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Compare [[Hold Your Hippogriffs]]. See also [[Mister Sandman Sequence]], which is similar - only abusing [[Popular History]] instead of the English language.
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== [[Anime and Manga]] ==
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== [[Radio]] ==
* Subverted in one episode of ''[[I'm Sorry,
* Kip Addotta's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEZG14eGmR8 "Wet Dream"] also goes for the fish puns; it often gets played on the Doctor Demento show.
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* The characters in ''[[Miss Spiders Sunny Patch Friends]]'' replaced the –body suffix with –buggy (anybuggy, somebuggy, busybuggy, and so on).
* The ''[[Geronimo Stilton]]'' series lives and breathes puns related to rodents and cheese.
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' has this in spades. The main cast is called the ''mane'' cast by fans, there are towns and cities such as Canterlot, Manehattan, Appleloosa [[Don't Explain the Joke|(like the breed Appaloosa)]], they say things like "everypony" and "nopony"... Naturally, [[Fan Nickname|Fan Nicknames]] continue the trend (Stalliongrad, Trottingham, San Franciscolt, etc.)
** Trottingham eventually became [[Ascended Fanon|canon]] as the birthplace of Pipsqeak, one of the series' minor characters.
* ''[[Birdz]]'', with an entirely avian (except one) cast, was up to its beak in bird puns. These usually manifested themselves in the names of celebrities (e.g. "Whippoorwill Smith"), but also in the setting of Birdland and the occasional "anybird".
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