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An episode in a series that serves as a sequel to a previous episode. Different from a [[Two Part Episode]], in that there may be several episodes (if not several ''years'') inbetween the first episode and the one that picks up the plot again.
To qualify, it's not enough to simply have an object, setting, or character from one episode appear in another, otherwise any series with a [[Rogues Gallery]] would consist almost entirely of '''Sequel Episodes'''. If ''Cop Show'' has the [[Main Characters]] arrest a thief and recover some stolen jewels in one episode, and a later episode has the thief break out of prison and cause some more havoc, that's just a [[One-Shot Character]] moving up to [[Recurring Character]] status. If, on the other hand, a later episode has the cops discover that the stolen jewels they recovered were actually fakes, and they have to interrogate the thief to find out where she hid the real jewels, ''that'' is a '''Sequel Episode'''; the plot resolved in an earlier episode is reopened and explored again in a new episode.
Obviously this only applies to series where [[Stand Alone Episode]]s occur somewhat regularly. If the whole show is one long [[Story Arc]], there's not enough seperating the plot of one episode from another to make labelling it a "sequel" meaningful. However, if a series has multiple [[Story Arc]]s, it is possible for a later [[Story Arc]] to be a sequel to an earlier one.
Often uses [[Cross Referenced Titles]]. Related to [[Continuity Nod]] and [[Call Back]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'' actually categorizes its first-season episodes as "Stand Alone" episodes and "Complex" episodes, of which the former are [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]], and the latter are a handful of Sequel Episodes around one major [[Story Arc]].
* In ''[[Kirby:
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'': First there was "Slap Bet" where Marshall won the right to slap Barney in the face five times, as hard as he can, at any moment he chooses. Next season, we got the episode "Slapsgiving", where Marshall decides to dole out one of his slaps on [[Thanksgiving Episode|Thanksgiving Day]] and spends the whole episode putting Barney through a [[Paranoia Gambit]]. Two more years pass, and finally "Slapsgiving 2: Revenge of the Slap" arrives: it's [[Thanksgiving Episode|Thanksgiving]] again and Marshall decides to let Ted and Robin slap Barney in his place, and, once more, Barney spends the whole episode tortured by the knowledge of what's to come.
* In the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "The Wish" the vengeance demon Anyanka creates an [[Alternate Universe]] where vampires rule Sunnydale. By the end of the episode [[The Verse]] is returned to normal and Anyanka is left powerless. Later that season, the episode "Dopplegangland" was driven by Anyanka's attempts to regain her powers, and maybe [[Reality Warper|warp reality]] back into a vampire run hellhole while she's at it.
** "Intervention" was one to "I Was Made To Love You".
* ''[[iCarly]]'': ''iThink They Kissed'', where Carly finds out that Sam and Freddie shared a [[First Kiss]] is the Sequel Episode to ''iKiss'' where the [[First Kiss]] occurred.
* The fifth-season ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' episode "Deliver Us From Evil" is a sequel to the second-season episode "Jimmy": Sam leaps into Jimmy LaMotta a second time, a couple years after his first leap, and finds that the happy future he should have caused is failing to occur (thanks to an [[Evil Counterpart]] whose goal is to [[Make Wrong What Once Went Right]]). This episode gets its own sequel later that season when the evil leaper returns in "[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Return of the Evil Leaper]]".
* ''[[The X-Files]]'' first season episode "Tooms" was a sequel to an episode earlier in the season, "Squeeze," one of the few they did like that. In the first ep they caught the [[Monster of the Week]] and in the later ep he was released from prison.
** The episode "Irresistible" had the sequel "Orison", and "Pusher" had the sequel "Kitsunegari"
* The episodes of [[Castle]] that deal with Beckett's mother's case feel like this.
* In the ''[[Flash]]'' [[Live Action TV]] series the episodes "The Trickster" and "Trial of the Trickster" were several episodes apart but they were combined into one two-hour (minus commercials) "movie" for VHS release.
* ''[[Bones]]'''s Gravedigger: first appearance in the 2nd season, caught in the fourth, put on trial in the fifth.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' does this a lot. One notable example is ''The Curse Of Peladon'' and ''The Monster Of Peladon''.
