Running Gag / Live-Action Films

aka: Film

Running Gags in live-action movies.

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• Airplane!
  • "Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up..." is a great example.
  • So is the series of literal responses to "What is it?" ^Answer It's a response that describes the place where the situation is taking place, rather than the situation itself which the questioner wants to know more about, but that's not important right now.
  • I just want to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you.
  • These Running Gags have given me a drinking problem. (Splashes a glass of water)
  • Ted's boring ramblings causing people to kill themselves.
• In Annie (2014), the social services woman is a kleptomaniac and is seen constantly slipping things into her purse.
• Any Given Sunday had the third-string quarterback, Willie Beamen to throw-up in the middle of the game. Every time the Sharks were playing.
• Back to the Future did this a lot in the sequels.
  • "Hey McFly, I thought I told you never to come in here."
  • "He's a/an (noun)!"
  • "There there, now, you're safe and sound now back in good old 1955."
  • "So why don't you make like a tree and get out of here?"
  • "Say hi to your mom for me."
  • "Chicken?"
  • "Nobody calls me Chicken!"
  • "Slacker!"
  • "This is heavy."
  • "There's that word again!"
  • "Great Scott!"
  • "Manure! I hate manure!"
  • "Mom? Mom, is that you?"
• The Bastard Sword: "Grande Warrior!!!"
• Better Off Dead: Has several, the most famous being one very determined paperboy: "I want my two dollars!!"
• Big Game: Oskari's inability to draw a bow is played both for laughs and drama multiple times.
• Blood Machines: Whenever the crew lands on a new planet or area with an atmosphere, Vascan spontaneously vomits due to the methanethiol in the air.
• The Blues Brothers has lots of them, ranging from the obvious, such as "We're on a mission from God!" to the subtle, like Jake constantly checking his watch which was declared broken in the first scene. (And other people's watches getting broken as well.)
• Bringing Up Baby: "I'll be with you in a minute, Mr. Peabody!"
• A Christmas Story: Any time Ralphie tells an adult about his desire to get a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas, he's always told the same thing: "You'll shoot your eye out!"
• Clerks:
  • "What smells like shoe polish?"
  • "I'm not even supposed to be here today."
  • "Thirty-seven?!"
  • "I heard she's getting married to an Asian design major."
• Clue:
  • "Well, I didn't do it!!!"
  • Communism was only a red herring.
• Cold Turkey: Amos often has tissues on his face due to cutting himself shaving. One of them is right over his lip and looks like a Hitler mustache.
• The Comedy of Terrors:
  • Whenever Trumbull says something especially cruel to her, Amaryllis would try to have her father defend her. Having gone senile, he thinks she is asking him to pass the sugar.
  • Gillie would call Trumbull "Trembull". Trumbull would correct him, only for Gillie to say "I said Trembull."
• Dad's Army (1971): Whenever Major-General Fullard sees Captain Mainwaring in the middle of his latest mishap, he remarks, "It's that damned bank clerk".
• The Dark Knight Trilogy: Bruce gets gear that "comes in black" to be Batman.
  • The Dark Knight Rises: Miranda Tate being referred to as "quite lovely".
• The Death of Stalin: Each member of the Central Committee arriving at Stalin's dacha and kneeling in the puddle of "his indignity" as they attempt to show their grief.
• The live-action/animated British film Desktop Desperadoes might as well be nicknamed "Squashed Flat: The Movie"!
• In Dick Tracy, Detective, Dick keeps making dinner dates with Tess, only to be called out to another hungry, leaving Tess stranded and hungry.
• Doctor in Trouble has Wendover turning up for meals in the wrong outfit. First in his pyjamas, then in his finest dinner clothes... at lunch, and finally in nothing but a black tie.
• In Escape from New York, every time Snake meets a new character, they will observe that they thought he was dead.
  • Which was done previously in Big Jake with John Wayne.
