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7Examples of TitleDrop in LiveActionTV.
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9!!Shows with their own subpages:
10* ''TitleDrop/DoctorWho''
11----
12!!In general:
13* Happens occasionally on {{Game Show}}s:
14** "You ''are'' Series/TheWeakestLink. Goodbye!"
15** "All this / And this showcase can be yours, if Series/ThePriceIsRight."
16*** "Come on down! You are the first four contestants / the next contestant on The Price is Right!"
17** "I can Series/NameThatTune in five notes." "Four notes." "Three." "Name that tune."
18** A partial one: "My name is [name], and I am (or am not) [[Series/AreYouSmarterThanAFifthGrader smarter than a fifth grader]]."
19** "So if you're fast enough, smart enough, and if you've got the guts, you can Series/WinBenSteinsMoney!"
20** In-universe example: On an episode of ''Series/TheOddCouple1970'', Felix appears on Series/LetsMakeADeal. While on the show, he says "Hey Monty, let's make a deal."
21** "Series/PressYourLuck or pass?"
22** "...over [combined value of all prizes] just waiting to be won on ''Series/WheelOfFortune''!"[[note]]Charlie O'Donnell says it here as "Wheel... of FORTUNE!".[[/note]]
23** "This is Bud Collyer reminding you [[Series/ToTellTheTruth to tell the truth!]]"
24** "Remember, the next time you're at a checkout counter and you hear the beep (''beep-beep''), think of all the fun you could have on ''Series/SupermarketSweep''!"
25** Wink Martindale, on ''Series/TicTacDough'', whenever either player (usually the champion) won: "Right, for Tic-Tac-Dough!"
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27!!Individual examples:
28* ''Series/YediYuz'': When Pınar's confidence suddenly falters during a meeting in "Hayatın Musikisi", she recognizes that the mere gaze of her crush Eray renders the trigger ineffective. Panicking over the realization, she asks Oşa for help, but he only tells her that no song can overcome love — "the music of life" (''hayatın musikisi'').
29* ''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'': In "The Marked", there is an InUniverse example. Curtis Peck's film “Dead. Completely Dead.” features a Marine named Robert Shafto, played by Curtis himself, saying that UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy will be "dead. completely dead" by the time that he is through with him.
30* Because of its IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming, the title for each episode of ''Series/TheAmazingRace'' will be heard once during the episode.
31* From the anthology series ''Series/AmericanPlayhouse'': Based on a short story by Creator/KurtVonnegut, "Who Am I This Time?" revolves around two shy characters who have never been lucky in love, hardware store employee [[Creator/ChristopherWalken Harry Nash]] and telephone operator [[Creator/SusanSarandon Helene Shaw]], who both audition for a local production of ''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire''. Cast as Stanley and Stella, each comes out of their shell and become infatuated with the other's stage persona, but they eventually learn to love each other for who they really are. The last line of dialogue is one of them using the episode title to ask the director about their roles in the next production.
32* ''Series/{{Andor}}'': Several episode titles appear in their own scripts:
33** "[[Recap/AndorS1E2ThatWouldBeMe That Would be Me]]": When Maarva asks Cassian who let the security agents know he was from Kenari, he replies, "That would be me."
34** "[[Recap/AndorS1E3Reckoning Reckoning]]": Maarva to the two guarding her as the town's warning bells ring louder:
35--->''"Gets to you, doesn’t it? That’s what a reckoning sounds like. You want it to stop, but it just keeps coming. It’s when it stops, that’s when [[NothingIsScarier you’ll really want to start to fret]]."''
36** "[[Recap/AndorS1E7Announcement Announcement]]": Dedra gives the episode's title while discussing the Aldhani incident with her aide:
37--->'''Dedra:''' We're treating what happened at Aldhani like a robbery.\
38'''Heert:''' What would you call it?\
39'''Dedra:''' An announcement.
40** "[[Recap/AndorS1E9NobodysListening Nobody's Listening]]": After Kino rebuffs Cassian's attempt at gathering information for escaping the prison for what is clearly not the first time, Cassian starts to plead and try to convince Kino that nobody's listening to them individually until he's howling at the cellblock that "Nobody's listening!"
41** "[[Recap/AndorS1E10OneWayOut One Way Out]]": "One way out!" become ArcWords and a rallying cry for the GreatEscape.
42* Many episodes of ''Series/{{Angel}}'' featured Title Drops, though not every one of them. Not surprising since Angel was the main character and the main characters work for Angel Investigations. It also wasn't necessarily a key moment of the episode. Prominent ones include "[[Recap/AngelS05E15AHoleInTheWorld A Hole In The World]]" and "[[Recap/AngelS02E02AreYouNowOrHaveYourEverBeen Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been]]".
43* ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the series title in "Forget-Me-Now" as Rita laments the puerile sense of humor of American men.
44-->'''Rita:''' And they think the stupidest things are funny.\
45'''Michael:''' Yeah, that's a cultural problem is what it is. You know, your average American is in a perpetual state of adolescence, you know, arrested development.\
46'''Narrator:''' Hey, that's the name of the show!
47* Near the end of ''Series/AsTheWorldTurns''[='=] 53 year run, Bob Hughes (who started out as the preteen son of the central family and ended up as the patriarch), says in a speech "Every day that the world keeps turning is a gift."
48* ''Series/AshitaMamaGaInai'': In English, the show is translated as "Tomorrow, Mama won't be here." Post says this near the end of the first episode.
49--> None of us knew it. That mama, who was here yesterday and here today, would be gone by tomorrow - that '''tomorrow, mama won't be here'''.
50* ''Series/{{Barry}}'': The trope is discussed when Barry shows his acting coach Gene the lines he has for an upcoming film shoot. Gene is elated to see that one of Barry's lines includes the title of the film and tells him this means his scene is sure to make it into the final cut.
51* Both ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' specials use this.
52** In ''Razor'', Admiral Cain awards Kendra Shaw the eponymous title, which she applies to the most loyal and merciless of her soldiers.
53** In ''The Plan'', it's first used in print on Brother Cavil's religious flyers, and subsequently in spoken lines by the Cylons.
54* Every episode of ''The Beiderbecke Trilogy'' (''The Beiderbecke Affair'', ''...Tapes'' and ''...Connection'') uses the first line of dialogue as its title.
55* Twice thus far in ''Series/{{Being Human|UK}}'': once in the Pilot and once in the finale.
56* ''Series/BetterCallSaul'' is named after ''Series/BreakingBad'''s Saul Goodman's slogan, but this being a prequel set when he was Jimmy [=McGill=], it's only dropped in the flash-forwards where Saul is hiding under a new identity.
