Spanish Word For Puns

“Si, está.”

Every time I hear him, all I can think is “kay, so?”

Dad: "What's that chemical in turkey that makes you sleepy, again?"

Me: "L-Tryptophan"

Dad: "El what? I didn't ask for the Spanish word for it."

We went out to eat at a Cuban place and my mother had ordered some food with a side of tostones (a plantain dish). She complained that they had too much garlic to which I made a joke:

"Yeah, as soon as you bit into it, you tatsed the garlic and were like , '¡Ajo!'"

(¡Ajo! is a Spanish exclamatory similar to "ooooooh" or "oh my goodnes." It doesn't have a direct English equivalent but that's what it means. The Spanish word for garlic also happens to be ajo, so I made a pun playing off the dual meaning of the word. Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. )

She was talking about how the words for animal sounds are different in Spanish (roosters go kikikuriki, etc.) and a student asked of the animals sound different in Mexico and without missing a beat the professor just replied: "Yeah! They speak Spanish!"

The other day we went for pizza and the server asked if we were ready,

Server: what are you having?

Dad: I'll have a calzone, size 40.

Me: ...

the server and my parents start laughing.

Mom: come on son, laugh, that was a funny joke.

Me: no mom. That joke was too cheesy

EDIT: in spanish the word "calzone" translates to "underwear" amirite italians?

We were looking for some elbow pasta and I jokingly said "Huh, I didn't realize "bow" was a Spanish word" (el bow). She chuckled and said she also wanted to get some bow ties as well since the pasta was on sale. I said "Don't you mean "los bow ties?" and we started cracking up.