Caption Monkey 35: Puffer Fish!

Posted by Alex in Animal, Caption Monkey on July 8, 2008 at 7:19 am



Photo: Bill Eichenlaub / National Park Service

That’s the o’opu hue spotted puffer (Arothron meleagris), a fiash in the Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park in beautiful Hawaii.

Yay! It’s time for Neatorama and Hobotopia’s Caption Monkey game! Funniest caption will win a free monkey (or any other critter) drawing of your choice by Adam "Ape Lad" Koford.

Contest rules are easy: place your caption in the comment section below. One caption per comment, please. You can enter as many funny ones as you can think of. Good luck!

Update 7/8/08 - Adam has picked the winner! Congrats to John M. who won with “Hey you, pull my fin!”



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163 comments to "Caption Monkey 35: Puffer Fish!"

  1. Thorbjørn Kühl
    July 8th, 2008 at 7:23 am

    Aaaaachoo!

  2. K Bell
    July 8th, 2008 at 7:25 am

    Tell the truth, do polka dots make me look fat?

  3. Samantha.
    July 8th, 2008 at 7:29 am

    I’m feeling a bit bloated…

  4. PeteRepeat
    July 8th, 2008 at 7:30 am

    *Sniffle* *Sniffle* Mommy! I lost my ball again. *sniffle*

  5. michman
    July 8th, 2008 at 7:34 am

    I knew I shouldn’t of eaten that sushi. I always get this funny reaction.

  6. Clark
    July 8th, 2008 at 7:48 am

    I knew I should have taken that gas-x!

  7. gg
    July 8th, 2008 at 7:49 am

    NO…..MORE……BIG MACS. . . . .

  8. jj1910
    July 8th, 2008 at 7:55 am

    No more Mentos & Coke…

  9. John M.
    July 8th, 2008 at 7:56 am

    Hey you, pull my fin!

  10. Dave
    July 8th, 2008 at 7:59 am

    (next frame)… BLAM!

  11. konshuss
    July 8th, 2008 at 8:08 am

    …meanwhile, at the bottom of Boston Harbour, underwater senator Fish Kennedy calls the committee meeting to order.
    “Before the uh, vodker I was the size of a kelp”

  12. Jill
    July 8th, 2008 at 8:16 am

    “I’m… sailing awaaay…”

  13. Bruce
    July 8th, 2008 at 8:22 am

    Nemooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

  14. felix
    July 8th, 2008 at 8:23 am

    …someone get me an antacid. NOW!

  15. Anthony
    July 8th, 2008 at 8:23 am

    “Go ahead, make my day!”

  16. felix
    July 8th, 2008 at 8:26 am

    talky talky happy talk, talk about things you like to do. You’ve got to have a dream, if you dont have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true!

  17. sise
    July 8th, 2008 at 8:26 am

    Whatchuu meaan dairy gives me gas?!

  18. Mika
    July 8th, 2008 at 8:29 am

    Oh My God! I have no feet!! I have no feeeeeet…

  19. queenofsheba
    July 8th, 2008 at 8:35 am

    I think I swallowed my bubble gum.

  20. vjesci
    July 8th, 2008 at 8:48 am

    “don’t dreme it, be it…the ball that is”

  21. edc
    July 8th, 2008 at 8:50 am

    and now, heres whats happening in your neck of the woods.

  22. Sharle
    July 8th, 2008 at 8:51 am

    Man, guess it’s time for some wii fit …

  23. vjesci
    July 8th, 2008 at 8:52 am

    “camouflage? canteloupe!”

  24. Eric the Red
    July 8th, 2008 at 8:52 am

    Even though he had never professed any belief in reincarnation, Dom DeLuise was very surprised to find himself returned to the world as a puffer fish.

  25. sirwebster
    July 8th, 2008 at 8:52 am

    “And IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII, will always, love you-ooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo!

  26. sirwebster
    July 8th, 2008 at 8:53 am

    Goatse fish is missing hands

  27. Scotchdrnkr
    July 8th, 2008 at 8:53 am

    Look Mom!!
    I’m Dizzy Gillespie!!

  28. konaha
    July 8th, 2008 at 8:54 am

    “It wasn’t the big bad wolf that blew the houses away.”

  29. Sharle
    July 8th, 2008 at 8:56 am

    I’ll have more of those nice peanuts, make me feel all weird!

  30. Nolberto
    July 8th, 2008 at 8:57 am

    Well the doctor says it’s glandular….

