A frequent gag in Hall's opening monologue suggests that he still lives in Cleveland and drives himself to Los Angeles every day to host the show.

A famous running gag suggests they are like an old married couple when they argue, with Chandler usually assuming the wife's role.

" Less enthusiastic was the critic for New York Magazine, who wrote: " Sleazily written, shoddily constructed, and without a scintilla of Neil Simon's usual slick adroitness with a gag line, this grab bag of skits ... suggests that California life may have scrambled Mr. Simon's brains.

In most cases, " The Man of a Thousand Voices ," Mel Blanc, contributed the animals ' gag lines, often lowering his voice one to two full octaves, far below the range he used to voice the character of Barney Rubble.

In 1921, DeBeck began a gag panel called Bughouse Fables, featuring his observations of ordinary people doing foolish things, which he signed " Barney Google ".

The accidental discharge of Barney's pistol becomes a running gag: Barney gives a lecture on gun safety and either shoots the floor through his holster, or assuming the safety latch is on, causes the gun to fire.

Another gag has Barney locking himself or together with Andy in one of the jail cells, with the keys just out of reach.

After watching his embarrassing birthday party video and being mocked by his friends with gag gifts, Barney sees he is a hideous drunk, and he promises to get sober.

Another stock vaudeville gag ran: `` Mother is home sick in bed with the doctor ''.

Responses such as disgust show that sensory detection is linked in instinctual ways to facial expressions, and even behaviors like the gag reflex.

A " gag " is a very short piece of clown comedy which when repeated within a bit or routine may become a " running gag ".

( The blow-off is the comedic ending of a show segment, bit, gag, stunt or routine.

Because of the stylistic similarities between comic strips and early animated movies, " cartoon " came to refer to animation, and the word " cartoon " is currently used to refer to both animated cartoons and gag cartoons.

It is difficult for most people to perform deep-throating, due to the need to suppress the natural gag reflex.

He believes that he is on the cutting edge of journalism, but is oblivious to most of Frontline's content, as the executive producers go to some length to keep him out of production meetings, and a running gag within the show sees Mike ignore most of the stories that Frontline airs despite his position as host.

Her increasingly bizarre hairstyles become a running gag, culminating in Give ' em Enough Rope, when she is completely bald and festooned with ribbons.

He is the focus of a running gag where he will laugh hysterically along with Mike at any anecdote Mike tells him, before admitting that he does not understand it.

Besides his opposition to slavery and the gag rule ( discussed below ), his congressional career is remembered for several other key accomplishments.

Excellence in the fields of newspaper strips, newspaper panels, TV animation, feature animation, newspaper illustration, gag cartoons, book illustration, greeting cards, comic books, magazine feature / magazine illustration and editorial cartoons, is honored in the NCS Division Awards, which are chosen by specially-convened juries at the chapter level.

* In the Garfield comic strip and television series, there is a running gag about a " splut ," which is usually the sound of a pie hitting someone in the face.

The command to " cut the cards ", following by someone literally chopping the deck in half with an axe, is a none-too-subtle gag that has been used many times in popular media, going back to at least the vaudeville days.

The bit is frequently a gag bit or Pelham bit.

If a gag bit is used, there will be a drop noseband in addition to the cavesson, supporting the tie-down.

For example, the gag gene is translated into molecules of the capsid protein, the pol gene is translated into molecules of reverse transcriptase, and the env gene is translated into molecules of the envelope protein.

A long running gag to end skits in Monty Python's Flying Circus is a policeman in a tan raincoat and a fedora bursting in, and announcing himself as so-and-so " of the Yard ".

He is a chicken superhero based on the Astro Chicken running gag in the Space Quest series.

There is also loss of gag reflex.

A lazzo is a joke or gag.

Many consider New Yorker cartoonist Peter Arno the father of the modern gag cartoon ( as did Arno himself ).

A recurring gag is that whenever Dale makes a comment about being Joseph's father, John Redcorn shows up.

Neil Cicierega, the father of Animutation, would place Mochrie in almost every Animutation he made, making the inclusion of him in Animutation somewhat of a running gag.

Opus was originally introduced in June, 1981, as a one-time gag about hapless Mike Binkley bringing home what he thought was a German Shepherd, which turned out to be a penguin, much to the disappointment of his father.

A recurring gag is that the family's grandfather comes in from the back to comment something and the father responds " NOT NOW, GRANDPA ".

It is a running gag throughout the series that Edmund's father cannot even remember his name.

The show also created new, previously non-existent backstories, as well as significantly different personalities for the characters, including, but not limited to, Penny Milfer's father ( who has yet to appear in the series ) being physically abusive toward both his wife and daughter, a running gag that the show uses for black humor.

