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Or ''TTWSBFOSHRLAGUTWIMTIUUFCEAOTTIIETIMMWIAPTHAOLTTITCOTTIBUIAISDW'' for short.
 
[[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Exactly what it sounds like]]: Something with a very long name.
 
Differs from [[In Which a Trope Is Described]] by being only about names; differs from [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]] by not being required to be accurate. Sometimes [[Colon Cancer|uses colons extensively]] (but see also [[Short Title Long Elaborate Subtitle]]). See [[Overly Long Name]] for when this applies to characters.
 
It is worth noting that in the 18th and 19th centuries, titles were used to interest people in a particular book, in the same way back-side blurbs are today.
 
The diametric opposite of [[No Title]]. See [[Try to Fit That Onon A Business Card]] and [[Overly Long Name]] for when this applies to characters. See also [[Colon Cancer]].
 
Not to be confused with [[Long Titles vs. Short Titles]] and [[Short Titles]].
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=== 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 [[TV Tropes (Wiki)]]: ===
 
== 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 ''[[Won TonWonton 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?".
 
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* ''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''
* ''[[The Incredibly Strange Creatures|The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?]]''.
* ''[[Don't Be a Menace Toto South Central While Drinking Your Juice Inin Thethe Hood]]''.
* ''[[Monty Python]]'s And Now for Something Completely Different''
* ''[[Dr. Strangelove]]: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb''
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* ''[[Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth]]''.
* The working title for ''[[Scary Movie]]'' was ''Last Summer I Screamed Because Halloween Fell on Friday the 13th''
* ''[[Push (Literaturenovel)|Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push']] [[In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It|by Sapphire]].'' Part of the problem is that a movie called ''[[Push]]'' had been released earlier in the year, so they had to come up with a new name for [[The Film of the Book]] to avoid confusion.
* ''[[The Horribly Slow Murderer With the Extremely Inefficient Weapon]]''
* Belgian short ''[[How To Enrich Yourself By Driving Women Into Emotional And Financial Bankruptcy]]''
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* ''I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at [[Disney]].''
* ''After the War, You Have to Tell Everyone About the Dutch Gay Resistance Fighters'' Yes, you do. You certainly do.
* ''[[ETE.T. the Extra -Terrestrial|THE E.T. OF VAGINA]]: ONE SETTLES OF THE OTHER WORLD Or Specially Terrestrian: The extraterrestrial one''
{{quote| '''[[The Cinema Snob]]''': That's even too fucking long for a ''TAGLINE!''}}
* Frequently seen in the titles of Japanese porno movies (adult videos, or AVs): one example is ''I Who Throughout My School Years Have Had So Little Experience Romantically – To My Home, Now Have At Least a Few Young Ladies Coming to Enjoy [[A Vs]] With Me – Upon Watching Erotic Scenes, Start to Get Restless and Cheeks Turning Red, Obviously Getting So Wet Throughout the Panties and With Many Embarrassing Stains!''
* ''[[To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar]]''
* ''Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes''
* ''[[The Fearless Vampire Killers|The Fearless Vampire Killers or: Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck]]'', also released under several shorter titles
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== 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 ==
* 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 ''[[GulliversGulliver's Travels]]''.
** ''A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick''.
** ''An argument to prove that the abolishing of Christianity in England may, as things now stand, be attended with some inconveniences, and perhaps not produce those many good effects proposed thereby''.