  31. gtstiggy
    July 8th, 2008 at 9:02 am

    does holding my breath make me look fat?

  32. gtstiggy
    July 8th, 2008 at 9:06 am

    unfortunately for paco the puffer fish, no one ever told him that eating the kick ball would automatically disqualify him from the game.

  33. sparkes
    July 8th, 2008 at 9:08 am

    “And finally, monsieur, a wafer-thin mint”

  34. K.M.
    July 8th, 2008 at 9:20 am

    Who wants a kiiiissssss!?

  35. Brian MacAdam
    July 8th, 2008 at 9:32 am

    Shit…

  36. Jim
    July 8th, 2008 at 9:38 am

    In Finding Nemo 2, Pixar created the lovable character “Puffy” to highlight the growing epidemic of childhood obesity. Voiced by Sean Combs.

  37. Dude
    July 8th, 2008 at 9:42 am

    I’m not fat, I’m big-boned!

  38. Timothy Collins
    July 8th, 2008 at 9:48 am

    “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing!”

  39. Kyle
    July 8th, 2008 at 9:50 am

    I knew I shouldn’t have had that peanut.

  40. Helen W
    July 8th, 2008 at 9:51 am

    Na na, na na na na na na na na, Katamari Damacy.

  41. Bender
    July 8th, 2008 at 9:52 am

    David Beckham, soccer player, was recently fined $10, 000 and charged with one count of animal cruelty after an errant kick of the ball during practice landed in the Pacific Ocean.

  42. Nicolas Mugavero
    July 8th, 2008 at 9:54 am

    Most fish see things as they are and say, “Why?” I dream of being a basketball and say “Why not?”

  43. Leemz
    July 8th, 2008 at 9:57 am

    I iz full

  44. Iron Shemp
    July 8th, 2008 at 9:59 am

    David Michaels, a novice chef, misses a step in preparing coconut-stuffed fugu on this week’s Iron Chef.

  45. Weeton
    July 8th, 2008 at 10:00 am

    Blow me.

  46. Simon J. James
    July 8th, 2008 at 10:02 am

    “Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball…”

  47. CptKidd
    July 8th, 2008 at 10:07 am

    “IMMA CHARGIN’ MA LAZER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

  48. Nicolas Mugavero
    July 8th, 2008 at 10:13 am

    “Secretary Paulson, the effects of inflation seem to be more pervasive than we first imagined possible.”
    “Dear God, you are an idiot George.”

  49. CptKidd
    July 8th, 2008 at 10:17 am

    THAT’S A HUUUGE FISH!

  50. Megiddo
    July 8th, 2008 at 10:19 am

    The future look of America’s children.

  51. CptKidd
    July 8th, 2008 at 10:23 am

    “GET IN MA BELLY!!!”

  52. CptKidd
    July 8th, 2008 at 10:28 am

    Contrary to popular belief and regardless of his fervent denial, it was indeed the puffer fish that stole the cookie from the cookie jar.

  53. CptKidd
    July 8th, 2008 at 10:29 am

    “It’s a thyroid problem!”

  54. Howard
    July 8th, 2008 at 10:30 am

    Red Lobster always does this to me.

  55. Howard
    July 8th, 2008 at 10:33 am

    Scientists are still trying to determine whether the blowfish ate the pig or the pig ate the blowfish.

  56. CptKidd
    July 8th, 2008 at 10:48 am

    “And if you look very closely at this patch of coral, you can almost make out the imag…OMG PUFFERFISH!!!”

  57. CptKidd
    July 8th, 2008 at 10:50 am

    “i’m a little teapot, short and stout. Here is my handle here is my spout.”

  58. CptKidd
    July 8th, 2008 at 10:57 am

    “I’m feeling fat and sassy!”

  59. Izzie
    July 8th, 2008 at 10:58 am

    Come on guys, this isn’t funny anymore!

  60. Greg
    July 8th, 2008 at 10:58 am

    Oh, Spongebob! Why?

  61. agentasm
    July 8th, 2008 at 11:00 am

    “I sing-aa de opera, to catcha the fish-a, because i’m too fat-a, to swim for my dinn-a…”

  62. Noxus103
    July 8th, 2008 at 11:06 am

    Good lord!!!! What happened to my neck?!?!?!?!

  63. CptKidd
    July 8th, 2008 at 11:07 am

    “Mr. Pufferfish, what is your reaction to the recent surge in public sex and nudity on the Provincetown beaches in Cape Cod?”

