History Main / LamePunReaction

* In JimCHines ''Literature/PrincessSeries'' novel ''The Snow Queen's Shadow'', Talia tells a story about the time, many years ago, when Snow made it rain urine in [[PrinceCharming Prince Armand's]] room for more than an hour. When Queen Beatrice asked Snow why she did it, Snow said that "she wanted him to know what it felt like to be a peon". Talia said that she told Bea that whatever Snow's punishment was going to be, it ought to be doubled just for that pun.

** [[http://fotoninja.nl/post/1382/cyanide-and-happiness-suicide-pact-lunch Also:]]

* In ''A DuckTales Valentine'', Huey, Dewey and Louie find a chest in a sunken Greek temple. When they wonder what the inscription on the lid is supposed to mean, Launchpad quips "It's Greek to me!" There's an awkward pause, after which Launchpad says defensively "Well, ''somebody'' had to say it."

* [[http://captainosaka.deviantart.com/art/DOUBLE-K-026-106195125 This page]] of ''Webcomic/DoubleK''. In the words of the writer: "KAMINA just pissed away every cool point he earned over the last 25 pages, way to go buddy".

Not to be confused with StealthPun, which refers to puns where the punchline is simply left to the readers or listeners as an exercise, and not to particularly groan-inducing and/or obvious puns.

* Judai in ''YuGiOhGX'' is quite fond of this trope. Here's a good example as shown below when he duels with Wheeler, a monkey duelist, to rescue fellow Duel Academy student Jasmine in the episode "Monkey See, Monkey Duel":

* ''{{Sacrifice}}'' brings us this little gem, aimed at a servant of the god of earth who's made of living rock:

* In ''ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Meet the Beat-Alls", Mojo justifies stealing eggs and other white items because "it's all right as they're all white!". The terrible pun prompts Princess to drop the eggs and groan in disgust.
** In "I See A Funny Cartoon In Your Future," Blossom finds a tarot card as a clue to a string of thefts, to which she announces that it's the work of a "taro-ist." Bubbles feels our pain.

-->'''Stewie:''' I thought something was Amish [pronounced 'a-mish' (amiss)]. ''(gets smacked by Brian)''

--> '''Stan''': A sixteen-hour flight for a bad pun? ...yes. Yes.

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation features, among a variety of bizarre things, a kind of tomato that reacts violently to lame puns, sometimes resulting in death.

-->'''Sheriff Marion:''' Hey, I didn't make that one up - he did. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous With puns that bad]], [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking I'd say that gives you just one more reason to kill 'im]].

'''Sonic:''' I know you're trying to be clever with this whole amusement park pun thing, but it's just coming off lame.Say you're going to destroy us and stop embarrassing yourself.\\

* The English Dub of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' loves this. It might as well be its own page. The crowner has to be Brock's use of an ImprovisedUmbrella in the Mewtwo Returns movie.
--> '''Brock''': I'll use my trusty frying pan, as a ''drying'' pan!

* ''[[Anime/{{Persona 4}} Persona 4: The Animation]]'' has a couple. In episode 9, Yukiko calls Chie's Persona a "Chie pet." As if that single pun wasn't enough for her, she then proceeds to go off an a ''whole tangent'' about Chie pets, all the while laughing her head off.
** Episode 15 has one that gets LostInTranslation. Teddie and Yukiko laugh at a pun on Kanji's name, "ii kanji," which means "good feeling/s." The subbers settle for using the pun that was used in the game, "Great Kanjecture." For bonus points, the latter isn't just lame--it doesn't make a lot of sense.
** And then there's just Teddie, whose constant barrage of bear puns is almost completely unBEARable throughout the entire game. Seriously, you can BEARly deal with it. It's bad enough that even [[TheHyena Yukiko]] doesn't laugh at them.

* Kate in {{Sketchbook}} is a frequent offender of this trope.

