TV Shows With The Best Episode Names
Vote for the best TV shows made even better by their episode names.
Are you one of those people who tracks and remembers the TV episode names of your favorite shows? Yeah, us too. And the Internet has made that much easier than just trying to store TV episode titles in your old nerd noggin. Thanks to early Star Trek conventions, Trekkies got to know the names of episodes from blooper reels.
Unless you read Film Threat, EW or TV Guide religiously, you probably talked about episodes like this, “Did you see the one where Starsky shoots the bad guy and then Huggy Bear says that thing about keeping his pimp hand strong?” Okay, that never happened but that is the way it goes when one does not have a television episode title to reference.
Creating titles for TV series episodes is part of the creative process, sometimes an after thought or a mere functionality to describe the storyline of that particular episode. Due to the fact that every detail of a TV show is now online, writers are fairly aware that audiences do remember and reference the episode names. Everyone knows about “The Contest” on Seinfeld. People still talk about Lost’s “The Constant.”
There are tons of TV episode titles out there that are clever and amazing and we tried out best to give you a solid collection of some of the standouts. Many times a TV episode name may be clever but the actual episode is kind of meh. Sometimes we favor a episode name because we have serious feelings about that particular one. Fans agree on one thing, though: Too damn many shows use “Tabula Rasa.”
Sometimes there are clues in the episode titles, references to a large or subtle storyline or character arc. Sometimes there is snark or poetry. Whatever the case, the shows that put some umph into their episode names made this list. Who’s clever? Who’s cryptic? Who’s a tease? Upvote the television series with the best episode titles below!
Friends creators David Crane and Marta Kauffman wanted a unique way to remember each episode and knew that the titles wouldn’t be shown in the credits. So, the writers’ running gag was to refer to each episode by prefacing it with “The One…” The only exception was the series finale, which was titled “The Last One.”
Standouts:
“The One Where No One’s Ready”
“The One with All the Thanksgivings”
“The One with the Prom Video”
“The One Where Ross and Rachel… You Know”
“The One With the Embryos”
“The One Where Ross Got High”
“The One with the Holiday Armadillo”
“The One with Unagi”The Best 'Friends' Episodes Ever, RankedSee all
- 1The One Where Everybody Finds Out1,586 Votes
- 2The One with the Embryos1,355 Votes
- 3The One Where Ross Got High952 Votes
Since the earliest days, The Simpsons has had a field day with episode names, playing off of original titles and notable aspects of pop culture, for instance, “The Last Temptation of Krust,” “Bart of Darkness,” “A Fish Called Selma,” and “I Love Lisa.” But sometimes, the episode names were simply about their subject and didn’t need any punning, like “Mr. Plow” and “Treehouse of Horror” Halloween special series.
With some of the most whip-smart people in the writers' room, The Simpsons episode titles are weird, brilliant, and a cultural encyclopedia - just like the show is.
Standouts:
“The Crepes of Wrath”
“Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times”
“D’Oh-in in the Wind”
“Much Apu About Nothing”
“Guess Who’s Coming to Criticize Dinner”
“Beyond Blunderdome”
“Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish”
"El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)"Aside from being full of snarky snark snark, it stands to reason that the episode titles of Psych would be amusing. But you already knew that.
Standouts:
“Spellingg Bee”
“Woman Seeking Dead Husband: Smokers Okay, No Pets”
“Poker, I Barely Know Her”
"He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not, He Loves Me, Oops He's Dead"
"Gus' Dad May Have Killed an Old Guy"
“Any Given Friday Night at 10PM, 9PM Central" (Psych's time slot)
"There Might Be Blood”
“You Can’t Handle This Episode”
"Black and Tan: A Crime of Fashion"The Best Episodes Of 'Psych' That Prove It's Still A Fan-FavoriteSee all- 1Last Night Gus500 Votes
- 2Extradition II: The Actual Extradition Part246 Votes
- 3100 Clues166 Votes
The smarty pants writers over at Supernatural are totally all about their episode titles. With TV episodes names derived from various forms of pop culture from books to songs, fans love to dissect and collect the episode names and meanings. The show could spawn dozens of trivia questions - and has.
