"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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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/
Chicago Style
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.