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* John Hodgman
** ''An Almanac of Complete World Knowledge Compiled with Instructive Annotation and Arranged in Useful Order by myself, John Hodgman, a Professional Writer, in '''[[The Areas of My Expertise]]''', which Include: Matters Historical, Matters Literary, Matters Cryptozoological, Hobo Matters, Food, Drink & Cheese (a Kind of Food), Squirrels & Lobsters & Eels, Haircuts, Utopia, What Will Happen in the Future, and Most Other Subjects''
** ''For your Consideration, The Firms of Dutton & Riverhead Books of New York City, Publishers of [[Ken Follett]], Darin Strauss, David Rees, and [[Wu -Tang Clan|the RZA]], Present in the English Language: A Further Compendium of Complete World Knowledge in "[[The Areas of My Expertise]]" Assembled and Illumined by Me, John Hodgman, A Famous Minor Television Personality* , Offering'' '''[[More Information Than You Require]]''' ''On subjects as Diverse As: The Past (As There Is Always More of it), The Future (As There is Still Some Left), All of the Presidents of the United States, The Secrets of Hollywood, Gambling, The Sport of the Asthmatic Man (Including Hermit-Crab Racing), Strange Encounters with Aliens, How to Buy a Computer, How to Cook an Owl, And Most Other Subjects, Plus: Answers To Your Questions Posed via Electronic Mail, And: 700 Mole-Man Names, Including Their Occupations''.<br /><nowiki>* </nowiki>"Formerly a Former Professional Literary Agent and Professional Writer, AKA "[[They Might Be Giants|The Deranged Millionaire]]''"
* [[Gabriel Garcia Marquez]], the same writer of [[One Hundred Years of Solitude]], also wrote ''The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor: Who Drifted on a Liferaft for Ten Days Without Food or Water, Was Proclaimed a National Hero, Kissed by Beauty Queens, Made Rich Through Publicity, and Then Spurned by the Government and Forgotten for All Time''.
* ''On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life'', also known as ''The Origin of Species'' by Charles Darwin.
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* As the full title is some 6,931 words (42521 characters) long, ''Marienbad My Love'' shall simply be referred to by its "condensed title".
* The full title of [[Michael Ende]]'s novel ''[[Momo]]'', in the original German, is ''MOMO oder Die seltsame Geschichte von den Zeit-Dieben und von dem Kind, das den Menschen die gestohlene Zeit zurückbrachte'' (''Momo, or the Strange Story of the Time-Thieves and of the Child Who Brought Back the Stolen Time to Humanity'').
** Not quite as long, but with something of a record for the longest word in a book title: ''Der satanarchäolügenialkohöllische Wunschpunsch'', translated into English as ''[[The Night of Wishes (Literature)|The Night of Wishes: or, The Satanarchaeolidealcohellish Notion Potion]]''.
* Immanuel Kant's [[All There in the Manual|guidebook]] to his own ''[[Doorstopper|Critique of Pure Reason]]'' is called ''Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics that Will Be Able to Present Itself as Science'' (''Prolegomena zu einer jeden künftigen Metaphysik die als Wissenschaft wird auftreten können'').
* ''[[Slaughterhouse Five|Slaughterhouse-fiveFive]], or, The children's crusade : a duty-dance with death by [[Kurt Vonnegut]], a fourth-generation German-American now living in easy circumstances on Cape Cod (and smoking too much), who, as an American infantry scout hors de combat, as a prisoner of war, witnessed the fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany, "The Florence of the Elbe," a long time ago, and survived to tell the tale. This is a novel somewhat in the telegraphic schizophrenic manner of tales of the planet Tralfamadore, where the flying saucers come from. Peace.''
* [[wikipedia:Henry Darger|Henry Darger]] (1892-1973) was a reclusive artist who'd been brought up in an institution for the "feeble-minded." Upon his death in 1973, his apartment was being cleared out. Among all the clutter, there was found Darger's lifework; diaries, scrapbooks, and a manuscript, fifty years in the making, 15,145 pages long, with hundreds of illustrations. The title was ''The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion''.
* David Moser's "[[This Is the Title of This Story|This Is the Title of This Story, Which Is Also Found Several Times in the Story Itself]]," a story made of self-referential sentences. And sentence fragments.
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* ''Dealing, or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues'' by [[Michael Crichton]] and Douglas Crichton.
* Everyone should be at least familiar with Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem ''Ozymandias'' best known for the lines, "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Less familiar is the fact that Shelley wrote it as something of a competition with a frend of his, Horace Smith. Smith's poem, on the same subject, was printed in the next month's issue of the magazine in which Shelley's was, and initially also titled ''Ozymandias.'' However after that initial publication, Smith decided to rename it to ''On A Stupendous Leg of Granite, Discovered Standing by Itself in the Deserts of Egypt, with the Inscription Inserted Below.'' Note that at 20 words, the title is just over 1/5 the length of the 99-word poem itself. (Title aside, it's a pretty good poem.)
* The full title for Robert Lewis Stevenson's novel ''[[Kidnapped (TV)]]'' is ''Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: How he was Kidnapped and Cast away, his Sufferings in a Desert Isle; his Journey in the Wild Highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he Suffered at the hands of his Uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so-called: Written by Himself and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson''.
