# Favourite movie puns and/or punny movies

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**Created:** [June 3, 2018, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-movie-puns-and-or-punny-movies/815354 "2018-06-03T13:44:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2018, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-movie-puns-and-or-punny-movies/815354/41 "2018-06-10T15:52:46Z")

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> [@MonkeyMensch](#):
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> One of my favorites from \*The Great Race \*(1965) after the hero **(Leslie)** has escaped with the help of a monk…  
> **Max** : “ **Leslie** escaped with a small friar!”  
> **General** : “ **Leslie** escaped with a chicken?!”  
> Cracks me up every time…

Nitpick: Max (Peter Falk) was the “friar” who helped Leslie (Tony Curtis) escape. The “General” was Professor Fate (Jack Lemmon), who was being held prisoner by the evil Baron von Stuppe (Ross Martin)—whose name, I just realized, was a joke unto itself! :smack:

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2018, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-movie-puns-and-or-punny-movies/815354/42 "2018-06-10T16:01:38Z")

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> [@Spoons](#):
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> Bond had (as I recall) flown to the US and was picked up at the airport by a CIA staffer. He was surprised that his CIA contact, Felix Leiter, had not been there to pick him up. “He was busy, but we’re in radio contact, if you want to speak with him.” However, the car contained no radio.
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> “Use this,” the driver said, pointing at the car’s cigarette lighter. And soon, Felix’s voice greets Bond through the cigarette lighter.
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> “Ah,” said Bond. “A genuine Felix lighter.”

In _ **Diamonds are Forever** _, Leitner meets Bond at the airport with the corpse being used to smuggle diamonds into the States.

“Where are the diamonds, James?” he asks.

“Ailementary, my dear Felix,” replies Bond. “Ailementary.”

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**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2018, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-movie-puns-and-or-punny-movies/815354/43 "2018-06-11T22:08:26Z")

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One of my favorite moments when I first saw _Airplane!_ (I was 15 at the time) wasn’t really a pun, but more of a literal visual interpretation of a common idiom: “When Kramer hears about this, the shit’s gonna hit the fan!” \*cut to a shot of an electric fan with, literally, shit hitting it from offscreen.

I’m not sure if other languages have that expression, or how it might translate.

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