History Main / OverlyLonggag

-->'''Ralph:''' I want you to understand something, Alice. It's not because I want to do it. It's not because I'm afraid of the cold or that I'm hungry. Or that I'm embarrassed by being out here. Don't think it is that, Alice, 'cause it isn't! You wanna know what it is? I'll tell you what it is! ''(pause)'' And you know what it is as well... ''I'' know... what it is! You know what it is! I'll tell you what it is! ''(another pause)'' Oh, I'll tell you what it is! ''(one more, very long pause)'' YOU KNOW THAT I KNOW HOW EASY ''YOU'' GET VIRUS! (goes inside apartment building)

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rZdAB4V_j8 This]] was an actual ad run by an actual major-party nomination campaign for President of the United States.

** TV Tropes Wiki in general loves to run a joke right into the ground. Talking about InspectorSpacetime as if it were a real show is funny...until you realise how colossal the series page is. {{Deadpool}} writing his own page is cute, until you realise the entire page is like that.

--->'''WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck''': "Oh, sure, it might have been a good idea for a short, but this thing lasted eight hours. ''Eight. hours.''

* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': the scene of Bloo being massaged by the sound-operated cactus. (although it plays over the end credits).
** There was also the shot of him making weird noises repeatedly to make them dance. Fosters tended to use this trope pretty often, probably to make the episodes fill 25 minutes.
** The scene from "Squeeze the Day" where a bored Bloo amuses himself by making fun of the way the TV news weatherman talks. "It's hooooot in Topeka..."
** "Coco?" "Yes." "Coco?" "Yes." "Coco?" "Yes." "Coco?" "Yes..."

-->'''Ralph:''' I want you to understand something, Alice. It's not because I want to do it to do it. It's not because I'm afraid of the cold or that I'm hungry or that I'm embarrassed by being out here. Don't think it is that, Alice, 'cause it isn't! You wanna know what it is? I'll tell you what it is! ''(pause)'' And you know what it is as well... ''I'' know... what it is! You know what it is! I'll tell you what it is! ''(another pause)'' Oh, I'll tell you what it is! ''(one more, very long pause)'' YOU KNOW THAT I KNOW HOW EASY ''YOU'' GET VIRUS! (goes inside apartment building)\\
'''Alice:''' ''(to camera, more than a little frustrated)'' [[ChekhovsGag Pins and needles, needles and pins... a happy woman is a woman who]] ''[[ChekhovsGag GRINS!]]'' ''(grins angrily)''

* The {{Filler}} example on the page for ''AmericanIdol'' used to be duplicated on the page, including such trope entries as "More {{Filler}}" and "EngagingChevrons, just to break up the monotony of the {{Filler}}", to mock Idol's constant usage of it.

** ''AmericanIdol'' did something similar in season 5, with Kellie Pickler talking and talking straight through her elimination, until the show cut out, not even giving the show a chance to show her sing-out.

* On Music/{{Oasis}}' third album ''Be Here Now'', the tune called "It's Getting Better, Man". The outro plays this trope straight.

* Comedian John Mulaney has a bit where he describes going to a diner with his friend, and his friend rigs the jukebox to play Tom Jones' "What's New Pussycat?" over and over and over with one case of "It's Not Unusual" being thrown into the mix. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo8-EQEO_BM Hilarity ensues.]]

** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C570byQCLpI sketch in the first episode]] where AndyKaufman does the WesternAnimation/MightyMouse theme.

** Same author, same vein: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TokbnuTVwtc Der Softbiss]] (Quick'n'dirty Translation: Various brands of crispbread are presented, all with the characteristic "scronch" bite sound. The last one...is a softbite. Yeah, now you know why [[MontyPython Germany lost the war]].)

* ''InspectorRex'' with its goddamn ham rolls!

* Lampshaded in ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode [[Recap/CommunityS1E21ContemporaryAmericanPoultry Contemporary American Poultry]]:

* Noone yet mentioned "The Boring Song" by Status

* Chico Marx's endless piano solo in ''Theatre/AnimalCrackers''.

