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2020-11-17 08:32:53
This type of joke is also covered in Bait-and-Switch Comment and Cue Card... Pause.

It’s usually a lyric trope but it can show up elsewhere too. The melody places the word “but” in a position where it sounds like “butt.”
For example, the Bob Seeger classic “I do respect her but... I love to watch her strut.” The novelty song, “She’s got freckles on her BUT she’s nice.”
And by weird coincidence I’m currently watching an old Match Game rerun, and even while I was typing this, Charles Nelson Reilly just did it. He was asked to complete “Pain ___.” He responded, “Well, I was going to say pain in the but I changed it to pain pills.”
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Edited by BradyLady