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* ''John Dies At The End'' Can you guess what happens?

* ''The Things Dr Bright Is Not Allowed To Do At The Foundation'' lists all the things Dr. Bright is not allowed do with or to other SCPs or SCP Foundation employees. There's 251 items on the list. A few of the items on the list reference out-of-universe stuff like D&D, My Little Pony, the Game, etc. so readers don't need to be ''completely'' SCP savvy to enjoy reading the list.

* Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents. This is what is commonly known as {{Understatement}}.

* ''Literature/TheHundredYearOldManWhoClimbedOutTheWindowAndDisappeared'', perhaps unexpectedly, is about a hundred year old man who climbed out the window and disappeared.

* Teenage Fanclub have a best of called ''Four Thousand Seven Hundred And Sixty-Six Seconds'', which 4766 seconds long.

* The Arrogant Worms' "Song Inside My Head" involves someone who is being driven crazy by a song inside his head.

* Big Black's album, ''Songs About Fucking.''

* Fantomas Melvins Big Band were the members of Fantomas and The Melvins joining together to play songs from their respective catalogs live. About the only way that this wasn't ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin is that they weren't ''that'' kind of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_band Big Band]], just a rock band with a larger number of people on stage at the same time than is usual.

** The Japanese version of ''Manga/DragonBall Z'' is particularly bad, with episodes such as "Here comes Satan's Army! Mr. Satan Gets Beat in one hit..." in which Mr. Satan tries to fight Cell, only to get beat in one hit, or "Pitiful Frieza Cannot Stop Shaking." in which [[CaptainObvious pitiful Frieza cannot stop shaking]]. This is probably because, due to fillers, very little happens in some episodes, and in addition, the Japanese episode titles are all [[http://www.myfavoritegames.com/dbz/DBZJap.htm really long]], so it's fairly common for the episode title to describe exactly what happens in the episode. It could also be because it is assumed that all the viewers has already read the manga so they just explicitly state when something will happen for example "Transformed At Last!! Son Goku, the Legendary Super Saiyan".

* ''Series/{{Conan}}'s'' "[[http://p.twimg.com/Aq2n2mUCQAM2p_z.jpg Nick Offerman from Parks and Recreation Reads Tweets from Young Female Celebrities]]"

->''Michael: I don't know what I expected.''

See also InWhichATropeIsDescribed, a Victorian version of this trope. A SpoilerTitle or ExcitedTitleTwoPartEpisodeName will often feature some degree of this. The characters might point out the thing with a TitleDrop. If a title is going for this kind of transparancy in description, it may also be ShapedLikeItself; but ShapedLikeItself tends to fail at actually being descriptive in the way that ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin always is.

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* PublicImageLtd (often abbreviated as PiL) once recorded an album that is simply named ''Album''. Depending on the format, the same album is also called ''Cassette'' or ''Compact Disc''.

** Also, their latest album, released in 2012, is called ''This is PiL''.

* PublicImageLtd once recorded an album that is simply named ''Album''. Depending on the format, the same album is also called ''Cassette'' or ''Compact Disc''.

* ZZ Top's first album. [[CaptainObvious Guess what it was called...]]