* Noone yet mentioned "The Boring Song" by Status Quid (one of the many aliases of parody band The Hee Bee Gee Bees)? ''Oh not again, please not again...''
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06GGDH_ugh8 I'm so fresh you can suck my nuts!]]
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[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* [[LongList Hold]] [[Funny/ChrisJericho number 170:]] [[Wrestling/ChrisJericho armbar!]]
** Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin, [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]]................Juventud Guerrera..........
* Possibly unintentional (but probably not): during a short WCW Wrestling/HacksawJimDuggan match, play-by-play commentator Tony Schiavone claimed that Hacksaw was "a very intelligent man." Color commentator Wrestling/BobbyHeenan proceeded to laugh uncontrollably. For the ''[[http://www.break.com/usercontent/2007/11/Bobby-Heenan-Loses-His-Mind-401325.html entire three-minute match]].'' When Schiavone brings up Duggan's college football career near the end, Heenan yells "COLLEGE!" and starts laughing even harder.
* The [[BigWhat WHAT?]] chants. Can also be considered a 10-year-long running gag considering it's still very much alive today.
* My name is Wrestling/JohnLaurinaitis, Executive Vice-President of Talent Relations and General Manager of Raw and Smackdown.
* One episode of ''Raw'' had [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] doing his signature "YES!" shout for a good minute or so after deciding his submission move would now known as the "YES!" Lock rather than the [=LeBell=] Lock.
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[[folder:Radio]]
* ''Radio/TheGoonShow'' used this trope repeatedly. No, the camera is not required. Several episodes used this, presented as a minute or more of dead silence "For the safety of the performers", footsteps, or Minie Banister's ramblings...
* The ''very first'' episode of ''Radio/HancocksHalfHour'' began with a character hitting the keys on a typewriter ''very'' slowly, until after a couple of minutes Hancock asks, "wouldn't it be quicker if you took off the boxing gloves?"
* Australian radio presenter Graeme Gilbert once suffered [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koqZsr40pPc a ridiculously long series of prank callers]], all giving the same nonsense answer ("India!") to his phone-in quiz questions.
* Radio show and podcast [[http://www.earwolf.com Comedy Bang Bang]] features an overly long Renaissance-style musical introduction to the game "Would You Rather," with host Scott Aukerman admonishing any guests who try to speak over it to "shut the fuck up."
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* A published adventure for ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' 3rd edition has a character who greets the party and advises them that "while on the premises it would be unwise to use any...", then lists everything offensive the party possess. Given how characters in this game tend to be the speech frequently fulfills this trope.
** Another adventure had the reading of the president's last will and testament. Given that said president was a millennia-old dragon, even though it's hilarious, it's almost impossible to read all in one sitting just from raw length.
* [[http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr41 This article by Mark Rosewater, lead designer of]] ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''. In fact, he spells it out.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* ''Charley's Aunt'' "from Brazil"
* Yasmina Reza's play ''"art"'' has one character launch into a four-page monologue describing/complaining about the logistics of his wedding plans. It's difficult to imagine how it's ''not'' meant to be funny.
* The televised version of the 2010 [[Theatre/ThePeeWeeHermanShowOnBroadway Broadway version]] of ''The Pee-wee Show'' had Pee-wee shout "[[BigNo Nooooooo...!"]] for over 30 seconds, which is a long time onstage ''and'' on TV.
** The infamous "balloon trick," which goes on for a whopping '''one minute forty-seven seconds.''' Over a minute of that is taken up by Pee-ww letting air out of the balloon.
* OlderThanSteam: In [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare's]] ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice'', Gratiano's repeated {{ironic echo}}es of Shylock at the climax of the court scene are this.
* [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Fellowship!]] TheMusical had a great example: Boromir, defending the hobbits, gets shot with an arrow, falls, gets back up, stumbles off stage, gets shot with a couple more arrows, stumbles back on stage...repeat several more times. The last time he stumbles off stage, different arrow-hitting-flesh sounds (getting increasingly ridiculous) are played for over a minute, before he stumbles back on stage one final time, looking like a pincushion.
* GilbertAndSullivan loved this trope. Every one of their patter songs, especially 'It really doesn't matter', which lampshades this trope: the lyrics continually state that the song isn't important and could really afford to end here... but it doesn't. The prize, however, goes to the TV performance of 'Never Mind the Why and Wherefore', in which several sections are encored, and the song continues for fifteen ([[UptoEleven or more (!)]]) minutes, even though the characters are clearly exhausted a and they actually exit several times... only to play it true to the theatrical tradition of returning to the stage for a reprise as long as the audience applauds and the music continues.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''TheNeverhood'', Klaymen can pick a fruit from a tree and eat it, and will consequently burp. Eating a second fruit will cause Klaymen to burp a little longer. After eating a third fruit, Klaymen will burp again...for a full minute.
** In the same game, an absurdly long corridor.
*** Something like 45-screens worth of walls covered with dense text. It's actually readable if you click on it -- the history of the game's universe starting with its creation.
* Dasher Inoba's ending in ''{{Ehrgeiz}}'' consists of Inoba ordering and eating bowls of noodles. Repeatedly. The video goes on forever - the only time it stops is if the player gets bored and skips it.
* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' has Damon Gant bursting out into manic laughter when you [[spoiler: out him as trying to frame Ema Skye for murder.]]
** Even better is Gant's stare, which he does quite often. It lasts for so long, one would think their game had frozen!
** ''Trials and Tribulations'' has Furio Tigre's scream of rage when you first meet him at the park: [GWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA] [AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA] (for about seven boxes of text) [AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA] [AR!]
* The factory password from ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' is to {{wait|ingPuzzle}}...for 3 minutes. While mildly amusing when you first hear of it, it's rather annoying if you don't take the time to make a sandwich. Thankfully, you don't have to do anything at the three minute mark.
* In ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland2LeChucksRevenge'', you had to get a bucket from three pirates. One way to get it was to say "please", which doesn't work right away. It will eventually.
** Another one from ''MI 2'' involved trying to answer Herman Toothrot's IceCreamKoan, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, what color is the tree?" I bet you didn't know Pink Floyd was a color.
** And in the original game, the scene in the unseen room of the governor's mansion.
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', at one point Cloud's group infiltrates Shinra HQ, and is given the option of either barging in via the main entrance, or climbing the emergency stairs all the way up to the 67th floor. ''All'' the way! Hilarious dialogue ensues during the stair-climbing, such as:
--> '''Tifa:''' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MhEm5fYPmo "Will you stop acting like a retard and climb!?"]]
** An NPC in the same tower, if you talk to them, gives you somewhere around 6 pages of ellipses.
* ''VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire''/''Emerald'' has a random trainer hinting that the reason the bike shop gave you a freebie is because the bike is plastered with the bike shop's name.
-->'''Cyclist''': It says 'RYDEL RYDEL RYDEL RYDEL RYDEL RYDEL RYDEL RYDEL RYDEL...(etc., etc., for about six boxes)...RYDEL RYDEL RYDEL'. You should ride it all over the place- it's good advertising!"
** And need we mention the story one needs to endure in order to get the Bike Voucher in the original ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue''?
** Approaching this in ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'' is Flint's dialog after defeat, he uses about 8 boxes of Ellipsis. This was removed in ''Platinum''.
*** Also, west of Celestic Town, there is an Ace Trainer who, if you talk to him, says "I'm strong!" a bunch of times to himself before noticing you, then gives you the TM77, which contains Psych Up.
** Similar to the Earthbound example above, in order to get into Regice's room in R/S/E, you have to wait. The length of time is ''just'' enough time to completely translate the message.
** The medal guy in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'' who appears in most Pokemon Centers. If you talk to him, he'll give you medal after medal after medal, and you wonder just how many medals you're going to get. I think it varies between area, but it's arduous.
*** That only happens if you haven't talked to him for a long time, and did things to qualify for a lot of different Medals since the last time.
* At one point in ''{{VideoGame/Metal Gear Solid 3|SnakeEater}}'', Naked Snake has to climb a ladder. A very, very tall ladder. Partway up, the game's theme song starts playing, and at maximum climbing speed, it has time to finish before you reach the top.
** And in ''Videogame/MetalGearSolid'', those ''stairs''.
** And again at the end of ''{{VideoGame/Metal Gear Solid 4|GunsOfThePatriots}}'', fighting through seemingly-endless corridors of Scarabs, and then suffering from early-onset-RSI destroying your Triangle button as Snake slooooowly crawls through the many, many microwave-emitting Corridors of DOOM.
** Completing the set, ''{{VideoGame/Metal Gear Solid 2|SonsOfLiberty}}'' pits Raiden against [[spoiler:a whole squad of knock-off Metal Gear [=RAYs=]]] for the penultimate boss battle. As part of the game's infamous ending, it's no surprise that there's no indication as to how many you have to fight (apart from an estimate by Snake). The following scene is a real "overly long gag" ([[spoiler:a minute-long chokehold]]) on European Extreme.
** Before all of those, ''{{VideoGame/Metal Gear 2|SolidSnake}}'' already made you climb 30 floors of stairs. Fun!
** Speaking of ''MGS'', [[http://gigaville.com/comic.php?id=467 this strip]] from ''Webcomic/TheLastDaysOfFOXHOUND''.
* Used in the ending of ''VideoGame/MegaMan9''. Twice as funny when you realize [[spoiler:[[LampshadeHanging they're making fun]] of Wily's outrageous VillainDecay.]]
-->'''Mega Man:''' ''[[VideoGame/MegaMan1 This is where you first went wrong!]] [[VideoGame/MegaMan2 Then this time!]] [[VideoGame/MegaMan3 And this time!]] [[VideoGame/MegaMan4 And this time!]] [[VideoGame/MegaMan5 And this time!]] [[VideoGame/MegaMan6 And this time!]] [[VideoGame/MegaMan7 And this time!]] [[VideoGame/MegaMan8 And this time!]] [[VideoGame/MegaManAndBass And this time!]]''
** In ''VideoGame/MegaMan10'', the final stage of the game takes place in a satellite connected to Wily's fortress by an elevator. A very, very tall elevator. The pan up the elevator to the aforementioned satellite takes roughly ''15 seconds.''
* In ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}} 3'', one of the secret unlockable characters is Gon (the little dinosaur from the manga of the same name by Masashi Tanaka). If you beat arcade mode with Gon, you get an ending cinematic in which he runs through a jungle, eats some fish in mid-air, and jumps on whales. The FMV repeats over and over again until you skip it.
* [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Kefka]] he seems to think one his jokes are much funnier than they really are. Case in point: when he flees from you three times in a row, every time you ask him to wait. He responds each time by saying, "Wait he says. Do I look like a waiter?" By the third time the comment is nothing but enraging. But then, he IS clinically insane, so maybe it makes sense.
* [[VideoGame/Left4Dead "This one time, me and my buddy Kieth..."]]
** [[MemeticMutation "Ellis, honey, is now really the best time?"]]
* In one scene in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', an NPC loses his fiancee's engagement ring. After an "insensitive" comment, she insists that he apologize by saying "I love you" 100 times. Yes, you have to click through every single one of them. (The speech bubbles are even numbered starting with the 11th one.)
** And let's not talk about the method of waking a certain general...
*** Which you have to do once to continue through the game, and have to do AGAIN for a sidequest!
*** And that doesn't include that you have to go to almost every town to find out that he was headed for where you started during both the story and the side quest.
** The 'quest' that Luigi goes on, which includes some of his partners loathing him, sending Mario and his partner to sleep when he tells them about it, and ''being so popular that it gets made into a '''book'''.''
*** Probably a bedtime story.
* Mr. Resetti of ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' fame can get into this, with his rambling reprimands for trying to outwit the auto-save system. Or it can just be a huge annoyance. They were aiming for the second one.
** When you think about it, it's actually a ''very'' clever conditioning tactic to stop players from resetting the game.
** He also rambles on and on if he appears as an assist trophy in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros. Brawl''. Considering that most assist trophies last a few seconds, and he seems to last over 2 minutes, it's just hilarious.
* ''Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' scene where King Zora moves out of the way so Link can reach Jabu-Jabu could be counted as one.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' does this when Tellah attacks Edward. Tellah simply whacks Edward with his staff. And misses. A lot. At least the battle stop after a few turns.
* Similarly to the ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'' example above, in ''VideoGame/FullThrottle'' you can access a hidden mini-game by simply telling the person playing it in-game "Let me show you how to do that" enough times that he agrees "Only if it'll shut you up".
* Like ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' above, ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' does this no less than 3 times, and does each one to the point of sheer annoyance.
** First one involves breaking a priceless vase and being forced to pay for it, all 1,000,000 rupees of it. The initial way of earning them involves jumping up and down under a block while avoiding the "motivation spark" till you are able to pay another prisoner (100 rupees) enough for the code to unlock the running in a wheel like a hamster (which though faster still takes a while), earning rupees depending how long you run. There IS a series of sidequests to earn the million in one go, but you need about 10000 rupees to buy the initial clue. Which still involves holding down the right button for 5 minutes while you watch Mario run on a wheel. And there's no indication on how much you've earned until you stop, so if you didn't make enough...back on you go.
*** [[spoiler:P.S. it's 41262816]]
** Second involves getting a password to pass some guardian in the desert. The person giving you the password warns you to get a pen and paper, because it's going to be long. About 30 words long. Hope you don't mess up.
*** You have to ''spell out'' "please", and that is after fighting your way to a dead end and having to turn around and fight you way back then use the first password. Then just to increase the levels length after you get past several very large and powerful monsters with a lot of health to reach...the place that a second password is needed used. So once you reach the village again you have to spell out "please" '''three times'''.
** Third involves the Sammer Guy world. In order to get the world's MacGuffin, they tell you you'll need to fight all 100 Sammer guys first. Most players by now will assume that they'll pull the rug under you and not make you fight all 100. They just choose to wait until the 20th fight to do it...
*** You can go back when you finish the game and fight all 100. If you're going for OneHundredPercentCompletion, this is required.
** "Um...Um...Um...Um...Um...Um...Um...Um...Um...Um...Um...Um...Um...Um...Um...Um...Um...Um...Um...Um...Um...'''A girl fell from the sky!'''"
* The game ''VideoGame/{{Audiosurf}}'' generates levels based on audio files. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_b9YOPzhiU This]] may be the single hardest one ever attempted.
* Vernon Tripe's rambling stories in ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}''.
** Boyd and his theories...
** [[http://v2.razputin.net/index.html@page=razputin%252Ffeatures%252Ftimwords.html This interview]] with Creator/TimSchafer, the game's creative designer. Specifically, his response to the first question.
* Loom's unending temple corridor in the very beginning.
* Continuing the list of Mario games on here, ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]'' has one in the back surgery scene. You drill into Bowser's back, and wait. Really wait. At least the game is nice enough to let you know it will take a while, more specifically, it tells you to go take a tea break. [[AntiPoopSocking It won't do anything for about five minutes.]]
** Though if you spoke to some [=NPCs=] beforehand, they tell you a method to speed up the process.
* Noober, The annoying villager in the first ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' who follows you around asking endless questions.
** And Neeber, the one in the second. Who incidentally the game allowed you to [[AcceptableTargets kill without penalty]], even if you were a ''paladin''.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'': While [[EscortMission escorting Sticky]], his rambling, implausible yet not particularly inventive story will repeat over and over, with little variation. You can always skip through by fast traveling if you'd been to the destination before; otherwise, you don't have to imagine what your character is going through for the trip, you get to experience it yourself.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' mod [[http://doomworld.com/idgames/index.php?id=12264 "Mock 2: The Speed of Stupid"]] has a level named "Mining Fecality". It consists of a long, U-turn corridor with a button visible right next to where you start, blocked by a grate. You travel down it and hit the button. Only for another button to appear where you just were. You go back to press THAT button...and another one opens up right at the end. You make it to the turning point in the hallway to find out it's gotten ''even longer.'' You press the button finally, only for ''yet another'' '''''goddamn''''' ''button'' to appear back at the start. Luckily, this one ends the level.
* The leaked unreleased game ''VideoGame/PennAndTellersSmokeAndMirrors'' was supposed to accomplish this with the "Desert Bus" sequence. It is a real time drive between Tucson and Las Vegas, with the idea being that someone would eventually wonder when it's supposed to end (and at the end...you do it again in the opposite direction...forever; screw up and crash and you get towed back to Tucson...also in real time). The dull-yet-unending nature of this 'game' eventually lead to a charity effort conducted online called "Desert Bus for Hope"[[note]]Donations submitted to the charity effort would determine how long the players would play Desert Bus. The more donations, the longer the playtime, with the whole thing going up on a stream.[[/note]].
* [[Franchise/MassEffect Wrex]]. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Fjc1hBwuE Shepard]]. [[MemeticMutation Wrex]]. Shepard. Wrex. Shepard. Wrex. Shepard.
** In the final piece of story DLC for ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', upping the tempo at Shepard's party will lead to [=EDI=] asking Joker to dance with her. When [[ICantDance Shepard]] offers to dance with her instead, Joker stands up and laughs for thirty seconds straight.
* ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'' manages to have an overly long gag that still only lasts a few seconds with [[spoiler: "The Part Where He Kills You."]] The line is said twice in succession during the scene, followed by the chapter title, which is the same thing. Then there's the achievement and achievement description, which are also the same, along with the title of the music track that plays during said scene.
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* From ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': In the Strong Bad email [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail131.html boring (really)]], Strong Bad gets an email from a viewer complaining of boredom, and asking how exciting day-to-day life in Free Country USA really was. He and several other characters manage (by speaking and moving ''very'' slowly) to make a twenty-five-second conversation last four minutes - which, SB insists, makes for an extremely exciting day.
** To commemorate his [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemailahundred.html 100th email]], Strong Bad decides he'll say "email" 100 times. And does it. His computer provides him with a virtual glass of water afterwards.
** "Yeah...''shaped'' like there's a bite taken out of it."
* [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee's]] short answer as to whether or not ''{{Spore}}'' could live up to creator WillWright's legacy was "No." His ''long'' answer was a BigNo which lasted a full sixteen seconds. There's a second, slightly shorter BigNo near the end of the review, too.
** And it's only shorter because the credits cut him off.
* Episode 21 of ''WebAnimation/RetardedAnimalBabies'' features, after the credits, a very long phone call from Puppy's insanely drunk (or drugged out) cousin.
* [[WebAnimation/CharlieTheUnicorn "Chaaaaaaarrliiiiiiiie....Chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeee...We're on a bridge, Chaaaaarrrrlliiiiieeeeeee..."]]
* The flash game, ''[[http://www.e4.com/game/steamshovel-harry/play.e4 Steamshovel Harry]]''. Watch out for that gravity.
* ''WebAnimation/TheDementedCartoonMovie!'' has the many attempts of the characters to go to Mars and find out what's behind the [[BrownNote Zeeky Words]] causing explosions without blowing up or crashing. Lampshaded by the guy in the green chair: "Damn it, this scene is taking freaking forever."
* The Cyanide & Happiness animated short "Speed Racist", where the aforementioned Speed Racist suffers a crash and spends a full two and a half minutes in a monologue of screaming pain about the fire and the irony of his racism....from off panel.
* The ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' mod [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwiNGn5Fu-A Elevator: Source]] is one big overly long gag filled with some nice surprises.
* In the sixth episode of the ''WebAnimation/PonyDotMOV'' series, it takes Discord about a full minute to rip off Rainbow Dash's wings.
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
* In ''WebComic/SluggyFreelance'', Dr. Viennason [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20050210 explains]] the dimension of timeless space by illustrating what happens when you run out of time supplies. By standing perfectly still for thirteen panels. Although he breaks it to surreptitiously glance at the camera if you look carefully in the tenth panel. Also in Sluggy, sixteen panels drive home the pun in a [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=010715 Gofotron]] battle with a sledgehammer.
* "Scientifically" sketched out in [[http://www.chrisyates.net/reprographics/index.php?page=648 this]] ''Reprographics'' strip.
* [[http://pc.gamespy.com/flintlocke-vs-the-horde/episode-9-when-orcs-attack/938136p1.html This Flintelocke strip]]. [[spoiler:And then subverted.]]
* [[http://catandgirl.com/?p=2035 This]] ''Cat and Girl'' strip.
* ''WebComic/{{XKCD}}'' [[http://www.xkcd.com/609/ on TV Tropes.]]
** [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife It's TRUUUUUUUUUUUU]][[RunningGag UUUUUUUUU]][[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment UUUUUUU]][[RunningGag EEEE!]]
** And [[http://xkcd.com/882/ Jellybeans and Acne]].
* ''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', when Roy goes [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0136.html shopping]]
** That scene is actually a spoof of the classic [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3KBuQHHKx0 Monty Python cheese shop sketch]], which some may argue is, in itself, an Overly Long Gag.
* [[http://www.explosm.net/comics/1323/ This]] ''Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness'' strip.
** [[http://www.explosm.net/comics/2030/ This]] strip also qualifies. They did subtle enough changes that you could animate that damn thing. Scroll click with the correct speed might do it!
* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''[[Webcomic/{{Mezzacotta}} Square Root of Minus Garfield]]'' [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=139 here]].
** And invoked in [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=339 this one]].
** Taken to a ridiculous extreme with the many, many, ''many'' Garfield (Sounds like Minus) Garfield comics.
* Masterfully done in [[http://samandfuzzy.com/901 this]] ''WebComic/SamAndFuzzy'' guest strip, by [[Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt Tom Siddell]].
* Lampshaded, then avoided in the alt text of [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p33 this]] ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' strip.
* In WebComic/TropeOverdosedTheWebcomic, you have [[http://tropeoverdosed.pcriot.com/?p=32 this]]. {{Justified|Trope}}, since it is about LevelGrinding.
* In ''WebComic/{{Homestuck}}'', [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005986 Karkat]] [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005987 shoosh-papping]] [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005988 Gamzee]] [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005989 into]] [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005990 submission]] [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005991 takes]] [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005992 nine]] [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005993 whole]] [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005994 panels.]]
** [[spoiler:Caliborn ''shooting'' Gamzee takes [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=007371 four]] [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=007372 whole]] [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=007373 flash]] [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=007374 sequences]].]]
** Homestuck itself references [[spoiler:Series/{{Red Dwarf}}]]'s very own overly-long gag (see: [[spoiler:"everybody's dead"]] above) in a conversation between Jake English and Dirk Strider's Auto-Responder
* The ''WebComic/PennyArcade'' strip [[http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/11/03 "Perhaps Slightly Exaggerated"]] contains ''four whole panels'' of [[VomitIndiscretionShot Gabe puking]].
* [[http://a-comics.ru/comics/rotty/0 Rotty the Motionless Corpse]].
* [[http://www.shortpacked.com/2008/comic/book-6/04-a-poor-mans-mike/a-87 This]] ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' strip.
* ''Webcomic/SandraAndWoo'' has [[http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2009/03/30/0046-close-encounters-of-the-boring-kind/ Sandra staring at a motionless UFO for a dozen panels.]]
* Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal showcases this plus DreamWithinADream [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1849#comic here]].
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* The stinger of the NoodleImplements page on this very wiki.
* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic is known for deliberately extending gags so he can act annoyed at how long they are:
** Laughing at Zack's "rock star" outfit in the ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' [[http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/1412-saved-by-the-bell episode]].
** Then there's the "Grape Nose Boy" scene in the ''Film/GoodBurger'' review, in which the film's [[TheDitz ditz]] stuffs grapes up his nose and shouts "Bloopity Bloopity Bloopity" for over a minute while the Nostalgia Critic desperately tries to get him to stop. It's exactly as painful as it sounds.
*** Especially as the Nostalgia Critic repeated the footage to make it seem longer and more painful.
**** He did the same thing with the tornado chasers' song on his review of ''Film/{{Twister}}''.
*** He also had some of his own, too, like when he repeatedly shouted "No !" in his ''Film/DropDeadFred'' review, as well as determining the pronunciation of Tone Loc during his review of ''WesternAnimation/BebesKids'', and his infamous [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIqRxBtNrFs Best Insult Ever]].
* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick isn't immune to this either. Extending the "Go It Alone" song from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie'' was just cruel.
* CR, another video maker on the [[Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses same website]] also used an overly long gag in one of [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/cr/ff/18880-episode-23 his own videos]], where he discusses Mrs. Klump from ''Film/TheNuttyProfessor'' and notes that we don't know much about her. He then asks a series of questions about her (like "What is her favorite TV show?"), always answered by a clip of her saying "Oh, Hercules! Hercules! Hercules!" that goes on for over a minute. It's later subverted when [[spoiler: He asks "what's the name of her favorite Disney movie?" and she answers ''Disney/{{Bambi}}''.]]
** In the 100th episode of Phelous, Paris Hilton's character in ''Film/HouseOfWax2005'' gets killed with a huge pipe through the head. This sets off a montage of many of the other critics applauding the death of Paris Hilton for over 3 minutes.
** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDEJDwwTa1k "Soundwave's romantic comedy" description]] somehow goes on longer than the overly long-gags in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''.
* ''WebVideo/TheHorriblySlowMurdererWithTheExtremelyInefficientWeapon'' will [[spoiler: hit you with a spoon]] again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again...
** Especially the parts where it pauses dramatically, as if it's going to say something different, the repeats it again. And again. And again. And again and again and again...and again and again...and again...and again and again and again...and again and again...
* Creator/LittleKuriboh's new [[spoiler:April Fool]] series: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7Ej7M3xWjY Card games on motorcycles!]]
** And from the same video: [[Manga/OnePiece WHERE IS ONE PIECE?]]
* In [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THlJh1J_Ong this]] ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' video, it demonstrates that even through ''one minute of Scout falling'', it's still funny in some way.
* {{Mega64}}'s spoof of ''HeavyRain'' counts when it is revealed that [[spoiler:the cause of Shawn (Sean)'s unhappiness is that he was diagnosed with cancer.]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87p53rAD7Sk&feature=player_embedded 100 Ways To Love A Cat]]
* [[http://verydemotivational.com/2010/09/01/demotivational-posters-opps/ This]] [[FauxtivationalPoster Demotivational Poster]]. Dear god, it never ends!
* 4Chan is responsible for [[http://fukung.net/v/8649/7fd20aebbd29caf40ed0f94bed5aa0de.jpg lots]] and lots and [[http://fukung.net/v/6216/teamrocket.jpg lots]] and lots and lots and [[http://fukung.net/v/6223/dick.jpg lots]] and [[http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/6971/1186900688091ya6.jpg lots]] and lots and [[http://sinth.info/pix/4chan%20epic/21.jpg lots]] of these, including [[http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/9326/metqs5.jpg these]] [[http://fukung.net/v/1766/longcat.jpg two]], the former of which goes from cute gimmick to CrowningMomentOfAwesome after the first few, the latter of which simply speaks for itself.
* ''Website/TheOnion'' will occasionally print an article that contains the sentence "Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood" repeated for the entire article.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKzqP4-0Z6M Our collective liek of mudkips embodies this trope.]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOBOeEKnPqM This mud fish Pokemon is also know for abandoning its child.]]
* '''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8JPEq0Qp4Q THE MOTHER OF ALL TRAILERS]]'''
** ''Until now...''
* Hello? Fuck! Hello? Fuck! Hello? FUCK! [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsTJaBVPtu4 It's funnier than it sounds]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Fucking+Short+Version&oq=The+Fucking+Short+Version&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=11899l19669l0l20077l25l25l0l19l2l0l236l953l0.2.3l5l0 Short Youtube, Fucking Short Versions]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKwaPSkjXp0 Black Lagoon, The Fucking Short Version]]
** An extra on DVD release of ''Film/WithnailAndI'' does something very similar.
* Many ''WebAnimation/YouTubePoop'' videos try to milk comedy out of repeating a clip over and over and over again, sometimes mixing it up by slowing it down, speeding it up, or applying a filter (grayscale, pixellation, etc.).
** The "X does Y Whilst I Play Unfitting Music" videos combine overly long gag with SoundtrackDissonance.
** [[JitteryDragon And it flew real low. And it flew real low. And it flew real low. And it flew real low.]]
** {{CS188}}: [[{{Macklemore}} You can find me at the Goodwill You can find me at the Goodwill You can find me at the Goodwill You can find me at the Goodwill]]...
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i69Xb2ZMgGI KRISTEN SCHAAL IS A HORSE!]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcatQSyRK6c What? What? What? ...What?]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtG5dK_HaGg What are you doing here?]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDOqJxCfO8Y Roundhay Garden Scene: The Deleted Scenes]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OkgnnbSxTI Now, Magikarp, hit 'im with a splash attack!]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YUAxafnYP8 Nani, mai hunni~?]]
** [[http://vimeo.com/2998698?pg=embed&sec=2998698 Every profanity from The Sopranos.]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fhd06OAngZA Bagel!]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbzflQJo6pI 'WE'VE ENTERED AN ENDLESS RECURSSION OF TIME.' 'Huh, what?']]
*** 'WE'VE ENTERED AN ENDLESS RECURSSION OF TIME.' 'Huh, what?'
*** [[RuleOfThree 'WE'VE ENTERED AN ENDLESS RECURSSION OF TIME.' 'Huh, what?']]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCNICT2en_U WOAH-OH-OH-AH]][[MetalScream -AH-AH-AAAA-HA]][[{{Narm}} -AH-AH-AH!!!!!!!!!]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1wmsmO9ByM Bribe the cat?]]
*** ''That's'' how you beat the competition!
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7O_o-jEmLg No!]]