  64. D
    July 8th, 2008 at 11:11 am

    waaaaaaahh. i’ve puffed up and i can’t stop

  65. stapler
    July 8th, 2008 at 11:12 am

    “Everybody out of the room now, I have to poop. NOW!!!”

  66. CptKidd
    July 8th, 2008 at 11:20 am

    Ma-ia-hii
    Ma-ia-huu
    Ma-ia-hoo
    Ma-ia-haha

    Alo, Salut, sunt eu, un haiduc,
    Si te rog, iubirea mea, primeste fericirea.
    Alo, alo, sunt eu Picasso,
    Ti-am dat beep, si sunt voinic,
    Dar sa stii nu-ti cer nimic…”

    (you get the picture)

  67. neatoramafan
    July 8th, 2008 at 11:25 am

    “hmm I probably shouldn’t have have had that double venti vanilla cream bean frappachino.”

  68. fireflicker
    July 8th, 2008 at 11:27 am

    teeheehee did you see that human-thing I went *Poof* and scared the liftin’ jelly fish out of it!

  69. CptKidd
    July 8th, 2008 at 11:28 am

    Is that the Star Wars Kid???

  70. Summer
    July 8th, 2008 at 11:34 am

    “It always goes wrong when it comes to the blueberry pie…get her to the squeezing room immediatly!’

  71. Bell Pepper
    July 8th, 2008 at 11:40 am

    Buuuut Mom, I Reeeeeeealllyy want it!

  72. fireflicker
    July 8th, 2008 at 11:40 am

    “Teeheehee look look I can make my ears wiggle!”

  73. ziquiteco
    July 8th, 2008 at 11:41 am

    “I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.”

  74. gg
    July 8th, 2008 at 11:45 am

    A number 8 with extra sauce. . .two orders of fries. . . strawberry shake. . .and a Diet Coke please.

  75. gg
    July 8th, 2008 at 11:45 am

    Now thats what I call a “blow job”

  76. gg
    July 8th, 2008 at 11:46 am

    I think I need to fart

  77. Goldfish29
    July 8th, 2008 at 11:46 am

    …well, if Opera can get away with it…

  78. ruby
    July 8th, 2008 at 11:46 am

    Hi! I used to play Cindy Brady! I stayed up and partied last night…

    I’m gonna go throw up now!

  79. gg
    July 8th, 2008 at 11:47 am

    Anyone have a laxative?

  80. gg
    July 8th, 2008 at 11:48 am

    Somebody call Jenny Craig.

  81. gg
    July 8th, 2008 at 11:51 am

    My father was a bass. . .my mother was the good year blimp.

  82. Ray
    July 8th, 2008 at 11:54 am

    A shake for breakfast, a shake for lunch, and a sensible dinner? Bulls*$t

  83. gg
    July 8th, 2008 at 11:55 am

    BRING ME SOLO AND THE WOOKIE

  84. D
    July 8th, 2008 at 11:57 am

    ……TA-DA!

  85. Phil
    July 8th, 2008 at 12:11 pm

    I’ll huff, and I’ll puff, and I’ll… ah, I can’t be arsed to do this myself

  86. benzoic
    July 8th, 2008 at 12:15 pm

    “ermm.. so how do I get back to the original position?”

  87. Sampie
    July 8th, 2008 at 12:15 pm

    Nemo soon found out he was allergic to shellfish…..

  88. benzoic
    July 8th, 2008 at 12:16 pm

    “AHA! now you see the mighty side of me you losers!”

  89. duvalex
    July 8th, 2008 at 12:35 pm

    “I can’t believe I ate that whole thing.”

  90. Miranda
    July 8th, 2008 at 12:58 pm

    Does this coral make my butt look big??

  91. dragon tryst
    July 8th, 2008 at 1:15 pm

    spongebob! you failed boating class again!!!

  92. danny T
    July 8th, 2008 at 1:16 pm

    And Puffy said, “I’m gonna hold my breath until Mike Myers promises not to make anymore movies again!”

  93. Courtney
    July 8th, 2008 at 1:17 pm

    OMG, not Hootie!!!

  94. dragon tryst
    July 8th, 2008 at 1:21 pm

    what did I tell you about inhaling bubble gum, timmy!!!

  95. dragon tryst
    July 8th, 2008 at 1:30 pm

    harry potter! did you blow up you uncle this time!??!

  96. Heather
    July 8th, 2008 at 1:33 pm

    This just in: scientists have discovered a new fruit that grows under water - the spotted vagina peach.

