Ever since the shift to the three segment format, it has been a running joke to refer to the last segment as " the third half " of the program.

Eventually the term " Finagle's law " was popularized by science fiction author Larry Niven in several stories depicting a frontier culture of asteroid miners ; this " Belter " culture professed a religion and / or running joke involving the worship of the dread god Finagle and his mad prophet Murphy.

The character was a clown ... with red cheeks and wild clown hair ... and the running joke was his attempts of becoming a big singing star and in every skit just as he was preparing to pull out a guitar and start to sing, the camera would zoom out and the door swing shut.

A running joke involves the three sometimes even finishing each other's sentences.

Another scene is of the joke being used in open warfare is shown, with Tommies running through an open field amid artillery fire shouting the joke at the Germans, who die laughing in response.

An adaptation of a joke repeated by Isaac Asimov gives us " Did you hear about the little moron who strained himself while running into the screen door?

" 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.

A running joke in these stories is that they often feature a car accident in which one of the characters is run down — in every case, the same man is driving the car, and always responds with the same line: " Sorry mate, I didn't see him / her !".

* A running joke in the sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart was based on Yvonne Sparrow's involvement in the Body exhibit

One more complex running joke has Groucho turning the dialogue into a scene out of a Eugene O ' Neill play, Strange Interlude, in which the characters continually spoke asides that revealed their thoughts.

The running joke went something like: " At ISC we build computers, we don't use them.

A recurring joke had a delivery boy running around trying to deliver a large plant and shouting ' Plant for Mrs Discobolus!

Another example is a running joke where Nelson does a class assignment which is implied to be of high quality.

Another running joke, though, is Nelson presenting ridiculously simple assignments, such as repeatedly showing a can of tomato paste in Show and Tell, and a presentation on The Grapes of Wrath, consisting of himself crushing a bunch of grapes with a hammer, stating " Here's the grapes, and here's the wrath!

The fake-French pronunciation of his name, established in the film's very first scene, echoes the running joke in It's a Gift, in which Fields and his wife were constantly telling people to pronounce the family name, Bisonette, as " bi-son-AY ".

This running joke culminated in a Friday the 13th all-night marathon during Halloween of 1998, where it was implied that Ted Turner was out to kill him.

The film employed an idea drawn from the British showbiz tradition in which extras used the word " rhubarb " to simulate low-level background dialogue, which had also been a running joke in The Goon Show.

" However, he disliked the designers ' running joke of placing " TM " after character and place names, which he thought detracted from the atmosphere.

One running joke was that it was run on a shoestring.

Another running joke in the show has Bill describing painful stories with an air of nostalgia, often wistfully saying, " good times, good times ".

A running joke consists of Catherine slapping Joe ( or others ) for making inappropriate / offensive comments to her.

Eric views Mr. Feeny as a mentor, and as a running joke in the series he often stands outside Mr. Feeny ’ s fence shouting for Feeny to come out.

This enabled them to have a running joke for several months regarding Hired Guns.

A running joke is the way Pinchwife's pathological jealousy always leads him into supplying Margery with the very type of information he wishes her not to have.

The wind of their running was cold and wild, the horses were lathered and their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind.

And he was fleeing, running -- fleeing his death and his life at the same time.

The Palace was an elaborate establishment, built practically on stilts in front, with long flights of wooden steps running up to the porch.

He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

His signal was for the other dogs to come running, but it was also the signal for Mama and the other maids to watch out.

The wear and tear of life have taught me that very few friends of mutual friends long to see foreign strangers, but I planned on being the soul of tact, of giving them plenty of outs was there the tiniest implication that their cups were already running over without us.

William Coddington, who was running the colony, felt constrained to move seven miles south where, with others -- as mentioned above -- he founded Newport.

All these emotions were screwed up to new heights when, after acceptance and the first rehearsals, there ensued such a buzz of excitement among Parisian music lovers that Duclos had to come running to Rousseau to inform him that the news had reached the superintendent of the King's amusements, and that he was now demanding that the work be offered first at the royal summer palace of Fontainebleau.

Everyone else was running.

His money was tied up in a Nassau hotel, an Ohio pottery works, and a detergent for window-washing, and luck had been running against him.

She did this now, comfortably aware of the mist running down the windows, of the silence outside, of the dark afternoon it was getting to be.

You remember the words of President Kennedy a week or so ago, when someone asked him when he was in Canada, and Dean Rusk was in Europe, and Vice President Johnson was in Asia, `` Who is running the store ''??

A big mechanical ditcher was running the trenches, and the town building inspector was paying a friendly, if curious, visit.

It was General Burnside's horse running in a circle.

In a more pessimistic vein about the economic outlook, I suspect that the reservoir of demand for consumer goods and housing which was dammed-up during the Thirties and World War 2, is finally in the process of running dry.

Service running through Barnumville and to Bennington County towns east of the mountains was in the hands of the `` Gleason Telephone Company '' in 1925, but major supervision of telephone lines in Manchester was with the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, which eventually gained all control.

A most useful tool for wetting the surface without running down was made from a greenhouse `` mist spray '' nozzle welded to a hose connection, to be used at low water pressure.

John himself was bruised and clawed from head to tail, but he was in this fight to the finish, running almost as strongly now as in the morning.