Ever since the shift to the three segment format, it has been a running joke to refer to the last segment as " the third half " of the program.

Eventually the term " Finagle's law " was popularized by science fiction author Larry Niven in several stories depicting a frontier culture of asteroid miners ; this " Belter " culture professed a religion and / or running joke involving the worship of the dread god Finagle and his mad prophet Murphy.

The character was a clown ... with red cheeks and wild clown hair ... and the running joke was his attempts of becoming a big singing star and in every skit just as he was preparing to pull out a guitar and start to sing, the camera would zoom out and the door swing shut.

A running joke involves the three sometimes even finishing each other's sentences.

Another scene is of the joke being used in open warfare is shown, with Tommies running through an open field amid artillery fire shouting the joke at the Germans, who die laughing in response.

An adaptation of a joke repeated by Isaac Asimov gives us " Did you hear about the little moron who strained himself while running into the screen door?

" 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.

A running joke in these stories is that they often feature a car accident in which one of the characters is run down — in every case, the same man is driving the car, and always responds with the same line: " Sorry mate, I didn't see him / her !".

* A running joke in the sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart was based on Yvonne Sparrow's involvement in the Body exhibit

One more complex running joke has Groucho turning the dialogue into a scene out of a Eugene O ' Neill play, Strange Interlude, in which the characters continually spoke asides that revealed their thoughts.

The running joke went something like: " At ISC we build computers, we don't use them.

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

Another example is a running joke where Nelson does a class assignment which is implied to be of high quality.

Another running joke, though, is Nelson presenting ridiculously simple assignments, such as repeatedly showing a can of tomato paste in Show and Tell, and a presentation on The Grapes of Wrath, consisting of himself crushing a bunch of grapes with a hammer, stating " Here's the grapes, and here's the wrath!

The fake-French pronunciation of his name, established in the film's very first scene, echoes the running joke in It's a Gift, in which Fields and his wife were constantly telling people to pronounce the family name, Bisonette, as " bi-son-AY ".

This running joke culminated in a Friday the 13th all-night marathon during Halloween of 1998, where it was implied that Ted Turner was out to kill him.

The film employed an idea drawn from the British showbiz tradition in which extras used the word " rhubarb " to simulate low-level background dialogue, which had also been a running joke in The Goon Show.

" However, he disliked the designers ' running joke of placing " TM " after character and place names, which he thought detracted from the atmosphere.

One running joke was that it was run on a shoestring.

Another running joke in the show has Bill describing painful stories with an air of nostalgia, often wistfully saying, " good times, good times ".

A running joke consists of Catherine slapping Joe ( or others ) for making inappropriate / offensive comments to her.

Eric views Mr. Feeny as a mentor, and as a running joke in the series he often stands outside Mr. Feeny ’ s fence shouting for Feeny to come out.

This enabled them to have a running joke for several months regarding Hired Guns.

A running joke is the way Pinchwife's pathological jealousy always leads him into supplying Margery with the very type of information he wishes her not to have.

Conventional oil and gas fields are found throughout the province on an axis running from the northwest to the southeast.

But By the Way was one of the few features kept continuously running in the often seriously reduced Daily Express throughout World War II, when Morton's lampooning of Hitler, including the British invention of bracerot to make the Nazi's trousers fall down at inopportune moments, was regarded as valuable for morale.

There are numerous popular tour bus companies and boat tours running throughout the year.

The required satellites ( the planned number is 30 ) will be launched throughout the period 2011 – 2014 and the system will be up and running and under civilian control from 2019.

The court assembles to watch the play ; Hamlet provides an agitated running commentary throughout.

Although " posterity has treated Maurice Evans less kindly ", throughout the 1930s and 1940s he was regarded by many as the leading interpreter of Shakespeare in the United States and in the 1938 / 9 season he presented Broadway's first uncut Hamlet, running four and a half hours.

Since the early 1990s shoulder running has been extensively used throughout the Netherlands on many locations.

Kim Jong Il was already conducting most of the day-to-day running of the state, and apparently kept his aging father in the dark about the growing economic disaster throughout the country.

It is common for vaulters to gradually increase running speed throughout the approach, reaching maximum speed at take-off.

Peter Lovesey wrote in The Kings of Distance: A Study of Five Great Runners that Nurmi " accelerated the progress of world records ; developed and actually came to personify the analytic approach to running ; and he was a profound influence not only in Finland, but throughout the world of athletics.

The faster the running, the more energy has to be dissipated through compensating motions throughout the entire body.

The living conditions are deplorable, human rights for the miners are few and a disease called " The Plague " is running rampant throughout the colony with no known antidote available-predominantly within the confines of the mine complex.

Divided between the new town ( a zona nova in Galician, la zona nueva in Spanish or ensanche ) and the old town ( a zona vella in Galician or la zona vieja in Spanish, trade-branded as zona monumental ), a mix of middle-aged residents and younger students running throughout the city until the early hours of the morning can often be found.

The first game, Simon the Sorcerer, was released in 1993 for IBM PC compatibles running MS-DOS on three 3. 5 " floppy disks in a large box styled with purple margins, with no speech and only sub-titles used throughout the game.

There are also many other formulas running on the oval tracks throughout a season that starts around March / Easter and continues to October / November.

The lung of most reptiles has a single bronchus running down the centre, from which numerous branches reach out to individual pockets throughout the lungs.

An intense interest in spiritualism, parapsychology, and hypnosis continued throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, running in parallel with John Locke's views that there was an association of ideas requiring the coexistence of feelings with awareness of the feelings.

There are millions of servers connected to the Internet, running continuously throughout the world.

Unlike the preceding Emperors Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius, he seems to have had little interest in the business of administration and tended throughout his reign to leave the practical running of the state to a succession of favourites, beginning at this time with Saoterus, a freedman from Nicomedia who had become his chamberlain.

Lucius was involved in the usual running of church business throughout medieval Christendom.

Omaha has a thriving running community and many miles of paved running and biking trails throughout the city and surrounding communities.

Another explanation has it that " vinny " is a corruption of " veiny ", referring to the blue veins running throughout the cheese.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, an extensive streetcar system was constructed throughout the city with the first streetcar running in 1872 and electrification of the system in 1889.

Athletes remain in the same lane on the running track throughout all sprinting events, with the sole exception of the 400 m indoors.