  • In Escape from L.A. the gag changes to everyone commenting they thought Snake would be taller.
  • Snake having all of his allies get killed in the end is sort of a Running Gag from the first movie to the second.
• In Extra Ordinary (2019), Christian Winter's wife Claudia Winters keeps asking Christian why they can't just "kill the bitch" since the sacrifice will kill the virgin anyway, only for an exacerbated Christian to try and explain it to her. Eventually he gets so sick of having to explain it to her that he slits her throat. Right as he is hanging from the edge of the Hellgate, he openly ponders that in retrosect, he really should have just "killed the bitch."
• The W. C. Fields short The Fatal Glass of Beer contains one of the most famous running gags in movie history. Whenever Fields' character goes out into the raging blizzard or comes back in, he pauses in the door to declare "This ain't a fit night out ... for man nor beast" and then gets a handful of snow thrown in his face.
• A Fish Called Wanda: "What was the middle one?"
• Forrest Gump:
  • It's subtle, but in every photo of Forrest, his eyes are closed.
  • In a darker extent, many celebrities that Forrest met or talked about end up getting killed, most of them getting shot.
• The Freshman:
  • Everyone assumes that Clark is from any state other than Vermont, and promptly ignore him when he tries to say otherwise.
  • People commenting on Carmine's similarity to a certain fictional crime boss. In-universe, Carmine is just a Vito Corleone look-alike capitalizing on the resemblance, but he really is played by Marlon Brando in an Adam Westing role.
• Friends with Benefits:
  • Dylan insists that "Closing Time" is by Third Eye Blind, until the final scene when he finds out it's actually by Semisonic.
  • Jamie blinks when she curses.
  • Dylan talks about how modern planes "practically land themselves" every time he is on a plane. (This particularly gets him into trouble with New Yorkers every time he says it in reference to Captain Chesley Sullenberger of the 'Miracle on the Hudson'.) In a later scene, this is shown to have been picked up from his father.
  • Dylan's poor mathemical skills, with him shown struggling to solve even really simple problems.
• G.I. Joe: Retaliation: Colton calling Lady Jaye "Brenda".
• Godzilla 2000 has Yuki Ichinose and the word "imbecile".
• The Great Escape: Hilts's habit of bouncing a baseball against the wall every time he gets stuck in the Cooler.
• Several in The Gumball Rally. Lapchick's madness, Franco's womanizing, the Rolls-Royce...
• A Hard Day's Night - Paul's grandfather. He's very clean.
  • "Who's that little old man?"
• Harry Potter:
  • If Seamus Finnigan is on screen chances are he's about to accidentally blow something up. Given a fantastic send off in the last movie, where McGonagall tells Neville to enlist Seamus' help blowing up the bridge due to his "proclivity for pyrotechnics."
  • Ron's dislike for spiders is a cruel irony in the second movie, but becomes lighter later, with things like Ron mumbling in his sleep, "The spiders. They want me to tap-dance. I don't want to tap-dance," and Harry mumbling back "You tell those spiders Ron."
  • Hagrid saying "I shouldn't've said that" in the first film.
  • The fourth movie has Filch setting off the cannon that signals the Triwizard Tasks early.
• In The Hateful Eight, characters repeatedly having to nail the broken door shut any time someone enters or leaves so the blizzard doesn't blow it open.
• Several in The Heat.
  • The Jesus-themed Boston sports teams paintings that Mullins' family has.
  • The leftover sandwich Mullins has in her fridge.
• Help!:
  • John: "Getting nowhere, are you, jeweller/mad scientist/superintendent?"
  • People and things being referred to as "The famous X" ("the famous Beatles", "the famous Ringo", "the famous ring", "the famous temple", and so forth) primarily by the Superintendent, although the Beatles themselves as well as the written narration pick up on the trend.
• History of the World Part I: Mel Brooks' King Louis XVI spouts off the infamous line "It's good to be the king" seemingly a half-dozen times in five minutes. Gets a Call-Back in Robin Hood: Men in Tights and The Producers (2005), but not spoken by Brooks.
