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Sometimes when a show is trying to come up with a title for an episode, they have to take short-cuts, such as Rule of Funny, settling for a stock title, or just generally using an old pop-culture reference to create some sort of pun. This trope is what happens when a show, usually a Long Runner, ends up later coming up with a High Concept that actually works much better with the earlier title of a previous episode. This is very common in shows that use, or gradually adapt to, a World of Weirdness setting. While in the earlier episode the title may have been a metaphor for what was actually going on, say, "Shoot the Moon" being about a character trying to win a game via Springtime for Hitler, the later episode will involve the characters actually building a ray gun and trying to shoot the Moon with it. Use of this trope is almost always accidental, and as is such, it functions mainly as an oddity while the viewers wonder why, in retrospect, the writers used the naming conventions they did. Those curious about inner wiki working like renames will find that a lot of them are motivated by this trope. A well-meaning troper will name a trope after an abstract concept, and several months later there will be inaccurate Pot Holes everywhere assuming that the trope means something completely different. This is a large part of the reason why wiki policy encourages new tropes to have more easily understood names. |
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day is the film where the protagonists stop Judgment Day from happening. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines is the one where it happens anyway. | |
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The Simpsons had a season 1 episode named "Homer's Odyssey" where he crusaded for more stringent safety regulation. It would still be several more seasons before they made the episode "Lemon Of Troy" that actually mirrored the plot of The Odyssey (well, The Iliad)... and another stretch of years before they did it again with a literal re-enactment with Simpsons characters acting parts from the story of the Odyssey. Lampshaded at one point. When he reads the title "Homer's Odyssey", he wonders if it's about one of his previous adventures (wrong one, but still). Specifically, he wonders if it is about that time he rented a Honda Odyssey minivan. | |
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Beck has an album titled Midnite Vultures, but the song of that name appeared as a B-Side a year later. Interestingly, "Midnite Vultures" wasn't even written until after the album of the same name was finished - Beck wrote it specifically to be a b-side and named it after the album just because he couldn't think of a title. | |
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The title track of Blind Melon's Soup was left off the album: A live version was released a year before the album came out (on the Woodstock 94 compilation), but the studio version was on Nico the year after. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition introduced a background called “Secret Identity� for playing non-human Player Characters in disguise as humans in an early Adventurers’ League supplement. The later adventure Descent Into Avernus added a background for playing a more traditional masked superhero/supervillain with a Secret Identity, but because that title had already been used, it was called “Faceless� instead. | |
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Smallville does this several times. The Season 4 episode "Krypto", which does not deal with the actual superdog, but rather an actual stray dog that Clark briefly considers naming this. "Stray" technically would have been a better title for the description, but this had been used in Season 1, and referred to a person. The episode "Mercy" from Season 5, roughly two-and-a-half years before character Tess Mercer was introduced. She both occasionally goes by the nickname "Mercy" and is based in part on Mercy Graves. Season 5 also has an episode centered around two characters who can telekinetically manipulate glass, but had already used the title "Shattered" back in Season 3, so used the name "Fragile" instead. Clark meets at least three separate people who either have immortality, or some form of longevity, including The Ageless, Born-Again Immortality, and Complete Immortality. By the time the last two appeared, the episode title "Ageless" had already been used, ironically because the guest character suffered from Rapid Aging. Clark, Lex, and Lana all have near death experiences during the shows time, and all of them come following the episode "Hereafter". |
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"Point of No Return" would have made a better title for the Stargate SG-1 episode "Fail Safe", (AKA the episode where an asteroid is headed for Earth) but they already used it. And "Fail Safe" is what "Tangent", (the episode where O'Neill and Teal'c run into issues testing the X-301 Interceptor) should have been called. | |
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The Season 4 episode "Krypto", which does not deal with the actual superdog, but rather an actual stray dog that Clark briefly considers naming this. "Stray" technically would have been a better title for the description, but this had been used in Season 1, and referred to a person. | |
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On Sports Night: The episode entitled "Kafelnikov" is the episode before the one where Dan can't pronounce Yevgeny Kafelnikov's name. This could be considered Fridge Brilliance, since "Kafelnikov" is the episode in which we get the reason why Dan can't say Yevgeny Kafelnikov's name in the following episode. Also notable is "How Are Things in Glocca Morra", which was an episode a whole season before the song was a B-plot. However, that B-plot was originally intended to be a part of "How Are Things in Glocca Morra" before Real Life Rewrote the Plot. |
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The original-series Star Trek episode "The Children Shall Lead" makes repeated thematic reference to the "enemy within". Too bad "The Enemy Within" was already the title of an episode two seasons earlier... | |
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Meat Puppets' Golden Lies was originally going to have a Title Track, but it was ultimately left off the album... Five years later, Curt Kirkwood recorded a version of the song for his solo album Snow. | |
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Doctor Who: Series 1 does this deliberately. Episode 7 is entitled "The Long Game", which only vaguely describes the events of the episode. The Doctor finally confronts the villain playing a "long game" in episode 12, "Bad Wolf", and the events of episode 7 turn out to have been part of the plan. The very title of the show — at first a simple Running Gag — became this trope 48 years after its first broadcast, relevant to the Eleventh Doctor's Myth Arc. "The Wedding of River Song" discloses that "Doctor who?" is "the question that shall never be answered", and "The Time of the Doctor" fully reveals why: it's the question asked by the Time Lords trapped in the bubble universe on the other side of Trenzalore, and if answered with the Doctor's real name Gallifrey would return back to the main universe and cause the Time War to start anew. |
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Former guitarist/vocalist for Jellyfish and later The Grays, Jason Falkner's debut solo album was 1996's Jason Falkner Presents Author Unknown. The song "Author Unknown" was released on his next album, 1999's Can You Still Feel?. | |
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The South Park episode "How To Eat With Your Butt" revolves around a couple who have butts where their faces should be; at one point we do see them eating, but it's a rather minor gag. The later episode "Red Hot Catholic Love", though, has its whole B-plot about people eating through their butts (and subsequently defecating from their mouths). | |
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