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== [[Advertising]] ==
* The Swedish vacuum cleaner company Electrolux once sold its products in the UK with the slogan "Nothing Sucks like an Electrolux." Needless to say, it didn't sell very well.▼
** This was actually completely intentional, and
*** In 1978, [[Loriot]], a [[German Humour|
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* A good number of [[Hentai]] fall under this, and among the worst are titles such as ''[[Bondage Queen Kate]]'', ''Boobalicious'', ''Virgin Auction'' and ''Sex Warrior Pudding''.
** Note that the above are all their titles in the English market. Well, ''Boobalicious''{{'}} original name is (in English, mind you) ''Milk Junkies''. Not that much better, really.
** There is also a comic called ''Nipple Magician''. Because the writer thought it sounded cool and the American guys who publish it in their comics anthologies like to laugh their asses off while simultaneously getting off at the mere thought.
** The best English re-title for a hentai has to be ''The Hills Have Size''.
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** ''My Nipples are Dicks''
** Come to think of it, a lot of guilty pleasure [[Slash Fic]] has this problem.
* ''[[
* Would you have thought that ''Stroke Material - My Fucking Lover'' was actually a [[Shoujo]] comic with little to no [[Fan Service]] in it?
* ''[[Panty
** The OST's songs have some pretty interesting names as well, including such gems as "Dancefloor Orgy" and "Technodildo".
* ''[[My Balls]]''. The balls in question contain [[Sealed Evil in
* In a similar vein, ''[[Onani Master Kurosawa]]''. 'Onani' is the Japanese word for masturbation that eventually comes from onanism. And yes, it's more or less [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Bobobo-Bo
* ''[[
* The penultimate episode of ''[[Persona 4: The Animation]]'' is titled "The World is Full of Shit".
== Comic Books ==▼
▲== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Similarly, the ''[[Sin City]]'' story "That Yellow Bastard" has been covered up by comic vendors in some parts for this reason, though by today's standards "bastard" actually isn't that bad.
* The ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'' sidestory focusing on the backstory of [[The Grotesque]], Arseface, was named ''The Story Of You-Know-Who'' to avoid this. Which just seems odd in light of how the cover was a close-up of his face.
* [[Refuge in Audacity|Satan's]] [[Dead Baby Comedy|Sodomy]] [[Dude, Not Funny|Baby]]{{context|reason=What comic book is this from?}}
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Jennifer's Body]]''. 'I want to see ''Jennifer's Body''', 'Did you see ''Jennifer's Body''?', etc.
* The Swedish film ''Fucking Åmål'' (pronounced more or less ''O-moal''), retitled ''[[Show Me Love]]'' in the English version. Then again, Åmål is the small, dull town in which the characters live, and the original title is what one of them usually calls the place. Also, since from a Swede's perspective "fuck" is a [[Foreign Cuss Word]], the word is (arguably) a bit tamer and in addition to that, swearing as a whole is just less of a big deal in Sweden.
* Just about [[Parallel Porn Titles|any bad porno movie]].
* ''[[What the Bleep Do We Know|What tнē #$*! D̄ө ωΣ (k)πow!?]]''
** And no, it's not censored, it's actually written with those symbols. Generally said as "What the Bleep Do We Know!?"
* ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274518/ GayNiggers From Outer Space]''. Just the title [[Crosses the Line Twice]].
* Did you see ''[[Saw]]''? [[Who's
** [http://thefump.com/fump.php?id=143 But I don't know what I saw ''Saw IV'' for.]
*** We, French-speaking people, cannot wait to see ''[[Bilingual Bonus|Sausage]]'' (Saw VI), and ''[[Bilingual Bonus|Socks]]'' (Saw VII, with a hair on the tongue). And "Saw" itself is pronounced in French like an older word for "stupid" (''sot'').
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*** You saw ''[[IT]]'' twice?
**** No, I only saw it once.
***** [[Airplane!|And I don't think I'll ever be over Macho Grande.]]
** [[Completely Missing the Point|What were you doing on a playground?]]
*** I saw half of ''Saw'', but I'd rather saw a see-saw in half, than have to see ''Saw'' again.
*** I think that's a trap in ''Saw'' 3D.
*** [[Legend of Zelda the Abridged Series|"No, I haven't saw ''Saw''." "You probably wouldn't enjoy it. It's very saucy."]] <ref>That is "Saw-see"</ref>
** ''[[Saw]]'''s equivalent in French is ''[[
*** The French Canadian title is "Decadence", which actually makes it sound even more graphic than it really is.
* ''[[Jaws 2]]'' worked to avoid this, in France; The original film was titled ''Les Dents De La Mer''.<ref>''Sea's Teeth''</ref>
* Used in ''[[Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels]]'', where Tom suggests opening a company named "Arse Tickler's Faggot Fan Club", and returning people's cheques - a lot of people would be too embarrassed to cash them.
** [
* ''Young People Fucking''. This actually was the subject of some political drama in Canada, when it was held up as an example of the sort of film that the Conservative government would be able to censor under new legislation allowing film productions to be denied their usual tax credits if they violated "public policy." It transpired that nobody who was advocating this had actually seen the film, which is somewhat tamer than the name suggests. A screening of the film was organized in Ottawa for MPs.
