History Main / TheJoyOfX

* '''From X with Love''' - starting with Franchise/JamesBond novel/movie ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove'' (1963). There are some variations, too: '''To X with Love''' or '''From X without Love'''

** ''The Creature That Ate Sheboygan'', both [[TabletopGame/TheCreatureThatAteSheboygan a tabletop game]] and an unrelated song by Aces & Eights.

** "Love, Cirronian Style", an episode of ''{{Series/Tracker}}''

** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E79FiveCharactersInSearchOfAnExit Five Characters in Search of an Exit]]" (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'')

** ''Literature/BookOfTheDead''

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* '''The Un-X-able Y-ness of Z(-ing)''' -- started with ''Literature/TheUnbearableLightnessOfBeing'' by Milan Kundera (1984)

** The historical mystery series by Creator/MargaretFrazer featuring the nun Sister Frevisse all have "The X's Tale" titles ... and are set in the 15th century, just a generation or two after Chaucer.

* '''The X's Tale''' - starting with ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales'' as the {{Trope Namer|s}}, but sadly not the {{Trope Maker|s}}. The original is a frame story where X means "told by the", not "about a".

** The historical mystery series by Margaret Frazer featuring the nun Sister Frevisse all have "The X's Tale" titles ... and are set in the 15th century, just a generation or two after Chaucer.

*** [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS6E4TinkerTenorDoctorSpy "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy"]], an episode of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''
*** [[Recap/TheGoodPlaceS4E04TinkerTailorDemonSpy "Tinker, Tailor, Demon, Spy"]], an episode of ''Series/TheGoodPlace''

** "Murder Most Fowl", episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}''

** "To Love and Die in L.A." (episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}'')

** "The Mistress Always Spanks Twice", an episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}''

** "Much Ado About Murder", episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}''

** "Dial M for Mayor" (''Series/{{Castle}}'')

** "[[Recap/CastleS6E10TheGoodTheBadAndTheBaby The Goood, the Bad & the Baby]]", an episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}''

** A Creator/BBC documentary about statistics, and how it doesn't have to be boring, is called "The Joy of Stats".

** "A Tale of Two Sitters" (''Series/{{Wishbone}}'')

** "Bend It Like Basil", episode of ''The Basil Brush Show''
** "Bend It Like Brent", episode of ''Corner Gas''
** "Bend It Like Baxter", episode of ''That's So Raven''
** "Bend It Like Bella", episode of ''Little Big Shots''
** "Bend It Like Becky", story in ''[=WordGirl=]''
** "Bend It Like Burtonburger", story in ''Kid vs. Kat''
** "Bend It Like Wreckem", story in ''Jimmy Two-Shoes''
** "Bend It Like Donald", episode of ''The Apprentice''
** "Bend It Like Czar Zar", episode of ''The New Adventures of Nanoboy''
** "Bend It Like Walberg", episode of ''Wahlburgers''
** "Bend It Like Radar", episode of ''Astroblast!''
** "Bend It Like Golic", episode of ''Off-Mikes''

* '''The Joy of X''', the {{Trope Namer|s}}, is an interesting {{zigzag|gingTrope}}: most titles of this form reference ''The Joy of Sex'' (1972), which was itself titled in reference to ''The Joy of Cooking'' (1931). Conveniently, it also makes this a JustForPun trope and a SelfDemonstratingArticle.

** "Me, Myself & Die", episode of ''Series/{{Hunter}}''

** ''Grandville Mon Amour'', the second ''Comicbook/{{Grandville}}'' graphic novel

** ''ComicBook/TheSandman Presents: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Dreams but Were Afraid to Ask''

** ''Comicbook/DialHForHero''

** ''Comicbook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck''

** "Bye Bye Butterfree" and "Bye Bye Psyduck" (''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'')

** "Love, Pokémon Style" and "Love, Petalburg Style", episodes of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''

** "The Joy of Pokémon" and "The Joy of Water Pokemon", ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' episodes

** "The Unbearable Lightness of Seeing," episode of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''

** The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty.

** [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8845297/1/Are-You-There-Primus-It-s-Me-Starscream Are You There, Primus? It's Me, Starscream.]] A {{Transformers}} fanfic.