" 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.

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 ).

Although focused on his running, he falls in love with a leading Gilbert and Sullivan soprano, Sybil ( Alice Krige ).

Alice keeps running until she trips and falls and finds herself back home, in her normal size.

# Alice Ascher-ABC's first victim, an old woman running a tobacco shop in Andover.

Lewis Carroll mocked the futility of the UK's caucuses in " A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale ", Chapter 3 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: when the " Caucus-race " of running in a circle stops, everyone is declared a winner by the Dodo and Alice is told to hand out prize s to all others, receiving her own thimble as her prize.

Catbert appeared again on March 20, 1995, when Dogbert hired Catbert to handle downsizing ( a process that leads to Alice and Wally running for the new org chart and colliding so hard while that they ended up wearing each other's clothes, backwards ).

Bob and Peggy Rita and Alice did the distribution and the nuts and bolts of running the business.

Lauren Alice Koslow ( born March 9, 1953 ) is a long-time American dramatic actress, best known for her long running portrayal of Kate Roberts on the NBC dramatic serial Days of our Lives, which she has played continuously since 1996.

The Red Queen's race is an incident that appears in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass and involves the Red Queen, a representation of a Queen in chess, and Alice constantly running but remaining in the same spot.

Its name is a reference to the Red Queen's race in Lewis Carroll's Alice Through the Looking Glass, in which the chess board moves such that Alice must continue running just to stay in the same place.

The MacDonnell Ranges of the Northern Territory, are a long series of mountain ranges located in the centre of Australia (), and consist of parallel ridges running to the east and west of Alice Springs.

Palm Valley, within the Finke Gorge National Park, is an east-west running valley in the Krichauff Range 123 km ( 138 km by road ) southwest of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, Australia.

Alice Ripley starred, with Gregory Jbara and Chad Kimball, in a production running from October 9, 2007 to November 18, 2007 at The Blank Theatre, Hollywood, California.

Davis was traded to the Browns for running back Bobby Mitchell ( who became a wide receiver in Washington ) and 1962 first-round draft choice Leroy Jackson.

In time, Mitchell would be joined by black stars like receiver Charley Taylor, running back Larry Brown, defensive back Brig Owens, and guard John Nisby from the Pittsburgh Steelers.

A running back, Brian Mitchell, currently holds the NFL records for career kickoff return yards ( 14, 014 yards ) and career punt return yards ( 4, 999 ).

Mitchell was the first African American football player to play a game for the Redskins, and he played with the team for several years, initially at running back, but he made his biggest impact at wide receiver.

Mitchell was reportedly among those considered by Al Gore as a running mate for his 2000 presidential run.

The conflict between Brown and Modell reached a breaking point when Brown traded star halfback Bobby Mitchell for the rights to Ernie Davis, a Heisman Trophy-winning running back who broke all of Jim Brown's rushing records at Syracuse.

Mitchell was re-elected in the 1997 federal election against a strong challenge from former general Lewis MacKenzie, who was running for the Progressive Conservative Party.

In the 1945 Ontario provincial election, the Communist Party of Canada ( running as the Labour-Progressive Party ) decided to run several candidates jointly with the Liberal Party of Ontario under Mitchell Hepburn.

After a year and a half, Stump Mitchell emerged as the Cards ' top running back, and the expendable Anderson was traded to the New York Giants in the middle of the 1986 season.

In 1952, Mitchell did not run for re-election, instead running for Governor of Washington.

Mitchell kept on winning, running his record up to 27-0 with sixteen knockouts, including a victory against former world title challenger Miguel Santana.

Wuerffel won the 1996 Heisman Trophy, as the outstanding college football player in America, while quarterbacking the Gators into their second consecutive Bowl Alliance national championship game with help from teammates Fred Taylor at running back, Reidel Anthony, Ike Hilliard and Jacquez Green at wide receiver, and Jeff Mitchell on the offensive line.

Mitchell's first cousin is former running back Rod Smart, who played on the Eagles with Mitchell in 2001.

Comments made while running for re-election in 1851, led Sir Thomas Mitchell to demand a public apology.

Harry Mitchell ( Roy Scheider ) is a successful industrialist living in the suburbs of Los Angeles whose wife Barbara ( Ann-Margret ) is running for city council while he is having an affair.

Eagles running back Brian Mitchell returned the opening kickoff 70 yards, setting up a 20-yard touchdown run by Duce Staley less than a minute into the game.

The victim's mother, Evelyn Eudy said that she " was appalled to hear Mr Mitchell was running as a presidential candidate in Ireland ".

She has made occasional appearances as a singer and is best known for playing the character Sam Mitchell in the long running BBC Soap Opera EastEnders from 2002 to 2005.

Mitchell was considered a potential running mate for the 1960 Republican presidential candidate, Vice President Richard M. Nixon, but was ultimately not chosen, and instead ran unsuccessfully that year for Governor of New Jersey.

While the show continued on Broadway, the Los Angeles company opened in June, 1991 at the Shubert Theater in Century City, running 6 months, with Stephen Bogardus as Stine, Lauren Mitchell as the villainess, and Randy Graff and James Naughton recreating their original roles.

In 1986 Mitchell retired from Congress but ran unsuccessfully for Lieutenant Governor of Maryland as the running mate of Attorney General Stephen H. Sachs.

Hussey claimed his first Test wicket against South Africa on the third day of the 2008 Boxing Day Test at the MCG, when Paul Harris skied a ball over Mitchell Johnson's head and the latter ran back and took a running catch as the ball fell down past his shoulder.

In 2003, Hans Dau with other partners, who were running the successful West Coast offices of the original Mitchell Madison Group, joined forces and decided to re-launch the firm by acquiring the brand name in bankruptcy court.

Bong Bong had been planned as a major town for the county but, as it was flood prone, the New South Wales surveyor-general Thomas Mitchell chose Berrima townsite on the road running south from Sydney to Goulburn with the intention that the town be the chief centre for southern New South Wales.