* Kohtaro Taiga from ''[[GaoGaiGar GaoGaiGar Final]]'' in addition the being the BigGood BadassNormal uses his golf club the ''Taiga Wood'' to prove his point, by stabbing the control lock that kept 3G from doing what needed to be done, the club even goes so far as to have an eye-catch devoted to explaining its specs and being the Key to Victory item that the narrator informs us about at the end of the previous next episode preview.
* One [[ShugoChara Shugo Chara Chan!]], comic has the Guardian Characters wondering what the prince of flowers ("hana" in Japanese) looks like, and one of the princes is a nose (Also "hana" in Japanese). Ran says "That's not the right "hana" we're talking about!"
* In the English dub of episode 7 of MagicalDoremi, when Caitlyn (Poppu in Japanese) has to go to the bathroom, Dorie (Doremi) says "Oh no! Nature's calling, and I must answer!". She said "No way! She has to go to the toilet? It's because of the ice cream!" in the Japanese version.

** Or this, as Ringo tries to drive the submarine through the Sea of Monsters:
-->'''Old Fred:''' You've got to steer clear!
-->'''Ringo:''' Steer clear?
-->'''Old Fred:''' Yes, steer! Clear?
-->'''Ringo:''' Yes, dear.

** A running joke in ''Discworld/WitchesAbroad'' is Granny Weatherwax's attempt to make a joke ending with "make me an alligator sandwich, and make it snappy". But because she doesn't remember it perfectly and has no idea what's supposed to be amusing about it, she keeps saying she wants it fast, or some other synonym that breaks the pun.

* In [[CiaphasCain For The Emperor]], the local Sisters of Battle convent is located on Gavarrone, making them [[spoiler: the Nuns of Gavarrone.]]

* The Cryptkeeper in TV version of ''TalesFromTheCrypt'' is a master at making these.
-->"Cryptkeeper" Oh hello kiddies, you're just in time for your driving lesson. Today we'll be learning about scare-lell parking.

** In ''iFind Lewbert's Lost Love'', Spencer is annoyed because of the recent remote control thefts.
--->'''Spencer''': "What kind of burglar will break into people's apartments just to steal TV remotes?"\\
'''Carly''': ''(stifles laughter)'' "A ''remote control freak''?"\\
''(Spencer sprays whipped cream on Carly's nose bridge)''

* ''{{Frasier}}''. In ''Look Before You Leap'', Frasier is attempting an opera song, requiring him to hit an impossibly high note, while Niles is horny due to refusing Maris' rare sexual invite despite their marriage counselor's advice.

** One of the best occurred when he was doing an advert for a Chinese Restaurant. He says something to the extent of "If you have a yen for good Chinese, check them out." When Roz walks in, he asks how she liked his little ad lib, he responds, "Nice, but yen is Japanese, not Chinese."

* ''FullHouse'' had a LOT. From the episode "Smash Club: The Next Generation", when Jesse is trying to hide Joey (who has gotten everything below his head stuck in a hole in the bar) from a woman interviewing him:
---> '''Jesse''': This is Joey...our ...'''head''' waiter.

** NCIS had McGee overusing that one in one episode, nobody liked it.
* In ''Series/{{CSI}}'', regular flavor: "What a waste". [[ItMakesSenseInContext (a pun on the fact the victim was a Civil War re-enactor who wore corsets and had a really narrow waist.)]]
** That's nothing. The episode featuring the death of a "furry" ended with Gil musing [[HunterSThompson "Fur and loathing in Las Vegas."]]

** Harry, in ''Genesis of The Daleks'':
--->'''Four''': It's like finding a Stone Age man with a transistor radio.
--->'''Harry''': Playing rock music?
** And another from the Ninth Doctor;
--->'''Rose''': I can see everything, all there is, all there was, everything that ever could be, but why does it hurt?
--->'''Nine''': That's what i see all the time, and doesn't it drive you mad?
--->'''Rose''': My head! its killing me!
--->'''Nine''': I think you need a doctor.
** In ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E01TheEleventhHour The Eleventh Hour]]'', the Eleventh Doctor makes an Incredibly Lame Pun while addressing of [[GreatEscape Prisoner]] [[BigBad Zero]].

* In ''TheSarahJaneAdventures'', PungeonMaster Clyde is telling Jo Jones that her family should spend more time together as her grandson Santiago is feeling neglected. Otherwise "relations with Santaigo might get a bit [[{{UsefulNotes/Chile}} chilly]]." Even Clyde himself is ashamed of that pun.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdjYzd2izD0 This]] Jinnai Tomonori skit includes a Japanese Incredibly Lame [[BilingualBonus Bilingual]] StealthPun (with helpful explanation provided in the subtitles) and the proper response (starts at 3:27).
* The late publisher Bennett Cerf was well known for his love of puns both on and off of ''Series/WhatsMyLine'', and since he was the one who would usually introduce ''Series/WhatsMyLine'' host John Daly he would often throw out a groaner that would have Mr Daly wincing upon entry.

