Excited Show Title! It's a title ending with one or more exclamation points! Some comedy movies show they're comedies by having an excited title! Lots of musicals have excited titles! Often just the exclaimed first name of the lead character! So many, that it's become a Discredited Trope! Especially when exclamation points are stacked!!!!
Slightly less grating when the title is an actual exclamation, like "Help!"
Compare Excited Title! Two-Part Episode Name!, Title Scream! See also Lucky Charms Title! Questioning Title? for when the title ends with a question mark!
Examples!
- Baby Shark's Big Show!
- Kérem a következőt!, a Hungarian animated series.
- Nu, Pogodi!
- The Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf seasons Happy, Happy, Bang! Bang! and Mr.Wolffy, Mr.Right! both have exclamation marks in their titles.
- Say Hi to Pencil!
- Again!!
- Ah! My Goddess (a.k.a. Aa! Megami-sama, Oh! My Goddess)
- Aikatsu!
- Aim for the Ace!
- Akame ga Kill!
- Akikan!
- ALL OUT!!
- Amanchu!
- Angel Beats!
- Angel Blade: Punish!
- Anima Yell!
- Appare-Ranman!
- Ask Dr. Rin!
- Attacker You!
- Azumanga Daioh indulges in this occasionally, in four episode titles ("We're 2nd Year Students!", "The Ocean, Summer Kimonos, and a Party!", "Entrance Exams Study Camp!", and "Onwards, Entrance Exams!") and four chapter titles ("Wildcat Tomo-chan!", "Go With Enthusiasm!", "Sea!" and "Fight!"). For the chapter titles, "Fight!" is the only one whose original Japanese title is not as excited.
- Baccano!
- Bakuon!!
- Bakusou Kyoudai! Let's & Go!!
- Basquash!
- Bastard!! (1988)
- Battle B-Daman: Fire Spirits!
- Cat Planet Cuties
- Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE! (a.k.a. Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu LOVE!)
- Blame (It's generally assumed that the title is a mispelling of the english onomonpeia "blam", like a gun.)
- Burn Up!
- Campione!
- Cardfight!! Vanguard
- Cells at Work!
- Charger Girl
- Chitose Get You!!
- Chu-Bra!!
- Chūka Ichiban!
- Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai! This extends to the English title Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions
- Daa! Daa! Daa! (a.k.a. UFO Baby). Justified, since it's supposed to be Baby Talk. The anime also tends to have excited two-part titles.
- Dash! Yonkuro
- The Devil Is a Part-Timer!
- D-Frag!
- DIVE!!
- Doraemon: In "A World Without Sound", Big G's concert is called Big G! Big Concert!
- Dotto! Koni-chan
- Dragon Ball: Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!!
- Dragon Crisis!
- Durarara!! This is tongue-in-cheek — in an author's note, the author explains they were added simply to poke fun at the fact that his other works Baccano! and Vamp! both have exclamation points at the end. "Heck, why not add TWO this time?"
- Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya 2wei! combines this with Oddly Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo and Lucky Charms Title.
- Free!
- Full Metal Panic! and Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid. Subverted with Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu, which is more of a confused show title instead.
- Futaba-kun Change!
- Gals!
- Ganbare, Kickers!
- Gamers!
- Godannar
- Good Luck Girl!
- Haikyuu!!
- Hands Off!
- Hayate the Combat Butler! And the second season, Hayate the Combat Butler!!
- Himawari! (and its second series Himawari!! [translated as Himawari Too! in the U.S.])
- Himouto! Umaru-chan
- Ichigeki Sacchu!! Hoihoi-san
- Iczer:
- Fight! Iczer-One
- Adventure! Iczer-3
- I'm Gonna Be an Angel!
- I My Me! Strawberry Eggs
- Inukami!
- Jahī-sama wa Kujikenai! (a.k.a. The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated!)
- Jewelpet Kira Deco!
- Karura Mau!
- Keijo!!!!!!!! has no less than eight exclamation points.
- Kemeko Deluxe!
- Koe de Oshigoto!
- Komori-san Can't Decline!
- K-On!, and its second season K-On!!
- Konjiki no Gash Bell!! a.k.a. Zatch Bell!
- Kyou Kara Ore wa!!
- The Legend of Thunder!
- Love Live!
- Love Stage!!
- Maid-Sama!
- Maken-ki!
- Mamotte! Lollipop
- Manabi Straight!
- Manga de Hakken! Tamagotchi
- Mayo Chiki!
- Mayoi Neko Overrun!
- MEGANEBU!
- MM!
- Monkey High!
- My Love Story!!
- My Part-Time Job Is at an Evil Organization?!
- Natsu no Arashi!
- Need a Girl!
- Negima! Magister Negi Magi, as well as Negima!? and the Live-Action Adaptation Negima!!
- Neko-de Gomen!
- New Game!
- No Matter How I Look at It, It's You Guys' Fault I'm Not Popular!
- Oh! Edo Rocket
- Onegai! Samia-don
- Panda! Go Panda!
- Pani Poni Dash!, though the manga titled Pani Poni appears less excited.
- Please Teacher!
- Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure!, as well as many of its chapter titles.
- The manga adaptation of the eleventh Pokémon movie is titled Giratina & the Sky Warrior!
- A vast majority of episodes of the English dub of the Pokémon anime produced after 4Kids lost the rights have an exclamation point in the title.
- Powerpuff Girls Z
- Pretty Cure:
- Rail Wars!
- Reborn!
- Re-Kan!
- Saga of Tanya the Evil: The first ending theme, Los! Los! Los!, which is German for "Go! Go! Go!".
- Sakigake!! Otokojuku
- Sakura no Ichiban!
