History Main / GagEcho

* ''LightNovel/AscendanceOfABookworm'': Myne, the protagonist, is a modern-day bookworm who reincarnated as a poor girl in a world that is in its pre-printing press era and has a large price tag even on materials used to make books. As a result, books are luxury items that only the wealthiest can afford. Some time after having introduced cheaper to produce plant-based paper to her new world, Myne finds out someone she knows is to going to have a baby and decides to make a picture book for the child. The reactions of Myne's best friend who helped make her first batch of paper, the merchant selling said paper and Myne's mentor in a job she took for easy access to the town's only library to the notion of a picture book are all similarly bemused in the source material. In the anime's CompressedAdaptation, those reactions are all shown in small montage that is followed by Myne reponding to her tutor's words with the feeling she's hearing an echo.

* ''LightNovel/AscendanceOfABookworm'': Myne, the protagonist, is a modern-day bookworm who reincarnated as a poor girl in a world that is in its pre-printing press era and has a large price tag even on materials used to make books. As a result, books are luxury items that only the wealthiest can afford. Some time after having introduced cheaper to produce plant-based paper to her new world, Myne finds out someone she knows is to going to have a baby and decides to make a picture book for the child. Cue a montage of Myne's best friend who helped make her first batch of paper, the merchant selling said paper and Myne's mentor in a job she took for easy access to the town's only library all having the same bemused reaction to the notion of a picture book. Myne's reaction to her mentor's is the feeling she's hearing an echo.

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--> '''President Skroob''': One two three four five? '''Colonel Sanders''': Yes! '''President Skroob''': That's amazing, I've got the same combination on my luggage!\\

->'''Dr. Simon Tam:''' I swear when it's appropriate.\\
''[two scenes later]''\\
'''Dr. Simon Tam:''' Son of a bitch.
-->-- "Jaynestown", ''Series/{{Firefly}}''

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* In ''Film/Spaceballs'', Dark Helmet extorts the passcode to Druidia's shield out of King Roland.

** The ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode "Lonely Hearts" makes a RunningGag out of people not knowing what the logo on the Angel Investigations business card is (it's meant to be an angel). When Angel hands Kate a card at the end of the episode she says "What is this? A duck?
** The ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode "Jaynestown" opens with Kaylee and Simon bantering about whether or not Simon uses profanity. Unlike most of the crew he's not given to [[ForeignCussWord spouting off Mandarin curses]] frequently, but he insists that he ''does'' swear "when its appropriate". Guess what Simon does upon seeing a statue of [[TokenEvilTeammate Jayne]] standing in the town square on Higgins' Moon.

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* ''LightNovel/AscendanceOfABookworm'': Myne, the protagonist, is a modern-day bookworm who reincarnated as a poor girl in a world that is in its pre-printing press era and has a large price tag even on materials used to make books. As a result, books are luxury items that only the wealthiest can afford. Some time after having introduced cheaper to produce plant-based paper to her new world, Myne finds out someone she knows is to going to have a baby and decides to make a picture book for the child. Cue a montage of Myne's best friend who helped make her first batch of paper, the merchant selling said paper and Myne's mentor in a job she took for easy access to the town's only library all having the same bemused reaction to the notion of a picture book. Myne's reaction to her mentor's is the feeling she's hearing an echo.
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* ''LightNovel/AscendanceOfABookworm'': Myne, the protagonist, is a modern-day bookworm who reincarnated as a poor girl in a world that is in its pre-printing press era and has a large price tag even on materials used to make books. As a result, books are luxury items that only the wealthiest can afford. Some time after having introduced cheaper to produce plant-based paper to her new world, Myne finds out someone she knows is to going to have a baby and decides to make a picture book for the child. Cue to a montage of Myne's best friend who helped make her first batch of paper, the merchant selling said paper and Myne's mentor in a job she took for easy access to the town's only library all having the same bemused reaction to the notion of a picture book. Myne's reaction to her mentor's is the feeling she's hearing an echo.

