Original
Original adjective - Coming before all others in time or order.
Used up
Both terms in one sentence
- Original series The Secret Life of the American Teenager hit this status with reruns airing at 5 pm every weekday until the episodes were used up (not counting the current season it was airing).
Source: Adored By The Network / Disney - It gets progressively harder to come up with decent, original puns the longer and longer your show is on the air and the more puns youve already used up.
Source: Flintstone Theming - The second series is supposedly due to be based on more original material, largely because they've used up most of their old stuff on the first.
Source: Sound to Screen Adaptation
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