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* ''Manga/ExcelSaga'' is the saga of the title character whose name is Excel. The full title of the [[Anime/ExcelSaga anime adaptation]] is "Quack Experimental Anime Excel Saga", which ''also'' [[WidgetSeries says it all]].
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* ''Manga/ExcelSaga'' is the saga of the title character whose name is Excel. The full title of the [[Anime/ExcelSaga anime adaptation]] is "Quack Experimental Anime Excel Saga", which ''also'' [[WidgetSeries [[QuirkyWork says it all]].
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* ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'' is named after the main character, and both he and the series are [[WidgetSeries every bit as weird as the name]].
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* ''Manga/TheLuciferAndBiscuitHammer'' has an unusual word order; it would typically be ''Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer'' [[RuleOfCool but the former looks cooler]]. The "biscuit hammer" is an enormous hammer in space that could destroy the world. "Lucifer" refers to [[spoiler:Samidare, one of the main characters]], though she doesn't have much in common with her Biblical namesake. [[WidgetSeries So, it's exactly as goofy as the title makes it sound.]]
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* ''Manga/TheLuciferAndBiscuitHammer'' has an unusual word order; it would typically be ''Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer'' [[RuleOfCool but the former looks cooler]]. The "biscuit hammer" is an enormous hammer in space that could destroy the world. "Lucifer" refers to [[spoiler:Samidare, one of the main characters]], though she doesn't have much in common with her Biblical namesake. [[WidgetSeries So, it's exactly as goofy as the title makes it sound.]]
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* ''Literature/DateALive'': Can be [[JustForFun/XMeetsY described]] as ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' meets ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'', [[WidgetSeries and is as weird as that sounds]]. While dating is sometimes involved, it's more likely to get the main character killed than keep him alive. Makes slightly more sense if you follow the Japanese pronunciation, where ''deitoaraibu'' is a clear {{Pun}} on "dead or alive".
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* ''Literature/DateALive'': Can be [[JustForFun/XMeetsY described]] as ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' meets ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'', [[WidgetSeries [[QuirkyWork and is as weird as that sounds]]. While dating is sometimes involved, it's more likely to get the main character killed than keep him alive. Makes slightly more sense if you follow the Japanese pronunciation, where ''deitoaraibu'' is a clear {{Pun}} on "dead or alive".
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* ''Webcomic/DresdenCodak''. Being primarily a WidgetSeries, this actually makes a bit of sense, such as it is.
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* ''Webcomic/DresdenCodak''. Being primarily a WidgetSeries, QuirkyWork, this actually makes a bit of sense, such as it is.
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* ''Film/{{Cloverfield}}'': "Cloverfield" is the in-universe designation for the events of the movie, but there's no confirmed source on what, if anything, it has to do with the plot itself. Although the monster (unnamed in the film) was given the production name "Clover" from the title. It's theorized that the name came from Cloverfield Boulevard, a street that Abrams passed frequently driving between the studio and his house.
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* ''VideoGame/AVeryLongRopeToTheTopOfTheSky'': The Developer's Note on Boomerang:
--> I don't know why this song is called "Boomerang." Seemed like the right choice at the time.
--> I don't know why this song is called "Boomerang." Seemed like the right choice at the time.
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* The Creator/AdultSwim show ''Brad Neely's Harg Nallin' Sclopio Peepio''. [[WordOfGod According to Brad Neely himself]] the title is "intentionally meaningless"; it's just arrangment of the staff's "favorite collection of syllables".
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* The Creator/AdultSwim show ''Brad Neely's Harg Nallin' Sclopio Peepio''. [[WordOfGod According to Brad Neely himself]] the title is "intentionally meaningless"; it's just arrangment arrangement of the staff's "favorite collection of syllables".
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** The title of the album ''Bee Thousand'' at least sort of has an explanation - Supposedly Robert Pollard passed a theater that was showing ''{{Film/Beethoven}}'', but on the marquee the title was misspelled as "Beethouen" [[note]]Most likely the theater just didn't have any v's left among it's sign letters[[/note]]. "Bee-thow-en" stuck in his mind, and then gradually turned into "bee thousand". Another motivation for the title choice was an obtuse ShoutOut - "Bee Thousand" sounds similar to [[Music/TheWho Pete Townsend.]] And ''Vampire On Titus'' is sort of SelfDeprecation - Pollard lived on a street called Titus Avenue, and someone he knew referred to him derogatorily as "the vampire on Titus."