* ''Live Nude Girls''
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** Incidentally, the marketing campaign called it "The film that dares not speak its name."
* ''Y Tu Mamá También'', a Mexican film whose title means ''And Your Mom Too''. It was released in the U.S. under the Spanish title.
* The Vin Diesel action film ''[[XXX
** It did work, but the wrong way round: The movie is quite a nuisance when searching for [[The Internet Is for Porn|what the internet is for]]...
* [[The Monkees (
* A Spanish-language [[Freaky Friday|body swapping]] film was ironically called ''Dame tu Cuerpo,'' or, in English, "Give me your body".
* [[Peter Cook]] and Dudley Moore's original title for their film ''[[Bedazzled]]'' was 'Raquel Welch' (who had a small role in the film) - so they could have a poster saying 'Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in Raquel Welch'
* [[Clerks|Okay, I need one each of the following tapes:]] ''[[Clerks|Whispers in the Wind, To Each His Own, Put It Where It Doesn't Belong, My Pipes Need Cleaning, All Tit-Fucking Volume 8, I Need Your Cock, Ass-Worshipping Rim-Jobbers, My Cunt and Eight Shafts, Cum Clean, Cum-Gargling Naked Sluts, Cum Buns III, Cumming in Socks, Cum On Eileen, Huge Black Cocks with Pearly White Cum, Girls Who Crave Cock, Girls Who Crave Cunt, Men Alone II: The KY Connection, Pink Pussy Lips,]]'' [[Clerks|oh, yeah, and, uh,]] ''[[Clerks|All Holes Filled with Hard Cock.]]'' [[Clerks|Yup. Oh, wait a minute. Uh, what was that called again?]]
** Happy Scrappy Hero Pup.
* The French [[Film of the Book|movie]] ''[[
** Baise actually means 'kiss' in French, but over time, the word has changed to become an equivalent to the English word 'fuck'.
* Blaxploitation films ''[[
* [[John Waters]]' ''[[
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* ''[[
* The [[James Bond (
** Chris Cornell said that while "You Know My Name" doesn't [[Title Drop]] the phrase "[[
* ''[[Inglourious Basterds]]''. As noted above, "bastard" is not quite as horrible a word in US culture anymore, but is still considered "bad."
** It's also worth noting that both words are misspelled.
* The [[Kick
** [[Don't Explain the Joke|...it looks kickass?]]
* I watched ''[[In and Out]]'' last night. Don't look at me like that, it's a good film - there's this teacher, and he finds out he's gay, and - hey, come back here!
* The German movie ''[[
* The original title for ''[[
* The indie film ''Good Dick''. Though some of the film focuses around porn and sex, it is really a romantic drama about a video store employee and a reclusive girl who rents porn from him.
* ''One-Eyed Monster'', a movie about an alien possessing Ron Jeremy's penis and using it to kill people. It was supposed to be given the even more awkward title ''Ron Jeremy's Dick'', but the director decided that if ''[[Zack and Miri Make
* ''Hands on a Hand Body''. It's a documentary about a contest of endurance and the hard body of the title is a truck (the hands being which contestant can keep their hands on the truck the longest with the winner getting the truck).
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* In 2002 African American author Randall Kennedy published a book entitled ''Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word''. Watching TV commentators try to talk about it without actually saying the name was one of the fondest memories of 2002.
** Similarly, there is a book titled ''Cunt''.
* ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=QCc9WwnzFP0C The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories]''.
* ''The Book Of Feckin' Irish Slang That's Great Craic For Cute Hoors And Boosers'' and others in the same series.
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* ''Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit?'' by Alan McArthur and Steve Lowe, a modern social commentary story.
* There's a children's book titled ''Everyone Poops''. Similarly, there are also ones in the same vein called ''The Gas we Pass'' and ''The Holes in Your Nose''. Now imagine trying to ask for it at the library...
* At one point in ''[[The Princess Diaries]]'' series (not, unfortunately, in [[The Movie]]) Mia's best friend Lilly starts a magazine for literature written by students and calls it..."Fat Louie's Pink Butthole", after Mia's cat. The cover of the first issue featured, well, [[Exactly What It Says
* Louise Rennison probably aimed for a mild version of this with her ''[[Georgia Nicholson]]'' books: ''Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging, Knocked Out By My Nunga-Nungas, Dancing In My Nuddy-Pants...''
** Though even that's a bit too spicy for Hollywood, which has filmed the first of them as "Angus, Thongs and '''Perfect''' Snogging". Goodness knows what they'll do about the Nunga-Nungas...
** "And Then It Came Off In My Hand". Full stop. (But it's not FUNNY as Perfect Snogging! What were they thinking?)
* ''The Color of Her Panties'', one of the ''[[
** They don't exist, at least at the time of the
*** More to the point - they're magical, color and pattern-changing panties, so Good Magician Humphrey ''still'' couldn't answer the question.
** Also in that series, ''Isle of View.'' Apparently designed to make teenage readers too embarrassed to say the title out loud, while still being perfectly innocent in print.
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* "I see you have ''[[The Daily Show|Naked Pictures of Famous People]]'' on your bookshelf."