- School-Live! (actually a subversion as the series' setting is much bleaker than the title suggests)
- See Me After Class' original Japanese title, Asa Made Jugyou Chu!
- Seiyu's Life!
- Squid Girl, and its second season Shinryaku!? Ika Musume.
- Shippu! Iron Leaguer
- Show by Rock!!
- Shugo Chara!, Shugo Chara!! Doki, and Shugo Chara!!! Dokki Doki, a segment of Shugo Chara! Party! — Shugo Chara! is a very exciting series.
- Skip Beat!
- Soreike! Anpanman
- Soul Eater Not!
- Sound! Euphonium, "Sound" is an imperative verb in this case.
- Stitch!
- Stop!! Hibari-kun!
- Strawberry Panic!
- Most of the Tamagotchi anime shows and films - Let's Go! Tamagotchi, Tamagotchi: Happiest Story in the Universe! the Tamagotchi! TV show, and Eiga Tamagotchi: Himitsu no Otodoke Dai Sakusen!
- Tenchi Muyo!
- Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki
- Tomo-chan Is a Girl!
- Tona-Gura!
- Toradora!
- UQ Holder!
- Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out!
- Venus to Mamoru!
- ViVid Strike!
- Wagnaria!! This also goes for its spin-off — WWW.WORKING!!
- Wake Up, Girls!
- Wanted! (1998)
- Wan Wan Celeb Soreyuke! Tetsunoshin
- Yakitate!! Japan
- Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl
- Yotsuba&!
- The original Japanese names of the first three Yo-Kai Watch movies, combined with Idiosyncratic Episode Naming, which is followed by the episode titles who Self-Parody them:
- Yo-kai Watch: Tanjou no Himitsu da-nyan! (The Secret is Revealed, Nyan!)
- Yo-kai Watch: Enma-daiou to Itsutsu no Monogatari da-nyan! (Lord Enma and the five Tales, Nyan!)
- Yo-kai Watch: Soratobu Kujira to Double Sekai no Daibouken da-nyan! (The Great Adventure of the Flying Whale and the Double World, Nyan!)
- You're Under Arrest!
- Yu-Gi-Oh!
- Yuri!!! on Ice
Artist!
- Comic book artist Scott Shaw! always has his name spelled like this.
- So does Tracy Yardley!, as a tribute.
- And then there's Elliot S! Maggin.
Comics!
- For some reason, the Danish translations of several Asterix albums has an exclamation point in the title that wasn't there in the original French title.
- The Batman Strikes!
- Buzz!
- Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!
- Carls Large Story!!
- 1970s British comic book Cor!! has two exclamation marks. Sister publications at IPC/Fleetway included Whoopee! and Oink! (humour titles like Cor!!) as well as Smash!, Pow! and Wham! (action titles that eventually all merged together). There was also the very short-lived horror title Scream!
- As Incríveis Aventuras de Dog Mendonça e Pizzaboy!
- Lou ! is a French comic series, whose Animated Adaptation is known as Lou! in English-speaking countries (why, yes, the spelling isn't identicalnote ).
- Marvel NOW!!
- Shazam!!
- Teen Titans Go!
- 1990s British comic Toxic!, published by Apocalypse Ltd.
- Wonder Woman Vol 1: Every issue of the "Judgment In Infinity!" arc had an ! in the title.
- Zot!
- Ah! Archfall! — and probably a lot of other Ah! My Goddess fanfiction.
- Calvin and Hobbes Get XTREME!
- Dungeon Keeper Ami:
- Forever!
- ICEMAN!!
- Lincoln's Memories: "Happy Easter!" is spelled with an exclamation point.
- Oversaturated World: One of the stories of the Oversaturated World collection is: Crossworlds Guardian, Sailor Orbital!
- ''Quizzical: Well, Chapter Title: A few exist, and most are One-Word Title as well, such as:
- Thweet Geniuth:
- Conspiracy!
- Disaster!
- What The Hay Was That?!
.
- Thow Time
, where the site's chapter title has no exclamation mark, but the in-chapter title is called "Chapter 14 Thow Time!".
- Conspiracy!
- Basements of Doom:
- Chapter 7: Zapped!
.
- Chapter 7: Zapped!
- Thweet Geniuth:
- Tokimeki PokéLive! and TwinBee. It is a crossover that involves Love Live! after all, though not all story titles end with an exclamation mark.
- Triptych Continuum: For Surge Protectors!. The exclamation mark at the end of the title matches how the titular company calls themselves, with an exclamation mark, every time it's said:
we created the Surge Protectors!
the main reasons anypony hired the Surge Protectors!
Welcome to the Surge Protectors!
- Airplane!
- And Now the Screaming Starts!
- Annie: A Royal Adventure!, the Made-for-TV sequel to the 1982 Annie film.
- Anvil! The Story of Anvil
- Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!
- Return of the Killer Tomatoes!
- Killer Tomatoes Strike Back!
- Killer Tomatoes Eat Paris!
- Author! Author!
- Avanti!
- Banshee!!!
- Berserk!
- Beware! The Blob
- Brand Upon the Brain!
- Bullseye!
- Cannibal! The Musical
- The Carry On films had Carry On Screaming! and Follow That Camel!. The latter movie title occasionally had the exclamation mark removed in certain international releases.
- Cornered!
- Dear God No!
- Die, Mommie, Die!, a homage/parody of Mommie Dearest.
- Die, Monster, Die!
- Die You Zombie Bastards!
- Draw!
- Duck, You Sucker!, also known as A Fistful of Dynamite
- Easter Bunny, Kill! Kill!
- Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
- Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College!
- Girls! Girls! Girls!
- Godzilla: King of the Monsters!
- Good Bye, Lenin!
- Gotcha!
- Hail, Caesar!
- Hallelujah!
- Hands Up!
- Hangmen Also Die!
