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* Comedian Joe Lycett has named his two comedy tours ''That's the Way, A-Ha, A-Ha, Joe Lycett'' and ''I'm About to Lose Control and I Think Joe Lycett.'' (For the second, James Acaster had suggested he go the whole hog and call it ''[[OverlyLongJoke I'm So Joe Lycett, and I Just Joe Lycett, I'm About to Lose Control and I Think Joe Lycett]].'')

* ''Series/MashinSentaiKiramager'' [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming episode titles are all references]] to films that Creator/{{Toei|Company}} produced or distributed, [[https://twitter/rabbitank/status/1364110781319503878 most of which are either obscure to Western audiences]] or LostInTranslation due to an untranslatable pun, the referenced film having a CompletelyDifferentTitle in English or both.[[labelnote:Example]]The title of episode 31 "Toys", in which the HumongousMecha is shrunk down to the size of a toy, is a reference to a 1999 film about geisha in the dying days of legal prostitution, known in Japanese as ''Toys'' but officially distributed in English-speaking arthouse circles as ''The Geisha House''.[[/labelnote]] Among the few references that can be neatly retained in English...

** Episode 9 - "[[Music/Rihanna Shut Up and Drive]]"

%%* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': Most of the show's episodes after season 3 are named after movies and songs.

** ''Series/CSICyber'' gets in on the act with "[=URL=], Interrupted" and "Gone in 6 Seconds."

* ''Fanfic/AnchorFoal'': [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/342886/16/anchor-foal-a-romantic-cringe-comedy/date-a-dead "Date A Dead"]], a reference to ''LightNovel/DateALive''.

* Many episodes from the English dub of the various ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' series.
* The Creator/FUNimation dub of ''Manga/SgtFrog'' does this a lot.
* As does its dub of ''Manga/CrayonShinChan''.

* ''Series/GossipGirl''
* Several episodes of ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}''.

* Several ''Series/OddSquad'' episodes have these kinds of titles.

* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': Most of the show's episodes after season 3 are named after movies and songs.

* Every other episode of ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}''.

* A few episodes of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''.

-->--''WesternAnimation/TheGreatNorth'', Season 2 "[[Recap/TheGreatNorthS2E01BraceOffAdventure Brace/Off Adventure]]"

* Nearly every episode outside the half-hour specials of ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' has this, though it has become less common in later seasons. Some specific examples include "[[Film/PulpFiction Pulp Friction]]" and "[[Series/BreakingBad Breaking Dad".

A subtype of PunBasedTitle which applies to individual episode titles, where the pun is based upon some element of popular culture, such as the title of a film, book or song. {{Catch Phrase}}s, song lyrics, adages and colloquialisms can also be riffed on.

Also a subtrope of IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming. This trope also highly overlaps with ShoutOut. Related to LiteraryAllusionTitle and can sometimes overlap.

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* Every episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpecialAgentOso'' is a pun on a James Bond movie.

* Practically every episode outside the half hour specials of ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' has this.

** [=S2E18=] "LabyrinthRunners" = ''Literature/TheMazeRunner''

** [=S1E5=] "Hooty's Moving Hassle" = ''Anime/HowlsMovingCastle''.

* A lot of the episode titles in ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'', especially those in Season 2, are references to vintage popular culture. Just some of them are "[[Film/MyFairLady My Fair Jet]]", "

[[Film/FromRussiaWithLove From Pluto With Love]]", "[[Series/MagnumPI Magnet, PI]]", "[[Music/TheBeachBoys Pet Sounds]]", etc.

* ''WesternAnimation/Rocky and Bullwinkle'' made use of pop culture pun titles with their episode titles. Among them were "Visit to a Small Panic" (the movie "Visit to a Small Planet"), "This Goon For Higher" ("This Gun For Hire"), "Pantomime Quisling" (TV show "Pantomime Quiz") and "Mourning Becomes Electra-cuted" (the book "Mourning Becomes Electra").

* A lot of the episode titles in ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'', especially those in Season 2, are references to vintage popular culture. Just some of them are "[[Film/MyFairLady My Fair Jet]]", "[[Film/FromRussiaWithLove From Pluto With Love]]", "[[Series/MagnumPI Magnet, PI]]", "[[Music/TheBeachBoys Pet Sounds]]", etc.

->'''Judy:''' Yeah, that's right... Dr. Gary was gonna take my braces off. Have you seen the movie ''Face/Off''? Well, this rhymes with that. This was ''Brace/Off''.\\

* ''Webcomic/TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella''. Every. Single. Strip.
* ''Website/PlatypusComix'' applies this to several comics and articles.
* ''Webcomic/TheBrothersQuack''; most titles are a play on a title of another work or an idiom.
* ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'' often does this. Even more in the Archives for the special pages where [[AlternateHistory another famous work doesn't exist]].