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5->''"Dearest Mother: We're thinking of portraying various dramas from everyday life from now on.''\
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7''Just kidding. This episode was a one time thing."''
8-->-- '''Kamiyama''', ''Manga/CromartieHighSchool''
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10A comedic show specifically concentrating on [[SurrealHumor being humorous before any concern of plot, drama or even comprehensibility.]] Noted for a complete lack of tact or pomposity on the part of the writers, and frequent [[PostModernism postmodern]] commentary. Can have occasional {{Fanservice}} which the series will [[LampshadeHanging openly acknowledge]]. The RuleOfFunny will be observed.
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12Because they don't take themselves seriously, gag series tend to experiment across the board with parody, lewd humor, [[CutawayGag random cutaways]], and short-lived drama. In a win-win situation, these can be very successful experiments when they succeed, or mocked by the series itself when they fail as a protective tactic. Ironically, they can be praised for presenting such topics without being {{Anvilicious}}. However, doing this at the ''end'' of a series can cause accusations of being pretentious.
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14{{Anime}} gag series often use a PuniPlush design. Many are also a QuirkyWork. Shows that depend a lot on puns and parody are typically considered too difficult for commercial releases, and are [[FanSub fansubbed]] only erratically. A few even get a GagDub.
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16Anime and Manga are particularly notorious in this genre. Series will regularly go over the top in their nonsense and hilarity even within the context of the show itself. Characters will time-travel, change species or gender, die, destroy buildings, cities, or planets, anything that will push the ridiculousness even higher; also note that these effects are rarely, if ever, permanent. There are times when "normality" is broken and restored in the space of a few minutes.
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18Occasionally the Gag Series is an adaptation of some "canonical" source, except now the writers pretty much do whatever they like.
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20See also BigLippedAlligatorMoment, for cases where an otherwise coherent story has occasional Gag Series interludes. Live-action television examples tend to be the SketchComedy, which can overlap with the Gag Series.
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25[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
26* Along with having NoFourthWall, ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'' heavily parodies the harem genre and its tropes.
27* ''Anime/TheAdventuresOfMiniGoddess'' is a SpinOff of ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'', featuring FunSize versions of the goddesses and a talking rat named Gan constantly suffering AmusingInjuries during 48 7-minute episodes filled with wacky hijinks.
28* ''Manga/AhoGirl'' is about an incredibly stupid girl and the trouble she and her friends get into. Slapstick abounds.
29* ''Manga/AnimalCrossingNewHorizonsDesertedIslandDiary'': Since the main games are a Life-Sim, they don't have too much in the way of a storyline. As a result, the manga goes this route, following the antics of the island inhabitants.
30* ''Manga/AoiHouse'' is part anime/manga parody, part American media parody (multiple references to ''Series/GreysAnatomy'', and at one point a character is found to be singing the theme song to ''[[Manga/CardcaptorSakura Cardcaptors]]''), and entirely hilarious.
31* ''Manga/AkazukinChacha'': A FantasticComedy centered around an inept apprentice sorceress and the bizarre scenarios and messes that she and her two male best friends often get into, either at their magic academy or when traveling on an adventure. The anime turns the main character into a MagicalGirlWarrior, but it still doesn't detract from the wild comedy.
32* ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' downplays this since the series actually does have continuity and plot, but each episode by itself is purely just a string of jokes.
33%%* ''Manga/BananaNoNana''
34* ''Manga/{{Beelzebub}}'': Can't seem to take itself seriously even when trying to be shounen.
35* ''Anime/BikiniWarriors'': Four-minute long episodes about fantasy class females [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin wearing only bikinis]]. This anime is loaded up with plenty of {{Fanservice}}, parodies the fantasy genre, has nonsensical plots (if you can call them plots) and provides plenty of laughs.
36* ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'': Plots constructed entirely out of bad puns, sight gags, and pop-culture flotsam.
37* ''Anime/CarnivalPhantasm'' being an AffectionateParody of the Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}, has gotten quite hilarious EVERYTIME AND EVERYWHERE!
38* ''Manga/CleanFreakAoyamakun'' is full of characters with weird antics and is prone to switching to a SuperDeformed art style for most of its comedy which revolves around Aoyama's touch aversion and NeatFreak tendencies and other characters.
