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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Newspapers love puns in their headlines, especially if they are of the tabloid variety. Ubiquitous, really — any edition will include at least one pun that is worth a Collective Groan or Lame Pun Reaction. Bonus points if it's about sex. Examples: |
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CSI: NY's episode "The Untouchable" features a troubled young woman who has quite a collection of pictures and articles on a wall in her home. One of the headlines actually does read "Headless Body Lost in Topless Bar." | |
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The Simpsons: "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish" had Montgomery Burns run for governor but be tripped up by the appearance of a three-eyed fish in Springfield waters, courtesy of leaks from his nuclear power plant. He argued that the fish was a superior evolution, but then choked and spat it up when Lisa and Marge cooked one for him for dinner. A reporter present promptly called in the headline "Montgomery Burns Can't Swallow Own Story." | |
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"Misleading headlines" are a recurring theme on Frank and Ernest; one example. | |
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The Powerpuff Girls episode "I See a Funny Cartoon in Your Future" used the SMALL MEDIUM AT LARGE and IT'S RARE TO SEE A MEDIUM SO WELL DONE headlines. Only it applies to a crooked fortuneteller, a small woman named Madame Argentina who uses her talent to scam wealthy people out of their money. The second headline comes after the girls capture her in a lit barbecue grill. | |
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The Daily Show and The Colbert Report commonly use this trope to introduce their segments. | |
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In their book of the series, David Mitchell and Robert Webb imagined editors of newspapers coming up with a stock of punning headlines in case of certain unlikely events happening. For example 'The Hens Justify the Means' in case chickens were ever used to teach the law of averages. | |
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A shining example from Three Panel Soul, on the star of the new TRON movie being intelligent: New Tron Star Not Dense. | |
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A few of these show up in The Truth, and a few later Discworld books that mention the Ankh-Morpork Times. When a cart carrying eggs, a cart carrying milk, and a cart carrying flour crash into each other, Sacharissa writes the headline CITY'S BIGGEST CAKE MIX-UP. |
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Occasionally highlighted on Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, either by describing the content and having the panelist guess the headline or giving three ridiculous headlines as a multiple choice question for the panelist. Memorable real examples from segments of the latter variety include "Crack Found in Man's Buttocks" and "Big Rig Carrying Fruit Crashes on 210 Freeway, Creates Jam". | |
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July 2009- Katie Price states that her estranged husband Peter Andre is small in a certain area on a certain social networking site: "The Twitter batter of tiny Pete". | |
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Appearing on The Tonight Show when Jay Leno was the host: "Mooning case reveals crack in law." | |
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