" 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 ).

He fled through the door and down the steps, running, and the men grunted and followed, pushing Lester to one side where he backed against the wall with the sleeve of his jacket raised before his eyes to shut out the light.

It recurred in the press conferences: the President's remarks about his running developed a singular tone, one which we find in few statements made by public individuals on such a matter.

Retracing my steps to the Mosque of Sultan Ahmet, only one with six minarets, I entered the courtyard, with a gallery supported by pointed arches running around it and a fountain in the middle.

Each film consisted of fifty feet, which gives a running time of about one minute on the screen.

Overnight, for one thing, Porter's film multiplied the standard running time of movies by ten.

Yet they keep running from one physician to another, largely to get a willing ear who will listen to their parade of troubles.

Susan Johnson, as the widow, spends the first half of the play running a bar and singing about the unlamented death of her late husband and the second half trying to acquire a new one.

The opening instrumental was largely done away with by 1980 ; no later Project album except Eye in the Sky featured one ( although every album includes at least one instrumental somewhere in the running order ).

* 1972 – First edition of the BBC comedy panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is broadcast, one of the longest running British radio shows in history.

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.

In such a system the operating system alternates between running processes, giving each one running time on the CPU before switching to another.

The leaf springs were replaced by coil springs ( one per wheel ) running vertically rather than horizontally.

This number can be seen as equal to the one of the first definition, independently of any of the formulas below to compute it: if in each of the n factors of the power one temporarily labels the term X with an index i ( running from 1 to n ), then each subset of k indices gives after expansion a contribution X < sup > k </ sup >, and the coefficient of that monomial in the result will be the number of such subsets.

The front part of the mouth is thick with baleen plates ; around 300 plates ( each around one metre ( 3. 2 ft ) long ) hang from the upper jaw, running 0. 5 m ( 1. 6 ft ) back into the mouth.

A gallery is a passageway running along the wall of an enclosure or along the axis of a temple, often open to one or both sides.

Polu-autocesta or semi-highway refers to a two-lane, undivided road running on one roadway of a motorway while the other is in construction.

A server machine is a host that is running one or more server programs which share their resources with clients.

In second place is Payton, who played 186 games from 1975 to 1987 at running back, a position considered to be conducive to injury, only missing one game in a span of 13 seasons.

Conan is far from untouchable and has been captured and defeated several times ( on one occasion knocking himself out drunkenly running into a wall ).

As a sport, cross-country skiing is one of the most difficult endurance sports, as its motions use every major muscle group and it ( along with running, rowing and swimming ) is one of the sports that burn the most calories per hour in execution.

To copy from drive to drive, software running on the C64 was needed and it would first read from one drive into memory, then write out to the other.