39* ''Manga/{{Colorful}}''. A couple of braindead losers and surprisingly innocent ecchi. The show makes fun of itself and perverts.
40%%* ''Manga/CromartieHighSchool''
41* ''Anime/DDFistOfTheNorthStar'' is a SuperDeformed parody series of the much more serious ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar''. There are two series sharing this name, both presuming that the end in the original's AfterTheEnd setting never happened. Both shows are heavily referential towards iconic moments and memes of the original.
42** The first is a web based Flash show, and is mostly slice-of-life with its humor.
43** The second is ''considerably'' more comedy based, with Raoh, Toki, and Kenshiro described repeatedly as 'the three idiot brothers' attempting to find work with a convenience store, where everyone has been given an IdiotBall of their own and ''[[BrattyHalfPint Bat]]'' of all people is now a DeadpanSnarker StraightMan and possibly the OnlySaneMan of the show.
44* ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'' is this at the start before the plot really gets going. The first few chapters have an episodic feel where Team Touden is mainly just going around the dungeon's first floors killing and eating whatever monster they come across.
45%%* ''Anime/DiGiCharat''
46* ''Manga/TheDisastrousLifeOfSaikiK'', which centers around a psychic with powers so strong he could destroy the world in a few days who, more than anything, wants to be left alone to watch TV and eat [[TrademarkFavoriteFood coffee jelly]]. Unfortunately, the wacky cast that [[MagneticHero flocks toward him]] make this impossible, forcing him to use his powers to either save them or get himself out of inconvenient situations.
47* ''Manga/DoctorSlump'' is this, focusing on RobotGirl Arale, her creator and wacky inventor Senbei Norimaki and a whole cast of eccentric characters such as a police officer in a Stormtrooper helmet, a Superman parody named Suppaman and even talking poop.
48* ''Manga/DragonBall'' started off as this for its first several arcs, and is repeatedly called a gag series in the manga during these arcs. Once [[KnightOfCerebus King Piccolo]] showed up, however, the story began taking itself much more seriously. Since the darker tone has been present for a greater portion of the [[Franchise/DragonBall franchise's]] lifespan, the fact that it began as a vulgar comedy is often overlooked.
49** That said, its roots as a gag series still shine through from time to time, with villains that do elaborate poses in the style of Super Sentai characters, or moments like Goku having to catch his teacher's pet monkey as part of his training. The Majin Buu arc especially reads like a marriage between the silly and serious sides of the manga; Majin Buu is a fat, pink demon that goes around turning people into candy, but he's also a serious threat and slaughters entire cities. Goku and Vegeta do a silly-looking fusion dance that makes them even more powerful, and at one point they kick Buu's ass ''after being turned into a coffee-flavored jawbreaker.''
50* ''Manga/DungeonToilet'' offers the occasional bit of [[EdutainmentShow educational content concerning toileting]], but its main concern is comedy -- largely of the ToiletHumor variety, naturally.
51* ''Manga/ExcelSaga'': A mockery of everyday Japanese life seen through the lives of two supervillain henchgirl temp workers and four municipal {{Sentai}} employees. Then Creator/ShinichiWatanabe turned it into [[Anime/ExcelSaga an anime]] and made fun of every anime genre in existence.
52%%* ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu''
53* ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'': Although there is a plot, you would be hard-pressed to find someone that could identify which parts are gags and which are not in the first viewing. Additionally, this show [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs has been described as]] ''Anime/ExcelSaga'' '''''on Excel Saga'''''. The creators themselves admitted that about half of what they put into this show were completely a result of nonsense, and what they found funny at the time.
54* ''Anime/GalaxyAngel'': The animated equivalent of DadaComics -- ''nothing'' is sacred, and the writers are by-and-large allowed to run with whatever they like. Including scissors.
55* ''Anime/GenjiTsuushinAgedama'': An action-comedy series centered around an alien KidHero-in-training, coming to Earth on vacation no less, and his battle with an evil organization bent on world domination. Originally starting as a simple gag work that focused on jokes and absurdity above all else, the series gradually parodies and even ad-libs other popular anime series of the era, with some perverted moments now and then.
56* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'': The series is one big walking fourth-wall-breaking, parodying and absolutely nonsensical anime/manga. Though with a healthy pinch of action and good ol' {{shonen}} standbys, like the power of friendship.
