History VisualPun / WesternAnimation

* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaWorldTour'': The challenge in one episode involves carrying giant apples from the middle of a pond to shore. When Tyler has trouble doing this, Alejandro tells him to "use his head". Cue Tyler headbutting the apple across the pond.

** In "[[Recap/ThreeTwoOnePenguinsS2E412AngryHens 12 Angry Hens]]", Midgel stops the ship due to an actual fork floating in outer space.

* In the ''Westernanimation/{{Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers}}'' episode "Double O'Chipmunk" Dale, after his devices wreck the Ranger HQ, in shown wearing only a bowtie, like a {{Chippendales dancer|s}}.

--> '''Truffles:''' Stupid visual puns!
** In “My Big Fat Stinky Wedding”, Chowder tries to stop Kimchi’s wedding, but ends up staying all night building a pony ride. And when morning comes:
--> '''Chowder:''' Oh, no. The sun rising!
--> (cue the sun rising out of a gorge and attacking a group of warriors)

** In "Petey IV", Peter finds a Russian bootleg of ''Film/RockyIV'' and says that it's better than nothing. Cut to a gray background with literally nothing saying "Hey!", offended by Peter's comment.

* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'': In one episode Roy buys a voice-activated weather-summoning robot, which starts interpreting all of Roy's insults ("I said ''rain'', you bucket of bolts!") as requests for the items in question to fall from the sky. Roy finds himself on the receiving end of a bucket of bolts and an overgrown vacuum cleaner before he starts running... and narrating. "It's driving me up a ''tree''! I have to get somewhere ''safe''!"

* ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' is full of them. In one scene, someone tells Mickey "The crowd's turning ugly" and there's a cut to the Queen from ''WesternAnimation/{{Snow White|AndTheSevenDwarfs}}'' turning into the old witch disguise and [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Prince Adam turning back into the beast]].

* ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'': "Cellphone-itis", Beezy, going through cell phone withdrawal, says he's cracking up. His body then breaks like glass and falls, in pieces, on the ground. A similar moment happens in the episode "Scent of a Heinous" where Samy, panicking about Lucius possibly humiliating himself on TV, says he's having a meltdown. He then melts into a pile of green sludge.

* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', a Huell Howser {{Expy}} falls off the back of a turnip truck. The saying "I didn't fall off the back of a turnip truck" is roughly the equivalent of "I wasn't born yesterday".
** In "Lisa the Vegetarian", after being laughed out of Homer's barbecue by offering a meatless alternative, Lisa pouts in her room that they don't have to rub their eating meat in her face. Guess what flies through her window and where it lands.
** In "Please Homer, Don't Hammer Em'", when Marge finds out that someone at Springfield Elementary (later revealed to be Principal Skinner) has a life-threatening peanut allergy and all peanut products are no longer allowed on school property, she makes Bart empty his lunchbox of all peanut products. After taking out a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a bag of trail mix, she exclaims, "Good Grief, More Peanuts!" as she takes out a copy of [[Franchise/{{Peanuts}} the book of the same name]].

** "Plankton!" -- When Plankton takes control of [=SpongeBob=]'s brain and makes him walk into his kitchen, [=SpongeBob=] says "Time for a well-balanced breakfast." He walks through the wall and out through the fridge with a loaf of bread, a jug of milk and a carton of eggs balanced on his head and adds "This isn't what I had in mind."
** Also from "Plankton!":

