Literature/DonQuixote''. The show's lead character, [[CharacterTitle Donkey Hodie]], is the granddaughter of the original Donkey Hodie from ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood'', which the program is a spinoff of.
71	* ''Series/{{Elementary}}'s'' episode titles include "Corpse de Ballet"[[labelnote:*]]"corps de ballet"[[/labelnote]].
72	* ''Fáilte Towers'': portmanteau of ''Fawlty Towers'' and the Irish word "fáilte", meaning "welcome".
73	* ''Series/ForeverKnight'': Nicholas Knight is an immortal vampire, so the title references both his unending life and his lifestyle, as sunlight will kill him.
74	* Lots of episodes of ''Series/{{Frasier}}''. A [[{{Feghoot}} particularly contrived example]] is the one where Roz works in a retirement home and is traumatised when two of the residents drop dead right in front of her, titled "[[Theatre/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead Roz's Krantz and Gouldenstein are Dead]]".
75	** Shrink Rap
76	** Chess Pains
77	** Where There's Smoke There's Fired
78	** Our Father Whose Art Ain't Heaven
79	** Dad Loves Sherry, The Boys Just Whine
80	** A Tsar is Born
81	** Whine Club
82	** Mary Christmas
83	** Hooping Cranes
84	** It Takes Two To Tangle
85	** The Wizard And Roz
86	** Bla-Z-Boy
87	** Mother Load
88	** War Of The Words
89	** Frasier Has Spokane
90	** Star Mitzvah
91	** Bristle While You Work
92	** No Sex Please, We Are Skittish
93	** Guns N' Neuroses
94	** Freudian Sleep
95	* ''Series/GetSmart'' was quite fond of these, especially late in the series when the title was shown in the opening credits, giving us the likes of "Widow Often Annie", "How Green was my Valet", "Smartacus"...
96	* The miniseries ''Series/{{Glue}}'' has a title that refers to the ties binding the main characters together - and to what horses end up as.
97	* ''Series/TheGnomesOfDulwich'' is a gnome-based pun on the term "The Gnomes of Zürich".
98	* [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming Every episode]] of ''Series/GossipGirl'' is titled with a pun on a movie title (eg. "Pret-A-Poor J", "The Serena Also Rises", "The Goodbye Gossip Girl"...).
99	* A lot ''Series/HomeImprovement'' episodes have this type of title. Many of them are {{Epunymous Title}}s, such as "It Was the Best of Tims, It Was the Worst of Tims" and "Al's Fair in Love and War".
100	* The ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' episode "The Broken Code", which refers to how Ted supposedly broke TheBroCode by holding hands with Robin (who was engaged to Barney at this point of the series).
101	* ''Series/{{Ideal}}'': About a drug dealer.
102	* ''Series/TheILand'' = ''The Island''.
103	* ''In the Name of the Fada'': comedian Des Bishop learns to speak Irish, "fada" is an orthographic term. "In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit" is a Christian blessing.
104	* ''Series/InsideGeorgeWebley'' has a Series 2 episode, "A Lean and Hungry Look", which is a play on the phrase "a mean and hungry look".
105	* ''Series/TheITCrowd'': Combing the phrase "the it crowd", as in a group of cool people, and IT, professionals in information technology.
106	* Referenced in an episode of ''Series/JonathanCreek'', "Ghosts Forge", in which a book called ''The Grave Digger'' turns out to be about a serious-minded Australian.
107	* A ''Series/LawAndOrder'' episode about a break-in and murder at a fertility clinic (and resulting legal battle over preserved embryos and eggs) has the rather dark StealthPun title of "Scrambled". As in, scrambled eggs.
108	* The first episode of season three of ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' is called "Aruba-Con". It's set in Aruba and features a large gathering of people ("con" as in "convention"), it ''con''tinues from the last episode of the previous season which was called "Aruba", and it features Julius Caesar, who compares a decision Sara must make to his own decision to take control of Rome ("a Rubicon").
109	* The title of ''Series/{{Llanargollen}}'' itself is a pun on the small town of Llangollen in UsefulNotes/{{Wales}}, and the Welsh term for "lost" (ar goll).
110	* ''Series/LoisAndClark'', about ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'''s Lois Lane and Clark Kent and also a play on the explorers Lewis and Clark.
111	* Several ''Series/{{Lost}}'' episodes have pun-based titles, such as "Lockdown", which features John Locke pinned under a blast door. Michael Giacchino's score is ''riddled'' with groan-worthy puns, such as "Thinking Clairely", "Keamy Away From Him", and many, many more.
112	* ''Series/MannAndMachine'' is an AndroidsAndDetectives show with the human partner named Bobby Mann.
113	* The early Creator/RussellTDavies series ''Mine All Mine'' is about a man who believes he technically owns Swansea, Wales, a city known for its copper-mining industry.
114	* ''Miss Match'', the short-lived show about Kate Fox -- divorce attorney by day, matchmaker by night.
