episode

noun

1. An incident, action, or time period standing out by itself, but more or less connected with a complete series of events.

   “It was a most embarrassing episode in my life.”

   “The Attorney-General, however, had used this episode, which Martin in retrospect had felt to be a blot on the scutcheon, merely to emphasise the intelligence and resource of the prisoner.”

   “Three of the great extinctions appear to have occurred during cold episodes and two during hot episodes.”

2. An installment of a drama told in parts, as in a TV series.

   “I can't wait till next week’s episode.”

   “We all know how genius “Kamp Krusty,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” “Homer The Heretic,” “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie” and “Mr. Plow” are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs and some of the smartest, darkest, and weirdest gags ever Trojan-horsed into a network cartoon with a massive family audience.”