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▲[[File:combthedesert_9573.jpg|link=Spaceballs (Film)|right|"We were told to comb the desert, [[Exact Words|so we're combing it]]!"]]
When a phrase which is usually used as a metaphor is instead done, and shown as being performed literally. This can be because [[The Ditz]] didn't understand the statement, or can just be a simple gag. Often considered one of those "old-fashioned" forms of comedy, so its use nowadays rarely does little more than "produce some smiles." Occasionally this action can be performed literally but without much fanfare, implying what's going on. Can often be combined with a [[Literal Genie]].
Common versions include requests to "give me a hand" being met with disembodied hands and quotes of Marc Antony "lend me your ears"
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== [[Advertising]] ==▼
▲== Advertising ==
* Used in combination with [[Gratuitous English]] in a Blu-Ray commercial starring ''[[Kamen Rider Den-O]]'''s Momotaros, who refers to it as "Blu-Ray Disc". Cue a bunch of Blu-Ray boxes disco-dancing.
* Axe's recent '''[[Beyond the Impossible|Clean]] [[Crosses the Line Twice|Your]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20131004214509/http://info.break.com/static/live/v1/pages/sponsors/axe-cyb/axe-cyb.html Balls]''' campaign.
* The advert for the grand finale of ''[[Big Brother]]'' UK had the text R.I.P. on a black background. Rather than an 'I', the show's logo was used in it's place.
* Can't remember the product, but one commercial had the line, "Don't cry over spilled milk!", featuring an old man doing exactly that, pointing at the mess on his table.
* Can switching to GEICO can really save you up 15% on car insurance? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtp_mq2fO24 Did the caveman invent fire? Do woodchucks chuck wood? Does a 10 pound bag of flour make a really big biscuit? Is a bird in hand worth two in the bush? Did the Piggy go wee wee wee all the way home?]
* The [[USA Network]] ads for ''[[Burn Notice: the Fall of Sam Axe]]'' give a [[Title Drop]] right as Sam falls.<ref>off of a roof</ref>
* The A&E Network blitzed all their commercial breaks with multiple promos for the second season of ''[[The Glades]]'', most of which showed the mutilation of a [
* One Progressive ad involved a pair of representatives from another insurance company claiming to have one of the same services that Progressive does - as soon as they do so, their pants suddenly burst into flames. Also sort of a [[Stealth Pun]], because no one actually calls out the "liar liar, pants on fire" thing.
* The logo for the Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant features a buffalo with wings.
* An advertisement for a phone company had two girls promise a lap dance to two guys for Christmas (complete with a [[Something Else Also Rises]] [[Reaction Shot]]). Cut to the girls dancing a traditional Finnish dance and saying [[Don't Explain the Joke|"This is how they dance in Lapland."]]
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The girls from ''[[Magical Pokaan]]'' realize the girls from the [[Hot Springs Episode]] {{spoiler|are not biologically so}}. Cut to a huge {{spoiler|phallic}} rocket taking off.
* Near the end of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (
** Not to mention that the phrase "paying an arm and a leg" is taken very literally in this show.
** Or a certain {{spoiler|[[Envy|big green monster]]}}
* The opening of ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'' has Yuki ("snow") standing in the middle of the snow (though for the record, Yuki is actually written as "hope"). [[All There in the Manual|The light novels]] explain that {{spoiler|it had been snowing when Yuki was given permission to have her own name}}, although this is kinda vague as it's described in really vague poetic symbolic odd prose written by Yuki during the short story.
** Speaking of which, ''[[
* [[Yotsuba&!
** In one, she draws a tsukutsukuboshi as a little guy wearing a cap (because in Japanese, "boshi" is a homonym for "cap").
** When Miura identifies the groupings of stars as "seiza", Yotsuba kneels, because it's a homonym for both "constellation" and "kneeling position".
*** In one translation the joke becomes about how the names of constellations sit well.
* ''Welcome to Lodoss Island'', a series of [[
* ''[[Ninin ga Shinobuden]]'' had truly terrible one involving "a [[Furo Scene|furo]]" getting filled with an "afro". Even the characters [[Lampshade Hanging|point out how bad the joke is.]]
* In ''[[Code Geass]]'', the Siegfried, the [[Humongous Mecha|Knightmare]] that Jeremiah (alias Orange-kun) ends up piloting...is basically a giant orange.
* ''[[Kingyo Chuihou
* Dia and Pearl's manzai verses from the ''[[Pokémon Special]]'' manga occasionally incorporate a visual pun for the punchline. This makes things even harder to translate to English in the fan translations.
* One example that does translate, if not incredibly accurately, is in the third episode of ''[[Pokémon (
* There's a spider in the Thriller Bark arc of ''[[One Piece]]''. It had the head of a monkey and a verbal tick of 'Monkey.' Does this pun even make sense without knowledge of English?
* An example of this getting lost in translation, in Osamu Tezuka's ''[[Dororo]]'', when Hyakkimaru's {{spoiler|fake hand falls off after he grows a real one}}, he decides to bury it to show the limb respect, to which Dororo says, "hey, it's a hand-grave!" The joke, explained in the English version with an asterisk, is that Tezuka's name can be broken down into "Te," meaning hand, and "zuka," meaning grave.
* This composed a significant portion of the anime ''[[Bobobo-Bo
* ''Boku no Pico'': In Pico to Chico (The second OVA), Pico and Chico are using a [[A Worldwide Punomenon|cat-paw shaped vibrator]]. That same shape can be seen on [[Co Co]]'s cellphone keychain, only this time it's a small dialing wand. This is also a kind of [[Continuity Porn|Continuity]] [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Porn]].
* If something startling happens, and the screen is suddenly filled with fish. Understand the the onomatopoeia for surprise is "gyoh", which is also one of the words for "fish".
** There is actually a ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' card named "Gyoh!" in Japan; its effect involves Fish-Type monsters and its art depicts a shark bearing down on a surprised monster. The US name, which skirts [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]], is "[[Curse Cut Short|Oh F!]][[Last
* ''[[Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai]]'' presents us with [[Anime Catholicism|Maria Takayama]] who is a child, and a nun, who sees the main character as an older-brother type person in her life. I suppose that would make her... ugh... his little sister. {{spoiler|Long way to go for such a groan worthy pun.}}
* In ''[[Inazuma Eleven]]'', Tsunami's surfboard has "273" written on it. This is a pun on his name: "two-seven-three" can be read in Japanese as "tsuu-na-mi".