* ''BeakmansWorld'' was always pun-based, and in the first three season the characters would show mild disgust with some of the puns. By the fourth season (the Phoebe episodes), [[HurricaneOfPuns they went overboard with them.]]
* From ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'':
** In the "Visitors fron Coventry" sketch:
-->'''Arthur Name''': What's brown and sounds like a bell? Dung!
** In the "Art Critic" sketch, when a pretty girl enters:

* From ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "[[Recap/CommunityS2E08CooperativeCalligraphy Cooperative Calligraphy]]":

* The science show ''The Known Universe'' describes a cryovolcano on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enceladus_%28moon%29 Enceladus]] as "''Cold'' Faithful InSpace".

* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' has a RunningGag where Ted and Robin will salute after phrases including military ranks. Major Baggage. General Knowledge. Private Conversation. Major Inconvenience. Colonel Stuckinmyteeth.

* In Criminal Minds, when the team is discussing a serial killer with a lot of female fans with a prison guard, the guard calls him a "real ladykiller." The look on his face makes it clear that he's been waiting YEARS to actually use that one.

* Owl City's song, "Rugs From me to You" is full of puns. One of them he apologizes for in-song. He sings, "Excuse the pun, but it's hair today, gone tomorrow."

* From Music/JustinBieber's Never Say Never:
--->'''Jaden [[WillSmith Smith]]:''' No pun intended, I was raised by the power of will.
* Bert Bach, PDQBach's only known living direct descendant, and his musicians, don't appreciate how Professor Schickele has always "wanted to give Bert Bach a rock!"[[hottip:*:[[DontExplainTheJoke Burt]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Bacharach Bacharach]]

* Young Money's Bedrock contains the lyrics "Call me Mr. Flintstone, I can make your bed rock."
* Kip Addotta's "Wet Dream" has a fish-related pun in every line. For example:
--->'''Kip Addotta:''' I said, "Hi Gil!" You have to yell; he's hard of herring.
* Primus' Tommy The Cat features this too.
--->'"The air was filled with cat calls (no pun intended)"

** Also, [[http://keckeley.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/pearls-its-a-moray.gif this]]. ''Ow''.
** Averted, HARD, in [[http://gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2010/11/21/ this]]. SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped?
* ''FoxTrot'', being as {{Troperiffic}} as it is, gives a double-ShoutOut to the pun strips in ''PearlsBeforeSwine'' and the [[NoodleIncident noodle incidents]] in ''CalvinAndHobbes'' in [[http://thedailyfunnies.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/12-06-09-foxtrot.gif this strip.]]

* ''MotherGooseAndGrimm'' is full of these. But [[http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/store/add.php?iid=38452 this strip]] in particular is pretty bad.
* Scott Adams, writer of ''{{Dilbert}}'', is fond of these, especially in the earlier strips (prime example [[http://www.dilbert.com/1991-06-28/ here]]). He's also well aware of [[http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1992-03-26/ how folks often react to them]].

* One U.S. Acres comic had Lanolin wear a sign that said [[EndOfSeriesAwareness "The End Is Near"]] and the back of the sign shows her bu-erm, tail.

* We are talking here about one of the very basic concepts, one of the driving forces, of ''all'' British radio comedy since ''{{ITMA}}'' in the 1940's and possibly before.
* Radio/ImSorryIllReadThatAgain was a pun-storm all of its own. As [[Series/TheGoodies Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie]] gleefully threw puns around for minutes at a time, [[Creator/MontyPython John Cleese]] would stand back from the mike, fold his arms in disdain, refuse to join in and can be heard repeating ''"easy. Easy. Too easy"'' A classic ISIRTA build-up might describe an eccentric Northern English textile magnate who decides to turn over some of his business premises to breeding dachshunds, alsatians and Rottweilers. Deploring the noise of thousands of dogs, the cast would then break into song:
--> ''The Mills are alive, with the Hounds of Munich...''
** A similar set-up involved breeding rodents for their tusks:
--> ''Prime ivory mouse tusks!''
* An episode of the ''GoonShow'', ''The African Incident'', took the whole thirty minutes to set up one complex pun: this involves the hapless Prussian, Herr General von Gooturm.
--> "Hit him again!"
--> "Why?"
--> "Because von Gooturm deserves another!" (''Orchestral sting)''.