57** In "Magic Man" flash-forward, a cab driver who is apparently a fan of Saul sees through his disguise and pressures him into saying "Better Call Saul". This unnerves him enough to make him consider changing fake identity again.
58** In the finale, after [[spoiler:Saul is arrested and taken away to prison in a bus, the other transported prisoners]] recognize him as "Better Call Saul" and start chanting it out of respect.
59* ''Series/BirdsOfAFeather'': Used at the start of "[[Recap/BirdsOfAFeatherS8E2TheEssexPatient The Essex Patient]]", when Sharon and Tracey are deciding on the name of their new cleaning service.
60-->'''Sharon''': Domestic Cleanin'? Can't you think of a better name than that?
61-->'''Tracey''': Well... I was thinking about ''Birds of a Feather''.
62-->'''Sharon''': [[SelfDeprecation Tha's crap!]]
63* Parodied in ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'' when Edmund decides to take the name of The Black... Vegetable! Fortunately Baldrick suggests a better title for [[strike:the series]] his Lord.
64* Except for "Pilot", episodes of ''Series/TheBlacklist'' will drop the episode title, given that such episodes are named after people on Red's blacklist. However, during "Pilot", Red drops the series title.
65-->'''Red''': That was only the first on my list.\
66'''Cooper''': What list?\
67'''Red''': It's called "the blackist", that sounds exciting.
68* ''Series/BlueHeelers'' liked doing this. Just to give one example, in the episode "Pigs Will Fly", after the station bombing someone starts leaving bomb threats, one demanding "Fifty thousand or pigs will fly."
69* In the last episode of ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'':
70-->'''Cory:''' "Boy Meets World"... ''now'' I get it!
71* ''Series/{{The Boys|2019}}'': In "[[Recap/TheBoysS03E02TheOnlyManInTheSky The Only Man In The Sky]]" Homelander claims he's "the only man in the sky" not God, when talking with a suicidal young woman on the ledge of a building.
72* ''Series/BreakingBad'', from the pilot: "Some straight like you, giant stick up his ass, all the sudden, age — what, sixty? He's just gonna break bad?" This is a piece of regional slang in the city where the show is set as well.
73* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
74** The writers hammered home the fact that Bianca Lawson's character wasn't your average single-episode guest star when she introduced herself as "Kendra, the vampire slayer."
75** Used straight in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E1Anne Anne]]", where a demon asks each of his prisoners their names (with the insinuation that he will kill them if they actually claim one). Our protagonist responds quite cheerily, "I'm Buffy, the vampire slayer!" Cue the carnage.
76** Also used in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E4Help Help]]", where Buffy was moonlighting as a counselor for troubled teens. ("Buffy the vampire slayer would break down this door." "And Buffy the counselor?" "Waits.")
77*** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] / [[ParodiedTrope parodied]] in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E16Storyteller Storyteller]]," when [[HeelFaceTurn Andrew]] spends the episode trying to make a documentary called ''Buffy, the Slayer of Vam-PIRES''.
78** There are a few episodes that do their own title drop, as well, such as "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E7LieToMe Lie To Me]]" and "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E21TwoToGo Two to Go]]". Also, the musical episode, "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E7OnceMoreWithFeeling Once More With Feeling]]", has the title in a line of the second-last song.
79** This happens with the episode title of Season 3's "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E2DeadMansParty Dead Man's Party]]".
80** Most (if not all) episodes of Buffy do this. Yes, even "What's my line" (some of them sneak it in via central pieces of music, such as "I only have eyes for you" and "Once more with feeling")
81* ''Series/BurnNotice'' also features a title sequence drop. The title sequence opens with Michael narrating "My name is Michael Weston. I used to be a spy." In the fifth season, another character introduces Michael near the end of an episode by saying "That's Michael Weston. He used to be a spy."
82** Mike does it himself during the season 1 finale.
83* ''Series/ChicagoFire'' and its spinoffs, ''Series/ChicagoPD'' and ''Series/ChicagoMed'', do this sometimes with the series title, episode title or both.
84* ''Series/TheCloser'' plays it straight in the pilot episode, as this is how Pope describes Brenda. In a later episode, it's played for laughs, as a funeral director under investigation says "I'm what's known as the closer," meaning he's the one who inspects the bodies and ''closes'' the coffins before funerals. Brenda and Sgt. Gabriel share a surprised look when the word is mentioned.
85* ''Series/ColdCase'': In "[[Recap/ColdCaseS2E22BestFriends Best Friends]]" Rose describes herself as "best friends" with Billie before admitting they were a couple.
86* ''Series/{{Community}}''
87** In the [[Recap/CommunityS1E01Pilot pilot]] Jeff makes a speech announcing, "you are no longer a study group. You have just become something unstoppable. You've just become a community."
88** In "[[Recap/CommunityS5E01Repilot Repilot]]", FourthWallObserver Abed states "We could repilot."
89* In an episode of ''Series/CrazyExGirlfriend'', a character and her husband don't just say the title of the show...they say [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah2nO-etuIA&sns=tw the entire expository theme song]], which is then followed by the show's title card. (This was subtly foreshadowed earlier, since the theme song and title card had been missing.)
90* The names of the episodes of ''Series/CriminalMinds'' are dropped in almost every episode.
91* Likewise, in ''Series/{{CSINY}}'', usually justified. To name just a few:
92** Episode 1.05: "You know how a Sandhog measures progress? ''A man a mile.'' 'Cause that's the death rate down there. Electrocutions, cave-ins, decapitations. Every mile of rock we move, we lose one of our own."
93** Episode 1.09: ''Officer Blue'' is the name of the horse which has a bullet needed for evidence lodged in its neck.
94** Episode 1.13: The ''Tanglewood'' Boys are the gang involved.
95** Episode 2.14: ''Necrophilia Americana'' is the scientific name of the flesh-eating beetles found at the crime scene.
96** Episode 3.24: Danny takes Lindsay's shift and leaves her a note saying, "Enjoy your ''snow day''."
97* "I guess it's not so bad, being ''Series/DeadLikeMe''."
98* The soap opera "Series/DaysOfOurLives" features the following opening narration before every episode: “Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives,”.
99* The true-crime TV show ''Deadly Women'' is a gross offender. The narrator is guaranteed to drop the name of the episode at LEAST once. For example, in the episode "Hearts of Stone," she says "They killed... with Hearts of Stone."
