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  • Virtual blogger Ami Yamato never breaks kayfabe, not even acknowledging that she is a 3D animated character, but slips in subtle computer animation jokes from time to time. Her makeup tutorial video cleverly uses terms that could apply both to makeup or 3D modelling — brushes, layering and so on. The cleverest has to be "preparing your skin for UV" — in a real makeup tutorial this would refer to protection from ultra-violet rays, but as Ami is a 3D model, she is referring to the UV co-ordinate system used for texture-mapping in 3D software.
  • Atop the Fourth Wall's Top 15 Worst Heroes Becoming Villains has Linkara pull out a mock-equation to determine the revealingness of Face Heel Turned heroines' outfits. The gist is that the amount of evil (measured in MegaVaders) inside someone is directly proportional to their body temperature, and as such they must wear more revealing outfits to compensate. Or, in other words, the badder they get, the hotter they get.
  • Bo Burnham, one of the few good musicians and songwriters out there, needs more love. Come on, folks, let's start referencing him. Here's some truly masterful Stealth Puns for ya!
  • The Dropout sketch "Zordon is a Racist" depicts the Green Ranger as Jewish to further highlight the unintentional Unfortunate Implications regarding some of the team colors. The footage used is from Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger or Zyuranger for short. It's pronounced "Jew Ranger".
  • Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: Moist went on a double date with Bait and Switch. He thought he was going to end up with Bait, but...
    • Dr. Horrible is full of this: On his blog, the Doctor mentions transporting several gold bars from a safe. He lifts up a bag of brownish "cumin-smelling" liquid and says that the molecules shifted in the transportation Bouillon/gold bullion
    • Also, in the song "Neil's Turn" on the Commentary, Neil Patrick Harris is stuck alone and in the dark in the studio, and sings, "What's with all these weird cords?" just as the music plays a bunch of "weird chords"
  • The leader of the Love Cult in Don't Hug Me I'm Scared is notably a butterfly. He's a love bug!
  • Fark is enamored of headlines with Stealth Puns of its more memorable memes. For example: "Duke upset in NCAA tournament. If only there were some pithy catch phrase to describe their ineptitude."
  • Jessica, the dandified, bow-tie wearing host of Fat, French and Fabulous is attracted to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, a coordinated system of trains and buses.She's metrosexual.
  • Fools Gold: There is a mention of a Giant Panda who drives a truck containing stolen ingots of lanthanide metals. His truck is #71 and his name is Lu. 71 is the atomic number of the lanthanide Lutetium. Its symbol in the periodic table is Lu. Lu is also a common Chinese surname.
  • FreedomToons: Seamus seems to be referencing the 'Clown World' meme in "JBP, Trump's Wind Mill Cancer, Jussie Smollett", focused on various short skits depicting a Bizarro upside-down world where Jordan Peterson's refusal to use Newspeak causes Trans people to literally stop existing, Donald Trump develops cancer from exposure to constant media windmills, and Jussie Smollett is vindicated as a saint.
  • Homestar Runner: In the Strong Bad Email "butt IQ", Strong Bad says that according to the Transitive Butt Property, the stupidity of someone's butt is equal to or greater than the stupidity of someone's head. He uses Homestar as an example of someone with a stupid head, and thus with a butt that's at least as stupid, which seems to be a roundabout way of him calling Homestar a dumb-ass.
  • On IMDb's old character pages, who got ID number 666? Damien Thorn. The only other one with such a deliberate ID is 007.
  • MrRepzion once made a video called "Vampire Rants On Why Twilight Sucks". note 
  • Less is Morgue:
    • "Chortle at Riley's Bones" introduces Lilith, a Necromancer who uses reanimated skeletons to make bone jewelry for her to sell online. They're a skeleton crew.
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic's fandom has a "Ponies in Socks" meme, so someone was inspired to create this. It's the Python programming language, using the SOCKS protocol.
  • Mystery Skulls Animated:
    • The unnamed ghosts with Lewis who pulsate with the music are Dead Beats.
    • Lewis Pepper has died and come back as a fiery hot ghost. He's a ghost pepper.
    • Mystery the "dog" seems to actually be a nine-tailed fox spirit, sometimes referred to as a kyuubi - nine-tails. Hence, he is Kyuubi-Doo.
  • Noob has a possibly accidental one that can be found via Bilingual Bonus. Gaea has two reccurring (in-series) nicknames: one is "Dame Gaea" in the original French, which translates into "Lady Gaea" in English, the other is "Gaga". When these two come together...
  • In The Nostalgia Critic review of Ernest Scared Stupid, there's a scene where Ernest reveals a troll he captured. The Critic splices in an image of Fan Dumb Douchey McNitpick who literally showed up to troll him.
