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Daily Inspiration Quote by Jerry Lawler

"We just did a show in Providence, Rhode Island, and we got three puppy shots before we even got on the air, which was great. Although sometimes you get flashed by some puppies that you'd rather not see. They're more like mongrels"

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Jerry Lawler is riffing in that classic wrestler-entertainer lane where the joke is half Borscht Belt, half locker-room dare. He grabs a familiar tour anecdote ("we just did a show in Providence") and spikes it with an absurdly wholesome bait-and-switch: "three puppy shots" sounds like either cute photo ops or literal vaccinations. The laugh comes from the sudden pivot into a sleazier idiom - "flashed" - and the collision of innocence (puppies) with the kind of cheap, lascivious humor wrestling culture long treated as part of the carny package.

The intent isn’t to deliver a carefully built punchline so much as to perform persona: Lawler as the guy who can’t resist turning anything into a wink at sex and spectacle. That’s the subtext: pro wrestling’s traveling-circus masculinity, where bodies are the currency and boundaries are a punchline. The "puppies" bit is also historically loaded. In late-90s/early-2000s WWE, "puppies" was notorious slang used to objectify women’s breasts on-air; Lawler helped popularize it as catchphrase comedy. He’s laundering that legacy through a cutesy metaphor, then doubling down by sorting women into "puppies" versus "mongrels" - a casual cruelty that turns desire into a talent show with a trapdoor.

Context matters because this isn’t an offhand animal joke; it’s a relic of an era when shock-jock commentary was treated as crowd-pleasing color. The line works the way that whole mode worked: speed, innuendo, plausible deniability, and a grin that dares you to admit you’re laughing at something uglier than the word "puppy."

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Lawler, Jerry. (2026, January 18). We just did a show in Providence, Rhode Island, and we got three puppy shots before we even got on the air, which was great. Although sometimes you get flashed by some puppies that you'd rather not see. They're more like mongrels. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-just-did-a-show-in-providence-rhode-island-and-19164/

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Lawler, Jerry. "We just did a show in Providence, Rhode Island, and we got three puppy shots before we even got on the air, which was great. Although sometimes you get flashed by some puppies that you'd rather not see. They're more like mongrels." FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-just-did-a-show-in-providence-rhode-island-and-19164/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"We just did a show in Providence, Rhode Island, and we got three puppy shots before we even got on the air, which was great. Although sometimes you get flashed by some puppies that you'd rather not see. They're more like mongrels." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-just-did-a-show-in-providence-rhode-island-and-19164/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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