How did you come up with yours? I came up with a really interesting title, just last night, completely by chance.
Sitcom Titles
I take mine from the script or plot, though i have come up with sketches and routines from just an odd word or two.
Whatever rolls off the tongue and sounds good.
Something that sums the show up too.
I agonise for ages over mine. I took months once, I even did loads of research on the subject matter for an idea. I finally got it, and I was dead chuffed . . . Got told to change where it was set, thus rendering the title redundant.
You live and learn.
I love Only Fools and Horses as a title because it's not the whole of the phrase so it doesn't quite sound right, but that gives it a left-field feel.
I wouldn't worry about the title at all because you can guarantee someone will want to change it somewhere down the line. But I just use something 'clever', i.e. with a suitable double meaning, and short, at least after I've written an episode.
My current work is one of those awfully boring ones where people are stuck in a flat. It's called "Flat". Clever, eh? Title's as creative as the premise!
Episode titles are worse.
I always call mine 'pilot' as it's easier.
I've gone for a phrase related to the subject that hopefully sounds catchy. I like the fact Seinfeld wrote Bee Movie just because he liked the title.
Like Seefacts, I agonise over titles. I'm a big believer in puns.
Quote: David Bussell @ January 4, 2008, 10:31 AMLike Seefacts, I agonise over titles.
A Bussell doubt?
Big believer in puns myself David.
My latest sitcoms called "Beggars Belief" about homeless people ect.
A friend thought it up for me cause I'm crap at naming things.
looking at someone who named a black cat salem. 
I usually use either a name, a theme or a quote.
The title that I came up with the other night is an obscure phrase, which actually originated in Japan. If I go ahead with it, I'm probably going to have to have one of my characters use the phrase in a conversation, and explain the etymology of it. This won't be too hard to do, as, by pure chance, one of my character is meant to have lived in Japan for a while, teaching English. Then again, I'll probably just end up calling the show something more simplistic, along the lines of 'Lead Balloon'.
Coming up with a title for an episode is a piece of piss. Just quote a line from the show. But, naming a series, I find a lot harder. I normally name a series after the lead character/s or their job if that's what it's about. My last sitcom was about fire fighters. I called it fire fighters!
I was going to start writing a sitcom about adults having relationships (code for sex) and was going to call it 'Lads and Ladies.' However because I spilt pepsi on my keyboard the L button wasn't working so the provisional title was 'ads and adies.' Then I realised I wouldn't get very far without an L so I had to stop. True, if not boring, story.
Quote: earman2009 @ January 4, 2008, 9:10 PMComing up with a title for an episode is a piece of piss. Just quote a line from the show. But, naming a series, I find a lot harder. I normally name a series after the lead character/s or their job if that's what it's about. My last sitcom was about fire fighters. I called it fire fighters!
Wasn't Simon Nye supposedly writing a sitcom set in a fire station. Wonder where that went.
Quote: Seefacts @ January 5, 2008, 1:53 PMWasn't Simon Nye supposedly writing a sitcom set in a fire station. Wonder where that went.
I hope it's better than mine because mine was shite!