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* [[Brick Joke/Western Animation|Western Animation]]
* [[Brick Joke/Real Life|Real Life]]
== Live Action TV ==
* In ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]]'', Dewey releases the hamster in a ball full of food so he has a chance at survival and won't be taken care of by the class bully. Throughout the rest of the season, you can spot the Hamster Ball rolling in the background. By the end of the season, you can even see it roll by as Francis and Piama leave Alaska.
* ''[[Seinfeld]]'' was ''full'' of these.
** As does ''[[Curb Your Enthusiasm]]''.
* ''[[Father Ted]]'', "Speed 3", has a literal brick joke - twice. Father Jack has become to be affectionate to a brick, which later Father Ted trips on because Jack left it in the middle of the room. This, however, gives Ted the inspiration to use the brick to hold down the accelerator of a milk trolley ([[Speed|rigged to explode if the trolley falls below 4 miles per hour]]) to keep it going. The trolley explodes. Post-credits, Father Ted is taking out the trash when he spots something in the sky—and is struck head-on by a charred and smoking brick.
* ''[[Friends]]'' "The One With Frank Jr" has Ross consider adding Isabella Rosselini to his list of celebrities he can sleep with but eventually bumps her because she's "too international". At the end of the episode, guess who walks into the coffee house?
** Also, in one chapter the girls are in the balcony, drinking and telling stories of older times, when Rachel accidentally drops a cushion to the street. At the end of the chapter, someone calls to the door, and Chandler opens. A man returns the cushion.
* ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|Mash]]:'' Near the start of the episode "It Happened One Night", Hawkeye puts a can of beans on a stove in post-op, to heat it up. At the end of the episode, after a busy night dealing with patients, and shelling, and other things, just as things are settling down, the can of beans explodes.
* ''[[Community]]'': A brick joke three years in the making: over the course of three episodes across three seasons, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19FMU3M7Jtk a certain word is said three times]. [[Beetlejuice|Only on the third time]] does the brick [[Shout-Out|pay off]].
* ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'': While Randy is fishing junk out of the river that a storm drain flows into, he says, "Another dolls head, Earl! That makes four." Eight episodes later, in the next season, an orphan girl tells Earl, "I used to live in a storm drain, rain washed my doll heads away."
* In one episode of [[That '70s Show|That 70's Show]], Jackie has Kelso reading Cosmo magazine, hoping that it would give him insight into women (specifically, Jackie, and what she wants at any given moment). A bit later, Eric is griping about Donna to Kelso, and Kelso spouts off some helpful wisdom, and, when Eric is [[OOC Is Serious Business|incredulous]], Kelso explains that he's been reading Cosmo, and offhandedly mentions that there are some diagrams to women's internal organs that look like a map to Six Flags. This isn't mentioned for the rest of the episode, until the very end...
{{quote|'''Fez:''' Oh look! Six flags!}}
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' had a particularly long lasting one. At the end of the serial ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S14/E02 The Hand of Fear|The Hand of Fear]]'', The Doctor is forced to drop Sarah Jane Smith on Earth. When last we see of her, she realizes she isn't in her home city of Croydon. Cut to [[Doctor Who/Recap/NS/S2/E03 School Reunion|30 years later]], we find out that she'd been left in Aberdeen, Scotland instead.
* ''[[The Dick Van Dyke Show]]'' did this in the third season premiere episode, "That's My Boy??" Mel's sister-in-law has just had a baby, which prompts Mel to make a [[Switched At Birth]] joke. Laura prods Rob into a [[Whole-Episode Flashback]] retelling of how, a few days after Ritchie's birth, he became convinced that they took the wrong baby home from the hospital. They contact the other parents—who have the similar last name of Peters—and invite them over to discuss the possibility. The doorbell rings, Rob opens the door and is stunned at the sight of them. Then he invites the Peters in. Their entry is the brick joke. {{spoiler|They're African-American.}}
** ''[[Kenan and Kel]]'' did an episode based on that Dick Van Dyke episode, but because the show is made up of {{spoiler|African-Americans}}, the brick changed. {{spoiler|The parents are Asian.}}
* On ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', Marshall's {{spoiler|slap bet}} with Barney turned into a Brick Joke spanning the entirety of the series to date. {{spoiler|As of season 7, Marshall has been granted three additional slaps (one of which he used immediately), leaving him with three slaps remaining.}}
** There's a lot of them in ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]''. In S2E02, Ted enthusiastically tells Robin that he found a 1945 penny in the subway. Many episodes later, we see a flashback of Ted and Robin buying ice-cream with the money they just got from selling a 1945 penny Ted found on the subway.
** In "The Pineapple Incident", Marshall is curious about why is there a pineapple in Ted's bedroom. In "The Third Wheel", we see a flashback fom that night where Ted and Trudy are licking the pineapple while having sex.
** Also from "The Pineapple Incident", Ted claims he's "vomit free since '93". In "Game Night", Ted confesses that he threw up on Robin's carpet:
{{quote|'''Marshall:''' I knew you weren't vomit free since '93! }}
* The cold opening for one ''[[All That]]'' episode has Kenan blowing up a scarecrow, causing the Big Ear Of Corn to be kidnapped by Elvis and professional wrestlers. Later on, Lori Beth Denberg (as Miss Fingerly) kisses a stuffed monkey despite the superstition about what happens... then Elvis and the professional wrestlers come out and beat her up.
* ''[[The IT Crowd]]'': Roy gets caught in the handicapped bathroom at a theater and pretends to be disabled so he won't get in trouble. He tells the theater staff and police that his wheelchair was stolen by a bearded, [[Evil Redhead|red-haired]] man with glasses. Later, the police see a man matching that description leaving the theater and quietly take him away. In the same episode, Moss is caught using the employee bathroom and is mistaken for a new employee. Later, Jen goes to a party at the theater to find Roy in a wheelchair and Moss tending bar.
* On the last episode of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'''s 36th season, [[Seth Meyers]] leaves for summer vacation with Bill Hader's Stefon character. About three episodes into season 37 (the episode hosted by [[Ben Stiller]] with musical guest Foster the People), Stefon returns and Seth mentions that the vacation they took last summer was bizarre ([[Noodle Incident|and when Stefon asked Meyers if his back was okay, Meyers quickly changed the subject]]).
* One episode of ''[[Corner Gas]]'' had Davis and Oscar trying to catch a mouse in the gas station. Oscar was going for the traditional mouse trap, while Davis was advocating being humane and letting the mouse go. He mentioned that, once, he'd nursed an owl back to health and released it. At the end, they catch the mouse, they let it go, they watch it scamper off into the world...and the same owl Davis rescued swooped down and carried off the mouse.
* Over three seasons, characters on ''[[Eureka]]'' occasionally refer to something called an "Einstein-Grant Bridge" until in the season four opener, when they accidentally pull Dr. Grant into the future from his original timeline in 1947. Thereafter, they use the term we normally use for that object, the [[wikipedia:Wormhole|Einstein-Rosen Bridge]], thereby proving that the timeline they had been in was different from our own.
* In the ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episode "The Fifth Race", Jack spars with Teal'c in a boxing ring. Teal'c knocks Jack over with one punch. Fast forward to "Upgrades", where with the benefit of a bodily-capabilities-improving Atoniek armband, Jack KO's Teal'c.
== Newspaper Comics ==
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