History Main / OverusedRunningGag

* In ''Manga/DetectiveConan'', Conan has to usually sedate someone then impersonate them using his voice changer to give his deduction at the end of almost every case. Kogoro (his most frequent target) almost catches on, that at one point when Conan speaks in his voice before Kogoro gets tranqed, the latter frantically feels himself around his face since he remarks that that should be around the time he feels a prick (the tranquilizer dart) in or around his neck; Conan shot him in the forehead instead.

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* In the first two ''WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess'' movies, Puffin says, "[[CatchPhrase No Fear!]]", so many times, Jean-Bob finally grabs Puffin's beak shut and threatens to tear it off if he says it again.
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* In ''Anime/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', during an episode [[DontExplainTheJoke explaining]] many of the series' jokes to newer audiences, the audience member asks about the background running gags. "It's like something we do [[OncePerEpisode Once an Episode]]." "[[SelfDeprecatingHumor What's funny about that?]]"

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* Strong Bad apparently got tired of people sending him WebAnimation/{{Strong Bad Email}}s signed "Crapfully yours", "With Crap" and the like as early as the e-mail "spring cleaning". Starting with "vacation", he would usually react with a weary sigh whenever he answered an e-mail signed in this fashion, and in "do over" he reads the signature "Crapfully yours" as "[[SarcasmMode Totally not gettin' old.]]" He hinted at his disdain for email closings that contained the word "crap" a few emails earlier, in "3 Wishes", which was signed "Much crap":
-->'''Strong Bad:''' It's not required that you send that you sign your email, "Crapfully yours," or, "With a bunch of crap," or, "Crap in the times," or, "Crap is so great," "Everything is crap," "My middle name is Crapperson." You know, you could just put, "Sincerely"... or, "Yours truly," is another good one. Come on, guys. I'll still read 'em.

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* In VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII, King Trode's ability to [[StealthHiBye pop up from nowhere]] is usually followed by Yangus [[https://33.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7mtjuttDC1r00wup.jpg jumping to the side with a yelp of "COR BLIMEY!!"]] However, by the time the party visits Tyran Gully late in the game, Yangus admits that the gag's run it's course.

* In season 14 of ''Machiniman/RedVsBlue'', Vic admits that [[ArcWords "You ever wonder why we're here?"]] has been pretty much run into the ground.

* "And that was the X time I died" used by {{Unskippable}} when some catastrophe seemingly killed the main character was eventually acknowledged with the words: "No, wait, I take it back. Semenoske got nuked, this guy's going to be fine."

** The series is riddled with running gags, some of which are overused for comedic effect. Most notoriously, the "Retrieve arms from x" command has been done about ''12 times'' in ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'' and ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''. ''So far''.

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* In ''SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', during an episode [[DontExplainTheJoke explaining]] many of the series' jokes to newer audiences, the audience member asks about the background running gags. "It's like something we do [[OncePerEpisode Once an Episode]]." "[[SelfDeprecatingHumor What's funny about that?]]"

* {{Reddit}} tends to get tired of jokes within the course of a few days, causing responses of "every time" and the likes whenever a joke the HiveMind has gotten bored of is used. In a grander scale, the subreddits /r/f7u12 and /r/adviceanimals, for rage comics and image macros, respectively, were removed from the default subreddits around 2013 because they were getting old, and most of Reddit was sick of them.

-->--'''Paul Merton''', ''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou''

** Everything [[WalkingTechbane Spencer]] touches catching on fire. When it happens in the GrandFinale, Spencer just looks at the item with a bemused "Of course you burst into flames." expression on his face.

There we go. Anyhow, the use of a Running Gag is generally constrained over the course of one episode. But there are some jokes that the writers thought [[IfItWasFunnyTheFirstTime are just so funny that they should be used in another episode]], and another, and ''another'' and ''another''. Even if it isn't OncePerEpisode, it's still squeezed into the series wherever they see fit— [[RunningGag fit— fit— fit— fit—]] '''*THUMP*'''

* In VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII, King Trode's ability to [[StealthHiBye pop up from nowhere]] is usually followed by Yangus [[https://33.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7mtjuttDC1r00wup.jpg jumping to the side in surprise]] with a yelp of "COR BLIMEY!!" However, by the time the party visits Tyran Gully (very late into the game), Yangus admits that the gag's run it's course.