* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' often names its episodes after classic songs -- for example, an episode where a town's local children are being possessed is called 'The Kids Are Alright', and the episode where [[spoiler:John Winchester dies]] is called 'In My Time Of Dying'. Many such songs are also played in various episodes, as [[AuthorAppeal creator Eric Kripke is a huge fan of classic rock bands like]] LedZeppelin.
** ''{{Revolution}}'', also created by Kripke, uses Zeppelin songs as episode titles too. Examples include "No Quarter", "Nobody's Fault But Mine" and "Kashmir" (which even featured the titular song, a rarity due to the fact that Zeppelin charges extremely high licensing fees.)
* In French series ''Series/{{Kaamelott}}'', seasons are called "Livres" (Books).
* Most likely because the fans will probably refer to the episodes this way anyway, most episodes of ''Series/{{Friends}}'' follow the pattern "TheOneWith _____" or "The One Where _____". The only exception is the finale ("The Last One"), and to some extent, "The One That Could Have Been" (the what-if ep) and "[[MilestoneCelebration The One Hundredth"]].
** There was actually an interview somewhere in which the writing staff explained that they "wanted to name them what people were going to be calling them anyway".
** The episode naming style of ''Friends'' was parodied with the title of the ''Series/ThirtyRock'' episode "The One With the Cast of ''{{Nightcourt}}'', which guest starred ''Friends'''s Creator/JenniferAniston ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin and the cast of]] ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Nightcourt]]'').
** The French translators of the show decided for some reason to give up the original kind of IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming and replaced it with another one : each episode is named "The One With [insert description of the actions of one character in this episode]". For instance, "The One with Monica and Chandler's Wedding" is translated as "The One Who Married Monica" ("Celui qui a épousé Monica"). It is unknown whether they thought it was a more clever way to do things or missed the point with the first couple of episodes and then thought it was too late to change, but in either cases the titles generally end up being very clumsy, nonsensical and non-informative, making this an exemple of {{BlindIdiotTranslation}}.
* The ''Series/{{Friends}}'' SpinOff ''Series/{{Joey}}'' uses a similar naming convention, in which each episode is titled "Joey and the _____".
* One reason why ''{{Coupling}}'' has been considered a British version of ''Series/{{Friends}}'', is that several episodes have titles staring with "The Girl With" - this was a RunningGag that started when the boys were suggesting names for a hypothetical porn film in which a woman's breasts had independent brains, with suggestions like "The Girl With Two Brains" (Steve: "''Three'' brains, Patrick!") and "The Girl With Two Breasts" (Steve: "That's the worst one yet!"), the latter being the title of the episode. For the record, the name Steve preferred for the movie was "Wobblewars", Patrick's first suggestion.
* Similarly, ''Series/TheClass'' starts every episode title with "The Class..." followed by a verb phrase describing at least one of the story arcs in the episode and sometimes several.
* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' uses a subtler convention, in which each episode follows the pattern "The _____". What followed was a term or important aspect of the episodes story like "The Chinese Restaurant" and "The Serenity Now." The only exception in the entire show's run is the second episode "Male-Unbonding".
** Apparently the reason they did it was so they wouldn't spend a whole lot of time thinking of an episode name that people would never see anyway.
** Some episode guides list the title as "The Male Unbonding" to bring this one in line with the others.
** ''Series/TheOC'' did the same -- even when this led to odd constructions like "The My Two Dads".
* Every episode of ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' shares its title with a song, though the songs chosen run the gamut of genres and eras.
** Ditto for ''Series/{{Alf}}''.
** And ''GoodnightSweetheart''.
** And ''MayToDecember''.
** And ''Series/TrueBlood'', although the songs are often obscure and not well-known. And the song is always played at some point during the episode or over the credits.
** And ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'', though the producers get even more specific. From seasons two through nine it was exclusively 80s songs, before switching to 2000s (with occasional 90s) from season ten onwards.
** And ''Series/DesperateHousewives'', though this is even more specific than the above, as noted below.
** And ''SpaceCases'' a good deal of the time.
** And ''{{Hellcats}}''.
** And ''OneTreeHill''.
** And the TV series of ''Series/TenThingsIHateAboutYou''.
** And season two of ''Series/HartOfDixie'' (season one had another example of this trope, as seen below).
* [[GreysAnatomy Grey's]] spinoff ''PrivatePractice'', gave all the season one episodes titles starting with [[InWhichATropeIsDescribed "In Which..."]]. It was abandoned beginning with the second season, but has returned for the final episode.
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' featured a lot of idiosyncratic names of episodes. Most were puns which played off of a Shout Out to another famous title or work and managed to tell the audience what the episode was about at the same time. Examples: "A Clockwork Nebari", "Rhapsody in Blue", "Home on the Remains", the entire "Look at the Princess" trilogy specifically "The Maltese Crichton", "I-Yensch, You-Yensch" etc.
* In ''LaFemmeNikita'', first-season episodes titles were one word long, second-season episode titles were two words, and so forth (the show ran for five seasons).
** This was later done by ''TheGoodWife'' as well.
* The NBC spy comedy ''Series/{{Chuck}}'' titles its episodes "Chuck Vs. ___" (usually a geek reference).
** The second episode is "Chuck Vs. the Helicopter", which looks funny when you see it on an episode guide after "Pilot".
*** Though "Pilot" has, according to some sources, been renamed "Chuck Vs. the Intersect" to fit the theme.
*** Although that may be apocryphal, as this troper has never seen it. "A Sudden, Arboreal Stop" as the title of the pilot for ''TheWestWing'' is similarly apocryphal.
* During the first season of ''Series/DawsonsCreek'', each episode was named after a classic or popular movie.
* Every episode of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' follows the naming convention "My _____", as it is told from the perspective of J.D., the main character. The only exceptions are episodes told from the perspective of other characters in the show, which are called either "His Story", "Her Story", or "Their Story", with a number.
** At one point the writers persuade themselves that they're terribly clever and name an episode "[[IncrediblyLamePun My Ocardial Infarction]]" (a myocardial infarction is a heart attack).
** Season 9, which is from the perspective of the medical students at the new Sacred Heart, uses "Our _____". This was previously used on the Season 8 {{Webisode}}s from the perspective of the new interns (mostly Sunny).
* Each episode of ''Series/BostonPublic'' was named "Chapter _____", with the titular number corresponding to the episode number.
** ''The Firm'' does the same thing -- appropriate, given that it's inspired by a novel (or a movie based on a novel).
* Every episode of ''{{Wonderfalls}}'' mentions an animal in the title, and is also two words.
* Fitting with the premise of the show, episodes of ''Series/TwentyFour'' are titled with the time period represented during the episode. For example "2:00 a.m.-3:00 a.m.". To disambiguate episodes in different seasons, subsequent seasons named episodes in the following manner: "Day 2: 2:00 a.m.-3:00 a.m.".
* Every episode of the first season of ''Series/WarOfTheWorlds'' took its title from a biblical reference.
* ''Series/RemingtonSteele'' incorporated the word "Steele" into its titles, usually as a pun for "steel", "steal" or "still" (e.g. "A Steele At Any Price", "Steele Belted", "Steele Knuckles And Glass Jaws") but not always ("A Good Night's Steele").