** In the first opening for ''Inazuma Eleven GO'', we get a close-up of Matsukaze Tenma both times the line "'''Ten ma'''de todokeyou" occurs in the lyrics.
* In ''[[Japan Inc]]'', Ueda admits he likes America, and his female boss comments: "He must be an alien." In this panel, he is drawn as The [[Alien (
* In episode 13 of [[Guilty Crown]], you see Ayase reaching for a shoe on the floor. It becomes significantly funnier when you remember that the main character's name is Shu.
* The reason why ''[[Gorsky and Butch]]'' has a really slim chance of ever being translated to English...▼
▲== [[Card Games]] ==
* The ''[[Where's Waldo]]'' books have plenty of
* ''[[Munchkin (Tabletop Game)|Munchkin]]'' is rife with these. For example, the card "Steal A Level".▼
** [[Don't Explain the Joke|For those who haven't seen it]], its effect is that you steal a level, as in the gaming term, from an opposing player. The ''illustration'' is someone stealing a ''level'', as in the tool, from someone else.▼
▲* The reason why [[Gorsky and Butch]] has a really slim chance of ever being translated to English...
▲* The ''[[Where's Waldo]]'' books have plenty of [[Visual Pun|Visual Puns]], which are spelled out in the checklists at the end of each book.
* [[Paul Jennings]], Ted Greenwood and Terry Denton produced a series of ''Where's Wally'' type books called ''Spooner or Later'', ''Duck for Cover'' and ''Freeze a Crowd''. All of them, especially in ''Duck for Cover'', ran on visual puns. The worst offender is the three-page spread involving gnus, with each one involving a "new" or "news" pun.
** Second place goes to the two pages of kings, each of which was a pun on the gerund form of a verb ending in "k" or "ke".
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* ''[[Zenith]]'' Phase II sees a henchman, observing the main character, commenting "Strange...he has his mother's eyes." The [[Big Bad]] comments wryly, "Really?...I thought that WE did." Cue shot of a glass jar, with...well, guess what suspended in it.
* In the [[Anthology Comic]] ''[[The Beano]]'' in a Fatty Fudge strip (For a few dollops more) some outlaw cowboys say "we've got prices on our heads" whilst literrally having some prices drawn onto their heads (well hats).
* By [[Wilhelm Busch]]: [[Kissing Cousins|Cousin]] [[Sinister Minister|Franz]] is drawn blackhanded in the picture with the [[
* Moose Mason of ''[[Archie Comics]]'' is a gold mine for these gags. Here are a few:
** Girlfriend Midge is away on vacation, and Moose is depressed because she hasn't written to him yet? Archie tells Moose to make Midge jealous by sending her a picture of him surrounded by chicks. When Midge sees the picture, it's Moose surrounded by...[[
** When his car was elected for carpool to take to the beach, Moose turns his car ''into'' a pool (by filling it up with water).
* In ''[[V for Vendetta]]'', at a certain point V is breaking into the television station to have his own recording broadcast. In the background, you see a number of other TV shows playing. One is a sitcom with lots of innuendo, including a woman commenting on her (literal) melons.
* ''[[AMV Hell (Fanfic)|AMV Hell]] 3'' has a "[[Unreal Tournament (Video Game)|MULTI KILL!]]"... only it's not three players being fragged in quick succession as per ''[[Unreal Tournament (Video Game)|Unreal Tournament]]'' but rather Multi from ''[[To Heart]]'' killing.▼
== [[Fan Works]] ==
▲* ''[[
* Fan art of the most famous [[Vocaloid]] as [https://safebooru.donmai.us/posts/178480 a shrine maiden]. Yes, it's "Hatsune Miko".
== [[Film]] ==
* [[Mel Brooks]] is a shameless user of visual puns:
** ''[[Robin Hood: Men in Tights]]'',
*** while addressing the assembled villagers, Robin says "lend me your ears". They promptly pelt him with (apparently human) ears.
*** Earlier in the film, [[Expospeak Gag|several slender men of middling stature in horse-racing clothes are seen mounted upon dromedaries]]. Those who don't get is should know that camel jockey is a very derogatory term for a Middle Easterner.
** ''[[
*** When Lone Starr and Barf try to "jam" the Spaceballs, they launch a giant jar of jam at ''Spaceball One'''s radar dish, causing raspberry jam to leak out of the control panels. (And prompting Dark Helmet's line "Raspberry! There's only one man who would ''dare'' give me the raspberry: Lone Starr!")
*** And later, some mooks are told to "comb the desert" for survivors. They get out actual giant combs. Colonel Sandurz then glances at Dark Helmet:
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'''Helmet''': ''(through megaphone)'' '''No, you fool, we're following orders - we were told to comb the desert, so we're combing it!''' ''(puts down megaphone, turns to searchers)'' Find anything yet?
'''Mook''': Nothing yet, sir!
...
'''Helmet''': What about you guys?
'''[[Token Minority|Black Mook]]''': ([[Once
* As are Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker:
** ''[[Airplane!]]!'':
*** "Okay, boys, let's take some pictures." (all the reporters run over to the wall and start pulling down the pictures hanging there)
*** "Two more minutes! They could be miles off course." "That's impossible. They're on instruments!" (cut to jam session in plane cockpit)
*** "When Kramer finds out about this, the shit's gonna hit the fan!" (''SPLORCH! ...sssscHWOop!'')
*** Jars of mayonnaise line the shelves of the Mayo Clinic
*** [[Monty Python's Flying Circus|Among this film's visual puns]], we also have a "drinking problem" (he can't put the glass to his mouth and ends up splashing the drink in his face) and an automatic pilot that proves very troublesome to those attempting to fly the plane.
** In one of ''[[
** Again from the ''Naked Gun'' franchise:
* A similar instance, involving Marvin's arm, was used in ''[[The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy (Film)|The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]''. He wasn't at all amused, and complained that this made it hard to run the ship. This is one of the rare examples where the literal meaning was actually the desired one (Marvin's arm as a gun to threaten the Vogons).▼
{{quote|'''Adult-novelty store clerk''': Is this some kind of bust?
'''Frank Drebin''': Yes, it's very impressive. }}
▲* A similar instance, involving Marvin's arm, was used in ''[[The
** Which doesn't work the way they intended. As soon as they enter the building, brandishing the arm, the clerk simply states that the director of robot arm repair is next door.
* Turns up in a lot of [[Marx Brothers]] routines. Harpo is usually responsible for the "literal" version.
** One particular instance that comes to mind is when he's trying to get into a secret room whose password is [[The Password Is Always Swordfish|"Swordfish."]] When asked for the password, he promptly produces a fish and runs it through with a dagger, and is subsequently allowed in.