[[folder:Stand Up Comedy]]
* This is practically TimVine's entire ''schtick''.
--> Crime in multi-storey car parks? That's wrong on so many levels.
** He can rattle off several in one go:
--> I went to rent a movie and I said to the clerk, "Can I have ''BatmanForever''?" The clerk said, "No, you've got to bring it back tomorrow." I said, "How about ''[[FortyEightHours Another 48 Hours]]''?" He said, "''Tomorrow''." I said, "Have you got ''BigTroubleInLittleChina''?" He said, "[[ImaginedInnuendo Please...]]"
* Creator/BillHicks once ended one of his lengthy rants on the [[JohnFKennedy Kennedy assassination]] with this:
-->There's no fucking way, man! Not unless Oswald was hanging by his toes, upside-down from the ledge... surely someone would have seen this?!? Either that or some pigeons grabbed onto him, and flew him over the motorcade! You know, there were rumors of anti-Castro pigeons seen drinking in bars the night before the assassination. Someone overheard them saying "Coup, coup!"

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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''MagicTheGathering'': The Revised Edition game manual included Richard Garfield's account of the creation of the game. He mentions that the pre-release version used placeholder art for the cards, including a few of these. For example, "Heal" was a photograph of someone's foot, while "Power Sink" showed [[CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]] sitting in a toilet, "because what ''is'' a toilet except a power sink?"
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* In ''The Complete History of America (abridged)'', private detective Spade Diamond is being grilled by two toughs on what [[ILoveLucy Lucy Ricardo]] was doing on the day of JFK's assassination. (This MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.) His alibi: she was with him, but wasn't seen with him because she was disguised. One of the toughs snaps back, "So, [[Music/TheBeatles Lucy was disguised with Diamond]]," and all three do an AsideGlance as the audience groans. ("I should've seen that coming," Spade confides to the fourth wall.)

-->'''Zyzyx:''' Now Grakkus here is none too quick on his feet. It may be because he leads such a... ''Sedimentary'' lifestyle!\\

* ''RailroadTycoon'' has a newspaper headline that says "ECONOMY IS BACK ON '''TRACK'''."

* In ''VideoGame/NamcoXCapcom'', there's a stage where EVERYONE starts making these (Japanese-only). It even highlights in red what the pun is supposed to be. To the characters, it gets old really fast.

-->*Pause for half second, then...*

* PhoenixWright: 'Why am I, Phoenix Wright, such a good lawyer? Because I'm "Wright" all the time!' It's actually a pretty good pun, Maya just doesn't think so.
** She warms up to it eventually, as does Moe the Clown, ''master'' of the IncrediblyLamePun (from Phoenix's point of view at least).

* One of the achievements in LegendaryTheBox is a pun called "Dou-Bull Trou-Bull", which you get for defeating 2 Minotaurs who are fighting you at the same time (what's even more annoying is that the achievement only gives you 1 Gamerscore point). Right after you get that achievement, though, you get another achievement (that gives the rest of the points you deserve) titled "I owe you an apology", where the lead designer apologizes for making such a lame pun.

* In the beginning of Mother 3 as you're moving toward the Magypsies with Flint, Alec gets pun-tastic as he leads you through this cave. Some of the lame puns he makes are along the lines "There's a vine around here, we have to 'vined' it." and "Vines go up because they're 'divine'". *insert rim-shot*

* KidIcarusUprising gives us this:

* Sonic Colors is well known for Sonic's terrible puns through out the game based on the areas and even the bosses. And here comes a real stinger; at the very end of the game, Sonic, King of Bad Jokes and Puns, insults Eggman's decent Amusement Park puns that shamed his jokes inertly.
* ''DragonAgeII'' actually used one of these for foreshadowing the game's most shocking event. During the quest "Justice," [[spoiler: Grand Cleric Elthina tells Anders that she hopes the Chantry was a [[StuffBlowingUp balm]] for his soul.]] Yeah, the writers have a warped sense of humor.

