Double Meaning Gag

At least he has more confidence.

"Now different lives I lead
My body lives on lead
The last two lines may read
Incorrect until said"

— Twenty One Pilots, "Chlorine"

Some words have multiple meanings, such as how "like" can mean both "enjoy" and "similar to", and "cry" can mean both "weep" and "shout". These are also a rich source of comedy.

Perhaps someone who's dumb, Literal-Minded, or doesn't speak the local language gets one definition of the word confused for another (perhaps overlapping with Comically Missing the Point), or someone deliberately gets the definition wrong as Literalist Snarking. Maybe a different definition is used than the one most people would expect, perhaps as a Bait-and-Switch for instance someone might be said to be playing with a bat, and it turns out to be the animal. Or perhaps, two definitions are used together, like a fly (as in the insect) wearing pants with a fly (as in a zipper).

Subtropes:

Alternate Character Reading: In some foreign languages such as Japanese, one character can have two or more meanings depending on how it's read, which is ripe for puns.
"Balls" Gag: Puns on the word "balls" meaning "male gonads" as well as several other meanings.
Computer Viruses Are Computer Illnesses: Computer viruses are likened to diseases.
Double-Meaning Title: A word in the title has two meanings.
Duck!: A command to duck is confused with the bird known as a duck.
Indians and Indians: Puns on the word "Indian" meaning both someone who's actually from India, and a Native American.
Literally Going Bananas: Bananas, as in the fruit, signify someone being bananas, as in insane.
Literal Money Metaphor: Someone wishes for money using a slang word like "bucks" or "dough", and gets the word's literal definition instead.
Metaphoric Metamorphosis
Police Pig: Anthropomorphic pigs work as police, as a pun on how "pig" is slang for police.

Subtrope of Pun and, of course, Double Meaning. Compare Fun with Homophones and Ambiguous Syntax. Can overlap with Double Entendre or Heh Heh, You Said "X" if one of the meanings is dirty, and Toilet Humour if one of the meanings is bathroom-related. Compare Who's on First?, for when a name that sounds like a word is confused for the word. Can overlap with The Internet Is an Ocean if there are plays on the word "surf", Separated by a Common Language or Have a Gay Old Time if played for laughs, Exact Words, Literal Metaphor, Visual Pun, The Problem with Pen Island, In My Language, That Sounds Like..., Multiple Reference Pun, That Came Out Wrong, Punctuation Changes the Meaning, and Pun-Based Creature.

Examples:

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Advertising

One Thai Health Promotion Foundation PSA titled "Wat" drives home the importance of medical checkups by showing an old lady getting dressed to go to the temple (the common meaning of wat) while repeatedly stating she likes to go there. However, it turns out she's going to the hospital for a checkup (the other meaning of wat).
A radio advert about not parking on red lines in London makes a pun on the word "jam"^note.
Today, we're going to make a jam. You'll need ingredients, so get yourself down the shops. You can park your car on a double red line. Now, this is the important part: stay there, get those horns blazing, and there: you've created a good old needless jam. People can't help but get stuck in.

Anime & Manga

Asteroid in Love:
- In the first episode of the English dub, Ao's Open Mouth, Insert Foot moment that eventually caused her to develop social anxiety involves her describing the summer weather using the words "hot" and "wet", which can also imply sexual arousal, so her classmates tease her for being "dirty":
  Ao: So hot... Anybody feel it's super wet today?
  Classmate A: I think "humid" is the word you're looking for?
  Classmate B: [yelling to the rest of the classroom] Hey, guys! Ao just said something really dirty!
- When the rest of the Earth Sciences Club discusses the news of Mai having signed up for the this year's qualifiers for the International Earth Science Olympiad, Mira, who has up to this point only knows the word "olympiad" in the context of Olympic Games, falls into an Imagine Spot about earth-science-themed sport competitions. Mikage has to clarify that the IESO has nothing to do with sports, followed by a brief introduction of what it is.
  Mira: And they only hold it every 4 years, so I'll just have to wait! I wonder what kind of sporting events are even in an Earth Science Olympiad.
  Mikage: Sporting events? It's not for sports.
  Mira: Are you serious? But, it's called an olympiad, so I assumed it was sports.
  Mikage: You know what they say about assuming...
Case Closed: Played for tragedy in a case where a foreigner falls in love with a Shrinking Violet who has an abusive family. When he leaves Japan, they keep in touch via letters where he becomes aware the abuse has gotten worse, and eventually he learns she has committed suicide. After he is arrested for killing her abusive family members, Conan explains the true reason the girl took her own life: his last letter to her tried to reassure her of her value by telling her "you shine". Unfortunately, due to his limited command of Japanese, he was unaware it could be read "shi ne" (し　ね) meaning "die", so she read what he wrote as "you (should) die". Despairing that even the man she'd fallen in love with saw her as worthless, the girl killed herself. The revelation shatters the man. ^note
Tamagotchi!: In Tamagotchi! Yume Kira Dream, Spacytchi accidentally enrolls in Dream School's fashion class when he wants the conquest of Tamagotchi Planet, because the Japanese words for "uniform" and "conquest" are both seifuku (制服 for the former and 征服 for the latter) and he's too young to be taken seriously as a bad guy. In the later GO-GO Tamagotchi!, he attempts to start a club for world domination at DoriTama School, but Principal Omen assumes he means a uniform club based on the same pun. Spacytchi rectifies that by writing on the door to the club's room, changing the personality of the door, which is sapient.
Yo Kai Watch: In Pupsicle's debut episode, Katie slaps herself on the rear and says, "Butt out of the way!" in the Japanese version. The English dub bowdlerises this by keeping the shot of her bent over at the waist and having her say, "Well, I've got a hunch you're right."

Asian Animation

Pucca: In "Full Moon Pucca", Pucca steals the moon. Tobe sees this and asks one of his lackeys, "Is that girl mooning us?" as a pun on Mooning.

Comedy

The Clarke & Dawe skit "General Knowledge" has Brian giving John's character a Mastermind style quiz with the chosen subject of General Knowledge, which turns out to be (mostly) questions on actual military generals.
One George Carlin skit talks about the Seven Dirty Words, and he notes that some words don't count as they're "only partly filthy", that is, they have a non-profane meaning. Ones he cites are "ass" (profane if buttocks, not if donkey), "bitch" (profane if woman, not if dog), and "cock" (profane if penis, not if rooster).

Comic Books

Archie Comics: When Jughead spots Betty and Veronica walking with books balanced on their heads, they explain that this is how a model trains. Jughead says that he also had a set of model trains — HO scale, in fact. When the girls decide to get away from the derisive male, Jughead replies that he also had mail trains!
A variation in the Intercompany Crossover JLA/Avengers: Kimiyo Hoshi a.k.a. Doctor Light shouts "Captain Marvel, look out!" as she blasts a villain. Both Billy Batson and Mar-Vell say "Thanks!"
The Loud House: In one issue, Clyde is scared of the idea of "going viral", thinking it means to get sick.
The Simpsons: In one issue, Homer thinks a batboy is a boy who's half bat as in the animal.
Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW): In Sonic the Hedgehog 30th Anniversary Special, Metal Sonic rockets to the sky with a Chaos emerald. To retrive it back, Sonic tells Amy to give him a boost. Amy responds by complimenting about Sonic's great qualities to boost his confidence. Sonic clarifies that he meant a vertical boost, which Amy sheepishly apologizes, and actually boosts him by whacking him with her hammer to shoot him in the sky.
Super Diaper Baby: Danger Dog lets out a Hurricane of Puns at his boss, Deputy Doo-Doo the Talking Poo, such as telling him not to be a "party pooper" and saying he must be "pooped" (tired).
Transformers: Robots in Disguise: A flashback shows the first time that Jetfire met Nosecone, millions of years ago on Cybertron. Nosecone tells Jetfire that he turns into a boring vehicle, which causes Jetfire to tell him that he shouldn't be so hard on himself even if he doesn't have the most exciting alt-mode. Nosecone clarifies that he means his alt-mode is a Drill Tank.

