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{{trope}}
A gag that goes excessively far and beyond a tolerable length. The concept is that something happens repeatedly, to the point of boredom. Then it ''keeps going'', to the point where it, in theory, actually becomes funny again. Essentially, the sheer length of the gag ''becomes'' the gag. This is '''[[You Keep Using That Word|inconceivably]]''' [[Don't Try This At Home|tricky]] - there has to be the sense that the characters are themselves helpless to end the gag, and as exasperated as the audience.
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However, some feel that, once the audience recognizes the trope again, the gag ''permanently'' loses its entertainment value and the viewer is left waiting for it to end and some other humor to begin ("Oh, it's another one of ''these''; [[Sarcasm Mode|how utterly hi''lar''ious...]]"). Others, though, find it a brilliant subversion of audience expectations on the lines of [[Andy Kaufman]] reading the entire text of ''[[The Great Gatsby]]'' to an audience expecting a comedy routine. Not that that was actually brilliant, but you get the idea.
Either way, the more it's used, the more it's expected. Comedy writers take note: It's good for a laugh occasionally, but expect diminishing returns for each
Most uses of [[Broken Record]] might end up becoming this.
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Compare [[Overly Long Name]]. Not to be confused with [[Overused Running Gag]]. May invoke the [[Repeat Cut]]. May be invoked by [[Rhyming List]].
The serious version is [[Leave the Camera Running]] (or [[Ending Fatigue]], if the prolongated section is the closure). An
If the ''gag itself'' isn't overly long, but the ''distance between the setup and the payoff'' is, it's an [[Overly Prepared Gag]] or [[Brick Joke]].
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== Advertising ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ8Iw0dTMm0 This CareerBuilder ad] from the 2009 Super Bowl. (The koala was the turning point between tedious and funny.)
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== Anime ==
* The chronological last episode of ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya|The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' has a ''very'' extensive (almost three and a half minutes!!!!) scene featuring nothing but Yuki quietly reading as the sound of people from other classrooms shouting Japanese pop-culture references fills the background.
** The second season takes this further with eight episodes, each titled simply Endless Eight. These episodes are basically a {{spoiler|[[Groundhog Day Loop]] where the characters are trapped in an endless summer.}} In the novel, we see only one iteration, the last. In the adaptation, however, {{spoiler|they break from the source material by putting in one episode where they don't discover the loop, making it seem like a simple summer-y [[Slice of Life]] episode Haruhi style to viewers not familiar with the original, and not one, but ''six'' where they do realize the loop but do not escape}}. Despite the [[Internet Backdraft]] and unauthorized professional apologies (among Seiyuu and a dissenting and fired director) that resulted, the arc is distinguished as a rare
* ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'' uses this one a lot. These include Osaka needing to "Get it together!" in episode 2, the "Nandeyane! Nandeyane!..." bit from episode 8, and the "Today is a summer service day..."/"Get motivated! Get motivated!" bit from episode 14. They seem to mostly involve either [[Genki Girl|Tomo]] or [[Cloudcuckoolander|Osaka]]...
** Episode 9's "You took it, didn't you? Give it back, give it back, give it back!" is a milder example.
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* One episode of ''[[Bleach]]'' contained a scene of Yoruichi eating bowl after bowl of food. For almost two whole minutes. During which time the camera is still, and nothing else happens. [http://youtube.com/watch?v=61cb_salyzE The actual scene doesn't go as long as this video does, but it certainly feels like it].
** Which is made even more ridiculous due to the fact that the scene in the manga occupies all of a ''page''.
* ''[[Potemayo]]'' does this in episode 4, with the titular [[
* One episode of ''[[
* In the ''[[Dragon Ball GT]]'' special, Goku's spirit does it when seeing Goku Jr., saying that the kid must be his "great-great-great-great...Oh, you know what!"
* ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'' has an overly long gag made of...overly long gags at the end of episode 16. Five minutes of random characters not actually doing anything for about a minute each, or Klaus doing something boring.
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* A cheesy [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbOYXz8_IUk waltz on the piano] by Dutch comedian Hans Teeuwen. Only a few words are said.
* Martin Ljung's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh4d40RawQQ "Fingal Olsson"] monologue, in which he's trying to explain what makes a joke funny by telling the same joke over and over, varying the punchline slightly each time. The joke is less than hilarious to begin with, but after about seven repetitions...
