Lame Pun Coon

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Published September 4, 2026

Lame Pun Coon, also known as Pun Coon or Bad Joke Raccoon, is an image macro built on a snapshot of a grinning raccoon captioned with deliberately cheesy wordplay. The format took off in April 2010 as an Advice Dog spinoff and became a go-to template for groan-worthy pun humor on early Reddit, Tumblr, and MemeGenerator.

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Overview

The macros pair the cropped raccoon photo with the classic Advice Dog color-wheel background, using a two-line caption: a setup on top and a wordplay punchline on the bottom3. The joke depends on the raccoon's wide, genuine-looking grin selling a pun that is almost always too corny to be funny on its own terms1.

Common variations swap homophones, mangle idioms, or shoehorn animal-related puns into everyday expressions. Because the format is short, easily remixable, and hinges on any groan-worthy pun a poster can think of, the template produced hundreds of one-off submissions on hubs like MemeGenerator and Quickmeme rather than a handful of dominant catchphrases4.

Origin & Background

Platform
Flickr (source photo) / Reddit / MemeGenerator (viral spread)
Creator
Unknown
Date
2010

The source photograph of the raccoon was taken by Sarah Hunt and uploaded to Flickr in September 2007, well before it ever attached to a meme3. For almost three years the picture sat in the wild without a caption format.

The Advice-Dog style macro version began circulating in April 2010, with an early Reddit "Pun Contest" thread on May 7, 2010 helping cement the raccoon as the visual host for lame-pun jokes2. From there the format was picked up on MemeGenerator and Quickmeme, where users could crank out their own variants in seconds4.

How It Spread

Through the spring and summer of 2010, Lame Pun Coon jumped from Reddit and MemeGenerator onto Tumblr and hit the wider Advice Animals audience3. Humor aggregators including BuzzFeed, FunnyJunk, Memebase, and Smosh ran roundup posts of the best entries, with Smosh publishing a "25 Best Pun Raccoons" list in November 201056.

On August 29, 2010, a dedicated single-topic Tumblr called Fuck Yeah Lame Pun Coon launched to archive the growing pile of submissions1. By April 2011 the raccoon was ranked in MemeGenerator's top "Fuck Yeah" tier, sitting alongside Depression Dog and Technologically Impaired Duck in search interest3.

Like most Advice Animals, output slowed sharply after the 2012 to 2013 shift toward reaction images and screenshot humor, but the template still shows up in pun threads and nostalgia posts about the Advice Dog era4.

How to Use This Meme

To make one, drop the cropped grinning raccoon on the standard Advice Dog color-wheel background, then add a two-line white Impact caption4. The top line typically sets up an ordinary situation or phrase, and the bottom line delivers a homophone swap, a mangled idiom, or a stretched pun. The worse the pun, the better the joke usually lands, since the format is openly about celebrating cheesy wordplay rather than clever comedy1.

Frequently Asked Questions

Lame Pun Coon

2010image macroclassic

Published September 4, 2026

Lame Pun Coon, also known as Pun Coon or Bad Joke Raccoon, is an image macro built on a snapshot of a grinning raccoon captioned with deliberately cheesy wordplay. The format took off in April 2010 as an Advice Dog spinoff and became a go-to template for groan-worthy pun humor on early Reddit, Tumblr, and MemeGenerator.

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Overview

The macros pair the cropped raccoon photo with the classic Advice Dog color-wheel background, using a two-line caption: a setup on top and a wordplay punchline on the bottom3. The joke depends on the raccoon's wide, genuine-looking grin selling a pun that is almost always too corny to be funny on its own terms1.

Common variations swap homophones, mangle idioms, or shoehorn animal-related puns into everyday expressions. Because the format is short, easily remixable, and hinges on any groan-worthy pun a poster can think of, the template produced hundreds of one-off submissions on hubs like MemeGenerator and Quickmeme rather than a handful of dominant catchphrases4.

Origin & Background

Platform
Flickr (source photo) / Reddit / MemeGenerator (viral spread)
Creator
Unknown
Date
2010

The source photograph of the raccoon was taken by Sarah Hunt and uploaded to Flickr in September 2007, well before it ever attached to a meme3. For almost three years the picture sat in the wild without a caption format.

The Advice-Dog style macro version began circulating in April 2010, with an early Reddit "Pun Contest" thread on May 7, 2010 helping cement the raccoon as the visual host for lame-pun jokes2. From there the format was picked up on MemeGenerator and Quickmeme, where users could crank out their own variants in seconds4.

How It Spread

Through the spring and summer of 2010, Lame Pun Coon jumped from Reddit and MemeGenerator onto Tumblr and hit the wider Advice Animals audience3. Humor aggregators including BuzzFeed, FunnyJunk, Memebase, and Smosh ran roundup posts of the best entries, with Smosh publishing a "25 Best Pun Raccoons" list in November 201056.

On August 29, 2010, a dedicated single-topic Tumblr called Fuck Yeah Lame Pun Coon launched to archive the growing pile of submissions1. By April 2011 the raccoon was ranked in MemeGenerator's top "Fuck Yeah" tier, sitting alongside Depression Dog and Technologically Impaired Duck in search interest3.

Like most Advice Animals, output slowed sharply after the 2012 to 2013 shift toward reaction images and screenshot humor, but the template still shows up in pun threads and nostalgia posts about the Advice Dog era4.

How to Use This Meme

To make one, drop the cropped grinning raccoon on the standard Advice Dog color-wheel background, then add a two-line white Impact caption4. The top line typically sets up an ordinary situation or phrase, and the bottom line delivers a homophone swap, a mangled idiom, or a stretched pun. The worse the pun, the better the joke usually lands, since the format is openly about celebrating cheesy wordplay rather than clever comedy1.

Frequently Asked Questions