Does anyone know why every episode (with the exception of "World Meets Girl") start with "Girl Meets"? In Boy Meets World, it had different names for the episodes.
shareI don't know but many shows do that. Friends had the "One with__" title for each episode. It is just something some shows.
shareThey wanted to do something special with the episode titles with this show. It doesn't matter how BMW had there's layed out.
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Every episode of Liv and Maddie is Something-a-Rooney
Every episode of Austin & Ally is Something and Something
Every episode of ANT Farm was someANTthing with caps
Every episode of Shake it Up was Something it Up
Every episode of Best Friends Whenever was A Time to Something for the first few episodes
The fact that people don't pay attention to stupid stuff like this and then complain about it is why I keep saying you guys have zero savviness whatsoever infact in the *beep* negatives. Get woke here people.
I don't know, but I wasn't a fan of it. It either made the moments more special than they needed to be, or they were too special to be a one-and-done... or the titles were too stupid to fit alongside "Girl Meets...".
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Like others have said all of the shows on the network do it.now. Lots of shows have themes with their titles: Gossip Girl did plays on movie titles, One Tree Hill, Rizzoli and Isles, Grey's Anatomy and True Blood named episodes after songs,
"Who lives, who dies, who tells your story"
La Femme Nikita (the first one, on USA) had one-word titles in its first season, two-word titles in its second, and so on.
iCarly always had "iSomething," Sam & Cat always had "#Something."
Seinfeld (1989) did the same as well. I believe co-creator Larry David stated that he wanted every episode title begin with "The" after the first season.
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990) also had a few episode titles start with the letter "I" in the sixth and final season. I'm not entirely sure of the reasoning behind it. I believe it may have had something to do with a book that Will Smith read or something along the lines.
And Speechless always has dashes in the title, like JJ was spelling it out on his board. 2 Broke Girls titles always start with "and the". Makes titles easier to connect to the show, I suppose? I wonder if like band names, episode titles can't be reused, even if accidental, on a different show.
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Forgive me if I repeat some of what others have written here:
I don't know about other network shows, vishSpal, but this has been a Disney Channel gimmick for years, more often — in my view — lazy rather than clever:
Shake It Up episodes always ended in "It Up" (except the series finale, "Remember Me").
A.N.T. Farm always worked in words containing ANT, even if it meant misspelling the word: Secret AgANT, UnwANTed, The ANTagonist.
Every Stuck In The Middle episode title starts with "Stuck," "Stuck In," or "Stuck In The."
Of course, every Liv & Maddie title ends in "a-Rooney." (I assume a-rooney is a slang expression of enthusiasm (an expression I thought I made up decades ago), and the titles are a play on that since the family name is Rooney.)
Fortunately, most series don't fall into the gimmick. I wish Girl Meets World had been one of them.
In my opinion the cleverest titling was on Hannah Montana, which appropriately paraphrased well-known song titles: Bad to the Chrome (based on "Bad to the Bone"), Debt It Be ("Let It Be"), Hannah On The Streets With Diamonds ("Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds").
Yeah, I know filankey is not a word, but it's gonna catch on.