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Examples of [[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]s in [[{{SUBPAGENAME}}]] include:
== ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' ==
* The writers
== ''[[Doctor Who]]'' ==
*
{{quote|'''Rory:''' I'm fine with anywhere. It's ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E07 Amy's Choice|Amy's Choice]]''.}}▼
** Subverted in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S27/E01 Rose|Rose]]":
{{quote|'''The Doctor:''' I'm the Doctor.▼
'''Rose:''' Doctor ''what''? }}▼
{{quote|'''The Doctor:''' Precisely.}}▼
== [[Game Show]]s ==
== Other shows ==
* Parodied by the ''Upright Citizens Brigade'', when a man tells a video store clerk that he had the title line in ''[[Star Wars]]''. The man claims that, in a scene that was cut in the final release, he wanders into the ''Millennium Falcon'' for no good reason, says, "I'm just so tired of all these star wars," and walks out.
** He does the same for ''[[Out of Africa]]''.
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* ''[[Entourage]]'' used a last line [[Title Drop]] for the in-universe "Queens Boulevard" movie. This is also [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in Johnny Drama's [[Show Within a Show]], "Not in my town, not in my Five Towns!"
* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' makes a habit of commenting whenever a {{small-caps| [[Title Drop]]}} occurs in one of their movies. Usually with Joel/Mike and the Bots saying in unison, "We have a title!"
▲* ''[[Doctor Who]]'', obviously. Used fairly straight the first time in "[[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S1 E1 An Unearthly Child|An Unearthly Child]]", where the Doctor had no clue who "Dr. Foreman" was supposed to be, and mostly used as an in-joke since.
▲** The episode "[[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S1 E7 The Long Game|The Long Game]]" has a belated {{small-caps| [[Title Drop]]}}; it ends without any reference to what the title meant at all. Not until the Doctor returns to the same location 100 years later, in "[[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S1 E12 Bad Wolf|Bad Wolf]]", does he realise "Someone's been playing a long game." (The title of "Bad Wolf" had, of course [[Arc Words|already been dropped all over the series]].) And of course not mentioning the "Long Game" of the title until a later episode is itself a reference to the concept of the long game.
▲** Several stories from the original series had their titles shoehorned into the dialogue. Examples include "[[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S14 E6 The Talons of Weng Chiang|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]", "[[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S18 E4 State of Decay|State of Decay]]" and "[[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S26 E1 Battlefield|Battlefield]]".
▲*** "[[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S22 E3 The Mark of the Rani|The Mark of the Rani]]". Shoehorned in by the Master almost ''every other scene''.
▲** And obviously, there were a few [[Incredibly Lame Pun|blink-and-you-miss-it]] Title Drops in [[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S3 E10 Blink|Blink]].
▲** Also, after The Doctor "defeats" the Dream Lord, Rory Title Drops the episode when asked where he wants to go:
▲{{quote|'''Rory:''' I'm fine with anywhere. It's ''Amy's Choice''.}}
▲** Because the title can be used as a question, the title can be dropped every time the Doctor meets someone new and doesn't use an alias.
▲{{quote|'''The Doctor:''' I'm the Doctor.
▲'''Rose:''' Doctor ''what''? }}
▲*** Subverted in the same way in "The Lazarus Experiment".
▲** And sometimes when he does. In "The Gunfighters", he introduced himself with a very long, muttered name, provoking the response "Doctor ''who''?"
▲{{quote|'''The Doctor:''' Precisely.}}
▲** Now elevated to more than just a [[Running Gag]] and in-joke. {{spoiler|'Doctor Who' is now the oldest question, which must never be answered, or [[Arc Words|silence will fall.]] }}
* The meaning of the title ''[[Star Trek]]'' is fairly self-evident, so they managed to go without doing this for thirty years. Then, in ''[[Star Trek: First Contact]]'', Zephram Cochrane says, "So you're astronauts, on some kind of star trek?" (although in the ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' finale Q nearly does it: "It's time to put an end to your trek through the stars").
