History Main / IncrediblyLamePun

** The Ninth Doctor gave us the worse one from the New Who series.
--->'''Rose''': My head... it's killing me...
--->'''The Doctor''': Looks like you need a doctor.
** Ten's mis-adventures with his favourite ex-friend:
--->'''Master''': The human race was always your favourite, Doctor. But now, there is no human race. There is only... the Master race!

-->'''Kelso:''' I don't know Fez, the two of us growing beards together...isn't that kinda girly?
-->'''Fez:''' Well, I just figure, the more the hairier! ''(dead silence)'' Oh I'm surrounded by idiots!

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--->'''The Doctor''': You might almost say they’ve had a complete metal breakdown.

For a moment everybody gazed up in the air and whistled, avoiding each other’s eyes at what could not even be dignified as a pun.

'''Note that this refers explicitly to when these puns are referred to as lame ''in-series''.''' This can happen ''even if the pun in question is [[CrowningMomentOfFunny actually really, really funny]]''. For other puns that [[SoUnfunnyItsFunny may or may not be bad,]] see HurricaneOfPuns and AWorldWidePunomenon. For a character that always makes these, see PungeonMaster. For an index of punny trope names, see JustForPun.

--->'''The Doctor''': You might almost say they’ve had a complete metal breakdown.

For a moment everybody gazed up in the air and whistled, avoiding each other’s eyes at what could not even be dignified as a pun.

* In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0684.html this]] ''OrderOfTheStick'', Vaarsuvius has sworn not to interfere in the battle except in self-defense...or if Elan's puns drive him crazy.

* There was a literal CardCarryingVillain on ''JackieChanAdventures'', complete with puns like "We have the upper hand" and even his boss tells him to "quit with the card puns."

'''Saxtus''': At least this class gets fewer bad puns than [[Rouge Angles of Satin Spellcheck]].\\

** Captain Aubrey had served with Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson. When asked what sort of man the good Admiral was, Aubrey's response was, "He was a man of singular vision." (This troper and a friend were the only ones in the theater audience laughing hysterically at Aubrey's line. Apparently, nobody else in the audience knew that Horatio Nelson had lost the sight in his right eye due to damage inflicted in battle at Calvi, Corsica.)

* This troper is finds the fact that no one has added {{The Muppet Show}}, or any other Muppet production to this list rather ''pungent.''

->Hadji: Yeti...are invisible.
->Jonny: Well, if they're invisible, how can anybody see a yeti?
->Hadki: No one has...yeti.
->Jonny: Oh, come on!

* In the DonRosa story "Return to Plain Awful," DonaldDuck and Scrooge McDuck visit the LostWorld of Plain Awful, a {{Utopia}} where square things are prized, round things are illegal, and the people live "on good cheer" with no financial interests. Eventually, Scrooge does manage to interest the people in his money -- but only aesthetically, and as a finishing touch, they chop their new stack of bills into two square halves. The story ends with Donald noting that now, Scrooge (who had constantly been boasting about having made his money that way) has something in common with the Awfultonians:

* The old SonicTheHedgehog comics. Oh god, [[SoBadItsHorrible the old comics.]]

--->Fang: He thinks we're lunch.

Light: "Cie Food", cute...\\

* The entire {{Dragon Quest}} Series. Almost every monster has a pun name.

* Andy Zaltzman's terrible puns in ''TheBugle'' frequently lead to John Oliver begging for mercy.

* Excel of ''ExcelSaga'' draws a comparison between conquest (&# 24449;&# 26381;, ''seifuku'') and [[{{Joshikousei}} uniforms]] (&# 21046;&# 26381;, also ''seifuku''). Hyatt notes that this is just too obvious (and she usually plays CaptainObvious to [[DontExplainTheJoke explain the joke]], so this is pretty much her way of calling it lame).

* Korean CGI animation DiboTheGiftDragon. All the characters are toys living in some place in the clouds called Cozy Land. The character Crow has a clock attached to his belly. His CatchPhrase is "Crow Knows". Get it yet?

* NininGaShinobuden has a truly horrible visual pun at the end of episode 9's first half. The ninja attempt to make a [[FuroScene furo]] by rerouting a hot spring into their bath house, but it's not water that comes out of the pipe...