57* ''Manga/GoldfishWarning''. The show has a paper-thin plot, little to no continuity, 7 is just the random insane adventures of a particular class in a farm school.
58* ''[[Anime/NyanpireTheAnimation The Gothic World Of Nyanpire]]'': The anime and manga, at first might sound strange to you. But just watching an episode of the anime can be very amusing depending on the episode. Since Nyanpire is completely different compared to classic vampires and Dracula.
59* ''[[Manga/GugureKokkuriSan Gugure! Kokkuri-san]]'': A girl gets into wacky hijinks with the three supernatural spirits who had invited themselves into her house. Whatever happens in one chapter would almost certainly be reverted to before the next one starts, and the story moves on as if nothing had happened. At one point, the manga decides to make a storyline continue for more than 1 chapter, and the main character expresses surprise that the previous event ''hasn't'' been reset.
60* ''Anime/HakushonDaimao'': A little boy named Kan-chan finds two genies in a bottle, an inept father and mischievious daughter. Hilarity ensues when Kan-chan's wishes are granted. This is essentially a gag anime [[spoiler:in spite of the SuddenDownerEnding where the two genies have to leave Earth for 100 years]].
61* ''Anime/HareGuu'': With a mix of serious and nonserious subplots. Do ''not'' get invested in the serious ones -- without fail, they will swerve nonserious at the last minute.
62* ''Manga/HaruhiChan'', a spin-off of ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' in which everyone is SuperDeformed, Ryoko Asakura, [[spoiler:a former villain]], has been rendered an ineffectual ButtMonkey by [[CameBackWrong regenerating herself at about half the size]], and [[TheStoic Yuki]] has picked up a dating sim habit. Everyone's quirks get turned up to eleven for maximum wacky hijinks.
63* ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'': The first season of the anime, anyway - the second season and manga have continuity, and the latter has a few bouts of [[CerebusSyndrome seriousness]].
64* ''Manga/HeavensDesignTeam'' revolves about the hilarious antics the animal designers get into with as they try (and often fail) to come up with something that fulfill God's incredibly vague orders... or just create whatever random creatures that pops in their mind because they can. There's almost no continuity between the chapters/episodes.
65* ''Manga/HeIsMyMaster'': More so in the manga, where the author inserts romantic comedy cliches, then chides the reader for expecting serious resolutions.
66* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' is a parody of World History. While some strips does depict real world events, some is actually just the countries bickering with each other silly.
67* While ''Anime/HisCooolSeHaGirls'' has a serialized plot, it's more interested in being this.
68%%* ''Manga/{{Hinamatsuri}}''
69* ''Toys/{{Jewelpet}}'':
70** ''Anime/JewelpetSunshine'', set in a school attended by humans, Jewelpets, talking animals, normal animals and the odd robot. And the teacher is a HotBlooded pink dolphin. Hilarity ensues, though there is an underlying serious sub-plot.
71** ''Anime/JewelpetKiraDeco'' is a parody of {{Sentai}} shows, with its members being exaggerations of FiveManBand members, and there's [=NEETs=] for villains.
72** ''Anime/JewelpetHappiness'' is much like ''Sunshine'', but with a less colorful cast.
73* ''Anime/{{Kaginado}}'' is a crossover of various works by Creator/KeyVisualArts where nothing is taken seriously, and even the saddest moments from the characters' respective stories tend to be PlayedForLaughs.
74* ''Manga/KillMeBaby'', 99.9% of which is played for a purely comedic scenario where all seriousness and compassion are thrown out the window. And the manga becomes a SadistShow as it goes on.
75* ''Manga/{{Kodocha}}'': The anime adaptation starts off as a humourous, [[BreakingTheFourthWall fourth wall-breaking]] RomanticComedy and SliceOfLife that, while having its fair share of dead serious moments, is wackier than most other shojo series. Once we reach the back-to-back filler episodes from episodes 20 to 37, the plot mostly takes a backseat to amplify the jokes, the {{Slapstick}} and zany scenarios and occasionally dips into BizarroEpisode territory for the rest of its run.
76* ''Manga/LuckyStar'': The series follows the norm and is quite realistic for the most part but has its ''slight'' share of wackiness, especially in the anime.
