History Main / LamePunReaction

* ''Fanfic/ThingsIAmNotAllowedToDoAtThePPC'': Rule 557 bans bringing a Trojan into the Department of Sufficiently Advanced Technology; "Trojan" can either refer to a computer virus or a Greek warrior from Troy. The rule specifies that the Trojan in question is the latter kind and comments that the pun is a lousy one.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}''. When Detective Flippers wonders aloud about what "the fellow with the axe" was doing in the woods, officer Stork says "Maybe you should AXE him yourself!" then starts laughing uncontrollably at the pun until he sees Chief Grizzly giving him the DeathGlare, at which point he sobers up and says "I'll bring him in."

* Franchise/{{Batman}}'s ComicBook/{{Robin}}s have such a [[PungeonMaster propensity]] to this, it's been suspected it's a tacit requirement to being Robin.

'''ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}:''' Oh shush. You love it.

* ''ComicBook/RichardDragonKungFuFighter'': ComicBook/RichardDragon usually derides his allies puns, but when ComicBook/LadyShiva and Ben Turner gang up on him with them he acts like they're physically painful.

* In the ''ComicBook/XMen'' comics, when the team was trying to come up with a codename for ComicBook/KittyPryde, someone eventually suggested "Sprite". Kitty liked it but added "I don't want to hear any jokes about pulling my Tab!" Professer X simply responds "Ouch!"

* A RunningGag in [[https://waitingforthet.tumblr.com Waiting for the Trade]]'s fancomics is [[ComicBook/XMen Kitty Pryde]] booing in response to bad puns, often phasing through a wall to do so. [[https://waitingforthet.tumblr.com/day/2016/09/16 In one case]], she goes so far as to cross over into the DC universe to shame one of Nightwing's puns.

* In ''Film/TheMuppets'', as Fozzie goes into his routine for the telethon, telling his old jokes with Creator/JackBlack serving as the straight man, reacting to the jokes [[SuckinessIsPainful as if he's in absolute agony over having to listen to them.]] Needless to say, the bit ends up having the audience in stitches.

** And that's when everybody knows George is okay!

-->“Look, seriously, I’m really sorry if we freaked you out,” I said. “We have rooms in a hotel on the other side of town, but if you don’t want us here, say so, and we’ll just … we’ll just…” Oh God. I couldn’t bring myself to say it. “Get the hell out of Dodge?” Dan said, raising his eyebrows. I shrugged. Ben was holding his forehead like he had a headache.

-->'''Haley:''' Sit in the corner.
-->'''Charlie:''' I am in the corner.

-->'''Tony:''' He got Me Yuled.
-->'''Others:''' Boooo!
-->'''Tony:''' I accept your boos and I'm proud of them.

* Dan [=LeBatard=], of [[DanLeBatardIsHighlyQuestionable Highly Questionable]] fame, has fellow Miami Herald writer and PungeonMaster Greg Cote as an occasional guest host of his radio show. Cote's frequent bad puns are generally met with the losing trombone sound from ''Series/ThePriceIsRight''.

* The skits the teams perform for the Sound Charades round in ''Radio/ImSorryIHaventAClue'' frequently provoke this from the opposing team, especially when Graeme and Barry get into an OverlyPreparedGag with the Hamish and Dougal characters. After an elaborate description of an episode of ''Series/TheTeletubbies'' in which Po couldn't be seen from the front or the back (''[[Film/ThePoseidonAdventure The Po-Side-On Adventure]]'') Creator/StephenFry began his answer with "I can't believe you're doing this to us!" On another occasion, when Dougal urged Hamish to ignore the fact his roosters made a buzzer noise instead of crowing (for ''Series/NeverMindTheBuzzcocks''), Tim suggested the answer was ''[[Series/TheyThinkItsAllOver We Hope It's All Over]]''. He also once commented "The trouble is, you get as far as 'Ah, Hamish!' and I switch off."

-->'''Triborg:''' I am Triborg.\\

-->'''Cassie Cage:''' Cage Match!\\

* In the original version of the first-ever ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' game, one scene involves Rebecca rescuing stalwart hero Chris from a giant, bloodsucking plant. After killing the plant, Chris quips to Rebecca that "we got to the ''root'' of the problem!", to which her response is... several beats of silence and a shake of her head before she instantly changes the subject.

