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Never heard about this term before, so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottle_episode
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what is a "bottle episode"?
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Archer - Vision Quest
Ever seen Man From Earth? Technically it's a movie but the whole thing happens in one location.
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Seinfeld “The Chinese Restaurant” S02E11
OZ: every episode was a bottle episode.
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So many good ones. They're often done to save budget, but if written well they can be some of the best in their series.
First thing that popped into my head though was Twilight Zone, "Five Characters in Search of an Exit".
So, not a TV show, but Small Gods is a Discworld book that minimally interacts with other books in the series. If you've never read Discworld and are intimidated by those reading order diagrams, it's a bottle book.
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Red Dwarf - Marooned
Only because OP took my 2 favourites already.
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Ren and Stimpy: “Rubber Nipple Salesmen”
Doctor Who reboot, season 3 episode 10: Blink. Minimal Doctor action, great villain and introduced Carey Mulligan to mainstream audiences.
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Inside No. 9
Every episode is a bottle episode.
None. Bottles sucks. I prefer bare wine.
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Stargate - Window of Opportunity
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Best friends forever from South Park.
At the end, there is a battle happening off screen that is supposedly more epic than the battles of lord of the rings.
When they pan to it, it’s like 3 soldiers with a few pools of blood.
The Box - Brooklyn 99 - s5e14
It made me a Sterling K. Brown fan for life.
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Not a episode, but the movie Greyhound is one of my favorite WWII movies and it takes place almost entirely inside the warships cabin
Either SG1s Grace or SGAs 38 Minutes.
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