- Hatari!
- Hello, Dolly!
- Help!
- Hold On! (1966)
- Hot Shots! and Hot Shots! Part Deux.
- I Know Where I'm Going!
- Inchon is sometimes stylized as Inchon!
- The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies
- Incest! The Musical
- The Informant!
- It! The Terror from Beyond Space
- I Want to Live!
- Kiss Me Quick!!
- Kung Pow! Enter the Fist
- Though there is an exclamation point, L!fe Happens averts this by putting the point inside its title.
- Maniac! (1980)
- Mars Attacks!
- McLintock!, also starring John Wayne
"He likes his whiskey hard... His women soft... And his west all to himself!"
- mother! (2017)
- Moulin Rouge! It's that excited!
- Munster, Go Home!
- Murder!, directed by Alfred Hitchcock
- The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
- The third installment in the Nativity franchise is unfortunately subtitled Dude, Where's My Donkey?! which makes it both this and a Questioning Title?
- Oh, God!
- Oh! What a Lovely War
- Oklahoma!
- Oliver!
- O Lucky Man!
- The Outlaws IS Coming!
- O Youth!
- A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die!
- Repo! The Genetic Opera
- Safety Last!
- Save Yourselves!: The film's title is the panicked exclamation "Save yourselves!"
- Saved!
- A Serious Shock! Yes Madam!
- Sink the Bismarck!
- So Proudly We Hail!
- Stop! Look! And Laugh!
- Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
- A Talking Cat!?!
- Taxi!
- That Darn Cat!
- That Thing You Do!
- That's Life!
- Them!
- They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970)
- ¡Three Amigos!
- tick, tick... BOOM!
- Top Secret!
- Tora! Tora! Tora!
- Two Thousand Maniacs!
- Vengeance! (1970)
- Viva Knievel!
- Viva Maria!
- Viva Villa!
- Viva Zapata!
- Wham! Bam! Thank You, Spaceman!
- What a Way to Go!
- Wholly Moses!
- Whoopee! (notable as Busby Berkeley's first film work). It was originally a Broadway musical of the same name, but without the exclamation mark.
- Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
- The Zapped series:
- Zero Hour! (1957)
- Bonkers! chew candy.
- Chips Ahoy!
- There is a wine called "Est! Est!! Est!!!
", made in central Italy near the town of Montefiascone. According to legend, a German bishop on his travels sent a servant to scout ahead for suitable places to stay. When that servant came to an inn near Montefiascone, he was so impressed by the local wine that he scrawled "Est! Est!! Est!!!" on the gates of the inn (something like "Yes! This is it!!!"). The bishop must have agreed, for when he came to Montefiascone he stayed there for the rest of his life.
- I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!
- Krunchers! chips.
- Oh Henry! candy bars.
- Screaming Yellow Zonkers!
- Achoo!
- Isaac Asimov
- "Blank"
- The Complete Adventures of Lucky Starr: A few chapters end in exclamation marks:
- David Starr, Space Ranger:
- Chapter 6: "Sand Away!"
- Chapter 14: "I Am the Space Ranger!"
- Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids: Chapter 13 Raid!
- Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus:
- Chapter 3: Yeast!
- Chapter 4: Councilman Accused!
- Chapter 5: "Beware Water!"
- Chapter 6: Too Late!
- Chapter 8: Councilman Pursued!
- Chapter 16: The Enemy!
- Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury: Chapter 11: Saboteur!
- Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter:
- Chapter 4: Initiation!
- Chapter 13: Fall!
- Chapter 15: Traitor!
- Chapter 16: Robot!
- "Escape!"
- "I Just Make Them Up, See!"
- "Liar! (1941)"
- "...That Thou Art Mindful of Him": When this story is republished, it changes slightly depending on the publishers. The original title was "—That Thou Art Mindful of Him!", while the more recent publication in The Complete Robot is "...That Thou Art Mindful of Him". The appearance of some indication that the title is an incomplete quotation and the appearance of an exclamation mark at the end are both inconsistent.
- Darkover: Hawkmistress! and Stormqueen! by Marion Zimmer Bradley.
- Dirk Pitt Adventures has Raise the Titanic!, Night Probe!, and Pacific Vortex!.
- Discworld
- Thud! has a lot of excited people(s), but no-one's really all that happy.
- Guards! Guards! — though justified because the title is a reference to someone calling for the guards.
- Jingo is sometimes written with one and sometimes not.
- The Doctor Who New Adventures novel Sky Pirates!
- Don't Call Me Ishmael!
- Dorsai! by Gordon R. Dickson.
- Many of Mo Willems' Elephant & Piggie books, such as "Today I Will Fly!", "Pigs Make Me Sneeze!", and "I Broke My Trunk!"
- Dreadnought! and Battlestations!, the books in the Fortunes of War duology.
- A few of the books in the Geronimo Stilton series (e.g. "I'm Too Fond of my Fur!" "Watch Your Whiskers, Stilton!")
- Roger Zelazny's short story "Horseman!"
- Illuminatus! by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson.
- Make Room! Make Room!
- Ray Bradbury's short stories "Mars is Heaven!" (appearing as part of The Martian Chronicles) and "Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms In Your Cellar!"
- Myth-O-Mania ends each book's title with an exclamation point.
- The 1913 work by Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
- Redwall: Eulalia!
- Ready, Freddy!
- Roys Bedoys: Most of the story titles end in exclamation points.
- Aftershock!, the sequel to Shatterbelt by Colin Thiele.
- Karen Russell's Swamplandia!
- Dr. Seuss
- Happy Birthday to You!
- Horton Hears a Who!
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
- Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?
- Oh, the Places You'll Go!
- Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!
- On Beyond Zebra!
- Scrambled Eggs Super!