** And if you're playing poker with Harpo, don't ask him to "cut the cards" unless you're using an inexpensive deck.
▲* ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]'':
** Eddie Valiant orders a "scotch on the rocks" from one of the penguin waiters at the Ink & Paint Club, which is staffed by Toons; [[Genre Savvy|seeing this joke coming]], he then shouts after the waiter, "And I mean ice!" When the penguin comes back with the order, the glass is full of scotch... and rocks, real ones. "Toons!" Eddie says in disgust.
** Later, in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it example, as Eddie drives into Toontown he runs over a pie with a cow's face on it: a "cow pie."
** Around the end, one of the weasels puts his hand in Jessica's cleavage, only to get caught in a bear trap. Hence Eddie's comment: "Nice booby trap!"
* In ''[[Prince of Persia:
* In one scene in ''[[The Muppet Movie]]'', Kermit instructs Fozzie to "turn left at the fork in the road". Kermit is quite surprised to see a literal giant fork stuck in the road at the turn-off.
* In ''[[Hot Shots]]!'', people repeatedly tell the main character that he has his father's eyes. [[Having a Heart|He actually does have them and keeps them in a box in his pocket.]]
** Largely the same gag in ''[[The Addams Family
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'''Morticia''': Gomez, take those out of his mouth. }}
* In ''Hot Shots! Part Deux'', one of the not-Iraqi soldiers is wearing a Holiday Inn towel instead of a turban. We have no idea ''how'' [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|that one got by.]]
* In ''[[
* ''Lover Come Back'': "Believe me, the agency that lands this account is the one that shows the [[Double Entendre|most attractive can]]." The scene then cuts to a certain part of a [[Chorus Girls|Chorus Girl's]] anatomy.
** As an [[Affectionate Parody]], ''[[Down With Love]]'' does a similar cut on the words "bosom buddies."
* In the classic Lovecraft-inspired horror-comedy ''[[Re
* ''[[The Jerk]]'' - Navin is berating a waiter in an expensive restaurant: "Two boobs! That's what he takes us for!" We get a shot of Marie glancing down at her decolletage.
** At the end, we learn that Navin's family had to tear down their old house, but, happily, they built a bigger house to replace it; tt's the exact same hovel as before, only scaled up about 40%, complete with an eight-foot-tall front door.
* In his opening narration for ''[[Love and Death]]'', [[Woody Allen]]'s character mentions the "valuable piece of land" owned by his father. We see an old man pulling out a hunk of sod from inside his coat.
{{quote|
* Ricky I is absolutely remorseless in its use of visual puns. Reviewed by the Angry Video Game Nerd [
* In ''[[The Great Dictator]]'', the emblem of [[A Nazi
* French film ''Coco'' is entirely made of gags performed by its main actor (a humorist in life), but there's one glaring instance of a visual pun: Coco's teenage son wants to show his firend the house's "porcherie" (pigsty). Viewers start wondering why a jewish man would keep swine in his house, until we see that it was actually a ''porscherie'' (a room chock-full of Porsche cars!)
* ''La cité de la peur'' (''City of Fear'') has a lot of this. Examples include: "C'est une vraie boucherie" (literally "it's like a butcher's shop", meaning that a crime scene is very gory: the policeman enters an actual butcher's shop, looks terribly shaken, and then goes to the actual crime scene), "Jetez-moi ici" ("drop me here"), "la place du mort" (literally "the dead man's seat", in reference to the front passenger seat. Cue corpse being pulled out of the car's boot.)
* ''[[Evil Dead|Evil Dead II]]''. After Ash [[Crowning Moment of Funny|laughingly cuts off his possessed hand with a chainsaw]] and sticks it to the floor with a knife, he traps it under a bucket. Thinking it might ''somehow'' escape, he places a stack of books on top. Featured prominately on top? ''A Farewell to Arms''.
* A dissolve at the beginning of ''[[Indiana Jones and
* ''[[Scott Pilgrim
* In ''[[The Dark Knight]]'', during his rampage through the city streets, the Joker blocks Batman's path with a fire truck... set on fire. More like a visual oxymoron, but...
* The Japanese crime comedy film ''Adrenaline Drive'' has a combination
* In ''[[
* One scene in the film ''[[Cars]]'' has twin fangirls Mia and Tia flashing their headlights in front of Lightning McQueen.
* One of the animals living in [[Alice in Wonderland (Disney film)|Tulgey Woods]] appears to be a bird with an umbrella for a body. In other words, a ''literal'' umbrellabird. Also, the various insects that popluate the same area, such as Bread-and-Butterflies, Dog-and-Caterpillars, Rocking-Horseflies, and Copper-Centipedes.
* In [[Song of the South]] in it's first musical number, a couple of birds come to hum as backup music. They're [[Meaningful Name|HUMMING BIRDS]].
* In ''[[Robots]]'', when Rodney's parents are "making" him (literally, out of parts), there's the exchange below. Justified in that they're, well, [[Exactly What It Says
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* In ''[[Kung Fu Panda 2]]'', [[Evil Albino|Shen's]] nanny is portrayed as an elderly female goat. A female goat is called a nanny.
* In the final segment in the anthology horror-comedy ''Chillerama'', a man gets kicked so hard, he shits. So yes, he had the shit kicked out of him.
== [[Literature]] ==▼
* When the Watch are arresting a villain in [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld|Guards! Guards!]]'', Vimes tells Carrot to "[[Throw the Book At Them|throw the book at him]]". Carrot, who [[Literal
▲== Literature ==
* The ''[[Amelia Bedelia]]'' series of illustrated children's books lives and breathes this trope; the titular maid is [[Literal
▲* When the Watch are arresting a villain in [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld|Guards! Guards!]]'', Vimes tells Carrot to "[[Throw the Book At Them|throw the book at him]]". Carrot, who [[Literal Minded|doesn't understand metaphor]], lobs ''The Laws and Ordinances of Ankh-Morpork'' in the villain's direction, causing the villain to {{spoiler|lose his balance and fall five stories to his death.}}
▲* The ''[[Amelia Bedelia]]'' series of illustrated children's books lives and breathes this trope; the titular maid is [[Literal Minded]], so every request made of her invariably results in an end product constituting a visual pun on the desired result.
** For example: Dress the chicken. Draw the shades. Dust the furniture (Amelia Bedelia even finds ''Dusting Powder'' in the bathroom!).