77* The ''Anime/NegimaSecondSeason'' reboot is this, with most of the humorous banter between characters more characteristic of the ''Anime/PaniPoniDash'' writers than Akamatsu's usual fare. The original manga was like this for about 2 volumes before [[GenreShift going in a different direction]].
78%%* ''Anime/MagicalPokaan''
79* ''Manga/MagicalTarurutoKun'': A gag manga centered around a hopeless elementary school boy and his magical friend. It's loaded with slapstick, SurrealHumor, and extremely perverted jokes that usually make even the most intense and serious moments hard to take seriously sometimes.
80%%* ''Anime/MagicalWitchPuniechan''
81%%* ''Anime/MajokkoTsukuneChan''
82* ''Manga/MeAndRoboco'' is a banquet of gags concerning the misadventures of Bondo and his out of control [=OrderMaid=], Roboco. As a celebration of all things ''Shounen Jump'', it also features lots and lots of parodies of famous ''Weekly Jump'' manga.
83* ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'': Since the series is an AffectionateParody of [[ShoujoDemographic shoujo manga]] and its making, most romantic or heartwarming moments will end up being [[MomentKiller ruined]] by one of the characters for the sake of a joke.
84%%* ''Manga/RamenFighterMiki''
85* ''Manga/MyBrideIsAMermaid'': Nagasumi and Sun's blossoming relationship is played semi-seriously. Pretty much everything else is comedy fodder.
86* ''Anime/NangokuShonenPapuwaKun'': Primarily takes place on an island of extremely bizarre creatures. Among them a hermaphroditic snail and a fish with human legs wearing fishnet stockings.
87* ''Manga/MyMonsterSecret'' starts as a romance between a rather ordinary guy and a vampire girl… then all sorts of supernatural beings start to appear, whose degree of sanity ranges from silly to batshit insane. Most chapters feature an initially mundane situation that goes to hell thanks to that. The artist is notably prone to [[IdenticalPanelGag repeat panel layout between pages]] or [[MoodDissonance using dramatic graphical effects in comical situations.]] The series becomes a little more plot-heavy in the post-92 chapters, but without letting go of the over-the-top absurdity.
88* ''Manga/{{Nichijou}}'' has very little in the way of continuity and much more in the way of over-the-top wackiness, including an eight-year-old girl who's built a robot teenager with cannons and sweets stashed away in every possible spot, Mio (the ostensible OnlySaneMan most of the time) taking out a whole crowd of people to prevent anyone from seeing her yaoi manga manuscripts, and the vice principal suplexing a deer with only one witness.
89%%* ''Manga/NinjaNonsense''
90* ''Literature/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'', a hyperactive, ReferenceOverdosed parody of the HaremGenre in which a majority of the cast are the human forms of Franchise/CthulhuMythos creatures (that Nyarko in the title? Short for Nyarlathotep). It tends to split its time between zany comedy and more serious moments, either gory battles with {{Cosmic Horror}}s or the emerging romance between the human Mahiro Yasaka and Nyarko.
91%%* ''Anime/PaniPoniDash''
92* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'': Combined with QuirkyWork. The characters are all named off different types of underwear, and the show was made the creators were drunk, with the show inspired by the likes of ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' and ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerPuffGirls''. The show is filled with incredibly [[SurrealHumour surreal]] and VulgarHumour with episodes having poo, vomit, semen and snot monsters. The [[GagDub English dub]] makes the whole show even more raunchy and over-the-top, and it includes more references and parodies of Western shows in the 1990s/2000s.
93* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': Most of the [[{{Filler}} Filler episodes]] as well as the Pikachu shorts at the beginning of the movies.
94%%* ''Anime/PuniPuniPoemi''
95* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' is a wacky series about the shenanigans caused by the increasingly ridiculous forms of MartialArtsAndCrafts, ForcedTransformation curses, and a hugely tangled LoveDodecahedron.
96* ''Manga/SamuraiHighSchool'': Almost everything that happens in the story is PlayedForLaughs, and any time a serious conflict arises, it rarely affects anyone too badly and gets resolved rather quickly. Despite this, there is the semi-serious main storyline about a brother and sister who ([[MasculineGirlFeminineBoy fittingly]]) crossdress as each other to attend the titular school. That being said, this premise is the cause of a lot of hilarity, as the universe itself is quite silly.