* [[http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=34&issue=13 This page]] of ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja''.
** [[AltText He makes you wear an old diving suit, of course he just said that.]]
** [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p40 this page]] as well. "[[AltText If the internet were an auditorium, I'd be on stage grinning proudly against]] [[CollectiveGroan a chorus of groans]]."
* The ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' strip [[http://www.xkcd.com/282/ Organic Fuel]] has a pretty extreme version of this.
** [[http://www.xkcd.com/410/ Math Paper]] takes it even further.
** Then there's the mouse-over text for [[http://xkcd.com/431/ Delivery]].
** And [[http://xkcd.com/594/ Period]] has another groaner.
** Math flavored in [[http://xkcd.com/626/ this one]]
** Statistically significant. [[http://xkcd.com/539/ Ha]].

* ''BetweenFailures'' shows [[http://betweenfailures.com/2009/01/21/406-menses/ Nina insulting Reggie]] with one of these.

* Mr. Mighty in ''EverydayHeroes'' will occasionally try to be a [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=117736 cut-up]].

* Possibly the webcomic king of puns is Howard Tayler of [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/ Schlock Mercenary]]. Especially [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20030916.html this one]] is a groaner.

** On the other hand, Torg hates it when somebody else is doing it.
** All of the Stick Figure Theater interludes are full of them, with some storylines written specifically for the ''pun''chline.
* In ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'':
** "[=PunGuard=] 2.1" reacts to a bad pun in [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/967.html #967]] by displaying a dialog box. This is also a StealthPun, as the dialog box blocks the pun.
** There have been ''twenty'' puns on the word [[http://irregularwebcomic.net/search_result.php?d=hobbit&t=2&in=s 'hobbit']]. The author decreed that at least 100 strips would separate each pair of hobbit puns, presumably to limit the rate of Lame Pun Reactions.

* The comic FreakingAwfulPuns was built around this trope.
* In TropeOverdosedTheWebcomic, [[http://tropeoverdosed.pcriot.com/?p=116 Bob doesn't really understand what]] TurnUndead really means.
* ''BobAndGeorge'': Mega Man managed to make a ''broom'' to wince in pain with [[http://bobandgeorge.com/archives/040527c his explanation]] of the RuleOfFunny, and Bright Man (who has a lightbulb for a head) [[IdeaBulb having an idea]] prompted Kalinka Cossack to collapse to the ground, protesting to her father that "I thought you loved me!"
** In fact, if a joke in this series isn't about time travel or plot holes, there's a very good chance it will be a pun.
* In [[http://tabmok99.mortalkombatonline.com/comic-kombat.html these]] ''MortalKombat'' webcomics, every time [[PungeonMaster Reptile]] turns up, you'll see one.
* In ''Webcomic/TheDreadful,'' Kit likes to trade them with Boozloaf, much to Liz's [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2011/06/17/the-dreadful-032/ annoyance]].

* Milton from ''{{Tweep}}'' [[http://www.tweep.com/comic/?date=01-10-11 justified his repetition of an old joke with one.]]
* In ''{{Thornsaddle}}'', a comic that takes place in the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' universe, one character makes a pun on the word "[[http://thornsaddle.com/comics/59/ parselmouth.]]"
* ''Webcomic/LaserFeet'': Puns appear regularly, and are always painfully obvious, including such gems as [[http://www.thelaserfeet.com/comic/003/ please "bear" with us]] and [[http://www.thelaserfeet.com/comic/009/ Late-ser Feet]]

* {{Five Second Films}} are well known for having many pun comments on every video they post, always relating to the video in question. These comments are sometimes featured on their comments of the week videos due to how bad some of them really are.

* ''NeuroticallyYours:''
--> ''"Isn't prostitution the worlds oldest profession?"''
--> ''"That, and farming! And they both use hoes. Hehe, get it? Funny! Huh?"''

** In addition, any Crap Shot entitled "The Punishment" is essentially Alex making an incredibly lame pun, followed by Graham dishing out CoolAndUnusualPunishment for it.
* It happens constantly in ''TheAnnoyingOrange''.

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation features among a variety of bizarre things, a kind of tomato who reacts violently to lame puns, sometimes resulting in death.
* Machinima/RedvsBlue: The Reds try to make themself pass as Freelancers by adapting their LocationThemeNaming.

** And in the review of Red Faction Guerrilla. "Guerrilla could've worked if it had actually been ''about'' sneaky, subtle guerrilla warfare rather than driving a monster truck into someone's front room and shooting them in the face. Which is less guerrilla and more chimpanzee." And the obligatory credits acknowledgement "Spent decades working on that last pun."