  97. BothFeet
    July 8th, 2008 at 1:34 pm

    195 more days

  98. Giuliano
    July 8th, 2008 at 1:43 pm

    Need…. fart….. quickly……..

  99. sybann
    July 8th, 2008 at 1:55 pm

    Waiting to Exhale

  100. Christophe
    July 8th, 2008 at 1:56 pm

    I don’t see my fins anymore…

  101. Jonathan Heintzman
    July 8th, 2008 at 2:04 pm

    Uhh, are you sure there weren’t any peanuts in this?

  102. axtapi
    July 8th, 2008 at 2:11 pm

    No Spongebob….you failed the test….AGAIN!

  103. docthemoose
    July 8th, 2008 at 2:17 pm

    Girl, I hate this time of the month!

  104. RTT
    July 8th, 2008 at 2:23 pm

    My goodness, being a Congressman can certainly fill you up……..

  105. themadlolscientist
    July 8th, 2008 at 2:27 pm

    The Head of the Slitheen Skinsuit Research Department says:

    “Whoever thought to make these things out of fish should be stuffed into one and thrown out the airlock!”

  106. Yoda's Mama
    July 8th, 2008 at 2:36 pm

    In an April Fool’s joke that would ultimately launch an intergalactic space war, Han Solo snuck onto the Death Star and switched the settings to “Fish Star.”

  107. Badman
    July 8th, 2008 at 2:38 pm

    Johnny was tired of throwing Alka Seltzer to the seagulls.

  108. gardenome
    July 8th, 2008 at 2:39 pm

    Karma was cruel to Chris Farley…

  109. Heather Dawn
    July 8th, 2008 at 2:39 pm

    Bulemia…yer doin’ it wrong.

  110. Lovabub
    July 8th, 2008 at 2:41 pm

    Real Player: Undersea Edition - Video Puffering (99%)

  111. Hellodl
    July 8th, 2008 at 2:43 pm

    And here’s my Drew Carey impression.

  112. Jeff M.
    July 8th, 2008 at 2:46 pm

    What did you expect? I AM a blowfish you know….

  113. Urdiain
    July 8th, 2008 at 2:49 pm

    I told you I’m allergic to shellfish!!!

  114. Jeff M.
    July 8th, 2008 at 2:49 pm

    Miss Puff hasn’t been the same since “Bowling for the Blind” went in next door.

  115. Dan Smith
    July 8th, 2008 at 2:52 pm

    “I made him an offer he couldn’t refuse”

  116. Jeff M.
    July 8th, 2008 at 2:59 pm

    I’z in ur akwerium makin teh bubbles

  117. johnson
    July 8th, 2008 at 3:08 pm

    that’s not the kind of blow job I meant

  118. Ali g
    July 8th, 2008 at 3:13 pm

    Blow me!

  119. Nostra
    July 8th, 2008 at 3:36 pm

    “AAHHH-

    CHOO!”

    Also.. “…fiash” ;)

  120. susan
    July 8th, 2008 at 3:55 pm

    ‘I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.’

  121. manik
    July 8th, 2008 at 4:17 pm

    For one unlucky native, the arrival of fast food to the Hawaiian seafloor meant restricted blood flow to the lips and premature male pattern baldness.

  122. Mel
    July 8th, 2008 at 4:22 pm

    No matter how many times his friends snuck peanuts into his food, Frank refused to be their volleyball.

  123. Nan
    July 8th, 2008 at 4:30 pm

    Global warming gives me gas!

  124. Crack La Rock
    July 8th, 2008 at 4:34 pm

    And for my next impression…Christy Allie!

  125. Jules9999999
    July 8th, 2008 at 4:35 pm

    I guess I really am allergic to shellfish…

  126. Crack La Rock
    July 8th, 2008 at 4:39 pm

    BAD NEWS: I ate the Beach Ball.
    GOOD NEWS: I have an Exit Strategy
    BAD NEWS: It ain’t gonna be pretty.

  127. Crack La Rock
    July 8th, 2008 at 4:42 pm

    HEY…it’s glandular.

  128. Crack La Rock
    July 8th, 2008 at 4:48 pm

    I h’o’opu hue has insurance…cuz that swelling, it don’t look so good.

  129. fatkid
    July 8th, 2008 at 5:11 pm

    I don’t know if I am allergic to shellfish, why do you ask?