115	* The ''Series/MooneBoy'' episode "Godfellas" is about altar boys (the "God" part) who act like gangsters (a la ''{{Film/Goodfellas}}''). ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'' had previously used the exact same pun for an episode that had much to do with God but not much with gangsters.
116	* ''Series/TheNuttHouse'': Punning on "nuthouse", implying that the hotel is an insane asylum.
117	* ''Series/OffBeatCinema'': "midnight movie" show which is hosted by beatniks and covers "offbeat" B-movies.
118	* The Australian TV series ''Packed to the Rafters'' is about the Rafter family, whose house is "packed" (after all the parents' adult children moved back in with them).
119	* ''Series/{{Pointless}}'': Quiz show in which the aim is to score ''lower'' than your opponents.
120	* ''The Problem with Creator/JonStewart'' uses the ''[Show name] with [Host name]'' format and Jon does discuss societal problems, but the AmbiguousSyntax can make it sound like the problem is with Jon himself.
121	* ''Series/RulesOfEngagement'' is named after a military term; but the show all about relationships, including one couple in the pre-marriage ''engagement'' stage. (Note: This only applies to the TV show, not the unrelated movie or three unrelated novels, all of which refer to the more standard definition of the term.)
122	* ''Series/SchittsCreek'': The name of the town in an InUniverse joke as well, since Johnny Rose bought the town as a joke for his son because of the name.
123	* One of the cutaways on ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' featured the resident lawyer and janitor teaming up to take care of a young boy, portraying the situation as a TV sitcom called "Legal Custodians" (get it?).
124	* ''Series/{{Seacht}}'' is Irish for 'seven', referring to the fact that it has seven main characters, but also sounds like the English word 'shocked'.
125	* ''Sex & Sensibility'': about the history of sex in Ireland; puns on Creator/JaneAusten's ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility''.
126	* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' has puns on the Literature/SherlockHolmes stories, such as "The Geek Interpreter" instead of "The Greek Interpreter".
127	* ''Series/SmallWonder'': Besides the series' own title, episode titles included:
128	** [=DisHonor=] Student
129	** Victor/V.I.C.I. (a play on ''Film/VictorVictoria'')
130	** The Bad Seedling
131	** Breakfast of Criminals (a play on [[UsefulNotes/GeneralMills Wheaties]], the Breakfast of Champions)
132	** Home Sweet Sale
133	** I Dream of Vicki (a play on ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'')
134	** More About L.E.S.
135	* ''Franchise/StarTrek'' episode titles usually don't go here, but of twelve episodes featuring Q, eight make a pun on "Q". ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' also has groaner of an episode title with "Trials and Tribble-ations". And then there's [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG's "Ménage à Troi"]].
136	* ''Series/AScareAtBedtime'' -- it's title is a parody of ''A Prayer at Bedtime'', a religious programme shown at night on sister channel [[Creator/{{RTE}} RTÉ One]] that is about as far away as possible in content to ''this'' one.
137	* ''Series/SonnyWithAChance'' is a pun on a weather report ("sunny with a chance of rain") and the title character ''Sonny'' Munroe having ''a chance'' to succeed in Hollywood.
138	* ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' is about Zack and Cody's ''sweet'' life living in a hotel ''suite''. A number of episodes of both the show and its {{spinoff}} ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOnDeck'' also have pun-based titles.
139	* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': Multiple:
140	** "I of Newton" is a pun on eye of newt, a common ingredient in witches' brews in fiction, and UsefulNotes/IsaacNewton.
141	** "The Misfortune Cookie" is a pun on fortune cookie.
142	** "The Leprechaun-Artist" is a pun on con artist.
143	* ''Series/TilDebtDoUsPart'', which is a reference to the phrase "Til death do us part."
144	* ''Series/TheTrainNowStanding'' had an episode, "Goodbye Sailor", which takes its title from the phrase, "Hello, sailor!".
145	* ''Series/UnbreakableKimmySchmidt'' had the episode "Sliding Van Doors", which is both a reference to ''Film/SlidingDoors'', given like that movie it deals with an WhatIf scenario regarding history going differently, and the kind of door in the van of the reverend who kidnapped Kimmy.
146	* ''You're a Star'': It picked a Series/EurovisionSongContest contestant; the name suggests "Euro Star".
147	* The Not-TabletopGame/{{Pictionary}}-honest game show ''Win, Lose or Draw''. The Gaelic-language version was given the CompletelyDifferentTitle ''De Tha Seo'' ("What's This?").
148	* Titles of ''Series/HannahMontana'' episodes (usually) contain puns on the titles of popular songs ("You Are So Sue-able To Me"; "I Want You To Want Me...To Go To Florida").
149	* The ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' episode "Future Harper" features a number of books by "[[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed H.J. Darling]]", one of which is "Charmed and Dangerous".
150	* ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}'' has an episode titled "Edible Complex," which is a play on UsefulNotes/OedipusComplex.[[note]]The "O" is silent.[[/note]].
151	* The first episode of ''Series/YoureOnlyYoungTwice1971'' is titled "Home Sweet Homicide", a play on the phrase "Home, sweet home".

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