History Main / VisualPun

* The reason why ''ComicBook/GorskyAndButch'' has a really slim chance of ever being translated to English...
* The delightful comic ''Pop Gun War'' had something approaching but not quite being a visual pun. The character Sunshine, a little person, informs another character that he will tell her a story along their trip. Upon being informed it's a short walk, he replies, "It's a short story." Thus, we have a short man on a short walk telling a short story. If nothing else, it was visual wit.
* ''ComicBook/{{Zenith}}'' Phase II sees a henchman, observing the main character, commenting "Strange...he has his mother's eyes." The BigBad comments wryly, "Really?...I thought that WE did." Cue shot of a glass jar, with... well, guess what suspended in it.
* In the AnthologyComic ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' in a Fatty Fudge strip (For a few dollops more) some outlaw cowboys say "we've got prices on our heads" whilst literrally having some prices drawn onto their heads (well hats).

* Moose Mason of ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' is a gold mine for these gags. Here are a few:

* In ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'', at a certain point V is breaking into the television station to have his own recording broadcast. In the background, you see a number of other TV shows playing. One is a sitcom with lots of innuendo, including a woman commenting on her (literal) melons.

* When Rick Jones marries his girlfriend Marlo in ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk'' shortly after she has come BackFromTheDead, Creator/DCComics' [[Comicbook/TheSandman Death]] makes a LawyerFriendlyCameo, crashing the reception and giving Marlo a silver hairbrush.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Nero}}'' also enjoyed making such jokes. Examples are Nero literally rolling up a gang of thieves (in a carpet) or seeing a head on a desk with the caption "head of the police". When Nero went in space he always saw a bunch of milk bottles flying around (the Milky Way) and a great bear floating in space (named after the star sign).

* In the Belgian comic ''Olivier Rameau'', there was an anthropomorphic frog wearing a scuba diving suit, hence the name "frogman".

* [[http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2006-08-16/ Here]] in ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'', Phil, The Prince Of Insufficient Light darns a man to Heck with his spoon. [[BrainBleach No, not his giant spoon. Much worse.]]
* A ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' strip shows a couple driving around with a map of Nowhere, approaching a sign that reads "Now Entering The Middle."
* An early ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' strip features Calvin showing Hobbes an "antelope"... by taking him over to an anthill, pointing to one, and saying "See, she's climbing down the ladder to her boyfriend's car!" Hobbes is not amused.
* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1980/01/23 This]] strip featured Frank, a friend of Jon's, meeting Garfield for the first time and rubbing him. Garfield reacted violently and stated "Some people rub me the wrong way".

--> '''Ginger''': “Vote for Nader and you’ll get what you deserve. Bush.”\\
Which is exactly where the croquet ball ends up.
* An ''ComicStrip/InsideWoodyAllen'' strip features a store which runs on this trope. Suitcases are shaped like hearts, spades, clubs and diamonds; hand mirrors have a thumb and four fingers, etc. When Woody says he'd like to complain to the manager because it's "too literal" the clerk points to a door labeled "Head Office" which is shaped like a person's head.

* When the Watch are arresting a villain in Creator/TerryPratchett's ''[[Literature/{{Discworld}} Guards! Guards!]]'', Vimes tells Carrot to "[[ThrowTheBookAtThem throw the book at him]]". Carrot, who [[LiteralMinded doesn't understand metaphor]], lobs ''The Laws and Ordinances of Ankh-Morpork'' in the villain's direction, causing the villain to [[spoiler: lose his balance and fall five stories to his death]].
* Later, in ''Literature/FeetOfClay'', Vimes is introduced to the tradition of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canting_arms canting arms]] mentioned under the Real Life section. The Heralds, in creating arms and mottos for newly-rich tradesman, use boxing gloves for a man named Sock and so on, which Vimes [[LamePunReaction is duly unimpressed by]]. However, one coat-of-arms proves to be a confession HiddenInPlainSight: [[spoiler:Arthur Carry the candlemaker is given a traditional ''lampe au poisson'', and his family motto "Art Brought Forth the Candle" is ''Ars Enixa Et Candldeabrum''... though in true Discworld fashion, the EurekaMoment doesn't hit Vimes until after he's worked that out already, and it only serves to further enrage him as he's apprehending the perpetrators]].
* In ''Literature/{{Pyramids}}, whenever Pteppic tries to read heiroglyphs he reads them out literally (i.e. reading an ancient king's name as "thin eagle, eye, wiggly line, man with stick, bird sitting down, wiggly line").
* The ''Literature/AmeliaBedelia'' series of illustrated children's books lives and breathes this trope; the titular maid is LiteralMinded, so every request made of her invariably results in an end product constituting a visual pun on the desired result. For example: Dress the chicken. Draw the shades. Dust the furniture (Amelia Bedelia even finds ''Dusting Powder'' in the bathroom!).
* In a rare serious example, at one point in [[Creator/IsaacAsimov Asimov's]] mystery novel ''Literature/TheNakedSun'' Baley the detective asks his partner, R. Daneel Olivaw (the "R." means he's a robot) to "give me a hand". This results in Olivaw briefly giving a puzzled look at his own hand, as if being asked to unscrew it and give it to Baley. [[spoiler: This proves to be an important clue to solving the murder.]]
* In Creator/JohnCWright's ''[[Literature/TheGoldenOecumene Golden Age]],'' the laws of the Oecumene are carved on the floor of the courtroom--set in stone.

* Also, another book called ''Catbirds and Dogfish'', which is supposed to be about animals with portmanteaus for names, actually depicts said animals as MixAndMatchCritters (for example, the catbirds are all portrayed as cats with wings, and the dogfish are all portrayed as fish with bulldog heads instead of medium-sized gray birds and small, speckled sharks like in real life).
* ''How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers'' by Robert Williams Wood (available [[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33346 here]] and [[http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/How_to_Tell_the_Birds_from_the_Flowers/ here]]) is [[HurricaneOfPuns composed almost entirely]] of plain puns "illustrated" by visual ones.
* In ''[[Literature/XWingSeries Wedge's Gamble]]'', there's a bar on the lower levels of Coruscant called the Headquarters. Its marquee features a stormtrooper's helmet being torn into four pieces.
* In the ''Literature/CouncilWars'' series, the teams responsible for infiltrating and securing potentially hostile beaches are primarily composed of Changed [[SelkiesAndWereseals Selkies]]. In other words they are SEAL Teams.
* In the short story ''Literature/TheCaskOfAmontillado'' by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe, Fortunado asks if Montressor is a Mason (of the Freemasons), Montressor says he is. Fortunato asks for proof, and Montressor produces a trowel.
* In ''Literature/TheKingsAvatar'', after Excellent Era forcefully retires Ye Xiu against his will, they literally throw him out into the cold as it starts snowing as soon as he leaves the building.
* In ''Literature/MondayBeginsOnSaturday'', the protagonist is sent to a world of fantastic literature and is surprised to see {{Technobabble}}-speaking engineers... reinventing the wheel.
* The second ''Literature/FrannyKStein'' book ''Attack of the 50-Ft. Cupid'' had a chapter where Franny is let down by her family and friends showing little interest in her inventions. She attempts to talk to a friend from school named Percy over the phone about a machine she made that can bring pictures to life, but Percy doesn't pay attention and only babbles about how much he likes corn chips. An illustration shows Franny glaring and hanging up the phone while imagining that Percy has a safety pin for a head, making him a literal pinhead.

* Done in [[Creator/MidwayGames Bally]]'s ''Pinball/DrDude'' with the Gift of Gab, which is a gift-wrapped box with a mouth on it.

* A ''Magazine/NewScientist'' cover feature about how we don't know what most of the chemicals in food actually ''do'', was illustrated by a picture of a lettuce, with 90% of it hidden underwater. An ''iceberg'' lettuce.

* Combined with a LamePunReaction in Website/BrainPOP's ''[[HiccupHijinks Hiccups]]'' video, after Moby [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin gets the hiccups.]]