* ''Series/KnightRider'' did the same with the word "Knight". Most particularly, the season openers (except for the second season) used titles of the form "Knight of the _____": "Knight of the Phoenix", "Knight of the Drones", "Knight of the Juggernaut".
** The 2008 revival has returned to this convention, though there isn't too many variations you can take from that pattern.
* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' occasionally uses a set formula for a season's episodes.
** ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'' used mangled song, movie, or book titles, such as ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother,_Can_You_Spare_a_Dime%3F Brother, Can You Spare an Arrowhead]]'', ''[[PulpFiction Bulk Fiction]]'', ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spy_Who_Came_In_From_the_Cold The Ranger Who Came In From the Gold]]'', and ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Brief_History_of_Time A Brief Mystery of Time]]''.
** During Bruce Kalish's run on the series, episode titles had a set number of words: ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'' episodes used single-word titles, ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce''[='s=] titles were always two words long (though they fudged it with "The Snow Prince"), and ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'''s were always three words long. As expected, ''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'' went with four word titles, but in addition, they're all pre-90's music (mainly rock) references. With Kalish's departure, ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'' returns to regular episode naming, seen in the first twelve seasons.
* Almost every episode of ''{{Dragnet}}'' used a title of the form "The Big _____".
* Every episode of ''LoveAmericanStyle'' used a title of the form "Love and the _____" or "Love in the _____".
* Every episode of ''Series/{{Monk}}'' begins with the words "Mr. Monk", e.g. "Mr. Monk Goes to the Circus", "Mr. Monk Takes His Medicine", etc. (OddNameOut: "Happy Birthday, Mr. Monk.")
** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in the episode "Mr. Monk and his Biggest Fan", where Marci tells Monk she has named all of his cases, with the names being the real-world episode titles. Monk is baffled why anyone would bother.
* Every episode of ''MST3K'' is titled after the movie riffed in it: ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E24ManosTheHandsOfFate Manos: The Hands of Fate]]'', ''SantaClausConquersTheMartians''....
* The last few episodes of ''Series/NewsRadio'''s second season were named after Music/LedZeppelin albums, such as ''Presence'' and ''Coda''. Just in case you missed the joke, the second and third seasons had episodes titled ''Led Zeppelin'', ''Led Zeppelin II'', ''Led Zeppelin Boxed Set''. Though this wasn't done for idiosyncratic reasons as much as laziness on the part of the writers. (And just in case you were curious, none of the episode titles have anything to do with the episode's contents.)
* Every episode title of ''TheLWord'' is a word or phrase that starts with the letter "L". Examples are "Longing", "L'Ennui", "Labia Majora", "Life, Loss, Leaving" and "Lobsters".
* Episode titles of ''Series/TheWildWildWest'' always began with "The Night of the _____" or "The Night the _____". (Variants: "The Night of a Thousand Eyes", "The Night Dr. Loveless Died" [[spoiler:- except he didn't]], "The Night of Jack O'Diamonds"... and the OddNameOut, "Night of the Casual Killer", although Susan Kesler's book on the series lists it as "The Night of the Casual Killer" to maintain uniformity.)
** This style was kept for the French airings (although the series itself is called ''Les Mystères de l'Ouest''), but the episodes themselves don't always have essentially the same titles when translated - for instance "The Night of Jack O'Diamonds" becomes "La Nuit du pur-sang" ("The Night of the Thoroughbred"), "The Night of the Skulls" is "La Nuit des assassins" ("The Night of the Assassins"), and "The Night of the Assassin" becomes "La Nuit de la conspiration" ("The Night of the Conspiracy").
* Each episode of ''StillStanding'' begins with the word "Still": "Still Bad", "Still Losin' It", etc.
* ''TheManFromUNCLE'' used titles of the form "The _____ Affair". (OddNameOut: "Alexander The Greater Affair" - a two-parter, yet.)
** And each individual ''act'' of every episode (until the final season, when they didn't do that for the first act) was subtitled, usually with a quote from the dialogue in that act. Exception: "The Monks Of St. Thomas Affair" used the lines from "Frere Jacques.")
* ''Series/TheAmazingRace'' (starting with season 2) and ''Survivor'' (starting with Cook Islands) refer to their episodes with quotes from the episodes. (For ''TAR'', it has become quite a sport guessing who says the quote.)
* Another RealityTV example is ''Series/AmericasNextTopModel'', titling its episodes "The Girl Who/With ___". (Main drawback: The show has had 4 of its 14 cycles so far end with an episode titled "The Girl Who Becomes America's Next Top Model": cycles 1, 7, 8, and 9.)
** Not all episode titles begin with "The Girl;" sometimes they would begin with ''The Girls''. The titles referred to an action that one or several of the contestants took during the course of the episode. Between Cycles 10 and 14 episodes did ''not'' begin with "The Girl"/"The Girls" (but they still described events in the episodes).
** Since Cycle 15, episode titles are named after the guest judge of the episode. [[OddNameOut The exceptions: recap episodes.]]
* ''DesperateHousewives'' creator Marc Cherry is a StephenSondheim fan, which is why Sondheim songs are used as the titles of episodes (and eventually lyrics from Sondheim songs, since the show lasted for so long).
* On ''NipTuck'', the episodes are named after the main patient undergoing surgery at [=McNamara=]/Troy that episode.
** This has interesting potential for drama; when you see an episode named after a major character, you know something is happening. Of course, it also gave us the episode "[[spoiler:Quentin Costa]]", in which [[spoiler:we learn the identity of the Carver, which we had been waiting for for about two seasons]]. Three guesses what's funny about that title.
* Starting with the fifth, each season of ''That70sShow'' picked an appropriate band and used their song titles for every episode. (In order, the bands were Music/LedZeppelin, TheWho, Music/TheRollingStones, and {{Queen}}.)
* ''{{Smallville}}'' always uses one-word titles. Except ''Absolute Justice'', which was a double-length episode, so still one word per hour. The two parts are also alternatively titled ''Society'' and ''Legends''. The names tend to have obvious ties to the episode and is prone to [[TitleDrop being dropped]]. Its pilot episode is simply titled ''Pilot'', in which [[{{Superman}} Kal-El]]'s ship "piloted" to Earth.
* See also ''Lou Grant'' (with the technical exception of the two-part episode "Andrew", both parts of which had a subtitle - "Premonition" and "Trial"), ''Stressed Eric'', ''TheSecretCircle'' and now ''{{Revenge}}''.
* ''LawAndOrder'' shows usually use one-word titles, often using words with a double-meaning. For example, the ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' episode "Taken" appears to be about a kidnapping, but it turns out to be a con job. A particularly egregious example would be the episode "Head", about a woman who rapes a boy in a bathroom because she has a brain tumor.
** In at least two instances, ''SVU'' had two-part crossovers with other ''Law & Order'' series using IEN for the titles. A crossover with ''Series/LawAndOrderTrialByJury'' was named "Night" (''SVU'') & "Day" (''TBJ''). A crossover with ''Series/LawAndOrder'' was named "Design" (''SVU'') & "Flaw" (''L&O'' prime).
* ''{{Blackadder}}'' from season 2 onwards.
