Overly Long Gags in Internet media.
- The stinger of the Noodle Implements page on this very wiki.
- TV Tropes Wiki in general loves to run a joke right into the ground. Talking about Inspector Spacetime as if it were a real show is funny...until you realise how colossal the series page is. (It runs the joke into the ground so hard that it emerges from the other side of the planet, just so it could see what's there.)
- Deadpool writing his own page is cute, until you realise the entire page is like that.
- Decker has had a couple
- Episode 4 of Decker: Classified features a motorbike scene lasting over a minute. An overlay for the first 20 seconds plots his journey on a map and then disappears and the rock music playing in the background eventually comes to a stop only to start playing a few seconds later. Then the whole thing repeats.
- Decker: Unclassified shows Decker aboard a plane, trying to tell the pilot's name, "Michael Victor", to Kington over a radio link. After saying the name, he begins to spell it out loud using the phonetic alphabet, and Kington tries to interrupt him with "Got it. Michael Victor." halfway through. He doesn't stop.
- The Nostalgia Critic 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 Saved by the Bell episode
. - Then there's the "Grape Nose Boy" scene in the Good Burger review, in which the film's 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 Twister. He also had some of his own, too, like when he repeatedly shouted "No !" in his Drop Dead Fred review, as well as determining the pronunciation of Tone Loc during his review of Bébé's Kids, and his infamous Best Insult Ever.
- His Eight Crazy Nights review has him calling Adam Sandler (voiced by Rob Walker) in extreme Sarcasm Mode to gush about how inhumanly amazing he find's Sander's Whitey voice to be, going as far as it desecrate Mel Blanc's name and go into an orgasm-like scream of joy. Doug Walker later admitted that he was simply venting his frustrations at the movie.
- Laughing at Zack's "rock star" outfit in the Saved by the Bell episode
- The Nostalgia Chick isn't immune to this either. Extending the "Go It Alone" song from My Little Pony: The Movie (1986) was just cruel.
- Other reviewers on Channel Awesome provide examples.
- CR also used an overly long gag in one of his own videos, where he discusses Mrs. Klump from The Nutty Professor 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 He asks "what's the name of her favorite Disney movie?" and she answers Bambi.
- In the 100th episode of Phelous, Paris Hilton's character in House of Wax (2005) 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.
- When The Necro Critic reviewed the School Days OVA "Magical Heart Kokoro-Chan": As soon as the titular Magical Heart announced her appearance, every character present repeated her name in awe one after the other, then Necro said it, then Devil said it, then a long string of random cameos said it. The joke was repeated a few minutes later with the appearance of the other hero, Magical Word.
- The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon will 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...
- LittleKuriboh's new April Fool series: Card games on motorcycles! And from the same video: WHERE IS ONE PIECE?
- On Cinema: When introducing Joe Estevez in Season 2 Episode 3, Tim spends over 1/3 of the episode just reading off films that Estevez has starred in before showing Gregg's interview with him.
- In this Team Fortress 2 video, it demonstrates that even through one minute of Scout falling, it's still funny in some way.
- Mega64's spoof of Heavy Rain counts when it is revealed that the cause of Shawn (Sean)'s unhappiness is that he was diagnosed with cancer.
- 100 Ways To Love A Cat
- This Demotivational Poster. Dear god, it never ends!
- 4Chan is responsible for lots◊ and lots and lots◊ and lots and lots and lots◊ and lots◊ and lots and lots◊ of these, including these◊ two◊, the former of which goes from cute gimmick to Moment of Awesome after the first few, the latter of which simply speaks for itself.
- The Onion will occasionally print an article that contains the sentence "Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood" repeated for the entire article.
- Our collective like of mudkips embodies this trope.
- This mud fish Pokemon is also know for abandoning its child.
- Hello? Fuck! Hello? Fuck! Hello? FUCK! It's funnier than it sounds
- Short YouTube, Fucking Short Versions
- Black Lagoon, The Fucking Short Version
- Many YouTube Poop 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 Soundtrack Dissonance.
- And it flew real low. And it flew real low. And it flew real low. And it flew real low.
- CS188: 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...
- What? What? What? ...What?
- What are you doing here?
- Roundhay Garden Scene: The Deleted Scenes
- Nani, mai hunni~?
- Every profanity from The Sopranos.
- Bagel!
- 'WE'VE ENTERED AN ENDLESS RECURSSION OF TIME.' 'Huh, what?'
- WOAH-OH-OH-AH-AH-AH-AAAA-HA-AH-AH-AH!!!!!!!!!
- Bribe the cat?
- No!
- This video of Schemer dancing to "What Is Love" certainly fits. That it lasts for six hours... well, that's an impressive feat all to itself.
- Those word replacement videos at times. Quite possibly the biggest offender is The Nutshack theme with every "Nutshack" being replaced with the Bee Movie script - it's over twice as long as that Schemer video.
- Jonnwood is updating his Twitter.
- Michael Caine does not blink.
- This fan video at about 6:15. Understandably there were several takes involved.
- "Captain Planet!" "Who?!" From G.I. Joe: The Epic Saga, before it got Screwed by the Lawyers.
- Did someone say G.I. Joe?
- Tobuscus: Assassin's Creed: Revelations Let's Play, 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...
- Shiny Objects Videos: "Nerd Fight" uses this for an unnecessarily long, drawn-out fight. In "An Earnest Discussion", the beats go on for quite a while.
- Spider-Man's continuous "and what's in that pocket?" questions to Batman in I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC.
- From Potter Puppet Pals: In Wizard Swears, Dumbledore introduces the gang to the Elder Swear, a swear that lasts a minute and is mostly a long series of bleeps punctuated by things like "Republican", "Daniel Radcliffe", and "a stick of dynamite".
