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Running Gagged

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Running Gagged	comment	A Running Gag is a recurring event that becomes more humorous or meaningful each time it is used, depending on its subject. However, it can only happen so many times before fans will call out the writers for being unoriginal. What to do? This is the payoff of a Running Gag, where all the humor or drama caused by this builds up to an ending. Ending the gag is hard to pull off successfully whether the gag was popular among the fanbase or not. If it's popular, that means the gag won't be used anymore. If it isn't, it's wasting time when there are bigger fish to fry. How do you handle it? Send it off in grand style, of course. Give it a conclusion, or maybe tell the audience and end it there. Compared to Overused Running Gag, where the writers acknowledge the joke's tiredness but don't retire it. A specific form of this is Shoo Out the Clowns, in which the joke is gagged to cement a shift in tone. See also Subverted Catchphrase. If the Running Gag makes a reappearance after a while, it would be a Call-Back or a Continuity Nod, depending on the example. Has nothing to do with jogging with your mouth stuffed. If the gag just gradually fades out or abruptly disappears with no further reference being made to it, it's a form of Early-Installment Weirdness. See also Running Gag Stumbles, where a running gag is not played straight for one episode and it seems like it will end, but either continues exactly as usual or just develops a variation in later episodes. Related to Discredited Meme.
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Running Gagged / int_11b7db91	comment	Adventure Time had some jokes in early seasons which implied that Gunter, despite being to all indications an ordinary penguin, was in fact the ultimate evil in the Land of Ooo, surpassing even Hunson Abadeer and The Lich in threat level. This seemed to just be Rule of Funny until "Orgalorg", which revealed that Gunter is actually a Mad God named Orgalorg who is older than the Universe and can destroy planets on a whim when at full power. The only reason he's seemingly not a threat is because the King of Mars wiped his memory when he was banished to Earth, reducing him to primal animal instincts. Only when his brain is exposed can he remember his past.
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Running Gagged / int_1a8119af	comment	Dragon Quest VIII had Yangus's catch phrase "Cor Blimey!" which happens as a funny background event any time Trode appears from nowhere. By Tyran Gully, it had happened three times, and instead we got: Given a callback as the very last line of the ending before the credits roll, though not by Yangus this time.
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Running Gagged / int_1d1cc72d	comment	PokÃ©mon the Series: Sun & Moon featured a recurring joke about Lillie being afraid of touching PokÃ©mon in its early episodes. After the reveal this stemmed from an incident with the Ultra Beast Nihilego, the gag stopped being used after that.
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Running Gagged / int_1f26effb	comment	Kingdom Hearts Ψ: The Seeker of Darkness has a running gag involving Kairi being in denial about her bisexuality, something that Everybody Knew Already. It's eventually Gagged when Terra brings it up among a few other things they all knew but didn't talk about and Kairi finally admits it to herself.
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Running Gagged / int_2196de57	comment	The first four "Treehouse of Horror" episodes would open with a graveyard where the tombstones contained amusing messages - such as the names of dead celebrities or cancelled TV shows. In "Treehouse of Horror V", the opening sequence starts with a tombstone for "Amusing Tombstones". This was the writers' way of showing that they were tired of coming up with ideas for humorous tombstone messages. This was the last time they used this gag before it was briefly revived as a one-off joke in "Treehouse of Horror XXIX".
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Running Gagged / int_2275c659	comment	House: Dr. Kutner can never use a defibrillator, once accidently setting fire to the patient and again shocking himself unconscious. In "Locked In" he finally uses one without any mishaps. In the very next episode, "Simple Explanation", he kills himself via self-inflicted gunshot.
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Running Gagged / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Combined with Aborted Arc. Pre-season 8, Skinner was a Non-Giving-Up School Guy and Krabappel was an Old Maid. In season 8, Skinner and Krabappel hooked up, ending the jokes about the two individually (particularly Krabappel), and became more notable as a couple with A Day in the Limelight together occasionally. In season 14, the two got engaged, and since this show loves Status Quo Is God, this would put a stalemate to any future development. Surprisingly, season 15 showed their marriage, where Krabappel left Skinner at the altar. Since then, they reverted back to their original characters, and Krabappel received regular Flanderization (Skinner, interestingly, became less flanderized, especially notable considering The Simpsons is the Trope Namer), though her case seemed like it might change since in the season 22 finale, she and Flanders hooked up in a Cliffhanger. However, the death of her voice-actress and with it, the character, as shown with Ned wearing a black armband in season 25's "The Simpsons S 25 E 13 The Man Who Grew Too Much", leaves whatever plans for the character there were derailed. The first four "Treehouse of Horror" episodes would open with a graveyard where the tombstones contained amusing messages - such as the names of dead celebrities or cancelled TV shows. In "Treehouse of Horror V", the opening sequence starts with a tombstone for "Amusing Tombstones". This was the writers' way of showing that they were tired of coming up with ideas for humorous tombstone messages. This was the last time they used this gag before it was briefly revived as a one-off joke in "Treehouse of Horror XXIX". Bart making prank calls to Moe's Tavern is a running gag so synonymous with The Simpsons that even serious fans of the Long Runner might be surprised to note that it was effectively wrapped up in Season 4. The episode "New Kid on the Block" pays off the joke with a story about Bart "identifying" himself to Moe as bully Jimbo Jones in what proves a highly effective bid to get Moe to go after him. All subsequent appearances of the gag would take the form of a variation or Continuity Nod rather than being Played Straight. The "Who Shot Mr. Burns" 2-partner used Mr. Burns' inability to remember Homer's name and existence regardless of how many times they've interacted as Homer's motive when he's a suspect in Burns's shooting, as being forgotten numerous times finally causes him to hit his Rage Breaking Point and insist on being remembered. Although Burns seems to have managed to forget him yet again by the end of part 2, the story still pretty much laid the joke to rest as in subsequent episodes he no longer has to be reminded who Homer is. While it's still referenced, the classic gag of Homer strangling Bart in anger has not been Played Straight since Season 30, which may have something to do with Disney's buyout of Fox. As of Season 35, this has been acknowledged in the show by Homer himself ("See, Marge? Strangling the boy has paid off. Just kidding, I don't do that anymore. Times have changed"), though it may prove temporary as Simpsons co-creator James L. Brooks subsequently told People magazine that the show has no intention of ending the gag. To whit, the "Treehouse Of Horror XXXIV" segment "Lout Break", which shows Springfielders infected with a virus that turns them into clones of Homer, shows a Homerized Kirk Van Houten strangling his son Milhouse.
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Running Gagged / int_290fc5d2	comment	The Wolf of Snow Hollow: Jim getting repeatedly physically injured is played comically until he gets stabbed by the killer in the climax.
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Running Gagged / int_2abd5315	comment	Whose Line Is It Anyway?: To end the game "Scenes from a Hat", Drew Carey would fling the hat offstage, visibly cheering if it managed to hit a camera. He stopped doing it when he accidentally hit a camera hard enough to knock it off its crane.
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Running Gagged / int_2b82b95f	comment	iCarly: Gibby loved to take his shirt off, even during inappropriate moments, and it was more or less his defining characteristic. Once he became a main character starting in the fourth season, he does it less and less until he eventually stops going shirtless altogether (save for one more instance in "iRescue Carly") and it is lampshaded that he doesn't do it anymore.
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Running Gagged / int_309df9ea	comment	Atop the Fourth Wall: Early on in the series, Linkara had a "continuity alarm" that would stop him anytime he would try to discuss the complicated backstory behind certain background elements in the comics he reviewed. However, many fans who weren't regular comic readers actually wanted Linkara to discuss the continuity in-depth, so Lewis gradually phased the joke out. The continuity alarm ended up being sabotaged by Dr. Linksano in his review of Zero Patrol #1, and Linkara revealed many years later that he reprogrammed it to tell him when his microwave popcorn was ready. A minor running gag in the milestone episodes featured Brad Jones appearing in a cameo thinking that Linkara was reviewing the Caligula comic. By the time Lewis did his 600th episode, his real-life relationship with Brad detoriated following the fallout of the #ChangeTheChannel movement. As a result, the review itself opened up with Linkara about to review the Caligula comic at long last, only to stop once he receives a phone call informing him of how Brad was treating his friends, prompting him to review a random comic he pulled from his shelf insteadâ€¦ which unfortunately turned out to be the infamous Spider-Man storyline "Sins Past".
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Running Gagged / int_30a5ebfd	comment	In Part 1 of Naruto, viewers would sometimes see how Sakura feels through Inner Sakura whenever she felt differently than how she responded. In Part 2, Sakura has learned how to express her true feelings and Inner Sakura only appears once in what could be considered a Call-Back (seen in Episode 8 of Shippuden and Chapter 250 of the manga). The last time the gag is used in Part 1 is when Inner Sakura is implied to be a full-on 2nd personality and foils Ino's attempt at Grand Theft Me.
