The Joy of X: Difference between revisions

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* '''The X, The Y, His Z and Her A''', spawned from ''[[The Cook the Thief His Wife And Her Lover]]'', which went through tons of [[Memetic Mutation]] when it was first out.

** Chapter 4 of ''[[The Curse of Monkey Island]]'' is "The Bartender, The Thieves, His Aunt, And Her Lover".

** "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer" -- [[The Simpsons (animation)|three guesses]].

** Slightly more subtle was the series of missions in a ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' game called "The Crook," "The Thieves," "The Wife," and "The Lover."

** ''A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop'' is probably one these- this is the international film for a movie titled ''A Simple Noodle Story'' in reference to [[Blood Simple|the film]] it adapts.

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** ''Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores'' (''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'')

** The comedy short ''Attack of the Killer Refrigerator''.

** The [[Science Fiction]] short ''Attack of the Killer Metal Man from the Dimensions of the Unknown''.

** The documentary ''Attack of the 50 Foot Monster Mania''.

** The 1995 film ''Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfolds''.

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** "Attack of the Killer App" (''[[Futurama]]'')

** "Attack of the 5½ Foot Geek" (''[[My Life as a Teenage Robot]]'')

* '''The X That Ate Y''' ''(Not based on any particular film, but a common title for [[There's No B in Movie|B-movies parodies]])''

** A whole series of children's books, that are of the format ''The (Holiday Decoration) that ate my (Relative)''.

** The novelty song "The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati" by Rose and the Arrangement about a fictional horror movie.

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** ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode title "$pringfield (Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Legalised Gambling)"

** The Bluetones song "Autophilia (Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love My Car)"

** According to IMDb, the working title for ''[[Animal Athlete Loophole|Soccer Dog: The Movie]]'' was ''Soccer Dog, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Pooch''.

** [[The Nostalgia Chick]] episode ''[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thedudette/nostalgia-chick/21361-stop-worrying-and-love-the-kesha Blonde Girls Now and Then, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Ke$ha]''.

** The 1964 comedy film ''The Monster of Camp Sunshine or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Nature''.

** The short film ''The Origin or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the J.O.I.N.T.''.

** The 2009 short film ''Dr Lewis Or; How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Corpse''.

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** ''[[Little House on the Prairie]]'' is a more lighthearted example that actually features the same naming structure and debuted earlier -- [[Older Than You Think|decades earlier]], along with ''Little House in the Big Woods'', by [[Laura Ingalls Wilder]]. ''Little Town on the Prairie'' echoed the pattern.

* '''All this, and X Y''' (in which Y rhymes with "too"), from ''[[All This And Heaven Too]]'', the famous movie with ''[[Bette Davis]]''

** All this and World War II, a 1976 musical documentary that juxtaposes Beatles songs, performed by a number of musicians, with World War II newsreel footage and 20th Century Fox films from the 1940s.

** All This and Rabbit Stew, one of the infamous ''[[Censored Eleven]]'' cartoons, about a black hunter and ''[[Bugs Bunny]]''.

** All This and Puppet Stew, an album by Los Angeles punk rock band The Dickies.

** All This and Everest Too, an actual newspaper headline printed on the morning of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, referring to the British expedition becoming the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest a few days earlier.

* '''X, Lies and Videotape''', or '''Sex, Lies and X''', or '''Sex, X and Videotape''', from ''[[Sex, Lies, and Videotape]]'':

** Who's Counting? Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics

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** ''[[A Tale of Two Sisters]]'' - the original title ''Janghwa, Hongryeon'' refers to a Korean folk tale.

* '''Whatever Happened to X?''' ''([[What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?|Baby Jane]])''

** ''[[Whatever Happened to Robot Jones]]''

** ''[[Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?]]''

** "Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?", a season 1 episode of ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]''.

** "Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?", a season 4 episode of ''[[Babylon 5]]''.

** "[[Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?]]?", an iconic pre-Crisis [[Superman]] story.

** "[[Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?]]?", a not-so-iconic post-Crisis [[Batman]] story.

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** The ''Complete Idiot's Guide'' series, a for-real series [[Follow the Leader|modeled after]] the ''Dummies'' books.

** In one [[Improv Everywhere]] prank, [[Star Wars|Princess Leia]] rides a subway while reading ''Galactic Rebellion for Dummies''.

** ''Data Structures for Assholes'' ([[Cluster F-Bomb|vitriolic]] parody from ''[[Homestuck]]'')

* '''How To Verb X and Other Verb Y''' (based on the book ''How To Win Friends and Influence People'' by Dale Carnegie)

** ''How To Lose Friends and Infuriate People''

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** ''[[Dave Barry]] Is From Mars And Venus''

** ''[[Shrek]] 2'' had one scene where Queen Lillian was seen reading a book named ''Kings are from Mars, Queens are from Venus''.

