History PunBasedTitle / LiveActionTV

* ''Series/TheITCrowd'': About a bunch of IT workers.

** There was also a documentary about an inept tour company. The documentary was called ''Faulty Tours''.

* ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' has several layers - the overall plot is about the head of a development company who's been arrested, the characters themselves are in various states of arrested development, and (initially at least) the company's development work is pretty much on hold ("arrested," one might say), because of the arrests.

%%* ''Series/FullHouse''

* The ''Series/MooneBoys'' episode "Godfellas" is about altar boys (the "God" part) who act like gangsters (a la ''{{Film/Goodfellas}}''). ''{{Series/Futurama}}'' had previously used the exact same pun for an episode that had much to do with God but not much with gangsters.

* ''You're A Star'': picked a EurovisionSongContest contestant; the name suggests "Euro Star".

* Some 90% of CornerGas episodes are titled with puns combining two or more of the episode's storylines. (I.e. "American Resolution", which focuses on New Year's resolutions and a character fighting a perceived American identity.)

* ''TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' is about Zack and Cody's life living in a hotel suite. A number of episodes of both the show and its {{spinoff}} ''TheSuiteLifeOnDeck'' also have pun-based titles.
* The ''WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' episode "Future Harper" features a number of books by "[[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed H.J. Darling]]", one of which is "Charmed and Dangerous".

* A lot ''HomeImprovement'' episodes have this type of title. Many of them are {{Epunymous Title}}s, such as "It Was the Best of Tims, It Was the Worst of Tims" and "Al's Fair in Love and War".

* ''FullHouse''

* ''BoyMeetsWorld'' is a pun on the expression "BoyMeetsGirl". Also, several episodes have this type of title, such as "No Guts, No Cory".

* Titles of ''HannahMontana'' episodes (usually) contain puns on the titles of popular songs ("You Are So Sue-able To Me"; "I Want You To Want Me...To Go To Florida")
* ''SonnyWithAChance'' is a pun on a weather report ("sunny with a chance of rain") and the title character ''Sonny'' Munroe having ''a chance'' to succeed in Hollywood.

* The fourth ''{{Blackadder}}'' series is called - what else? - ''Blackadder Goes Forth''.

* [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming Every episode]] of ''GossipGirl'' is titled with a pun on a movie title (eg. Pret-A-Poor J, The Serena Also Rises, The Goodbye Gossip Girl...)

* ''{{Ideal}}'': About a drug dealer.

* ''{{Seacht}}'' is Irish for 'seven', referring to the fact that it has seven main characters, but also sounds like the English word 'shocked'.

* ''LoisAndClark'', about ''{{Superman}}'''s Lois Lane and Clark Kent and also a play on the explorers Lewis and Clark.
* ''{{Chuck}}'s'' IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming occasionally veered into puns and {{Double Meaning Title}}s (most often the latter).

* ''Fáilte Towers'': pun on ''Fawlty Towers'' and the Irish word "Fáilte", meaning "welcome".

* ''Series/{{Elementary}}'s'' episode titles include "Corpse de Ballet"[[labelnote:*:"corps de ballet"]].

* The ''BreakingBad'' episode "Face Off," in which [[spoiler:the season antagonist literally gets his face blown off.]]

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* ''Franchise/StarTrek'' episode titles usually don't go here, but of twelve episodes featuring Q, eight make a pun on "Q". ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' also has groaner of an episode title with "Trials and Tribble-ations".

* ''RosemaryAndThyme'': Their names are Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme, they run a nursery and they solve crimes.