100* Every version of Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/TheDeadZone'' has featured the phrase "the dead zone." However, oddly enough each version ascribes the phrase a different meaning. In the [[Series/TheDeadZone TV series]], Johnny's powers stem from the fact that his brain was badly enough damaged during the coma that certain mental functions were re-routed through [[NinetyPerCentOfYourBrain an area which had up until then been dormant]] — a "dead zone."
101* "So let me ask you: [[Series/DealorNoDeal Deal...or no deal]]?"
102* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has [[TitleDrop/DoctorWho its own page]].
103* ''Series/{{Emergency}}'' had this in a fifth-season episode, "Involvement," where Dr. Early is commenting on retired nurse Milly Eastman (in this episode, a patient) being moved in with a problem paraplegic named Jean Clark. Early says, "You're my patient and I think a hefty dose of involvement is exactly what you need."
104* ''Series/{{Entourage}}'' used a last line Title Drop for the in-universe ''Queens Boulevard'' movie. This is also [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in Johnny Drama's ShowWithinAShow, "Not in my town, not in my Five Towns!"
105* ''Series/{{Eureka}}'' doesn't just title drop, it does a ''title sequence drop''. It has always had part of the title sequence end with Carter watching buildings floating in mid-air. 4 seasons later, they have a problem of the week involving anti-gravity and they drop the title sequence mid-way through the episode, almost exactly like the title sequence, including the theme music.
106* "Fellow guests, I am Mr. Rourke, your host. Welcome to ''Series/FantasyIsland''."
107* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' has a few episodes that drop their titles, such as "A Human Reaction", "Picture If You Will", "Dream a Little Dream", and "Dog With Two Bones". "Self-Infliced Wounds: Could'a, Would'a, Should'a" is partial example, as only the sub-title of the episode is dropped.
108* ''Series/FeelGood'': As part of an ArmorPiercingQuestion:
109-->'''George''': Do I make you feel good about yourself?
110* ''Series/FellowTravelers'':
111** The show's title is spoken near the beginning of the series premiere.
112--->'''UsefulNotes/JosephMcCarthy''': We have a new president! One who doesn't want party-line thinkers or fellow travelers.
113** In "Bulletproof":
114--->'''Hawkins Fuller''': I have a Bronze Star. In case you hadn't noticed, I'm bulletproof.
115** In "Hit Me":
116--->'''Timothy Laughlin''': You want me to be rough trade? Hit me.
117** In "Promise You Won't Write":
118--->'''Tim''': Hawk, promise you won't write.
119** In "Beyond Measure":
120--->'''Tim''': It's like we say in seminary, beyond measure.
121** In "Make it Easy":
122--->'''Tim''': Go home, Hawk. Please. Make it easy for me.
123* ''Series/TheFrankensteinChronicles'': The phrase "a world without God", the first episode's title, is repeated throughout the series as a fear several characters have of the implications assuming the dead can be resurrected by human beings (i.e. apparently they feel it would disprove God's existence, as the villains think). Later, "The Frankenstein Murders" doubles as a title, a headline, and a BerserkButton for Sir Robert Peel.
124* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': The names of the episodes will always be mentioned in the show itself, whether by the title cards following each act break or by the characters themselves.
125* ''Series/{{Fresno}}'' {{parodied| trope}} this with a DistantPrologue of Spanish explorers coming into the land that would one day be the city of Fresno, and it turns out the name is a word used to describe how nasty the grapes taste.
126* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' is a sort of CharacterTitle, as the series is about the Fringe Division of Homeland Security, a federal bureau tasked with investigating cases that involve "Fringe Science" ([[InsistentTerminology AKA "Pseudo-science"]], as the AgentScully points out in the pilot episode). As such, the word Fringe gets tossed around a lot through the series, which isn't an example. What ''is'' an example is the relish enjoyed by the first BigBad as he describes the side effects of his experiment in teleportation:
127-->'''David Robert Jones:''' It seems there are some... ''fringe benefits'' to having one's body reassembled on a sub-atomic level.cc
128* In ''Series/GameOfThrones'', every episode is Title Dropped since the episodes are typically named after a significant line from them, and the titles aren't displayed. However, the one that tops them all is a series title drop and episode title drop in one line:
129-->'''Cersei Lannister:''' When you play the '''game of thrones''', '''you win... or you die.''' There is no middle ground.
130** ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'': There's two sorts in the pilot episode:
131*** The straight up title of the series in the OpeningMonologue by Rhaenyra Targaryen (Creator/EmmaDArcy).
132---->''"The only thing that could tear down the'' '''''House of the Dragon''''' ''was itself."''
133*** Later, King Viserys talks about the prophecy of the '''Song of Ice and Fire''', which is the lesser known title of the [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire book series]] ''Series/GameOfThrones'' adapted.
134* Every episode in the HBO miniseries ''Series/GenerationKill'', though the conversations are often not particularly important to the plot.
135* ''Series/GinnyAndGeorgia'': Georgia says the title at the end of "A Very Merry Ginny & Georgia Christmas Special" after she and Ginny spent the day being together.
136* "By its very definition, ''Series/{{Glee}}'' is about opening yourself up to joy." Done again, various times, for episode titles, eg. "Thanks, '''Grilled Cheesus'''!". They even managed to drop the title with a song for the episode [[ChristmasEpisode Extraordinary Merry Christmas]].
137* Most if not all of the episode titles of ''[[Series/GLOW2017 GLOW]]'' are dropped within the episodes themselves, such as Nerds being the 1985 "Candy of the Year" and Sam quipping about Ruth's allergies being triggered by "Dessert Pollen."
138* Every episode of ''Series/GoodEats'' begins the same way:[[note]]Very early episodes had Alton say the name himself, rather than being cut off by the song.[[/note]]
139-->'''Alton Brown:''' Why, [food of the day] isn't just delicious, it's--\
140'''Intro tune:''' Good Eats!
141* And if you ever...''ever''...think it doesn't happen on The Creator/DisneyChannel, too...[[OnceAnEpisode well]], ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie''.
142* The words in the show title were the very last spoken words in the series finale of ''Series/HappyDays''.
143* ''Series/HartToHart'': Two first-season episodes, "Cruise at Your Own Risk" and "Too Many Cooks are Murder."
144** In the first one, there was a jewelry burglary on the cruise ship Josephine; Hart Industries didn't want a heavy insurance investigation, because as Jonathan puts it, "It would be like hanging out a sign: 'Cruise at Your Own Risk'". This leads to a report of the most recent burglary on the cruise ship Desiree: $600,000. In the latter, after French chef Maurice is murdered (meaning that he won't be having dealings with Jonathan Hart, or anyone for that matter), Frank March (Lloyd Bochner) says, "Yes, that's right. Too many cooks are murder."