'''Everybody''': ''* groan* ''\\

* In ''AzumangaDaioh'' (the anime), Tomo makes a pun, though what that pun is depends on whether it's the dub, the sub (both based on "freedom"), or the original (based on "yoyuu"). The other girls groan and Chiyo says it was bad, while Tomo is flabbergasted at their response.
* Fuuka of ''[[{{Yotsubato}} Yotsuba&!]]'' makes the occasional pun, though only Asagi attacks her for it (Koiwai and Jumbo merely tell her off). Her father, on the other hand, appreciates the humor value.
* One of the main characters from ShamanKing, Chocolove, is rather famous for his puns so horribly obvious that the others tend to freeze in awe for a few seconds before continuing the conversation, often turning completely white in the process (in the anime, at least). Other times he just gets attacked by someone, usually Ren.
* Tamahome throws one out in ''FushigiYuugi''. In an attempt to cheer Miaka up, he tells her that after causing some trouble, '''Tasuki''' will probably be taken to '''task''' (in the Japanese version, the word used for the pun is ''tasukete'', or "help" in English). He acknowledges the lameness of his pun himself and blames his MoneyFetish for it.
* In ''PrinceOfTennis'', on the team of Rokkaku, Amane 'David' Hikaru is frequently kicked for making many lame puns. Many people know him as "that pun guy" instead of his real name.
* ''DarkerThanBlack'': [[CluelessDetective Kurosawa]] has spent two entire episodes littering his speech with very bad GratuitousEnglish on the mistaken impression that it'll help his client, a Scandinavian named Eelis Castinen, understand him. Then he crosses the GratuitousEnglish Event Horizon by making an {{Engrish}} pun on "Castinen" ("cast it in"), and his HypercompetentSidekick, who has been wincing behind his back the whole time, gets annoyed.

* In ''KamichamaKarin'', Karin makes one of these ("Wait, a god (''kami'') just [[CloseCallHaircut burned]] my hair (also ''kami'')??") and then chastises herself for it.
* In ''My Hime'', Haruka attempts to make a pun which is immediately followed by dead silence and staring.

* Kate in {{Sketchbook}} is a frequent offender of this trope.
* Here is a unintentional case from episode 19 of LuckyStar:

* Pause* \\

* Brook in OnePiece makes these ''constantly'' in regards to his body. In just one scene, he does it three times with commentary for each. First two times? Franky starts to aim his Weapons Left and Robin tells him not to because he's already dead. The third one she just says 'go ahead and beat him up.' And he does.
* Excel of ''ExcelSaga'' draws a comparison between conquest (&# 24449;&# 26381;, ''seifuku'') and [[{{Joshikousei}} uniforms]] (&# 21046;&# 26381;, also ''seifuku''). Hyatt notes that this is just too obvious (and she usually plays CaptainObvious to [[DontExplainTheJoke explain the joke]], so this is pretty much her way of calling it lame).

* In ''Squadron Supreme'', toddler Hyperion is startled by his new pet dog and incinerates it with his heat vision. One of the two guards watching him over security camera remarks "I guess Spot was kind of the right name after all." His partner lays him out for that one, in a cross between this trope and DudeNotFunny.
* {{Batman}}'s Robins have such a [[PungeonMaster propensity]] to this, it's been suspected it's a tacit requirement to being Robin.

* In the DonRosa story "Return to Plain Awful," DonaldDuck and Scrooge McDuck visit the LostWorld of Plain Awful, a {{Utopia}} where square things are prized, round things are illegal, and the people live "on good cheer" with no financial interests. Eventually, Scrooge does manage to interest the people in his money--but only aesthetically, and as a finishing touch, they chop their new stack of bills into two square halves. The story ends with Donald noting that now, Scrooge (who had constantly been boasting about having made his money that way) has something in common with the Awfultonians:

* The old SonicTheHedgehog comics. Oh god, [[SoBadItsHorrible the old comics.]]

* Another example from a Heinz ad for corn:

* ''DuckSoup'': Chicolini's suggestion that Freedonia maintain a standing army, "because then we save money on chairs", provokes Firefly to give him the bum's rush from the room (and apparently worse, judging by the OffscreenCrash that follows).
* ''[[MasterAndCommander Master and Commander: The Far Side Of The World]]''. When Captain Aubrey asks his friend, ship's doctor Maturin to choose between two weevils on the table, he admonishes Maturin's choice of the larger weevil, saying that he should have taken "the lesser of two weevils". Maturin responds, "He who would pun would pick a pocket!"
** Captain Aubrey had served with Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson. When asked what sort of man the good Admiral was, Aubrey's response was, "He was a man of singular vision." (This troper and a friend were the only ones in the theater audience laughing hysterically at Aubrey's line. Apparently, nobody else in the audience knew that Horatio Nelson had lost the sight in his right eye due to damage inflicted in battle at Calvi, Corsica.)
* In "What's Up, Tiger Lily?", hero Phil Moskowitz and his girl assistant, tied up, think they've been abducted by bad guy Shepard Wong, but it turns out to be a second bad guy, Wing Fat, who introduces himself: "I am Wong's competitor." Phil quips, "Well...two Wongs don't make a wight!" Wing Fat smiles and says, "For that joke you should only drop dead."

