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* ''Music/{{Gloryhammer}}'': Every time the Hootsman is first introduced in a new album,[[note]]in the songs "The Epic Rage of Furious Thunder", "The Hollywood Hootsman", "The Fires of Ancient Cosmic Destiny" and "Wasteland Warrior Hoots Patrol"[[/note]] the lyrics make sure to mention that his armor is made from wolf (whatever that means).

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* ''Music/{{Gloryhammer}}'': Every time the Hootsman is first introduced in a new album,[[note]]in the songs "The Epic Rage of Furious Thunder", "The Hollywood Hootsman", "The Fires of Ancient Cosmic Destiny" and "Wasteland Warrior Hoots Patrol"[[/note]] Patrol", as well as the bonus track "The National Anthem of Unst"[[/note]] the lyrics make sure to mention that his armor is made from wolf (whatever that means).
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A comedy CatchPhrase is a type of Running Gag. Can become potential for MemeticMutation if the gag itself is widely applicable. Compare ArcWords, which are a recurring phrase that isn't a gag. See subtropes OncePerEpisode and EveryEpisodeEnding.

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A comedy CatchPhrase [[IndexOfCatchphrases catchphrase]] is a type of Running Gag. Can become potential for MemeticMutation if the gag itself is widely applicable. Compare ArcWords, which are a recurring phrase that isn't a gag. See subtropes OncePerEpisode and EveryEpisodeEnding.
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* ''Theatre/FarndaleAvenue'' series:
** In many of the shows, the ladies have added or changed details to make them more domestic or familiar, resulting in characters swapping recipes or makeup advice in completely inappropriate circumstances. In ''The Haunted Through-Lounge and Recessed Dining Nook at Farndale Castle'', the title of which is itself an example, there's a dramatic scene in which a lawyer tells the heroine about her family's dark past alternating with a series of tips about effective moisturising.
** ''The Haunted Through-Lounge and Recessed Dining Nook at Farndale Castle'' also has a running gag in which the line "I am June and this is my fiancée Marty", which comes up every time June and Marty meet a new character, is always spoken by the actor playing Marty.
** ''The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery'' has a series of characters arriving at the manor house for a family reunion, each carrying what is clearly the same pair of prop suitcases.
** In ''The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society's Production of Macbeth'', the Third Witch keeps coming on stage at the beginning of scenes and proclaiming, "Thrice the brindled cat hath mewed", before being rushed off because it's not time for that scene yet. When the play does get to the right scene, she misses her cue, leaving the other two witches stranded on stage waiting for her to arrive and start the scene.
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* ''Theatre/SomeLikeItHot'':
** People keep saying "Josephine" looks like an older woman, to [[DisguisedInDrag Joe]]'s offense.
** Minnie repeatedly tells Sue about something in the latter's apartment, only for Sue to tell her that she doesn't have that thing, and Minnie to realize that she had broken into Sue's neighbors' apartments.

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* ''Music/{{Gloryhammer}}'': Every time the Hootsman is first introduced in a new album, the lyrics make sure to mention that his armor is made from wolf (whatever that means).

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* ''Music/{{Gloryhammer}}'': Every time the Hootsman is first introduced in a new album, album,[[note]]in the songs "The Epic Rage of Furious Thunder", "The Hollywood Hootsman", "The Fires of Ancient Cosmic Destiny" and "Wasteland Warrior Hoots Patrol"[[/note]] the lyrics make sure to mention that his armor is made from wolf (whatever that means).
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* ''Music/{{Gloryhammer}}'': Every time the Hootsman is first introduced in a new album, the lyrics make sure to mention that his armor is made of wolf (whatever that means).

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* ''Music/{{Gloryhammer}}'': Every time the Hootsman is first introduced in a new album, the lyrics make sure to mention that his armor is made of from wolf (whatever that means).
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* ''Music/{{Gloryhammer}}'': Every time the Hootsman is first introduced in a new album, the lyrics make sure to mention that his armor is made of wolf (whatever that means).
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The ultimate fear for the use of any running gag is that doing it ''too'' often threatens to turn it into an OverusedRunningGag, or worse, it was never funny in the first place and didn't improve through repetition. Nothing is worse than starting a one hour show with a joke that bombs that the first time and reappears twenty more times over the next hour.

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The ultimate fear for the use of any running gag is that doing it ''too'' often threatens to turn it into an OverusedRunningGag, or worse, it was never funny in the first place and didn't improve through repetition. Nothing is worse than starting a one hour show with a joke that bombs that the first time and reappears twenty more times over the next hour.
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The ultimate fear for the use of any running gag is that doing it ''too'' often threatens to turn it into an OverusedRunningGag, or worse, it was never funny in the first place and didn't improve through repetition. Nothing is worse than starting a one hour show with a joke that bombs that you're going to use twenty times over the next hour.

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The ultimate fear for the use of any running gag is that doing it ''too'' often threatens to turn it into an OverusedRunningGag, or worse, it was never funny in the first place and didn't improve through repetition. Nothing is worse than starting a one hour show with a joke that bombs that you're going to use the first time and reappears twenty more times over the next hour.
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A joke whose humor derives from repetition, ideally becoming funnier each time it is repeated. ''Must'' be repeated at least [[RuleOfThree three times]], otherwise it's a BrickJoke or ChekhovsGag. Common variants are a joke that occurs OnceAnEpisode and a joke that goes on for long enough it becomes an OverlyLongGag (but not so long that it loses its humor).