** Every episode title in ''{{Blackadder}} II'' is a concrete noun, which appears on the table in the opening credits.
** Every episode title in ''{{Blackadder}} the Third'' takes the form "[[TheNounAndTheNoun and ]]", playing on the [[Creator/JaneAusten Austen]] titles ''PrideAndPrejudice'' and ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility''. (One of them is called "Sense and Senility" another "Dish and Dishonesty" another "Amy and Amiability" and so on.)
** Every episode title in ''{{Blackadder}} Goes Forth'', except the finale ("Goodbyeee"), is a plot-significant pun on a military rank ("Captain Cook", "Corporal Punishment", "General Hospital", etc.) They are also lettered as Plans A-F.
* Special case: ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily%27s_Reasons_Why_Not Emily's Reasons Why Not]]'' had every episode except the pilot have a title starting with "Why Not To", e.g., "Why Not to Date Your Gynecologist". However, only the pilot ever aired in the US.
* Episode titles of ''Series/{{Bones}}'' are all formatted "The [victim] in the [place]" ("The Woman in the Sand", "The Superhero in the Alley"). Exceptions are "The Man on Death Row" and "The Graft in the Girl", which follow the linguistic pattern but do not refer directly to the victim, and "The Girl With The Curl", which is just out of left field as far as the pattern goes. ("The Truth in the Lye", while a [[IncrediblyLamePun horrible pun]], still technically refers to the victim.)
** The 4th season premiere had "The Yanks in the UK" which was talking about Booth and Brennan.
*** Possibly, but the victim (and her family) in that episode were also Americans. Booth was asked to help specifically because the victim's father was a powerful American businessman.
** The series also varied from the 'victim' format with the over-dramatic title ''The Pain in the Heart'' for the third season finale, where [[spoiler:Zack is revealed as the Gormogon's apprentice.]]
** Season 5 had "A Night at the Bones Museum", probably because the major murder heavily involved a mummy, and the show already had an episode with "mummy" in its title. There are several other exceptions in this season for varying reasons.
** Season 6 contained an episode named ''The Finder'', acknowledging that it was a PoorlyDisguisedPilot rather than a real episode.
** One first season episode that varied from the "The" format was "A Boy In A Bush". Still held to the pattern, but with A instead of The.
** Season 4 also broke the pattern with the episode "The Double Death of the Dearly Departed".
** The Season 6 finale "The Change in the Game" plays with the format, as it carries a double meaning; referring both to the case (a dead body found in a pin-setter at a bowling alley) and the Jeffersonian team facing life-changing events (Angela gives birth, Brennan announces that she is pregnant with Booth's baby).
* ''ThirdRockFromTheSun'' always worked "Dick" into the title. That's what happens when you downsize standards and practices. For those who don't know, [[MrExposition that's the name of the male lead.]]
** On a DVDCommentary, one of the writers explained that they created these titles to [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar amuse themselves]], thinking they would never be seen by the public due to the series having no EpisodeTitleCard. They were wrong.
* Similarly, every episode of ''SlingsAndArrows'' after the first two was titled with a Creator/WilliamShakespeare quote.
** More specifically, a quote from the play that was being rehearsed that season (''Hamlet'' in S1, ''Macbeth'' in S2, and ''King Lear'' in S3)
* Though there was no idiosyncratic system for episode titles on ''Series/BabylonFive'', every season had one [[WhamEpisode significant episode]] whose title also doubled as the overall name of the season, fitting in with the concept that the show was a series of novels for television. The titles were "Signs and Portents" (season 1); "The Coming of Shadows" (season 2); "Point of No Return" (season 3); "No Surrender, No Retreat" (season 4); and "The Wheel of Fire" (season 5).
* ''FreaksAndGeeks'' had many episode titles that combined two rhyming thematic words: "Beers and Weirs", "Carded and Discarded", "Tests and Breasts".
** Some non-rhyming examples: "Tricks and Treats", "Girlfriends and Boyfriends", "Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers", "Discos and Dragons".
*** ''{{Eastwick}}'' did this as well.
**** And season one of ''Series/HartOfDixie'' did something similar ("In Havoc & In Heat", "Homecoming & Coming Home", "Mistress & Misunderstandings") with the exception of "Hell's Belles" and even that rhymes.
* ''{{The X-Files}}'' sometimes used complementary or opposing episode names for multi-part and MythArc episodes: "The End"/"The Beginning", "Two Fathers"/"One Son", "Biogenesis"/"The Sixth Extinction I & II" or "Within"/"Without". Most of the time, though, episodes titles for ''{{The X-Files}}'' were extremely vague words or phrases (frequently in a foreign language) brought up by a single line of dialogue or some other subtle or insignificant aspect of the episode. In addition, the show famously played a game with its fans who tried to find meaning in anything, be it a name of the episode or character or a number combination.
* ''Series/TheSopranos'', after a few episodes, started to have a somewhat idiosyncratic naming convention where each episode had a title that would be spoken aloud by a character somewhere in the episode (one of the best of the early episodes titled in this manner was "Nobody Knows Anything"). AS the series went on, the titles themselves became more idiosyncratic, and some viewers (e.g. TelevisionWithoutPity) started actively checking to see how long it took before the writers managed to work the title into the dialogue ("Fleshy Part Of The Thigh", anyone?).
** The British private eye series ''Public Eye'' did the "random dialogue as episode title" thing before (the show's creators were big fans of ''Naked City'', which took a similar approach to its episode titles), and ''{{Damages}}'' also uses it ("Tastes Like a Ho-Ho", "They Had to Tweeze That Out of My Kidney", "You Got Your Prom Date Pregnant", "Don't Throw That at the Chicken", etc).
** ''{{Deadwood}}'' did this too, starting during its second season.
** And so does ''TwoAndAHalfMen'' (e.g. "Humiliation is a Visual Medium").
** Don't forget ''MrShow''.
** And ''{{Ringer}}'' (such as "The Poor Kids Do It Every Day" and "If You're Just An Evil Bitch, Then Get Over It").
** And ''{{Deception}}'' (e.g. "Good Luck With Your Death").
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has a venerable tradition of titles in the format, "[[TheXOfY The (noun) of (scary abstract noun)]]", eg. ''The Hand of Fear'', ''The Face of Evil'', ''The Reign of Terror'', ''The Seeds of Doom'', ''The Edge of Destruction'', ''The Robots of Death''... and so forth. The BigFinishDoctorWho audio drama ''...ish'' hung a lampshade on this when the Doctor mentioned an encounter with the ''sentient word'' called The Adjective of Noun. Eventually parodied with StevenMoffat's ''The Curse of Fatal Death''.
** And of course, there's "(The) X of the Daleks". [[LateArrivalSpoiler Way to spoil the surprise]], BBC.
** After John Nathan-Turner became producer (1980), many stories had one-word titles (e.g. ''Meglos'', ''Logopolis''), often named after characters or planets. Before that, there were three such stories (''Inferno'', ''Robot'' and ''Underworld'') in 17 years.
*** Similarly, the first three series of ''Series/BlakesSeven'' (produced by David Maloney) had no pattern to the titles. The fourth series (produced by Vere Lorrimer) had all one-word titles.
** Stories where multiple doctors meet are called "The Doctors", except the mini episodes ''Time Crash'' and ''Dimensions In Time''.
** Each finale episode of the RTD era had a title associated with endings (The Partings of the Ways, Doomsday, Last of the Time Lords, Journey's End, The End of Time), but this has changed to beginnings since Moffat took over (The Big Bang, The Wedding of River Song).
