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If you're not careful, on non-MediaWiki wikis, it's quite possible to screw yourself up via The Problem with Pen Island. Some examples from the preceding wiki:

A

• A Band On Ship (Presumably, a cruise ship.)
  • A Band on Ship Ping (The USS Ping welcomes our musical hosts, Pen and the Islands!)
• Act Ion Girl (Particle Man's girlfriend.)
• A Dam We Sting (how do you sting a dam?)
  • A Dam West In G (A piece of instrumental music about the Hoover Dam?)
• Admin Is Trivia (all site maintenance items should go to Trivia Trope namespace)
• A God Ami (Sailor Moon Possession Sue fanfic?)
• Ana Chrono X (Ana, Crono and X crossover?)
• An Axtog Rind (What kind of fruit is an axtog? Is its rind used in cooking or something?)
• A Nice Gun (Bling of War)
• A Nice Person (nobody likes mean people)
• A Nice Suit (everybody likes a sharp-dressed man)
• Animal Arm Aged Don (the arm of the crazy pink Muppet increased the age of some random guy called Don)
• Alien's Crappy (I met an alien who came to Earth with his friends. He was a nice guy, but his idea of entertainment was crappy, so he wasn't fun at all.)
  • alienscrap.py (A Paraguayan website dedicated to the feces of aliens; alternatively, an Python program which runs on the feces of aliens. A third option is a show about aliens beating the crap out of each other - Alien Scrappy)
• Aliens Pace Bats (On the other hand, the alien's friends played a nice game of sports with bats. I played baseball and cricket with them.)
• Alter Nate His Tory (why should we alter Nate the Tory?)
• Ant I Love Song (Did I ever tell you how much I love ants? That Reminds Me of a Song!)
• Anti Poops OC King (the king of Orange County has declared no one may poop!)
• As Shole Victim (As the shoal victim went through his ordeal, the newspaper reporting the incident misspelled its article's title.)
• Auto Psy (Automatic Psychology? Automobile Psychology?)
  • Alien Auto Psy
  • Auto Psy Snack Time
• Ax Is Power She Talia

B

• Bad As Screw (hey, some of us like ...!)
  • Bad As Sad Orable (are happy orables any better?)
  • Bad As Sad Or Able (what's so bad about being able?)
• BIOS Hock
  • BIOS Hock Infinite
  • Cultures Hock
  • School's Hock
  • Shells Hock Silence
  • Static's Hock
  • System's Hock
  • Thunder's Hock
  • Zero's Hock
• Bi Shonen (A young Japanese bisexual male.)
• Bit He Way
• Black LA Goon (A staple of crime films set in Southern California, Unfortunate Implications aside.)
• Boo Ken DS (a Nintendo DS game starring Ken as both a parody of Street Fighter and a crossover with Super Mario Bros. Characters from both series wear joke sports mascot-like costumes over their normal clothes; Ken's looks like a Boo.)

C

• Cameras Crew (They filmed it.)
• Car Men Sand I Ego (I want to have the Car Men's Sand for myself.)
  • Car Men San Die Go (But my rival wants them to die quickly.)
• Cats Care (No, they don't...)
  • Jumps Care (How is that possible?)
  • Reds Care (Maybe communists do, though)
• C Ave Man, About the guy from Avenue C in Manhattan's Lower East side. They did a bunch of sequels, remember?
  • Contemporary C Ave Man
  • Teenage C Ave Man
  • The Unfrozen C Ave Man Lawyer
  • All C Ave Men Were Neanderthals
• Caves Tory (cavemen's British Conservative Party politics)
• Clan Nad (Presumably this clan is fond of jock straps.)
• Clothing Da Mage and Hat Da Mage (description of putting on a Robe and Wizard Hat?)
• Con Stan Tine (a remake of The Sting starring a guy named Stan)
• Crack Ed (Ed refuses to say no to drugs.)
• Cut E-Witch (The New Media equivalent to Burn the Witch)
  • Cut Ew Itch (This wound is itchy and gross-looking, maybe I ought to see a doctor...)

D

• "D" is simile (Because it is, I guess.)
• Dater Ape (An ape who's on the dating scene)
• Disco NE Final Dung Eon (The last of The Dung Ages in a north-eastern world ends with a disco!)
• Disc On Tin Unit Y (This is Tin Unit Y speaking. We need the data from that disc.)
  • Can On Disc On Tin Unit Y and Fan On Disc On Tin Unit Y (This is Tin Unit Y speaking, quit stacking stuff on me)
• Doe Snot Likes Hoes (Prostitutes are advised to avoid cold-stricken female deer for this reason.)
  • Doe Snot Likes Pam (Apparently people named Pamela should avoid them too)
• Do In Git For The Art (Kill that bastard for the artistry!)
  • Doing It Fort Heart (Having sex in Fort Heart, presumably)
  • Doing IT for the Art (one reason for going into the information technology business is so I can do the graphical design portions of programs to make them works of art)
• Doom Ed Hometown
• Do Ug (Ug caveman! Ug want sex!)
  • Do Ug Der KY (Ug forget to mention using lubricant and speaking German.)
• Drag On Ballz (hey, it's even an accurate description of the original!)
• Dung Eons Hop (An informal dance that was popular during a really long stretch of The Dung Ages)
• Dyna Mice N Try Kirby's friend Dyna has some mice she wants to get along with Kirby, but this is her nth try because Kirby travels so much

E

• Eenie Meenie Miny Mo AI (A Robotic Psychopath who selects his victims at random)
• EU Catastrophe (A disaster in Europe)

F

• Fakes Kill (The guy you go to when you want your Death Faked for You)
• Fan On (this room need air conditioning!)
• Fat Alf Law (first law of Fat Alf: Do not talk about Fat Alf.)
  • Fat Al Flaw (Fat Al's flaw is being too fat.)
    • Fat Al Fury (Fat Al isn't happy about being too fat.)
    • Fat Al Attractions (Fat Al doing performances)
• Faux Reigner (a pretender to the throne).
• Fear Some Critters? You should—some critters are fearsome.
• Finding Abra In Your Car (aww, a cute psychic Pokémon is in my car!)
  • Finding A Brain Your Car (why does a Brain In a Jar want me to help it find my car? It's not like it can drive...)
• F RED (Your horrible school work gets an F.)
• Fuk U Fic

G

• Gain Ax Ending: Our hero got an ax at the end of the story.
• Gain Ax In G (You got an electric guitar. Now play a G note on it.)
• Gala XY Angel (Gala is a male angel.)
  • Gala XY Angel Rune (He has a symbol representing himself in the form of a rune.)
• Gannon Ban Ned (Ned is innocent!)
• Gar Field (What kind of fish can you catch in the pond near the field? Gar!)
• Girl On Girl I Shot (...when I made this lesbian porn film)
• God Wins Law (After all, He is all-knowing, and He can get a witness), God Win Slaw (God win prize! Prize is slaw.)
• Go Ogle (modus operandi of a pervert)
• Gotta Catch The Mall (this is going to require a big net)
  • Gotta Kill The Mall (might as well knock it down if the above doesn't work)
• Grated Drug (Well, getting high off Parmesan would kind of be an example of the actual trope)
• Groin At Tack (Tacks don't belong there! Ouch!)
• Ground Hog Day (Hey, the cafeteria's serving ground pork!)
  • Ground Hog Day Loop (Wait.. wasn't that the special yesterday, too?)

H

• Ham Merman (a mythological creature with the tail of a fish and the body of Brian Blessed)
• Heroes Want Red Heads: Whether it be from exertion, rage, blush, or sunburn.
• Hellf Ire (beware the ire of hellf, the elf FROM HELL!)
• Ho Mage (a slutty magic-user)
• Ho Me Page (a page for prostitutes in search of a pimp)
  • Ho Me Star Runner (a pimp wants a well known runner as one of his prostitutes)
• Hook Sand Crooks (Hook those sand crooks!)
• Hulks Peak (In other news, The Incredible Hulk seems to have taken up mountain climbing as a hobby.)

I

• I CA Rly (I'm from California, really!)
• In Fan Tim Mortality (Tim the Enchanter is using a fan as a Soul Jar?)
• In Finite Canvas (There's only so much you can put on a canvas, you know.)
  • In Finite Crisis (At least this crisis will end.)
  • In Finite Flash Light (But why does the flashlight have to stop working?)
  • In Finite Jest (Well, at least the jokes stop if they're bad.)
  • In Finite Space (Space: not as endless as you thought.)
  • In Finite Stratos
  • In Finite Supplies
  • In Finite Undiscovery
  • In Finite Worlds
• Interfaces Crew
• In Vader Zim (Something is inside Darth Vader that doesn't belong there. Do you know what it is? Zim!)
  • Space In Vaders (Actually, there's more than one Vader, and they sure are empty inside.)
• I Like S Words (They're the shit.)
  • Heroes Prefer S Words (Ditto.)
  • The Legend of Zelda: Skyward S Word (In this installment of The Legend of Zelda series, Link travels from his home in the sky to the surface world and faces the evil Ghirahim. There, he finds out that shit happens.)
• Israelis Within Fr. Ared Miss Iles (A team of Israeli doctors, embarking on a fantastic voyage into a rabbi named Ared, regret ever leaving a town in Colombia.)
• It Was Hiss LED (A bunch of light-emitting diodes arranged to look like a snake)

J

• Just Ice League (Does this refer to only watching the NHL and not other professional sports leagues?)

L

• Lips Tickles Bian (what's a bian anyway?)
  • Dr. Zoldark?
• Locked In The Dung Eon (Time Travel goes wrong, leaving our protagonist stranded in The Dung Ages!)
  • Lock Ed In The Dung Eon (and his name is Ed, apparently)
• LOL Icon (a happy emoticon 😆️)
• Lucky's Tar (The Lucky Charms leprechaun apparently owns some tar.)

M

• Mad A Gas Car
  • Ma Da Gas Car (A car owner with Elmuh Fudd Syndwome who prefers hybrid cars find that his mom was turned into a completely gas-based car.)
  • Mad Aga Scar (be glad you don't have a raging scar)
• Magick Night (some poorly spelled enchanted evening)
• Mad Ness Tropes (the protagonist of EarthBound finds TV Tropes cathartic)
  • Mad Ness Mantra ("Giygas must die!")
• Marry The Mall (I now pronounce you man and shopping center.)
• Mega Manx (a breed of Mega Neko with a very short tail)
  • Me Gama NZX (Ah, you must be Gama NZX. I presume English isn't your first language.)
• Megan Ekko: The name of a girl with glasses, apparently.
• Met A Guy (He was a pretty nice guy, too.)
  • Met A Fic (wait, how do you meet a piece of fanfic?)
  • Met A Game (and it was awesome!)
• Mind Rap E (A new drug that causes your mind to bust out some mad rhymes)
• Minds Crew (brain surgeons?)
  • Minds Crew Driver: A chauffeur for a brain surgeon.
• Murderball Ad (A commercial for that documentary about wheelchair rugby)
  • Powerball Ad (a commercial for an American lottery game)
• My Little P On Y (piece P of this Ikea product is small, so I think it goes on piece Y)
  • My Little Pony Friends Hip Is Magic, My Little P On Y Friends Hip Is Magic

N

• Need Smore Love (don't people already love s'mores?)
• Neutra Levil (a nutrition program with a poorly spelled name)
• News Peak (Reach the mountaintop for all the latest news from all around the world!)
• N-Ice Guy (N-Ice Guy here is to defeat the evil Cumbustion Gang!)
• Ninten Do Hard (You thought mad Ness was bad? The protagonist of the previous game in his series doesn't do things the easy way.)
• Nobi Sexuals (somebody attracted only to Korean indentured servants?)
• North Koreans With No Dongs (It's referring to North Korean women, we hope, but if not, then we hope it's because North Koreans less able to afford the donut-like South Korean dong pastries. If it isn't that, well... then it's just likely they don't have any Vietnamese money.)
• Not Hingist He's a Meany. More! (Horsa's brother is rejected from a job interview for his bad personality)
• Not Rue Scotsman (No True Scotsman has regrets!)

O

• Oi Reland (Hello, Adriaan Reland! )

P

• Pan Tys Hot (Do you mean Pad Thai? Thai food does have a tendency to be spicy.)
  • Panty's Hot (Damn right she is!)
• Play Stat Ion (Is Stat Ion a great game?)
  • Play Stat Ion 2 (Yes, and so is its Even Better Sequel!)
    • Should I play Stat Ion 3?
• Perm Ash Ave (Everyone in Ash Avenue gets a perm)
• Person A (Someone had their name taken away, and now is only referred to by a letter.)
  • Also found in the same universe: Person A-2, Person A-3, and Person A-4.
• Pound Pup Pies (Ew.)
• Precious Pup Pies
• Pre SSX To Die (something about SSX)
• Prince SS Tropes (The price of ships has his own tropes? Who is he exactly?)

R

• Ram Page (a web page dedicated to male sheep, or possibly a male sheep who is also a servant)
  • Ramp Age (how old a ramp is, obviously)
• Refuge In Auda City (Where is the city of Auda?)
• Ronthedea Theater (I hear they show some great stuff there)
• Run Escape (Generally more effective than a walk escape)

S

• Saves Cumming (sperm banks, of course)
• Scarf Ace (someone with a lot of scarfs)
  • A pilot wearing a Scarf of Asskicking
• Schrödinger Scat (Probably some thought experiment involving Erwin Schrödinger's toilet, or a kind of singing that is simultaneously sung and not sung)
• Sco Tire Land (The land of tires from San Francisco)
• S Crew Destiny (what happens to the S crew, Because Destiny Says So)
• Secrets Tab Wound (What happens when you open up a tab for Post Secret in your browser)
• Shesama Ninja Pan (Ninjas fry food using this brand of cookware)
• Ship Sin King (a person who loves gambling and drinking on ships)
  • Ships In King (Apparently, the king is a foreigner - of course, when the ship was running late, they sent out a Ship Ping)
• Shot A Con (that damn bastard deserved it!)
• Sol A: (One star in a binary system that contains two yellow dwarf stars that resemble the sun due to their size and color. The other is Sol B.)
  • So La (I don't care what you're saying, so I'm going to ignore you by singing.)
• Sonic Ad Venture Sonic the Hedgehog starts an advertising company to help pay for Tails's gadgets.
• Straw At Heist (The bank robber got away, but left behind this drinking straw as evidence.)
  • Holly Woo Dat Heist (The main suspect is Holly Woo, who apparently has a Funetik Aksent. Or maybe she just stole some digital audio tape or a distributed active transformer)
  • Flat Ear That Heist (she took some squashed corn too...)
  • F Late Art Hat Heist (However, she missed her opportunity to rob an art gallery and a hat store, which caused her to curse up a storm)
• Sturgeon Slaw (slaw containing sturgeons)
  • Chandler Slaw (When in doubt, have a man come through a door with chopped cabbage in his hand)
  • Clarke Slaw for Girls' Toys
  • Finagle Slaw (the most perverse form of coldslaw possible)
  • Godwin Slaw (it's what Nazis eat)
  • Godwin Slaw Of Time Travel (Applied Phlebotinum for Nazis)
  • Murphy Slaw (Any coleslaw preparation that can go wrong will go wrong.)
  • Moff Slaw (The stability of the potluck is at stake. A carrot is a small price to pay.)
  • Poe Slaw (it's what fundamentalists eat)
• Select Ives Quick (Hurry up and get Burl Ives!)
• 'S Elf-Demons T Rating Article (Elf-Demons give the article a Teen rating.)
• Sung Lasses At Night (The young women could sing beautifully, but would only do so once the sun went down)
• Superb Owl Special (a show about a very interesting owl)
• Super Mario Nation (one part of Super Mario World)

T

• Tales of Des Tiny (the chronicles of tiny Des)
• The Arche R (Presumably, a Racing Game starring Arche Kleine.)
• The Men Aming
  • The Me Naming
• The Miss Ingno
  • Them Is Sing No (A bunch of Dreadful Musicians)
• The Me Mobile
• The Me Tune (The song all about ME!)
• The Ten Ant (Dude, check out the metasoma on that ant. It can put its feelers on me any day. Has someone got a magnifying glass? 'Cause I'm burning up here.)
• Theme Rch
• The Penis Mightier (just ask Sean Connery)
• The Problem With Penis Land (...Wait a minute.)
• There Are Not He Rapists (at least Rape Is Okay When Its Female On Male)
  • Except in Rear Enot (wherever that is): there are The Rear Enot He Rapists
• There Snob In Movie (a Slobs Versus Snobs plot described in Hulk Speak?)
• Throwing Your S Word Always Works (taking Refuge in Vulgarity, I see.)
• The Annoy Ingo Range (how close you have to get to Ingo for him to get annoyed)
• The Stars Cream (You can get cream from celestial objects. Don't you know?)
• Titus And Ronicus is one of the lesser known plays of Shakespeare.
• To Ken Minority
• Tom Braider (You all know Tom likes braids, right?)
• Took Inky To Torture (Poor Inky!)
• Toy's Hip (The hot toy of the holiday season)

V

• Villa In Decay (Talk about your fixer-upper!)

W

• Want Ed?
  • Want Ed Dead or Alive?
  • Want Ed Poster?
• Ward Robe Malfunction (That cloak that was supposed to give your wizard protection from fire? Turns out it doesn't work.)
• Warrior The Rapist
• Was Ted Son G. (The identity of the mysterious Son G has never been revealed, but some think that it was Ted all along)
  • Cut Son G (Yes. That was Ted. Off with His Head)
• We Are Struggling To Get Her (two men fighting for the same woman?)
• We At Her Report
• West Sides Tory (In an alternate-history America, the citizens of California must choose between the government they've always known and a group of rebels fighting for freedom)
• Will I Am Telling (What are you telling the rapper from the Black Eyed Peas?)
• With This Her Ring

Y

• Yang Ire (Beware the ire of Yang!)

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