• Hold On! (1966) has Lindquist having drinks dumped on him. It happens four times - twice because he fainted, once because Herman tripped while carrying water, and once because someone on the beach wanted to prank him.
• Holiday: Addressing the Potters as "Porter".
• Holmes & Watson has Holmes experimenting with different hats, trying to find one that suits him. It is not in any way funny.
• Home Alone:
  • In the first movie, a car running into and toppling the oddly-placed statue on the McCallisters' frontyard. In the sequel, the first van misses the statue... but the second van still manages to hit it.
  • In the first two movies, Uncle Frank insults Kevin:
    • In the first movie: "Look what you did, you little jerk!"
    • In the second movie: "Get out of here, you nosy little pervert, or I'm gonna slap you silly!"
  • In the first two movies, the family watches It's a Wonderful Life in a different language while in a hotel: first French, then Spanish. Likewise, Kevin watches How the Grinch Stole Christmas! while alone.
  • At the end of the first two, one of the other McCallisters would yell at Kevin for something bad he did while they were gone/separated (trashing Buzz's room in the first, and spending "$967 ON ROOM SERVICE!!!!" with Peter's credit card in the second).
  • Regarding the gangster movie Angels with Filthy Souls and the sequel Angels with Even Filthier Souls:
    • Kevin covers his eyes when a character gets shot. Then he uses the movie to trick people, and he mouths the "ya filthy animal."
    • Kevin uses both films to fool people who are after him.
  • Kevin and his family do not understand how to tip people.
• Hot Fuzz. Among others, many others...
  • SWAAAAAAAAN!
  • "For the greater good."
    • "The greater good."
    • "Shut it!"
  • "What He Said".
  • "By the power of Greyskull..."
  • The Living Statue.
  • "He's a doctor. He can deal with it."
  • "Well, official vocab guidelines state..."
  • Tim's spelling errors.
  • PC Thatcher's unsubtle innuendos, followed immediately by PC Walker explaining the joke.
• When anyone takes a seat in Hot Shots!, they end up sitting on the same Chihuahua each time.
  • Also, the Admiral's various war injuries and artificial body parts.
• Hot Tub Time Machine:
  • The bellhop repeatedly failing to lose his arm in situations where he should have.
  • In the deleted scenes, it's revealed that Miss Only-Does-Two-Guys-At-A-Time ensnared a significant percentage of the male cast during the night, but each time one of them running off.
• House Shark: Abraham, one of the guys hunting the shark, has a habit of touching other peoples' faces.
• In The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, after Effie finally leaves her self-imposed isolation in District 13, she is never shown wearing her jumpsuit the same way twice.
• I Love You, Man. "...Why does everything I say sound like a leprechaun?"
• I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
  • "Do you want to go through the window (over the side, etc.), or take the stairs?"
  • "You aren't selling Amway products, are you?"
  • "How did he go to the bathroom with all those gold chains on?"
• Inglourious Basterds: Landa's insistence on using American idioms and getting them slightly wrong.
• Whenever the two detectives in The Jigsaw Murders go see the photographer whom they (rightfully) suspect of being the killer responsible for body parts turning up around the city, they have to chase away two guys trying to break into their car. This has dramatic consequences later on as they succeed on a third try and steal their radio, which forces the main character to confront the main villain by himself.
• A Jolly Bad Fellow has Professor Bowles-Ottery's recurring visits to the florist to purchase a wreath for his latest victim. The final scene of the film is the bursar visiting the florist to purchase a wreath for Professor Bowles-Ottery.
• Jupiter Ascending: A recurring bit in the film is Jupiter waking up to find she's been dressed in something she wasn't wearing when she passed out in prior scenes, to which she responds with shock and sometimes annoyance at being made to wear something way fancier than she's used to.