* The episodes of series 3 of ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' were simply called 'Day One', 'Day Two', etc. (Unfortunately, the second episode of the first series - in which, as in the second series, there was no particular rule for naming episodes - is also called "Day One".)
* ''Series/{{Batman}}'': most of the episodes of the 1960s series have names that rhyme (sometime approximately) two by two. Episodes 21 and 22 of the first season, for instance, are called "The Penguin Goes Straight" and "Not Yet, He Ain't". (Exceptions: "Green Ice"/"Deep Freeze", "The Clock King's Crazy Crimes"/"The Clock King Gets Crowned", "The Greatest Mother Of Them All"/"Ma Parker" & "the Minstrel's Shakedown"/"Barbecued Batman?")
** When the format changed in the final season (going from two weekly episodes to one, and fewer cliffhangers), this naming trope was dropped.
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' did a shout-out to this with the first two-parter being named "Deep Cover for Batman" and "Game Over for Owlman".
* ''Series/ICarly'' episodes are of the form "i", many of which can be read as complete sentences (e.g. "iGive Away a Car", "iSpeed Date") but not all ("iSam's Mom"). This is one of the few series where it also applies to the pilot (called "iPilot").
** Unlike ''iCarly'', ''{{Victorious}}'' never used this trope - but their joint SpinOff, ''SamAndCat'', will have all its episode titles in the form of Twitter hashtags (e.g. "#[=FavoriteShow=]", "#[=GoomerSitting=]").
* The Showtime drama ''{{Brotherhood}}'' had all its Season 1 episode titles as references to religious texts, usually ''Literature/TheBible''. The second season uses ''BobDylan'' lyrics for episode titles. The episode titles for the third season are ''Creator/WilliamShakespeare'' quotes.
* ''LifeUnexpected'''s episodes are titled as to rhyme with the series title, apart from the pilot, which could also be called ''Life Unexpected''. Examples: "Home Inspected", "Rent Uncollected", and "Bong Intercepted".
** Unfortunately they eventually bent this rule. A lot (hence episodes like "Truth Unrevealed", "Music Faced" and "Stand Taken").
* ''EverybodyHatesChris'': Every episode title has the form "Everybody Hates _____". Including the pilot ("Everybody Hates The Pilot").
* Every episode of ''PoliceSquad'' had two titles. At the end of the intro, the name of the episode would be given on screen, and at the same time, a voiceover would read out a completely different title. Which one was actually relevant to the episode varied.
** Or just give away who perpetrated the crime in one WhoDunnit episode; screen title: ''The Butler did it''.
* ''{{Neighbours}}'' had episode titles that form ''[[SoBadItsGood utterly terrible]]'' [[PunBasedTitle puns]], often based on a song or [[LiteraryAllusionTitle literary allusion]] that has something to do with the plot of the episode, such as (this troper's favorite) 'Assault and Pepper'. Thankfully, they have now stopped releasing the names of episodes.
* The titles for season two of ''{{Carnivale}}'' referred to the town in which the Carnivale set up camp - i.e. "Ingram, TX", "Cheyenne, WY", and the finale, [[spoiler:"New Caanan, CA"]] - or where Ben Hawkins was discovering more bits of the endgame - "Alamagordo, NM", "Old Cherry Blossom Road", etc. The first season did this somewhat - "Babylon", "The River" - but if it'd stuck to the trope, we wouldn't have such fun titles as "The Day That Was the Day".
* The WorldWarII TV show ''The Rat Patrol'' episodes were always "The _____ Raid".
* Every episode of ''TheMiddleman'' is "The _____ _____ _____", such as "The Accidental Occidental Conception". This formula was even used to name the pilot episode "The Pilot Episode Sanction".
* The Blair Brown US TV series ''The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd'' had every episode title starting with "Here" or "Here's". Some examples: "Here's why you should always have a cake burning in the refrigerator", "Here's why you should never wear high heels to the bank", "Here's a side effect of serious moonlight", "Here are a few variations on a sexual theme", "Here's the groovy piano bar episode", "Here's a pregnant pause" and "Here comes that cold wind off the river."
* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' phrases its episode titles like scientific terminology. ("The Fuzzy Boots Corollary", "The Hamburger Postulate", "The Cooper-Hofstadter Polarization", etc.)
* Episodes of ''TheKingOfQueens'' that crossover with ''EverybodyLovesRaymond'' include a pun on Ray in the title. ("Road Rayge", "Rayny Day", "Dire Strayts")
** All episodes of ''TheKingOfQueens'', except for the pilot episode, have a two word title, usually involving a pun like "Queasy Rider" or an intentional misuse of an existing phrase like "Major Disturbance" ("Major" is the name of Doug's best friend's son).
* Every episode of the first season of ''EliStone'' shared its title with a George Michael song.
* ''TheMentalist'' uses the word "Red" in its titles, sometimes fitting the episode (i.e. "Red Hair and Silver Tape" which refers to the trait of the victims and the item used to bind them.)
** During the middle of the first season the seemed to run out of "red" puns, so they went with "Scarlett Fever", "Bloodshot", "Carnelian, Inc", Russet Potatoes", all different shades of red, before returning to only red from "A Dozen Red Roses".
** Seemingly averted in the second season episode "18-5-4", until you realize that R is the 18th letter of the alphabet, E is the fifth, and D is the fourth. The episode deals with cryptography.
** Before that, there was another apparent aversion with "Aingavite Baa"- except the title is Shoshone Indian for "red water". The episode is about water pollution on an Indian reservation.
** All are a reference to the series' unseen villain and object of Patrick Jane's obsession, [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Red John]].
* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' episode titles are all instances of TheCrimeJob. This is parodied by the creators themselves in the online special ''The Hand Job: Getting What You Want the Leverage way''
* Almost every episode title of ''GossipGirl'' is a play on a movie title, more than a few of which fall squarely into IncrediblyLamePun territory. Examples (mostly kept here to titles including main characters or families):
** "Bad News Blair" (''TheBadNewsBears'')
** "The Blair Bitch Project" (''TheBlairWitchProject'')
** "The Thin Line Between Chuck And Nate" (''A Thin Line Between Love And Hate'')
** "Blair Waldorf Must Pie!" (''JohnTuckerMustDie''[[hottip:*: with ''Gossip Girl'' cast member Penn Badgley]])
** "Desperately Seeking Serena" (''Desperately Seeking Susan'')
** "The Serena Also Rises" (''The Sun Also Rises'')
** "Chuck In Real Life" (''Film/DanInRealLife'' - they could have actually just used that title)
** "Pret-a-Poor-J" (''Pret-A-Porter'')
** "The Magnificent Archibalds" (''The Magnificent Ambersons'')
** "In The Realm Of The Basses" (''In The Realm Of The Senses'')
** "Remains Of The J" (''Literature/TheRemainsOfTheDay'')
** "The Goodbye Gossip Girl" (''The Goodbye Girl'')
** "Dan de Fleurette" (''[[Film/ManonDesSources Jean de Florette]]'')
** "Rufus Getting Married" (''RachelGettingMarried'')
** "They Shoot Humphreys, Don't They?" (''They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'')
** "The Treasure Of Serena Madre" (''Film/TheTreasureOfTheSierraMadre'')
** "The Unblairable Lightness Of Being" (''The Unbearable Lightness Of Being'')
** "Memoirs Of An Invisible Dan" (''MemoirsOfAnInvisibleMan'')
** "Cross Rhodes" (''[[Film/{{Crossroads2002}} Crossroads]]'')
** "The Debarted" (''TheDeparted'' - although [[TheSimpsons another show used that one first]])
** ... and "Raiders Of The Lost Art" (''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''). Even though [[Magazine/{{MAD}} another [=TimeWarner=] owned entity]] used that title 30 years go.
