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post #1 of 47
8/26/09 at 10:47am
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Just killing some time this morning wondering what shows had the best episode titles. I can think of a few like Criss Angel is a Douchebag (Supernatural) or Dwarf in a Helium Hat (The Rockford Files) or Somehow Satan Got Behind Me (Millennium). Can't think of any one show that seemed to run away with the best episode titles. Maybe Cowboy Bebop, just because I like the way Mushroom Samba and Jupiter Jazz sound. Anyways, just putting that out there. I'll go back to work now.

Edit: Just saw my awesome thread title spelling. Feel free to run with what the fuck an "epidose" is.
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post #2 of 47
8/26/09 at 10:50am
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Edit: Just saw my awesome thread title spelling. Feel free to run with what the fuck an "epidose" is.
It's what Criss Angel gave to all the douchebags who likes him.
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post #3 of 47
8/26/09 at 10:52am
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia has some doozies.
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post #4 of 47
8/26/09 at 11:00am
Some like it Hoth from Lost was a charming nod in my eyes.
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post #5 of 47
8/26/09 at 11:17am
LA Law was infamous for this sort thing.
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post #6 of 47
8/26/09 at 11:19am
Speaking of Criss Angel, I was listening to a radio show out of Orlando (Real Radio's SBK Live at night) and a caller called up who actually believed that the stuff that Criss Angel does is real... as in, he actually has magical powers and is "half spirit, half man".

The host couldn't believe that the guy was serious and kept saying, "this has to be a joke".... it was entertaining.


Yeah, Cowboy Bebop... wow that's a series that I can watch over and over, and probably has the best American dub I've heard for a series... though, I never watched it with subtitles, so I might be biased.
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post #7 of 47
8/26/09 at 11:39am
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia has some doozies.
Winner, winner, chicken dinner. And it doesn't hurt that they use the title as the capper or punchline to the intro scene.

"Charlie Got Molested"
"The Gang Finds a Dumpster Baby"
"Mac Bangs Dennis' Mom"
"Charlie Goes America All Over Everybody's Ass"

and my personal favorite

"Underage Drinking: A National Concern"
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post #8 of 47
8/26/09 at 12:25pm
Futurama is up there. Favourites include "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back", "Raging Bender", "A Pharaoh To Remember", and "My Three Suns."
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post #9 of 47
8/26/09 at 12:30pm
Lost and Seinfeld should rule this thread.
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post #10 of 47
8/26/09 at 12:33pm
The episode titles for 'The Tick' always made me laugh:

'The Tick vs the Common Cold'
'The Tick vs Education'
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post #11 of 47
8/26/09 at 12:36pm
I've always liked 'Moral Midgetry' from the third season of 'The Wire'
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post #12 of 47
8/26/09 at 12:43pm
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The episode titles for 'The Tick' always made me laugh:

'The Tick vs the Common Cold'
'The Tick vs Education'
And Chuck followed the same pattern.

Psych has a couple of good ones:

If You're So Smart, Then Why Are You Dead?
Shawn (and Gus) of the Dead
The Greatest Adventure in the History of Basic Cable
There Might Be Blood
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post #13 of 47
8/26/09 at 12:46pm
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The Greatest Adventure in the History of Basic Cable[/I]
That's greatness.
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post #14 of 47
8/26/09 at 1:08pm
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Lost and Seinfeld should rule this thread.
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post #15 of 47
8/26/09 at 1:15pm
"All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues" is a truly great title.

Newsradio's episode titles are inspired in their haphazard randomness.
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post #16 of 47
8/26/09 at 1:32pm
Lost - "?"
Deadwood - "Tell Your God To Get Ready For Blood," "Advances, None Miraculous," "Jewel's Boot Is Made For Walking," "Requiem For A Gleet"
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post #17 of 47
8/26/09 at 1:41pm
I wouldn't necessarily call them "great" episode titles, but I remember the X-Files as the first show that had titles that actually caught my eye - mostly because they were so fucking obscure: Død Kalm, Die Hand Die Verlezt, Tempus Fugit, F. Emasculata, The Calusari, Syzygy, Kitsunegari, Schizogeny, The Pine Bluff Variant.... I could go on forever.
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post #18 of 47
8/26/09 at 1:47pm
I know it seems to be pretty widely despised on here, but Two and a Half Men has some funny ones.
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post #19 of 47
8/26/09 at 1:49pm
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Futurama is up there. Favourites include "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back", "Raging Bender", "A Pharaoh To Remember", and "My Three Suns."
Also "The Series Has Landed", "GodFellas", "Brannigan Begin Again", "Parasites Lost", "Obsoletely Fabulous", and my personal favourite, "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles".