Fan Works

A Bad Name: From "Chapter Thirty-One": "Sneak" as a pun on "sneak" as in "to find time" and "sneak" as in "to hide from people".
Or maybe I should see if I can sneak more... sneaking... in. Practice my stealth skills.
In the Pretty Cure fanfic Capturing My Mind, Maple pees on Akaoni. Wolfrun very nearly says he's "pissed" (meaning "angry") until Majorina cuts him off because this story is for general audiences.
The DA Missions: Agent Toots:
Harry: Well, we came up with a few possible avenues and they were all solo missions. Considering we couldn't all take point, we decided to draw straws.
Tonks: We never get to draw straws.
Harry: Ron's was pretty pathetic. Hermione pouted and refused to draw, as she had problems with our methods of drawing straws. Neville's wasn't bad, but I was the only one clever enough to draw a bendy straw. Luna here, though, she drew a straw with curls and swirls that went in all directions. We agreed she drew the best one, though Hermione still abstained from the vote insisting we were doing it all wrong.
A Dovahkiin without Dragon Souls to spend:
- From "Main Quest line 3.3": "Sweet" as in the flavor and also meaning "awesome", because "soda and ice cream" are sweet foods:
  I wonder if I could convince them to give me a fridge for my lab and if so would they notice that I wasn't using it for my potions but rather soda and ice cream? Would that be considered abuse of government property? If so it would be sweet abuse of government property.
- From "Side Quests 6.1": Light as in electromagnetic waves, and "not heavy":
  It was a group of young thugs, all around my age. They wielded an assortment of steel bars ripped from fences, baseball bats and in one case what looked like a broken lamp, it's jagged glass tips refracted the sunlight menacingly.
  I suppose that counted as a light weapon?
Elementals of Harmony: Sideboard of Harmony: From "No Such Pony, No Such Zone", "stoned" as in Taken for Granite and "high on marijuana" are played with, involving pun-based magic turning the former into the relatively more positive state of the latter.
In the Facing the Future Series, while fighting a ghost bee, Sam cries out, "Honey!". Danny think she's calling him a pet name, but it turns out she was trying to warn him of the bee's incoming projectile.
Citizen Draconequus: Flyer as in "being that flies" and "pamphlet":
"...it's a political flyer," she giggled,
[...]
Discord frowned. "Somepony took a pegasus," he considered, "and turned them into paper. Politically." With the kind of soft snort which didn't quite set off a very local hurricane because she didn't like that, "And ponies say I somehow need to be somewhat more considerate of others..."
"...pamphlet," she quickly corrected. "It's a pamphlet. About politics."
In the Classic Disney Shorts fanfic Feeling Flushed, Kylie is having a Potty Emergency, and then she hears Peg saying her husband Pete is a "wee" bit too tough. At the beginning, Kylie says she has to "go", but Goofy being Goofy, he thinks she has to leave and says, "Go where?" She's too embarrassed to explain to him directly what she means.
A Game of Cat and Cat: Soma's using Exact Words to disguise his magic knowledge, using "summon" in a mundane sense but having the listener think "Summon Magic":
Ended up getting killed by something she summoned." Which was true; after all, 'summon' could also mean something as mundane as 'call someone to court' or 'telephone a friend and ask them to enter your evil castle of doom'.
In Harry Potter and His Veela Mate Hermione comments that her parents probably wouldn't understand her being a 15-year-old who's currently classed as a magical creature and having regular sex with a 14-year-old boy. When Harry pouts and states that he wouldn't call it regular, she replies that she was referring to the frequency and not the level of adventurousness.
Heroes DxD: This is our story: Peg is a normal name, but it also refers to a specific sexual act. So when Max tells Roxas that "Peg's good folk" in the spin-off The Key of Destiny and The String-Weaver of Death, Xemulas does a Double Take as while Max meant his stepmom is a good person, Xelumas thought he meant his stepmom pegs people.
Its Dangerous To Guard Alone: Bombshell has a Meaningful Name in two ways: "this mare just had an undeniable but incidental attractiveness" and that explosions follow in her wake:
"I did some research into the various places you listed, and I found a distressing theme among them."
Bombshell tilted her head. "That being?"
"Most of them, well…" Twilight hemmed and hawed for a few moments as she tried to find a diplomatic way to phrase her concern. Then she just came out and said, "They're not there anymore."
"In my defense, I'm not the one who planted or primed most of those explosives. The various pirate groups the Legion was targeting were strong believers in 'If we can't have it, no one can.'"
Lincoln is Done: Lincoln tears his underwear, resulting in him accidentally mooning his sisters. Luan jokes that they should "get to the bottom of this".
My Driver Academia: In the sequel Decimo Either Way, Konomi seeks out Tsuna since Pyra said he'd be a great match for her. Konomi believes she meant "sparring partner", but Tsuna knows his mother and thinks what Pyra actually meant was "romantic partner" and that Konomi misunderstood.
In Mystery of the Self-Loathing Loud (based on The Loud House), Luan writes a joke that goes "Want to hang?" "From a tree? Sure!" Since there's a suicide note around, this causes some of her siblings to worry that she's the one who wrote it, but she wasn't.
The Nightmare House: In Luan's Nightmare Sequence, Mr. Coconuts, a ventriloquist's dummy, says, "You'd have to be a total dummy to come to this show - I would know!".
Not the intended use (Zantetsuken Reverse): "Chapter 10: Daisuke": Good(s) as "positive" and "items for sale":
Hammer: You look like you could put my goods to very good use.
In An Older Remedy for a Younger Heart (based on The Loud House), Leni, upon hearing that Lincoln is in a funk (i.e., sad) she thinks it means he smells bad.
Our Week Off Together!: Amity tells Steve that Geoffrey eats anything organic. She clearly meant organic as in living matter but Steve interpreted it as in all-natural food brands. This mistake on Steve's part gets his partner eaten.
Peeking Through the Fourth Wall:
- In Episode 25, Luke says that he wants a hot dog. Since Luke has a boyfriend, Lane makes a quip about him being "hungry for wieners".
- In Episode 33, Lynn asks Lana if she's a rat, as in a tattletale. She says that she isn't sure, because rats are cool. Later, when the Lynn in the story they're MSTing is described as "weaving a tangled web", Lana says, "Like a clumsy spider."
- In episode 24, Grammy wonders if the author really hates periods after yet another punctuation mistake. Luna quips that she does, clearly alluding to menstruation, and Lola asks her what she means. Luna says she'll know when she grows up.
- In Episode 19, the characters read a story in which a spinner has colours that represent them and their other siblings. When the spinner in the story turns white, one of the kids reading it asks which one of them is white. Luan replies that they all are, since they're all Caucasian.
Ragatha's Regrets: Jax makes Gangle drop her ice cream and quips that she got "licked" (as a pun about licking ice cream and being defeated).
Recoil: Chapter 6 has "jog loose any memories" as in the action of "jogging" as "your" character was doing, and that she had lost some memories and the speaker was hoping it would help figuratively shake loose some memories.
In Snowmageddon (based on The Loud House), Luan makes several winter-themed Deadly Pranks, which leads to many people joking about people being "iced".
The Sponge House: When Lena falls into trash, she comments, "This stinks, literally."

Films — Animated

Aladdin (1992, Disney): When Jafar is giving a Hurricane of Puns, he tells Abu not to "toy" with him and turns him into a toy monkey, tells the Magic Carpet that things are "unravelling" fast and literally unravels it, asks Aladdin if he gets the "point" and throws swords down, and then says that he's getting "warmed" up and sets the swords on fire. Aladdin then calls him a snake as an insult, prompting Jafar to shapeshift into a literal snake.
Antz: Z says that workers have a hard life, and tells Bala that she'd know what he meant if she ever did a day's labour. She responds, "Labour?! What do you know about labour!?" since she's next in line to be the Queen ant, i.e., the one who has the babies (even though ants don't actually go into labour).
Beauty and the Beast (1991): Le Fou sings that everyone except Gaston are "drips", i.e., not cool. As he's singing this, he throws beer at Gaston's face so it drips down.
Big Hero 6: Hiro tells Baymax that he looks "sick" (as in, cool), and Baymax responds that he never gets sick, due to being a robot.
Brave: Merida calls Elinor a "beast". While she just means it as an insult, it does foreshadow Elinor turning into a bear later on in the movie.
In Cars 2, when Mater was cornered by the Lemons, we have this exchange:
Mater: Dadgum!
Mater's Computer: Gatling Gun. Request acknowledge.
[Mater's Gatling gun is deployed]
Mater: Shoot, I didn't mean...!
Mater's Computer: Request acknowledged. Firing.
[Mater's guns fire, pinning the Lemons down]
Mater: Wait, Wait! I didn't mean that kind of "shoot"!
Mater's Computer: Correction acknowledged. Deploying chute.
[Mater's parachute pops out and he goes flying]
In the climax of Chicken Run, when the chickens rebel and attack Mr. Tweedy, he calls out to his wife and we get this exchange.
Mr. Tweedy: Mrs. Tweedy! The chickens are revolting!
Mrs. Tweedy: [her back turned and not even looking] Finally, something we agree on.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs:
- Flint asks Steve if he can help and the latter holds up a can and says, "Can." Flint takes this to mean that he is capable of helping out, when he was just referring to the can itself.
- Early on, the Mayor complains he wants to be "big", as in famous. Later, he becomes very fat, so he's literally big.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2: The gang comes across a sea of giant food. Flint starts to say, "This is totally-" and then Steve calls out, "Bananas!" as they pass by some bananas (as a pun on how "bananas" can mean "crazy").
Corpse Bride:
- Paul is a "head" (as in chief) waiter, and he's also a disembodied head.
- Elder Gutnecht mentions that people are "dying to get down here", which is a pun because usually "dying" means "yearning" in that context, but the "down here" he's referring to is the actual Land of the Dead.
The Curse of the Were-Rabbit:
- When Lady Tottington says that there's hope for the vegetables, as in literal produce, yet, Victor says, "Not the ones I'm looking at", because he's looking at the townsfolk and thinking that they're "vegetables" as in idiots.
- When the vicar says he has a hunch (as in, an intuition), that this will be a night to remember, Mr. Growbag, who has a hunch on his back, replies, "I just have a hunch."
- When the policeman sees the eponymous wererabbit about to fall, he says, "Stand back! There may be a large rabbit dropping!" This is a joke because "dropping" is another term for animal poop, but in this case, he fears the large rabbit will drop, as in fall.
Dumbo: When Timothy wonders if Dumbo managed to fly into the tree while they were both drunk, one crow asks if anyone has seen an elephant fly. The other crows joke that they've seen a horsefly, a dragonfly, and a housefly.
Early Man: Nooth says that the main group's ancestors quit being athletes after "many moons", which is illustrated by a drawing of lots of mooning cavemen.
The Emoji Movie: After Gene's disastrous first day at work, Poop tells him that everybody has "accidents", which is a clear reference to a different kind of accident.
Flushed Away:
- At one point, when the Toad has a frantic fly, as in the insect, he says, "Pardon me; my fly's undone."
- When the Toad tells his henchmen to "ice" Roddy and Rita, the henchmen try to put them in liquid nitrogen.
- When Whitey finds what seems to be a ruby in Rita's back pocket, he quips, "The booty's in the booty!".
Frozen (2013): When the trolls sing in their song "Fixer-Upper" that Kristoff has a few "bugs", i.e., flaws, Sven takes it literally and scratches himself.
GOAT: The film's Tagline is "This kid's got game", referencing how "kid" can mean "a young person" or "a young goat". Fittingly, the protagonist of the movie is an anthropomorphic goat.
Horton Hears a Who! (2008): When the Chairman puts Mayor McDodd into a dome so that the other Whos can't hear the ensuing argument, the Chairman points at McDodd, and then at a picture of a donkey, implying that he's calling him an ass.
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs:
- When Buck is trying to figure out why there are dinosaur footprints, a tuft of Sid's fur, a half-eaten carcass, and some broccoli lying around, he at first thinks that Sid attacked the dinosaur, rendering the dinosaur a "vegetable", as in unconscious. When the others point out that Sid is too pacifistic and clumsy to do that, and there's no dinosaur present, Buck instead suggests the dinosaur ate Sid and stepped on the broccoli, leaving it a "vegetable", as in a literal vegetable.
- During the Song Parody of "Alone Again" by Gilbert O Sullivan from the acorn's perspective, there's a lyric "I wish you only knew, that I'm only nuts for you", referencing how it's a literal nut, and is also nuts as in crazy.
Ice Age: Continental Drift: Flynn says he needs to look for his "booty" (as in, treasure) and he's unaware that it's stuck in his buttcrack.
The Incredibles 1: When a cop tells Frozone to "freeze", as in not move, Frozone (after getting a drink) literally freezes the cop in ice.
The Lion King (1994): "Eating" as in "bothering", and as in "consuming food".
Pumbaa: What's eating you, kid?
Timon: Nothing, he's at the top of the food chain! Hahaha!!! The food chain! Ha ha ha ha... [realizes that his joke has failed]
The Lion King 1 ½: Simba wakes Timon up in the middle of the night to take him to pee behind a bush and says he needs to "go". Timon, being rather drowsy, thinks he has to leave and replies, "Go where?"
Open Season: In the second movie, Mr. Weenie runs into his owner Bobbie and ends up with an uncomfortable eyeful of her butt, and he says, "Oh, no, full moon!" as a pun on mooning and the actual moon.
ParaNorman: Uncle Prenderghast tells Norman to swear (as in, promise) that he'll fulfill his Unfinished Business and Norman replies, "You mean like the F-word?"
Pinocchio (1940): When the boys turn into donkeys, there are several puns on the double meaning of "jackass" (both used to mean a fool or a male donkey). For instance, when Lampwick has the face of a donkey and asks if Jiminy thinks he looks like a jackass, prompting an amused Pinocchio to say he does.
Ratatouille: When Remy asks Emille if he is detecting "nuttiness", referring to the flavour of some food they're eating, Emille replies that he is, but in the sense that Remy is nutty, as in eccentric.
Robots: When Rodney asks a group of robots who wants to get fixed, as in repaired, a Robot Dog cowers, thinking of the other meaning of "fixed".
The Rugrats Movie: During the song "The World is Something New to Me", one boy baby says life as a newborn is a "gas", and then farts.
Rugrats in Paris:
- When the kids hear that Chas is going to try dating again, Chuckie wonders what dates are, and Phil thinks they're talking about the "big raisins that make you poop".
- The kids are in a Reptar robot, and Lil tells Chuckie to "give it some gas". Dil then offers a different kind of gas by farting.
Shrek 2: When Donkey says that he doesn't feel any different after drinking the "Happily Ever After" potion, then asks if he looks any different, Puss jokes, "You still look like an ass to me!"
Shrek Forever After: When Shrek tells the alternate Puss that he's "soft", as in wussy, Puss says, "Well, I do get brushed twice a day."
Toy Story 3: When Mr. Potato Head asks what the "point" of escaping from the trash bag they're in is, this gives Buzz the idea of using the literal point on Rex's tail to escape from the bag.
Up: When Muntz says having guests is a "treat", as in fun, his dogs excitedly declare they want "treats" as in snacks, so Muntz amends it to "delight".
Wakko's Wish: Skippy sings that it's so cold that even his nuts (referring to acorns) are frozen. Slappy then tells him to be careful with how he just worded that, alluding to the other kind of nuts (testicles).
Winnie the Pooh (2011): During the "Everything is Honey" number, Pooh says that if everything is made of honey, then life is very "sweet".