*** They're also not above riffing on movies with ''Gossip Girl'' cast members; witness "The Townie" from ''TheTown'' (with Creator/BlakeLively), "Panic Roommate" from ''PanicRoom'' and ''TheRoommate'' (the latter with Leighton Meester in the title role), "Easy J" from ''Film/EasyA'' (with Penn Badgley), and the SeriesFinale "New York, I Love You XOXO" from ''New York, I Love You'' (with Miss Lively again).
*** Exceptions (besides the pilot): titles which actually ''are'' movie titles - "PoisonIvy", "[[{{Daredevil}} Dare Devil]]" and "Roman Holiday" (although each one has a double meaning - in the case of the latter it's all in how you pronounce the first name, which rhymes with "Go man").
* The first season of ''TheDrewCareyShow'' had many episodes with titles related to chemistry. Also parodied itself with episode 10, titled "Science Names Suck" and episode 15, titled "There is No Scientific Name for a Show About God".
* ''Series/{{Skins}}'' titles are the first name of the main character [[ADayInTheLimelight that they focus on]].
** Except the Series 1 and 3 finales, which focus, respectively, the entire cast and most of the cast, and are both titled "Finale". The Series 2 finale also focuses on the whole cast, but is titled "Everyone".
* All of the episode titles in ''AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'' begin with "The Tale of", eg "The Tale of the Lonely Ghost" or "The Tale of Laughing in the Dark".
* The episode titles of ''TwoGuysAGirlAndAPizzaPlace'' were modeled after the title of the show, following the pattern "Two Guys, a Girl and _____". When the show was renamed simply ''Two Guys and a Girl'', the pattern was dropped.
* Episode titles of ''ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' describe what happens in the episode, usually referring to the main characters as "The Gang." The title card serves as a punchline by bluntly affirming or contradicting the last line of the cold opening. For example, just after Frank insists that no one is going to get hurt by his scheme, the title appears: "Frank Sets Sweet Dee on Fire."
** It's a little more formulaic than that. The vast majority of the episode titles are .
* The pilot episode for ''CarolineInTheCity'' used the same title as the series itself, but every subsequent episode title used some variant of "Caroline and the _____".
* Every episode of the short-lived sitcom ''Alright Already'' had a title of "[[OhGodWithTheVerbing Again with the _____]]".
* A considerable number of ''Series/{{Mash}}'' episodes took their titles from classic movies or songs. These could be either taken straight ("It Happened One Night", "Hey, Look Me Over"), slightly adjusted ("Hawkeye Get Your Gun", "A War for All Seasons"), or turned into horrible puns ("U.N. the Night and the Music", "The Novocaine Mutiny"). The title of the series' final episode ("Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen") was paraphrased from a line in Cole Porter's song "Just One of Those Things".
* Each episode title in ''Series/HarpersIsland'' is onomatopoeia associated with a death that occurs in that episode. They are also all one word, except for one episode, which is three ("Thrack, Splat, Sizzle").
* Every episode of ''The GeorgeCarlin Show'' was a sentence in the form of George (Predicate): "George Goes Too Far", "George Helps a Friend", etc.
** The same is true of ''TheGeorgeLopezShow''. [[DontExplainTheJoke Right down to the fact that the name in question is "George."]]
* All episodes of British children's show ''Series/BernardsWatch'' had the word "time" in the title (since they were about a watch that could stop time).
** As was the case with another British children's show, ''Kappatoo'' (only here it was about time-travelling doubles).
*** Though neither British nor a children's show, ''Series/{{Continuum}}'' (again involving time travel) also uses this for its episode titles, like "Time's Up", "Playtime", or "Wasting Time."
* Each episode of ''PartyDown'' takes its name from [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin whatever event the crew is working]].
* In ''KamenRiderKuuga'', the episode titles are simply two kanji. ''KamenRiderHibiki'' has titles that are all two-word noun phrases, and ''KamenRiderKiva'' precedes the actual title with a musical term or reference. Those three series' relevant ''KamenRiderDecade'' episodes retain their naming conventions.
** ''KamenRiderDouble'' uses a "/" format. In addition, each story arc title includes a single Latin letter that stands for two words: a concept central to the arc and a character central to the arc.
** ''KamenRiderOOO'' and its use of the RuleOfThree means each title has an "X, Y, and Z" format (eg. ''A Fist, an Experiment, and a Super Bike; Pride, Surgery, and a Secret''; or ''Chocolate, Faith, and the Power of Justice''.)
** ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'' ups the ante by having four kanji, when put together, make a sentence pertaining to the plot of the episode.
** ''{{Garo}}'' has its episodes titled in the same manner as Kuuga's.
* Most episodes of ''TheNormShow'' were titled "Norm vs. _____".
* A number of DisneyChannel shows do this:
** In ''Series/HannahMontana'', every single episode title is a [[IncrediblyLamePun riff on a song]], including the pilot ("Lilly, Do You Want To Know A Secret?") Other examples include "Oops! I Meddled Again", "Welcome To The Bungle", and "I Want You To Want Me... To Go To Florida".
** Several ''SonnyWithAChance'' episodes are named "Sonny With A _____", "_____ With A Chance", or vice versa.
** ''Series/ShakeItUp'' calls every episode "_____ It Up", with [[OddNameOut the exceptions of]] "Shake It Up, Up And Away" and the 90-minute "Shake It Up: Made In Japan". Perhaps to make up for it, the {{Crossover}} with ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'' is called "Charlie Shakes It Up".
** Every episode of ''Series/ANTFarm'' has the word "ANT" somewhere in it (for example, "[=TransplANTed=]" and "America Needs [=TalANT=]").
** ''AustinAndAlly'' episodes are an alliterative "_____ & _____" (examples being "Secrets & Songbooks", "Bloggers & Butterflies" and "Girlfriends & Girl Friends"; the only exceptions so far are "Zaliens & Cloud Watchers", "Everglades & Allygators" and the {{Crossover}} with ''Series/{{Jessie}}'' "Austin & Jessie & Ally All Star New Year").
* ''SuperSentai'' uses these often:
** Generally, each season calls each of its episodes something relevant to the motif. ''Magiranger'' had "Stages", ''Boukenger'' had "Tasks", etc. As far as episode titles:
** ''HimitsuSentaiGoranger'': [[ExcitedTitleTwoPartEpisodeName Two sentences]], the first containing a color and ending with an exclamation point (or two).
** ''JAKQDengekitai'': All episodes contained [[ExcitedTitleTwoPartEpisodeName two sentences]], the first ending with an exclamation point (or two). For the first twelve episodes, the first sentence consisted of "[Number] [Noun]!!".