** "Survival of the Idiots" -- Trapped in Sandy's treedome during winter, [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick shave off her fur to keep themselves warm, only for it to immediately turn to spring. When she sees what happened and is rightfully pissed, [=SpongeBob=] assures her that they've "got her covered". Cut to [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick wrapped around Sandy to keep her warm until her fur grows back.
** "Squid on Strike" -- When instructed to make a picket sign, [=SpongeBob=] makes two visual puns: the first being a part of an actual picket fence and the second being the image of someone picking their nose, a "pick-it" sign.
** "No Weenies Allowed" -- [=SpongeBob=] calls out Sandy for a karate challenge. She appears from the sand and grabs him with the lines "Oh, I'm Sandy alright. I'm very Sandy." And [=SpongeBob=] gets the joke while ''flying'' in the air!
** Another "sandy" example, this time from "Ripped Pants":
--->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' Hey, Sandy! Look! ''[covered in a mound of sand]'' I'm Sandy!
** In "The Algae's Always Greener" where Krabs flicks tiny Plankton back to the Chum Bucket, he yells, "So long, shrimp!" An actual shrimp is then seen exiting the Krusty Krab.

** In "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy V", Barnacle Boy gets sick of being an unrespected sidekick and decides to become evil. He then announces that he's crossing over [[FaceHeelTurn to the dark side]]. Zoom out to show half of the Krusty Krab that's pitch-dark. When everyone stares at Mr. Krabs, this is his response:

** In "Clams" after Mr. Krabs is crying over the loss of his dollar [=SpongeBob=] says "I've never seen Mr. Krabs so broken up" right before his body appears to be in pieces.
** In the episode "I'm With Stupid", Patrick receives a note (cue paper with a musical note on it). On the other side, there's a letter on it (cue flip; other side has a giant letter "B" on it). He also got a message from his parents.
** In the episode "New Leaf" Mr. Krabs tells his employees to keep their "eyes peeled". You can guess how [=SpongeBob=] interprets this.

** In "The Bully", Mrs. Puff tells the class to "put on a happy face" for the new student. Cut to the class all wearing smiling masks.
** In "Something Smells", Patrick tells [=SpongeBob=] he needs to "Get this thing off your chest" in order to feel better. Cut to a pulsating purple creature attached to [=SpongeBob=]'s chest.
** In "Imitation Krabs" [=SpongeBob=] remarks that "As long as these pants are square, and this sponge is Bob, I will not let you down!" We then see him holding Mr. Krabs over his head and Mr. Krabs asks if he could please let him down.
** In "Krusty Krushers" the champion wrestlers put [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick in a sleeper hold, which involves rocking the two to sleep like babies.
** In "Sailor Mouth" Patrick imagines himself with 40 eyelashes after [=SpongeBob=] says that Mr. Krabs will give them "40 lashes".
** In "Sun Bleached" [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick tell Craig Mammleton they are putting on coats of sunscreen to stay protected from the sun, and the time comes to put on another coat. They literally make coats, as in outwear, out of sunscreen and put them on, along with a top hat and walking stick to match.
** In "Sportz?", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick's idea of kickboxing involves them punching each other with boxing gloves on their feet.
** In "Sleepy Time", when [=SpongeBob=] disguises himself as a thumbtack and Plankton [[AgonyOfTheFeet steps on him]], causing himself to shrink back to his normal size, [=SpongeBob=] delivers the following line: "I think he's got the point!"
* In the first episode of the 2003 ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake'' series, Strawberry sees Angel Cake to get a birthday cake for Apple Dumplin. The second cake she offers is a sponge cake that she says is very moist. When she sets it down on the table, water gushes out of it.
* There is an old [[WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons MGM cartoon]], "WesternAnimation/SymphonyInSlang", about a just-deceased [[JiveTurkey zoot-suited hipster]] arriving at the Pearly Gates and explaining to St. Peter his life story... largely in slang from TheFifties, which Peter can't understand at all. St. Peter enlists Noah Webster to sort out the man's speech, but Webster is almost as clueless, and the action is displayed on screen [[HurricaneOfPuns as if these phrases were literally true]]. For example, to explain his brief stint as a short-order cook at an understaffed diner where he was fired for subpar performance, the hipster says he got a job slinging hash (he grabs handfuls of hash from a pile and throws them aside), as the boss was short-handed (his hands are directly attached to his shoulders), but he couldn't cut the mustard (he tries to cut a pool of mustard with a knife), so the boss gave him the gate (straight from a picket fence).

