The Five: Episode naming patterns

February 28th, 2006 | Category: Monk

Why? Some shows, like Friends and Seinfeld, painted themselves in a
corner very early on with episode names, not thinking the show would last for 200 episodes or so. Some, amazingly abundant, offer titles that refer to something that happened in the episode.
Yawwwwn. BOOORINNNG.

I like the shows that follow a pattern when naming their episodes.

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Most

shows just offer random titles
for their episodes. By the end of such a
show’s towering run, you can tell the writers were really stretching to keep the pattern going.

Here are five of
my and my fellow Squadders’ favorite examples of episode naming patterns that took on a life of their own:

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considering I
want to see whether they can keep it up!

Original post by Joel Keller

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