* Professor Campbell: This recurring segment featured Archie Campbell dressed in a graduate's gown telling viewers the meaning of words, with a comic twist ... sometimes wads of paper would fly into the scene as a way of punishing the bad joke that was told.

1981's " Safety First " episode, which featured white slime as part of a recurring joke in about " wearing white at night ," was the first episode known to have used a slime color other than green.

A recurring joke had a delivery boy running around trying to deliver a large plant and shouting ' Plant for Mrs Discobolus!

This phrase was used in the " Wayne's World " Saturday Night Live skits, and was a recurring joke on the US sitcom The Office.

A recurring joke is that he refuses to tell his real name.

A recurring joke in the show involves his mother, his frequent phone conversations with her and a picture of her he keeps in his desk which is later stolen by Mr. James who has a small crush on her.

A recurring joke is that whatever tune he plays on his flugelhorn inevitably shifts into " Feels So Good " after a few bars.

A recurring joke involves Wimpy's attempts to con other patrons of the diner into buying his meal for him.

A recurring joke revolves around Arkwright's speculation that Granville's father, his identity and whereabouts unknown, was Hungarian — an issue never resolved.

" Kimmel could also be doing this as an homage to David Letterman, who, in the mid-1990s, had a similar recurring joke, briefly apologizing at the end of each show to Norm Macdonald.

This becomes a recurring joke in the penultimate episode of Season Five, where Spike finds himself repeatedly having to explain to the Scooby Gang that Ben and Glory are the same person, only for them either to misunderstand him or to instantly forget.

A recurring joke is that the dinosaurs do not know how to tell male and female humans apart and usually switch them in conversation, or as shown in one episode, " The Mating Dance ", in which zookeepers unknowingly pair two obviously male humans together and cannot figure out why they will not produce offspring.

This joke becomes a recurring gag throughout the course of the film between Marcia, Jan, and her fictitious boyfriend, George Glass.

) The sling itself seems to have unlimited carrying capacity, as she is able to produce any number of items from it, in the style of Harpo Marx's recurring joke.

A recurring joke in the series and associated books is that " the peasants are revolting " ( a pun that works because the word " revolting " can mean " rebelling " or " foul ").

This arose from a gag in episode 203, Jungle Goddess, in which Joel referred to " Art Crow " in a skit centered on the sitcom The Honeymooners ; after Best Brains received a letter from a child who had evidently missed the cultural reference and labeled a drawing of Crow as " Art ", the show's writers turned the name into a recurring joke.

Another recurring joke that was more prominent during the earlier days of the show-dating, in fact, from the KTMA run-was Crow's apparent inability to distinguish between different types of animal ; he would joyfully cry " Kitty!

The idea was a recurring one: in 1940 an idea for an ice island was circulated round The Admiralty but was treated as a joke by officers, including Nevil Shute, who circulated a memorandum that gathered ever more caustic comments.

* Several of Hiaasen's novels feature a recurring joke that radiology is a " soft " medical discipline, and those that practice it are not " real " doctors.

Another recurring joke was Ellenor's tendency to knock across the room those who annoyed her past a certain point.

A recurring joke, which was first shown in " Radio Bart ," is that Groundskeeper Willie appears to have a pot belly, but whenever he takes off his shirt, he is quite muscular.

In Escape from L. A. the recurring joke is changed to " I thought you'd be taller.

Another recurring joke is the use of fictional apparatus and materials used in the experiments – items such as the Besselheim plate pokes fun at real lab equipment, often named after their designers ( e. g. Petri dish, Erlenmeyer flask ).

* Hiaasen's novels often feature a recurring joke that radiology is a " soft " medical discipline, and those that practice it are not " real " doctors.

A recurring theme in this work is the radical amazement that people feel when experiencing the presence of the Divine.

In the Middle Ages, regicide was rare in Western Europe, but it was a recurring theme in the Eastern Roman Empire.

In an alternative version, she spent a night at Apollo's temple, at which time the temple snakes licked her ears clean so that she was able to hear the future ( this is a recurring theme in Greek mythology, though sometimes it brings an ability to understand the language of animals rather than an ability to know the future ).

Lois ' affection for Superman and her rejection of Clark's clumsy advances have been a recurring theme in Superman comics, television, and movies.

A recurring theme on the show WKRP in Cincinnati was a hostile attitude towards disco music.

Another significance of the structural problematic for Derrida is that while a critique of structuralism is a recurring theme of his philosophy this does not mean that philosophy can claim to be able to discard all structural aspects.

Tolstoy's War and Peace features criticism of Great Man Theories as a recurring theme

One recurring theme is loyalty.

Cloning is a recurring theme in a wide variety of contemporary science fiction, ranging from action films such as the 2000 film The 6th Day to comedies such as Woody Allen's 1973 film Sleeper.

The main recurring theme in his works is a comparison of the readers ' gloomy, hopeless situations to what may happen in a space environment if we carry totalitarian ideas and habits into space worlds: Red Space Republics or Space Labour Camps, or both.

However, the most significant for the development of the Arthurian legend are Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, which introduces Lancelot and his adulterous relationship with Arthur's queen ( Guinevere ), extending and popularizing the recurring theme of Arthur as a cuckold, and Perceval, the Story of the Grail, which introduces the Holy Grail and the Fisher King and which again sees Arthur having a much reduced role.

The impact of inventions and technology on society is a recurring, if not central theme in Niven's work: for example, addiction to electric brain stimulation resulting in " wireheads ", or the secondary and tertiary effects of an invention such as teleportation on social behavior, problems, and mores.

During this time, Miyazaki drew airplanes and developed a lifelong fascination with aviation, a penchant that later manifested as a recurring theme in his films.

However, while globalization appears frequently as a recurring theme, Klein rarely addresses the topic of globalization itself, and usually indirectly.

Hospitality ( xenia ) is also a recurring theme as fundamental as the heroic code in the Odyssey.

There is also the recurring theme of duality, Adamists vs Edenists, Tyrathca vs Mosdva, Residents vs Ivets, Edenists vs Serpents, ESA vs ISA, even the Tyrathca have an internal divide.

The various realms consist of a number of gothic, medieval, as well as " fire and brimstone "- style caves and dungeons with a recurring theme of hellish and satanic imagery reminiscent of Doom ( such as pentagrams and images of demons on the walls ).

A recurring theme was the ethical aspects of an artificial, yet apparently sentient, being.

One recurring theme in the Doctor's life was his lack of a name.

A recurring theme in his writings is the history and development of evolutionary, and pre-evolutionary, thought.

Whilst greed is a recurring theme in the novel, with many of the episodes stemming from one or more of the characters ' simple desire for food ( be it trolls eating dwarves or dwarves eating Wood-elf fare ) or a desire for beautiful objects, such as gold and jewels, it is only by the Arkenstone's influence upon Thorin that greed, and its attendant vices " coveting " and " malignancy ", come fully to the fore in the story and provide the moral crux of the tale.

This idea of a superficial contrast between characters ' individual linguistic style, tone and sphere of interest, leading to an understanding of the deeper unity between the ancient and modern, is a recurring theme in The Hobbit.

His long-time co-writer Charles McKeown comments about Gilliam's recurring interests, " the theme of imagination, and the importance of imagination, to how you live and how you think and so on [...] that's very much a Terry theme.

Elected archon in 493 BC, he took steps to increase the naval power of Athens, which would be a recurring theme in his political career.