* Hungarian writer István Örkény's [[Flash Fiction|"One minute stories"]] parodies this in one of its stories, consisting of a hilariously long title and a two-word sentence.
* ''[http://www.joelonsoftware.com/BuytheBooks.html Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity]'' by IT entrepreneur and blogger Joel Spolsky.
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* Political book example: ''Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer- And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class''.
* 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.''
 
 
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* 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!".
* North Korea has a propaganda show on correct and proper hairstyles titled ''[[wikipedia:Letchr(27)s trim our hair in accordance with the socialist lifestyle|Let's Trim Our Hair in Accordance with the Socialist Lifestyle]]''.
* An episode of ''[[Star Trek: theThe Original Series|Star Trek]]'' is titled "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky."
* While the show itself does not qualify, an episode of ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' features Naomi Wildman working on an essay titled, ''The Weird Planet Where Time Moved Very Fast and so did the People who Lived There''. Seven of Nine helps her condense it.
* ''[[Mad TV]]'' had a skit about a sitcom: ''My Gay Dad Always Steals My Boyfriends Even Though They Say They're Straight; They Promise Me They Won't Fall For Him But They Always Do Everytime Because [[Even the Guys Want Him|He's So Irresistible They Can't Help Themselves]] And I Hate It''. The skit also embodied [[Show Within a Show]], [[Title Drop]] and [[Expository Theme Tune]] (in this case, the name of the sitcom recited to music).
* ''The Ronnie Johns Half Hour'' (full name ''The Ronnie Johns Good Times Campfire Jamboree Half Hour Show (Now on Television)'')
* There was a 70s British kids' show called ''Why Don't You Just Switch Off Your Television Set and Go and Do Something Less Boring Instead?'', often abbreviated as ''WDYJSOYTSAGADSLBI'' or just ''Why Don't You...?''
* [[The One With...]] episode naming style used by ''[[Friends]]'' occassionally resulted in rather long titles like "The One Where Chandler Can't Remember Which Sister" or "The One Where Monica and Richard are Just Friends".
* ''[[I CarlyICarly]]'': The "[[Who Writes This Crap?|Pathetic Plays]]" have these: "The Cowboy With A Mustache And The Idiot Farmgirl Who Thought The Mustache Was A Squirrel" and "The Englishman Who Was A Terrible Father To His Two Children Named Fuffley And Peeta," plus the pre-'[[Who Writes This Crap?|pathetic]]' "The Prisoner Who Just Wanted Some Soup And The Man Who Refused To Give Him Some."
* 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.
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== 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 casette, 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|SC 29]] [[WG 11]] Layer-3 standard, and transmitted through the worldwide packet-switched interconnected networks known collectively as the Internet ==
* [[Hello! Project]] has several of these, but perhaps the biggest offender is S/mileage's Asu wa DEETO na no ni, Ima Sugu Koe ga Kikitai (Even though we have a date tomorrow, I want to hear your voice right now).
* Math-rock band Don Caballero uses this trope quite a bit. Some examples: "A Lot of People Tell Me I Have A Fake British Accent", "Let's Face It, Pal, You Didn't Need That Eye Surgery", and perhaps the longest of them all: "In The Absence of Strong Evidence to the Contrary, One May Step of the Way of the Charging Bull".
* Thrash Metal band Lich King has The Attack Of The Wrath Of The Sword Of The Death Of The Strike Of The Sword Of The Beast. Say that 7 times fast with a mouth full of crackers!
* Grindcore band Agoraphobic Nosebleed has song titles that take longer to say than the song itself, especially on their album Altered States Of America. One of which being "Group Taking Acid As Considered Conspiracy Against The Government", an epic 6 second rocker.
* [[Jeff Wayne|Jeff Wayne's]] Musical Version Of [[The War of the Worlds|The War Of The Worlds]]
** Also, The Highlights From Jeff Wayne's Muscial Version of The War Of The Worlds.
*** And even Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds - Alive On Stage! 30th Anniversary Tour.
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** From ''The Avalanche: Outtakes And Extras From The Illinoise Album''; "The Vivian Girls Are Visited In The Night By Saint Dargarius And His Squadron Of Benevolent Butterflies".