* In a rare serious example, at one point in [[Isaac Asimov|Asimov's]] mystery novel ''[[
* In [[John C. Wright]]'s ''[[The Golden Oecumene
* The books ''A Little Pigeon-Toad'',<ref>
* Also, another book called ''Catbirds and Dogfish'', which is supposed to be about animals with portmeanteaus for names, actually depicts said animals as [[Mix
* ''How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers'' by Robert Williams Wood (<ref>
* In ''[[X Wing Series|Wedge's Gamble]]'', there's a bar on the lower levels of Coruscant called the Headquarters. Its marquee features a stormtrooper's helmet being torn into four pieces.
* In the ''[[Council Wars]]'' series the teams responsible for infiltrating and securing potentially hostile beaches are primarily composed of Changed [[Selkies and Wereseals|Selkies]]. In other words they are SEAL Teams.
== [[Live
* [[Wayne and Shuster]] used the "lend me your ears" gag
{{quote|
"So what's in the sack?"
"Ears." }}
* Susan on ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'' literally spilled a bag of beans when she revealed a big secret, [[Stealth Pun|but they never said it out loud]].
* ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'' did this all the time. In one episode, Hilda contracted "Punitis" and any time someone used a metaphorical expression like this, whatever it was would literally happen.
** The animated adaptation had an episode focusing on "Cliche Week", a week where any cliches uttered by a witch would literally happen.
** The inhabitants of the Other Realm seem to LOVE puns - Just about every metaphor is taken literally for witches. When the Spellmans recieved a chain letter, it was a letter attached to an actual chain.
* On ''[[
** And in an episode about earwax, Beakman says "Friends, Romans, countrymen! Lend me your ears!", and someone pushes a huge ear towards the stage.
** Of course, there are a lot of visual puns in this show... but then, there are [[Hurricane of Puns|a lot of puns, period]].
* On ''[[Small Wonder]]'', Vicki was notorious for misinterpreting idiomatic commands.
* On ''[[
* In one episode of ''[[
** And why kittens? The kitten thing was introduced a few episodes earlier at a demon poker game. Where they played for kittens. Another name for the pot is the kitty.
* In the first season of ''[[Strangers
* ''[[
** At the beginning of the eighth season, they're flying a miniature Starbug through the vents of the reconstructed Red Dwarf and end up piloting it up a rat's backside.
{{quote|
* On ''[[
* On ''[[Top Gear]]'', Hammond once used a [[Irish Travellers|pie placed next to a key]] to describe himself.
* ''[[Police Squad!]]!'' (also by Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker) had so many that cataloging them all could be an article in itself.
** In one episode, Frank Drebin sits on a barstool that's too low, then when the bartender asks what he'd like, he says "Screwdriver." The bartender hands him an actual screwdriver from a toolbox; Drebin uses it to raise the barstool, then he orders a drink.
** The police are said to be looking through the records of recently released prisoners - in the background, several cops are examining vinyl LP's.
** Drebin follows a lead to the Club Flamingo, which has a mechanical sign of a man hitting a large pink bird with a cosh.
* On the old ''Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson'', Carson often did a sketch called "The Teatime Movie" where he played movie host Art Fern, who also did the commercials. Whenever he had a map for direction to the advertiser's store, you could expect the 'fork in the road' visual gag. Either that or the 'Slausen Cutoff' joke.
* In one episode of ''[[
* In an MTV Movie Awards skit parodying ''[[The Da Vinci Code]]'', Andy Dick (playing a [[Evil Albino|wannabe Silas]]) fails to kill Jimmy Fallon at first attempt, and upon inquiry, muses "Well, I have another plan, but I have yet... to ''hatch it''." Then he pulls out a hatchet, prompting Fallon to quip "May I ''axe'' what it is?" It doesn't end well for him.
* In ''[[
* ''[[Raumschiff Gamestar]]'' (Spaceship Gamestar), a science-fiction/game parody made by the staff of German PC Gaming magazine ''Gamestar'', has those on every possible occasion. Most consist of Captain Langer ordering his crew around, and when his orders get executed literally, responding [[Catch Phrase|"Oh Gott, wir werden alle sterben!"]]("Oh god, we're all gonna die!"). This has become a case of [[Memetic Mutation]] in the German gaming community.
* In ''[[Look Around You]]'', the signs warning about the Helvetica Scenario use the Helvetica font.
* ''[[
{{quote|
'''Blackadder:''' Baldrick, I would advise you to make the explanation you are about to give ''phenomenally'' good.
'''Baldrick:''' Well, you said "Get the door"...
'''Blackadder:''' Not good enough, you're fired! }}
* In ''[[The Monkees]]'' episode "Monkees Marooned", one of the boys gets an actual tongue-lashing, beaten with a giant rubber tongue.
* In the second episode of ''[[Breaking In]]'', the team steals a safe containing a thumb drive...shaped like a human thumb.
* In ''[[
** In ''The Girl Who Waited'', Amy says she disarmed a robot. Rory asks how, then looks at the robot... it has no arms.
* The [[Saturday Night Live|SNL digital short]] "3-Way" has Andy Samberg singing about meeting a girl who "likes the way I knock on her boots" - Cut to him literally hitting a pair of hiking boots with a stick.
* On [[
* A frequent occurrence on ''[[The Muppet Show]]'', especially with the Swedish Chef(his "Chicken in a Basket" involves dribbling the chicken and shooting it into a basketball hoop) and the Newsreader(when he announced that the price of beef fell today, [[Drop the Cow|a cow landed on him]]). [[Crowning Moment of Funny|One of their most notable examples]] was the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX9SZhPPs9A "Muppet News International" sketch] where British comic Spike Milligan mimed the newsreader's stories, starting with "Things look grim--"(Spike stares sternly at the camera).
* [[Merv Griffin]] Enterprises (''The Merv Griffin Show'', ''[[
* In a chapter of ''[[Castle]]'', Beckett and Castle have to go to a male striptease in order to arrest a suspect of the killing of a male stripper. The show at the moment is of strippers dressed as firemen, and one of them is the suspect. Beckett tells the suspect to "cool off", but he doesn't listen, and all the strippers surround Beckett. Then Castle appears with a fire extinguisher and cools them down enough for her.
* Meta example from
* In ''[[
* ''[[
== [[Music]] ==▼
▲== Music ==
* Many album covers are built around visual puns based on their titles. For example, the cover of ''Moving Pictures'', an album by Canadian rock band [[Rush]], features up to three different puns: a group of men carrying paintings from a museum, as in ''moving'' the ''pictures'', a group of women crying at the sight of the paintings, being ''moved'' by said ''pictures'', and a person filming the whole thing, making a ''moving picture''.