Occasionally, instead of a flashback, a far-fetched scenario ( showing an alternate reality, what Titus's life will be like when he is older, or a one-off gag similar to those found on The Simpsons and Family Guy ) will be presented, such as Titus and Erin as a bickering married couple in their old age, Titus and his father as rich men who use their butlers to beat each other up with Christopher and Ken read the newspaper, Titus trying to deal with Ken being married to a man, and Titus, Dave, and Ken as heads on a couch.

His late father, Stanley Stamaty, was a professional gag cartoonist, and his mother, Clara Gee Stamaty, is a commercial illustrator and fine artist.

NCS members work in many branches of the profession, including advertising, animation, newspaper comic strips and syndicated single-panel cartoons, comic books, editorial cartoons, gag cartoons, graphic novels, greeting cards, magazine and book illustration.

The gag would be reused in many cartoon shorts to come.

" This was certainly not the end of the gag, though, as the closet soon became cluttered once again, leading to many more disasters.

Like many such trademarks, the clattering closet began as a one-time stunt, but " the closet " was developed carefully, not being overused ( it rarely appeared in more than two consecutive installments, though it never disappeared for the same length, either, at the height of its identification, and it rarely collapsed at exactly the same time from show to show ), and it became the best-known running sound gag in American radio's classic period.

His last name is the subject of a running gag: on many occasions when it is mentioned, someone looks perplexed and says, " Your last name is Garrelli?

As a running gag, Fonola's body odor, especially his foot odor, warns everyone of his presence, even if he is many blocks away.

Cartoonists may work in many different formats: animation, booklets, comic strips, comic books, editorial cartoons, graphic novels, manuals, single-panel gag cartoons or video game packaging.

Guests who participated included many big names of the 1970s and 80s, such as Flora Robson, Penelope Keith, Laurence Olivier, John Mills, Vanessa Redgrave, Eric Porter, Peter Cushing ( who in a running gag would keep turning up to complain that he had not been paid for an earlier appearance ) and Frank Finlay – as well as Glenda Jackson ( as Cleopatra: " All men are fools.

They often burst at the seams after a few uses, although they are commonly given as gag gifts and therefore many may not be used at all.

Although many gag writers later provided material for Wynn's performances in radio, television and movies, he was proud to boast that he had written every line he ever spoke during his early career as a stage performer.

It is sometimes called the " detective gag " because many of its first appearances were in crime serials.

As a result, 28 became an almost Mythical number used by many Quebec youths, the phrase " Y ' en a 28 " ( There are 28 ) became a running gag still used and recognized more than 15 years later.

It should also be mentioned that many Simpsons characters enjoy Chespirito / Bumblebee Man's show ; competing comedian Krusty the Klown watches one gag and remarks in admiration, " I gotta steal that bit.

Here, if the mask floods, the diver can breathe again before clearing the mask, and many Royal Navy and frogman's rebreathers have this mask arrangement ; but the full-face mask plus mouthpiece combination acts like a strapped-in gag making clear talking difficult but not impossible.

But even there, many of the gags may require an understanding of Japanese culture and / or language to be fully appreciated ; for example, his infamous " Mr. Elephant " impression, while being transparently obvious as a physical gag, also has a deeper resonance with contemporary Japanese culture since it references the popular Japanese children's song " Zou-san " ( ぞうさん ).

There was a running gag that creators Phil Lord and Christopher Miller wanted to include in the show " where Clone High – being an exaggeration of typical high schools in teen dramas – would have many proms throughout the year ".

For many years following Crater's disappearance, " Judge Crater, call your office " was a standard gag of nightclub comedians and was often heard on public address systems.

His most recurring gag is the many different ways that the gang will use to call him down ( most usually Monica ), which often gets Angel injured or scared.

A running gag in the strip is that no matter how many times Nancy tells her to, Luann never cleans her room.

Another running gag that occurred during many of Droopy's cartoon's was whenever Spike, or another of Droopy's adversaries, was chopping down a tree, he would run far away from the tree as it was about to crush Droopy, point to the sky, and shout, " TIM ....." Then, in a moment of surprise, the tree would change direction and end up crushing him instead and he would finish by saying, "..... ber "

Jumping beans were used as a recurring gag in many cartoons from the 1930s to the 1950s, wherein eating the beans would cause a character's whole body to bounce out of control and land on something painful.

" There are also many stations that are specifically aimed to the pirate radio listening community ; many are long-running gag stations such as WBNY, the Voice of the Rodent Revolution, with programming by its leader Commander Bunny, who frequently sends coded messages to operatives in the field, as well as instructions to Al Fansome to check his tire pressure.