The central gag revolved around Theodoric's insistence on using bloodletting as a solution to any complaint or illness by his customers.

There was a question-and-answer gag that went around at that time: Q. `` Who'll carry the Forty-second and Forty-third wards ''??

" 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.

The brothers drove around in a comical bubble car, a precursor to the famous Trotters ' van ; and there was even the gag where, just as he was trying to impress the girl ( played by Cheryl Hall ) Jason casually leaned back against the bar, without his knowing that barman had just lifted it behind his back, and fell through.

One whole episode, 1981's Drugs, was constructed completely around the pie-in-the-face gag: to avoid the wrath of the censors, the episode showed the cast getting " high " by pieing themselves continuously over and over, comparing the stupidity of hitting oneself with a pie to the stupidity of taking drugs.

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A recurring gag is her inability to understand what people around her are talking about, often mixing up words and taking insult at conversations not directed at her.

A running gag in his early appearances deals with his obsessive-compulsiveness and fussy attention to the placement of his desk stationery ( e. g., pencils arranged from tallest to shortest and paper clips aligned ) only to have Rex or one of the others move everything around.

These businessmen manufactured a variety of pornographic products ( including pornographic playing cards, gag greeting cards, and film reels ) and created their own underground distribution routes around the United States.

The pharyngeal reflex or gag reflex ( also known as a laryngeal spasm ) is a reflex contraction of the back of the throat, evoked by touching the roof of your mouth, the back of your tongue, the area around your tonsils and the back of your throat.

A recurring gag is for Doomie to turn into his " werewolf stage " to chase Dogs around the Neitherworld, ( a flip-switch to dogs chasing cars ).

Another running gag involving Schneider revolves around his fanatical obsession with his tool belt.

However, most striking was the high-pitched, rasping voice Collins employed for both roles, which made the characters always seem duplicitous and conniving regardless of what they were saying, as well as adding an element of a running gag when they inevitably threw a tantrum or when they were humiliated by their superiors ( Starscream getting slapped around by Megatron for his disobedience and Cobra Commander getting himself routinely countermanded by Serpentor ).

People from around the country sent captions to him, and he would find one that he liked and illustrate the gag.

A running gag is that Sylvester is constantly chasing Tweety around her house, to which Granny seems oblivious.

There is a running gag in the series that revolves around Slash somehow getting his nose jammed in a wall and being unable to remove it.

A muzzle gag works in a similar way as an OTM gag, only that they are usually made of leather, are fastened around the head with buckles and straps, and cover the lower part of the face.

It has since been incorporated into sketches on Conan, including a running gag where the blimp would follow actor Gary Busey around southern California, much to his chagrin.

An April Fools Day gag strip in 2007 depicted her as being detained by the Department of Homeland Security, and a two-week series around the same time drawn in a photo-realistic style told of her as coming to live with the Bermudezes after Sergio's wife Rosa was killed in a drunk driving accident ( see below ).

Among his classic walkarounds was a gag in which he rode around the hippodrome track atop two giant lobsters.

This is the running gag that serves as the centre of which the story revolve around.

As navies around the world are increasingly the target of criticism regarding victimization, the " golden rivet " gag can be seen as a fairly harmless form of initiation.

Then comes the main course, a sandwich as big as a king-sized bed ( featuring the first appearance of Freleng ’ s " hold the onions " gag ), followed by dessert dispensed from the " PIE-A-TROPE " -- pies spinning on the spindle of a converted jukebox.

He would have to consent to a gag order that would prevent him from making any public statements on the matter for the duration of his 20-year sentence, and he would have to drop any claims that he had been mistreated or tortured by U. S. military personnel in Afghanistan and aboard two military ships during December 2001 and January 2002.

The gag was intended to be revealed in the final episode of the series, but was scrapped early on due to inconsistencies, and also to the fact that rabbit ears would be too fictitious even for The Simpsons.

A positive test result is the involuntary contraction of the jaw ( biting down on the " spatula "), and a negative test result would normally be a gag reflex attempting to expel the foreign object.

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.

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.

Every Advent we entered the purgatory of lutefisk, a repulsive gelatinous fishlike dish that tasted of soap and gave off an odor that would gag a goat.

The gag would be reused in many cartoon shorts to come.

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.

The " hair gag " would later be used by English comedian Benny Hill in the closing chase sequence of his April 25, 1984 show.

" Knowing how Don Rosa like to play a gag, it is likely that this city would be Eureka, California ( Eureka meaning ' I found it '!).

For example, he was a talented pianist but developed a gag where he would begin to play a familiar piece such as Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.

A running gag on this version of the show was a mock feud with Jack Paar, whose own program followed TW3 on the NBC Friday schedule ; Paar would repeatedly refer to TW3 as " Henry Morgan's Amateur Hour.

David said, ' When he looks at me and flare those nostrils ; and he would be gone ,' it would be such a wonderful thing to see this great big guy just reduced to a giggling idiot by Harry, but unfortunately, all I could do is to tell you, we had great fun doing the show ; and much of it was laughing at some silly gag that one of us had pulled on the others.

Another recurring gag, featured in the 1960s, was " Professor Jughead ", where he would wear a gown and mortarboard and lecture to his fellow teenagers about subjects he considered relevant.

In earlier episodes, Letterman would return to his running gag during this break, or retry a failed stunt from earlier in the show.

Another prediction, that the Berlin Wall would be destroyed in 1989, also came true, although the follow-up gag that it would be " quickly replaced by a moat full of alligators " obviously did not.

** Wolfgang the German soldier – Wolfgang would comment on the previous gag by saying " Verrry interesting ", sometimes with comments such as "... but shtupid!

However, this began a running gag on the show in which he would apologize to one town and make several jokes at the expense of another town named Canton then repeat the cycle a week later.

One running gag of the TV show involved a closet full of hats belonging to various visitors to the Burns household ; guests would slip out the door unnoticed, leaving their hats behind, rather than face another round with Gracie.

A common gag had Archie always mispronouncing his minister's name as the " Reverend Fletcher " and being corrected, " Feltcher ," to which Archie's answer would invariably be " whatever.