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[[caption-width-right:330:''American McGee Presents [[Redundancy Department of Redundancy|American]] McGee in American McGee's American McGee (By American McGee)'']]
 
{{quote|''[[Kenneth Branagh]]'s [[Mary Shelley]]'s [[Bram Stoker (Creator)|Bram Stoker]]'s [[Wes Craven]]'s [[Tim Burton]]'s'' [[The Beast of Yucca Flats|Beast of Yucca Flats]]. ''A [[Francis Ford Coppola]] film.''|'''Tom Servo''', ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000 (TV)|Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''}}
 
Many [[Film|Films]], works of [[Literature]] and other works are referred to not just by title but by author/ director/ etc., i.e. "William [[Shakespeare]]'s Hamlet." There are seven main variations:
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# ''Original Author's X'' -- Putting the author of the original work before the title of the adaptation in order to differentiate it from other Dracula-esque movies and add a stamp of authenticity. If the writer is still alive then this is intended to suggest the author did more than just sign the rights away and be done with it; if not, it's intended to suggest the creators are trying to be true to (their understanding of) the original work (especially if it's out-of-copyright - ''anyone'' can make a Dracula film).
# ''Celebrity Sponsor's X'' -- Attaching the name of a popular author or celebrity onto a game into which he probably had little input, in order to improve the branding and attract passing trade. This is similar to the George Foreman Grill, in that nobody is under the illusion that John Madden sat down and coded an entire video game in his spare time.
# ''Executive's X'' -- Putting the name of a producer or other executive with big-name power on the posters for much the same reason as (2), but this is worse because these people are usually directors or writers themselves. There's an implicit suggestion that the named person had something to do with it creatively when he most likely just gave it some money (or, at most, came up with a plot outline and a few characters). Sometimes rendered as ''[[Steven Spielberg]] Presents: [[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]''. Many people still labour under the impression that Tim Burton directed ''The Nightmare Before Christmas'' (it was really [[Henry Selick]]; Tim Burton came up with the original story, but didn't write the screenplay).
# ''New Interpreter's X'' -- A variation on #1 used to show that this adaptation is a bold new vision distinct from the original author's version. A relatively honest variation, in that the name at the front of the title actually does belong to the person who created the work.
# ''Actual Creator's X'' -- where the creator actually ''did'' create the work, no qualifiers needed.
# ''Company's X'' -- A variation on any of types 2 through 5 with the company instead of a single person.
# ''Star's or Host's X'' or ''Bert's [[Family Feud (TV)|Family Feud]]'' -- Another variation on #5 with the star or host instead of the creator.
 
Not to be confused with [[Author Catchphrase]] or [[Signature Style]]. Compare [[Self-Titled Album]].
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== Original Author's X ==
* ''[[Bram StokersStoker's Dracula]]'' (though this was also to distinguish it from the [[Universal Horror|Universal]]'s ''Dracula'')
** ''Bram Stoker's Dracula's Guest''
** ''Bram Stoker's Burial of the Rats''
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** ''Bram Stoker's Way of the Vampire''
* ''[[Mary Shelley's Frankenstein]]'' (like ''Bram Stoker's Dracula'', partially to distinguish from the Universal's ''Frankenstein'')
* [[Mario Puzo]]'s ''[[The Godfather (Film)|The Godfather]]'' - done at the insistence of [[Francis Ford Coppola]], who felt Puzo deserved most of the credit. Since that movie got his career started, Coppola has gone on to do the same for ''every'' film he directs that is adapted from a novel.
* ''Lemony Snicket's [[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'', perhaps given that title to emphasize the [[Lemony Narrator]].
* [[Stephen King]], despite being an archetypal example of [[Billed Above the Title]] for his own novels, isn't a prominent example of this trope. Certainly, he has had several adaptations of his novels preceded by his name, but usually not the really famous ones. The interesting case here is that he actually sued to have his name taken off the movie version of ''The Lawnmower Man''. He also remade ''The Shining'', because he hated the [[Stanley Kubrick]] version (to the point where he was legally forced to stop talking about it) and called the TV mini-series ''Stephen King's The Shining''.
* [[Robert Rodriguez]]'s film version of ''[[Sin City]]'' is credited as ''Frank Miller's Sin City''; Rodriguez's intention was to acknowledge Miller as the primary creative force behind the film. As he originally said to Miller in his first pitch: "I don't want to make Robert Rodriguez's ''Sin City''. I want to make Frank Miller's ''Sin City''."
