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  • In Blogger Beware, whenever the book does a Title Drop, Troy deliberately cites another book's title. Except once in the I'm your Evil Twin review.
    • Or in some cases he uses the actual title in a way that's grammatically inappropriate, such as "Max doesn't believe he really Let's Got Invisible.".
  • Parodied in a video by sketch comedy group BriTANick.com, about Oscar Bait movies. Featured on ''Cracked''.
    Protagonist: Explicitly stating the moral of the story, and awkwardly working in...the Movie Title.
  • The British Railway Stories:
    • In episode 9, "Birds Of A Feather", Sir Ralph says that he and Scott are this because they both had trouble with signal men because of mistaken head codes. Despite that, Scott still tells everyone in the yard that Sir Ralph isn't who he says he is.
    • The narrator does this in episode 10, The Legacy Of Gadwall.
    Narrator: One thing is certain. The name of Sir Ralph Wedgewood may have lived on, but it is the memory, The Legacy Of Gadwall, the lost A4 Pacific, that stays fresh in their minds every single day.
    • In episode 10, Hawk Eyed!, Allen says this about Gronk to Hawk.
    Allen: I bet you're glad he was so Hawk-Eyed, eh?
    • In episode 16, Great Scott!, we get this line from Cyril, Scott's driver in 1952, after hearing Scott complaining about them.
    Cyril: Great Scott! Scott's in great trouble!
    • Episode 17 has one at the end of the episode.
    Narrator: Little did he know, that would be the last time he'd meet... Fowler's Ghost!
  • The Call of Warr: In-Universe: the first scene of the "Undercover Soldier" script ends with the line "And I'm...Undercover Soldier."
  • The attack launched by the big bad of Chaos Fighters II-Cyberion Strike is called as such.
  • Christopher Odd often titles his gameplay episodes after a quote from that particular segment, be it from the game itself or something he said.
  • The series of web videos CinemaSins inverts the trope. To those unfamiliar, it takes mostly contemporary (and sometimes classic) movies and dissects them, counting the sins each time they happen. They could be anything from things vanishing and reappearing to plot points. But the show itself does not drop its own title, but instead makes note of whenever the movies do and adds a sin for it.
    Jeremy Scott, the Narrator: "Roll credits." (Ding) note 
  • CLW Entertainment: "caffeine" is a 5-second-long video where the only dialogue is the title.
  • Crossed Lines: In episode 2, "Down The Drains", Cojack has this line after being delayed by almost running into Boxer.
    Cojack: Good grief, this entire day has gone down the drains, in all meanings of the word.
  • In Darwin's Soldiers, the first RP does a title drop with the last line of the last post.
    Neku: This is more...than anything I could have asked for. From now on...we're a team. We are, I guess, in a way...Darwin's Soldiers. The next evolution of warriors...
  • Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues:
    • The title of the roleplay was first dropped when an author introduced his newest book, Dawn of a New Age, setting up a plot point for the characters to follow.
    • Besides that, the title has been alluded to a few times; Principal Shooter referred to the students as 'builders of a new age', while Daigo has said that their powers will usher in the 'dawn of a new era'. He eventually goes the whole way and calls it the 'dawn of a new age' while fighting Harriet and Hyeon.
  • Ed Glaser's series Deja View has a title drop every episode worked in as a pun. For example, in Turkish Captain America:
    Ed Glaser: "So get ready for a triple-punch of Red, White...and Deja View.
  • When things start getting freaky in the first episode of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, the camera rotates and a studio crew with googly eyes can be seen along with a clapboard with the title on it.
  • Done frequently and to comedic effect (usually with the exact same clip) in Doom House:
    "Police Officer:" Baggies! I've seen these before. Ohhhh, this is evidence! Evidence of... A DOOM HOUSE!
    Reginald P. Linux: A doom house?
    "Police Officer:" A doom house.
  • The serial web-novel Fine Structure (here) is somewhat sporadically updated; one of the chapters is titled simply "this is not over and I am not dead" in all-lowercase. It seems as though the author is commenting in the title on his somewhat sporadic update-schedule, and apologizing (such as it is) for the relatively late update, right up until the Big Bad (an Sufficiently Advanced Alien in human form) says those exact words and then proceeds to shoot himself.
    • Also, in the very first chapter, the title of the series itself is referenced. It's rather stealthy, however:
    Then it's over, Heaven number seventy-nine dopplering into our wake, torn bodily from its extradimensional moorings, fine structure bucking, scattering and shattering.
    This is made more interesting by the fact that this chapter was incorporated retroactively. However, the author had apparently written it with the intention of adding it eventually.
  • Another web-novel, Fragile, features this trope in two different parts that use the title in them — once in the middle and another time at the very end. Both times, the title refers to Severin, with the latter referring to his mental state and the former just generally referring to Page's perception of him.
  • "But hey! That's just a theory. A GAME THEORY! Thanks for watching!"
  • Gary: Landlord of the Flies:
    • The post where Gabe is evicted is titled "Stranger than Eviction", the blog's URL. The first line lampshades this:
      (I always get excited when a movie says its own title in the movie)
    • The post where Gabe learns that all of Gary's tenants are either gone or plan to move out is titled "Landlord of the Flies... and not much else", referencing the blog's proper title.
    • The final post, titled "The World According to Gary", concludes with the sentence "In the world according to Gary, no case is a civil one."
  • A particular Internet meme (catalogued on Know Your Meme as The Titular Line) involves awkwardly shoehorning a title drop into movies that never had one.
  • Occasionally in Let's Plays - for example, in Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords played by Scorchy, the original thread and the final update were both given the title "Because We Hate Endings".
  • Meat Sleep has the video livestock visually display the words "meatsleep" onscreen at one point.
