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The term “bottle episode” can inspire feelings of confusion and frustration. Photo: Netflix Welcome, weary internet traveler, to this shrine to the bottle episode. Perhaps you’ve arrived here with questions. Possibly you’ve heard murmurings about a term shrouded in mystery and controversy, a concept that your friend told you means one thing but that you suspect actually means something else entirely. Maybe you’ve watched Community’s season-two episode “Cooperative Calligraphy,” which is a bottle episode, and talks about bottle episodes, but never actually defines bottle episode, and now you need to know more. Maybe you’re in an argument about episode three...