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Running Gagged / int_3558eaa2	comment	Community: A Once a Season gag in the first two seasons was the series getting a Paintball Episode where all Hell breaks loose as people do their damnedest to win. While the gag stumbled a bit after said two seasonsnote because the Greendale College set getting demolished and painted from head to toe with paintball paint was absolute hell on the budget for the whole season, Greendale College still encountered a lot of Serious Business episodes that ended in a huge brawl (including a "the floor is lava" contest). The episode "Modern Espionage" ends the paintball contest gag (and similar messes) once and for all with Greendale's new principal putting her foot down and making clear that anybody who tries to start a brawl will be expelled (and she actually expels several people she caught in a paintball competition in campus grounds to make clear she was not bluffing. She takes back the expulsions when he Study Group gets evidence that it was a scheme by people against her, though). On a more meta note, the episode is one of the last four of the final season, and the series started to wind down on the wackiness for the Grand Finale.
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Running Gagged / int_37242986	comment	Silent Night (2021): Sandra keeps pleading with her daughter Kitty to hug her. Kitty keeps refusing, but at the end of the movie, she hugs Sandra...as Sandra is dying from the cyanide pill, and Kitty herself will soon die, and it's not even clear if Sandra knows Kitty is hugging her.
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Running Gagged / int_38bea192	comment	history of the entire world, i guess has "you could make a religion out of this" repeated after the founding of various world religions. The line starts to repeat after The French Revolution and the death of Maximilien Robespierre, but is interrupted by "no, don't"note Quite likely a nod to the Cult of Reason and the Cult of the Supreme Being, two failed attempts at establishing a new national religion for France..
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Running Gagged / int_3cd90f30	comment	Arrested Development: Maeby often says "Marry me!" to her coworkers as a means of allaying suspicion whenever they point out how young she looks. But one time when she uses it, the proposal is taken a little too seriously and she quickly stops. Another (temporary) example is Tobias' "never-nude" syndrome. For those who don't know, never-nude syndrome is Exactly What It Says on the Tin and means, in situations where other people would be naked, never-nudes remain clothed (most commonly, for reasons not entirely clear, choosing to wear cutoff jeans). He recovers from it in a mid-season 1 episode, but at the beginning of season 2, he develops this again because of an extreme close-up of his testicles airing on TV as "proof of weapons of mass destruction".
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Running Gagged / int_3e5f3f53	comment	SMG4: Mockery of Justin Bieber and Twilight was very common in SMG4 early years, referencing their status of Memetic Losers at the time, especially the former, with characters disgusted by "Baby" to the point of committing suicide, to literally featuring Justin Bieber himself as a joke character in some episodes. By the mid-2010s, this became quickly outdated as internet moved away from both targets. Nedless to say, these jokes were quietly dropped of the series by 2017. Mario's nudist tendencies were another common running gag that dissapeared from the series, albeit due to limitations with Garry's Mod, since it is used more to animate the series than Super Mario 64 nowadays. In other words, Naked Mario wouldn't translate very well on GMod. Death as Comedy used to be frequent on the series, with either Mario killing Toad or Peach by accident (or sometimes on purpose), to Mario dying by his own stupidity, with no real repercussions as they always come back alright in the next episode or sometimes in the next scene. By the time the show entered Cerebus Syndrome, and especially after Desti's death in the Anime Arc, death is now treated as something serious and the show is now more careful about which character dies now that death in SMG4 is irreversible. Not entirely abandoned but Mario's obsession with spaghetti has become less frequent over the years. A frequent running gag saw Princess Peach's Castle destroyed by some wacky occurrence, usually because of Mario. The movie IT'S GOTTA BE PERFECT ends with the castle being swallowed whole by an Eldritch Abomination that had also corrupted SMG4, and it's outright stated that the castle's likely gone for good this time.
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Running Gagged / int_41d55d7a	comment	Total Recall (1990): Benny constantly complains that he's "got five kids to feed!", and that's why he follows around the generous Quaid despite the mounting dangers and multiple deaths. It pays off when he reveals he's been Evil All Along and "I've got four kids to feed." When Quaid sardonically asks "what happened to the fifth?", Benny laughs and admits, "Shit, man, you caught me. I'm not even married."
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Running Gagged / int_455e3038	comment	King of the Hill: The season 4 episode "Nancy Boys" puts an end to the 14-year affair between Nancy Gribble and John Redcorn, after they both realize how good of a person Dale really is. Though Dale never finds out about the affair. Dale's paranoia resulted in him using the alias "Rusty Shackleford" when he doesn't want to use his real name. At least until season 11's "Peggy's Gone to Pots" where it's revealed that Rusty is an actual person who Dale knew from school and believed to be dead (he actually just moved away). Rusty returns to Arlen to confront Dale over tons of credit and identity issues as resulting from Dale using his name. Dale panics and arranges a failed murder-suicide pact with Peggy, after which Rusty merely has Dale sign a form clearing him of all his identity troubles.
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Running Gagged / int_46518682	comment	Early in Sesame Street's life, no one else could ever see or hear Snuffleupagus due to him conveniently being missing when a character other than Big Bird would attempt to see him, causing the rest of the cast to believe that Snuffy was Big Bird's Imaginary Friend, much to Big Bird's growing frustration. In 1985, this was put to rest, due in part to the writing staff running out of ways to implement this, as well as fear that children might not tell authority figures about something important, especially following some high-profile child abuse cases at the time. This was done by having Big Bird and Snuffy formulate a plan so the others could see him. Afterwards, the other characters apologize to Big Bird for doubting him for so long.
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Running Gagged / int_4b434423	comment	A subtle example: Team Rocket's Meowth notably was unable to learn Pay Day due to learning to speak like a person instead. The move becomes G-Max Gold Rush when using its Gigantimax form in PokÃ©mon Sword and Shield, which ends up happening in PokÃ©mon Journeys: The Series after Meowth is hit with a blast of Galar particles from Eternatus and gains the ability to Gigantimax.
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Running Gagged / int_4c99197e	comment	The Muppet Show's Rita Moreno episode has the telephone gag, wherein Fozzie answers the telephone, and something comes out of the microphone. Eventually, Kermit gets annoyed at the gag and orders Fozzie to not answer the phone. When he disparagingly cries "is there no end to this running gag?!" Cue Animal ripping the phone from the wall*It's an old-fashioned wall telephone. Like this one.◊ and running off with it.
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Running Gagged / int_4e45b093	comment	The Big Bang Theory: One of Raj's defining features during the early seasons was his selective mutism, which rendered him unable to speak to or in front of women other than his mother and sister, forcing him to whisper in someone else's ear, usually Howard's, to relay what he had to say, unless he was inebriated (which rendered him obnoxious) or on experimental drugs (which caused various side-effects). However, at the tail end of Season 6, a bad breakup shakes him to the point of curing him. The selective mutism and the alcohol-induced obnoxiousness make a brief comeback in a Season 12 episode. A running gag in the early seasons is that the "check engine" light in Penny's car is constantly on. Sheldon and others bug her about attending to it, and she refuses. Her car finally breaks down in the Season 7 episode "The Friendship Turbulence". When Stuart's comic book store becomes popular after Neil Gaiman made a visit to the place and then tweeted about it, late in the series' run, Stuart, who has hitherto been a Starving Artist stuck in Perpetual Poverty, is finally financially secure — so much so, that he hires an assistant named Denise to help him out with the business, who would stay on for the rest of the series and quickly becomes his Love Interest. The last example of this trope, chronologically speaking, comes right at the series' Grand Finale, in which the elevator of the apartment, which has been broken since the beginning the series, is finally fixed.
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Running Gagged / int_4f1098ae	comment	Hellsing Ultimate Abridged: Ever since the first episode, Seras Victoria is always called something else rather than her name, even by those not in on the joke in the Hellsing organization. Most call her "Police Girl" while Pip calls her "Ma Chere". This stops in Episode 7 when she becomes a full vampire and violently forces Zorrin to say her name. Afterwards everyone has a moment where they say her name to her.
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Running Gagged / int_512cd563	comment	In his earliest reviews of Sonic games, when he brought up Big the Cat, he mocked him in a certain way or said "I don't like Big the Cat". Then comes his review of Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, and when he mentions Big the Cat as a playable character, he inhales to say "I'm kinda sick of saying that."
