bottle episode

[ bot-l ep-uh-sohd ]

noun

an episode of a television series set in a single limited or confined location, such as a hotel room or a broken elevator, and often using only a few regular cast members, sometimes undertaken as a cost-cutting measure or as a creative challenge.

Origin of bottle episode

¹

First recorded in 2000–05; perhaps modeled on ship in a bottle or to bottle up

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How to use bottle episode in a sentence

I did a bottle episode and then I was writing a mockumentary the next time.
‘Community’: Alison Brie, Yvette Nicole Brown, Gillian Jacobs & Megan Ganz Roundtable | Jace Lacob | February 28, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
It seems a small matter to us now that Charles Dickens should have been ashamed of the blacking-bottle episode of his boyhood.
George Borrow and His Circle | Clement King Shorter

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