** The cover image of ''Permanent Waves'' by Rush also has visual puns related to the title. There is a wave of water, the man is waving his hand, and the fabric of the woman's clothing is waving in the wind; all of these "waves" are permanent because it's a photograph. Also, "permanent wave" is the name for the woman's hairstyle.
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* In the music video to [[Weird Al]]'s "Fat", there is a section where Al and friends start running in one direction while yelling "Hoooo!"... at which point one of the backup dancers hands Al a hoe.
* The [[Michael Jackson]] video "Leave Me Alone" (originally part of the anthology film ''[[Moonwalker]]'') includes a few scenes that involve dogs wearing business suits. In other words, "corporate dogs".
* The album ''Force It'' (see [
* [[Blink
* Queensryche's ''Hear In The Now Frontier'': While the "now" part isn't really represented, the cover features ears in jars spread out across, well, an Old West frontier.
* In ''[[Kids Praise|Psalty's Singalongathon Maranatha Marathon Hallelujah Jubilee]]'', Psalty's wife trips on a bucket that was left on stage. The bucket's purpose: helping the kids carry a tune.
* The cover of [[REM]]'s ''Lifes Rich Pageant'' is a picture of bassist Bill Berry coupled with a picture of some bison, as a visual pun on "Buffalo Bill". This also qualifies as a [[Stealth Pun]], since the cover art has nothing to do with the album title, and the actual words "Buffalo Bill" don't appear anywhere else either.
* Roger Daltrey's Tommy Reborn Tour is accompanied by an animation projected onto a screen behind the band. We start with an ovum being Fertilized by a sperm, which then turns into a red, white and blue ball, which is then dropped into the eye of a bird, representing Tommy Walker's conception. After Captain Walker goes off to war, we see various stylized images of a battle field including the Bird!Tommy carrying a Thompson Submachine gun in it's feet. That is to say, it has a Tommy gun.
* [[Van
* [[Brad Paisley]] plays a guitar with a paisley pattern on it.
* The cover of REO Speedwagon's "You Can Tune A Piano But You Can't Tuna Fish" shows a fish with a tuning fork in its mouth.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* [http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2006-08-16/ Here] in ''[[Dilbert]]'', Phil, The Prince Of Insufficient Darkness darns a man to Heck with his spoon. [[Brain Bleach|No, not his giant spoon. Much worse.]]
* A ''[[Far Side]]'' strip shows a couple driving around with a map of Nowhere, approaching a sign that reads "Now Entering The Middle."
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==▼
* The symbol for Phyrexia in the more recent{{when}} ''[[Magic:
▲== Tabletop Games ==
▲* The symbol for Phyrexia in the more recent [[Magic the Gathering]] sets greatly resembles {{spoiler|the Greek letter Phi. As in, Phi-rexian.}}
** Look at the illustration for Bronze Calendar. {{spoiler|It's a bronze ''colander''.}}
▲* ''[[Munchkin (
▲** [[Don't Explain the Joke|For those who haven't seen it]], its effect is that you steal a level, as in the gaming term, from an opposing player. The ''illustration'' is someone stealing a ''level'', as in the tool, from someone else.
== [[Theatre]] ==
* ''[[Spamalot]]'' has one during [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fstHSW9_zMs this musical number] at around 4:31.
** What's the... oh, [[Don't Explain the Joke|"Hay"]]. Duh.
* ''The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged)'' includes Pontius Pilot and the Axe of the Apostles.
* ''[[Muppet
▲== Theme Parks ==
▲* ''[[Muppet Vision 3D]]'' had Waldo, the new 3D Muppet, allowing his nose to jump off his face, grow legs, and start dashing in circles. "Don't cha just hate it when your nose runs?"
* ''[[The Haunted Mansion]]'' has the opera singers as a visual pun on [[The Phantom of the Opera]], and the Grand Ballroom scene contains a ghost of Caesar, as in "Great Caesar's ghost!"
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Persona 4]]'', Teddie's Persona is named after Kintoki-Douji, a mythological figure who carried a tomahawk. Teddie's Persona carries a Tomahawk missile.
** The ''Megaten'' games also have the rather [[NSFW]] Mara, whose name translated from its Japanese colloquialism means "Penis." [http://megamitensei.wikia.com/wiki/Mara You can guess what it is for yourself.]
*** It also fits the original depiction too; Mara is the name of a demon that tried to "tempt" to Buddha while the latter was meditating. Kazuma Kaneko's depiction of Mara is a penis (sexual temptation)<ref>
** In the original ''Persona'' and ''Persona 2,'' Vice-Principal/Principal Hanya's face is based on a Japanese [http://www.google.com/images?&q=hannya Hannya] mask. Luckily enough for the English-language versions, this also gives him an over-the-top [[Sadist Teacher]] look.
* The ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' box art is a fine example: a dead left hand with 4 fingers (thumb ripped off). The sequel takes it a step further: two of the fingers are bent.
** At one point in the game, in the DLC "Crash Course", you will walk past some very big fuel-holding tanks. One of the survivors, a biker named Francis, will then exclaim: "Look guys, we're passing gas!".
* In ''[[Portal (
* Prismatology, from ''[[The Adventures of Sam
** Also, there's the subject of [[You Dirty Rat|Jimmy Two-Teeth]], a small-time crook and full-time [[Butt Monkey]]...
* [[Record of Agarest War]] has one enemy named '''[[Biggus Dickus|Jumbo Cock]]'''. {{spoiler|It's a giant chicken!}}
* ''[[Zone of the Enders]]'' gave us cockpits taken a bit too literally.
* ''[[Touhou Project]]'' has Parsee Mizuhashi, a [[Green
** Parsee also has a visual [[Stealth Pun]] going on: She's a Persian (''hashihito'') bridge princess (''hashihime'').
* At the end of the ''[[
* Olive Specter from ''[[The Sims]] 2'' is a literal [[Black Widow]] (as in, she's black, not ''[[Giant Spider|that]]'' literally).
* Most levels in the first world of ''[[New Super Mario Bros
** In the original ''[[Super Mario Bros. (
* The title of ''[[
* In [[Katawa Shoujo]], there is a
== [[Web Animation]] ==
* Combined with an [[Incredibly Lame Pun]] in ''[[Brain POP]]''{{'}}s [[Hiccup Hijinks|Hiccups]] video, after Moby, of course, [[Exactly What It Says
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(Moby reveals a Las Vegas slot machine in his compartment)
'''Tim:''' [[Lampshade Hanging|And that is quite possibly the worst joke we've ever done.]] }}
* ''[[How to Kill
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Homestuck]]'' has one in Act 6 for John and Nanna. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, after all.
