I'll go first.

Winner:
Breaking Bad, season 3 episode 10, "Fly"

Honorable mention:
Community, season 3 episode 10, "Cooperative Calligraphy"

PS: I'm having a hard time categorizing these as real bottle episodes since they don't feel cheap or "fillery" at all, but they are at least specially and plot wise confined.

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[–] 2 points 8 hours ago* (2 children)

Blink is great, but it is not a bottle episode.

Edit: I stand corrected. Abed led me to believe a bottle episode happens in one place, but it's any episode designed around minimizing cost.

https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Bottle_Episode

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago (1 child)

    Which was still not Blink. Blink was designed to allow two episodes to be shot simultaneously but it is not a bottle episode. It uses new locations and new characters (almost exclusively, even)

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  • [–] 1 point 25 minutes ago

    Reading the Wikipedia page for Blink, I can't see any justification whatsoever for calling it a bottle episode. I assumed from the upvotes, people knew something I didn't, but, no, they just liked the episode so they upvoted the comment.

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