* ''Uno de mi calle me ha dicho que tiene un amigo que dice conocer a un tipo que un día fue feliz'' ("Someone who lives on my street has told me he has a friend who says he knows a guy who had been happy once"), a song by Joan Manuel Serrat.
* [[Morrissey (Music)|Morrissey]], with [[The Smiths]] and in his solo work, has a fair number of these. The Smiths' album ''Strangeways, Here We Come'' alone contains the songs "A Rush and a Push and the Land is Ours," "Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me," and "Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before."
** Two of Morrissey's most popular solo tracks: "We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful" and "The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get".
* Rod Stewart and The Faces once came up with a song called "You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (Even Take the Dog For a Walk, Mend a Fuse, Fold Away the Ironing Board, or Any Other Domestic Shortcomings)."
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** Before that, he had "I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)" and "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry." On the same album (''Blonde on Blonde'') there's "Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine."
** Later on, there's "You'll Make Me Lonesome When You Go" (which is surprisingly almost exactly the same title length as "Stuck Inside of Mobile")
* [[The Beatles]]' song "Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me And [[Everything's Better Withwith Monkeys|My Monkey]]".
** [[Beatallica]] made a style parody with this song (among two others, one being by [[Metallica]]) called "Everybody's Got a Ticket to Ride Except for Me and My Lightning".
* Primitive Radio Gods' "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand." Abbreviated to "Phonebooth" by fans and the Billboard charts.
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** They even lampshaded this with "Thnks fr th Mmrs", which was born from a complaint that their song titles were too long.
** "I Liked You Better Before You Became a Fucking Myspace Whore''.
* The longest title on [[Panic At the Disco|Panic! at the Disco]] is "There's a Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought of It Yet." Their second album's song titles are fairly short, though.
** There's also "Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off", "The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage". And from their new album ''Vices and Virtues'', we have "Ready to Go (Get Me Out of My Mind)" and "Nearly Witches (Ever Since We Met)".
* [[Cobra Starship]] has a song titled "Prostitution is the World's Oldest Profession and I, Dear Madam, Am a Professional."
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* Behold British metalcore band Bring Me The Horizon's most recent album. Its title: There Is A Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is A Heaven, Let's Keep It A Secret. Also one of their songs is titled thus: No Need For Introductions, I've Read About Girls Like You on the Backs of Toilet Doors. This is, funnily enough, about something that happened [[wikipedia:Bring me the horizon#Nottingham incident|during one of their gigs.]]
* [[Joe Jackson]]'s "You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want)."
* [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s "Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters from a Planet Near Mars".
* [[Prince (Music)|Prince]] likes doing this on the occasional B-side: "17 Days (the rain will come down, then U will have 2 choose. If U believe, look 2 the dawn and U shall never lose.)" and "Sex ('the '80s are over and the time has come 4 monogamy and trust')."
* Explosions In The Sky's album ''Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever'', which contains the song "With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept."
* [[David Cross]]' [[Stand Up Comedy]] album ''It's Not Funny'' has long track titles that have absolutely nothing to do with the content of the joke.
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* "It's Hard to Kiss the Lips at Night That Chew Your Ass Out All Day Long" by The Notorious Cherry Bombs. Country music is ''full'' of [[A Worldwide Punomenon|cheeky]] song titles.
* Technicality with Patty Loveless' "Blame It on Your Heart", which is listed on BMI as "Blame It on Your Lyin, Cheatin', Cold, Dead-Beatin', Two-Timin', Double-Dealin', Mean, Mistreatin', Lovin' Heart", but is just "Blame It on Your Heart" on the album.
* "Three Minute Positive Not-Too-Country Up-Tempo Love Song" by Alan Jackson, which is [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]].
* "We Threw Gasoline On The Fire And Now We Have Stumps For Arms And No Eyebrows" by NOFX
* The Marnie Stern album ''This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That''.
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* [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly|Experimental Post-Punk Psychadelic Industrial]] musician [[Edward Ka-Spel]] of [[The Legendary Pink Dots]] and [[The Tear Garden]] does these from time to time. Notable examples are the LPD album ''Your Children Placate You From Premature Graves'', [[The Tear Garden]] album ''To Be An Angel Blind, The Crippled Soul Divide'', and the solo album ''Down in the City of Heartbreak and Needles''.