** As well as the book of that name ''hiyo!''
* Inga Muscio's well-known feminist book ''Cunt'', whose subject is [[Exactly What It Says
* Then there's Gene Wilder's first novel, ''My French Whore''...
* Amanda Filipacci's novel, ''Nude Men''.
* Also ''Sheepshagger'' by Niall Griffiths.
* [[Kurt Vonnegut]] once wrote a story called "The Big Space Fuck", which is published in [[Harlan Ellison]]'s anthology ''[[
** It's also present in Vonnegut's autobiographical hodgepodge ''Palm Sunday''. Reads much like a Kilgore Trout story.
* Abbie Hoffman's ''[[Steal This Book]]'' famously caused stores to resist stocking it out of fears that commie-loving hippies would take the bait. To be fair to the stores, the book is in fact mostly an instruction manual on civil disobedience, including sections on how to shoplift.
* ''A Man's Horn''. Yes, the [[Double Entendre]] is intentional.
* Completely unavoidable example: ''The Mammoth Book of Lesbian Erotica''.
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** He also planned to name one of his tours [[Refuge in Audacity|"Deal With This, Retards"]], though he didn't in the end.
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=f1LnPQAACAAJ&dq=the+%20big+%20penis+%20book&cd=1 The Big Penis Book] Follow up to the ''The Big Book of Breasts''. Both feature partially transparent dust jackets that when removed reveal the principal subject matter. They are also coffee table sized, and rather artsy with lots of interviews, and naked pictures.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20161127061307/http://www.marshill.org/about/rob/ Rob Bell] wrote an excellent book on romantic love and sexuality from a Christian perspective. The title? ''Sex God.'' Try walking into your local Christian bookstore and asking if they have that.
* The newspaper ''The San Francisco Chronicle'' has a weekly list of whatever books its critics most recommend, and the number one book is listed with a picture of its dust jacket. When that book was ''Another Bullshit Night in Suck City'', the second word was rendered as Bull**** in the list, but the dust jacket was shown as it was, making the endeavor somewhat pointless. (The book's actually more artsy than the name would suggest.)
* On a different note, ''[[I Am Not a Serial Killer]]''. (You double-took for a moment, admit it.)
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* Stirling Johnson has written books entitled ''English as a Second Fucking Language'' and ''Watch Your Fucking Language''. They are, appropriately, about the use of profanity.
* '[[Popular Music From Vittula]]'' by Swedish author Mikael Niemi, "Vittula" being essentially "Cuntville" in Finnish.
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131004213407/http://www.negri-froci-giudei.com/ Negri, froci, giudei & Co.]'' (''Niggers, Faggots, Kikes & Co.'') by Italian journalist Gian Antonio Stella. It's about racism and intolerance in every country and historical age.
* ''[http://www.amazon.com/Cunt-Coloring-Book-Tee-Corinne/dp/B003QDHO48/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1300038212&sr=8-1 The Cunt Coloring Book]''. For some reason Amazon.com offers no cover image.
** Yes, they do. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/B001SRFW3Y/ref=dp_image_0?ie=[[UTF 8]]&n=283155&s=books
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* [http://www.amazon.com/Rampaging-Fuckers-Everything-Shitting-Atmosphere/dp/1933929782 Rampaging Fuckers of Everything on the Crazy Shitting Planet of the Vomit Atmosphere]
* The show ''[[Penn
▲== Live Action TV ==
▲* The show ''[[Penn and Teller Bullshit]]'' is often abbreviate to ''P&T: BS!'' precisely for this reason.
** When Penn refers to the show on the radio, he cuts it in the middle with a clap, "Bulls" "Hit", to avoid FCC fines. He's not normally one to mince words.
** Two different covers are available for the complete season DVD collections. The ones you can order by mail are labelled "Bullshit!". The ones on store shelf displays are labelled "BS!".
* ''[[
** Bizarrely, some people in the UK weren't sure how to pronounce it - despite 'jackass' originally meaning a kind of donkey, for which the British pronunciation is the same as the American. Seriously, "Jackarse"? *shudder*
* Childish example - the comedy ''[[Bottom]]'' was originally to be called ''Your Bottom'', so that people would ask their friends things like "Did you see ''Your Bottom'' on telly last night?"
** Even better, they were also hoping for things like "I saw [[Rik Mayall]] in ''Your Bottom'' last night."
* ''[[That's My Bush!]]''. 'Nuff said. (It's a parody of sitcoms and politics featuring [[George W. Bush]] as the main character.)
* The new [[William Shatner]] show, ''[[Shit My Dad Says|$#*! My Dad Says]]'' Ads encourage calling it "Bleep My Dad Says" to avoid well, you know.
** Shatner didn't understand the censorship and continued to call it by its original name though.
* Most of the episode titles of ''[[3rd Rock
* In ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'' the library department gets revenge on people by sending them messages that they have late fines for nonexistent books with this sort of title.
== [[Music]] ==▼
▲== Music ==
* The album ''Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols'' from the [[Sex Pistols]], who themselves invoke this trope.