* ''The New {{Discworld}} Companion'' tells the story of Monsieur Pune, creator of the Fool's Guild:

** For all that Pratchett makes fun of it, he generally has at least one rather dreadful pun per book (see page quote). The "gilt by association"/"feelings of gilt" [[hottip:* :[[DontExplainTheJoke referring to how Vimes feels like a class traitor]]]] one in ''Discworld/NightWatch'' comes to mind.
** And how about this one? (For those curious, it takes place during ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'', in which Death must [[SavingChristmas take the place of]] [[YouMeanXMas the title character]], as he has gone missing)

** Captain Carrot is occasionally fond of these too, he presents Vimes with a watch on his (first) retirement as Captain of the Night Watch. It's inscribed with [[WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma "A Watch from, your freinds in the Watch."]] The "This is a pune or, play on words" explanation appears this time in a letter to his parents.
* DaveBarry is not fond of puns, and rarely uses them without heavyweight LampshadeHanging. Take, for example, this passage in ''Dave Barry Slept Here'':

** Or this passage in ''Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You Will Ever Need'':

* In Piers Anthony's ''{{Xanth}}'' series, much of the wildlife and magic are literal puns, such as a mango being a human-shaped fruit that makes you urinate immediately upon eating it. Most of the characters dislike the puns, particularly a winged centaur whose name is a pun (Karia, who starts floating helplessly away whenever she hears her name.)
* The characters in Spider Robinson's ''[[{{ptitlebga5e439}} Callahan's Crosstime Saloon]]'' series are prolific with these, to the point of competitions in which the worst / best pun of the evening gets his bar tab waived. They call it Punday Night. Normally, things are thrown at the offending punster, and fire extinguishers and seltzer bottles are also used for particularly awful puns.
** For that matter, puns are a regularly-occurring feature in nearly all of Spider Robinson's work.

** Regularly occurring, it should be noted, whether appropriate or not. Two different characters in two different stories -- one a Callahan's piece, one not -- were given the same name just to give the ''maximum'' number of readers a chance to properly appreciate the line, "I'm Jim Balzac. Balz to you."
* ''[[TheWizardOfOz The Marvelous Land of Oz]]'' sees H.M. Wogglebug T.E. make joke about the Sawhorse, noting that if he rode him, it would be a "horse-and-buggie". Jack Pumpkinhead covers up his permanently-smiling mouth, and the Tin Woodsman ''threatens the Wogglebug with his axe''.

* In ''HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'', after George loses one of his ears, and says he feels "saint-like":

* In ''[[XWingSeries Starfighters of Adumar]]'', [[strike:Red Flight]] Rad Flat meets regularly with a reporter who wears a recording unit on her shoulder that looks like the head of a protocol droid, making her appear to have two heads. Once, she complained that it was malfunctioning and she couldn't seem to fix the problem.

** In ''iNevel'', Spencer is repairing his commissioned statue made of butter.

** In ''iFind Lewbert's Lost Love'', Spencer is annoyed because of the recent remote control thefts.

** In ''iEnrage Gibby'', Spencer tries to convince Veronica that he is not really "dead", much to the fright of the girl.

** In ''iFix A Popstar'', Wade Collins is brought up on the webshow.

** In ''iQuit iCarly'', as they introduce Fleck and Dave.

* ''The Smoking Gun Presents:'' is replete with bad puns, often made by the celebrity panel. If one person makes a particularly egregious one other celebrities will have a StunnedSilence possibly accompanied by ChirpingCrickets.
* Tom Servo of ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' absolutely loves to bust puns out, usually attracting the ire of Crow and Joel/Mike.
** In the final episode ''Laserblast'', Tom and Crow calf rope and gag Mike and force him to listen repeatedly to a bad pun involving ''Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome'', as he struggles mightily.

** In the MSTing of the first ''Gamera'' movie, Joel [[spoiler:ripped off Crow's arm]] after Crow saw a military buildup in the film and responded:

** In the ''TimeChasers'' episode:

** Later, in the same episode:

* On ''{{Buffy}}'', this exchange (among others):

--->'''Everyone''': * stares*
* On ''[[MASHTheSeries M* A* S* H]]'', Hawkeye and B.J. were prone to these.

** That's amateur night compared to the one B.J. brought out during a Christmas episode, when he was telling a story to a group of kids:

* Johnny Carson's "Carnac the Magnificent" on ''TheTonightShow'' typically served up plenty of puns and if the audience groaned or booed loudly enough, Carnac would place a funny curse on them in retaliation.
* ''{{Spaced}}'': Mike is kicked out of the Rough Ramblers after a disastrous Eskimo roll. Tim says:

--->'''Mike''': * stares*

** While paintballing, Tim gets into a MexicanStandoff with Duane, the man his girlfriend left him for. As they stand there, Duane's mobile phone rings:

* Barbara Jean from ''{{Reba}}'' was the queen of this for a time. When mentioning they were going on a trip to Italy, she said, "But don't ask what city, we're just gonna ROAM (ROME)." And later, when Reba tried to get rid of her by saying "Arrivederci" she turns and says, "Or in your case, A-Reba-derci." She never seemed to notice that NO ONE ELSE laughed.
* ''{{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.

** From "Are You Being Served?":

** 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."
** Pretty much Frasier's entire family is prone to this. In one episode, Daphne is putting on weight and falls down, prompting Frasier, Niles and Martin to all help her up. Martin, laughing at his own wit, says, "Daphne, I just realized! It took three ''Cranes'' to lift you!" Daphne wasn't as amused as Martin was.
* ''SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'': In the 17th episode of season 3 (Sabrina The Teenage Writer) Sabrina writes a spy story on a magic typewriter and her characters, which mirror actual characters of the show, [[HilarityEnsues come to life.]] At one point the mirror character of Dr. Kraft (Dr. Bad) captures Harvey's character Derek (who has a habit of saying bad puns) and and ties him to a buzz saw in order to kill him, and then this dialogue happens:

* ''ShootingStars'' generally has Vic give one horrible joke in the show. Everybody remains stone-faced, church bells toll, the wind howls and a tumble-weeds roll by before we move on, leaving Vic sweeping into his sleeves.
* In ''CSIMiami'': "That gives a new meaning to the term 'fried hard drive'", cue silent stare.
** ''{{Supernatural}}'' parodied this when Sam and Dean were trapped by Gabriel in "TV Land".
* The [[DoctorWho Second Doctor]] apologized for one in "Tomb of the Cybermen" after he fried some Cybermats.

** The DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse novel ''The Slow Empire'' has an instance of a character making a pun so lame even he gets embarrassed:
--->‘I’m Fitz. Just Fitz.’\\
‘And it fits you admirably,’[[hottip:* :if you don't get it, read the entire quote so far aloud]] said Jamon de la Rocas[[hottip:** :he's one to talk; [[BilingualBonus his name means "ham of the rocks"]], for whatever reason]], ‘I have no doubt.’\\

--->'''Rose''': My head...it's killing me...

** Ten's mis-adventures with his favourite ex-friend

* [[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 ''[[WhatsMyLine What's My Line?]]'', and since he was the one who would usually introduce [[WhatsMyLine WML?]] host John Daly he would often throw out a groaner that would have Mr Daly wincing upon entry. During the show he wasn't above using them ether..almost every time a contestant would sign in as Mr. X Bennett would crack that John and the guest remind him of 'Ham and X'.
* {{CSI}}: Discussing a mysteriously unburned body at the scene of a fire, "She tried as-best-as she could to survive." Oh, ''Hodges''.
* One episode of ''ThatsMyBush'' features (an actor playing) Charlton Heston as the head of the NRA. Twice in that episode, he made a pun so bad the audience groaned:
** He picked up a copy of ''People'' magazine as he stormed out of the Oval Office. A dispute erupted as to who owned the magazine. When the secret service agents tried to wrestle it out of his hands, he bellowed, "LET MY PEOPLE GO!"
* from {{Arrested Development}}:

* This troper is finds the fact that no one has added {{The Muppet Show}}, or any other Muppet production to this list rather ''pungent.''

* In "The Intimate P.D.Q. Bach", during the introduction to ''Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice'', Peter Schickele mentions that this particular work (an opera "in one unnatural act") was rewritten for the Vienna Opera Company so that Mrs. Vienna and her son could play all of the parts, while Mr. Vienna played the piano in his best formal attire, the "Tails of Old Vienna" - whereupon the (live) audience erupts into groans and pained exclamations.
* Weird Al's song "Party at the Leper Colony" is pretty mutch nothping but this.

* A recurring gag in ''PearlsBeforeSwine'', where a long conversation leads to a stretched word pun on the entire conversation, and then (usually) Rat [[strike:saying how he hates the comic]] [[NoFourthWall threatens bodily harm on artist Stephan Pastis]].

