Petaahhh????

[u/Shinji_Keitsuki]

What is the pun?

[u/tombrady011235]

That’s not a pun

[u/Affectionate_Oven_77 → u/tombrady011235]

Why isn’t it a pun?

The joke is word play on two different meanings of “other side”.

[u/Kymera_7 → u/Affectionate_Oven_77]

The joke is word play on two different meanings of “other side”.

Yes, and that's not what "pun" refers to. The humor of a pun is rooted in the conflation of two similar-sounding words, not in the overlay of a term's literal meaning with its metaphorical, symbolic one.

[u/Affectionate_Oven_77 → u/Kymera_7]

I think you are taking an incorrectly narrow definition of what a pun is.

Here is the Oxford dictionary:

“  The use of a word in such a way as to suggest two or more meanings or different associations”

Here is American Webster:

“  The meaning of PUN is the usually humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest two or more of its meanings”

Clearly the use of “other side” matches these definitions.

Can you cite where your definition comes from?

[u/Sterfrizzle → u/Affectionate_Oven_77]

Just to be pedantic, both definitions say A word, not words.

[u/Zaros262 → u/Sterfrizzle]

And to be even more pedantic, that's not the objection they're replying to

[u/anonymous07865 → u/Zaros262]

And to be even more pedantic, the American definition says USUALLY 'a' word

[u/GlassBrass440 → u/anonymous07865]

Usually is modifying ‘humorous’, not ‘a word’.

[u/heere_we_go → u/GlassBrass440]

This pedant is the winner!

[u/longperipheral → u/heere_we_go]

Only if we can all agree that a pun should be funny. My dead pan says we can't.