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* ''[[Power Rangers]]'' occasionally uses a set formula for a season's episodes.
** ''[[Power Rangers Zeo]]'' used mangled song, movie, or book titles, such as ''[[wikipedia:Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?|Brother, Can You Spare an Arrowhead]]'', ''[[Pulp Fiction|Bulk Fiction]]'', ''[[wikipedia:The Spy Who Came In From the Cold|The Ranger Who Came In From the Gold]]'', and ''[[wikipedia:A Brief History of Time|A Brief Mystery of Time]]''.
** During Bruce Kalish's run on the series, episode titles had a set number of words: ''[[Power Rangers SPD]]'' episodes used single-word titles, ''[[Power Rangers Mystic Force]]''{{'}}s titles were always two words long (though they fudged it with "The Snow Prince"), and ''[[Power Rangers Operation Overdrive]]''{{'}}s were always three words long. As expected, ''[[Power Rangers Jungle Fury]]'' went with four word titles, but in addition, they're all pre-
* Almost every episode of ''[[Dragnet]]'' used a title of the form "The Big ______".
* Every episode of ''[[Love, American Style]]'' used a title of the form "Love and the ______" or "Love in the _____".
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== Real Life ==
* Moons
** Jupiter's moons are named after the lovers and descendants of [[Greek Mythology|Zeus]].
** Saturn's moons are named after other elder gods (originally the Titans, but expanded to include Norse, Gallic, and Inuit gods).
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** Neptune's moons are named after water spirits.
** Mars's two moons are named after the sons of Mars.
* Geographical features on any ball of rock or gas we can see have even more odd naming conventions: all craters on Mercury have to be named after dead artists. [[wikipedia:Planetary nomenclature|Thanks, Wikipedia!]]
* Everything on Venus is named after famous women or female mythological figures. Except the Maxwell Montes, Alpha Regio, and Beta Regio, because those were named before the convention was established.
* The planets themselves are named after the Roman gods. Uranus was a Greek god (the Roman counterpart being "Caelus"), and "Earth" derives from the Anglo-Saxon word ''erda'' which means dirt or soil. Terra is sometimes used, which means Earth in Latin and is the shorthand name of the Roman Earth goddess.
** Of course, "Earth" is only the English language term for the planet; each language tends to prefer its own inevitably ancient term. If any international term exists, it is, as the first troper suggested, "Terra". It being, well, ''Earth'', it has never been discovered, and so has never been formally labelled.
* The dark zones of basaltic rock on the Moon are called Seas (Mare in latin) and are usually called Sea of <Emotion> or Sea of <Water-related term>. The landing spot for Apollo 11 was in the Sea of Tranquility (Mare Tranquillitatis). Others include Sea of Serenity, Sea of Crisis, Sea of Vapor, [[Shaped Like Itself|Sea of Moisture]], Sea of Clouds. The major craters on the Moon are named after famous Astronomers: Copernicus, Tycho
* In a general sense, the International Astronomical Union gets together every so often to decide how surface features will be named once they are discovered
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