* Coach Z from ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'', who commonly dresses up in Hip-Hop costumes for Halloween, once dressed up as a sheet of paper in 2010. When prompted, he stated he was ''(w)rapping paper''. Que CollectiveGroan from the rest of the cast.
* From ''TheIrateGamer's'' review of ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' on the {{SNES}}: "Someone call 911, because I was R.O.B.bed!" R.O.B. had nothing to do with the review at all, which makes this even more painful.
* DejaView: In which foreign remakes of popular USA films are reviewed by Ed Glaser.

* WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd's Street Fighter 2010 review.
-->'''Nerd''': Sonic Boom to the moon and Hadouken up Uranus.
* The leader of TheLeagueOfSTEAM is named Crackitus Potts. [[DontExplainTheJoke Crackpot, get it?]] (Also an allusion to Caractacus Pott from ''ChittyChittyBangBang''.)
* FTA pulled one during the HellfireCommentaries ''SonicUnleashed'' playthrough. Averted when [=NTom=] [[ActuallyPrettyFunny starts clapping]]
-->'''[=NTom=]:''' What's a moray?\\
'''FTA:''' [[DeanMartin When the moon hits your eye, like a big pizza pie]], ''that's'' [[TropeCodifier a moray.]]\\
'''[=NTom=]:''' *clapping* Well done. [[ActuallyPrettyFunny That is actually well deserved.]]
* {{Phelous}}. All the time.

* You'll find quite a few lame puns around TVTropes at times, some of which are {{pothole}}d to this very page.

* Carlos, on ''TheMagicSchoolBus'', frequently inflicts these on his classmates, resulting in a CollectiveGroan of his name.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''' Foghorn Leghorn often came up with these, prompting sighs and eyeball-rolling from Henry Hawk, Barnyard Dawg, or whoever else he was talking to. ("You gotta keep your eye on the ball. Eye! Ball! Eyeball! I almost had a gag, son! Joke, that is!")

** In a moment of Poetic Irony, we later learned when Beast Boy and Cyborg got sucked into Raven's mind that Raven herself has ''always'' thought he was funny.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', about every other thing Sokka says. Especially in Omashu:
-->'''Aang''': How am I supposed to know his name?\\
'''Katara''': Think about the challenges. Maybe it's some kind of riddle?\\
'''Sokka''': I got it!\\
'''Aang''': Yeah?\\
'''Sokka''': He's an earthbender, right? Rocky! ''*pause*'' You know, because of all the rocks?\\
'''Katara''': We're gonna keep trying, but that is a good backup.

** In 'No Weenies Allowed':
-->'''SpongeBob''': HI-YAH!... Sandy?
-->'''Sandy''': Oh, I'm Sandy all right. I'm very Sandy. HI-YAH!
-->'''SpongeBob''': [as he flies through the air] Oh, I get it. She's Sandy. That's her name, and she's also covered in, yes...

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode involving Homer, a prison warden, and a painting of a unicorn in outer space.

** Which is ''very'' far from the worst joke in that episode. "Someday monkey won't play piano song. Play piano song."
* One of the ''TheFairlyOddparents'' episodes had a monkey gain access to Timmy's wishing power, and turns everything in the world to monkey versions - including the town name, which goes from "Dimsdale" to "Chimpsdale". When Timmy notices this he mutters, "When this is all over, I'm wishing for a world without puns..."
** During a history lession, mention is made of the "Declar-Ape-tion of Independence". AJ comments along the lines of "If that wasn't historically accurate, I would say it was the most horrific pun ever."

* ''BananaMan'' had ''at least'' one cringeworthy pun per episode. And, they only lasted about five minutes!

* ''TheCritic'': From the episode "From Chunk to Hunk":
-->'''Penny''': ''(Giving Marty a sheet of paper)'' Goodbye Marty. I wrote you a letter.
-->''(Marty sees only the letter P written)''
-->'''Penny''': You can read it on the bus.
** From "A Song For Margo":
--->'''Hard Copy reporter:''' Tonight on ''Hard Copy'', [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._J._Simpson O.J.]] refuses to speak. ''(Shows a clip of a pitcher of orange juice on the witness stand.)'' Part 2 tomorrow.
* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', Alfred [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGw6bZPxGrA draws Batman a bath.]]
* [[TheAmazingWorldOfGumball Darwin]] claims to be a "Pacifish" in ''"The Ghost"''.

