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Originally Posted by Reaper16
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.
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I think I learned what a "bottle episode" was by reading a recap of a Community episode.
It makes sense though. Some great things can come from those limitations, great acting and writing.