Running Gag / Animated Films

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• Aladdin
  • The Return of Jafar has "You'd be surprised what you can live through" pop up many times.
  • Also, "_____ is such a strong word."
  • Throughout the movies and TV show, the magic carpet constantly beats Genie at various games.
• Big Hero 6 has Baymax fistbumping and saying "Bata-lata-la".
• BoBoiBoy: The Movie: Papa Zola and his insistence of taking selfies from the boat ride onwards. He even takes photos during chase scenes and while being tied up by the bad guys. He lastly takes a wefie with everyone at the end.
• Finding Nemo has Dory mispronouncing Nemo's name, calling him Fabio, Elmo, Chico, Harpo and Bingo.
• In the Aardman Animations/DreamWorks Animation film Flushed Away, several slugs regularly appear in the movie to whistle and sing a song of some kind, usually pertaining to events that have just transpired. Originally they were to only appear in one scene, but DreamWorks execs "insisted" that they be slotted in at every opportunity simply to keep the laughs going if there hadn't been any big jokes in a while.
• Frozen has a few of these:
  • Olaf's incredibly unfazed reactions to being injured. "Oh, look at that. I've been impaled."
  • Olaf's fantasy of living in summer.
  • The Duke of Weselton being referred to as the Duke of Weaseltown.
• In Frozen II, Kristoff's repeated failed attempts at proposing to Anna, which are either not noticed because Anna has something else on her mind, lead to a fight because he accidentally offended her, or simply failed because he left without telling her. He finally succeeds in the end.
• The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound does this any time someone mentions Huck's "faithful horse and fancy saddle".
  Huck: Not to mention my spiffy western duds.
  • There's also Pinky Dalton calling Huck a rotten dresser, as well as Finky Dalton's Malicious Misnaming of Huck, which is different every time.
• Hoodwinked!: A certain blue sports car is crashed three times as a result of something a main character does. The first time, is when Red Puckett throws her magazine in exasperation while in the treehouse, which falls and hits the car's windshield, causing the driver to go right into a tree (fortunately, we cut back to Red and only hear the sound of the crash, a tree shaking in the distance, and Red shooting a tense look to the camera). The second time: during Kirk's tree cutting spree, the car's roof is crushed by a giant falling pine tree. The third time: after the villains are captured, Kirk runs his converted truck against a tree, which uproots and crushes the poor porcupine's ride again.
• How to Train Your Dragon has many.
  • Gobber's advice can never come out right.
  • Ruffnut and Tuffnut argue, and get in trouble with a dragon.
  • Tuffnut getting hurt and then screaming 'Oh I'm hurt! I am very much hurt!' as he runs away.
  • 'Thank you for summing that up.'
  • 'You just gestured to all of me!'
  • 'Night fury! Get down!'
• Inside Out: The TripleDent Gum commercial that is claimed to make people smile. This has been played 4 times much to Anger's displeasure.
  Anger: Did i asked for a gum commercial!?
• Isle of Dogs:
  • The most common gag in the movie is any dog sneezing before, during, or after sentences.
  • Another gag is when the dogs vote on what to do.
• Kung Fu Panda: The ridiculously-long flight of steps leading up to the Jade Palace. Interestingly, it helps show how far Po's gone from "kung fu fan boy" to "kung fu master". The first time he goes up the stairs (to see the Furious Five compete to be chosen as the Dragon Warrior), he's on his back just halfway up the first flight of steps. The second time, when he goes to confront Tai Lung, Po makes it all the way to the top, only needing to catch his breath for a bit. The last time, when he returns to the Jade Palace to check on Shifu, he's barely winded at all.
• The LEGO Movie has a fair few:
  • People constantly making fun of Emmet's one original idea, the double-decker couch.
  • Bad Cop tossing chairs around whenever he loses his temper.
    • It's actually the same chair every time, he carries it in his car so he can kick it again if the good guys escape again.
  • Every time someone says something like "meet me in ten seconds", the movie cuts to a title card reading "TEN SECONDS LATER".
• Monsters, Inc.:
  • "23-19! We have a 23-19!"
  • Mike's face being obscured by watermarks or other symbols when appearing in any sort of advertisement or identification somewhat.
• The Octonauts and the Ring of Fire has Captain Barnacles' training videos, which the Octonauts often end up activating at inappropriate moments and which don't always seem to have quite what they need. At the end of it, they tell him that he really needs to update them.
• Penguins of Madagascar:
  • Dave's orders to his squid minions just so happen to sound like the names of actors. It gets to the point where this dialogue happens during one scene.
    Dave: Nicolas, cage them!
    Dave: Elijah, would you?
    Dave: Drew! Barry! More power!
    Dave: Charlize, they're on the ray!
    Dave: Helen! Hunt them down!
    Dave: William! Hurt them!
    Dave: Halle! Bury them!
    Dave: Hugh! Jack! Man the battle stations!
    Dave: Kevin! Bake on!
  • There's also Skipper repeatedly forgetting and misremembering Dave's name.
• Rise of the Guardians features a very amusing one. One of Nicholas St. North's (Santa Claus) Yeti simply can't get the paint job of whatever he tries right, and after he's corrected, he grumbles in exasperation, showing that he'd already painted most of whatever it was in the "wrong" color.
• Snoopy, Come Home: "No dogs allowed!"^note Courtesy of Thurl Ravenscroft, no less.
• Strange Magic: No matter how dire the situation, if the scene contains Dawn and the Bog King, she will call him Boggy and he will angrily correct her. By the end of the film, she actually calls him "Bog," and he insists it's "Boggy".
• Tangled: Flynn's nose is never drawn right, much to his chagrin.
• Tex Avery: Hold on to your hats, folks, here we go again!
• In Turning Red, whenever Ming tries to spy on Mei at school, she inevitably gets found by the same security guard, resulting in a brief gag as the guard makes her leave.
• And in Disney/Pixar's Up, we have Dug and the other dogs being easily dist— SQUIRREL!! It—SQUIRREL! is very effective.
• Wreck-It Ralph: I'm Fix-It Felix, Jr., from the game, Fix-It Felix Jr.. He even signs his portrait at Tapper like that!
• The Disney Animated Canon had a running gag of casting Alan Tudyk as an unsavory character: the Duke of Weselton Frozen, Krei in Big Hero 6, and Duke Weasleton in Zootopia. The gag originated in Wreck-It Ralph, in which Tudyk's character turned out to secretly be the actual villain. The gag has matured in that Tudyk is now being considered the "good luck voice" of the current Disney revival much like John Ratzenberger is for Pixar so in order to include Tudyk in Moana, since all the speaking roles were done by actors of Polynesian descent, he was cast in the non-speaking role of a chicken.

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