Standouts:
“Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things” - The name of a low budget horror movie from the ‘70s.
“Bad Day at Black Rock” - A wonderful little film starring Spencer Tracy from 1955. Tracy plays a man who faces off against a whole town fighting an injustice. Dude only had one good arm, too. A must see.
“Malleus Maleficarum” - Latin for Hammer of the Witches and name of a guide that encouraged people to seek them out and murder them back in the good old fifteenth century.
“Criss Angel Is a Douchebag” - No explanation needed, really.
“Jump the Shark” - A playful reference to that Happy Days thing...The Best 'Supernatural' Episodes of all Time, RankedSee all- 1Swan Song586 Votes
- 2Yellow Fever590 Votes
- 3Mystery Spot708 Votes
Futurama’s whole thing is punning its way through space and time. In fact, the episode titles were never allowed to just lie there and do nothing like Leela’s bifocals.
Standouts:
“I, Roommate”
“A Fishful of Dollars”
“Hell Is Other Robots”
“Fry and the Slurm Factory”
"Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?"
"A Clone of My Own"
"How Hermes Requisitioned his Groove Back"
"War Is the H-Word"
"Amazon Women in the Mood"
"Parasites Lost"
"The Day the Earth Stood Stupid"
"Loves Labor Lost in Space"
"Where No Fan Has Gone Before"
"The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings"
"Roswell that Ends Well"
"In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela"
"Möbius Dick"
"Luck of the Fryrish"The Best Futurama Characters of All TimeSee all- 1Bender1,406 Votes
- 2Fry1,194 Votes
- 3Zoidberg1,290 Votes
Considering that George R.R. Martin titles each chapter in his A Song of Ice and Fire book series with a character’s name, creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss had the added task of naming each episode to reflect a little about the storyline, while also not giving anything away. And that’s a tricky task.
Standouts:
“The Rains of Castamere”
“Fire and Blood”
“Breaker of Chains”
“Blackwater”
“The Mountain and the Viper”
“Valar Morghulis”
“The Lion and the Rose”
“The Laws of Gods and Men”
“Baelor”“Second Sons”
“And Now His Watch Is Ended”
“The Watchers on the Wall”
“Winter Is Coming”
“The Pointy End”
“Kissed By Fire”
“A Golden Crown”The 100+ Favorite 'Game of Thrones' CharactersSee all- 1Tyrion Lannister30,811 Votes
- 2Jon Snow27,994 Votes
- 3Arya Stark28,806 Votes
Some very sharp people thought up the episode names for The Golden Girls. Creator Susan Harris and some of the best writers in the business continuously made this gem a legendary series.
As with the writing, they kept their episode titles simple and succinct. The writers didn’t get super fancy but every once in a while, they’d tickle your funny bone (or whatever Blanche was into tickling at the time).
Standouts:
"Ebb Tide"
"Ebbtide's Revenge”
”Ebb Tide VI: the Wrath of Stan"
"Long Day's Journey into Marinara"
"Whose Face Is This, Anyway?"
"Larceny and Old Lace"
"The Days and Nights of Sophia Petrillo"
"Yokel Hero"
"The Impotence of Being Ernest"
"Fiddler on the Ropes"
"The Accurate Conception"
"Have Yourself a Very Little Christmas"
"Like the Beep Beep Beep of the Tom-Tom"
"The Mangiacavallo Curse Makes a Lousy Wedding Present"The Greatest Golden Girls Guest Stars, RankedSee all- 1Dick Van Dyke289 Votes
- 2Leslie Nielsen329 Votes
- 3Debbie Reynolds244 Votes
Fans of the show already know that the episode titles of The Big Bang Theory are derived from scientific principles, experiments, and theories, real ones from egg heads and fake ones cooked up in the warped petri dish of the writer’s room.
