Home and Garden DIY Products | Ronseal Ronseal Garden Paint If you want to add colour across your garden use our Garden Paint. This video shows how we've used it. Hopefully you'll like what you see. Or if you've got your own ideas, then go for it. Either way, grab a brush and get painting Exactly What It Says on the Tin - TV Tropes Exactly What It Says on the Tin You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account Share Exactly What It Says on the Tin × YMMV From the "Dogs Playing Poker" series by C. M. Coolidge. "Moviegoers who knowingly buy a ticket for ' The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor ' are going to get exactly what they expect: There is a mummy, a tomb, a dragon and an emperor. And the movie about them is all that it could be." — Roger Ebert 's review A title should tell you what a movie, show, episode of a show or product is about or does. Sometimes, though, the premise or plot of the story is all right there in the title.

That's when you can say that the story is "Exactly What It Says on the Tin". Thus, this trope. The names of action shows designed for children tend to have this as a distinguishing feature, as do many pornographic films , but it certainly doesn't stop there. Also shows up in naming; an object or organization that does exactly what its name says falls into this trope through sheer power of doing Exactly What It Says In Its Name. The title comes from the long-running "Does Exactly What It Says On The Tin" TV advertising campaign for Ronseal Quick Drying Woodstain, a British product for staining wood, which is known to dry quickly (and other Ronseal products, but the woodstain was first). More on which may be found at That Other Wiki . Direct opposite of Word Salad Title , but not necessarily mutually exclusive with it. Direct opposite of and mutually exclusive with Non-Indicative Name . See also In Which a Trope Is Described , a Victorian version of this trope. A Spoiler Title or Excited Title! Two-Part Episode Name! may feature some degree of this. The characters might point out the thing with a Title Drop .

If a title is going for this kind of transparency in description, it may also be Shaped Like Itself ; but Shaped Like Itself tends to fail at actually being descriptive in the way that Exactly What It Says On The Tin always is. Adjective Noun Fred titles easily lend themselves to this. This trope is only for titles or names given deliberately by authors or marketers. All Real Life Examples go in Titles or Advertising section. This is not a trope for the names of things in general. When adding examples to this page, there are some notes to keep in mind: Just because it may be obvious to you doesn't mean it's obvious to everyone. That next door neighbor you never talk to? Tell her the title and see if she can give a one sentence description of the plot. If not, then the title is NOT Exactly What It Says On The Tin. This also means that if you feel the need to explain it, it probably isn't this trope. As a rule of thumb, for this trope to apply to a work you generally need a paperthin / non-existent plot, an overly descriptive title, or both. It isn't enough for the title to just be relevant or accurate — everything meaningful has to be conveyed in the title.

However, only the meaningful parts need to be in the title; the title doesn't have to be the entire script of the movie. Note: Many examples on this page actually do not qualify and we are in the process of slowly cleaning it up. Please help us by removing examples that don't fit when you see them. Ronseal Quick Drying Woodstain: Trope Namer , as its advertisement claims it does what its name is — it dries quickly and is a woodstain. Kellogg's Sugar Frosted Flakes — as the box indicates, the full name is even more Exactly What It Says on the Tin: they're Kellogg's Sugar Frosted Flakes of Corn ◊ used to be this at least in the USA and Canada, but the word "sugar" was dropped in the 1980s making it less of an example. There's also the frosting-free version, Corn Flakes. A lot of store-brand versions of popular cereals follow this trope. Averted in other markets where they are simply known as "Frosties".

The product description of Nestlé's "Buncha Crunch" candy is "Bunches of crunchy milk chocolate." McDonald's Ranch Chicken BLT, is a chicken sandwich with bacon, lettuce, tomato and ranch sauce. There's a popular restaurant in Philadelphia 's Reading Terminal Market called "Dutch Eating Place". As long as you're aware that "Dutch" means "Pennsylvania Dutch" (i.e. German ) and what that entails (and if you're in Philly, you should, and if you don't you should learn), there's nothing else you need to know about it. Commonly used by budget brands, where the packaging would just state something like "Peanut butter" or "Toilet paper". Also demonstrated by xkcd . Anime & Manga All of the episode titles for Baccano! are very straightforward.

For example: "The Vice President Doesn't Say Anything about the Possibility of Him Being the Main Character" (Episode 1) "Ladd Russo Enjoys Talking a Lot and Slaughtering a Lot" (Episode 4) "The Rail Tracer Covertly, Repeatedly Slaughters Inside the Coaches" (Episode 6) More than a few anime ( Naruto is a good example) have episode titles that are a little too indicative of what will happen , and these titles are often mentioned in the already rather obvious previews of the next episode . The Japanese version of Dragon Ball Z is particularly bad, with episodes such as "Here comes Satan's Army! Mr. Satan Gets Beat In One hit..." in which Mr. Satan tries to fight Cell, only to get beat in one hit, or "Pitiful Frieza Cannot Stop Shaking" in which pitiful Frieza cannot stop shaking . This is probably because, due to excessive fillers, very little happens in some episodes, and in addition, the Japanese episode titles are all really long , so it's fairly common for the episode title to describe exactly what happens in the episode.

It could also be because it is assumed that all the viewers has already read the manga so they just explicitly state whenever something will happen for example "Transformed at Last!! Son Goku, the Legendary Super Saiyan". Mamoru Hosoda's films tend to be self-explanatory with their titles, what with them being called The Girl Who Leapt Through Time , Wolf Children Ame and Yuki , and The Boy and the Beast . Several Go Nagai works had Crossover movies and mangas with titles pretty much informed those works' fans all they needed to know: Great Mazinger vs Getter Robo G Devilman vs Getter Robo Trigun : The subtitle on the manga says Deep Space Planet Future Gun Action! Try to guess what the series is about. Devil Hunter Yohko is about exactly what the title says. Yohko Mano is the 108th Devil Hunter in the Mano Family line. As such, it's her sacred duty to protect humanity from demonkind. As surprising as it may seem, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is about a dude named JoJonote Well, seven dudes and a chick named JoJo who goes on a bizarre adventure.

Witch Hunter Robin is about a girl named Robin who hunts witches. Futsū no Joshikōsei ga Locodol Yattemita , "Ordinary High School Girls Tried Being Local Idols." Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches ; a guy named Yamada (some of his peers use the -kun honorific with him) interacts with the seven witches of his high school. Becomes an Artifact Title in the second part as there are now 14 witches. Here, the plot also starts to revolve a bit more about unrequited love, revenge and political power struggles instead of just the witches themselves. Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon (Miss Kobayashi's Maid Dragon) is about a dragon who works as a maid for a woman named Kobayashi. Sgt. Frog : The Swedish title, Keroro, Grodan Från Rymden (Keroro, the frog from space). Arts (originally, a photograph ◊ ) Dog Looking at and Listening to a Phonograph. Better known as His Master's Voice, which is not indicative.

Emanuel Leutze 's paintings tend to be self-explanatory in titles: Washington Rallying the Troops at Monmouth ◊ Most of the famous paintings tend to be known this way. Daffodils is a picture of some daffodils. Artist's shit by Piero Manzoni, an Italian conceptual artist. The artwork consists of 90 tin cans aptly labeled: Artist's Shit, Contents 30 gr net, Freshly preserved, Produced and tinned in May 1961. Now that's an example. The "Rape Tunnel", a sequel to the artist's previous work, the "Punch You In The Face Tunnel", in which the artist constructed a tunnel, and would attempt to perform the specified action on anyone who walked through it. (Happily or sadly, the whole thing was actually a hoax; he never actually built either of them, just pretended he had.) "Girl with a Pearl Earring", by artist Johannes Vermeer is a painting of, well, a girl with a pearl earring.