- There's a Wocket in My Pocket!
- The 1968 short story "!!!The!!Teddy!Crazy!!Show!!!" by Harlan Ellison.
- There Is No Epic Loot Here, Only Puns: The chapter "A miserable pile of Mushrooms!"
- Real title of an 18th century novel: The Three Monks!!! — making this trope Older Than They Think.
- Time To: Both titles ("Time to Pee!" and "Time to Say, 'Please'!") end in exclamation points.
- Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot! This is actually a series, and the number of exclamation points is variable (there's usually a digit or Roman numeral thrown in as well).
- All the chapters of the book The Trolls end with an exclaimation point!
- Warrior Cats:
- The short stories "Hunting Fish!" in Battles of the Clans and "Raid on the Camp!" in Secrets of the Clans.
- The Russian edition of Into the Wild is titled "Стань диким!", translating roughly to "Become Wild!"
- The WrestleCrap Book of Lists! by RD Reynolds and Blade Braxton. When promoting the book on the WrestleCrap Radio podcast, RD always makes sure to state the exclamation point out loud when he says the title.
- 'Allo 'Allo!
- The Aquabats! Super Show!
- Artzooka
- Bearcats!
- B.o.B: For the first season. Once the setting changes to the greeting card company, Bob! becomes just Bob.
- Chef!
- Combat!
- With the exception of "Why is Josh in a Bad Mood?" the first season of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend has a exclamation mark in every episode title.
- Debra!
- Democracy Now! — which is rather sedate due to the smooth jazz intro and Amy Goodman's soothing voice. The excitement is attributable to the political radicalism of the program's guests.
- Eat Bulaga!
- Emergency!
- Fight Back! with David Horowitz
- Fuun! Takeshi-Jo translation when it's not an overseas release.
- Girls x Heroine!
- Idol x Warrior Miracle Tunes!
- Magic x Warrior Magi Majo Pures!
- Secret X Warrior Phantomirage!
- Police X Warrior Lovepatrina!
- Bittomo X Heroine Kirameki Powers!
- Help! I'm a Teenage Outlaw
- Inai Inai Baa!
- Jackpot!
- Jeopardy!
- Jimmy Kimmel Live!
- Judge Judy and its spinoff, Hot Bench, both have these and Questioning Titles (and combinations of both) in their official episode titles. Two examples both from the 2019-2020 season of Judge Judy: "Judge Kicks Man Out of His Own Home!" and "Tree Huggin' Father/Daughter Duo?!"
- Let's Make a Deal was Let's Make a Deal! for its 1963 pilot only.
- Not in the actual title, but Limitless has used this for two episodes: "Badge! Gun!" and "Headquarters!"
- Live!, but only following it becoming Live! with Regis and Kelly. Before that, it was Live with Regis and before that Live with Regis and Kathie Lee. Prior to that, it had other titles entirely.
- The Odd Squad episode "H2 Oh No!"
- Oh My English!
- Operation Ouch!
- Our Miss Brooks had the episode "Spare That Rod!"
- Nailed It!
- Pay Cards!
- Penn & Teller: Bullshit!
- The Persuaders!
- Police Squad! (In Color!)
- Reno 911!
- ¡Rob!
- Say When!!, an NBC game show from 1961.
- Schmigadoon!
- Sledge Hammer!
- Sorry!
- The Sound of Music Live! and all the live musicals that either NBC or Fox televised after it.
- That's Incredible!
- That's My Bush!
- Think Twice!, a short-lived PBS prime-time game show from 1994.
- Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!.
- TNA Impact! until 2011.
- Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt uses this in its episode titles: "Kimmy Goes Outside!" "Kimmy Kisses a Boy!" "Kimmy Makes Waffles!"
- Voyagers!
- The game show Whew!
- What's Happening!! and its spin-off series, What's Happening Now!! You'd think it should have a question mark instead, but no...
- WWE SmackDown! until 2008.
- You Don't Say!
- Al B. Sure!
- A jazz performer who enjoyed these was the late pianist Andrew Hill. He released albums named Judgement!, Andrew!!! and Compulsion!!!!!
- The Aquabats! have a lot of excited titles. Notably every song on "Fury of the Aquabats!" and "Charge!!"
- Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers' album Art Blakey!!!!! Jazz Messengers!!!!! And, yes, it came out on the famed jazz label Impulse! Records.
- BABYMETAL: Their eponymous debut album has three tracks with these.
- Including the track ヘドバンギャー!!, which in the official Romanization becomes HeadBangeeeeerrrrr!!!!!
- The Beach Boys' albums The Beach Boys Today!, Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) and Beach Boys' Party!.
- The Beatles
- The album, song and movie Help!
- And the song "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" off Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- As well at the song "Oh! Darling" off Abbey Road.
- John Lennon's "Instant Karma!"
- Bob Marley's Live!
- In 1981, Bow Wow Wow gave one of its albums the memorable title See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang, Yeah. City All Over! Go Ape Crazy.
- Calexico has "Attack, el Robot! Attack!"
- Cameo's "Word Up!" (later covered by Mel B and Korn)
- The band Los Campesinos! takes this a step further by renaming the band members' last names Campesinos!, too. So you get Gareth Campesinos!, Aleksandra Campesinos!, and the like.
- Their song "You! Me! Dancing!"
- Childish Gambino's "Awaken, My Love!"
- The Clash album Sandinista!.
- A Cos Mo song is "Let's Play with Hatsune Miku!!"
- Daniel Amos has the album ¡Alarma!. And the song "New Car!" (from Doppelgänger) which directly references excited prize announcements from a game show.
- Darren Hayes plays with this trope by putting the exclamation mark in the middle of the song title: "Pop!ular"
- Depeche Mode's debut album Speak and Spell contains Nodisco!, Tora! Tora! Tora!,and Boys say Go!
