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Some works have titles that are just really easy to have fun with. All you have to do is replace a word or two, and there you
With other works... Well, substitute "well-known" for "easy to have fun with", and "memorable" for "funny". After all, what better way could there be to make people remember the title of your new work than making it a [[Shout-Out]] to a [[Shakespeare]] title?
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Some of these are bound to be [[Parallel Porn Titles]].
'''Please list lots of actual examples of title variations, rather than just the
{{examples|Examples according to original work}}
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== [[Literature]] ==
* '''The Joy of X''', the [[Trope Namer]], is an interesting [[Zig-Zagging Trope]]: most titles of this form reference ''The Joy of Sex'', which was itself titled in reference to ''The Joy of Cooking''. Conveniently, it also makes this a [[Just for Pun]] trope.
** In the [[Discworld]] book ''[[Discworld/Maskerade|Maskerade]]'', Nanny Ogg writes ''The Joye of Snackes''
** "The Joy of Sect" is an episode of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''.
** There's a book entitled ''The Joy of Sox'', talking about socks. It's incredibly amusing.
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** The Joy of Lexx: Defunct [[Lexx]] fan site
** ''The Joy of Pokémon'' (the 92nd ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' episode, naturally)
** "The Joy of Sects" is a title of a class about religions in the novel ''Love Among the Walnuts'' (itself a Joy of X
** There is a webcomic entitled "The Joy of Tech".
** ''The Joy Of TeX'' (yes, that formula markup language)
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** ''Love in the Age of Fishsticks'', a film made in 2008.
** ''Love In The Age of Drought'', a novel by Fiona Higgins
** ''Love in The Age of Silicone'', an article about [[Real Doll
** In one episode of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', Marge can be seen reading a pirate-themed romance novel called ''Love in the Time of Scurvy.''
** ''Love in the Time of [[LOLcats]]'' by [[Achewood]]'s Ray Smuckles.
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** "Love in the Time of Dragons", an episode of ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]''
** ''Love In The Time of Goblins'', Book One of the Hot Goblin Brotherhood Saga in ''[[Skin Horse]]''
* '''Doing X With Gun And Camera''' -- The prototypical title for a Great White Hunter-style travelogue. The original, or one of them, appears to be Captain Ralph Bonehill's book ''Out With Gun and Camera''
** By 1930, this title was already being parodied, in the form of George Chappell's ''Through the Alimentary Canal with Gun and Camera''.
** ''Through the [[Uncanny Valley]] With Gun and Camera''
** ''Whale Hunting with Gun and Camera'' by Roy Chapman Andrews
** Another ''[[Discworld]]'' parody: Ridcully is the author of ''Along the Ankh with Bow, Rod and Staff with a Knob on the End''.
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** ''The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don't Want You to Know About -- Because They Helped Cause Them'' by Iain Murray
** ''The 6 Dirty Little Secrets They Don't Want You To Know About Network Marketing'' by Gavin M-R
** ''An Enlightened Vision Of Cyberspace and The Grand Illusion Which Threatens It... (The Secret Business Revolution They Don't Want You To Know About!)'' by The Core Executive
** ''Natural Secrets Drug Companies Don't Want You to Know About'' by Mark A. Stevens with Christine Jones
** ''What They Don't Want You to Know About Television and Videos'' by Lawrence Kelemen
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