A James Bond Pun or a 007 Pun is a popular trademark of the fictional spy James Bond. It is a pun uttered after a certain event, such as the death of an enemy, which creates a true ‘groan factor’.

Memorable examples

• “I think they were on their way to a funeral.”
  — Sean Connery in Dr No, after a hearse full of assassins careens off a cliff and explodes.
• “Shocking. Positively shocking.”
  — Connery in Goldfinger, shortly after electrocuting an adversary.
• “I think he got the point.”
  — Connery to Domino after shooting an enemy with a harpoon in the film Thunderball.
• “How does that grab you?”
  — Roger Moore to Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me, as he lifts the henchman with a magnet.
• “He never really had a head for heights.”
  — Moore in For Your Eyes Only, shortly after throwing an enemy off a cliff.
• “I hope you had a nice fright!”
  — Ernst Stavro Blofeld in For Your Eyes Only, as he attempts to force Bond to fall off a helicopter.
• “Mind if my friend sits this one out? She’s just dead!”
  — Connery, after the death of Fiona Volpe on a dance floor in Thunderball.
• “He always did have an inflated opinion of himself.”
  — Moore in Live and Let Die, after Mr Big is killed by the expanding shark-killer bullet.
• “She always did enjoy a good squeeze.”
  — Pierce Brosnan, after Xenia Onatopp gets fatally caught in the fork of a tree in GoldenEye.