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

These shorts fell into three general types: the brief gag cartoons, the longer character-based cartoons, and the more classically-based " Mouse Tales " ( usually the show's longest segment ).

Relocating to Southern California, he found a job at Walt Disney Productions as a storyboard artist and gag man on Donald Duck cartoons and other shorts, requesting a switch to the animation department in 1939.

He then turned his attention to gag writing and found a job with Mack Sennett writing gags for Keystone Kops shorts.

Jones would, however, continue to use the characters ( or mice designed just like them ) in cameo roles in other shorts whenever he needed a generic mouse for a gag ( for instance, the unnamed mouse in Chow Hound-who resembles Bertie-or the " killer " mice in Scaredy Cat ).

* The gag involving Spanky and Stymie disguising as adults appeared in a handful of Our Gang shorts.

A " gag " is a very short piece of clown comedy which when repeated within a bit or routine may become a " running gag ".

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.

He also led the fight against the gag rule, which prevented congress from hearing anti-slavery petitions.

Excellence in the fields of newspaper strips, newspaper panels, TV animation, feature animation, newspaper illustration, gag cartoons, book illustration, greeting cards, comic books, magazine feature / magazine illustration and editorial cartoons, is honored in the NCS Division Awards, which are chosen by specially-convened juries at the chapter level.

* 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.

" 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 gag originated in a sketch in which Scott Thompson played a homophobic man who took offense at another man's ( McKinney ) attempt to seduce him by taking him to a Maple Leafs game: " Every time I come to this city, some guy picks me up at the bus station, takes me to a Leaf game, gets me pissed, then tries to blow me.

Zeppo figures in a well-known gag in which Groucho dictates a letter to his lawyers in rambling pseudo-legalese.

The House passed the Pinckney Resolutions on May 26, 1836, the third of which was known from the beginning as the " gag rule " and passed with a vote of 117 to 68 ( The first stated that Congress had no constitutional authority to interfere with slavery in the states and the second that it " ought not " do so in the District of Columbia.

He also occasionally drinks to excess and has a gambling problem, which leads to the second gag: every time Parker tries to profit from gambling on events he recalls from the future, he picks the losing side ( the lone exception to this is when he gambles to get a bankroll for a charitable purpose ).

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.

Along the way, the duo launched the temporary running gag that made them near-irrevocable radio stars: the famous hunt for Gracie's " lost brother ," which began on January 4, 1933 and eventually became a cross-network phenomenon --- Gracie was also liable to turn up on other shows ( especially those produced by the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, which produced the Burns & Allen series ) looking for her brother.

Bad publicity after a bid by NBC to squelch the stunt --- and an accidental mention by Rudy Vallee on his Fleischmann's Hour --- helped the stunt continue, according to radio historian John Dunning's On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio, which also mentioned that Gracie's real brother, a " publicity-shy accountant " living in San Francisco, went into hiding until the gag ran its course.

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.

In Episode 115, Fozzie constantly annoys Kermit with a running gag, delivering a number of pun items, such as a " wire " and a " letter " for Kermit the Frog which turned out to be a clothes wire and the letter R, respectively.

This led to the creation of Modeste et Pompon, a gag series which included contributions from René Goscinny ( of Astérix fame ) and Peyo.

This is the subject of numerous running gags in I ’ m Alan Partridge, in particular his numerous efforts to deny his interest in Bangkok " lady-boys " ( whom he describes as ‘ fascinating creatures ’ whilst insisting that he is merely confused by them and not attracted to them ) and a recurrent gag in which he will daydream about performing an erotic dance in a peephole Pringle jumper and a vulcanised rubber thong for a selection of men ( usually those who can help further his career in some way, such as BBC Chief of Programming Tony Hayers ).

Because gifts of value would mark social status contrary to the spirit of the season, these were often the pottery or wax figurines called sigillaria made specially for the day, candles, or " gag gifts ", of which Augustus was particularly fond.

This message, which changes from episode to episode, has become known as the " chalkboard gag ".

The other gag is known as a " couch gag ", in which a twist of events occur when the family meets to sit on their couch and watch television.

As a running gag, one of the other character would ask Rags what the " T " stood for, to which he'd reply, " Larry.

Poochini actually continues his performance for a good 20 seconds after this without interruption, except for the " hair gag ".

" In the episode of December 19, 1944, " Fibber Snoops For Presents In Closet " ( at 3: 59 is a perfect example of the " Hall Closet ," a running gag described in detail later in this entry ), Jim Jordan can be caught at the end of his audience warm-up evoking the opening laughter by quipping, " 10 seconds?

In his first attempt, he creates a dinner for the crew that is so over-salted they all gag ( which is aggravated further when their drinks turn out to be salt water, or " Salt with water in it ," as Bender puts it ), then tells them that the food was fine since the salt content was 10 % below a lethal dose ( Dr. Zoidberg remarks that he " shouldn't have had seconds ").

