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.

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.

As she matured, more and more neural synapses would be adjusted to operate other mechanisms that went into the maintenance and running of a space ship.

His two Stanford teams went 9 – 3 in 1977 with a win in the Sun Bowl, and 8 – 4 in 1978 with a win in the Bluebonnet Bowl ; his notable players at Stanford included quarterbacks Guy Benjamin and Steve Dils, wide receivers James Lofton and Ken Margerum, and running back Darrin Nelson.

" Holly went to her guardian's house the next morning and Maria came running at him and jumped into his arms, which was a sign to him that it was a " yes ".

Buddy – as it is abbreviated on occasion – is still running in the UK after 22 years, with a UK tour that went out in February 2011.

Upon this discovery, he leaped from his bath and went running naked through the streets shouting, " Eureka!

The longest running fanzine is The City Gent, produced by supporters of Bradford City FC, which first went on sale at Valley Parade in November 1984 and is now in its 26th season.

Those chiefs who went along gave up their traditional roles in leading soldiers and running local courts.

Then on second down and 35 to go, Morton threw a pass that went through the hands of running back Dan Reeves and into the arms of linebacker Mike Curtis, who returned the ball 13 yards to the Cowboys 28-yard line.

Then after forcing Minnesota to punt after three plays, the Dolphins went 56 yards in 10 plays ( aided with three runs by Csonka for eight, 12, and eight yards, and Griese's 13-yard pass to Briscoe ) to score on running back Jim Kiick's one-yard run ( his only touchdown of the season ) to give them a 14-0 lead.

Oakland went on to defeat the previous season's Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers, which was missing starting running back tandem of Franco Harris and Rocky Bleier, 24 – 7.

:" Wulfstan said that he went from Haethum to Truso in seven days and nights, and that the ship was running under sail all the way.

In 1997, Prost took over the French Ligier team, running it as Prost Grand Prix until it went bankrupt in 2002.

Pierce and running mate William R. King went on to win what was at the time one of the nation's largest electoral victories, trouncing Scott and his vice-presidential nominee, William Alexander Graham of North Carolina, 254 electoral votes to 42.

Humphrey and his running mate, Ed Muskie, went on to easily win the Democratic nomination at the party convention in Chicago, Illinois.

As Bavaria was opened up by the railways, the main line from Nuremberg to Hof went past Bayreuth, running via Lichtenfels, Kulmbach and Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg to Hof.

Callaghan's time as Prime Minister was dominated by the troubles in running a Government with a minority in the House of Commons: he was forced to make deals with minor parties in order to survive – including the Lib-Lab pact, and he had been forced to accept referendums on devolution in Scotland and Wales ( the former went in favour but did not reach the required majority, and the latter went heavily against ).

However, many of his suggestions went unheeded and Touch of Evil was eventually released in a version running 93 minutes.

At her last Olympics in Barcelona Ashford, aged 35, was eliminated in the 100 m semi-finals by 1 / 100th of a second ; she went on to win her third straight Olympic 4 x 100 m relay gold, this time running 1st leg.

Known also for his cowboy roles, he appeared twice on the long running TV western The Virginian, he then went on to star as Reese Bennet in the television series, Laredo, with William Smith, Peter Brown, and Philip Carey.

However, as a junior, George became the team's starting running back and went on to rush for 1, 442 yards and 12 touchdowns.

The winning score was a successful two-point conversion by running back Ian Johnson on a variation of the Statue of Liberty play that was made possible after a Hook and Lateral play on 4th-and-18 went for a touchdown to force the game into overtime.

Kovacs also went outside of the studio for some of his sketches, running through a downtown Philadelphia restaurant in a gorilla suit in one, and looking into a construction pit saying it was deep enough to see to China, when a man in Chinese clothing popped up, said a few words in the language, and ran off.

Raitt went to see Waterman, and the two soon became friends, " much to the chagrin of my parents, who didn't expect their freshman daughter to be running around with 65-year-old bluesmen ," recalled Raitt.