* In ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'', there's a recurring strip with the (literal) Writer's {{spoiler|Lego}} Block.
* In ''[[The Heroes of Middlecenter]]'', [http://middlecenter.com/comic/display.php?pg=45 "Could somebody give me a hand?" while fighting zombie ninjas]. Was included in the amateur video that spawned the comic.
* In ''[[General Protection Fault]]'', a similar example to the Muppet Movie above happens, save that the characters in question come across a fork(); in the road.
** Generally speaking, though, forking a process involves taking ''both''
* ''[[
* Three of these in a [http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2009/10/22/0105-all-puns-intended/ single strip] of ''[[
* ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' has [https://web.archive.org/web/20160403103207/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2009-02-09
* In ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'', the strip "The Polearm Shop" has a snake slither in in the last two panels. The entire strip is an homage to ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus|Monty
* In the ''[[
* The [[Author Avatar]] in ''[[DAR]]'' describes herself as a "fairly hairy girl" in [http://www.darcomic.org/2008/09/30/shaved/ one strip], then proceeds with six panels involving various ways of shaving . . . a cat. This is returned to in a later strip at a [http://www.darcomic.org/2009/01/13/wax/ waxing party], where all the girls are drawn as carrying cats and a guy is drawn as carrying a squirrel.
* In ''[[Dubious Company]]'', [[Winged Humanoid|Walter]] and [[Catgirl|Tiren]] get shipwrecked and their primal instincts kick in. Walter builds a house while Tiren hunts for food.
** In a backstory side piece, Sal and Leeroy get a visit from [[Random Number God|Phred]]. He appears as a pair of [[A Form You Are Comfortable With|sweatpants]].
* [http://www.explosm.net/comics/2630/ This] ''[[Cyanide
* ''[[
* ''[[
* Diglett and pals is just a series of strips with visual puns on Pokémon attack names. One example would be a Voltorb attempting to flee from a fight with a Diglett who summons an arena in order to trap the Voltorb, this is followed by the text "Diglett's arena trap prevents escape".
== [[Web Original]] ==
* The snarky video game reviews of ''[[Zero Punctuation]]'' consist of an almost constant string of these.
** During the ''[[God of War (
** The previous image for this page illustrated his comment that ''[[
* Much like Yahtzee, [[Moviebob|The Game Overthinker]] often uses this, though he does this in combination with [[Running Gag]], such as using a picture of [[Justice League Unlimited|The Question]] when he uses the word question, using [[Shigeru Miyamoto]] for God, using a picture of a butt for but and others.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2EHpf1TBvU This] [[YouTube]] video, at around the 1:15 mark.{{context}}
* In ''[[Dr.
* ''[[
{{quote|
** The last line is accompanied by two [[A Worldwide Punomenon|cannons put together.]]
** [[Action 52|This game]] [[
** [[Star Trek|You want]] [[Sega|Genesis]]? You can have Genesis.
** [[Cluster F
* [[
** [[
** In the [[Crisis Crossover]] storyline ''[[Kickassia]]'', the Critic assures his "army" that "I got you all a hotel room". Cut to the large group of people- in '''A''' hotel room.
** In the Nostalgia Chick's ''[[
** In the review of The Room, a picture of a donkey's face is used to [[Censor Box]] a shot of...you guessed it, an ass.
** In Spoony and Linkara's review of the ''[[Warrior (Comic Book)|Warrior]] #1'' comic, one scene shows them sitting in their hotel room with all of the on-screen colors inverted, leading to this exchange:
{{quote|
'''Linkara:''' "Oh, don't be so '''negative'''." }}
* [http://4chanarchive.org/images/48232393/1197572170797.jpg This]{{Dead link}} little not-very SFW gem from the [[Image Boards]].{{context}}
* ''[[
* There's now a [http://somuchpun.com/?utm_source=network&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=directory website for these].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SqffpGXRUY This video].{{context}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140509173340/http://tcritic.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/french-kiss-large.jpg This] t-shirt design.{{context}}
* This video, [http://www.tomscott.com/appalling-visual-puns/1/ "Appalling Visual Puns #1"], one of four. Did you get it before the caption?
* In ''[[We Are Our Avatars]]'', Kari's moniker is "Blind Follower"; after her brief [[Gender Bender]] moment, she is near-sighted, and needs glasses.
* ''[[Songs to Wear Pants To]]'' and Hannah Hart's collaboration [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIvOqHfia2s "Show Me Where Ya Noms At"] is already full of food puns to begin with, so of course when Hannah says "drop that beat", the video cuts to Andrew dropping a beet.
* The ''[[Know Your Meme]]'' image for [[Creepypasta]].
* [http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/750002-bait-this-is-bait This] reaction image (as a variation of [http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/583040-bait-this-is-bait this]).{{context}}
* A pair of crowbars are mounted on the wall of the bar in which Qrow is getting drunk early in V3 of ''[[RWBY]]''. And the official name of the establishment is eventually revealed to actually ''be'' "The Crow Bar".
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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** A lollipop (Sucker, someone who fell for a trick)
** The bottom of a shoe (Heel, someone who should be ashamed)
** A screw and a ball (Screwball, someone weird)<ref>
** A dripping faucet (Drip, a loser)
** A broken pot (Crackpot, someone crazy)
* In the episode "Hide and Seek" of ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'', Baljeet (who is shrunk at the moment) poses for a picture with a dust bunny. Yeah, it's an actual clump of dust in the shape of a bunny.
** "Picture This" begins with the boys having turned the garage upside-down (quite literally) trying to find Ferb's favorite skateboard.
** In "Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo" the two travel to the future and see that "The museum finally added that new wing." The museum has a giant angel wing on it.
** During their pre-flight checklist in "De Plane! De Plane!" Phineas mentions "co-pilot's instruments", and they cut to Ferb standing in front of a bunch of ''musical'' instruments hanging on the wall.
** In ''Mommy, Can You Hear Me?'' Doofenshmirtz traps Perry in a giant pickle. He then proceeds to [[Don't Explain the Joke|explain that it's funny]] because he's literally "in a pickle."
* ''[[Danger Mouse]]'': "How was I to know he had a voice-activated bean spiller?"
** And similar to the ''[[The Muppet Movie]]'' example above, Dangermouse is following a series of directions around an underground temple one of which is to take a fork left...after colliding with it he asks "Who left that fork there?"