Films — Live-Action

Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff: While Freddie is disguised as a maid, Abernathy starts hitting on him and asks for "a little smack" (meaning a kiss). In the next room, Casey hears a loud thump and asks what happened. Freddie replies, "Well, he asked for a smack, so I gave it to him."
The Accidental Husband: The "Falling in Love" Tagline seen in one movie poster where the bride is literally falling from the air.
Airplane!:
- "Make" as both "craft" and "deduce":
  "Johnny, what do you make of this?" *hands him a computer printout*
  "This? Why, I can make a hat, or a brooch, or a pterodactyl that can eat your..."
- "Instruments" as in airplane's navigational instruments, instead of musical ones:
  "Miles off course!"
  "That's impossible, they're on instruments!" And then we see that, yes, indeed they are.
Annie (2014): Mr. Stacks sees Annie with Sandy on a leash. Annie says Sandy has to "go", and Mr. Stacks thinks she's getting rid of Sandy. Annie then repeats what she said, but with emphasis, and Mr. Stacks realizes that she's just taking Sandy on a walk.
Carry On Behind: When Major Leep is trying to order his cabaret act on the telephone, Barnes tries to tell him that they need a paint stripper. Major Leep repeats "we need a stripper" into the telephone, and ends up with just that: a girl performing a striptease, instead of the singer he was hoping for.
Dad's Army (1971): When The Vicar is forced to lie at gunpoint to Captain Mainwaring that the church hall is being used by the Young Mothers Club, Captain Mainwaring tells him that the young mothers won't mind if he comes in. The Vicar firmly tells him that they will, because he isn't in the club. This refers to the fact that he isn't a member, nor is he in the (pudding) club — British slang for pregnancy.
Doctor... Series:
- Doctor at Large: During Tony's so-called "medical examination", O'Malley asks him what he knows about urea, to which Tony asks if he means "the chemical substance or my lughole". The next question is fibrillation, which Tony answers is "a bit of a nerve", which O'Malley laughs, "That's what we've all got, isn't it?".
- Doctor in Clover: At the nurses' party, several of the student doctors spike the refreshments with alcohol to get the party going. When Matron discovers this, she is outraged and declares that "these drinks have been doctored".
In Doctor Strange, Kaecilius's first interaction with Doctor Strange. Kaecilius doesn't understand that Strange is a doctor and "Strange" is his actual name.
Kaecilius: How long have you been at Kamar-Taj, Mister...
Doctor Strange: Doctor.
Kaecilius: Mister Doctor?
Doctor Strange: It's Strange.
Kaecilius: [shrugs] Maybe. Who am I to judge?
When the uprising begins in Dragonheart, Prince Einon remarks: "The peasants are revolting!" A member of his entourage responds: "They've always been revolting, prince, but now, they're rebelling!"
Grease: When the boys are working on the car in the school's auto shop.
Sonny: Oh come on, Kenickie, give him a break.
Kenickie: [Ominously] I’ll give him a "break" all right.
Doodie: We'll work on the brakes later.
Little Monsters: Maurice urinates into a bottle and comments that whoever drinks out of this next will be "pissed".
A Muppet Family Christmas: The gang looks at photos of themselves as children, and Janice describes Rowlf as a "wee" puppy. Rowlf retorts, "Not so wee; I was paper-trained!"
The Naked Gun (2025): Frank Drebin Jr. mentions to Beth that he had a first wife who died. Beth asks him, "How did she pass?" so he starts telling her about how great her throwing arm was.
Beth: She sounds like a saint.
Frank: Or maybe a Bronco or a 49er.
In Nanny McPhee, when Cedric Brown's attempts at getting his children to stop pranking Selma Quickly are mistaken for advances, she later complains, "What does he take me for, some common...?" but trails off. Her servant suggests "tart" as a possible insult, but she thinks she's referring to a tart as in the confection.
Psycho: Norman accidentally knocks one of the bird pictures off the wall while tidying Marion's room, which confirms him as the murderer because he "offed the bird" – which, in British slang, is killing a young woman.
The Smurfs (2011): Papa Smurf describes his village as a place where "even feeling blue is a happy thing", referencing how Smurfs' skin is literally blue.
In the 1941 film Tarzan's Secret Treasure (fifth in the MGM film series starring Johnny Weissmuller), after Jane describes what courtship is like back where she came from, Tarzan replies, "Too much talk. Tarzan way better." Does he mean "Tarzan's way is better" or "Tarzan is way better than other men"? Both are probably equally true, in Jane's opinion.
Up Pompeii! films:
- Up Pompeii!:
  - After Captain Bilius falls off his horse, Lurcio gathers his dropped shopping and tells Betty, "Let us leave this officer's mess", before playfully pulling a face at the audience to highlight the gag.
  - When a statue's penis sprays wine on Captain Bilius:
    Lurcio: Oh, well. He's used to being made a convenience of.
  - When Mount Vesuvius' eruption begins, a naked statue comes crashing down, and one of the boobs breaks off and is caught by Lurcio. At this moment, Prosperus Maximus spots Lurcio and sends Captain Bilius after him. In response, Lurcio turns to the Centurian next to him and swaps his boob for his sword:
    Lurcio: Swap you — tit for tat.
  - As the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is destroying Pompeii, Ludicrus Sextus asks Lurcio how he thought his speech to the Senate went. Lurcio, seeing the destruction rain down around them, tells his master that he brought the house down.
  - Before Captain Bilius can kill Lurcio, a column comes crashing down on his head and knocks him out. Lurcio then calls it a relief column.
  - When Scrubba falls down a hole during the destruction of Pompeii, Lurcio remarks that he always knew she was a dropout.
- Up the Front:
  - While spying on Fanny and Groping through a keyhole, Lurk mutters, "What a strange thing to use braces for", before adding, "That's stretching it a bit", and laughing to himself.
  - After discovering he has to play the Lovely Assistant in El Puncturio's Knife-Throwing Act, Lurk bemoans that he's "not cut out for this", and then remarks he soon will be as another knife hits the wall.
  - While disguised as a tree, Lurk tells a waiter that they've "got branches everywhere".
The Wizard of Oz:
- When the Tin Man says, "Oil can!", asking for a can of oil, the Scarecrow says confusedly, "Oil can what?".
- Towards the beginning, Dorothy calls Miss Gulch a "witch" just as an insult. In Oz, her counterpart is a literal Wicked Witch.

Jokes

What do you call a short criminal who can see ghosts? A small medium at large.
The sentence "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" (also known as the "Eight Buffalo Sentence") is entirely grammatically correct, due to the sheer number of meanings the word "Buffalo" has. Parsed, it means that "Buffalo (the city in New York) buffalo (the animal) Buffalo buffalo buffalo (animals from the same city) buffalo (bully) Buffalo buffalo (other animals from the same city)". In other words, "Buffalonian bison whom other Buffalonian bison bully also bully Buffalonian bison."
Why does Santa Claus have a big sack? Because he only comes once a year.
Why do kleptomaniacs not understand puns? Because they always take things, literally.
I was wondering why the baseball was getting bigger, then it hit me.
"The panda eats shoots and leaves" means something different from "The panda eats, shoots and leaves".
Why does Winnie-the-Pooh find it hard to clean the toilet? Poo sticks.
McCoy is called "Dr. Bones" because it's a verb, not a noun.
Why did the baby put coins in his diaper? It needed to be changed.
Why did the man take his dog to the railway station? To train it.
How does a dog eat his food? He wolfs it down.
What wears a coat all winter and pants all summer? A dog.
Why did the tomato blush? Because it saw the salad dressing.
Why did the lobster blush? Because the sea weed.
A man runs over a hare and kills it, and is devastated until a woman sprays the hare with something that brings it to life, but then it can't stop waving. She explains that the product she used "Brings life to dead hare, and causes a permanent wave".
What did the ocean say when it left? Nothing; it just waved.
Why did the hipster burn his tongue? He drank his tea (or coffee) before it was cool.
Why is a strike a bad thing in baseball but a good thing in bowling? And why is a strike something to be avoided in all industries, except prospecting (e.g. oil, gold, etc.)?
Did you hear the one about the cross-eyed teacher? She couldn't control her pupils.
Why do fish know so much? They live in schools.
Why was the river tired? Because it runs everywhere it goes.
Two fish were in a tank and one asked, "How do you drive this thing?".
If your nose is running and your feet smell, you must be upside down.
Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana.
What has four wheels and flies? A garbage truck.
What did one toilet say to the other? "You look flushed".
Why was the Dumb Blonde staring at the juice? It said, "Concentrate".
A group of dumb blondes are going to Las Vegas, but when they see the sign, "50 Miles Las Vegas left", they go home.
What do you call three holes in the ground? Well, well, well.
A man goes to a restaurant and hears voices saying things like "You're so well-dressed!" and "There's this intelligent look about you," but when he looks, there's no one around. He asks the waitress, who says, "That'd be the complimentary nuts, sir."
Why did the grandma knit her grandson three socks? Because he said he'd grown another foot.
A man sees a woman crying, and he asks her why, and she says she's never been hugged before, so he does so. He comes back, and she's crying and he asks her why and she says she's never been kissed before. He kisses her, then comes back a third time and she's crying again. This time, she says that she's "never been fucked before" (i.e. is a virgin). He throws her into the river and says, "You're fucked now!".
What happened to the hungry clock? It went back four seconds.
What can you catch but not throw? A cold.
What did Winnie-the-Pooh say to his girlfriend? "Hi, honey, I'm home"

