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'''Flintstone Theming''' is when a single pervasive concept that is basic to the show is used repeatedly for as many jokes as it can possibly yield, especially with [[Punny Name|character names]]. Some shows shoot for the moon and try to make a pun out of ''everything''.
[[World Building]] is sometimes hard. Coming up with an [[Hurricane of Puns|endless string of bad puns]] based on the concept of your show, on the other hand, is usually pretty easy. At least at first. It gets progressively harder to come up with decent, original puns the longer and longer your show is on the air and the more puns you’ve already used up.
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* The characters in ''[[Miss Spider's 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|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
** 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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