97%%* ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei''
98%%* ''Manga/SchoolRumble''
99%%* ''Manga/SeitokaiYakuindomo''
100* ''Manga/SgtFrog'': A wacky gag manga about a gang of frog-like aliens who constantly try to TakeOverTheWorld, only for hilarity to ensue instead.
101* ''Manga/SketDance'': From the former apprentice of the guy who unleashed ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' onto the world, we have three high school students who will assist anyone with anything, usually with disastrously hilarious results.
102* ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}'' has two manga adaptations that fall into this.
103** The main ''Manga/{{Splatoon}}'' manga series follows IdiotHero Goggles and his three friends who compete in the game series’ signature Turf War battles as Team Blue, usually winning their matches through the use of bizarre antics brought about by Goggles’ InvincibleIncompetent nature.
104** ''Manga/SplatoonSquidKidsComedyShow'', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as the title implies]], is even more of this than the main manga, taking on a {{Yonkoma}} format, following its own IdiotHero, Hit, who usually ends up attempting to perform a task in an absurd manner, much to the chagrin of his friend Maika.
105* ''Manga/StrangePlus'': the sordid tale of a 20-something year old who looks 12, likes to crossdress and get naked in public, and is in general a tremendous jerkass, his younger, saner brother, and their two co-workers - a violent woman and a possibly gay, dreadlocked, muscled guy.
106* ''Literature/StudentCouncilsDiscretion'': A parody Anime with bits of Romance added in.
107%%* ''Anime/SuperMilkChan'': An experimental anime, in the sense that taking a tab of Ecstasy and then boarding a tilt-a-whirl is experimental.
108* ''Anime/TanteiOperaMilkyHolmes'', where anything, even reality, is subject to change at a moment's notice.
109* ''Anime/{{Teekyuu}}'' demolishes everything within its two-minute limit-sanity, its own bizarre rules and order, any [[NoFourthWall semblance of a fourth wall,]] the limits of [[{{Squick}} personal taste]], how fast a normal human can logically speak (and how fast a viewer can read subtitles) to tell a joke.
110%%* ''Anime/TokyoPig''
111%%* ''Manga/UchihaSasukesSharinganChronicles'': A gag manga spinoff of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' with Uchiha Sasuke as the main character.
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114[[folder:Comic Books]]
115* ''ComicBook/AmbushBug'' in both its '80s and '00s incarnations. Every issue skips from place to place in Franchise/TheDCU, making fun of everything from ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' to ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989''.
116%%* ''ComicBook/SonicX''
117* The original ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' books; the AnimatedAdaptation, on the other hand, was more plot-based.
118* Any series about ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'', usually of the MediumAwareness, BreakingTheFourthWall, and BlackComedy with a dose of RefugeInAudacity.
119* ''ComicBook/RedEars'' is a popular series of SexComedy jokes.
120* ''ComicBook/IdeesNoires'', ''ComicBook/LesFemmesEnBlanc'' and ''ComicBook/PierreTombal'' are BlackComedy gags.
121* Nearly everything under the ''Bamboo Édition'' imprint that isn't in "Pouss' de Bamboo" or "Bamboo 2/Au Carré".
122* ''ComicBook/MrCrypt'' involves a [[DemBones living skeleton]] getting into all kinds of adventures like facing vampires and angry villagers with plenty of laughs.
123* ''ComicBook/DominicAndClaire'' comics deal with the title characters in short vignettes loaded up with jokes.
124* In the ''ComicBook/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' story "Bad Day on the Moon", Max is [[spoiler: briefly killed]] in a scene that is played seriously and dramatically. Hope you enjoyed it, because that one, solitary page is about the only time the comic takes itself even ''remotely'' seriously. Everything else (including how Max [[spoiler: actually gets revived]]) is a constant stream of non-stop silliness, BlackComedy, absurd rambling dialogue, RandomEventsPlot, and delibrately nonsensical [[AssPull asspulls]] and DeusExMachina that only stops whenever Steve Purcell runs out of jokes for the issue. The [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSamAndMaxFreelancePolice short-lived cartoon]] went even further with this, while [[VideoGame/SamAndMaxHitTheRoad the]] [[VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice video]] [[VideoGame/SamAndMaxTheDevilsPlayhouse games]] are generally more restrained, with the final Telltale season bordering on {{Dramedy}} at times. %%invoked
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127[[folder:Fan Works]]
128* ''Fanfic/TheDysFUNctionalPirates''
129* All three of the major fanfics on [[https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/poketown_2/fan-fiction-f24/ Poke Town]] (''Fanfic/ThePokemonSquad'', ''Fanfic/TheLooneyScientistsShow'' and ''Fanfic/SethInThePokecity'' are this, with their constant dirty jokes and BlackComedy. It's quite apparent that Rayquaza Master, Lancelot Niccals and [=KalloFox34=] don't want you to take their respective fanfics seriously.