• Kaamelott: Premier Volet: The Burgundians laying siege to some castles and being ineffectual buffoons at it.
• Kingpin had two major running gags. One was Roy Munson referring to his 1979 championship ring as "this", only for people to think he's talking about the rubber hand it's situated on (this gets reversed at the end when he actually is talking about the rubber hand). The second is different characters referring to being put in an unwinnable situation as being "Munsoned".
• Knives Out:
  • No one in the Thrombey family can actually bother to know where Marta comes from, with each family member giving a different answer, from Ecuador to Paraguay to Brazil.
  • Several of the family members mention that they wanted Marta to come to Harlan's funeral but were outvoted.
• Labyrinth: Sarah gets Hoggle's name wrong almost every time she talks to him.
  • Sarah does this at first, but quickly learns his name. Jareth is the one that never gets Higgle's (HOGGLE!) name right.
• Lady Ninja Kaede has the block print seller keeps distributing his fliers to his customers, who then run off without paying. The only one who pays is a deadbeat carpenter, who keeps paying by giving him a nail and claiming it is made of a precious metal. They are just ordinary nails.
• The Last Witch Hunter: 37th Dolan asking at least once per car ride to be given some weapon, and Kaulder stubbornly refusing to give him any.
• In Lethal Weapon films, starting with the second movie, Riggs would occasionally dislocate his shoulder (though in the second movie he does it intentionally to break loose of a straitjacket) and then bang it on a wall to put it back in its place. It occurs in the third movie when Riggs falls off a bridge while on a motorcycle then in the fourth movie during the final showdown with Wah Sing Ku when the villain dislocates his shoulder.
• Men just can't resist the urge to touch Red's ivory prosthetic leg in The Lone Ranger.
• The Long Goodbye, which features an anachronistic '50s private eye in the '70s has the protagonist not only be the only character that smoked, but as a Running Gag has him light a cigarette in every single scene. It also has the title tune shoehorned in many different times (on a car radio, at a Mexican funeral...).
• The Mad Miss Manton: "Oh, you're always talking communism!"
• A running gag in Mallrats is that Shannon Hamilton likes to have sex in a very uncomfortable place.

  • What... like the back of a Volkswagen?

  • "It's a sailboat."
  • Also, telekinesis.
• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • One running gag that keeps showing up across the franchise, is the fact that everyone seems to think that a baseball hat and sunglasses is a good disguise.
  • Iron Man:
    • The running gag of one of Tony's inept helper bot arm... things... having a propensity to hose him down with a fire extinguisher at a drop of a hat. First time is when his jet boots fail (in that they were set too high and flung him face first into the ceiling). Second time was him threatening the bot not to do it. Third time was at the end of his Mk 2 flight; First, Tony breaks the ceiling and floor of his house, then smashes a grand piano, then one of his expensive cars... then gets hosed off by the extinguisher bot again. Tony can only lie his helmeted head down in tired frustration.
    • Speaking of the car scene, Iron Man unintentionally wrecking other people's cars occurs a couple of times per movie.
    • Also, there's Agent Coulson insisting on stating the full acronym for S.H.I.E.L.D. ("Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement Logistics Division") several times when introducing himself to others.
  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier has a rather literal example: On your left!
  • Avengers: Age of Ultron: In the opening battle, when Iron Man says "Shit!", Captain America reprimands him by saying, "Language!" Iron Man promptly calls him out on this, and Cap is the one who says "I know, I know, it just slipped out." For the rest of the movie, whenever Cap swears—or sometimes even when he doesn't, and just uses strong but not explicit language—he gets teased for it.
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 has Rocket Racoon being called something other than a raccoon, and often demeaning, such as "Trash Panda", "Triangle-faced monkey", "Puppy", etc.
  • Every Thor film features a shot of the Son of Odin's face getting smushed into a window. When he's drugged in in the first film, when he's fighting Malekith over London in the second film, and when he wakes up in Valkyrie's ship in the third film.
