When watching a television episode of any kind, the title isn't always apparent to viewers right away. Until fans look up their favorite shows online, they might not know what the episode titles are. Some series writers tie all a show's episodes together with a specific theme or choice of words.

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These titles could be inside jokes for the writers or play into a deeper aspect of the series overall. The titles might relate to the obvious point of the series, or they might just be a fun running gag or play on words. Which shows have creative themes tying each episode title together?

Friends

Friends

Friends is one of the most famous shows to employ a witty episode theme that fans truly appreciate. Titles begin with "The One with" or "The One Where," occasionally switching out "one" or "where" for other prepositions. The series finale is an exception of sorts, emotionally being called "The Last One."

Other episodes throughout the show's ten seasons are captured through seemingly random titles like "The One with All the Thanksgivings," "The One Where the Monkey Gets Away," and "The One with Monica and Chandler's Wedding." It's almost like fans can hear the Friends characters telling stories using the titles.

Seinfeld

Seinfeld wears the puffy shirt in front of Elaine

Seinfeld (1989-1998) also begins its episode titles with "the," but they are purposefully simple. The theme here is that a given title tells the episode's story in a nutshell and makes that episode easily recognizable for fans.

Classic examples are "The Puffy Shirt," "The Big Salad," "The Soup Nazi," and "The Dinner Party." Just seeing those words takes the fans through all the laughs again and again.

Everybody Hates Chris

Everybody Hates Chris cast photo

Instead of putting an article like "the" in front of every episode title, Everybody Hates Chris (2005-2009) places "Everybody Hates" at the beginning of each phrase.

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Episodes could be anything from "Everybody Hates Picture Day" to "Everybody Hates Rejection" to "Everybody Hates Lasagna." People's names, holidays, school events, and other episode topics are revealed in each title.

Caroline In The City

Caroline in the City-collage of cast members

Caroline in the City (1995-1999) begins its episode titles with "Caroline and the." Caroline Duffy is a successful New York City comic strip cartoonist. Her comics are inspired by her real life, and the titles sound like comic titles, too. Some are more focused on Caroline's relationships, like "Caroline and the Blind Date" or "Caroline and the Younger Man."

Others could hint at any number of topics, like the hilarious "Caroline and the Cat Dancer," an episode featuring David Hyde Pierce as an IRS auditor (even though he also appears on the series in his role from Frasier).

Scrubs

Scrubs walks while showing off his white coat

Medical sitcom Scrubs (2001-2010) has a theme that changes slightly in the series' later seasons. Seasons one through eight mostly place the word "my" before the rest of the episode title, like "My First Day" for the first episode. The stories are almost always told from the perspective of John Michael "J.D." Dorian (Zach Braff), hence the "my."

On the rare occasion that another character tells the story, the title switches to "his" or "her." The final season changes the "my" to "our" because the narrative moves from J.D. to new medical students.

iCarly

The cast of iCarly

iCarly (2007-2012) had its episodes follow a technological pattern. Like the title of the series, episodes began with a lower-case letter "i." Sometimes, the letter would stand-in for the pronoun "I," as in "iWant More Viewers" or "iAm Your Biggest Fan."

Other times, the letter is used just as creatively with titles like "iQ" or "iPear Store" (Nickelodeon shows at this time had pears on their tech devices instead of apples). Spin-off Sam & Cat (2013-2014) followed suit by using hashtags in front of episode titles.

Girl Meets World

Girl Meets World cast photo

Girl Meets World (2014-2017) kept its episode titles similar to its series title. The show took the coming-of-age aspect of its predecessor, Boy Meets World, and concentrated that mostly in the middle school years with Cory's daughter, Riley Matthews.

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Riley's developments throughout the series are described in episode titles such as "Girl Meets Boy," "Girl Meets Cory and Topanga," and "Girl Meets Goodbye."

Hannah Montana

Miley Cyrus - Hannah Montana

Another Disney Channel show to get creative with episode naming is Hannah Montana (2006-2011). Episode titles are often spoofs on song titles, which is just right for a pop star like Hannah. The title speaks to Miley Stewart's struggles as much as Hannah Montana's pop star world.

A couple of examples are "Achy Jakey Heart" (playing on Miley's dad's biggest hit in real life, "Achy Breaky Heart") and "He Ain't a Hottie, He's My Brother," which parodies The Hollies' "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother."

Young & Hungry

Emily Osment as Gabi Diamond on Young & Hungry

After Hannah Montana, Emily Osment starred in Freeform's Young & Hungry (2014-2018).

Osment plays a young chef named Gabi Diamond, and all her stories after the pilot episode start with "Young &," like "Young & Old," "Young & Unemployed," "Young & Bowling," and "Young & Magic."

WandaVision

Wanda and Vision hold Tommy and Billy in Wandavision

To date, every episode of WandaVision is titled with a phrase that has to do with television and sitcoms. The eight existing titles are as follows: "Filmed Before A Live Studio Audience," "Don't Touch That Dial," "Now in Color," "We Interrupt This Program," "On a Very Special Episode...," "All-New Halloween Spooktacular!," "Breaking the Fourth Wall," and "Previously On."

Wanda and Vision are trapped in a world of sitcoms from the 1950s to the modern-day, so these episode titles are brilliant in paying homage to the sitcoms referenced in the series.

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