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== Anime ==▼
== [[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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* ''[[Gintama]]''. It's a near-homophone for ''kintama'', a Japanese word meaning "testicles" (literally "golden balls"... get it?). Try asking "hey, did you see this week's ''Gintama''?" in the language and get ready to get looked at funny.
* Would you have thought that ''Stroke Material - My Fucking Lover'' was actually a [[Shoujo]] comic with little to no [[Fan Service]] in it?
* ''[[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt
** 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 a Can]]. Worth taking a look at.
* 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 on the Tin]], while still being [[Better Than It Sounds]].
* [[Bobobo-Bo Bo-bobo|Bobobo-Bo Bobo-bobobo bobobo-bo-bobo-bo...bo...bobo...buh.]]
* ''[[Kuso Miso Technique]]'' literally translates to "shit soup technique".
* The penultimate episode of ''[[Persona 4: The Animation]]'' is titled "The World is Full of Shit".
== [[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]].
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* ''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]] ==
* 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''.
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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!".
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* 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 ==▼
* 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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* 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 [[wikipedia:Brainfuck|a certain minimalist programming language]].
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* [[The Nostalgia Critic]] videos "Top 11 Fuck Ups", "Top 11 Mindfucks", and "Holiday Clusterfuck" (Although some of the titles are [[Censored Title|censored]] on the episode page.)
* [[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 ==
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** 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]].
* 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]].▼
== [[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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* 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,
{{Quote|The play's treatment of the subject of incest made it one of the most controversial works in English literature.
▲== 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]].<ref>to be fair, they also nicknamed the Gamecube "Dolphine", so it's not something unusual in them</ref> It eventually was known to be called ''[[Wii]]''. The fact that the console went from [[Awesome McCoolname|such a cool name]] to such a weird one made people all around the world discuss ''"the stupid name"'' for months. [[No Such Thing as Bad Publicity|It's believe to be one of Nintendo's smartest move]].
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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]]''. That is an odd combination of syllables. Tom Siddell [https://web.archive.org/web/20141203053144/http://gunnerkrigg.proboards75.com/index.cgi?board=general#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.
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* ''[[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.
▲* [[YouTube Poop]]. If your friends don't know what it's referring to, you might get weird looks.
== [[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.
* [[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.▼
▲** 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 the slogan.
* 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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* 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 on the Tin|and gets one.]] He opts for a glass of water instead.
* 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-Harmonix—proud designers of the famous Big Muff, not to mention the Bass Balls, the Black Finger, and the Golden Throat Mouth Tube!
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* The New Zealand pizza chain [https://web.archive.org/web/20131113004812/http://hellpizza.com/nz Hell]. They specialise in spicy pizzas.
==
▲* 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!]], 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''.
* 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".
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