* There is an old MGM cartoon by [[Tex Avery]], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot92Yfovvvg ''Symphony in Slang''], about a [[Jive Turkey|zoot-suited hipster]] arriving at the Pearly Gates and explaining to St. Peter his life story... largely in slang from [[The Fifties]], which Peter can't understand at all. St. Peter enlists Noah Webster to sort out the man's speech, but Webster is almost as clueless, and the action is displayed on screen as if these phrases were literally true.
** Avery's short ''The Cuckoo Clock'' also opens with a series of gags of this type.
* ''[[Looney Tunes]]'':
** ''Ballot Box Bunny'' has [[Bugs Bunny/Characters|Bugs Bunny]] and Yosemite Sam running against each other for mayor of a small town. At the end of the cartoon, they're ''both'' defeated... by a literal dark horse ("Our new mare").
** In ''The Fair-Hared Hare'', after Sam builds a house over Bugs's rabbit hole, Bugs vows to "take this to the highest court in the country"...and so he does (Elevation 6723 ft.).
** ''Yankee Doodle Bugs'' has Bugs explaining American history to his nephew Clyde. Among other jokes, he says that Manhattan was bought from the Indians "for a song" (Indian being given sheet music) and describes the Boston Tea Party in terms of tea with "tacks" (which is both shown visually and made into a verbal pun).
** And yet another one has Sam saying to Bugs to leave because "This town isn't big enough for both". Bugs then
** In ''The Daffy Doc'', [[Daffy Duck]] is a doctor's assistant and gets kicked out for causing trouble in the operating room. He expresses anger that anyone would do this to someone with a "sheepskin" (an actual sheep's skin) and a "license" (plate).
** Both "Hyde and Go Tweet" and "Lighthouse Mouse" have Sylvester, faced with a monstrous bird/mouse, freeze in horror, and then collapse into a pile of cat bits on the floor. The
* The [[Animated Adaptation]] of ''[[Beetlejuice (
* Similar to the ''Sabrina'' example above, in an episode of ''[[
* ''[[
* Thoroughly exercised over the course of ''[[The Fairly
** From
{{quote|
'''Timmy:''' Thank you, horrible visual pun! }}
** From "Mother Nature":
{{quote|
'''Timmy's Mom:''' Not very fond of getting the cold shoulder, are you?
(Timmy's right shoulder freezes) }}
* ''[[
** "This isn't a joke -- it's a ''visual gag.''"
* ''[[Sheep in The Big City]]'' loved this sort of humor. In one episode, the narrator shouts "Hold the phone!", and there's a brief cut to Lisa Rental holding up a telephone.
** In the very first episode, when searching for Sheep, the army guys are told to turn the city upside down. While General Specific is talking to the disguised Sheep in the foreground, we see the army guys literally turning all of the buildings upside down in the background.
* In an episode of ''[[Freakazoid!]]'', after a bit of badly-synced animation, it cuts to Freakazoid saying "Oy, let's watch the lip-sync, okay?", and ''then'' cuts to a clip of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=162rSgMysDY a disembodied pair of lips sinking into the ocean].
* Done hilariously in an episode of ''[[Garfield and Friends]]''. Roy buys a voice-activated weather-summoning robot, which starts interpreting all of Roy's insults ("I said ''rain'', you bucket of bolts!") as requests for the items in question to fall from the sky. Roy finds himself on the receiving end of a bucket of bolts and an overgrown vacuum cleaner before he starts running... and narrating. "It's driving me up a ''tree''! I have to get somewhere ''safe''!"
* On ''[[
** Turns out it's not limited to beans. He tried his darndest to get hired as Scrooge's new accountant, and when Scrooge tried to tell him no with a blunderbuss, Scrooge was amazed to hear, "465!" Turned out Fenton counted all the pellets that had been shot. After a quick check revealed he was just as good with counting money (a real plus when your money bin is so big it's a local landmark), Scrooge hired him.
** Later on, after he'd taken on duties as Gizmoduck, this is a [[Chekhov's Skill]]. The money bin is taken to a planet of robots ruled by a malicious supercomputer and its robot army. After trying the Gizmoduck frontal-assault approach, Fenton challenges the computer to a counting contest, winner takes all. And he outpaced the computer easily.
* In an episode of ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* In ''[[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack]]'', while Flapjack and K'nuckles are traveling ''wesssssst'', Bubbie comments that they're running low on food, water, and ''overall enthusiasm''. K'nuckles reveals that he's wearing his last pair of overalls with the word "ENTHUSIASM" on it, accompanied by some really creepy voices singing ''OVERALL ENTHUSIASM OVERALL ENTHUSIASM OVERALL ENTHUSIASM '''YEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAWWWWWWWW.'''''
* ''[[Chowder]]'' has quite a few from time to time. In ''Banned from the Stand'', for example, Gazpacho bans Mung from every other fruit stands (apparently he has the power to do that, according to the "code") and keeps saying "Banned! Banned! Banned!". In the last "BANNED!" we then cut to a shot of a marching band looking at Gazpacho.
** When Mung teases his rival, Ms. Endive, that an ugly beast has just escaped the zoo, a bizarre monster appears out of nowhere and says "Oops, gotta go!" and jumps through a window.
** Another scene also counts as a Lampshade Hanging from Truffles; when an extremely hot day comes along, Chowder asks why they don't turn on the Air
* ''[[Family Guy]]'': In a [[Stephen King]] ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]'' parody, Peter (Andy) accuses Pewtershmidt (Norton) of being "so obtuse", then Norton is shown to be sitting in a geometrically obtuse position.
{{quote|
'''Andy:''' No, now you're acute.
''(cut to Norton in an acute position)'' }}
** Another from Family Guy. A man in a supermarket walks up to Lois and says "Nice Melons." Peter gets appropriately angry, until we see Lois holding two cantaloupes and says "Peter, I'm holding melons." The man does it again with "Her hooters ain't bad, either." Peter yells again, and we see Lois with two owls on her arm, "Peter, I'm holding hooters." The man finally says "Your wife's hot" and runs off.
* ''[[Creature Comforts]]'' used these a lot. And I mean a lot.
* In the ending of Aardman Animations' ''Stage Fright'' (included on the ''[[
* In ''[[Wallace and Gromit|A Matter Of Loaf And Death]]'', the van has a toaster mounted below the radio and Gromit has set this to do a slice of toast for Wallace's breakfast. It pops out (having been done almost black) and Wallace looks at it.