145* HBO shows ''Series/TheWire'', ''{{Series/Deadwood}}'', and ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'' all use lines of dialogue from particular episodes as the title of the episodes themselves, though the titles are not shown in the opening credits.
146* ''Series/HereComeTheBrides'': After Jason Bolt says grace in the pilot, he says, "Gangway, Lord, here come the brides!"
147* "This is the best toy in the ''Series/HistoryOfTheWorldPartII''!"
148* There is no episode of ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' that does not have someone use the word "hero".
149* In the second episode of ''Series/HogansHeroes'', an Allied pilot looks down to see an arrow made by the lit cigarettes of the Stalag 13 men standing in formation and comments, "There they are, Hogan's Heroes." On a few other occasions they're referred to as the "Unsung Heroes" by the media.
150* Most episodes of ''Series/{{House}}'' feature Title Drops of the episode titles, which are otherwise not shown.
151* ''Series/HowDoTheyDoIt?'' They say it at least four times an episode.
152* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' has been title-dropped several times (including in the first minute of the pilot: "[[CatchPhrase Kids]], I'm going to tell you an incredible story; the story of how I met your mother") both by Future!Ted and Past!Ted, generally couched in conversations and/or using variations ("Kids, there's more than one story of how I met your mother" "When I have kids, I'm gonna tell them the full story of how I met their mother").
153** The show tends to title drop almost every episode, with the few exceptions making perfect sense anyway (for example, "How Lily Stole Christmas", an episode that centers on Lily being called a "Grinch".
154* "Say kids, what time is it?!" "(It's) ''Howdy Doody'' time!!"[[note]]This was eventually dropped near the end of the original show's run, but was brought for the later New Howdy Doody Show from the 1970s.[[/note]]
155* On ''Series/ICarly'', Freddie thinks up the name, title drops it, then explains it a little more:
156-->'''Freddie:''' ''i'', Internet...''Carly'', you...
157** Almost entirely in "[=iWant My Website Back=]". When Carly confronts Nevel over stealing the iCarly URL from them, she pleads to him, "I just want my website back!"
158** The episode "[=iLove You=]" has a Title Drop, but it's an AssPull. Everyone is expecting it to be one or both Sam and Freddie saying "I Love You" to the other in a romantic moment to cement them as the OfficialCouple, instead it's said after they break up as Sam is about to leave, and they stay broken up after.
159* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'':
160** In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E1InThroesOfIncreasingWonder In Throes of Increasing Wonder...]]":
161--->'''Louis''': I saw [Lestat] sitting a length away from me... radiant. And we sat there for some time... in throes of increasing wonder.
162** In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E2AfterThePhantomsOfYourFormerSelf ...After the Phantoms of Your Former Self]]":
163--->'''Lestat''': You're not one of them anymore, fledgling. You chase after phantoms of your former self.
164** In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E3IsMyVeryNatureThatOfADevil Is My Very Nature That of a Devil]]":
165--->'''Louis''': When your mother sees the Devil in your eyes, it's a hard assessment to abandon. Am I from the Devil? Is my very nature that of the Devil?
166** [[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E6LikeAngelsPutInHellByGod The sixth episode]] includes the VillainLoveSong "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PuWm9t5WY8 Come to Me]]" where the title is sung ten times.
167** In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E7TheThingLayStill The Thing Lay Still]]":
168--->'''Louis''': This horror that had been Lestat... I stared helplessly at it. The thing lay still.
169* Alton Brown referring to the ''Series/IronChef America'' participants as "Your Iron Chefs, America" in their introduction seems a pretty blatant attempt at this.
170* ''Series/IslandOfTheSeaWolves'': The title is worked into the closing lines of the season 1 finale.
171-->'''Narrator:''' For all the island's residents, it's been a year of unprecedented events and enormous challenges. And those who've made it through are now ready to take on whatever the next year has in store for them, on the island of the sea wolves.
172* In a 1970s British comedy set in World War II India, a new arrival writing a letter to his mother decides not to tell her how awful the place is, and writes ''Series/ItAintHalfHotMum'' instead.
173* ''Series/{{JAG}}'': Occurs throughout the series times whenever a character introduces oneself followed by he/she is from ''Series/{{JAG}}'' or is a JAG lawyer. Individual episode names are also often, but not always, dropped.
174** In "Brig Break", Harm looks out the window and sees the prisoners exiting the brig and herding Meg Austin onto a bus. He immediately shouts "BRIG BREAK" before trying to stop them from escaping.
175* ''Series/KeepBreathing'': The phrase is used as part of a meditation technique Liv uses to aid her in the wilderness.
176* ''Series/KirbyBuckets'':
177** In "Twinsies", Dawn meets another girl named Dawn, and they both say "Twinsies!" to each other at one point after everyone confuses them for each other.
178** "Yes, This Is Happening", the first episode of the final season, is a line said by Principal Mitchell in that episode.
179* ''Series/LabRats''' title was dropped in the pilot episode, when Adam, Bree, and Chase were lamenting the fact that they were experimented on.
180* In ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'', the individual episodes often title drop the names of that particular episode. The title of the show itself has also been said on occasion.
181* In an episode of ''Series/{{Leverage}}'', the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Villain of the Week]] remarks that as long as he is holding Nate and Sophie hostage, he "has leverage."
182** "We provide... leverage."
183* ''Literature/LittleFiresEverywhere'': In the season one finale, a firefighter says there are "little fires everywhere" [[spoiler:inside the house, as Elena's kids set it on fire.]]
184* Virtually every episode of ''Franchise/TheLoneRanger'' TV series ends with some variant of the following:
185-->'''Townsman #1:''' Who was that masked man?\
186'''Townsman #2:''' That was the Lone Ranger.
187* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'':
188** [[Recap/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPowerS1E6Udun "Udûn"]]: When the orcs realize that Orodruin is about to erupt, they gleefully chant the word "Udûn." In the Elvish Sindarin, Udûn means "dark pit" or "hell".
189* In ''Series/{{Lost}}'', many episodes feature [[AC:{{Title Drop}}s]] (even bizarre phrases such as "Tricia Tanaka is Dead"). The series' name is Title Dropped every episode, in lines as "we're lost", "we've lost him" et cetera..
190** How about Ben's "And now you're more ''lost'' than you ever were."
