@bisaacs90 said:

But it bothers me that this episode is with the "Specials" folder and not listed as a Season 9 episode.

It was advertised as a special episode the day of its broadcast. For example, here and here.

And I really don't understand it being called "200th anniversary special" since the show obviously did not run for 200 years.

It is named this way because it was a special episode to celebrate the 200th episode of the show.

Even in your answer you refer to it as an episode. Just asking for that to be the case here as well.

And again, the show did not run 200 years; it's not a 200th anniversary.

@bisaacs90 said:

Even in your answer you refer to it as an episode. Just asking for that to be the case here as well.

The fact that it is part of the special season doesn't mean than it is not an episode. Special episodes should be listed in the specials season.

And again, the show did not run 200 years; it's not a 200th anniversary.

This is the official title of this episode.

@superboy97 said:

The fact that it is part of the special season doesn't mean than it is not an episode. Special episodes should be listed in the specials season.

This makes no sense to me. The website separates specials and episodes but you are saying they're essentially the same thing, with the only difference being an episode was called 'special'.

This is the official title of this episode.

Source?

@bisaacs90 said:

@superboy97 said:

The fact that it is part of the special season doesn't mean than it is not an episode. Special episodes should be listed in the specials season.

This makes no sense to me. The website separates specials and episodes but you are saying they're essentially the same thing, with the only difference being an episode was called 'special'.

The website doesn't separate specials and episodes. It separate special episodes and regular episodes. The rule is here. I quote : "Blooper episodes, recap episodes, preview episodes, best of episodes, live TV specials, (un)aired pilots, unaired or blacklisted episodes, etc. usually belong in the Specials."

This is the official title of this episode.

Source?

The episode was nominated at the Emmy Awards under that title (also visible in this 1991 article).

@superboy97 said:

The website doesn't separate specials and episodes. It separate special episodes and regular episodes. The rule is here. I quote : "Blooper episodes, recap episodes, preview episodes, best of episodes, live TV specials, (un)aired pilots, unaired or blacklisted episodes, etc. usually belong in the Specials."

First of all, the 200th episode is really none of those things. It "might" be called a recap episode, but it is considerably more than just that. There are a great many "clip" shows that could be called recap episodes which are nonetheless not referred to as "special episodes" (which still sounds weird, because there are differences between a special and an episode, even if they're being overlooked).

The episode was nominated at the Emmy Awards under that title (also visible in this 1991 article).

I feel like you've cherry-picked here. To say something gets reported in the media a certain way makes it official is shaky to me. I wonder why Paramount did not call it this on its DVD release for Season 9, for instance.

@bisaacs90 said:

To say something gets reported in the media a certain way makes it official is shaky to me.

The first link is from the Emmys website itself. Only the second one is a media link.

@superboy97 said:

The first link is from the Emmys website itself. Only the second one is a media link.

But what I'm trying to say is these are secondary sources. The Emmys do not put on Cheers, just as media reporting is secondary. Why is that taken as more factual?

@bisaacs90 said:

But what I'm trying to say is these are secondary sources.

When there are no primary sources available, we need to look at the secondary sources.

I'd question whether or not there are no primary sources available, or better secondary sources. I wouldn't rank what the newspapers or the Emmys called it over Paramount's release of the show, for instance.

@bisaacs90 said:

I'd question whether or not there are no primary sources available, or better secondary sources. I wouldn't rank what the newspapers or the Emmys called it over Paramount's release of the show, for instance.

For a 1990 show, a source from 1991 will always be considered better than a more recent source (a DVD or Blu-Ray release for example). There are many cases where shows have not be released on DVD the same way that they have been originally broadcasted.

True, but there are also many examples of shows' rights being sold, and the release coming from another company.