- Minnesota Anthony Review has one pretty much Once per Episode. 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.
- This Twitter account: "Is Half-Life 3 Out Yet?" Others with a bit more variety are "Days Since unlucky team - Title".
- Mario Party TV:
- Some recording sessions include Holms bringing some type of noisemaker, which he spams to annoy the others.
- Some Season 3 episodes start with the guys futzing around on the character selection screen, spamming the select/unselect or camping on characters they know the others want to play just to Troll them.
- The arguments over what battle minigames to pick. See Episode 6 of Season 3 for a particularly insane example.
- HYUK HYUK HYUK HYUK!!!
- In How to be Like Matt Santoro!, a guest video by Rob Dyke on Matt Santoro's channel, Rob hijacks Matt's channel and roasts Matt. One of the things he says you need to do in order to be like Matt is to set your phone's timer to go off every 5 to 15 seconds for the rest of your life, and brush your teeth whenever it goes off, since Matt's teeth are so white (a Running Gag on Matt's web series). Rob actually does this 8 times in the video.
- The Mark Remark: Martin is so stunned by a stupid joke the WWE announcers made that he has to spend all day at Disneyland California Adventure just to process how bad it is. He finally screams when he gets home.
- Random Assault: If the gag starts to get too long, someone will call "Walt Disney", signifying that the joke has gotten tired.
- RedLetterMedia
- Mr. Plinkett will sometimes do this, often comboing it with Don't Explain the Joke to make particularly unfunny jokes somehow utterly sidesplitting. A good example is his review of Cop Dog, where after pointing out that the main villain is played by Corin Nemec, he notes that "Parker Lewis CAN lose!" Cue a Laugh Track that lasts the better part of a minute, punctuated by still images of the cast of Parker Lewis Can't Lose, as well as the covers of the first and second season DVD sets.
- Previously Recorded: In their "review" of Mass Effect: Andromeda, Jack spends a few minutes trying to engage Rich in a discussion, but Rich relentlessly shoots him down, saying he hasn't played the game and doesn't care about Mass Effect anymore. Then follows about 20 straight minutes of awkward silence.
- Jay's entire personal Youtube channel is an example. He has uploaded dozens upon dozens of videos with titles and thumbnails that make them seem like an inane vlog. In reality, each video is just a still life of weird objects over creepy background music.
- 50 Scenes That Do Not Appear in the Fox [‘X-Files’ Revival]]. 49 entries building up to (of course) The Chris Carter Effect.
- Best 80s Cartoon Intro, aka Dash Swordslash and the Defenders of Everything. Like Too Many Cooks it gets more and more ridiculous as it goes on.
- A couple of installments in the second "season" of Lasagna Cat stands out as some pretty impressive examples:
- 07/27/1978 clocks in at a little over an hour and the vast majority of the video is a ridiculously in-depth analysis of just one three-panel comic strip.
- The "Sex Survey Results" video is nearly 5 hours long, and even has other, smaller OLG's contained within it.
- 07/27/1978
- Game Grumps:
- One episode of their Let's Play of Super Mario 64 opens with Danny spending several minutes relating a long series of texts sent by a sleep-deprived Arin ranting about The Social Network and "Motherfucking Jesse Eisenberg".
- During their play of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Arin receives a guide from a fan that very politely explains how his badge choices are very bad and gives instructions on a number of much better badge setups. Arin flies off on the rant to end all rants about how games shouldn't be played optimally but rather that It's the Journey That Counts, explaining how it's his adventure and he should therefore learn these things himself through gameplay and discovery rather than having someone just hand him all the answers. It goes on for so long that he goes from having a valid point that Dan is laughing at and cheering on, to an Ungrateful Bastard who seems spiteful to have been offered some help with Dan clearly being uncomfortable by it and thinking he's gone way too far, to just being hilarious that he was was set off that badly by such an innocent thing with Dan once again laughing at how utterly over-the-top it is.
- From CollegeHumor, The Irrationally Long Number Pi Song - the digits of pi, sung for fourteen minutes.
- From Facts I Just Made Up, "everything about human prehistory" contains many useful illustrations — all of which are exactly the same photograph of a rock, with a different caption each time. It starts out plausible (the first hammer), gets increasingly strained (the earliest known smart phone), and wraps back around to finish with an illustration which is undeniably exactly what the caption says it is.
- YAKETY, by EricsWurld, is a performance of the chorus of "Yakety Sax" on guitar and kazoo, repeated over and over with Serial Escalation applied each time, for four straight minutes. And it's hilarious.
- The finale of Half Life: Side Story: Gaiden: HUNT DOWN FREE MAN, an Icton-style parody of the infamous Half-Life fan-game Hunt Down the Freeman. It turns the already-bizarre scene where Mitchell corners and kills Adam into a hilariously protracted Rasputinian Death, complete with several Shout-Outs.Moint Pan: You betray me! (Gunshot) You angry me! (Gunshot) YOU FUCK MY FACE. (Gunshot) Now, admin.. you have my permission to be die! (Gunshot) It's too bad you won't live, but actually who does! (Gunshot) Fill your hand, you son of bitch! (Gunshot) How much I enjoy this? How many slice of bread you eat?! (Gunshot)
- Title Pending: When Bayden asks Caleb about Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse they've just watched, he gets "what" multiple times. When he asks Caelan, he tells him to shut up, then says he can't actually remember is going to re-watch it on his phone.
- Simple Flips: In the video "Super Mario 3D World but Everyone's Griefing", Mark takes a side path in a clear pipe that gives some extra coins and then loops back to the main route. Then he takes it again, and again, and again... while Roanin begs for him to stop, but Simple comments that if he does it for long enough, it becomes funny again.