  • PZ Myers is a biologist with a love for octopus and similar creatures. When Paul, the psychic sports predicting octopus died, he went back and forth describing his feelings on the matter, using the phrase 'on the other hand' seven times.
  • Rocked calls Metallica's Load and ReLoad albums "two big loads," and accompanies this pun with the sound of someone defecating.
  • A good one concerning Rooster Teeth is the company name itself and it involves a vulgar insult used in Red vs. Blue. That insult? "cockbite".
    • While watching the show, "reactor" MurderOfBirds thought of one regarding why Agent Texas (aka Tex) and Leonard Church are no longer a couple. Separation of church and state.
  • Late in Volume Two of RWBY (also made by Rooster Teeth), though it's not delivered like a pun and nobody reacts to it like one makes it easy to overlook...until you realize where they are.
    Yang: I guess this is what we trained for.
  • In one episode of Sassy Gay Friend, the title character makes his entrance out of a closet.
  • Many of the SCP Foundation's artifacts are common idioms or phrases played literally, disguised by the organization's clinical tone.
    • SCP-042: Beating a dead horse.
    • SCP-058: Heart of darkness.
    • SCP-134: Stars in their eyes.
    • SCP-469: Every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings.
    • SCP-800: The Art of War.
    • SCP-1768: The floor is lava
    • One of stories in the site, Clef and Dimitri Hit the Road has one at the very end. "Alas, poor Yoric, I've never seen him before in my life."
    • For examples not including common sayings, there's SCP-918, a factory that produces storks that kidnap infants (in an inversion of the Delivery Stork) and bring them back to process into talcum powder. It makes baby powder out of real babies.
    • SCP-4634 are a collection of 128 "Out of Order" signs that, when affixed to a room's door on the outside, renders that room inoperable. They were originally found on the inside of a number of monuments across the Earth. Removing them all caused the universe to become perfectly orderly (although the absence of entropy also made it unable to sustain life; thankfully the changes were reverted by whatever force created the signs).
  • A recurring thread on Something Awful is "Real pictures that look like photoshops". And eventually, someone will post this. It's a photo shop.
  • A Brazilian blog/Tumblr has made a parody "Squads of The World Cup". The resulting Hurricane of Puns sometimes needs context: the Netherlands include a Brazilian rapper famous for pro-cannabis songs, the smuggling-heavy Paraguay has "Sorny, Mike, BleckBarry and Hi-Phone", and Denmark ends with Scooby-Doo (a Great Dane) and two candies sold at the chocolatier Kopenhagen.
  • Unforgotten Realms has Professor Strap, who after a memory erasing spell goes by the name of "Jacques". Jacques Strap.
  • Vista-tan has huge tracts of land.
    • And we all know huge tracts of land are vistas.
      • Plus, we all know Windows Vista was a huge bust.
    • Similarly, a 2017 tumblr post took off about a Moe anthropromorphized Earth. She isn't flat.
  • /Welcome Back, Potter: At the bar, Jarry, Don and Stacey's drinks have whole sticks of butter in it. Get it? Butterbeer?
  • In the pilot episode of Welcome to Night Vale, new guy Carlos the Scientist comes to investigate the radio station. His Geiger counter has a huge reaction when it gets near the microphone. Clearly there's a lot of radio activity going on.
  • Wikipedia celebrated the tenth anniversary of "Today's Featured Article" in February 2014 with Tropical Depression Ten. Then the rest of the week went for a poker Broadway: Jack Marsh; Queen Olga Constantinovna of Russia, The King and I and British flying ace John F. Bolt.
  • During the Yogscast Minecraft Series' Tekkit playthrough (plus MoonQuest), Simon Lane, Lewis Brindley and Duncan Jones are the only members of Honeydew, Inc. Simon is the boss, so Lewis and Duncan have to do what Simon Says.
  • This Youtube video. A steam-powered turntable, playing the Sex Pistols. Steampunk.
  • On a furry ImageBoard, someone called for "Rule 34 of NIMH." One of the responses was a picture of batteries.
  • This blog post is written by an author who enjoys puns based on the origins of words. "None of the little particles in the universe had gotten the idea that one might turn yet." "Universe" comes from Latin roots uni and vertere—"one" and "turn".
  • While many an image on this very wiki falls into this (see the section on Visual Pun), the one in Speed Sex is the most blatant. Who came before, the chicken or the egg?
  • Typical viewers of video game streams are affectionately known as stream monsters. Twitch.tv's most popular chat face is called "Kappa," as in a literal stream monster.
  • In Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series, when seeing Evil!Tristan driving out of a warehouse on a motorcycle, Joey asks if that is a Honda, only for Yugi to say "No, his name is Tristan". Honda is Tristan's Japanese name and also pokes fun how Honda's name is the exact same as the Japanese company Honda that creates motorcycles.

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