*** Yes.
* [[@/{{Jonn}} Jonnwood]] [[http://twitter.com/jonnwood is updating his Twitter]].
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddUbsWnEVXM Michael Caine does not blink.]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LxgjSBqwEE This fan video]] at about 6:15. Understandably there were several takes involved.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nckyF1e_j7k "Captain Planet!" "Who?!"]] From [[http://www.thefinebrothers.com/?Show=GI-Joe&ShowSpaces=G.I.%2520Joe:%2520The%2520Epic%2520Saga G.I. Joe: The Epic Saga]], before it got ScrewedByTheLawyers.
* Did someone say [[http://www.fenslerfilm.com/moviesF/PSAsmall/FenslerFilm_PSA09_small.mpg G.I. Joe]]?
* Webcomic/HyperboleAndAHalf: "I'm a bird! I'm a bird! I'm a bird! I'm a bird! I'm a bird! I'm a bird! I'm a bird! I'm a bird!"
* Creator/{{Tobuscus}}: ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations'' LetsPlay, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpbRDo5poT0&t=6m55s Episode 1]]. The Ubisoft titles. Made doubly funny because they're that long in the actual game, and Toby's reaction is therefore priceless.
-->'''Toby:''' Ubisoft presents...a game by Ubisoft. And Ubisoft. And also Ubisoft...
* ShinyObjectsVideos: "Nerd Fight" uses this for an unnecessarily long, drawn-out fight. In "An Earnest Discussion", the beats go on for quite a while.
* Franchise/SpiderMan's continuous "and what's in that pocket?" questions to Franchise/{{Batman}} in ''WebVideo/ImAMarvelAndImADC''.
* From ''WebVideo/PotterPuppetPals'': In [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqTHmzMk0Cw Wizard Swears]], Dumbledore introduces the gang to the Elder Swear, a swear that lasts a minute and is mostly [[SoundEffectBleep a long series of bleeps]] punctuated by [[NoodleImplements things like "Republican", "Daniel Radcliffe", and "a stick of dynamite".]]
* ''WebVideo/MinnesotaAnthonyReview'' has one pretty much OncePerEpisode. The highlights are a recreation of the infamous refrigerator scene from ''Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'' and Donny falling asleep while watching the ''The Lord of the Rings'' trilogy.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' creator Creator/SethMacFarlane seems to love this trope like nobody else.
** The first and most famous use is Peter Griffin spraining his knee after winning the golden beer ticket. In the commentary track of ''Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story'' DVD, [=MacFarlane=] said that he rather enjoys making gags run just a little bit longer than they should. The show has often been accused of using it as a crutch.
** Lois does a variation of this herself in "Fox-y Lady", only she bumps her breast on the mailbox instead of spraining her knee.
*** Repeated in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuyPresentsLaughItUpFuzzball'' with the AT-AT Walker, who starts groaning in pain after tripping over the cable. He only does it three times before being blown up by the snowspeeders.
** The infamous chicken fights are frequently accused of being nothing more than Overly Long Gags, although there's usually a good wealth of film references in each.
*** And it's almost got to the point where the bird's re-appearance in ridiculous places is itself part of the joke, and the ideas played with (like when they realise they can't remember why they're fighting, go for a meal to make up...and start a fight of equally excessive length over who pays the bill) which might make it a combination of overly long gag and RunningJoke.
** "Everything I say is a lie! Except for that. And that. And that. And that. And that. And that. And that."
** It was {{lampshade|Hanging}}d when Peter is singing "Surfin' Bird", over and over, and Stewie comments, "Oh, I just love repetition!" Later in the same episode, in what may have been a jab at how the fans perceive these jokes, Stewie slowly pulls out a revolver and aims it at his face as Peter continues singing the song ''ad nauseum''.
** Subverted once when the Vaudeville Guys, who were just beginning to wear out their welcome, are shot to death by Stewie just as they are beginning their performance.
*** They did return later, Vern as a ghost and Johnny playing his piano in Hell.
** In one episode Stewie speculates at length about Brian's novel, his voice continually growing higher. Later in the episode he does it again, for even longer. He tries it again in a later episode that season, but barely begins before Brian punches him silent, thus rendering it a case of Overly Long RuleOfThree.
*** Then in another episode, Stewie is composing a song to impress Susie Swanson, and Brian turns the tables.
** Bruce, the polite effeminate guy, is essentially a person made out of this trope. Every time he shows up he just rambles on, quietly and politely, about whatever happens to be on his mind at the time, usually only tangentially related to whatever the subject is that he's currently discussing with the rest of the characters that are with him at the time during the show.
** Played with in one episode. Peter is singing a song, and at the end, it seems that he's going to hold the last note for a long time. Then it cuts to commercial. When it gets back to the show, it's revealed that he's been holding the note for the entire commercial break, and proceeds to hold it even longer afterwards.
** "Ooh piece of candy. Ooh piece of candy. Ooh piece of candy. Ooh piece of candy. Ooh piece of candy. Ooh piece of candy. Ooh piece of candy. Ooh piece of candy. Ooh piece of candy. Ooh piece of candy. Ooh piece of candy. Ooh piece of candy. Ooh piece of candy."
*** This is also done twice.
** And Then There's Series/{{Maude}}! Peter is actually annoyed by this overly long gag.
** Conway Twitty in "The Juice is Loose": they put the ENTIRE SONG in the episode! It is also one of the lowest rated episodes in the series. [[FridgeLogic Makes one wonder why this joke hasn't been used since]].
*** Done again with another song! When homeschooling the kids in "Foreign Affairs", and talking about "The gayest music video ever", the show proceeds to play ''the entirety'' of [[Music/TheRollingStones Mick Jagger]] and Music/DavidBowie's "Dancing in the Street".
** After watching ''Film/{{Bewitched}}'', Stewie leaves the theater, rides a cab, stands in line at the airport, flies on a plane, arrives at LAX, hails another cab, arrives at WillFerrell's house, and punches him in the face.
** "Lois. Lois. Lois. Lois. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mom. Mommy. Mommy. Mommy. Mommy. Mama. Mama. Mama. Mama. Ma. Ma. Ma. Ma. Ma. Ma. Mum. Mum. Mum. Mum. Mommy. Mommy. Mommy. Mama. Mama. Mama. Mama. Mama. Mama."
*** Of course, ''that'' one happens to be TruthInTelevision - ask any parent with a toddler-aged kid.
** The scene where the house that Brian and Stewie have been working on all episode explodes. It's just 30 seconds of the house exploding from different angles.
*** And a few times from the same angle.
** Peter's "Guiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiltyyyyyyyyyyyyy!" from "Family Gay".
** The cutaway gag with the British gentlemen's club when three gentlemen do nothing but read newspapers and clear their throats in different tone for like a minute.
** The scene in "Something Something Something Dark Side" where Peter cuts open the don-don. "I thought they smelt bad - " he exhales seven or eight times - "On the outside!"
** Also in SSSDS, Peter shooting the floor of the cave about eight times before realising they're in a giant space slug.
** The P.S. in Stewie's letter to Brian when he's heading to England.
** The Phony Guy. Just like the raccoon gag in "To Love and Die and Dixie" - he only appears four or five times in one season 3 episode, "The Kiss Seen Around the World" - except it stopped being funny after his second appearance. You could say his being brought back just to be killed off in "Something Something Something Darkside" was some sort of KarmicDeath.
** In "Stew-roids" Stewie repeatedly steps in front of Brian as he tries to go down the stairs, making an "oop" noise. He does this 12 times before stopping.
** In the season 2 episode "If I'm Dyin, I'm Lyin" during the interrogation scene in [[ShowWithinAShow "Gumbel 2 Gumbel"]] when Bryant Gumbel continuously mumble "Mmm Hmm" at the arrested criminal for about 20 seconds. It ends when the criminal asks Greg, "What the hell is wrong with him?"
** The scene from "Quagmire's Dad" where Brian pukes for at least a solid 30 seconds.
** Speaking of puke, there was also the "Ipecac contest" with Peter, Chris, Stewie and Brian repeatedly puking for about a minute.
** "Oh, yeah, Drew. I wanna say hi to Lois, Brian, Chris, Stewie, Meg, Joe, Bonnie, Quagmire, Cleveland, Mort, Seamus, Adam West, Dr. Hartman, Bruce, Carter, Babs, Tom Tucker, Angela, Opie, Carl, Herbert, Jillian, Consuela, Giant Chicken, Greased-Up Deaf Guy!" "...Okay. Sure they're happy to hear that."
** Another moment from the Star Wars "It's A Trap" where Luke nods to Lando, who nods to R2, who nods to Leia, who nods to C-3P0, who nods to Jabba, who nods ''back'' to 3P0, who nods to Leia, who nods to R2, who nods to Lando, who nods to Luke, who nods to a baseball player, who nods to Luke, who nods to Lando, who nods to R2, who nods to Leia, who nods to 3PO, who nods to the Sarlacc, who nods to Lando, who nods to Han, who nods to Leia, who nods to Luke, who nods to the guy playing the tuba which has punctuated each nod with a dramatic note, who nods to Luke, who nods to Lando, [[LampshadeHanging who nods to a clip of Ted Knight in Caddyshack saying "Well? We're waiting!".]] This joke is repeated a minute or two later.
** Carter destroying a bus bench with a bulldozer. The scene eats up almost 2 whole minutes of episode time.
** "Want to pick me up? Want to pick me up? Want to pick me up? Want to pick me up? Want to pick me up?"
*** Stewie actually killed the guy.
** "Friends of Peter G." has Peter growing increasingly frustrated for waiting for the movie to start as the film shows several companies involved in making the movie, going on for at least 40 seconds.
*** And in the same episode, while trying to fool Joe into believing they are in a proper Alcoholics Anonymous class when they really get drunk the whole time, they sing almost the ''entire'' Mr. Booze song from Robin and the 7 Hoods. Slightly lampshaded at the end with Brian droning out the lyrics.
** A gag in "Ready, Willing, and Disabled" has Joe Swanson crying in the bar because he failed to capture a criminal that tried to steal donation money. He cries for 2-4 minutes as Peter, Quagmire, and Cleveland slowly and awkwardly leave the bar (with Peter then slowly coming back in through a window to get his beer). Creator/SethMacFarlane lampshades the gag in the DVD commentary by mentioning that the animators overseas hated drawing scenes that dragged out in a slow speed.
* [=MacFarlane=] frequently uses this trope in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' as well. He even lampshades it in "Phantom Of The Telethon," when Stan delivers a joke written by Steve and his friends.
-->Stan: Some acts are too hot. Some acts are too cold. This act is just riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
-->Barry (backstage): Joke-killer! He's a joke-killer!
** "TUNGEE!!!"
** Referenced again when Francine's mother tells her that a wife should always laugh at her husband's bad jokes, in a way that seems like a TakeThat at this kind of humor.
-->'''Māma:''' You know how many times Bàba tell the "Pull my finger" joke? Four times a week, every week, and we been married ''fifty years''! And it never funny. Not once. It got a little funny about ten years ago because it hadn't been funny for so long, but that was only for like two days.
* [=MacFarlane=] has a pretty big influence on SethGreen's ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''--the show could be described as "Family Guy if they took out the bits about plot"--so to no surprise, to say the least, some clips are longer and tedious than others. This ''really'' comes into play in the second season. Thing is, these clips are never seen again, and are thus funny.
* Some of the lazier episodes of ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' use this trope excessively, often to the point that an episode will actually ''become'' this trope. Examples: "Slide-Whistle Stooges", "Blackjack", and "Grandpappy the Pirate".
** While this is true, many older episodes had slightly more brief examples of this, such as the line "Have you finished those errands yet?" being repeated in part or in whole over twenty times in "Squid's Day Off", and [=SpongeBob=] screaming no less than 25 times in a row in "Graveyard Shift".
*** He goes on to laugh repeatedly when Squidward says he was joking.
** From "The Algae's Always Greener":
-->'''[=SpongeBob=]''': "A customer ordered a medium soda, and I gave him a large! I GAVE HIM A LARGE! I've soiled the good Krusty Krab name! Soiled it, soiled it, soiled it, soiled it! Soiled it, soiled it, soiled it, soiled it! Soiled it..."
-->'''Plankton''': (poking Spongebob) "[[LampshadeHanging Where's the off button on this thing?]]"
*** "...And the next day. And the next day. And the next day. And the next day. And the next day. And the next day. And the next day. And the next day....
** [=SpongeBob=] repeatedly interrupting the doctor trying to remove Squidward's bandages, from "The Two Faces of Squidward."
** The episode "Keep Bikini Bottom Beautiful" has almost no gags- other than "Squidward ends up next to litter, and is sentenced to Community Service whether it's his or not." [=SpongeBob=] gets CS once, Squilliam gets it once, and Squidward gets it ''8 times...'' (He almost got it 9, even!)
** "All That Glitters", where [=SpongeBob=] cries to...everything in Bikini Bottom about his broken spatula. "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-HHAUUUUUUUUUH!"
** Zooming in on the patty in "Krusty Krab Training video" The narrator imitates a fanfare throughout, stopping to catch his breath partway.
** "Another day, another nickel!" Squidward eventually shouts "IT'S NOT THAT FUNNY! PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!"
** [=SpongeBob=] going over the activities he and Patrick have planned for the rainy day in "Pineapple Fever". Mostly, he repeats activities he's already stated.
** "The Camping Episode" has this, and probably would have gone longer if Squidward hadn't stopped [=SpongeBob=]:
-->'''[=SpongeBob=]''': Patrick's right Squidward, sea bears are no laughing matter. Why one time I met this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy's ''cousin''-
-->'''Squidward''': YOU'RE RIGHT!
*** Also, the "Campfire Song" Song. Squidward doesn't bother to stop them, he just sits there with an annoyed look on his face.
** And from ''Whatever Happened to Spongebob?'': "Idiot boy, idiot boy, idiot boy, idiot boy..."
** Another example in Dear Viking.
--> '''Viking:''' This is Olaf. And this is Olaf. This is Olaf. Olaf, Olaf, Olaf, and um...
--> '''Other Viking:''' Olaf.
--> '''Squidward:''' So, lemme guess. Your name must be...
--> '''Viking:''' That's right. Gordon!
* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' features an episode, "How To Be Funny", where the titular cat explains the fine points of comedy and admits repetition of a stupid VisualPun like being handed lightbulbs after yelling "Lights!" can get funnier with time.
** In another episode, Jon puts leftovers in the refrigerator that turns into a monster which is referred to throughout the entire episode, many times, as "the monster that lives behind the mayonaisse next to the ketchup to the left of the cole slaw" (which is also [[TitleDrop the name of the episode]]). They play this for all its worth; a policeman goes into the house to get rid of the monster, but comes back without having seen it, and then says, "Oh, did you say 'to the ''left'' of the cole slaw?" This is even lampshaded at the end by Garfield (who is {{narrat|or}}ing) when he said, "and the monster grabbed the brave cat and dragged him to its lair behind the mayonaisse, next to... ah, you know all this already."
** One recurring gag in ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' is that whenever Orson sorts his books, he always has to put one in particular - ''Deja Vu, the Sensation of Experiencing Something You Have Experienced Before'' - away about five times in a row. This gag was eventually {{lampshade|Hanging}}d when after the third copy he stopped, looked down, and started [[BillBillJunkBill going through the stack of books]]...all of which turned out to be ''Deja Vu''.
** In the ''U.S. Acres'' episode "Bad Time Story", Bo, Lanolin, Roy, and Wade take turns fighting over who reads a "Chicken Little" like story. At one point, Wade reads a LongList of all '''twenty seven''' people who are off to see the king, including Eggy Leggy (Sheldon), Wormy Squirmy, Catty Fatty (Garfield), [[Series/LeaveItToBeaver Beaver Cleaver]], and Puppy Wuppy (Odie)!
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Sealab 2021}}'' episode "Vacation", the suggestion that Quinn is in his room with a prostitute twice prompts a segue into a ''ridiculously'' long chain of characters going "Uh-oh!" The RuleOfThree comes into play at the end of the episode, as Quinn interrupts the beginning of a third such chain.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' episode "A Whale of a Bad Time", Scrooge [=McDuck=] is informed that a shipment of ice cream (in which he'd concealed half his fortune) has been eaten by a sea monster, which causes him to go berserk and spend about a minute jumping around the room repeatedly yelling "[[http://youtube.com/watch?v=79c5JKjAQFg A sea monster ate my ice cream]]!!" before his nephews can subdue him.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': When Billy thinks clowns "want to become the dominant species" and then proceeds to spend nearly half a minute straight yelling that they'll "Destroy us all!". In the made for TV movie "Wrath of the Spider Queen", he is cut off half-way before starting another such joke.