Yeah, I love how bizarre X-Files titles could be. Though the Darin Morgan episodes had straightforwardly awesome titles: "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose", "War of the Coprophages", and of course, "Jose Chung's From Outer Space".
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post #20 of 47
8/26/09 at 1:51pm
Also, "Jewel's Boot is Made For Walking" and "Requiem for a Gleet" are easily the worst episode titles of a good show EVER. Deadwood in general had some lousy episode titles, actually.
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post #21 of 47
8/26/09 at 1:57pm
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Newsradio's episode titles are inspired in their haphazard randomness.
Didn't they have a run of episodes that were randomly named after Led Zeppelin album titles?

Edit: I'm not sure if it falls into this category but I always liked the titles of Twilight Zone episodes. I'm not sure if the titles were that great by themselves or if the episodes just elevated the titles.
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post #22 of 47
8/26/09 at 1:57pm
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Also, "Jewel's Boot is Made For Walking" and "Requiem for a Gleet" are easily the worst episode titles of a good show EVER. Deadwood in general had some lousy episode titles, actually.
I like them for their oddness, but to each their own.
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post #23 of 47
8/26/09 at 2:10pm
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Didn't they have a run of episodes that were randomly named after Led Zeppelin album titles?
Yes they did. Good memory. One was titled 'Led Zepplin Box Set.'

The first episode of Deadwood's third season has a terrific title: "Tell Your God To Ready For Blood."
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post #24 of 47
8/26/09 at 2:21pm
  • All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues
  • Man of Science, Man of Faith
  • Everybody Hates Hugo
  • Live Together, Die Alone
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post #25 of 47
8/26/09 at 2:28pm
Veronica Mars has some good, groan-worthy titles: Nevermind the Buttocks, The Rapes of Graff, Weapons of Class Destruction, The Wrath of Con, etc.
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post #26 of 47
8/26/09 at 2:38pm
From The Venture Bros.:

'Mid-Life Chrysalis'
'Now Museum - Now You Don't!'
'Escape to the House of Mummies Part II' (there wasn't a part 1)
'Fallen Arches'
'The Doctor Is Sin'
'Home Is Where the Hate Is'


Also, oddly enough Venture Bros. and Supernatural share a similar one:

'Are You There God, It's Me, Dean'
and
'Are You There, God? It's Me... Dean Winchester'


A bunch from The Real Ghostbusters cartoon series:

'Adventures in Slime and Space'
'Who're You Calling Two-Dimensional?' (they were stuck in a cartoon/turned into cartoon characters) even though the show is a cartoon anyway)
'The Long, Long, Long, etc. Goodbye'
'The Collect Call of Cthulhu'
'Moaning Stones'
'Ain't NASA-sarily So'
'Apocalypse - What, NOW?'
'Hard Knight's Day'
'Deadcon 1'
'Halloween II 1/2'
'Loathe Thy Neighbor'
'Poultrygeist'
'Elementary My Dear Winston'
'If I Were a Witch Man'
'Surely You Joust'
'Afterlife in the Fast Lane'
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post #27 of 47
8/26/09 at 2:41pm
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Originally Posted by gobblox View Post
Also, oddly enough Venture Bros. and Supernatural share a similar one:

'Are You There God, It's Me, Dean'
and
'Are You There, God? It's Me... Dean Winchester'
Which in turn both stem from the book Are you there God, its me, Margaret.
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post #28 of 47
8/26/09 at 2:51pm
I'm partial to "The Gang Solves the Oil Crisis"
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post #29 of 47
8/26/09 at 2:58pm
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Which in turn both stem from the book Are you there God, its me, Margaret.
I find it a cute coincidence that both use the reference with their Dean characters.
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post #30 of 47
8/26/09 at 3:06pm
I still love the hidden message spelled out in some of Breaking Bad's season 2 episodes.

For those of you who don't know, the titles for the episodes with pink bear cold openers: "757" "Down" "Over" "ABQ"
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post #31 of 47
8/26/09 at 3:25pm
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Also, "Jewel's Boot is Made For Walking" and "Requiem for a Gleet" are easily the worst episode titles of a good show EVER. Deadwood in general had some lousy episode titles, actually.
I agree that those two are bad, but then there's the fact that one of their very best episodes (and therefore one of the best episodes of television, period) is called "The Whores Can Come".

