History Main / OverlyLonggag

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** A similar gag was done on an episode of ''[=SmackDown=]'' where it went to commercial with Daniel Bryan and AJLee doing dueling "YES!" chants. The comes back from commercial with them still at it, and a tired-sounding Michael Cole says, "They've been doing this the entire break."

->''The idea was to make the scene funny, then drag the joke out so it was no longer funny, then drag the joke out even longer to make it funny again.''
-->--[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons]] writer Al Jean, on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRq1Ksh-32g this scene]]

* The Disney film ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'' has an incredibly long note, with the other characters trying everything they can think of to stop it.

* In the ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fanfic [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6457024/12/England-s-Amazing-Cookbook England's Amazing Cookbook]], it's a RUNNING gag.

* ''Literature/SnowCrash'':
** The novel features a multi-page office memo of what remains of the United States government that admits the government doesn't have the budget to stock toilet paper in the bathrooms, warns employees against wiping their asses with [[RidiculousFutureInflation low-denomination bills]], and recommends the creation of a toilet paper fund.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}''

* The intros for Characters pages for ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', when read in sequence, walk the reader through a no-frills meal, starting with a not-too-unusual "get a sandwich, [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters this may take a while]]" gag, and continuing through three more courses (another sandwich, an enchilada, and desert), beverage, intermission snack, and toothpick.

-->--[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons]] writer Al Jean, on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WZLJpMOxS4 this scene]]

* Crow, Servo and Joel's description of Swift's ColdBloodedTorture in the [=MST=] treatment of ''FanFic/TomSwiftAndHisWarTank.'' Justified in that it lasts as long as it takes for Mr Damon and Ned to realize that Tom Swift, inventor extraordinaire and tank engineer, may have ''possibly'' been kidnapped by the German spies they know full well are prowling around Shopton.

* In the ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' fanfic [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6457024/12/England-s-Amazing-Cookbook England's Amazing Cookbook]], it's a RUNNING gag.

* When "Harry" gets hold of a Time-Turner in Fanfic/ThinkingInLittleGreenBoxes, he spun and spun and spun and spun and spun and spun and the reader has to scroll past several pages of "and spun" to get on with the story.

A gag that goes excessively far and beyond a tolerable length. The concept is that something happens repeatedly, to the point of boredom. Then it ''keeps going'', to the point where it, in theory, actually becomes funny again. Essentially, the sheer length of the gag ''becomes'' the gag. This is very difficult to pull off well - there has to be the sense that the characters are themselves helpless to end the gag, and as exasperated as the audience.

* In ''WesternAnimation/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'')"

** ''Discworld/UnseenAcademicals'', the game's audience comes up with a chant for visiting Professor Bengo Macarona, which starts out as a fairly standard football chant. Then he [[InsistentTerminology insists that they include his full name and]] [[LongList all his academic titles]]. What follows is over a page and a half of the revised chant, including each title ''every'' time his name is mentioned. It is ''so'' long in fact, that anyone listening to the audiobook version is liable to think their copy is broken.
** In ''Discworld/{{Pyramids}}'', Dios repeatedly recites all of the Pharaoh's titles before relaying (or "interpreting") His words.
** Also, in ''Discworld/{{Maskerade}}'', there's the villain's dying rant against opera, including a complaint that [[NotQuiteDead "everyone takes such!!! ...a!!! ...long!!!! ...time!!!! ...to!!!!!]] [[KilledMidSentence Argh!]]"

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rZdAB4V_j8 This ad]] for Democratic Alaska Senator Mike Gravel's 2008 presidential campaign consists of him staring into the camera for a minute and ten seconds, dropping a rock into a pond, and then walking away for the last minute and twenty seconds.

* The Disney film ''Disney/TheThreeCaballeros'' has an incredibly long note, with the other characters trying everything they can think of to stop it.

* In ''Disney/BigHero6'', Baymax becomes curious when he sees tape, and inflates his arm to the point of popping three holes in it, to which he ''very slowly'' plugs the holes one by one.

* ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'' has the entire scene at the Department of Mammal Vehicles. All the employees there are sloths who do ''everything'' very slowly, from stapling papers to typing to laughing at one of Nick's jokes.

* 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'')"

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Not to be confused with [[HehHehYouSaidX Overly long gag]]

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* The beginning of ''Theatre/UniversalsHorrorMakeUpShow'' has one of the hosts coming on stage "dying" from being impaled in the heart. Their "death" goes on for a while, with them dying a slow death as they constantly scream to the point of sounding bored and spend a large portion of time specifically asking one person in the audience for help.

* 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.

* ''Literature/SnowCrash'':
** The novel features a multi-page office memo of what remains of the United States government that admits the government doesn't have the budget to stock toilet paper in the bathrooms, warns employees against wiping their asses with [[RidiculousFutureInflation low-denomination bills]], and recommends the creation of a toilet paper fund.

* Lampshaded in the second book of ''[[Literature/TheBelgariad 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.
* Literature/{{Discworld}}

** In ''Discworld/{{Pyramids}}' ', Dios repeatedly recites all of the Pharaoh's titles before relaying (or "interpreting") His words.