You know that the episode names are going to be loaded with razor sharp wit when Chuck Lorre is in charge. The nerd force is strong with that one.
Standouts:
“The Excelsior Acquisition”
“The Dumpling Paradox”
“The Pants Alternative”
“The Euclid Alternative”
“The Re-Entry Minimization”
“The Pirate Solution”
“The Decoupling Fluctuation”
“The Higgs Boson Observation”
“The Werewolf Transformation”
“The Cruciferous Vegetable Amplification”Basically, Matt Stone and Trey Parker label South Park episode titles in a way that you know exactly what you’re getting. So when they say “Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo,” that is literally what you are going to see. And yet, we are always amazed. And when we are told that there is an upcoming episode called "HumancentiPad,” we still think it could be a fake out. But no. That’s exactly what you’re going to see: people who have to participate in a human centipede because they didn't read the Apple agreement.
Standouts:
“Cartman Gets an Anal Probe”
“Big Gay Al’s Big Gay Boat Ride”
“An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig”
“Death”
“Mecha-Streisand”
"Cartman’s Mom Is a Dirty Slut”
“Cartman’s Mom Is Still a Dirty Slut”
“Conjoined Fetus Lady”
“Terrance and Phillip in Not Without My Anus”
“City on the Edge of Forever” - homage to original Star Trek!
“Chef’s Chocolate Salty Balls”
“Sexual Harassment Panda”
“Cat Orgy”
“Cherokee Hair Tampons”
“Scott Tenorman Must Die”
“Towelie”
“Osama bin Laden Has Farty Pants”
“Asspen”
“Trapped in the Closet”
“Smug Alert”
“More Crap”
“Eek, a Penis!”
“A Song of A** and Fire”
“Gluten Free Ebola”All Of The Best South Park Episodes, RankedSee all- 1Butters' Bottom Bitch3,333 Votes
- 2Casa Bonita3,514 Votes
- 3Scott Tenorman Must Die5,079 Votes
Anything that comes out of the addled and brilliant brains of Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day, and Glenn Howerton is going to be delightfully blunt. It’s Always Sunny has lots of stand alone titles, but more likely than not, they begin the episode title with “The Gang…”
The show is so dedicated to its episode titles, they give each one its own title card in the opening of each episode. It’s kind of their thing. Well, that and the fact that all of the characters take huge pride in being the worst people ever.
Standouts:
“Charlie Wants an Abortion”
“The Gang Finds a Dead Guy”
“Charlie Gets Crippled”
“Mac Bangs Dennis’ Mom”
“Charlie Goes America All Over Everybody’s A**”
“The Gang Finds a Dumpster Baby”
“The Aluminum Monster vs. Fatty Magoo”
“Frank Sets Sweet Dee on Fire”
“Who Pooped the Bed?”
“The Nightman Cometh”
“Who Got Dee Pregnant?”
“Pop-Pop: The Final Solution”
"The Maureen Ponderosa Wedding Massacre"
"The Gang Wrestles for the Troops"
"Charlie Work"
"Mac Kills His Dad"Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane and his merry band of writers love an obscure reference. We’d like to believe that because of MacFarlane, many a youth now knows a lot more stuff about the world… a lot of useless, glorious stuff. Some of the references are so obscure, you’d have to be or know someone in their '50s to get them. “Wow,” says the kid at the corner malt shop. “That’s, like, old, daddy-o.”
The episode names range from the literary to the self-referencing inside joke, perfectly capturing the nature of the series.
Standouts:
“Road to the Multiverse”
“Back to the Pilot”
“Saving Private Brian”
“Petergeist”
“Petoria!”