191** Strangely, the writers set themselves up for and didn't use an amazing title drop opportunity in ''What They Died For" when [[spoiler: Jacob is describing the attributes of the candidates.]] Everything he said would have been summed up nicely by saying "All of you were lost." but he just stops speaking.
192*** Speaking of "What They Died For", Jacob drops the episode title when [[spoiler:confronted about the recent deaths of Sayid, Jin and Sun; "Come and sit down, and I'll tell you what they died for".]]
193* Every episode of ''Series/{{Lucifer}}'' has its specific title mentioned by someone in that episode.
194* Al Bundy, in a notable example as mentioned below: “I just realized everything I’ve been doing up to now—the bathing, the brushing, the changing of the socks, being nice to people, trying to succeed — it’s all for nothing. All those things are... designed to attract. Why should I be attractive? I’m ''Series/MarriedWithChildren''.”
195* ''Series/MidnightSun2016'': Near the end, we learn Evalina before her death had written “Midnight Sun”, a poem about bad things in the area affecting the Sami. The killer uses it for inspiration.
196* ''(whinnying; birds tweeting)'' "Hello. I'm ''Series/MisterEd''." (TitleThemeTune starts[[note]]In some episodes, the theme is instrumental.[[/note]])
197* ''Series/MrShow'' inverts the trope by choosing a completely random line from each episode as the title, such as, "Oh, you men!"
198* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' [[LampshadeHanging makes a habit of commenting]] whenever a Title Drop occurs in one of their movies. Usually with Joel/Mike and the Bots saying in unison, "We have a title!"
199* In a possible first, played with incredible emotion in the ''Series/MyWifeAndKids'' episode "Man of the Year". After his family console him and show him how much they appreciate him, he drops the tile.
200-->'''Michael:''' I want to thank you guys for reminding me what's really important in my life. That's the love and respect of my wife and kids.
201* ''Series/MyWorldAndWelcomeToIt'': John frequently states the title of the show just before the OpeningCredits roll.
202* The ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' agents obviously namedrop the show title when approaching criminals.
203** In the pilot episode of the SpinOff titled ''Series/NCISHawaii'', the lead agent approached the criminals and announced "NCIS -- Hawaii!!", causing many fans to laugh at the obvious title drop because an agent clearly wouldn't bother explaining what state "everyone" is currently in.
204* "Face it. Abnormal is ''Series/TheNewNormal''".
205* ''Series/NoOrdinaryFamily'' nearly does this during the PreviouslyOn with "We started out as/We were no longer an ordinary family" and then gets played straight in dialogue during the season finale.
206* ''Series/TheNoddyShop'':
207** According to Creator/PBSKids, the show's full name is ''Notions Oddities Doodads and Delights of Yesterday''. In the first episode, there's a scene where Kate says the full name while pointing to the letters on the sign.
208** Being that a character in the show is also called Noddy (the show's North American title), you can expect that word to be said at least OnicePerEpisode.
209** The first episode has an OpeningMonologue that ends with the line "My name is Noah Tomten, and this is the Noddy Shop!".
210* ''Series/NUMB3RS'' had a combination of episode titles that were pulled directly from elements of the plot and episode titles that were more metaphorical or symbolic (and a handful that were both, eg. "Double Down"), so it's about a 50/50 chance that a title will be dropped in any given episode [[note]]although if an episode title is a straight mathematical term, it's a safe bet a Title Drop will happen at some point[[/note]]. However, pretty much all the title drops that did happen were crafted in such a way that they occur naturally as part of the dialogue and consequently aren't especially noticeable.
211** An interesting variation in "Atomic No. 33". No one actually speaks the title as written, but, "Atomic Number 33" is a scientific reference to arsenic, and arsenic plays a significant role in the plot and is therefore mentioned [[note]]as "arsenic", not by its atomic number[[/note]] more than a few times.
212** Another variation in "Thirty-Six Hours". No one actually ''speaks'' the title (or any variation of it), but with every scene change, there's a title card indicating how many hours into the disaster they are. The final card, predictably, reads "Hour Thirty-Six".
213** The series title itself, being a single word critical to much of the work in the series, is of course dropped countless times, but it is worth noting that it's specifically dropped as the final word of the pilot episode (as part of Charlie's CatchPhrase "Everything is Numbers").
214* ''Series/OddSquad'': Very, ''very'' frequent, given that the title of the show is also the name of the organization the main characters work at. However, there are specific examples pertaining to episode titles being dropped as well.
215** "Reindeer Games": At one point, when telling Olive and Otto about Rudolph, he begins WaxingLyrical and recites the lyrics from "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", which includes the line "They never let poor Rudolph/Join in any reindeer games".
216** "A Case of the Sing-Alongs": Olive diagnoses Mayor Mackelmore's odd affliction in this manner.
217--> '''Olive:''' I've seen this before. Mayor, I'm afraid you have a case of The Sing-Alongs.
218--> ''[cue dramatic gasps]''
219** In "Puppet Show", a girl and her two friends approach Olive, Otto and their clients, all in puppet form, and ask them to put on a puppet show.
220** The episode "Robert Plant" has its title shared with the one-time main antagonist, a plant that Obfusco tasks Olive and Otto with caring for. However, Olive drops the title when she grabs the antidote needed to stop Robert from growing out of control, which may also double as a StealthPun considering [[Music/LedZeppelin whom the plant is named after.]]
221--> '''Olive:''' Show's over, Robert Plant.
222** In "Worst First Day Ever", whenever his Centigurp boxes keep getting destroyed, Ori frequently says that "this is the ''worst'' first day ''ever''!"
223** "By the Book": Oprah tells Olive and Otto that they'll have to do their interrogation of Goopy Gus and Gooey Randall by the book, then hands them a rulebook.
224** "Rookie Night": The title shares its name with an event held in various Odd Squad precincts, where veteran agents take rookie agents out for a day of fun. Thus, the title is dropped quite often.
225--> ''"ROOKIE NIIIIIIGHT!!"''
226** In "Partner Problems", Oprah explains Otis's task to him.
227--> '''Oprah:''' Orchid and Ohlm are having partner problems. I need you to help them out.
228** When giving the Mobile Unit their mission to transport a reforming villain to an Odd Squad safe house in "16-and-a-Half Blocks", the Big O tells them that the safe house is 16-and-a-half blocks away from the Casa Loma, where the group is currently located.
229* In the season one finale of ''Series/OneTreeHill'', The Games that Play Us, Karen is talking to Lucas one last time before he leaves Tree Hill. Karen puts her arm around Lucas and says 'There is only one Tree Hill'.