- Thomas Dolby's "Hyperactive!"
- Erasure's album Wild!, which includes the single "Drama!"
- Out to Lunch! by Eric Dolphy has an exclamation mark in the title.
- Australian group Frente!
- Hey Ocean! (featuring Ashleigh Ball of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fame).
- Devin Townsend uses this trope very often:
- His album Addicted has an exclamation mark after the title of every song, with two after the title of the last one.
- The songs "Effervescent!" and "More!" from Epicloud use this trope, as well as "Ziltoidia Attaxx!!!" from Ziltoid the Omniscient.
- El-Creepo! — the name of Todd Edward Smith's solo project and its debut album.
- ¡Forward, Russia! has a faux-Spanish, faux-Cyrillic version of this.
- Front 242 stylize their name "фронта! 242" in Russian.
- Inverted by the decidedly unexcited fun.
- The Go! Team — The exclamation point may be there to differentiate themselves from an earlier, unrelated band who went by the punctuation-free name The Go Team.
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor. And correspondingly, the documentary film from which they took the name.
- Also, their fourth album, Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
- Grand Funk Railroad's album All the Girls in the World Beware!!!
- Green Day had Greatest Hits Album International Superhits! plus a trilogy combining this with Gratuitous Spanish (aside from the last, which references their drummer): ¡Uno! ¡Dos! and ¡Tré! (plus their making of, ¡Cuatro!)
- Half Man Half Biscuit opined in "Third Track Main Camera Four Minutes" that "If ever an album title was in dire need of an exclamation mark, it surely had to be Frampton Comes Alive!"
- Hello! Project
- The Brazilian band Ira! (they explained the exclamation is to make clear the word is "ire", not something inspired by the IRA)
- Jazz saxophonist Jackie McLean has several
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- Jaga Jazzist has "Music! Dance! Drama!"
- Jazz pianist Jon Jang has a fondness for this. He's released CDs titled Self Defense!, Tiananmen!, and Never Give Up!
- Yoko Kanno's "Tank!"
, the opening soundtrack for Cowboy Bebop.
- The Kentucky Headhunters' Rave On!!
- Ligabue's album Arrivederci, Mostro!
- Gordon Lightfoot's Lightfoot!
- The Linda Lindas have "Oh!" and "VOTE!"
- The band MAGIC! of "Rude" fame.
- The Argentine band Miranda!
- The song "Dead!" by My Chemical Romance.
- The German band Neu!.
- The song "HYPERPOWER!" from Year Zero by Nine Inch Nails.
- Hardcore Punk band Off! It may not be a coincidence that Off! (complete with exclamation point) is also a brand of insect repellent - Their vocalist, Keith Morris, was the original singer for Black Flag, who shared their name with an insecticide brand.
- The experimental rock outfit On!Air!Library! put out one album before its twin-sister singers left to form the less excited (but more synth-pop) School of Seven Bells.
- Ornette Coleman's Something Else!!! and Tomorrow Is the Question!
- The band Panic! at the Disco. They have since dropped the exclamation point, before putting it back.
- The trope extends to "ME!", lead singer Brendon Urie's hit duet with Taylor Swift.
- Periphery: "Icarus Lives!", "Jetpacks Was Yes!" and "The Gods Must Be Crazy!"
- Porno For Pyros combine this with a bit of Lucky Charms Title with the song "Good God's://Urge!". Oddly enough, the album that it's technically the Title Track to is just called Good God's Urge.
- Somewhat related is Jane's Addiction's "Stop!".
- The Pretenders released an album in 1990 titled Packed!.
- R-note has a lot of excited titles:
- Albums: Touhou Strash!, Touhou Romanesque! and Touhou Shangri-La!
- Songs: "Carnival!", "Fly High!", "HAPPY!", "HERO!!", "Journey!", "LEADING!", "Love it!!", "Magic Magic!", "Melody!!", "Missing Power!", "Please Freeze Me!", "Ready! Highly!", "Red Crisis!!", "Ai? No!!", "Yume Fighter!" and "青空Secret!".
- The Rolling Stones' The Rolling Stones, Now!, the US version of their album The Rolling Stones No. 2.
- Shania Twain loved these on the albums she released while still married to Robert John "Mutt" Lange. The Woman in Me launched a hit with "(If You're Not In It for Love) I'm Outta Here!" Come On Over has four songs with exclamation marks in their titles, including her hit "Man! I Feel Like a Woman!" Up! has eight (and, of course, note the album title itself).
- Sufjan Stevens has five excited song titles from his album Illinois. One that comes to mind is "They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh!"
- When it was released on vinyl, a few tracks were retitled and made more excited. For example, "Chicago" became "Go, Chicago! Go! Yeah!" Of course, the cover of the album itself gives the title as Come On, Feel the Illinoise!
- When his first album was rereleased, an exclamation mark was added to the title: A Sun Came!
- System of a Down's "Chop Suey!", "Question!" and Steal This Album!
- The indiepop band They Go Boom!!, named after a Laurel and Hardy film which does not have exclamation marks.
- Throw That Beat In The Garbagecan!. They were named after a song by The B-52s but the exclamation point was their own addition, which they kept even after shortening the name to Throw That Beat!.
- "Can't Stop the Feeling!" by Justin Timberlake.
- Tones On Tail had their single "Go!", and the compilations Everything! and Something!.
- "Ultraelectromagneticpop!," the debut studio album of The Eraserheads.
- Van Halen's song "Everybody Wants Some!!!"
- Wham!
- "Weird Al" Yankovic's album Polka Party!, with Title Track.
- The Yeah Yeah Yeahs third album, It's Blitz!