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132[[folder:Films]]
133%%* Many of the now classic comedy shorts from MediaNotes/TheSilentAgeOfHollywood and MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood are this such as Creator/BusterKeaton, Creator/CharlieChaplin, Film/TheLittleRascals, Creator/LaurelAndHardy, Film/TheThreeStooges and so on.
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136[[folder:Literature]]
137* ''Literature/HowToSurviveAZombieApocalypse'', a parody depicting the usual ZombieApocalypse scenario is essentially this, often taken to extremes.
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140[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
141* ''Series/BigTimeRush'' is basically a live-action series with cartoon plots (and sound effects to boot).
142* ''Series/GreenWing'' (a Gag Hospital Soap)
143* The {{Creator/Studio100}} series Series/KabouterPlop while can be serious at times. Is mostly themed after slapstick humor.
144* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_coeur_a_ses_raisons Le cœur a ses raisons]]'' (aka ''[[MarketBasedTitle Sins of Love]]'') is yet another shameless parody of soaps, this one being of French-Canadian origin.
145* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_The_Blood_Run_Free Let The Blood Run Free]]'', an unrepentant parody of Australian soaps... from Australia. It makes ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' look like ''Series/{{House}}''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coM_vVkNGQY Observe]].
146%%* ''Series/TheMightyBoosh''
147* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' frequently berated itself for being too silly. Many of the sketches head deep into {{Cloudcuckoolander}} territory (one had a caption saying "SOMETHING SILLY'S GOING TO HAPPEN"), and the animations in between them are even weirder. The Sergeant with [[TheUnFunny no sense of humor]] would generally serve as a means to tell them to stop being so silly.
148* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''. Every episode is about a guy and some robots riffing a movie interluded with the same characters acting out wacky skits. Continuity is very loose.
149%%* ''Series/RaumschiffGamestar''.
150%%* ''Series/RowanAndMartinsLaughIn'' deserves a special mention because this particular variety/sketch show is seriously MADE of this trope!
151%%* The ''Bitcom'' segments on ''Series/{{Studio 3}}''.
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154[[folder:Newspaper Comics]]
155* Many NewspaperComics or comics published in magazines tend to be gag series, because readers can laugh at the "joke of the day/week/month" even if they happened to miss an issue. Gag comics also tend to be popular with slow readers, because the stories are simple and have a direct pay-off once you've gotten past the page.
156** ''ComicStrip/LittleNemo'' typically featured a DreamSequence which allowed all kinds of surreal storylines, only to end at the bottom of the page with Nemo falling out of his bed because it was AllADream.
157** ''ComicStrip/KrazyKat'': All gags will end with Krazy Kat being zapped by one of Ignatz' bricks in one way or another.
158** ''Literature/MaxAndMoritz'', ''ComicStrip/TheKatzenjammerKids'', ''Sjors en Sjimmie'', ''Perry and the Rinkydinks'', ''ComicStrip/QuickAndFlupke'', ''ComicStrip/BillyBunter'', ''De Vrolijke Bengels'', ''De Lustige Kapoentjes'', ''ComicStrip/TheBashStreetKids'',... are all gag comics about the antics of misbehaving children versus their teachers, parents or a MeddlesomePatrolman.
159** ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'', ''ComicStrip/HagarTheHorrible'', ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', ''ComicStrip/{{BC}}'', ''ComicStrip/TheWizardOfId'', ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'', ''Piet Fluwijn en Bolleke'', ''Robin Dubois'', ''ComicBook/LeonardLeGenie'', ''ComicBook/{{Cubitus}}'', ''ComicBook/KidPaddle'', ''ComicBook/GastonLagaffe'', ''ComicBook/IdeesNoires'', ''ComicBook/JanJansEnDeKinderen'', ''ComicBook/DeGeneraal'', ''ComicBook/HaagseHarry'', ''ComicBook/LeChat'', ''Kabout Wesley'', ''L' Agent 212'', ''ComicBook/AchilleTalon'', ''ComicBook/LePetitSpirou'', ''ComicBook/{{Titeuf}}'', ... are all typical newspaper or magazine comics which work towards one punchline.