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Running Gagged / int_52837809	comment	In Kamen Rider Drive, Lt. Otta had two major running gags: First, he only got bits and pieces of information about the Kamen Riders and therefore had a wildly inaccurate image of them - for instance, he saw only parts of Drive's body at times when he was in different forms, so his mental image of Drive was a mashup of all of them; and then when he realized there was more than one Kamen Rider running around he thought that all of Drive's forms were actually different people. This ended when Drive's identity went public and Otta could get his facts straight from the source. It gets an amusing Call-Back in the Kamen Rider Heart post-series movie where Heart's attempt to transform into Drive results in his turning into a real-life version of Otta's mashup picture, complete with a reaction shot from Otta when he sees it. Otta also displayed a comical inability to say the word "Roidmude" no matter how many times he's corrected; what he does say instead gets translated into things like "Hemmoroido" and "Pork Roasto". In one episode, he even acknowledges this while under the effects of a Hate Plague, raging that his co-workers think he's an idiot because of it. The gag gets put to rest about 3/4 of the way through the show, where it's revealed that the incredibly powerful Freeze Roidmude placed a mental block on the police to render them ineffectual, keyed to the word "Roidmude"; Otta's mispronunciation is one of the only reasons he was able to remain competent. A cure is developed, and once it's used on Otta he's able to say the word properly, much to his teammates' relief.
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Running Gagged / int_53dc3731	comment	Atomic Robo: Louis and Martin, Robo's most incompetent employees and Those Two Guys, form a pretty silly Running Gag for awhile with their bungling, reckless attempts at science and tendency to get Reassigned to Antarctica for it. Then their carelessness causes an incident that kills sixty innocent people and they instantly stop being funny and become just plain despicable. The last we see of them is the two being immediately fired from Tesladyne and facing life imprisonment for manslaughter, with the case stacked so heavily against them they'll be lucky if they ever see the outside of a prison again.
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Running Gagged / int_5586ce95	comment	In earlier videos, Chugga would commonly say "D'oh I missed!" after missing an attack, as a reference to Wario's losing quote in the first two Mario Party games, with the soundbite even being his ringtone during the Majora's Mask Let's Play. Around 2013 however, Chugga would use the gag less and less explaining during the Let's Play of Super Mario 64 DS that he felt he had been overusing the joke and recently learned that the actual line is "So Ein Mist!" (German for "That Bites!"). As a result, the line very rarely shows up in newer videos, and when the line is said, it's sometimes done with reluctance.
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Running Gagged / int_56cb92c3	comment	Throughout Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, no one gets Rocket's species (a raccoon) correct except for Peter; almost everyone else who tries calls him a different, completely incorrect animal. In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Rocket finds the original cage he was from and learns that he really is a raccoon. Facing the High Evolutionary once more, he emphatically denounces his laboratory designation and calls himself Rocket Raccoon.
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Running Gagged / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick had a gag where the raven Blackwing would only appear when his master Vaarsuvius remembered his existence. This joke was played purely for laughs with little impact on the plot until Vaarsuvius suffers a crushing loss to Xykon and needs someone who can fly to save the day. Following that incident, Blackwing has had a more permanent presence in the party. In addition to showcasing Vaarsuvius's character development (atoning for their former negligence of Blackwing), the author has also commented that retiring the gag was deliberate as he thought that there was no variation of it he could pull off that would be more impactful than its last iteration.
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Running Gagged / int_58fe055d	comment	raocow has done this in a few LP's, such as in Mushroom Kingdom Meltdown, where he would often abruptly cut away to a fast-forwarded clip of him farming infinite lives whenever he ran out, usually while singing badly. After a few occasions, he said "Okay, this has stopped being funny now", and retired the gag (though he did still farm infinite lives offscreen). He's also said he reads his own trope page and checks under "Catchphrase" and "Running Gag" to see what he's overdoing and making an effort to stop doing that.
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Running Gagged / int_59e9298	comment	Chuggaaconroy Zig-Zagged with Steve the Trooper from his Let's Play of Pikmin. Chugga mentioned during the LP that he calls any red-leaf Pikmin that falls behind "Steve". When one "Steve" spent all day trying to bring any enemy corpse back to base on his own Chugga turned Steve into a Memetic Badass. Eventually, however, Chugga grew annoyed with fan's obsession with Steve, and would avoid mentioning him throughout the entirety of the Pikmin 2 Let's Play. He would later exclaim in frustration during the LP of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask "The gag stopped being funny after Pikmin 1!", and claimed to kill the gag after defeating PokÃ© Maniac Steve in PokÃ©mon Emerald. Despite this, Steve would continue to have brief references in later LPs, and eventually returned to the spotlight during Chugga's Let's Play of Pikmin 3, and once again a few years later during Jon's blind Let's Play of Pikmin 1 on The Runaway Guys, albeit now going by the aliases of "Estaban" (Spainish for "Steve"). In earlier videos, Chugga would commonly say "D'oh I missed!" after missing an attack, as a reference to Wario's losing quote in the first two Mario Party games, with the soundbite even being his ringtone during the Majora's Mask Let's Play. Around 2013 however, Chugga would use the gag less and less explaining during the Let's Play of Super Mario 64 DS that he felt he had been overusing the joke and recently learned that the actual line is "So Ein Mist!" (German for "That Bites!"). As a result, the line very rarely shows up in newer videos, and when the line is said, it's sometimes done with reluctance. Chuggaâ€™s two pet cats Teddy and Kirby would often barge in when Chugga was recording a video demanding attention, which could sometimes mess with how he was playing. This pattern would become less common when Teddy passed away in February 2016, and cease complete when Kirby passed away in July 2023.
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Running Gagged / int_5a3533fe	comment	My Name Is Earl: Number 86 on Earl's list "Stole a car from a one-legged girl". Before he discovered karma and turned his life around, Earl had a one night stand with a woman named Didi, who, unbeknownst to Earl until the next morning, had a prosthetic leg. Earl freaked out, stole her money and leg while making off in her car, leaving her to hop around on her remaining leg. Earl had several encounters with Didi, but she would instantly go bonkers and try to hurt/kill him on sight before he could explain that he was trying to make amends, with her triple amputee boyfriend even helping a time or two. Come season three, Earl is finally able to calm her down long enough to get through to her (largely due to the fact that Earl approached Didi at her place of work, where she couldn't make too much of a fuss) and after making him hop a mile in her shoe, Didi finally forgives Earl and he crosses her off his list.
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Running Gagged / int_60f02ddb	comment	American Dad!: In the first season, Stan would often want to make Steve, his geeky son, popular at school because he was very unpopular when he was his age and doesn't want him to live through what he had to. In the last episode that aired before most Stan/Steve episodes were stripped of this plot thread, Stan gives Steve steroids to make him strong, but instead because of his genes he grows boobs, becomes popular at school because the boys are using him for a cheap grope, and resists Stan when he tells him the boys are only using him. Stan had to resort to giving himself a larger dosage of steroids so he would grow bigger boobs to prove his point to Steve. At the end, Steve gets a chance to tell him he's happy with his real friends, and Stan seemingly accepts it. In the early seasons of American Dad, Klaus' entire character (aside from being a man's brain in a goldfish) was his crush on Francine, doing things like trying to look up her dress or rolling around in her underwear, culminating in an episode where he gets a human body and tries to steal her away from Stan. As the show started Growing the Beard, this aspect of his character quietly disappeared without explanation.note Well, maybe one explanation. In one episode the house catches fire, and Francine didn't express concern for Klaus until she realized he was right behind her. Klaus responds "Too late, Francine. Too fucking late." This might mean that he gave up on his lust for her. One ongoing plot point in the first season was Hayley being an enemy and foil for Stan's uber-conservative personality who was often at odds with him. When the show started to become less centered around politics, Hayley's Soapbox Sadie tendencies were downplayed and she has since gotten married and doesn't appear that much. At least one of her Soapbox Sadie traits was explicitly removed: her vegetarianism. While she would eat meat in some episodes, she would soon go back to being vegetarian by the end of the episode. After getting a job at Sub Hub, Hayley admits that she sometimes eats some of the sandwich meat and subsequent episodes show her eating meat with no issue and her vegetarianism is never mentioned again.
