From 'Grey's Anatomy' to 'Supernatural': TV shows that used song titles for episode names

Three hundred episodes ago, Grey’s Anatomy admitted us to Seattle Grace Hospital with a pilot episode titled “A Hard Day’s Night.” By the end of the show’s 2005 midseason run, which ended with the in-our-face titled “Who’s Zoomin’ Who,” we knew we were getting more than just a random Aretha Franklin reference. Every Grey’s Anatomy episode — and there are a lot of them — is named after a song, with every artist from BJ Thomas (“Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head”) to Metallica (“Where the Wild Things Are”) represented. In a clever Season 2 two-parter, one R.E.M. song was even used for two episode titles. The infamous “bomb” episode, “It’s the End of the World,” was followed one week later with “As We Know It.” All they were missing was a third part titled “And I Feel Fine.”

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