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'''Narrator:''' [[LampshadeHanging Hey! That's the name of the show!]]

'''Narrator:''' Hey! That's the name of the show!

A second variety of Title Drop is the FinaleTitleDrop, occurs when the title of a work is used as the last line spoken or near its end. Here, it's not nearly as big and flashy and important as the first variety, but it still explains things to the audience a bit more. You can probably find these mainly in thriller works, where it makes you sit up and think (and adds a bit of drama to the ending). It's also common in plays that were written during the Victorian era.

'''Narrator:''' [[{{LampshadeHanging}} Hey! That's the name of the show!]]

* A more literal case happened during the "8 Mile Street Fight" at the [[Wrestling/{{TNA}} 2006 "Bound For Glory"]] when Wrestling/ChristianCage hit Wrestling/{{Rh|yno}}ino with an 8 Mile street sign.[[/folder]]

'''Narrator:''' [[{{LampshadeHanging}} Hey! That's the name of the show]]!

'''Narrator:''' Hey! That's the name of the show!

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A second variety of Title Drop occurs when the title of a work is used as the last line spoken. Here, it's not nearly as big and flashy and important as the first variety, but it still explains things to the audience a bit more. You can probably find these mainly in thriller works, where it makes you sit up and think (and adds a bit of drama to the ending). It's also common in plays that were written during the Victorian era.

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->'''Superman''': The only way for me to solve this crisis is to be Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
->'''Peter''': So that's why it's called that...

-->-- {{Family Guy}}

->'''Michael:''' Your average American male is stuck in a perpetual state of adolescence, you know, arrested development.\\
'''Narrator:''' Hey! That's the name of the show!
-->-- ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment''

Note: If a series is named after a [[CharacterTitle central character]], [[ThePlace setting]], group, etc., it does not count as a Title Drop, unless they are usually called by another name. Hence, ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'', ''Series/TheWestWing'', ''Series/{{House}}'', and things like that don't qualify. Often, the Title Drop will finally explain why the episode/book/etc is called that way to begin with. If this explanation comes by ''[[ShowDontTell showing]]'' [[ShowDontTell instead of by]] ''[[ShowDontTell telling]]'' (i.e. it is not actually spoken aloud by any of the characters), then it's TheNamesake.

[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* Dave Prazak and Lenny Leonard did this on every Wrestling/RingOfHonor show they did commentary on if it had a title that could be dropped.[[/folder]]

'''[[Creator/RonHoward Narrator:]]''' [[LampshadeHanging Hey! That's the name of the show!]]

'''[[Creator/RonHoward Narrator:]]''' Hey! That's the name of the show!

'''[[Creator/RonHoward Narrator:]]''' [[InteractiveNarrator Hey!]] [[LampshadeHanging That's the name of the show!]]

->'''Michael:''' The American male is stuck in a perpetual state of adolescence... of arrested development.\\
'''[[RonHoward Narrator:]]''' [[InteractiveNarrator Hey!]] [[LampshadeHanging That's the name of the show!]]

Note: If a series is named after a [[CharacterTitle central character]], [[ThePlace setting]], group, etc., it does not count as a Title Drop, unless they are usually called by another name. Hence, ''{{Transformers}}'', ''Series/TheWestWing'', ''Series/{{House}}'', and things like that don't qualify. Often, the Title Drop will finally explain why the episode/book/etc is called that way to begin with. If this explanation comes by ''[[ShowDontTell showing]]'' [[ShowDontTell instead of by]] ''[[ShowDontTell telling]]'' (i.e. it is not actually spoken aloud by any of the characters), then it's TheNamesake.

Note: If a series is named after a [[CharacterTitle central character]], [[ThePlace setting]], group, etc., it does not count as a Title Drop, unless they are usually called by another name. Hence, ''{{Transformers}}'', ''Series/TheWestWing'', ''Series/{{House}}'', and things like that don't qualify. Often, the Title Drop will finally explain why the episode/book/etc is called that way to begin with. If this explanation comes by [[ShowDontTell ''showing'' instead of by ''telling'']] (i.e. it is not actually spoken aloud by any of the characters), then it's TheNamesake.

See a video collection of Title Drops [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V1sYNvKZt8 here]].

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