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{{quote|''"The exclamation point in the title scares me. Y'know, it's not just ''Freud'', it's '''''Freud!'''''"''

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Compare [[Excited Episode Title!]], [[Title Scream]]! See also [[Lucky Charms Title]] and [[Questioning Title?]]

 

== Played Straight! ==

 

* ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]''

* ''[[Aim for the Ace!]]''

* ''[[Angel Beats!]]''

* ''Angel Blade: Punish!''

* ''[[Rail Wars!]]''

* ''[[Monkey High|Saruyama!]]''

* ''[[Squid Girl|Shinryaku! Ika Musume]]'', and its second season ''Shinryaku!? Ika Musume''.

* ''[[SHUFFLE!]]''

* ''[[Yuri!!! on Ice]]''

 

* 1970s British comic book ''Cor!!'' has two exclamation marks. Sister publications at IPC/Fleetway included ''Whoopee!'' and ''Oink!'' (humour titles like ''Cor!!'') as well as ''Smash!'', ''Pow!'' and ''Wham!'' (action titles that eventually all merged together). There was also the very short-lived horror title ''Scream!''

* Comic book artist Scott Shaw! always has his name spelled like this. So does Tracy Yardley!, as a tribute.

* [[Franco Belgian Comics|French comic series]] ''[[Lou!]]''

** Whose [[Animated Adaptation]] is known as ''Lou!'' in English-speaking countries (why, yes, the spelling isn't identical<ref>That's because in French, one is to put a non-breaking space before exclamation marks, question marks, and colons</ref>).

* 1990s British comic ''Toxic!'', published by Apocalypse Ltd.

* ''[[The Batman]] Strikes!''

 

* ''[[Cannibal! The Musical]]''

* ''[[Repo! The Genetic Opera]]''

* ''[[I Want to Live|I Want to Live!]]''

 

* ''Hawkmistress!'' and ''Stormqueen!'' by [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]].

* [[Roger Zelazny]]'s short story "Horseman!"

* ''[[Discworld]]'':

* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]] novel ''Sky Pirates!''

* ''[[Childe Cycle|Dorsai!]]'' by [[Gordon R. Dickson]].

* The 1913 work by Willa Cather, O Pioneers!

 

* ''Combat!''

* ''Democracy Now!''—which is rather sedate due to the smooth jazz intro and Amy Goodman's soothing voice. The excitement is attributable to the political radicalism of the program's guests.

* ''[[Takeshi's Castle|Fuun! Takeshi-Jo]]'' <ref>Turbulence! Takeshi's Castle</ref> when it's not an overseas release.

 

* The band [[Los Campesinos]]! takes this a step further by renaming the band members' last names Campesinos!, too. So you get Gareth Campesinos!, Aleksandra Campesinos!, and the like.

* [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]]:

* Ligabue's album ''Arrivederci, Mostro!''

 

* [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lPmnL0X-xrA/Tgkrgpq_KRI/AAAAAAAAINM/jWo9iD0LQxQ/s1600/1sGJIpVMfe8hkDJxR9DUpGiMisH3FU0k.jpeg Google!] (in 1997).

 

* The ''[[Funday Pawpet Show]]'' [[Spin-Off]] ''The OMFG Blitz! Show''.

 

* ''Honk!''

* ''Oh! Calcutta'' (not a musical)

* ''Sherry!''

* In [[The Seventies]], it was ''[[Grease]]''. In [[The Nineties]], it became ''Grease!''

* ''[[Peanuts|Snoopy!!!]]''

 

* Bungie's first game, the ripoff of ''[[Pong]]'', ''GNOP!''

* ''[[Bug!]]!'' Also the name of the movie that Bug stars in.

* ''[[Pitfall!]]''

 

* ''[[Adventurers!]]''

* ''[[CRFH]]''

* ''[[I Was Kidnapped by Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space]]''

* ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]''

* David Willis does this with almost all of his comics in the [[Walkyverse]], ''Dumbing of Age'' being the only thing he has turned out so far to lack it. This may be because of the [[Alternate Universe]].

** ''Roomies!''

** ''Joyce and Walky!''

** ''Shortpacked!''

 

* There are ''two'' works featuring the same character entitled ''Stitch!'' One is a direct-to-video [[Pilot Movie]] for ''[[Lilo & Stitch: The Series]]'', one is [[Stitch!|an anime]].

* ''[[American Dad]]!''

* ''[[Superjail]]''

* ''[[Attack of the Killer Tomatoes]]''

* ''Slimer!'' shorts from ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]''

 

* [[wikipedia:Groen!|Groen!]] ("Green!"), the Belgian Green Party.

* The Swedish feminist party, [[wikipedia:Feminist Initiative (Sweden)|Feministiskt initiativ]] ("Feminist Initiative") is properly abbreviated Fi. However, since they chose to put the lowercase i upside-down in their logo, most people use F!

* In the Swiss city of Basel, there is an environmentalist party called [http://www.basta-bs.ch/ BastA!], whose name is an abbreviation for "Basel's Strong (i.e. cool/awesome) Alternative". "Basta" is also an Italian interjection, common in colloquial German, meaning "enough!". The exclamation mark adds emphasis.

 

== [[Parody|Parodies]]! and [[Show Within a Show|Shows-Within-a-Show]]! ==

* ''Big Shot!'', the show targeted at bounty hunters in ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]''.

 

* ''Songbird!'', an [[Stylistic Suck|extremely tacky]] musical adaptation of Tennessee Williams' ''Sweet Bird of Youth'', which we see a number from at the beginning of ''[[Death Becomes Her]]''.

* Jeff Goldblum's character in ''[[The Tall Guy]]'' gets cast in a musical version of ''[[The Elephant Man]]'', entitled ''Elephant!''

* Not just a show-within-a-show but an example within an example: ''Spectacular! Spectacular!'' in ''[[Moulin Rouge]]''

 

=== Literature! ===

* In ''[[Good Omens]]'', it's mentioned that Brian and Pepper favour comics "with a lot of exclamation marks in the title, like ''WhiZZ!!'' or ''Clang!!''"

* In ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' there is a horror movie convention called ''Splattercon!!!''

 

=== Live-Action TV! ===

* On ''[[Mad Men]]'', the day after Don and Betty go to the theater, her friend Francine asks how they liked "''Fiorello''-exclamation-point."

* ''Wormhole X-Treme!'', the [[Show Within a Show]] in ''[[Stargate SG-1]]''.

 

=== Video Games! ===

* ''Speare!'' from ''[[The Curse of Monkey Island]]''.

 

=== Web Comics! ===

* ''Nailed!'', the [[Crosses the Line Twice|musical about the crucifixion]] from ''[[Something*Positive]]''.

 

=== Western Animation! ===

 

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