History RunningGag / Film

* ''Film/IronMan1'' has 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.

* ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' has a rather literal example: On your left!

* ''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 RunningGag 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...).

* "Paul" - 'Three tits? Awesome.'

* Film/IronMan has 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.

* 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 aint' a fit night out ... for man nor beast" and then gets a handfull of snow thrown in his face.

** Hagrid saying "I shouldn't've told you that".

** So is the series of literal responses to "What is it?" [[labelnote: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.[[/labelnote]]

* ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'': Women seem to have a tendency to slap Jack Sparrow... or anyone representing him.

** ''Return of the Pink Panther'': Dreyfus's constant confusion between a lighter that looks like a gun and a REAL gun.

* Throughout ''Film/AChristmasStory'', Ralphie wants more than anything to get a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas. But pretty much anyone he expresses this desire to has just these words to say: "You'll shoot your eye out."

* In ''Film/LethalWeapon'', 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 strait jacket) 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 [[BigBad Wah Sing Ku]] when the villain dislocates his shoulder.

** ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'': Miranda Tate being referred to as "quite lovely".

* ''SpaceCowboys'': (after a while) [[BadAssGrandpa "You notice that everyone we know is dead?"]]

* ''ImGonnaGitYouSucka''

* During the filming of ''RushHour 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.
* ''AHardDaysNight'' - Paul's grandfather. He's very clean.

* ''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".
* ''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.

* ''AFishCalledWanda'': "What was the middle one?"

* ''BringingUpBaby:'' "I'll be with you in a minute, Mr. Peabody!"

** Which was done previously in ''BigJake'' with John Wayne.

* ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'': Creator/MelBrooks' King Louis XVI spouts off the infamous line "It's good to be the king," seemingly a half-dozen times in five minutes. It also shows up (one time each) in ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'' and ''Film/TheProducers'' (2005), but not spoken by Brooks.

* ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'' Creator/MelBrooks' King Louis XVI spouts off the infamous line "It's good to be the king," seemingly a half-dozen times in five minutes. It also shows up (one time each) in ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'' and ''Film/TheProducers'' (2005), but not spoken by Brooks.

* ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'' Creator/MelBrooks' King Louis XVI spout off the infamous line "It's good to be the king," seemingly a half-dozen times in five minutes. It also shows up (one time each) in ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'' and ''Film/TheProducers'' (2005), but not spoken by Brooks.

* ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'' Creator/MelBrooks' King Louis XVI spout off the infamous line "It's good to be the king," seemingly a half-dozen times in five minutes. It also shows up (more briefly) in ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'' and ''Film/TheProducers'' (2005), but not spoken by Brooks.

* Nearly every movie produced by Creator/MelBrooks has the character played by the director spout off the infamous line "It's good to be the king." Copiously repeated again and again in ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'', seemingly a half-dozen times in five minutes. It was not funny that time.
** Thankfully, averted in ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'' (he played a ''president'' in this movie and didn't use the line or any variant thereof).

* ''TheBluesBrothers'' 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.)
* The gum in ''NickAndNorahsInfinitePlaylist'' is a true running gag (some people can't stop gagging for hours after seeing it...).

* The American version of ''Film/{{Godzilla 2000}}'' has [[IntrepidReporter Yuki Ichinose]] and the word "[[{{Baka}} imbecile]]."

* In ''[[Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjay 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.

* ''Film/ShallWeDance:'' 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).

* ''Film/TheMoreTheMerrier'' has Mr. Dingle losing his pants in interesting ways and then finding them again —to his confusion.

** " We'll, I didn't do it!!!"