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Running Gagged / int_6276800c	comment	The Nostalgia Critic has had various jokes that he used at the beginning of his run, only to cycle them out and exchange them for new ones. With one — his showing of a clip with M. Bison saying "Of course!" when a character expresses a desire to rule the world — he refuses to show it because it's been overdone, only for the clip to force its way onto the screen despite his protests. In the commentary for the review, Doug Walker mentions that he tries to be mindful of if he's overusing a joke to the point where it isn't funny, at which point he tries to mix things up a little and keep it fresh. On that point, one of his reviews did end with its respective Running Gag (a Flanderized-to-the-point-of-uselessness Patch Adams called "Bitch Spasms") being blown away (and the cadaver being left on the ground as a Brick Joke for a future episode), the review for Jurassic Park III finishing (at least apparently for now) the "Motherfucking T-Rex" gag (on the moment that the T-Rex gets its neck snapped by another dinosaur. It does, however, get a glorious resurrection as Awesome Music for the Rexy-vs.-Indominus fight on the Jurassic World review), the review for The Lost World: Jurassic Park kills the newsreel-style Long List of how humans screw up nature that had pervaded several nature-related film reviews with the Critic belting out a Big "SHUT UP!" to launch into a rant about how annoyingly Anvilicious films get when they try to (continuously) hammer this point. "Bat credit card" was killed by Linkara when the critic made a cameo in his review of Batman & Robinâ€™s comic adaptation, wanting to just get the bit over with. Linkara instead reconstructs the meme by explaining Batman is filthy rich, uses secret methods to spend that money on crimefighting in ways that cannot be traced back to Bruce Wayne, is known to purchase items while fighting crime if he needs them, and is obsessed with putting his bat brand on everything he uses. With all those traits to him, a Bat credit card is actually rather logical and practical for him to have, so what's so anger-inducing about it? The Critic is speechless. His "Boomer Will Live" gag started with his Independence Day review. When he did the review for Battleship, he showed a clip of a pilot with the call sign "Boomer" on his helmet after the aliens are defeated. He starts to do the usual gag until...
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Running Gagged / int_63230cb	comment	Dragon Ball Z Abridged: The "Kaio-what?" gagnote In which Goku uses the Kaio-ken (while saying its name), prompting his foe to ask "Kaio-what?" before getting punched in the face ended with Freeza No Selling it (though it did return in the Goku vs. Superman episode of DEATH BATTLE!). It comes back for one last hurrah in The World's Strongest Abridged. In an odd way, the running gag of a freeze frame Squicky Fan Disservice picture appearing whenever someone uses Solar Flare endednote At least possibly - barring filler, the move never shows up again in the original series by undergoing a mini-Cerebus Syndrome, as when Cell shows up they go from being humorously squicky (such as Freeza's head photoshopped onto a guy showering, or Lanipator dressed as Dr. Frank-N-Furter) to two real cicadas mating, until finally a (mercifully cropped) picture of Semi-Perfect Cell raping Android 18 appears in the episode where he absorbs her and becomes perfect. It does come back one last time during Cell's Really Dead Montage at the end of the saga, with Imperfect Cell wearing a bikini being the flashed image, but the gag itself dies with him. Ever since the very first episode, the series has kept up a "Krillin Owned Count", going up every time something bad happens to the resident Butt-Monkey. This gag is put to bed in The Stinger of Episode 60, when Krillin and Android 18 hook up. The counter starts to go down, and keep in mind it went down for every "round" and it was at 39 in the end, before being annihilated by a Scatter Bullet. Freeza makes a game out of counting aloud all of the heroic cliche lines he's heard in his years as a galactic conqueror, to unnerve and demoralize would-be freedom fighters who repeat them. However, when Goku cheerfully boasts "I'mma deck you in the schnoz!" Freeza is initially left speechless, then admits he actually has never heard that one before. He then slowly loses his mind in his fight with Goku, not just because of Goku matching him blow for blow, but because he can't make sense of how Goku thinks. The "Goku is a bad father" joke seems to die in Episode 60, with Goku's Heel Realization and subsequent attempts to fix the situation, resulting in his Heroic Sacrifice. Throughout the second season a running gag is that Gohan says he needs an adult only for the guy he is talking to say they are an adult, often in a situation that says that he doesn't want that adult. When Goku tries it in the third season, Gohan emphatically shuts him down and that he isn't an adult.
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Running Gagged / int_63409895	comment	Sofia the First: In the first season, Sofia mispronounces Cedric's name as "Ceedric", prompting him to correct her in annoyance. Starting in Season 2, she pronounces his name correctly. The first time she does, Cedric expresses shock.note The episodes aired out of production order, so a minor continuity error is created with Sofia pronouncing his name correctly, with no reaction, and in the next (aired) episode he seems shocked.
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Running Gagged / int_63c1175b	comment	In Ultra Fast Pony, Pinkie Pie's a New Zealander and an obsessive fangirl for The Lord of the Rings (the movies specifically). So nearly every episode she appears in, she'll shoehorn at least one LOTR reference into her dialogue. The series creator, Wacarb, eventually got sick of doing those gags—so when he abridged the episode where Pinkie clones herself dozens of times, he took the opportunity to kill Pinkie off and replace her with one of those clones, which is thankfully one who doesn't know anything about LOTR.
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Running Gagged / int_6b3cfe38	comment	A short-lived example in Bob and George: The third time the Right Behind Me gag was used with Dr. Wily, Dave Anez retired the joke. (The name of that particular strip even lampshades this: "This Is The Last Time, I Swear".) The "retirement" only lasted one year before it was brought back, at which point Wily rages about the author's broken promise. The gag would continue to be used on occasion right up to the final story arc.
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Running Gagged / int_7041cf12	comment	Kaguya-sama: Love Is War: In the early part of the series, the main running gag with Yu Ishigami was his utter fear of Kaguya. Due to Poor Communication Kills and One Dialogue, Two Conversations, he had become convinced that she hated him and was plotting to kill him (and, given how powerful her family is, she could probably do it). This typically took the form of Kaguya saying or doing something Ishigami interpreted as a threat, which would result in him leaving school early while saying something like "I need to revise my will" or "I'm gonna go hang myself". Through the later chapters Kaguya begins helping Ishigami with his poor grades and his romantic pursuits, refusing to give up on him because she knows the truth about the incident that made him an outcast; as a result Ishigami develops a more positive image of Kaguya, and the two even develop a sweet Like Brother and Sister relationship.
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Running Gagged / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1: Fun with Homophones jokes regarding the Goa'uld Lord Yu were abandoned in the eighth season, as even the characters in-universe were getting tired of them. Weir, a newcomer to the series, hears his name and is immediately told that every single joke and pun has been done to death, so please don't. Yu himself dies near the end of the season as well, putting the final nail in the proverbial coffin.
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Running Gagged / int_7460586f	comment	Archer: A recurring gag of Butt-Monkey Brett accidentally getting shot ends in the Season 5 premiere when FBI agents storm ISIS headquarters and accidentally shoot him in the head. The gag of characters suggesting that Krieger might be a clone of Adolf Hitler ends in the Season 6 finale, when Krieger gets fed up and points out the obvious flaw in this theory:
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Running Gagged / int_746814ae	comment	Arthur: In season 1, D.W. puts a snowball in the freezer, but it disappears overnight. She tries to figure out who stole it, and in the end, no conclusion is reached. However, the snowball gets constantly brought up as a Running Gag: whenever D.W. accuses Arthur of lying or being mean, she'll probably mention the time he took her snowball, which he always denies. The ending of "The Blizzard" turns out to be from the day D.W. got her snowball, and "Return of the Snowball" focuses on its apparent reappearance (it turns out Arthur bought an unflavored snow cone in the hopes of ending D.W.'s nagging). 26 years after the first snowball episode, it's finally revealed what happened: D.W.'s Imaginary Friend, Nadine, stole the snowball to keep it safe from an alien troll, and did not return it because she was afraid Arthur would take it. Bud and Rapty manage to convince her to return it to its original place.
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Running Gagged / int_74700c46	comment	In Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, everybody constantly refers to "The Guy", and it becomes Arc Words and a minor plot thread. Once the kids reach the entrance to Level 5, "The Guy" appears, opens the way, then gets killed immediately after. Nobody brings it up again.
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Running Gagged / int_749d1853	comment	Hero: 108: In the first season, ApeTrully tries to give gold to all the animal kingdoms to get them to join Big Green and gets captured every time, which results in First Squad having to come and save him, but starting in season two, he stops doing this.
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Running Gagged / int_7884ec15	comment	Seinfeld: In the first five seasons, one of the running jokes with George is that he can never hold a job for more than episode or two, screwing up in some way every time he comes close. This is stopped at the end of season 5, when he becomes employed by the New York Yankees and stayed there for multiple seasons.
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Running Gagged / int_797793b1	comment	Shaman King: since the very first chapter comedic relief character "Wooden Sword" Ryu was at the center of a running gag where his enormous, glorious and cherished pompadour would get partly sliced off in increasingly bizarre ways, forcing him to style his mangled hair into different shapes each time. This changes at the end of volume 11: during a fight against Boris Tepes Dracula that saw him finally step up from his comedic relief role to true warrior, he epically styles his hair back into a shorter pompadour after having it cut off for the last time. The gag from this moment on is nowhere to be seen, and Ryu even (inexplicably) grows his pompadour back into its original length, if not even longer.
