He appears in thousands of stories, sometimes witty, sometimes wise, but often, too, a fool or the butt of a joke.

The immediate sequel to Trail, Curse of the Pink Panther, reveals that Clouseau underwent plastic surgery to change his appearance ; the character appears on screen briefly in the form of a joke cameo appearance by Roger Moore, billed as " Turk Thrust II ".

The untranslatable ( into English ) joke ' Ceux de Milo sont venus ' appears in the French version of Asterix at the Olympic Games.

One of the most striking frames of the whole series features Delirium lying on a hotel bed with a bottle of bubble-blowing liquid, blowing bubbles in a variety of impossible shapes-diamonds, crosses, cats, and what appears to be Totoro from the Japanese animated feature My Neighbor Totoro ( this is probably a visual joke on the part of artist Jill Thompson ).

One surprisingly risqué joke, especially for 1940, appears in the W. C. Fields movie, The Bank Dick.

The earliest known occurrence of the full phrase, in the form " There ain't no such thing as free lunch ", appears as the punchline of a joke related in an article in the El Paso Herald-Post of June 27, 1938, entitled " Economics in Eight Words ".

Sometimes only one of these girls appears in a joke ; other times both appear, generally being caught naked or after Condorito tries to seduce one of them.

A running gag, or running joke, is a literary device that takes the form of an amusing joke or a comical reference and appears repeatedly throughout a work of literature or other form of storytelling.

The story of both the film itself and the audio drama is mostly comedic in nature: Master Asia appears as an " anonymous movie-fanatic old geezer ", and a running joke involves Sai's annoyance that the film had cast him as a female and given Rain his place as Neo-China's fighter.

Mark Dolour, though mentioned several times in the play as a running joke, never appears on stage.

Vocalist Lenny Wolf further inflamed the situation in an interview with Kerrang magazine by proclaiming to have never heard of Led Zeppelin, however this appears to have been a joke, or a mis-quote.

When the First Folio and quarto texts of that play are compared, it appears that the joke in V, v, 85 – 90 is that Oldcastle / Falstaff incriminates himself by calling out the first letter of his name, " O, O, O !," when his fingertips are singed with candles — which of course works for " Oldcastle " but not " Falstaff.

Also, although unaired, the name appears in a joke from the original pilot script.

The same story pattern appears in numerous other cultures: Tom Tit Tot in England ( from English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs ), Whuppity Stoorie in Scotland ( from Robert Chambers's Popular Rhymes of Scotland ), Gilitrutt in Iceland, Joaidane جعيدان in Arabic ( he who talks too much ), Khlamushka Хламушка ( junker ) in Russia, Rampelnik in Czech Republic, Martinko Klingáč in Slovakia, Ruidoquedito ( meaning " little noise ") in South America, Pancimanci in Hungary ( from A Csodafurulya by Kolozsvari Grandpierre Emil ), Cvilidreta ( whine-screamer ) in Croatia, Tremotino in Italy, Ootz-li Gootz-li עו ּ ץ-לי גו ּ ץ-לי in Israel ( a compact and rhymy touch to the original sentence and meaning of the story, " He advised me and then turned me into a joke "), Daiku to Oniroku ( daiku means " a carpenter ", to means " and ", and Oniroku is an ogre's name ), or " 大工と鬼六 " in Japan.

A fictional joke version of it, the " Killer Penguin ", appears as a lab accident in the game's sequel, Zoo Tycoon 2: Extinct Animals.

") Grim the Collier also appears in the old ( c. 1565 ) play Damon and Pythias, by Richard Edwardes ; both plays employ the same joke, absurdly identifying the character as " collier to the King's own majesty's mouth.

A joke involving Gleek often ends episodes of the Super Friends in which he appears.

When the First Folio and quarto texts of that play are compared, it appears that the joke in V, v, 85-90 is that Oldcastle / Falstaff incriminates himself by calling out the first letter of his name, " O, O, O !," when his fingertips are singed with candles — which of course works for " Oldcastle " but not " Falstaff.

A recurring joke, which was first shown in " Radio Bart ," is that Groundskeeper Willie appears to have a pot belly, but whenever he takes off his shirt, he is quite muscular.

Falstaff appears, followed by a new character, a young page whom Prince Hal has assigned him as a joke.

A variation on this joke appears in Yasujiro Ozu's film Good Morning ( 1959 ).

Her name appears to be a combination of tribute to the actress Milla Jovovich and a somewhat unsavoury joke.

• Bomb – The term “ bomb ” appears as a literal looming image in many cases, but it is used figuratively in a couple of instances, as if it should be a joke, but with such grave implications that it cannot be found funny.

