History RunningGag / PuppetShows

* ''Series/TheMrPotatoHeadShow'': Most jokes that involve referencing previous events in the episode don't happen often enough to qualify as Running Gags and are instead {{brick joke}}s, but there's one that recurs often enough: Mr. Potato Head saying, "Please don't say X. It makes me uncomfortable." Words like "bosom" and "evacuate" fill in the X.

** Once time Kermit hung a Lampshade when Fozzie kept getting phone calls from various places... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LwMZHrRG0I&feature=related here]]. It ended with Kermit yelling "Is there no end to this running gag?!" At which point Animal grabbed the phone and ran off with it.[[note]]There is some speculation that the last call may have been from [[StealthPun "animal" control]]...[[/note]]

'''Kermit:''' Good grief, it's a running gag.\\

''[[RuleOfThree Finally]], the sign at the church where Kermit and Fozzie meet Doctor Teeth and the Electric Mayhem[[note]]As well a Scooter.[[/note]] reads'' "Lost? Have you tried Rev. Harry Krishna?"

** Once time Kermit hung a Lampshade when Fozzie kept getting phone calls from various places... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LwMZHrRG0I&feature=related here]]. It ended with Kermit yelling "Is there no end to this running gag?!" At which point Animal grabbed the phone and ran off with it.

''[[RuleOfThree Finally]], the sign at the church where Kermit and Fozzie meet Doctor Teeth reads'' "Lost? Have you tried Rev. Harry Krishna?"

** Once time Kermit hung a Lampshade when Fozzie kept getting phone calls from various places... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LwMZHrRG0I&feature=related here]]. It ended with Kermit yelling "Will there be no end to this running gag?!" At which point Animal grabbed the phone and ran off with it.

** Enforced with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LwMZHrRG0I the telephone gag.]]

** Film/TheMuppetMovie has repeated references to Hare Krishna:

''[[RuleOfThree Finally]], the sign at the church where Kermit and Fozzie meet Doctor Teeth reads'' "Lost? Have you tried Rev. Harry Krishna"

** Series/SesameStreet had at least 3 very early "Ernie and Bert" segments where Bert loses his nose.

--> Harald: "Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, I'm happy to announce a new episode of our sketch show ''Harald & Eddi'' -"\
(cut to Eddi, who's preoccupied with something, like food or handicraft, with the TV running in the background, with Harald on screen)
--> Harald (louder): "a new episode of our sketch show ''Harald & Eddi''!"
--> Harald (even louder): "'''''Harald & Eddi'''''!!"
--> Harald: "Eddi!" (breaks the fourth wall and takes away whatever Eddi is occupied with, leaving Eddi flabbergasted)

--> Achmed: "SILENCE!" (beat) [[IllKillYou "I kill you."]]
* ''Series/TheMrPotatoHeadShow'': Most jokes that involve referencing previous events in the episode don't happen often enough to qualify as Running Gags and are instead [[BrickJoke Brick Jokes]], but there's one that recurs often enough: Mr. Potato Head saying, "Please don't say X. It makes me uncomfortable." Words like "bosom" and "evacuate" fill in the X.

* ''Series/TheMrPotatoHeadShow'': Most jokes that involve referencing previous events in the episode don't happen often enough to qualify as Brick Jokes, but there's one that recurs often enough: Mr. Potato Head saying, "Please don't say X. It makes me uncomfortable." Words like "bosom" and "evacuate" fill in the X.

--> Achmed: "SILENCE!" (beat) [[IllKillYou "I kill you."]]

** Enforced with[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LwMZHrRG0I he telephone gag.]]

%% * {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''TheMuppetMovie''.
* On ''Series/TheMuppetShow'':

** Repeated references to Hare Krishna:
--->'''Bernie:''' You, you with the banjo, can you help me? I have lost my sense of direction.\\

--> Achmed: "SILENCE!" (beat) "I kill you."

* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''TheMuppetMovie''.

*** Series/SesameStreet had at least 3 very early "Ernie and Bert" segments where Bert loses his nose.

* One of TV writer Jerry Juhl's maxims was "Any joke that is too bad to do once may be bad enough to do several times." There are several examples of this on ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' ("Gonzo Fiddles While George Burns...").

* One of TV writer Jerry Juhl's maxims was "Any joke that is too bad to do once may be bad enough to do several times." There are several examples of this on ''TheMuppetShow'' ("Gonzo Fiddles While George Burns...").

* If you ever go to a JeffDunham show, don't dare laugh at one of Achmed the Dead Terrorist's jokes.

** Once time Kermit hung a Lampshade when Fozzie kept getting phone calls from various places... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LwMZHrRG0I&feature=related here]]. It ended with Kermit yelling "Will there be no end to this running gag?!" At which point Animal grabbed the phone and ran off with it (yelling "Running Gag! Running Gag!" all the way)