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* 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>. Doubles as a [[Stealth Pun]].

* 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.

* ''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".

* ''[[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".

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'''Helmet''': What about you guys?<br />

* As are Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker:

** ''[[Airplane!]]!'':

* In [[John C Wright]]'s ''[[The Golden Oecumene (Literature)|Golden Age]],'' the laws of the Oecumene are carved on the floor of the courtroom--set in stone.

* The books ''A Little Pigeon-Toad''<ref> pigeon-toed</ref>, ''The King that Rained''<ref> reigned</ref>, ''The Sixteen-Hand Horse''<ref> hands are the unit of measurement used to determine the height of a horse, a typical adult horse is 16 hands high</ref>, and ''A Chocolate Moose for Dinner''<ref> mousse</ref>, which are all about visual puns.

* ''How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers'' by Robert Williams Wood (<ref> [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?default_prefix=author_id&query=668 here] and [http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/How_to_Tell_the_Birds_from_the_Flowers/ here], in different editions</ref>) is [[Hurricane of Puns|composed almost entirely]] of plain puns "illustrated" by visual ones.

* 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 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 ''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 [[Glee (TV)|Glee]] in 'The Sue Sylvester Shuffle' "She's Not There" by the "Zombies" is performed in full zombie makeup

* 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).

* 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 ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' [http://media.battlestarwiki.org/images/d/dd/Starbucks_at_starbucks.jpg here.] Yes, they actually did that.

* 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".

* [[Blink 182|Blink-182's]] ''Take Off Your Pants and Jacket'' (already a Punny title) has on its cover a traffic light. Red = a plane ("Take off"), Yellow = pair of jeans, Green = jacket.

* 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.

** [[Cluster F-Bomb|It's time to start dropping some F-bombs! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!]]

* [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]] once is reminded to bring up the suicide of ''[[The Neverending Story (Film)|The Neverending Story]] 2'''s lead actor by someone who he's been ignoring for a while, who's been in the room for a while, and happens to be an elephant. An [[Elephant in The Living Room|elephant in the room]], if you will.

** 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 ''[[Labyrinth (Film)|Labyrinth]]'' review, to point out a [[Running Gag]] (namely, [[My Name Is Not Durwood|Hoggle's name being pronounced incorrectly]]), the word "Gag" on legs runs across the screen.

** 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.

* [[Bump in The Night]]: In "Penny For Your Thoughts," Squishy uttered the pun, simply made a random thought, and a penny fell on him from out of nowhere. Bumpy put all his effort into producing a random thought, [[Plot Induced Stupidity|but it took him a while to do so.]]

* 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 one episode of [[Aladdin (Disney)|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.

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* [[Sacred Cow]]

* [[Ship Sinking]]

* [[Smug Snake]] (The character in the page image is both this trope and a ''literal'' [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent|snake]])

* [[Straw Fan]]

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