In their context, I think "Something Very Expensive" and "Unauthorized Cinnamon" are pretty funny, if also horrifying in the former case.

The Shield gets an honorable mention for "Possible Kill Screen", but the prize really has to go to "Bottom Bitch".

The "Daddy Issue" episode of Lost might be my least favorite title ever. It's so goddamn on the nose, but I feel like it thinks it's being clever, if that makes any sense (it doesn't). Oddly enough, I don't think I'd mind it at all if they omitted "all". Is it referencing something that went over my head?
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post #32 of 47
8/26/09 at 3:48pm
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Also, oddly enough Venture Bros. and Supernatural share a similar one:

'Are You There God, It's Me, Dean'
and
'Are You There, God? It's Me... Dean Winchester'
Speaking of Supernatural, their magician-themed episode has the best title: "Criss Angel is a Douche Bag."
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post #33 of 47
8/26/09 at 3:54pm
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Speaking of Supernatural, their magician-themed episode has the best title: "Criss Angel is a Douche Bag."
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post #34 of 47
8/26/09 at 5:09pm
The late, lamented show The Middleman had episode titles that all sound like whacked-out Ludlum novels, such as The Ectoplasmic Panhellenic Investigation, The Clotharian Contamination Protocol or, my favorite, The Palindrome Reversal Palindrome
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post #35 of 47
8/26/09 at 6:32pm
Tales from the Crypt

C'mon people!

"Dig That Cat...He's Real Gone"
"Only Sin Deep"
"Lover Come Hack to Me"
"Dead Right"
"Four-Sided Triangle"
"Easel Kill Ya"

etc
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post #36 of 47
8/26/09 at 6:50pm
Outrageous Fortune is into it's fifth season now and has maintained it's theme of using Shakespeare quotes for episode titles. As abstract as some of them are, they always reference the main thrust of the episode, which is pretty cool.
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post #37 of 47
8/26/09 at 7:02pm
Though ultra-serious, I always enjoyed the titles for The West Wing, maybe because they always showed them at the beginning of the episodes and I'm a chump for that. I was particularly fond of an episode titled Posse Comitatus. Mmmm, latin.
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post #38 of 47
8/26/09 at 7:06pm
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I was particularly fond of an episode titled Posse Comitatus. Mmmm, latin.
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.

Yeah, Baby.
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post #39 of 47
8/26/09 at 7:07pm
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Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.
You're blowing my mind right now.
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post #40 of 47
8/26/09 at 7:22pm
Speaking of Venture Bros., there's apparently an episode in saeson 4 titled "Perchance To Dean."
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post #41 of 47
8/26/09 at 7:29pm
Did you ever notice how all the Friends episode titles start with "The One With..." LOL!
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post #42 of 47
8/26/09 at 7:29pm
One from Life I thought was pretty good.

"Evil...And His Brother Ziggy"
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post #43 of 47
8/26/09 at 8:17pm
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The late, lamented show The Middleman had episode titles that all sound like whacked-out Ludlum novels,
I also dug The Vampiric Puppet Lamentation, and apparently they did a table read at comic-con of the finale, Doomsday Armageddon Apocalypse.

Supernatural really had quite a few this past season. A few that haven't been mentioned are It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester, Jump the Shark and The Monster at the End of This Book.
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post #44 of 47
8/26/09 at 8:49pm
Boy the Earth Talks To
I Am Not the Fine Man You Take Me For
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post #45 of 47
8/26/09 at 11:50pm
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Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. I completely read over that.
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post #46 of 47
8/27/09 at 5:43am
Some more goodness from 'Psych'

"Meat is Murder, but Murder is also Murder"
"Black and Tan; A Crime of Fashion"
"Spellingg Bee"
"He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, He Loves Me, Oops He's Dead"
"Poker? I Barely Know Her"
"If You're So Smart, Then Why Are You Dead?"
"Gus' Dad May Have Killed an Old Guy"
"Lights, Camera...Homicidio"
"Disco Didn't Die. It Was Murdered!"
"Any Given Friday Night at 10PM, 9PM Central"

That's all I got.
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post #47 of 47
8/27/09 at 11:31am
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Tales from the Crypt

C'mon people!

"Dig That Cat...He's Real Gone"
"Only Sin Deep"
"Lover Come Hack to Me"
"Dead Right"
"Four-Sided Triangle"
"Easel Kill Ya"

etc
That reminded me on an episode of Amazing Stories: Hell Toupee.
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