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Knock Knock Goblin Door Knocker Pun Meme

This is a single-panel pun meme featuring two real-world brass goblin/imp-shaped door knockers modeled after the talking door knocker characters from the 1986 Jim Henson fantasy film *Labyrinth*, mounted on a dark textured wooden door. White bold text at the top reads 'THE STORY BEHIND THIS DUO IN LABYRINTH IS FASCINATING', while text at the bottom reads 'SEARCH FOR "HUGE GOBLIN KNOCKERS" TO FIND OUT MORE'. The joke relies on a double entendre: the term 'knockers' literally refers to the door knockers shown, but is also a common vulgar slang term for women's breasts, so the suggested search term is designed as a prank to trick people into looking for explicit or absurd content instead of actual Labyrinth lore.
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This is a single-panel pun meme featuring two real-world brass goblin/imp-shaped door knockers modeled after the talking door knocker characters from the 1986 Jim Henson fantasy film Labyrinth, mounted on a dark textured wooden door. White bold text at the top reads 'THE STORY BEHIND THIS DUO IN LABYRINTH IS FASCINATING', while text at the bottom reads 'SEARCH FOR "HUGE GOBLIN KNOCKERS" TO FIND OUT MORE'. The joke relies on a double entendre: the term 'knockers' literally refers to the door knockers shown, but is also a common vulgar slang term for women's breasts, so the suggested search term is designed as a prank to trick people into looking for explicit or absurd content instead of actual Labyrinth lore.

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This meme was retrieved from a 9GAG RSS feed, with an imgflip.com watermark visible indicating it was created using the Imgflip meme generator platform. It references the iconic talking door knocker characters from the 1986 film Labyrinth, and uses crude double-meaning slang to create a prank joke format that is widely shared across casual humor platforms like 9GAG, Reddit, and social media.

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