diff --git a/examples/axisartist/demo_axisline_style.py b/examples/axisartist/demo_axisline_style.py
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+"""
+================
+Axis line styles
+================
+
+This example shows some configurations for axis style.
+"""
 
 from mpl_toolkits.axisartist.axislines import SubplotZero
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
@@ -9,10 +16,14 @@
     fig.add_subplot(ax)
 
     for direction in ["xzero", "yzero"]:
+        # adds arrows at the ends of each axis
         ax.axis[direction].set_axisline_style("-|>")
+
+        # adds X and Y-axis from the origin
         ax.axis[direction].set_visible(True)
 
     for direction in ["left", "right", "bottom", "top"]:
+        # hides borders
         ax.axis[direction].set_visible(False)
 
     x = np.linspace(-0.5, 1., 100)

diff --git a/examples/event_handling/keypress_demo.py b/examples/event_handling/keypress_demo.py
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 """
+=========
+Key Press
+=========
+
 Show how to connect to keypress events
 """
 from __future__ import print_function

diff --git a/examples/event_handling/pipong.py b/examples/event_handling/pipong.py
@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
-# A matplotlib based game of Pong illustrating one way to write interactive
-# animation which are easily ported to multiple backends
-# pipong.py was written by Paul Ivanov <http://pirsquared.org>
-
+"""
+====
+Pong
+====
+
+A Matplotlib based game of Pong illustrating one way to write interactive
+animations which are easily ported to multiple backends pipong.py was written
+by <a href='http://pirsquared.org'>Paul Ivanov</a>.
+"""
 from __future__ import print_function
 
 import numpy as np

diff --git a/examples/event_handling/poly_editor.py b/examples/event_handling/poly_editor.py
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 """
-This is an example to show how to build cross-GUI applications using
-matplotlib event handling to interact with objects on the canvas
+===========
+Poly Editor
+===========
 
+This is an example to show how to build cross-GUI applications using
+matplotlib event handling to interact with objects on the canvas.
 """
 import numpy as np
 from matplotlib.lines import Line2D

diff --git a/examples/event_handling/resample.py b/examples/event_handling/resample.py
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+"""
+===============
+Resampling Data
+===============
+
+Downsampling lowers the sample rate or sample size of a signal. In this
+tutorial, the signal is downsampled when the plot is adjusted through dragging
+and zooming.
+"""
+
 import numpy as np
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 

diff --git a/examples/mplot3d/lines3d_demo.py b/examples/mplot3d/lines3d_demo.py
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 '''
-Demonstrating plotting a parametric curve in 3D.
+================
+Parametric Curve
+================
+
+This example demonstrates plotting a parametric curve in 3D.
 '''
 
 import matplotlib as mpl

diff --git a/examples/mplot3d/lorenz_attractor.py b/examples/mplot3d/lorenz_attractor.py
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 '''
-Plot of the Lorenz Attractor based on Edward Lorenz's 1963 "Deterministic
-Nonperiodic Flow" publication.
+================
+Lorenz Attractor
+================
+
+This is an example of plotting Edward Lorenz's 1963 "Deterministic
+Nonperiodic Flow" in a 3-dimensional space using mplot3d.
+
 http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/1520-0469%281963%29020%3C0130%3ADNF%3E2.0.CO%3B2
 
 Note: Because this is a simple non-linear ODE, it would be more easily

diff --git a/examples/mplot3d/mixed_subplots_demo.py b/examples/mplot3d/mixed_subplots_demo.py
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 """
-Demonstrate the mixing of 2d and 3d subplots.
+============================================
+Demonstrate the mixing of 2d and 3d subplots
+============================================
+
+This example shows a how to plot a 2D and 3D plot on the same figure.
 """
 
 from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D

diff --git a/examples/mplot3d/offset_demo.py b/examples/mplot3d/offset_demo.py
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 '''
+=========================
+Automatic Text Offsetting
+=========================
+
 This example demonstrates mplot3d's offset text display.
 As one rotates the 3D figure, the offsets should remain oriented the
 same way as the axis label, and should also be located "away"

diff --git a/examples/pylab_examples/bar_stacked.py b/examples/pylab_examples/bar_stacked.py
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+"""
+=================
+Stacked Bar Graph
+=================
+
+This is an example of creating a stacked bar plot with error bars using
+`plt.bar`. Note the parameters `yerr` used for error bars, and `bottom`
+to stack the women's bars on top of the men's bars.
+"""
+
 # a stacked bar plot with errorbars
 import numpy as np
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

diff --git a/examples/pylab_examples/dolphin.py b/examples/pylab_examples/dolphin.py
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+"""
+========
+Dolphins
+========
+
+This example shows how to draw, and manipulate shapes given vertices and nodes
+using the `patches`, `path` and `transforms` classes.
+"""
+
 import matplotlib.cm as cm
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 from matplotlib.patches import Circle, PathPatch

diff --git a/examples/pylab_examples/fill_between_demo.py b/examples/pylab_examples/fill_between_demo.py
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+"""
+==============================
+Filling the area between lines
+==============================
+
+This example shows how to use `fill_between` to color between lines based on
+user-defined logic.
+"""
+
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 import numpy as np
 

diff --git a/examples/pylab_examples/geo_demo.py b/examples/pylab_examples/geo_demo.py
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+"""
+======================
+Geographic Projections
+======================
+
+This shows 4 possible projections using subplot.
+Matplotlib also supports
+<a href='http://matplotlib.org/basemap/'>Basemaps Toolkit</a> and
+<a href='http://scitools.org.uk/cartopy/'>Cartopy</a>
+for geographic projections.
+"""
+
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 
 plt.figure()

diff --git a/examples/pylab_examples/log_test.py b/examples/pylab_examples/log_test.py
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+"""
+========
+Log Axis
+========
+
+This is an example of assigning a log-scale for the x-axis using `semilogx`.
+"""
+
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 import numpy as np
 

diff --git a/examples/pylab_examples/mri_demo.py b/examples/pylab_examples/mri_demo.py
@@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
-"""Displays an MRI image."""
+"""
+===
+MRI
+===
+
+This example illustrates how to read an image (of an MRI) into a NumPy array,
+and display it in greyscale using `imshow`.
+
+"""
 
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 import matplotlib.cbook as cbook

diff --git a/examples/text_labels_and_annotations/rainbow_text.py b/examples/text_labels_and_annotations/rainbow_text.py
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 """
+=========================
+Selective Text Coloration
+=========================
+
 The example shows how to string together several text objects.
 
 HISTORY