- Yellow Zebra's album Touhou Splash!. They also have a few excited song titles: "Believe heart!", "Fly Away!", "Melody!" and "My Dear!".
- Most of the songs by Louisiana rapper and singer Autumn! ends with an exclamation mark. Yes, his stage name ends with the mark too.
- Dialed In!
- Earthshaker!
- Fire!
- Jokerz!
- Mousin' Around!: The exclamation point fits the game's cartoony and energetic aesthetic.
- The "Mutation!" table of Balls of Steel.
- No Good Gofers
- Pro Pinball: Timeshock!
- Radical!
- Whoa Nellie! Big Juicy Melons
- Wizard!
- The Funday Pawpet Show Spin-Off The OMFG Blitz! Show.
- Téléfrançais!
- Yo Gabba Gabba!
- The popularization of excited titles for musicals might be traced back to the late 1910s, when the influential series of "Princess" musicals by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse included Oh, Boy!, Oh, Lady! Lady!!, and Oh, My Dear!. Other Broadway musicals of the same decade included Oh! Oh! Delphine (1912), Stop! Look! Listen! (1915) and Oh, Look! (1918).
- Drat! The Cat!
- Fiorello!
- George M!
- In The '70s, it was Grease. In The '90s, it became Grease!
- Hello, Dolly!
- Honk!
- I Do! I Do!
- Jubilee!, the last of the "classic" Las Vegas topless revues, though it dropped the exclamation point when it was Retooled in 2014
- Leave It to Me!
- Love Valour Compassion
- Mamma Mia!
- Mozart!
- Oh! Calcutta
- Oklahoma!, for which the ! was such a late addition that the cast and production crew went around town adding it to the printed posters before opening night.
- Oliver!
- Pokémon Live!
- Sherry! (The Musical adaptation of The Man Who Came to Dinner)
- Snoopy!!!
- tick, tick... BOOM! Yes, that's the way it's supposed to be capitalized and punctuated.
- Twang!!, Lionel Bart's unsuccessful 1966 Robin Hood musical
- Zanna, Don't!
- Timbuktu!, the Africanized version of Kismet
- Whoopee!, a 1928 musical starring Eddie Cantor.
- At Cedar Fair Entertainment: Valleyfair!
- To say that the Disney Theme Parks like this trope would be a bit of an understatement:
- BraviSEAmo!
- Disney Dreams!
- Disney Junior: Live on Stage!
- Disney Junior Dance Party!
- Doug Live!
- Fantasmic!
- Guardians of the Galaxy Mission: BREAKOUT!
- Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular!
- Imagination!
- It's Tough to Be a Bug!
- Jubilation!
- Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show
- MicroAdventure!
- Monsters, Inc. Mike and Sulley to the Rescue!
- Monsters, Inc. Ride and Go Seek!
- Move It! Shake It! MousekeDance It! Street Party
- O Canada!
- Playhouse Disney: Live on Stage!
- Sounds Dangerous!
- Stitch's Great Escape!
- Stitch Live!
- Tarzan Rocks!
- Tiana's Showboat Jubilee!
- Toy Story Midway Mania!
- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire - Play It!
- At SeaWorld:
- Lights, Camera, Imagination 4-D!
- Pets Ahoy!
- At Six Flags: Scream!
- At Universal Studios:
- Animal Actors: On Location!
- Animal Planet Live!
- Disaster!
- The High in the Sky Seuss Trolley Train Ride!
- Lights! Camera! Action! Hosted by Steven Spielberg
- Spider-Man Rocks!
- Universal's Creature Features in 3-D!
- A3!
- Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa A Reckless Disregard For Gravity
- Aikatsu!
- Arcana Heart series:
- Arcana Heart FULL!
- Suggoi! Arcana Heart 2
- Arcana Heart 3: Love MAX!!!!!
- Arcana Heart 3: Love MAX SIX STARS!!!!!!
- Bungie's first game, the ripoff of Pong, GNOP!
- Big Money!
- Bubbaruka!
- Bug! Also the name of the movie that Bug stars in.
- Burnout CRASH!
- Chipmonk!
- ChuChu Rocket!
- Some Commodore PET games and programs, published in the CURSOR
magazine, used an exclamation point at the end of their name to show that they're capable of using sound.
- Cook, Serve, Delicious!, Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!!, and Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3?!
- Cuphead presents each battle as a cartoon from The Golden Age of Animation, some of which are excited: "Botanic Panic!", "Junkard Jive!", "Aviary Action!", "High Seas Hi-jinx!", and "All Bets Are Off!"
- Destroy All Humans!
- In Donkey Kong Country and its sequels, level names become excited when all the bonus stages within are completed.
- EarthBound (1994): The War Against Giygas!
- Engacho!
- Everybody Edits Flash: The main logo uses an exclamation point, making the name appear as Everybody Edits!.
- Family Guy Video Game!
- The Rub Rabbits!, prequel to Feel the Magic: XY/XX
- Find the Cure!
- Gimmick!
- Goal!
- Go Beryllium!
- Gotcha! The Sport!
- Guacamelee!
- Hachoo!
- Hamtaro: Ham-Hams Unite!
- Here Comes Niko!
- Jardinains! and its sequel Jardinains 2!
- Karin's Skin Diving Diary!
- Learning Voyage: Sand Trapped! and Learning Voyage: Swamped!
- Leisure Suit Larry:
- Magic School Lunar!
- Maribato!
- Mighty Flip Champs!
- Mighty Switch Force!
- Minty Fresh Adventure!
- Mother Chef: The Musical!
- Mr. Do!
- Namu Amida Butsu! and Namu Amida Butsu! -UTENA-. The original Japanese title ends with a glottal stop (small tsu) before the exclamation mark, giving the impression of Title Scream.