** ''ChourikiSentaiOhranger'': A very large amount of episodes had titles prefixed by a one-word sentence ending in two exclamation points. Fifteen of the first seventeen episodes used this scheme, and it became less common after that.
** ''DenjiSentaiMegaranger'': Every episode title is prefixed by a one-word sentence (sometimes with a particle or two at the end) ending in an exclamation point, except for one where they used a question mark instead.
** ''SeijuuSentaiGingaman'': Every episode title is in the form "TheXOfY" (''Y no X'' in Japanese).
** ''MiraiSentaiTimeranger'': Every episode title has a date attached to it.
** ''HyakujuuSentaiGaoranger'': Most episodes are either in the form "Noun, Verb!!" (early episodes) or "The Noun Verbs" (later episodes).
** ''NinpuuSentaiHurricaneger'': Every episode title is in the form "[[TheNounAndTheNoun Noun and Noun]]".
** ''BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger'': Every episode title contains "Abare"[[note]]"Rampage"[[/note]], either as its own word or part of another.
** ''TokusouSentaiDekaranger'': Every episode title is in GratuitousEnglish, written in katakana.
** ''MahouSentaiMagiranger'': Every episode title is suffixed with the name of a spell from the show.
** ''GoGoSentaiBoukenger'': Every episode title is a noun phrase. (In Japanese, they're often written in the "Y no X" format again)
** ''JukenSentaiGekiranger'': Every episode title begins with a word from Jan's unique vocabulary.
** ''{{Engine Sentai Go-Onger}}'': Every episode title has its first two characters be kanji, with the remaining in katakana (even words or phrases ordinarily not written in katakana).
** ''SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'': Every episode title is written entirely in kanji. Particles (which have no kanji) spoken in the episode title are omitted from the written title, and not a single episode title contains a word of GratuitousEnglish (as those have no kanji, and aren't necessary for grammar like particles are).
** ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'', like ''Kamen Rider Decade'', names episodes that guest star past heroes in the style of their own series, as per the examples given above. This is only for the episode that features said guest star.
** ''Series/TokumeiSentaiGobusters'': Every episode title begins with a "Mission" word.
** ''Series/HikoninSentaiAkibaranger'': Every episode title contains "ita"[[note]]"pain", though episode 2 cheats a bit by using it to reference {{Itasha}}, which uses the same kanji[[/note]] in them, similar to ''Abaranger''.
* In the Yorkshire Television series ''Series/TheBeiderbeckeAffair'', all episode titles are in the form of a question or comment, which is then the first line of dialogue. (E.g., "What I don't understand is this ...")
* All of the titles of ''Series/{{Watching}}'' episodes are gerunds ("Meeting", "Wrestling", "Outing"...).
* ''{{Privileged}}'' has all of the episode titles start with "All About...", e.g. "All About the Power Position", "All About Love, Actually" etc.
* Curiously, ''Privileged'' star [=JoAnna=] Garcia's next series, ''BetterWithYou'', also went for this trope - in this case, the episode titles all began with "Better With..." (e.g. "Better With Firehouse").
* Originally, ''FatherTed'' was to model its episode titles after the 'Mr Moto' episode titles (e.g. Think Fast Ted, Are you right there Ted?) but the writers could only think of a few examples and dropped the idea.
* Every episode of [[http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Universe_Season_1#Episodes season 1]] of ''Series/StargateUniverse'' has a one-word title. This troper guesses that if there's a season 2, every episode will have a two word title.
** Moreover, every episode of season 1 (so far) has been apparently named based on ElementalRockPaperScissors: in order, ''Air'', ''Darkness'', ''Light'', ''Water'', ''Earth'', ''Time'', ''Life'' and ''Justice''. Where's ''Fire'', you ask? Well, it seems that the ''Darkness''/''Light'' two-parter was originally going to be a single episode, titled, yes, ''Fire''. Half-expecting a ''[[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway Heart]]'' episode now.
*** Sadly, season 2 dropped the theme and just named episodes like they'd normally do. Still, a lot of one word titles...
* The ''Series/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'' TV show titled their episodes as a statement starting with "Honey..." The only exception is "From Honey with Love".
* Each episode of ''Series/DayBreak'' has a question as the title: "What If He Runs Away?", "What If It's Her?", since the protagonist is trying new tactics each time the day restarts. (And yes, they all start with "What If...".)
* ''Series/{{Community}}'' is set on a community college campus, and every episode features a subtle play on college course titles as it relates to the episode -- such as "Football, Feminism and You", "Advanced Criminal Law" and "Social Psychology". [[OddNameOut Odd Names Out]]: "Pilot", "Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas", "A Fistful of Paintballs", "For a Few Paintballs More".
* ''{{Spaced}}'' has one-word episode titles, no exceptions.
* ''TheForgotten'' uses " John/Jane" for its titles. This is taken from the practice of identifying unknown victims as John or Jane Doe.
** Three episode titles however, has Doe instead of John/Jane (namely "Double Doe", "Donovan Doe" and "Living Doe").
* ''BreakingBad'': Put together, the titles of the episodes [[spoiler:"737", "Down", "Over", "ABQ"]] give a {{Spoiler}} for the season 2 finale. The episodes in question are connected by a strange crime-scene ColdOpen with a conspicuous EmpathyDollShot.
* ''The Cake Boss'' uses three-word titles with AddedAlliterativeAppeal that are typically about the cakes they're making plus some hijinks the bakers get up to. For instance "Robots, Rollerskates, and Relatives" had a robot cake, a rollerskate cake, and Buddy's sister and nephew driving him and the staff insane.
* ''Series/AccidentallyOnPurpose'' titles its episodes after movies, in keeping with the main character's job as a film critic.
* Both the original and the revived ''CharliesAngels'' used the word "angel" in some form in the names of most of its episodes ("Angels in Paradise", "Angel on My Mind", "Angels Go Trucking", "Catch a Falling Angel", "Angels in the Deep" and others).
* Though never seen by the viewing audience, every episode of ''PrisonersOfGravity'' (a Canadian show about science fiction hosted by [[TheFrantics Rick]] [[TheRedGreenShow Green]]) had a topic-appropriate title with the initials P. O. G.
* Nearly every episode of the short-lived Steven Weber sitcom ''The Weber Show'' (a.k.a. ''Cursed'') had an episode title which was some variant of "...And Then (Something Happened)".
* ''Gary Unmarried'' begins every episode title with "Gary" or "Gary's" followed by a description of a person or action.
* The name of almost every episode on ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' worked on more than one level--each often included a terrible pun which was at least peripherally relevant to the plot point/MonsterOfTheWeek, unless the name of one of the sisters was somehow worked into the title. At the same time, most names were ''also'' puns which played off of a ShoutOut to another famous title or work. While just about anything was fair game, the most common contenders were works of literature, rival TV shows, classic films, and well-known songs, often oldies. Examples:
** Literature: "Something Wicca This Way Comes", "The Demon Who Came in from the Cold", "The Importance of Being Phoebe", "Sense and Sense Ability", "Valhalley of the Dolls", "The Legend of Sleepy Halliwell", "Malice in Wonderland."
** TV shows: "That 70s Episode", "Sword and the City", "I Dream of Phoebe", "Spin City", "Styx Feet Under", "Extreme Makeover: World Edition", "Desperate Housewitches", "Rewitched", "The Jung and the Restless", "My Three Witches."