* A RunningGag in ''Webcomic/OneOverZero''.
* [[http://www.explosm.net/comics/2630/ This]] ''Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness'' comic; [[FreudianSlip don't slip]].
* The AuthorAvatar in ''Webcomic/{{DAR}}'' describes herself as a "fairly hairy girl" in [[http://www.darcomic.org/2008/09/30/shaved/ one strip]], then proceeds with six panels involving various ways of shaving . . . a cat. This is returned to in a later strip at a [[http://www.darcomic.org/2009/01/13/wax/ waxing party]], where all the girls are drawn as carrying cats and a guy is drawn as carrying a squirrel.
* Diglett and pals is just a series of strips with visual puns on Pokémon attack names. One example would be a Voltorb attempting to flee from a fight with a Diglett who summons an arena in order to trap the Voltorb, this is followed by the text [[http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/698264/Diglett/ "Diglett's arena trap prevents escape".]]

* In ''Webcomic/DubiousCompany'':

* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', the Writer's Block is a [[http://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook.php?date=2003-09-27 fairly]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook.php?date=2004-10-13 common]] RunningGag [[http://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook.php?date=2005-06-20 in]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook.php?date=2010-12-16 the]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook.php Sketchbook]] [[http://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook.php?id=686 section]].
* In ''Webcomic/GeneralProtectionFault'', a similar example to the Muppet Movie above happens, save that the characters in question come across a fork(); in the road.
* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' brings us, among others, a [[spoiler:[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120917 Battering Ram]]]]. And in a holiday filler page, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20071225 Santa Klaus]].
* In the ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' side-story ''City-Face 2'', the titular pigeon, who believes he is turning into a human businessman, is told "Every human businessman needs one of these" and given a blackberry. Which he eats. ''Gunnerkrigg Court'' also features a decidedly non-humorous example in the main storyline. [[spoiler: Mort's death is depicted with an exploded diagram of a bomb]].
* ''[[http://www.dernwerks.com/HWC/ Hello With Cheese]]'' consists almost entirely of visual puns.
* In ''Webcomic/TheHeroesOfMiddlecenter'', "Could somebody give me a hand?" while fighting zombie ninjas (sadly apparently lost forever like the rest of the site). Was included in the amateur video that spawned the comic.
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' has one in Act 6 for John and Nanna. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, after all.
** A number of things Rose writes (on Pesterchum, in Complacency of the Learned, etc.) are in purple text, because she literally and figuratively (or the other way around for both) writes in {{Purple Prose}}.
* In ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'', there's a recurring strip with the (literal) Writer's [[spoiler:Lego]] Block.
* ''Webcomic/LifeAndDeath'' has a long, wonderful history of puns, visual and otherwise. Even several characters owe their mere existence to visual puns, like "love is blind," and such. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d as often as not, but hey. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Tropes Are Not Bad]].
* [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/owls/?comic=536 This]] ''Webcomic/LightningMadeOfOwls'' strip has Ambrose on a line that is tangent to a cubic function, while talking to a calculus class about something irrelevant.

** The strip "The Polearm Shop" has a snake slither in in the last two panels. The entire strip is an homage to [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Monty]] ''[[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Python]]'''s [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Flying Circus]].

* ''Webcomic/WorkingDoodles'': Contains many examples of Visual Puns throughout the series.
* Many occur in ''Webcomic/XWhy'', not always math related.
* In ''Foxhole'', Miss Faraday is an electromagnet-themed cyborg, and also a violent MoodSwinger whose current status is indicated by the "+" and "-" symbols on her breastplate. She's quite literally bipolar.

* There's now a [[http://somuchpun.com/?utm_source=network&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=directory website for these]].
* [[http://web.archive.org/web/20100101021612/http://tcritic.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/french-kiss-large.jpg This]] t-shirt design.
* The Website/KnowYourMeme image for CreepyPasta.
* From [[Webcomic/{{xkcd}} Randall Munroe's]] science blog ''Blog/WhatIf'', the third image on [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/70/ "The Constant Groundskeeper"]] shows a cougar chasing a guy riding a John Deere riding mower. [[DontExplainTheJoke Explained by]] the AltText:

* ''Website/SFDebris'': the introduction to ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episodes is taken from Creator/WilliamShatner's performance of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", that - where possible - is cut with appropriate images from TOS episodes. When Shatner is proclaiming that the flowers "grow so ''incredibly'' '''[[LargeHam high!!!]]'''", there's a shot of one of the space hippies from "The Way To Eden".

* The Daily Squee once showed a [[https://cheezburger.com/4699255040 literal]] [[VideoGame/MystIIIExile squee]].

** The logo, which has a LampshadeHanging on it.

* LetsPlay/OutbackWawa seems borderline obsessed with this trope.
* The editing style in the video game montages made by LetsPlay/TearOfGrace is centered around such puns.
* Much like Yahtzee, WebVideo/TheGameOverthinker often uses this, though he does this in combination with RunningGag, such as using a picture of Comicbook/TheQuestion when he uses the word question, using Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto for God, using a picture of a butt for but and others.

* In ''Fanfic/CindersAndAshesTheChroniclesOfKamenRiderDante'', a major theme is letting your emotions out, as many of the Kamen Riders in the fanfic are tied to [[EmotionalPowers an emotion]] that fuel their ElementalPowers. All of Dante's armors have pipes or vents to air out flames, with his core emotion being [[BurningWithAnger anger]]. The one exception to this is his Yellowstone Mount which has none and just lets the heat accumulate. In other words: Dante's armor ''vents'' out his own grief save for one that just bottles it up.

* In ''Fanfic/CindersAndAshesTheChroniclesOfKamenRiderDante'', a major theme is letting your emotions out, as many of the Kamen Riders in the fanfic are tied to [[EmotionalPowers an emotion]] that fuel their ElementalPowers. All of Dante's armors have pipes or vents to air out flames, with his core emotion is [[BurningWithAnger anger]]. The one exception to this is his Yellowstone Mount which has none and just lets the heat accumulate. In other words: Dante's armor ''vents'' out his own grief save for one that just bottles it up.

* In ''Fanfic/CindersAndAshesTheChroniclesOfKamenRiderDante'', a major theme is letting your emotions out, as many of the Kamen Riders in the fanfic are tied to [[EmotionPowers an emotion]] that fuel their ElementalPowers. All of Dante's armors have pipes or vents to air out flames, with his core emotion is [[BurningWithAnger anger]]. The one exception to this is his Yellowstone Mount which has none and just lets the heat accumulate. In other words: Dante's armor ''vents'' out his own grief save for one that just bottles it up.

BRollRebus is when news and documentaries do this with StockFootage. Compare StealthPun, which is sort of like [[{{Dissimile}} a Visual Pun without the visuals]]. Of course, sometimes a Visual Pun ''can'' be a stealth pun. But, you know, they're stealthy about it. SuperTrope to MetaphoricMetamorphosis (where road signs are literal, not figurative, depictions of what's up ahead), RulesOfTheRoad (same) and often a SisterTrope of LiteralMetaphor.

