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See also [[To Be Continued]] and [[Five Episode Pilot]].
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== [[Anime and Manga]] ==▼
▲=== [[Anime and Manga]] ===
* ''[[Nanoha As]]'' had a two-parter explaining the season's [[Anti-Villain|Anti Villains]]' origin story. ''[[Nanoha Striker S]]'' contained two two-parter episodes, one introducing the seasons' [[MacGuffin Girl]] and one where she {{spoiler|is kidnapped, setting up the [[Final Battle]]}}.
=== [[Live Action TV]] ===
* ''[[NCIS]]'' has quite a few of these for season finales, i.e. "Hiatus", "Kill Ari", etc.
* Case in point, although rarely dubbed "Part 1 & 2", the only two-or-more-parters in ''[[The X-Files]]'' were the ones that dealt with the [[Myth Arc]]. In fact, after season 1, standalone mythology episodes became very rare.
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* ''[[The Golden Girls]]'' had a few, including 'We're Outta Here' 'the [[Very Special Episode]] 'Sick and Tired',and the series finale, 'One Flew Out Of The Cuckoo's Nest'.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* ''[[South Park]]'' has "Cartoon Wars" and "Pandemic".
* ''[[American Dad]]'': "Stan of Arabia".
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* ''[[Jem]]'' had "The Music Awards" and "The Jem Jam" in the first season, "The Talent Search" and "Hollywood Jem" in the second season, and "The Stingers Hit Town" in the third season,
* To date, ''[[The Simpsons]]'' has only had one two-parter, "Who Shot Mr. Burns?", which was split over the end of Season 6 and the start of Season 7.
=== Examples (Type 2): ===▼
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=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* The [[Grand Finale]] of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', ''Sozin's Comet'', is split up into four parts.
* ''[[Beast Machines]]'' featured a trio of three-part episodes, which all had individual subtitles in addition to their "Part" titles (e.g. "Revelations, Part I: Discovery", "Sparkwar Part III: The Siege").
== [[Anime and Manga]] ==▼
▲=== [[Anime and Manga]] ===
* ''[[The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' has the 6-part "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya", two-part "Remote Island Syndrome", 8-part "Endless Eight", and five-part "The Sigh of Haruhi Suzumiya".
=== [[Live Action TV]] ===
* ''[[Law and Order]]'' had a two-part episode titled "The Torrents of Greed" in its first season and a three-part episode in season 7 ("D-Girl", "Turnaround", and "Showtime"), but otherwise avoided this trope.
* Before the 2005 revival, ''[[Doctor Who]]'' didn't have ''episodes'', it had ''serials'', mostly four- and six-parters. After the revival, it's had several two- and three-parters, though so far, only ''The End of Time'' has used Part 1 and 2 naming.
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* The original ''[[Hawaii 5-0]]'' had a few multi-part episodes. The most notable was the several part "V for Vachon" arc.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* ''[[The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes|Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes]]'' has several. Two-part episodes include "Breakout Part 1/Breakout Part 2" (sixth and seventh episodes produced), "Gamma World Part 1/Gamma World Part 2" (episodes 12 and 13), and "Ultron-5/The Ultron Imperative" (episodes 22 and 23). Episodes with more than two parts include "The Man Who Stole Tomorrow/Come the Conqueror/The Kang Dynasty" (the 16th, 17th, and 18th episodes produced) and "This Hostage Earth/The Fall of Asgard/A Day Unlike Any Other" (episodes 24-26).
* ''[[G.I. Joe]]'', in addition to having ''two'' [[Five Episode Pilot|Five-Episode Pilots]], had five-episode miniseries to start each of three seasons, five two-parters in season 1, and five more two-parters in the [[Di C]] seasons.
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