** Also, [[http://keckeley.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/pearls-its-a-moray.gif this]]. ''Ow''.
* In ''CalvinAndHobbes'':

* Mother Goose and Grimm is full of these. But [[http://www.grimmy.com/images/MGG_Archive/MGG_2009/MGG0913.gif this strip]] in particular is pretty bad.
* Frank and Ernest

* GilbertAndSullivan, ''The Grand Duke'':

* 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 would make sense in context, except the context doesn't really make sense.) His alibi: she was with him, but wasn't seen with him because she was disguised. One of the toughs snaps back, "So, Lucy was disguised with Diamond," and all three do an AsideGlance as the audience groans. ("I should've seen that coming," Spade admits to the fourth wall.)

* ''AnimalCrossing'' will make your character crack a bad joke whenever he/she catches a fish or bug and this is occasionally [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]]:

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

* ''TalesOfMonkeyIsland: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal'' features a pun so bad, even Guybrush's EvilHand feels the need to upbraid him for it:
-->'''Guybrush:''' Can I call you "[[DoraTheExplorer D'Oro the explorer]]"? * Punches himself*
** Amazingly, he manages to top himself in the very next episode after receiving a book of fish jokes (many of which also qualify):

* Tenebrae from ''TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld'' absolutely '''''loves''''' groan-inducing puns. At one going, he made one that was so bad that Raine and Genis didn't groan, they unloaded on him with their ultimate unison attack from the previous game.

* There is an optional scene in ''{{Persona 3}}'' where Akihiko, trying to get over his shyness around girls, practices his pick-up lines in secret. Reading that a sense of humor is vital, he makes an utterly horrid pun ("Want to go to that Beef Bowl place?... I hope I 'meat' you there!"), then promptly chastises himself:

* {{Runescape}} has so many puns in it that it's beyond ridiculous.

--> Literaly '''EVERY''' freaking thing that has to do with the "crawling hand" monster; all of it's examine texts, it's item drops, every conversation you can have with the pet version, you name it and your character has said it while the entire crawling hand population hangs their heads.. err.. hands in dissapointement
* [[{{Persona4}} "What a Teddious fight!" "Bear naked!" "Grin and bear it!"]]
** What do you expect from a bear named "Teddie"? His name itself is a lame pun! Also, "Sensei-tional."
* In Namco x Capcom, there's a stage where EVERYONE starts making these (Japanese-only). It even highlights in red what the pun is supposed to be. Needless to say, to the characters, it gets old really fast.

** In-game, the adventurer says that the [[spoiler:Naughty Sorceress]] is the cause of all the bad puns.
* In the Japanese version of ArTonelico II, Infel has a penchant for these, with Croix reacting appropriately after every single one. This is [[LostInTranslation completely lost in the English version of the game]] as it seems Infel's text was translated word-for-word, and of course Japanese puns normally don't work in other languages. Croix still reels after each joke, confusing many English-speaking players.
* In ''InTheGroove 2'', if you fail Vertex^2, the failure screen says "Round Failed^2", in other words, EpicFail.
* Here is a random conversation bit taken from an ERCS Guard in a bug-ridden research lab (yes, I mean [[IncrediblyLamePun literally bug-ridden]]) in MassEffect:

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

** Keep in mind that these guards have been taking stimulants to stay awake for the last week.
* PhoenixWright: 'Why am I a lawyer? Because I'm always "Wright"!' It's actually a pretty good pun, Maya just doesn't think so.
*** Even if you think it's bad, it's Monty Python compared to the jokes of Moe the clown.

* An item in {{Xenogears}} is called 'Economether', which halves Ether Point consumption when equipped. [[DontExplainTheJoke Eco-no(my)-Et(h)er, get it? Economy-mether, heh heh...]]
** [[StealthPun Stealth Pun]].
* IcewindDale II has an enemy boss utilizing trained war bears. Before fighting him, if asked how his own bears don't tear him to shreds, he points out the magical collars they 'bear'. The main character DeadpanSnarker is quick to point out the slip up, at which point the boss essentially disowns the pun with embarrassment claiming it unintentional.
* Everytime [[FinalFantasyXIII Snow]] execute the finish move on his ice motorbike Shiva, he'd throw out the punchline "Cool it off". [[BatmanAndRobin Sounds familiar]] to the other icy PungeonMaster?

->Fang: He thinks we're lunch.
->Sazh: Like a L'Cie food buffet.
->Light: "Cie Food", cute...

* The various Artix Entertainment games (''AdventureQuest'', ''{{Dragonfable}}'', ''MechQuest''...) are [[HurricaneOfPuns crammed so full of puns]] that this sort of lampshading is inevitable on occasion. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Probably the best one]]: At one point in the ''Archknight'' storyline of {{Dragonfable}}, main character Ash Dragonblade is facing a necromancer who specializes in evil trees called [[AWorldWidePunomenon Deadwoods]] (* CollectiveGroan* ). He makes so many terrible tree-related puns that the necromancer flips out and attacks him out of sheer annoyance.
* The entire {{Dragon Quest}} Series. Almost every monster has a pun name.
* 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.

* [[http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=34&issue=13 This page]] of ''[=~The Adventures of Dr. McNinja~=]''.
** [[AltText He makes you wear an old diving suit, of course he just said that.]]
* The ''{{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.
*** Please stop.
** Math flavored in [[http://xkcd.com/626/ this one]]
** Statistically significant. [[http://xkcd.com/539/ Ha]].
* And in ''ScaryGoRound'', [[http://scarygoround.com/index.php?date=20070627 "You were wrong. Puns don't help."]]
* [[http://captainosaka.deviantart.com/art/DOUBLE-K-026-106195125 This page]] of ''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"
* ''DominicDeegan'': Puns of all kinds are standard operating procedure for the comic (many characters showing off how bad they are by [[BeatPanel looking towards the "readers"]]. Although, they can sometimes be [[http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2002-07-17 very useful]].
* King Astos of had been shaping up to be the major antagonist in the Elfland subplot of ''EightBitTheater''. Just before the [[FinalBattle assumed climactic battle]] would transpire, an incredibly lame pun by Red Mage wrecked the tension. The following pun by Black Mage was so lame that King Astos ''[[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2003/06/21/episode-298-a-natural-response/ died]]'' immediately upon hearing it. (The author of the webcomic is a fan of such {{Anti Climax}}es, by the way.)
* ''BetweenFailures'' shows [[http://betweenfailures.com/2009/01/21/406-menses/ Nina insulting Reggie]] with one of these.
* ''{{Starslip}}'':

** Vanderbeam is Laser-Dutch.
* Mr. Mighty in EverydayHeroes will occasionally try to be a [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=117736 cut-up]].
* ''CaseyAndAndy'' features the (extremely lethal) Pun Police. In one strip a villain successfully kills Andy by inducing him to make a bad pun.
* In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0684.html this]] ''OrderOfTheStick'', Vaarsuvius has sworn not to interfere in the battle except in self-defense...or if Elan's puns drive him crazy.
* In the webcomic ''JailhouseBlues'' the character of Bean Man has puns so bad, or at least so undignified, that his creator forbids him from using them. He does anyway and earns himself a rather painful death in the process.
* 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.
* In [[http://www.hlcomic.com/index.php?date=2006-10-05 this strip]] of ''{{Concerned}}'', the protagonist iterates through a series of incredibly lame puns trying to conceive a tagline worthy of the moment.
* ''SluggyFreelance'': Torg and Riff tend to encourage each other into a HurricaneOfPuns. None of the other characters are amused, and some are even injured by them.
** All of the Stick Figure Theater interludes are full of them, with some storylines written specifically for the ''pun''chline.
* ''IrregularWebcomic!'', full stop. To date, there have been ''twenty'' puns on the word [[http://irregularwebcomic.net/search_result.php?d=hobbit+ obbiting&t=2&in=s 'hobbit']] ''alone'', and there are more coming.
* [[http://collar6.com/2010/collar-6-134 Sub Space]] from {{Collar 6}} (although it should be noted that the term existed in the BDSM community before its use in the comic).

* WhateleyUniverse: Chaka's lame pun at the end of "Ayla and the Networks" gets her severely pummeled by pillows, beanbag chairs, etc.

'''Vegeta''': * [[{{Angrish}} angrished]] groan*
* In [[TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony's]] Let's Play of Phantasmagoria 2, he made more than a few horrible puns and then smacks himself for doing so.

** He manages to make the "Beyond Thunderdome" joke from ''MST3K'' in his review of ''Strike Commando'', followed by an IAlwaysWantedToSayThat moment.
* Andy Zaltzman's terrible puns in ''TheBugle'' frequently lead to John Oliver begging for mercy.
* Several appear throughout Loading Ready Run's [[http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/archive/phail/date/desc Phailhaüs]] series, one of which resulted in Matt being banned from Phailhaüs for ''a year''.
* [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/csi-4-pane-comics CSI: Miami 4-Pane Comics]] are based off the often-terrible one-liner puns that Horatio Cane of ''CSI: Miami'' uses to open each show.
* It happens constantly in the ''AnnoyingOrange'' series.
* Self-inflicted one in ''[[{{ptitlesvqok84e}} Freeman's Mind]]'', in which Gordon comments about the ceiling, with "What's up with the ceiling?" after which he realizes that he just made a pun and groans. What's ''up'' with the ceiling, indeed.
* ''ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum'': It's the characters' job to kill MarySue characters. One or two missions have involved CatGirl Sues or feline [[SmallAnnoyingCreature Cute Animal Friends]]. At least two of these missions involved the feline victim being fed to a monster of some sort and an agent being specifically told ''not'' to make a comment about eating pussy.
** Several agents have a PunnyName, e.g. "Justin Agent". Molly, the TalkingAnimal [[EverythingsWickedWithWeasels ferret kit]], was named after HarryPotter's Molly ''Weasley''. Foxglove's real name is Violet Burke, so she chose a hare as a [[FurryFandom fursona]] after the famous murderers Burke and Hare.

