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* [[Better Than It Sounds]] is called that because '''Making Good Fiction Seem Like Crap And Making You Guess Which Fiction It Is''' is a lot to type.

** And also because '''Adventure Ho''' is too specific to one show.

* They call it [[Big No]] because '''NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!''' is a little ''too'' big and no one will remember how many letters are in it.

** Ditto with the other Big tropes:

* We ended up going with [[Rambling Old Man Monologue]] because it's a little bit more concise than the title we wanted to use, which was '''Stories Old Men Tell to Youngsters Which Don't Really Go Anywhere But for Some Reason Nobody Interrupts. Why I Remember One of These Stories... Boy It Was a Doozy... It Started When My Uncle Sammy, or Sambo as We Used to Call Him, But You Can't Call Him That Anymore Because of Those Damn PC Police... Anyway Sambo Was Riding a Chicken Down to the General Store Because Our Horse Was Laid Up with the Flu...'''

* [[Reality Ensues]] is a little more polite and way shorter than '''They May Use This Trope a Million Times in Fiction, But This is What Would ''Really'' Happen in [[Real Life]]'''.

* [[Refrain From Assuming]] is much better, shorter, punnier, and more polite than '''I Know They Repeat That Phrase a Thousand Times In The Chorus, But For The Last Time, ''It's Not The Name Of The Fucking Song''!'''

** '''Teenage Wasteland''', while shorter than the current title, is a victim of [[Fan Myopia]] and [[Teenage Wasteland|already a trope.]]

* [[Renamed Tropes]] is more to-the-point than '''What Were They Smoking When Naming These Tropes!?'''. Besides, we don't want to wantonly accuse people of smoking.

* Although [[Reviews Are the Gospel]] and '''He Panned It, Now It Sucks''' are both short and concise, using the latter would mean having to redirect to it from '''He Praised It, Now It Rocks''' as the trope works both ways. Also, it's only one different pronoun from [[He Panned It, Now He Sucks]].

* It's called [[Rhyming with Itself]] because honestly, '''Instead Of Using A Word That Rhymes, They Just Repeated The Original Word''' takes way too much time to type out. Also, not everyone would get '''[[Red Dwarf|I Used Underpantski Three Times]]'''.