** He went so far as to quit the Directors' Guild of America when they wouldn't agree to let them share director credit. [[Nice Guy|Awww.]]
* ''[[Agatha Christie (Creator)|Agatha Christie]]'s [[Poirot]]''
* ''[[William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet]]'', among many others
* ''Frank Herbert's [[Dune]]''
* "[[Ian Fleming]]'s [[James Bond]] 007 in..." Not part of the title itself, but often included in the title sequence, possibly because the [[James Bond]] franchise is a bit unusual in its lack of an arching franchise-title.
** Early installments had the order reversed, i.e., "James Bond 007 in Ian Fleming's...." The changeover happened with ''[[The Spy Who Loved Me]]'', which was by Fleming's request an [[In Name Only]] adaptation.
* ''Rudyard Kipling's [[Jungle Book (Filmfilm)|Jungle Book]]'' (1942) and ''Rudyard Kipling's [[The Jungle Book (Filmfilm)|The Jungle Book]]'' (1994), both rather loose live-action adaptations of ''[[The Jungle Book (Literaturenovel)|The Jungle Book]]''.
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Animationanimation)|J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings]]'', Ralph Bakshi's [[Love It or Hate It]] [[Animated Adaptation]].
* ''[[Hans Christian Andersen (Creator)|Hans Christian Andersen]]'s [[Thumbelina]]''
* ''[[Emily Bronte (Creator)|Emily Bronte]]'s [[Wuthering Heights (Literaturenovel)|Wuthering Heights]]''
* [[Plato (Creator)|Plato]]'s ''[[The Republic (Literaturenovel)|Republic]]''
* [[Homer (Creator)|Homer]]'s ''[[The Iliad (Literature)|The Iliad]]'' and ''[[The Odyssey (Literature)|The Odyssey]]''
* [[The Mockbuster]] version of ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]'' was credited in some places as ''Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's [[Sherlock Holmes]]''. This is a particularly bare-faced example.
* ''And Another Thing'', the sixth book in ''[[Douglas Adams]]' [[The HitchhikersHitchhiker's Guide to Thethe Galaxy]]''. This could be considered somewhere between Type 1 and Type 5, as this book is set in Adams' universe, starring his characters, but was written by [[Eoin Colfer]].
* The [[Animated Adaptation|Animated Adaptations]] of ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Wyrd Sisters|Wyrd Sisters]]'' and ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Soul Music|Soul Music]]'' opened with a logo saying ''[[Terry Pratchett]]'s [[Discworld (Literature)|Discworld]]''. The recent [[Sky One1]] [[The Film of the Book|Films of the Books]] are ''[[Terry Pratchett]]'s [[Discworld (Literature)/Hogfather|Hogfather]]'', ''[[Terry Pratchett]]'s [[Discworld (Literature)/The Colour of Magic|The Colour of Magic]]'' and ''[[Terry Pratchett]]'s [[Discworld (Literature)/Going Postal|Going Postal]]''.
* ''[[HGH. G. Wells]]'s The Invisible Man'', a 1950s TV series about an invisible man (who wasn't the one from Wells's novel, nor did the series bear any other similarities).
* ''[[H.P. Lovecraft (Creator)|HP Lovecraft]]'s Dreams in the Witch-House'', an episode of the TV Show ''[[Masters of Horror]]''.
* ''[[GoetheJohann (Creator)Wolfgang von Goethe|Goethe]]'s [[Faust]]''
 
 
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** ''Tom Clancy's [[End War]]''. We could go on and on..
** ''Tom Clancy'' is, in fact, a brand now, with the logo on the left side of the cover art being the stylized Rainbow with a pistol, and the words "Tom Clancy's".
* ''[[Madden NFL (Video Game)|Madden NFL]]''
** Somewhat misleading, as Madden did much more than to lend his name and sponsorship to the game. The game was not initially conceived as a realistic football simulation, but Madden refused to put his name on it unless it were one. The game as it exists is very much ''his'' concept instead of the developers', so it's fitting that it's named after him.
** ''Tiger Woods PGA Tour''
** ''Brian Lara Cricket''
* ''[[Clive Barker]]'s Undying''. Clive was brought in partway through development for a rewrite of the story, and he also ended up doing a character's voice. His name was attached to it because EA thought it would sell. Unfortunately, despite being a very good game, it didn't -- due in no small part to the sum total of EA's marketing campaign for the game being slapping "Clive Barker's" in front of the title.
* ''[[Arthur C. Clarke (Creator)|Arthur C. Clarke]]'s Mysterious World'', a documentary series; Clarke introduced each episode, but was otherwise uninvolved (even the narration for the bulk of each episode was done by somebody else)
* ''[[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s Mystery Magazine''
** Also a number of anthologies of short stories for children (one centered on spies, one on horror, one on mysteries, etc.) were published as ''Alfred Hitchcock's X''. The ''Three Investigators'' series was also "presented" and introduced by Hitchcock. Hitchcock had nothing to do with any of these, other than licensing his name out to them.
* ''[[Robert Ludlum]]'s The [[The Bourne Series (Literaturenovel)|Bourne]] Conspiracy'' by Eric Lustbader
* ''The Jon Pertwee Book of Monsters'' and ''Peter Davison's Book of Alien Monsters'', short story anthologies trading on the stars of ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]''. Apparently, Davison actually chose the stories in "his" book, while Pertwee only provided introductions to stories selected by another; this may explain why only Davison gets the 's.
* ''Tony Hawk's Pro Skater''
** ''Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX''
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* ''Isaac Newton's Gravity''. Something tells me Sir Isaac Newton had nothing to do with the creation of the game.
* The ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' series ''R. A. Salvatore's War of the Spider Queen.'' Each book in the series was written by a different author, and while Salvatore ''did'' oversee the project, his name is basically a selling point for these novels by lesser known authors.
* The ''[[Adventure Island]]'' games are titled ''Takahashi-Meijin no Bouken Jima'' (Master Takahashi's Adventure Island) in Japan, after [[Hudson Soft]]'s spokesman who is barely recognizable as his in-game likeness. The first game was actually titled ''Hudson's Adventure Island'' outside Japan, though it was originally ''[[Wonder Boy (Videovideo Gamegame)|Wonder Boy]]'' and not a [[Hudson Soft]] game at all.
* ''Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat''
* ''Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf''
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== Executive's X ==
* ''[[Tim Burton]]'s [[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]''
** A (probably intentional) effect of this is that many people by extension think that he directed ''[[Coraline (Filmanimation)|Coraline]]'' as trailers advertised it as "from the director of ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]''" and make no effort to tell you that means Henry Selick.
** Maybe not on the TV spots, but the theatrical trailer included Henry Selick's name.
** DirecTv took this a step further. "''Tim Burton's [[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'': The Pumpkin King gives the yuletide season a touch of Halloween in an animated tale from the mind of Tim Burton. Animated. From a Tim Burton story."
** Few also remember that this was, technically, a ''[[Family Friendly|Disney]]'' film; aside from placing it under their Touchstone logo, Disney didn't want anyone to intinally know it was from or associated with them, so adding Burton's name was one more degree away in their eyes.
* The miniseries ''[[Steven Spielberg]]'s [[Taken (TV series)|Taken]]''. Spielberg neither wrote nor directed any episodes (all ten episodes were directed by different people, and while they were all written by the same man it wasn't Spielberg).
** Although Spielberg has "Story By" credit on 15 episodes of ''[[Amazing Stories]]'' (including the two he directed) and wrote another one, his name isn't part of the title except in British listings guides (which insisted on calling it ''Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories'').
* ''[[Wes Craven]] Presents: [[T HeyThey]]'', in addition to being a terrible film, is an example of #3.
** Also ''Wes Craven's Wishmaster'', ''Wes Craven presents [[Dracula 2000]]'', ...
** The "Wes Craven Presents" series was an attempt to give experience and an opportunity to some up-and-coming young directors. It was hoped that attaching Craven's name would make the films more appealing to distributors and renters. The whole effort has probably done more harm to Craven's name than it has good for anyone else's.
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== New Interpreter's X ==
* ''[[American McGee's Alice]]'', indicating the grim [[Grimmification|withdrawal-suffering]] take on ''[[Alice in Wonderland (Literature)|Alice in Wonderland]]''. However, American McGee himself ''didn't'' want his name on the game, claiming it was the publishers who slapped his name upon it in order to promote it as "the game made by one of the developers of Doom". The sequel is simply "Alice: Madness Returns".
* ''[[John Carpenter]]'s [[The Thing (Filmfilm)|The Thing]]'', to separate it from the much less faithful to the book [[The Thing Fromfrom Another World|movie]] in the fifties.
** Though John Carpenter is notorious for adding his name to all of his films' titles (''[[Halloween (Filmfilm)|Halloween]]'', ''[[Body Bags (Comic Book)|Body Bags]]'', ''[[Vampires]]'', ''[[Escape Fromfrom New York]]'', ''[[Escape From LAL.A.]]'').
*** This seems likely to be the real explanation, since the original story was entitled "Who Goes There?" and using that title would have been sufficient if distinguishing it from the earlier movie had been the only goal.
* ''Kenneth Branagh's [[Hamlet]]'', oddly part of what made it so different was how closely he follow the exact words of the play (to the point where he added back lines which have been missing for three hundred years).
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* ''[[Neil Gaiman]]'s [[Eternals]]'', which is significantly updated from the original Jack Kirby comics.
* ''[[Dean Koontz]]'s [[Frankenstein]]''.
* ''[[Jeff WaynesWayne's Musical Version of theThe War of Thethe Worlds]]'' -- a [[Rock Opera]] adaption of the [[Alien Invasion]] novel by [[HGH. G. Wells]].
* ''[[Lord ByronsByron's Don Juan]]''
* ''[[Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America]]''
* ''[[Elton John]] and [[Tim Rice]]'s [[Aida]]''
* ''[[Monte CooksCook's World of Darkness]]''
 
 
== Actual Creator's X ==
* [[Sid Meier]] has gained sufficient acclaim for his work that ''[[Sid MeiersMeier's Alpha Centauri]]'' is the official title. And ''Sid Meier's [[Civilization]]''. And ''Sid Meier's [[Railroad Tycoon]]''. And...
** Sid Meier's been getting less involved in the games of late; although he remains Chief Creative Officer of Firaxis, he doesn't write much code anymore. He apparently does contribute a lot conceptually, though.
* Like Sid Meier, [[Will Wright]] makes such good games that he deserves to have his name in the title, though nobody ever includes it in idle conversation.
** Supposedly, that's because Will Wright either doesn't ''want'' his name in the titles, or ''EA'' doesn't want his name in the titles. Depending on who you believe, Will Wright is either a humble guy, or EA is full of jerkass executives.
*** That's the inclusive or, I take it.
* Chris Sawyer's ''Locomotion''. A sequel to his earlier ''Transport Tycoon'' game, the only reason his name was included on this one was to play up on the popularity of the [[Roller CoasterRollercoaster Tycoon|other game he made]] in between those two.
* ''John Romero's [[Daikatana (Video Game)|Daikatana]]''
* ''Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate''
* ''Archer Maclean's Mercury''
* ''[[Tim Burton]]'s [[Corpse Bride (Animation)|Corpse Bride]]''
* ''Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio.'' This is somewhere between types 3 and 4, actually, since Paul McCartney is both author and executive. He was ''one'' of the creators of this work, but he did have a collaborator. Since Paul couldn't read the music he was writing, he was afraid that people would think this piece was ghostwritten if he didn't put his name on it. Carl Davis, his collaborator, did not appreciate this title.
* [[Tyler Perry]] and anything he releases.
** ''[[The Onion]]'' did a parody of this with "[http://www.theonion.com/content/magazine/the_top_50_tyler_perry_movies Tyler Perry's Top 50 Tyler Perry films of 2007]."
* Despite the below-mentioned parody, ''[[Clive Barkers Jericho|Clive Barker's Jericho]]'' is actually a case of this... to a degree. He didn't actually write the code or anything, but he collaborated on development and is listed as "creator" in the credits.
* Blake Edwards did this with several of his films' onscreen credits from ''The Great Race'' onwards, as he often served as director, writer, ''and'' producer. He also named his 1980s production company Blake Edwards Entertainment.
* ''[[Kurt Busiek]]'s [[Astro City]]''. Put in by the author because his editor thought simply ''Astro City'' sounded too hokey. His name tends to be in rather smaller print.
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* ''George A. Romero's Land of the Dead''
* Writers who are popular enough tend to have their names as large or larger than the title on the covers of their books. Sometimes this reaches ridiculous levels.
* ''[[Wes Craven]]'s [[A Nightmare Onon Elm Street|New Nightmare]]''
* [[Older Than Steam]]: This device was not unknown in the 17th century. One of the compositions of Johann Kaspar Kerll bears the title ''La batal à Casparo Ceerl''.
* Sometime's this is done as a fan reflex more than anything - several works by [[Katsuhiro Otomo]] have his name added by fans more than anything. Oddly, the only film that has this as an official alternate title is [[Memories]] which as an anthology, had numerous people working in the same capacity as Otomo did. Go figure.
* ''James Cameron's [[Avatar (Filmfilm)|Avatar]]'', in order to [[Similarly Named Works|distinguish it]] from [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|the other Avatar]]; Cameron ''did'' write and direct it.
* Not a clean-cut example, considering the title uses [[Colon Cancer]] rather than the more classic possessive form. Nevertheless, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSU1Lvxy9Sk the opening sequence] for [[Chuck Norris|Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos]] certainly drops a hint or two about who created it... taking this trope to drinking game levels.
* ''[[Hideo Kojima]]'s [[Metal Gear Solid]] Snake Eater 3D: "The Naked Sample."''
* ''The Inferno'' by Dante Aligheri, is almost always referred to as ''Dante's Inferno''.
* The original edition of Shakespeare's sonnets is actually titled "[[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Shakespeare's Sonnets]]", and repeats the words as a running title on every page. At that time this was a very unusual kind of title; one could almost believe that the editors foresaw the centuries of disputed authorship that were to follow.
* ''[[Kira Is Justice (Fanfic)|Kira Is Justice]]'' was formerly called ''[[Chihuahua 0|C0's]] Death Note'', because it was a [[Working Title]]. [[Captain Obvious|It was changed]].
* In the 1960s kids' cartoon "Beany and Cecil" (also called "Matty's Funnies with Beany and Cecil"), creator Bob Clampett shoehorned his name in every episode about six times, including in the opening theme song, which also features a cartoon rendering of him. Every half-hour episode consists of three cartoon shorts, and in the beginning of ''every'' one of them, the main characters sang "so here are Beany and Cecil in--a whole half-hour--Bob Clampett cartoo--oon!" [[The Other Wiki]] reports that he was known as "a shameless self-promoter." Well...yeah.
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*** The Canadian network Family, a ''de facto'' Disney Channel for Canada, used to do this; since about 80% of their schedule is Disney shows, this meant that practically ''everything'' was prefaced by "Disney's".
{{quote| "Coming up next on Family, Disney's ''[[Recess]]'', followed by Disney's ''[[Kim Possible]]'', and then, Disney's ''[[Hannah Montana]]''."}}
** Possibly so that Disney has some trademark to fall back on should someone challenge its ownership of a generic term or [[Public Domain Character]]'s name. For example, they couldn't trademark ''[[Cars (Animation)|Cars]]'', so they trademarked "Disney [[Pixar]] Cars". Likewise, should someone invalidate [http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=71295828 Disney's trademark on "Pinocchio"], that wouldn't affect a trademark on "[[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Disney's Pinocchio]]". Certain TV listings may list ''[[Recess]]'' as ''Disney's Recess'', but not usually.
* [[Dreamworks Animation]] also does this, due perhaps to the CEO of the company being a former Disney executive.
* ''Rockstar Games Presents [[Red Dead Redemption]]''. Not the official title, just on the case.
* ''Warner Bros.' [[Histeria (Animation)|Histeria!]]''
* [[Tecmo]] loves this trope. See ''[[Secret of the Stars (Video Game)|Tecmo Secret of the Stars]]'', ''[[Deception|Tecmo's Deception]]'', ''[[Tecmo Bowl]]'', ''[[Tecmo Stackers]]''...
* The cartoon ''Fox's Peter Pan and the Pirates''.
* [[Nickelodeon]]'s ''[[Rocket Power]]''
* Google and Microsoft are both fond of this trope.
* ''Saban's [[Diabolik]]''.
* Saban's ''[[Power Rangers]]''. Also an example of [[Screwed Byby the Network]] as the Disney Years ''never'' had Disney's name on it and admitted shame over having it.
 
 
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* ''Ant & Dec's Push the Button''
* ''Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway''
* ''Bert's [[Family Feud (TV)|Family Feud]]''
* ''Bruce Forsyth's [[Card Sharks|Play Your Cards Right]]''
* ''Bruce's [[The Price Is Right|Price Is Right]]''
* ''Burgo's [[Catchphrase (TV)|Catchphrase]]''
* ''Chris Moyles' Quiz Night''
* ''Chris Tarrant's Great Pretender''
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== Fan Fiction ==
* [[I'm a Marvel And ImI'm a ADCDC|ItsJustSomeRandomGuy]], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg6v1dgTcxw parodying] the future ''[[Spider-Man (Filmfilm)|Spider-Man]]'' film reboot: "[[Sony]] presents Sony's Spider-Man, [[Executive Meddling|by Sony!]]"
 
 
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* Parodied by the film ''Jane Austen's Mafia!'', which has nothing at all to do with Jane Austen.
** At the time, there were a lot of film and TV adaptations of Austen, the Bronte sisters and their contemporaries that were using the formula (e.g., ''Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice''), so it was a topical parody.
* In the ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'' writers' commentary, it is stated that the film's ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' parody was initially going to be referred to as ''Baz Luhrmann's [[William Shakespeare's Romeo+Juliet (Film)|William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet]]''.
* Parodied in ''Mr. Bean's Holiday'': "CARSON CLAY PICTURES present - CARSON CLAY - in a CARSON CLAY production - of a CARSON CLAY film" - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glAhZcjo37s PLAYBACK TIME]
* ''Precious: Based on the novel '[[Push (Literaturenovel)|Push]]' by Sapphire'', one can only guess that is title is for cases where you forgot, for cares to forget that the cinematic motion picture (feature length) is adapted from a long form narrative prose (fiction-American, written in English) work of a different name written by an author under a pseudonym.
** The adaptation was originally called ''Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire'', but retitled to avoid confusion with the 2009 sci-fi film ''Push''.
** NBC's ''[[The Office]]'' parodies this trope when Michael, taking Erin out to lunch, pops in a book-on-tape "novelization" of ''Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire''.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (TV)|Garth Marenghi's Darkplace]]''
* Also satirized in ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' with Stephen's still unpublished [[Doorstopper]] Sci-Fi epic, ''Stephen Colbert's Alpha Squad 7: Lady Nocturne: A Tek Jansen Adventure''
** And the animated shorts: ''[[Colon Cancer|Stephen Colbert Presents: Stephen Colbert's Alpha Squad Seven: Tek Jansen in Operation: Heart of The Phoenix - Dead or Alive: A Tek Jansen Adventure]]''.
* ''Parrot Sketch Not Included'', a 20th anniversary compilation of sketches (not including the dead parrot one, obviously) from ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', featured a filmed intro and outro from comedian Steve Martin. The actual title for the piece was 'Steve Martin is Steve Martin in Steve Martin's ''Parrot Sketch Not Included'' (A Steve Martin production)'.
* On ''[[3rd Rock Fromfrom the Sun|3rd Rock From The Sun]]'', Dick got the chance to direct ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]''. This is how he responded:
{{quote| '''Dick''': I can see it now on the marquee... ''Dick Solomon Presents A Dick Solomon Production of Dick Solomon's Romeo and Juliet''.}}
* ''[[Married... Withwith Children]]'': "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Larry Storch players present: A Larry Storch production of Larry Storch's [[Phantom of the Opera]], coming to you in Surround Storch. Starring Larry Storch ..."
* An episode of ''[[Growing Pains]]'' where Ben makes a movie for class, Ben gives him self top billing for everything, writing, directing, producing and staring. He does give the rest of the cast credit, in tiny writing squeezed onto one title card.
 
 
== Web Originals ==
* Parodied by ''[[Zero Punctuation (Web Animation)|Zero Punctuation]]'' in the review of "[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation/2633-Zero-Punctuation-Clive-Barker-s-Jericho Clive Barker's 'Clive Barker's Jericho' (by Clive Barker)]".
* Also parodied by John Solomon of ''[http://badwebcomics.blogspot.com/ Your Webcomic is Bad and You Should Feel Bad]'': over time, his references to Robert A. Howard's webcomic review site [http://tangent.panel2panel.com/ Tangents] have gotten increasingly unwieldy. For example: "Robert A. 'Tangents' Howard of Robert A. Howard's 'Tangents', by Robert A. Howard (featuring Robert A. Howard, of 'Tangents')".
* [[Old Man Murray]] was absolutely ''merciless'' to American McGee, going so far as to insinuate that he referred to everyday objects in this fashion (i.e. "Have you seen American McGee's my pen?")
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