- The majority of the Magnavox Odyssey² library has this.
- Offspring Fling!
- Oh Jeez, Oh No, My Rabbits Are Gone!!! is maybe more panicked than excited!
- Order Up!
- Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan
- Overcooked!
- Pitfall!, Oink!, and Kaboom! from Activision.
- Its New York! from Platform Racing 2
- Pokémon:
- Poly Poly! Speed Daisakusen
- Punch-Out!!. Also called Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
- Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary and Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary.
- Ratchet & Clank: Going Mobile!
- Reflec Beat groovin'!!
- Rescue on Fractalus!
- A Robot Named Fight!
- Rival Turf!
- Same! Same! Same!, Japanese title for Fire Shark
- The Neo Geo Pocket Colour versions of Samurai Shodown are called Samurai Shodown! and Samurai Shodown 2!
- Shing!
- Sid Meier's Pirates!
- Spacewar!
- Spaceward Ho!
- Stars!
- Super Mario Bros.:
- In Japan: Mario & Luigi RPG 3!!!
- Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
- とってもYEAHHHH!! Or translated, a hack called Super Mario World YEAHHHH!!
- Taipan!
- Tomba!
- TurboCharged ARCADE!
- Unrailed!
- We Love Golf!
- Woah Dave!
- Zettai Ryouiki! Not the trope, the H-Game.
- Doki Doki Literature Club!
- Happiness!
- Hate Plus: Well, the song titles:
- I Love You, Colonel Sanders!: The Start Screen doesn't have the exclaimation mark, but store pages do.
- Little Busters!
- Princess Lover!
- SHUFFLE!
- Banana-nana-Ninja!
- DEATH BATTLE!
- Girlchan in Paradise!!
- Kiwi!
- The Welcome to... series (i.e. Welcome to YouTube!).
- Adventurers!
- Amazoness
- The Artist is Dead!
- Balderdash!
- Check, Please!
- College Roomies from Hell!!!
- The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!
- Irregular Webcomic!
- I Was Kidnapped by Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space
- Fans!
- Fite!
- Go Get a Roomie!
- Housepets!
- It Hurts!!
- Mini Mari!
- Monster Pop!
- Nobody Scores!
- Please Forgive Me!!!
- This Is the Worst Idea You've Ever Had!
- David Willis does this with almost all of his comics in the Walkyverse, Dumbing of Age being the only thing he has turned out so far to lack it. This may be because of the Alternate Universe.
- Roomies!
- It's Walky!
- Joyce and Walky!
- Shortpacked!
- Wondermark, by David Malki!
- Yosh!
- Zap!
- Adventures in the Pirate Continent
, literally every chapter
- Parodied by McSweeney's Internet Tendency with "Actual Academic Journals Which Could Be Broadway Shows If They Had Exclamation Points Added
".
- Cinnamon Bunzuh!
- Google!
◊ (in 1997).
- Yahoo! (in 1997 and still today)
- Dances Moving! is a pastiche of old 1980s instructional dance videos and uses the exclamation point to convey its high-energy premise (at least, before Cerebus Syndrome kicks in).
- Linus Tech Tips: If you browse through LTT's videos, you'd be lucky not to run into a video title without an exclamation point. They go back at least as far as "The WAN Show - CRAZY NVIDIA and Valve News! Titan X and More! - Mar 6, 2015
" but became more common late in The New '10s. Another example is "This GPU SLIDES into this Case!
"
- Mitten Squad: The video, "Let's Play DBZ Budokai HD: Part 10 | Best Friends Unite!"
- Smosh these days capitalizes their entire video titles.
- The Spiffing Brit: The video, "ALWAYS WAR!!! Hearts Of Iron 4 Timelapse Clash Of the Titans!"
.
- Most SuperMarioLogan videos starting from late 2014. (e.g. The Koopa Kids!; Bowser's House Fire!; Chef Pee Pee Gets Sick!)
- The Super Therapy! web video series.
- World War II: Episode 48 - "No Deal... Herr Hitler!"
- 3-2-1 Penguins!
- Aaagh! It's the Mr. Hell Show!
- Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
- Action League NOW!
- ALVINNN!!! and the Chipmunks
- American Dad!
- Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!
- The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes!
- Baymax!
- Blue's Clues & You!
- Bo on the Go!
- The Cuphead Show!
- The Day My Butt Went Psycho!
- Nearly every episode of DuckTales (2017) ends with an exclamation point, starting with the two-part premiere "Woo-oo!" and "Escape To/From Atlantis!"
- Eek! The Cat
- The Fairly OddParents
- Fangbone!
- FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman
- Fillmore!
- Four Eyes!
- Freakazoid!
- Get Blake!
- Go Away, Unicorn!
- Go Go Cory Carson!
- Harvey Girls Forever!
- Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch!
- Hey Arnold!
- High School USA!
- Histeria!
- Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks
- KaBlam!
- Kaeloo: Not for the title of the show itself, but there are excited episode titles.
- Episode 17, "Let's Play Peace, Man!"
- Episode 34, "Let's Play Goodbye, Mr. Cat!"
- Episode 50, "Let's Play Guess Who!"
- Episode 69, "Let's Play Hallo, Hello, Hola!"
- Let's Go Luna!
- Mary Kate and Ashley in Action!
- The Mighty B!
- ¡Mucha Lucha!
- OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes
- Ready Jet Go!
- The Save-Ums!. Just like the "Ducktales" example above, most of the episodes end with an exclamation point.
- Scooby-Doo! The franchise is sometimes written with an exclamation point, but it isn't systematic. Among the series and movies fitting the trope are:
- Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
- Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!
- Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
- Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!
- Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost
- Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire
- Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico
- Scooby-Doo! and the Loch Ness Monster
- Aloha, Scooby-Doo!
- Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy?
- Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy!
- Chill Out, Scooby-Doo!
- Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King
- Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword
- Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo
- Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare
- Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur
- Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire
- Big Top Scooby-Doo!
- Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon
- Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright
- Skunk Fu!
- Slimer! shorts from The Real Ghostbusters.
- Spider
- There are two works featuring the same character entitled Stitch! One is a direct-to-video Pilot Movie for Lilo & Stitch: The Series, one is an anime.
- Superjail!
- The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
- Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!
- Super Why!
- Teen Titans Go!
- Totally Spies!
- Trolls: The Beat Goes On!
- Unikitty!
- Welcome to the Ronks!/Rolling with the Ronks!
- Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!
- "Autoemancipation!"
, a seminal early Zionist pamphlet written in German.
- American retail company Big Lots!
- Groen!
("Green!"), the Green Party of the Flemish Region/Community of Belgium.
- The Swedish feminist party, Feministiskt initiativ
("Feminist Initiative") is properly abbreviated Fi. However, since they chose to put the lowercase i upside-down in their logo, most people use F!
- In the Swiss city of Basel, there is an environmentalist party called BastA!
, whose name is an abbreviation for "Basel's Strong (i.e. cool/awesome) Alternative". "Basta" is also an Italian interjection, common in colloquial German, meaning "enough!". The exclamation mark adds emphasis.
- E! Entertainment Network.
- The radical environmentalist group Earth First!
- There are at least two villages/towns in the world with an Excited Show Title!: Westward Ho!
in Devon, and Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!
in Quebec.
- There are actually several "Ha! Ha!" place names in Quebec, since "haha" is an archaic French term for a dead-end or barrier.
- The city of Hamilton, Ohio changed its name to Hamilton! to get publicity. Since they were unsuccessful in getting the exclamation point on state maps, though, it isn't used much anymore.
- Factorial numbers in mathematics, which are written as n!.
- Intel's Pentium III
has curiously placed dots underneath the Roman numerals, making it look like Pentium!!!
- Jeb!, the longstanding logo of U.S. politician John Ellis Bush
, has featured the exclamation point since 1994, although it only got national attention
beginning in 2015 (which means it predates the parody sitcom about his brother's presidency, That's My Bush!).
- Off! insect repellent.
- Entertainment company Shout! Factory, as well as its various brands (Shout! Factory Kids, Shout! Select, and Scream! Factory, as well as in-house production division Shout! Studios).
- Yum! Brands
, the former restaurant division of Pepsico.
- The Czech city of Ostrava has "OSTRAVA!!!" as its logo.
Parodies! and Shows-Within-a-Show!
- Big Shot!, the show targeted at bounty hunters in Cowboy Bebop.
- Drive Go Go!, a show hosted by Reina Akikawa in Wangan Midnight.
- In-Universe in The Calvin, Hobbes, and Paine Show: Dad's (fake) autobiography is called Still Building Character!
- Songbird!, an extremely tacky musical adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth, which we see a number from at the beginning of Death Becomes Her.
- Not just a show-within-a-show but an example within an example: Spectacular! Spectacular! in Moulin Rouge!
- Scott Pilgrim vs. The World has the BATTLE OF THE BANDS!, the poster for which, well...
◊
- Jeff Goldblum's character in The Tall Guy gets cast in a musical version of The Elephant Man, entitled Elephant!
- In The Dresden Files there is a horror movie convention called Splattercon!!!
- In Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte, the Fictional Video Game featured in the story is titled Love Me Magically! in the localized version.
- In Good Omens, it's mentioned that Brian and Pepper favor comics "with a lot of exclamation marks in the title, like WhiZZ!! or Clang!!"
- On Friends, Joey is in a musical, and Phoebe comments on how she's scared that the title isn't just Freud, but Freud!
- Referenced in Grumpy Old Men, where the complainer complains that musicals made after bands are taking over the stage, and that sooner or later we'll all be going to see Autobahn!
- The IT Crowd had a episode where the main characters went to see a musical named Gay! (a gay musical about gays).
- Mad About You once had a musical adaptation of Moby-Dick called Moby!
- On Mad Men, the day after Don and Betty go to the theater, her friend Francine asks how they liked "Fiorello-exclamation-point."
- Wormhole X-Treme!, the Show Within a Show in Stargate SG-1, combining it with Xtreme Kool Letterz.
- Star Trek: Voyager has a holodeck program called The Adventures of Captain Proton; the episode that features it prominently is called "Bride of Chaotica!"
- Speare! from The Curse of Monkey Island.
- Fallout 76 has the In-Universe prewar maker of watercraft known as Rutkowski Boats!
- Shadowrun Returns: In Dragonfall, support mage Dietrich is the former singer and front man of a punk band named MESSERKAMPF!. No, not "Messerkampf", MESSERKAMPF!
- Nailed!, the musical about the crucifixion from Something*Positive.
- Numberphile: The video, "69!"
, which is actually just how mathematicians write 69 × 68 × 67 ... 3 × 2 × 1
- Hollywoo Stars and Celebrities: What Do They Know? Do They Know Things? Let's Find Out!, courtesy of BoJack Horseman.
- The Musical Episode of Daria is just called "Daria!"
- Gravity Falls: The Stinger from "Into the Bunker" includes Attack of the Exclamation Points!!!!!!!!!! on a list of fictional b-movies.
- The Simpsons:
- Streetcar!, the musical version of A Streetcar Named Desire from "A Streetcar Named Marge".
- Happy Smile Super Challenge Family Wish Show! from "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo".
- Helen Keller! The Musical from South Park.
- Steven Universe has Crying Breakfast Friends!, a cartoon about various anthropomorphic breakfast foods who cry almost constantly. Steven's the only person who enjoys this show.