230* In ''Series/OnlyMurdersInTheBuilding'', Charles, Oliver, and Mabel decide to start a podcast to cover their investigation of the murder that happened in their apartment building. Oliver suggests they also cover a killing that took place in Central Park for extra material. Charles shoots this down, saying they should cover "only murders in the building". This becomes the title of their podcast as well.
231* Happens in the series finale of ''Series/OrphanBlack'', where it is revealed to be the title of Helena's book.
232** An indirect one occurs back in season 1, when Mrs. S refers to Sarah as an orphan "in the black".
233* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': Every so often, Miss Brooks would be introduced as "Our Miss Brooks" just for the fun of dropping the title of the program. Mr. Conklin usually gets to do the honors, as the principal of Madison High School, the "our" refers to Miss Brooks belonging to or being associated with Madison High School.
234** In "First Day", outgoing principal Mr. Darwell has the pleasure of introducing "Our Miss Brooks" to incoming principal Mr. Conklin.
235** In "The Grudge Match", Mr. Conklin names "Our Miss Brooks" to the students as their ringside commentator. It's a little redundant as they already know who she is.
236** In "Hello Mr. Chips", Mr. Conklin introduces "Our Miss Brooks" to visiting British Schoolmaster Heatherington Philpott.
237* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'':
238** During Dr. Givens's closing speech in "Final Appeal, Part 2".
239--> "The real miracles, the miracles at the outer limits of our imagination, are yet to come."
240** The Control Voice's closing narration for "Worlds Within" is "Despite our evermore sophisticated technology, sometimes an open mind and a caring heart are more important tools to fathom our reality all the way from its deepest inner reaches to its most distant outer limits." This is the only episode of either this series or ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'' in which the phrase "outer limits" is featured in the Control Voice's narration for an episode outside of the opening credits.
241* ''Series/ThePartridgeFamily'': In "Waiting for Bolero," Danny uses binoculars to spy on Keith and his girlfriend, whom he intends to woo using the song "Bolero." When Laurie asks him what he's doing, he says, "Waiting for Bolero."
242* In the pilot episode, the news is left on in the background, and a reporter mentions that the main character is wanted as a "Series/PersonOfInterest" in an assault.
243* ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'' does it with a jumping rope song in episode 2x14.
244* The final episode of the Filipino soap opera ''Princess and I'' reveals that one of the two princes (that was part of the LoveTriangle) was narrating the story all along to a group of children. The following title drop is ironic, considering he DidNotGetTheGirl, [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy giving leeway to his best friend and the princess]].
245-->''[[ArtisticLicenseLinguistics And that is the story of the princess and I.]]''
246* ''Series/QueenSugar'': In the season 1 finale, Charley buys a sugar mill so her family's sugarcane farm won't be dependent on the Landry mill and she names it "Queen Sugar".
247* In the second season finale of ''Series/ResidentAlien'', "I Believe in Aliens," Deputy Liv Baker finishes her interview, part of a series of interviews of alien experiencers, with the phrase.
248* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' ends its opening skit with "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!", a slightly rearranged version of the show title which had its origins in the rather obscure fact that when the show launched in 1975, its actual title was ''Saturday Night'' rather than ''Saturday Night Live'' because the latter title was already taken for the short-lived ''Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell''.
249* Done quite a few times in the ''Saved by the Bell: The New Class'' episode "Loser" especially in a nightmare Liz has when she loses a swim meet.
250* ''Series/{{Search}}'': The last line of the series is Dong-jin giving Mac an order: "Search!".
251* In the ''Series/SchoolOfRock'' episode "A Band with No Name", the bandmates argue about what to call the band. After nearly breaking up arguing about it, at their first gig, a girl's birthday party, Lawrence announces their name is "School of Rock" which everyone else likes.
252* From the first episode of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'':
253-->'''Bob Kelso:''' Dr. Dorian, do you not realize that you're nothing but a large pair of scrubs to me?
254* In-universe examples from ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'': Whenever the gang goes to the movies, the film(s) they watch often feature title drops.
255** "Everybody into the Chunnel!"
256** "Oh, Rochelle Rochelle..."
257* ''Series/TheShadowLine'' has a lot of musings on the theme of shadows, lines and light throughout the series, but the title itself is only dropped once, during a conversation about Gabriel's possible corruption in episode 5.
258* ''Series/SlingsAndArrows'' deliberately avoids dropping the title: in the first rehearsal where Jack (who's playing Hamlet) reads the "to be or not to be" soliloquy, he misspeaks and says "the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune".
259* ''Series/ASmallLight'': The series ends with a quote that Miep Gies would often end her speeches with.
260->''"But even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room."''
261* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' makes this easy for itself by using [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming one-word episode names]]. Sometimes it was still awkward, glaring, and embarrassing. A few examples:
262-->'''Lex''': So the '''Prodigal''' son returns.\
263'''Chloe''': You are not forced into '''Exile'''.\
264'''Chloe''': I'm '''Devoted''' to you. [[ShipTease I love you, Clark.]]\
265'''Lana''': I want '''Power'''.
266** While there are many episodes that avoid the word, sometimes something like this come up.
267--->'''ComicBook/LexLuthor:''' ("Phoenix") I have no doubt that I'll rise from the ashes again.
268* At the start of the second episode of ''Series/SonsOfLiberty'', Benjamin Franklin comments in a meeting with British leaders: "If you make martyrs of these men, the people of Boston won’t see these men as sons of tyranny. They’ll be seen as sons of liberty."
269* ''Series/TheSopranos'' drops a title almost every episode. This became more and more noticeable as the series went on and got more and more unusual titles. In the first season, for example, there were titles like "Meadowlands" (though that, in a subversion, wasn't actually said until the following episode), "College", "A Hit Is A Hit", and "Nobody Knows Anything" (which was used at least twice in the ep). In the sixth season, you had things like "The Fleshy Part Of The Thigh" (which is where a supporting character offers to shoot a wannabe gangsta rapper, [[OnlyAFleshWound nonlethally and with minimal complications]], in order to give him street cred).
270* In ''Series/SquidGame'', the eponymous "Squid Game" is the final game played in the last round of the DeadlyGame.
271* ''Series/TheSpencerSisters'': The Spencer Sisters is the name Darby and Victoria use for their detective agency. Darby is really Victoria's daughter, but they get [[MumLooksLikeASister mistaken for sisters]], inspiring their name.