{{quote|
''Very'' well done. }}
::As noted above, Aardman (or at least Nick Park) use a lot of visual puns.
* ''[[
** "Squid on Strike" - When instructed to make a picket sign, SpongeBob makes two visual puns: the first being a part of an actual picket fence and the second being the image of someone picking their nose, a "pick-it" sign.
** "No Weenies Allowed" - SpongeBob calls out Sandy for a karate challenge. She appears from the sand and grabs with the lines "Oh, I'm Sandy all right. Very Sandy." And [[SpongeBob]] gets the joke while ''flying'' in the air!
*** Another "sandy" example, this time from "Ripped Pants"
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** In one episode where Krabs flicks Plankton back to the Chum Bucket, he yells, "So long, shrimp!" An actual shrimp is then seen exiting the Krusty Krab.
** Combining this with a normal [[Pun]], SpongeBob's phone is shaped like a conch; a "shellphone" if you will.
** One episode had Barnacle Boy sick of being sidekick and decided to become evil. He then announces that 'he's crossing over [[Face Heel Turn|to the Dark side]]. Zoom out to show half of the Krusty Krab that's pitch-dark. When everone stares at Mr. Krabs, this is his response:
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** In one episode, Patrick gets a letter (cue paper with giant "B" on it). On the other side, there's a note (cue flip; other side has quarter note on it). He also got a message from his parents.
* In ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'', Woody asks Buzz Lightyear to "give me a hand". Buzz throws his (disconnected) arm to him.
** And in ''Toy Story 2'', Buzz tells Rex to "use his head" to open a vent. The next scene involves Rex being used to batter the door down.
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* Many of the [[Fleischer Studios]] and [[Famous Studios]] [[Screen Songs]] cartoons from the [[The Golden Age of Animation|30's, late 1940s and early 1950s]] lived off of this trope.
* In ''[[The Princess and
** Other examples occur throughout the movie. In the first musical number, the line "there's some sweetness goin' around" is accompanied by Tiana dusting pasteries with powdered sugar while spun on a lazy susan.
** While in the swamp, Prince Naveen states his parents cut him off because "I was a-----LEECH!! A LEECH!" as he lifts his arm out of the water to reveal a giant, fat leech.
* There was a rather dark one in ''[[The Little Mermaid]]''. When Ursula sings the line "It's she who holds her tongue, who gets her man.", she tosses a human-looking tongue into her cauldron.
* The ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode "Epilogue" used one to do a [[Shout
* [[Bump in
* Sometimes happens in classic [[Popeye]] shorts. One of the more frequent ones is when Popeye eats his spinach. He is seen appearing to have "muscles on his muscles".
* Try ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', Book 3. Zuko runs into Suki on the way to Sokka's tent. Suki slips away, and Zuko enters Sokka's tent. [[Ready for Lovemaking|Sokka was expecting...someone else.]] Zuko leaves, and Sokka calls for Suki. The next morning, Sokka is playing with a [[Stealth Pun|flower necklace]] ([[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|not dissimilar to]] a ''Hawaiian'' flower necklace). [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|He got lei'd.]] (And if you're assuming that Suki gave it to him, then Suki got [[Hurricane of Puns|de-flowered]].)
* In the episode of ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron]]'' where Cindy and Libby host a TV show, Nick announces he's going to comb his hair without his hands and [[Drum Roll, Please|asks for a drumroll]]. Cue an actual drum rolling across the stage.
* In one episode of [[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]], Genie conjures up a sandwich on his head and says "Hey Al! Lunch is on me!"
* On ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', Beezy, going through cell phone withdrawl, says he's cracking up. His body then literally breaks like glass and falls, in pieces, on the ground.
* In the ''[[My Little Pony
** And in "Feeling Pinkie Keen", Twilight Sparkle literally gets on a soap box to explain why she has a hard time believing in Pinkie's "Pinkie Sense".
** Another example in "Over a Barrel." During Braeburn's over-enthusiastic tour of Apple-loosa, he points out the "horse-drawn carriages" (which are driven by sapient ponies taking turns), then mentions "horse-drawn horse-drawn carriages". Cue a camera cut of several pony artists sketching out the horse-drawn carriages.
* One challenge in an episode of ''[[Total Drama World Tour]]'' involves carrying giant apples from the middle of a pond to shore. When Tyler has trouble doing this, Alejandro tells him to "use his head". Cue Tyler headbutting the apple across the pond.
* ''[[The Critic]]'' has had two great examples:
** From the episode "From Chunk to Hunk":
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** From "A Song For Margo":
{{quote|
* The ''[[Futurama]]'' movie "Bender's Big Score" ushers in their return with a long line of visual puns, where they [[Take That|take some pretty big jabs at their former network Fox]] in the form of making fun of the "Box Network". Notable ones include them being "on the air" (flying) and a comment about their many fans (their latest job has them delivering fans).
** Another episode has Leela telling Fry to "cool his jets". Cue a shot of Fry's jetpack burning Benders face.
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** For some, this is a potent source of [[Fridge Horror]]... the supposed hero of the story is shooting at his servants for fun.
*** With harmless arrows. He's basically playing paintball.
* In the ''[[Lilo
{{quote|
''Stitch launches a large television at Gantu''
'''Store PA:''' ...a picture so big it hits you like a ton of bricks!
'''Gantu:''' Oh blitznak. }}
* ''[[House of Mouse]]'' is ''full'' of them. In one scene, someone tells Mickey "The crowd's turning ugly" and there's a cut to the Queen from ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White]]'' turning into the old witch disguise and [[Beauty and The Beast|Prince Adam turning back into the beast]].
* The Sketch Artist [[Plastic Man]] short for the DC Nation ran on these. The Purse snatcher was male? Plas turns into a mail box. Pug nose? Pug dog nose!
* [[The Joker]] and Harley Quinn in [[Batman:
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* [[Accentuate the Negative]]
* [[All Drummers Are Animals]]
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* [[Nerf]]
* [[Nipple
* [[Nothing Butt an Index]]
* [[Pet the Dog]]
* [[Polish the Turd]]
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* [[Spoiler|Major Spoiler In This Image!]]
* [[Sacred Cow]] - a pun for the modern meaning of the phrase, but played straight for the phrase's original meaning
* [[Ship Sinking]]
** '''[[
* [[Smug Snake]] (The character in the page image is both this trope and a ''literal'' [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent|snake]])
* [[Straw Fan]]
* [[The Mole]]
* [[Undead Horse Trope]]
* [[Vapor Wear]] (Which formerly had
*
* [[The War On Straw]]
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