Wait, I thought "bottle episode" was called that because the limited set and scope made it feel like you were bottling up the characters in a small room, like bugs in a bottle.
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Wait, I thought "bottle episode" was called that because the limited set and scope made it feel like you were bottling up the characters in a small room, like bugs in a bottle. TIL it's a reference to them being so quick and cheap to produce "as in pulling an episode right out of a bottle like a genie"
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Wait, I thought "bottle episode" was called that because the limited set and scope made it feel like you were bottling up the characters in a small room, like bugs in a bottle. TIL it's a reference to them being so quick and cheap to produce "as in pulling an episode right out of a bottle like a genie"
@renkotsuban I thought what you did & The Other Wiki
️ seems to believe it, too 
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BottleEpisode - sadly, both they & we are set right by Merriam-Webster, who seem to have brought receipts: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bottle%20episode - although while MW claims the term was coined all the way back in -64, they also state that the first use was as recently as 2003, so... what was the phrase doing all that time? I think that may be the real mystery