JMW Turner, whose paintings included "Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On)", "The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken up", and "The Battle of Trafalgar, as Seen from the Mizen Starboard Shrouds of the Victory". It does not take a genius to figure out what's being depicted. Comedy Invoked by Janeane Garofalo ("just as it says on the tin") in If You Will, regarding Cake Farts .com. Paula Poundstone's award-winning HBO show was called "Cops, Cats and Stuff". Guess what Paula talks about? Norm MacDonald has a DVD entitled "Norm MacDonald: Me Doing Stand-Up" is a good example. Jimmy Carr's live DVD titles are, in order of release: "Live", "Standup", "Comedian", "In Concert", "Telling Jokes", "Making People Laugh", "Being Funny", "Laughing and Joking". Which could be strung together as a single sentence describing all or any one of them.

Joshua Ladgrove: His 2015 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Show, "Joshua Ladgrove Talks at You for 52 Minutes in Exchange for Some of Your Money". His 2014 show, "Come Heckle Christ", invited the audience to do exactly that. Comic Books The Bad Art Collection. The Marvel Comics solicitation for the Space Punisher miniseries reads: "THIS BOOK IS EXACTLY WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE!" There's also The Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe . Magnus Robot Fighter: 4000 A.D. is about a guy named Magnus who fights robots in the year 4000 A.D. Johnny the Homicidal Maniac is a horror comic about... a homicidal maniac named Johnny . Foolkiller : He kills... Well, take a guess. Stalinï¿½s Spy in Tokyo, the original German title adds ï¿½The Case About Sorgeï¿½note ï¿½Die Sache mit Sorgeï¿½: Richard Sorge is in Tokyo, and he works as a spy for Stalin. Many members of The Legion Of Superheroes exhibit this trope.

Lightning Lad throws bolts of lightning, Triplicate Girl splits into three separate bodies, Invisible Kid turns invisible, Bouncing Boy bounces, Matter-Eater Lad eats all forms of matter, et cetera. As Gail Simone often reminds people, King Shark is a shark. Godzilla: Gangsters and Goliaths . It's a gangster story set in the Godzilla universe, exactly like you'd hope. Fan Works Fluttershy Has Tea with Jesus There are a lot of fanfics with titles along the lines of "Character Does a Specific Thing." Pacific: World War II U.S. Navy Shipgirls is... exactly that. What, were you expecting the Japanese, German, and Italian ships were already familiar with? Chapter 48 of Vapors is titled "In Which Danzo Is Blamed for Something He Did Not Do (for Once)." It deals with exhuming Sasuke's parents to find that their eyes were stolen. Tobi did it, but no one else knows that. Dating A Team Magma Grunt features Brendan dating a Team Magma Grunt. In The Story To End All Stories , all stories just might come to an end if the Nothing is not stopped dead in its tracks.

Also the title of a short story by Philip K. Dick , as referenced by Crow. The Touhou fanfic Foundling'', is about, well, a foundling, a human one abandoned in a forest of youkai to be exact. The Midna fan forum/site Want Midna Back is a forum created and visited by Midna fans who... well, weren't pleased by her final scene. Rainbow Dash Reads Homestuck . Granted, there's a bit more to it then that, but that's the core of the tumblr. or, "Another Metroid 2 Remake". Guess what it's similar to... Films — Animation Hulk Vs. , which is Hulk versus the other guy in the title ( Thor or Wolverine ). The LEGO Movie . One might expect a movie made with LEGO. But it is, as stated in the title, a movie about LEGO. Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie has "The Song Under the Credits," which is indeed a song that plays during the credits. The Great Mouse Detective was going to have the title "Basil of Baker Street". When the title changed, Peter Schneider sent a gag memo ◊ The Evil Bonehead Films — Live-Action Enforced in Snakes on a Plane .

It was originally only a working title. They eventually decided on "Pacific Air Flight 121". Contrary to popular belief, Samuel L. Jackson did not threaten to pull out if they didn't change it back, but he did strongly suggest they do so. Hobo with a Shotgun . A fake trailer in the Grindhouse double feature (although seemingly limited to Canadian theatrical releases, for some illogical reason), you get exactly that. And about two minutes of sheer awesome ensues. Both the Hobo with a Shotgun and Machete trailers eventually inspired actual films . There's also Rob Zombie 's contribution, Werewolf Women of the S.S. . Pop-culture auteur Andy Warhol was notorious for making films which nothing more than pointing a camera at the title subject for several minutes or even hours , including one of the most famous Take That moments in film, a 70 minute magnum opus named Taylor Mead's Ass. Others including Blow Job (35 minutes watching the facial expressions of a man receiving oral sex), and Sleep (five hours of watching John Giorno sleeping). Originally, the film The Longest Most Meaningless Movie in the World was an example of this: it's 48 hours of random stock footage.

However, since then, even longer movies were made. : A documentary of the guys from The KLF , also known as the K Foundation, which documents them burning a million pounds in banknotes. The titles of the Ernest P. Worrell films ware never particularly ambiguous. Ernest Goes to Camp, Ernest Goes to Jail, Ernest Goes to Africa. Once memorably parodied on The Simpsons , with Ernest Goes Somewhere Cheap. Family Guy had Peter forced to choose between Ernest Goes to the Beach and Ernest Doesn't go to the Beach. The long-running Finnish movie franchise Uuno Turhapuro almost always had titles like these. For example, the movie where the titular character Uuno Turhapuro joins the Army is called Uuno Turhapuro in the Ranks of the Army, the one where he moves to the countryside is called Uuno Turhapuro Moves to the Countryside, and so on. The prize, however, goes to Uuno Turhapuro Loses His Memory, and its sequel, Uuno Turhapuro's Memory Returns Bit by Bit. The short film Man Getting Hit By Football is about a man who gets hit by a football.

Kyle Kallgren of Brows Held High had this to say when describing Trash Humpers . Kyle: You're probably wondering what Trash Humpers is about. Well, you know how Cats was about cats? [cut to clip of "old men" humping trash bags] Pro Wrestlers vs. Zombies : Yup, Pro Wrestlers battle Zombies. There's a 1976 film about a massacre at Central High: Massacre At Central High . The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies My Dinner with Andre is about a man going to have dinner with an old friend. Whose name is Andre. The Kiss : This 1896 silent film is only 18 seconds long, but it does feature a kiss. The first one in movie history. The horror-comedy Killer Klowns from Outer Space features, you guessed it, murderous circus folk from beyond the stars. The monsters in Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! are... Well, take a guess. The plot of Attack of the 50-Foot Woman was summed up in TV listings as ï¿½Woman meets giant alien. Woman turns into giantess.

Woman catches husband with another woman.ï¿½ King Kong vs. Godzilla : In this movie, King Kong gets in a fight with Godzilla. Franchise/Sharknado: It's tagline is "ENOUGH SAID!!!" Literature In 1950 Mathematician Claude Shannon published his seminal work How to Teach Computers How to Play Chess. It was about how you could teach Computers how to play Chess. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

(Later adapted into a film by the same name .) The title of An Almanac of Complete World Knowledge Compiled with Instructive Annotation and Arranged in Useful Order by Me, John Hodgman, a Professional Writer, in The Areas of My Expertise , which Include: Matters Historical; Matters Literary; Matters Cryptozoological; Hobo Matters; Food, Drink, & Cheese (a Kind of Food); Squirrels & Lobsters & Eels; Haircuts; Utopia; What Will Happen in the Future; and Most Other Subjects; Illustrated with a Reasonable Number of Tables and Figures, and Featuring the Best of "Were You Aware of It?", John Hodgman's Long-Running Newspaper Novelty Column of Strange Facts and Oddities of the Bizarre gives you a pretty good idea of what you're in for.

