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

The audience's first critical assumption — that this is a " musical episode " where the Buffy cast is presumably unaware that they are singing — is overturned when it becomes clear that the characters are all too aware of their musical interludes and that determining the supernatural causes for the singing will be the focus of the episode's story.

Toying with many television conventions, Monty Python's Flying Circus ( 1969 – 74 ) played around with the concept of cold opens, sometimes having an entire episode before the starting credits, and, in two instances (" The Cycling Tour ", the first episode to have a full-length story, and " The Golden Age of Ballooning ", the first episode of series four ) had no opening credits at all ( the former has a brief title card with the episode's title, and the latter has no titles because Terry Gilliam had not finished the new opening sequence ).

The episode's story was continued in a novel mini-series Star Trek: Mirror Universe.

The episode's story mainly consists of a relationship between Julian Bashir and Melora Pazlar, an Elaysian whose species ' physiology is generally incompatible with the strength of artificial gravity found on most humanoid communities, including Deep Space Nine.

Each episode begins with a pre-credits teaser in which an odd incident occurs or a discussion foreshadows the episode's story.

One letter received by the production team before the transmission of episode five came from a woman in Haverfordwest who was concerned that she would never find out what happened in the end as the week before the final episode's transmission she was due to move to Ireland to spend the rest of her life in a convent ; she wondered if the BBC could possibly write to her and let her know how the story resolved.

The episode's title is a reference to the short story " The Tell-Tale Heart " by Edgar Allan Poe.

Each episode's story is generally self-contained although there are some ongoing story threads, such as the gradual revelation of Robin's sexuality to the other characters and his unrequited infatuation with Ben from the post room.

" Featured character ( s )" refers to the character ( s ) whose back story is featured in the episode's flashbacks.

" Having an episode's worth of story told in front of the class was later used in the eighth season episode " Woodland Critter Christmas ", which has Cartman telling a Christmas themed story ( in a plot twist ).

Doug Pratt, a DVD reviewer and Rolling Stone contributor, thought the episode's story was " nicely composed, so you don't have to recognize the Citizen Kane references to appreciate the effort, but it adds to the fun.

Other oft-repeated elements include reading a story to Molly, who sometimes either chooses a story to hear, gives Loonette a book and glasses ( often by holding the book and wearing reading glasses ), or turning on the lights for Loonette ; visits to various places in " Clowntown ", songs that emphasize the episode's lessons or themes, and a trip to Granny Garbanzo's garden.

He appreciated the episode's parodies of a mix of subjects, and its ability to bring them together into a coherent story.

In his review, Haigh criticized the Simpsons writers for not making sense of the story, and denounced the episode's ending for being " abrupt.

* A brief Guignol-style puppet show recapping some element of the episode's story.

Growing Pains ( October 29, 1994 ) – The Old Witch takes over telling this episode's story after turning the Cryptkeeper into a scarecrow.

As the first radio episode's writing progressed, the Guide became the central focus of his story, and he decided to base the whole series around it, with the initial destruction of Earth being the only hold-over from the " Ends of the Earth " proposal.

James Greene of Nerve. com however, put the episode seventh on his list Ten Times The Simpsons Jumped the Shark, criticizing " shoehorning six rock stars into a Homer-recaptures-his-youth story " and the fact that " the episode's namesake, Joe Strummer, wasn't even in the fucking thing!

" Featured character ( s )" refers to the character ( s ), whose back story is featured in the episode's flashbacks.

The title, as well as the episode's premise, is based on the 1993 drama film Indecent Proposal and follows the story of the film loosely.

An episode is considered " First Run " if aired within two weeks of that episode's initial air date.

This is illustrated on this episode's page on InfoSphere.

The episode's significance is in his forced introspection about his life, and its meaning, while contemplating his impending death by formal execution ; only in formal trial and death does he acknowledge his mortality and responsibility for his own life.

In the episode's epilogue, Sam is shown to have returned to Beth, appearing to her as himself, assuring her that Al is safe and will return to her ; this results in Al and Beth remaining happily married in the future, while Sam never returns to the future.

Also in the episode " Flaming Moe's ," a person in the bar is shown to have that episode's provocative name ( Hugh Jass, or " Huge ass "), and when he takes the phone, Bart quickly explains about it being a prank call and they hang up with Hugh Jass saying " what a nice young man.

Every episode's name is meant to be a suffix to the word " bottom ".

A still photo from the episode's shoot scene with Mike Wallace is on page 68 of the book 60 Minutes ': 25 Years of Television's Finest Hour ( 1993 ) by Frank Coffey.

At the two-part episode's conclusion, Pike is reunited with Vina and given the illusion of perfect health.

Although it is implied that nuclear warfare has destroyed humanity, film critic Andrew Sarris notes that the episode's necessarily unrealistic format may have been what allowed its production to commence:

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

The fifth and final episode's status is unknown, but presumed to exist.

The daughter has taken to calling Jerry " Uncle Jerry ", but by the episode's end, it is said she now refers to him as " daddy "-to the clear discomfort of Elaine and Jerry.

The ship is shown ( by a postcard ) to have reached a planet named Siluria with its dinosaurs at the episode's conclusion.

*, an unnamed female voice that presents a short tale in the prologue before each episode that is often related to the theme of the episode's title.

The music during the episode's final scene, for example, is the same as that which played at the conclusion of the Fourth Doctor's regeneration into the Fifth in Logopolis.

The episode's setting is stated in dialogue and a newspaper masthead as being 18 – 25 December 1981, and Sarah Jane's experiences with the Doctor and UNIT are in her past, indicating that the Third and Fourth Doctor serials took place more or less contemporaneously to their original broadcast dates.

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.

The episode's name is the first usage of the phrase " Where No Man Has Gone Before " in Star Trek.

* The episode's title is a reference to the third line in the nursery rhyme " Rock-a-bye Baby ".

A similar situation occurred during a cooking segment featuring British chef Jamie Oliver, beginning with Letterman eating raw onions and resulting in Oliver, the episode's first guest Tom Cruise, and later Paul Shaffer, and him all drinking from a bottle of olive oil.

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.

Sir Greville had his first dealings with B ' Stard in this episode who implied he would expose him unless he agreed a similar arrangement for B ' Stard, and thus became a suspect for the audience in Alan's shooting at the episode's climax.

* The second episode of the anime series Cowboy Bebop, " Stray Dog Strut ", further plays homage with the episode's main antagonist being named Abdul Hakim ( after Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's character ) and bearing a strikingly similar appearance.

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

The third episode's overworld is a top-down perspective, similar to Commander Keen, changing to the traditional platformer style when entering one of the 15 levels.

At the episode's titular park, Homer converts $ 1, 100 to " Itchy & Scratchy Money ", advertised by the ticket-taker as similar to regular money, but " fun ".

The revamped " Mr. Plow commercial " is a parody of a similar perfume commercial that aired at the time of the episode's production.

The episode's kanji title " 頑駄無 異歩流武 " ( ガンダム イボルブ ) is actually a pun similar to Lady Mondegreen, and is read as " Gan Da Mu I Bo Ru Bu ", namely " Gundam Evolve ".