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Originally Posted by notorious
Uh-oh.
You just called "Fly" a filler episode. Get ready for the hurt some of the fansof the episode are going to bring.  |
Well, he's not wrong. The term is "bottle episode," and they are purely a product of budget constraints.
Of course, as writers know, formal constraints can often lead to great creativity. So some bottle episodes become transcendent. -- "Fly" being perhaps television's preeminent example of this.