There's also For your Consideration, The Firms of Dutton Riverhead Books of New York City, Publishers of Ken Follett, Darin Strauss, David Rees, and the RZA, Present in the English Language: A Further Compendium of Complete World Knowledge in "The Areas Of My Expertise" Assembled and Illumined by Me, John Hodgman, A Famous Minor Television Personality* , Offering More Information Than You Require ' On subjects as Diverse As: The Past (As There Is Always More of it), The Future (As There is Still Some Left), All of the Presidents of the United States, The Secrets of Hollywood, Gambling, The Sport of the Asthmatic Man (Including Hermit-Crab Racing), Strange Encounters with Aliens, How to Buy a Computer, How to Cook an Owl, And Most Other Subjects, Plus: Answers To Your Questions Posed via Electronic Mail, And: 700 Mole-Man Names, Including Their Occupations. * Formerly a Former Professional Literary Agent and Professional Writer, AKA " The Deranged Millionaire ". That's right, this book has a footnote in the title.

The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers includes "A very short chapter in which not much is going to happen". In a similar vein, there's Conjuring: Being a Definitive Account of the Venerable Arts of Sorcery, Prestidigitation, Wizardry, Deception, & Chicanery and of the Mountebanks & Scoundrels Who Have Perpetrated These Subterfuges on a Bewildered Public, by James Randi Esq., a Contrite Rascal Once Dedicated to these Wicked Practices but Now Almost Totally Reformed. On a different kind of arcane subject, Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity. Scientific works in general are likely to be this, although in older works there may be some elements of language marches on for modern readers. For example Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica — Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. 'Natural philosophy' is now referred to as science. Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper - On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies.

We now call the theory Einstein described in it special relativity. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin . 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth Travels through Italy containing new and curious observations on that country; particularly the Grand Duchy of Tuscany; the Ecclesiastical State or the Dominions of the Pope; the Kingdom of Naples; the Republics of Venice and Genoa; and other Italian states. Wherein the present state of those countries is accurately described, as to their different kinds of government, situation, extent, revenue, power, trade, manners, and customs; but more especially their ANTIQUITIES as temples, triumphal arches, pillars, baths, amphitheatres, aqueducts, catacombs, ruins, and public ways; as also their MODERN CURIOSITIES, churches, convents, palaces, villas, castles, forts, bridges and public roads.

With the most authentic account yet published of capital pieces in PAINTING, SCULPTURE, & ARCHITECTURE that are to be seen in Italy: Including remarks on the ANCIENT and PRESENT STATE of ITALY, of the ARTS AND SCIENCES which have flourished the re, and of TASTE in PAINTING; with the characters of the principal painters, and other artists. By John Northall, Esq. Captain in his Britannic Majesty's Royal Regiment of Artillery. Illustrated with A Map of Italy, a route of this Tour, and several copperplates, engraved from drawings taken on the spot. (London: S. Hooper and S. Bladon, 1766) Children's authors seem to be quite fond of this trope: an eight-year-old student submitted the following review of The Boy Whose Mother Was A Pirate - 'It's about a boy and his mum and the boy's a boy and the mum's a pirate.' David Drake 's short story collection Men Hunting Things and its sequel Things Hunting Men. Loren Estleman's pastiche Sherlock Holmes Versus Dracula .

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory takes it to a whole new level, to the point that MANY of the chapters have a title that spoils the ensuing events. "Augustus Gloop Goes Up the Pipe" and "Mike Teavee Is Sent By Television" are just examples, and not the worst ones. The Book of Useless Information. It's a book... which contains useless information. The illustrated Japanese translation of Twilight was called The Boy Whom I Love Is a Vampire. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. It describes one day in the life of a man. His name is Ivan Denisovich. 51,000 words. The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg . Yes, he was both a major league catcher and a spy—sometimes at the same time. Neil Gaiman wrote a poem called A hundred words to talk of death. Latawnya, the Naughty Horse, Learns to Say "No" to Drugs is indeed about a wayward equine who gets the Drugs Are Bad anvil dropped on her. How to Make Love to Adrian Colesberry by Adrian Colesberry.

One of the supplementary books for the Deltora Quest series is The Deltora Book of Monsters, an illustrated book about Deltora's (and the Shadowlands ) many monsters. Australian children's author Paul Jennings has a book named "How Hedley Hopkins Did a Dare, Robbed a Grave, Made a New Friend Who Might Not Have Really Been There at All, and While He Was at It Committed a Terrible Sin Which Everyone Was Doing Even Though He Didn't Know It" which, unsurprisingly, is about how Hedley Hopkins did a dare, robbed a grave, made a new friend who might not have really been there at all, and while he was at it committed a terrible sin which everyone was doing even though he didn't know it How to Avoid Huge Ships. Romance of the Three Kingdoms has this in its chapters. Take the one called "Xiahou Dun Plucks Out and Swallows His Wounded Eye". Guess what happens in this chapter. The titles of some books in The Bible leave no doubt as to their contents — in particular, Proverbs, Psalms, and Lamentations.

Also, the word "Bible" means "book" note Koine Greek: τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, "the books". It's a book of books . How NOT to Write a Novel is about the many types of mistakes that one can make when writing a novel. Or to put it more simply, how not to write one (well). A collection of short stories by David Foster Wallace called Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. All chapter titles in A. A. Milne 's Winnie-the-Pooh . The first one of the first book was called "In Which We Are Introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees and the Stories Begin", for crying out loud. Cordwainer Smith 's short story "Mark Elf" is a semi-aversion which doubles as a kind of Stealth Pun . The phrase "Mark Elf" does indeed appear in the story, but not in connection with anybody named Mark, elfin or otherwise. It refers to a "Mark Elf" (German for "Model Eleven") man-hunter robot. Super-Frog Saves Tokyo By Haruki Murakami is about how a super-powerful frog saves Tokyo.

And no, it's not a trash story. Rudyard Kipling 's "Lament of the Border Cattle Thief" is a poem about someone who crossed a border, stole cattle, got caught, and is upset about it. The Protector of the Small quartet has rather basic titles: First Test, Page, Squire, and Lady Knight. The plots: Keladry of Mindelan enters page training on probation, becomes a full page, then a squire, and finally a knight. (Given Kel's matter-of-fact personality, this rather fits her.) The series title counts too — Kel spends most of her time defending animals and people who are either physically small or overlooked by society, or both. John Dies at the End is not Exactly What It Says On The Tin. There's a short story by Donald Barthelme called "Porcupines at the University", which is about some people at a university who observe some porcupines being herded past. Likewise, the main character in "I Bought A Little City" buys a little city. His novel The Dead Father prominently features a dead father. And so on.

Awake in the Night Land has a story called "The Last of All Suns", which takes place at the final moments of the Universe. Agatha Christie liked this trope from time to time: The Mysterious Affair at Styles is about a mysterious affair that happens at a country house called Styles. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is about a man called Roger Ackroyd. Who, unfortunately for him, gets murdered. Peril at End House is about the peril that exists at a place called End House. Lord Edgware Dies . There's a man called Lord Edgware. And he does, indeed, die. Murder on the Orient Express is about a murder that takes place on the Orient Express. Murder in Mesopotamia. A murder happens. In Mesopotamia. "Weird Al" Yankovic : Parodied by the song "This Song's Just Six Words Long"... do the math. The song itself is not an example; even the oft-repeated chorus is actually "This song is just six words long", which is already Exactly Not What It Says On The Tin. Why? Well, "seven" doesn't fit the meter.

