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{{quote|''Upon discovering that Miles Black, the famous phrenologist from Yorkshire was going to take up yodeling to lonely goats in Bali, James White decided to balance four planks of wood on a beer keg and call it an abstract work of art in the style of a famous fourteenth-century architect, just going to prove that people will read any old garbage if they think there will be a good pun at the end of it.''|The Grand Panjandrum's Special Award for Vile Puns, [http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/scott.rice/blfc2008.htm The 2008 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest]}}

 

 

Compare [[Tropemanteau]].

 

If you came here looking for an index of pun-related tropes, rather than tropes whose names are puns, that's [[Punny Stuff]].

 

* [[Amazing Technicolor Index]] (''[[Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat]]'')

* [[Books on Trope]] (Books on tape)

* [[Infauxmation Desk]] (information desk)

* [[Invisibility Index]] ("visibility index")

* [[Keep Abreast of This Index]]

* [[Nothing Butt an Index]]

* [[Punny Stuff]] (funny stuff)

* [[Purple Is the New Trope]] ([[Purple Is the New Black]])

* [[Queer As Tropes]] (''[[Queer as Folk]]'')

* [[Tastes Like an Index]] ([[Tastes Like Chicken]])

 

* [[Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder]] ("Absence makes the heart grow fonder")

* [[Acrofatic]] ("acrobatic")

* [[Adipose Rex]] (Oedipus Rex)

* [[Aerith and Bob]] ("Alice And Bob")

* [[Affirmative Action Girl]] ("affirmative action" + [[Action Girl]])

* [[Agony of the Feet]] ("[[Wide World of Sports|agony of defeat]]")

* [[The All-Seeing AI]] ("the all-seeing eye")

* [[All the Worlds Are a Stage]] ("All the world's a stage")

* [[Altar the Speed]] ("alter the speed")

* [[Animal Wrongs Group]] ("animal rights group")

* [[Balloonacy]] (lunacy)

* [[Band of Brothels]] (plays on "band of brothers" from the original [[Henry V|Saint Crispin's Day speech]])

* [[Bayonet Ya]] (''[[Bayonetta]]'')

* [[Beardness Protection Program]] / [[Beardless Protection Program]] ("[[Witness Protection]] program")

* [[Beary Funny]] (...very funny)

* [[Beat Still My Heart]] ("Be still, my heart")

* [[Comeback Tomorrow]] ("come back tomorrow")

* [[Comic Sutra]] ("karma sutra")

* [[Com Mons]] (Commons)

* [[Compressed Hair]] ("compressed air")

* [[Danger Takes a Backseat]] (''[[Death Takes a Holiday]]'')

* [[Date Crepe]] ([[Date Rape]])

* [[The Day the Music Lied]] ([[wikipedia:The Day the Music Died|The Day the Music Died]])

* [[Dead Line News]] ([[Cable News Network|Headline News]])

* [[Dead Man's Chest]] (a chest with a dead man, obviously)

* [[Dead Weight]] (a pun on the figure of speech "dead weight" and the most prominent characteristic of fat zombies)

* [[Death Dealer]] (playing cards as weapons, i.e. "dealing death")

* [[Eye Scream]] (ice cream)

* [[The Eyes Have It]] ("the 'ayes' have it")

* [[Facial Profiling]] (racial profiling)

* [[Failing a Taxi]] (hailing a taxi)

* [[Fake Real Turn]] ([[Face Heel Turn]])

* [[Faking the Dead]] (''[[Waking the Dead]]'')

* [[Fall of the House of Cards]] (''Fall of the House of Usher'')

* [[The Family That Slays Together]] ("The family that plays together stays together")

* [[For Doom the Bell Tolls]] (''[[wikipedia:For Whom the Bell Tolls|For Whom the Bell Tolls]]'')

* [[For Inconvenience Press One]] ("for information press one")

* [[Formulaic Magic]] ("formulaic" as in "of mathematical formulas", not "unoriginal")

* [[Four Lines, All Waiting]] ("no lines, no waiting")

* [[Going by the Matchbook]] ("going by the book")

* [[Going Fur a Swim]] ("going for a swim")

* [[Good Angel, Bad Angel]] ("good cop, bad cop")

* [[Gosh Hornet]] ("Gosh Darn it")

* [[Gotta Get Your Head Together]] ("get your head together")

* [[Ham and Cheese]] ("ham" as in [[Large Ham]] and "cheese" meaning schlock)

* [[Ham-to-Ham Combat]] ("hand to hand combat")

* [[Handy Cuffs]] ("handcuffs")

* [[Hannibal Lecture]] ([[The Silence of the Lambs|Hannibal Lecter]])

* [[Heel Faith Turn]]* (both [[Heel Face Turn]])

* [[Heir Club for Men]] ([[wikipedia:Hair Club|Hair Club for Men]])

* [[Hellevator]] ("elevator")

* [[Hellish Copter]] ("Helicopter")

* [[He Who Must Not Be Heard]] (also "He Who Must Not Be Named")

* [[High Heel Face Turn]] ([[Heel Face Turn]])

* [[Horny Devils]] (lustful demons - which may or may not have horns)

* [[Horny Vikings]] (derived from their stereotypical horned helmets)

* [[Just Plane Wrong]] ("just plain wrong")

* [[Just Train Wrong]] ("just plain wrong")

* [[Kevlard]] ("Kevlar")

* [[Kick the Son of a Bitch]] ([[Kick the Dog]])

* [[Knight Fever]] ("night fever")

* [[Knocking on Heathens' Door]] (knocking on heaven's door)

* [[Kung Fu-Proof Mook]] (say it out loud)

* [[Lipstick and Load Montage]] ([[Lock and Load Montage]])

* [[Little Dead Riding Hood]] (''[[Little Red Riding Hood]]'')

* [[A Load of Bull]] ("a load of [[wikipedia:Bullshit|bullshit]]")

* [[Locked Into Strangeness]] (a lock of hair)

* [[Of Corsets Sexy]] ("of course it's sexy!")