** In the climax of the song "Nothing Left to Lose" from "Cassandra's Revenge", [[OrbitalShot the camera rotates]] around Varian and Cass in the line "You can't stop the turning of the screws."
** When Rapunzel is reciting the Hope Incantation to defeat Cassandra, we get an ExtremeCloseUp of her eyes glowing gold when she says, "Restore our fading sight."
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' did one that crosses over with CurseCutShort: Johnny Rancid is taunting Robin about his dog "kicking your a--", cut off when he's struck from off-screen by a pair of hooves. The camera angle reverses to reveal Beast Boy, who has turned into a donkey.
* One challenge in an episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama World Tour]]'' involves carrying giant apples from the middle of a pond to shore. When Tyler has trouble doing this, Alejandro tells him to "use his head". Cue Tyler headbutting the apple across the pond.
* A ''[[WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines Wing Dings]]'' installment has Klunk asking the rest of the Vulture Squadron if they're going to the barn dance. He points to a barn with arms and legs, dancing.
* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Trucktown}}'', one of the characters, Max, is a literal monster truck with four eyes and an OverlyLongTongue where none of the other SentientVehicle characters possess those traits.

** Same with Cuba's ''WesternAnimation/LaCalabacita''.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' did one that crosses over with CurseCutShort: Johnny Rancid is taunting Robin about his dog "kicking your a--", cut off when he's struck from off-screen by a pair of hooves. The camera angle reverses to reveal Beast Boy, who has turned into a donkey.

** In "Please Homer, Don't Hammer Em'", when Marge finds out that someone at Springfield Elementary (later revealed to be Principal Skinner) has a life-threatening peanut allergy and all peanut products are no longer allowed on school property, she makes Bart empty his lunchbox of all peanut products. After taking out a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a bag of trail mix, she exclaims, "Good Grief, More Peanuts!" as she takes out a copy of [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} the book of the same name]].

** Another "sandy" example, this time from "Ripped Pants"

* ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'': In the climax of the song "Nothing Left to Lose" from "Cassandra's Revenge", [[OrbitalShot the camera rotates]] around Varian and Cass in the line "You can't stop the turning of the screws."

** "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbTreeToGetReady Tree To Get Ready]]": Candace remarks on "all the bells and whistles!" in her new treehouse while she and Stacy pass a wall lined with bells and whistles.

* ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'': In the climax of the song "Nothing Left to Lose" from "Cassandra's Revenge", the camera rotates around Varian and Cass in the line "You can't stop the turning of the screws."

* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'': In "Driving Mrs. Wolfe", Rocko is teaching his friend Mrs. Wolfe how to drive and tells her to "always follow the road signs". The first sign they come upon is "SLOW CHILDREN PLAYING" and sure enough, two children are in the middle of the road playing very slowly.

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': The ''Justice League Unlimited'' episode "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS2E13Epilogue Epilogue]]" used one to do a ShoutOut to another cartoon. Remember the Royal Flush Gang in that episode? Now, remember how one of them was a samurai, complete with Kabuki samurai costume? That's the Jack of the gang. And to make the pun more obvious, when he lost his powers, his real form closely resembled ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' voice actor, Creator/PhilLaMarr. Also, Ten had prehensile cornrows and resembled Creator/BoDerek (from the movie ''Film/{{Ten}}''), Queen reverted to a large ''man'' after the group lost their powers (i.e. he was a drag queen), and King resembled M.O.D.O.K. (a character created by Jack "The King Of Comics" Kirby).

* One sketch featured a brief shot of [[Series/DoctorWho the 4th Doctor]] playing baseball.

--->'''Mandie:''' Prepare to meet your doom! *Holds up a sausage* MEAT?!\\

--->'''Timmy:''' (''to his mom, who is ignoring him'') Uh, you're still mad at me and dad for not listening, aren't you?\\

(''Timmy's right shoulder freezes'')
** The one time it's not Cosmo & Wanda it's A.J.'s dad that invokes a visual pun by installing a parental block on the TV, which appears as an actual block with the words "Parental Block" on the screen.