Pierre Berton, in The Dionne Years: A Thirties Melodrama ( 1978 ), offers this example of a Little Audrey joke as was in fashion around the time of the Dionne Quintuplets birth in 1934:

After being dismissed from Cabinet in 1978 he commented about Fraser that " When the man who ’ s carried the biggest knife in this country for the last ten years starts giving you a lecture about propriety, integrity and the need to resign, then he ’ s either making a sick joke or playing you for a mug .” He left Fraser's ministry in the reshuffle after the 1980 election.

Carol Thatcher wrote in her book Below the Parapet that her parents, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her husband Denis used to joke that CHOGM stood for " Coons holidaying on government money ".

As a creator-owned book, Groo has survived the bankruptcy of a number of publishers, a fact which led to the industry joke that publishing the series was a precursor to a publisher's demise.

The authors are well aware that it also provides an excuse for mere titillation: in a typically self-referential joke, a character in the story suggests the scenes exist: " only to sell a bad book filled with shallow characters pushing a nonsense conspiracy ".

( It is clear from the context of the book, however, that the memo was intended as a joke, as the series of memos ends up discussing the pronunciation of such names as " Spook ", " Spilk " and " Spork ".

Many events in the book are repeatedly described from differing points of view, so the reader learns more about each event from each iteration, with the new information often completing a joke, the punchline of which was told several chapters previously.

The book also contains five joke ' Test Papers ' interspersed among the chapters, which contain nonsense instructions including the famous " Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once " ( Test Paper V ) and " Do not attempt to answer more than one question at a time " ( Test Paper I ) and such unanswerable questions as " How far did the Lords Repellent drive Henry III into the arms of Pedro the Cruel?

The book was also used as a joke in Mel Brooks ' movie Spaceballs: " Prepare for Metamorphosis, are you ready Kafka ?".

Even close friends and family were disapproving of Joyce's seemingly impenetrable text, with Joyce's brother Stanislaus " rebuk him for writing an incomprehensible night-book ", and former friend Oliver Gogarty believing the book to be a joke, pulled by Joyce on the literary community, referring to it as " the most colossal leg pull in literature since Macpherson's Ossian ".

Richard M. Steers and Luciara Nardon in their book about global economy use the " You have two cows " joke to illustrate the concept of cultural differences.

Catullus received a book of bad poems by " the worst poet of all time " as a joke from a friend.

Initially, even the publisher was fooled by the book, but he was let in on the joke before going to press.

The first Horrid Henry book was written and published in 1994 by Orion Books and as of the end of 2010, there have been nineteen titles published, as well as numerous collections, activity books and joke books.

" The record featured a sandpaper sleeve ( like the title of the record, inspired by a Situationist joke, a book – Guy Debord's Mémoires – with a sandpaper cover to destroy other books on the shelf ).

In 1986 he was identified as the co-author of a book published in 1954 called Flying Saucer from Mars, attributed to Cedric Allingham, which was intended as a practical joke on UFO believers ; Moore has never admitted his involvement.

( The title of the journal is something of an arcane philosophical joke, which repristinates and shifts the meaning of the title from a 1622 book, authored by Johann Daniel Mylius, Philosophia Reformata, a compendius work on alchemy, then regarded by some as a science.

The main characters largely exist independently of ' the real world ', and adults are rarely seen ; for example, every year the Perishers go on holiday but always get thrown off the train home, forcing them to walk and arrive home several weeks late ( a joke on how a short scene in comic book time can take several weeks when told in daily installments ), yet with seemingly no repercussions.

* A long-standing, irreverent joke slogan was co-opted as the title of Jean Shepherd's 1966 book, In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash.

Asked why he did not leave Jerusalem for Tel Aviv, he later said, “ Tel Aviv was not radical enough – only the kibbutz was radical enough .” However by his own account he was “ a disaster as a laborer ... the joke of the kibbutz .” When Oz first began to write, the kibbutz gave him one day a week to write ; when his book “ My Michael ” became a best-seller, and he had become “ a branch of the farm ”, three days ; and in the eighties he had four days for writing, while teaching for two days and taking turns as a waiter in the kibbutz dining hall on Saturdays .”

Reviewer Linda Wolfe was more hostile in the New York Times, calling the book a " child-abusive joke.

In the original book by James Gurney, the last line of the code was a small joke amongst the historians and the librarian, who seemed to think it could have been " Don't pee in the bath " referencing the Saurian community's distaste with some humans ' lack of cleanliness and hygiene.

Despite the preview, no sequel has been released, and the “ Part I ” of the film ’ s title is merely a historical joke ( The History of the World was a book about the ancient history of Greece and Rome, written by Sir Walter Raleigh while prisoner in the Tower of London ; he had only managed to complete the first volume before being beheaded ).

A joke in the book involves Thomson and Thompson re-doing Captain Haddock's navigational calculations, but their ignorance causes them to place the ship in a fanciful location far from its real one.

Israeli humour featured many of the same themes as Jewish humour elsewhere, making fun of the country and its habits, while containing a fair bit of gallows humour as well, as a joke from a 1950 Israeli joke book indicates: