The appearance of a character name in an episode title often signifies an important role that the character is playing in one of the episode’s main storylines, so it can be a possible signal of which character(s) are crucial to the series overall…

When I first started doing some research to put together the above graph, I quickly learned that I wasn’t the only person out there with clear childhood memories tied to television shows making the transition from black and white to color…

I grew up on Friends. I fell in love with it in junior high, my group of girlfriends was all mutually obsessed with it in high school, and I graduated in 2004, the year the series ended…