soft cell = soft sell
― Οὖτις, Monday, 9 January 2017 17:50 (nine years ago)
I don't think Sesame Street/Seed is a thing
― Number None, Monday, 9 January 2017 17:55 (nine years ago)
yeah me neither
― Οὖτις, Monday, 9 January 2017 17:56 (nine years ago)
http://i.imgur.com/fIzu3Ze.jpg
^ Descartes
― Wes Brodicus, Monday, 9 January 2017 18:19 (nine years ago)
xpost it's definitely why the name of the show "works" even if it's basically subliminal
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 9 January 2017 18:20 (nine years ago)
Not a pun exactly, but watching live action 101 Dalmatians movie with my kid, and never realized that the name "De Ville" has both devil and evil in it! (EVIL was Cruella's license plate.) I just thought of the Cadillac model.
― Snorting and all (Dan Peterson), Monday, 9 January 2017 18:34 (nine years ago)
I just now got this and am feeling pretty stupid.
I just spent way too long trying to figure out the pun in the band name Arrested Development
― ¶ (DJP), Monday, 9 January 2017 18:35 (nine years ago)
idgi
― Οὖτις, Monday, 9 January 2017 18:38 (nine years ago)
The television show Arrested Development is about a family whose patriarch has been arrested over shady dealings in his housing development.
― ¶ (DJP), Monday, 9 January 2017 18:42 (nine years ago)
Saul Goodman = "S'all good, man!"
― flappy bird, Monday, 9 January 2017 18:44 (nine years ago)
lol, sorry DJP. I should have specified.
― how's life, Monday, 9 January 2017 18:45 (nine years ago)
Definitely feel that Sesame Street is based more on an "Open Sesame" type reveal, street/seed don't rhyme... and yet, gotta think there's something there.
― pplains, Monday, 9 January 2017 18:47 (nine years ago)
In the TV series Arrested Development, one of the main characters is a crooked real estate developer whom the cops want to arrest, but it's also a series about immature adults.
― Tuomas, Monday, 9 January 2017 18:48 (nine years ago)
xp to flappy bird:
That always makes me think of this, which was in the video store I worked at 15 years ago.
http://www.dvd-covers.org/d/76744-3/211solgoode_scan_hires.jpg
(pronounced "good")
― how's life, Monday, 9 January 2017 18:49 (nine years ago)
Xmessage
― Tuomas, Monday, 9 January 2017 18:49 (nine years ago)
Sol Goode (pronounced 'good')
― kinder, Monday, 9 January 2017 21:34 (nine years ago)
Funny thing is Goode is supposed to rhyme with "dude".
― pplains, Monday, 9 January 2017 22:07 (nine years ago)
this may be a stretch, but is 'blowing session' (in reference to jazz records) a double entendre? for me it evokes
(1) a roomful of top jazz dudes exuberantly jamming away on their horns with little artistic direction, really showing off their chops but tending toward self-indulgence
(2) a roomful of top jazz dudes exuberantly sucking each other's (and their own?) dicks with little artistic direction, really showing off their chops but tending toward self-indulgence
but maybe that's just wishful thinking idk
― I Ville Valo HIM (unregistered), Thursday, 30 March 2017 22:55 (nine years ago)
Bit of a reacharound
― virginity simple (darraghmac), Thursday, 30 March 2017 23:03 (nine years ago)
On Rotten Tomatoes, "Weekly Ketchup" = "Weekly Catch-up".
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 02:30 (nine years ago)
Doc Hollywood as a pun on Doc Holliday
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Friday, 28 April 2017 15:57 (nine years ago)
http://www.hiphopslam.com/bj/online_photos_2014/wfmu-1.jpg
― Jay Elettronica Viva (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 28 April 2017 15:59 (nine years ago)
Anna Domino <-> anno domini
― the baby grew up to be a secessful kid (unregistered), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 17:21 (eight years ago)
Ari Up = Hurry up, yes?
― "Celebration" encourages the listener to celebrate good times. (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 20:32 (eight years ago)
yes
― Number None, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 20:37 (eight years ago)
Not a pun but today I realized that maybe Mike Jones repeated his lines all the time to emulate the "chopped" parts of chopped and screwed records?
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 23:14 (eight years ago)
I just had 3/4s running through my head for some reason this afternoon when I started thinking about the alternative country band. Is it supposed to be a numerical pun or not.Been a long time since I listened to them
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 23:30 (eight years ago)
Sorry Freakwater, Janet Beveridge Bean etc.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 23:31 (eight years ago)
Meta: It just now, after 7 or so years on ILX, dawned on me what "Alfred, Lord Sotosyn" is a pun on
― .oO (silby), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 23:08 (eight years ago)
Oh yeah
― Alba, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 03:49 (eight years ago)
I mean, I still don't know what sotosyn is but I guess that doesn't matter
― Alba, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 03:51 (eight years ago)
Last name Soto, I believe.
― nickn, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 04:52 (eight years ago)
A ha
― Alba, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 07:01 (eight years ago)
sotosyn thesis
― imago, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 07:58 (eight years ago)
Fats Domino/Chubby Checker
(just saw it on Twitter, never made the connection until just now)
― nate woolls, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 15:30 (eight years ago)
I only know that becauseThings you were shockingly old when you learned
― kinder, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 15:38 (eight years ago)
You've lost me there.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Wednesday, 25 October 2017 15:38 (eight years ago)
*slaps forehead*
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 25 October 2017 15:48 (eight years ago)
Both ripping off little-known ragtime artist Hefty Mahjong, of course.
― The Wetting Planner (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 25 October 2017 15:53 (eight years ago)
^^^ A+. (Even better if read in the voice of Seymour from Ghost World.)
― Christopher Futterwacken (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 25 October 2017 16:11 (eight years ago)
Donnie Trumpet
― niels, Thursday, 14 December 2017 14:59 (eight years ago)
"Tom Nook" is a pun on "tanuki"
― .oO (silby), Friday, 15 December 2017 23:05 (eight years ago)
the mighty mighty bosstones - 'bosstones' -> 'boston' (b/c they're from boston)
― 龜, Thursday, 28 December 2017 22:23 (eight years ago)
Mash Report is a pun on Match Report
― koogs, Thursday, 18 January 2018 22:10 (eight years ago)
The Silence of the Lambs is about Hannibal the cannibal
― StanM, Sunday, 25 February 2018 21:42 (eight years ago)
and I only found out because I saw this: https://i.imgur.com/Q24OqJt.png
― StanM, Sunday, 25 February 2018 21:47 (eight years ago)
What
― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Sunday, 25 February 2018 22:08 (eight years ago)
Are you whatting Stan or the fact?
― Alba, Monday, 26 February 2018 09:25 (eight years ago)
Stan!
― Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, 26 February 2018 09:57 (eight years ago)
I think I missed this pun till a few years ago. In my defence, I've never seen or read Silence of the Lambs.
― Alba, Monday, 26 February 2018 10:09 (eight years ago)