As portrayed by Sellers, Clouseau ’ s French accent became steadily more exaggerated in successive films ( for example, pronouncing " room " as " reum "; " Pope " as " Peup "; " bomb " as " beumb "; and " bumps " as " beumps "), and a frequent running gag in the movies was that even French characters would have difficulty understanding what he was saying.

* Deirdre Birchwood, an ex-girlfriend of Bob's, frequent references to her became a running gag in the first series

Each installment was typically four panels ( but with frequent variation ), usually with a comedic gag at the end, but with ongoing storylines.

The most frequent running gag about Ryo's character is that he is extremely lecherous.

Spooky, who makes frequent cameo appearances in Smokey Stover, also regularly turns up in the background of Holman's daily gag panel feature, Nuts and Jolts.

A frequent gag on the show involves Heather's best friend Angela ( Michele Matheson ), who always ( except for in one episode ) mispronounces Mr. Belvedere's name-such as calling him " Mr. Bumpersticker ", " Mr. Bellpepper " or " Mr. Butterfinger ".

Another frequent gag involves George and Mr. Belvedere butting heads, with George being annoyed with his " nosy English housekeeper " always interfering.

A frequent running gag of the openings would be Kel never knowing what the night's episode would be about and Kenan refusing to tell him.

The four dissenting justices strongly approved of the " gag law ", and felt that the nature of the articles in The Saturday Press, including their recurrent anti-Semitism, their frequent ( allegedly false ) accusations of official misconduct, and their disrespectful and confrontational tone, made them unworthy of protection.

This became a frequent running gag in the strip's later years.

Light is generally portrayed as more of a nuisance than a real threat, though he has his moments, and his frequent short appearances and easily defeats are something of a running gag.

The gag was less frequent in the second series.

This became a frequent running gag before eventually fading out, with this being replaced with Chris sending Wurthers out on a task.

Despite looking like stuffed animals, the Trio and the other inhabitants of AniYoko appear to be living beings, and there are references to suggest that they can die, including the running gag of Iyo's frequent deaths and revivals and an episode built around the apparent murder of Yamanami-san.

* After holding an exploding bomb from Mayor West, Meg has Daffy Duck ’ s bill on the wrong side of her head, and then states, “ Of course, you realize, this means war ”, parodying a frequent gag on Looney Tunes.

Because of its light weight, Hall's statue was once known for its frequent changes of location, often due to student pranks.

One of the more frequent of these shapes was the opening slit ; a vertical central split appears in the totally black frame, and widens till the whole frame is clear, revealing the scene that is about to start.

A frequent dilemma among players is whether to allow 1NT opening with 5-3-3-2 distribution which includes a five-card major suit.

This opening is attributed to Dr. Scott Reed ( Edinburgh, UK ), a known military strategist and frequent player.

The Grünfeld Defence ( 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 ) was another opening that became a frequent choice of Larsen with the Black pieces and similarly, he placed considerable reliance on Grunfeld-Indian systems as White.

The opening movement features a nervously exciting main theme with interrupted by frequent pauses.

" The Alexis P. Suter Band was a frequent opening act.

Train operator Chiltern Railways plans to build a new Water Eaton Parkway railway station on the site of the former halt as part of its Project Evergreen3 development programme, opening in around 2013, with frequent services to London Marylebone taking one hour.

Since their act is not normally associated with a frequent use of profanity, Jillette explains their choice of using the term bullshit in the opening episode: if they referred to people as frauds or liars, they could be sued for slander, even in the face of overwhelming evidence of chicanery, but as " vulgar abuse " is not considered slanderous, referring to them as assholes or motherfuckers ostensibly expresses an opinion rather than a statement of fact and is legally safer for them.

David Warner, the Australian opening batsman, is also a frequent user of the switch hit and used it to great effect to the Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin in the first Twenty20 of the Indian cricket team's tour to Australia 2012.

The nest opening is located along the most frequent wind direction.

Lattimore took three days to deliver his opening statement: the delays were caused by frequent interruptions as McCarran challenged Lattimore point by point.

Kluge commanded the Fourth Army at the opening of Operation Barbarossa, where he developed a strained relationship with Heinz Guderian over tactical issues in the advance, accusing Guderian of frequent disobedience of his orders.

After its release in 1976, " Tie Your Mother Down " would go on to become the most frequent opening number for the remainder of the band's long career.

Trevor Baylis is a frequent guest lecturer, and was present at a 2004 graduation ceremony and graduate degree show ; he received an honorary degree from the University in 2007, and was present at the official opening of the Gateway building in 2010.

Prior to The Mirage's opening, the city was experiencing a decline in tourism that began in the 1970s, especially around the time that the state of New Jersey legalized gambling and tourists ( in particular those on the East Coast ) began to frequent the casinos of Atlantic City.

The great call of Hylobates lar is characterized by its frequent use of short hoots with more complex hoots, along with a " quavering " opening and closing.

One of the distinguishing features of his motet style is the frequent use of an opening duet for two high voices, after which the remaining voices join in ; this was to become a hallmark of the Burgundian style.

He is a frequent collaborator with Kansas City based motion graphics firm MK12, who designed the opening credit sequences and other surreal onscreen graphics for The Kite Runner, Stranger Than Fiction and Quantum of Solace.

Before the opening of the Jōetsu Shinkansen in 1982, the Jōetsu Line had frequent service by express trains connecting Tokyo and Niigata.

The opening two seconds of " I Don't Wanna be Me " ( featuring Kenny's feedback on guitar, while the drums start up ) are heard as a frequent sample in Grand Theft Auto IV on the Liberty Rock Radio Station.

* The arena has been a frequent site for games in the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament since its opening.

Simpson points out that the frequent Neapolitan inflexions of the first movement are expanded here, beginning with the B flat and F in the primary melodic line that make it natural that the movement should be in F major, though the opening initially ambiguously suggests B-flat minor.

* Although neither appears on screen, frequent mentions are also made of the CBC comedy duo Wayne and Shuster and their images appear in the opening credits of each episode.

His salary was more than double that which he had once received at the Flamingo Hotel ( now @ $ 220K for each month performance ); and his frequent MGM Grand Hotel co-star, Joan Rivers, became the highest paid opening act in Las Vegas.

A frequent stylistic leitmotif in Kross ' novels is the use of the internal ( or inner ) monologue, usually when the protagonist is trying to think his way out of a thorny problem.