“Road to Rhode Island”
“Stewie Kills Lois”
“Lois Kills Stewie”
“North by North Quahog”
“I Dream of Jesus”
“And Then There Were Fewer”
“Something, Something, Something Dark Side”
“McStroke”
“Petarded”
“The Thin White Line”The 17 Funniest 'Family Guy' Episodes, Ranked By FansSee all- 1Road to the Multiverse10,023 Votes
- 2And Then There Were Fewer6,561 Votes
- 3Back to the Pilot6,123 Votes
- 12
Seinfeld creators Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld were very brief in their episode names but that brevity was the pure the genius behind the “show about nothing.” All of the episode names for all nine seasons began with “The” and are pretty much instantly recognizable by true Seinfeld fans.
Standouts:
“The Puffy Shirt”
“The Sponge”
“The Soup Nazi”
The Yada Yada”
“The Beard”
“The Chinese Restaurant”
“The Abstinence”
“The Parking Garage”The Best Episodes Of 'Seinfeld,' RankedSee all- 1The Opposite942 Votes
- 2The Marine Biologist1,090 Votes
- 3The Soup Nazi1,074 Votes
Ostensibly, episode names of Community are also the names of classes a student could take at a community college, such as "Introduction to Film" or "Anthropology 101." Much like the show itself, the idea of the episode titles as classes in a college curriculum go surreal, with names such as "A Fistful of Paintballs" and "Ladders."
Standouts:
"Interpretive Dance"
"Contemporary American Poultry"
"Cooperative Calligraphy"
"Celebrity Pharmacology"
"Remedial Chaos Theory"
"Foosball and Nocturnal Vigilantism"
"Introduction to Finality"The Best Holiday Episodes On CommunitySee all- 1Epidemiology34 Votes
- 2Regional Holiday Music37 Votes
- 3Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps29 Votes
- 14
From the beginning, Scrubs was J.D.’s journey so most of the episode titles started with “My.” If someone else narrated the story, then the TV episode title would change to either “His Story” or “Her Story” with a roman numeral for every subsequent episode. The episode names began with “Our” for the the last and ninth season.
Standouts:
“My Super Ego”
“My Own Personal Jesus”
“My Drug Buddy”
“My Heavy Meddle”
“My Malpractice Decision”
“My Cookie Pants”
“Our White Coats”
“Our Thanks”The Best Scrubs Episodes of All TimeSee all- 1My Screw Up207 Votes
- 2My Lunch194 Votes
- 3My Fallen Idol136 Votes
Before he was Mr. Big Time Avengers guy, Joss Whedon was our king. Our ginger god. And he lorded over a tiny but magnificent kingdom called Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Almost immediately, a fan base grew. The writing. The directing. That Whedony thing. The episode titles were no exception.
Standouts:
Never Kill a Boy on the First Date
I, Robot You, Jane
When She Was Bad
Inca Mummy Girl
Lie to Me
Killed by Death
Band Candy
The Zeppo
"Doppelgangland"
Beer Bad
The Yoko Factor
Buffy vs. Dracula
Once More, With Feeling
Doublemeat Palace
Conversations with Dead PeopleThe Best Buffy the Vampire Slayer EpisodesSee all- 1Once More, With Feeling2,610 Votes
- 2Hush2,351 Votes
- 3The Body2,158 Votes
- Women's prison and Jenji Kohan. That’s all you really have to say. You are going to get some pretty snarky and buff TV episode titles from Orange Is the New Black.
Standouts:
“Tit Punch”
“Lesbian Request Denied”
“The Chickening”
“Blood Donut”
“F*cksgiving”
“Tall Men with Feelings”
“Can’t Fix Crazy”
“Looks Blue, Tastes Red”
“Hugs Can Be Deceiving”
“A Whole Other Hole”
“Low Self Esteem City”
“You Also Have a Pizza”
“Comic Sans”
“40 OZ of Furlough”
“Little Mustachioed Sh*t”
“I’m a Bitch Because I’m Sad”
“The Great Hate F*ck”
“Use Your Tears as Lube”
“The Rapiest Pap Smear”
“Gay Feet”
“Hot for Janitor” DuckTales took its episode names very seriously, proving that animation ain’t no joke, except for when it is. Some big, silly, witty brains named these episodes.