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Running Gagged / int_7a0fa029	comment	Every so often in Zatch Bell!, Kiyomaro's body inexplicably shifts to a demonic look whenever he gets angry at somebody and characters briefly remark on that. Towards the end of the Faudo arc, when Kiyomaro has been brought back from death and arrives with unrelated supernatural powers to save his friends from Rodeaux, the hero transforms into an abomination for several pages as he makes Gash unleash a storm of lightning attacks on the henchman, complete with a pause to recharge his Heart Power. Kiyomaro turns back to normal to reassure his friends and then becomes a monster one last time just to seethe at Arc Villain Zeon, who is actually unnerved by his appearance. That's when the joke stops.
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Running Gagged / int_7c2738f0	comment	On Final Fantasy VII: Machinabridged's version of the original game's startup menu, appearing at the start of every season, under Continue, there's an option that says "HD Remake" that's selected...to reveal an inhumanly long download time, a reference to the apparent Development Hell it was in. After that, New Game starts Season 1 and Continue starts Season 2 and 3. When selected at the start of Season 4, however, a window pops up declaring "The joke is dead", because in between seasons, more trailers, footage, and ''a proper release date'' was revealed. Also, Square Enix themselves had used the gag to introduce the remake at their panel during E3 2019. When the Movie rolled around, the HD Remake option was dragged off by a Whisper.
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Running Gagged / int_7d122312	comment	In The Flintstones, Fred would ask Barney to lend him a few bucks until payday saying he's short on cash, with Barney replying that he's a little short (in stature). In the 1994 live-action adaptation, it starts out with Barney mentioning that nothing's changed when Fred asks him for a couple of bucks. Later, after Fred goes back to his old job with benefits for the rehired workers, Fred asks Barney again, and Barney replies "Not this time!"
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Running Gagged / int_7de22ab8	comment	In one of the first scenes of Clerks, Dante discovers gum in the padlock holding the Quick Stop's steel shutters down, prompting him to draw a "I assure you, we're open" sign and hang it outside. The gag quietly resurfaces in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back where the shutters are down during the day and the sign is up once again. At the tail end of Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, Dante once again discovers gum in the locks and can't open the store, while Jay reveals to his daughter (and the audience) that, unsurprisingly, it was him and Silent Bob who jam gum in the locks on a regular basis. Finally, in the Clerks trilogy Grand Finale, Clerks III, Dante reacts to discovering gum in the locks once again by kicking the shutters like he did in the first movie... only to calmly peel off the gum with his key without any trouble moments later.
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Running Gagged / int_81341360	comment	Throughout the Ice Age series, Scrat will try and fail to store an acorn, often times causing the plot of the story through said antics. In a clip that ended up being the final thing Blue Sky Studios made, Scrat finds an acorn and prepares to bury it... then looks around for a moment before digging in. This is the only time in the entire franchise Scrat ever gets to enjoy an acorn.
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Running Gagged / int_84823809	comment	Kaeloo: In the first two seasons, a running gag was that nobody knew if Stumpy's long-distance girlfriend Ursula was real or not, and jokes would often rely on Ursula's existence being ambiguous. In Episode 116 from season 3, Stumpy's friends' questioning of Ursula's existence prompts Stumpy to have a mental breakdown, and in the hospital his friends encounter Ursula, who was real all along and has come to visit Stumpy. From this point onwards, nobody questions the existence of Ursula ever again.
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Running Gagged / int_85be3bbe	comment	In Kingdom Hearts in a Nutshell, all of Yen Sid's appearances see him trying to tell everyone what his name spelled backwards is, but he keeps getting cut off. In Kingdom Hearts III in a Nutshell, he finally gets to finish... and it becomes a Badass Boast during his Big Damn Heroes moment, somehow making the parody version even more epic than the real thing.
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Running Gagged / int_884c7776	comment	Nitro Rad: Ever since his review of the Gex series, James would often use his dislike of how Gex talked as an example of annoying dialogue from video game characters. After his review of Bubsy 3D, in which the title character has an even more obnoxious voice with more pointless dialogue, he promises to stop harping on Gex, admitting his stupidity was more charming.
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Running Gagged / int_89bf8ce	comment	30 Rock has a running gag where Jenna compares a current situation to increasingly bizarre Noodle Incidents involving her and Mickey Rourke, like the man trying to fire her from a catapult. The Series Finale puts a stop to it.
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30 Rock	hasFeature	Running Gagged / int_89bf8ce
Running Gagged / int_8c14d1c7	type	Running Gagged
Running Gagged / int_8c14d1c7	comment	Onward marks the final appearance of John Ratzenberger in a Pixar movie since his role in Toy Story.
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Running Gagged / int_8d8264fb	type	Running Gagged
Running Gagged / int_8d8264fb	comment	Noob has a case of this trope meeting Real Life Writes the Plot. One of the running gags was a situation in which a Player Killer named Dark Avenger was in a Mistaken for Badass situation with Sparadrap, The Fool of the cast. The actor playing one of the two could no longer participate so Dark Avenger's higher-ups suddenly got frustrated with the situation that has been lasting for years and expelled him from his guild. That is followed by Sparadrap managing to beat him up in the middle of trying to give him a little consolation. That results in him quitting the game out of spite.
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Running Gagged / int_8dba224e	type	Running Gagged
Running Gagged / int_8dba224e	comment	Subverted with the running gag of Peter's shenanigans destroying the front of Cleveland's house while he's taking a bath, causing his tub to fall to the ground. At first, it seemed like the first episode of The Cleveland Show was this, as it was the last straw that convinced Cleveland to move out of Quahog. Even after that, however, the gag still makes a few sparse appearances, once with an empty tub falling down because Cleveland moved, once when a missile manages to hit Cleveland's new house, once when time is going backwards for Stewie and Brian, and once where it happens to Cleveland's ex-wife Loretta, which ends up killing her.
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Running Gagged / int_8f36f969	comment	The Loud House: In the first few seasons, Bobby was seen working a variety of jobs, rarely the same one in each episode. However, after the status quo was shaken up when he moved to a new city, he has consistently been shown working at his family's bodega. Likewise, Lily was originally seen running around naked, and pooping in her diaper during the first four seasons. These would both be dropped in the fifth season since the episode, "Schooled!", had her become potty-trained.
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Running Gagged / int_8fd3db0b	comment	In Star Trek: Lower Decks, one of Shaxs' first options to dealing with any problem is to eject the warp core, something he proclaimed all the way back in the first episode, "Second Contact". Any time some sort of danger comes up, expect the ejection idea to come up. However, in the season 3 finale "The Stars at Night", Boimler lets out a Big "SHUT UP!", pointing out that this time, it is their best plan, where they use it as a gigantic high warp mine to try and destroy their pursuers.
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Running Gagged / int_9068877a	type	Running Gagged
Running Gagged / int_9068877a	comment	Red vs. Blue starts Season 11 with the main characters stranded in an unknown planet after their ship crashed. All through that season and the next, there would be a flashback showing one of the cast (except the one viewers would expect, the Lethally Stupid Caboose) might have caused the accident - Washington tripping on a power cable, Grif spilling soda over the controls, Tucker hitting on the pilot, etc. Come episode 15 of Season 12, the ship actually crashed because of a tractor beam on the planet - only the cumulative hijinks from those flashbacks actually saved their lives ("Ships come by, we pull them down and then kill everyone aboard. Would have worked on you too but something went wrong. It was like the ship tried to jump to slip-space, change course and power down all at the same time. It didn't make any sense. Instead of pulling you down, the ship got ripped apart").
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Running Gagged / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Kim Possible: The series had a popular gag where Sidekick Ron would lose his pants. Eventually, the gag ended in "Clean Slate" where Kim gave him a titanium belt. However, it got a good sendoff with a montage of Ron's best pants losing moments, which helped an amnesia-recovering Kim remember that they were dating. A gag that surfaced in the Post-Script Season was Kim and Ron Almost Kissing, only to be interrupted by various people (usually Wade), which could've been seen as frustrating to K/R fans. Fortunately, the gag ended in the Grand Finale where we see Kim and Ron kiss onscreen twice.
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Running Gagged / int_92844ddb	type	Running Gagged
Running Gagged / int_92844ddb	comment	Throughout Dinosaurs, Baby would regularly hit Earl over the head and shout "Not the mama!" In the episode, "Refrigerator Day", the Sinclair family ends up in financial jeopardy when B.P. Richfield fails to deliver the holiday bonuses, which results in their fridge getting repossessed. Feeling like he's at an all time low, Earl asks Baby to hit him over the head. Baby thinks about it for a second and says, "It's getting old."
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Running Gagged / int_95d36ad5	comment	Hollow Kingdom (2019): After a Humboldt penguin coughs up some fish as a sign of respect for S.T., the recurring insults about penguins stop.
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Running Gagged / int_976efc02	type	Running Gagged
Running Gagged / int_976efc02	comment	Mystery Science Theater 3000: Up until "Teenagers from Outer Space", Joel and the Bots, upon seeing a flashlight being shown, declare "It's The NBC Mystery Movie!". In the first segment of that episode, as a result of overusage in the previous episode "City Limits", Joel uses shock therapy to get them to cut it out. In "Indestructible Man", a running gag of Donut Mess with a Cop get used so much that two cops invade Deep 13 at the end to force Joel and the bots to sign an affidavit to prevent them from doing so again. A bit of Loophole Abuse happens when the joke is revived by Mike, who wasn't around thus didn't sign the affidavit, in "High School Big Shot". In "The Atomic Brain", whenever Ms. Marsh's house appears, the SOL crew declare "Selznick International Pictures''. After a while, Mike decides that they should stop, but Tom tries to sneak in two more.
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Running Gagged / int_9888f901	comment	For four and a half seasons of Daria, Quinn refuses to admit that Daria is her sister, insisting that she is her "cousin" instead. She is especially nervous that her friends in the Fashion Club not find out her real relationship with Daria. But thanks to Character Development, by the fifth season Quinn's relationship with Daria has improved and she starts sticking up for herself more in the Fashion Club. This led to the following exchange in the episode "Lucky Strike":
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Running Gagged / int_994a18ad	comment	Throughout the first two acts of Snatch., one minor running gag is Irish Traveller Mickey O'Niel swindling people to keep forcing them to buy a caravan to give to his mother. The film's biggest Drama Bomb happens in the third act, when Brick Top reacts to Mickey telling him (off-screen) that he will gladly take the fall in the fight if he buys a caravan for his mother by setting his mother's caravan on fireâ€¦ while she was sleeping inside of itâ€¦ and tell Mickey that it's the fall or all of the other Travelers in the park die.
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Running Gagged / int_99c003af	comment	Early on in The Boondocks, Tom was deathly afraid of being raped by Bubba, despite happily sending members of his own race to the exact same fate. In "A Date With The Booty Warrior," he faces his greatest fear: The Booty Warrior. He easily defeats the Booty Warrior, and he doesn't get a single rape joke in Season 4.
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Running Gagged / int_9a1a8272	comment	Odd Squad: The running gag of Season 1, where a character remarks "If Sheila could see me now" after performing some sort of action, comes to a head in the finale "O is Not For Over", where "Sheila" is revealed to be the name of an actress in the Show Within a Show Bizarre Brigade who has, quite literally, lost her head. Once Otto restores it with the aid of a gadget, the director of the SWAS states that "I'm so glad Sheila can see me now!" This is lampshaded in the Season 2 episode "The Ninja Situation" when, after giving a disguised Otis the pizza needed to win over the Yum-Yum Twins, Olympia remarks "If Sheila could see me now" only for Oona to tell her that "I don't think we're doing that anymore."
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Running Gagged / int_9ac9d448	type	Running Gagged
Running Gagged / int_9ac9d448	comment	Ultimate Spider-Man: Spider-Man following every single denial he was a mutant with "Not that there's anything wrong with that" before ultimately stopping whilst thrown into a Hunting the Most Dangerous Game situation alongside the X-Men. In a meta-sense, J. Jonah Jameson twisting every single heroic deed Spider-Man made and Spider-Man's general status as a Hero with Bad Publicity. After over 4 decades of it in the mainstream Marvel universe and 9 years in the Ultimate universe, Jameson stopped slandering Spider-Man after the events of Ultimatum, when he witnessed Spider-Man doing everything he could possibly do to save people in the midst of New York City being flooded whilst the other superheroes were nowhere to be seen, and subsequently this led to Spider-Man having the best PR out of any of the heroes when Jameson proceeded to admit he was wrong and the Bugle became Spider-Man's biggest supporters. He did restart the slandering when Miles Morales started on his path as Spider-Man, but in an interesting twist, this was because Jameson (like many people) thought that Miles was desecrating Peter's memory... and in 2018, the good ol' 616 version of Jonah put his own version of the Running Gag away (if not for good because Status Quo Is God, then at least for a while) in Spider-Geddon, with him helping Peter survive Morlun's latest rampage and publicly proclaiming Spider-Man as a hero (which actually leads to a hefty In-Universe backlash calling him a "sell-out").
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Running Gagged / int_9d3237c8	comment	Adam Ruins Everything had a recurring gag of references to characters being afraid of "little bugs". This came to a head in the penultimate episode, "Adam Ruins Little Bugs", which was entirely devoted to explaining why many little bugs aren't as scary as people think they are.
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Running Gagged / int_9e2f90f4	comment	In One Piece, Sanji's laughably inaccurate bounty poster was a long-running joke... until the Straw Hats end up getting attacked by a guy called Duval whose life has been totally ruined by the fact that he happens to look just like that crappy poster, causing people to think he's Sanji.
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Running Gagged / int_9f9ab3c4	comment	In The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society's Production of Macbeth, the Third Witch keeps coming on stage at the beginning of scenes and proclaiming, "Thrice the brindled cat hath mewed", before being rushed off because it's not time for that scene yet. When the play does finally get to the right scene, she misses her cue, leaving the other two witches stranded on stage waiting for her to arrive and start the scene.
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Running Gagged / int_a40b1126	type	Running Gagged
Running Gagged / int_a40b1126	comment	His "Boomer Will Live" gag started with his Independence Day review. When he did the review for Battleship, he showed a clip of a pilot with the call sign "Boomer" on his helmet after the aliens are defeated. He starts to do the usual gag until...
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Running Gagged / int_a654931c	comment	Noah Smith's stage version of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde depends on quick scene changes and uses minimal set dressing. At the beginning of each new scene, the Greek Chorus describes the setting to the audience, pointing out the locations of imaginary windows, furniture, etc., and frequently ending with "And a door." When Utterson breaks down the locked door of Jekyll's laboratory at the end of the penultimate scene, the subsequent scene shift to the interior of the laboratory ends with "And an open space where there used to be a door."
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Running Gagged / int_a895e9d2	comment	In the first Portal game, numerous references were made to cake, such as Chell's reward being cake, and the famous The Cake Is a Lie meme was found here. In Portal 2, the writers were sick of the memes and stripped out all references to cake... except one: an Obvious Trap labeled "GLaDOS Emergency Shutdown and Cake Dispensary".
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Running Gagged / int_a9f06cb6	comment	VeggieTales: "The Eight Polish Foods of Christmas", a parody of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" and a song included on a A Very Veggie Christmas and The Little Drummer Boy. Starting with the second food, Oscar describes each food with the similarity that they have meat (2 steamed perogies note it's a dough, wrapped around meat, 3 simmered goÅ‚Ä…bkis note it's cabbage, wrapped around meat , 4 baked paprikas note a bell pepper, stuffed with meat and 5 smoked kielbasas note it's pretty much just meat). When we get to number six, 6 fried chruÅ›cikis, Bob asks if it's something in the meat category. He explains it's a delightful pastry and the gag about everything having meat pretty much stops.
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Running Gagged / int_ab67d84	type	Running Gagged
Running Gagged / int_ab67d84	comment	Ctrl+Alt+Del had a running gag of a normal strip being interrupted with one of the character randomly getting shot by an arrow. It was officially retired by having Ethan dodge and catch it and snapping it in half. Cue him being crushed by an elephant.
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Running Gagged / int_ac4b6a62	type	Running Gagged
Running Gagged / int_ac4b6a62	comment	Jeph Jacques of Questionable Content frequently used Yelling Bird, a foul-mouthed avian, as filler material when he needed a break. In August of 2015, he officially retired Yelling Bird, after letting the bird verbally abuse the readers one last time.
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Running Gagged / int_af7aead4	comment	Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: During the 7th season, John would regularly gush over Adam Driver's attractiveness. In the last episode of the season, Driver himself appeared at the show, lambasting Oliver's unwanted advances, and even turned some of them around against him. Durig the 8th season, there was a gag where John could summon George Clooney by snapping his fingers, sometimes entirely accidentally. During the season finale, George gives him the power to summon any other celebrities of his choosing, which includes Jennifer Coolidge, Will Ferrell, Ru Paul, and Cardi B.
