TV Tropes is a wiki about the tricks of the trade in writing fiction. Tropes are devices a writer can use and be reasonably sure they will be present in the minds of audience members.

Basically, each entry defines the tropes and lists its uses in various media examples. You can also look at particular TV shows, movies, books, etc. and see the tropes used in it.

In fairness, you should know that going to TV Tropes can cost you many hours at a time. You can get lost going from trope to trope to trope.

Don’t blame me. I warned you.

In any case, here are the entries that pertain to puns and shaggy dogs:

• Shaggy Dog Story
• Shoot the Shaggy Dog
• Shaggy Frog Story

• Pun
• Accidental Pun
• Epunymous Title
• Feghoot
• Hurricane of Puns
• Lame Pun Reaction
• Multiple Reference Pun
• Pungeon Master
• Punny Headlines
• Punny Name
• Russian Reversal
• Stealth Pun
• Tom Swifty
• Visual Pun
• What’s a Henway
• World of Pun

• Just for Pun
• Pun-Based Title