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** The title of the album ''Bee Thousand'' at least sort of has an explanation - Supposedly Robert Pollard passed a theater that was showing ''{{Film/Beethoven}}'', but on the marquee the title was misspelled as "Beethouen" [[note]]Most likely the theater just didn't have any v's left among it's its sign letters[[/note]]. "Bee-thow-en" stuck in his mind, and then gradually turned into "bee thousand". Another motivation for the title choice was an obtuse ShoutOut - "Bee Thousand" sounds similar to [[Music/TheWho Pete Townsend.]] And ''Vampire On Titus'' is sort of SelfDeprecation - Pollard lived on a street called Titus Avenue, and someone he knew referred to him derogatorily as "the vampire on Titus."
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* ''Videogame/AmongTheSleep'' never offers a direct explanation for it's title, but considering how you play as a straight up two-year-old progressing through a world of surreal PsychologicalHorror, it may be intended to evoke a developing mind still learning how to string their words together.
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* ''Videogame/AmongTheSleep'' never offers a direct explanation for it's its title, but considering how you play as a straight up two-year-old progressing through a world of surreal PsychologicalHorror, it may be intended to evoke a developing mind still learning how to string their words together.
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* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'' may seem like a confusing title for people with little familiarity with the series, possibly only knowing it exists thanks to ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' However, there is actual meaning behind the title. The “Xeno” prefix, means “strange,” or “foreign,” and in the main games, the main character wields a magic sword that is integral to the main plot, so in a way, the games are called, “The Chronicles of the Strange Blades.” This is even further evident since the first game was originally called “Monodo, Beginning of the World” with the Monodo being the sword in question.
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* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'' may seem like a confusing title for people with little familiarity with the series, possibly only knowing it exists thanks to ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' However, there is actual meaning behind the title. The “Xeno” prefix, means “strange,” or “foreign,” and in the main games, the main character wields a magic sword that is integral to the main plot, so in a way, the games are called, “The Chronicles of the Strange Blades.” This is even further evident since the first game was originally called “Monodo, “Monado, Beginning of the World” with the Monodo Monado being the sword in question.
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* ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'' is name-dropped constantly by protagonist [[{{Chuunibyou}} Okabe Rintarou]]. (In-game, it's just "Steins Gate", the semi-colon is a quirk of the [[VisualNovel/ScienceAdventureSeries series]].) It's probably fate or [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext something]]. Pretty nicely summed up by an exchange in the true ending:
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* ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'' is name-dropped constantly by protagonist [[{{Chuunibyou}} Okabe Rintarou]].Rintarou. (In-game, it's just "Steins Gate", the semi-colon is a quirk of the [[VisualNovel/ScienceAdventureSeries series]].) It's probably fate or [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext something]].Okabe himself admits at one point that it’s just one of his made-up {{chuunibyou}} phrases. Pretty nicely summed up by an exchange in the true ending:
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->''Franchise/KingdomHearts II.8 Final Chapter Prologue manages to do the impossible in being an even more ludicrous title than VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2.''
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->''"[[Literature/TheTalesOfBeedleTheBard Babbity Rabbity and her Cackling Stump]] is the stupidest title ever written by man or beast and of course when I wrote it... when I gave [[Literature/HarryPotter Ron]] that title, I didn't imagine for a second that I was actually going to write the story."''
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* ''ComicStrip/TomTheDancingBug'' feature no characters named Tom, nor are there any dancing bugs. According to the creator it's because the newspaper editor said the strip needed a title, so he came up with the most nonsensical name he could think of.
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* Lauren Bousfield's song titles tend to read like indecipherable spam email headlines mixed with sinister WordSaladHorror - examples include "Debtors Prison Click Here Disney Needs To See This" and "Clean Strategic Narratives With Relatable Messaging Murder Them Violently Make Their Children Watch".