    • Also, he keeps falling victim to tasers or similar devices.
  • Spider-Man: Homecoming Trilogy films ending with a Parker yelling WHAT THE F-?!. First Aunt May, then Peter.
  • The Eternals introduce each other as "old friends from college" to the humans in their lives. Even Sprite uses the line in spite of the fact that she looks too young for college.
  • Thor: Love and Thunder has the sudden screams of the goats Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder (inspired by the "Taylor Swift Goat Remix", which an effects house added to a scene and the director found funny enough to use all through the movie).
• Mean Girls:
  • Damian uses one Paper-Thin Disguise after another (robber, Santa, guy with hoodie and sunglasses), yet nobody except Cady seem to recognize him.
  • Cady's "word vomit." In one scene, it becomes actual vomit.
  • Big yellow school buses.
  • In the original script, the Sound-Effect Bleep was this, used whenever a character dropped an F-bomb.
• MonsterVerse:
  • Listen closely, and in all four of the movies, a character says "Oh, shit!" or otherwise tries to right before being killed by whichever Kaiju is serving as the main antagonist of the movie they're in (the MUTO, a Skullcrawler, Ghidorah and Mechagodzilla).
  • The director of Godzilla: King of the Monsters thinks that Ghidorah's left head, San/Kevin who displays a rather eccentric personality compared to the other two heads, has been decapitated a lot more frequently than his brother heads in Ghidorah's life. In the movie proper, Kevin is the only head to get decapitated twice (he regrows from the first decapitation, whilst the second is part of Ghidorah's Rasputinian Death), and then in Godzilla vs. Kong, Mechagodzilla (which has gained sentience as a Robotic Psychopath as a direct result of Ghidorah's Soul Fragment in Kevin's severed skull merging with its AI) is killed for good when its head is ripped off.
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Swallows, coconuts, people not dying.
  • They got better.
  • Also, Arthur's inability to count to five.
    • "Three sir!"
  • "Get on with it!"
  • And There Was Much Rejoicing.
    • Yaaayyy!
  • It also uses Medium Awareness as a running gag, as in the murder of the historian, and the old man from Scene 24.
• The More the Merrier has Mr. Dingle losing his pants in interesting ways and then finding them again — to his confusion.
• Lampshaded in The Muppet Movie: "Myth! Myth!" "Yeth!"
  • Lost? Have you tried Hare Krishna?
  • Also lampshaded in The Muppet Family Christmas.
• Mystery Team: Jason's disguises.
• Nanny McPhee has the running gag of the title character repeatedly seemingly mysteriously appearing in a room out of nowhere and startling people, only to declare "I did knock."
• The gum in Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist is a true running gag (some people can't stop gagging for hours after seeing it...).
• The Night of the Grizzly: Wilhelmina "Bill" Peterson repeatedly comments about Sam's supposed handsomeness, and other people don't realize who she's talking about.
• In Perfect Days, young people can't figure how to insert a tape in Hirayama's car tape player.
• Paddington (2014): The flock of pigeons who pop up whenever Paddington tries to take a bite of his marmalade sandwich.
• Paul - 'Three tits? Awesome.'
  • Also, everyone asking if Graeme and Clive are gay.
  • "Who the hell is Adam Shadowchild?"
• Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief: Grover getting flirted with by hot girls, from the camp to the underworld counts.
• The Philadelphia Story:
  • "Another place, Edward."
  • Margaret Lord forgetting who Mike is.
• The Pink Panther:
  • A Shot in the Dark:
    "Do you have a License for x?" BEEBEEBEEBEEEEEEP! BEEBEEBEEBEEEEEP!
  • The Return of the Pink Panther: Dreyfus's constant confusion between a lighter that looks like a gun and a REAL gun.
    • Graham Stark's Character and his unfortunate hands.
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Women seem to have a tendency to slap Jack Sparrow... or anyone representing him.
  • Captain Jack Sparrow.