Literature

Amelia Bedelia has a few such gags due to the main character being Literal-Minded:
- In one book, she's told to add a leaf to the table. She ends up putting autumn leaves on it.
- In one of the prequel series starring Amelia as a child, she gets told that she makes a "mean" lemon tart. She replies, "I didn't make it to be mean."
- In "Calling Doctor Amelia Bedelia", a man claims his nose hurts on the bridge. She replies that he'd better get off that bridge. Also, when a woman says, "I have hives", Amelia replies, "I bet you have honey," and the other woman says, "Don't call me honey!".
- In "Amelia Bedelia and the Cat", when told that a litter box is where a cat goes "when it needs to go", as in relieve itself, she says, "Go where? Where would Tiger need to go?".
- One of the books about her childhood opens by telling what Amelia Bedelia is sick of, as in weary of, and then noting that she was also sick, as in unwell.
- In one book, it's said that a woman didn't catch a plane; she caught a virus (as a result of someone confusing the terms "flu" and "flew").
Andy Griffiths' Just Series: In "Band Aid" from "Just Disgusting", Andy says that peeling a band aid off "sucks", which gives him the idea to suck it off with the vacuum cleaner.
Arthur: When Mr. Ratburn says that Arthur is in a "pickle", as in a tough situation, he then has a Guilt-Induced Nightmare about literal pickles.
The Berenstain Bears: In "The Birds, the Bees, and the Berenstain Bears", Dr. Gert Grizzly says that she was the one who delivered Brother and Sister Bear. They respond with "Where did you deliver us to?".
Brenda's Beaver Needs a Barber involves jokes about how "beaver" can be slang for a woman's nether regions, using women with literal pet beavers.
From the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2022's "Crime and Detective" category, using a metaphorical and literal meaning of "blanket":
The heat blanketed the small village in much the same way a body bag blankets a murder victim, except that a body bag is usually black, which the heat wasn’t, as heat is colorless, and the village wasn’t dead, which a murder victim usually is. - Eric Rice, Madison, W.
The Cat In The Hat Beginner Book Dictionary: This picture dictionary is fond of using this trope when explaining the dual meaning of a word. For example, the word "Orange" has a description reading "This orange is green. The other orange is orange."
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: One type of candy that Willy Wonka makes is sweets that are square but "look round"... as in, they look around.
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator: One ingredient for Wonka-Vite is three feet off a certain type of animal, but if you can't get them, one yard will do.
Dad's Little Pecker is a parody book that makes innuendos regarding the protagonist's father having a pecker, as in a woodpecker, as a pet, and "pecker" also being slang for penis.
Dear Dumb Diary: In one book, Jamie points out that "clog" has a few different meanings, including the shoes and something that stops up the sink. She says that it makes sense that the uncomfortable shoes she's forced to wear for her aunt's wedding are named after hair and toothpaste spit stopping up drains.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: In "Rodrick Rules", Leland is a ventriloquist who makes his dummy ask, "Who's the dummy here!?".
Do You Want to Play with My Box? is a parody of children's books that makes light of the fact that "box" can be slang for female genitalia, but also refers to a literal cardboard box.
Eats, Shoots & Leaves has a few, being about sentences that change meaning depending on the grammar:
- One is "What is this thing called, honey?" (illustrated by a man asking his wife what something is called) vs. "What is this thing called honey?" (illustrated by a man not knowing what honey is).
- "Eat here, and get gas" (illustrated with a restaurant near a gas station) vs. "Eat here and get gas" (illustrated with a Lethal Eatery that makes the customers burp and fart).
- "Billy turns, swings and slides" (illustrated with him turning, playing on the swing, and then playing on the slide) vs. "Billy turns swings and slides" (illustrated with him twisting the playground equipment).
Every Thing On It: In "The Ball Game", a rat is said to swing the bat during a baseball game, and then it's revealed to be the animal as opposed to the stick that's used to hit baseballs when it flies away.
Frankly, Frannie: In "Principal for a Day", Frankie discovers the fire alarm. Since she's the principal for a day, she takes this to mean she can fire people and then pulls it.
A staple of the Superhero Web Serial Novel Gamer Girl. Kazé/Fangirl is a superhero fangirl who uses an electric fan gun, and the Canine is a literal canine covered in canine teeth. Ba dum tsss!
Gangsta Granny: When Granny claims that she stole a diamond ring in her youth and then swallowed it and later pooped it out, she notes that its owners searched their cottage "from top to bottom", but not her bottom.
In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Ford Prefect describes going through hyperspace as "unpleasantly like being drunk"; Arthur Dent asks what's unpleasant about being drunk (as in intoxicated) and Ford responds, "Ask a glass of water" (revealing that he meant it as in imbibed).
In How to Catch a Cold, when the main boy hears that some of his classmates caught a cold, he doesn't know the double meaning of "catch" and thinks that a cold is a monster that he can literally catch with a net. In the sequel, How to Fight a Cold, he actually has a cold and is told he will "fight" it, so he worries he will have to beat something in a literal fight.
Indexing: When talking about paperwork for dealing with a murder, "murder" is used both literally and figuratively:
The paperwork for that would be, well, murder.
I Need a Wee!: At the end, Robot says at least Alan doesn't need a wee anymore. He replies, "Oh, no, I definitely do!" and then says, "Wee!" (the exclamation) since he and his friends are on a Ferris wheel.
James and the Giant Peach: James asks Earthworm, "Can't you see that-" (referring to understanding) and the latter responds that he can't see because he's blind.
Jim And The Beanstalk: When Jim hears about the giant’s bad eyesight, he asks if he has glasses. The giant replies that he only has beer glasses, and has never heard of reading glasses.
Junie B. Jones: In "Aloha-ha-ha!", Sheldon says his uncle used to play craps (referring to the casino game) and May assumes that he swore (as in, said "crap") and tries to tattle on him until Mr. Scary explains that it's just the name of the game.
Just Stab Me Now: Leo is both Rosamund's only bodyguard in a situation that would warrant her having a bigger number and unmarried. The former aspect bothers Rosamund more than the latter, which she needs to clarify each time she uses the word "single" to talk about Leo, especially with her author Caroline, who is trying to write a story about Leo and Roasmund falling in love.
The Light Princess: Once upon a time, a king and queen desperately want a child, and are finally blessed with a baby girl. But while arranging their daughter's christening, the King forgets to invite his sister, Princess Makemnoit, a horrible witch. Out of spite, Makemnoit curses the Princess to live without gravity. Because of this, the Princess spends her life floating in the air, unable to touch the ground and always dangerously close to being carried off into the sky. Moreover, there's no gravity to weigh down her soul, either. She never thinks seriously on any topic, cannot be made to empathize with people, and never cries.
In Little Raccoon Catches a Cold, Little Raccoon thinks he can "catch" a cold with his net.
In Little Women, the day before Meg's wedding:
Meg: I wonder if you will ever grow up, Laurie.
Laurie: [whose head is about level with Meg's chandelier] I'm doing my best, ma'am, but can't get much higher, I'm afraid, as six feet is about all men can do in these degenerate days.
The Midnight Gang: When Tom is pretending to be a doctor, with the Porter posing as his patient, the Porter tells Tom to lie, as in not tell the truth, and Raj asks why the Porter said that. Tom makes the excuse that the Porter wanted to lie down, despite the fact that the Porter was already lying down.
In Mum's Great Tits, the protagonist's mother has two pet tits, as in the bird. This leads to many innuendos, for instance, her sister berates her for letting them out when guests are about, and the mother calls them her "girls".
My Weird School: In "Mrs. Lily is Silly", a Running Gag is people saying they have to go and AJ asking them, "Do you have to go, or do you have to go?" (as in, if they have to leave or use the bathroom).
In My Wife Wants to Try Another Cock, there are many innuendos regarding the various farmers' cocks, as in roosters, making them sound like the phallic meaning of "cock". For instance, the black one is the largest, and the main character is disappointed at the state of his own.
Mr. Men: "In Little Miss Dotty", the eponymous Little Miss Dotty participates in the contest for the "dottiest" (as in, silliest) ideas. She paints her house with polka dots and she wins.
Night Watch (Discworld): Vimes is talking to Captain Swing of the Unmentionables, who comments that the former is "a man after his own heart". Vimes "takes a moment to consider the anatomical possibilities", meaning he wants to do an Attack on the Heart, instead of the intended "Not So Different" Remark, before replying:
Vimes: Broadly speaking, sir, though I would not aspire that high.
No, David!: In Grow Up, David!, David's Big Brother Bully trips him and quips, "Have a nice trip!", as a pun on vacations and falling over.
The Phantom Tollbooth: Invoked by the Everpresent Wordsnatcher, a bird who "takes the words right out of your mouth" and deliberately misinterprets them (with both homonyms and homophones), all for the sake of being a nuisance, such as:
- Milo says that "We're looking for a place to spend the night." The bird replies "It's not yours to spend" and later after Milo said the conversation didn't make "sense", "Dollars or cents, it's still not yours to spend."
- Milo then says "But I didn't mean-", and the bird replies "Of course you're mean," ... "Anyone who'd spend a night that doesn't belong to him is very mean."
Polly Has a Smelly Pussy is a parody of children's books, which makes innuendos referring to the title character's cat as a "pussy".
Princesses of the Pizza Parlor: In the first episode, Princesses Don't Do Summer School, when talking about index cards of spells to be selected, one card's Flavor Text / guidance text makes a pun on how "chill" means cold temperature, like snow, and also calming down of emotions:
It had taken Uncle most of an afternoon and evening to fill out the necessary information in a way that was clear, and he'd tried to make it funny as well, with descriptions like "Makes a magic snowball that you can stuff in someone's ear, down their pants, whatever. Good for getting people to chill out." He'd hoped their giggles were for the jokes he'd actually intended.
Ramona Quimby:
- In one novel, on her first day in class, Ramona caused a minor ruckus because when the teacher said "you can sit here for the present", Ramona didn't realize the teacher meant "the present time" instead of "a gift".
- In one book, Mrs. Quimby asks if she has to turn left, and her daughter Beatrice "Beezus" Quimby says, "Right", as in correct. However, Mrs. Quimby then turns right, as in the direction.
Ratburger: On the list of animals that are hard to smuggle into school, it says that boobies sound too rude, adding that yes, boobies are indeed a real bird, and he didn't make them up for a "cheap laugh, as if [he] would do that".
The Restaurant of Many Orders is built on this trope, with the word "order" (注文) in both Japanese and English meaning either "customers' requests" or "commands from authority".
A Series of Unfortunate Events:
- In "The Bad Beginning", when Klaus is described as making a "crude" lockpick, the Lemony Narrator clarifies that "crude" in this context means "poorly made", not "impolite".
- In "The Reptile Room", when someone asks if the orphans are "entertaining" the possibility, the narrator clarifies that he meant "entertaining" as in "considering", not "putting on a show for".
Small Medium: The Idiosyncratic Episode Naming of the series uses Medium as in a psychic medium, but also mixes it with sizes and steak rarity, with its volumes ending the phrase with "Big Trouble", "At Large" and "Well Done".
Emily Martha Sorensen:
- Worlds Of Wonder 2014: From the short story, "Advanced Precognition": "Studies" as an investigation into something, and "Studying" as in "reading over something to learn it (for school)".
  I passed Supernatural Studies without even studying.
- Magic And Mischief: The Pun-Based Title, "Way Too Familiar" is a play on "familiar" as "used to something", and also magical Familiars.
- Tales Of Tie Ins: "Triumph of a Teenage Werevulture":
  - Foul as in "against the rules of a game" and "foul" as in just negative:
    Jerry: You don't want to miss this. Ohh! Foul!
    Lisette's thoughts: I agree. Foul date
  - There's also "cheat" as in cheating in a game, and cheating on someone in a relationship.
Wee William: William is often described as "wee" (he's the smallest and youngest member of the family), and throughout the book, he keeps having potty emergencies.
Winnie-the-Pooh:
- In "In Which Tigger Comes to the Forest and Has Breakfast", Pooh writes a poem that mentions Tigger's weight in "pounds, shillings, and ounces", as a pun on how a pound is both a weight and a form of money. Piglet dislikes the joke, ostensibly because he finds it too nonsensical, but Pooh says that the word "wanted" to be in his poem.
- In "In Which Tigger is Unbounced", Roo complains that Kanga always says that she and him will "see" if something will happen, but it never does. Rabbit jokes that nobody can see today, as it is foggy.
- In "In Which Eeyore Loses a Tail and Pooh Finds One", Owl says that he and Pooh must offer a "large something" as a reward for finding the tail. Owl was just using "something" as a generic term for "object", but Pooh being Pooh, he begins thinking of "something" as a slang term for "snack".