** Films: "Dead Man Dating", "From Fear to Eternity", "Secrets and Guys", "How to Make a Quilt Out of Americans", "Apocalypse Not", "Sleuthing with the Enemy", "The Good the Bad and the Cursed", "Death Takes a Halliwell", "Look Who's Barking", "Enter the Demon", "The Three Faces of Phoebe", "Saving Private Leo", "We're Off to See the Wizard", "Y Tu Mummy Tambien", "Baby's First Demon", "Necromancing the Stone", "Little Monsters", "The Courtship of Wyatt's Father", "Crimes and Witch-Demeanors", "A Wrong Day's Journey into Right", "It's a Bad Bad Bad Bad World", "The Bare Witch Project", "Cheaper by the Coven", "There's Something about Leo", "Ordinary Witches", "Charmageddon", "The Seven Year Witch", "Scry Hard", "Freaky Phoebe", "Death Becomes Them", "Kill Billie", "The Lost Picture Show", "Hulkus Pocus", "Mr. and Mrs. Witch", "12 Angry Zen", "The Last Temptation of Christy", "Engaged and Confused", "Gone With the Witches", "Little Box of Horrors."
** Songs: "I've Got You Under My Skin", "Dream Sorcerer", "Blinded by the Whitelighter", "Sympathy for the Demon", "The Day the Magic Died", "Nymphs Just Want to Have Fun".
* Brazilian sitcom ''Os Normais'', for its first two seasons, had titles with "Normal" in the title, most usually in the form "_____ is Normal" (exceptions: "Normas do Clube", ''the club's norms'', but one word is just one letter away from "normal"; and "Faça seu Pedido", ''make your wish''). Third season only had it on the season finale, "Finishing is normal".
* All the episodes for the short-lived UPN show, ''Series/SpecialUnit2'', had simple two-word titles that began with "The" - as in "The Brothers", "The Web", "The Walls", etc.
* An example of idiosyncratic ''series'' naming - the BBC has broadcast a number of shows that have the aim of finding a new lead for various Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals. Although the format remains consistent from one series to the next, the title changes to reflect the particular musical being auditioned for. In each case, the title is taken from one of the songs in that musical. The four series so far are ''How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?'' (The Sound of Music), ''Any Dream Will Do'' (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat), ''I'd Do Anything'' (Oliver!) and ''Over the Rainbow'' (go on, take a wild guess).
* ''{{QI}}'' has series with letters rather than numbers; each episode in the series is given a title that begins with this letter, which serves as the theme for that episode.
* Creator/CirqueDuSoleil's WidgetSeries ''Solstrom'', which involved magical solar wind, used the word "wind" or "winds" in every on-screen episode title. For some reason, when it was broadcast in the U.S. the episodes were given plainer titles that dropped this convention ("Howling Wind" became "Gothic", "Once Upon a Wind" became "Adventure", etc.), but the original titles were reinstated for the [=DVD=] release.
* Every episode title of ''Series/{{Maude}}'' began with "Maude's ..."
* Aaron Sorkin used the episode title "What Kind Of Day Has It Been" for the first season finale of *three* successive series: ''SportsNight'', ''TheWestWing'', and ''Studio60OnTheSunsetStrip'' (in the case of the last-named, it was also the ''series'' finale). ''Series/TheNewsroom'' broke this streak, but that doesn't mean it won't turn up.
* Every episode of ''NoOrdinaryFamily'' begins with the words "No Ordinary." For example, "No Ordinary Marriage", "No Ordinary Earthquake".
** All except the first, which was simply called "Pilot". This is probably for, on the chance the pilot from the first episode comes back, they can have an episode titled "No Ordinary Pilot."
* Every episode of ''Series/HawaiiFive0'' (2010 version) except for the pilot uses a Hawaiian word or phrase for its title.
** Averted in Season 3 with an episode directed by and starring PeterWeller, named "Hookman" after Weller's character, the main antagonist (although as this was a remake of an episode of [[Series/HawaiiFiveO the original series]], changing the name to fit in with the style was out of the question).
* On ''The Defenders'', episodes are named after cases ("Las Vegas v. Reid", "Nevada v. Rodgers", etc.)
* Every episode of ''100 Questions'' was named after one of the 100 questions in the dating test that served as the driving force for the action. (Therefore, the series was theoretically supposed to end after 100 episodes. It was cancelled after only 6 aired, though.)
* Every episode of ''Series/CougarTown'' is named after a song by TomPetty.
* Having episode titles ''at all'' is something of a RunningGag for ''Series/{{Conan}}'' since no late-night TalkShow has ever had them.
* ''HouseOfAnubis'' has every episode in the form of "House of _____" such as [[strike:HouseOfLeaves, HouseOfMouse, and House of Cards]]
* Most episodes of ''Series/JohnDoe'' 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".
* [=JennyMcCarthy=]'s sitcom ''Jenny'' began every episode title with "A Girl's Gotta..."
* Apart from being sitcoms, what do "Hello, Larry", "Grace Under Fire", "Arrested Development" and "Mad About You" have in common? They're all episode titles of the shortlived ''Love, Inc.'' (all its episodes were named after other sitcoms).
* ''Maybe It's Me'', ''Committed'' and ''Opposite Sex'' all called their episodes "The _____ Episode"; ''Half & Half'' went a step further, going for "The Big _____ Episode." Fate rewarded this addition by not having this show cancelled after one season, unlike the other three; the TV series of ''AreWeThereYet'' has gone for "The _____ Episode", and as the curse has been broken it's also gone beyond one season.
* TheFirstShopOfCoffeePrince lists each new chronicle as "[# of episode] Cup."
* The first three seasons of ''{{Rawhide}}'' called every episode "Incident _____ " (e.g. "Incident Below The Brazos"). This was dropped after the first episode of season four ("Incident At Rio Salado"), but returned for seasons five and six; when [[MissionImpossible Bruce Geller]] and Bernard Kowalski became the new showrunners in season seven the "Incident..." episode naming was dropped for good (as were [[CreativeDifferences Geller and Kowalski themselves]] after a season, but that's another story).
* The second and last season of ''What About Brian'' called each episode therein "What About _____..." (e.g. "What About Calling All Friends...").
* Most of the episode titles in ''Series/LostGirl'' either include the word fae (often in a pun) or use the name/species of a fae that appears in the episode.
* Every episode of the short-lived ''Series/LawAndOrder: L.A.'' was named after a neighborhood or area of Los Angeles.
* Almost every episode of ''Series/BigTimeRush'' is named "Big Time _____", except for "Green Time Rush", "Backstage Rush", "Bel Air Rush" and "Welcome Back Big Time".
* Most episodes of ''Series/SupahNinjas'' are named after the [[MonsterOfTheWeek antagonist of the episode]].
* Every episode of the first season of ''Series/CovertAffairs'' (not counting the pilot) is named after a Music/LedZeppelin song. The second season switches to Music/{{REM}} song titles, and the third season to Music/DavidBowie song titles (with one song being named after an unreleased cover).
* ''Bucket And Skinner's Epic Adventures'' names all of its episodes "Epic _____".
