The best kind of clever tweet is a specific type of pun that creates meaning by putting the referential words throughout the sentence instead of saving them as a punchline. Many, if not most, of these jokes are quite crude. My favorite safe-for-work version is the “Even at my lois I’m still a family guy” tweet from bigguccicraigy. It’s perfect. It has the panache of hustle culture but rerouted through the insanity of a Family Guy reference, resting on the double pun of “lois” for “lowest” and “family guy” for “Family Guy.” Ok, maybe that last part isn’t quite a pun. It probably falls into the more general category of double entendre but an especially vacuous iteration. Either way, it’s funny. A classic of the genre is the rather crude, “she be ebbin on my neezer til i scrooge.” The author of that tweet will surely be getting a visit from the Ghost of Christmas Future. This style of tweet of course owes its existence to the classic, “you’re telling me a shrimp fried this rice?” Which has been wonderfully remixed in many different ways including, “You’re telling me a cis teen built this chapel?” and “You’re telling me a boot cut these jeans?” Anyway, I’ve been struggling to figure out what to call these things but I think Inside Out Puns is pretty good.
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I do a lot of crosswords and kind of have pun fatigue.
I feel that, pun fatigue is real but when they’re good they’re so good