[[folder:Films — Live-Action]]
* Creator/MelBrooks is a shameless user of visual puns:
** ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'',
*** While addressing the assembled villagers, Robin says "lend me your ears". They promptly pelt him with (apparently human) ears. Robin is visually appalled.
---->'''Robin:''' That is disgusting.
*** Earlier in the film, [[ExpospeakGag several slender men of middling stature in horse-racing clothes are seen mounted upon dromedaries]]. Those who don't get it is should know that "camel jockey" is a very derogatory term for a Middle Easterner.
** ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'':
*** When Lone Starr and Barf try to "jam" the radar on ''Spaceball One'', they launch a giant jar of jam at ''Spaceball One'''s radar dish, causing raspberry jam to leak out of the control panels. (And prompting Dark Helmet's line "Raspberry! There's only one man who would ''dare'' give me the raspberry: Lone Starr!"[[note]][[CameraAbuse *CRASH!*]][[/note]])
*** Later, some mooks are told to "comb the desert" for survivors. They get out [[RuleOfFunny actual giant combs.]] Cue this exchange between Colonel Sandurz and Dark Helmet:
---->'''Sandurz:''' [[LampshadeHanging Are we being]] [[LiteralMinded too literal]]?\\
'''Helmet:''' ''[through megaphone]'' '''No, you fool, we're following orders -- [[DontExplainTheJoke we were told to comb the desert, so we're combing it!]]''' ''[puts down megaphone, turns to searchers]'' Found anything yet?\\
'''Mook:''' Nothing yet, sir!\\
''[{{beat}}...]''\\
'''Helmet:''' What about you guys?\\
'''[[TokenMinority Black Mook]]:''' ''[[[OnceAcceptableTargets using an afro pick]]]'' We ain't found '''shit'''!
* Creator/ZuckerAbrahamsAndZucker as well (particularly David Zucker):
** ''Film/{{Airplane}}'':
*** "Okay, boys, let's take some pictures." (all the reporters run over to the wall and start pulling down the pictures hanging there)
*** "Two more minutes! They could be miles off course." "That's impossible. They're on instruments!" (cut to jam session in plane cockpit)
*** "When Kramer finds out about this, the shit's gonna hit the fan!" (''SPLORCH! ...sssscHWOop!'')
*** Jars of mayonnaise line the shelves of the Mayo Clinic
*** Ted Striker's "drinking problem" (he can't put the glass to his mouth and ends up splashing the drink in his face
** ''Film/AirplaneIITheSequel'' did a fine job continuing the tradition, even though the ZAZ trio was not involved:
*** "Simon's turned to jelly!" Cut to a literal man-shaped, wobbling pile of jelly in Simon's clothes.
*** "Sir, I pulled Ted Striker's record. I don't think you're going to like it." (shows a vinyl LP with the title "Ted Striker's 400 Polka Favorites")
** In ''[[Film/TheNakedGun Naked Gun 2½]]'':
--->'''Waiter:''' Sir?\\
'''Frank:''' Give me the strongest thing you got.\\
''[the waiter waves over an oiled body builder]''\\
'''Frank:''' On second thought how 'bout a Black Russian?\\
''[the waiter [[AsideGlance looks at the camera]] and [[BreakingTheFourthWall shakes his head]]]''
* Turns up in a lot of Creator/MarxBrothers routines. Harpo is usually responsible for the "literal" version.
** One particular instance is when he's trying to get into a secret room whose password is [[ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish "Swordfish."]] When asked for the password, he promptly produces a fish and runs it through with a dagger, and is subsequently allowed in.
** And if you're playing poker with Harpo, don't ask him to "cut the cards" unless you're using an inexpensive deck.
** Groucho and Chico are running around trying to find a seal to make a document official. Harpo walks in and drops a live seal on the desk.
** Also, when someone proclaims "Three cheers!" he promptly walks in carrying three chairs.
** Mrs. Rittenhouse tells Harpo he has his choice of seats in a Bridge game. He promptly sits down in the lap of another woman.
* In ''[[Film/TheAddamsFamily Addams Family Values]]'', when baby Pubert is being admired in his bassinet:
-->'''Gomez''': He has my father's eyes.\\
'''Morticia''': Gomez, take those out of his mouth.
** The film also has a GoldDigger shown with a shovel in her hand, having just taken a wedding ring from a grave.
* The Japanese crime comedy film ''Adrenaline Drive'' combines this and StealthPun. The hero and heroine end up stealing from a {{Yakuza}} money laundering operation. Since the money was covered in blood when they got it, they take it to a laundry mat to clean- thus, they engaged in some literal "money laundering".
* In ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', [[MassOhCrap Biff Tannen and his gang]] simultaneously yell "'''''SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!'''''" before crashing into the back of a [[RoadApples manure]] truck.
* In ''Film/BedknobsAndBroomsticks'', King Leonidas' secretary is a literal [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretarybird Secretarybird.]]
* In ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'', after Beetlejuice protrudes spikes out of his body to stop being picked up while miniature, he starts feeling a little "anxious" and saunters towards a brothel that conveniently shows up nearby.[[note]]Juno had set it up to keep him distracted while she tongue-lashes the Maitlands to get them to scare the Deets out of their haunt.[[/note]]
* In the final segment in the anthology horror-comedy ''Chillerama'', a man gets kicked so hard, he shits. So yes, he had the shit kicked out of him.
* ''Film/CityOfTheLivingDead'' plays this trope for horror in an infamous scene where a girl ''literally'' pukes her guts out while [[TearsOfBlood weeping blood]]. Both her intestines and her stomach get vomited out as the ghost of the evil priest that is doing this to her and the girl's horrified friend look on.
* ''La cité de la peur'' (''City of Fear'') has a lot of this. Examples include: "C'est une vraie boucherie" ("it's like a butcher's shop", meaning that a crime scene is very gory: the policeman enters an actual butcher's shop, looks terribly shaken, and then goes to the actual crime scene), "Jetez-moi ici" ("drop me here"), "la place du mort" ("the dead man's seat", in reference to the front passenger seat. Cue corpse being pulled out of the car's boot.) Some elements during the pursuit along the beach also qualifies. And finally, the "tapette géante" ([[MultipleReferencePun which is the same word for a giant fag and a giant mouse-trap]]).
* French film ''Coco'' is entirely made of gags performed by its main actor (a humorist in life), but there's one glaring instance of a visual pun: Coco's teenage son wants to show his firend the house's "porcherie" (pigsty). Viewers start wondering why a Jewish man would keep swine in his house, until it's revealed that it was actually a ''porscherie'' (a room chock-full of Porsche cars!)
* At one point in ''Film/CrocodileDundee 2'', Mick uses Sue's bra as bait for a BoobyTrap.
* In ''Film/DancerInTheDark'', Selma is seen lying on birch logs (during the musical number "Scatterheart"). Selma is played by Icelandic singer {{Music/Bjork}}, and in Swedish, Icelandic, and Faroese, "Björk" means "birch".
* ''Film/TheDarkKnight'':
** During the car chase on Lower Wacker Drive, the Joker sends Harvey Dent's convoy underground by blocking their path with... a fire truck. That is on fire. A '''fire''' truck. More like a visual oxymoron, but still...
** When asking the local mob leaders to contact him, the Joker leaves "his card," a generic Joker playing card.
* The last shot of ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''. John Blake is [[spoiler: {{implied|Trope}} to be heir to the mantle of the Dark Knight, and as he stands on the platform in the Batcave... he rises]].
* ''Film/DeathRace2000'': In the original film, Frankenstein pulls off a glove and reveals his "hand grenade," a grenade built into his cybernetic hand.
* As an AffectionateParody, ''Film/DownWithLove'' does a similar cut on the words "bosom buddies."
* ''Film/EvilDead2''. After Ash laughingly cuts off his possessed hand with a chainsaw and sticks it to the floor with a knife, he traps it under a bucket. Thinking it might ''somehow'' escape, he places a stack of books on top. The top book is ''Literature/AFarewellToArms''.
* In ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVANewBeginning'', Mayor Cobb throws a bunch of cigarette ashes at Sheriff Tucker to illustrate his point that, as far as everyone's concerned, Jason Voorhees had been reduced to ashes following his death. He even goes so far as to refer to the cigarette ashes as "Jason".
* French movie ''Film/LeGendarmeEtLesGendarmettes'' as an infamous RemovableSteeringWheel [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrKWI3dw1Lc scene.]] "''Passez-moi le volant.''" ("Give me the steering wheel.") is a standard expression in French to ask for the driving seat. Here, however, it is taken literally with Cruchot unplugging the wheel and giving it to Gerber, who plugs it back on his side. ''While the car is still rolling''.
* ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'': [[spoiler:The Doctor injects [=McCullen=] with nanomites to repair severe burns in his face, which turns silver, and right away the nanomites allowed the Doctor to control [=McCullen's=], or Destro's, mind. Hence, the Doctor "regenerated" [[TheNthDoctor the Ninth Doctor]]]].
