Also, the White House is not really white.). ("bathroom-silicone like rubber"), "TROCK'NE MAUER SILICON-IMPRÄGNIERUNG" ("dry wall silicone finish", a finish to keep walls (masonry) dry) or "WEISSES HAUS KUNSTHARZ ROLLPUTZ 0,5 MM" ("white house synthetic resin roll-on plaster 0.5mm" obviously makes your house white and has a thickness of half a millimeter note No, that is not the german paint which is used for the White House - this comes from Keimfarben (based in Diedorf near Augsburg in Germany).
#Timecop wiki how to#
They offer products like "BAD-SILICON WIE GUMMI" note The person inventing the names has possibly never found out how to disengage the caps lock key. The German company Lugato does this quite a lot.The advertising was distinctive for simply declaring these properties, and leaving it at that. Ronseal Quick Drying Woodstain: Trope Namer, as its advertisement claims it does what its name is - It stains wood (for protection from the elements), which dries quickly.Make sure you add title examples to "title examples", and in-universe examples to "in-universe examples".Please help us by removing examples that don't fit when you see them. Note: Many examples on this page actually do not qualify and we are in the process of slowly cleaning it up.However, only the meaningful parts need to be in the title the title doesn't have to be the entire script of the movie. It isn't enough for the title to just be relevant or accurate - everything meaningful has to be conveyed in the title.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.This also means that if you feel the need to explain it, it probably isn't this trope. If not, then the title is NOT Exactly What It Says On The Tin. 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. Just because it may be obvious to you doesn't mean it's obvious to everyone.When adding examples to this page, there are some notes to keep in mind: This is not a trope for the names of things in general. All Real Life examples go in Titles or Advertising section.
This trope is only for titles or names given deliberately by authors or marketers. Compare Meaningful Name, A Dog Named "Dog". Adjective Noun Fred titles easily lend themselves to this.Ĭontrast In Name Only, Artifact Title. 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. The characters might point out the thing with a Title Drop. A Spoiler Title or Excited Title! Two-Part Episode Name! may feature some degree of this. See also In Which a Trope Is Described, a Victorian version of this trope. Direct opposite of and mutually exclusive with Non-Indicative Name. More on which may be found at That Other Wiki.ĭirect opposite of Word Salad Title, but not necessarily mutually exclusive with it.
#Timecop wiki tv#
This became a figure of speech through their extremely straight-forward TV ads.
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). For example, a character named simply "Flower Deliveryman" or "Girl in Red Dress". Also applies when minor characters in films and TV shows are given names that are nothing more than a brief description of what they do or look like. 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 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. That's when you can say that the story is "Exactly What It Says on the Tin". Sometimes, though, the premise or plot of the story is all right there in the title.
#Timecop wiki movie#
What, did they run out of movie titles or something?Ī title should tell you what a movie, show, episode of a show or product is about or does.
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