** DESTROY US ALL! DESTROY US ALL! DESTROY US ALL! DESTROY US ALL! I'll take the chicken. DESTROY US ALL!
** In the episode where they visit a retirement home for elderly monsters, Billy is reluctant when he finds he has to go through a portal to AnotherDimension to get there. Grim and Billy get into [[RhymesOnADime an argument loaded with rhymes on the word "dimension"]] that goes on for long enough that Mandy gets sick of it and pushes them both through the portal before leaping in after them.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', "Canceled", this trope is spelled out. Kyle is asked to activate the satellite dish in Cartman's rectum, and each time he approaches, Cartman farts and laughs. Everyone agrees it is no longer funny, and Cartman does it again, prompting the others to laugh and Chef to proclaim it funny once more.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTn7xtVsE6U The Imagination Song]]
** Kyle's Mom Is A Bitch also qualifies, combined with RefugeInAudacity:
--->'''Cartman:''' "...She's a bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch! Bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch, she's a stupid bitch! Kyle's mom's a bitch and she's just a dirty bitch!"
** The main plot of "Jared Has Aides" consists entirely of people confusing the word "aides" with "AIDS", to the point where the titular Jared starts [[LampshadeHanging flogging a literal dead horse]].
** Then there's Terrence and Phillip vs. Steven Abootman in "Canada on Strike".
--->[[TermsOfEndangerment "I'm not your friend, buddy!"]]\\
"I'm not your buddy, guy!"\\
"I'm not your guy, friend!"
** "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkmV9mnUTC4 Now that's what I call a sticky situation!]]"
* ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' is also no stranger to the overly long gag.
** In the first episode, Captain Hero wishes for a hot black woman to appear, at which moment Foxxy Love walks through the door. He then [[RetroactiveWish wishes for]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice a 12-year-old girl and a donkey to appear]], and proceeds to wait...and wait, and wait, and wait...
** In the first season finale, the housemates stage a sit-in in an attempt to deliberately make the show boring so that the producer will be forced to give them some perks. And true to their word, the sit-in consists of them doing nothing but sitting there and blinking for well over a minute.
** In "Xandir and Tim, Sitting in a Tree", Spanky Ham draws a fart out for 60 seconds.
** In "Alzheimer's That Ends Well", The senior citizens make a call to Boba Fett with a rotary dial phone. As long as it sounds.
*** The third season had this as a [[TheStinger stinger]] during the credits, featuring a clip from the episode looped or altered somewhat. Though there's always a climax.
** In "Breakfast Food Killer", while the characters onscreen are completely motionless, there is an offstage dialogue of Wooldoor talking to someone outside the audition room for a good 1 or 2 minutes about nonsense.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhostCoastToCoast'': The "Fire Ant" episode, as originally aired, contained a ''ten-minute-long'' sequence consisting entirely of Space Ghost following an ant to its house to kill its family. No action, almost no dialogue, just Space Ghost following an ant.
* ''WesternAnimation/TwelveOunceMouse'' would sometimes have two Overly Long Gags running concurrently. In episode 5, Fitz and Skillet have an extended shoot-out with an offscreen assailant while Peanut tries to rob the Diner. In episode 11, Shark spends half the episode trying to get his car started, while Rectangular Businessman spends the other half trying to decide which one of many identical harmonicas to buy. By the end of the episode, neither has succeeded.
* The credits sequence of the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "It's About Time!" consists of Mr. Fletcher saying/humming "Fossils! Dun dun dun!", in an imitation of the end of a museum tour tape he listened to earlier in the episode, repeatedly for about half a minute.
** "I, Brobot" has a several-seconds-long clip of Candace running screaming to the basement and hiding in the panic room.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': This trope could easily be called "Rake Scene". Given the origin of the rake scene, the probable circumstances that determine exactly how overly long an overly long gag could probably be described as "how much time needs filling?"
** The scene from "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds", where Homer tries to eat chips which are repeatedly stolen from his hands by the greyhound puppies. This happens eight times, and the first four are recognisably the same footage as the second four, except for Homer saying "This time," before the last one.
** In the episode "Pranksta Rap", Milhouse tosses a frisbee six total times, picks it up each time, until he finally says, "This is no fun without Bart. He used to watch me while I did this."
** In "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson", when Cletus Spuckler introduces his 44 children to Marge and Homer.
** From "Last Exit to Springfield": "DENTAL PLAN!" "Lisa needs braces!" "DENTAL PLAN!" "Lisa needs braces!" "DENTAL PLAN!" "Lisa needs braces!"
** In "Brother From Another Series", Sideshow Bob and Bart fall off a dam, screaming the entire way, and have to stop to take in a breath, before they continue to scream.
** From "Homer's Barbershop Quartet":
---> "Number 8" - '''BURRRRP!''' - "Number 8" - '''BURRRRP!''' - "Number 8" - '''BURRRRP!''' - "Number 8" - '''BURRRRP!''' - "Number 8" - '''BURRRRP!''' - "Number 8" - '''BURRRRP!''' "Number 8" - '''BURRRRP!''' - "Number 8" - '''BURRRRP!''' - "Number 8" - '''BURRRRP!''' - "Number 8" - '''BURRRRP!''' - "Number 8" - '''BURRRRP!'''
** The episode "Dancing Homer" has this with Bleeding Gums Murphy singing the American National Anthem at the start of a baseball game. He starts singing at 7:30. He finishes singing at '''7:56'''. And by the time he is finished, Lisa is the only one who is still genuinely paying attention.
** In the episode "Crook and Ladder", Homer takes sleeping pills that may cause mood swings. The next gag is at least 30 seconds worth of Homer saying "Mood Swings!" in different tones.
** One of the later seasons has an episode where Ralph Wiggum tries to play "Duck Duck Goose" at a party, or rather "Duck Duck Duck Duck Duck Duck Duck Duck Duck Duck..." (etc.)
*** Come on, if it weren't for the creators of Wiki/TVTropes, Ralph Wiggum's Duck Duck Duck etc. gag would be the {{Trope Namer|s}}.
** Homer listing all the jobs he's had to Marge whilst sitting in bed. Marge goes into their en suite and comes back in with him still talking.
-->[[ContinuityNod You know, I've had a lot of jobs. Boxer, mascot, astronaut, imitation Krusty, baby proofer, trucker, hippie, plow driver, food critic, conceptual artist, grease salesman, carnie, mayor, grifter, bodyguard for the mayor, garbage commissioner, mountain climber, farmer, inventor, Smithers, Poochie, celebrity assistant, power plant worker, fortune cookie writer, beer baron, Kwik-E Mart clerk, homophobe, and missionary. But protecting Springfield, that gives me the best feeling of all.]]
** On several occasions, a character will fall over, then be trampled by several members of a marching band. And an elephant.
** There's also the scene from "Grade School Confidential" when Martin is inviting people to his birthday party, he hands one to Nelson saying "Here you are Nelson!" and Nelson pushing the invitation off his desk while making a "pfft" sound, this goes on for about 30 seconds.
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sweetest_Apu The Sweetest Apu.]] Homer's reaction is almost ''the'' longest gag in the whole show. [[SerialEscalation Which is saying something.]]
** Rainier Wolfcastle's bratwurst commercial, a parody of Oscar Mayer's. "Mein Bratwurst has a first name, it's F - R - I - T - Z! Mein Bratwurst has a second name, it's S - C - H - N - A - C - K - E - N - P - F - E - F - F - E - R - H - A - U - S - E - N..."
** Homer's comically long long-distance phone dial in "In Marge We Trust".
** From "Lisa's First Word", "From now on the baby sleeps in the crib", "Iron helps us play!", "If you should die before you wake!", "Hello Joe!", this is heard about 4 times.
* Taken to its logical extreme by ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''; "Everybody Loves Hypnotoad", a special episode included on the ''Bender's Big Score'' DVD, takes the gag and runs with it for ''twenty-two minutes'', the entire length of the episode. There are some other gags included ("Guests of ''Everybody Loves Hypnotoad'' stay at the famous Cragmont Human Cage!"), and, indeed, the whole point is that, in order not to miss these shorter gags, the viewer ''has'' to sit through the entire episode. Some of them are so short that they can easily be missed by fast-forwarding through them.
** FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT! {{Beat}}... FIX IT!!
** ''Into The Wild Green Yonder'' gives us Leela's attempts to protect a leech, which keeps attacking her; she reflexively crushes it, then regrets it, then it comes back to life and attacks her again.
** Actually subverted in "Bender Gets Made", {{the one w|ith}}here Bender joined the Robot Mafia. After seeing that the Robot Mafia are going to be attacking the Planet Express Ship, Bender does an extended SpitTake that, just as it looks like it is going to become an overly long gag, cuts to commercial.
* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' used this quite a bit, usually centering around endlessly repeated shots of Dexter typing on a keyboard, tightening a screw, pulling the same lever, etc. One commercial lampshaded this by asking after about thirty seconds of the screw-tightening, "Isn't he going to overtighten that thing some day?"
** In one episode starring Mandark, every sound made was similar to his signature laugh. For the ''entire episode''.
*** Ha ha ha! Ha-ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha! Ha-ha ha ha ha!
*** Chew chew chew! Chew-chew chew chew chew! Chew chew chew! Chew-chew chew chew chew!
*** Boo-Hoo hoo! Boo-Hoo hoo hoo hoo! Boo-hoo hoo! Boo-hoo hoo hoo!
** Youtube video makers particularly enjoy making videos of particular scenes, like Dexter eating corn for ten minutes or drinking milk for ten minutes.
** "The Continuum of Cartoon Fools" opens with about half a minute of Dexter making faces and funny noises while apparently timing a storyboard, and ends with Dexter spending about a minute lamenting the fact that he's locked himself out of his secret laboratory in his efforts to [[TheCatCameBack keep Dee-Dee out]].
* Lampshaded in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' ("Virtual Freak"), where Freakazoid and the Lobe [[IFellForHours take an overly long time to fall]] from the top of a mall.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfgZnBaHbt8&feature=endscreen The Emergency Broadcast System.]]
** The premise of the episode "RelaxOVision" was a running gag that quickly grew old. This was eventually subverted at the end, when Freakazoid beats up the suit who came up with the idea in the first place.
** A perfect example is the ''Hand-man'' segment in the first episode, noted as such on the DVD commentary.
** Another episode has Fanboy surprise Freakazoid, who has just downed a smoothie. Freakazoid proceeds to [[SpitTake spit out more papaya juice]] than could possibly fit in his whole body in sync with fifteen different dramatic BGM chords. In what may be the most awesome SpitTake ever, this goes on for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzQLvbrr9lI a solid twenty seconds.]]
* This is ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim's'' bread and butter. Take for example, this quote from "Tak: The Hideous New Girl", in which Tak has just started to explain her evil plan to Zim, starting with "Part 1" - crippling his base's functions.
-->"Part 2 is --"
-->"NOOO! My beautiful base!"
-->"Part 2 is --"
-->"NOOO! My beautiful base!"
-->"Part 2 --"
-->"NOOOO! My base!"
-->"Part 2 --"
-->"NOOO!"
-->"Part --"
-->"NOOO!"
-->"Okay, I'm -- "
-->"NOOO!"
-->"Okay, I'm going now."
-->"But you didn't tell me what your plan was."
** Similarly:
-->"I am-"
-->"Who are you!"
-->"I am-"
-->Who are you!"
-->"I am-"
-->"Who are you!"
** Also similarly, from "Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy"
-->"A hunter-destroyer -- "
-->"What is it?!"
-->"A hunter-destroyer -- "
-->"What is it?!"
** And yet again similarly:
-->"ZIM!"
-->"WHAAAAT?"
-->"ZIM!"
-->"WHAAAAT?"
-->"ZIM!"
-->"WHAAAAT?"
** A scene from "Megadoomer" showed Zim in the titular battle mech behind a smiling woman in her car at a stoplight shouting "Hey, move it! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! ..." and then finally "You invoke my wrath?!" and as the light turns green and she moves, "Victory for Ziiim!"
** There was also the opening to "Backseat Drivers From Beyond the Stars", where Invader Zim was on screen with the Tallest, shouting "My tallest! Hey! My tallest! My taaaalleeest!" for three hours straight (actually a minute on-screen).
-->'''Tallest Red:''' I was curious to see when you'd shut up on your own. But it's been ''three hours'' now, Zim. ''THREE HOURS!!!''
::Jhonen Vasquez himself said in the commentary that he would have made that entire gag last ''the entire episode'' if he could get away with it.
** When GIR asked Zim if he was going to make biscuits for 45 seconds
** I'm gonna sing the Doom Song now!
*** I think GIR deserves a special prize for that, seeing as it apparently lasted [[IncessantMusicMadness six months]] for Zim.
** The Zim writers apparently love this trope. In fact, "Zim Eats Waffles" is essentially an episode-long Overly-Long Gag. And it's hilarious.
* Dr. Rockso's constant repetition of "[[CatchPhrase I do cocaine!]]" in ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}''. It was mildly funny at first, then it became annoying. But by season two, the fact that he simply ''would not stop saying it'' made it inexplicably hilarious.
** This was actually lampshaded as a OLG. "...Yes. You've told us. Repeatedly. Please stop."
** There's also the DVD EasterEgg scene of Nathan Explosion reading from ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''. Very, very badly. For twenty minutes. And then there's a ''second'' Overly Long Gag in the credits...
*** Many of the DVD extras consist of Overly Long Gags, though not usually as long as the ''Hamlet'' one. There is an 8 minute feature of Pickles sitting in his underwear on a bed babbling incoherently while on drugs, and another that's about five minutes of the Bishop guy tuning his guitar and trying to play simple chords while grunting to himself. Some of these are more successful than others.
**** Another 12-minute "deleted episode" sketch features all 5 members of the band sitting drunk in a darkened room trying to name all the "great metal bands" ("metal" being a catch-all term for "brutal") they can think of. It begins with your standards (Black Sabbath, Metallica), then grows increasingly esoteric (Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Redbone), to just plain absurd (Hanson, ABBA).
** Stops copies me. Stops copies me.
* In ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies'', Jason keeps trying to add overly long jokes about barbarians acting ''barbaric'' to a movie script. Melissa refuses to transcribe them past a point, saying, "That's where I think the joke ends!"
** "Can I ''axe'' you a question?"
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'', he and Cornfed become plumbers.
-->'''Hans''': I am Hans, may I help you gentlemen?
-->'''Eric Duckman''': You betcha Heintz, we're from AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-1 Plumbing.
-->'''Hans''': You're from AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-1 Plumbing?
-->'''Cornfed Pig''': Yes, we're from AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-1 Plumbing.
-->'''Lady Calowina Worthington-Ford''': Ah, are these the men from AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-1 Plumbing?
-->'''Hans''': Yes, they say they're from AAAAAAAAAAAAAA ...
-->'''Eric Duckman''': All right! C'mon, we don't even have a plot yet.
* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' called this a "wacky stack", and tried to avoid it.
* The ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'' episode, ''Quark Quark'' features a robot named Grovel...who does...''every single time his name is mentioned!''
* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' does this in the episode "Super Birthday Snake," when Frylock is arguing back and forth with his zombified friends about whether or not he killed them. A good quarter of the episode's length is nothing but variations on "No I didn't!" "Yes you did!" It's not funny until Carl bursts out with "You ''so'' frickin' did!" Then it's ''hilarious''.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'' does this a lot. For example:
** "Would I!" Would you?" "Would I!" Would you?" "Would I!" Would you?" "Would I!" Would you?" "Would I!" Would you?" "Would I what?" "Radda Radda!" "Yes I would thank you."
** Also, the title of the 'Big Ball' episode (which doubles as the name of the game featured in it), Mung always refers to [[OverlyLongName the name of the sport]] in full. It is fast-forwarded once, but only once, and said fast forward is also ridiculously long.
*** The name? Oh, you mean Field Tournament Style Up and Down On the Ground Manja Flanja Blanja Banja Ishka Bibble Babble Flabble Doma Roma Floma Boma Jingle Jangle Every Angle Bricka Bracka Flacka Stacka Two Ton Rerun Free for All Big Ball?
*** Chowder's very, very long SpitTake upon hearing Panini declare herself Chowder's girlfriend. The spit-take lasts all day. And all night. It shows you Chowder going about his day (helping Mung in the kitchen, sitting down at the table to eat dinner, in the bathroom holding a toothbrush, and finally in bed), just spewing a seemingly-infinite amount of juice. Even the Sun gets into it the next morning!
* TheViewAskewniverse cartoon ''WesternAnimation/ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'':