For Weird Al himself, the "Dare To Be Stupid" LP is inscribed with the phrase "More Songs About Television And Food". (This may be a Shout-Out to Talking Heads ' album More Songs About Buildings And Food , which was not this trope . In the album credits for his polka medleys, the last "song" listed always represents the musical portions of the medley that Al himself composed. This was lampshaded in the credits for "Polka Face", where the last entry was titled "Whatever's Left Over Polka". The opening theme song for the It's Garry Shandling's Show by Joey Carbone, Garry Shandling and Alan Zweibel, starts ''This is the theme to Garry's Show, The opening theme to Garry's show. Garry called me up and asked if I would write his theme song. I'm almost halfway finished, Pink Floyd : "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict" from Ummagumma is several species of small furry animals (a sped-up Roger Waters making animal noises) gathered together in a cave and grooving with a Pict (Waters again).

Pink Floyd once planned to release an album called Household Objects consisting of music played entirely on household objects. When it first came out, a lot of people assumed Pink Floyd's song "Learning to Fly" was a metaphor about personal freedom and liberation. Nope. Turns out its about becoming a pilot and the joy of flying your own aircraft. Classical Music in general loved this trope. Pachelbel's Canon is, in full, "Canon and Gigue in D major for three Violins and Basso Continuo". Beethoven's works most commonly called the Eroica Variations (for their use in the Eroica Symphony) were in full "Variations and Fugue for Piano in E flat major, Op. 35", while his Opus 20 was "Septet for clarinet, horn, bassoon, violin, viola, cello, and contrabass in E-flat major". It's no wonder many classical works are simply referred to by composer, opus, and number. George Frederic Handel 's "Music for the Royal Fireworks" was composed to be played at a royal gala. With fireworks.

Country singer Kenny Price recorded "The Shortest Song in the World," which was 18 seconds long and consisted of a two-measure intro, followed by Price singing "This is the shortest song in the world." Believe it or not, it was the B side of a single. Ironically enough, it isn't the shortest song in the world: this is. Likewise, one of Peter Sellers 's albums has a track called "Peter Sellers Sings George Gershwin", which consists of... Peter Sellers singing the words "George Gershwin". The state song of Maine is titled "State Song of Maine." Public Image Ltd. (often abbreviated as PiL): They once recorded an album that is simply named Album. Depending on the format, the same album is also called Cassette or Compact Disc. The band liked using this trope a fair amount. For example, the band's first album was aptly named First Issue. The band's second album, originally packaged in metal film canisters, was named Metal Box. After this initial run, the album was reconfigured and renamed Second Edition. Also, their latest album, released in 2012, is called This is PiL. Possibly inspired by the aforementioned Public Image Ltd.

album, the British record label Metalheadz released a compilation called Metalheadz Limited Edition CD Metal Box Set, which is a limited edition CD that comes in, you guessed it, a metal box. Almost any album named Greatest Hits , especially if it's "[name of artist]'s Greatest Hits". Played with a bit in cases such as Greatest Hits Plus and Greatest Hits...and Then Some (two albums with this name), which include previously unreleased songs. Similar to Greatest Hits compilations, almost any live album falls under this trope. (e.g. Johnny Cash's At Folsom Prison, The Who's Live at Leeds, Cheap Trick's At Budokan, etc.) The Kentucky Headhunters released an album of soul music. What did they call it? Soul. Apocalyptica 's debut album, Plays Metallica By Four Cellos, which has the band, at the time a quartet of cellos, playing Metallica covers. KISS ' "Rock and Roll all Nite" is a song about rocking and rolling all night. "Eleven Four" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet (actually by its saxophonist Paul Desmond) is in 11/4 time.

As is "Take Five" by the same ensemble in 5/4 time. The recording of this song on the LP is the fifth take of the day. "The Really Terrible Orchestra" in Edinburgh is a no-audition orchestra of really terrible musicians. When one of the player bios says the person is "too able" for the orchestra... The Birthday Massacre have an example of this. When they were called Imagica, they had a song called... The Birthday Massacre. Which was, in fact, about a massacre on someone's birthday. (The song's now called Happy Birthday, for the record). Rihanna's "Russian Roulette" is not a metaphor about relationships, according to the songwriters . The sound production company known as Epic Score. They are the guys that make trailers sound, well, epic. (I strongly recommend a low volume setting before following that link.) "4 Minutes" by Madonna is 4 minutes long, and starts out with Timbaland rapping about how he's out of time and he's only got four minutes to sing. He keeps on repeating the same phrase for about 30 seconds.

Crosby, Stills, Nash (And Young) consists of the members (surprise) David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, and Neil Young. Very similar is the briefly-existing band made up of certain former Yes members, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe. No prizes for guessing who the former Yes members were note Jon Anderson, Bill Bruford, Rick Wakeman and Steve Howe, of course! "The Song With the Slow Part" by Portraits of Past is a bit of a subversion. It has a slow part, but so do so many other of their songs, so it's not exactly THE song with the slow part. "The Song That Never Ends" doesn't, since the lyrics are recursive. Several of the songs released by King Missile, including "the Little Sandwich that Got a Guilt Complex Because He was the Sole Survivor of a Horrible Bus Crash," and "the Boy Who Ate Lasagna and Could Jump Over a Church" are prime examples of this trope "Yeah" by Kyuss.

The "song" is simply a brief recording of their singer saying "yeah." Teenage Fanclub have a best of called Four Thousand Seven Hundred And Sixty-Six Seconds, which is 4766 seconds long. Squarepusher 's New Sound Album , "Solo Electric Bass 1." All the songs were played on an electric bass guitar without any other instruments, unlike the his trademark mishmash style of jungle, drum and bass, acid jazz, IDM, and experimental electronic music. Several songs from Fridge's Happiness album. Can you guess what instruments were used to make the songs Cut Up Piano & Xylophone, Tone Guitar & Drum Noise, or Melodica & Trombone? Fantomas Melvins Big Band were the members of Fantomas and the Melvins joining together to play songs from their respective catalogs live. About the only way that this wasn't an example is that they weren't that kind of Big Band , just a rock band with a larger number of people on stage at the same time than is usual. IOSYS has a song called "Tewi Inaba's Really Irritating About Four and A Half Minutes". It's 4:23. The State Anthem of the Soviet Union was...

well, guess. The provinces of the USSR had similar anthems (such as the Anthem of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic). Certain compilation albums on classical budget label Naxos. It's no surprise to see, for example, "Music for Solo Harp" containing... well, music performed on solo harp, or "2 Violins and 1 Guitar" containing music played on two violins and one guitar. The Nails' "Eighty-Eight Lines about Forty-Four Women" is eighty-eight lines long, and mentions forty-four different women. The early synth album Moog Plays the Beatles by Marty Gold. It's a synth album which is a Beatles tribute. The Band From TV is a band made of TV actors. The t+pazolite song "256 Secondz World Tour" is a 256-second long song incorporating styles of music from different parts of the world. "Heresy" by Nine Inch Nails isn't just about heresy, the song itself is quite heretical. Likewise, "Prayer" by Disturbed is literally a prayer, it's a conversation with God. Crosswords DS is a game for the Nintendo DS where you solve crossword puzzles. It's that simple.

