100 Fall Puns That’ll Give You a Gourd Reason to Laugh This Season
Updated: May 10, 2024
Do you love a gourd play on words? A-corny one-liner? Pumpkin spice up the autumn season with these hilarious fall puns.
Festive fall puns
Did you know that puns date back to ancient Egypt? Playfully used for centuries, puns humorously take advantage of a word’s multiple meanings. Shakespeare used them, and they still appear in our modern media, alongside some of the funniest jokes ever. Thankfully for you pun lovers, there are funny puns and one-liners for just about every occasion, occupation, event and season. So if you get giddy when autumn rolls around, we have the fall puns for you.
You won’t be-leaf how many we’ve rounded up—from irresistibly corny fall jokes to witty one-liners and punny phrases, we’ve got enough to keep you laughing all season long. Ready to harvest some laughs? You can bet your autumn dollar these are the best fall puns around.
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The funniest fall puns
- I think I’m really falling for you.
- When my dad gets here, get ready for acorn-y joke.
- The weather is perfect for a drive in my autumn-obile.
- I’d enjoy fall more if the celery wasn’t stalking us.
- My favorite Bonnie Raitt song is “Let’s Give ‘Em Pumpkin to Talk About.”
- My favorite fall wardrobe addition: a har-vest.
- I’ve been at the gym all day pumpkin iron!
- Our vegan guest noticed the Thanksgiving dinner was fowl.
- Tonight’s movie of choice:Â Gourd of the Rings.
- My family says chocolate cake is the best Thanksgiving dessert, but pie beg to differ.
- Who says that money can’t pie happiness?
Between Halloween and Thanksgiving, the fall season is a great time of the year for family. Next time you’re gathered around with loved ones, make them giggle with these hilarious family-friendly jokes.
Autumn puns for kids
- I can’t decide if I’m gourd-geous or just beauti-fall.
- My brother thinks he’s soup-erman because chili is his kryptonite.
- I yam hungry for some cranberry sauce.
- Here comes a-corny joke!
- My math class has me all corn-fused.
- I’m berry happy to meet you.
- Don’t tell anyone, but I think I’m falling for you.
- I almost got suspended, but then I turned over a new leaf.
- They asked the turkey to join the band because it already had drumsticks.
If you thought these autumn puns for kids were great, get ready for cooler temps. These winter jokes will warm you with laughter.
Pumpkin puns
- Orange you glad you’re not squashed?
- That guy has really gone to seed!
- They carved a hot dog onto the pumpkin, so now it’s a hollow-weenie!
- You’ll never stem my desire to carve a jack-o’-lantern!
- Pumpkin in the way she moves attracts me like no other lover.
- It was great patch-ing up with you!
- You look great—have you been pumpkin iron!?
- My favorite Beach Boys song is “Gourd Vibrations.”
- I hope you can carve out some time to be with me.
- I’d like to introduce you to my gourd-geous girlfriend.
Want more starch-related food puns? Check out this fresh-baked collection of bread puns next time you want to loaf around.
Apple puns
- You are apple-solutely my favorite person!
- My boyfriend is a hard-core romantic.
- That man is romantically a-peeling to me.
- My favorite fall Chinese food is apple-picking duck.
- Your outfits are always so well core-dinated.
- My therapist said I deal with a lot of deep-seeded resentment.
- I’m sorry. I’m not peeling myself today.
- When I nap with my dog, I just lay down be-cider.
- Anyone want to play hide-and-go-seed?
- I apple-ogize for waking you up so early this morning.
If you’ve got an apple-tite for more food humor, try these pickle puns to pickle your funny bone.
Tree puns
- I’m always rooting for you.
- You have so many interests–you really branch out.
- She has me in the palm of her hand.
- His bark is worse than his bite.
- Every day, I pine for you.
- Just give me five minutes to spruce up.
- Hey, don’t be a sap!
- Wood you be mine?
- They are accusing him of tree-son!
- Could you help me log in to my computer?
You don’t have to be a biologist to enjoy these tree puns. And you don’t have to be a scientist to find humor in these biology jokes, which will have you mastering your molecular puns in no time.
Thanksgiving puns
- She entered the kitchen and was surprised to find the turkey dressing.
- My pies have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
- The day after Thanksgiving, she became vegan and quit cold turkey.
- Oh, no. I can’t November where I left the cranberry sauce!
- I just want you to know that I consider you my baste friend.
- Let’s go to a turkey farm and watch the poultry in motion.
- Did someone steal your turkey? That’s fowl play!
- I was going to use a turkey recipe, but I decided to wing it.
- My favorite Bruce Springsteen song: “Corn in the USA.”
- We don’t want to scare you, but we think we have a poultry-geist!
Are you a glutton for pun-ishment? Then you’ll no doubt enjoy filling up on more Thanksgiving puns—they’ll make your dinner guests bust a gut!
Football puns
- I must admit, your argument makes several valid punts.
- My wife always enjoys huddling with me in bed.
- If you want to see a movie this weekend, I’m wide open.
- I lost some weight, so I finally have a tight end.
- That politician’s remarks were way out of bounds!
- Feet off the couch! It may be game day, but this is nacho house.
- I finally tackled everything on my fall to-do list.
- Great job on the Thanksgiving dinner—you scored!
- Don’t touch that turkey, it’s my personal fowl!
- I finally got paid and was able to give the coach his quarter back.
Playing or watching football with your dad this fall? You just might score with these dad jokes that are actually pretty punny.
Camping puns
- I’d like to bring my friend on the camping trip, but he can’t bear it.
- You should get a massage before our trip—you’re very tents.
- This campfire dessert is tasty. Want s’more?
- I camp find the instructions to set up the tent.
- I would be fine staying at this campsite forest of my life.
- When on a camping trip, I always wake up feeling pine.
- Let’s invite the mushroom on our camping trip. He’s a fungi.
- Ghosts must enjoy the boo-tiful camping views.
- My friends love to tent-ertain with camping trip singalongs.
- We encountered a toothless grizzly at our campsite—talk about a gummy bear!
In case you pun into Bambi on your camping trip, here are some hilarious deer puns that make the heart grow fawn-deer.
Halloween puns
- Halloween is my favorite horror-day!
- You may think I don’t love you, but I really do scare for you.
- You look spook-tacular.
- I’d like you to meet my mummy and deady.
- You really are my best fiend.
- Fangs for not coffin on me this cold-and-flu season.
- I know folks have issues with him, but he’s not a bat guy.
- That witch doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.
- Dinner is ready—bone appetit!
- I made this Hungarian ghoul-osh just for you.
If you found these fall puns haunting, it would be a grave mistake to miss out on more Halloween jokes.
Leaf puns
- My doctor says I’m healthy—what a re-leaf!
- My favorite explorer is Leaf Erikson.
- For the last time, leaf me alone!
- I love that classic TV show, Leaf It to Beaver.
- You would not be-leaf the day I’ve had!
- That ghost story was scary beyond be-leaf!
- I don’t understand why my girlfriends always leaf me.
- A wise tree once told me, “Leaf and let leaf.”
- I’m burnt out, so I’ll be taking a leaf of absence.
- My father is having a mid-leaf crisis.
Did these fall puns leaf you wanting more? Our outstanding plant puns will knock your stalks off.
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Originally Published: May 10, 2024
