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{{quote|''Mastropiero, as it was the habit, named his madrigal after the first verse of the poem, calling it'' [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe|Ye Beautiful and Graceful Maiden Went To Do Her Laundry]] ''but the lengthiness of this title seemed inadequate, so he renamed his madrigal as'' Ye Beautiful and Graceful Maiden Went To Do Her Laundry, She Clean'd In Ye Creek, And Wash'd As She Sang, Rubb'd Against A Rock, Hang'd It From A Birch ''and [[Les Luthiers]] has the pleasure to play tonight Johann Sebastian Mastropiero's Ye Beautiful and Graceful Maiden...'' mumble ''...Hang'd It From A Birch''

|'''[[Les Luthiers]]''' in ''La Bella y Graciosa Moza'' Routine}}

* [[Long Title/Music|Music: Or, Sonorous melodies crafted by the manipulation of specially produced instruments, often accompanied by lyrics, which in the past were delivered exclusively by means of on-site performance, but which were later recorded and delivered to the mainstream public as a groove in a wax-coated cylinder, a technology which was gradually replaced over time by a groove in a disc made of finest resin of Shellac, then of vinyl acetate, then by magnetic fields imprinted on a metallic oxide-coated polymer tape winded and contained in a cassette, then by digitally-encoded signals engraved on plastic-metallic laser discs, and most recently, by a filtered, quantized, compressed digital signal encoded as a stream of binary data per specifications of the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 Layer-3 standard, and transmitted through the worldwide packet-switched interconnected networks known collectively as the Internet]]

 

* On a general level, this trope is partially why [[Digital Piracy Is Evil|certain]] [[Fan Sub|formats]] of anime releases typically don't include episode titles in file names. After all, long show title + long episode title + a few subfolders = file paths exceeding 255-character length limits on some operating systems.

* ''[[Genshiken]]'' has a [[Running Gag]] of naming its chapters with a very verbose and academic-sounding title. The chapter where the group goes shopping on Akihabara, for example, is called "Comparative Classification of the Modern Youth Through Consumption and Entertainment".

* ''[[Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaete Mo Omaera ga Warui]]'' which could be seen as a little bit like a [[Gender Flip]]ped [[The World God Only Knows]], sans supernatural [[Myth Arc]]. Kuroki has gotten most of her socialization practice from Otome games and can't interact well with real people outside of her family. The difference between her and [[A God Am I|Keima]] [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|Katsuragi]] is that she's trying to be more social, while Keima just wants everyone to leave him alone and let him play his games. Each character seems to be achieving the goal of the other.

* ''Danjon ni Deai o Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darō ka'', which has the equally-long English title ''[[Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?]]''

 

* ''The Grievous Journey of Ichabod Azrael (And The Dead Left In His Wake)''

* The second volume of James Stokoe's comedy Sci-fi series called ''[[Wonton Soup]] 2: Hyper Wonton Soup 2 Twoton soup: The Quickening 2 ... Soup''.

* ''Action Comics'' issue 775 has the Superman story "What's So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way?".

 

* ''Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead Part 2: In Shocking 2-D''.

* ''Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Hellbound, Flesh-Eating Subhumanoid Zombified Living Dead, Part 3''

* ''Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean''

 

* Jonathan Swift liked this trope:

** ''Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships''. Nowadays called ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]''.

** ''I Was Kicked out of the Hero’s Party Because I Wasn’t a True Companion so I Decided to Have a Slow Life at the Frontier''

** ''[[Marked for Failure, the World's Strongest Sage Reincarnates for a Do-Over!]]''

 

* ''Britain's Got The Pop Factor... And Possibly A New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly On Ice'', a comedy mash-up of various [[Reality TV]] shows (''Britain's Got Talent'', ''Pop Idol'', ''X Factor'', ''[[Jesus Christ Superstar]]'', ''Strictly Come Dancing'' etc.) Gains bonus points for the fact that the presenter announced its full name before and after every commercial break.

* An episode of ''[[The Dick Van Dyke Show]]'' was titled "The Sound of the Trumpets of Conscience Falls Deafly on a Brain That Holds Its Ears...or Something Like That!".

* ''[[The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret]]'' has a long title, and "A Plan Is Hatched and a Date Is Not a Date" is the shortest episode title of the show.

 

* Although the actual title is given as ''Punt and Dennis: It's Been A Bad Week'', that comedy current-affairs show is often referred to by the title of its prize - ''[[Department of Redundancy Department|The Worst Week of the Week Award, Awarded Weekly on a Week-by-Week Basis]]''. Which is mentioned at the end of every round.

* One episode of BBC radio comedy ''[[The Burkiss Way]]'' is usually referred to as "Lesson 45: Write Extremely Long Titles The Burkiss Way". The ''full'' title, given in the Radio Times, was "Lesson 45: Write Extremely Long Titles With Lots And Lots Of Words In, Like This, So That The Radio Times Will Have To Allot More Space Than The Measly Half A Centimetre Of Billing Space We Usually Get And At Least It'll Look A Bit More Prominent On The Page, Although Still Nowhere Near The 50 Column Inches They Give To The Hitch-hiker's Guide To The Galaxy The Burkiss Way".