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Running Gagged / int_b0b22636	comment	Wheel of Fortune: On October 12, 2020, a contestant won $100,000 in the Bonus Round, but the confetti did not shoot from its cannons. Pat Sajak explained that the cannons malfunctioned, and he jokingly blamed it on then-new executive producer Mike Richards. For that day and on other Season 38 episodes featuring wins in excess of $100,000, Richards was credited as "Mike 'Confetti' Richards". This gag was retired once Richards left Sony on bad terms shortly into Season 39. A weekend repeat from Season 38 was modified to credit Richards normally.
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Running Gagged / int_b7f04ccc	comment	The Patrick Star Show: Whenever Shmandor appears, someone smashes it, be it Cave Patrick crushing it with a rock, Squidina unknowingly stepping on it, or Patrick destroying it with cereal box prizes. This leads to "The Wrath of Shmandor", where the army mobilizes an attack against Patrick to ensure their city's safety. While Squidina does give the Shmandorian leaders a solution, the army general actually wins and takes over Patrick's brain, with the episode ending right there.
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Running Gagged / int_bca72091	comment	The Animal Crossing series had Mr. Resetti and his infamous rants about restarting the game without saving prior to that. Then comes Animal Crossing: New Leaf, in which encountering him is now optional. Upon the first reset, after selecting a reason for the action, this dialogue occurs: Though it does end up being a temporary retirement of the gag when you decide to build a new Reset Surveillance Center. In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, however? Due to the autosave function, the gag is now officially over due to Resetti being laid off from the job, for real this time. Fortunately, he's still around for players to hang out with.
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Running Gagged / int_bd310eaa	type	Running Gagged
Running Gagged / int_bd310eaa	comment	El Goonish Shive: There was a Running Gag involving women hitting men with a Hyperspace Mallet whenever they said something sexist. The Hammers were eventually deconstructed as their true purpose was revealed: They were not designed to prevent sexist comments, but rather encourage them, as the hammers gave women an opportunity to get back at the men in a harmless manner, meaning the men didn't have to feel bad about upsetting them. The hammers became permanently unusable when the immortal who controlled them was preparing for his death and rebirth. References to Tedd being androgynous also stopped for a while, probably because in the newer art style he didn't really look all that androgynous. They later made a return, along with Tedd getting a new (and much more androgynous) look in-universe. Later, an arc titled Bringing Silly Back seemed to be mainly using this as a chance to call a capper on the overly silly running gags, and reconstruct them to fit the new tone of the comic.
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Running Gagged / int_bfef9cdb	comment	Welcome to Night Vale: In the first few seasons, every time Cecil reads out the week's horoscopes, the one for Scorpio sounds angry and demeaning. It's eventually revealed that this is because Cecil's Sitcom Arch-Nemesis, Steve Carlsberg, is a Scorpio. Cecil and Steve resolve their differences in "Matryoshka", and in "The Promise of Time", Cecil promises Steve that he'll never insult Scorpios again, putting an end to the gag.
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Running Gagged / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: For a few seasons of the new series, there was a gag in which the companions would try an accent and/or repeat what The Doctor said, to which he inevitably replied "No... no, don't do that." The episode "Midnight" murdered this gag, as Donna repeating what the Doctor said after he was nearly taken over and killed by an unseen monster was the last thing he needed to hear. The gag has not been used since. The Tenth and Eleventh Doctors both expressed disappointment upon first regenerating that their hair still wasnâ€™t ginger. This running gag was quite popular with fans of the revival series. However, itâ€™s been abandoned since those two incarnations (though the Doctor has yet to be ginger).
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Running Gagged / int_c4a22754	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: In Bandit Keith's final appearance in the main series, his Eagle Land characterization was officially dropped when it was revealed that he was only pretending to be American and he was actually from Canada. In the episode that wrote out Bonz, he reveals that he actually can talk normally and his constantly saying "Braiiins..." was just an act. Both characters' subsequent appearances in all future side videos have dropped these gags. It's lampshaded in one anniversary special where Bakura and Marik try to do a drinking game off some of the gags from the series, they end disappointed when both Bandit Keith and Bonz explain that they don't do those anymore. One of the earliest running gags in the series was Weevil and Rex being obvious expies of Beavis and Butt-Head. This officially ended after Episode 73 when the Seal of Orichalcos allowed them to Retcon this behavior away and act more like their canon counterparts. And then subverted when Yami defeating the Orichalcos for good causes them to revert back to acting like the duo. Episode 78 ends the running gag of Kaiba's two henchmen being Those Wacky Nazis. When asked about it, Kaiba says that the gag was stupid. Episode 83 opens with the reveal that Dukeâ€™s theme music has been killed by YouTube getting wise, so he now has Tristan beat-boxing his theme music as a compromise.
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Running Gagged / int_c720f71e	comment	Episode 83 opens with the reveal that Dukeâ€™s theme music has been killed by YouTube getting wise, so he now has Tristan beat-boxing his theme music as a compromise.
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Running Gagged / int_ca153957	comment	SomecallmeJohnny had a Running Gag in his Metroid videos where, anytime he mentioned the Screw Attack powerup, a disembodied voice would suddenly shout "SCREW ATTACK!" much to Johnny's confusion, and later, annoyance. By Metroid Prime 3, Johnny finally calls it off and guns down the "SCREW ATTACK" guy, ending the gag. It got one last oblique mention in his video of Federation Force where he mentions the Screw Attack, and then immediately says "I shot that asshole dead." In his earliest reviews of Sonic games, when he brought up Big the Cat, he mocked him in a certain way or said "I don't like Big the Cat". Then comes his review of Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, and when he mentions Big the Cat as a playable character, he inhales to say "I'm kinda sick of saying that."
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Running Gagged / int_cf6ccaa7	comment	In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, however? Due to the autosave function, the gag is now officially over due to Resetti being laid off from the job, for real this time. Fortunately, he's still around for players to hang out with.
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Running Gagged / int_d5c33582	comment	PokÃ©mon the Series: XY featured Bonnie attempting to be The Matchmaker for her big brother Clemont, always proposing any girl or woman she meets to be Clemont's "keeper", much to Clemont's embarrassment. But in the episode "A Keeper for Keeps?!", the girl of day, Lilia, ends up liking Clemont and the two get along well, causing Bonnie to have nightmares of Clemont leaving the Lumiose Gym and her for Lilia and regretting her matchmaking behavior. Ultimately, Lilia doesn't feel ready to be Clemont's "keeper", but this ends up being the last XY episode to feature "Keeper" gag.note The gag returns in PokÃ©mon Journeys: The Series, 6 years later, but only in Clemont and Bonnie's guest-starred episode as XY nostalgia.
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Running Gagged / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	PokÃ©mon: The Series: PokÃ©mon: The Original Series: After quite a few of Kanto's Gym battles end in Ash being given a badge either out of pity and/or saving the Gym or its Leader personally, Blaine does not give Ash a Volcano Badge after he helps stop a volcanic eruption. He offers a rematch instead (as Ash had surrendered to him earlier), but Ash is still happy to take it (especially when Charizard decides to behave for a bit and inserts itself into the 1 on 1 battle with Magmar). The anime began regions with Pikachu wrecking the bikes of that region's female lead (Kanto with Misty, Hoenn with May and Sinnoh with Dawn). However, since Iris lacked a bike in Unova, Pikachu shocked her instead, creating a different running gag where Pikachu shocks the female lead. PokÃ©mon the Series: XY featured Bonnie attempting to be The Matchmaker for her big brother Clemont, always proposing any girl or woman she meets to be Clemont's "keeper", much to Clemont's embarrassment. But in the episode "A Keeper for Keeps?!", the girl of day, Lilia, ends up liking Clemont and the two get along well, causing Bonnie to have nightmares of Clemont leaving the Lumiose Gym and her for Lilia and regretting her matchmaking behavior. Ultimately, Lilia doesn't feel ready to be Clemont's "keeper", but this ends up being the last XY episode to feature "Keeper" gag.note The gag returns in PokÃ©mon Journeys: The Series, 6 years later, but only in Clemont and Bonnie's guest-starred episode as XY nostalgia. PokÃ©mon the Series: Sun & Moon featured a recurring joke about Lillie being afraid of touching PokÃ©mon in its early episodes. After the reveal this stemmed from an incident with the Ultra Beast Nihilego, the gag stopped being used after that. A subtle example: Team Rocket's Meowth notably was unable to learn Pay Day due to learning to speak like a person instead. The move becomes G-Max Gold Rush when using its Gigantimax form in PokÃ©mon Sword and Shield, which ends up happening in PokÃ©mon Journeys: The Series after Meowth is hit with a blast of Galar particles from Eternatus and gains the ability to Gigantimax.