Awesome Possum Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt - And the ending is spoiled. Shovel Knight stars Shovel Knight, who is a knight that wields a shovel. SimCity simulates a city. SimTower , SimEarth , SimAnt ... actually in that one there's more than one ant. The Play Station Network game "Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle Cars"... Two guesses what it's about. The sequel averts this, however, simply going as Rocket League. Robot Dinosaurs That Shoot Beams When They Roar - other than the fact that they fly (which is not stated in the title), it's about what it says it is, and indeed they do shoot beams when they roar, that being their method of attack. Burn! Zombie! Burn: You have to burn the zombie. Razing Storm : " Complete Destruction Machine Gun Game". Couldn't have said it any better. Color a Dinosaur for the NES. Guess what you have to do in it? In fact, guess what's the ONLY thing you can do in it? The PSP minis game A Space Shooter for 2 Bucks! It's a Shoot 'em Up , and it only costs $1.99 U.S.

The Killing Game Show . Duck Hunt . You hunt down ducks. And that's it. That's all you do. Well, unless you play the "clay pigeon" round, which is separate. Turkey Shoot for the Wii. It's so simple it got terrible reviews for its severely limited gameplay. ALL you do, is shoot turkeys. A Bat Triggered The Sensor That Activates The Defense Systems And Has To Use The Arrow Keys To Escape. Shoot Many Robots . You'd be sorely mistaken if you thought you would only be shooting just a couple of robots in this game. Cow Clicker Divekick . All you need to know is that there are two buttons, a button for diving and a button for kicking. Borderlands 2 : There's a sidequest called "Shoot This Guy in the Face". The quest consists of... shooting the quest-giver in the face. note Yeah, it's literally required to shoot in him... in the face. Hitting him otherwise does not kill him And there's a trophy for completing this mission called "Well That Was Easy." There's another sidequest called "Kill Yourself", in which the Big Bad pays you to jump off of a cliff.

Although you can also opt out for the other possible mission objective. MAAX, the Meteoroid And Asteroid eXploder, explodes meteoroids and asteroids . Impending Dumé, the killer asteroid currently headed on an unchallenged trajectory towards Earth. Also crosses over with Punny Name and Meaningful Name . In Chamber of Emptiness in Pokï¿½mon X and Y . It does have two items in it at first, but once they are gone, it's just an empty chamber. The move Wake-Up Slap has the user slap the opposing Pokémon and if it's asleep, it gets woken up. The Floor is Jelly has its entire game world wobble and jiggle about as the protagonist moves around on it like... well, jelly. Ten Minute Space Strategy is a simplistic space strategy game in which normal paced games usually don't last more than 10 minutes. Plants vs. Zombies : in which plants fight zombies. Monster Hunter , in which (human) hunters take on monsters. Portal is (mostly) about portals (to begin with).

In the sequel, there is also Chapter 9: The Part Where He Kills You (which is more aptly named "the part where he tries (again) to kill you and fails (again)". Even funnier considering that two separate characters literally say "This is the part where he/I kill(s) you." Super Smash Bros. for 3DS and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. It's a Super Smash Bros. game...for the 3DS (or Wii U). Space Engineers is about space engineers building stuff in space. The spinoff 'Medieval Engineers'' is about engineers building stuff in the medieval period . The upcoming game Animal Crossing Happy Home Designer. Guess what you do in it. In fact, that's the ONLY thing you do in it, other than invite other villagers. The Brutal Doom mod is Doom , but brutal . Wibble Wobble is set in a world where the entire landscape is... well... wibbly wobbling. Chronic fatigue syndrome (ME), in which one is generally permanently tired with all or many of the effects that come with that. Many enzymes have names that just describe their functions, with an added "-ase" suffix to indicate that they're enzymes.

Examples include RNA polymerase (which produces RNA via polymerisation) and reverse transcriptase (which produces a DNA strand through reverse transcription ). Some make it even clearer what they are and what they do, such as citrate cleavage enzyme. The Rocky Mountains of the United States are mountains made out of rock. And the Rio Grande (Spanish for "big river") is a big river that flows between the USA and Mexico. The Grand Canyon is a really big canyon. The Red River, between Texas and Oklahoma, where the ground is red shale that colors the water a distinct red. Red Rock Canyon in Oklahoma where the sides are made of... well, the examples go on and on. The planet Earth is named after a synonym for the word "ground", because anyone on the surface is standing on exactly that. The Moon is the only moon of the planet Earth. This is something of a reversal in etymology, though, as the term "moon" comes from the Moon of the Earth. Some people insist on calling it "Luna" - which still means moon. The Sun is the only star in the planet Earth's solar system.

As with the Moon, the term "sun" to refer to whatever star is at the center of a given solar system is derived from the Earth's Sun. In 2000 Harry Markopolis wrote a report to the SEC entitled "The World's Largest Hedge Fund Is a Fraud ". It was about Bernie Madoff's fund. It contained overwhelming evidence that... well you know. The SEC still didn't get him for another 7 years. From the "Only in Liberia" files presenting General Butt Naked. He led a guerrilla faction that was, yes, butt naked, and led them, butt naked. How they knew he was a general without anywhere to hang his insignia we don't know. Astronomers aren't very original when it comes to naming their telescopes, leading them to name them exactly what they are. There's the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona which is a binocular telescope that is indeed quite large, the Very Large Telescope in Chile which uses four telescopes to generate one very large virtual telescope, the descriptively named Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii, and the (canceled) Overwhelmingly Large Telescope. Parodied by xkcd .

Radio astronomers follow the same pattern; arrays of telescope dishes have such creative names as Very Large Array, Very Small Array, and Square Kilometer Array. Many of them are just named after the mountain they're built on, or the nearest town. Biologists aren't very imaginative either, so there are lots of species that do this. Like the brown long-eared bat, which is a brown bat with long ears. If you know the Greek and Latin roots of words, you will see that a lot of words mean exactly what they're supposed to mean. For example, "phlebotomy", which comes from the Greek phlebo-, meaning "vein", and -tomy, meaning "cutting, incision" of an organ and "excision" of an object. Yep, that's pretty much what phlebotomists do. Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS has Dieci, whose weapon is called Enormous Cannon which is... a giant artillery weapon. Panzer World Galient : The titular Humongous Mecha is a Transforming Mecha with two modes: robot and Falcon Flight Form. The name describes exactly what it is and what it looks like.

An episode of Pokï¿½mon has the heroes facing a gang that says, "We are a band of Diglett thieves known as The Band of Diglett Thieves!" When the heroes mock their name, the gang replies, "We used to have a cooler name, but those old fools could never remember it!" 12 Beast has Eita Touga's weapon of choice (aside from his PSP and tablet): the Gigas Slayer, a magical gauntlet capable of slaying the nigh-indestructible Gigas. And from DC Comics : The best example fwould probably be Dogwelder. He welds puppies to people. A fair number of DC's villains. Captain Boomerang uses boomerangs, the Fiddler plays a violin, the Toymaker makes ( high-explosive ) toys... Man-Bat Captain Cold, the Mirror Master, and Weather Wizard. It's like they did it on purpose. Abra Kadabra. Apparently it's not even an alias, but his actual name. Also, pretty much his entire power-set. Martian Manhunter : is a Martian that hunts down bad guys. Green Arrow : dresses in green and shoots arrows. Black Lightning : a black guy who can control lightning.

