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== Fairy Tales, or: The Oldest Ones in the Books ==

* ''Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded'', also by [[Samuel Richardson]].

* Poet [[Sonnets From the Portugese|Elizabeth Barrett Browning]] penned and titled a poem ''[http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/victoria/ref/ps_berg_cd13_200.html Sebastian, or Virtue Rewarded]'' when she was about 9 years old. The contents still apparently haven't been published.

*** Subverted by the Marquis de Sade's novels ''Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue'' and ''Juliette, or Vice Amply Rewarded''.

* The [[Banned in China|famously banned]] erotic novel ''[[Fanny Hill (Literature)|Fanny Hill]], or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'' by [[John Cleland]].

** And the last of the "Trout Trilogy": ''[[Breakfast of Champions]], or Goodbye Blue Monday!''. Vonnegut was very fond of this technique.

* This is incredibly common in early 20th century children's series books as well. Examples: ''The Bobbsey Twins, or Merry Days Indoors and Out'' and ''The Moving Picture Girls, or First Appearance in Photo Dramas''. This seems to have died off by the time [[Nancy Drew]] came about.

* ''[[The Inheritance Cycle|Brisingr]], or The Seven Promises of Eragon Shadeslayer and Saphira Bjartskular''. The second one just isn't as catchy.

* John O'Farrell's ''An Utterly Impartial History of Britain, or 2000 Years of Upper-Class Idiots In Charge'' and ''An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain, or 60 Years of Making The Same Stupid Mistakes As Always''.

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* [[Voltaire (Creator)|Voltaire]]'s ''[[Candide (Literature)|Candide]], ou L'Optimisme'', translated into English as "Candide, or All For the Best", "Candide, or The Optimist" and "Candide, or Optimism".

* ''[[The Diamond Age]], Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer'' by [[Neal Stephenson]]

* ''[[Principia Discordia]] or How the West Was Lost,'' was the original title. The 4th edition is more well known, and bears the [[Short Title Long Elaborate Subtitle|slightly more cumbersome title]], ''Principia Discordia or How I Found Goddess And What I Did To Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate Of Malaclypse The Younger, Wherein is Explained Absolutely Everything Worth Knowing About Absolutely Anything.''

 

== Western Animation, or: Moving Drawings ==

** The end of episode two of the four-episode arc "Moosylvania Saved" did not have either the main title or Either Or title.

* One episode of ''[[Teen Titans (Animation)|Teen Titans]]'' did this repeatedly, the episode title itself ("Bunny Raven, or How to Make a Titananimal Disappear") being one example.

* Both ''[[Mission Hill]]'' and ''[[Stroker and Hoop]]'' did this. Both of them, however, only lasted 13 episodes.

* The Hanna-Barbera version of ''Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures'' featured an episode where our heroes fetch Mozart and Little Richard, titled "The Birth Of Rock And Roll, or: Too Hip For The Womb."

* ''[[Stickman and Cube]]'' does this in storylines, e.g., "Robo-Cube. Or, Cube Disappears #2", to make it clear that the comic in question is part of said storyline, and which part in particular.

* ''[[Darths and Droids]]'' [http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0131.html Episode 131]: Sour Relations, or "Tell Me More, Tell Me More", followed by [http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0132.html Episode 132]: Dour Narrations, or "Like, Did He Have a Pod?"

* ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'' does it 4 times in one strip with [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-03-11 "Nanase: Scantly Clad For Hire" OR "Justin's Frustration" OR PERHAPS "Justin's Cat's Out Of The Bag" OR MAYBE "Dan Couldn't Decide On A Title"]

 

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