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Running Gagged / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park: "Oh, my God! They Killed Kenny!" In its early seasons, Kenny McCormick's death Once per Episode was one of the defining traits of the show. Many a fan eagerly awaited to see how Kenny would bite it this week. Soon, however, the writers felt that it was becoming an Overused Running Gag, and decided to end it before it got too much. And so, Kenny was Killed Off for Real in the aptly titled episode "Kenny Dies", and stayed dead for the better part of the following season. Eventually, Kenny was brought back from the dead, only now he wasn't killed off... at least not as often (plus the "Oh my god! They killed Kenny!" phrase wasn't always said). The whole thing got a Cerebus Retcon in the "The Coon And Friends Trilogy", where we learn that Kenny's parents were part of a Lovecraftian cult and his immortality was a curse from the Dark Ones. The boys trying to find a replacement fourth friend in the sixth season. For the majority of the first half they took in Butters, who Got Volunteered into all sorts of Zany Schemes Once per Episode, before finally getting thrown out with Tweek being placed in the role instead. However, Tweek was eventually phased out before Kenny himself finally reappeared at the end of the season. Many episodes ended with characters (usually Kyle) giving morals, most of the time accompanied by the phrase, "You know, I learned something today." This practice was mocked in some episodes such as "Butt Out" and "Cartoon Wars, Part 2", but it was put to sleep for good in Season 19's "Where My Country Gone?", where Kyle's friends blame a recent wave of illegal Canadian immigrants on his speech about tolerance and acceptance in the previous episode, and ignore him whenever he argues against them. At the end of the episode, Kyle disrupts Mr. Garrison's rally to issue a moral against sensationalistic politics, only to be met with angry glares from the audience. From that point forward, this would happen much less frequently. A lot of other catchphrases from the showâ€™s early days, notably â€œScrew you guys, Iâ€™m going home!â€� and â€œDude, this is pretty fucked up right here!â€� also ended up being phased out. Cartman's love of Cheesy Poofs is well established within the first two seasons but almost never is referenced outside of that timeframe. Nowadays, Kentucky Fried Chicken is usually shown as his Trademark Favorite Food if the plot calls for one.
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Running Gagged / int_da861da1	comment	Veronica Mars: Cassidy Casablancas is constantly being tormented by his nickname, Beaver, and Veronica consistently starts calling him Beaver before switching it out with Cassidy; Logan also makes a series of "Dick and Beaver" jokes about sleeping with Kendall (their stepmother). Then, come the end of Season 2, Logan accidentally calls him "Beaver" when trying to persuade Cassidy not to kill himself after it comes out that he crashed the bus and killed multiple people due to being molested. This ends up being the final straw for him, and he emotionally tells Logan that his name is Cassidy, then jumps off the roof to his death. Out of respect, Logan decides to stop making the jokes and always refer to him posthumously as "Cassidy", never calling him "Beaver" again.
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Running Gagged / int_e25322af	comment	Homestar Runner: Parodied in the Strong Bad Email "the facts"; Homestar tells Strong Bad he's incorporating a new catchphrase, "That's bupkis", which he never says in any other cartoon. A long string of SBEmails featured a Running Gag where characters would randomly make a reference to "DNA evidence". The last email to feature this running gag, "rough copy", had an Easter egg at the end where Homestar is sitting by himself in Marzipan's living room and wearily says the phrase "DNA evidence", to show the joke had officially worn out its welcome.... that is, until it became the subject of its own toon.
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Running Gagged / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: The evil monkey living in Chris' closet. In season 8, he finally came out of the closet, turned out to not be that bad of a monkey, helped Peter and Chris amend their relationship, and moves out to live in Jake Tucker's closet. He has been Out of Focus in Family Guy, but he makes a complete Heelâ€“Face Turn in The Cleveland Show, where he is renamed Monkey, and he saves Cleveland from the guys from Deliverance. Another example is Vern and Johnny, the Vaudeville players, who would be killed off. They started making appearances after the show's revival (although Vern appeared by himself way back in the second season of the show), and were killed by Stewie in the next season. They end up making one more appearance after this, with Vern as a ghost and Johnny in Hell (Vern's ghost explains that Johnny liked little boys). They also have a background cameo in one of Stewie's nightmares in "A Lot Going On Upstairs" that involves other recurring extras that were no longer used. They are also seen in Peter's hallucination of deceased characters in "Coma Guy". Also killed off was Paddy Tanniger, a character introduced in the second season whose defining trait was his catchphrase of "Big whoop, wanna fight about it?". During the climax of "Hell Comes to Quahog", he says the phrase while mocking Brian and Stewie's tank, and the two promptly run him over before he can even finish. And then back the tank over him. And then drive over him again. Subverted with the running gag of Peter's shenanigans destroying the front of Cleveland's house while he's taking a bath, causing his tub to fall to the ground. At first, it seemed like the first episode of The Cleveland Show was this, as it was the last straw that convinced Cleveland to move out of Quahog. Even after that, however, the gag still makes a few sparse appearances, once with an empty tub falling down because Cleveland moved, once when a missile manages to hit Cleveland's new house, once when time is going backwards for Stewie and Brian, and once where it happens to Cleveland's ex-wife Loretta, which ends up killing her. The Conway Twitty gags. They started in the season 5 episode "Bill and Peter's Bogus Journey", where a character makes an Aside Glance, introducing the viewers to Conway Twitty as a distraction, playing a performance of one of his songs. This occured a few more times in later seasons. There are a few times where the characters are annoyed by this, as in "3 Acts of God", God gives Peter, Cleveland, Quagmire and Joe a message where Conway wishes that they would stop doing these gags, and in "Peter, Chris, & Brian", teenage Peter starts to play Conway Twitty's music for his adult self in a video, but present Peter finds it annoying, not wanting to sit through the song. The "Brian's Emmy Vote" online shorts are basically remakes of the scene in "Patriot Games" where Stewie beats up Brian for not being able to pay back the money he owes him, only this time Stewie is beating up Brian for not giving Family Guy a vote in the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Comedy Series (its fellow nominees were 30 Rock (which won), Entourage, Flight of the Conchords, How I Met Your Mother, The Office (US), and Weeds). The last video abruptly ends early as Stewie decides Weeds is not worth beating Brian up over. One of Stewie's main character traits in the early seasons was his goal of killing Lois, and his repeated attempts failing miserably. The episodes "Stewie Kills Lois" and "Lois Kills Stewie" has Stewie run a simulation to see what would happen if he actually did go through with killing Lois (she survived, and she and Peter kill Stewie). Stewie concludes that killing Lois is too risky and from that point on, his matricidal desires more or less went away.
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Running Gagged / int_eb0c9938	comment	Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure Diamond Is Unbreakable always had Josuke getting angry over anyone insulting his hair. Then it's revealed that his hairstyle was inspired by a mysterious man who saved his life when he nearly died from a fever. It is at that moment that the gag ends.
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Running Gagged / int_ee6c1abc	comment	Parodied in the Strong Bad Email "the facts"; Homestar tells Strong Bad he's incorporating a new catchphrase, "That's bupkis", which he never says in any other cartoon.
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Running Gagged / int_ef661e97	comment	With one — his showing of a clip with M. Bison saying "Of course!" when a character expresses a desire to rule the world — he refuses to show it because it's been overdone, only for the clip to force its way onto the screen despite his protests. In the commentary for the review, Doug Walker mentions that he tries to be mindful of if he's overusing a joke to the point where it isn't funny, at which point he tries to mix things up a little and keep it fresh.
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Running Gagged / int_f0a86c12	comment	How I Met Your Mother brings back Barney's fireball magic trick, but everyone snaps at him that it isn't funny anymore, the barmaid reminds him he's been banned from doing it by the fire marshal, and Lily tells him to go stand in the corner. A flashback in a later episode shows that the gang at some point held an intervention to try to persuade him to stop doing it.
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Running Gagged / int_f6c05e8e	comment	Friends had a Running Gag going since the beginning involving "Ugly Naked Guy", a never-seen, um, Exactly What It Says on the Tin character who lived in the next apartment building over, who would occasionally get mentioned with lines such as "Oooh, Ugly Naked Guy's doing X!" By Season 5, the writers decided it was time to retire the gag, and at that point Ross was also in need of a new place to live. So they killed two birds with one stone by having him move out, and Ross get his apartment. An earlier example would be how throughout the first season, a neighbor, Mr. Heckles, would complain the gang was making too much noise despite them clearly have been going about their business at a normal volume level. Early into season 2, they get tired of it and intentionally make too much noise and Mr. Heckles dies moments later. While cleaning out the apartment, they realize that the acoustics of the apartment actually did make their normal activities sound louder than they really were.
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