** Though he does drop the title of the finale itself: "Goodbye, Jean-Luc. I'm gonna miss you...you had such potential. But then again, ''All Good Things'' must come to an end."
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** Strangely, the writers set themselves up for and didn't use an amazing title drop opportunity in ''What They Died For" when {{spoiler|Jacob is describing the attributes of the candidates.}} Everything he said would have been summed up nicely by saying "All of you were lost." but he just stops speaking.
* In the season one finale of ''[[One Tree Hill]]'', The Games that Play Us, Karen is talking to Lucas one last time before he leaves Tree Hill. Karen puts her arm around Lucas and says 'There is only one Tree Hill'.
▲* The writers of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' hammered home the fact that Bianca Lawson's character wasn't your average single-episode guest star when she introduced herself as "Kendra, the vampire slayer."
▲** Used straight in the first episode of the third season, where a demon asks each of his prisoners their names (with the insinuation that he will kill them if they actually claim one). [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Our protagonist responds quite cheerily, "I'm Buffy, the vampire slayer!" Cue the carnage.]]
▲** Also used in season 7, where Buffy was moonlighting as a counselor for troubled teens. ("Buffy the vampire slayer would break down this door." "And Buffy the counselor?" "Waits.")
▲*** [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] / [[Parodied Trope|parodied]] in "[[Day in The Limelight|Storyteller]]," when [[Heel Face Turn|Andrew]] spends the episode trying to make a documentary called ''Buffy, the Slayer of [[Its Pronounced Tropay|Vam]]''[[Its Pronounced Tropay|PIRES]].
▲** There are a few episodes that do their own title drop, as well, such as "Lie To Me" and "Two to Go". Also, the musical episode, "Once More With Feeling", has the title in a line of the second-last song.
* Many episodes of ''Angel'' featured Title Drops, though not every one of them. It also wasn't necessarily a key moment of the episode. Prominent ones include "A Hole In The World" and "Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been".
** Same goes for ''[[NCIS]]''.
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* Every episode of ''The Beiderbecke Trilogy'' (''The Beiderbecke Affair'', ''...Tapes'' and ''...Connection'') uses the first line of dialogue as its title.
* How could anyone have missed ''How Do They Do It?'' They say it at least four times an episode!
▲** "You ''are'' [[The Weakest Link]]. Goodbye!"
▲** "All this can be yours, if [[The Price Is Right]]."
▲** "I can [[Name That Tune]] in five notes." "Four notes." "Three." "Name that tune."
▲** A partial one: "My name is [name], and I am (or am not) [[Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?|smarter than a fifth grader]]."
▲** "So if you're fast enough, smart enough, and if you've got the guts, you can [[Win Ben Stein's Money|Win Ben Steins Money]]!"
▲** In-universe example: On an episode of [[The Odd Couple]], Felix appears on [[Let's Make a Deal]]. While on the show, he says "Hey Monty, let's make a deal."
* ''[[Veronica Mars]]'', being [[Character Title|Character Titled]], often has a title drop, but one episode managed to do a [[Theme Tune]] title drop/quote, with Veronica saying 'We used to be friends, a long time ago', right before the theme song 'We Used to Be Friends' starts, the first line of which is '[[Department of Redundancy Department|A long time ago, we used to be friends]]'.
* ''[[The Closer]]'' plays it straight in the pilot episode, as this is how Pope describes Brenda. In a later episode, it's played for laughs, as a funeral director under investigation says "I'm what's known as the closer", meaning he's the one who inspects the bodies and ''closes'' the coffins before funerals. Brenda and Sgt. Gabriel share a surprised look when the word is mentioned.
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{{quote|'''Bob Kelso:''' Dr. Dorian, do you not realize that you're nothing but a large pair of scrubs to me?}}
* In ''[[Game of Thrones]]'', pretty much every episode is Title Dropped since the episodes are typically named after a significant line from them, and the titles aren't displayed. However, the one that tops them all is a series title drop and episode title drop in one line:
{{quote|'''Cersei Lannister:''' When you play the '''game of thrones
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