* ''LightNovel/AscendanceOfABookworm'': Myne, the protagonist, is a modern-day bookworm who reincarnated a poor girl in world that is in its pre-printing press era and has a large price tag even on materials used to make books. As result, books are luxury items that only the wealthiest can afford. Some time after having introduced cheaper to produce plant-based paper to her new world, Myne finds out someone she knows is about to going to have a baby and decides to make a picture book for the child. Cue to a montage of Myne's best friend who helped make her first batch of paper, the merchant selling said paper and Myne's mentor in a job she took for easy access to the town's only library all having the same bemused reaction to the notion of a picture book. Myne's reaction to her mentor's is the feeling she's hearing an echo.

* ''LightNovel/AscendanceOfABookworm'': Myne, the protagonist, is a modern-day bookworm who reincarnated a poor girl in world that is in its pre-printing press era and has a large price tag even on materials used to make books. As result, books are luxury items that only the wealthiest can afford. Some time after having introduced cheaper to produce plant-based paper to her new world, Myne finds out someone she knows is about to going to have a baby and decides to make a picture book for the child.

** Another episode has Bridget suggesting that teachers and senior students get valet parking with the Driver's Ed students doing the parking. Later in the episode has Cate listing reasons to start working at the school and finishes off with "I heard a rumour they're going to get valet parking".

* The episode of ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' where they find the school's old radio station gives us two. When the newspaper reviews the radio show Lisa worries "what if they don't like my outfits?" (despite being '''the radio''') and when she reads the review it says "Lisa is an entertaining reporter and a classy dresser". Slater is awful on the radio and the gang are wondering how they tell him and Screech suggests "wave a skunk in front of his nose". Guess what the review says about Slater.

A subtrope of MeaningfulEcho, the Gag Echo is a pretty common trope in fiction and while it's found in works outside the comedy genre, it's always PlayedForLaughs. The line of dialogue will often appear in the form of a BrickJoke though it can pop up pretty soon after the first line. Usually the line will be repeated by another character and part of the fun comes from them not knowing someone else has already said the same thing. It can overlap with the IronicEcho but differs from that since the Ironic Echo isn't usually played for comedy and the Gag Echo doesn't need the irony. May also overlap with StrangeMindsThinkAlike.

->''"I swear when it's appropriate."''\\
[two scenes later]\\
''"Son of a bitch."''
-->-- '''Dr. Simon Tam''', "Jaynestown", ''Series/{{Firefly}}''

-> ''"I swear when it's appropriate."''
-> ''(two scenes later)''
-> ''"Son of a bitch."''
--> -- '''Dr. Simon Tam''', "Jaynestown", ''Series/{{Firefly}}''

* In ''Literature/TheDogfather'', Harry Potter gets adopted by a muggle family after the Dursleys refuse to take him in. One day, a large black dog (actually Harry's godfather Sirius) follows him home and gets kept as the family pet. When Harry finds out his dog turns into a man at night, one of his first questions is, "Are you a werewolf?" Later he introduces Sirius to his muggle parents, and their first question is also, "Are you a werewolf?"

* A staple of JossWhedon shows:

--> ''(two scenes later)''
-> ''[[PrecisionFStrike "Son of a bitch."]]''

* Chapter 11 of ''WebComic/StandStillStaySilent'' shows that both [[http://www.sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=513 Lalli]] and [[http://www.sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=519 Emil]] hate Reynir's hair, but has their respective comments about in different scenes. They also both manage to make that comment in circumstances in which Reynir doesn't know about it: if was a dream version of Reynir admitting his hair to be "super dumb" for Lalli, and Emil said it to Reynir's face, but the LanguageBarrier got in the way of conveying the message correctly.

* Combined with HypocriticalHumor in Chapter 22/Episode 7 of ''Manga/KomorisanWaKotowarenai''. When Ootani stares at Komori in the pool while jogging, she calls him a pervert (which the rest of the boys teasingly repeat). Their positions are reversed at the end of the chapter/episode.

-> ''[[PrecisionFStrike "Son of a bitch!"]]''

* In ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' when Elizabeth ends up rowing herself to the island without any help, she mutters "Bloody pirates". Later we have this exchange: