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{{quote|''"<code>[Name]</code> was savagely beaten to death with their own shoulder-blades shortly after making that pun."''|'''Internet User''' }}
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Feel free to groan, but the fact is that people like to put puns in their work, [[Incredibly Lame Pun|whether or not the puns are any good]]. If done right, they can be funny or intriguing, and they stretch out minds, possibly in [[Multiple Reference Pun|several directions]]. Done wrong, or overused, they aren't even good enough for a cheap laugh. Wordplay at your own risk. See [[Punny Stuff]] for an index of all pun related tropes.
''If somebody ignored the advice [[Don't Explain the Joke]] and linked an actual pun to this page, go ahead and remove that link. There's no need to [[Lampshade Hanging|hang a lampshade]] on obvious puns, and the non-obvious ones are more fun if you get them in a moment of [[Fridge Brilliance]]. Yes, even if this does mean you're [[Late to the Punchline]].''
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== Meta ==
* The [[Just for Pun]] index of this very site.
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** [[Visual Pun]]
** [[Chekhov's Pun]] (when the title is based on an existing trope title)
** [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You]] (transpositional puns)
** [[Pungeon Master]]
** [[Multiple Reference Pun]]
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* [[All The Tropes]]' official cellist, Mstislav Rostropovich.
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Japanese in general is an awesome language for making puns in. Several dialects, four different writing systems, and complex naming schemes provide rich soil for wordplay, and then you also get a very limited system in which sounds can be combined into words. Much is due to the influence of Chinese. Since Japanese lacks the rich<ref>and frustrating</ref> Chinese system of intonation, many Chinese words become indistinguishable when imported into Japanese.
* [[Rumiko Takahashi]]'s first breakaway success, ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'', is filled to the brim with puns—its name, for example, can be read half a dozen ways depending on Kanji, Kana, and the use of spaces, each one of them a pun or joke.
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** Frieza's family has a cold motif; Frieza = Freezer, Coola = Cooler, Chiller, and King Cold
*** Additionally, all of Frieza's minions (the Saiyans as vegetables, other aliens as fruits, and the Ginyu force as milk products) are named after things you would keep in a refrigerator, or perhaps freezer.
** The [[Non-Human Sidekick
** There are several
** Chow, Mein, and Pilaf from the original Dragonball series.
*** The English translation managed to take the pun further, by saying their goal was to bring about the "Reich Pilaf".
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{{quote|'''Misa''': I would never dream about living in a world without Light!
'''L''': Yes, that would be dark. }}
* In ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei
* This is apparently the mindset of [[4Kids! Entertainment]] whenever they [[Macekre]] an anime, most notably ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'', ''[[One Piece]]'', and ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]''.
** To be fair, though, ''[[One Piece]]'' lives and breathes puns regardless. Attack names (most of Zoro's sword moves, notably, also resemble types of sushi when written), character names, and in the seventh movie over half the lines of the plot-central prophecy were puns.
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* ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'' has a ''lot'' of puns.
** Izumi Maki is particularly guilty of this, to the point that she barely speaks at all without a translator's note appearing.
* ''[[Spice and Wolf]]''{{'}}s first season OVA episode is titled "Wolf and the ''Tail'' of Happiness". The pun is actually reversed, since Holo speaks of 'snatching the tail of happiness' as a metaphor in the story.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Asterix]]'' is made of this. Nearly every single character, regardless of translation, is named with a self-referential pun - for example, Cacaphonix the inept bard and Getafix the wise man (and creator of the Gaulish strength potion) to name only two of the English translation.
** There's also:
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** Done with a minor character in his run on ''[[Captain Mar-Vell]]''; a "rather clever fellow" named Plaht creates a ''device'' that allows Marv to break previously [[Magic A Is Magic A|unbreakable]] rules regarding his interactions with dimensional travel. He couldn't even keep it as a [[Stealth Pun]], as characters repeatedly call it "the Plaht Device."
** In the issue of [[Incredible Hulk]] with Rick Jones marrying Marlo Chandler, there is a cross company example. Marlo had been killed at one point and brought back by technology used by the Leader. At her wedding, Marlo sees [[The Sandman|a pale goth woman]] who comes up as if she knows Marlo and gives her a gift. It's a brush. {{spoiler|With death...}}
== [[Film]] ==
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{{quote|'''Scott''': You once were a ve-gone, and now you will be gone.}}
* ''[[Spaceballs]].'' The radar gets jammed, they comb the desert, and of course there's the Druish princess.
== [[Jokes]] ==
* Too many to mention. There are several entire books devoted to joke cycles which are built on puns.
* The entire point of [[Knock-Knock Joke]]s. Think about it.
** Orange you glad you thought about it?
* [[Knock-Knock Joke]]s aren't the only jokes that are punishing. For instance, one classic one goes like this:
{{quote|One day, a man "lets one rip", and out comes this strange sound - "HONDA". Confused, he initially shrugs it off. However, over the next few days, every time he farted, it would do the same thing - "HONDA". Becoming concerned, he visited his family doctor. The doctor couldn't explain it, and gave him a referral to another doctor, who also was at a loss. From one doctor to another he went, seeking an explanation for the strange sound being made by his wind. Eventually, he visits a doctor who happened to be Chinese. The man explained to the doctor that whenever he let one off, it made that strange sound. The doctor asked for a demonstration, and sure enough - "HONDA". The Chinese doctor nodded understanding, and asked the man to drop his trousers and bend over. He did so, and then heard the sound of scissors snipping something. The doctor said "try again now". The man once more passed wind, and was elated to find that it was back to its normal sound. He turned to the doctor, saw the abscess that had been cut off, and asked "That's amazing, doc. Why was it happening?" The doctor shrugged and said "Everybody knows {{spoiler|Abscess makes the fart go Honda}}".}}
** This is also a {{spoiler|Spoonerism}}
*** Also, The Longest Joke in the World, {{spoiler|Better Nate than Lever}}
== [[Literature]] ==
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** Why the forbidden fruit in the garden of Eden is traditionally thought of as an apple - ''malum'' is Latin for evil and apple.
* Ancient puns also appear in Plutarch's ''Parallel Lives'', for example: "one of the sons of Crassus who was thought to resemble a certain Axius, and on this account had brought his mother's name into scandalous connection with that of Axius, once made a successful speech in the senate, and when [[Cicero]] was asked what he thought of him, he answered with the Greek words "Axios Krassou" (meaning "Worthy of Crassus").
* [[Piers Anthony]]'s recent{{when}} ''[[Xanth]]'' books are a good example of [[Hurricane of Puns|overdosing on this trope]]. The worst part is [[Don't Explain the Joke|a lot of the puns are explained in recent books]].
** Take the Hippo-crite. Instead of actually ''being'' hypocritical, he just said, "I never mean what I say."
** There's been a steady increase in puns throughout the series. The first two books had only a handful of puns. After that, Piers Anthony started making the series more comedic, and adding more puns as part of the process. Then he started accepting reader-submitted puns and it and got completely out of control. Naturally, a great many Xanth fans were thrilled by this opportunity to actually be a part of their favorite series, even if only in a small way, so the puns flooded in ever-greater numbers, to the point that Anthony frequently has several books' worth of pun backlog. In-universe, Xanth is even described as being ''made of puns''.
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** Really, the series has puns ''everywhere'', including the titles of all the books and of the series itself.
* Ian Watson is another author who has an inordinate fondness for bad puns.
* [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld]]'' series has the "Oh God of Hangovers" in ''[[
** ''[[
*** And the Fat Mines contained BCBs (Burnt Crusty Bits) that Vimes said died because they were battered to death.
*** There's also an example of him being entirely unable to stop himself with the story of Fingers Mazda, who stole the secret of fire from the gods. He was unable to fence it, it was too hot. He really got burned on that deal.
*** Granny Weatherwax's lodgings in the Shades are made are all the better for being next door to a notorious reseller of stolen items. Because good fences make good neighbours.
*** Magrat believes that broomsticks are sexual metaphors when witches ride them. But this is a phallusy.
** The name of the countries Djelibeybi and Hersheba. Terry Pratchett's realization that American audiences weren't getting the Djelibeybi pun inspired the creation of nearby Hersheba, which most audiences in general aren't getting. (If you've heard of the candy, the Djelibeybi pun is criminally easy to get, due to it being mentally pronounced the same way, ''[[Viewers are Morons|and]]'' [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] when we're told Djelibeybi means "[[wikipedia:Jelly Babies|Child of the Djel]]." Hersheba is not as easy—this is due to variation in pronunciation ({{spoiler|Her-[[King Solomon's Mines|Sheba]] or Hershe[y]-ba[r]}}), the fact that it doesn't have a lampshade, ''and'' it doesn't have a book focused on it.)
* [[Peter David]] loves puns, especially name puns. This includes naming people just for the pun: Sir Umbridge in ''[[Sir Apropos of Nothing]]'' is offered to him as the knight he squires under, and refusing would be a horrible offense, so "in order to not cause offense, I had to take Umbridge".
* In [[Jasper Fforde]]'s ''[[Thursday Next]]'' novels, the name of ''every'' character (except for fictional characters from other works) is a pun.
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* [[Roger Zelazny]] told [[George R. R. Martin]] that he wrote ''Lord Of Light'' solely so that he could use 'the pun'. It's one of the great puns; it can pass right by you the first time, but it's an absolute '''stinker''' once you spot it.
** LOL?
** There is a character in the book whose title is "The Shan". After having his mind transferred to a defective body, he suffers a bout of epilepsy, which is when the protagonist gets serious about his plans. (You should be able to figure it out from there. If not: {{spoiler|"The fit hit the Shan"}}.)
* ''[[The Phantom Tollbooth]]'', anyone? With the exception of Milo, ''every single character's name'' is a pun.
* Punday Night and Tall Tale Tuesdays over at [[Callahan's Crosstime Saloon|Callahan's]].
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* Many mystery series base all, or at least some of the titles of their books around puns. For example, there's the ''Evan'' series, which includes ''Evan Only Knows'' and ''Evanly Bodies'' and the ''Bubbles'' series: ''Bubbles A Broad'', etc.
* [[Bennett Cerf]] was a real life [[Pungeon Master]] and one of his books was titled ''Bennett Cerf's Treasury of Atrocious Puns''.
* Too many to go into, but during the early years of ''[[Dilbert]]'', Scott Adams was REALLY REALLY into puns (very little office humor was involved, Dilbert was ostensibly an engineer just to provide a context for nerd-jokes and nerdy jokes).
* ''[[Finnegans Wake]]''. Every sentence.
* The commander in Jerome Bixby's "The Holes Around Mars" is extremely fond of puns, to the irritation of his crew.
* [[J. K. Rowling]] poured a lot of puns into the [[Harry Potter]] series, especially in the names - there's a lot of overlap with [[Meaningful Name/Literature|Meaningful Name]] (and [[Bilingual Bonus]]).
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Power Rangers]]''. It's actually quite impressive to see how they can keep the pun ball in the air for long stretches.
* The title of every episode of ''[[Hannah Montana]]'' is a pun on the title of a well-known song. The character Robbie Ray constantly makes puns.
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* The villain of the day in ''[[Black Scorpion]]'' revolves around puns of their theme.
== [[Music]] ==
* [[Miami]] rapper Flo Rida. Just his ''name''.
* ''Words, Words, Words'' by [[Bo Burnham]].
** ''Anything'' by [[Bo Burnham]]. Ever.
* Many individual album titles are based on double meanings of words, ranging from "No Jacket Required" to "Crimes Of Passion".
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* [[TNA]] wrestler Shark Boy's entire gimmick at this point is based around borrowing [[Stone Cold Steve Austin]]'s old catchphrases and mixing them with nautical puns, e.g. "Gimme a shell yeah!" and "And that's the fishin' line, 'cuz Shark Boy said so!"
== [[Radio]] ==
* ''[[Canada Reads]]'', a cross between a book club and a reality show, bills itself as a "title fight".
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
=== [[Card Games]] ===
* Show up regularly in ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]''. Such as [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=29785 ''He exercises his right to bear arms''.]
** If you attached equipment to it, would that mean you're exercising your [https://web.archive.org/web/20120518102442/http://www.basicjokes.com/dquotes.php?aid=1173 right to arm bears?]
*** If you are the master of ursine infantry, then it is within your power to make sure that they stick to a vigorous physical training regiment to ensure their battle readiness. Don't let anybody tell you different, you have the right to exercise armed bears.
**** I'm pretty sure bears exercise their right arms regularly.
*** In that case, if your second-in-command became possessed by a malicious entity, would you have to exorcise your right-arm bear?
*** In addition, it can get unbearably hot in the summer, and if a bear could shave, it might. If possible, it should be a right for a bear to be bare, arms and all. The fur does make the bear look more menacing, so it will have to bear that in mind.
*** All of this is moot if you aren't prepared to fight as well. In which case, you can go to the weight room, make sure you're wearing a tanktop, find one of your republican-minded soldiers to work with, and perform some ursine slapping motions against one another- thereby exercising your right to exercise your bare right arm with bear exercises and a right bear. Bonus points if you find the correct kodiak- his name would be Wright.
** There are also the cards "Crashing Boars" and "[[The Grapes of Wrath|Apes of Rath]]"
** [http://magiccards.info/on/en/160.html "Over-Soul'd Cemetery"]
** [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=42184 "Wheel and Deal"]. [[Don't Explain the Joke|See, it makes your opponents get the effects of]] [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=202558 "Wheel of Fortune"] [[Don't Explain the Joke|and gives you a card draw...]]
** Unhinged had Donkey Folk, which only existed to make puns on "ass". There was Smart Ass, Dumb Ass, Fat Ass, Cheap Ass and Bad Ass.
** To say nothing of the rest of the puns in Unglued and Unhinged, such as the Clay Pigeon (a 1/1 flying bird that had an effect when thrown), the Rock Lobster (it wasn't a rock, and many take it for granite), the Paper Tiger (who burns bright and folds easily), and the Scissors Lizard (who has a lot of shear power).
** Fowl Play (also Unglued) turns things into chickens.
** The Man of Measure is better at offense or defense depending on whether you're measured as taller or shorter than an opponent.
** The Standing Army doesn't tap when it attacks, because they're always standing.... but only as long as you are too.
** Really, Unglued and Unhinged are about 50% puns (the other half is a mixture of cardpaper and in-jokes that only players of the game will get). The more notable ones are from the -other-, much more serious sets.
* ''[[The Spoils]]'' has got quite a few, too. Pick five cards at random, and there's a pretty high chance that at least ''one'' involves at least one pun.
* [[Munchkin (game)|''Munchkin'']] has more than a few - "Faun and Games", "Unnatural Axe", and "Pants Macabre" are all titles of supplement packs, and there are others in the cards themselves.
=== Roleplaying Games ===
* The ''Toon'' expansion ''Toon Tales'' (in the Way-Out West section) includes an optional rule for Punslingers, whose puns ''actually do damage''.
* From the same publisher, ''[[GURPS]]'' has "Rapier Wit", which allows characters to use puns as weapons. Cutting remarks, indeed.
== [[Theater]] ==
* [[William Shakespeare]] absolutely loved puns. Wait, you mean they ''weren't'' actually talking about [[Double Entendre|how small a bee's stinger was?]]
** [[Austin Powers|Just a little prick...]]
* The Dutch comedian Herman Finkers is a master of puns, [[Double Entendre
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Persona 3]]'' has Shuji Ikutsuki, who more or less embodies this trope. Nearly everything he says to SEES outside of serious situations is one pun after another. Yukari says after you meet him that 'you'll get used to his lame jokes.'
* The name of ''[[Ōkami
* The villain names in the ''[[Carmen Sandiego]]'' games.
** The guides' names in ''Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?'' Guides had names like Anne Tickwitee or Renee Santz.
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'''Jolee:''' The Wookies }}
** Damn you, Bioware.
* ''[[
** ''[[
* [[Resident Evil 5|"Your future HINGES on this fight!"]]
* There's a stage in ''[[Namco X Capcom]]'', where EVERY CHARACTER is making lame puns. All of the puns are highlighted in red, to boot.
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{{quote|"You're my ticket back to the Empire, Sagi. And every good ticket has to get '''punched'''!"}}
* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask|The Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask]]'' we have Tatl and Tael. Just put those two together.
* ''[[Freshly
** Loveya being the worst offender. The "ya" in context means "dealer", and he's a personification of cupid that gives Tingle love advice.
** There's the tin robot woman, Buriki. Blik is Dutch for "tin".
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* Subverted in ''[[The World Ends With You]]''. Whenever Minamimoto says "SOHCAHTOA", he's making a pun on "Sou ka?" or "Is that so?" It just so happens that his lines are perfectly appropriate for the situation.
* In ''[[Dragon Age]] 2'', we have this anachronistic gem from Isabella, when she is bribed to abandon the main character with the offer of a ship of her own:
{{quote|"What can I say. I love big boats and I cannot lie." }}
* In ''[[Nethack]]'' if you see a pit viper fall into a pit trap you get the message "How pitiful! Isn't that the pits?"
* Before the fight against Captain Hook in ''[[Epic Mickey]]'', Hook cracks this exchange as he's popping out of barrels:
{{quote|'''Hook''': I hope you're GEARED up for this...because it's going to be...BARRELS...of fun!}}
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* ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' made something of a hobbit of making bad hobbit puns... HABIT! I said habit.
** "Made a hobbit of it" is literal—Lambert the hobbit has punning as one of his defining traits, so you could say the puns make his character.
** And then there's the Cliffhangers strips; whenever they start talking about German food, prepare for the wurst.
* Many characters' names in ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'' are puns: Dr. Jean Poule, Hibachi the Dragon, Agent Ben and Agent Jerry, Officer Baskin and Officer Robbin, Cestus Poule of the River City Poules, the P.E.P.S.I. Monster (People-Eating Poly-Sorbate Insectoid), etc.
* Like the above ''[[Monkey Island]]'' example, ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' has [[You Fight Like a Cow|Insult Sword Fighting]] filled with puns. It's Elan's "Dashing Swordsman" prestige class.
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{{quote|Benn: "[http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/138 Ray'd Bool gives you wings.]"}}
** The occasional pun on Richard's nickname.
* ''[[Evil Inc.
* ''[[Narbonic]]'' once devoted [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic_plus/series.php?view=archive&chapter=41040 a Sunday strip] to a pun, including several paragraphs of set-up. (This built on elements introduced earlier in the story, but works just as well in isolation.) Unfortunately, it appears the song that is the object of the pun isn't widely known outside the US, so [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmPer3yNGHg here's] a recording.
* ''[[+EV|Plus EV]]'' is full of them, mostly [[Poker]]-related. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130130145216/http://plusev.keenspot.com/d/20070305.html Big Blind], [https://web.archive.org/web/20130401075323/http://plusev.keenspot.com/d/20081009.html Pocket Pear]...
* Nepeta Leijon, Feferi Peixes, Eridan Ampora, and Meenah Peixes from ''[[Homestuck]]''. The former uses cat-related puns, while the latter three use fish-related puns.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Andy Zaltzmann in ''[[The Bugle]]'' He just can't help himself (or Chris and John who want him to stop).
* In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zf2H5Z8bMw this ZapZapPewPew] <s>review</s>? <s>Let's play</s>? Video we have an especially wince-inducing one.
** While player 1 is laying mines, player 2 shouts ''"What are you doing? Don't you know, mines are a terrible thing to waste. That's what they tell me mannnnn..."''
* [[Cracked.com|''Cracked'']] has some on occasion.
** [http://www.cracked.com/article_19121_7-basic-things-you-wont-believe-youre-all-doing-wrong.html "Over time, you can even breathe abdominally in your sleep. (Not to be confused with snoring, which is just breathing abominably)."]
* [[Fark]] headlines are frequently punny.
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* Hybrid webcomic/browser game ''[[Demon Thesis]]'' does this ''constantly'' when in game mode, as virtually any action you have the characters take is accompanied by a pun or reference. For example, give Clady the spear and let her attack with it, and the attack is called "Clad the Impaler". Give Val, the sole American, the axe, and it's called "[[American Chopper]]" when she uses it. If Alain, a french-Canadian, goes into a defensive mode to take less damage, it's [[wikipedia:Bloc Québécois|Block Quebecois]], and so on and so forth.
* [[This Very Wiki]]. We ''love'' puns. Just look at the [[Just for Pun]] trope list.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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'''Rocky:''' Wait, Mr. Know-It-All...that's not a jar of pickles. That's a jar of jelly.
'''Mr. Know-It-All:''' No wonder I couldn't open it. It's ''jammed!'' }}
** [[Once an Episode|Every single episode]] of "Peabody's Improbable Histories" ended in a terrible pun.
** Lampshaded in the "Upsidasium" story, when the armored fighting vehicles come over the ridge:
{{quote|'''Rocky''': Tanks, Bullwinkle!
''[[beat]]''
'''Rocky''': I said, "Tanks, Bullwinkle!"
'''Bullwinkle''': Ah, do I ''have'' to say it?}}
* American cartoons also love a good pun: anything said by Genie in the ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' movie or series, the names in ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' and ''[[Tale Spin]]'', and ''[[Animaniacs]]'' and ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' made heavy use of them as well.
* In ''[[Kim Possible]]'', everyone's name is a pun.
* ''[[Sheep in The Big City]]'' not only used excessive numbers of puns in naming characters and places, every episode and every chapter of every episode (of which there were 3 per episode) carried a sheep-themed pun. 'Wool you believe it?' 'On the lamb' etc.
** And then they went and one-upped themselves for the third part of season one's finale. They actually called it "Some Pun on the word 'Sheep'."
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{{quote|'''George:''' It's just a big glass ball.
'''Paul:''' Yeah, it's ''blue'' glass.
'''Ringo:''' Must be from Kentucky.
** [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]] in general were very fond of these, John especially. It's been overshadowed by the whole "redefining rock music" and "consuming small mountains of LSD" things, but there's a lot of puns hiding in plain sight. Nobody even notices these days just how terrible a joke the band's name is, to name the most obvious example.
*** This overlaps with "Music" and "Literature" but John Lennon wrote two books. Their titles? ''In His Own Write'' and ''A Spaniard In The Works''.
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'''Stan:''' Of course, sir, but why are we dressed up like this?
'''Avery Bullock:''' Because I thought we could be Secret Asians.
'''Stan:''' A 16-hour flight for a bad pun? (nods head) Yes. Yes.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQMbXvn2RNI Cows with Guns]
* If you thought ''[[Batman and Robin (film)|Batman and Robin]]'' was bad about ice puns, try to dig up a Mr. Freeze episode from the 60s Batman animated series. Incredibly lame puns are expected, but by the end of the episode the writers run out of them and become increasingly desperate, culminating in Mr. Freeze declaring "you really frost me!" upon capture.
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* Punsy McHale from ''[[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack]]''.
* ''[[Beetlejuice (animation)|Beetlejuice]]''.
* In ''[[The Fairly
{{quote|'''Timmy:''' CHIMPSDALE? That's it. When this is over I'm wishing for a world without puns. }}
* ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]'' has its episode titles.
* ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' had lots of pun titles, the best being "Banshee Bake a Cherry Pie?"
* ''[[My Little Pony:
* Almost every episode of ''[[House of Mouse]]'' used puns, especially in the cartoon shorts but often in the main story as well. Like Mickey saying he had to stop at the bank because he was "overdrawn" and two sketches saying "He's lucky! We're not done yet!"
* [[Captain Planet and the Planeteers]]'s main job is to save the Earth while also making as many horrible puns as possible.
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(As Mojo is blasting a man whose shirt reads “PROV.”)
'''Narrator''': Things aren’t looking too Gouda for you, Mojo! So leave that Prov alone and prepare to be shredded! }}
** The [[Homage]] to ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'', "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130124200120/http://www.cartoonlair.com/the-powerpuff-girls/610-a-i-see-a-funny-cartoon-in-your-future-video_1b6e4dce8.html I See A Funny Cartoon In Your Future]".
*And how can we forget ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' and his love for puns? It's even lampshaded in the [[Christmas Episode]]:
{{quote|'''Ghostwriter''': And now, face the wrath of my monster nutcracker!
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* In post-war Europe, America ran various covert operations to gather intelligence from Soviet soldiers. One particularly successful campaign in Italy hinged on the fact that getting gonorrhea was a serious matter for a Soviet soldier; it guaranteed a recall back to the Soviet Union (where none of them wanted to go back to) and perhaps harsher punishment. So, the Americans got in touch with a doctor who ran a clinic that secretly treated gonorrhea and recruited the doctor, in exchange for money and free medicine. Then, the doctor would pick up anything he could from casual conversation and see if there were any likely defectors in the group. What did the Americans call this endeavor? {{spoiler|Operation Claptrap. [[Don't Explain the Joke|For those that don't get it]], "claptrap" was slang for "nonsense conversation". Meanwhile, "the clap" is slang for gonorrhea.}}
* In a similar vein to the above, American soldiers in [[World War II]] referred to the Good Conduct Medal as the "no clap award" for 2 reasons: 1) all you had to do to get it was not get in trouble for 3 years so it wasn't really worthy of applause and 2) getting an STD disqualified you.
* Mexican politicians get this trope very often:
** Mexican president Felipe Calderón, called by whiny youths who oppose his government as FeCal.
** "Dale un Madrazo al dedazo" was PRI candidate Roberto Madrazo's slogan in the 2000 primaries. "Madrazo" is Mexican somewhat vulgar slang for a beating. The dedazo is a Mexican idiom referring to how presidential successors were handpicked by the sitting president.
** Mexico City's former regente (governor appointed by the president) Carlos Hank González. He built ejes viales (amplified streets made for better road traffic) and pissed the City off so much he got the nickname of [[Alliterative Name|"Henghis Hank"]].
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** A verse for the presidential campaign of José Vasconcelos against Pascual Ortiz Rubio: "Si es usted un animal / vote usted por don Pascual/ si son puros sus anhelos / vote usted por Vasconcelos" ("If you are an animal / vote for Don Pascual / if your desires are pure / vote for Vasconcelos").
** Gustavo Díaz-Ordaz was president of Mexico during the [[wikipedia:Tlatelolco Massacre|Tlatelolco Massacre]]. As a result, many people ended up hating him. In 1976 he was appointed to be the first Mexican ambassador to Spain since the Spanish Civil War. The youth, still angry for the massacre, created a verse: "Al pueblo de España no le manden esa araña" ("Don't send the people of Spain that spider").
* Lion Cereal in France bears the slogan: "La faim justifie les moyens" - {{spoiler|"The hunger justifies the means". The pun comes from the fact that "faim" is an exact homophone of "fin", the French for 'end'}}
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