* John Hodgman's lists:
** 700 hobo names in ''Literature/TheAreasOfMyExpertise''.
** 700 Moleman names in ''Literature/MoreInformationThanYouRequire''.
** 700 Ancient and Unspeakable One names in ''Literature/ThatIsAll''.
* There's a story by the brothers Grimm which goes like this: [[TheFool Hans]] goes to his girlfriend Gretel. Gretel gives Hans something. Hans goes home, transporting X in a way you shouldn't. His mother tells him how he should've done it better. Hans promises to do better next time. Next day, he visits Gretel again, this time he gets an Y and does with it as he should've done with X. Rinse and repeat.

* In ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' book The Reptile Room, Lemony Snicket warns the reader that you should "never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever..." [repeat until it fills up the entire page and creates a WallOfText] "...fiddle around with electric devices. ''Never. Unless you happen to be Violet Baudelaire."

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* A letter written by a Union soldier serving under General [=McClellan=] during UsefulNotes/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, [[https://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]].
* ''Website/YouTube'':
** A 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."]] However, 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 eight times.
** Comment sections can have overly long gags where posters keep trying to one up each other or just follow along.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVV34E061A4 the]] [[WesternAnimation/TheNutshack nutshack theme]] but every nutshack is replaced with the entire reading of the [[WesternAnimation/BeeMovie bee movie]] script". A large series of these types of these nesting videos, which Creator/EmperorLemon calls "But-edits", has become a [[MemeticMutation meme]] in Website/YouTube culture, taking this trope UpToEleven. As [=EmpLemon=] himself describes it:
--->"You take ''WesternAnimation/TheNutshack'' theme, but replace each "Nutshack" with Music/SmashMouth's "All Star", and replace each "All Star" with the ''WesternAnimation/{{Cyberchase}}'' theme, then replace every other syllable with the entirety of ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', and every time the Monolith appears, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy BonziBuddy]] reads the entire ''WesternAnimation/BeeMovie'' script, but every time he says "bee" it's replaced with the entire ''Film/{{Paul Blart|MallCop}}'' movie, and every time someone says "Paul Blart", it's replaced with Wrestling/JohnCena's intro. Now, as you can see, we started off with a simple 60 second long intro, but after just a few operations, we now have something longer than the entire age of the observable universe."
* 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.
-->"Isner and Mahut are dying a thousand deaths out there on Court 18 and yet nobody cares, because they're watching the football."
* A paper presented at the annual meeting of the Annals of Improbable Research: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk Chicken Chicken Chicken]].
* Knock knock. Who's 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!
* The full chemical name of Titin. Which has 189,819 letters. Seriously. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFR-ADakI-c Here's the full name pronounced.]] Note that the video lasts ''three and a half hours''.
* 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.
* For many years, the San Diego Zoo posted one throughout the park that also functioned as an anti-LoopholeAbuse PSA:
--> '''PLEASE DO NOT''' annoy, torment, pester, plague, [[HaveAGayOldTime molest]], worry, badger, harry, harass, heckle, persecute, irk, bullyrag, vex, disquiet, grate, beset, bother, tease, nettle, tantalize, or ruffle the animals.
* Receptionists, secretaries, guards, or anyone else working by the outside door of a building hear "Wow, it's hot out there!" and "Whew, it's cold out there!", tens of times a day, matching the season. This is a social convention that's fine for the occasional hearing, but gets old. Saying "[[SarcasmMode I know, I work by the DOOR!]]" is bad form, unfortunately.
* [[https://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. There's actually two separate examples in the same ad.
* [[http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/remove.pdf Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List]], a ten-page document in the style of a scientific paper consisting of the title sentence over and over again, complete with flow chart and scatter-plot graph. It was originally created by a pair of computer scientists as a response to spam mail from a rather disreputable "journal". [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Naturally, they accepted it for publication, pending their usual $150 fee]].
* [[http://weirdmageddon.tumblr.com/post/139301110543/dream-land-64-except-the-intro-keeps-looping-and Dream Land 64 except the intro keeps looping and gradually speeds up.]]
* In rugby union, after normal time has expired, play continues until the ball goes dead or someone scores. Unless it's a penalty, in which case the penalty is awarded and play continues. However, the law to allow penalties to kick the ball out of touch and the resulting lineout to proceed had yet to be implemented in the Northern Hemisphere for the 2017 Six Nations. This resulted in the situation where France, trailing 13-18 to Wales after a relatively dull 79 minutes in the last round of the Six Nations, first got a scrum near the Wales try line in the 79th minute, and after that kept opting for the 5 metre scrum whenever they got a penalty in an attempt to score a try, while Wales, desperately trying to prevent France from scoring, kept conceding penalties, most of which were during the scrum, resulting in repeated reset scrums. The scrum was reset so many times that one Welsh prop that got yellow carded early on in added time and suspended for 10 minutes as a result was able to come back and continue. Finally, at 99:55, 19 minutes and 55 seconds into added time, France finally scored a try, drawing level. The clock was stopped there for the conversion attempt, which was not usually done. France converted the try and won 20-18.
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