History IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming / LiveActionTV

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': The Seasons 1 [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GDMHVgcXAAAAFlP.jpg & 2]] episodes are named after quotes from the ''Interview with the Vampire'' novel.

** Each episode of ''Series/CuriosityShop'' is titled in the form of a question relating to the episode's subject matter; for example, the episode about measurements is titled "Do You Measure an Inchworm Up and Down or Back and Forth?"

** Early 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.)

** In ''Series/HannahMontana'', every single episode title is a [[IncrediblyLamePun riff on a song]], including the pilot ("Lilly, [[Music/TheBeatles Do You Want To Know A Secret?]]") Other examples include "[[Music/BritneySpears Oops! I Meddled Again]]", "[[Music/GunsNRoses Welcome To The Bungle]]", and "[[Music/CheapTrick I Want You To Want Me...]] To Go To Florida".

* Almost every episode title of ''Series/GossipGirl2007'' 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):

* ''Series/{{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. This does lead to the oddly named episodes "Hanatomy" and "Hanimals" and the slightly more shoehorned "G-Animals" and "K-Folk". The only exception so far was the twelfth series' Christmas episode, which was [[IncrediblyLamePun No-L]].

* ''Series/TheRatPatrol'': Almost every episode was called "The _____ Raid," although a couple lacked the definite title (like "Two For One Raid" and "[[IncrediblyLamePun Mask-A-Raid]]"). The only exception, which still kept the key word, was "The Wildest Raid Of All."

** 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).

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': The Season 1 episodes are named after quotes from the ''Interview with the Vampire'' novel.

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

** Films: "[[Film/DeadManWalking Dead Man Dating]]", "[[Film/FromHereToEternity From Fear to Eternity]]", "[[Film/SecretsAndLies Secrets and Guys]]", "[[Film/HowToMakeAnAmericanQuilt How to Make a Quilt Out of Americans]]", "[[Film/ApocalypseNow Apocalypse Not]]", "[[Film/SleepingWithTheEnemy Sleuthing with the Enemy]]", "[[Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly The Good the Bad and the Cursed]]", "[[Film/DeathTakesAHoliday Death Takes a Halliwell]]", "[[Film/LookWhosTalking Look Who's Barking]]", "[[Film/EnterTheDragon Enter the Demon]]", "[[Film/TheThreeFacesOfEve The Three Faces of Phoebe]]", "[[Film/SavingPrivateRyan Saving Private Leo]]", "[[Film/TheWizardOfOz We're Off to See the Wizard]]", "[[Film/YTuMamaTambien Y Tu Mummy Tambien]]", "[[Film/RomancingTheStone Necromancing the Stone]]", "[[Film/LittleMonsters Little Monsters]]", "[[Series/TheCourtshipOfEddiesFather The Courtship of Wyatt's Father]]", "[[Film/CrimesAndMisdemeanors Crimes and Witch-Demeanors]]", "[[Theatre/LongDaysJourneyIntoNight A Wrong Day's Journey into Right]]", "[[Film/ItsAMadMadMadMadWorld It's a Bad Bad Bad Bad World]]", "[[Film/TheBlairWitchProject The Bare Witch Project]]", "[[Film/CheaperByTheDozen Cheaper by the Coven]]", "[[Film/TheresSomethingAboutMary There's Something about Leo]]", "[[Film/OrdinaryPeople Ordinary Witches]]", "[[Film/{{Armageddon}} Charmageddon]]", "[[Film/TheSevenYearItch The Seven Year Witch]]", "[[Film/DieHard Scry Hard]]", "[[Film/FreakyFriday2003 Freaky Phoebe]]", "[[Film/DeathBecomesHer Death Becomes Them]]", "[[Film/KillBill Kill Billie]]", "[[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow The Lost Picture Show]]", "[[Film/HocusPocus Hulkus Pocus]]", "[[Film/MrAndMrsSmith Mr. and Mrs. Witch]]", "[[Film/TwelveAngryMen 12 Angry Zen]]", "[[Film/TheLastTemptationOfChrist The Last Temptation of Christy]]", "[[Film/DazedAndConfused Engaged and Confused]]", "[[Film/GoneWithTheWind Gone With the Witches]]", "[[Film/LittleShopOfHorrors Little Box of Horrors]]"

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': In-Universe example. 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''.

* ''Series/RumpoleOfTheBailey'': Almost every episode title is in the form of "Rumpole and the _______", but the few that aren't all still start with "Rumpole": "Rumpole On Trail", "Rumpole's Last Case", "Rumpole At Sea", "Rumpole For The Prosecution", etc.

* ''Kappatoo'': As was the case with another British children's show, "time" was put in plenty of titles (only here it was about time-travelling doubles).

* ''Comedy Bang! Bang!'': Every episode is titled "(Guest) Wears A (Color or Pattern) Shirt & (Color or Pattern) Pants". There are some slight variations [[note]]On occasion the title will mention other items of clothing instead, or the guest described will wear something other than a shirt and pants, such as a dress[[/note]], but the episode is always named after the guest and their outfit.

* ''Alright Already'': Every episode of this short-lived sitcom had a title of "[[OhGodWithTheVerbing Again with the _____]]".

* ''Chasing The Saturdays'': Every episode of Music/TheSaturdays' reality show about their American exploits has a title in the form of a Twitter hashtag, which also always contains "Sats" (e.g "[=#UnitedSatsOfAmerica=]").

* ''The Firm'': Each episode was named "Chapter _____", with the titular number corresponding to the episode number. Appropriate, given that it's inspired by a novel (or a movie based on a novel).

* ''Gary Unmarried'': Begins every episode title with "Gary" or "Gary's" followed by a description of a person or action.

* ''A Gifted Man'': This show titles all its post-pilot episodes "In Case Of _____".

* ''Series/Batwoman2019'': All the episode titles of Season 1 are quotations from ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland''. ([[OddNameOut Except]] "Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths Part 2".)

** Season 3 continues to play with this, changing the question marks into full stops... until halfway through the season, when Rebecca [[spoiler: learns to let go of Josh.]] After this, episode titles still all include the name of a different male character, and eventually, the exclamation points come back to indicate that [[spoiler: Rebecca is repeating old patterns of behavior with Nathaniel.]]

* ''Series/LASFinest'': Almost every episode of this ''Film/BadBoys1995'' spinoff is named after a movie that the movie's(and series') executive producer Creator/JerryBruckheimer produced. Since "Bad Boys" was obviously off-limits, one episode is called "[[GenderFlip Bad Girls]]."

* While episode names on ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'' do not really have much significance, they all usually have at least one of the "a" in the episode title be capitalized ("The [=JennA=] Thing," "A dAngerous gAme," "[=EscApe=] from New York," etc) as a shout out to the show's mysterious BigBad, who calls him/herself A.