  • The Nostalgia Critic:
    • The Critic references the trope by name in his review of My Pet Monster, pointing out its blatant use in that as well as in The Lord of the Rings movies.
    • He also opens most episodes with "I'm The Nostalgia Critic. I remember it so you don't have to"
    • In "You're a Rotten Dirty Bastard", Rodger the guardian angel said the title of the Christmas special after showing what life would be like without the Nostalgia Critic.
    Rodger: You see Critic, I always knew you're a rotten dirty bastard.
    • Among Phelous's many running gags is "Name...Drop!" when a title is mentioned mid-movie...though more often it's inverted to highlight something silly, like using the wrong name.
  • Often done unintentionally in Now in the 90s when discussing video game trends from the decade.
  • Orion's Arm is in fact set in that arm of our galaxy but the real title drop is the mention of a worldbuilding project in the setting meant to simulate the world of Orion's Arm which is itself named Orion's Arm.
  • Parodied hilariously in the (fake) Pac Man trailer.
    Police Officer: It seems to be some kind of man...some kind of Pac Man.
  • Happens all the time in Pay Me, Bug!. Ktk is the titular bug. It will bet on anything and everything with Cyrus. When Cyrus wins...
  • The Platoon of Power Squadron has the titular platoon/squadron come up with the name on the spot, which is why it's so Redundant and silly-sounding. The show was named that long before this episode, but at least it's justifyed in-universe.
  • This occurs often in Pretty Dudes with their episode titles ("They call it falling for a reason..." is perhaps the most emotionally impactful one), and most notable in their second episode for dropping a version of the show title.
    • "We're pretty, dudes!"
  • Retsupurae pointed this out in their Trapped Retsufrash.
    • Later, during the third game of the series they throw in forced title drops to all three games in the series—Trapped, Pursuit and Escape—in immediate succession.
    • It was also done during their Arise 2 retsufrash: "Once more...I'm arising to kill whoever did this to me."
  • Happens near the end of the first chapter of Sailor Nothing, when the title character encounters a Yamiko possessing one of the students at her high school:
    Yamiko: Who the hell ARE you?!
    Sailor Nothing: ...I don't know. I guess I'm a sailor. I'm nothing.
  • Solid jj: Agressively lampshaded in "Classic Aquaman", where Batman saying the title at the end of the video is followed by the subtitles flashing and saying "He said the title" while triumphant music is played.
  • Invoked in the TFS Movie: Christmas Tree of Might.
    Mall Santa Minion: It is time. Plant the tree! ...Of might.
    [Beat]
    Mall Santa Minion: The Christmas Tree of Might.
    Audience: Oohhh!
    Elf Twin Minion: Title Drop!
  • TMK title drops in "Project: Super Kirby Bug Report// TMK.EXE", in a phone conversation which happens shortly after Brent Cole dies:
    Donny Smith: Hello? Any reason you're calling me at 3 in the morning? Some of us have a jo-
    Mr. Cole: "TMK. You were right. Its getting wors-"
  • A certain Channel Awesome anniversary special has The Nostalgia Critic give a Rousing Speech which contains the following quote:
    Critic: "Bravery will be rewarded! Destinies will be revealed! And the honor of a new nation will be born! A nation which I will declare — KICKASSIA!"
    • A later anniversary special features a plaque which contains the following message:
      USS Exit Strategy
      To boldly flee where no one has fled before.
  • Several indirect mentions in There Will Be Brawl; the title drop actually refers to the "brawl" that eventually erupts in the last episode. It also refers to the fact that the series is a dark Affectionate Parody of Super Smash Bros. Brawl as a whole. In order, it's mentioned by Luigi in the fourth episode, Dedede in the fifth, Olimar in the eighth, and Bowser in the ninth.
  • Through the Motions gets title dropped when Deanna explains how she managed to cast her first spell after only briefly looking at one of her friend Sol's abridged diagrams:
    "All I did was think of the spell in my head, go through the motions you drew on the paper, and that's when the crystal lit up."
  • Title Pending: "Title Pending" is brought up at the end of the first episode as a placeholder name for the channel, allegedly previously called "The Story Of My Life", but Alyssa irons it in.
  • Ultra Fast Pony does it, at the end of an episode named "Shameless Self Reference", no less. (And immediately afterwards, the end credits claim the entire series was leading up to that title drop.)
    Rarity: But I don't get it. How were you able to get down there so quickly?
    Rainbow Dash: Gee, Rarity, I don't know, I guess you could say I'm an Ultra. Fast. Pony.
    Everyone: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwww!
  • Most episodes of the comedy podcast We Hate Movies begin with this.
  • Early in season 1 of We're Alive, Pegs makes a sign to hang outside the Tower to announce that there are survivors inside. Guess what it says, yep: "We're Alive".
  • Whateley Universe:
    • At the end of So I'm a Freak. Sue Me:
      Welcome to Whateley Academy. Hope you like stories, because we got a few doozies to tell sooner or later. I do so love it when panic and mayhem come together.
      Yeah yeah, I'm a Freak. Sue me.
    • When Jerry is asking Anna about her adventures in Straight from the Squirrel’s Mouth (Chapter 10):
      I wanted to hear the real story, straight from the squirrel’s mouth.”
      “Don’t you mean the horse’s mouth?”
      “I would never call you a horse. Not even a filly,” he teased.
  • In the web serial Worm, Cherish drops the title in a confrontation with Taylor.
  • Wrestle Wrestle: In the first video, Spoony's watching a particularly bad characterization moment on an episode of Impact that also makes him realize this show will be mostly talking instead of actually wrestling, and he shouts "Wrestle! WRESTLE!".

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