* Experimental Rock band Godspeed You! Black Emperor has very few releases; but the titles for what they do have vary between this and [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]]. Their long-titled albums include: ''All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling'', ''Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada'', and ''Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven'',
* The metal band The Black Dahlia Murder (that's a long band name too!) has songs like "I Worship Only What You Bleed", "[[Castlevania II: SimonsSimon's Quest (Video Game)|What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse]]" and "That Which Erodes the Most Tender of Things".
* A Finnish Goregrind band that goes by the name 55Gore's full unabridged name is as follows... *deep breath* [[Perfectly Cromulent Word|Intracerebrally]] [[Beyond the Impossible|Consuming Cephalalgia Through The Cranium Macerating Debrisfucked]] [[Crosses the Line Twice|Manure Ingested Remains Of The Mindfucked Cataplexic Wicked Mankind Whom Fistfucked The Progenies]] [[And I Must Scream|From The Deepest Depths]] [[Overly Long Gag|Of The Analmaggot Raped Human Pieces Of Erotic Shitmasses]] [[Insane Troll Logic|Which Gave Birth To Worthless Eunuchs As Travesty For Cumstained Whorefaced Sluts Enslaved By This]] [[Blind Idiot Translation|Stupid Society Full Of Fetal Garbages]].
* Dethklok (the [[Defictionalized|sorta-fictional]] metal band from the animated series [[Metalocalypse]]) has 2 of them: "My Inner Child Tied and Beaten in My Trunk" and "I Tamper With the Evidence at the Murder Site of Odin".
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* [[Primal Scream]]'s single ''The Big Man and the Scream Team Meet the Barmy Army Uptown''<ref>This is the title of the single, but not the title of any of the songs on the record.</ref>.
* [[My Chemical Romance]] have had their fair share, with songs such as "Honey, This Mirror Isn't Big Enough For The Two Of Us", "You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison" and "It's Not A Fashion Statement, It's A Fucking Deathwish."
** And from their new album [[Danger Days: theThe True Lives of The Fabulous Killjoys]], (which is a long title itself), we have Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na).
* Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays' ''As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls'', both a song and an album from 1980.
* [[Amanda Palmer]] has a song titled "Do You Swear To Tell The Truth The Whole Truth And Nothing But The Truth So Help Your Black Ass."
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I feel your cold breath }}
* Game Theory's song, "All [[A Clockwork Orange|Clockwork]] and No [[Dr. Strangelove|Bodily Fluid]] Makes [[Two2001: ThousandA andSpace OneOdyssey|Hal]] a [[Full Metal Jacket|Dull Metal]] [[Lolita|Humbert]] / In Heaven Every Elephant Baby Wants to Be So Full of Sting / Paul Simon in the Park with Canticle / But You Can't Pick Your Friends / Vacuum Genesis / DEFMACROS / HOWSOMETH / INGDOTIME / SALENGTHS / OMETHINGL / ETBFOLLOW / AAFTERNOO / NGETPRESE / NTMOMENTI / FTHINGSWO / NTALWAYSB / ETHISWAYT / BCACAUSEA / BWASTEAFT / ERNOONWHE / NEQBMERET / URNFROMSH / OWLITTLEG / REENPLACE / 27", off their album, ''Lolita Nation'', is one of the longetst song titles of all time.