-->"Caitlyn has a kissing booth? Like, for charity?"
-->[[DisSimile "Yeah, only it don't cost nothin' and it's not for charity."]]
-->* leaves and comes back*
-->"And there's no booth."
-->* leaves and comes back*
-->"And it's more than just kissing."
-->* leaves and comes back*
-->"[[EscalatingPunchline And you don't have to be a guy]]."
-->* leaves*
-->* beat*
-->* comes back*
-->[[DontExplainTheJoke "Dude, she's cheating on you."]]
* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': the scene of Bloo being massaged by the sound-operated cactus. (although it plays over the end credits).
** There was also the shot of him making weird noises repeatedly to make them dance. Fosters tended to use this trope pretty often, probably to make the episodes fill 25 minutes.
** The scene from "Squeeze the Day" where a bored Bloo amuses himself by making fun of the way the TV news weatherman talks. "It's hooooot in Topeka..."
** "Coco?" "Yes." "Coco?" "Yes." "Coco?" "Yes." "Coco?" "Yes..."
** Wilt repeatedly shouting "NO!" for thirty seconds straight at the end of "Where There's a Wilt, There's a Way".
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''
** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlXjIg4fH74 Who's on Stage?]] skit, an homage to the infamous WhosOnFirst skit.
** The Wakkorotti concerts also might count as this. Ha ha, two minutes of burping!
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTMdd0p_2FA Yakko sang all the words in the English language.]] However, he was only seen singing words beginning with A, F (briefly), L, and Z.
** An in-universe example would be the Warners' "early" solo cartoon, "Flies in the Ointment", which concerned the siblings getting flypaper stuck on their butts.
--->'''WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck''': "Oh, sure, it might have been a good idea for a short, but this thing lasted eight hours. ''Eight. hours.''
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''' [[DuckSeasonRabbitSeason Duck! Rabbit, Duck!]] Bugs puts up a new season sign whenever Daffy mentions he is another animal. This goes on for the entirety of the film. Eventually...
-->'''Elmer:''' Oh, Mister Game Warden, I hope you can help me. I've been told I can shoot wabbits and goats and pigeons and mongooses and dirty skunks and ducks. Could you tell me what season it weawwy is?
-->'''The "Game Warden" (actually Bugs in a Game Warden suit):''' Why soitainly, my boy, (whips out a baseball) it's baseball season!
** Elmer then goes insane and shoots the baseball repeatedly.
** "Porky Pig's Feat" has a memorable moment when the Manager of the Broken Arms Hotel, driven into a state of fury by Daffy's antics, attempts to break down the door to his and Porky's room. The rug gets pulled out from under him, and he goes tumbling down the stairs. The next 30 seconds are spent watching him fall down step after step, going "Ee! Ah! Oh! Ah!" until he crashes at the bottom. The second time around, he fakes it.
* ''WesternAnimation/BackAtTheBarnyard'' has an episode where the animals think the farm is about to be sold because they've overheard that "Buyers are coming" that day. After turning away several "Buyers", one person shows up looking for "The Beyer family reunion." He then explains that his surname is Beyer, the family reunion is being held there because the farmer's wife's maiden name is Beyer, all the other people who showed up earlier were named Beyer, etc. His explanation goes on for nearly a full minute.
* ''Film/WereBackADinosaursStory'': Stubbs the clown's resignation. WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic went through bursts of "SHUT UP!" halfway through (and for once, he wasn't extending the gag himself...it really was ''that long''.).
* On ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'', Jay once showed a scene from the Director's cut of ''JFK''. It was just Jim Garrison saying "Back, and to the left" over and over.
** Franklin thinks an owl is [[Series/HomeImprovement Wilson]]: "Whooo." "My wife, Eleanor." "Whooo." "My wife, Eleanor." "Whooo." "My wife, Eleanor." It lasted 15 seconds, but would last for minutes had this been ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TitanMaximum''. In the pilot episode of all places, [[spoiler:during the 50-second long falling death of Spud.]]
* In ''Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', Yzma pretends to be a relative of Pacha. Just like the ''Manga/DragonBall'' example above, Pacha's son Teepo follows Yzma around the house, saying that Yzma couldn't possibly be his aunt, but she ''could'' be his "great great great great great...(''and he goes on'')"
-->'''Yzma:''' All right! Are you through?
-->'''Tipo:''' ...great-great-aunt.
** In ''Kronk's New Groove'', we are introduced to [[IAmSpartacus Mrs. Kronk...and Mrs. Kronk...and Mrs. Kronk...]]
* A ''Tex Tinstar'' segment of ''WesternAnimation/TheSchnookumsAndMeatFunnyCartoonShow'' featured the Wrong Brothers sleeping, and Tex riding up to them...and the Wrong Brothers sleeping...and Tex riding up to them...and the Wrong Brothers sleeping...
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' episode "Every Which Way But Zeus", Brock and Col. Gathers have a discussion of a stripper's breasts, which they describe as "mournful tits". They go on discussing how "sad" her breasts were in every way imaginable for about a minute.
** Look into THE NOZZLE...THE NOZZLE is calibrating...do not look away from THE NOZZLE...
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/YogiBear'' did this to highly unfunny levels. A dog is going after a criminal in a bear suit, who dives into the hole of a tree. He keeps barking at it until his owner (the sheriff) pops out and glares at him. ''He keeps barking for a good 2 minutes.''
* [[TotalDramaWorldTour "Al! Buddy! Al! Don't leave me hanging! Al! Al? Al? Al! Al! Al! Al!"]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'': Lolly Poopdeck's painfully drawn out delivery of the punchline of a joke in "Day Without Laughter".
* In WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry [[RecycledInSpace Blast Off To Mars]] the Martian King falls down a ridiculously-long flight of stairs. After a few bounces it cuts to some of the guards playing cards. Then back to the king, still on his way down. Then to a couple of the guards flirting. Then back to the king. Then to the guards [[UpToEleven getting married]]. Then back to the king. Then to the guards [[SerialEscalation holding several small children]]. Then he finally hits the ground.
-->'''Martian King:''' IMeantToDoThat.
* On ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', [[MotorMouth Pinkie Pie's]] dialogue occasionally delves into this trope.
-->'''Pinkie Pie:''' Are you excited? Because I'm excited! I've never been so excited! Well, except for the time I saw you walking into town, and I went ''{{gasp}}!'', but I mean really, who could top that?
** In "Over a Barrel", we have Chief Thunderhooves' rant about his tribe's sacred stampeding trail: "My father stampeded upon these grounds. And his father before him...and his father before him...and his father before him...and his father before him..." Meanwhile, the other tribe members are shown trying to stay awake, and Little Strong Heart eventually has to shut the chief up.
** Near the end of "A Friend in Deed", Pinkie tries to chase Cranky Doodle Donkey down and tell him that she's "really really really really really really really really [etc.]" sorry for ruining his scrapbook.
* From ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'': [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-LyFMCIpok What do ya think o'that, Mr. pajama wearin', basket face, slipper wieldin', clype-dreep bachle, gether uppin' blate-maw bleatherin' gomeril, jessie oaf lookin' stoner, nyaff plookie shan milk drinkin', soy face shilpit lil-mooth, snivelin' worm-eyed hotten-blaugh, vile-stoochie cally-breek tattie?!]]
* From ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill''. "Dusty old bones, full of green dust!"
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/PlanetSheen'' does this twice in a row: First, when Sheen, Mr. Nesmith, and Doppy are trying to rescue Aseefa, Doppy loses his grip on the tower, and they fall. And fall. And continue to fall. Eventually they hit the ground, with Sheen and Nesmith on top of Doppy. When they try to talk to Doppy to check if he's okay, Doppy keeps interupting them by making a grinding, whirring noise.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': A gnome pukes rainbows on a loop for the entirety of the pilot's closing credits.
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[[folder:Meta]]
* The DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment.
* The GrapplingHookPistol page contains an entry about ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' in every entry, and finished with a Meta entry solely to include Batman and [[ShapedLikeItself a Batman entry for Batman.]]
** Likewise, ThisIsADrill with ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''.
** And {{Wormsign}}, with ''Literature/{{Dune}}''.
* Egregious use of the word "egregious". See AuthorVocabularyCalendar for a really {{egregious}} example ([[TVTropesWikiDrinkingGame that's three sips in a single line, BTW]]).
* The page for LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading.
* The article on ''Anime/StrikeWitches'' used to mention the fact that they weren't wearing any pants more or less every entry, until the GenreShift of the show itself prompted deletion.
* The {{Filler}} example on the page for ''AmericanIdol'' used to be duplicated on the page, including such trope entries as "More {{Filler}}" and "EngagingChevrons, just to break up the monotony of the {{Filler}}", to mock Idol's constant usage of it.
* On the page for UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}, "Filmed in UsefulNotes/{{Vancouver}}."
* The entry for ''Creator/MontyPython'' on this very page used to be so much, much longer, having been reduced to a shameless parroting of favorite lines from various sketches or the movies.
* The page for ''Anime/RozenMaiden'' has every trope example ending in ''desu'' to demonstrate Suiseiseki...and [[{{Imageboards}} /b/'s]] constant MemeticMutation of it.
* Several profanity tropes overuse their respective curses; ThisIsForEmphasisBitch uses the word "Bitch" after every sentence and header (Bitch), ClusterFBomb is covered in profanity (though not as much as it should), and SymbolSwearing has, well, [[CaptainObvious symbol swearing]] in every sentence and header.
* The article about JustForFun/CandleJack, where sentences don't complete. Remember what was said about 'losing' its entertainment value? Seriously, it gets really old really fa
** [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/remarks.php?trope=Main.CandleJack Moved to the discussion page.]] Now, don't sta
* ''Series/CSIMiami'' *puts shades* likes some Music/TheWho. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
* Remember kids: On the DarthWiki/HowNotToWriteAnExample page, always be sure to add an entry saying how one should always duplicate examples in case someone missed it.
* The pages describing the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' games use increasingly ludicrous adjectives to describe the popularity of the series with each numerically subsequent game.
* The BetterThanItSounds entries of ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' consist of two parts: The actual description of the game and a convoluted explanation of where the game falls in the ContinuitySnarl that is its timeline.
* CanadaEh has every sentence ending in "eh", eh?
* No real life examples, please.
* Many, ''many'' examples of MemeticMutation.
* The beautiful useful notes: Brazil page has a beautiful example of this with the beautiful word, "beautiful".
* The Drmusic2 faggotry thread on the Encyclopedia Dramatica forums has become this, as has Magnum's references to Drmusic2 in threads that don't even mention him.
** Magnum's constant claims about Drmusic2 claiming that they'll wind up in a group home when their parents die, or his constant use of Metokur's already overruses slogan "Glad I Could Help".
** Also...broccoli rape.
* Magnum himself has become one annoying overly long gag that needs to end.
* The entry for the ''Film/FlashGordon'' movie (which had a soundtrack by Music/{{Queen}}) would like to remind you that the movie had a soundtrack done by Music/{{Queen}}.
* The entry for the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial (of Rassilon) ''[[DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors The Five Doctors]]'' (of Rassilon) made sure (until clarity [of Rassilon] became compromised) that every trope (of Rassilon) was a Trope of Rassilon. Now the tradition (of Rassilon) and gag (of Rassilon) has been moved to the article (of Rassilon).
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* A letter written by a Union soldier serving under General [=McClellan=] during TheAmericanCivilWar described the daily routine at the D.C. garrison as one long string of drills. (The entire letter was read aloud during part one of Ken Burns' [[TVDocumentary PBS documentary]] ''The Civil War''.)
* A Japanese rock band asked Tom Green of all people to sit in on drums for them one night. The result was, simply, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKkBTr2Q--A Tom playing the drums. And playing. And playing. And playing. Long after the song had ended.]]
* When Flava Flav his 50th birthday, at the party celebrated with the longest "Yeeeaah, boyyyyy" in history.
* For numerous long gag made into names in real life, check this [[http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/ index]].
* Averted on Website/YouTube. Your video can (and ''has,'' in the case of some WebAnimation/{{Website/YouTube Poop}}ers) be removed for using an overly long gag. According to their "Community Guidelines", [[AndThatsTerrible "It's not okay to post large amounts of untargeted, unwanted, or repetitive content, including comments and private messages."]]
** Website/YouTube videos are SeriousBusiness.
** It's not as if this actually stops people from uploading ungodly numbers of "character X does momentary action Y repeatedly for 10 minutes while SoundtrackDissonance/YaketySax plays in the background" videos. So it's sort of used and averted at the same time.
** ''[[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged]]'' owner Creator/LittleKuriboh has had his account terminated ''nine'' times, the last of which being on February 26 2012, and it has been restored seven times. We are currently awaiting his restoration for the latest one. However, far from being frustrated by it, he loves to make fun of it in his videos, blaming it on Team 4Kids in the latest series.
** Comment sections can have overly long gags where posters keep trying to one up each other or just follow along.
* The John Isner vs Nicolas Mahut tennis match at Wimbledon 2010 got like this at times. [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/jun/23/wimbledon-2010-tennis-live The bloke doing the writeup for the Guardian]] certainly thought so.
* A paper presented at the annual meeting of the Annals of Improbable Research: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk Chicken Chicken Chicken]].
* Knock knock. Whose There? Banana. Banana who? Banana. Banana who? Banana. BANANA WHO! After at least 10-50 more times...Orange, Orange who? Orange ya glad I didn't say banana!
* THIS TROPE! This trope page is in itself an Overly Long Gag
* The value of pi. 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211...
** All irrational numbers, for that matter.
* The full chemical name of Titin. Which has 189,819 letters. Seriously.
* A perfect example on [[http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/thursday-oct-6-emotional-breakdown-on-x-factor/5eigm46?q=last+night+on+tv&rel=msn&from=en-us_msnhp&form=msnhro>1=28150&overlaytype=multimediaviewer&name=hpvideo2&csid=ux-en-us&initialmoduleindex=3 this clip]] of X-Factor.
* Famous writer Creator/MarkTwain would on occasion go on tours where he would tell stories and run routines that were known to be hilariously funny. On the night of one such performance, Mark Twain stepped on the stage and proceed to stare at the audience for several minutes without saying a word. The confused audience stared back for a VERY long time, until finally they started to chuckle slightly. This was followed by some light laughter, and before long the whole audience was inexplicably in stitches. This led into a very successful (and more typical) performance by Mark Twain for the rest of the evening.
** According to [[Series/RedDwarf Robert Llewellyn]], Norman Lovett once did the same thing for about fifteen-twenty minutes.
* The Owl Channel is a website that broadcasts a live feed of the nest of two barn owls, Roy and Dale. As of the time of this entry, the male barn owl has brought the female 87 rabbits over the course of about two months. ''Eighty seven.'' For those not familiar with barn owls, that is ridiculous.
* Originally to filibuster in Congress, politicians needed to talk nonstop to delay the voting on a bill. This led to such things as [[http://ezinearticles.com/?Famous-Filibusters-in-Political-History&id=31091 reading Shakespeare and reciting a list of recipes]] to the rest of the Senate for hours on end.
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However, some feel that, once the audience recognizes the trope again, the gag ''permanently'' loses its entertainment value and the viewer is left waiting for it to end and some other humor to begin ("Oh, it's another one of ''these''; [[SarcasmMode how utterly hi]]''[[SarcasmMode lar]]''[[SarcasmMode ious...]]"). Others, though, find it a brilliant subversion of audience expectations on the lines of AndyKaufman reading the entire text of ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby'' to an audience expecting a comedy routine. Although that was actually brilliant, but you get the idea.