Live-Action TV

Bewitched: When Endora is asked if she knows what a bat, as in baseball, is, she defines the animal.
The Brittas Empire: Brittas has a dream, as in a goal he wants to achieve. However, there have been a few occasions in which this is confused with the other meaning of dream, being that of a vivid experience whilst sleeping:
- In "The Stuff of Dreams", Brittas has Recurring Dreams about struggling to hand over a ball of light to another person. When Laura brings this up to the others, Tim responds with an annoyed "Oh, not another one," before Laura clarifies that it's an actual dream.
- In "The Disappearing Act", Helen complains to Brittas that she is not getting much interest for her Dreams Workshop, in which people discuss the dreams they have whilst asleep. Brittas suggests the idea of using his own Dream, his goal of using leisure centres to bring peace and harmony, to inspire them. Helen has to tell him that it's not the sort of dream that she was thinking about.
Bumble: When Peek is told he has a "tummy bug", he thinks this means he swallowed a literal bug.
Dinosaurs: "Nature Calls" has a few moments of this:
- When Baby is being toilet-trained, he sees a show about a guy on the electric chair saying he wants to go wherever he wants, as a pun on "going" (doing one's business). Then the man yells, "Not the juice!" when the executioner turns the electricity on, which scares Baby since Earl said he was going to give him prune juice earlier.
- Baby sneaks out of the house and Earl thinks he's flushed himself down the toilet. Fran asks him if he went (as in, to the bathroom), and Earl replies, "Oh, yeah, he's gone!"
Doctor Who:
- In the episode "The Magician's Apprentice," the Doctor rides a tank into a medieval arena while playing an electric guitar (It Makes Just As Much Sense In Context). He asks his friend if he likes the tank. He got it for his fish, you see. Since the man he's talking to is a few centuries away from the idea of a fishtank (and even further away from the concept of an armoured fighting vehicle), he reacts with utter bemusement. And why the guitar? He heard there was going to be an axe fight.
- In one episode, the Doctor says he wants a mate, as in a friend. Donna, however, mishears him and thinks he wants to mate, as in have sex to produce children.
  Donna: "Well, you're not matin' with me, sunshine!"
The Durrells: In episode 2.03, Leslie — a Gun Nut — briefly gets really into photography. The boy loves shooting.
Fargo: Season Two: Mike Milligan reminisces in one episode about how the word "revolution" has two meanings: either as an overthrow of another power, or a planet making a complete orbit around another celestial object. He fails to realize the irony of his storyline: he thinks his revolution against the Gerhardts is the "overthrow" kind, when in reality it's the "full-circle" kind. His success against them just leave him back where he started: as an underappreciated employee for the Kansas City Mafia that's stuck doing a job he hates.
Exaggerated Girls5eva: Dawn writes a song that uses over 400 meanings of the word "set" (e.g. "tea set set for one"). It's very long and even shifts into science fiction ("set to stun") at one point. The end result bores the life out of everyone who listens.
Happy Days:
- In one episode, a doctor tells Fonzie that he's "hot", i.e. feverish. Fonzie thinks he meant "hot" as in "attractive" and says, "Everybody knows that!".
- In one episode, Fonzie says he has to "go" as in use the bathroom, but Howard thinks he meant "go" as in leave.
House of Anubis: In one episode, Amber gets confused when Alfie describes Jasper as being "a mole", thinking he's referring to the animal. Patricia quickly has to tell her that they're talking about a different kind of "mole".
Kaamelott:
- Angles are a barbarian tribe trying to invade Britannia... not the angles of the map. Surprisingly, Perceval is the one to point this out... which leads Arthur to point out that yes, they are, but in this case they aren't.
- Degrees, being used for both angles and temperatures, also confuse Perceval.
Keeping Up Appearances: Hyacinth misunderstands the meaning of Neighbours, not being familiar with Onslow's popular culture.
Onslow: There's some good telly on tonight. Do you watch Neighbours, Hyacinth?
Hyacinth: Only when they're in danger of letting the side down; then I feel it's my duty to keep an eye on them.
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide: In "Guide to Vampires, Ghosts, Werewolves, and Zombies", Cookie wants to go into his werewolf form to escape Zombie Loomer's bullying. Unfortunately, it's not a full moon, and his attempts to cheat it (such as with pictures of the moon) fail. Then Ned gets the idea to give him a "full moon" by mooning Cookie, which works. Ned's tip is even that "A friend's 'moon' is as good as the real thing".
Sesame Street:
- One song is called "You Have to Be Patient to Be a Patient", about how recovering from a disease can take a long time.
- In an "Abby's Flying Fairy School", Blogg makes a dinosaur out of macaroni and brings it to life, but it runs rampant. Ms. Sparklenose says that she and the students must use their noodles, as in their heads, but Blogg says, "Using noodles is what got us into this in the first place!"
- Elmo once makes a joke about Dorothy, a fish, being at "school".
Star Trek:
- Star Trek: The Next Generation:
  - In "Datalore", Wesley asks Data if he has a cold. Data doesn't realise that this is a disease, since the show is set in the future when people no longer catch colds, so he replies, "A cold what?".
  - In one episode, a man claiming to be a time traveller calls Dr. Crusher "curious", as in "inquisitive". She thinks he meant "weird", until he clarifies, "I don't mean 'curious' like that."
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In "His Way", Vic Fontaine calls O'Brien a square, as in a dork. O'Brien is just confused and Vic says, "You know what a square is, don't you?" O'Brien says, "It's one side of a cube."
- Star Trek: Voyager:
  - One of the one-liners the EMH tries to teach Seven of Nine is "Thank you for being a patient patient".
  - In one episode, Neelix gives a riddle about how a man could have survived on a planet with no food with only a calendar, with the answer being a joke about him eating "dates" from the calendar.
  - In one episode, the EMH says that he is tired, as in bored, of scanning. B'Elanna tries to shut him up by saying that holograms don't get tired, as in physically weary.

Music

Allie Goerz: In "Everything's Coming Up Milhouse", which is a song about Milhouse from The Simpsons, she describes him as "alone and blue", which is a pun because his hair is literally blue.
In "I'm Not Gay", J Pee and his friends are playing tackle football in the park. He's told by his team's quarterback that his job is to "protect the sack", meaning the football. J Pee interprets this as a different sort of "sack" and instead grabs the quarterback's ballsack, disrupting the game and angering everyone as he tries to justify it and play it off as an understandable confusion.
Koit: In "Shapes", a square is being described as "square" (as in uncool), then later he gets berated with "Nobody likes a square!" Also, a cross (as in an X shape) is described as being "cross" (as in grumpy).
In "Somebody Peed on My Snowman", there are several puns on words like "go" and "whiz" regarding a snowman being peed on.
Songdrops: In "I Won't Give Up 'Til I Win Your Heart", when the singer farts in the car, he says, "I put some gas inside your car, but not the kind that takes it far."

Podcasts

Listen Out Loud:
- In one episode, Lisa says, "Hit me — ow! Lynn, I didn't mean literally!" implying that Lynn struck her.
- In another episode, Luan says that in a situation involving eggs, she almost "cracked".
- In one episode, Luan says that she only laughed when Lola sprayed milk from her nose because she knows how to "milk" a joke.
- In one episode, Luan says that when she dumped fish on one of her sisters, she was lucky that Luan "scaled" it back.

Tabletop Games

Magic: The Gathering: The Revised Edition game manual included Richard Garfield's account of the creation of the game. He mentions that the pre-release version used placeholder art for the cards "Power Sink" showed Calvin sitting in a toilet, "because what is a toilet except a power sink?" as in a bathroom sink with power suction.
Munchkin is rife with these. For example, the card "Steal a Level", where the card's effect is that you steal a level, as in the gaming term, from an opposing player. The illustration is someone stealing a level, as in the tool.

Theatre

A Midsummer Night's Dream: When Bottom is given a donkey's head, he says, "This is to make an ass of me."

Toys

Transformers: The Robotmaster toyline had a character named Reverse Convoy, who hailed from planet Vehicon from the future. However, he's revealed to actually be the missing (and presumed dead) Megatron, naming himself Rebirth Megatron. The gag is that both Reverse and Rebirth are rendered the same way in katakana (ribaazu リバーズ).