* In ''Film/TheGreatDictator'', the emblem of [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Adenoid Hynkel and his followers]] is the Double Cross. HilariousInHindsight, given the even more blatant backstab a year later: Barbarossa.
* ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'': Marvin's arm is taken and pointed like it's a firearm.
* In ''Film/HotShots'', people repeatedly tell the main character that he has his father's eyes. [[HavingAHeart He actually does have them and keeps them in a box in his pocket.]]
* In ''Film/HotShotsPartDeux'', one of the not-Iraqi soldiers is wearing a [[StealingFromTheHotel Holiday Inn towel]] instead of a turban, referring to the "towel-head" slur.
* A dissolve at the beginning of ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'' makes a molehill out of the Paramount mountain.
* In ''Film/ItsAMadMadMadMadWorld'', the plot kicks off when one of the characters kicks a bucket in his death throes.
* In ''Film/JackTheGiantSlayer'' when the cooking giant is making pigs in a blanket, he uses actual pigs instead of hot dogs.
* ''Film/TheJerk'': Navin is berating a waiter in an expensive restaurant: "Two boobs! That's what he takes us for!" We get a shot of Marie glancing down at her decolletage.
* In ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'', Wonder Woman is first shown in London standing on the statue of Lady Justice.
* In ''Film/LicenceToKill'', the villain kills one of his own in a decompression chamber also filled with his money. When the guy explodes over the money, the villain, when asked what about the money, says "launder it."
* In ''Film/LoadedWeapon1'', a BasicInstinctLegsCrossingParody scene leads into a "gratuitous beaver shot" showing an actual beaver.
* In his opening narration for ''Film/LoveAndDeath'', Creator/WoodyAllen's character mentions the "valuable piece of land" owned by his father. An old man pulling a hunk of sod from inside his coat is seen.
-->"This land is not for sale! Someday, I hope to build on it."
* ''Film/LoverComeBack'': "Believe me, the agency that lands this account is the one that shows the [[DoubleEntendre most attractive can]]." The scene then cuts to a certain part of a {{Chorus Girl|s}}'s anatomy.
* Not really used for laughs, but there is an instance of visual pun in ''Film/ManOfSteel''. At one point, Superman collapses onto all-fours due to exhaustion. Zod flies up to him and floats before him to taunt him a little. It took thirty-five years, but they finally had Superman KneelBeforeZod.
* A ''much'' earlier Superman reference: in the very first Superman serial, we see little Clark Kent pulling a full size haywagon. (What? Didn't ''you'' pull a wagon as a kid?)
* In one scene in ''Film/TheMuppetMovie'', Kermit instructs Fozzie to "turn left at the fork in the road". Kermit is quite surprised to see a literal giant fork stuck in the road at the turn-off.
* In ''Film/ThePlayhouse'', Creator/BusterKeaton plays a stage crew member at a theatre. Early in the film, as he is clocking in for the day, he looks at the sign reading [[AC:"punch clock"]] So he does. Right in the face, too...
* ''Film/{{Popeye}}'':
** At one point, Bluto is so angry to see Olive with Popeye that he sees red.
** At the end, the defeated Bluto turns yellow and swims away.
* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
** ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'': Jack is attempting to pick a lock with a bone. It's a skeleton key.
** ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'': Davy Jones' Locker is filled with crustaceans that normally appear as stones, or in other words, "Rock Crabs."
* In ''Film/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime'' Sheik Amar, after running from a fight, hides behind a chicken coop.
* In the classic Lovecraft-inspired horror-comedy ''Film/ReAnimator'', the BigBad gets decapitated fairly early on, and then reanimated as a classic shambling carrier-of-one's-own-head. Toward the climax of the film, he abducts the female lead and straps her down to a surgical bench, and... well, the head gives her head. The writer was reportedly so pleased with this that he called the producer and said excitedly, "I've just written my first visual pun!"
* ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'' - which is marinaded in VideoGameTropes - has Scott walk off purposefully as a friend asks him what he's doing. He responds, "Getting a life," and snatches a OneUp out of the air.
* One of the driving themes in ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' is betrayal. In the end, the main villain [[spoiler: is literally stabbed in the back]].
* ''Film/SlowWest'': During a gunfight, a shot breaks a jar of salt, which pours into a character's wound, underscoring a figurative 'insult to injury' moment with a literal one.
* In ''Film/SongOfTheSouth'' in its first musical number, a couple of birds come to hum as backup music. They're "humming" birds.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** In ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'', a Scotsman walks into a bar. (Scotty bumps his head and knocks himself out.)
** In ''Film/StarTrek2009'', it's James T. Kirk who literally walks into a bar.
* ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'': The T-800 conceals [[Music/GunsNRoses a shotgun in a bouquet of roses]], which is appropriate given that the movie featured Guns N' Roses in its soundtrack.
* In ''Film/TronLegacy'', when Kevin Flynn repairs Quorra's damaged code, he pulls out the erroneous parts, clasps them in his hands, and lets go. The damaged code then flies away in an insect-like fashion. He was literally debugging Quorra.
* Used for horror in ''Film/{{Videodrome}}'' as Max's ''handgun'' becomes overtly literal later on. There's also a literal handgrenade at one point.
* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'':
** While walking through the Maroon Studios, Eddie sees a group of Toon cows waiting in line for an audition; a literal "cattle call".
** Shortly thereafter, he sees two movers accidentally drop a crate, from which springs a bunch of Toon chairs playing instruments; literally "musical chairs."
** Eddie orders a "scotch on the rocks" from one of the penguin waiters at the Ink & Paint Club, which is staffed by Toons; [[GenreSavvy seeing this joke coming]], he then shouts after the waiter, "And I mean ice!" When the penguin comes back with the order, the glass is full of scotch... and rocks, real ones. "Toons!" Eddie says in disgust.
** Later, in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it example, as Eddie drives into Toontown he runs over a pie with a cow's face on it: a "cow pie."
** Around the end, one of the weasels puts his hand in Jessica's cleavage, only to get caught in a bear trap. Hence Eddie's comment: "[[DoubleEntendre Nice booby trap!]]"
** And when it's revealed that [[spoiler: Judge Doom is a villainous Toon]], he literally "stares daggers" at Eddie.
* ''Film/XMenApocalypse'':
** Quicksilver is in a Music/{{Rush}} T-shirt as he's rushing through the mansion. Later, the words I LOVE RUSH are written on [[spoiler:his cast just above the knee]].
** There are stylized horsemen on Jean Grey's pillow case, and she later has to face the Four Horsemen in battle.
* TheStinger in ''Film/{{Zombeavers}}'' presents the movie's SequelHook as one: One of the infected animals lying in a pool of its own blood is seen, as are various insects buzzing around. The camera then pans up to a beehive. [[spoiler: ZOMBEES!]]
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[[folder:Films — Animation]]
* In the ending of Aardman Animations' ''Stage Fright'' (included on the ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun'' DVD), [[spoiler:just as the villain is killed, he kicks a bucket]].
* ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit'':
** In ''WesternAnimation/AMatterOfLoafAndDeath'', the van has a toaster mounted below the radio and Gromit has set this to do a slice of toast for Wallace's breakfast. It pops out (having been done almost black) and Wallace looks at it.
--->'''Wallace:''' Well done, lad! (''pause'') ''Very'' well done.
** In ''WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit'', [[spoiler:Wallace is the one who transforms into the title creature. When he changes back (losing all of his clothes in the process), Gromit sticks him in a cardboard box [[{{pun}} with a sticker that says "May contain nuts."]]]]
* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'':
** In the first movie, Woody asks Buzz Lightyear to "give me a hand". Buzz throws his (disconnected) arm to him. Woody is not amused.
** And in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'', Buzz tells Rex to "use his head" to open a vent. The next scene involves Rex being used to batter the door down.
--->'''Rex:''' [[UseYourHead But I don't wanna use my heaaaaaaaaaaad!!]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'':