(''cut to Norton in an acute position'')

(''Stitch launches a large television at Gantu'')\\

--->'''Bugs:''' (''out of breath from climbing all that way'') I shoulda picked the lower court. I'm bushed.

--->'''Daffy:''' Where does he get that stuff? Where does he get that stuff? He can't do that to me! I've got a sheepskin! (''pulls out an actual sheep's skin'') I've got a license! (''pulls out a license plate reading [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare "2B]] [[Theatre/{{Hamlet}} or not 2B"]]'') I'll get a patient of my own! So there!

** ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgersInTheTwentyFourthAndAHalfCentury'': Daffy instructs his space cadet (Porky Pig) to wipe the smile off his face and to get the lead out. Cue the cadet literally doing both, which is the last straw for Daffy.
** ''Yankee Doodle Daffy'': Besides the "screwball" pun, Sleepy Lagoon[[note]]the "client" that "actor's agent" Daffy is representing.[[/note]] also pulls out pictures that call Daffy a "ham" (a picture of ham[[note]]As in the meat.[[/note]], and his Creator/CarmenMiranda impersonation act "corn"y (a picture of a corn-on-the-cob).

** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E12CallOfTheCutie "Call of the Cutie"]] has a scene with a close-up of Apple Bloom, who is feeling depressed, when Rainbow Dash sticks her head into the audience's view:

(''the camera pulls back, revealing the dark cloud that was hovering just a couple feet above Apple Bloom'')
** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E14SuitedForSuccess "Suited for Success"]]: During Rarity's first fashion show, Hoity Toity says Rarity's designs were "a piled-on mishmash of everything but the kitchen sink." [[KitchenSinkIncluded Cut to Rarity kicking a kitchen sink away behind the curtains.]]
** The kitchen makes a return appearance amongst Spike's pile of ill-gotten gains in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E10SecretOfMyExcess Secret of My Excess]]" and among the stuff Sweetie Belle uses to [[ItMakesSenseInContext bar Cheerilee from leaving the dressing room]] in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E17HeartsAndHoovesDay Hearts and Hooves Day]]". It returns yet again, but this time in the Pie family's possession in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E9PinkieApplePie "Pinkie Apple Pie"]]. During the song, one of Pinkie's lines is "The love I feel here is swim, not sink" Cue Pinkie throwing a sink out of the kart.
** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E15FeelingPinkieKeen "Feeling Pinkie Keen"]]: Twilight stops to give a speech about the difference between magic and the Pinkie Sense -- after literally stepping up onto a soapbox that happens to be nearby.
** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E21OverABarrel "Over a Barrel"]]: During Braeburn's tour of Appleloosa, he points out the horse-drawn carriages, then immediately mentions "horse-drawn horse-drawn carriages" as the camera cuts to several artists sketching out the horse-drawn carriages.
** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E24MysteryOnTheFriendshipExpress "MMMystery on the Friendship Express"]]: The griffon chef uses a DramaticSpotlight to show off his eclairs, but suddenly he is shown holding a lamp, which he throws away.
** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E5MagicDuel "Magic Duel"]]: Trixie turns Spike into a Franchise/DragonBall.

** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 "Twilight's Kingdom -- Part 1"]]:

---->'''Pinkie Pie:''' (''stretching Twilight's lower jaw'') Why the loooooong face?

*** Cadence sings "Soon will come the day it turns around" while the camera orbits around Twilight.

--->'''Plankton:''' Brace yourself, [=SpongeBob=], this is my lab! (''labrador retriever barks'') And this is my LABORATORY!

--->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' Hey, Sandy! Look! ''(covered in a mound of sand)'' I'm Sandy!

