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The pun, also known as paronomasia, is a form of wordplay that involves exploiting the ambiguous meanings of words, typically of homophonic (similar sounding), homographic (identically spelled), metonymic (same meaning) or otherwise figurative nature, for humorous or rhetorical effect.

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Carlos

Carlos is a fictional character from the animated children's show The Magic School Bus. On the internet, he is commonly associated with wordplay due to the pun jokes he makes throughout the show.

Juan

Juan is a name that is often used in image macros as a pun associated with a Spanish, Latin or Mexican ethnic stereotype. Images with these captions sometimes use a photo of a smiling man wearing an oversized sombrero, which also appears in the advice animal series Merry Mexican.

Name Puns

Name Puns are a series of image macros revolving around puns of the names of celebrities, objects, places, and fictional characters.

Thor Puns

Thor Puns refers to name puns (explained above) about the Marvel character Thor. This meme commonly comes in the form of photoshopped pictures or fanart

Pokepuns

Pokepuns is an image macro series featuring puns based on the names of various characters from the Nintendo video game franchise Pokémon.

Lame Pun Coon

Lame Pun Coon is an advice animal depicting a cheerful racoon telling puns. These type of puns are often viewed as "cheesy", thus the name "Lame Pun Coon".

Bad Joke Eel

Bad Joke Eel is another advice animal centered on a image of a Moray eel with captions delivering unfunny puns and jokes, similarly to Lame Pun Coon and Pun Dog.

Pun Dog

Pun Dog is a three-panel image macro series depicting photographs of an Alaskan Klee Kai dog telling animal-related puns. The punchline is often written to be anticlimactic, in a similar vein to Bad Joke Eel and Lame Pun Coon.

Priority Peter

Priority Peter is another advice animal, depicting a teenage boy surrounded by young woman in beach clothing. Captions commonly include math or school-related puns and wordplay.

Facebook Names

Facebook Names is a Twitter page mocking the peculiar-sounding names of certain Facebook users with name puns and homophones.

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