History PunBasedTitle / LiveActionTV

* ''Series/SchittsCreek'': The name of the town in an InUniverse joke as well, since Johnny Rose bought the town as a joke fo his son because of the name.

* ''Series/AlienNation''.

* ''Series/SydneyToTheMax'' episode titles are all references to 90s pop culture. To name a few...
** "Can't Dye This" - [[Music/MCHammer "U Can't Touch This"]].
** "Who Let the Dogs In" - "Who Let The Dogs Out?"
** "The Parent Track" - ''Film/TheParentTrap1998''.
** "The Lyin' King" - ''Franchise/TheLionKing1994''.
** "Caved and Confused" - ''Film/DazedAndConfused''.
** "Can't Hardly Date" - ''Film/CantHardlyWait''.
** "There's Something About Zach" - ''Film/TheresSomethingAboutMary''.
** "Nuthin' but a Dance Thang" - [[Music/DrDre "Nuthin' but a 'G 'Thang"]].
** "Never Been Pierced" - ''Film/NeverBeenKissed''.
** "Mo' Grandmas, Mo' Problems" - "Mo' Money, Mo' Problems".
** "I Know What You Did Last Sleepover" - ''Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer''.
** "Good Grade Hunting" - ''Film/GoodWillHunting''.
** "Adventures in Babe-sitting" - ''Film/AdventuresInBabysitting''.
** "You've Got Female" - ''Film/YouveGotMail''.
** "How Sydney Got Her Phone Back - ''Film/HowStellaGotHerGrooveBack''
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'':

** "The Parent Track" - ''Film/{{The Parent Trap|1998}}''.
** "The Lyin' King" - ''Disney/TheLionKing''.

* ''Series/TillDebtDoUsPart'', which is a reference to the phrase "Til death do us part."

* ''Series/{{CSIMiami}}'' had its share:

* Most episode titles of ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' are puns, especially puns that involve the words "witch", "charmed", etc., or the names of the characters.

* ''Series/{{CSI}}'' and spinoffs have had a few, including one called "Organ Grinder", which had nothing to do with that type of musician and everything to do with bodily organs being ground up; for once, the killer wasn't the one doing it; the Medical Examiner had to as part of an experiment.

* Series/SchittsCreek: The name of the town in an InUniverse joke as well, since Johnny Rose bought the town as a joke fo his son because of the name.

* Most episode titles of ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' are puns, especially puns that involve the words "witch", "charmed", etc., or the names of the characters.

* The ''Series/MooneBoys'' episode "Godfellas" is about altar boys (the "God" part) who act like gangsters (a la ''{{Film/Goodfellas}}''). ''{{WesternAnimation/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 Series/EurovisionSongContest contestant; the name suggests "Euro Star".

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* ''Miss Match'', the short-lived show about Kate Fox -- divorce attorney by day, matchmaker by night.
* [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming Every episode]] of ''Series/GossipGirl'' is titled with a pun on a movie title (eg. Pret-A-Poor J, The Serena Also Rises, The Goodbye Gossip Girl...)
* One of the cutaways on ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' featured the resident lawyer and janitor teaming up to take care of a young boy, portraying the situation as a TV sitcom called "Legal Custodians" (get it?)
* Most episode titles of ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' are puns, especially puns that involve the words "witch," "charmed," etc., or the names of the characters.
* ''Series/{{Ideal}}'': About a drug dealer.
* ''Series/TheITCrowd'': Combing the phrase "the it crowd," as in a group of cool people, and IT, professionals in information technology.
* ''Series/{{Seacht}}'' is Irish for 'seven', referring to the fact that it has seven main characters, but also sounds like the English word 'shocked'.
* ''Fáilte Towers'': portmanteau of ''Fawlty Towers'' and the Irish word "fáilte", meaning "welcome".
* ''You're A Star'': picked a Series/EurovisionSongContest contestant; the name suggests "Euro Star".
* ''In the Name of the Fada'': comedian Des Bishop learns to speak Irish, "fada" is an orthographic term. "In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit" is a Christian blessing.
* ''Sex & Sensibility'': about the history of sex in Ireland; puns on Creator/JaneAusten's ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility''.
* The miniseries ''Series/{{Glue}}'' has a title that refers to the ties binding the main characters together - and to what horses end up as.
* ''Series/OffBeatCinema'': "midnight movie" show which is hosted by beatniks and covers "offbeat" B-movies.

* ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' is about Zack and Cody's ''sweet'' life living in a hotel ''suite''. A number of episodes of both the show and its {{spinoff}} ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOnDeck'' also have pun-based titles.
* The ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' episode "Future Harper" features a number of books by "[[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed H.J. Darling]]", one of which is "Charmed and Dangerous".
* The fourth ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'' series is called - what else? - ''Blackadder Goes Forth''.
* Several ''Series/{{Lost}}'' episodes have pun-based titles, such as "Lockdown," which features John Locke pinned under a blast door. Michael Giacchino's score is ''riddled'' with groan-worthy puns, such as "Thinking Clairely," "Keamy Away From Him," and many, many more.
* The Australian TV series ''Packed to the Rafters'' is about the Rafter family, whose house is "packed" (after all the parents' adult children moved back in with them).
* ''Series/RulesOfEngagement'' (note: this only applies to the TV show, not the unrelated movie or three unrelated novels, all of which refer to the more standard definition of the term.)
* A short-lived Australian TV series titled ''Above the Law'' was set in an apartment complex situated above a police station.
* Referenced in an episode of ''Series/JonathanCreek'', "Ghosts Forge", in which a book called ''The Grave Digger'' turns out to be about a serious-minded Australian.
* ''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". And then there's [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG's "Ménage à Troi"]].
* ''Series/GetSmart'' was quite fond of these, especially late in the series when the title was shown in the opening credits, giving us the likes of "Widow Often Annie", "How Green was my Valet", "Smartacus"...
* A lot ''Series/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".
* ''Series/AlienNation''.

* The Not-Pictionary-honest game show ''Win, Lose or Draw''. The Gaelic-language version was given the CompletelyDifferentTitle ''De Tha Seo'' ("What's This?")
* Titles of ''Series/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")
* ''Series/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.
* ''Series/LoisAndClark'', about ''{{Superman}}'''s Lois Lane and Clark Kent and also a play on the explorers Lewis and Clark.
* ''Series/{{Chuck}}'s'' IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming occasionally veered into puns and {{Double Meaning Title}}s (most often the latter).
* The ''Series/BreakingBad'' episode "Face Off," in which [[spoiler:the season antagonist literally gets his face blown off.]]
* The ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' episode "The Broken Code", which refers to how Ted supposedly broke TheBroCode by holding hands with Robin (who was engaged to Barney at this point of the series).
* The ''Series/MooneBoys'' episode "Godfellas" is about altar boys (the "God" part) who act like gangsters (a la ''{{Film/Goodfellas}}''). ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'' had previously used the exact same pun for an episode that had much to do with God but not much with gangsters.

* ''Series/{{Elementary}}'s'' episode titles include "Corpse de Ballet"[[labelnote:*]]"corps de ballet"[[/labelnote]].
* ''Series/AScareAtBedtime'' -- its title is a parody of ''A Prayer at Bedtime'', a religious programme shown at night on sister channel RTÉ One that is about as far away as possible in content to ''this'' one.
* A ''Series/LawAndOrder'' episode about a break-in and murder at a fertility clinic (and resulting legal battle over preserved embryos and eggs) has the rather dark StealthPun title of "Scrambled." As in, scrambled eggs.
* ''Series/{{CSI}} and spinoffs have had a few, including one called "Organ Grinder," which had nothing to do with that type of musician and everything to do with bodily organs being ground up; for once, the killer wasn't the one doing it; the Medical Examiner had to as part of an experiment.

* The first episode of season three of ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' is called "Aruba-Con". It's set in Aruba and features a large gathering of people ("con" as in "convention"), it ''con''tinues from the last episode of the previous season which was called "Aruba", and it features Julius Cesaer, who compares a decision Sara must make to his own decision to take control of Rome ("a Rubicon").

* ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' is about Zack and Cody's life living in a hotel suite. A number of episodes of both the show and its {{spinoff}} ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOnDeck'' also have pun-based titles.