Standouts:
"Treasure of the Golden Suns: Three Ducks of the Condor”
“Where No Duck Has Gone Before”
“Magica’s Shadow War”
“Master of the Djinni”
“The Money Vanishes”
"Sir Gyro de Gearloose"
"Down & Out in Duckburg"
"Earth Quack"
"Micro Ducks from Outer Space"
"The Golden Fleecing"
"Raiders of the Lost Harp"
"Duck to the Future"The list of episode titles for Everybody Hates Chris follow the show's naming convention and, in doing so, create a list of hated things that range from the generally agreed-upon ("Everybody Hates Funerals") to the more divisive. ("Everybody Hates Cake"). Whatever feelings viewers held about each episode theme, the show remained popular with television audiences and ended after four seasons to match creator Chris Rock's own past, matching up with him dropping out of high school to become a comedian.
Standouts:
"Everybody Hates The Pilot"
"Everybody Hates Halloween"
"Everybody Hates the Laundromat"
"Everybody Hates Rejection"
"Everybody Hates the Buddy System"
"Everybody Hates Kris"
"Everybody Hates Math"
"Everybody Hates Minimum Wage"
"Everybody Hates the Ninth-Grade Dance"
"Everybody Hates Snitches"
"Everybody Hates the G.E.D."- 19
Following the thematic style of the show's title, every iCarly episode was prefaced with a lowercase "i," turning the titles into statements. Summing up the primary plot point of an episode while also spoofing on modern tech naming conventions, the Nickelodeon teen sitcom brought the same balance of irreverent and touching that the show was known for to the episode names.
Standouts:
"iSaved Your Life"
"iShock America"
"iPromise Not to Tell"
"iOwe You"
"iGot Detention"
"iThink They Kissed"
"iBelieve in Bigfoot"
"iQ"
"iGoodbye"The Best 'iCarly' Episodes, RankedSee all- 1iParty with Victorious364 Votes
- 2iGot Detention253 Votes
- 3iPie228 Votes
- 20
A romantic comedy that followed a couple named Andrew and Zelda, the episode titles reflect the timeline of their budding relationship. Each episode is named after a new stage of getting to know another person, in alphabetical order. Although NBC canceled the series, it aired the complete 13-episode run, bringing the show titles to the middle of the alphabet with "M is for Meant to Be."
Standouts:
"A is for Acquaintances"
"C is for Curiouser and Curiouser"
"F is for Fight, Fight, Fight!"
"G is for Geronimo"
"H is for Hostile Takeover"
"I is for Ill Communication"
"M is for Meant to Be" Star Trek has to be the king of episode titles. The original series had schmaltzy plot lines but the episode titles were glorious, almost as glorious as Shatner’s “music” career. Also, many of these would be excellent band names. And probably are.
Standouts:
“Where No Man Has Gone Before”
“The Naked Time”
“Dagger of the Mind”
"The Corbomite Maneuver”
“The Squire of Gothos”
“Space Seed”
“Amoke Time”
“The Trouble with Tribbles”
“The Gamesters of Triskelion”
“Spock’s Brain”
“For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky”
“The City on the Edge of Forever”
“Plato’s Stepchildren”
"Elaan of Troyius"
"The Lights of Zetar"
"Requiem for Methuselah"Vince Gilligan created one of the best television shows ever. The storylines, the characters, and one of the best finales in TV history, Breaking Bad upped the game for TV dramas. And surprisingly, with its chemistry-themed font treatment in the credits, the episodes decidedly zigged AND zagged when it came to episode names.
By now, everyone knows the word “Oyzmandias” and just how much it means to television history. If you didn’t know, "Ozymandias" is one of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s most notable sonnets. a pretty brilliant choice for one of the best Breaking Bad episodes.