'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' Whatever you say, cap'n. (''literally peels his eyelids'')\\
'''Mr. Krabs:''' (''impressed'') Now that's an employee who follows orders.

* There is an old [[WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons MGM cartoon]], ''WesternAnimation/SymphonyInSlang'', about a just-deceased [[JiveTurkey zoot-suited hipster]] arriving at the Pearly Gates and explaining to St. Peter his life story... largely in slang from TheFifties, which Peter can't understand at all. St. Peter enlists Noah Webster to sort out the man's speech, but Webster is almost as clueless, and the action is displayed on screen [[HurricaneOfPuns as if these phrases were literally true]]. For example, to explain his brief stint as a short-order cook at an understaffed diner where he was fired for subpar performance, the hipster says he got a job slinging hash (he grabs handfuls of hash from a pile and throws them aside), as the boss was short-handed (his hands are directly attached to his shoulders), but he couldn't cut the mustard (he tries to cut a pool of mustard with a knife), so the boss gave him the gate (straight from a picket fence).

* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' has the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iauuuhpSfRQ Le Wrath di Khan]]" sketch, which is ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' as a musical sung in Italian. A SpaceOpera, if you will.

--> ‘’’Truffles:’’’ Stupid visual puns!"

—-> ’’’Chowder:’’’ “Oh, no. The sun rising!
‘’[cue the sun rising out of a gorge and attacking a group of warriors]’’

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** [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 "Twilight's Kingdom - Part 1"]]:

-—-> ‘’’Truffles:’’’ Stupid visual puns!"

—-> ‘’’Truffles:’’’ Stupid visual puns!"

—-> ‘’’Chowder:’’’ Oh, no. The sun rising!

** Another scene also counts as a LampshadeHanging from Truffles; when an extremely hot day comes along, Chowder asks why they don't turn on the Air Conitioner, when Truffles says it's because they have ''a corn-dish-oner''. Cut to a scene of a strange washing-machine like thing dishing out corn. Truffles follows this up with "stupid visual puns!"

** "[[Recap/TheCriticS2E3ASongForMargo A Song for Margo]]": An interview with [[Creator/OJSimpson O.J.] reports that her refuses too speak, before the shot changes to focus on a pitcher of orange juice.

* There is an old [[WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons MGM cartoon]], ''WesternAnimation/SymphonyInSlang'', about a just-deceased [[JiveTurkey zoot-suited hipster]] arriving at the Pearly Gates and explaining to St. Peter his life story... largely in slang from TheFifties, which Peter can't understand at all. St. Peter enlists Noah Webster to sort out the man's speech, but Webster is almost as clueless, and the action is displayed on screen [[HurricaneOfPuns as if these phrases were literally true]].

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague': The ''Justice League Unlimited'' episode "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS2E13Epilogue Epilogue]]" used one to do a ShoutOut to another cartoon. Remember the Royal Flush Gang in that episode? Now, remember how one of them was a samurai, complete with Kabuki samurai costume? That's the Jack of the gang. And to make the pun more obvious, when he lost his powers, his real form closely resembled ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' voice actor, Creator/PhilLaMarr. Also, Ten had prehensile cornrows and resembled Creator/BoDerek (from the movie ''Film/{{Ten}}''), Queen reverted to a large ''man'' after the group lost their powers (i.e. he was a drag queen), and King resembled M.O.D.O.K. (a character created by Jack "The King Of Comics" Kirby).

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': In Book 3, Zuko runs into Suki on the way to Sokka's tent. Suki slips away, and Zuko enters Sokka's tent. [[ReadyForLovemaking Sokka was expecting...someone else.]] Zuko leaves, and Sokka calls for Suki. The next morning, Sokka is playing with a [[StealthPun flower necklace]] ([[FantasyCounterpartCulture not dissimilar to]] a ''Hawaiian'' flower necklace). He got leied. (And if you're assuming that Suki gave it to him, then Suki got [[HurricaneOfPuns de-flowered]].)