Video Games

Borderlands 2: Jakobs has a unique sniper rifle whose Flavor Text is "Bison bison had had had had had bison bison bison shi shi shi". It looks like a word salad, but in reality, it's a mashup of three language grammar puzzles: one where repeating eight times "buffalo" results in a gramatically correct English sentence, one where inserting the right punctuation on a sentence that repeats "had" 11 times makes it meaningful, and a Chinese poem that, when read out loud, is pronounced "shi shi shi shi shi shi...".
Card City Nights 1: The action of Flipping the Bird is referenced with one of the Bird (Beta) Flavor Texts, where the Beta Bird is the animal type of bird:
"Flip" this card? We can't write that!
Card City Nights 2: The Hacked card, "Jenny Bunny X" is Tenuously Connected Flavor Text that's probably making a pun on freedom and how "gratis" means "free":
......... This card CRACKED by da OneManPsyEye ......... Greetz n xoxo to SERIOUS SCIENTIST ......... Freedom is gratis! .........
Control (2019): The "baby baby baby yeah" line of The Hiss, when filtered through The Board, becomes "Small child, small child, small child, affirmative" instead of "baby" as the affectionate term for a romantic partner as would be expected by a repetitious phrase ending with an exclamation.
Diablo II: Department of Redundancy Department due to the prefix and suffix system for random items:
- It's entirely possible to get a "Light Belt of Light", a lightweight belt which increases the light radius.
- "Strong Field Plate of Strength", a strong — as in, resistant — armor which increases the Strength stat, is possible.
Epic Battle Fantasy 5: The icon for the "Tired" Status Effect, a.k.a meaning "exhausted", is a Visual Pun, being a vehicle tire.
Fallen London has a pretty subtle one with the Anarchists, the joke being that a "dynamite faction" was a term for an energized, politically active, powerful political group used in the late 1800s (when the game takes place). The switch is that they aren't united enough to be a genuine dynamite faction and are called that because they blow stuff up a lot:
Some call them the dynamite faction, but they're very far from united.
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth: One of the ads near the piano says "Make a Splash on Your Vacation!" where "splash" means both a spray of water at the water-themed vacation, and a memorable impact or impression.
The Fushigi No Gensokyo series:
- Touhou Genso Wanderer: The "Aya Fan" is a handheld fan for her Fan Club, that recommends you to run around screaming 'AHHHHHH! AYAAAA' while flapping her fan to prove you're a true fan of hers.
- Touhou Genso Wanderer -Lotus Labyrinth-: The "Fan"-type weapons, like the "Aya Fan" and "Lady Yuyu Fan", are handheld fans for their Fan Clubs for both purposes:
  Fans: A fan for members of the [Aya Shameimaru / Yuyuko Saigyouji] Fan Club. If you truly love her, grab one of these and scream, "AHHH! [AYAAAAAA!! / LADYYY YUYUUU!!!]"
Hades II: If Melione loses to Eris, she might say her enemy "had a blast at my expense", because her enemy uses explosions "blasts" and meaning a "good time". Also "expense" might be due to the unique opening dialogue for a Fear challenge for that enemy leading them to talk about "A price to be paid" by the enemy, and "Unless you [Melione] take payment in these little metal things [bullets, that I fire at you]"
Heroes Of Oakenhaven:
- The Mythril Spear Flavor Text uses "get your point across" as in a conversation's message, but "point" as more for the physical pointy end of the spear:
  With light weight and excellent reach, a Mythril Spear will really get your point across.
- The Hide Armor Flavor Text uses "hide" as animal pelt, and "avoiding notice":
  A popular Thieves' Guild prank is to tell newbies that it's good for hiding in. (It's not.)
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker: When you get 30 points in Beedle's ship shop, you get the Complimentary ID. Show it to Beedle, and he... compliments you, instead the usual meaning of "complimentary" as in "something that is free, and in addition to your purchase".
Living Books: In the game based on The Cat in the Hat, the Fish comments that he's getting "steamed" — this is a joke because he's angry, and he's also getting literally steamed up from the teapot he's in.
In the kids' game Molly in the Trolley, when a baby named Molly throws random things off the shelves in the supermarket into the shopping trolley, her dad calls her a "pickle", as in a nuisance. Then, when he complains about having forgotten to buy some "pickle", as in chutney, his other daughter, Sophie, jokes, "Dad, we do have one pickle - Molly!".
In Moo Spew, a Licensed Game for Horrible Histories, the rat comments, "This is sick! No, really, this is sick", meaning that the game is "sick" as in cool, and it also involves the cows feeling sick, as in nauseated.
Moshi Monsters: When Tamara sees the moon through her telescope, she jokes, "I've never been mooned from space before".
One Step From Eden: Some ice item Flavor Texts references "cool" as in "awesome" and "thermally cold":
- The Frostbolt spell:
  This spell isn't just cool, it's Ice Cool
- The Sunglasses artifact: 25% Chance to create a Frost explosion when Frost dmg is dealt:
  Cool guys don't look at explosions.
PsyCard: The Cargo Ship-based description "hot X" items from Friend's Quest, the "hot rock" and its fusion with a knife, the "hot knife", are plays on "hot" being "physically attractive" and "filled with heat", as the "hot rock" is also one of the items that contribute to the Item Crafting tree for "fire X" weapons.
- hot rock:
  strangely attractive, for a rock.
- hot knife:
  please try to resist making out with the knife.
River City Girls Zero: The ending song "Mean Street" has words that can be related to fighting but also not.
- "Beat": As in physical beating and musical beat, lampshaded:
  Addicted to the "Beat" and I ain't only talking music
- "Sandwiches" as in "Knuckle Sandwich" as in a fight, and also as the food itself:
  Knuckle sandwiches are flying have ya lunch with these rhymes
Ruphand: An Apothecary's Adventure:
- A kid near the only ice sculpture in the game talks about getting scolded for messing with it, and that their response is that it's too cool not to mess with. "Cool" possibly meaning appealing and also low temperature, like ice.
- There are books in each of the Hidden Library's elemental rooms for puns of that element, and Brill always has a bookshelf where she makes a pun for that element. For example:
  - The Water bookshelf: Well as in "water source" and "positively".
  Brill: And this shelf is full of water puns. Beat At least they're all done well.
  - The Ice bookshelf: "cool" as in "low temperature" and "positive"
  Brill: It's all a bunch of books about ice... Beat Cool.
  - The Thunder bookshelf: "shocked" as in "hit by electricity" and "surprised"
  Brill: They managed to fill an entire shelf with lame lightning puns. I'm shocked.
  - The Fire bookshelf: "(heart)warming" as in "thermal increase" and "appreciated"
  Brill: It's a collection of fire puns. Some find them heartwarming.
  - The Earth bookshelf: "rocks" as in "collection of stones" and "great!"
  Brill: This shelf is all Earth puns. Beat That rocks.
  - The Wind bookshelf: "blows" as in "pushed by wind" and "surprised"
  Brill The shelf is full of wind puns. The sheer amount just blows you away.
- Bandit Gambler: From their Monster Compendium entry, a play on "folding" as in poker, and the related "fold" as in give up, since these gamblers use cards, with their "Draw a Card" move.
- Ironlight Drone: From their Monster Compendium entry, "light" as in photons, and also "not heavy"
  Its many eyes function as both optic sensors and conduits for laser beams.
  [...]
  their unusually light construction actually makes them vulnerable to Wind.
Shantae and the Seven Sirens: There's a Stealth Pun that's trying to avoid the word "Fan" when dealing with the fan club of a woman who makes giant spinning wind-making-type fans:
- Such as calling "fan art", "admiration scrawl[s]":
  I heard you repaired one of my fans!
  Everyone loves seeing my BIGGEST FAN spinning freely once more!
  In fact, an artist came by to show her appreciation...
  She got out her sketchbook and created...
  ...a one-of-a-kind...
  ...piece of...
  ...Admiration scrawl.
  ...
- At least, until Shantae gets Jet Octo, where upon she starts going insane:
  As you may know, I have forged many huge fan blades!
  And now my giant fans are more popular than ever.
  In fact, the other day an author stopped by.
  He liked my fans so much, he wrote original adventures about them.
  His very own...
  ...completely made up...
  ...imagination novellas.
  ....
  Fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan fan.
Spring-a-majig: After Buster says he thought he was toast, you say that you'd love to eat some toast. This leads Buster to invite you into his house.
Team Fortress 2: The Compatriot (which places an eagle on the Soldier's shoulder) is a combo of this and a Portmanteau — "compatriot" means "somebody from one's own country" or "having a common sentiment of patriotism", and the name is a portmanteau of "companion" (describing the eagle), and "patriot" (describing the Soldier).
In Terrible Treasures, a Licensed Game for Horrible Histories, the rat sees a mummy, as in a preserved corpse, and says, "I want my mummy... No, not that kind of mummy!".
Yandere Simulator: In one development video, YandereDev tells Midori not to bother him while he's working unless she has a bug (as in, a glitch) to report. She insists that she does have one and then reveals that she caught a ladybug. He stabs her just for that.

Web Animation

Battle for BFDI: In Four Goes Too Far, after host Four is gotten rid off by being multiplied by zero (Donut), the contestants ask who the next host is gonna be. Tennis Ball says that Four became a factor of zero, if they know what he means. Donut calls him out on that, stating there is no second meaning in the first place.
Donut: Stop that! There's not even a second meaning there!
Planet Dolan: In one video, Dolan, when asked how deep worms can go (meaning how low can they dig), claims that worms like to talk about deep, as in heavy, topics.
Red vs. Blue: In The Shisno Paradox, Huggins (a living ball of light) reports to Atlus. Atlus is at first disappointed about the contents of her report:
Atlus: Then why even bother standing before me?
Huggins: I can't actually stand, Lord Atlus.
Genkins: You too?! I can't stand him either!

Webcomics

Cyanide and Happiness:
- In this strip, one man offers the other a shot, and rather than giving him the expected drink, he stabs him with a syringe.
- In this comic, one guy tells the other about a wall behind his house that looks like it might collapse and explains that they should "break it down". The two then start dancing.
El Goonish Shive: From the commentary on father-017, "wing(s)" is used "winging" something, as doing something on a whim, and also the animal body part.
Freefall:
- Strip 1065: Baby as an affectionate term for a car and also meaning a human child, because in this case, it's both.
- Strip 1561: Single as unmarried and single as in alone.
Girl Genius: Humongulus who will spout off the occasional Gratuitous Latin phrase, but if you translate it, it will usually be fairly modern vernacular, and in this case, using thermal "coolness" for positive appeal "coolness":
Litterbox Comics: In "Hoe", Vincent says, "Never waste diamonds on a hoe!" Fran flinches at first, thinking he was talking about prostitutes, but is relieved to find out he was talking about shovels in Minecraft. However, in the bonus panel, Vincent asks her what she thought he said, but she quickly dodges it.
What is this? Humongulus cannot move! Non est frigidus!^Lat."Not Cool!"
The Order of the Stick: In strip 671, Celia tells Haley that since she was the one to summon her, she has to be the one to dismiss her. Haley then proceeds to insult her. After a Beat Panel, Haley realises Celia meant dismiss the summoning.
Out of the Blue: In Felix's dream in Chapter 4, in which he thinks he's gone to hell, he claims that he's "holier than Swiss cheese" because he borrowed the communion wine, first claiming that he drank half the bottle and then correcting himself to two sips that he later threw up.
Paranatural: This comic is absolutely chock-a-block with these.
- Max notes with glee that since Isaac is possessed by a spirit, he's...a tool. This is playing off "tool" as an in-universe term for a possessed object as well as its slang meaning as an insult.
- Isaac corrects Max on his terminology, explaining that a person possessed by a spirit is called a "medium":
  Isaac: I'm not a tool, Max. I'm a medium.
  Max: Yeah? I'm a large.
- When Spender drops in on Francisco by flipping into his yard from the roof:
  Francisco: [exasperated] To what ill twist of fortune do I owe this unexpected visit from my brightest pupil?
  Alt Text: You owe my unexpected visit to THIS ill twist!! *does another front flip off the roof*
  :::: Francisco is using "ill" to mean "unfavorable" and "twist" in a metaphorical sense meaning "turn of events". The Alt Text is using "ill" in the slang meaning of "cool"/"awesome" and "twist" in a literal sense.
Pebble and Wren:
- In one strip, Pebble reads the instructions, "Tear here" and so cries on the label.
- In one strip, Wren asks the old "If nobody's around to hear a falling tree, does it make a sound?" question. Pebble says that there would at least be trees around, but Wren says that they "don't count". Pebble says that you shouldn't be mean to trees just because they can't do math.
Rusty and Co.: From Level 7: #87, Mimic makes a pun about "fencing" connecting both "swordplay" and him Objectshifting into a wooden barrier, a.k.a a "wooden fence".
Schlock Mercenary:
- Strip 2009-08-22: "Check" as in short for "checkmate" of Chess, and also as in "confirm information".
- Strip 2006-03-07: "Watch" as in "pay attention" and literally "have eyes looking at", for "Watch what I'm eating".
- https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2006-03-12 : Attendant as both noun and adjective.
- Strip 2011-06-29: "Field work" as in "work that involves physical activity", and "field" as in "field of grass":
  I guess "field work" does not mean "standing around in meadows".
Stand Still, Stay Silent: The Rash. One of the symptoms of the disease's full-blown version is getting skin irritations. One of the other definitions of "rash" is to qualify something done without much thought, leading to common use as "something done too fast". Since the disease victims have a small chance of becoming Plague Zombie monsters that seem to act entirely on instinct at the beginning of the story and the disease itself spreads very fast, both of the other definitions apply as well.