** The Dalek episodes from "Army of Ghosts" to "Journey's End" directly follow on from one another. {{spoiler|Depending on interpretation, the surviving Daleks from "Victory of the Daleks" may have come from the Dalek invasion of "The Stolen Earth".}} A similar use happens with Cybus Cyberman stories from "Rise of the Cybermen" to "The Next Doctor".
** "The End of the World", "New Earth" and "Gridlock" are season-apart stories loosely connected to the Face of Boe's final message to the Doctor.
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* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' has what amounts to a ''[[Prequel]]'' episode: '2010' is set entirely in a [[Bad Future]], with the [[Future Loser|future versions]] of SG-1 working to send back a warning. The episode ends when they succeed, then a season later in '2001' the events referenced as history in 2010 start happening and they have to decypher the [[Note to Self:]] to avert it.
* ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]'' has done this a number of times. For example, there was the episode 'King For A Day', where Iolaus has to impersonate a missing king. A season or two later came 'Long Live The King', where Iolaus has to impersonate the king again.
* [[Star Trek]] features several of these, spanning multiple series. The TNG episode "The Naked Now," for instance, was a sequel to the TOS episode "The Naked Time."
* ''[[Law and Order]]'' brought back its [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|Not-O-J-Simpson]] character when "If I did it" was news. Keep in mind the character was from many ''seasons'' ago. Two other examples:
** "Coma" featured comedian Larry Miller as a nightclub owner whose first wife died under mysterious circumstances. He was the prime suspect until a junkie came forward and confessed to the crime. The last scene of that episode was the cops viewing a videotape where the junkie was shown to have performed at the suspect's nightclub. Two years later (in an episode called [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|"Encore"]]), Miller's character returns after his second wife is murdered. He looks like he's able to evade justice again, but this time {{spoiler|his would be ''third wife'' is revealed to have helped screw up the investigation. The cops get her to cooperate by reminding her of what happened to the suspect's first two wives}}.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' gave us the horror movie spoof "KITTEN", and naturally it couldn't parody horror movies without parodying the inevitable sequels; hence, "KITTEN II".
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130719023505/http://www.drunkduck.com/
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130719183412/http://www.drunkduck.com/Jix/ Jix], which is by the same person who created Dragon City, also does this from time to time, but possibly not as extensively as Dragon City.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* The 2nd season ''[[Kim Possible]]'' ep "Return to Wannaweep" is a sequel to the 1st season ep "Sink or Swim", in which Gill, a mutated former camper "buddy" of Ron's wreaks havoc. In the sequel ep, Wannaweep has been re-opened, and Gill has reutrned to his human form.
** In the 4th season, the introduction of Hana, Ron's [[Tyke Bomb|adoptive baby sister]] was a clear case of this. There are more than five episodes between ''Big brother'' and ''Oh no, Yono!'' but they are clearly meant to follow each other with plots-lines being started in ''Big brother'' coming to fruition in ''Oh no, Yono!''.
* ''[[The Angry Beavers]]'', the episodes "Up All Night" and "Up All Night 2: Up All Day. The Reckoning". The first one concerns the beavers trying to stay up until morning, and eventually staying up until [[The Future]]. In the second one, they get back via a [[Deus Ex Machina]] and decide to go to sleep, eventually {{spoiler|falling asleep for so long that they wake up in [[The Future]] again}}.
* In the first episode of ''[[South Park]]'' (title "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe"), alien visitors probe Cartman. This wasn't brought up again (aside from a [[Clip Show]] [[Parody Episode]]) until the 100th episode, "Cancelled".
* ''[[Recess]]'': "The Big Prank" and "The Madness of King Bob"
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* The Season 3 episode of ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' "''X''" is essentially a sequel to Season 1 ep "''Masks''".
* In ''[[The Simpsons]]'', Homer and Ned get married to two floozies while drunk in [[Las Vegas]]. The episode ends with Homer and Ned leaving town and their second wives behind. In an episode a couple of seasons later, the two women reappear, having tracked them to Springfield.
* ''[[Star Trek: The
** "Mudd's Passion" to the episodes "Mudd's Women" and "I, Mudd"
** "More Tribbles, More Troubles" to "The Trouble With Tribbles".
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