It's always the same episode!

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There are a few TV shows that I only watch now and again. But, it always seems to be the same episode.

Examples: Buffy - the one where Bridges is an evil robot or the one where she meets Dracula

Clueless - the one where main girl has to go to convention with geek

Dexter's Lab - the one where he battles his sister in big robot suit

Does this happen to you with shows you hardly ever see? Will I always see the same episode whenever I watch any of these shows?

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 16:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I watch The Simpsons whenever I can, and it's always the same episode.

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 16:33 (twenty-three years ago)

me + my flatmate had this bizarre thing
whereby *every* time we tried 2 watch
'police squad' it was the episode with
the boxer. every...single...time.

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 16:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Animaniacs - it's always the one where Pinky & The Brain try to take over the world by travelling back in time and changing history.

original Star Trek - it's always the one where Kirk gets split in two (this is because this happens in every episode).

The News - it's always the one where some guys are telling me about world events.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 16:36 (twenty-three years ago)

League of Gentleman: The one where the Unemployment Officer gets found out.

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 16:46 (twenty-three years ago)

the simpsons is always flaming moes

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 19:40 (twenty-three years ago)

The Office, for me, is always the episode with the guitar. In fact, I made this point to my friend the other night after he'd suggested we watch an episode, and he abruptly fast forwarded on to the next one :)

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 20:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Terry and June is always the one where his boss and Japanese clients are coming for dinner.

I saw two simpsons episodes I hadn't seen before the other day, I was mightily shocked.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 20:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Clarissa Explains All: The one where Fergus creates a poetry machine.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 20:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Whenever I watch the Simpsons it's a different episode, but AT LEAST half the time it's a Halloween special with horror movie pastiches. I don't get too crazy about this cartoon, and I only end up watching it once every few months when there's nothing else on (I only see terrestrial UK TV). Can any Simpsons addicts tell me how likely this is, statistically? For instance, if there're only six new episodes a year or something, then I suppose it's not too improbable that I always see the one out of six that is halloween.

― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 10 September 2002 20:22 (twenty-three years ago)

terrestrial uk viewing does get a lot of repeats, as they only have a limited number of series. I think

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 20:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Bagpuss - the breadcrumbs and butterbeans machine episode.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 10 September 2002 21:12 (twenty-three years ago)

that's not fair, i NEVER get to see the breadcrumbs and butterbeans episode! *sulks*

― katie (katie), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 07:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Also: Mr Benn, Cowboys and Indians episode (SPOILER: Mr Benn hides on top of the TOTEM POLE!!!).

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 08:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Bangbus - the one where they pick up a girl off the street.

― Simeon (Simeon), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 08:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Bart The Fucking General.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 08:49 (twenty-three years ago)

the bbc simpsons random recycle principle is that any show from any series can be shown as a repeat any time: obviously this means that we are likely to have seen the very first eps several million times more

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 11:05 (twenty-three years ago)

god yeah! if i see flaming moe's one more time....

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 13:48 (twenty-three years ago)

the bbc simpsons random recycle principle is that any show from any series can be shown as a repeat any time:

The US syndication random recycle principle is the same. I've seen the Halloween episodes in July, September, and January.

― Christine "Green Leafy Dragon" Indigo (cindigo), Wednesday, 11 September 2002 14:52 (twenty-three years ago)

In answer to Eyeball Kicks: they get about 22 new episodes a year in the states. They may show the halloween ones more often over here because, let's face it, they are the best.

I keep seeing the alternate universe Friends (Fat Chandler etc), to the point where I was wondering if they did an entire series of it.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 12 September 2002 14:02 (twenty-three years ago)

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