  • Will Turner has a habit of getting knocked out during the pivotal point of a fight.
  • Why is the rum always gone?
  • It got away with sea turtles, mate. A pair of them strapped to the bottle.
  • Were they eunuchs?
  • Well, they did have a nice hat. A really big one.
  • They also tried to Parley with me.
  • But that doesn't matter since the Pirate's Code is more like a guideline than actual rules.
  • This is the day that you will always remember as the day that y--
  • Enter mascot dog with keys in mouth.
  • Thank you, Jack.
  • I hate that monkey.
  • Barbossa's hat getting blown off in the outtake reel of the third movie.
• The Princess Bride: INCONCEIVABLE!
• In Road House (1989), people tell Patrick Swayze, "I thought you'd be bigger." What it lacks in humor it makes up for in homoeroticism.
• During the filming of Rush Hour 2, a real life running gag showed up: As shown in the outtakes, Chris Tucker cannot remember to call Jackie Chan by his character's name.
• See You Yesterday: The guy camping who gets startled every time Claudette and Sebastian time travel and pop up into the past.
• Shall We Dance?: The hotel manager's confusion about whether the connecting door between Peter and Linda's hotel suites should be unlocked (if they are married) or locked (if they are not).
• The "dogs can't look up" gag in Shaun of the Dead is notable not only because it's an effective Running Gag within the film, but is something of a real-life running gag, having originated with Nick Frost during the filming of Spaced, as referenced on the DVD commentaries for both works. Also the "He's not my boyfriend!" is carried over.
  • "You've got red on you."
  • "Cornetto." (It's an ice cream.) Appears in all their movies.
• Sky Bandits has the running gag of Mad Bomber Barney never having any matches on him, and having to borrow a match every time he needs to light a fuse.
• Smokey and the Bandit 2 has Buford T. Justice's stress-detecting watch which goes off several times throughout the movie in increasingly humorous contexts.
• Sonic the Hedgehog (2020):
  • Sonic's constant griping about his hatred of mushrooms after learning his other option is to live on the mushroom planet.
  • Sonic has some nicknames for people around town. Tom is Donut Lord for how he "interrogates" his donuts and Maddie is "Pretzel Lady" for how she does yoga on her back porch. In his big confrontation with Robotnik, he starts calling him "Eggman" since all his drones are egg-shaped.
• Space Cowboys: (after a while) "You notice that everyone we know is dead?"
• Spider-Man Trilogy: Jameson keeps yelling for "HOFFMAN!" who keeps appearing faster and faster as the movies progress, much to Jonah's confusion, eventually culminating in Jameson screaming his name while turning around, only to be face to face with Hoffman before he finished saying his name.
• Star Trek
  • Star Trek: Generations: Pretty much everyone and everything is set to arrive and/or be installed on the Enterprise-B next Tuesday when the ship is taken out on a VIP cruise around the solar system.
  • Star Trek (2009): Kirk trying to find out Uhura's first name (a shout-out to the fact that she never had one in the original series).
    • Chekhov's accent.
    • A literal running gag: Kirk suffering from various adverse reactions to a vaccine he was given, running down the halls trying to get to the bridge as McCoy repeatedly gives him shots to counteract the symptoms.
  • Star Trek Into Darkness: This isn't the first time Kirk and Scotty have an adventure before returning to the Enterprise.
    • Scotty has to yell at his assistant Keenser to get down from places that he shouldn't be sitting on...like an experimental torpedo.
• Star Wars:
  • "I have a bad feeling about this." (Uttered at least once by Luke, Han, and Leia. Arguably by Chewie, too.)
    • Yoda, too: "Bad feeling have I."
    • Also used by Obi-Wan and Anakin in all three prequels. And by various characters in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. And all over the Expanded Universe. And in various other franchises as gags: from Fanboys to Lost.
    • It's so common that there's an article on Wookieepedia devoted to cataloging all the appearances of the line.
  • I sense a disturbance in the Force.