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

* In ''BatmanBeyond'' "Dead Man's Hand," Bruce explains to Terry how the Royal Flush Gang are old-school gimmick villains, only committing robberies for items related to playing card suits (such as diamonds). Why their heist on a yacht for miscellaneous non-diamond jewelry, then? "It was in a yacht ''club''." They're both disgusted by the pun.
** In fact, just about any episode featuring the Royal Flush Gang is guaranteed to be loaded with lame card-related puns (''Kings Ransom'' is a notable offender). It's almost bad enough to qualify as a throwback to the campy 60's show.
** Likewise, Robin in BatmanTheAnimatedSeries would usually be played pretty straight, although in ''Christmas With The Joker'', after Batman uses a baseball bat to smash a bunch of remotecontrol airplanes, Robin utters this cringer; "They don't call ya ''Batman'' for nothing."
** And in the ''JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' two-parter, a trio of British Redcoats get transported to the BatmanBeyond future, where they mistake the Terry [=McGinnis=] Batman for a monster and the lead one orders them to "fire at will". Terry is voiced by Will Friedle.
** The opening of BatmanTheAnimatedSeries episode "Pretty Poison" is chuck full of these. Harvey Dent is describing Bruce Wayne to his fiancee, Pamela Izzly, while Batman chasing down a fugitive is inter-cut through his dialogue. Things like, "he probably got * hung up* on business" followed by a shot of Batman hanging on to a helicopter in mid-air, and so forth.
* Carlos, on TheMagicSchoolBus, frequently inflicts these on his classmates, resulting in a [[strike: CollectiveGroan of his name.]] FirstNameUltimatum by everyone else present.

* There was a literal CardCarryingVillain on JackieChanAdventures, complete with puns like "We have the upper hand" and even his boss tells him to "quit with the card puns."
* In the first episode of ''SouthPark'' to air after 9/11, Towelie makes a cameo appearance. Discovering the kids don't want him around, he asks, "Am I to understand there's been a... Towelie ban?" Everyone else groans, once they figure it out.
* In Disney's ''{{Disney/Aladdin}}'', during the final battle, Jafar makes a number of fairly horrible puns in quick succession (e.g. "Things are unraveling quickly" as he literally unravels the magic carpet). In the DVDCommentary, they comment on this, saying "he's trying to kill them with bad puns."
** He does it again in an episode of ''{{Hercules}}: The Animated Series'' when he teams up with Hades (who himself comments on it a lot).
* At least half of the things Numbuh Two says in ''CodenameKidsNextDoor''. It ''really'' bothered Numbuh Five.
** That's nothing compared to the hurricane of horrible puns that burst out during the incident with Numbuh 1's, ahem, ''downside''. WHICH NUMBUH 5 ACTUALLY LAUGHED AT.
* Beast Boy from ''TeenTitans'' frequently makes jokes which his teammates hate. There are too many to list here, however most notable, I believe, is the one in which the throws the [[{{Brain in a jar}} Brain]] into a freezing machine saying something like "Dudes check it out! BRAIN FREEZE". The entire hero cast (plus some extras) groans in dismay.
** Even better example:

* Danny from ''DannyPhantom'' in the episode ''Shades of Gray'', the ghost dog burst into the school and Danny responds with "Who let the dogs ''in''?". Right afterwards, Danny had to explain the joke and decided to save some face to get the dog out. Sam responds with, "Bring better jokes!"
* In the SpongebobSquarepants episode "Pranks A Lot", Spongebob and Patrick get their hands on a can of invisibility spray.

** This is eventually interrupted by a title card reading "Several Bad Puns Later".
** Squidward tends to make lame jokes, sprinkling puns that only he laughs at. "Why didn't the kid go in the Pirate Movie? Because it's rated 'arrr'. [[DontExplainTheJoke You know, 'arrr' as in pirates?]]"
*** He likes band humor, you know.
** In the episode "Wet Painters", Spongebob and Patrick have to disguise the fact that they got a spot on Mr. Krabs' first dollar. They hang several paintings in front of it, which Mr. Krabs take off one-by-one. Eventually, Spongebob himself is hanging on the wall.