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A joke whose humor derives from repetition, ideally becoming funnier each time it is repeated. ''Must'' be repeated at least [[RuleOfThree three times]], otherwise it's a BrickJoke or ChekhovsGag. Common variants are a joke that occurs OnceAnEpisode and a joke that goes on for long enough that it becomes an OverlyLongGag (but not so long that it loses its humor).
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A joke whose humor derives from repetition, ideally becoming funnier each time it is repeated. ''Must'' be repeated at least [[RuleOfThree three times]], otherwise it's a BrickJoke or ChekhovsGag. But repeat it ''too'' many times and it can become an OverlyLongGag. A variant is a joke that occurs OnceAnEpisode; doing ''that'' too often threatens to turn it into an OverusedRunningGag.

The ultimate fear for the use of any running gag is that it becomes an OverlyLongGag, or worse, it was never funny in the first place and didn't improve through repetition. Nothing is worse than starting a one hour show with a joke that bombs that you're going to use twenty times over the next hour.

A '''Running Gag''' can be limited to a particular episode or recur throughout an entire series. If it recurs throughout an entire series, then it will often develop variations and/or be accompanied by LampshadeHanging. If a character [[BreakingTheFourthWall breaks the fourth wall]] to mention it, it's DidntWeUseThisJokeAlready. When the story goes on to kill off the gag for good (either with a final payoff or just by referencing that it's become ''too'' overused and it's ending right then), that is RunningGagged.

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A joke whose humor derives from repetition, ideally becoming funnier each time it is repeated. ''Must'' be repeated at least [[RuleOfThree three times]], otherwise it's a BrickJoke or ChekhovsGag. But repeat it ''too'' many times and it can become an OverlyLongGag. A variant is Common variants are a joke that occurs OnceAnEpisode; doing ''that'' too often threatens to turn OnceAnEpisode and a joke that goes on for long enough it into becomes an OverusedRunningGag.

OverlyLongGag (but not so long that it loses its humor).

The ultimate fear for the use of any running gag is that doing it becomes ''too'' often threatens to turn it into an OverlyLongGag, OverusedRunningGag, or worse, it was never funny in the first place and didn't improve through repetition. Nothing is worse than starting a one hour show with a joke that bombs that you're going to use twenty times over the next hour.

A '''Running Gag''' Running Gag can be limited to a particular episode or recur throughout an entire series. If it recurs throughout an entire series, then it will often develop variations and/or be accompanied by LampshadeHanging. If a character [[BreakingTheFourthWall breaks the fourth wall]] to mention it, it's DidntWeUseThisJokeAlready. When the story goes on to kill off the gag for good (either with a final payoff or just by referencing that it's become ''too'' overused and it's ending right then), that is RunningGagged.
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* RunningGag/LetsPlay
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* ''Animation/BoBoiBoy'': Adu Du often throws a mug at Probe (and sometimes other subordinates, but usually Probe), when he says or does something that angers him.
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* ''ARG/OmegaMart'': Cartons of "Millk" have a habit of [[OminousVisualGlitch glitching out into long bands of color]] in commercials, to the point where the part of the dairy section that stocks them in the actual store is similarly stretched.
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** Whenever Professor Limen gets angry or pumped-up, he spontaneously grows more muscular, causing his shirt to rip off.

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** Whenever Professor Limen gets angry or pumped-up, pumped up, he spontaneously grows more muscular, causing his shirt to rip off.
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* ''Theatre/TheMinutes'', which is set during a small town council meeting:
** The pronunciation of council member Mr. Assalone's name as "ASS-alone" by clerk Ms. Johnson every time she reads roll-call and records council votes, and his increasingly frustrated attempts to correct her:
--->'''Mr. Assalone:''' It's asa-LONE-ay!
** Ms. Johnson accidentally reading [[PersonaNonGrata the missing Mr. Carp's name]] aloud during roll-call and council votes, followed by a ''very'' awkward silence while her fellow council members glare at her or look away.
** Mr. Blake's repeated insistence that the town fair should offer an attraction where visitors can pay to participate in a cage match with a wrestler dressed like Abraham Lincoln. He interrupts other proposals to plug the Lincoln Smackdown and offers to vote with councilors on outside issues if they support his proposal.
* ''Theatre/{{Oslo}}'' is a rather serious drama about the 1993 peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization, but it's also brimming with repeated comedic beats:
** The jokes about everyone in Norway's Diplomatic Service and Foreign Ministry knowing/ working for/ having dated/ being married to everyone else in their field. "It's a small country."
--->'''Mona''': To clarify: Johan Jørgen is married to Marianne, who works for Terje, who is married to me, who, as of tomorrow, works for Johan Jørgen.
** The repeated misuse of common English phrases (by Norwegian, Palestinian, and Israeli characters who ''all'' speak English as a second language), followed by a deadpan "I don't think that's how you use that."
** American diplomats mispronouncing Terje's name as tur-JEY.
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'''''X-treme!X-treme!'''''
->-- [[Webcomic/OneOverZero The Running Gag]]
->'''Waldorf:''' Why do you suppose they call it a “running gag”, anyhow?\\

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'''''X-treme!X-treme!'''''
->-- [[Webcomic/OneOverZero The Running Gag]]
->'''Waldorf:''' Why do you suppose they call it a “running gag”, "running gag", anyhow?\\



'''Both:''' Do-ho-ho-ho-hoh!

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'''Both:''' '''[[JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf Both]]:''' Do-ho-ho-ho-hoh!

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