" This subsequently became a running gag on the show where adults mispronounced their names, Tom Anderson originally calling them " Butthole and Joe ," and believing the two to be of Asian ethnicity ( describing them to the police as " Oriental ").

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

A running gag concerns Tom's inability to remember the previous week's Puzzler without heavy prompting from Ray.

The ending credits of the show start with thanks to the colorfully nicknamed actual staffers: producer Doug " the subway fugitive, not a slave to fashion, bongo boy frogman " Berman ; " John ' Bugsy ' Lawlor, just back from the ..." every week a different eating event with rhyming foodstuff names ; David " Calves of Belleville " Greene ; Catherine " Frau Blücher " Fenollosa, whose name causes a horse to neigh and gallop ( an allusion to a running gag in the movie Young Frankenstein ); and Carly " High Voltage " Nix, among others.

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.

The 1987 movie Robocop while in no way presented as fact, does include several fake television ads which have nothing to do with the rest of the movie but become a running gag.

* 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.

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.

" The joke was sometimes combined with another running gag in which, rather than having a sign language interpreter visually presenting the news to aid the deaf, the show would provide assistance from Garrett Morris, " head of the New York School for the Hard of Hearing ", whose " aid " involved cupping his hands around his mouth and shouting the news as Chase read it.

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.

A running gag with Clouseau in this and the following film is that he randomly attacks his partner to keep him on his toes, only to be successfully countered, and complimenting him.

Wedge ( almost always alongside another Red Squadron wingman, Biggs Darklighter ) is a recurring character and a running gag in the Final Fantasy video game series ( for example, Final Fantasy 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 and even games outside of the Final Fantasy Universe ( but made by the same company, Squaresoft ) such as Chrono Trigger and Kingdom Hearts II ).

In a running gag, the animal powering such technology would frequently break the fourth wall, look directly into the camera at the audience and offer a mild complaint about his job.

The Acme Corporation is a fictional corporation that features prominently in the Road Runner / Wile E. Coyote cartoons as a running gag featuring outlandish products that fail catastrophically at the worst possible times.

As a running gag, Alice Mitchell has a phobia of snakes.

Another running gag involves Dennis ' ever-changing parade of new babysitters.

He normally appears in a running gag, where he usually suffers unfortunate, seemingly fatal events.

Smithers ' relationship with Mr. Burns has long been a running gag on The Simpsons.

Smithers ' relationship with Mr. Burns has long been a running gag on The Simpsons.

It begins as a typical Mickey cartoon of the time, but what would set this short apart from all that had come before was the appearance of a new character, whose behavior served as a running gag.

In issue # 94 of the Looney Tunes comic, Bugs Bunny gets his back at Daffy Duck by making him the victim, in switching various movie roles, from Duck Twacy in Who Killed Daffy Duck ," a video game character, and a talk show host, and they always wound up with Daffy starring in Moby Dick ( the story's running gag ).

You remember the words of President Kennedy a week or so ago, when someone asked him when he was in Canada, and Dean Rusk was in Europe, and Vice President Johnson was in Asia, `` Who is running the store ''??

it incorporates an automatic knot-tying device on each spindle, and it will knot a break in the yarn in 10 seconds as well as tie in new bobbins as the running end is exhausted.

But fenced or unfenced, no pool-side is the place for running or horseplay.

You may find yourself hitting bottom, literally, as you discover that water is running out even while you are putting it in.

But time is running out, and many of Stravinsky's admirers begin to fear that he will never find terra firma.

The thermostat is important to get your engine up to operating temperature quickly, and to keep it running at its most efficient temperature through the proper circulation of the coolant.

In a more pessimistic vein about the economic outlook, I suspect that the reservoir of demand for consumer goods and housing which was dammed-up during the Thirties and World War 2, is finally in the process of running dry.

The 160-ml. bath containing the calculated amount of detergent is applied slowly and directly to the running specimen.

His plunder is therefore far higher -- running into hundreds of millions.

But of course the paterollers won't be of any help, not with everything so upset and that Yankee cavalry outfit they say is running around, God knows where ''.

Sheeran, a lawyer and former FBI man is running against the Republican organization's candidate, Freeholder William MacDonald, for the vacancy left by the resignation of Neil Duffy, now a member of the State Board of Tax Appeals.

Although he never gets to play while the clock is running, he gets a big kick -- several every Saturday, in fact -- out of football.

Skorich, however, is a strong advocate of a balanced attack -- split between running and passing.

Gus Ehlers, competitor of Mr. Houtz in this farm community, says his business since August 1 is running 50% above a year earlier.

LaGuardia's multi-lingual rallies, when he is running for Congress, are well staged, and wind up in a wild Jewish folk-dance that is really great musical theater.

Traditionally, Anatolia is considered to extend in the east to an indefinite line running from the Gulf of Iskenderun to the Black Sea, coterminous with the Anatolian Plateau.

The strength and agility refers to muscles, as strength is for holding items and agility is for running and walking.

Since Java's bytecode is platform-independent, Java applets can be executed by browsers running under many platforms, including Windows, Unix, Mac OS, and Linux.

At least for the younger individuals, a high running speed is plausible.

On the border of Sweden is a mountain range running from northeast to southwest.

Africa is thus mainly composed of two segments at right angles, the northern running from east to west, and the southern from north to south.

It is formed by a widening out of the eastern axis of high ground, which becomes subdivided into a number of zones running north and south and consisting in turn of ranges, tablelands and depressions.

Usually the efficiency or running time of an algorithm is stated as a function relating the input length to the number of steps ( time complexity ) or storage locations ( space complexity ).