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Not to be confused with [[Long Titles vs. Short Titles]] and [[:Category:Short Titles|Short Titles]].

 

{{examples|An incomplete but ever-expanding listing of instances where this title trope has been applied in various media, as relentlessly compiled by [[The Contributors]] to All The Tropes:}}

== Comic Books: Or, Short stories printed on paper told through a mixture of sequential images and bubbles containing text, indicating what the characters are saying, thinking, and occasionally doing. ==

* ''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?".

 

== Film: Or, A most intriguing series of celluloid photographs, documenting a theatrical work for all posterity, projected upon a silvered screen in a grand auditorium by means of a powerful beam of light; in addition, an analogous method that does away with the celluloid stock and achieves same by means of a rather complex series of ciphers unscrambled and transcribed by miniature calculating engines ==

* ''Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson''

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

 

== Literature: Or, Written manuscripts, often from a bygone time when the usage of In Which A Trope Is Described was more common or dealing with technical subjects that must be stated precisely ==

* Joyce Carol Oates' novel ''After the wreck, I picked myself up, spread my wings, and flew away.''

* ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' is not a long title, but it represents an abbreviation of its [[In-Universe]] counterpart, the Red Book, whose title is ''The Downfall of the Lord of the Rings and the Return of the King (as seen by the Little People; being the memoirs of Bilbo and Frodo of the Shire, supplemented by the accounts of their friends and the learning of the Wise.) Together with extracts from Books of Lore translated by Bilbo in Rivendell.''

 

== Live-Action Television: Or, Televisual productions created through the orchestrated performance of living actors rather than by means of flashing pictures or other such deceptions ==

* Multiple programs on [[HGTV]] like ''House Hunters'' decide instead of a snappy and short title for each episode, to describe every situation of every episode, resulting in tongue twisters such as "Albert and Marie, Graduates of Harvard University, Decide to Look for a Reasonably Priced Townhouse in the Back Bay Neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts So That They May Start Their Careers and Later Raise a Family." Most likely this is because there's only so many episodes you can name ''Townhouse Search''.

* ''[[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.

 

== 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 ==

* The comedy troupe ''[[Firesign Theater]]'' released an album entitled ''How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All''

* 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".

 

== Theatre: Or, Works written with the intention of live performance in front of an audience upon the theatrical stage ==

* 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'').

* [http://www.battlestudio.com/games/spectrum-spelunker/ Spectrum Spelunker: Shoot Blocks to Win the Game, Also Jump and Run: Starring Hue]

* [[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.

 

== Tabletop Games: Or, Games involving the manipulation of tangible objects such as paper cards, miniatures and dice, usually played atop a table by several persons (though the floor may be used if there is no table offering enough area) ==

* Though the Magic card mentioned above is part of a Humor expansion, the Mythos CCG had a card called "The Thirty-Five Abominable Adulations of the Bloated One". Since Mythos referred to the [[Cthulhu Mythos]], long names seem appropriate.

* 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.

 

== Webcomics: Or, Stories available on the internet told through a mixture of sequential images and bubbles containing text, indicating what the characters are saying, thinking, and occasionally doing, much like a comic book but without commission. ==

* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', some of the [http://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook/?date=2003-06-03 early] [http://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook/?date=2002-08-11 filler] [http://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook/?date=2002-08-25 comics] had these. Also [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-07-16 a few] [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-05-18 story comics] as well. These are usually played for laughs but at least [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-10-02 one] was played for drama.

* [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]

 

== Web Originals: Or, Various pieces of fiction falling under a variety of descriptions distinguished by their initial appearance on a network previously establish to better facilitate the sharing of information between computers. ==

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

 

== Western Animation: Or, Televisual performances produced throughout the Occident, mostly in the United States of America, made possible through the rapid display of slightly differing artistic renderings to create the illusion of movement ==

* At least three Hanna-Barbera shows had long titles: ''[[Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines]]'', ''[[Josie and the Pussy Cats|Josie And The Pussycats In Outer Space]]'', and ''The Completely Mental Misadventures Of Ed Grimley.''

* ''[[Squidbillies]]'' had an episode entitled "Mephistopheles Traveled Below to a Southern State Whose Motto Is 'Wisdom, Justice, and Moderation".

 

== Anime/Manga: Or, Televisual performances produced akin to the preceding method, produced in the Empire of Japan, with considerably differing scope, visual style and manner of subject despite sharing a common means of conveyance ==

* Most episode titles in ''[[Best Student Council]]'' are of perfectly normal length, but episode 18 blindsides the viewer with "Hitoshi Satou, 28 years old, Occupation: Lawyer, Parents are Rich, and Even More Good Qualities to Make Him a Favorable Partner."

* [[Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaete Mo Omaera ga Warui]] which could be seen as a little bit like a [[Gender Flipped]] [[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.

 

== Other: Or, Honourable mentions arising from miscellaneous aesthetic productions that somehow elude veracious insertion underneath any of the aforementioned categorical headings ==