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Bob decides to make a joke in a specific vein about a specific subject. But not just one joke, no no no, oh heavens no. He has to exhaust his entire supply of jokes and wise-guy commentary, getting them all out of his system.

The major difference between an Overly Long Gag and Joke Exhaustion is that the Overly Long Gag is one extended gag that goes on for far too long, while Joke Exhaustion should be a series of gags that could each be told individually and still be funny. But because Bob tells them all at once, it just gets irritating.

Examples of Joke Exhaustion include:

Comic Books

In Ultimate Spider-Man, Spidey torments the Kingpin using an exhaustive written list of fat jokes. On note cards.

Film

Steve Martin's Cyrano Expy in Roxanne does this regarding his own huge nose to show up a less-clever rival's lame insult. Except this is more of a Crowning Moment of Awesome for Martin instead.
Whenever Austin Powers offs a Mook, he'll rattle off a list of incredibly lame bond one liners about the nature of said mook's death. He generally has to be stopped by someone else before he'll move on.

Live-Action TV

In an episode of How I Met Your Mother, it's revealed that Marshall wears a nightshirt to bed. Naturally, Barney makes a bunch of jokes about it (including a Peter Pan reference). Also when Barney is accidentally called "Swarley" the laundry list of permutations that the gang uses to mock him is quite long.
In the opening host segment of Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Skydivers, Crow interrupts Tom Servo's planetarium presentation by cracking every single Uranus joke in his arsenal. Tom eventually snaps.

Web Comics

In The Order of the Stick, when Roy uses the belt of Gender Changing to escape being killed, Haley makes nearly a dozen jokes about Roy being emasculated, to the point that Roy mentions that technically, it's okay for him to hit a girl now.

Web Original

At the end of the Zero Punctuation review of Tomb Raider, Yahtzee had vowed not to make any boob jokes, ends with him rambling on about them at very high speed, getting all the jokes that had been building up out of his system.

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 Bob decides to make a joke in a specific vein about a specific subject. But not just one joke, no no no, oh heavens no. He has to exhaust his entire supply of jokes and wise-guy commentary, getting them all out of his system.
-The major difference between an [[Overly Long Gag]] and Joke Exhaustion is that the Overly Long Gag is one extended gag that goes on for far too long, while Joke Exhaustion should be a series of gags that could each be told individually and still be funny. But because Bob tells them all at once, it just gets irritating.
+The major difference between an [[Overly Long Gag]] and [[Joke Exhaustion]] is that the Overly Long Gag is one extended gag that goes on for far too long, while Joke Exhaustion should be a series of gags that could each be told individually and still be funny. But because Bob tells them all at once, it just gets irritating.
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+{{examples}}
-* In ''[[Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]'', when Roy uses the belt of Gender Changing to escape being killed, Haley makes nearly a dozen jokes about Roy being emasculated, to the point that Roy mentions that technically, it's okay for him to hit a girl now.
+== Comic Books ==
-* At the end of the [[Zero Punctuation]] review of ''[[Tomb Raider]]'', Yahtzee had vowed not to make any boob jokes, ends with him rambling on about them at very high speed, getting all the jokes that had been building up out of his system.
-* Steve Martin's Cyrano [[Expy]] in ''Roxanne'' does this regarding his own huge nose to show up a less-clever rival's lame insult. Except this is more of a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for Martin instead.
+* In ''[[Ultimate Spider-Man]]'', Spidey torments the Kingpin using an exhaustive written list of fat jokes. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|On note cards.]]
-* In ''[[Ultimate Spider-Man]]'', Spidey torments the Kingpin using an exhaustive written list of fat jokes. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|on note cards]]
+== Film ==
+* Steve Martin's Cyrano [[Expy]] in ''[[Roxanne]]'' does this regarding his own huge nose to show up a less-clever rival's lame insult. Except this is more of a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for Martin instead.
+* Whenever ''[[Austin Powers]]'' offs a [[Mook]], he'll rattle off a list of [[Incredibly Lame Pun|incredibly lame]] [[Bond One-Liner|bond one liners]] about the nature of said mook's death. He generally has to be stopped by someone else before he'll move on.
+== Live-Action TV ==
 * In an episode of ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', it's revealed that Marshall wears a nightshirt to bed. Naturally, Barney makes a bunch of jokes about it (including a ''[[Peter Pan]]'' reference). Also when Barney is accidentally called "Swarley" the laundry list of permutations that the gang uses to mock him is quite long.
 * In the opening host segment of ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]: [[The Skydivers]]'', Crow interrupts Tom Servo's planetarium presentation by cracking every single [[Uranus Is Showing|Uranus joke]] in his arsenal. Tom eventually snaps.
-* Whenever ''[[Austin Powers]]'' offs a [[Mook]], he'll rattle off a list of [[Incredibly Lame Pun|incredibly lame]] [[Bond One Liner|bond one liners]] about the nature of said mook's death. He generally has to be stopped by someone else before he'll move on.
+== Web Comics ==
+* In ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'', when Roy uses the belt of Gender Changing to escape being killed, Haley makes nearly a dozen jokes about Roy being emasculated, to the point that Roy mentions that technically, it's okay for him to hit a girl now.
+== Web Original ==
+* At the end of the [[Zero Punctuation]] review of ''[[Tomb Raider]]'', Yahtzee had vowed not to make any boob jokes, ends with him rambling on about them at very high speed, getting all the jokes that had been building up out of his system.
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-[[Category:Joke Exhaustion]]
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-[[Category:Trope]]
+[[Category:Comedy Tropes]]
+[[Category:Length Tropes]]
+[[Category:Narrative Devices]]