 

* ''[[Marat/Sade|The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade]]''. In the original German, ''Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats dargestellt durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton unter Anleitung des Herrn de Sade'', is a bit shorter. It's a play and a film, and it's pretty much [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]].

** Publicists and playbill designers shortened this to ''Marat/Sade''.

* Just about any of the ''Farndale Ladies'' plays; a stand-out is ''They Came From Mars and Landed Outside the Farndale Avenue Church Hall in Time for the Townswomen’s Guild’s Coffee Morning''.

 

* In-[[Video Games|game]] example: [[Half Life|Gordon Freeman]]'s doctoral thesis was titled ''Observation of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Entanglement on Supraquantum Structures by Induction Through Nonlinear Transuranic Crystal of Extremely Long Wavelength (ELW) Pulse from Mode-Locked Source Array'', which doubles as [[Techno Babble]].

* ''Attack Of The Mutant Zombie Flesh-Eating Chickens From Mars, starring Zappo The Dog'' ([[Vaporware]] in it's original form, but later rewritten badly by some other people and released under the rather shorter title of ''Star Paws'').

* ''[[Accidental Innuendo|Golf Magazine: 36 Great Holes Starring Fred Couples]]''.

* ''[[Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army|Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha Vs The Soulless Army]]'' and its sequel ''[[Raidou Kuzunoha VS King Abaddon|Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha Vs KingAbaddon]]''. [[Atlus ARAM]] noted that people who complain about it "are only jealous theirs isn't as long". (''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'' was not part of the Japanese titles of these games, however.)

* The UK/Australian titles of the Brain Age Express [[DSiWare]] titles are ''A Little Bit of... Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training: [something edition]''

* ''[[AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! - A Reckless Disregard for Gravity]]'':

* [[wikipedia:Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters|Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters]], an arcade game released by Atari Games in 1989.

 

* The grand-daddy of miniature wargaming, H. G. Wells's ''Little Wars: a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books.''.

* [[Magic: The Gathering]] has a [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=74237 card] called the ''Our Market Research Shows That Players Like Really Long Card Names So We Made this Card to Have the Absolute Longest Card Name Ever Elemental'', or ''OMRSTPLRLCNSWMTCTHTALCNEE'' for short.

* The nonsensical fangame Super Hyper Paper Deluxe Mario Bros. Galaxy World Land 4: Partners in Sunshine [[Super Star]] Island & Saga of Time Advance 64 DS and its sequels have this.

 

* A [[Troll]] in ''[[Homestuck]]'' explains that in his planet, billions of years in the future, every short title has been used up, and so the titles are [[Understatement|more descriptive]].

{{quote|{{color|#626262|CG: WHEREIN NUMEROUS VIGILANTES CONFRONT PERIL; ONE OF THEM BETRAYS THE OTHERS; (BUT IT TURNS OUT TO BE PART OF THE PLAN ALL ALONG);}}

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130719183405/http://www.drunkduck.com/I_Was_Kidnapped_By_Lesbian_Pirates_From_Outer_Space/ I Was Kidnapped By Lesbian Pirates From Outer Space]

 

* ''[[The Horribly Slow Murderer With the Extremely Inefficient Weapon]]''. Also an example of [[Gory Deadly Overkill Title of Fatal Death]]

 

* ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' had an episode called "The Creature that Lived in the Refrigerator, behind the Mayonnaise, next to the Ketchup, and to the Left of the Cole Slaw!", and the eponymous creature is referred to by the full title every time it's mentioned.

* ''[[Clerks the Animated Series]]'' used this, with each episode title being longer than the last, until episode 5: "Dante and Randal and Jay and Silent Bob and a Bunch of New Characters and Lando, Take Part in a Whole Bunch of Movie Parodies Including But Not Exclusive To, [[The Bad News Bears]], [[The Last Starfighter]], [[Indiana Jones]] and the Temple Of Doom, Plus a High School Reunion."

* The soundtrack to ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]]'' was released in 1938 under the full title ''Songs from Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (with the Same Characters and Sound Effects as in the Film of That Title)''.

 

* Some of Salvador Dali's paintings have ridiculously specific (but [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|precisely accurate]]; they belong to ''[[True Art Is Incomprehensible|that]]'' [[True Art Is Incomprehensible|kind of art]]) titles: ''Apparition of a Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach'', ''Face of Mae West Which May Be Used as an Apartment'', ''Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire'', ''Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea Which at Twenty Meters Becomes the Portrait of Abraham Lincoln'', ''One Second Before Awakening from a Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate''...

* Also Joseph Wright of Derby's painting ''A Philosopher giving a Lecture on the Orrery in which a lamp is put in place of the Sun''.

* J.M.W. Turner painted in 1840: "Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhon Coming On)" and it's better known now as simply "The Slave Ship." At the time, Punch Magazine lampooned the title with one of their own: "A Typhoon, Bursting A Simmoon, Over A Whirlpool Maelstrom, Norway, A Ship on Fire, An Eclipse, With the Effect of a Lunar Rainbow."

* ''[http://earlgreytea68.livejournal.com/67159.html Chaos Theory in Vortex Orbits in Relative Dimensions in Time and Space]'' a [[Doctor Who]] [[Kid Fic]] by [http://earlgreytea68.livejournal.com/ earlgreytea68.]

 

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