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{{quote|'''Michael:''' The American male is stuck in a perpetual state of adolescence...of arrested development.<br />
'''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 [[Title Drop]], unless they are usually called by another name. Hence, ''[[Transformers]]'', ''[[
A second variety of [[Title Drop]] occurs when the title of a work is used as the last line spoken. Here, it's not nearly as big and flashy and important as the first variety, but it still explains things to the audience a bit more. You can probably find these mainly in thriller works, where it makes you sit up and think (and adds a bit of drama to the ending). It's also common in plays that were written during the Victorian era.
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