272* In the second season, ''Series/StargateSG1'' frequently had a character reference the episode's title, but it always sounded more akin to Cochrane's "some kind of star trek" comment than anything profound.
273* The meaning of the title ''Franchise/StarTrek'' is fairly self-evident, so they managed to go without doing this for thirty years. Then, in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' finale, Q comes the closest anyone had to that point: "It's time to put an end to your trek through the stars." There was finally a full title drop in the TNG film ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'': Zephram Cochrane says, "So you're astronauts, on some kind of star trek?"
274** This is also done in some episodes of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', most spectacularly "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky," the longest title in the franchise. "Plato's Stepchildren" is another memorable title drop, as it occurs within moments of the episode's beginning, and has relatively little relevance on the plot of the episode from then on.
275*** The episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before," of course, gets a title drop in the title sequence narration, as does the ''Next Generation'' episode "Where No One Has Gone Before."
276** Done several times in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episodes:
277*** "Skin Of Evil":
278--->'''Armus:''' I am a ''[[MadeOfEvil skin of evil]]'', left here by a race of titans, who believed if they rid themselves of me, they would free the bounds of destructiveness.
279*** "Ship in a Bottle":
280--->'''Moriarty:''' Your crewmates here in my little ''ship in a bottle'', seem a bit more optimistic.
281*** "Tapestry":
282--->'''Picard:''' There are many parts of my youth that I'm not proud of... there were loose threads... untidy parts of me that I would like to remove. But when I pulled on one of those threads... it had unraveled the ''tapestry'' of my life.
283*** "All Good Things...":
284--->'''Q:''' Goodbye, Jean-Luc. I'm gonna miss you... you had such potential. But then again, ''all good things'' must come to an end...
285** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': one of the more prominent examples is "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges," which despite the GratuitousLatin is quoted by Admiral Ross and translated and elaborated for the viewers courtesy Dr. Bashir.
286** ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': although the title sequence of this series didn't use the famous monologue, the finale, "These Are The Voyages...", ends with clips of Captains Picard, Kirk, and Archer delivering it, resulting in a title drop.
287** ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' has a ''TOS''-like high density of long, evocative titles, and a few get title drops including "Context is for Kings" and "Choose Your Pain."
288** ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'': for the first time (not counting ''[[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Enterprise]]''), the series title is taken from the famous opening monologue, which is brought back for this series. As a result, there's a spoken title drop in each opening sequence. Since the premiere episode is also titled "Strange New Worlds" (another first), it gets a ''double'' title drop. {{Zigzagged|Trope}} in the last scene, where Pike quotes the "seek out new life" and "boldly go" parts in universe, but ''omits'' a further title drop.
289*** Episodes with title drops include "Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach," part of the religious creed of the aliens of the week.
290* ''Series/StElsewhere'': St. Eligius' derogatory nickname St. Elsewhere is used in nine episodes, including all six season premieres: "Pilot", "Bypass", "Ties That Bind", "Playing God, Part 1", "Cheers", "Remembrance of Things Past", "Where There's Hope, There's Crosby", "Resurrection" and the SeriesFinale "The Last One".
291* An episode of ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' has Carey telling the boys they're "Grounded on the 23rd Floor".
292* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
293** Played with in "Wishful Thinking". Sam claims to be writing a book to get a witness to talk to him. When she asks the title, he has to think quickly to come up with "Uh, well, the {{working title}} is...Supernatural?"
294** Subverted in "It's a Terrible Life". Sam (who is actually Sam Wesson, in an alternate reality) comments about the suspicious deaths in the episode, "What if these suicides aren't suicides? I mean, what if they're something not natural?"
295** Dean delivers this speech to Lucifer in "The End":
296--->'''Dean:''' You're the same thing, only bigger. The same brand of cockroach I've been squashing my whole life. An ugly, *evil*, belly to the ground ''supernatural'' piece of crap. The only difference between them and you... is the size of your ego.
297** Sam does this in "The French Mistake". A twofer, since he's actually referring to (a fictional representation of) the real show, rather than some other element in the story.
298** Also happens on "Party On, Garth".
299** The Men of Letters Bunker is described at one point as "the supernatural mother load".
300* ''Series/{{Survivor}}'' and ''Series/TheAmazingRace'' have a habit of turning random lines from contestants into show titles, forcing this to happen OncePerEpisode.
301** Sometimes the title of the series is part of the episode title - This happened three times in Survivor Season 30 ("It's Survivor Warfare", "Finally Playing Some Survivor", "Survivor Russian Roulette").
302%%* ''Series/Studio60OnTheSunsetStrip'' also has "The 4 AM Miracle".
303* The National Geographic Channel show ''Taboo'' does this during every segment of the show. For example, the narrator may say "Some people consider X to be ''taboo''", with extra emphasis on taboo. Arguably justified because that is an actual word.
304* In the sixth episode of ''Series/TeenWolf''. It's also a StealthPun and BilingualBonus.
305--> '''Stiles:''' Be a man. Be a werewolf. Not a TEEN WOLF, a werewolf.
306* Played with by ''Series/{{Terriers}}''. Britt suggests to Hank that their private detective business needs a mascot, something that tells people that once they're on the case, they never give up. They think it over and can't come up with anything.
307* Many of the episode titles of ''Series/TheTerrorInfamy'' are lines used within the episodes. For example, in "All the Demons Are Still in Hell," when Henry rejects Yamato-san's offer of ''sutra'' to ward off the ''obake'', Yamato-san asks him he really believes that all the demons are still in hell.
308* ''That Girl'' famously ended its opening segments with somebody pointing at the title character and saying "That Girl!", with a sometimes contrived and convoluted lead-in to get to that point.
309* In the very first episode of ''Series/TheThinBlueLine'':
310-->'''Fowler:''' In the grand order of life there are but two forces: those of order, and those of chaos. And between them there lies us, the thin blue line.\
311''[Goody immediately points out that that means three forces.]''
312* ''Series/{{Trigonometry}}'': In the series finale, Danny is playing a triangle for a school play. He tells the audience how triangles have the strongest shape, and especially if all sides are equal, with the study of them being called trigonometry. This is obviously alluding to Kieran, Gemm and Ray's [[{{Polyamory}} triad]].
313* Done in ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' in many episodes, usually to point out the black humor ending. Some examples:
314** "You were right. PEOPLE really ARE ALIKE ALL OVER."
315** "...now I have TIME ENOUGH AT LAST."
316* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'':
317** In "If She Dies", Paul Marano's young daughter Cathy is in a coma. He twice laments "if she dies" to Dr. Brice, meaning that he can't face life without her.
