" 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 ).

so that a line running down the length of the South marking the upper limits of tidewater would roughly divide the Old South from the new, but with, of course, important minority enclaves.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

Mongi Slim of Tunisia and Frederick Boland of Ireland were early favorites in the running, but France didn't like the former and the Soviet Union would have none of the latter.

Their plan for rotation of leaders promised a salutary blow at `` bureaucracy '' and would enable `` the people '' to take a more direct and active part in running the country.

Out at the airport each morning, Fogg's skilled mechanic Caleb Marston would have the Waco warmed up and running in the drafty hangar.

He said he would not be surprised if some of the more than 30 members of the group are interested in running on the required non-partisan ballot for posts on the charter commission.

He would sit inside the coffee shop and pound a gloved fist upon the table and a girl would hear him and come running, bowing with her running, calling out in her bowing, `` At your service ''.

`` We could put up cribs on the second floor sleeping porch and turn the front bedroom into a playroom where it's nice and sunny, but of course it would entail quite a bit of running up and down stairs and Chris said you were to be careful about that ''.

It was so pretty and artless that she felt like a child again and would have enjoyed running out barefoot to play on the wet grass with all the growing things, but Doaty never permitted bare feet and she was decidedly not a child but une femme d'un certain age.

As she matured, more and more neural synapses would be adjusted to operate other mechanisms that went into the maintenance and running of a space ship.

A typical overclock of a mobile 2500 + CPU to 2. 26 GHz with 17x multiplier would result in being faster than highest official 2800 + MP CPU running at 2. 13 GHz.

Unless a caller was using terminal emulation software written for, and running on, the same type of system as the BBS, the session would simply fall back to simple ASCII output.

* The batter is put out because an outfielder ( or an infielder running in the outfield, or foul territory ) catches the ball on the fly ( alternatively if the batter would have been out if not for an error or if the outfielder drops the ball and another runner is put out ).

This would echo the legendary version of events, with the competitors running from Marathon to Athens.

" Casement then added how assailants would " bring down a dwarf on the way home, for the marital cooking pot ... The Dwarfs, as I say, dispense with cooking pots and eat and drink their human prey fresh cut on the battlefield while the blood is still warm and running.

If a suitably sized quantum computer capable of running Grover's algorithm reliably becomes available, it would reduce a 128-bit key down to 64-bit security, roughly a DES equivalent.

As the computer had passed the Turing test this way, it is fair, says Searle, to deduce that he would be able to do so as well, simply by running the program manually.

It was also reported that the incident led to a 300 % increase in sales of croquet equipment at Asda, while the TV Five announced that they would be running a series featuring croquet matches played at country houses pitting " rich " against " poor " players.

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.

Valderrama was known for the accuracy of his passing, his tactical brain which allowed him to have a strong presence without the necessity of running as much as it would be expected, his exquisite technique on the ball, and his ability to provide assists that were very immaculate.

However, the battle was in vain, as neither platform captured a significant share of the world computer market and only the Apple Macintosh would survive the industry-wide shift to Microsoft Windows running on PC clones.

It was the second IBM PC compatible, being capable of running all software that would run on an IBM PC.