" 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 ).

The government is running annual surpluses of above 3 %.

The Foresight Institute has several running prizes, including the annual Feynman Prizes given in experimental and theory categories, and the $ 250, 000 Feynman Grand Prize for demonstrating two molecular machines capable of nanoscale positional accuracy and computation.

Japan is the world's largest creditor nation, generally running an annual trade surplus and having a considerable net international investment surplus.

Its main activities are running the selection ( voting ) process for the annual convention and various awards.

Several colleges host annual independent competitions, many of which hold varying degrees of prestige, such as the Contest of Champions at Middle Tennessee State University, which is the longest running high school band contest in the United States.

The marathon is the only road running event featured at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics and the Summer Olympics, although there is also an annual IAAF World Half Marathon Championships.

The 1896 Summer Olympics saw the birth of the modern marathon and the event led to the growth of road running competitions through annual events such as the Boston Marathon ( first held in 1897 ) and the Lake Biwa Marathon and Fukuoka Marathons, which were established in the 1940s.

The foremost separate road running event is the annual IAAF World Half Marathon Championships ( formerly World Road Running Championships ).

The city has two long-running annual sporting events: the Giro al Sas ( a 10 km professional road running competition ) was first held in the city in 1907 and continues to the present, while the Giro del Trentino is an annual road cycling race which the city has hosted every year since 1963.

There is a running track at the Thames Valley Athletics Centre and an annual steeplechase.

* the current yield, or running yield, which is simply the annual interest payment divided by the current market price of the bond ( often the clean price ), or to

Tokushima Prefecture also has its annual Awa Odori running in August at the time of the Obon festival, which attracts thousands of tourists each year from all over Japan and from abroad.

It continued to be an expensive institution to run, particularly when the prison was full, such as during 1691 when numbers were inflated by the campaign against French Protestants and the annual cost of running the Bastille rose to 232, 818 livres.

Ground source heat pumps are simpler and more reliable than air source heat pumps-they do not need fan systems or defrosting systems and can be housed inside-but the need for a ground heat exchanger requires a higher initial capital cost in exchange for lower annual running costs as well-designed ground source heat pump systems enjoy a more efficient operation.

The annual cost of running MIT OCW is about $ 3. 5 million.

Thomasville hosts an annual " Everybody's Day Festival ", the longest running festival in the state.

The county fair has been an annual event since then and is the longest continuously running fair in the state.

The annual Lions Club Championship Rodeo is a three-day event every June, recognized as the longest continuous running rodeo in the state where over 15, 000 famous rodeo hot dogs are consumed each year.

The Park District sponsors many special events throughout the year, including an Independence Day celebration with fireworks ; the Frosty 5 Mile which is the oldest consecutively scheduled running event in Will County ; Movie in the Park ; a Kids Triathlon ; the Halloween Happenings ; and annual craft show.

The fair has been an annual event since then and is the longest continuously running fair in the state.

When Shadow rights holder Condé Nast increased its licensing fee, DC concluded the series after 31 issues and one annual ; it became the longest running Shadow comic series since Street and Smith's original 1940s series.

Still host to an annual event every fall, it is one of the oldest continuously running fairs or carnivals in the United States.

Quincy is also home to the United States ' longest running Flag Day parade, a tradition that began in 1952 under Richard Koch, a former director of Parks and Recreation, who started the " Koch Club " sports organization for kids and had an annual parade with flags.

The annual Parelloop ten kilometer road running race is held Brunssum.