One episode, " The Way ", which loosely interpreted elements of Hinduism as major plot points, generated controversy, requiring the producers to add a disclaimer at the head of the episode and a tag explaining the episode's intentions at its end.

Howerd was central to most of the gags and he started each episode with a prologue — a " to camera " piece that was seldom concluded and rarely had anything to do with the episode's plot.

In his 1959 promotional film shown to potential sponsors, Rod Serling summarized an earlier version of this episode's plot under its original title, " Death, Destry, and Mr. Dingle.

* Synopsis — a brief summary of the episode's plot

As a result, Stanley scorned the US film industry and relocated to France, where he became a national star ( parodying the similar career move of Jerry Lewis ), but he still nursed a bitter grudge against Bugs, culminating in the episode's plot.

Nelson's Muppets on The Muppet Show were all only supporting roles, but they did occasionally play a central role in an episode's plot.

He demonstrates mastery of whatever field of science is convenient for a given episode's plot ; however, in the episode Mars University when asked what he is teaching, he responds: " The same thing I teach every semester, the mathematics of quantum neutrino fields.

In his memoir Star Trek: Memories, William Shatner called this one of the series ' worst episodes — in the full general autobiography Up Till Now, he called the episode's plot a " tribute " to NBC executives who slashed the show's budget and placed it in a bad time slot.

Each episode's plot involved Sneekly trying to kill Penelope and claim her fortune for himself.

The plot of this episode is based on the Battle of Thermopylae, while the episode's artistic style is a homage to Frank Miller's comic book, 300.

These segments were interspersed with each episode's three main plot segments.

* Weeds – the song " Little Boxes " is performed by a different artist ( seasons 2 – 3 ); a different object, generally alluding to the episode's plot, morphs into the series logo.

Short films, often less than a minute long, were often inserted as breaks in the episode's main plot, narrated by Robyn Hayle ( the same actress who provided the voice of TXL ).

J. Michael Straczynski considered having their characters interact, but could not develop a satisfactory scene where this could occur logically in the episode's plot.

In an episode of the BBC drama series Dalziel and Pascoe, a public house situated on the North York Moors which the episode's plot revolves around is named ' The Barguest ', and features a large black dog on its sign.

As an adult, Fester took correspondence courses in various subjects, and his educational endeavors occasionally formed an episode's main plot.

Myers was upset with the resolution of this episode's plot, in which Leo McGarry brushes off C. J.

The plot idea for the episode was pitched by Jean, who wanted to expand on Lisa's personality, even though some of the Simpsons writers were concerned over the episode's originality.

The episode's main plot, in which Lisa becomes a Buddhist, was pitched by Jean, who wanted to expand Lisa's personality.

When he pitched the plot idea to the Simpsons writing staff, they became concerned about the episode's originality.

The episode's plot is similar to the plot of the original Rollerball movie.

The episode's title is the name of the medical facility run by Starfleet Medical and the Denobulans, where much of this episode's plot unfolds.

Parts of this episode's plot have been repeated and parodied several times in popular culture, including television shows, films, radio, and music.

ITV was accused of engineering this in order to damage the final episode's expected high ratings, but was later cleared by the Independent Television Commission.

Nimoy explained this to the episode's director and, according to Nimoy, the director had no idea what he was talking about.

Mark Wilson was on hand again as the episode's " magic consultant " as well.

Bob's design was updated for " Krusty Gets Busted "; as the episode's animation style evolved, director Brad Bird made the character of Sideshow Bob sleeker and more refined, to fit Grammer's voice technique.

The episodes were filmed and then shown to preview audiences, whose laughter was recorded and then mixed into each episode's soundtrack to provide a laugh track and avoid the use of canned laughter.

The visual quality of the second episode's recording was considered so poor ( a fly entered the gap between the camera and monitor at one point ) that the remainder of the series was not recorded.

The episode's conclusion was that the controversy will continue to grow.

The episode's title was borrowed by a song on The Fall's 1992 album Code: Selfish, and a 2004 independent film about a man who tries to escape an office building.

Ronnie later made a guest appearance on the October 18, 1954 episode (" Gracie Gives Wedding in Payment of a Favor ") playing a character named " Jim Goodwin " prior to his debut as a regular, and was formally introduced to the audience at the episode's conclusion.

On 27 September 1950 installment, the audience was treated to a surprise --- Colman himself had written the script, poking a little fun at himself at the finish when he himself gave the episode's credits.

" A writer was then selected to create an outline of the episode's concept – occasionally with some dialogue and jokes – in one day.

According to the episode's podcast on Startrek. com, the dog that portrayed the mirror Porthos was known on set as an even bigger " baby " than the dogs which have played the regular Porthos.

As originally broadcast, the episodes opened with animated matchstick figures of Arnaz and Ball making reference to whoever the particular episode's sponsor was.

Grimley's fellow cartoon characters included Grimley's landlord Leo Freebus ( voiced by Jonathan Winters ), Leo's wife Deidre ( Andrea Martin ), his ditzy, amateur actress neighbor Ms. Malone ( voiced by Catherine O ' Hara ; a female character by the name of Ms. Malone did appear on an SNL version of an Ed Grimley sketch on the season ten episode hosted by Alex Karras, but Ms. Malone was played by that episode's musical guest Tina Turner ), and her little brother, Wendell.

This episode's credits featured Kapture but not Estes, for the only time in the series ; and also Kokotakis, along with Tyler Layton, who was introduced in the episode as detective Holly Rawlins.

The song " Belly of the Beast " by Anthrax was itself based on the episode's story.

Logan St. Clair was created to be a recurring character, which is evident in the episode's dialogue, but only appeared once.

In " Metamorphosis ", Cochrane was played by Glenn Corbett, who was 37 at the time of that episode's airing.

The episode's debut on the DVD format was as a part of The Simpsons season one DVD set, which was released on September 25, 2001.