Standouts:
“Ozymandias”
“ABQ”
“Bit by a Dead Bee”
“Felina”
“To'hajiilee”
"Peekaboo”
“Salud”
“Fly”
“Face Off”
“Fifty-One”The Best 'Breaking Bad' Characters, RankedSee all- 1Saul Goodman3,605 Votes
- 2Mike Ehrmantraut3,264 Votes
- 3Jesse Pinkman3,619 Votes
The creators of That '70s Show wanted to call it The Kids Are Alright or Teenage Wasteland, both songs by The Who, but due to licensing/legal reasons, they ended up with Feelin’ Alright. After focus groups kept referring to it as “that show about the ‘70s and that ‘70s show”… well, that’s how we got here.
Seasons one through four had episode titles like “Streaking,” “Vanstock,” “Eric’s Panties,” and “Uncomfortable Ball Stuff.”
Seasons five through eight were named after songs by 1970s rock bands:Season Five - Led Zeppelin
Season Six - The Who
Season Seven - The Rolling Stones
Season Eight - Queen'That '70s Show' Cast Looked All Grown Up After 8 SeasonsSee all- 1Wilmer Valderrama1,758 Votes
- 2Laura Prepon1,338 Votes
- 3Ashton Kutcher1,327 Votes
- 24
Using the catchy convention of alliterative naming, most episodes of the comedy-drama crime series Bones pairs the victim,or clues about the case, with the method of discovery or the main plot device of the episode. The results range from dryly descriptive ("The Woman at the Airport") to fanciful "The Glowing Bones in the Old Stone House."
Standouts:
"The Man in the Bear"
"The Superhero in the Alley"
"The Skull in the Desert"
"The Headless Witch in the Woods"
"The Girl in the Gator"
"The Boy in the Time Capsule"
"The Finger in the Nest"
"The Cinderella in the Cardboard"
"The Gamer in the Grease"
"The Devil in the Details"
"The Pinocchio in the Planter"
"The Hot Dog in the Competition"
"The Maiden in the Mushrooms"
"The Heiress in the Hill"
"The Repo Man in the Septic Tank"
"The Teacher in the Books"
"The Psychic in the Soup"
"The Cowboy in the Contest"
"The Tutor in the Tussle"What To Watch If You Love 'Bones'See all- 1The Mentalist116 Votes
- 2Castle137 Votes
- 3Criminal Minds74 Votes
Star Trek: The Next Generation did its best to keep up the episode name legacy. The series was a definite new beast and there weren't any crew members in red shirts, just a lovely maroon. Everyone relaxed when Captain Picard showed up in that color. But the goal for space entertainment was at a fever pitch. The episode titles had to follow suit.
Like the original, this Star Trek incarnation's episode titles could also be excellent band or pet names. And probably are. Plus, The Next Generation writers did stuff with Q puns that is pretty impressive.
Standouts:
The Naked Now
Hide and Q
Where Silence Has Lease
The Outrageous Okona
The Schizoid Man
The Ensigns of Command
Who Watches the Watchers
The Bonding
"Déjà Q"
"The Most Toys"
"Ménage à Troi"
"Qpid"
"Silicon Avatar"
"I, Borg"
A Fistful of DatasWith a few exceptions, each episode name of Two and a Half Men was a quote said by one of the show’s characters. The show became famous for episode names and the end credit vanity cards when they started to reflect a little of the behind the scenes war between Charlie Sheen and Chuck Lorre.
Standouts:
“An Old Flame with a New Wick”
“Go East on Sunset Until You Reach the Gates of Hell”
“That Voodoo That I Do Do”
“Three Hookers and a Philly Cheesesteak”
“Is There a Mrs. Waffles?”