* 1990's UK TV series ''Preston Front'' named all its episodes using the format [Character]'s [Object]. This produced titles ranging from the prosaic ("Hodge's Driving Test") to the punning ("Spock's Dilated Pupil" - that's 'pupil' as in 'student') to the vaguely surreal ("Polson's Lilo").
* Episodes of ''InPlainSight'' are given punny titles often by combining the central element of the episode with a cliche or film or music reference. "A Fine Meth", "Coma Chameleon", "Second Crime Around"...
* NBC's short-lived sitcom ''PerfectCouples'' titled all its episodes (save the pilot) "Perfect _____".
* ''A Gifted Man'' titles all its post-pilot episodes "In Case Of _____".
* ''{{Bottom}}'' used episode titles that could be preceded by the word "Bottom", e.g. "Smells", "'s Up", "Hole", "'s Out" - or more obscurely, "Parade", "Culture", "Burglary" and "Apocalypse".
* ''Series/OneThousandWaysToDie'' consistently uses death-related puns on famous phrases, adages, etc. This applies both to the episode titles and to the individual scenes depicted within. In addition, many of the scenes contain alternate names that play the death pun in a different but still relevant direction.
* Every episode of Disney XD's ''Series/MrYoung'' is titled "Mr. _____".
* ''Series/MyPlace'' is a historical children's series that stretches from 2008 to past 1788. Each episode is in a different decade, and its name is the year it takes placed in.
* ''{{Players}}'', a meeting of minds between Ice-T, [[LawAndOrder Dick Wolf]] and Shaun Cassidy about con artists, gave all its episodes titles including the word "con" (examples: "Mint Condition" and "In Concert").
* In 1964, Paul Almond shot a documentary for BBC TV detailing the lives and aspirations of a dozen seven-year-olds. It has since been followed by sequels every seven years, all of which were called '' Up'', the last being ''56 Up''.
* In a case of EpisodeFinishesTheTitle crossed with CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase, every episode of ''TwoBrokeGirls'' except the pilot has a title beginning with "And..." (such as "And Strokes Of Goodwill", "And Martha Stewart Have A Ball" and "And The Disappearing Bed").
* ''Life With Boys'' gives all its episodes titles ending with "...With Boys" (example: "In The Principal's Office With Boys").
* ''The Tony Randall Show'', about a judge, phrased every title as a case file, e.g. "Case: His Honor vs. Her Honor."
* ''Series/AdamTwelve'' quite often used "Log (number)-(crime type)", though it *was* deviated from at times.
* Taken to the extreme in the Swedish comedy series ''Nile City 105,6'' where all episodes have the same name: "Adult men do stuff together."
* ''PinkPantherAndPals'' is pretty obvious, as each episode in which the Pink Panther is the protagonist features the word "Pink" somewhere in the title (subverted slightly with "Pinxillated"). Probably a shout-out to the classic animated Pink Panther shorts (1963-1980) with this naming convention.
** The 1993 animated series saw several episodes contain the word "Panther" and others that didn't contain either word.
* Each episode of ''Series/{{Alcatraz}}'' is named after the convict(s) being hunted down that week.
* A lot of the LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek will have ''Something Sounding Scandalous: The Victim's Name Story'' or the inverse (''AmandaKnoxMurderOnTrialInItaly'') . Not all Lifetime movies use this title format, but enough do that it's used by almost all parodies. ''Premise: Lurid Phrase'' is also common.
* Every episode of ''Series/BurkesLaw'', an AaronSpelling detective show starring Gene Barry, was called "Who Killed _____?" The 1994 {{Revival}}, also starring Barry, used the same naming convention.
* ''How To Be A Gentleman'', ''How To Be Indie'' and ''How To Live With Your Parents (For The Rest Of Your Life)'' all plumped for episodes with titles beginning "How To..." ("How To Be..." in the case of the first two).
* Every post-pilot episode of ''I Hate My Teenage Daughter'' was called "Teenage _____."
* Every episode of ''[[Series/TheNBCMysteryMovie Madigan]]'' was called "The _____ Beat", due to half the episodes being set in New York and [[ShortRunners the other three]] being set in Europe.
* ''Strange Report'', from ITC and [[Series/TheManFromUNCLE Norman Felton's]] Arena Productions, took its lead from the series title: "Report #(four-digit serial number): (Subject of episode) - (Actual episode name)." (Example: "Report #0649: SKELETON - Let Sleeping Dogs Lie.")
* In arguably the most bizarre naming convention on this page, all the post-pilot episodes of ''[[DontTrustTheBInApartment23 Don't Trust The B—— In Apartment 23]]'' have titles which, in order to match with "In Apartment 23", end in an ellipsis...
* Every episode of ''Comedy Bang! Bang!'' is titled "(Guest) Wears A (Color or Pattern) Shirt & (Color or Pattern) Pants".
* All the episodes of the TV version of ''AngerManagement'' have titles beginning with "Charlie", including the pilot ("Charlie Goes Back to Therapy").
* Like several other series here, ''{{Series/Nashville}}'''s episodes (apart from the pilot) are named after songs - in this case Hank Williams songs. (That's Hank Williams ''Sr'' for the most part so far, although "You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave)" is from Williams the Younger.)
* In Universe example in ''{{Castle}}''. Castle apparently loves this since for both the Derrick Storm novels and the Nikki Heat novels the titles all include the main character's last name. Two examples are ''Storm Warning'' and ''Naked Heat''.
* Every post-pilot episode of ''Emily Owens, MD'' has a title that starts with "Emily And...".
** And unusually, the ellipsis is part of the title (e.g. "Emily And... The Alan Zolman Incident", "Emily And... The Tell-Tale Heart").
* ''Series/MurdochMysteries'': The writers are quite fond of using anachronistically modern expressions for episode names, and it very often involves the name of the hero. For instance, the episode about a serial killer who seduced women on line — telegraph lines, that is — is titled "Murdoch.com". AddedAlliterativeAppeal is used from time to time, as in the episodes "Victim, Victorian", "Me, Myself and Murdoch", "Monsieur Murdoch", and "Evil Eye of Egypt". The template for a title troped as TheJoyOfX is also employed quite often: "I, Murdoch" (ICommaNoun), "Me, Myself and Murdoch" (Me, Myself and X), "Dial M for Murdoch" (Dial X for Y), and "Murdoch in Wonderland" (X in Wonderland).
* Each episode of the short-lived ''Film/DirtyDancing'' TV series shares the title of a different early '60s song.
* Every post-pilot episode of ''Series/ElleryQueen'' was called "The Adventure of _____".
* ''Series/ZeroHour:'' All episodes are named after parts and/or attributes of clocks ("Strike, "Face", etc.)
* Sir Creator/TerryPratchett's documentaries for TheBBC all have the format ''Terry Pratchett: Verbing X'' where X or the verb is to do with life and death: ''Terry Pratchett: Living with Alzheimer's'' (about his own condition); ''Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die'' (about assisted dying) and ''Terry Pratchett: Facing Extinction'' (about orangutans.)
* ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'' uses French culinary terms as episode titles ([[MeaningfulName the pilot, for example, is called "Aperitif"]]), to reflect the title character's status as a gourmand. [[ImAHumanitarian When he's not dining on human flesh, that is.]]
* Each episode of ''Series/OrphanBlack'' is named for a chapter from CharlesDarwin's ''Origin of Species''.