318** In "Ye Gods", Todd Ettinger says "Ye gods!" after he [[SummoningRitual summons]] the Fury Megaera to his apartment.
319** In "What Are Friends For?", Alex and Jeff Mattingly's NotSoImaginaryFriend Mike rhetorically asks Alex the titular question before he disappears.
320** The closing narration of "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich" says that "making a deal with the master of demons...well, that's crazy as a soup sandwich."
321* Parodied in ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen''. There is usually a Title Drop in the episode, but it is usually a completely irrelevant line that gets little attention drawn to it and has no impact on the plot.
322* Parodied by the ''Series/UprightCitizensBrigade'', when a man tells a video store clerk that he had the title line in ''Franchise/StarWars''. The man claims that, in a scene that was cut in the final release, he wanders into the ''Millennium Falcon'' for no good reason, says, "I'm just so tired of all these star wars," and walks out.
323** He does the same for ''Film/OutOfAfrica''.
324** Mad Magazine's parody of the first film opened with a character in the midst of a space battle saying "Boy, this movie sure is noisy! Maybe that's why they called it —" splash opening title: '''STAR ROARS'''.
325* The first season of ''Series/UpstairsDownstairs'' gives us a Theme Music Drop ... twice. Partway through the season, the show's closing theme crops up as a music-hall song performed in-story by a recurring character. Then, in the season's final episode, the show's opening theme is played on the organ at another character's wedding.
326* Ten of the 12 episodes of ''Series/TheVeil'' begin and end with Karloff standing in front of a roaring fireplace and inviting viewers to find out what lies "behind the veil".
327* ''Series/VeronicaMars'', being [[CharacterTitle Character Titled]], often has a title drop, but one episode managed to do a ThemeTune title drop/quote, with Veronica saying 'We used to be friends, a long time ago', right before the theme song 'We Used to Be Friends' starts, the first line of which is '[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment A long time ago, we used to be friends]]'.
328* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'': Expect the episode names to be uttered by any of the characters within the episode. The series title is dropped by Rick after the group is driven from the farm, and he reveals they're all infected.
329** He drops it again in episode 10 of the fifth season.
330* Most of the episode titles of ''Series/TheWatch2021'' come from something that is said in the episode itself. "The What?" is the name that the Watch uses as their band name, albeit without the question mark. "Twilight Canyons" is a nursing home visited by the group within that episode. "The Dark in the Dark" is confronted by Cheery within said episode, after having been mentioned by the sword Gawain. "Nowhere in the Multiverse" is so named because it's said that there's "Nowhere in the Multiverse" that [[spoiler:Sam Vimes will kill Lady Sybil Ramkin.]] Finally, there's "Better to Light a Candle," which originates from the phrase "It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
331* Three of the four episodes of a miniseries called ''The Way We Live Now'' had one of these, although usually the exact wording would be changed to something like "The way people live now."
332* While ''Series/TheWestWing'' doesn't qualify as a whole, a number of episodes do on their own, such as "Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc", "An Khe", "Eppur Si Muove" and the finale "Tomorrow" (it's the last line spoken in the entire show).
333* ''Series/WhatsMyLine'' had many, as the announcer would say the name of the program at the start and host John Daly would welcome viewers to the program at the beginning, to give a couple examples. However, the most straight example is likely the intro segments used during the [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness earliest episodes of the program]]. These typically followed a format which went along the lines of as follows...
334-->'''Announcer''': Take a good look at this man. If you saw him at your corner newsstand, would you be able to tell what he does for a living? Is he a world-famous painter? A clerk in a supermarket? An undertaker? What would you say if he turned to you and asked...
335-->'''Man''': (''faces the camera'') What's my line?
336* ''Series/TheWonderYears'' final episode: "And the thing is, after all these years, I still look back... with wonder."
337* Inverted on an episode of ''Wrestling/WWERaw'' in late 1997. Announcer Wrestling/JimRoss had told the hot new {{Heel}} tag team of "Road Dogg" Jesse Jammes and "Badass" Billy Gunn that they had been acting like [[TookALevelInJerkass "a couple of new age outlaws."]] They soon became known as the New Age Outlaws.
338* ''Series/TheXFiles'' is fond of this trope, especially for their myth-arc episodes. A few however are misnomers and refer to scape goats and not the real culprits. An example would be the episode [[spoiler:"The Red Museum" which features the eponymous cult who were victims in the mystery, not the culprits like the town believed.]]
339* From ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' - use of the phrase "Warrior Princess" (Xena's title).
340** When Gabrielle has unexpectedly been crowned queen of the Amazons (for reasons that are too complicated to explain).
341--> '''Gabrielle:''' Queen Gabrielle! Hey, does an amazon queen beat a warrior princess?\
342'''Xena:''' (talking in a Clint Eastwood drawl) Do ya REALLY wanna find out?
343** Another occasion, Xena is unhappy because she is alone and pregnant (too complicated again). She is in a market where she pulls a funny face at a small child, who starts crying.
344--> '''Child's Mother:''' What's the matter, baby? Did that mean old warrior princess frighten you?
345* ''Series/{{Yellowjackets}}'': In the episode "[[Recap/YellowjacketsS2E8ItChooses It Chooses]]" Van asks Lottie why she doesn't just [[spoiler:drink the poisoned cup herself, in a recreation of an earlier LotteryOfDoom]]. Lottie tells her that she knows this isn't how it works, that they don't get to decide, "it" (meaning the Wilderness) chooses.
346* Many episodes of ''Series/YesMinister'' and ''Series/YesPrimeMinister'' end with a character, usually Sir Humphrey or Bernard, responding to something Hacker has said by saying "Yes, (Prime) Minister." NigelHawthorne, showing his serious actor chops, made a point of saying this with a different emotion every time.
347** By the time of the Christmas Special at the end of season 3, this was the expected ending to each episode; so when Humphrey revealed Hacker's promotion by saying "Yes, Prime Minister" for the first time, it was quite an aversion.
348* ''Series/TheYoungOnes'' reserved their Title Drop for the final few minutes of the series. As the lads [[RidingIntoTheSunset ride to glory]] in a stolen double-decker bus with wads of stolen cash, Rick celebrates their victory and newfound freedom in a rousing speech: "We’re young ones! Bachelor boys!" Seconds later, [[spoiler:the bus crashes through a Cliff Richard billboard and plummets off a steep cliff, whereupon landing it [[EverybodyDiesEnding explodes into a fireball from which nothing or no one could escape.]]]] TheEnd.
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