  130. fatkid
    July 8th, 2008 at 5:14 pm

    Yes, I was in Big Trouble in Little China, how did you know?

  131. fatkid
    July 8th, 2008 at 5:15 pm

    …and then my agent tells me I lost the part to some girl named “Violet” because the writers thought the pun would be funny. I hate that Willy Wonka and his chocolate factory!

  132. DOJ
    July 8th, 2008 at 5:23 pm

    Puffer photographed mid sneeze

  133. DOJ
    July 8th, 2008 at 5:27 pm

    Ah-Ahh-ACHOOO!!

  134. TG_Houston
    July 8th, 2008 at 5:31 pm

    I’ve got two:

    “BEEEEFCAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!!!”

    and:

    “Ahh Oh Wah Hee Ahh Oh Oh Oh…Ahh Oh Wah Hee Ahh Oh Oh Oh…”

  135. acy
    July 8th, 2008 at 5:34 pm

    Say it again! I dare you! I’ll pop a needle in yo fin!

  136. acy
    July 8th, 2008 at 5:36 pm

    Hey hey hey! its faaaaat Albert.

  137. Wincey
    July 8th, 2008 at 5:38 pm

    Good evening. Tonight on Alfred Hitchcock Presents …

  138. jef
    July 8th, 2008 at 5:59 pm

    Hey, hey, hey..

  139. Reba
    July 8th, 2008 at 6:15 pm

    *huffing and puffing* “Hey guys … wait up!”

  140. Reba
    July 8th, 2008 at 6:22 pm

    Hey Man! Take it easy, it’s puff puff give.

  141. LauraB
    July 8th, 2008 at 6:29 pm

    Boy… I’m going to be paying for eating the meatballs later. *BURP

  142. Chelsea the good dancer
    July 8th, 2008 at 6:54 pm

    So he was all ‘omg iceberg!’ and I was all ‘nuh-uh fredward’.

  143. Denis W.
    July 8th, 2008 at 8:03 pm

    It’s a thyroid condition! OK!

  144. kinship
    July 8th, 2008 at 8:24 pm

    “Are we there yet? Cos’ I’ve got to go!”

  145. clairmonde
    July 8th, 2008 at 9:17 pm

    Damn it Dave! Funny to scare me but it takes 13 hours to deflate and I always get stuck to the couch.

  146. tripleX
    July 8th, 2008 at 9:23 pm

    I should have taken the goldfish out of the bowl before I ate it.

  147. wrongnumber
    July 8th, 2008 at 9:39 pm

    WHERE’S THE TOILET! I CAN’T HOLD IT IN MUCH LONGER!!!

  148. Muppetmaker
    July 8th, 2008 at 10:07 pm

    HOLLLLY CHRIST! WAS THERE PEANUT BUTTER IN THOSE BROWNIES???

  149. Darrell
    July 8th, 2008 at 10:20 pm

    I wish I had a finger someone could pull!

  150. person
    July 8th, 2008 at 10:43 pm

    i shouldn’t have had that last slice of cake.

  151. person
    July 8th, 2008 at 10:43 pm

    oink

  152. WordyGrrl
    July 8th, 2008 at 11:49 pm

    Chili Cook-off: America’s Best Source for Biofuel

  153. Alex
    July 8th, 2008 at 11:52 pm

    Wow - great response you guys! Congrats to John M. who won this round!

  154. jay
    July 9th, 2008 at 12:53 am

    “what!!?? round is a shape!”

  155. firithlotiel
    July 9th, 2008 at 7:46 am

    My life blows..

  156. Disappointed
    July 9th, 2008 at 9:17 am

    I’m losing my faith in this site… to think - we were all beaten by a fart joke.

    I thought there were some truly original and funny comments here. Way to fail, Neatorama.

  157. prophet
    July 9th, 2008 at 2:05 pm

    Get away that needle from me!

  158. lauren
    July 9th, 2008 at 2:32 pm

    TOO MANY…COOKIES!!

  159. Hes
    July 9th, 2008 at 8:46 pm

    I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.

  160. Don Newbury
    July 10th, 2008 at 6:08 am

    The other fish loved to make Oscar laugh just to see the reaction…..

  161. 266
    July 10th, 2008 at 7:54 am

    …i wouldn’t take a sip of that milk if i was you dear..

  162. rolltideroll007
    July 10th, 2008 at 12:15 pm

    Why did they feed me a whole cantalope!!!

  163. VJESCI
    August 22nd, 2008 at 8:51 pm

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumble_Fish


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