1 Lambert: This reminds me of the time my uncle Bilbert was imprisoned for attempting to destroy a store of hay and children's clothing.
2 Lambert: He told the judge the owners were planning to build an effigy of him to burn for alleged earlier crimes, and he just wanted to prevent this insult.
3 Lambert: The judge banished him from the town, but Bilbert yelled a defiant warning to his accusers regarding the goods he'd failed to destroy.
4 Alvissa: What did he say?
4 Lambert: You know, he never told me...

This one was actually anticipated by TV Tropes. Not that you can see the anticipation any more, since now it's too late and it will merely look like a reaction. And someone will have probably edited this very comic in as an example by the time you read this.

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2019-09-14 Rerun commentary: TV Tropes now has several theories as to what the uncompleted pun in this comic is intended to be.

I think for a while I honestly forgot what I'd intended the pun to have been, but I think I remember it now.