Outside of the Star Wars-themed episodes, " Road to the Multiverse " plays on the running gag, but with Stewie ( MacFarlane once more ) provoking the Robot Chicken Universe counterpart of Chris by asking " How does it feel to be on a major network for thirty seconds?

Although not an actual " gag ", Burton Richardson's long intro of the show's host ( in which he holds the " O " in " Arsenio " for as long as ten seconds right before Hall came out onto the stage, then, in the same breath, finally announce " HALL!

He mentions that it really does cause him to gag, that it could lead to asphyxiation, and that he could stand it for only a few seconds.

Most performers only keep the sword down for a matter of a few seconds, as it is difficult to suppress the gag reflex for any length of time.

This gag may have spawned the segment of the children's show Between the Lions featuring a person named Cliff Hanger, who, like Sergeant Snorkel, is hanging from a cliff in each feature.

A standard gag at the end of each show was for a large lady ( Janet Webb ) to appear behind the pair, walk to the front of the stage and push them out of her way.

As a running gag, Nessman wears a bandage in a different spot each episode.

A running gag throughout the series are the numerous jokes made about the enormous size of Norm's tab at Cheers ( e. g., several large binders are shown as being just a portion of it – in the episode Home Malone ( season 9, episode 25 ), when Woody's rich, naive girlfriend Kelly waitresses at Cheers to gain " real-life experience ", Norm convinces her that the tab is a record of the beers for which he has already paid, and for each new beer a mark should be erased – and in the finale Sam has to have his total tab for the series calculated by NASA ).

A long-running gag depicted Joey and Chandler occasionally fighting with each other like an old married couple, with Chandler often assuming the wife's role — this eventually ended when Chandler became permanently paired with Monica.

At WrestleManias XIV, XV and 2000, Pete Rose became involved in a short feud with Kane that became a running gag with each appearance ending with Rose receiving a Tombstone piledriver or chokeslam from Kane.

The running gag was Marg's tendency to rant incessantly about each book and then stray off-topic into her political views and declaring her opinion supreme, eventually driving away her guests.

At the start of each subsequent episode, René summarises the plot to date for the audience ; a gag based on the " As you remember ..." device commonly used in serials.

* The Simpsons – Bart writes something different on the blackboard and there is a different " couch gag " at the end of the title sequence in each episode.

A running gag in every issue is that in the review table ( the magazine defines what each score means ), the 1 score is always changed to a different joke. The reviews are very critical, resulting in hate mail and cancelled subscriptions from fans.

" Garland as a running gag would substitute a different name for Coolidge's each week.

As a gag, the members of the SNL cast each wore a bandage on their foreheads as well.

The series ' major underlying gag was of the battle of talent between Ben and Jeff, and their antagonistic treatment of each other during their " show's " production.

This gag originated with Sid Krofft, who had used a similar device on The Brady Bunch Hour ; on each episode, Greg would push Peter into the swimming pool.

Altman felt it would have been an amusing one-time gag, but by employing it each week, it became contrived.

From 1972 to 1992, the strip was highly gag oriented, with humor coming from physical and prop comedy and surreal situations: running gags included the school's computer having become sentient and subjecting the students to its obsession with Star Trek ; student " Crazy " Harry's ability to play pizzas like records ; the school's winless football team ; and band director Harry L. Dinkle's attempts to win each year's " Battle of the Bands ," despite the contest always coinciding with a natural disaster ( usually a downpour from a heavy rainstorm ).

As of Season 4, the opening sequence changed, with the newspaper gag being replaced by Roger wearing a different costume each episode to sing the final " Good morning, USA!

While each of them have their own unique fighting skill and abilities, all of them are also downright comedic-a continuous running gag in the series

A running gag was that each episode had a distinct opening credits sequence, resulting from Ellen's ongoing search for the perfect opening credits.

This is a term for a series of gags over each other, for example an Over the Mouth ( OTM ) over a cleave gag.

A brilliant director of feature films, Coppola turns out to be an incompetent TV director, resulting in a running gag in which each sketch is ruined in various ways by Coppola's bumbling.

Occasionally, instead of a flashback, a far-fetched scenario ( showing an alternate reality, what Titus's life will be like when he is older, or a one-off gag similar to those found on The Simpsons and Family Guy ) will be presented, such as Titus and Erin as a bickering married couple in their old age, Titus and his father as rich men who use their butlers to beat each other up with Christopher and Ken read the newspaper, Titus trying to deal with Ken being married to a man, and Titus, Dave, and Ken as heads on a couch.

He makes several attempts to learn the identity of the team's anonymous owner ( a running gag throughout the film ), but is deftly deflected by McGrath each time.

**" The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson ": The music can be heard in the couch gag where the family, dressed as Harlem Globetrotters, pass a red, white, and blue basketball to each other ( with Maggie dunking the ball in the basket above the couch and hitting Homer in the head with it ) as they run to the couch.