Top 5 TV Bottle Episodes That Did More With Less
One room, no budget, no excuses: the episodes where a cheap set forced a show to discover what it was really about.
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The Suitcase — Mad Men
Don and Peggy stuck in an office overnight turns into the show's thesis statement, and that phone call still wrecks everyone who watches it.
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The Chinese Restaurant — Seinfeld
Twenty-two minutes of waiting for a table is the purest proof that a show about nothing could still be about everything.
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Cooperative Calligraphy — Community
A missing pen locks the study group in one room and gets more character work done than most shows manage in a whole season.
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The One Where No One's Ready — Friends
Real time, one apartment, Joey wearing all of Chandler's clothes, and it's still the funniest the gang ever got.
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Fly — Breaking Bad
People who call it filler are wrong: a man chasing one bug around a lab is the clearest look we ever get at Walt's guilt.