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Nonetheless, many writers try to inject some freshness into the obligatory, by lampshading or overt and deliberate subversion.
* Anything involving a primate is going to involve lines like "Monkeying Around" or Making a Monkey('s uncle) out of someone," and "Monkey Business".
** We're just going to make it easy and say that whenever a situation with an animal comes up, somebody will have to quote a saying or phrase having to do with it.
* Anything involving honey, molasses, maple syrup, etc. will be described as a "sticky situation."
* A person [[Bound and Gagged]], or even just bound, will be described as "a little tied up right now."
* If an animal of some kind is biting someone, an onlooker will be prompted to ask, "What's eating you?"
* Any hand-related pun when dealing with hand monsters or [[Literal
* Cat-related jokes are sometimes ''cat''astrophic or ''cat''holic. They may leave you ''cat''atonic.
* Any time electricity is involved, you know someone will quip about a "shocking" situation.
* Similarly, expect [[An Ice Person]] to be surrounded by an abundance of "Ice to meet you," "Take a chill pill," etc. jokes.
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* In the ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' episode "Doctor's Disorders", Penelope Spectra tries to get a sample of Danny's DNA to make a perfect body for herself. When she's not looking, Danny swaps it out with something from his dad's uses hankerchief. The result is Spectra turning into a Jack Fenton-shaped snot monster. Danny comments, "There's a 'You blew it' pun here somewhere, but I'd rather not." When the fight begins, Spectra growls, "Let's boogie!" to which Danny replies, "That's ''exactly'' the kind of pun I was trying to avoid with the 'You blew it' comment!"
* In a particularly silly episode of ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|The New Batman Adventures]]'', Robin and Batgirl are fighting genetically altered giant cows. Batgirl lampshades the fact that Robin couldn't resist yelling [[Mythology Gag|"Holy Cow!"]]
* The page quote was used in ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League]]'' after the heroes foiled Gorilla Grodd's plot to turn all of humanity into gorillas.
* In one episode of ''[[Kim Possible]]'', Kim discovers that the villain keeps electric eels, to which she replies, "The puns just write themselves. Shocking, isn't it?" Of course, the villain says the very same line later when he reveals his electric eels.
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