See bottle episode in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1996 February 12, Janet A. Dornhoff, “What are they filming now?”, in alt.tv.forever-knight (Usenet), message-ID <4fno37$t28@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>:",
"text": "That's pretty much what a \"bottle\" episode is; one that uses minimal sets, guest stars, effects, etc, and/or uses lots of clips from past episodes, in order to make a much cheaper episode.",
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"ref": "1998, Cinefantastique, volume 30, Oak Park, Ill.: Frederick S. Clarke, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 82:",
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"ref": "2004, Roz Kaveney, “Writing the Vampire Slayer: Interviews with Jane Espenson and Steven S. DeKnight”, in Roz Kaveney, editor, Reading the Vampire Slayer: The New, Updated, Unofficial Guide to Buffy and Angel, 2nd revised and expanded edition, New York, N.Y.: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 125:",
"text": "Even though they are moving, for large stretches 'Spiral' is a bottle episode.",
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"ref": "2018, M. King Adkins, “‘These are Their Stories’: Postmodern Spaces”, in Television Storyworlds as Virtual Space, Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 122:",
"text": "By the 2000s, the airwaves seemed full of shows not just making reference to other pop culture \"images,\" but wholly based on pop culture. [...] Community regularly turned episodes into extended homages to M*A*S*H, Doctor Who, and Christmas Claymation specials. In \"Cooperative Calligraphy,\" the show presents a \"bottle episode,\" during which Abed repeatedly reminds everyone they are in a \"bottle episode,\" pointing out each characteristic of such episodes as it occurs.",
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