# Lame Pun Coon

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.

## Origin
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 meme[3]. 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 jokes[2]. From there the format was picked up on MemeGenerator and Quickmeme, where users could crank out their own variants in seconds[4].

- **Platform:** Flickr (source photo) / Reddit / MemeGenerator (viral spread)
- **Creator:** Unknown (photo by Sarah Hunt)
- **Date:** 2010

## 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 bottom[3]. 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 terms[1].

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 catchphrases[4].

## 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 audience[3]. 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 2010[5][6].

On August 29, 2010, a dedicated single-topic Tumblr called Fuck Yeah Lame Pun Coon launched to archive the growing pile of submissions[1]. By April 2011 the raccoon was ranked in MemeGenerator's top "Fuck Yeah" tier, sitting alongside Depression Dog and Technologically Impaired Duck in search interest[3].

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 era[4].

## How to Use
To make one, drop the cropped grinning raccoon on the standard Advice Dog color-wheel background, then add a two-line white Impact caption[4]. 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 comedy[1].

## Frequently Asked Questions
### What is Lame Pun Coon?
An Advice Animals image macro featuring a grinning raccoon captioned with deliberately cheesy puns and wordplay[3].

### Where did Lame Pun Coon come from?
The source photo was taken by Sarah Hunt and posted to Flickr in September 2007, and the macro format began spreading in April 2010 via Reddit and MemeGenerator[2][3].

### What does Lame Pun Coon mean?
It's a vehicle for openly bad puns, with the raccoon's happy expression acting as the joke teller who is fully enjoying his own groan-worthy wordplay[1].

### How do you use Lame Pun Coon?
Place the raccoon on the Advice Dog color wheel with a two-line caption: a setup on top and a pun punchline on the bottom, typically built on a homophone or a twisted idiom[4].

### Is Lame Pun Coon still popular?
It's a classic Advice Animal from the 2010 to 2011 peak of the format and still resurfaces in pun threads and Advice Dog nostalgia posts, though it's no longer trending[3].

## References
1. [https://fuckyeahlamepuncoon.tumblr.com/](<https://fuckyeahlamepuncoon.tumblr.com/>)
2. [https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/bwx6h/pun_contest/](<https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/bwx6h/pun_contest/>)
3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/lame-pun-coon](<https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/lame-pun-coon>)
4. [https://memegenerator.net/Lame-Pun-Coon](<https://memegenerator.net/Lame-Pun-Coon>)
5. [https://www.smosh.com/articles/25-best-pun-raccoons](<https://www.smosh.com/articles/25-best-pun-raccoons>)
6. [https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/pun-coon-pic](<https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/pun-coon-pic>)

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