** Guess where the price sticker is usually found on the CD case for that album.
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* The Master Musicians of Bukkake
* Some of the above names could have come right out of [[Jello Biafra]]'s "Names For Bands" routine which also includes "John Wayne On Acid", "Tits, Ass and Money", "The Absentee Thought Lords", and "Bono's Charred Remains." After all, [http://rateyourmusic.com/list/JohnBuckWLD/jello_biafras_new_and_improved_names_for_bands__he_writes_em_down__why_dont_you_ Why would you want to be the 350th band to call yourselves something like Bad Attitude?]
* Even a band name as comparatively tame as "Barenaked Ladies" sparked controversy in Toronto in 1991.
* Just before [[The Rolling Stones]] decided to found their own record label, they had to produce one more song for their current label to fulfill their contract. However, nobody ever said that the song had to be releasable, and so they wrote one called "Cocksucker Blues". It's pretty much about what it sounds like.
* The Artist Formerly Known As the Artist Formerly Known As Prince has written and performed a song called "Pussy Control".
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** Ween also has ''several'' other odd titles throughout the rest of their discography: "Mushroom Festival In Hell," "Licking The Palm For Guava," "I Gots A Weasel," "Marble Tulip Juicy Tree," "Mister Would You Please Help My Pony?" "Reggaejunkiejew," and "Strap On That Jammypac" (the song doesn't even tell you what a Jammypac is), just to name a few.
* [[The Arctic Monkeys]] also named their EP ''Who the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys?'', mainly to stop the disc from getting airplay and becoming widely known.
* The Bloodhound Gang song "Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo". Record execs had to swap "Charlie" and "Uniform" in order for it to get any airplay, because people (''especially'' uptight [[Moral Guardians]]) love to have [[Fun
** Also note that this is not just an acronym, but also the [[Military Alphabet|Military Phonetic Code]] for the actual spelling of the F-bomb.
** The same band's album "Hooray for Boobies" was sold in some stores with an altered cover and the title shortened to simply "Hooray."
* "Too Drunk To Fuck" by The Dead Kennedys actually placed on British radio charts. Of course, the DJs had to refer to it as "the latest song by The Dead Kennedys."
* Grinderman's song "No Pussy Blues"
* The band Rainbow Butt Monkeys. They later became Finger Eleven, which really isn't much cleaner if you think about it.
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* [[John Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]]'s "Woman Is The Nigger Of The World", where the title was regarded as a powerful social statement.
* Averted by [[The Offspring]]'s song "Stuff Is Messed Up", which despite its title features the chorus "Shit is fucked up".
* [[Van Halen]]'s album ''For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge'' isn't an awkward title in and of itself, but since the title puts one in the right frame of mind to notice the [[Fun
** The title is itself a reference to a popular folk etymology for the F-word.
* Nas' latest album was going to be named ''Nigger'', but stores said they wouldn't stock it, so it will be released untitled. Meanwhile, Nas also put a mixtape online, called ''The Niggertape''.
** Discussion of the album when Nas was interviewed on ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' led to the coining of the word "[[Sdrawkcab Name|reggin]]".
* [[
* The Venetian Snares album "Winnipeg Is A Frozen Shithole," an awkward enough title in its own right, contains a song titled, "Die Winnipeg Die Die Die Fuckers Die." Ouch.
** Venetian Snares later came out with an album that's awkward to discuss for quite a different reason: [
* The band The The is a bit difficult to discuss.
** Michael McIntyre wondered [[Hilarity Ensues|what would happen]] if you tried to discuss The The in Yorkshire, where the word "the" is reduced to "t'" (as in [[Memetic Mutation|t'Internet]]).
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* In, 1967, [[The Monkees]] made a song called "Randy Scouse Git" (a phrase the band had heard on [[Britcom]] ''Till Death Us do Part''), which went uncensored in the US ...[[Bilingual Bonus|because most of us don't know Britsh slang]]. ''Everywhere else'' in the world, the tune was released as "Alternate Title".
* There's a Japanese pop-rock band named Porno Graffiti. [[Gratuitous English]] at its finest.
** Not exactly. It comes from [
* [[
* [[
* [[
** And of course, [[What Could Have Been|they wanted to call]] their first album ''Metal Up Your Ass'' instead of ''Kill 'Em All''.
* The name of Big Black's second album, ''Songs About Fucking''. [[Exactly What It Says
** Jello Biafra took advantage of this after [[The Dead Kennedys]] were put on trial for obscenity. Following their acquittal, he refused to shake the DA's hand, and then gave him a copy of ''Songs About Fucking''.
* Not actually a case now, but the names of [[
* Serj Tankian's "Beethoven's Cunt", which is also a [[Non-Appearing Title]].
** In addition to his band, "The Flying Cunts of Chaos"
** "Beethoven's Cunt" is the only song in the ''[[Rock Band]]'' downloadable content library with a censored title, appearing as "Beethoven's C***" on the menu.
* Nelly Furtado's "Shit on the Radio (Remember the Days)" (single is titled "...on the Radio")
* [[
* [[
* [[Kiss]], "Burn Bitch Burn".
* [[Neil Young]]'s song "Fuckin' Up" was written "F* !#in' Up" on the ''Ragged Glory'' album. Young says he wrote the
* Adrian Legg's "Pass The Valium" yields a predictable request at his live shows.
* [[Liz Phair]]'s "Hot White Cum", "Fuck and Run", and "Shitloads of Money".
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* Similarly, there's the rapper A who chose that name to make it as hard as possible for people to find his work on Napster.
* The [[Blink-182]] album ''Take Off Your Pants and Jacket'' seems to have [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|slipped in under the radar]].
* [[
** As well as album titles that include ''Fatherfucker'' and ''Impeach My Bush''.
* [[REM
* Holy Fuck
* Fuck Buttons
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* "We Hate You South African Bastards" by Microdisney
* "I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass" by Yo La Tengo
* The title of [[Captain Beefheart]]'s '''Trout Mask Replica'' was chosen to be
** While we're at it, ''Trout Mask'' 's follow up album ''Lick My Decals Off, Baby'' is almost always referred to as ''Decals'' when talking about it to people because it guarantees funny looks when said in real life.
* Even [[Britney Spears]] has one with "If U Seek Amy."
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* The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band have a best of called "The Bestiality of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band"
* The Wildhearts have songs called "Thunderfuck", "Pissjoy", "Shut Your Fucking Mouth And Use Your Fucking Brain" and several others. (They got one S-word onto Top Of The Pops simply by censoring the lyric sheet and not singing too clearly.) They also released an album called "P.H.U.Q."
* "What the name of [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]]'s first album?" "It's ''(Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd)''." "[[Who's
* [[Ween]]! "Don't Shit Where You Eat", "Flies on my Dick", "Piss Up a Rope", "She Fucks Me", "You Fucked Up", "Waving My Dick in the Wind"...
* The [[Scissor Sisters]], especially once it's learned that not only is there only one woman, but she's the ''only'' straight permanent member. This however, is toned down from their original name (the end result of an arms race of vulgarity) "[[Bury Your Gays|Dead Lesbian]] [[Crosses the Line Twice|and the Fibrillating Scissor Sisters]]."
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* [[Cannibal Corpse]], with song names such as "Gallery of Suicides", "Meat Hook Sodomy", "Fucked With a Knife", "I Cum Blood", "Edible Autopsy", "kull Full Of Maggots", "Butchered at Birth" (also an album title), "Addicted to Vaginal Skin", "Necropedophile", "Entrails Ripped From a Virgin's Cunt, and so on in this vein.
* Cee-Lo Green's "Fuck You" made for an interesting Grammy nominations list in 2010.
* The Cows' ''Sexy Pee Story'', which has a title track as well as a song called "Shitbeard".
* Test Icicles, anyone?
* Rapper El-P has a song called "Tasmanian Pain Coaster"
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* [[Mindless Self Indulgence]].
* Mudhoney's single "You Stupid Asshole". There's also "Run Shithead Run" from the soundtrack of ''With Honors'': They titled it that way because they hoped their submission to the soundtrack would be rejected, but [[Springtime for Hitler|it wasn't]].
* A non-profane example would be The 6ths and their albums ''Wasps' Nests'' and ''Hynacinths and Thistles'' - Stephin Merritt has said he specifically chose the band's name and album titles because they would be difficult to say aloud (especially if one has a lisp).
* The Bloody Beetroots give us "Fucked from Above 1985."
* There is actually a band who record under the name "Child Pornography."
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* Japanese Torture Comedy Hour, a noise act featuring members of Agoraphobic Nosebleed.
* Richard Ramirez (yes, that's his given name) has a real name that was unintentionally awkward and a lot of bands/nicknames that ''weren't'': Priest In Shit, Black Leather Jesus, Anal Drill, Fuck Patrol, Last Rape, 12yr Old Proud Parent, Naked Girl Killed In Park, the list goes on and on...
* While the name is relatively mild compared to some, there's The Urinals, who later changed their name to the less awkward to discuss 100 Flowers.
* [[Joy Electric]] has an album called ''The Tick Tock Treasury''. As he described it at a concert on May 1, 2003:
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* The Fags. They're actually a perfectly accessible [[Power Pop]] band who happened to choose a name that pretty much guarantees them no mainstream radio play. They also played on the other, less offensive meaning of their name by calling an album ''Light 'Em Up''.
* Atlanta rapper Tity Boi, though he eventually started going by the more "family friendly" moniker 2 Chainz.
* Perhaps in mockery of these tendencies, there is a hip-hop musician who records under the name "Cusswords."
== [[New Media]] ==
* ''All'' [[Tales of MU]] chapter titles exemplify this trope.
* One of the reasons the website [http://thedailywtf.com The Daily WTF] was renamed to Worse Than Failure was because of this. It was recently changed back.
* [
** Weirdly, ''moreso'' than the much less ambiguous [[Executive Meddling|original name]] of the site, ''Superman is a Dick''.
* Programming geeks the world over have probably had trouble discussing [
* [[
** That's because some are [[Exactly What It Says
** The titles for the videos themselves fit this trope as well. Try [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy4LEDdjLgs Robotnik's Sexy Suspender Striptease].
** Or [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyWe1T86nq0 Mama Luigi Visits a Soapland].
** Or the community, which hangs around at a website called [
* [http://FuckedCompany.com FuckedCompany.com]
* A number of ''[[
* There's a ''[[Kate Modern]]'' episode called "Pissed".
* ''MaxterBexter'': "Fish Tacos" would probably be a case of [[Have a Gay Old Time]], were it not for this dialogue:
{{quote|
'''Max:''' Your fish tacos?
'''Becki:''' Shut up!
'''Max:''' Very nice...
'''Becki:''' Little children watch this! Be discreet, come on. }}
* Just try pronouncing <nowiki>http://slashdot.org</nowiki> aloud.
* The website [http://ukulelehunt.com/ Uke Hunt] (say it out loud, and it's the instrument, not the [[Yaoi|other kind of uke]]). The site owner has acknowledged this and seems amused by it.
* [[
* [[Felicia Day]] has coined the term "Vaginal Fantasy" as a tongue-in-cheek description of urban or historical fantasy fiction that is aimed at women and prominently involves romance and/or sex. Once a month, she'll discuss such novels with her friends in a Google+ Hangout On Air, and also post the discussion to youtube - naturally it can be awkward mentioning that you were just watching something called "Vaginal Fantasy Hangout #2".
== Software ==
* There was a scheduler for Linux called the ''Brain Fuck Scheduler'' (no relation to the Brainfuck programming language) written by Con Kolivas. The name likely reflects frustration at kernel development politics that had put an end to an earlier scheduler by the same author called ''Completely Fair Scheduler''.
* The most likely explanation for the '''G'''NU '''I'''mage '''M'''anipulation '''P'''rogram.
** Ditto for '''F'''ile '''S'''ystem '''C'''onsistency Chec'''k''', the common name for the program used to fix corrupted data on UNIX systems. Not only is the name unpronounceable, but it's only one letter off from a major swear word. And if it fails to save your data, then you're [[Unusual Euphemism|fsck'ed]].
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==▼
* The title of ''Panty Explosion'' is intended as a parody of the [[Word Salad Title]] school of [[Anime]] naming, but ends up invoking this trope as well.▼
* ''[[Magic:
* The roleplaying supplement for ''[[Big Eyes, Small Mouth|BESM]]'' titled "Cute And Fuzzy Cockfighting Seizure Monsters". Even though the phrase refers to roosters and the book is about [[Mons]], many bookstores refused to carry it because of the title. The authors ended up producing a different edition without the "Cockfighting", and selling the original version only to specialty stores.▼
** The acronym "BESM" is one letter away from, well, [[BDSM|something else]].▼
== [[Theatre]] ==
* ''[[The Vagina Monologues]]'' is an entirely intentional example as a show highlighting the experiences of women in hard situations. (Including a very controversial one about a teenage girl who is fed alcohol and then raped by an adult woman, and closes the monologue with the line, "[[Rape Is Love|If it was rape, it was good rape]].")
** In an interview about this play on the ''Today'' show, Jane Fonda said, "I was asked to do a monologue called 'Cunt'." Yes, she said that on live television.
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** Some productions sell promotional buttons with "I Love Vagina" written on them.
* ''[[Urinetown]]'' is also an example. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshade Hung]] in the opening song: "How about a bad title? That could kill a show pretty good."
* ''[[Once Upon a Mattress]]'' is a musical comedy retelling the tale of "[[The Princess and
* ''Foreskin's Lament''. It's about a man nicknamed foreskin because he's small, useless and nobody would miss him if we went away. It's actually quite a moving performance, but trying to advertise for it is damn near impossible.
* ''[[The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas]]'' has occasionally run into advertising woes.
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* There is a play called ''Shopping and Fucking''. Reportedly (this troper had a relative working at the theatre at the time), it was referred to internally as simply ''Shopping'', even in this non-English-speaking country.
* "Totally Fucked" and "The Bitch Of Living" from ''[[Spring Awakening]]''.
* John Ford,
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== Video Games ==▼
▲== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''You Are Empty'' is a rather interesting name for an FPS.
* Nintendo originally named their new console [[Awesome McCoolname|"Nintendo Revolution"]] [[Production Nickname|during production]]
** In [[Slavic Mythology]], [http://myfhology.narod.ru/gods/slavyans/viy.gif Wii] (or Viy) is a powerful demon able to see (and kill) everything with its gaze. Bet that one wasn't intentional.
*** [[Conspiracy Theorist|Betcha it was.]]
*** [[Hilarious in Hindsight|And now]] ''[[La
** The infamous contest to win one of these consoles, that resulted in the death of a woman by water toxicity, was called "Hold your wee for a Wii".
** [[Fridge Brilliance]]: How many people avoid the awkwardness by calling it the "Nintendo Wii"? [[Stuck
** It gets better. The Japanese for "two" is "ni". Had Nintendo called the successor the Wii 2 instead of Wii U, Japanese gamers would have called it the Wii Ni.
** [[Stephen Fry]] parodies this in ''The Fry Chronicles'' with the "Puu". (He probably wasn't the first to jump on that one, either)
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* ''[[Time Fcuk]]''
* "Gay Sex!", an iPhone card game.
** Which rather notoriously rose to the top spot of [[
* ''[[
** Even the correct pronunciation, when spoken rapidly, could come out similar to "day sex."
* Its a little early to add this, but the inevitable ''[[Final Fantasy XXX]]'' will either be this trope or Square Enix will have to come up with some kind of interesting way around it.