Either way, the more it's used, the more it's expected. Comedy writers take note: It's good for a laugh occasionally, but expect diminishing returns for each OverlyLongGag you employ after the first. Even [[ViewersAreMorons a moron]] can tell the difference between you [[SubvertedTrope toying with their expectations]] and you [[{{Padding}} stretching fifteen minutes of jokes into a thirty-minute timeslot]]. This is usually more effectively done on television, since the commercial break can be put to use. Have the character start something at the beginning of the break and come back with them still doing it. [[OffscreenInertia It gives you the implication that the character has done this without actually showing it]], which can come across as dull.

The serious version is LeaveTheCameraRunning (or EndingFatigue, if the prolongated section is the closure). An OverlyLongGag with a lot of tension built up as an actual story is a ShaggyDogStory. When IncrediblyLongNote is played for laughs, it might reach this.

* The new commercial to the 3D Film/KingKong attraction at UniversalStudios. Where the boy screams for nearly the entire commercial after a quick glimpse of Kong.
* The [=FedEx=] commercial with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_bRqA6d1xw AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Auto Repair]], who really wanted the first listing in the phone book. The coworker suggests that they use [=FedEx=] to make their business more prominent. The boss says, "Great idea. You know, you've got a bright future here at AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-"

* Expected in ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' as it's based on a manga that makes great use of [[BeatPanel Beat Pannels]], but the anime shows an amazing tallent to not only use a lot of them, but also make them actually extrmely long, to the point that they start to become even more funnier once they are way beyond the point where the jokes should have become overdone. Osaka and Tomo produce most of them, but also Chiyo and Sakaki have a number of their own.