* There's an implied one in ''VideoGame/RatchetDeadlocked'', likely Juanita, his co-commentator giving him one of these.
-->'''Dallas:''' The zombie team just flew in from Catacrom Four, and boy, are they DEAD tired! Hahahahahahaha! Hahahahahahaha! Hahaha-[[DefensiveWhat what?!]]

** Near the end of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1EuyliSO_Q "Painting the Town"]], Weiss attempts a QuipToBlack based on Neapolitan's leaving glass statues of herself and Torchwick behind as decoys (which Yang shatters with a MegatonPunch). Yang isn't impressed with the joke's quality.

''[the two [[AwkwardSilence stare at each other awkwardly]] for ten seconds]''\\

--> '''Kiko:''' I knew you were going to say that. It wasn't even funny.

--->'''Misty:''' ''[Screams]'' I think I see another bug! Gross!\\

'''Misty:''' ''[Tree branch she's clinging to breaks]'' That's not funny!

[[folder:Audiobooks]]

''(Various noises of disgust.)''

-->''[The senate is dying on the floor, having accidentally stabbed each other while trying to stab Mr. Burns/Caesar.]''\\

''[Homer/Cassius produces a cake from his toga.]''\\

''[Everybody groans.]''

* In the comic book adaptation of the ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'' episode "Real Gone Ape," Dick Dastardly is sawing the posts off a bridge on which the racers are traveling.

'''Muttley:''' (''thought balloon'') No, but I've heard better puns!

* ''WebVideo/FateCero'' has Berserker's (Lancelot) reaction to Lancer's (Diarmuid) pun.
-->'''Lancer''': Hey Berserker, bet I can Lance-A-Lot more than you.
-->'''Berserker''': That pun.... physically hurt me.
-->'''[[{{Troll}} Lancer]]''': U mad?
-->'''Berserker''': ''ALL THE TIME!!''

-->David laughed. "Wait - you asked me a question? Sorry, I don't do questions until I get to Purdue. Only they are allowed to ask me questions now."\\

* Chin in the ''Series/HawaiiFive0'' story ''Fanfic/{{Snow Bound|Maudlin Mush}}'' when he sees the headline with the sub-title "No Time for Play!".
-->'''Chin''': Kill me right now.
* "Fanfic/SolaereSsiunHnaifvdaenn": Tovan asks Jaleh to dinner after she finishes her evening prayer, and Jaleh replicates some dates to break her Ramadan fast with and offers them to him.

--> '''Karla''': Ay Dios Mio... ''[slumps in her seat]'' Odin help me...

--> “Thanks, [[spoiler:Mom. I’m]] Lucky to have you.”\\
Dust lifted her wing off the pony’s back, glaring in mock disgust. “That was worse than [[spoiler:the fabricator]].”

-->'''Brian''': Hey, don't leaf me here!
-->'''Wesley''': I will if you don't stop making real bad puns.

--->'''Finn:''' Dog! What is that in which a tree is covered?
--->'''Dog:''' ''(Bark!)''
--->'''Arianne:''' ''(groans)''

-->'''Cosmo:''' We...hahaha... we should call this... hahaha... a ''magic''-fying glass! Ahaha, get it?
-->'''Timmy:''' [[NoJustNoReaction ...no. No, we shouldn't.]]\\

-->'''Ordis''': Everything in ''Ordis'', Operator? --'''''Is that a Pun?!'''''-- Hmm... I will attempt to bypass this fault.

-->'''Ina:''' What do you call a rooster that lays eggs?
-->'''Kiara:''' (''several seconds of thought'') ...a hen?
-->'''Ina:''' ''Hen desu ne.''[[note]]Japanese for "That's strange" or "That's weird", along with the pun on "hen" to mean a female chicken so the sentence can also mean "That's a hen".[[/note]]
-->'''Kiara:''' (''StunnedSilence'') That was so bad it made me fail my boost. (''said right after that indeed happened when the race started'')

-->'''Player:''' All right, guys, let's get...''krakin[='=]''. ''[grins widely]''\\
''[long, dead silence from everyone else who glares at him. Including the kraken]''\\

* In the middle of a [[http://funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/3007083/In/ serious discussion]] on a guy getting limbs blown off by a bomb, somebody drops in with [[RussianReversal "In Soviet Russia, bomb disarms YOU!"]] This got a DudeNotFunny response.
* A popular series of images on ''Website/KnowYourMeme'' has the elevator fight in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' break out because Captain America told an awful dad joke.
* ''Website/{{Neopets}}'': In the Year 21 Neopies, one nominee for "Best Prize Pool Update" is the Qasalan Expellibox, the description for which reads:
-->The Qasalan officials have offered some splendid new rewards for expelling those pesky Scarabs this year. Were they cast far enough away, though? One pesky journalist described the problem as 'unde-scarab-le'... She was almost fired for it.