Web Original

Dropout: In the song "31 Words That Sound Like Slurs, but Aren't", the guys note that the words "chink", "spook", "crow", etc all have one meaning that's a slur and one that isn't.
GoAnimate: In "Caillou Turns Rosie into a Chicken", he turns her into a chicken, as in the bird, because he thinks she's chicken, as in cowardly.
I Used to Believe: One submission concerns a boy who got confused upon hearing there were "organs" in the body, wondering why we never hear music from them. Later, one of his friends farted and the other said, "There! There's some music from one of Olivia's organs!".
On TV Tropes itself:
- Bastard Bastard is about someone who's a bastard in both senses of the word, i.e. both illegitimate and a Jerkass.
- A Bloody Mess is about how "bloody" is both an expletive and refers to literal blood.
- Foxy Vixen, about Fox Folk and how "in the English language, the word "fox" and "vixen" are figuratively used to describe any person who is particularly attractive or sexy".
- No Periods, Period makes a pun on how "period" can mean either "full stop" or "menstrual cycle".
- Two Shots from Behind the Bar is a pun on how "shots" can refer to drinks or gunshots.
- The page image for Bigger Is Better in Bed is of a statue of a rooster, as a play on the word "cock".
- The page image for Accentuate the Negative shows a film negative with a macron.
- Your Vampires Suck is about how vampires both literally suck blood, and they're bad.
- Quicksand Sucks is about how quicksand is both a nuisance and literally sucks people down.
- Shock and Awe is about how "shock" can mean both "surprise" and "electric shocks".
- The page image for Visual Pun shows people "combing" the desert with a hair comb.
- The Stock Room is a pun on "stock" as in "items for sale" and "generic".
- Abandon Shipping, Anchored Ship, Cargo Ship, Die for Our Ship, Dry Docked Ship, Dry Docking, Ghost Shipping, Launcher of a Thousand Ships, Ship Mates, Shipper on Deck, Shipping Torpedo, Ship Sinking, The Ship's Motor, Ships That Pass in the Night, Starboarding, Toy Ship, and War Ship are all puns on the double meaning of the word "Shipping".

Web Videos

Dark Simpsons:
- In a "Sour Simpsons Reanimated" skit, Homer's doodle, which previously referred to his penis, now refers to his drawing.
- In another one, the magazine Gigantic Asses is now about large donkeys, when it was canonically about large rumps.
Kid Time Story Time:
- This Book Stinks is a book about a baby with a messy diaper. In the Title Reading Gag, Eileen makes a joke by saying that "All those other books [in this series] were great; why should this one stink?".
- When reading Super Farty Pants, Eileen says that "mummy" in this context means "mommy", not "corpse wrapped in bandages".
The Mysterious Mr. Enter: In a video reviewing Chicken Little (2005), Enter calls Buck a "big fat cock". This is a pun, because he sees Buck as a jerk, but Buck is also a literal cock as in rooster.
In this video, which is the Soviet Union anthem with misheard lyrics, the line "I don't give a bum" is illustrated with a donkey's hindquarters, as a pun on "ass".