** Season 2 takes this further with eight episodes, each titled simply Endless Eight. These episodes are a [[spoiler: GroundhogDayLoop where the characters are trapped in an endless summer.]] In the novel, we see only one iteration, the last. In the adaptation, however,[[spoiler: they break from the source material by putting in one episode where they don't discover the loop, making it seem like a simple summer-y SliceOfLife episode Haruhi style to viewers not familiar with the original, and not one, but ''six'' where they do realize the loop but do not escape]]. Despite the InternetBackdraft and unauthorized professional apologies (among Seiyuu and a dissenting and fired director) that resulted, the arc is distinguished as a rare OverlyLongGag that spans multiple HOURS.

* EddieIzzard - for instance, when he mentions offhandedly that [[InherentlyFunnyWords Engelbert Humperdinck]] is dead (no he isn't) (he is) (he's not) (''shake'') (''nod'') (''shake'') (''nod'')...

* PattonOswalt often combines this with GeniusBonus for bits that are hilarious partly because he keeps going further and further out; i.e. his [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoFXhB5THFk bit]] about insane chefs.
* SteveMartin tries repeatedly to do a [[http://new.music.yahoo.com/steve-martin/tracks/googlephonics--1389471 bit about stereo equipment]]. It's hilarious.
* GeorgeCarlin was fond of these, especially later in his career. Probably his best example is [[http://popup.lala.com/popup/4467852352575543306 Coast To Coast Emergency]] from ''Life is Worth Losing''.

* David Letterman does this often. And sometimes [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crg0aykyijw it is done to him.]]

* Lampshaded in Magazine/{{Mad}}'s parody of ''{{Moonlighting}}'' by requesting readers to reread certain panels 10 or 12 times over before continuing to read the parody.

* An unintentional version of this is the fight scene in the 1988 ''Film/TheyLive!'' In it, the main character, a fugitive accused of murder, is trying to convince another character to put on a pair of sunglasses and thus see the aliens and their handiwork. While originally intended to last only 1-2 minutes, the fight scene was done so well that it was used unaltered, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-MVMbm6c0k lasting almost 5 minutes]].
** Even better, Wrestling/RoddyPiper and KeithDavid planned the entire extended fight scene completely outside of the script direction. [[Creator/JohnCarpenter Carpenter]] [[ThrowItIn loved it and kept the whole thing.]]

* The puppet-sex scene in ''TeamAmericaWorldPolice'' aims for this trope; whether or not it works is up to the individual viewer. The UnratedEdition makes the scene even ''longer'', to the point where most viewers are likely bored.

** It is abundantly clear ''why'' the scene was deleted. Too [[IncrediblyLamePun cheesy]] for the Americans' sense of humour.

* In ''Film/DeadMenDontWearPlaid'', SteveMartin is making coffee by continuously putting grounds into water: this goes on for two minutes of him putting more and more coffee grounds into a pot. He ends up putting about twice as much coffee grounds as you could fit into the can ''empty'' (and far more than could have been in the bag), but it doesn't matter; the audience has long since been bored to death, and resurrection, and rebirth.

** In ''SpyHard'''s opening theme, Music/WeirdAlYankovic holds a note so long his head [[YourHeadAsplode explodes]].
** Also played to the max by BugsBunny in the Warner Brothers [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looney_Tunes Looney Tune]] "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Haired_Hare Long-Haired Hare]]": Bugs, dressed as Leopold, conducts opera singer Giovanni Jones, forcing him to hold a note until the Hollywood Bowl crumbles to pieces around him.

* ''TheJerk'': "I know we've only known each other four weeks and three days, but to me it seems like nine weeks and five days."

* TomHanks' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CJ9EDtZ2p8 30-second laugh]] in ''The Money Pit''.

* The death of Kinney, the unfortunate executive near the beginning of Paul Verhoeven's 1987 science fiction action film ''Film/{{Robocop}}'' was very much along these lines. After being instructed to challenge a prototype police robot as part of a demonstration, Kinney finds himself riddled with bullets by the malfunctioning machine; and it just doesn't stop. The studios lobbied Verhoeven to shorten the sequence, with the odd result that the R-rated cut seems ''more'' brutal than the cartoonishly exaggerated unrated edition.

* The car crash in Rob Schneider's ''TheAnimal''. Well, it made ME laugh.

* In ''SnowCrash'' by Neal Stephenson, there is an inordinately long inter-office memo about having workers give money for toilet paper. The memo in its entirety is contained within the novel and takes up several pages while going on and on about trivial points. While it effectively lampoons American Bureaucracy, the joke gets very old after the first few paragraphs.
* Lampshaded in the second book of ''[[{{Belgariad}} The Malloreon]]'' where [[DeadpanSnarker Silk]] continues to make complaints about having porridge for breakfast and enjoying any breakfast that isn't porridge...until Polgara suggests his [[RunningGag incessant repetitiveness]] could be a sign of limited intelligence.

** 700 hobo names in ''TheAreasOfMyExpertise''.
** 700 Moleman names in ''MoreInformationThanYouRequire''.
** 700 Ancient and unspeakable one names in ''ThatIsAll''.

** Tom's nearly three-minute hysterical laughing/crying jag in one of the host segments for ''TheViolentYears''.

** ''LostContinent''. "Hey, you ever fly one of these things?" "Hey, you ever crash one of these things?" "Hey, you ever died in one of these things?"

** "[[TheLeechWoman JEEEEEEEEEEEE...EEED]]!"

** In ''TeenageCrimewave'', the credits are repeatedly cut short by scenes of Frank getting sprayed with the Mace Mousse.

* One sketch on ''Series/MadTV'' was nothing more than two people engaged in a MexicanStandoff and yelling at each other, "Drop the gun!" "No YOU drop the gun!" "I said drop the gun!" "No YOU drop the gun!" etc.

** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C570byQCLpI sketch in the first episode]] where AndyKaufman does the MightyMouse theme.
* Speaking of AndyKaufman, who obviously loved this trope, he showed up on The Midnight Special in the 1970s to sing [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSYV-nEE300 this]].
* Done in ''{{QI}}'' with the following example of Alan's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drTOUQXLQts&feature=related buzzer]].

* GilbertandSullivan loved this trope. Every one of their patter songs, especially 'It really does't matter', which lampshades this trope: the lyrics continually state that the song isn't important and could really afford to end here... but it doesn't. The prize, however, goes to the TV performance of 'Never Mind the Why and Wherefore', in which several sections are encored, and the song continues for fifteen ([[UptoEleven or more (!)]]) minutes, even though the characters are clearly exhausted a and they actually exit several times... only to play it true to the theatrical tradition of returning to the stage for a reprise as long as the audience applauds and the music continues.

** Speaking of ''MGS'', [[http://gigaville.com/comic.php?id=467 this strip]] from ''TheLastDaysOfFOXHOUND''.

* Similarly to the ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'' example above, in ''FullThrottle'' you can access a hidden mini-game by simply telling the person playing it in-game "Let me show you how to do that" enough times that he agrees "Only if it'll shut you up".

** [[http://v2.razputin.net/index.html@page=razputin%252Ffeatures%252Ftimwords.html This interview]] with TimSchafer, the game's creative designer. Specifically, his response to the first question.

* ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'' manages to have an OverlyLongGag that still only lasts a few seconds with [[spoiler: "The Part Where He Kills You."]] The line is said twice in succession during the scene, followed by the chapter title, which is the same thing. Then there's the achievement and achievement description, which are also the same, along with the title of the music track that plays during said scene.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life}}'' mod [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwiNGn5Fu-A Elevator: Source]] is one big overly long gag filled with some nice surprises.

* {{SMBC}} showcases this plus DreamWithinADream [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1849#comic here]].

*** He also had some of his own, too, like when he repeatedly shouted "No !" in his ''Film/DropDeadFred'' review, as well as determining the pronunciation of Tone Loc during his review of BebesKids, and his infamous [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIqRxBtNrFs Best Insult Ever]].

* ''TheOnion'' will occasionally print an article that contains the sentence "Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood" repeated for the entire article.

** The "X does Y Whilst I Play Unfitting Music" videos combine OverlyLongGag with SoundtrackDissonance.

*** And it's almost got to the point where the bird's re-appearance in ridiculous places is itself part of the joke, and the ideas played with (like when they realise they can't remember why they're fighting, go for a meal to make up...and start a fight of equally excessive length over who pays the bill) which might make it a combination of OverlyLongGag and RunningJoke.

** And Then There's Series/{{Maude}}! Peter is actually annoyed by this OverlyLongGag.
** Conway Twitty in "The Juice is Loose": they put the ENTIRE SONG in the episode!
*** It is also one of the lowest rated episodes in the series. [[FridgeLogic Makes one wonder why this joke hasn't been used since]].

* [=MacFarlane=] has a pretty big influence on SethGreen's ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''--the show could be described as "Family Guy if they took out the bits about plot"--so to no surprise, to say the least, some clips are longer and tedious than others. This ''really'' comes into play in the second season.
** Thing is, these clips are never seen again, and are thus funny.

** In another episode, Jon puts leftovers in the refrigerator that turns into a monster which is refered to throughout the entire episode, many times, as "the monster that lives behind the mayonaisse next to the ketchup to the left of the cole slaw" (which is also [[TitleDrop the name of the episode]]). They play this for all its worth; a policeman goes into the house to get rid of the monster, but comes back without having seen it, and then says, "Oh, did you say 'to the ''left'' of the cole slaw?" This is even lampshaded at the end by Garfield (who is [[{{Narrator}} narrating]]) when he said, "and the monster grabbed the brave cat and dragged him to its lair behind the mayonaisse, next to... ah, you know all this already."

* ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' is also no stranger to the OverlyLongGag.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': This trope could easily be called "Rake Scene". Given the origin of the rake scene, the probable circumstances that determine exactly how overly long an OverlyLongGag could probably be described as "how much time needs filling?"

*** Come on, if it weren't for the creators of TVTropes, Ralph Wiggum's Duck Duck Duck etc. gag would be the TropeNamer.

** FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT! [[{{Beat}}...]] FIX IT!!

** Actually subverted in "Bender Gets Made", {{the one w|ith}}here Bender joined the Robot Mafia. After seeing that the Robot Mafia are going to be attacking the Planet Express Ship, Bender does an extended SpitTake that, just as it looks like it is going to become an OverlyLongGag, cuts to commercial.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' has the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlXjIg4fH74 Who's on Stage?]] skit, an homage to the infamous WhosOnFirst skit.

** Franklin thinks an owl is [[Series/HomeImprovement Wilson]]: "Whooo." "My wife, Eleanor." "Whooo." "My wife, Eleanor." "Whooo." "My wife, Eleanor." It lasted 15 seconds, but would last for minutes had this been ''FamilyGuy''.

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Animaniacs}}'' had a segment where Yakko sang all the words in the English language. However, he was only seen singing words beginning with A, F (briefly), L, and Z.
* One episode of ''PlanetSheen'' does this twice in a row: First, when Sheen, Mr. Nesmith, and Doppy are trying to rescue Aseefa, Doppy loses his grip on the tower, and they fall. And fall. And continue to fall. Eventually they hit the ground, with Sheen and Nesmith on top of Doppy. When they try to talk to Doppy to check if he's okay, Doppy keeps interupting them by making a grinding, whirring noise.

* On the page for UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}}, "Filmed in [[StargateCity Vancouver]]."

* ''CSIMiami'' *puts shades* likes some Music/TheWho. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

* The entry for the ''Film/FlashGordon'' movie (which had a soundtrack by {{Queen}}) would like to remind you that the movie had a soundtrack done by {{Queen}}.
* The entry for the ''DoctorWho'' serial (of Rassilon) ''[[DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors The Five Doctors]]'' (of Rassilon) made sure (until clarity [of Rassilon] became compromised) that every trope (of Rassilon) was a Trope of Rassilon. Now the tradition (of Rassilon) and gag (of Rassilon) has been moved to the article (of Rassilon).

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