    • You always feel a disturbance in the force.
  • C-3PO is constantly pissing off other characters by showing off his intelligence in situations where it doesn't actually help, leading to him being cut off mid-sentence at least once in every movie in the Original Trilogy. In A New Hope, he gushes about his language and programming skills to Uncle Owen until he finally buys him just to shut him up. In The Empire Strikes Back, he's always calculating the characters' probability of surviving dangerous situations, culminating in Leia loudly shutting him up while the Millennium Falcon engages the Avenger. And in Return of the Jedi, EV-9D9 cuts him off in Jabba's palace before he can even finish saying his signature line "I am fluent in over six million forms of communication!"
  • In The Empire Strikes Back, the Millenium Falcon's hyperdrive repeatedly fails.
• Mikey's crush on April in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014).
• Ten Little Mistresses:
  • Diva copies nearly everything Helga says and does, and will frequently translate or reword Helga's dialogue to the latter's disdain.
  • Whenever Valentin's signature deodorant comes up the characters takes great pains to describe its scent as "fresh peppermint with a hint of ripe cucumbers and juniper berries" in full.
• Terminator Genisys: There's a few, including the one-liner "Theoretically" as a yes or no answer to an "Are you sure this will work question", and the heroic Terminator Pops' The Unsmile.
• In the second film in the Spanish Torrente series, Cañita Brava dropped the line "Me debes 6000 pesetas de whisky". ^Eng You owe me 6000 pesetas' worth of whisky It was so popular, he was asked to appear again in all three following films just to repeat that line, translated into euros in the third and fourth movies, and back to pesetas for the fifth.
• None of the patients in Twice Round the Daffodils can remember Janet's surname, and so refer to her as "Janet What's 'Er Name?".
• In Two for the Road, Mark keeps losing his passport.
• Watch Your Stern has Commander Fanshawe's bicycle being repeatedly thrown overboard and fished back onto the HMS Terrier.
• The Weather Man has people throwing fast food at Nicolas Cage's character throughout the movie because they're so resentful of how easy his job is. It gets a lot less funny at one point when someone throws a McDonald's apple pie at him, since he picks it up and runs after the people, throwing it back at them while screaming that he has kids and now he has to see them with pie on his clothes.
• The Woman in Red: Ms. Milner (Gilda Radner) constantly attacking Teddy's car.
• X-Men Film Series
  • Thanks to his recurring nightmares of his Dark and Troubled Past, it's a bad idea to share a bed with Wolverine or to be near him when he's unconscious. Rogue, Silverfox, a veterinarian (student), and, very nearly, Mariko, learn this lesson the hard way. Surprisingly enough Mariko seems completely unperturbed by almost being impaled and CONTINUES SLEEPING WITH HIM!
    • Later, Shadowcat learns it the hard way. Not for sleeping with him, just for being too close during one of his episodes.
    • His discomfort when it comes to flying plays out across the various films.
    • Likely unintentional, but in X-Men: The Last Stand whenever he tries to confront Magneto, he ends up thrown through the air.
  • In X2: X-Men United, every time Nightcrawler meets someone new, he has to introduce himself with a long speech... and gets cut off nearly every time.
• Yesterday (2019): After the weird Blackout event at the beginning, many things other than the Beatles also don't exist, so whenever Jack asks for a Coke, he gets a weird look before asking for a Pepsi instead.
• You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah: At every Bar/Bat Mitzvah, Ronnie and her friend Zaara are watching a horror movie on her phone, and two boys come up and try to impress them by asking if they've seen some other film. Each time, they lie and say yes, and that it sucked, just to get the boys to go away. At the end, the four of them are all watching a movie together (still on a tiny phone), and an adult woman fills the role of the pretentious boys.
• Young Frankenstein: What happens whenever someone says "Frau Blücher". (*WHINNY*)
• Zombieland, anyone? Tallahase and his inability to find any twinkies.

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