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TOM SWIFTY SERIES

In Belgarath the Sorcerer, the prequel to The Belgariad, Belgarath recounts a time when he transformed himself into an owl to spy on someone.

In the A Song of Ice and Fire novella "The Princess and the Queen", there's a line about a Lord Beesbury saying something waspishly.

(He's believed said dog to be a dog-shaped death omen called the Grim for most of the book.)

Probably an unintentional example in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: "He's friends with that dog," said Harry grimly.They're scattered throughout the book, though they're all made by Scott and other various characters purposefully after learning them in English class and finding them hilarious. As such, there are many scattered throughout the book. David Lubar's Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie: Much of the plot actually depends on Tom Swifties."Would you like a soda," he asked spritely. "I have to go to the hardware store," he said wrenchingly. See Stealth Pun for when the puns are hidden more covertly and Pun for a range of Pun subtropes. Some insist that it only counts as a Tom Swifty when the pun is in the adverb, if the pun is in the verb it is often called a Croaker after the example "I might as well be dead," Tom croaked. The exact point at which something is considered a Tom Swifty and not something else varies.

TOM SWIFTY SERIES

The Tom Swifty then arose later as an effective way of parodying this style until it became associated strongly with the original series itself. So they employed many adverbs and alternatives: the Said-Bookism is deservedly its own trope. They did not use the trope much themselves, rather the books and similar children's books of the time ( Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys and other dialogue-heavy pint-sized detective novels) went to great lengths to avoid just repeating plain words like "said" and "tell" over and over again. The name is a reference to the Tom Swift series of books. "Who discovered radium?" asked Marie, curiously."I might as well be dead," Tom croaked."Pass me the shellfish," said Tom crabbily.To demonstrate, rather than elaborate, some examples: Even more simply, it's a joke based on the Said Bookism used. Less eloquently put, it's a joke where the bit that says who said something and how they said it is a pun on what was said. A Tom Swifty (alternatively spelled Tom Swiftie) is the use of the attribution of a quotation as a pun on some aspect of the content of the quotation.