** One scene in the film has twin fangirls Mia and Tia flashing their headlights in front of Lightning [=McQueen.=]
** The ''Cars'' [[WesternAnimation/PixarShorts short toon]] "El Materdor" actually portrayed bulldozers as acting like actual bulls (in the movie said short was based on, the role of bulls were portrayed by farm equipment).
* ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'':
** One of the animals living in Tulgey Woods appears to be a bird with an umbrella for a body. In other words, a ''literal'' umbrellabird.
** Also, the various insects that populate the same area, such as Bread-and-Butterflies, Dog-and-Caterpillars, Rocking-Horseflies, and Copper-Centipedes.
** The Unbirthday Party is chock full of them.
--->'''March Hare:''' (''after cutting a tea cup in half'') Just half a cup, if you don't mind?
** The Queen of Hearts holds court in a garden. It's a court-yard.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Robots}}'':
** When Rodney's parents are "making" him (out of parts), there's the exchange below. Justified in that they're, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin robots]].
--->'''Mr. Copperbottom:''' He's got your mom's eyes and my dad's nose. I knew we were smart to save those parts.
** Before they made the baby, Mr. Copperbottom was unfortunate to miss the delivery (the delivery car had just left) but fortunately for him "[[{{Demographically Inappropriate Humour}} making the baby is the fun part]]".
* In ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'', Shen's nanny is portrayed as an elderly female goat. A female goat is called a nanny.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}'', the Wolf [[AWolfInSheepsClothing disguises himself in sheepskin]] to interview his informant, a sheep named Woolworth, without disturbing the rest of the flock.
* In ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'', at one point Ralph confronts King Candy, who puts on a pair of glasses he pulls out of {{Hammerspace}} and asks "[[YouWouldntHitAGuyWithGlasses You wouldn't hit a guy with glasses]], would you?" Ralph proceeds to pull the glasses off and break them over King Candy's head.
-->'''King Candy:''' You hit a guy... ''with'' glasses... that's, [[ActuallyPrettyFunny that's well played]].
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'':
** The Fenner Brothers (the realtors selling the property Tiana wanted to buy for her restaurant) turn up at a costume party. There, they tell Tiana that she's been outbid, and that "[[DeliberateValuesDissonance a woman of your... background]]" probably wouldn't be able to maintain a high-profile restaurant anyway. All while dressed as a donkey, i.e. a jack-ass.
** Other examples occur throughout the movie. In the first musical number, the line "there's some sweetness goin' around" is accompanied by Tiana dusting pastries with powdered sugar while spun on a lazy susan.
** While in the swamp, Prince Naveen states his parents cut him off "for being a... [[AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption LEECH!]]", and sure enough [[InstantLeechJustFallInWater there's a leech attached to his arm]].
* There was a rather dark one in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}''. When Ursula sings the line "It's she who holds her tongue, who gets her man.", she tosses a human-looking tongue into her cauldron.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'', Prince Derek orders his musicians to dress up as animals so he can have target practice (due to the servants having the day off), and they're not happy about it (even if he is using blunt training arrows). What results is a [[HurricaneOfPuns Hurricane of Visual Puns]], including "This masquerade is more than I can bear!", "I've got the lion's share [of humiliation]," and multiple calls of "{{Duck}}!" only for the duck to ask "What?" and get shot.
* ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs2'' is full of this.
-->'''Flint:''' There's a leek in the boat!!!\\
(''[[AnthropomorphicFood Cut to a walking leek]] sitting in the boat'')
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'': As Anna sings the lines "Tonight, imagine me gown and all -- fetchingly draped against the wall!", she approaches a nearby drape, twirls, wrapping herself up in it, and then dramatically leans against the wall.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'', during his song, Phil complains about getting "the greenhorn" while his horns are actually covered in green olives.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'', there's a literal FreudianSlip: Freud slips on a banana peel.
* Each of the [[AnthropomorphicPersonification personified emotions]] of ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'' is shaped like a humanoid representation of something that evokes that emotion. Joy is a star, Sadness is a teardrop, Disgust a stalk of broccoli, and the purple, spindly Fear? He's a raw nerve. Meanwhile, all of them are taller than Anger: Riley has a short temper.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRainbowRocks'': During the song "Awesome as I Want to Be", a spotlight shines on each of the Rainbooms one by one, which is normal since they're performing on scene. It becomes significant when, in the middle of the song, all the rays of light focus on Rainbow Dash, who is literally stealing the spotlight with her showboating.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'':
** On Judy's first day as a police officer, Chief Bogo says "First, we need to acknowledge the elephant in the room." The audience at first thinks this is referring to Judy herself, but it is actually about a literal elephant; it was her birthday.
** Near the end, three officers are assigned to undercover; the wolf of the group puts on a very convincing sheep costume, making him a literal wolf in sheep's clothing.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoBatmanMovie'', [[spoiler:after a bomb blows up the foundations of Gotham, the minifigures have to use their heads and stick together to save the city. I.E., by sticking the studs on their heads into the holes in other minifigs' feet, they form chains across the cracks in the ground, and pull both halves of Gotham back together]].
* The "Brothers and Sisters" song from ''Literature/{{Franklin}} and the Green Knight'' has the lyrics "''Hey, Franklin, if you get a sister, she'll do the things you do / But when you teach her painting, she'll end up painting you!''" and Franklin being covered by the imagined sister in paint. She painted ''him''.
* A rare sad example from ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'': to symbolize his broken past, the animators decided to make Hector the skeleton ''literally'' broken. Some of his bones are cracked and held together with duct tape, he walks with a heavy limp, his clothing is in tatters, and he comes apart far more readily than the other skeletons. [[spoiler:But in the epilogue, after Miguel heals the family rift and hatred of music, Hector has mended clothes and a straight gait. Now that he is remembered fondly, he's a much healthier skeleton.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'', Homer attempts to use a wrecking ball to free his family from an armored transport, only for it to swing back and hit him. Homer, still on the ball, then ends up getting repeatedly swung back and forth between a rock and a building with a sign reading "A Hard Place".
* ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'':
** The Mayor has two faces, one colorful and cheerful and the other ashen and distressed, that changes depending on his mood. He is literally two-faced.
** Oogie Boogie is a sadistic monster who has a demented casino, sharpshooting slot machines and a torture roulette wheel in his personal lair and thoroughly enjoys hurting and killing others (while preferring to prey on helpless victims and rigging his games to be unfair to them). His motif shows how much Oogie Boogie enjoys gambling with other people's lives.
* In ''WesternAnimation/HerculesPureMagic'', Dionysus says "bottoms up!" while serving nectar. Then, the naken angels responsible for pouring the nectar bend in such a way that their bottoms are literally pointing up.
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[[folder:Music]]
* Many album covers are built around visual puns based on their titles. For example, the cover of ''Music/MovingPictures'', an album by Canadian rock band Music/{{Rush}}, features up to three different puns: a group of men carrying paintings from a museum, as in ''moving'' the ''pictures'', a group of women crying at the sight of the paintings, being ''moved'' by said ''pictures'', and a person filming the whole thing, making a ''moving picture''.
** The cover image of another Rush album, ''Music/PermanentWaves'', also has visual puns related to the title. There is a wave of water, the man is waving his hand, and the fabric of the woman's clothing is waving in the wind; all of these "waves" are permanent because it's a photograph. Also, "permanent wave" is the name for the woman's hairstyle.
* Music/TomLehrer's comedy song "Bright College Days" includes the line "To thee we sing with our glasses raised on high". When performing the song live Lehrer would illustrate the line by removing and holding up his spectacles, a joke unfortunately robbed of impact on recordings.