--> '''Byrne''': According to the Bible, Metheusalah lived for hundreds of years. How did he keep his Gameboy working properly?
--> ''Long life batteries.''
--> '''Seanbaby''': If the Special Olympics had a comedy writing event, this would be the only entry that didn't win a hug. John M. Byrne is so tragic that breast cancer walks to end him.
* The Tumblr blog [[http://jokingluna.tumblr.com/ Joking Luna]] involves [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipisMagic Princess Luna]] annoying her sister Princess Celestia with bad jokes, including a number of terrible puns (though Celestia finds a few of them are ActuallyPrettyFunny).
* The UsefulNotes/{{Usenet}} acronym "IGMC" is used by punsters to pre-empt this. It stands for "I'll get my coat", meaning "You don't need to ''tell'' me to GetOut, I'm already going".
* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': Chaka's lame pun at the end of "Ayla and the Networks" gets her severely pummeled by pillows, beanbag chairs, etc. And her pun at the end of "It's All In The Timing" gets her magically thrown into a snowdrift.

* ''WebVideo/TheAnnoyingOrange'': The most frequent reaction to the lead character's jokes.

* ''Website/CollegeHumor'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3k5oY9AHHM "Font Conference"]], a skit featuring {{anthropomorphic personification}}s of Microsoft fonts:

* Robby Motz used to do this A LOT in ''WebVideo/EqualsThree'' after telling a bad pun. The reactions varied from mass groans, "Worst Pun Ever Record" caption, "New Worst Pun Ever Record" caption and flat out punch to the face.
* WebVideo/FilthyFrank makes the mistake of making a pun when Mr. Negi wouldn't accept the spaghetti he and Red Dick made for him (technically, Red Dick did all the work). Frank then mocks Mr. Negi about the leek along with the aformentioned pun:
-->'''Frank:''' You know what this guy needs to do? If he likes leeks so much... this guy needs to take a leek. ''[he and Red Dick laughs]'' Hilarious. He needs to take a leek.\\
''[the camera focuses on Mr. Negi, then quickly moves to Frank, where [[OffscreenTeleportation Mr. Negi suddenly appears behind him]], holding a leek to his throat]''\\
'''Frank:''' How did you do that?\\
'''Mr. Negi:''' Don't talk shit about leeks... [[PrecisionFStrike nigga]].\\
''[Mr. Negi whacks Frank in the back of the head with the leek, causing him to moan in pain]''
* The LetsPlay/FreelanceAstronauts can fall into this, depending on the game. Usually whoever makes the lamest puns gets punched for his troubles.

* In the LetsPlay of ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana'':
-->'''Game Text:''' Snow City Elrand\\
'''Doran Blackdawn:''' Snow City Elrond. "[[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Take the hobbits to]] [[{{Pun}} Ice-engard]]."\\
'''Dr. Destructo:''' Did you just say "Ice-engard"?\\
'''Doran Blackdawn:''' Yes.\\
'''Dr. Destructo:''' 'Cause I think that's grounds for a beating.\\
'''Doran Blackdawn:''' ''[chuckles]'' See, 'cause we're in a frost place--\\
'''Dr. Destructo:''' ''[irritated]'' [[DontExplainTheJoke Yeah, I--I get it.]]\\
'''Doran Blackdawn:''' ''[laughs]'' Oh, you're so angry when I let out the puns.\\
'''Dr. Destructo:''' [[SuckinessIsPainful Painful, painful puns.]]\\
'''Doran Blackdawn:''' Puns fill you with a burning rage, just like ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRage2''.\\
'''Dr. Destructo:''' I know. Except I'm not making a stand for peace.

--->'''Producer:''' Oh, you know what? I can't ''see'' him in that role. <{{Beat}} as the Screenwriter looks unimpressed> [[DontExplainTheJoke Because of his catchphrase]].\\

--->'''Screenwriter''': And so then everyone's going to end up at this cliff with, like, a waterfall, and it's dark, and Cocaine Bear's gonna show up!\\
'''Producer''': Uh-oh, gonna be tough to get away from Cocaine Bear now!\\
'''Screenwriter''': Actually, it's gonna be super easy, ''bear''ly an inconvenience!\\

'''Producer''': ...[[SubvertedTrope That was really good.]]

* In ''Film/TheMuppets'', as Fozzie goes into his routine for the telethon, telling his old jokes with Creator/JackBlack ends up serving as the straight man, reacting to the jokes [[SuckinessIsPainful as if he's in absolute agony over having to listen to them.]] Needless to say, the bit ends up having the audience in stitches.

* Comment sections and forums will usually have the punner doing a {{Stock Shtick|s}} that follows the {{rimshot}}: "Thank you! I'll be here all week!" (common addends are *MicDrop*, "try the veal" and "remember to tip your servers")

* The [[WhenTreesAttack talking possessed tree]] from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' also gets one. It [[RhymesOnADime speaks only in rhyme]], and asks at one point "Does that make me a poet-tree?" One possibly response from the PlayerCharacter is "It'll make you dead if you keep up the puns."

** In the first episode of Season 2, after Ruby expresses a desire to "Start the semester off with a BANG!", Yang replies "I always start ''my'' semester off with a YANG!" Everyone else silently shakes their heads or {{Face Palm}}s, while Nora [[ProducePelting throws a tomato at Yang's face]] from offscreen while booing her. This happens an awful lot with Yang honestly (particularly on ''WebAnimation/RWBYChibi''), [[InksuitActor considering she's voiced by]] Barbara Dunkelman (see Creator/RoosterTeeth in the Web Original folder).
** Near the end of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1EuyliSO_Q "Painting the Town"]], Weiss attempts a QuipToBlack based on Neapolitan's leaving glass statues of herself and Torchwick behind as decoys (which Yang shatters with a MegatonPunch).

** In "New Challengers", after Team SSSN secures victory through some [[ShockAndAwe clever use of electricity]], this exchange occurs between the {{Combat Commentator}}s:

* In a side-quest in ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'', BackAlleyDoctor Dr. Zed has you pick up a shipment from an "arms dealer". Said shipment turns out to be ''actual severed human arms''. The flavor text after you complete the quest says that the pun may have been more painful than all the injuries you've sustained so far in your quest.

* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' gives us this interaction between Johnny Cage and Triborg.

** And one between the cages.

--->'''Roy Clark:''' Do you have any soup to go with these quackers?\\

** A less aggressive one took place in the Roy Clark episode, after making a terrible pun:
--->'''Roy Clark:''' Y'know what they call that kind of joke in Virginia?\\

'''Rizzo:'''' Ugh.\\

** For starter...
--->'''Kermit:''' You like your drums more than food?\\
'''Animal:''' They are food! Eat drums, eat cymbals!\\

* In the original version of the first-ever ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' game, one scene involves Rebecca rescuing stalwort hero Chris from a giant,bloodsucking plant. After killing the plant, Chris quips to Rebecca that "we got to the ''root'' of the problem!", to which her response is... several beats of silence and a shake of her head before she instantly changes the subject.

* ''Film/{{Flash Gordon|1980}}'' has a terrible one. Flash asks a wounded ally if he's all right, and gets the reply "He only winged me!" The ally is a Hawkman, who was shown to be hit in the wing.
* In ''Film/InspectorGadget'', Scolex is not amused by his {{mook|s}} Kramer's attempts at humor.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'':

'''Animal:''' Bad joke! Bad joke!

--->''[Berle walks in carrying a coat hange]r''\\

--->'''Kaiser:''' You thought Frieza was cool. Huh? Huh?\\
'''Lani:''' His brother's Cooler.\\

* In the franchise-spanning ''Franchise/MegaMan'' crossover fanfic "[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2841919/1/Epilogue Epilogue]]," Elec Man makes several electricity-based puns both before and after his fight with the heroes. Zero just grins and goes along with it, even firing back with some puns of his own, but X gets more and more irritated until he eventually snaps, decides "Pacifism be damned!," and has to be held back to stop him from tearing Elec Man limb from limb. Then Zero makes one more pun, and X's systems, already under severe stress from the recent battle, temporarily shut down in response.

'''Fred:''' Nothing. What's a motto with you? [Everyone else groans]