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* Lauren Bousfield's song titles tend to read like indecipherable spam email headlines [[ClickbaitGag clickbait headlines]] mixed with sinister WordSaladHorror - examples include "Debtors Prison Click Here Disney Needs To See This" and "Clean Strategic Narratives With Relatable Messaging Murder Them Violently Make Their Children Watch".
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* Lauren Bousfield's song titles tend to be modeled after indecipherable spam email headlines, often with a sinister dose of WordSaladHorror mixed in - examples include "Debtors Prison Click Here Disney Needs To See This" and "Clean Strategic Narratives With Relatable Messaging Murder Them Violently Make Their Children Watch".
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* Lauren Bousfield's song titles tend to be modeled after read like indecipherable spam email headlines, often headlines mixed with a sinister dose of WordSaladHorror mixed in - examples include "Debtors Prison Click Here Disney Needs To See This" and "Clean Strategic Narratives With Relatable Messaging Murder Them Violently Make Their Children Watch".
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* "Bruised Water" by Chicane and Natasha Bedingfield, named so since it's a mashup of Chicane's "Saltwater" and Bedingfield's "I Bruise Easily".
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* "Bruised Water" by Chicane and Natasha Bedingfield, Music/NatashaBedingfield, named so since it's a mashup of Chicane's "Saltwater" and Bedingfield's "I Bruise Easily".
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* Early in their recording career, Minus The Bear were very fond of using strange, {{Non Appearing Title}}s for their songs, such as "Monkey!!! Knife!!! Fight!!!" and "I'm Totally Not Down With Rob's Alien" - they broke with this tradition starting with the 2005 album ''Minus El Oso'' though.
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* Early in their recording career, Minus The Bear were very fond of using strange, {{Non Appearing Title}}s for their songs, such as "Monkey!!! Knife!!! Fight!!!" and "I'm Totally Not Down With Rob's Alien" Alien". Sometimes the titles ''vaguely'' line up with the lyrics - they "Absinthe Party At the Fly Honey Warehouse" at least mentions drinking absinthe, but no parties, "fly honeys" or even warehouses appear in the song's content. They fully broke with this tradition entirely starting with the 2005 album ''Minus El Oso'' though. Oso'', where all of the songs have proper title drops.
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* Lauren Bousfield's song titles tend to be modeled after indecipherable spam email headlines, often with a sinister dose of WordSaladHorror mixed in - examples include "Debtors Prison Click Here Disney Needs To See This" and "Clean Strategic Narratives With Relatable Messaging Murder Them Violently Make Their Children Watch".
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* Lauren Bousfield's song titles tend to be modeled after indecipherable spam email headlines, often with a sinister dose of WordSaladHorror mixed in - examples include "Debtors Prison Click Here Disney Needs To See This" and "Clean Strategic Narratives With Relatable Messaging Murder Them Violently Make Their Children Watch".
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* ''Film/TheRoom'' mostly takes place in a two-floor apartment, but no particular room is given any specific plot importance or thematic weight. A far more appropriate title could be ''The Building''. Writer/Director/Star Creator/TommyWiseau's rambling, barely coherent explanation is that he had the idea of a room people could relate to that was a place of privacy and safety where they could go to revel or brood. Of course, how this ties to the actual events of the film is still anybody's guess. Greg Sestero, the actor who played Mark claimed that the film was originally written as a play, and all of the action would take place in a single room, which is at least a WordOfSaintPaul.
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* ''Film/TheRoom'' ''Film/TheRoom2003'' mostly takes place in a two-floor apartment, but no particular room is given any specific plot importance or thematic weight. A far more appropriate title could be ''The Building''. Writer/Director/Star Creator/TommyWiseau's rambling, barely coherent explanation is that he had the idea of a room people could relate to that was a place of privacy and safety where they could go to revel or brood. Of course, how this ties to the actual events of the film is still anybody's guess. Greg Sestero, the actor who played Mark claimed that the film was originally written as a play, and all of the action would take place in a single room, which is at least a WordOfSaintPaul.
