History BrickJoke / LiveActionTV

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': During the production in "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS1E2 Death of a Hollow Man]]", Esslyn can be seen grimacing at the cakes he's supposed to be enjoying as Salieri, and later gives the production assistant hell for it. Later, it's revealed that David spread Vim on them.

* ''Series.MidsomerMurders'': During the production in "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS1E2 Death of a Hollow Man]]", Esslyn can be seen grimacing at the cakes he's supposed to be enjoying as Salieri, and later gives the production assistant hell for it. Later, it's revealed that David spread Vim on them.

* ''Series.MidsomerMurders'': During the production in "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS1E2Death of a Hollow Man]]", Esslyn can be seen grimacing at the cakes he's supposed to be enjoying as Salieri, and later gives the production assistant hell for it. Later, it's revealed that David spread Vim on them.

* In in-universe example in ''Series/{{Animorphs}}'': Marco says that when he was a kid, his now late mother always used to tell him the setup for a joke when she left the house, so that he'd always know she'd be coming coming home, since she'd have to finish it. Later on, just before the team splits up during their mission du jour, Marco tells the gang the first part of a joke, determined to ensure they all make it back safely ("How do you tell the difference between a horse and a fish?"). After they return, Marco gets a knock at the door. It's the rest of the team demanding to hear the punchline. Somewhat averted, since Marco doesn't tell it on screen, everyone just laughs before the screen fades to black. [[note]] This could be a reference to the fact that the last time Marco's mother went out, she didn't come back, meaning he never got to hear the punchline either. [[/note]]

---> '''Buffy:''' Oh, oh, when I had psychic power I heard my mom thinking you were like a stevedore during sex ... do you want me to continue?
---> '''Giles:''' Actually, I beg you to stop.
---> '''Buffy:''' What's a stevedore?

* A short one in the pilot episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}'', where Castle quips that his safe word is "apples" when Beckett arrests him for stealing her files, and then yells "apples" when Beckett grabs his nose after their meeting with Tisdale.

* ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'' In Episode 2, Klaus poses as Five's dad so he can talk to the Meritech employee. In Episode 10, Klaus and Diego are mistaken for Five's fathers.

* In "Bad Blood" of ''Series/TheXFiles'', Mulder and Scully are arguing about [[RashomonStyle their differing memories]] of Sheriff Hartwell. Scully remembers him as a flawlessly gorgeous SouthernGentleman while Mulder recalls an imbecilic buck-toothed hick. When Scully calls Mulder on this, Mulder sheepishly claims that he "had a slight overbite". Later, when the audience finally meets Hartwell for real, he does in fact have a slight overbite, but does not have buckteeth. When they first see him after returning to Texas, Scully gives Mulder an immensely [[MeaningfulLook snide look]] and taps her own front teeth. Mulder pulls a grimace and mimics buckteeth.

* In the "Crunchy Frog" sketch from ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', the police are grilling the management of the Whizzo Chocolate Factory about their unusual, nauseating, and sometimes dangerous varieties of chocolate treats, including crunchy frog.[[note]] If we took the bones out it wouldn't be crunchy would it?[[/note]] A later sketch on the same episode has an unrelated character eating a chocolate and proclaiming, "Hmmm - crunchy frog".

** In "Investigative Journalism", Annie works at the school newspaper. Among her duties is creating the crossword puzzle. In the following episode, "Interpretive Dance", Abed helps Troy with the crossword puzzle in the closing tag. All of the answers are the names of the study group members.

** In the episode Doomsday in Season 8. Andy tries to open a meeting with Robert with some friendly banter. "Who's your favorite Iron Chef?" But Robert shuts him down with a serious question, and the rest of the meeting goes on in a similar tone. Robert is upset with the mistakes the office has been making and wants them ended. Nevermind, this entry might just be a subversion, so let's leave it just like Robert left in that scene.[[note]]And you can't have a favorite Iron Chef. It depends entirely on the secret ingredient. Sometimes I feel you don't know food at all.[[/note]]

** In the ninth season episode ''Gettysburg'', the gang travels to Gettysburg, PA to visit the historical site. Dwight claims that the Battle of Schrute Farms was further north than Gettysburg, contesting Oscar's claim (and common knowledge) that the Battle of Gettysburg was the northernmost battle in the Civil War. Naturally, nobody believes him. At the end of the episode, the park historian shows some historical photos that reveal the true role of Schrute Farms in the war (albeit not even close to what Dwight hoped...). One blink-and-you'll-miss-it photo shows a wedding with the bride and groom in separate trenches without explanation. Fast forward to the series finale, with the marriage of Dwight and Angela. The pastor remarks that they are married standing in their own graves, to remind them that that is the only escape from what they are doing now.

*** Later in the same episode, the Doctor receives a call about an Egyptian Goddess being loose on the Orient Express InSpace, and resolves to go deal with it. He apparently doesn’t get around to it for another thousand years, until [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E8MummyOnTheOrientExpress the Twelth Doctor]] is forced to deal with it. It’s even lampshades in-episode, when the Doctor notes that someone had tried to lure him here before.

* ''Series/{{Boomtown}}'' had an episode where robbers took hostages at a sporting goods store and Ray volunteers to infiltrate the place. He's rather excited because the store's owner used to be the star of a television show he liked. This is established in a flashback where his wife asks him to fix the toilet, but he wants to finish watching the show first. During the infiltration, he dreams he gets killed and his fellow officers attend his wake. He realizes he's dreaming when his wife tells them the worst part of his death: "He never fixed the damn toilet!"

* ''Series/TheEricAndreShow'':In the season 2 episode 7 which aired on November 14,2013 Lance Reddick delivers the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OC5NgvAnVY Levar Burton monologue]]. 3 seasons later on the Season 5 episode 5 of the show which aired almost 7 years later, Levar Burton cameos and says, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAsf9OXSynE I wish I was Lance Reddick]] he even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this.

* ''Paul Merton: The Series'': In one of his comedic monologues, he explains that he lives across the street from a prison, and one of the inmates has made a tunnel to the back of his fridge, and he's kept up at night by the sound of prisoners escaping out of his fridge. In another comedic monologue several scenes later, he says that he is frequently visited by beings from outer space and tells the story of how a blob showed up on his doorstep and started telling him that it could show him things beyond his wildest imaginings before exclaiming "Blimey! You've got prisoners jumping out of your fridge!"

** One that spans 30+ years and two series: in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Contagion", when confronted with a Romulan cruiser while the ''Enterprise''-D is infected with an Iconian virus, Riker gripes to Tactical that they should give him some rocks to throw at them should they attack. Flash forward to ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' episode "No-Win Situation" where the ''Titan''-A is under attack by the ''Shrike'' in a desperate attempt to escape the nebula they're trapped in, Riker has Sydney tractor beam a nearby asteroid and toss it at the ''Shrike''.

* The ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "Stoke Me A Kipper" opens with Ace Rimmer (What a guy!) bailing out of a plane with his Nazi opponent and the bad guy's pet crocodile Snappy, with only one parachute between them. Ace finally ends up with the 'chute, floats down, lands in a base with more Nazis, engages in a gun battle, rescues the local DamselInDistress and finally zooms away on a flying motorbike. Two surviving Nazis watch him go:

** In fact, the show has a ''lot'' of brick jokes, many of which have way more than two parts. A running theme is to make fun of something that happened earlier in the show; at one point, Drew [[CriticalResearchFailure mistakenly identified Africa as a country]] and never heard the end of it for the rest of that episode, and another time Ryan committed a similar blunder demonstrating his ignorance of Music/KidRock by saying Kid Rock was a ''group'' of people - which Ryan himself riffed on later in the same episode.