* In the music video to Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "Fat", there is a section where Al and friends start running in one direction while yelling "Hoooo!"... at which point one of the backup dancers hands Al a hoe.
* The Music/MichaelJackson video "Leave Me Alone" (originally part of ''Film/{{Moonwalker}}'') includes a few scenes that involve dogs wearing business suits. In other words, "corporate dogs".
* Music/Blink182: ''Take Off Your Pants and Jacket'' (already a Punny title) has on its cover a traffic light with a graphic icon in each circle. "Pants" and "jacket" are just literal representations, but the top (red) circle has an aeroplane punning on "take off".
* Music/{{Queensryche}}'s ''Hear In The Now Frontier'': While the "now" part isn't really represented, the cover features ears in jars spread out across, well, an Old West frontier.
* In ''[[Music/KidsPraise Psalty's Singalongathon Maranatha Marathon Hallelujah Jubilee]]'', Psalty's wife trips on a bucket that was left on stage. The bucket's purpose: helping the kids carry a tune.
* The cover of Music/{{REM}}'s ''Lifes Rich Pageant'' is a picture of drummer Bill Berry coupled with a picture of some bison, as a visual pun on "Buffalo Bill". This also qualifies as a StealthPun, since the cover art has nothing to do with the album title, and the actual words "Buffalo Bill" don't appear anywhere else either.
* [[Music/TheWho Roger Daltrey's]] Music/{{Tommy}} Reborn Tour is accompanied by an animation projected onto a screen behind the band. We start with an ovum being fertilized by a sperm, which then turns into a red, white and blue ball, which is then dropped into the eye of a bird, representing Tommy Walker's conception. After Captain Walker goes off to war, various stylized images of a battle field including the Bird!Tommy carrying a Thompson Submachine gun in its feet are seen. That is to say, it has a Tommy gun.
* Music/VanDerGraafGenerator's album ''A Grounding in Numbers'' has a cover illustration of the circuit diagram symbol for "ground" over a background of 0s and 1s.
* Music/BradPaisley plays a guitar with a paisley pattern on it.
* The cover of Music/REOSpeedwagon's "You Can Tune A Piano But You Can't Tuna Fish" shows a fish with a tuning fork in its mouth.
* The cover of Music/BlueOysterCult's ''Agents Of Fortune'' depicts a tuxedo-clad man who's probably meant to be a TuxedoAndMartini spy holding up some tarot cards - thus a (secret) agent of fortune (-telling).
* Music/{{Pavement}}'s video for "Cut Your Hair" involves each of the members waiting in line to get haircuts and having some wacky occurrence happen when they get to the barber's chair. When Mark Ibold approaches the chair, he sneezes out a cat, which he then gives away to the barber - at the time Ibold was also in a band called Free Kitten.
* Music/{{Erasure}}'s "A Little Respect" video is full of visual puns on the song's lyrics: for instance, whenever Andy Bell sings "I'll be forever blue", his face becomes tinted blue, and the word "soul" is represented with a sign from the 1988 summer Olympics in Seoul, and also with soles (as in bottoms of shoes, as well as fish). They even manage to do this with the title drop - as Andy sings "give a little respect to me", he's handed a little sign with the word "respect" on it.
* The cover of Music/{{Squeeze}}'s ''East Side Story'' has the second "e" of the band name in a much smaller font size than the rest of the letters - thus, it looks like that letter is being "squeezed" in the middle of the word.
* The Creator/{{Hipgnosis}} studio frequently created images that were literal interpretations of figures of speech. Some examples:
** Music/PinkFloyd's ''[[http://hipgnosiscovers.com/pinkfloyd/anicepair.html A Nice Pair]]'' used artwork that consisted entirely of visual puns, beginning with the front cover which depicted a nude woman (with a "nice pair" of breasts) holding up a fruit (a "nice pear")."Frog in the throat", "Laughing all the way to the bank", "Fork in the road", etc. (Not to mention the innuendo-laden [[spoiler:"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush"]].)
** Climax Blues Band's ''[[http://hipgnosiscovers.com/climaxbluesband/tightlyknit.html Tightly Knit]]'': "Put a sock in it".
** Capability Brown's ''[[http://hipgnosiscovers.com/capabilitybrown.html Voice]]'': "Zip your lip".
** Prototype's [[http://hipgnosiscovers.com/images/496_prototype_lp_canada_front.jpg self-titled album]]: "A little birdie told me".
** A [[http://hipgnosiscovers.com/images/496_flashes_ad_uk.jpg press ad]] for Roy Harper's ''Flashes from the Archives of Oblivion'' in which the singer praises himself depicts him with a literal swelled head. There's also an illustration of a bull shitting at the bottom of the ad.
** Music/{{UFO}}'s ''[[http://www.hipgnosiscovers.com/ufo/forceit.html Force It]]'' has a cover illustration of a room containing many faucets.
* Music/AliceCooper's ''{{Greatest Hits|Album}}'' had [[http://originalalbumcoverart.com/struzan/alice-cooper-greatest-hits.php artwork referencing The St. Valentine's Day Massacre]], a famous murder of mob associates - thus, it's a play on "hit" as in an assassination.
* Why does {{Music/Mudhoney}}'s ''Piece Of Cake'' cover art include a slice of birthday cake sitting inside a public restroom urinal? Well, one term for a urinal deodorizer block is a "urinal cake".
* Music/{{ACDC}}'s ''Fly On The Wall'': not only does the cover depict an actual fly on an outhouse wall, but the title, which is rendered as carved BathroomStallGraffiti, has a peephole with someone looking in where the "y" would normally be: So, "Fl(eye) On The Wall".
* Leon Russell's ''Hank Wilson's Back, Vol. 1'', recorded under the pseudonym Hank Wilson: The album cover is a collage depicting the artist performing in front of an audience, facing away from the camera. So, in other words, the cover depicts "Hank Wilson's back".
* Music/CledusTJudd parodied Music/TobyKeith's "Red Solo Cup" as "[[BuxomIsBetter Double D Cups]]". The video for his parody features several extras drinking out of red Solo cups in one scene.
* The music video for {{Music/Styx}}'s "Too Much Time On My Hands" involves a watch salesman with a CoatFullOfContraband trying to sell his wares to one of the band members, only for him to roll back his sleeve and reveal he already has over half a dozen watches on his arm.
* The album cover for Music/{{Sparks}}' ''Music/No1InHeaven'' includes a picture of a spark plug in the top right corner.
* In the video for Music/PoetsOfTheFall's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ompevuR1644&list=PLjACqN5i5sDWjx8wkdUyCl4MjctV4SE6o Lift]]," during his psych screening, MadDreamer Mark sometimes retreats to a HappyPlace which takes the form of rooms in a mental house, one of which seems to be an attic [[http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2011/11/crazy.html filled with toys]].
* The original, more well-known cover for Music/TheRollingStones' ''Music/StickyFingers'' (a close-up of jeans with a noticeable bulge and an unzippable fly) was evidently deemed too risque to market in Spain - Spanish listeners got a cover featuring severed fingers inside a can of treacle instead.
* The cover to Donna Summer's single "On The Radio" (as well as a similarly named GreatestHitsAlbum) depicts her sitting on top of a large, old-fashioned radio receiver.
* The cover of ''Meet The Bloody Stools'' by hard rock group The Bloody Stools spared the listener [[IntentionallyAwkwardTitle an actual depiction of what their band name implies]], going with a drawing of bloody ''bar'' stools instead.
* {{Music/Phish}}'s ''Hoist'' has an image of a horse hanging from a pulley on the cover because a WorkingTitle for the album was ''Hung Like A Horse''.
* Methods Of Mayhem's "Get Naked" includes the lyric "ride the cock" - in the music video Lil' Kim is seen riding on a mechanical rooster puppet. MTV censored the lyric but still showed her riding on a literal "cock".
* The Music/SoulAsylum song "Misery" features references to "making misery." The song's video includes footage of a manufacturing plant where the CD single of "Misery" is being manufactured and packaged -- in other words, it's making "Misery."
* The Cantonese pop song "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsim_Sha_Tsui Tsim Sha Tsui]] Suzie" is a bouncy song about a wild party girl in UsefulNotes/HongKong. The lyrics mentions her father "sells salted eggs", [[BlackComedy which may be an euphemism for being dead; and on top of that the video shows her father being a white man, which won't make sense until you know "ghost" is slang for a white person.]]
* The cover of the Music/PaulMcCartney album ''New'' is a stylised version of the album name, in neon. The name of neon means "new".
* John Conlee's SignatureSong is "Rose Colored Glasses". No points for guessing what he wears when he performs the song in concert.
* Foghat's second self-titled album is sometimes referred to as ''Rock n' Roll'' because the cover depicts a rock and a bread roll. Their debut, also self-titled, has an illustration on the back cover of a man wearing a literal "fog hat", as in a hat that's emitting steam (the band name was really just a nonsense term one of the members made up).
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* VisualPun/WesternAnimation

