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{{trope}}
{{quote|'''Michael:''' The American male is stuck in a perpetual state of adolescence...of arrested development.
'''Narrator:''' [[Lampshade Hanging|Hey]]! [[Interactive Narrator|That's the name of the show!]]|''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]''}}
If a line of dialogue is the title of the episode, movie, or book, it obviously must have some great significance. If it sounds completely random, that just means the true meaning of the title has yet to be revealed. So when a character is heard using the title in dialogue, the audience sits up and takes notice, because the scriptwriter has just planted a neon sign that flashes {{smallcaps|THIS CONVERSATION IS IMPORTANT.}}
Note: If a series is named after a [[Character Title|central character]], [[The Place|setting]], group, etc., it does not count as a
A second variety of
Title Drops aren't always deliberate or premeditated (i.e. the writer takes the title and inserts it for effect). Sometimes the creative process runs the other way, and a phrase from the body of the work will be picked out and used as the title (sometimes [[Working Title|the title is the last thing to be nailed down]]).
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See a video collection of Title Drops [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V1sYNvKZt8 here].
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[[Category:Metafiction Demanded This Index]]▼
[[Category:Pothole Magnet]]▼
[[Category:Tropes of Legend]]
▲[[Category:Title Tropes]]
▲[[Category:Pothole Magnet]]
▲[[Category:Metafiction Demanded This Index]]
▲[[Category:Self Demonstrating Article]]
▲[[Category:Title Drop]]
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