* [[Obsessed Are the Listmakers]] ("[[The Bible|Blessed are the peacemakers]]")

* [[Olympus Mons]] ("[[Mons]] [[Physical God|from the]] [[Greek Mythology|Olympus]]")

* [[Omazing Powerup]] (After the "Om" used in chanting)

* [[One-Tract Mind]] ("one track mind")

* [[One-Two Punchline]] (one-two punch)

* [[Open Says Me]] ("[[Open Sesame]]")

* [[Orchestral Bombing]] ("orchestrated bombing campaign")

* [[Owl Be Damned]] ("I'll be damned")

* [[The Owl-Knowing One]] ("the all-knowing one")

* [[Pandaing to the Audience]] (Pandering to the Audience with Pandas)

* [[Parodic Table of the Elements]] (Periodic Table Of The Elements)

* [[Perma-Shave]] ([[wikipedia:Burma-Shave|Burma-Shave]])

* [[Personal Space Invader]] ("personal space")

* [[Pet Heir]] ("pet hair")

* [[Phlegmings]] ("lemmings")

* [[Plane Spotting]] (''[[Trainspotting]]'')

* [[Plot Hole]] ("pothole")

* [[Pungeon Master]] ([[Dungeon Master]])

* [[Punny Name]] ("funny name")

* [[Quicksand Box]] (Quicksand)

* [[Race Lift]] ("face lift")

* [[Sealed Evil in a Duel]] ([[Sealed Evil in a Can]])

* [[See Water]] ("seawater")

* [[Self Fanservice]] ("self-service")

* [[Send in the Clones]] ("[[Stephen Sondheim|Send in the Clowns]]")

* [[Sesame Street Cred]] (''[[Sesame Street]]'')

* [[Sexiled]] ("exiled")

* [[Shaggy Frog Story]] ([[Shaggy Dog Story]])

* [[Ship Mates]] ("ship mates," i.e. fellow sailors)

* [[Stock Ness Monster]] ([[wikipedia:Loch Ness Monster|Loch Ness Monster]])

* [[The Straight and Arrow Path]] ("the straight and narrow path")

* [[Suck E. Cheese's]] ([[wikipedia:Chuck E. Cheese|Chuck E. Cheese]])

* [[Suck Sessor]] ("successor")

* [[Top God]] ("top dog")

* [[The Topic of Cancer]] ("Tropic of Cancer")

* [[Trading Card Lame]] ([[Trading Card Game]])

* [[Trainstopping]] ([[wikipedia:Trainspotting (hobby)|"Trainspotting"]])

* [[Trash Landing]] ("crash landing")

* [[Trash of the Titans]] (''[[Clash of the Titans]]'')

* [[Tuck and Cover]] {a play on the combat maneuver "Duck and Cover")

* [[Twerp Sweating]] ([[Perp Sweating]])

* [[Two Lines, No Waiting]] ("no lines, no waiting")

* [[Tyke Bomb]] ("time bomb")

* [[Uncanny Valley Girl]] ([[Uncanny Valley]] + [[Valley Girl]])

* [[Uncatty Resemblance]] ("uncanny resemblance")

* [[Unsexy Sadist]] ("[[The Beatles|Sexy Sadie]]")

* [[Unsound Effect]] ("sound effect")

* [[Uranus Is Showing]] ("your anus is showing")

* [[Urban Legend of Zelda]] (''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'')

* [[Victoria's Secret Compartment]] (Victoria's Secret (lingerie company))

* [[The Von Trope Family]] ([[The Sound of Music|Von Trapp Family]])

* [[Wall Glower]] ("wallflower")

* [[Water Wakeup]] ("What a wakeup")

* [[What's a Secret Four|What's a Secret Four?]] ("[[Henway|what's a secret for?]]") - now redirected to [[Cryptic Background Reference]].

* [[What the Fu Are You Doing?]] ("What the fuck are you doing?")

* [[Where I Was Born and Razed]] ("where I was born and raised")

* [[White Dwarf Starlet]] ("white dwarf star" + "starlet")

* [[Wreaking Havok]] ("wreaking havoc")

* [[Write Back to the Future]] ([[Back to The Future]])

* [[Xtreme Sport Xcuse Plot]] ("Extreme Sport" and "[[Excuse Plot]]" with [[Xtreme Kool Letterz]])

* [[Yoko Oh No]] ([[Yoko Ono|Yoko]] [[wikipedia:Yoko Ono|Ono]])

 

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[[Category:Just for Fun]]

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