* JLIAT (aka James Whitehead), obsessively fond of pristine sine-wave ambient devoid of embellishment. Not all of his CD titles, however, reflect this desire for simplicity. Most notably ''A Long Drone-Like Piece of Music Made With Synthesizers, Samplers and Digital Delays Which Attempts in its Minimalism to Be A Thing In Itself Without External Reference, Having an Analogue in Certain States of Consciousness Where Being is Experienced Also''; another example would be ''When We Focus On Nothing as Opposed to The Set Or Subset Of Infinite Events with Whatever Intellect We Have in That Moment the Conscious State Becomes Aware of the Alternative to the Infinity of States Which in its Apprehension is Enlightenment.'' (yes, the period is included)
* The Swedish 18th century songwriter Carl Michael Bellman has some rather long titles, although it can sometimes be argued that what is written above the actual body of the song is not so much a title as a description or dedication — for example ''[http://sv.wikisource.org/wiki/Fredmans_epistel_n:o_21 Fredmans epistel n:o 21. Varutinnan han 1:o avmålar natten med dess nöjen, 2:o tycks liksom för ögonen ställa ett slags aequlibrium emellan vinets och kärlekens styrka, men omsider ljusligen uppenbarar övervikten]'' (Fredman's epistle number 21, in which he ''primo'' depicts the night with its pleasures, ''secundo'' appears to visualise a kind of æquilibrium of the respective strengths of wine and women, before the domination is eventually clearly revealed). However in the case of ''[http://sv.wikisource.org/wiki/I_närvarande_parter Fredmans sång n:o 54: Om handlingarna rörande Bacchi konkurs 8. Rådsturättens voteringsprotokoll och slutliga utslag i konkurstvisten emellan Bacchus och dess borgenärer]'' (Fredman's song number 54, on the documentation of Bacchus's bankruptcy 8: Voting protocol and final verdict of the county court in the case of Bacchus vs. its creditors) it is clear that this really is the title.
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** and another from the same album: "She Looked Up From Examining the Freckles on her Arm and Shouted "Jesus! I'm Fucking God-Damn Tired of all this Make-Up Sex!" And He Just Stared Off."
* The Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band & Choir unsurprisingly have a few examples, such as the album ""This Is Our Punk Rock", Thee Rusted Satellites Gather + Sing" and tracks like "Brothers! Sisters! Small Boats Of Fire Are Falling From The Sky" and "I Fed My Metal Bird The Wings Of Other Metal Birds"
* [[Stereolab (Music)|Stereolab]] have an album titled ''Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night''.
* Anthallo has a few long song titles. "Hanasakajijii III: The Man Who Made Dead Trees Bloom". "Don't Kid Yourself, You Need a Physician". "To Gary and Marcus: The Sovereignty of God is Omnipresent". But the one that really takes the cake is, "I Thought in my Heart, 'Come now, I will test you with pleasure to find out what is good.' But that also proved to be meaningless".
* [[Bjork]]'s remix compilation ''The Best Mixes from the Album Debut For All the People Who Don't Buy White Labels'' (which also falls under [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]])
* ''The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of [[Monty Python and The Holy Grail]]''.
* The song [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness|"Prisencolinensinainciusol"]] by the italian singer Adriano Celentano.
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== Theatre: Or, Works written with the intention of live performance in front of an audience upon the theatrical stage ==
* ''[[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 Onon the Tin]].
** Publicists and playbill designers shortened this to ''Marat/Sade''.
* Perhaps not so long as most of these but still worthy of mention: ''The tragical history of the damned life and deserved death of Doctor Johanus Faustus''.
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* ''[[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.)
* GameSpot did for two years in a row an award for "Most Long-Winded Game Title". In [http://www.gamespot.com/pages/features/bestof2005/index.php?day=3&page=6 2005], it was on by ''[[In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It|Peter Jackson's]] [[King Kong]]: The Official Game of the Movie''. In [http://www.gamespot.com/special_features/bestof2006/honors/index.html?page=5 2006] the first Shin Megami Tensei title mentioned above won (over entries such as ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]: The Battle for Middle-Earth II: [[Colon Cancer|The Rise of the Witch-King]]''). Both years had ''[[Xeno SagaXenosaga]]'' games (which follow the system ''Xenosaga: Episode # - [[Gratuitous German|Untranslated Nietzsche quote]]'').
* The UK/Australian titles of the Brain Age Express [[DSiWare]] titles are ''A Little Bit of... Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training: [something edition]''
* ''[[Aaaaa a Aaaa AA Aaa AAA Aa AAAAAA Reckless Disregard For Gravity]]''.
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* ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' has the "Sublimely Magnificent Jecht Shot Mark III". There is no Mark I or Mark II.
* ''[[Strong Bads Cool Game for Attractive People|Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People]]'', which even Strong Bad suggested be just referred to as "SBCG4AP". Even better, it's an episodic game, so you have to tack on the episode title as well if you want to be more specific.
** Couple this with [[Colon Cancer]] and you get ''Strong Bad's Cool Game For Attractive People: Episode 4: Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective''.