*** Then it's Patrick's turn to make a joke.

** The [[HoYay infamous]] episode 'Rock-A-Bye-Bivalve even had a lame pun. When Spongebob gives his pants to the scallop for it to sleep there, he finds the time to crack a joke.

** In 'No Weenies Allowed',

* ''YellowSubmarine'' is liberally sprinkled with puns, but one in particular, when the submarine's motor dies, falls into this category:

* TheSimpsons HalloweenSpecial -- ''Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace'' has Willie/Freddie uttering a pun that's called horrible in the DVDCommentary.

** There's also the episode involving Homer, a prison warden, and a painting of a unicorn in outer space.

--->'''Homer:''' There's an Air 'n' Space Museum. * grins like an idiot, and then is thrown out of the prison*
* Mr. Peabody from ''RockyAndBullwinkle'' would end every segment of his show with a pun pertaining to the era they had visited, to the chagrin of Sherman.
* In one episode of ''RockyAndBullwinkle'', Bullwinkle discovers a toy boat covered in rubies, with the name "Omar Kayam" inscribed on the side. When Rocky asks, "Do you know what this is?" Bullwinkle waits a beat before answering, "If you're waiting for me to provide the answer, you're in for a long wait!" Rocky gamely announces(much to Bullwinkle's chagrin) that they now have the Ruby Yacht of Omar Kayam.
* 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.
** From the same episode, the line: "Someday monkey no more play piano song, play piano song." Based on a line in French from TheBeatles' song "Michelle"(Sont des mots qui vont très bien ensemble/ Très bien ensemble). The episode had a lot of bad Beatles jokes.
** Not to mention [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BWIHm5dAuA&feature=related the tarot card joke]] from "I See A Funny Cartoon In Your Future".
* 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."
* KimPossible fought the Mathter, a Riddler {{expy}} who specialized in math-themed crimes, with the appropriate math-themed puns, like "Time to ''subtract'' you from the ''equation''!", or "Let me throw some ''numbers'' at you,"(as he tossed digit-shaped grenades), or "I've left your boyfriend with a ''new problem'' to solve." Finally, an irate Kim shouted, "Okay, one more lame-o math reference, and I am going to LOSE IT!"
** Another Kim Possible example; as Kim and Ron raided the headquarters of international thief Falsetto Jones, she noticed a huge pool on the villain's property:

** This one is thought of as god awful in universe, spotting Duff's hideout Ron comments...

* [[CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers Captain Planet]]. 'Nuff said.
* The two comic relief skeleton henchmen from ''{{LEGO}}: The Adventures of Clutch Powers'' amuse each other with these upon witnessing a relative of theirs getting blown to pieces during the battle. The worse the pun, the bigger the fun.
* In ''{{Drawn Together}}'', during the episode "The One Wherein There Is A Big Twist, Part II", Xandir tells Strawberry Sweetcake (an obvious parody of Strawberry Shortcake) "You're gonna be spending a CHOCO-LOTTA time locked up behind CANDY bars!". There is a long silence after which Princess Clara whispers to Xandir "God dammit, I hate you!".
* On ''{{Jimmy Two-Shoes}}'', while playing a carnival game that involves rabbits, Jimmy remarks "Well then, I'll ''hop'' right to it", eliciting a groan from the booth attendant.

* One of WeirdAlYankovic's long time band members is Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz.
* The [[SocietyForCreativeAnachronism SCA]] heralds' motto is: ''Heralds don't pun - they cant!''
** [[DontExplainTheJoke "Canting" is herald-speak for punning. Best done in multiple languages (see Terry Pratchett's ''Feet of Clay'')]].
* AMD's latest line of Opteron CPU chips for servers were codenamed ''Magny-Cours''. Never mind that it's the name of an actual town in France, that hosts a motor racing circuit among other things, it's an incredibly lame pun as the latest trend for CPU chip makers, AMD included, is to squeeze as many processor circuits (called ''cores'' in geek-speak) into a single chip.
** The fact that Magny-Cours hosts "racing circuits" makes this even [[strike:better]] worse.
*** [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Of]] [[IncrediblyLamePun cours!]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wph2IzHdxRc John Linnell makes groan-worthy puns sexy]]. To a certain demographic...
* Dubstep artist Joy Orbison.
* {{Yahtzee}}: In his review of Mass Effect. "You only get to see like one second of bare ass anyways, so it will hardly make your Mass Erect!" Later, in the end credits he admits that "Yeah this whole review was leading up to that horrible pun at the end"

* Everytime [[FinalFantasyXIII Snow]] execute the finish move on his ice car Shiva, he'd throw out the punchline "Cool it off". [[BatmanAndRobin Sounds familiar]] to the other icy PungeonMaster?