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Punk band D.O.A. used the title Talk - Action = 0 for two otherwise completely unrelated releases: a 1991 Live Album and a 2010 studio album. To avoid confusion, the former is usually called "Talk - Action = 0 (Live)".
Allmusic's review of a Bloodhound Gang album noted their music "isn't made for an audience that wishes "Take the Long Way Home" was a Supertramp cover."
Taken is a 2008 thriller starring Liam Neeson, and a 2002 sci-fi miniseries.
A Tale of Two Kitties is either Tweety's debut cartoon, a sequel to Garfield: The Movie, an episode of T.U.F.F. Puppy, a 1996 Good Housekeeping movie, one of Dav Pilkey's Dog Man books, or an episode of Madagascar: A Little Wild.
The Tales Series and the Trails Series are not to be confused with each other. Both are long-running anime-styled JRPG series, but the former is a classic fantasy Action RPG series by Bandai Namco (formerly Wolf Team/Namco Tales Studio), while the latter is a Clock Punk turn-based RPG series by Nihon Falcom.
TaleSpin: The cartoon spawned several Licensed Games, none of them for the Atari ST or Amiga, which instead had an unrelated Point and Click Game Maker tool by that name.
Pictured on the main page is Tangled. It's a 2001 thriller starring Rachael Leigh Cook and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and also a 2010 animated film by Disney starring the voice of Mandy Moore as Rapunzel.
Not only is "Taskmaster" the name of a popular Marvel Comics character, it's also the name of a British comedy show where The Taskmaster (no relation) sets ludicrous tasks for celebrity contestants. It's also a wrestling name, used by Kevin Sullivan. There's also a game called TaskMaker, which is wholly unrelated to everything listed above (oddly, it isn't about making tasks).
The Taste of Defeat is either a Kamp Koral episode or a song by Enemy Of Reality.
The comedy TV series Taxi has got exactly nothing to do with the French action comedy movie series of the same name (named after the first of that series), or the Harry Chapin song, or the Williams Electronics' pinball table (aside from, perhaps, a taxicab), or the episode of CSI: NY which concludes an arc about a killer cabdriver.
Taxi Driver is either Martin Scorsese's breakout movie or a 1954 Indian musical.
"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. "Tell-Tale Hearts" is an episode of CSI.
Tempest is a 1981 video game, a 1996 comic book by DC Comics, a 2016 game by Lion's Shade, and a Bob Dylan album. The Tempest is a Shakespeare play.
"Tequila" is the name of half a dozen unrelated songs, two albums and a 1970s-'80s Spanish rock band.
Terminal Velocity is a 1994 movie, a 1995 video game, and an episode of CSI: Miami.
Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri is a 1996 Looking Glass Studios FPS. The 2011 TV series Terra Nova is completely unrelated.
That '90s Show is both a 2008 The Simpsons episode named after That '70s Show and the actual Sequel Series to That '70s Show.
That's What Friends Are For — a 1982 song written by Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager, famously covered by Dionne Warwick and Friends, or the Vulture Song from The Jungle Book (1967).
Them! is a 1954 Sci-Fi Horror movie about giant ants, Them is a 2006 French horror movie set in Romania, and Them is a 2021 Amazon Prime horror series about a Black family in an all-white '50s neighbourhood. "Them" was also the name of a '60s Blues Rock band fronted by Van Morrison.
The Thin Blue Line was a 1990s Brit Com starring Rowan Atkinson, as well as a 1988 documentary film by Errol Morris about a man falsely convicted and sentenced to death for murder.
The Thin Red Line was a number of things. Aside from a World War II novel that was adapted into two different movies, it was also a real-life military battle during the Crimean War. It was also the debut album by Canadian rock band Glass Tiger, plus the title track which was based on the real-life battle, and it was also another single performed by Saxon.
Think Fast is either a Nickelodeon game show or a Disney quiz-themed video game on the Nintendo Wii.
"Think Pink" is either an episode of Doc McStuffins or a chapter of Pretty Cure: Magic of the Rainbow.
This Love by Maroon 5 is most certainly not related to the Pantera song.
This Present Darkness: a Frank Peretti novel or a The Lord of the Rings fanfic?
Threat Vector has two novels: one written by Michael DiMercurio and another written by Tom Clancy.
The Thunder Force Shoot 'em Up series is unrelated to Thunderforce, a single-plane Beat 'em Up for the Commodore 64.
Three the Hard Way can either refer to a Blaxploitation film made in 1974, or an RPG Maker 2000 game created by iishenron in 2003.
'Til Death, the 2006 US sitcom, Till Death, a 2021 thriller film, and Till Death..., the 1981 ITV followup to the sixties/seventies BBC sitcomTill Death Us Do Part.
Time Bandit, the 1983 Atari ST adventure game, is not related to TimeBandit, the 2023 real-time stealth/puzzle game. Neither of them have anything to do with Time Bandits, the 1981 Terry Gilliam movie.
Time Killer, a 1959 Hugo Award-nominated novel, is not Time Killers, a fighting game from the '90s. Neither of them are related to Time Killers, the anthology of short stories written by Kazue Kato.
There are two video games named Tin Star set in The Wild West. The one that was released in 1994 is an on-rails Light Gun Game published by Nintendo and developed by Software Creations. The one that was released in 2014 is a Game written by Allen Gies and hosted on Choice of Games. Neither has any connection to Tex Tinstar, a segment on The Shnookums & Meat Funny Cartoon Show.
There are at least 12 different films about the sinking of the Titanic, and out of those, at least nine are simply called Titanic (the two exceptions would be A Night to Remember and The Legend of the Titanic). Are we talking the 1953 film, the 1996 miniseries with Catherine Zeta-Jones, the 1997 James Cameron film (by far the most famous), the Nazi version, or even the animated movie Titanic: The Legend Goes On (often abbreviated as Titanic- The Animated Musical)? The TV drama to mark the centenary is also named simply Titanic.
Titus is a 1999 film adaptation of Titus Andronicus, and a 2000 comedy TV series.
Toad the Wet Sprocket was a 1990s band. The NWOBHM Metal for Muthas compilation included a song from a different band named Toad the Wet Sprocket.
Tom and Jerry is an 1821 play, a 1931 cartoon series, a Simon & Garfunkel album, and one of several cartoon series about a cat and a mouse. None of these should be confused with Jerry and Tom, a 1998 movie directed by Saul Rubinek.
Tomboy is a 1985 American teen comedy film, a 2011 French coming-of-age film, a superhero comic book from The Interregnum and a 2015 autobiographical graphic novel.
The Tommy Wi-Show is both a series on Machinima's YouTube channel in which Tommy Wiseau plays video games, a Massive Multiplayer Crossover online animated series by Nathan's Ultimate Channel, and a one-off skit by Doug Walker done as a Take That! towards Wiseau Films for forcing him to take down his The Nostalgia Critic review of The Room.
"Too Young" is the title of half a dozen songs by artists such as Nat King Cole, Elton John and Sabrina Carpenter, among others.
Top Gear (UK), a popular automotive programme on BBC Two which shares its name with an old BBC radio show and a racing game series from the '90s and early '00s, and a similarly-themed American TV series.
If you have an Electronic Program Guide on your TV, you may be surprised when you stop the remote at a movie called Top Gun and realize that you're watching a 1950s Western instead of Tom Cruise and wicked aerial stunts.
20 years after the original "Tour de France", Kraftwerk produced a completely different tune titled "Tour de France 2003". The Tour de France Soundtracks album included both that and a re-recording of the original.
Traffic/Traffik/Trafic (depending upon what language the work is in) is a 2000 film about drug traffic (Traffic (2000)), the British TV series that movie was based on (Traffik), a 1960s-70s British rock band (Traffic (Band)), a 2018 thriller with Omar Epps (Traffik), a Jacques Tati film (Trafic), and a Romanian short film (Trafic).
Trailblazer is the name of two different video games: a racing game from 1986 where you play as a football and a total conversion Doom mod inspired by 80s action movies. There's also another unrelated racing game called Trailblazers, released in 2018 and revolving around painting the race track in the player team's colour.
Transparent, the series with Jeffrey Tambor, shares its name with a 2013 short film which also revolves around transgender identity, as well as a 2018 British thriller which doesn't.
Transylvania 6-5000 is either a 1963 Bugs Bunny cartoon or a 1986 comedy-horror movie with Jeff Goldblum.
Trapped is a UK game show, an Icelandic drama series, a series of video games, and an episode of CSI:NY with an investigator locked in a panic room with a decomposing body. Plus many movies, such as a 2002 thriller with Charlize Theron.
Traveller is a role-playing game, Traveler is a 2007 TV series, and Travelers is a 2016 TV series.
The Tree of Life is a 2011 movie. Tree of Life is a game by oddonegames.
The 2002 Disney film Treasure Planet, a science fiction retelling of the Robert Lewis Stevenson story, should NOT be confused with a 1982 Bulgarian animated film The Treasure Planet, a science fiction retelling of the Robert Lewis Stevenson story. The 1980s film became a Memetic Mutation for its extremely Deranged Animation.
Trinity is the name of a 1986 interactive fiction game, a 2009 ITV series, a tabletop game by White Wolf that was originally known as Æon, a 2008 DC comic series, and a Pokèmon fanfic. It's also the name of a character starring in a duology of Spaghetti Westerns starring Bud Spencer and Terence Hill.
"Troll Bridge" is the title of two short stories; one each by friends and former collaborators Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, and an episode of The Real Ghostbusters, all of which which have nothing in common save the pun on "toll bridge" and the reference to trolls living under bridges. (And a trope, based on the same pun.)
True Blue is the name of at least two albums: one by Madonna and another by dj TAKA, with both albums having Title Tracks to boot.
Trust is the name of three different bands, five music albums (including one by Elvis Costello), at least a dozen songs (from bands as diverse as Megadeth to Ayumi Hamasaki), a music production duo, three movies (from 1990, 2009, and 2010), two movies called The Trust (produced 101 years apart!), a British legal drama TV series, an episode of Wildfire, a group from Stargate SG-1, a magazine about investment trusts, a political party in the UK and a totally unrelated one in Greece, and at least four different My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfics, all of which are unrelated.
Truth and Ideals either refers to the first entry within Citadel of the Heart or the unrelated Truth and Ideals: The Unova Chronicles. Oddly enough, both of them share their basic premise of being Pokémon fics which heavily revolve around Generation V, with the former meant to be an In Their Own Image version of multiple aspects from both the anime and the games under the same roof, and the second being a novelization of a playthrough of Pokémon Black and White and being Truer to the Text as a result.
Turbo is a 1981 arcade game, a Power Rangers movie, and a 2013 animated movie.
Turbulence is a 1997 disaster flick starring Ray Liotta. It's also the name of an episode of Smallville where Clark has to save a plane, and one of CSI: NY with a murder aboard a flight Mac is on, as well as a 1992 MOD song by Purple Motion of Future Crew.
The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 novella by author Henry James and a short story about a time-travelling Doctor. "Turn of the Screws" is an episode of CSI involving a roller-coaster fatality.
Depending on whether you live in Canada or Mexico, TVO can either be an acronym for "TV Ontario" a public TV network, or the name a Spanish language game show hosted by Gabriela "Gaby" Ruffo.^note
The Twelve Days of Nickmas is either a Nickelodeon promo showed around the holidays in the early 2000s or a FilmCow video.
Twig is both a web novel and a comic miniseries.
Now when you say Twilight, do you mean Stephenie Meyer's outrageously successful vampire series or the Howard Chaykin mini-series deconstructing DC's 1960s space adventurers? Or the song from Electric Light Orchestra's Time album? Or one of the novels in a lengthy series about feral cats? Or a play about the 1992 Los Angeles riots? Or the 1998 thriller/noir starring Paul Newman, Gene Hackman, Susan Sarandon, and a briefly topless Reese Witherspoon? Twilight is also the name of a novel by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, about a fictional Holocaust survivor who becomes a psychiatrist and treats people who think they're people from The Bible.
Twilight Unbound is an Ask a Pony blog about Twilight Sparkle, while Twilight Unbound: The Stephanie Meyer Story is a comic book biography of Stephanie Meyer.
There are two movies called Twister, which naturally both involve tornadoes: There's the much-better-known Disaster Movie from 1996 and the Black Comedy independent film from 1989.
There is an obscure MSX2 game called Twinkle Star that was released on a magazine disk. It has no apparent relation to Twinkle Star Sprites, despite also being a Cute 'em Up.

The Ugly Truth is both a 2009 romantic comedy film and the fifth Diary of a Wimpy Kid book.
Ultraviolet (1998) and Ultraviolet (2006) are about vampires. However, one is a film, the other is a TV series, and they weren't even produced in the same country.
Ulysses is a novel based on The Odyssey, a 1954 movie adapting The Odyssey, or a Franz Ferdinand song inspired by The Odyssey (and possibly the novel).
The Uncertainty Principle is the name of the 2001 movie starring Leonnor Baldaque, names of episodes of Joan of Arcadia, NUMB3RS, The Spectacular Spider-Man, Chicago Justice, and Bloomers.
Undefeated is the 2011 Oscar winner for Best Documentary. THE Undefeated from the same year is a documentary praising Sarah Palin. You can't get further apart than that.
"Under Your Thumb" is the title of songs by Vaccine, Everyday Sunday and Godley & Creme.
Under Wraps is the name of a 1997 Disney Channel Original Movie, a 2021 remake which is also a DCOM, and an unrelated 2014 animated movie.
Underdog is both the name of a Western Animation series and film adaptation about a heroic canine and a gritty Manga centered around a Deadly Game that depicts graphic scenes of sex and murder.
Underdogs is the name of two Sports Films released in 2013. One is an American coming-of-age drama centered around Football; the other is an Argentine All-CGI Cartoon centered around Association Football (AKA soccer). In the case of the latter, it's the title they use in the United States. Underdogs is also the name of a post-apocalyptic book series, a four-member YouTube group based in Australia, a 2017 comedy film about up-and-coming YouTubers, another Sports film released in 2024 starring Snoop Dogg, and a 2022 flash-animated comedic edutainment show for Discovery Kids.
Underground (WGN) from 2016 shares its name with a 1995 Serbian film and a 2016 romance novel. None of them are connected to each other.
Undertale and Underrail are both 2015 retro-style turn-based Western RPGs taking place in an underground setting, but the former has a more cartoonish, comedic style and homages console Eastern RPGs like EarthBound and the Mario & Luigi series, while the latter has a darker, more complex tone and homages computer RPGs like the first two Fallout games and Jagged Alliance.
Underworld is an action/horror franchise about werewolves battling vampires, a 1996 comedy thriller starring Dennis Leary, and a Marvel Comics miniseries. Neither of them is related to the Sabreman game Underwurlde.
This wiki has pages for two different works called Unexpected: the Death Note fanfic and the Chinese series.
The Adventure Game Uninvited was released only a few years before a So Bad, It's Good movie of the same title about a killer mutant cat. The Uninvited is also the title of a classic 1944 haunted-house mystery film, a not-so-classic 2009 remake of the Korean thriller A Tale of Two Sisters, and a 1998 hit by Alanis Morissette.
Unknown somehow wound up being the title of two different psychological thrillers released just five years apart; the 2011 film is far better-known than the 2006 version, in part because it had Liam Neeson rather than Jim Caviezel as its lead.
Unleashed is a 2001 movie, a 2005 martial arts movie, and a 2016 comedy.
Unreal the demo by Future Crew, and Unreal the First-Person Shooter series by Epic Games (whom some Future Crew members worked with). Unrelated to the game UnReal World, or the 2015 TV series UnREAL (2015).
Unreal Estate is either an online work of literature, an Australian lifestyle program, or a SpongeBob episode.
The Untouchables is a series about Elliot Ness which became a 1987 film which spawned another series of the same name in 1993. "The Untouchable" is a CSI:NY episode about a gentlemen's club covering up a murder. "Untouchable" is a Batman Beyond episode where the villain has an impenetrable force field.
Up: a Right Said Fred album, a Peter Gabriel album or a Pixar movie?
- Or, while we're at it, a Russ Meyer movie?
  - In fact, before the release of Pixar's movie, members of IMDB were confused as to why they would be remaking a sex comedy.
- Not to mention an R.E.M. album.
- And a Shania Twain album, although that was technically Up!.
  - Which, in turn, is not to be confused with the Volkswagen up!. Not the Up!, the Up, or the up. The up!.
- "Up" is also the series title of a Granada TV documentary series covering the lives of a group of British children, one documentary every seven years. The first showed the children at age 7, and was thus called "7-Up" — which (probably not coincidentally) is also the name of a soft drink.
Up in Smoke is a Cheech & Chong movie and an episode of CSI.
Ups 'n Downs is the name of a 1931 Looney Tunes cartoon and an album by Bud Powell. Ups & Downs is a single by Snoop Dogg.

V is at once a TV series about aliens infiltrating Earth, a remake of said series, and a completely unrelated short story by Stephen King about an OCD sufferer trying to keep an Eldritch Abomination at bay. Also an Australasian energy drink, for Vendetta, and a dance remix of Vivaldi's "Winter" featured in beatmania IIDX and DanceDanceRevolution.
"Valentine's Day" is an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants, and chapters of Junior Officers and Ma Fille.
"Valerie" is a 1981 song by Steve Winwood, a 2006 song by the Zutons and a 2012 song by The Weeknd.
There's VALIS, the novel by Philip K. Dick, and Valis, the video game series by Telenet Japan. They're not related.
Don't confuse Japanese RPG series Valkyrie Profile with fellow Japanese RPG series Valkyria Chronicles.
Vanitas is the name of an album by Anaal Nathrakh and a Dir en grey song.
Vega$ (1978) was a show on ABC. Las Vegas was a show on NBC in the early 2000s. And CBS is soon to premiere a show titled Vegas. And all three of them are crime dramas!
Velma, the much-reviled 2023 adult-oriented Scooby-Doo reboot, shares its name with an unrelated 2022 live-action short film. Said film unfortunately got review-bombed on Letterboxd due to people confusing the two and the site not having a page for the cartoon.
Vermillion by DC Comics' imprint Helix Comics, Sword of Vermilion by Sega, known as Vermilion in Japan, Lord of Vermilion by Think Garage, Million Knights Vermillion by NRF, and Vermillion Watch by Eipix Entertainment are all unrelated.
Vikings is a 2013 TV series, and a BBC documentary. Vikings: War of Clans is a Mobile Phone Game. The Vikings is a 1958 movie.
Viper is a pinball game, an H-Game series, a TV series, a rapper, and a heavy metal band. Code Name: Viper is an unrelated NES game.
The Visitor can be either a 1979 sci-fi horror film, a video game, a 2007 drama film directed by Thomas McCarthy, an episode of Ben 10, two different episodes of SMG4, or the 2022 Blumhouse horror film.
Viva Las Vegas (1964) is a film starring Elvis Presley, the song of his that the film is named after, and an episode of the original CSI, which is, of course, set in that city.
Viz Media, the Japanese-owned American manga and anime distributor, must not be confused with Viz, the British adult comic book magazine.
The Vow is a 2012 romantic drama film Based on a True Story that stars Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum. The Vow is a 2014 Kung Fu Panda fanfic (though unrelated, it is also a romantic and dramatic story).