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Overly Long Airplane Banner Gag

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Getting someone's attention in this day and age is hard. One way to do it big, though, is with an airplane banner - a banner attached to an airplane that shows a message.

Named after Overly Long Gag, this is where the "gag" is that the "airplane banner" is "overly long", such that they need a second airplane to complete the thought. The second banner is sometimes only one or two words long.

It's also possible to use this trope with paragraphs of skywriting.

This can overlap with Cue Card... Pause.

Examples:

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     Advertising 
  • Described in a GEICO radio ad — the GEICO Gecko and the Boss read the banners as they go by. The Gecko thinks it's a bit much.
  • The notorious anti-smoking group Truth once put out a Public Service Announcement with an airplane flying along a beach, with a banner in tow asking about what additives are put in cigarettes. What follows is an entire fleet of additional planes with even more banners listing off dozens of the 599 additives that are evidently added to the tobacco.
  • An advert for Go Compare (an insurance comparison website) features the annoying Tenor attempting to secure his job despite the fact nobody likes him. He sets up one of these; only the website compares so much he needed another plane to finish the last word.

     Film 
  • The Brothers Solomon might have one of the longest examples of this gag ever. After having a falling out with their surrogate Janine and not knowing how to contact her, the titular brothers purchase an extremely long banner to apologize to her, explain their situation, and offer to co-parent the baby with her and her boyfriend James instead of simply adopting it. It also crosses over with Overly Literal Transcription as the meandering, redundant message is clearly being dictated to the printer by the brothers. In fact, it's so long that it takes two planes to carry the full message. And yet when Janine is finally alerted to the banner as the tail end goes by, she's somehow still able to read the entire message before the planes leave.

     Live-Action TV 
  • Married... with Children: In "Every Bundy Has a Birthday", another birthday party going on at the park other than Seven's has the kid's snobby and rich father hiring an airplane to fly a long message wishing him happy birthday, saying he's the best kid ever, citing that they really mean it and bragging about the father's wealth.
  • The Night Court episode "Constitution" actually does it without an airplane. Bull puts up a "Welcome Home Roz" banner that runs the entire length to the courtroom: 18 floors.
  • Les Nessman has problems with one of these in the famous turkey-drop episode of WKRP in Cincinnati.
    Les Nessman: It says, "Happy......... Thanks......... giving......... from W......... K......... R........................ P!"

     Webcomics 
  • Done in this Wondermark strip, using a bird rather than an airplane.

     Western Animation 
  • Family Guy: Neil sends a message to Meg via airplane banner.
    First plane: Meg, I am your destiny. Love, Neil. Also, have you seen my good pen? I feel like I loaned it to you in physics, but I haven't seen it in a
    Second plane: while.
  • The Simpsons: A land-based variation in Cape Feare: Sideshow Bob tries to claim there's no harm in lying in the middle of a public street (where he's stalking Bart), when a marching band followed by a parade of elephants comes by to prove him wrong.
    TERROR LAKE
    SALUTES
    HANNIBAL
    CROSSING
    THE
    ALPS

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