puns that you had missed

There's a major fashion franchise here in Australia called Cotton On. It's been around for decades but I only just twigged the other day.

you only just what?

I only just got it!

would you say you... cottoned on?

Indeed I would!

lol

Only just this moment realized that Indiegogo is a play on indigo.

Yeah, I know, I've already scheduled the tests for my brain.

I don't know if it is? why would it be? It's not their brand color or anything

New Power Generation

Like, I only thought of it as the name of a new generation. But power generation is a thing. Maybe it’s even a pun on nuclear power generation.

I had missed the indigo/indiegogo thing too

Purple puns you had missed

Deflatormouse

d'oh!

Ditt'oh!

Omg

!!

Puns that weren't actually there: When I was a kid there was a character on The Tick whose name I was sure was Deflator Mouse. Years later I learned about Die Fledermaus and I was like oh, "Deflator Mouse" from The Tick was a clever pun! Then years after that I was shocked and disappointed to find out his name was actually Die Fledermaus.

Oh, there was I thinking you were all saying it was a pun on Dangermouse.

Thought that for quite a long time as well.

I actually can't believe y'all didn't get that pun.

Yeah I'm an uncultured dullard and even I gottit

Lana Kane from Archer

?

Lana Lane?
Lidocaine?

Lanacane cream for pain

it always killed me that one of the leads in Cool Runnings was "Sanka Coffie"

Isn't Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs's point that it isn't a pun? There is no Tick character called "Deflatormouse", it's a mishearing of Die Fledermaus?

I think silby’s post was about ILX user Deflatormouse

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Puns I didn’t know had been done: Bee Movie.

Mentioned sixteen years ago, just dawned on me today: Adam Ant = adamant.

Because it was in a recent cryptic crossword?

Yesterday was the first time I ever realized that REM's "Begin the Begin" was a play on "Begin the Beguine."

That's one of those in the (to me) interesting class of puns that I heard before I knew the thing it was punning on. My childhood was full of those.

I maintain that the Led Zepplin song title "D'yer Mak'er" should be pronounced "do your maker" and, as a result, the pun doesn't make any sense

It works best if you're from the *Black Country.

(*that's one for US ILXors to unravel)

Not a pun, exactly, but I was for some reason thinking about the movie Pretty Woman the other day, and realized for the first time that the title is a variation on My Fair Lady. I knew the movie itself was, but I'd missed the joke in the title.

Aha.

Oooh

Wait till you find out about the pun in "My Fair Lady"

omg

Heavens above!

One that predates the musical, given its appearance in London Bridge Is Falling Down?

omg x2

Lerner settled on the title My Fair Lady, relating both to one of Shaw's provisional titles for Pygmalion, Fair Eliza, and to the final line of every verse of the nursery rhyme "London Bridge Is Falling Down". Recalling that the Gershwins' 1925 musical Tell Me More had been titled My Fair Lady in its out-of-town tryout, and also had a musical number under that title, Lerner made a courtesy call to Ira Gershwin, alerting him to the use of the title for the Lerner and Loewe musical

Seems to be implying the pun was coincidental but I'm certain Alan Jay Lerner spotted it.

idgi. “Mayfair Lady”?

That's it.

A sort of (cartoonish) version of how a Cockney might say Mayfair, specifically.

Dick Van Dyke style.

I get it but still don't get it. What's a "Mayfair" and why would someone say that, at least in the context of this film?