It sounds a lot like La jabonera (Soapdish) to me.

I'm pretty sure a man with Gallinger's "breeding" only calls out "Mrs. Gallinger" when orgasming. Anything less would be gauchely overfamiliar and undignified.

Yeah, what is this, the Deadwood forum? Let's have a little decorum. :-)

We will see, but that seems possible.

Sorry, misplaced comment.

Needs more "First person to spot the error in this review gets a special AVClub No-Prize!"

Weird uncle libelz!

Who knew, the A in AMO was for Acme, all along.

They were from fake-out radioactive earth, not Kobol.

I thought of the Friends one, but in that case it's not just the smaller space, it's doing it in one scene in real time. I don't have time to check, but I suspect that's true of at least some of your other examples. It's actually a fairly ambitious undertaking for a sitcom to structure an episode that way.

"A Very Venture Christmas" for the win.

It has to be a mirror, Madame President! Video cameras are subject to Cylon tampering.

If Alex and Dylan were both in the show, they'd have to start dating at some point. I'm pretty sure that's a Sitcom Rule or something.

The problem is, they keep saying time travel is bad because of unforeseen consequences, but it never works out that way.

Dylan can be the guy who crashes on the couch and they can't ever quite work up the nerve to ask him to leave.

If you don't want him to show up, just start pitching story ideas in the comment section.

Do sitcoms even have bottle episodes? They often have entire episodes that take place in just a few or even one set. How many episodes of Cheers took place entirely in the bar?

They have applied, but the EU has always found reasons to not move their application forward.

Not to mention Lucy Lawless.

Hodgkin's Law of Parallel Planetary Development is your friend.