Western Animation

The Amazing World of Gumball:Discussed in "The Party", Gumball and Darwin are invited to Rachel's party, but they have to bring a date to enter. When Darwin asks what a date is. Bobert comes in to explain that a date is an activity where two people meet each other for a relationship... he also defines it as a fruit that makes you toot.
Animaniacs: When Ms. Flamiel, the teacher, asks the Warner siblings to find their seats, i.e. their chairs, they point at their behinds.
Arthur:
- In "Through the Looking Glasses", Arthur jokingly asks the Brain, who's working in an ice cream store, what the "scoop" is. Brain jokes back, "The scoop is that I'm getting creamed," as he is losing a chess match against his opponent.
- In the intro to "For the Birds", Brain details some of the rarest (as in uncommon) things he and his friends have seen. This ends with a cut to Muffy in a fancy restaurant, complaining that her steak definitely isn't rare. Brain points out, "Muffy, that's a completely different meaning of 'rare'."
- In "Jenna's Bedtime Blues", Jenna is trying to stay up all night because she's afraid she'll wet the bed. Just then, the TV shows a Scotsman saying he needs to patch a "wee" leak in his bagpipes.
- In "Buster's Growing Grudge", Buster makes a joke about King Tut saying, "I want my mummy!" when he sees a Sphynx.
- In "Spoiled Rotten!", Muffy asks Arthur and Buster if she's spoiled, as in pampered. Buster says that she isn't, but something in his coat is, and takes out a sandwich that's spoiled as in expired.
Baymax!: Sofia says "period" for emphasis at the end of her declaration that she'll do well in the talent show, alluding to how this entire episode was about her going through a First Period Panic.
Bing: In "Hide and Seek", the kids line up to use the bathroom and call it a "toilet train", as a pun on "training" and "trains".
Bluey: In "Grannies", the Heeler sisters ask their grandparents if they know how to floss, which is a kind of dance. Nana Chris replies, "Oh, yes, I floss every night."
The Casagrandes:
- In one episode, Carl accidentally glues part of his toy train to his behind. He says that he glued a caboose to his caboose.
- In "Squawk in the Name of Love", Adelaide is telling Sergio what to say through a radio, and he is repeating it. When she calls him a dope and he repeats it to Frank, Sergio tries to cover his butt by saying that he actually called him dope, as in cool. Then, when Adelaide says, "Not now, you monkey!" to a literal monkey, and Sergio repeats it, Frank thinks that Sergio called him a monkey as in a fool.
The Day My Butt Went Psycho!: In "Runnin' on Empty", a witch named Helga says she sees a moon and there is a photo of a bunch of sentient butts playing poker. She then clarifies she was actually talking about a butt-shaped moon.
DuckTales (2017): In "GlomTales!", when Mark Beaks tells the villains about his new Beaks Coin cryptocurrency system and the Beagle Boys ask where they can grab it, Beaks explains that it's in the Cloud. Bouncer looks up at a literal cloud in the sky outside and throws his brother Burger at it.
The Fairly OddParents!: In "Vicky Gets Fired", Timmy's parents say that Vicky is fired, and then they fire her out of a cannon.
Family Guy: In "The Son Also Draws", Peter has a Potty Emergency, but then he passes by signs that remind him of defecation. One sign says, "All stools must go!" (referring to how "stool" can mean feces), and what finally makes him pull over is seeing a casino's sign that says, "craps, craps, craps".
Futurama:
- In the first episode, "Space Pilot 3000", Leela informs Fry that if he refuses his assigned role, he will be fired. Fry assumes, not unreasonably, that she meant that in a work context as in "fired from a job". Leela then clarifies she meant out of a cannon, into the Sun.
- Bender, referring both to his function as a bending unit and to the fact that he's constantly drinking alcohol (which he needs as fuel).
Gabby's Dollhouse, DJ Catnip invokes this trope in "DJ's Glow Ride"
DJ Catnip: Hey, Gabby, do you wanna play us some...(looking at the audience) tracks^note
Garfield and Friends: In "Moo Cow Mutt", when Jon and Odie pay Garfield out for tricking Odie into thinking he's a cow, Garfield tells Odie that he can't be a cow since cows give milk. Odie gives Garfield some milk in a carton. Garfield then tells Odie that's not how cows give milk. He then tells Odie that male cows have horns, and Odie gives him a pair of horns that honk. Garfield then tells him "Not those kind of horns!"
Go, Dog. Go!: In "Cattitude Adjustment", Tag and Scooch make a committee. They both say, "Present!" when they're having a meeting, which Beans overhears and he asks if they have any presents.
Hazbin Hotel: In "Radio Killed the Video Star," during his Quarreling Song with Alastor, Vox sings, "Now his medium is getting bloody rare!" while pulling a roasted deer head from an oven. "Medium" and "bloody rare" can both refer to different cooked temperatures of steak, but he is also saying Alastor's medium of radio, i.e., his method of reaching viewers, is outdated.
How to Catch a Cold: The main character is seen with a literal coat on his tongue as a Visual Pun on having a "coated" tongue.
Littlest Pet Shop (2012): In “Steamed”, the Biskit twins ask their mother Eliza where she’s been for the past three seasons. Eliza then clarifies that she has actually been gone during summer, fall, and winter.
Looney Tunes:
- In "Museum Scream", Sylvester goes through an exhibit about the digestive system and Tweety jokes that he looks "pooped" (as in, exhausted).
- In the short Transylvania 6-5000, the vampire Count Bloodcount tries to intimidate Bugs Bunny by transforming into a bat. Bugs replies, "I'm a bat too", transforming himself into a baseball bat and trying to hit the vampire.
The Loud House:
- Leni, being a Dumb Blonde, commonly gets which definition of a word is being used wrong:
  - In "The Price of Admission", Lincoln lies to her that it's daylight savings time, and she thinks he's talking about savings at a store.
  - In "Lynner Takes All", when asked to "throw" a game, she literally throws it out the window.
  - In "A Tattler's Tale", when she hears that there's a rat, as in a snitch, in the house, she screams because she's afraid of rats.
- In "No Such Luck", Lincoln eats a cereal with a squirrel mascot called "Ah, Nuts!".
- "Job Insecurity", during Mr. Grouse’s Training Montage to become a computer expert, the kids make him sort out different items related to computers. Lana makes him pick between a mouse, as in the animal and a computer mouse, Luna has him pick between a musical keyboard and a computer keyboard, and Lisa makes him pick between a tortilla chip and a microchip.
- In "Hand-Me-Downer", Lincoln says his bike is "sick", as in cool, then jokes, "Temperature of 103!".
- In "Raw Deal", Lucy predicts fortunes for most of her siblings. Lori's is that she would take a "long trip", but in a Prophecy Twist, she ends up tripping on spilled oil. Lana's is that she'd become "filthy rich", and that also has a twist in that she finds a dollar that's literally filthy because it was Dropped in the Toilet. Lisa then jokes that calling her "rich" would be a gross exaggeration.
- In "Get the Message", Lincoln says he swears that he'll walk within the speed limit, and Lana yells, "No swearing!" (alluding to saying bad words).
- In "It's a Loud, Loud, Loud, Loud House", there's a note taped to Lily's bottom saying that whoever finds it has gotten to the "bottom" of the mystery.
- In "Space Invader", Lincoln says, "Space, the final frontier", then starts talking about getting space as in room.
- In "Family Bonding", Lincoln, who is in a bathroom stall, says that something "stinks", i.e. is suspicious. Liam thinks Lincoln meant something literally smells bad, and apologises, having taken a dump as he'd eaten some yogurt that didn't agree with him.
Martha Speaks has a number of examples, due to words being a recurring theme on the show:
- In "Martha's Must-Have", Martha is confused by Helen saying that the collar she wants is "cheap", since it's expensive. Helen explains that "cheap" can also mean "poorly made".
- In "Martha Changes Her Luck", Martha hears about a movie called The Curse of the Curse, which is about a curse as in a hex, and thinks that it's full of swear words.
- In "What's Bothering Bob?", Truman has a virtual dictionary that starts defining "nuts". It defines it as hard-shelled fruit, insanity, or an exclamation (as in, "Ah, nuts!") and is about to list a fourth definition, when Truman silences it.
- In "Martha Bakes", Martha and Skits think that "from scratch" means creating a thing just by scratching.
- In "Martha's Blue Period", Martha is asked if she's "blue", as in sad, and looks at herself and replies, "Nope, still yellow!".
- In "Martha Calling", when an ex-sailor named Boomer calls himself an "old, salty dog", Martha replies, "Really? What breed?".
- In "Cora Encore", Kit is about to call Ham, who was mistaken for a woman due to being in a toga that was mistaken for a dress, by an insult, but then it cuts to Martha saying, "Cow!" when pointing out a literal cow; the joke being that "cow" is sometimes an insult to a woman.
- In "T.D. the Pack Rat", Mrs. Clusky plays a song whose lyrics are just "Rock a rock, rock a rock rock rock a" over and over, because it's a rock-and-roll song. This bothers T.D. because it reminds him of a rock, as in a stone, he wants to keep and he's afraid someone might have stolen.
Monsters vs. Aliens (2013): In "Number Seven!", Sqweep abruptly states that she has to "go". General Monger says she's not allowed to leave the premises, and she repeats her claim, but with emphasis. BOB can immediately tell she's saying she needs to use the bathroom.
Muppet Babies (2018): In "Animal Kong", bananas fall onto Statler and Waldorf's balcony as a result of the kids' failed attempt to calm Animal down. Waldorf jokes that this is "bananas" (as in crazy) and he and Statler burst out laughing.
My Friends Tigger & Pooh: In one episode, the main characters get Lumpy over his Fear of Thunder by counting between the lightning and the thunder. Tigger then jokes that they're always ready to help when it "counts".
My Gym Partner's a Monkey: In "The Hyena and the Mighty", Adam angrily rants about how much he hates Rufus's constant laughter and then it's revealed that Rufus heard everything while he was in a bathroom stall. Adam awkwardly quips that Rufus is probably feeling "flushed".
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
- In "Applebuck Season", Pinkie Pie gets food poisoning from some bad muffins, and jokes that they weren't baked goods, but rather baked bads.
- In "The Cutie Pox", Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo note that if they get their cutie marks (symbols on their thighs that illustrate their talents) in bowling, they'll no longer be the Cutie Mark Crusaders. They consider renaming their club the Three Strikes, but Scootaloo comments, "That makes it sound like we struck out."
The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: In "Sham Pooh", Pooh says that his breakfast is "balanced" because he's stacked his honey jars.
The Owl House: In "I Was a Teenage Abomination", Luz sneaks into a magic school to help a witch girl impress her classmates, by pretending to be a monster in her abomination class. The plan works too well and had attracted the principal of the school to investigate. When observing Luz, he commands her to "lie". Luz rambles a bunch of incorrect facts ("Uh, viral fame is a worthy pursuit. Your cat would never eat you if it got the chance. Chemtrails are real..."), but the principal corrects her that he meant to lie down on a desk, so he can further examine her.
The Patrick Star Show: In "Dr. Smart Science", when Sandy is demonstrating a baking soda volcano, Patrick takes this to be how actual volcanoes work. When she reminds him it's a model volcano, Patrick says "Nuh-uh, this is a model!" and points to a fashion model right next to them.
Peg + Cat: In "The Halloween Problem", Peg sees Cat scratching his behind, which gives her the idea to sneak behind the tiger.
Phineas and Ferb: In "Swiss Family Phineas", Isabella asks where the bathroom is while she's on a boat. Phineas jokes that it's called the poopdeck, only for Lawrence to clarify that it's actually called the "head".
Pinky Dinky Doo: In "Are You My Mummy?", a mummy kid says he'd like to find his "mummy" (as in, his mother). Tyler is confused because he already is a mummy, but Pinky explains what he means.
The Powerpuff Girls (1998): In "Pee Pee G's", the narrator says the Powerpuff Girls are waking up in the "wee, wee hours of the morning" and then it's revealed that their bed is soaking wet (though this turns out to be the result of Mojo spraying water on their sheets). Later, they keep seeing things that remind them of pee and Blossom overhears a guy protesting, "It was an accident!" when he's crashed his car into a fire hydrant.
Ready Jet Go!: In "Castaway Carrot", Celery says the saucer needs to be fixed (referring to repairing). Sunspot Screams Like a Little Girl in response, implying that he thought the saucer would be neutered.
The Real Ghostbusters:
- In one episode, Slimer hears the expression "poop deck" and says in confusion, "Poop deck!?".
- In "Hanging by a Thread", when Peter hears the phrase "seal impression", he starts doing an impression, as in an impersonation, of a seal as in the animal.
- When Peter tells Slimer that he's "dead", as in "in trouble", Slimer makes light of it, because he is also a ghost.
Robot Chicken: In the musical style of Schoolhouse Rock!, the Homonym song aims to teach the viewer that innocuous-sounding words can be used as swear words and slurs.
Rugrats:
- In "Chuckie vs. the Potty", Chuckie has Anxiety Dreams about being flushed down a toilet when he's on death row. Angelica the executioner declares, "Everybody's gotta go someday!", as a pun on how "go" can mean "die".
- In "Grandpa's Bad Bug", Grandpa Lou lies that he's caught a stomach bug (or a "bad bug", as he puts it) to get out of doing chores. The kids think an actual insect is inside him, so they try to scare it away by putting "good" insects in his bed, much to Lou's horror.
- In the book "Tommy Catches a Cold", Tommy catches a cold, hence the title. Lou says he must've caught the bug that's been going around town, and Tommy thinks he's referring to an actual insect. He and his friends then look for a bug so they can let it go and cure Tommy.
- In "Mr. Friend", when Stu says that the eponymous toy has "bugs", as in glitches, Tommy thinks this means it's full of insects.
- In "Bad Shoes", Didi tells Stu that his new shoes "don't go", as in don't suit the rest of the outfit. The babies think this means that when he walks, they don't come with him.
- In "Hold the Pickles", when the babies are trying to make Taffy the babysitter like Dil better, she mentions that she loves the babies as they're so "sweet", as in adorable. The babies then make Dil literally sweet by decorating him like an ice cream sundae.
- The plot of "Starstruck" is that Kimi is told she will be a "star", as in a celebrity, when she is cast in a movie, but her brother and friends think that she will turn into a literal star.
- In "Baby Power", Didi sees Dil wet from the other babies having spilled Spike the dog's drinking bowl onto him. She mistakes the water for pee and says, "When you have to go, you have to go!" Tommy thinks she means "go" as in "go away" and worries his brother will be sent off.
- In "Brothers are Monsters", Stu says that "older brothers are monsters", as in mean people. This causes Tommy, who has a little brother named Dil, to fear that he is turning into a literal monster. Later, when Frederick teases his little sister Betty by telling her that older sisters can be monsters too, Phil fears that his sister Lil (who's his twin, but is technically older) will turn into a monster when he mistakes candy in her mouth for fangs.
- In "Chicken Pops", when Chuckie thinks he will turn into a chicken, he says he doesn't want to be a "chicken" (as in cowardly) chicken.
The Simpsons:
- In "Lisa the Vegetarian", Lisa refers to a pro-meat PSA as "tripe", as in nonsense. The students are then served literal tripe to eat.
- In "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?", Bart calls somebody a "bastard", and Marge tells him off. Bart says that he's technically correct since the guy's parents aren't married.
- In "Love is a Many Strangled Thing", the jumbotron shows an image of a donkey dancing, with the caption, "Make an ass of yourself!"
- In "The Good, the Sad, and the Drugly", Milhouse says he "sees" (as in realises) what's happening here. But then, he adds that he can't literally see what's going on because his glasses are foggy.
In the South Park episode Pandemic 2: The Startling, the characters are stranded in a jungle full of giant animals and plants. They use common phrases whilst passing literal examples — e.g. asking: "How d'you like them apples?" as they walk past enormous apples, or remarking: "Ain't that a peach?" as they pass a giant peach.
SpongeBob SquarePants:
- In the episode "Squid's Day Off", when SpongeBob says Squidward must be busy, Squidward says he doesn't like his tone (as in attitude), prompting SpongeBob to speak in a different tone, as in a higher-pitched voice.
- In "Krab Borg", Squidward says that he must get the "poop" (slang for information) on Mr. Krabs to find out if he's a robot, and SpongeBob replies in confusion, "We poop on the robot?".
- In "Bubble Buddy", an angry mob tells SpongeBob that the eponymous man-shaped bubble "has to go". SpongeBob thinks they mean "go" as in use the bathroom, but Pearl clarifies that they mean "go" as in go away, and they want to pop him.
- In "Ripped Pants", a fish mentions having sand in her "buns", and then it's revealed she meant hamburger buns.
- In "Sailor Mouth", SpongeBob says they might receive forty lashes (as in, a beating) and Patrick imagines himself with a lot of eyelashes.
- In "Fools in April", Squidward feels guilty about the mean-spirited prank he pulled on SpongeBob, so he says to himself, "I feel like a..." and then imagines a donkey, implying he's thinking of "jackass", but then he finishes with "big jerk".
Steven Universe S1E4 "Together Breakfast": Steven claims that his breakfast isn't exactly healthy, but being in a stack makes it a "balanced breakfast". "Balanced" as in physically stable, instead of "nutritionally good". Garnet just stares wordlessly.
Super Why!: In "Jack and the Beanstalk", Whyatt's baby sister Joy wails endlessly. Whyatt says she's having a "huge, giant tantrum" and she briefly becomes a giant.
Tangled: The Series: Eugene thought King Frederic wanted his help to prank King Trevor by stealing a document known as the Royal Seal of Equis. It turns out to be King Trevor's pet seal, Trevor Jr., instead.
TaleSpin: In the episode "In Search Of Ancient Blunders", air pirate captain Don Karnage orders his crew to "fire at will," meaning shoot at their target whenever they're ready. This is followed by a fellow pirate on the crew running by being shot at, and Don Karnage exasperatedly says not to fire at Will, but to fire at the Sea Duck.
Teen Titans Go!: A sound effect variant in "Monster Squad"; The Titans transform themselves into real Halloween monsters and argue with each other over who's the scariest. Starfire (the mummy) proves herself to be scary by booing like a monster. But her boos sound less haunting, and more heckling.
Cyborg (Frankenstien's Monster): Mummy, me think it more like (eerily) "Booooo."
Starfire (Mummy): That is what I said. Booo! BOOOOOOOOO!! Swing batta, batta, batta! Hey, batta!
Tiny Toon Adventures: An Anthropomorphic Personification of a "lame joke" is shown as a clown with a lame, as in gammy, leg.
VeggieTales: In the "Silly Songs with Larry" song "Pants", Larry describes "pants" as a "verb for a dog, and a noun for a kid".
Vida the Vet: In "Pippen's Stomach Bug", Pippen's older brother Banjo gets a stomach bug and Pippen thinks he actually swallowed an insect. She later gets one herself and is terrified that a bug actually crawled into her insides.
Wander Over Yonder: In "The Party Poopers", Wander and Sylvia visit the High Gnees, but they are treated to a barrage of butt jokes and Toilet Humor. Some of them are double meanings, such as the butler presenting "buns" (referring to the bread), "moon cakes" (a pun on mooning) and a photo of a homeless man (as in, a bum).
What's with Andy?: In "What's with Jean-Thomas?", Andy says, "I have to go soon", referring to how he has to leave. Lori takes this as him saying he has to use the bathroom and replies she does too because of a big drink she's had. Also, Andy once mentions that he's "lying" as in "reclining" here in misery, and Danny jokes, "'Lying' being the key word", since Andy is faking having a brother.

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A birthday card depicts a man in the hospital in pain, and one nurse is saying to another, "I said to prick his boil" (the implication being that she tried to boil his prick instead).
Cartoon Network: In the 20th anniversary party video, Gumball is anxiously waiting for Cheese to come out of the bathroom. Grim (who is The Grim Reaper) creepily says, "We all have to go sometime", alluding to how "go" can mean "die".

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