** [[Final Fantasy Thirty]]? [[Final Fantasy 3 X]]? [[Final Fantasy Triple X]]? Pretty simple.
* [[Work Time Fun]]. The abreviation is almost always printed on the box in huge letters, while the full title is printed in smaller letters and is less noticable.
** [[Widget Series|The title is rather fitting.]]
* The X-series of games features enemy aliens named Kha'ak. Go ahead, explain that they suck to your mother. The in game computer doesn't even try to avoid the problem. You will be attacked by Kha'ak.
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* ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'', for Japanese speakers. Let us just say that "katawa (片輪)" is not considered a very polite term to use for disabled people.
== [[Web
* ''[[
* [[The Best Page in The Universe]]: it's difficult to take about the title of the work without sounding extremely subjective.▼
* [[Youtube Poop]]. If your friends don't know what it's referring to, you might get weird looks.▼
▲* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]''. That is an odd combination of syllables. Tom Siddell [http://gunnerkrigg.proboards75.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=40=24#3914 confirms] that this was intentional: "I wanted a title that was intentionally awkward and easy to search for on Google."
* ''[[Fruit Incest]]''. The name is meant to be nothing more than an eye catcher. Also ironic since the comic itself is usually squeaky clean.
* The title ''[[Questionable Content]]'' sounds as if the page's [[Shaped Like Itself|content were questionable]]. Gives it an [[Forbidden Fruit]] appeal.
* ''[[
* ''[[City of Reality]]''. The name is eerily dissonant to both readers and outsider characters. (The residents of said city think it fits perfectly, though.) It's apparently based on a rather unconventional definition of the term.
==
▲* [[The Best Page in The Universe]]: it's difficult to take about the title of the work without sounding extremely subjective.
▲* [[
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
▲* The Swedish vacuum cleaner company Electrolux once sold its products in the UK with the slogan "Nothing Sucks like an Electrolux." Needless to say, it didn't sell very well.
* [[
▲** This was actually completely intentional, and succeded in getting the attention it was intended to, for years.
* The makers of ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' considered naming the show ''The Tomorrow Knight'', which would prompt advertising like "Tomorrow night on ''Tomorrow Knight''".▼
▲*** In 1978, [[Loriot]], a [[German Humour|german comedian]] whose sketch show rivals [[Monty Python's Flying Circus]] in popularity in Germany to this day, had one sketch in which a salesman visits a housewife to sell her the new "Heinzelmann" vacuum cleaner. Several times he quotes the products slogans "It sucks and blows the Heinzelmann, where mom can only suck." Since Loriots entire work was based on akwardness, the inuendo was surely intentional.
* Some of the episode names for ''[[The Ambiguously Gay Duo]]'', including: "Blow Hot, Blow Cold", "A Hard One To Swallow", "Trouble Coming Twice", "The Third Leg Of Justice", "First Served, First Come". But considering the ''whole point of the show'' is to slap around random innuendos, the episode titles are ''tame''.▼
▲** Another Swedish example: An ad which was supposed to feature a new brand of cookies and a couple of older ladies, turned into this when one of the ladies said "we like all six" (referring to the six different tastes). The Swedish translation for "we like all six" can also mean "we all like sex." That line became [[Intentionally Awkward Title|the slogan]].
== Other Media ==
* The British and Japanese clothing line, 'Fcuk' (French Connection United Kingdom). In parody of this, a British company making cute wooden ornaments of wetland birds calls itself 'Dcuk'.
** Derwent College at the University of York also sells 'DCUK' merchandise - the university's symbol is a mallard duck.
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* [[Deviant ART]], almost certainly. The official name for those registered there is Deviants, which can get a little, ah, interesting when trying to explain IRL that you already exhibit your art, and where.
* Mixed drinks. Someone decided you need to be either vaguely embarrassed or stupidly impressed with your own wit when you ask the bartender to give you Sex on the Beach, a Screaming Orgasm, a Slow Comfortable Screw, Fuck Me Hard, etc.
** Lampshaded in the Yahoo Serious movie ''Reckless Kelly'' when Kelly goes into a bar and asks for a Cocksucking Cowboy- [[Exactly What It Says
* There used to exist a minor league hockey team in Macon, Georgia. The name of the team? Why the
* Eighty percent of Americans are not allowed to [[N-Word Privileges|repeat the titles]] of most [[Richard Pryor]] albums. These albums were up for Grammy awards most years, which must have made the ceremonies interesting.
* Quite a few guitar effects pedal manufacturers do this, probably inspired by Electro-
* The Young Conservatives rebranded themselves as Conservative Future in 1997 after William Hague became party leader. Some bright spark decided to put out literature using a "CFUK" (Conservative Future UK) branding. Given how well the party was regarded at the time (not very highly, to say the least), it backfired. The Liberal Democrats put out flyers saying "CFUK are a bunch of AWNKERS". [[David Cameron|Oh, the]] [[Nick Clegg|irony]].
* Starbucks recently began selling "petites", including one called the "Red Velvet Whoopie Pie". Baristas usually just call them "Red Velvets."
* The drug flavoxate, a urinary antispasmodic, was marketed under the name "Urispas" (pronounced "you're a spaz"). Try telling this to someone who's already trying not to pee...
