View Full Version : 15 most cringe-worthy James Bond puns.
ChthonicSpirit
01-17-2008, 01:57 PM
Read 'em and weep. Or sporfle, according to choice. (http://www.cracked.com/article_15785_15-most-cringe-worthy-james-bond-puns.html)
I noticed a lot of these in the movies. One thing I will say is that Q's 'attempting re-entry line is quite genuinely funny, even if only because it's coming from Q rather than Bond himself.
Also, I found it kind of odd how terrified the author is of older women, especially since Madonna and that lady who plays Moneypenny are still hot.
NickThompson
01-17-2008, 02:42 PM
Nothing wrong with a Bond pun :)
Solaris
01-17-2008, 05:10 PM
I've always enjoyed the Bond puns, for the most part. A lot of it had to do with just how hard they had to set it up (not as funny) and the delivery (depends on the Bond/person) and on how funny the line actually was.
Then again, I love bad puns. ;)
The good ones make you laugh, the bad ones make you groan... and the truly atrocious ones make you simulataneously laugh, groan, hold your nose, and run screaming from the room. :D
Adam C
01-17-2008, 05:15 PM
I dunno. "I thought that Christmas comes once a year" was placed far too low on the list myself.
ninjapeps
01-17-2008, 05:18 PM
I can't think of Madonna as hot. The way she looks now scares me. Have you seen her arms? Die Another Day was also the worst Bond theme I had ever heard.
hellokittykat
01-17-2008, 06:40 PM
Of course they're cringe-worthty! Puns by their very nature are cringe-worthy! I don't feel like I've succeed with my pun unless at least two people cringe at it!:p
Alan Lynch
01-18-2008, 04:24 AM
"Cunning linguist" is one of my favourites. I went to see that movie with my parents, and I was at the age where I wasn't sure whether to laugh or pretend I didn't get it.
Cam63
01-18-2008, 08:54 AM
" Yo, Blofeld ! *BANG ! BANG !* " didn't make it ?
"Cunning linguist" is one of my favourites. I went to see that movie with my parents, and I was at the age where I wasn't sure whether to laugh or pretend I didn't get it.The problem with "cunning linguist" is that it was a very, very old line before it made its way into a Bond movie. I mean at least decades old, because I remember hearing it back in the 70s when I was a kid, and I doubt it was newly coined then. Wasn't from a movie, just one of those jokes that went around when you got to the age where everyone talked a lot about sex to hide how inexperienced we all were. So I thought it was extremely lame to see it in a Bond flick and a sign of how very low the franchise had fallen.
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