bottle episode
n.— «They reversed the weather in two other episodes, writing in a blizzard that keeps everyone housebound and keeps the cameras inside. A show where the cast never gets outside is called “a bottle episode.”» —“Making Fake Flakes Isn’t So Easy for TV” by Emily Nelson Wall Street Journal Jan. 6, 2003. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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