The classic slapstick pie-in-the-face gag was also frequently used on YCDTOTV, although pie scenes were most common during the early years of the show.

Though Letterman is typically well-attired and neat, a common gag is his pretending to eat or drink excessive amounts of both edible and non-edible items, for instance, eating mayonnaise straight from the jar, allowing it to slop onto his face and onto the front of his suit.

Another more common gag consists of audience members finding ways to leave the show to Letterman's embarrassment.

The more " effective " a gag appears to be, the more hazardous it is: for example, duct tape is fairly effective but is hazardous if for some reason ( e. g., the common cold ) the subject cannot breathe freely through the nose.

This is common in BDSM, but in practice these sorts of gag can usually be got rid of by working the jaws about and / or pushing with the tongue, and they often do not stop the victim from making a loud inarticulate noise to call for help.

Another most common type of gag in working practice is an over the mouth ( OTM ) gag of duct tape.

This practice is also fairly common in certain comics, such as Svetlana Chmakova's Dramacon, which makes several product-placement-esque usages of " Pawky ", ( a modification of the name of the Japanese snack " Pocky ", popular among the anime and manga fan community in which the story is set ) or Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon, which includes numerous references to the series Codename: Sailor V, which Sailor Moon was spun off of ; the anime makes further use of this meta-referential gag, going so far as having an animator on a Codename: Sailor V feature film be a victim in one episode.

With the coming of DVD in the 1990s, it is now common for major film releases to include a " blooper reel " ( also known as a " gag reel " or simply " outtakes ") among the bonus material on the disc.

Another common gag is during games such as Report Card and Odds Makers, Dan Le Batard's name will often be Don, rather than Dan.

A common running gag with the character is how he continually complains about not appearing more often.

Food fights are a common element in slapstick comedy, with the pie in the face gag being especially prominent.

As the flying saucer lands in Atlanta, Georgia ( landing legs having tennis shoes, a common Chuck Jones gag ), a crowd of people gather round the Martian and run away screaming " Monster!

Using a gag on somebody who is ill, or affected by some condition such as the common cold, catarrh, the flu, or common allergies ( including sensitivities to cologne or perfume ) is also quite dangerous, as most gags make it difficult or impossible to breathe through the mouth.

Unlike the metal bit that is most common in horse bridles, the bar of a bit gag is usually a soft rubber cylinder.

A common running gag on the show is that despite Tom's name being very simple, it is nearly always misspelled when written out, such as " Tom Petres ", " Thom P. Tiers " and " Taumpy Tearrs.

A common running gag used throughout the series was that, whenever the phrase " Hold the Phone " was said, there would be a cut to this still.

Also, the use of over-the-mouth gags was common enough that the slang term " Detective gag " is used for it.

This trait turned into a common sight gag ; his action figure is equipped with ejectable arms.

Characteristics such as pockets that store an infinite amount of junk ( a common gag of his tenure ); his wild, curly hair ; overcoat ; and the Fourth Doctor's grinning, wide-eyed general appearance have many viewers, including DW historian David F. Chapman, making comparisons between him and comedian / film star Harpo Marx.

A variant of the topper, " throwaway " panels containing a " throwaway gag " ( inessential to the thrust of the strip ) remain common, and allow different formats depending on available space.

The most common type of visual gag is based on multiple interpretations of a series of events.

The mispronunciation of common Muggle terms like " telephone ", " escalator ", " plumber ", " firearms " or " policeman ", as " fellytone ", " escapator ", " pumble ", " firelegs ", and " please-men ", respectively, is a running gag in the series.

The one thing they had in common was their hatred.

He had picked out this pathless trail, instead of the common one, in a moment of romantic fancy, to give them privacy on their honeymoon.

It seemed to me that the liberals had scrapped the balanced polarity and reposed both liberty and the fundamental law in the common man.

During the decade that followed, the common man, as that piece put it, grew uncomfortable as the Voice of God and fled from behind Saint Woodrow ( Wilson ) only to learn from Science, to his shocked relief that after all there was no God he had to speak for and that he was just an animal anyhow -- that there was a chemical formula for him, and that too much couldn't be expected of him.

What had happened to the common man??

This showed that common sense had not died out at the county and village level -- though why the unhappy and obviously unbalanced woman was not restrained remains a puzzle.

for what had happened on the common was only terror and flight ; ;

We still had that much in common.

This behavior on her part subsided only after I had come to see the uncomfortably close similarity between, on the one hand, her arranging the ventilation of the common living room to her own liking, or turning the television off or on without regard to the wishes of the others, and on the other hand, my own coming stolidly into her room despite her persistent and vociferous objections, bringing my big easy chair with me, usually shutting the windows of her room which she preferred to keep in a very cold state, and plunking myself down in my chair -- in short, behaving as if I owned her room.

Miss Upton and Miss Packard, as a matter of fact, had many tastes in common.

The most common reference to `` wet stock '' was with the meanin' that such animals had been smuggled across the Rio Grande after bein' stolen from their rightful owners.

Until a few weeks ago, however, Arnold Palmer was some god-like creature who had nothing in common with the duffers.

Eighteenth-century England, upon whose customs our common law was built, had outlawed unions as monopolies and conspiracies.

The spelling Ἀπόλλων had almost superseded all other forms by the beginning of the common era, but the Doric form Απέλλων is more archaic, derived from an earlier * Απέλjων.

When they tried to depict the most abiding qualities of men, it was because men had common roots with the unchanging gods.

They reasoned that if all three families had a common ancestor, we should expect losses to happen at random, not only at the geographical margins of the family, and that the observed pattern is consistent with borrowing.

In the northern or " Anasazi " portion of the Ancestral Pueblo world, from about 500 to 1300 CE, the most common decorated pottery had black painted designs on white or light gray backgrounds.

Theodosius had just been baptized, by bishop Acholius of Thessalonica, during a severe illness, as was common in the early Christian world.

Anthony, as Johann August Wilhelm Neander remarks, " without any conscious design of his own, had become the founder of a new mode of living in common, Coenobitism.

( They had no refectory, but ate their common meal, of bread and water only, when the day's labour was over, reclining on strewn grass, sometimes out of doors.

Next, Alexios had to deal with disturbances in Thrace, where the heretical sects of the Bogomils and the Paulicians revolted and made common cause with the Pechenegs from beyond the Danube.

On 26 June, Alexei died in the Petropavlovskaya fortress in Saint Petersburg, two days after the senate had condemned him to death for conspiring rebellion against his father, and for hoping for the cooperation of the common people and the armed intervention of his brother-in-law, the emperor.

The need to persuade his nobles to undertake work for the ' common good ' led Alfred and his court scholars to strengthen and deepen the conception of Christian kingship that he had inherited by building upon the legacy of earlier kings such as Offa as well as clerical writers such as Bede, Alcuin and the other luminaries of the Carolingian renaissance.

What they and many others of that generation in the Nordic countries had in common was that they started off from a classical education and were first designing in the so-called Nordic Classicism style – a style that had been a reaction to the previous dominant style of National Romanticism – before moving, in the late 1920s, towards Modernism.