Deadman: His super-power is that he's dead [1] The Legion of Super-Heroes members Lightning Lad, Bouncing Boy, and Matter-Eating Lad. One of the supporting characters in Grim Jack went by the name Goddess. It was eventually shown that she was indeed one, specifically from one of the African myths. No prizes for guessing what animal Alexander Lemming from The Beano is. Also from The Beano Roger the Dodger who as the name suggests tries to dodge things mainly work. Doom Patrol has had a few of these: The Chief is the leader of the team, Robotman is a man who became a robot, Danny the Street is a sentient street called Danny, and Beard Hunter is a guy who hunts for... Well, take a guess. In Sex Criminals , Suzie refers to the totally silent, frozen-time post-orgasm world as "The Quiet". Paperinik New Adventures has a few examples: The Evrongun is the standard emotion-draining sidearm of the Evronians, and has a genetic scan that allow them to be used only by Evronians (generals also have Evronguns that can be used only by their owner). The Evroncannon is a larger Evrongun.

Discworld : Parodied by Terry Pratchett , who mentions a book How to Kille Insects. This is a big and heavy book, used for hitting insects with... Jingo has the Curious Squid. The reader is informed right away that they are so called because, as well as being squid, they're curious. Unseen Academicals parodies the trope with the following conversation: Hix: A lot of really interesting stuff happened under the Evil Emperor. Glenda: Evil stuff. Hix: Yes, that was rather the point. Evil Emperor. Evil Empire. It did what it said on the iron maiden. In Snuff , it's invoked again when describing the troll Detritus's converted siege weapon crossbow, the piecemaker, "which could, as it were, do what it said on the box." All of Leonard of Quirm's inventions, such as "the going under the water safely device". The Ashenden spy stories by W. Somerset Maugham featured a character called "The Hairless Mexican".

"Why?" "Because he's hairless and because he's a Mexican" In Doom : Knee-Deep in the Dead, Fly and Arlene are coming up with Reporting Names for the monsters they fight. Fly asks for a suggestion for the flying skulls he's fought and Arlene's response is "flying skulls". Fly misunderstands it as a question, confirms that he's seen flying skull monsters, and asks again for a suggestion. Arlene's response: Arlene: Flying skulls, you lamebrain! Call 'em as you see 'em. In the Hurog duology, with the eponymous castle as well as the main character. The castle, as well as the family, is called Hurog, which means "dragon" in their ancient language. Turns out the castle is built over the bones of a dragon The main character takes on the title of "Hurogmeten" which means "Guardian of Dragons". He does Exactly What It Says On The Tin. Turns out, dragons can turn into humans and the family has dragon blood. Which, incidentally, is the title of the second book of the series.

In Portlandtown , the legendary Hanged Man is called that because he was hanged, and survived. Said word-for-word in a first season episode of the new series by Captain Harkness: Captain Harkness: Okay, "Defabricator." Does exactly what it says on the tin. Done again by Rory Williams. Amy: [after being shrunk] What was that? Rory: Some kind of miniaturization ray. Amy: How do you know that? Rory: Well, there was a ray and we were miniaturized. Lampshaded on Whose Line Is It Anyway? before a particular performance of the game Foreign Film Dub: Drew: If you were a Ukrainian action film director, what would the name of your action film be? Someone in audience: Action in the Ukraine! Babylon 5 has the "pain givers". Lampshaded in The Kids in the Hall sketch about an Ex-Girlfriends Relocation Program. "It's complicated, so allow me to explain. The Ex-Girlfriends Relocation Program is a program that relocates ex-girlfriends.

...Gee, I guess it wasn't that complicated." Arrested Development : In the second episode, Michael discovers a bag in the fridge labeled "Dead Dove: Do Not Eat". After looking in the bag he delivers his classic response: "I don't know what I was expecting." Also, Tobias is a "nevernude", and when Michael finds this out, he asks, "Is that exactly what it sounds like?" The overly long titles of the iCarly skits. For titles like "Pathetic Plays: (insert long title)", "The prisoner who wanted some soup and the man who refused to give him some" and "The cowboy with a mustache and the idiot farm girl who thought the mustache was a squirrel". Also this happened on Wizards of Waverly Place , where they even outright stated, "In the Wizarding worlds people name their children what they want them to grow up to be." This episode included a tutor named Tutor. This didn't always work, though.

One hopes for Prince George's sake that Blackadder's play "Thick Jack Clot Sits in the Stocks and Gets Pelted with Rancid Tomatoes" isn't an example of this trope, since Blackadder wants him to play the title role. Earlier in the same episode, another play is mentioned and then rehearsed: Mossop: It is a piece we penned ourselves, called The Bloody Murder of the Foul Prince Romero and His Enormously Bosomed Wife. Blackadder: A philosophical work, then? Keanrick: Indeed yes. The violence of the murder and the vastness of the bosom are entirely justified artistically. In an episode of Seinfeld , Elaine is at a video store trying to find something to rent and picks one up called "The Pain and the Yearning". She turns it over to read the synopsis on the back: "An old woman experiences pain and yearning." The Bill Nye the Science Guy episode about heat has a few clips featuring a big sweaty guy called Big Sweaty Guy. The show itself could be seen as an example of the trope, since it was presented by Bill Nye and about science.

In Todd and the Book of Pure Evil there is a book that is called "The Book of Pure Evil". Guess what it does. This is lampshaded many times after everything goes wrong and someone has to ask something along the lines of, "What did you think would happen when reading from something called "The Book of Pure Evil?"" Spoofed in the Gerry Anderson pilot Space Police (which was later reworked as Space Precinct ): the villain, Mr. Big, is based out of a nightclub called "Mr. Big's Secret Hideout" which is covered with neon signs and arrows indicating same. Del's idea for a film in Only Fools and Horses : "There is a Rhino Loose in the City". Unsurprisingly, his explanation of the plot makes no sense whatsoever. Star Trek: The Original Series ' mirror universe had an handheld device called an agonizer and a booth called the agony booth which were used to punish crew members. RuneScape : Jagex is apparently fond of this trope, given some of the quest and area names. The Goblin Village is a village... with goblins. Dragon Slayer is a slaying quest that involves, yep, a dragon. Black Knight Fortress... eh, you get the idea.

In the new skill Dungeoneering, when you mouse over the list of end of dungeon awards, you get information about that award. If you were unfortunate enough to get "Most deaths" and them mouse over it, the trope name appears. The trope name appears on another item, fungicide. Examining the item gives this: "Does exactly what it says on the tin (kills fungi)". In Diablo 2 if you click on a shrine labeled "exploding shrine", it... explodes. Similarly, poison shrines are poisonous. The powers from [PROTOTYPE] . Claw gives Alex Wolverine Claws . Hammerfist turns his fists into "hammers" to pummel things with. Whipfist gives him a whip-ish long reach. Blade is a Big Fucking Blade Below the Shoulder . Musclemass boosts the size of his muscles. Shield gives him a Shield . Armour gives him Instant Armor . Disguise allows him to disguise as consumed victims . Guild Wars has quite a few skills that fall under this trope. Just guess what "Heal Party", "Heal Other", and "Can't Touch This" do. Catherine has a boss called Child with a Chainsaw.

It is a huge baby, with a chainsaw as its arm. In Far Cry Primal , there are bitefish in the lakes. Fish that bite. Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time : Toadsworth: I've dubbed this the Bros. Ball. Why, you ask? Because you are bros. And you form a ball. Most of the Robot Masters in the Mega Man (Classic) series has a name based around its abilities, followed by the word "Man". For Example, Ice Man has ice powers, Tornado Man has wind powers, etc. Many spell names in the older English Dragon Quest ( pre-VIII) localizations. Heal heals some HP. You can probably guess what Healmore and Healall do. Sleep puts an enemy group to sleep. The first game is especially egregious , calling your offensive spells Hurt and Hurtmore (later games changed these to Blaze and Blazemore). Quake : The Ogre Citadel is full of Ogres. The Underearth is mostly underground . The Sewers is a Down the Drain level. Azure Agony uses mostly blue textures . In The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind , there's an item called the Boots of Blinding Speed.

It's a pair of boots which, when worn, grant you 200 speed and 100% blind. In The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion , the Imperial City has a shop called Rindir's Staffs. It's owned by a Bosmer named Rindir. He sells staffs. Imagine that. Neverwinter Nights 2 has a completely batshit insane , gloriously hammy monk named Ribsmasher. His moniker pretty much sums up his character: he is completely and utterly obsessed with smashing ribs. Hellsinker is so loaded with proprietary terminology (even the options menu and exit command have unique names!) that this trope is the exception rather than the rule. "Kill" is how many enemies you've destroyed. "Timer" is how much time has passed within the stage. "Life" is your lives . "Subweapon" is your alternate weapon. Some Doom levels are this. Particularly Doom II: "Entryway" is the entrance both of the spaceport and of the game.

In "The Gantlet" one has to fight through swarms of monsters.note "Gantlet" is an archaic term from the Swedish "gantlopp" or "gantlope" (lane); over time it got merged with the French-derived "gauntlet" (long glove) and is now usually spelled that way. "The Crusher" prominently features a crushing ceiling. "Dead Simple" is a very simple level — and if you're not careful you will end up dead . "Tricks and Traps" is full of nasty surprises. "The Pit" is built around a huge pit. "The Living End" is the last non-boss level. It offers " Hell Arena ", if you go in there expecting anything other then a fight with demons, then you will deserve what you get. Similarly, some of the challenge game names are pretty self-explanatory. If you see a challenge called Angel of Shotgunnery, then guess which kind of weapons will be the only one you can use.

WildStar has the Path system, divided into four distinct professions: the Soldier, who kills hostiles and handles security; the Explorer, who maps out the world, finds underground systems and hidden paths, and goes on surveillance/recon missions; the Scientist, who studies, re-purposes, and hacks the flora, fauna, and forgotten technology on Nexus; and the Settler, who builds their respective faction's infrastructure like buff stations, transportation, and supply caches. The goal of Escape From Lavender Town is to escape from lavender town. And to do so, you must press the escape key. PlanetSide 2's Halloween 2014 renamed several bases. The infamous "Subterranean Nanite Analysis" was renamed to the much more fitting "Pit of Despair". The base is built into an underground pit, and is a horrible, horrible meatgrinder for attackers such that players often just straight up log off in despair when their allies attack the base. Sadly, the name was reverted at the end of the event. Sands of Destruction features the World Annihilation Front. Guess what they want to do? They are opposed by the World Salvation Committee; no points for guessing what they want to prevent.

There is a moment in Daisy Owl when her teacher meets her father, Mr. Owl. Teacher: I didn't expect you to be an actual owl... In Scandinavia and the World , King Europe builds an Extremely Large Telescope. He then writes on it in white paint "European Extremely Large Telescope". Even better? That is its actual name. Questionable Content , while not an example in itself, has a few: The Filler Strips character Yelling Bird, whose only purpose is to yell obscenities at the author. Hannelore's father (who lives in space) owns a spaceship named Spaceship, and a space station named Station. Station explains that Hannelore went through an "overly descriptive phase," and the names stuck. Hannelore: I called my dad " Science Daddy" until I was seventeen. In The Way of the Metagamer , there's a town called "Townwithanequipmentstoreaplacewithmapsandatavernofcourse". Guess which three things are located in said town. In Homestuck , troll movies are apparently named this way, due to the troll civilization being so old that all the good movie titles are taken.

CG: WHEREIN NUMEROUS VIGILANTES CONFRONT PERIL; ONE OF THEM BETRAYS THE OTHERS; (BUT IT TURNS OUT TO BE PART OF THE PLAN ALL ALONG); CG: SEVERAL ATTRACTIVE FEMALE LEADS PROVOKE ROMANTIC TENSION; FOUR MAJOR CHARACTERS WEAR UNUSUAL HATS; ONE HOLDS PLOT-CRITICAL SECRET; CG: 47 ON-SCREEN EXPLOSIONS, ONE RESULTING IN DEMISE OF KEY-ADVERSARY; 6 to 20 LINES THAT COULD BE CONSTRUED AS HUMOROUS; EB: wait... "Bin Laden in a Blender." It delivers what it promises. At a drive-in, Bart and Homer watch The Monster that Ate Everybody. Krusty once introduced a Show Within a Show titled Trans-Clown-o-Morphs that was about, as the theme song described, "transforming clowns that morph". Naturally parodied. Karl: Hey, I heard we're goin' to Ape Island. Lenny: Yeah, to capture a giant ape. Carl: I wish we were going to Candy Apple Island. Charlie: Candy Apple Island?

What do they got there? Carl: Apes. But they're not so big. Averted with Monster Island. It's really a peninsula. Almost every " operation " is named this way: Operation Strike Make Go Longer Operation X-Mas Remind of How Good Is Operation Judge Get Back At " Duck Dodgers in the 24ï¿½th Century ": Dodgers smugly says that Marvin the Martian can't shoot him with a disintegrator since he's wearing a disintegration-proof vest. The vest does not disintegrate. Duck Dodgers does. He gets better, though. Immediately afterwards, Dodgers retaliates with his own disintegrating pistol. He pulls the trigger, and the gun crumbles into powder . "Well, what do you know... it disintegrated." The Wile E Coyote And The Roadrunner short "Stop! Look! And Hasten!" has Wile follow the instructions from a book titled "How to Build a Burmese Tiger Trap". One guess what he catches in the resulting pit instead of the Road Runner. Likewise, a Giant Mouse Trap will catch a giant mouse . Who is none too pleased with the coyote.

In one episode of Tiny Toon Adventures , a troll challenges Buster to face three trials. In the second trial, the troll says he must fight the "Three Guys who Charge at You With Spears and Fall Off a Cliff". Guess what happens next. The entire cast of The Mr. Men Show can be defined by their names: Mr. Happy, Mr. Strong, Miss Helpful, etc. The Smurfs are a good example of this. Each smurf's name reflects their personality. Grouchy Smurf is grouchy, Handy Smurf is handy, Papa Smurf is their, well, papa. In the animated version of Beetlejuice , the monster who lives across the street from the protagonist is named... the Monster Across the Street. A villain is named "Racist Frankenstein". He dresses like a WASP but is in all other ways exactly what you'd expect. Also features Dirty Cop, a living pile of grime on the police force. And Loophole, a scurrulous rope tied into a loop, the Corporate Ladder, a business-minded ladder, and White Rapper, a white rapper. Some examples from Phineas and Ferb : ALL of Dr.

Doofenshmirtz's "-inators" minus his first, which was simply called the "Inator". Lampshaded in one episode when he mentions that he hasn't quite figured out the name for his new machine and goes through various obvious names (The "Who's-laughing-now-inator"!) and mentions it'll be something with the "inator" suffix. "The Wrapped-Up-In-a-Nice-Little-Bow-inator! I bet you're wondering what it does?" The song "Platypus Fight". Three guesses as to what it's about. song. Agent P is a member of O.W.C.A. ("Organization Without a Cool Acronym"). The Tick : The Evil Midnight Bomber That Bombs at Midnight. Guess what he does and when? The Museum of Dangerous Books and Papers from The Amazing Screw-On Head . An episode of Yin Yang Yo! features toy glasses with toothed metallic "jaws" called "Eyebiters." They bite the wearer's eyes.

Recess : Lawson always names things this way, such as renaming Fort Tender to Fort Fort, naming a submarine "Sub", and naming his soccer team "The Winning Guys" (who did, in fact, win the tournament at the end of the episode). The Ronseal phrase: It does exactly what it says on the tin - BBC News BBC News The Ronseal phrase: It does exactly what it says on the tin 8 January 2013 Read more about sharing. Close share panel Prime Minister David Cameron used a famous advertising slogan to sum up the state of the coalition government at its halfway point, saying "it is a Ronseal deal - it does what it says on the tin". This phrase has entered the British vernacular, says its co-creator Dave Shelton. David Cameron has said it before. In 2004, he said: "People are crying out for a kind of Ronseal politics - they want it to do what it says on the tin." People use the phrase every day. On YouTube you can listen to Katie Melua's What It Says On The Tin . Google the line and you get millions of results.

In 1994, when my advertising partner Liz Whiston and I came up with the line "Does exactly what it says on the tin" for Ronseal, we never dreamed how it would enter the language. About the author Dave Shelton and Liz Whiston co-founded Bordello Advertising. They have been working in advertising for more than 20 years. Back then Ronseal was just another varnish fighting for market share against a lot of fancier lifestyle brands. Anyone wandering into a DIY superstore was faced with a wall of different solutions to whatever woodcare job they might be trying to tackle. We had presented a number of different campaigns, all of which had been rejected by Ged Shields, the then marketing director of Ronseal for "trying too hard". Shields wanted to de-mystify the product. We decided what was needed wasn't puns or art. Instead we would call a spade a spade. We started to write a commercial that featured a straightforward guy who said lines like: "If you've got wood to stain and you want it to dry quickly, you need Ronseal Quick Drying Woodstain." It was a way of talking that until then hadn't been done in advertising.

We'd soon knocked out several scripts but we needed a line, an anti-line. Media captionDavid Cameron: "A Ronseal deal" "Does exactly what it says on the tin" was a great way of summing up. Initially we used it as a placeholder thinking that we'd write a proper line later, but then we realised a proper line would be completely wrong. We put the scripts into research and they totally bombed. To the punters, it wasn't "advertising" enough. Fortunately Shields is one of those few-and-far-between clients who have their own opinion and the courage of their convictions. He insisted that the commercial and the line he loved were what summed up the philosophy of Ronseal. Nothing was to be changed and the ads ran as they were written. He had a very small budget, but very quickly the ads were noticed. Firstly by the advertising industry itself. Were these ads bad or good? Immediately they were spoofed by other companies, like Irn Bru. There have been slight variations, one of my favourites being an anti-smoking ad which simply showed a pack of cigarettes with the public health warning "Smoking kills" clearly visible.

Underneath was the line: "Does exactly what it says on the packet." Where's the beef? David Cameron is not the first politician to borrow from advertising. In 1984, the US presidential hopeful Walter Mondale adopted a phrase from a well-known campaign for US hamburger chain Wendy's - "Where's the beef?" - to take a swipe at Gary Hart, his rival for the Democratic nomination. Mondale went on to win the contest but was beaten by Ronald Reagan in the race for the White House. After the initial campaign, sales shot up and Ronseal became brand leader. We wrote more ads. And then we started to hear our line become part of the vernacular. It even made it into the Oxford Dictionary of Idioms. Liz was sitting at her daughter Marina's speech day and the headmaster very proudly said the school was determined to do "exactly what it said on the tin". Her daughter clapped the loudest. The food critic AA Gill wrote about a restaurant, "This is a dining room that doesn't do what it says on the packet." There was obviously a gap in the English language for a phrase that said: Do what you promise. That's not something we had anticipated.

Perhaps that's a bit sad, but if our phrase becomes a standard that everyone wants to aim for, we're happy for that. Now Ronseal doesn't have to spend money on a famous spokesman because, as we've heard this week, David Cameron is happy to endorse their product for nothing. You can follow the Magazine on Twitter and on Facebook Ronseal No Longer 'Does Exactly What It Says On The Tin' Ronseal No Longer 'Does Exactly What It Says On The Tin' #RonsealApology Flipboard For the last twenty-one years, Ronseal has been doing exactly what it says and helped smarten up many a fence up and down the country. Over recent weeks, however, Ronseal customers across social media have been pointing out that the famous Does Exactly What It Says On The Tin slogan may not be entirely accurate. In fact, with modern packaging and a wider range of products, Ronseal dont actually have that many products in tins anymore. Working round the clock, Ronseal's Marketing and Distribution teams have finally come up with a new phrase that truly captures all 200 products in their DIY range.

Watch as Marketing Director, Martin Jones, issues a #RonsealApology and unveils the brands new - honest - slogan. You can see the campaign and connect with us on social using: Hashtag: #RonsealApology Twitter: Facebook: Website: Origin of Does Exactly What it Says on the Tin | Ronseal The Ronseal Phrase - Does Exactly What it Says on the Tin People use the phrase every day, it has come to represent a product or policy that is open and honest; it is used when something quite simply ‘Does Exactly What it Says on the Tin .’ Originating back to 1994 the popular phrase ‘Does exactly what is says on the tin’ was developed when Ronseal employed London based advertising agency HHCL to create a campaign that without trying too hard would de-mystify our products.

Dave Shelton, co-creator of the line with Liz Whinston, explains the thought process behind the original campaign adverts , “We started to write a commercial that featured a straightforward guy who said lines like: "If you've got wood to stain and you want it to dry quickly, you need Ronseal Quick Drying Woodstain." We'd soon knocked out several scripts but we needed a line… "Does exactly what it says on the tin" was a great way of summing this up. After the initial campaign, sales shot up and Ronseal became [a] brand leader.” ‘Does exactly what it says on the tin’ is now more than an advertising slogan; it has become part of our everyday vernacular. The line has made it into the Oxford Dictionary of Idioms, been featured in the song ‘What it Says On The Tin’ by Katie Melua, and has even been used by Prime Minister David Cameron and on multiple occasions to summarise his preferred approach to politics. The phrase has come to represent a product or policy that is open, honest and delivers against its promise. The phrase is now used internationally and it’s not surprising it has become the third most known slogan of all time.

[1] The phrase is a registered trademark of Ronseal’s owner, the Sherwin-Williams Company , across the European Community for products including paints, varnishes and wood preservatives (E3085826) [3] Source Creative Review February 2012 Urban Dictionary: exactly what it says on the tin exactly what it says on the tin Originally from advertising for Ronseal woodcare products this phrase was quickly picked up by the public and turned into a general purpose phrase meaning "the name describes exactly what it is". This must be one of the most successful advertising slogans of all time. Of course Ronseal have trademarked it! Second class post - it does exactly what it says on the tin! Ronseal "Does exactly what it says on the tin" - YouTube Ronseal "Does exactly what it says on the tin" Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later.

Published on Sep 16, 2015 Despite initially "bombing" in focus groups, Ronseal's "does exactly what it says on the tin" strapline has become a part of language and secured the brand its position as market leader. The line, initiated in 1994 has been the cornerstone of Ronseal advertising since. The ad was created by agency HHCL and has been spoofed across advertising and media since its launch. The ad was directed by Andy Wilson, with the iconic line created originally by Liz Whiston and Dave Shelton of the advertising agency. Category

Question: Which product 'does exactly what it says on the tin'?
Answer: Ronseal