# Obscure movie puns - like 1963 Cleopatra **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies, comedian-jokes\ **Created:** [January 18, 2021, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-puns-like-1963-cleopatra/930809 "2021-01-18T13:39:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2021, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-puns-like-1963-cleopatra/930809/21 "2021-11-11T22:06:53Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Don’t geddit. I’m an SOB. You are a B. ---
**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:** [November 12, 2021, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-puns-like-1963-cleopatra/930809/22 "2021-11-12T10:15:04Z")
I don’t remember the exact wording, but in one of the British translations, there was a pun that associated “jugged hare” with being “in jug.” “Jugged hare” is hare cooked in wine sauce. If you’re “in jug,” you’re in jail (or, as they write, gaol). ---
**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:** [November 12, 2021, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-puns-like-1963-cleopatra/930809/23 "2021-11-12T10:24:55Z")
“Obscure” in the sense the movie is not shown as much nowadays as it used to be: In _ **The Great Race** _, Leslie (Tony Curtis) is rescued from the bad guys by Max (Peter Falk) disguised as a monk. Professor Fate (Jack Lemmon) is astonished when told that “Leslie escaped with a friar”: “Leslie escaped with a _chicken_?!?” ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-puns-like-1963-cleopatra/930809/24 "2021-11-12T10:48:56Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > …If you’re “in jug,” you’re in jail (or, as they write, gaol). I’m afraid that, these days, very few of us would even know that you can spell it gaol. Jail it is, then. j ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-puns-like-1963-cleopatra/930809/25 "2021-11-12T12:55:53Z")
Kids today watching Blazing Saddles are probably unlikely to know who Mongo Santamaria was. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/1K-YiFs23O0/maxresdefault.jpg "'Mongo Santamaría' (10 Seconds of) Blazing Saddles") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K-YiFs23O0) ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-puns-like-1963-cleopatra/930809/26 "2021-11-12T23:16:58Z")
Three Stooges: She was bred in ol’ Kentucky but she’s just a crumb up here. From “I Can Hardly Wait” was filmed in1943. The Kentucky bit was a famous 1898 song. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/xkkSdjf1vfk/maxresdefault.jpg "She Was Bred in Old Kentucky (1898)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkkSdjf1vfk) ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-puns-like-1963-cleopatra/930809/27 "2021-11-12T23:29:28Z")
Oh, there was an old, old comic strip when I was a kid, I don’t remember the name of it or any of the characters, but there was a short, put-upon middle-aged husband, and his shrew of a wife, who used to sing those kinds of songs at the piano (presumably in a horrible voice, because that’s the way it was drawn). I wish I could remember the name of that strip, I’d love to look them up again. Sorry for the hijack. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-puns-like-1963-cleopatra/930809/28 "2021-11-12T23:52:43Z")
The Lockhorns? ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2021, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-puns-like-1963-cleopatra/930809/29 "2021-11-13T00:03:28Z")
_Bringing Up Father_ aka _Maggie and Jiggs_? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2021, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-puns-like-1963-cleopatra/930809/30 "2021-11-13T00:03:42Z")
> [@peedin](#): > > The Lockhorns? Sounds like it; what @Roderick\_Fenn describes is one of the small number of stereotypes which make up about 80% of that strip’s gags: - The wife sings badly - The wife is a bad cook - The wife spends too much money - The wife is a bad driver - The husband is lazy - The husband drinks too much - The husband flirts with attractive women - The husband is cheap ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2021, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-puns-like-1963-cleopatra/930809/31 "2021-11-13T00:29:00Z")
The voice of Popeye, Jack Mercer, threw in numerous ad-libbed puns and asides: “I hit an officer…I broke the law! [Aside] I think I broke his head, too [Aside]” ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2021, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-puns-like-1963-cleopatra/930809/32 "2021-11-13T01:03:09Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Also Bob Hope: the song “Road to Morocco” says: “Like Webster’s dictionary, we’re [morocco-bound](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morocco_leather)” When _Family Guy_ started doing their own homages to the Road movies, that became “Like a masochist in Newport, we’re Rhode Island bound.” ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2021, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-puns-like-1963-cleopatra/930809/33 "2021-11-13T02:09:13Z")
My college roommate, who was very attuned to puns, always saw one in _It’s a Gift_ where W.C. Fields, after his store was flooded with molasses, put up a sign saying, “Closed on account of molasses.” He insisted it was a pun on “my losses.” I’m dubious, but maybe. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2021, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-puns-like-1963-cleopatra/930809/34 "2021-11-14T06:58:56Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > Mongo Santamaria True, and I sure didn’t. But it is in the IMDb trivia, where 215 out of 225 people found it interesting. 😆 ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2021, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-puns-like-1963-cleopatra/930809/35 "2021-11-14T07:23:04Z")
In one of Leslie Neilsen’s classics (don’t remember which one – possibly _Airplane!_) there is a whole series of rapid-fire exchanges where puns fly and things are taken ridiculously literally. After which Neilsen is in a bar and says “Bring me a White Russian”. Then he stares at the camera, deadpan, and shakes his head, as if to say: “Nah, we won’t do this one!”. ---
**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:** [November 14, 2021, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-puns-like-1963-cleopatra/930809/36 "2021-11-14T07:48:10Z")
In the “Peter-otica” episode of _ **Family Guy** _, one of the porn novels Peter churns out is titled _ **Harry Potter and the Half-Black Chick** _, an obvious play on “the Half-Blood Prince.” For some reason or other, this book is often omitted from the list of titles presented in the show… ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2021, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-puns-like-1963-cleopatra/930809/37 "2021-11-14T11:31:59Z")
I see we are veering away from movies as requested in the OP. In that spirit I’ll offer one from the TV show “ **Raising Hope** ” that I have never forgotten: I’m unsure of which characters said what, but there was a monologue about taking your shot or shooting for the moon or something like that. It ended with, “you may like your glory in small pieces, but I like my glory whole”. mmm ---
**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:** [November 14, 2021, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-puns-like-1963-cleopatra/930809/38 "2021-11-14T12:11:42Z")
Reminds me of the episode of _ **Frasier** _ where the ice sculpture at Martin’s wedding starts to melt: **FRASIER:** My Balzac is dripping! **ROZ:** Don’t worry. In those dark pants, no one will ever know. (Once again, this has been edited out of some versions of the show.) ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2021, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-puns-like-1963-cleopatra/930809/39 "2021-11-14T12:49:40Z")
I’m too lazy to look it up, but I believe Frasier used two similar Balzac puns, in two different episodes. mmm ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2021, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-puns-like-1963-cleopatra/930809/40 "2021-11-14T13:00:15Z")
I would have assumed that was a reference to the Great Molasses Flood. > **[Great Molasses Flood](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > > The Great Molasses Flood, also known as the Boston Molasses Disaster,\[a\] was a disaster that occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. > A large storage tank filled with 2.3 million US gal (8,700 m3) of molasses, weighing approximately\[b\]13,000 short tons (12,000 t), burst, and the resultant wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 mph (56 km/h), killing 21 and injuring 150. The e... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-puns-like-1963-cleopatra/930809.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obscure-movie-puns-like-1963-cleopatra/930809.md?page=3)