“Those Big Pink Things with Coconut”
“Ate The Hamburgers, Wearing The Hats”
“Aunt Myra Doesn’t Pee a Lot”The Best 'Two And A Half Men' EpisodesSee all- 1The Two Finger Rule98 Votes
- 2Is There a Mrs. Waffles?347 Votes
- 3Ergo, The Booty Call118 Votes
Veronica Mars episode titles displayed the wit and charm that built enough audience love to fund a Veronica Mars film 6 years after the series ended and a miniseries revival another half-dozen years after the movie. Referencing everything from classic film to pulp novels, the episode titles packed puns into every possible word.
Standouts:
"The Wrath of Con"
"Silence of the Lamb"
"Clash of the Tritons"
"Lord of the Bling"
"Ruskie Business"
"Nevermind the Buttocks"
"Normal is the Watchword"
"Cheatty Cheatty Bang Bang"
"Rat Saw God"
"Rashard and Wallace Go To White Castle"
"The Rapes of Graft"
"My Big Fat Greek Rush Week"
"Wichita Linebaker"
"Of Vice and Men"
"Lord of the Pis"
"Mars, Bars"What To Watch If You Love 'Veronica Mars'See all- 1Buffy the Vampire Slayer40 Votes
- 2The Good Place40 Votes
- 3iZombie32 Votes
Combining the common sitcom habit of using the show title to inform the episode title format with show-appropriate nerdery, the majority of Freaks and Geeks episodes followed the "____ and ____" format, using rhyming words. Notable exceptions were "The Diary," "The Garage Door," and the unaired "Kim Kelly Is My Friend."
Standouts:
"Discos and Dragons"
"Chokin' and Tokin'"
"Noshing and Moshing"
"Smooching and Mooching"
"Carded and Discarded"
"Beers and Weirs"Based on a book series itself, all Gossip Girl episodes were named after films or novels - often with a punny twist. Explaining the naming convention, executive producer and writer Joshua Safran said, "we draw from classic works like Les Liaisons Dangereuses and The Great Gatsby as much as we do from pop culture."
Standouts:
"The Wild Brunch"
"Seventeen Candles"
"There Might Be Blood"
"The Serena Also Rises"
"The Blair B*tch Project"
"Victor, Victrola"
"Bad News Blair"How the Cast of Gossip Girl Aged from the First to Last SeasonSee all- 1Connor Paolo705 Votes
- 2Ed Westwick756 Votes
- 3Penn Dayton Badgley594 Votes
Other than the pilot, the titles of 2 Broke Girls episodes begin with "And," which paired with the show title to create a complete phrase.
Standouts:
"And the '90s Horse Party"
"And the Reality Check"
"And the Worst Selfie Ever"
"And Martha Stewart Have a Ball"
"And the Pre-Approved Credit Card"
"And the New Boss"
"And the Temporary Distraction"
"And the First Day of School"
"And the Move-In Meltdown"
"And the Maybe Baby"
"And the No New Friends"
"And the Loophole"
"And the Baby and Other Things"- 31
Each week on Chuck, he took on a new nemesis so episode titles were pretty simple, pitting Chuck against some big bad. Chuck took on more than any underachiever should have to in one lifetime. But he did and he conquered - in Converse.
Standouts:
"Chuck Versus the Sandworm"
"Chuck Versus the Imported Hard Salami"
"Chuck Versus the Broken Heart"
"Chuck Versus the Nacho Sampler"
"Chuck Versus the Beefcake" From puns to Friends references, Arrested Development showed absolute glee in naming its episodes. For a show that was cancelled twice and then found a home on Netflix, Arrested Development stands as one of those TV series that broke the mold and burned down the banana stand all on the same day and with Ron Howard narrating.
Please tell us that there's a band out there somewhere called Motherboy XXX.