* ''[[Gabriel Knight|Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned]]''.
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** ''Leisure Suit Larry 3: Passionate Patti in Pursuit of the Pulsating Pectorals''
* In Japan, a [[Gaiden Game]] for ''[[Beast Wars]]'' was released on the Game Boy Color entitled ''Duel Fight Transformers Beast Wars: Beast Warriors' Strongest Decisive Battle''
* Just try saying ''[[Mega Man|Rockman]]: [[MegamanMega Man Legends|Digouter's Adventure Story in Halcyon Days]]: Adventurous Spirit of Steel'' with a straight face, I dare you!
** Then what about ''[[Colon Cancer|Rockman: Digouter's Adventure Story in Halcyon Days 2: Episode 2: The Mother Load]]'' and its prequel-demo ''[[Colon Cancer|Rockman: Digouter's Adventure Story in Halcyon Days 2: Episode 1: Close call, Roll-chan]]''?
** Thank God for its short form [[Fun Withwith Acronyms|Rockman DASH]].
* The ''[[Baten Kaitos]]'' series has two titles, ''Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean'', and its prequel, ''Baten Kaitos II: Beginning of the Wings and the Heir of the Gods'', although the latter's title was changed to ''Baten Kaitos Origins'' for its English release.
* The soundtrack for ''[[Wild Arms]]'' games consistently have titles with unusually long names. Some examples: "Even If I Can See the Reflection of Peace In Your Eyes", "This Downpour is a Blessing from the Heavens", "Walking into the Heart of the Sunset's Light", or "The Weight of a Heavy Life, the Meaning of the Meaning of Life".
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* Episode 4 of the ''[[King's Quest]]'' fan game ''[[The Silver Lining]]'' is titled "'Tis in My Memory Locked, and You Yourself Shall Keep the Key of It".
* ''Eojjeonji Joheun Il-i Saenggil Geot Gateun Jeonyeok'' (A Night Where Good Things Are Bound to Happen), a obscure korean PC beat'em up game.
* [[Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden|Tales of Game's Presents Chef Boyardee's Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, Chapter 1 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa]]
* ''[[Max Payne]] [[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo|2: The Fall of Max Payne]] - A [[Film Noir]] Love Story''
* [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.
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== 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) ==
* 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|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.
** A couple of cards have flavour text attributed to Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar, the Underworld Cookbook.
* 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.
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** When you finally get a look on carcinoGeneticist's room, you can see the associated movie posters.
* ''[[The Incredible and Awe Inspiring Serial Adventure of The Amazing Plasma -Man]]''
* ''[[A BeginnersBeginner's Guide to Thethe End of Thethe Universe (Webcomic)|A Beginners Guide to The End of The Universe]]''
* ''[[Even in Thethe Deepest Heart of Chaos... Aa Glimmer of Order Can Be Found (Webcomic)|Even in The Deepest Heart of Chaos A Glimmer of Order Can Be Found]]''
* The [[Pokémon]] webcomic ''[http://www.drunkduck.com/POKETTO_MONSUTAA_SPECIAL_SUPER_EX_ADVENTURE_XXXVX_THE_CHRONICLES_OF_RED_BLUE_GREEN_AND_A_BUNCH_OF_OTHER_KIDS_WITH_COLORS_FOR_NAMES/index.php POKETTO MONSUTAA SPECIAL SUPER EX ADVENTURE XXXVX THE CHRONICLES OF RED BLUE GREEN AND A BUNCH OF OTHER KIDS WITH COLORS FOR NAMES]''; doubly so for negecting punctuation and being written in all-caps.
** And what number, exactly, is "XXXVX"?
*** [[Don't Explain the Joke|It could be similar to the swedish expression "Fiftyeleven", meaning "a lot".]]
* Comic strip #240 of [http://www.heroes-comic.com/?p=1081 Heroes Incorporated], AKA ''"Hey man? You ever think that the universe is just like, one atom of some even bigger universe we can't even imagine? Woah... My hands can touch anything but themselves..."''
* ''[[Prequel (Webcomicwebcomic)|Prequel -or- Making A Cat Cry: The Adventure, The Adventures Of Katia Managan]]''.
* In ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|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.
