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* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbhrz1-4hN4 Movie Title]''
* The ''[[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy]]'' movie had a ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbGNcoB2Y4I trailer]'' like this beginning with the iconical "[[Title Drop|The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy]] has this to say about...".
* The ''[[Veggie Tales (Animation)|Veggie Tales]]'' Jonah movie contains the memorable Song Which Goes Under The Credits
{{quote| [[This Is a Song|This is the]] [[Title Drop|song that goes under the credits]]<br />
[[Captain Obvious|These are the credits]], [[Redundancy Department of Redundancy|so this is where it goes]]<br />
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* The "[http://imago.hitherby.com/?p=431 Adjective Noun]" story, from ''[[Hitherby Dragons]]''
* "[[This Is the Title of This Story|This Is the Title of This Story, Which Is Also Found Several Times in the Story Itself]]" by David Moser.
* The first chapters of Italo Calvino's ''[[If on a winter's night a traveler (Literature)|If on a winter's night a traveler]]''.
* Not strictly self-referential, but ''Naked Pictures of Famous People'' by Jon Stewart contains a "recipe" for an entertainment awards show, with lines like "Expression of gratitude to Supreme Being and to members of honoree's blood lineage".
* [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|This Is]] [[Captain Obvious|A Book By]] [[Demetri Martin]].
 
 
== Live Action TV ==
* The theme to ''[[ItsIt's Garry ShandlingsShandling's Show]]'':
{{quote| ''This is the theme to Garry's Show''<br />
''The opening theme to Garry's show''<br />
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''We're almost to the part''<br />
''Of where I start to whistle''<br />
''Then we'll watch [[ItsIt's Garry ShandlingsShandling's Show|"It's Garry Shandling's Show"]]''<br />
''(whistles)''<br />
''This was the theme to Garry Shandling's show!'' }}
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Ah well it's over anyhow. }}
* The [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/30/Genericflipper.jpg cover] [[Minimalistic Cover Art|art]] of Flipper's ''Album - Generic Flipper''.
* "(This Song's Just) Six Words Long" by [["Weird Al" Yankovic]].
{{quote| Couldn't think of any lyrics<br />
No, I never wrote the lyrics<br />
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* The [[Swirling Eddies]]: "[http://www.danielamos.com/swirly/themidget/thisisthetitle.html This is the Title]"
* An awful lot of [[Mitch Benn]] songs use this as a form of satire, mixed with [[Hypocritical Humour]].
* [[Deadmau 5Deadmau5]]' albums ''Random Album Title'', and possibly [[Invoked Trope|invoked]] with ''For Lack of a Better Name'' (the first album released after ''Random Album Title'') and its title track, "Lack of a Better Name". From "This is the Hook":
{{quote| This is the hook. It's catchy. You like it.}}
* [[MC Lars]]' ''Generic Crunk Rap'':
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== Video Games ==
* The Rubikon from ''[[Planescape Torment|Planescape: Torment]]'' uses this trope to [[Deconstruction|deconstruct]] the concept of a dungeon.
* ''[[Sam and Max]]'': Season One: Episode Six: Bright Side Of The Moon[[Colon Cancer|:]]
{{quote| Sam: ''Random, but innocuous, comment.''<br />
Max: ''Irreverent reply hinting at mental instability!''<br />
Sam: ''[[Catch Phrase|You crack me up, little buddy.]]'' }}
* ''[[Duty Calls]]'', a parody FPS game, also an elaborate advertisement for [[Bulletstorm (Video Game)|Bulletstorm]], uses these for pretty much every line of dialogue.
* [[X -Men|Sentinel]] in ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 3 (Video Game)|Marvel vs. Capcom 3]]'' does this.
{{quote| ''"[[I Shall Taunt You|UNDERMINE TARGET CONFIDENCE.]]"''}}
 
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* This [http://community.livejournal.com/fanficrants/5702541.html fanficrants post].
* [http://www.theonion.com/content/video/breaking_news_series_of This video], though only tangentially.
* [http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b5/MadBomber80/Sexxors/sexxors11.jpg This] [[College Roomies Fromfrom Hell|CRFH rescript]] ([[NSFW]])
* ''LoadingReadyRun'''s [http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/117/quantum_documentary Quantum Documentary].
* This [http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2006/04/07/4991 blog post], and the thousand plus comments following it.
* Another [http://faultline.org/index.php/site/item/incendiary/ blog post]...[[For Science!|for science!]]
* [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=448494 This RPGnet thread] (log-in required)
* [http://www.starcitygames.com/magic/misc/17928_Innovations_Extra_The_Template.html This] [[Magic: theThe Gathering]] article.
** [http://www.starcitygames.com/magic/misc/23755_Every_Magic_Article_Ever.html And this one!]
* [http://consc.net/misc/moser.html This] self-referential story.
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* [http://www.undefined.net/1/0/?strip=932 This] ''[[One Over Zero]]''.
* [http://chainsawsuit.com/2009/04/03/strip-188/ This] ''[[Chainsawsuit]]'', and the commentary below as well.
* [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=613 This rousing wake-up call] from ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]''.
* [http://kvts.smackjeeves.com/comics/365462/insert-title-here/ This] one from ''[[Kirby vs. the Squeaks]]''.
* ''[[Xkcd (Webcomic)|Xkcd]]'':
** The comic [http://xkcd.com/688/ Self Description] draws diagrams about the amount of black on the comic strip itself (including the diagrams).
** And to an extent, [http://xkcd.com/993/ this] one too -- abusing this trope is how he'd hypothetically build a supermarket brand identity.
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