Standouts:
Best Man for the Gob
Staff Infection
The One Where Michael Leaves
Motherboy XXX
Notapusy
Prison Break-In
Indian Takers
"Red Hairing"
"Señoritis"
Development ArrestedThe Best Arrested Development CharactersSee all- 1Gob Bluth1,944 Votes
- 2Tobias Fünke1,882 Votes
- 3Lucille Bluth1,596 Votes
- Before he made us love his blueness in Guardians of the Galaxy, before he pricked up his elf ears in The Hobbit trilogy, and before he had to Halt and Catch Fire, Lee Pace was Ned, the Pie Maker - our Pie Maker. Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller and his writers approached the episode titles with the same glee as they did the storylines and overall look and feel of the show. From the very first pilot, "Pie-lette," we knew we were in for something deadly delicious.
Standouts:
“The Fun in Funeral”
“Girth”
“Corpsicle”
“Frescorts”
“Dim Sum Lose Some”
“Window Dressed to Kill”
“Water & Power” - 34
Just like the carefully curated and designed sets, wardrobe, color of whisky, and ever evolving facial hair, the episode titles of Mad Men are equally handcrafted. Creator Matthew Weiner so wants us to get lost in his world, he keeps us enthralled with episode names that could only be conjured from a specific era. Also, the writers seemed to be fond of the word "hobo."
Standouts:
"For Those Who Think Young"
"The Hobo Code"
"Maidenform"
“Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency”
“Shut the Door, Have a Seat”
"For Those Who Think Young"
"The Gypsy and the Hobo"
"Meditations in an Emergency"
"The Chrysanthemum and the Sword"How The Cast Of 'Mad Men' Aged From The First To Last SeasonSee all- 1Marten Holden Weiner246 Votes
- 2Vincent Kartheiser219 Votes
- 3Kiernan Shipka205 Votes
At first blush the Nickelodeon teen sitcom Sam & Cat has traditional episode titles, but the addition of a hashtags not only fit the show's social media-aware storylines but made for easy online discussion as each episode aired.
Standouts:
"#FavoriteShow"
"#TextingCompetition"
"#SalmonCat"
"#TheKillerTunaJump: #Freddie #Jade #Robbie"
"#MadAboutShoe"
"#BlooperEpisode"
"#GettinWiggy"- 36
Deadwood creator David Milch made his own language rise from the mud of the burgeoning town and viewers either loved it or hated it. Mostly, loved well, until the shows abrupt end, rumored to be either about how much it took to produce the episodes or that Milch left to make the weird and nonsensical John from Cincinnati.
The Deadwood episode titles make us feel the Gold Rush magic all over again.
Standouts:
"Reconnoitering the Rim"
"Jewel's Boot Is Made for Walking"
"Requiem for a Gleet"
"Complications" (formerly "Difficulties")"
"E.B. Was Left Out"
"Amalgamation and Capital"
"The Whores Can Come"
"Tell Your God to Ready for Blood"
"Unauthorized Cinnamon"
"Tell Him Something Pretty" Set along Florida's gulf coast, the sitcom Cougar Town named all but two episodes of Cougar Town after songs by fellow Floridian Tom Petty.
Standouts:
"Here Comes My Girl"
"All Mixed Up"
"Fooled Again (I Don't Like It)"
"Free Fallin'"
"You Can Still Change Your Mind"
"Runnin' Down A Dream"
"Too Good to be True"
"The Wild One, Forever"
"Mary Jane's Last Dance"- 38
In line with the pretentious and intelligent characters on Frasier, the episode titles are high brow puns that always relate to what unfolds on-screen.
Standouts:
“Dad Loves Sherry, the Boys Just Whine”
"Our Father, Whose Art Ain't Heaven"
“A Tsar Is Born”
“Dial M for Martin”
"Taps At The Montana"
“Roz's Krantz and Gouldenstein Are Dead”
“Miracle On Third Or Fourth Street”The psychiatrist helms a radio call-in show in Seattle.The Best Episodes Of 'Frasier,' RankedSee all- 1Ham Radio917 Votes
- 2The Ski Lodge858 Votes
- 3Out With Dad510 Votes