* [http://www.drunkduck.com/I_Was_Kidnapped_By_Lesbian_Pirates_From_Outer_Space I Was Kidnapped By Lesbian Pirates From Outer Space]
 
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* In a plot to be first in the phone book, one episode had ''[[Duckman]]'' naming his plumbing business AAAAAAAAAAAAA (ad nauseum) AAA-1 Plumbing, which was [[Overly Long Gag|recited, in full, every single time it was said]].
* One ''[[Count Duckula]]'' episode is titled, "Return of the Curse of the Secret of the Mummy's Tomb Meets FrankenDuckula's Monster And The Wolfman and the Intergalactic Cabbage." Another title: "The Count And The Pauper--I Ain't Gonna Work On Maggot's Farm No More!"
* At least three Hanna-Barbera shows had long titles: ''[[Dastardly and Muttley Inin Their Flying Machines]]'', ''[[Josie and Thethe PussycatsPussy 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".
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* All of the [[Baccano]] episode titles are long and overly descriptive.
* Taku Iwasaki had a ''lot'' of fun thinking up song titles for the ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' soundtrack.
* The series title ''Sumeba Miyako no Cosmos-sou Suttoko Taisen Dokkoider'' (translation: ''Living in the Cosmos House, Foolish Dokkoida's Great Battle'') was shortened to simply ''[[Dokkoida|Dokkoida?!]]'' when brought to the US.
* Episode 26 of ''[[School Rumble]]'' is called "''Totsuzen no 'sayonara'... Mayoikonda rabirinsu... Anata wa dare? ...Oshiete. 'Surechigai' 'Kataomoi' todoke, boku no kimochi. Todoke, watashi no omoi. Tabun ichido shikanai kisetsu, seishun no 1 pēji. Kore ga saigo no chansu, tashikametai... Kimi no kimochi. Tsutawaru kotoba, tsutawaranai omoi. Ano hi no kokuhaku, eien no ichinichi, dakedo... Itsumademo tsuzuiteiku, watashi tachi no 'ima'. Soshite ashita e... 'sukūru ranburu fōebā'''". The official translation is just ''"School Rumble Forever!"'' which is probably not accurate.
** [[Adaptation Distillation|It's a well-deserved truncation,]] cutting it down to the final three words (which are just [[Gratuitous English]]).
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* In [[Psyren]], the government branch responsible for the Grigori experiment is the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's Psychic Powers Development Research Facility's Mental Sensitivity Department.
* The third ''[[Sailor Moon]] movie has the full title of "Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon [[Super S]]: The Movie: The 9 Sailor Soldiers Get Together! Miracle in the Black Dream Hole" due to haveing parts that refer to the 4th series/season, the fact that it's a movie, and giving the movie a standard episode title card. Most adds omit the last part while many listings of the full name omit "The Movie" (despite appearing on posters) The english dub chops it down to Sailor Moon [[Super S]] the Movie: Black Dream Hole.
* The anime/manga series ''[[Oniichan no Koto Nanka Zenzen Suki Ja Nai NJanain Dakara Nene!!]]''!! ("I Don't Like You At All, Big Brother!!"), which has one of the longest titles as far as recent shows go.
** Note that "recent shows" also includes ''[[Ore no Imouto ga Konna Nini Kawaii Wake ga Nai]]'' ("There's No Way My Little Sister Can Be This Cute"), which is just as much of a mouthful.
* ''[[Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai]]'', which translates to "We Still Don't Know the Name of the Flower We Saw That Day." Viewers came up with the [[Portmanteau Series Nickname]] "[[Ano Hana]]" posthaste.
** To demonstrate how long and unwieldy this name is: on [[This Wiki]] the ''AnoHana'' is more commonly used as a [[Wick]] than ''[[Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai]]''.
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== Other: Or, Honourable mentions arising from miscellaneous aesthetic productions that somehow elude veracious insertion underneath any of the aforementioned categorical headings ==
* Some of Salvador Dali's paintings have ridiculously specific (but [[Exactly What It Says Onon 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''.
* [http://crookedsixpence.deviantart.com/art/The-Little-Girl-21423447 The Little Girl Who Was Forgotten By Absolutely Everyone (Even The Postman)]. Also known as ''The Little Girl Whose Story Has An Incredibly Long Title Because the Author Thought It Would Be Funny Until She Had To Type It Everywhere''.
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