160** Comic strips like ''ComicStrip/ZippyThePinhead'' and ''Cowboy Henk'' have more surreal storylines with set-ups and jokes that change in every episode.
161* Gag cartoons (aka Gag strips, panel cartoons, or gag panels) refers to single frame comic strips in which the entirety of the joke/humor is contained in a single panel. Famous examples include "The Far Side", "The 5th Wave", and "Bizarro ". Editorial page cartons are also typically single-panel gaga cartoons.
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164[[folder:Radio]]
165* ''Radio/HelloCheeky'' was a series based almost entirely on quick jokes, with quite a bit of subtle strangeness and cartoon logic holding it together.
166* ''Radio/TheGoonShow'' was one of the premiere British surreal comedy shows, influencing everyone from Creator/MontyPython to Music/TheBeatles.
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169[[folder:Video Games]]
170* ''VideoGame/GodHand'': There actually ''is'' a plot, but even the characters make fun of it. Also, there are midget {{Sentai}} and a gorilla in a luchador mask.
171* ''VideoGame/KatamariDamacy'': Any attempt at a sane description of the plot is an exercise in futility.
172* ''{{VideoGame/Parodius}}'': ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, a parody of {{VideoGame/Gradius}} and other Konami games.
173* ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'' has slowly drifted into this. The first game was a dead-serious ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' clone; the second game decided to swing for the fences, and it's gotten increasingly bizarre ever since.
174* ''VideoGame/WarioWare'': The gameplay consists of a series of bizarre and humorous microgames that last less that 5 seconds most of the time and are completely unrelated to each other.
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178* ''VisualNovel/DraKoi'' shifts between being a gag series and some weird sort of romantic meta fiction without a moment's notice. It's hard to know what to take seriously.
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181[[folder:Web Animation]]
182* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'', with its surrealist humour, wacky cast of characters, and countless inside jokes meaning all you need to make the most out of the series is a good sense of humour.
183* ''WebAnimation/TheDementedCartoonMovie'' features barely any plot, no continuity between scenes, and features more than half of the 30-minute running time consisting of explosions. Suffice to say, the title is accurate.
184* Creator/DonHertzfeldt's ''WesternAnimation/{{Rejected}}''. Not a series, but it fits. Seriously, try to create a plot from it. Your brain WILL explode.
185* ''WebAnimation/RWBYChibi'' is a Gag Series spinoff of the original ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', meant to provide fans with some comic relief following the dark and dramatic turn of the third season of the original show and to get the animators acquainted with the new tools they'll need for Season 4.
186%%* ''WebAnimation/{{Siblings}}''
187* The ''WebAnimation/{{asdfmovie}}s'' are simply bout cramming as many jokes as possible into a few minutes. No plot, no continuity, and nothing too complex.
188* ''WebAnimation/TheLazerCollection'' is one big compilation of disjointed jokes revolving around the [[MemeticMutation Imma Firin' Mah Lazer]] meme.
189* ''[[WebAnimation/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers SMG4]]'' used to be like this during the classic era, before falling into the CerebusSyndrome in 2018.
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192[[folder:Webcomics]]
193* See GagPerDayWebcomics for a list. A complete list would probably make the internet asplode.
194* ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'' is an example of a non gag-per-day strip that still qualifies. It follows a single, continuous story, but it's a completely surreal one that runs on RuleOfFunny and AntiClimax.
195* The official ''Grand Blues'' web manga / comic of ''VideoGame/GranblueFantasy'' which is accessible in-game counts as this, complete with many examples of CharacterExaggeration, AffectionateParody, and LampshadeHanging. Notably, this series served as the basis for the 2017 AprilFools event "Big Bad Shadow" - Grand Blues was stated to be an AlternateUniverse from the main game, with the manga version of Vyrn featured as the raid boss.
196* ''Webcomic/LearningWithMangaFGO'' and ''Fate/[=GUDAGUDA=] Order'' serve as this for [[VideoGame/FateGrandOrder their parent game]]. Like ''Grand Blues'', they're treated as alternate universes from the main game (''[=GUDAGUDA=]'' even more so due to its connection to ''Koha-Ace''), and both had crossover events.
