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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"Not a joke, but an incredible simulation!"''
|'''Crow T. Robot'''|''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''}}
The writers put in a joke (almost always a pun), but never make or put in a punch line or explicit statement, hiding it in the set up of the joke. Some percentage of the audience will "get" the joke, but the rest will know it was there and be going, "What? Why didn't you say it?" There can be several reasons.
# It's [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|naughty]] and not appropriate for this
# It's an [[Incredibly Lame Pun]] and is only remotely funny [[Late to
# Telling the punch line would keep our lawyers busy for months, so [[Writing Around Trademarks|we'll just leave a blank here]] and let ''you'' do the copyright infringement.
# The writer thinks they're
# They are trying to set up a moment of [[Fridge Brilliance]].
# The pun is in the middle of a song, poem, or other rhythmic verse, where using it fully would break the meter.
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Compare [[Visual Pun]], another form of subtle punning.
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