Have you ever mixed up episode titles to a degree that the stories would be humorous if the titles were swapped? For a long time I confused “What Are Little Girls Made Of?” and “Miri”. Imagine if there was an episode about kids turning into robots or a a virus that made robots act like kids.

  • GraniteM@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    I was working on a Shakespeare play one time and I started keeping notes on lines that sounded like episode titles. These are all from the same play:

    The Feverous Earth

    The Parallel Fellow

    The Volume of Time

    The Borrower of the Night

    A Fruitless Crown

    That Which We Destroy

    The Tender Eye

    The Timely Inn

    The Season of All Natures

    The Power of Man

    His Earth-Bound Root

    To Appease an Angry God

    In the Tyrant’s Grasp

    Blunt Not the Heart

    The Seeds of Time

    The Golden Round

    Honor Unaccompanied

    The Serpent and the Flower

    Full disclosure: I was thinking of these as Doctor Who titles, but I think the principle is sound.

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    17 hours ago

    It’s not exactly what you’re describing, but I have an absolutely miserable time with the generic, one-word titles that seemed so prevalent in the '90s in particular.

    “Vortex”

    “Whispers”

    “Emanations”

    “Resolutions”

    “Anomaly”

    And on and on and on…