* The New Zealand pizza chain [https://web.archive.org/web/20131113004812/http://hellpizza.com/nz
▲== Tabletop Games ==
▲* The title of ''Panty Explosion'' is intended as a parody of the [[Word Salad Title]] school of [[Anime]] naming, but ends up invoking this trope as well.
▲* ''[[Magic the Gathering]]'''s joke set Unhinged has several, including Assquach, City of Ass, and Necro-Impotence.
▲* The roleplaying supplement for ''[[Big Eyes Small Mouth|BESM]]'' titled "Cute And Fuzzy Cockfighting Seizure Monsters". Even though the phrase refers to roosters and the book is about [[Mons]], many bookstores refused to carry it because of the title. The authors ended up producing a different edition without the "Cockfighting", and selling the original version only to specialty stores.
▲** The acronym "BESM" is one letter away from, well, [[BDSM|something else]].
▲== Western Animation ==
▲* [[Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go|Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!]], and yes, the exclamation point is part of the official title. If you can avoid giggling to yourself when you say this out loud and can spit the whole thing in a single breath, the people you said it to will usually react with raised eyebrows, [[Flat What]], polite giggles or stepping away slowly. Which is a pity, since the show is actually pretty good, the title is just deliberately over-the-top.
▲* The makers of ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' considered naming the show ''The Tomorrow Knight'', which would prompt advertising like "Tomorrow night on ''Tomorrow Knight''".
▲* Some of the episode names for ''[[The Ambiguously Gay Duo]]'', including: "Blow Hot, Blow Cold", "A Hard One To Swallow", "Trouble Coming Twice", "The Third Leg Of Justice", "First Served, First Come". But considering the ''whole point of the show'' is to slap around random innuendos, the episode titles are ''tame''.
== Real Life ==▼
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
* North Carolina's yearly What The Hell Con is a minor example.
* There is a village in Hungary called "Csesznek", which is the Hungarian word for "They fuck".
** Actually, it's somewhat milder, like "They screw".
** There's also "Bugyi", that means "Panties".
** And Pornóapáti, which means something like "Porn Abbotean".
* There is a small town in Flanders called Reet, which roughly translates to "asscrack" in Dutch.
* In reference to the [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Kamina]] anecdote above, let it be known that the Japanese name for crab claypot is "kani (crab) nabe (claypot)". Of course, this is also Hokkien for "fuck your mother". Enjoy your meal.
* On a
* [[Canada Eh|Canadian]] examples:
** The Government of Ontario, Canada has an energy conservation campaign called "FLICK OFF", with the already-titillating slogan universally written in uppercase letters with a slightly curved L. The website for the campaign is replete with [[Double Entendre]].
* The [[Superior Firepower Bombers|B-1 Bomber]] is called the Bone; B-One. There's a prototypic version designed for air-to-air, the B-1R. Mhm.▼
** The economy region in Nova Scotia. It includes towns called upper economy, middle economy, and lower economy, and the economy falls (a waterfall).▼
** Look at a map of Newfoundland: Dildo, Come By Chance, Conception Bay ... Newfies don't care what the rest of the world thinks of their maps.
▲* The [[Peace Through Superior Firepower
* The Victoria University of Wellington Student Association ran a campaign in 2008 promoting sexual health checkups for men. The campaign's name? "I Heart My Penis". It got a bit awkward when the Association president wore a shirt with the campaign name on it to a graduation ceremony.
* An annual sex Q+ A/safety education thing at one college: "I <3 Female Orgasm". Besides posters all over campus, there were also 2-inch buttons handed out for publicity.
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* Finland has got towns called "Varkaus" (theft) and "Kolari" (car accident). Yes, there's a highway to Kolari.
** There's also a small village in Ostrobothnia called Kuolema, "death", and another called Alapää - literally, "lower end", but it's understood to mean "groin".
** Those aren't even the most [[
*** Oh god, Finland. Some more examples include Dick Islands (with Little Dick and Middle Dick), Negro Village (a street), Testicle Lake, several Cunt Ponds, Dog's Cock Ditch, Cat Spanker's Alley, and The-Island-shat-out-by-Saara.
▲* The economy region in Nova Scotia. It includes towns called upper economy, middle economy, and lower economy, and the economy falls (a waterfall).
* King's Lynn in England has an area named Gaywood.
* There are several unrelated Vietnamese noodle restaurants called the Pho King. It's Pho King delicious.
* Not obscene, but has to be awkward for anyone from there, is [
** Argentina also has the [http://www.unimoron.edu.ar/ University of Morón].
* In England, "fags" and "faggots":
** "Fag" is slang for "cigarette".
** "Faggot" is a Midlands dish made of ground pork, liver, onion and tomato pressed into meatballs and served with a special sauce. The most popular brand is Mr. Brain's pork faggots. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L34m5vabjcM No, really.]
* On Brazil, there's a city called Rolândia. "Rola" is usually a form of the verb "to roll", but can also be a slang for "penis"... So yeah, basically we have a city
* There's a brand of salted nuts called "Nobby's Nuts". The slogan was "Nibble Nobby's Nuts". They embraced this quite quickly by having the man in a UK advertisement, being told that he needs to nibble Nobby's nuts, jumping at [
* There are 2 villages called ''Twatt'' in Scotland, being in the Orkney and Shetland isles respectively.
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