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** [[ForeignLanguageTitle Pizza Boar's lyrics are Italian]].

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'''Basic Trope''': A song doesn't feature the title in its lyrics.
* '''Straight''': Alice records a song titled "Pizza Boar". While the song is clearly about a wild pig that likes an Italian dish consisting of bread, tomato sauce, and mozarella cheese, the words "pizza" and "boar" do not appear in the lyrics.
* '''Exaggerated''': Not only do the words "pizza" and "boar" not appear in the lyrics to "Pizza Boar", the song has nothing to do with pizza or boars.
* '''Downplayed''': "Pizza" and "boar" are mentioned in the lyrics, but only once each and not together.
* '''Justified''':
** The title was set in stone before Alice wrote the song, but she couldn't work the title into the lyrics.
** The producer of Alice's album changes the title of the song to "Pizza Boar" without seeing if it's in the lyrics.
* '''Inverted''': The lyrics to "Pizza Boar" are nothing but the words "pizza boar" [[BrokenRecord repeated ad nauseum]].
* '''Subverted''': Halfway through the song comes a line that doesn't sound like it will include the title due to its context, but Alice outright says "pizza boar".
* '''Double Subverted''': But the context of the rest of the line establishes that she actually says [[FunWithHomophones "Pete's a bore."]] The rest of the song goes by without her saying "pizza boar".
* '''Parodied''': Alice teasingly sings various other combinations of Italian foods and wild pigs ("lasagna razorback", "calzone warthog") when she should be singing "pizza boar".
* '''Zig-Zagged''': Alice repeatedly sings the words "pizza" and "boar" throughout "Pizza Boar", but not together. Every time she teases the title appearing in the lyrics, there's a LastSecondWordSwap.
* '''Averted''': Alice sings the words "pizza boar" at regular intervals.
* '''Enforced''': The issues of Alice not featuring the title of "Pizza Boar" in the lyrics were based on the real life songwriter [[RealitySubtext having trouble with working the title into the lyrics]].
* '''Lampshaded''': The bridge:
-->''But he's not giving up that pepperoni and cheese.''\\
''There's a better chance of the title being sung by me.''
* '''Invoked''': Alice originally had the words "pizza boar" in the song, but later thought it sounded silly and removed them.
* '''Exploited''': Bob records an unauthorized cover of "Pizza Boar", but titles it "He's The Wildest" after a line heard frequently enough [[RefrainFromAssuming to be mistaken for the title]]. He gets away with it for a while because the different title misleads people into thinking it's a different song.
* '''Defied''': Alice originally omitted the words "pizza boar" from the lyrics, but then realized that might make the song [[RefrainFromAssuming hard to identify]], so she added a part where she does sing the title.
* '''Discussed''': "I hear Alice is coming out with a follow-up to 'Pizza Boar'. I wonder if the title will actually appear in this one."
* '''Conversed''': "I find it curious when a song omits the title from the lyrics. Some of them are pretty good like "[[Music/{{Queen}} Bohemian Rhapsody]]", "[[Music/{{Nirvana}} Smells Like Teen Spirit]]", "Pizza Boar". Is that an artistic thing?"
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