** ''[[Futurama]]'' has "Women are from Omicron Persei 7, men are from Omicron Persei 9", as well as an episode where Amy is reading a book titled ''[[Shaped Like Itself|Martians are from Mars, Venusians are from Venus]]''.

** In one episode of ''[[Boy Meets World]]'', Shawn claimed to have got his (frankly disturbing) relationship advice from a book called ''Men Are From Mars, Women Want To Blast Mars Out Of The Sky''.

** The 1997 documentary ''Men Are from Manhattan... Women Are from Saskatchewan''.

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** ''[[Gears of War]]'' has an achievement called "Zen and the Art of Reloading."

** And now, "[[wikipedia:Xen|Xen]] and the art of" various things has over 40K results on Google and counting. Surprisingly, "Xen and the Art of [[Half-Life]]" is not one of them. Nor is "Xen and the Art of [[Disappointing Last Level|Bad Level Design]]".

* '''The Art of X''' (''[[The Art of War|War]]'')

** ''The Art of Raising Dogs''

** ''The Art of Small Talk''

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** [[TV Tropes]] has [[Comic Sutra]]

* '''Are You There, God? It's Me, X''' Of course based on the title of the classic [[Judy Blume]] young adult novel, ''[[Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.|Are You There God Its Me Margaret]]''.

** ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'', "Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean"

** ''[[South Park]]'', "Are You There, God? It's Me, Jesus"

** "Are You There, God? It's Me, Childhood", an article at Salon.com

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** Another ''[[Discworld]]'' parody: Ridcully is the author of ''Along the Ankh with Bow, Rod and Staff with a Knob on the End''.

** ''Into the Outdoors with Gun and Camera'', an adventure included with the second edition of the [[Paranoia]] role-playing game.

* '''The X's Tale'''. ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'' is the [[Trope Namer]], but sadly not the [[Trope Maker]]. The original is a frame story where X means "told by the", not "about a".

** ''[[A Knight's Tale]]'' Including a character supposedly being Chaucer.

** ''[[The ~~Handmaids~~ Tale]]''

** ''[[The Handmaid's Tale]]''

** "A Rogue's Tale" (''[[X-Men (animation)|X-Men]]'' episode)

** ''[[The Bard's Tale]]''

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** ''G-Senjou no Maou'' ("Demon Lord on a G-string", a [[Hentai]] game)

** "Shisenjou no Aria" (an <s> untranslateable pun</s> [[Image Song]] from ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'')

** A website for the guitarist Ollie Halsall has a page about his collaborations with Kevin Ayers under the title "Ayers on a G-String".

** A number of newspaper and magazine articles have used the "X On A G-String" form. [[Stock Underwear|Very few of them are talking about music.]]

* '''The X formerly known as Y''', which of course comes from [[Prince]] and has its own [[The Trope Formerly Known as X|page]].

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* '''The X And I''' ''(King)''

** ''The Thing and I'' (''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'')

** ''The King And Eye'', [[The Residents]] collection of Elvis covers.

** ''The Egg And I'', a 1945 book by Betty MacDonald, and the classic screwball comedy movie based on it which introduced Ma and Pa Kettle. The book actually predates ''The King And I'' by six years, but it's unlikely that it influenced the titling of the musical.

*** Likewise, "The Egg And I", an episode of ''[[Married... with Children]]''.

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** "Bye Bye Nerdie" (''[[The Simpsons]]'')

** "Bye, Bye, Boss" (''[[The Dukes of Hazzard]]'')

** "Bye Bye Basement" (''[[That 70s Show]]'')

** "Bye Bye Basement" (''[[That '70s Show]]'')

** "Fagmalion Part 3: Bye Bye Beardy" (''[[Will and Grace]]'')

** "Bye, Bye, Balloon" (''[[F Troop]]'')

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** The Brazilian film ''Memoirs of a Gigolo''.

** The 2009 documentary ''Memoirs of a Black Latina''.

** The short comedy film ''Memoirs of a Blogger''.

** The short animated film ''Memoirs of a Scanner''.

** ''[[Memoirs of an Invisible Man]]''

* '''[[So You Want To/See the Index|So You Want to]] be an X'''

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** ''[http://www.amazon.com/Telling-Lies-Fun-Profit-Fiction/dp/0688132286 Telling Lies for Fun & Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers]'' by Lawrence Block

** ''The Sweet Potato Queens' Guide to Raising Children for Fun and Profit‎'' by Jill Connor Browne

** ''Selling Out for Fun and Profit'' is the bound compilation of the webcomic ''Exploitation Now'' (which is also a snowclone title)

** [[TV Tropes]] has [[War for Fun and Profit]] and [[Abusing the Kardashev Scale For Fun and Profit]].

** The [[Big Bad]] of [[Those Lacking Spine]] at one point reads ''Final Bossing For Fun And Profit'', and her Dragon reads ''Toadying For The Final Boss For Fun And Profit''.