!!Other Examples:

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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In the ''VideoGame/{{Worms}}'' franchise, the animation for skipping a turn is skipping rope.
* In ''VideoGame/Persona4'', Teddie's Persona is named after Kintoki-Douji, a mythological figure who carried a tomahawk. Teddie's Persona carries a Tomahawk missile.
** The ''Megami Tensei'' games also have the rather questionable-looking Mara, whose name translated from its Japanese colloquialism means "Penis." [[http://megamitensei.wikia.com/wiki/Mara You can guess what it is for yourself.]]
*** It also fits the original depiction too; Mara is the name of a demon that tried to "tempt" to Buddha while the latter was meditating. Kazuma Kaneko's depiction of Mara is a penis (sexual temptation)[[note]]Let's try to ignore the tentacles...[[/note]] drawing a chariot (temptation to do aggressive and violent things) made of gold (greed).
** In the original ''Persona'' and ''Persona 2,'' Vice-Principal/Principal Hanya's face is based on a Japanese [[http://www.google.com/images?&q=hannya Hannya]] mask. Luckily enough for the English-language versions, this also gives him an over-the-top SadistTeacher look.
* The ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' box art is a fine example: a dead left hand with 4 fingers (thumb ripped off). The sequel takes it a step further: two of the fingers are bent.
** At one point in the game, in the DLC "Crash Course", you will walk past some very big fuel-holding tanks. One of the survivors, a biker named Francis, will then exclaim: "Look guys, we're passing gas!".
* In ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', as [=GLaDOS=] says "despite your violent behavior", her randomly flashing screens pause on a picture of a violin, and when you destroy the morality core, they flash to a picture of a couple of screws.
** In the post-credits scene of ''VideoGame/Portal2'', [[spoiler: the Space Core can clearly be seen orbiting Wheatley even though they're the same size [[LethallyStupid because he's so dense]]]].
* Prismatology, from ''[[VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Sam and Max]]'' alludes to the phrase "technicolor yawn;" the Gastrokenisis talisman, as well as the cover of "Emetics," is depicted as a man vomiting a rainbow, and it makes other character vomit in technicolor as well.
** Also, there's the subject of [[YouDirtyRat Jimmy Two-Teeth]], a small-time crook and full-time ButtMonkey...
* ''[[VideoGame/AgarestSenki Record of Agarest War]]'' has one enemy named '''[[BiggerIsBetterInBed Jumbo Cock]]'''. [[spoiler: It's a giant rooster!]]
* In ''[[VideoGame/AdvancedVariableGeo Advanced V.G. II]]'', Satomi's taunt animation has her wipe her forehead with the back of her hand. Then shows off by posing with one hand on her hip, while briefly emitting a miniature flame in the palm of her other hand (i.e. she's literally PlayingWithFire).
** Bonus: She's actually mimicking Kyo Kusanagi's taunt pose from ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters''. It's the same pose, except he wags his finger while emitting a miniature flame from the tip of it. So they're both doing it.
* ''VideoGame/ZoneOfTheEnders'' gave us cockpits taken a bit too literally.
* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' has Parsee Mizuhashi, a GreenEyedMonster. Take a wild guess as to what her eye color is.
** Parsee also has a visual StealthPun going on: She's a Persian (''hashihito'') bridge princess (''hashihime'').
* At the end of the ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'' level "Pigsty", after fighting their way through a court room, you find a room containing... wait for it... a hanged jury.
* Olive Specter from ''VideoGame/TheSims2'' is a literal BlackWidow (as in, she's black, not ''[[GiantSpider that]]'' literally).
** The bubble blower makes Sims float after being used for a while. See, they're getting ''high!''
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
** Most levels in the first world of ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii'' have rolling hills, yet a couple of levels take this literally.
** In the original ''VideoGame/{{Super Mario Bros|1}}'' game, Fire Flowers are known as hi-banas in Japanese, and the Japanese word for "fireworks" is hana-bi.
** The three major princesses have [[SymbolMotifClothing motifs]] (Peach/Mushroom, Daisy/Flower, Rosalina/Star) that match the three powerups from the very first game.
* The title of ''VideoGame/{{VVVVVV}}'' doesn't just refer to the six members of Captain Viridian's crew. It also refers to [[SpikesOfDoom your most common obstacle]].
* In ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'', there is one that [[WhatCouldHaveBeen refers to something that was cut from the final game]]. In Hanako's good ending, [[spoiler:the final images involve the camera zooming out from Hanako kissing Hisao until it is looking at the two from the inside of a bakery, with two muffins inside. This was supposed to imply that Hanako became pregnant (having "a bun in the oven") as a result of their having sex, but the scene was revised so that Hisao uses protection, and there is no indication that it failed[[note]]Also, it should be note that scene wouldn't had sense [[WeAreLiveInAmerica in a cultural sense]] since the "bun in the oven" idiom is normally used in English and Spanish-speaking countries, and the game itself take place in Japan[[/note]]]].
* The icon representing the passive Shaman ability, "Mental Quickness" in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' is a picture of a brain running around on little legs.
* While exploring the insides of people's minds and mentalities in ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'', you will find several hatboxes, duffelbags, and purses that all bear sad, sobbing faces. That's right, [[DontExplainTheJoke Emotional Baggage]]!
* The ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'' series is ''made'' of this trope. There's scarcely a scene that goes by without some sort of sight gag. Gnomes ([[VideoGame/QuestForGloryII Keapon Laffin]], [[VideoGame/QuestForGloryIV Punny Bones]] and [[VideoGame/QuestForGloryV Gnome Ann]]) especially are prone to this, and the gags in general are affectionately nicknamed "Silly Clowns" both by the fandom and within the games themselves. The [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Clown himself]] actually cameos in ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryIII''.
* ''VideoGame/SegaSuperstars'':
** In ''[[VideoGame/JetSetRadio Jet Set Radio Future]]'', Professor K describes Gum as "A real cool lady who leaves a trail of broken hearts wherever she goes". In ''Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing Transformed'', Gum's All-Star move involves her ''literally'' leaving a trail of broken hearts on the track.
** In the PC version of ''Transformed'', [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Pyro, Heavy, and Spy]] are playable characters. Spy takes over driving in the plane segments. Notice: Spy Plane.
* In ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheMiracleMask'', Layton's childhood friend Randal Ascot wears an ascot. The Masked Gentleman also has a visual pun, but it's spoilerific: [[spoiler:he's Randal Ascot, and he's ''still'' wearing an ascot]]!
* From ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear Xrd'', we have [[LoveFreak Elphelt Valentine]]. In keeping with the series' rock-and-roll theme, [[Music/GunsNRoses she wields guns and wears a dress decorated with roses]].
* In the Franchise/{{Neptunia}} series, the [=CPUs=]' bust sizes are a play on the relative sizes of their consoles, from [[ACupAngst flat and bitter about it]] [[UsefulNotes/NintendoWii Blanc]] to [[MemeticMutation XBOX HUEG]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Xbox360}} Vert]].
* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'''s Sephiroth is [[TropeNamers THE]] OneWingedAngel. The problem is, ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' already has enough Disney OWA bosses, and ''VideoGame/{{Dissidia|FinalFantasy}}'' would have to stop and load every time he entered [[SuperMode EX Mode]] if they used his Safer form. How do they get around this? Simple: give him a single black angel wing and turn him into ThatOneBoss.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChronicles'' has the Lilties, a race of onion-resembling people who are the greatest knights and fighters in the world with their spears. Some actually fail to notice that it's an entire race making a visual pun on the class of Onion Knights from previous games in the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'':
*** After [[spoiler: Thancred]] is found in the Dravanian Forelands, he regales us with the story of how he escaped [[WhamEpisode the events of ARR's ending]]. Turns out it was due to rare forbidden teleport spell cast by an ally... Which left him lost in the wilds hundreds of malms away, naked and without equipment. During the telling, the player is given a series of still images of his actions, which are only leave the T rating intact due to a well placed squirrel-like creature blocking their view of any naughty bits. Or as the creatures are known in universe: A Nutkin
*** The trailer for the ''Shadowbringers'' expansion features a brief shot of rich and overweight [[CatFolk miqo'te]] lounging around. Literal fat cats.
* ''Intake'' is a puzzle/arcade game where the player shoots at multi-colored capsules to make them explode into glitter. Or, to put it more simply, it's about [[spoiler:"[[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs popping pills]]"]].
* The VideoGame/LEGOAdaptationGame series has a few examples.
** In ''VideoGame/LEGOHarryPotter'', in the Hufflepuff common room, you cast a spell on two pillows and they fight each other.
** In ''VideoGame/LEGOHarryPotter 2'', you have to bring a dying Snape a bucket to see his memories. When he actually dies, he kicks it.
** In ''VideoGame/LEGOTheLordOfTheRings'', when King Theoden says "My body is broken", the legs have literally broken off his minifig.
** In ''VideoGame/LEGOIndianaJones'', there are puzzles you have to solve by getting items from monkeys. Mostly, they're wrenches.
** Literal skeletons in closets are something of a RunningGag of the games, turning up in Indiana Jones, Harry Potter ''and'' Pirates of the Caribbean.
* One of the maps in ''VideoGame/CelDamage'', Shooting Stars, has a shower spout with meteors pouring out of it.
* ''Mishap 2: An Intentional Haunting'' has one which shades heavily into BlackComedy. After Larry Lerpis, aka "The Savage Romeo" fights a wrestling robot built by one of the main characters, he announces that now that he's proven he wasn't just a phony, he can hold his head up high. And since his neck was elongated by the accident which killed him, he proceeds to do exactly that.
* After the abysmal reaction to the original ending of ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', Creator/{{BioWare}} released the [[AuthorsSavingThrow Extended Cut DLC for free]], which contained both new and extended cutscenes plus an epilogue to make the ending make a little more sense. In one such cutscene, Shepard is charging to the beam with their crew when they are hit by Harbinger's laser, causing a nearby Mako armored-personnel carrier to flip over and injure a crew member. Shepard jumps over the wrecked Mako to save that person. In other words, they [[JumpingTheShark jumped the shark]].
* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'', Mistral uses a polearm called L'Etranger. Said polearm is a pole made of robotic ''arms'' linked together, with an arm holding a combat knife at either end.
* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' features two characters that are [[PlayingBothSides responsible for continuing the war between RED and BLU]], The Administrator and Miss Pauling. Guess what color they wear?
** In the Capture the Flag mode, players have to steal briefcases of sensitive documents from each other's base. When a player has a briefcase, some documents will fall off and hang on the floor for a few seconds, letting the enemy team track him down through a very literal "paper trail".
* The ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' series has [[SdrawkcabName Tacs]], small feline enemies dressed like bandits who try to steal your copy ability. They're "cat burglars".
** They also possess the Copy ability. They're Copy-cats.
* In ''VideoGame/MegaMan1'' Cut Man's weakness is Guts Man's weapon, which lets Mega Man throw stone blocks, in a literal case of rock beating scissors.
* ''VideoGame/HauntingStarringPolterguy'': One of the fright 'ems is the family's computer. Its mouse will turn into a huge real mouse.
* [[https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-the-icc-champions-trophy-2017 This]] Google Doodle web game has crickets playing UsefulNotes/{{Cricket}} (in addition to the usual duck pun).
* The Radio/RushLimbaugh boss in ''VideoGame/SocksTheCatRocksTheHill'' literally throws sticks while stones fall onto Socks. This is also a TakeThat at his pro-deforestation views.
* ''VideoGame/Progressbar95'': Occasionally you may find ladybugs in the system menu. Tapping on them brings the message "You found a bug!" and the option "Report it", which gives 2500 after a level. In other words, you're literally finding and reporting "bugs" in the system.
* ''VideoGame/Rockman7EP''
** Freeze Man freezes time as one of his attacks.
** Spring Man's level, "Viva! Spring World!", takes place in a hot spring at springtime.
* Staya, the main antagonist of ''VideoGame/TinkerQuarry'', is a vicious toy dog who makes sure no toys leave the Dollhouse. He's covered in mechanical clock parts, so one could say he's quite literally a "watchdog".
* In ''VideoGame/{{Polyroll}}'', one of the enemies in the computer-themed Digital Mind world is a ram with a RAM stick for a body.
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* The RunningGag in ''Webcomic/OneOverZero''.