* In the TimonandPumbaa episode "Brazil Nuts", a [[BalloonBelly rather fattened Timon]] says "Sheesh! How long could it possibly take to gather a bunch of measly ANTS?? Must be gettin' the uncles, too! Ha!" Timon notices no one heard the pun.
** Later, when Timon and Pumbaa advertise an imaginary fast food chain to Eddie and Ralph (the two snakes who tried to eat them), Timon said, "That's two cans for you and me!" when toucans were shown.
*** Also, the "Horse and Radish" joke.

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* The myriad of FiresignTheatre albums are just chock-full of them.
** From ''Nick Danger, Third Eye''
-->'''Announcer''': ...he crosses Macarthur Park and walks into a great sandstone building!
-->'''Nick Danger''': [thump] Oh, my nose!
* One Advertisement regarding a sale on May 4th for ''StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' has the tagline "May the 4th be with you".
* This old joke contains a sort of meta-pun:
--> A man hears about a pun contest where the writer of the best pun wins a prize. He stays up all night and ends up writing ten puns, hoping that one of them will win, but no pun in ten did.
* About half of all crosswords run on this.
--> "Holy Blackbird?" Ans. Sacredcrow.
--> "English prince before being kissed?" Ans. Londonfrog.
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** "PunGuard 2.1" reacts to a bad pun in [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/967.html #967]] by displaying a dialog box. This is also a StealthPun, as the dialog box blocks the pun.

* ''IrregularWebcomic!'', full stop. To date, there have been ''twenty'' puns on the word [[http://irregularwebcomic.net/search_result.php?d=hobbit&t=2&in=s 'hobbit']] ''alone''.

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* The [[http://www.usscreeningsource.com/icup_drug_test.htm iCup]] urinary drug test.
* When British Major-General Napier conquered Sindh in 1847, he supposedly sent a telegram with just one word: "Peccavi". BilingualBonus: This is Latin for "I have sinned" - "I have Sindh".
** This may be a BeamMeUpScotty, as the first written record of it is in the diary of an Edwardian schoolgirl who'd recently learnt that bit of colonial history.
* Paul Merton and Ian Hislop, the team captains on HaveIGotNewsForYou, both adore puns, and will throw out dozens of them at the slightest opportunity. The studio audience often can't decide whether to roar laughing or groan.
* A great deal of commentary on the professional basketball player Jeremy Lin involves [[IncrediblyLamePun Lincredibly Lame Puns]].
* Blood donors card: "A gift from the heart." (Although, technically, the human body manufactures blood in the bone marrow.)
* When newly Communist Cuba threatened to cut off water to the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, the servicemen created their own water supply and, in an act of defiance, dismantled the pipes. Of course a photo of the event appeared with the caption, 'Dismember the Main!' ([[DontExplainTheJoke Explanation of joke]]: [[spoiler:The Spanish-American war was kicked off by the sinking of the ''U.S.S. Maine'', which was harbored in Spanish waters. Later analysis revealed that the ship had not in fact been torpedoed, but had sank of its own accord, but that didn't prevent American warmongers from bellowing "Remember the Maine!".]])
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* ''{{Peanuts}}'' had a strip where Linus made a snowman who is reading a book and tells Charlie Brown that he imagines the snowman is reading some poetry, but is at a loss for a poet a snowman would like. When Charlie Brown suggests RobertFrost, Linus responds, "You said it, I didn't."

* In ''TheSarahJaneAdventures'', PungeonMaster Clyde is telling Jo Jones that her family should spend more time together as her grandson Santiago is feeling neglected. Otherwise "relations with Santaigo might get a bit [[{{UsefulNotes/Chile}} chilly]]." Even Clyde himself is ashamed of that pun.

* After positively reviewing the ''{{Film/TheHungerGames}}'' film, Mike Stoklasa says he's "hungry for more ''Hunger Games''." Then he [[VomitDiscretionShot vomits]].

* In AliceInWonderland the King of Hearts tries to make a joke about a poem not FITting the Queen (because she [[BlatantLies never has fits]]). Nobody laughs... until he explains that its supposed to be a pun.