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Sitcom vs Episode - What's the difference?

sitcom | episode |

As nouns the difference between sitcom and episode

is that sitcom is a situation comedy: an episodic comedy television program with a plot or storyline based around a particular humorous situation or sitcom can be while episode is episode (all meanings).

sitcom

English

Etymology 1

From ; situation comedy.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A situation comedy: an episodic comedy television program with a plot or storyline based around a particular humorous situation.

    • Etymology 2

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1992 , author=Earl G. Hunt, Jr. , title=Recovering the Sacred: Papers From the Sanctuary and the Academy , isbn=0963130803 , publisher=Jonathan Creek Press , page=254 , passage="Today we have Grumps'' (grim, ruthless, upwardly mobile professionals), ''Dinks'' (those with dual-income, no kids), ''Sitcoms'' (those with single-income, two children, outrageous mortgages); and, just to recognize the graying populace in this country, ''Opals (older people with active lifestyles)."}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1993 , author=Daniel Moreau , title=Kiplinger's Facing Forty: How to Deal Successfully with the Changes in Your Life , isbn=0938721240 , publisher=Kiplinger Books , page=7 , passage="There are MINKs (multiple income, no kids) and what may be the acronym of the '90s, SITCOMs (single income, two children, outrageous mortgage)."}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2003 , author=Judith Sealander , title=The Failed Century of the Child: Governing America's Young in the Twentieth Century , isbn=0521535689 , publisher=Cambridge University Press , page=12 , passage="By the end of the 1990s, in some circles, parents had become SITCOMS (single income, two children, oppressive mortgage) and those without children were THINKERS (two healthy incomes, no kids, early retirement)."}} ----

    episode

    English

    (wikipedia episode)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An incident or action standing out by itself, but more or less connected with a complete series of events.
  • :
  • * {{quote-book, year=1935, author=
    • , chapter=10/6, title= The Norwich Victims , passage=The Attorney-General, however, had used this episode , which Martin in retrospect had felt to be a blot on the scutcheon, merely to emphasise the intelligence and resource of the prisoner.}}
  • An installment of a drama told in parts, as in a TV series.
  • :
  • *{{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 20, author=Nathan Rabin
    • , title= TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992) , work=The Onion AV Club , passage=We all know how genius “Kamp Krusty,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” “Homer The Heretic,” “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie” and “Mr. Plow” are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs and some of the smartest, darkest, and weirdest gags ever Trojan-horsed into a network cartoon with a massive family audience.}}

    Derived terms

    * episodic * episodical

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