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200%%* ''WebVideo/FourBlokesWithoutTelly'', one of the non in-universe camera Youtube series, and a great example of this trope.
201%%* ''WebVideo/VaguelyRecallingJoJo''
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204[[folder:Western Animation]]
205* Almost all classic cartoon shorts, particularly ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'', and the oeuvre of ''WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons''.
206** And the later WB cartoons inspired by them, like ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'', since they were intended to be {{Spiritual Successor}}s.
207%%* 80% of Creator/AdultSwim programming
208* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'': A DenserAndWackier take on ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' that relies less on action and more on wacky, fast-paced, slapstick humor based on several of the classic cartoon series.
209* Earlier episodes of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' tended to be this. Then CerebusSyndrome kicked in.
210* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', though like ''Adventure Time'' below, it would stop doing this as frequently as time went on.
211%%* ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers''
212%%* ''WesternAnimation/CatDog''
213%%* ''WesternAnimation/{{Catscratch}}''
214%%* ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch''
215* ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'' is filled to the brim with wacky, SurrealHumour with little to no breaks in between.
216** Likewise, C.H. Greenblatt's other cartoon ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBeaks'', though it's much more relaxed and less surreal than most.
217* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': Along with its extremely crude art style that becomes more unhinged between seasons, the writing can be simply described as a slew of gags (whether it be slapstick or fourth-wall-breaking humor) with a loose story tying them together for coherency.
218* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' (especially [[DenserAndWackier later episodes]]).
219* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' is (in)famous for this. Later episodes of the show are often criticized for having its signature {{Cutaway Gag}}s and {{Overly Long Gag}}s as pointless filler.
220* ''WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters'' was, like the "Abbott and Costello Meet the Monsters" movies, a beginning, an ending, and a rapid-fire succession of jokes in between. The writers and artists who worked on the [[AnimatedAdaptation animated sequel]] regarded it as a gag series compared to the more serious ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse''.
221* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', which is a mix of dark humor and gross-out humor.
222* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' is a very dark variant of this.
223* ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'''s episode plots are often about cramming as many jokes as possible into ten minutes with a story built to link them up.
224* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' has [[HalfwayPlotSwitch plots that switch halfway through the episode]], [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment one-off gags that have nothing to do with the rest of the plot of the episode]], and [[NegativeContinuity barely any continuity between episodes]]. Sometimes, there isn't even continuity ''between scenes of the same episode''. The main focus is humor.
225%%* ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyB''
226%%* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pearlie}}'' and from the same network, ''WesternAnimation/BeingIan''.
227%%* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife''
228* ''WesternAnimation/ScaredySquirrel''. It relies on the same random humor as ''Yakkity Yak''.
229* ''WesternAnimation/SecretMountainFortAwesome'' and its spin-off ''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'' take this to a new level.
230* ''WesternAnimation/SheepInTheBigCity'' features Sheep, who is hiding from a secret military organization. Why? General Specific has a [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum sheep-powered]] ray gun. Gags happen as the military tries and fails to grab one Sheep. Apart from the plot, there are also {{Parody Commercial}}s, and a segment with the Ranting Swede.
231* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' became this as time went on, culminating in the [[AudienceAlienatingEra Mike Scully]] era that began at around Season 9 - where plots became increasingly nonsensical, the ComedicSociopathy was amped up, and the jokes and setpieces got more and more outlandish. That said, the show was already dealing in over-the-top storylines and absurd, surreal gags as early as Season 3, and by Season 4 it was arguably already this trope.
232* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', pre ''[[WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut Bigger, Longer, and Uncut]]'' was based on this. The creators began to aim for more satire as they eventually realized the show would not be able to keep up the formula forever. [[BrokenBase Whether this was a good or bad move]] entirely depends on who you are.
233* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' was always one, but later episodes take it further.
234%%* ''WesternAnimation/SquirrelBoy''
235* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperHeroSquadShow'', a wacky, lighthearted spoof of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse.
236%%* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' and Very much.
237* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' is an AffectionateParody of [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003 the original show]] as well as some other DC elements.
238%%* ''WesternAnimation/YakkityYak''
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