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Contrast with ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, this trope's direct opposite. See also NonIndicativeName, for characters and in-story objects with similarly unintuitive names, albeit ones that still carry meaningful communicative significance; and NeverTrustATitle, for titles that are grammatically sound, but misleading. Related to JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant. For an example of a "TV Tropes" title that follows this formula, see NinjaPirateZombieRobot. Frequently results in an LongTitle.
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Contrast with ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, this trope's direct opposite. See also NonIndicativeName, for characters and in-story objects with similarly unintuitive names, albeit ones that still carry meaningful communicative significance; and NeverTrustATitle, for titles that are grammatically sound, but misleading. Related to JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant. For an example of a "TV Tropes" title that follows this formula, see NinjaPirateZombieRobot. Frequently results in an LongTitle.
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* Jaime Brockett's "[[LongTitle Talkin' Green Beret New Yellow Hydraulic Banana Teenybopper Blues]]"
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* The various installments of ''WebOriginal/SpaghettiIce'' combines this trope with LongTitle. The work's titles are written as if they were [[spoiler:a cryptic CrosswordPuzzle clue, and thus, are meant to be decoded to reach their true meaning]].
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* The various installments of ''WebOriginal/SpaghettiIce'' combines this trope with LongTitle.''WebOriginal/SpaghettiIce''. The work's titles are written as if they were [[spoiler:a cryptic CrosswordPuzzle clue, and thus, are meant to be decoded to reach their true meaning]].
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* ''Fanfic/TheMiserySenshiNeoZeroDoubleBlitzkriegDebacle'': The tile refers to several things within the story, specifically with "Neo Zero" referring to a prototype fighter jet of the same name.
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See also GoryDeadlyOverkillTitleOfFatalDeath, for when horror movies do this. A SisterTrope would be WordSaladLyrics, often performed by [[AGoodNameForARockBand suitably named bands]]. Also very closely related to MeaninglessMeaningfulWords, which sound impressive in any haphazard order.
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See also GoryDeadlyOverkillTitleOfFatalDeath, for when horror movies do this. A SisterTrope would be WordSaladLyrics, often performed by [[AGoodNameForARockBand suitably named bands]]. Also very closely related to MeaninglessMeaningfulWords, which sound impressive in any haphazard order.
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* ''Film/{{Skinamarink}}'': The title is a nonsense word that originates from a children's sing-a-long rhyme, but at no point is the song referenced in the movie. The only vague connection it has to the song is that the two main characters are small children.
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** ''Awkwardly Step Around Him for a Fresh Herb''
** ''It's Cardinal He's in the Common Era''
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** ''Awkwardly Step Around Him for a Fresh Herb''
** ''It's Cardinal He's in the Common Era''
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* ''{{Literature/Trainspotting}}'' has absolutely nothing to do with trains and train enthusiasts. Rather, the title is an ArtifactTitle from the original "Trainspotting at Leith Central", the meaning being that Leith Central Station is abandoned, derelict, and squalid, and going there to trainspot is a stupid, filthy and completely pointless activity... much like the protagonists' lives.
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* ''Anime/SSSSGridman'' is nearly a WordPureeTitle, but does have an explanation. "Gridman" is the main HumongousMecha, and "SSSS" is a reference to ''Series/SuperhumanSamuraiSyberSquad'', which also had a robot called Gridman, and is this show's [[SpiritualSuccessor predecessor]].
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* ''Anime/SSSSGridman'' is nearly a WordPureeTitle, but does have an explanation. "Gridman" is the main HumongousMecha, and "SSSS" is a reference to ''Series/SuperhumanSamuraiSyberSquad'', which also had a robot called Gridman, and the western adaptation of the [[Series/DenkouChoujinGridman live-action series]] the anime is this show's [[SpiritualSuccessor predecessor]].a spin-off of. The final episode, however, reveals the "SSSS" to have an in-universe meaning: "'''S'''pecial '''S'''ignature to '''S'''ave a '''S'''oul", the Access Code required to transform Gridman into his [[StealthSequel original Tokusatsu form.]]
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* ''[[WebOriginal/SpaghettiIce Awkwardly Step Around Him for a Fresh Herb]]'' combines this trope with LongTitle. The title is written as if it were [[spoiler:a cryptic CrosswordPuzzle clue, and thus, is meant to be decoded to reach its true meaning]].
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** ''Awkwardly Step Around Him for a Fresh Herb''
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* ''Octopus Pie'' is a story about two women in Brooklyn and their relationships therein, and does not contain an octopus.
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* Another Norwegian band, Music/{{Aha}}, had a downplayed version of this for its breakout hit, "Take on Me". While the song is coherent, the title is a literal translation of the Norwegian phrase ''ta på meg'', which idiomatically means "touch me". Interestingly, the latter English phrase would serve as the opening words of the band's follow-up single, "The Sun Always Shines on T.V."
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*** Actually "Pink Floyd" is a shortened version of their earlier name: "The Pink Floyd Sound", derived from the names of two blues musicians founder Syd Barrett liked: Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.
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** ''Jude Law And A Semester Abroad'', ''I Will Play My Game Beneath The Spin Light'', ''Okay I Believe You But My Tommy Gun Don't'' (a quote from ''Film/{{Home Alone 2|Lost In New York}}'''s [[ShowWithinAShow film within a film]] ''Angels With Even Filthier Souls''), ''Good To Know That If I Ever Need Attention All I Have To Do Is Die''[[note]]A friend of the band hadn't been seen in quite a while, and there were rumors of his death; the song title was his response when he suddenly showed up at a social gathering and learned why everyone seemed so happy to see him[[/note]], ''Last Chance to Lose Your Keys'', ''Logan to Government Center'' (a reference to Boston's subway system - the lyrics do mention New England).
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* Music/{{Nirvana}}'s seminal song "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Music/KurtCobain took the phrase from some graffiti that a friend had scrawled on his wall: "Kurt Smells Like Teen Spirit," which poked fun at Cobain for having sex with his girlfriend so frequently that he smelled like her deodorant. Cobain didn't know what Teen Spirit was, so he thought the phrase had something to do with youthful rebellion. He didn't find out the phrase's real meaning until after he'd written the song.
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* Music/{{Nirvana}}'s seminal song "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Spirit". Music/KurtCobain took the phrase from some graffiti that a friend had scrawled on his wall: "Kurt Smells Like Teen Spirit," Spirit", which poked fun at Cobain for having sex with his girlfriend so frequently that he smelled like her deodorant. Cobain didn't know what Teen Spirit was, so he thought the phrase had something to do with youthful rebellion. He didn't find out the phrase's real meaning until after he'd written the song.
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* The Buzz Of Delight, an early project of Music/MatthewSweet, got their name from a conversation between [[Music/{{REM}} Michael Stipe]] and Linda Hopper of Magnapop (both of whom were friends of Sweet): Hopper was complaining about a buzzing light bulb in her kitchen and Stipe heard "the buzz of the lights" as "the buzz of delight".
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* The Buzz Of of Delight, an early project of Music/MatthewSweet, got their name from a conversation between [[Music/{{REM}} Michael Stipe]] and Linda Hopper of Magnapop (both of whom were friends of Sweet): Hopper was complaining about a buzzing light bulb in her kitchen and Stipe heard "the buzz of the lights" as "the buzz of delight".
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* IdolSinger units in Japan could have a wiki on their own. One example among dozens can be [[https://jpop.fandom.com/wiki/Chameleon_Republic Chameleon Republic]], supposedly named after the concept of "continually transforming idols". Also counts as a NonIndicativeName, since nothing about them changed after their
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* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'': In the show, ''winx'' has no meaning--Bloom just made it up. (The [[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids]] dub changed it to the term for fairy magic.) Apparently, though, it's derived from the English word "wings."
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* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'': In the show, ''winx'' has no meaning--Bloom just made it up. (The [[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids]] dub changed it to the term for fairy magic.) Apparently, though, it's derived from the English word "wings."
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* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'' is about [[CountryMouse a family of farmers moving to Big City]] ([[ADogNamedDog and yes, it really is called that]]), with the farmers in question being the [[MeaningfulName Green]] family. This means that, in a way, the show is called, ''The Greens in Big City''.