* Most levels in the first world of ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii'' have rolling hills, yet a couple of levels take this literally.

* Music/Blink182: ''Take Off Your Pants and Jacket'' (already a Punny title) has on its cover a traffic light. Red = a plane ("Take off"), Yellow = pair of jeans, Green = jacket.

* One example that does translate, if not incredibly accurately, is in the third episode of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''. Kasumi (Misty), who is afraid of bugs, spots a Caterpie, and screams "MUSHI!" (bug). Satoshi (Ash), mishearing her, pops up in a cow suit, and comments "Ushi?" (cow). The English dialogue opted for, after Misty's scream, having Ash (in the cow suit) comment "Maybe it's a... Cow-terpie!."

* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': [[http://garfield.com/comic/1980-01-23 This]] strip featured Frank, a friend of Jon's, meeting Garfield for the first time and rubbing him. Garfield reacted violently and stated "Some people rub me the wrong way".
* ComicStrip/DykesToWatchOutFor #346, before the 2000 election:

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''

* In ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'', a Scotsman walks into a bar. (Scotty bumps his head and knocks himself out.)

* Music/{{Blink182}} ''Take Off Your Pants and Jacket'' (already a Punny title) has on its cover a traffic light. Red = a plane ("Take off"), Yellow = pair of jeans, Green = jacket.

* [[http://4chanarchive.org/images/48232393/1197572170797.jpg This]] little not-very SFW gem from the ImageBoards.

** In part 3 of his review of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames'', he gets mad enough to [[ClusterFBomb start dropping literal F-bombs]].

** WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick's ''Film/{{Showgirls}}'' review has a running gag of censoring the movie's frequent breast shots with, well, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Footed_Booby boobies]].

** In the review of ''The Room'', a picture of a donkey's face is used to {{censor|box}} a shot of... you guessed it, an ass.

* During WebVideo/NecroCritic's review of the {{Fanservice}} anime Call Me Tonight, there is a very suggestive scene of a girl out in the rain with her [[SexySoakedShirt wet, now-transparent clothes clinging to her body]]. Cue Necro enjoying a piece of cheesecake.
* WebVideo/FiveSecondFilms: "[[http://5secondfilms.com/watch/drafty Drafty]]".

* In [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn the Soviet Union]], it was typical to display images of Creator/KarlMarx and UsefulNotes/VladimirLenin [[OurFounder just about everywhere]]. In 1994, the breakaway Republic of Abkhazia issued a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_Marx#/media/File:Marx-Lennon_Abkhazia_stamp.jpg postage stamp]] featuring Creator/{{Marx|Brothers}} and [[Music/JohnLennon Lennon]].

* [[https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-the-icc-champions-trophy-2017 This]] GoogleDoodle web game has crickets playing UsefulNotes/{{Cricket}} (in addition to the usual duck pun).

->''"Don't worry, bro, [[CanonDiscontinuity none of this is canon]]. But this is!"'' (pulls out an actual cannon)

** There is actually a ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' card named "Gyoh!" in Japan; its effect involves Fish-Type monsters and its art depicts a shark bearing down on a surprised monster. The US name, which skirts GettingCrapPastTheRadar, is "[[CurseCutShort Oh F!]][[LastSecondWordSwap sh!]]"

** In ''WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit'', [[spoiler:Wallace is the one who transforms into the title creature. When he changes back (losing all of his clothes in the process), Gromit sticks him in a cardboard box [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar with a sticker that says "May contain nuts."]]]]

** Before they made the baby, Mr. Copperbottom was unfortunate to miss the delivery (the delivery car had just left) but fortunately for him "[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar making the baby is the fun part]]".

* In ''Film/HotShotsPartDeux'', one of the not-Iraqi soldiers is wearing a [[StealingFromTheHotel Holiday Inn towel]] instead of a turban, referring to the [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar "towel-head" slur]].

* Methods Of Mayhem's "Get Naked" includes the lyric "ride the cock" - in the music video Lil' Kim is seen riding on a mechanical rooster puppet. This helped with GettingCrapPastTheRadar - MTV censored the lyric but still showed her riding on a literal "cock".

* A fairly obvious one shows up in ''Pinball/GunsNRoses'', as the left plunger is shaped like a blooming rose, while the right plunger is a pistol gun grip.

** On Judy's first day as a police officer, Chief Bogo says "First, we need to acknowledge the elephant in the room." The audience at first thinks this is referring to Judy herself, but it is actually about a literal elephant.

** An armchair is seen and pieces of fabric start to fly off as swanky music plays. Cut to an entry for "Furniture Stripping".
** We see someone casting a hook on a fishing line offscreen. The person finally hooks a fish and reels it in, only for a football player to pounce on the fish. Cut to an entry for "Fishing Tackle".
** The camera moves past a group of pretentious snobs talking about their FirstWorldProblems and issues. Cut to an entry for "Vanity Cases".
** We see a series of auditioning actors acting out death scenes. Cut to an entry for "Die Casting".
** We see a group of men who all introduce themselves as "Herbert". Cut to an entry for "Herbs" (silent "H").

* Near the end of ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'', three officers are assigned to undercover; the wolf of the group puts on a very convincing sheep costume, making him a literal wolf in sheep's clothing.