Gags are items that are used by Toons to defeat Cogs in battle.

Gags employing a dildo or vibrator are readily available from on-line retailers ; ashtray gags are also popular but to a lesser extent.

Gags are the clown's written and rehearsed performances.

Gags can use many different types of blow-off ( ending ), but some of the most popular are the confetti bucket, the long shirt, a pants drop or the time-honored " all clowns exit running " although contemporary indoor shows may end a clown gag with a simple blackout.

In a circus context, clown shows are typically made up of some combination of Ring Gags, Track Gags, Walkarounds and Chases.

Gags are also never seen in the hunter arena, again because they wish to portray that the horse is an easy ride, and because they want a long, relaxed frame with the neck stretched out, rather than a high neck.

Gags in the strips commonly deal with Garfield's obesity ( in one strip, Jon jokes, " I wouldn't say Garfield is fat, but the last time he got on a Ferris wheel, the two guys on top starved to death "), and his hatred of any form of exertion or work.

In the evening, CMT airs the syndicated TV series ' Just For Laughs Gags, The Middle, Rules of Engagement and Reba along with country music-related series such as Pick a Puppy, Pet Heroes and ER Vets.

Gags from the " out-of-this-world " sequence feature color-redrawn versions of characters and visuals ( along with re-recorded audio segments ) from Clampett's Porky in Wackyland.

* Stock Sitcom Gags Presented in Comic Form is self-explanatory.

Just for Laughs: Gags ( JFL Gags ) is a Canadian silent comedy / hidden camera reality television show that is under the Just for Laughs brand.

After taking down a major diamond score, Frank's fence, Joe Gags ( Hal Frank ), is murdered for being on the take-pushed out of a 12th story window.

Barry ( James Belushi ), Frank's friend and associate making the pick-up, discovers that a shady plating company executive Gags was working for is responsible, a Mr. Attaglia ( Tom Signorelli ).

Gags can also refer to the prop stunts / tricks or the stunts that clowns use, such as a squirting flower.

Modern variants of this type of production include Punk'd, Trigger Happy TV, Primetime: What Would You Do ?, The Jamie Kennedy Experiment and Just For Laughs Gags.

Gags galore were delivered weekly on Stop Me If You've Heard This One and Can You Top This ?, panel programs devoted to the art of telling jokes.

( Gags or hoods which block the mouth can become asphyxial hazards if the subject vomits or the nose becomes otherwise blocked.

Gags that prevent communication may also prevent the communication of distress that might otherwise prevent injury.

The series has sister shows called Just for Laughs Gags, JFL: Improv Championships, All Access Pass, and JFL: The Lost Tapes.

During the summer of 2007, ABC aired episodes of Just for Laughs Gags.

In 2000, JFL Gags began airing on French Canadian network Télé Québec.

With its silent format and no translation required, Just for Laughs Gags has been purchased for use in over 100 countries throughout the world as well as in airports and airlines.

Screenshot from Just for Laughs Gags.

Each Gag track has seven Gags which must be earned, each level Gag being stronger than the last.

Gags may be classified as over-the-mouth type, mouth stuffing type or mouth opening type.

Gags included " No Fishing " signs, cardboard depictions of the Loch Ness Monster rising out of the heat exchanger tank, plastic fish inside the exchanger, etc.

That series has also spawned the more recent Just For Laughs Gags, a practical joke show similar to Candid Camera.

$ 185, 000 of Frank's fence money was lifted by Attaglia from Gags when he was killed.

The party is usually in a room small enough so that all guests are within sight and hearing of one another.

Questions and, particularly, exclamations are usually channeled along informal, horizontal lines not indicated in Figure 3 and seldom are carried beyond the nearest neighbor.

So all-important are ideas, we are told, that persons successful in business and happy in social life usually fall into two classes: those who invent new ideas of their own, and those who borrow, beg, or steal from others.

One is so accustomed to think of men as the privileged who need but ask and receive, and women as submissive and yielding, that our sympathies are usually enlisted on the side of the man whose love is not returned, and we condemn the woman as a coquette.

By a combination of music, lighting effects, and narration, famous events that have transpired in these locations are evoked and re-created for large audiences usually to considerable acclaim.

Although he questions the extent and nature of the alleged revival of religion and the alleged increase in conformity, and thinks that `` hedonistic '' present-time orientation does not have the meaning usually attributed to it, he does conclude that Americans increasingly enjoy leisure without guilt, do not stress achievement so much as formerly, are more accepting of group harmony as a goal, more tolerant of diversity and aware of other cultures.

Faced with a gesture like Di Bosis', I find usually that my sentiments are closer to those of my sculptor friend.

Even with all possible precaution, homecomings are usually rather cruel and sad, and only the perpetually ebullient and the continually optimistic are made happy by them.

the rub arises from the fact that teachers are usually paid on the basis of time served rather than quality.

These short, `` streamlined '' meetings usually are sponsored by local banks, Chambers of Commerce, trade associations, or other civic organizations.

Business loans generally are repayable in regular installments -- usually monthly, including interest at the rate of 5-1/2 percent per annum on the unpaid balance -- and have a maximum maturity of 10 years ; ;

These roads are largely of less than highway standards, and usually carry traffic which is related to use of the National Forests.

Much of this necessary increase in research and development, though properly chargeable to current expenses, is not reflected in earnings until projects are completed and the new machines sold in quantity, usually over a period of several years.

Occasional meetings are held for the whole membership, usually with a guest speaker, while smaller discussion groups meet more frequently.

If there are any major restrictions, they usually can be obtained in printed form.

usually concerned about America's belief that attainment and success are measured in dollars and titles.

International Touring Documents are usually provided with the car as are road maps and touring data.

Such an instrument is expected to be especially useful if it could be used to measure the elasticity of heavy pastes such as printing inks, paints, adhesives, molten plastics, and bread dough, for the elasticity is related to those various properties termed `` length '', `` shortness '', `` spinnability '', etc., which are usually judged by subjective methods at present.

Greases, stains, and miscellaneous soils are usually sorbed onto the soiled surface.

It is almost certain that some of these, usually a trifle smaller than the honeybees, are andrenas or mining bees.

Over a relatively short period of time, usually about four to twelve weeks, the worker must be able to shift the focus, back and forth, between immediate external stressful exigencies ( `` precipitating stress '' ) and the key, emotionally relevant issues ( `` underlying problem '' ) which are, often in a dramatic preconscious breakthrough, reactivated by the crisis situation, and hence once again amenable to resolution.