* Bill Hicks would generally try to keep to his schedule, but when he was doing a joke about an object of his ire - and especially if the crowd was enjoying
* Jim Gaffigan's Hot Pockets
** He has similarly extensive bits about ketchup and bacon, and he lampshades it continually with these little sotto-voiced asides designed to mimic an audience member's reaction to the fact that he's gotten twenty minutes of material out of ''bacon''.
* Lewis Black's rants in general, but especially the one about frozen embryos. "THEY'RE FROZEN! THEY'RE FROZEN! THEY'RE FROZEN! THEY'RE FROZEN! THEY'RE FROZEN! THEY'RE FROZEN! THEY'RE FROZEN! THEY'RE FROZEN! THEY'RE FROZEN! THEY'RE FROZEN! THEY'RE FROZEN! THEY'RE FROZEN! THEY'RE FROZEN! THEY'RE FROZEN! THEY'RE LIKE MINI PIZZAS!"
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* [[Patton Oswalt]] often combines this with [[Genius Bonus]] for bits that are hilarious partly because he keeps going further and further out; ie. his [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoFXhB5THFk bit] about insane chefs.
* [[Steve Martin]] tries repeatedly to do a [http://new.music.yahoo.com/steve-martin/tracks/googlephonics--1389471 bit about stereo equipment]. It's hilarious.
* [[George Carlin]] was fond of these, especially later in his career. Probably his best example is [http://popup.lala.com/popup/4467852352575543306 Coast To Coast Emergency]{{Dead link}} from ''Life is Worth Losing''.
* Subverted by Daniel Tosh after his bit about Tourette's.
{{quote|'''Daniel''': I think two examples is enough; next joke.}}
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* [[Cerebus]] has also been known to pee for entire pages.
* ''[[Ultimate Spider-Man]]'' has Spidey picturing Jean Grey naked (after she thanks him for not picturing her naked) for two pages, with the [[Oh God, Did She Just Hear That?|telepathic]] Jean reading his mind. At first she reacts with boredom, then annoyance that he's still thinking about her, then amusement that he still hasn't stopped thinking about her naked, then shock at an apparently vivid fantasy he's having, then anger etc...all while Spider-Man keeps saying "Okay, I'm done now. No, now..."
* In ''[[Invincible]]'', Mark had a conversation with a comic book shop owner discussing the habit of overusing identical [[Beat Panel
* Lampshaded in [[Mad]]'s parody of ''[[Moonlighting]]'' by requesting readers to reread certain panels 10 or 12 times over before continuing to read the parody.
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** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] later in the movie, as President Skroob is seen running onto the ship's bridge. "The ship is too big! If I walk, the movie will be over!"
* Also, the notorious [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6dm9rN6oTs "baked beans" scene] in ''[[Blazing Saddles]]''. [[Mel Brooks]] was asked to cut down the number of farts, but he realized the length of the gag would enable people to get over their initial shocked reaction and start laughing.
* An unintentional version of this is the fight scene in the 1988 ''[[They Live!]]!'' In it, the main character, a fugitive accused of murder, is trying to convince another character to put on a pair of sunglasses and thus see the aliens and their handiwork. While originally intended to last only
** Even better, [[Roddy Piper]] and Keith David planned the entire extended fight scene completely outside of the script direction. [[John Carpenter|Carpenter]] [[Throw It In|loved it and kept the whole thing.]]
** The fight was recreated exactly in the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Cripple Fight".
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* In ''[[Snow Crash]]'' by Neal Stephenson, there is an inordinately long inter-office memo about having workers give money for toilet paper. The memo in its entirety is contained within the novel and takes up several pages while going on and on about trivial points. While it effectively lampoons American Bureaucracy, the joke gets very old after the first few paragraphs.
* Lampshaded in the second book of ''[[Belgariad|The Malloreon]]'' where [[Deadpan Snarker|Silk]] continues to make complaints about having porridge for breakfast and enjoying any breakfast that isn't porridge...until Polgara suggests his [[Running Gag|incessant repetitiveness]] could be a sign of limited intelligence.
* In the [[Discworld]] book ''[[
** Also, in ''[[
* John Hodgman's lists:
** 700 hobo names in ''[[The Areas of My Expertise]]''.
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{{quote|'''Turk:''' Dude, you okay? You were gone for an awfully long time.
'''JD:''' You're going to be a horrible father! }}
** JD's fantasies start being treated like this in later seasons, both literally and in the show. A number of his longer [[Imagine Spot
** Also, when Dr. Cox used this as a torture method to punish the doctor who messed up his vasectomy. He had the Worthless Peons sing the first two words of the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r8Frf6kCxo Chili's baby back ribs song].
{{quote|'''Doctor:''' Dear God, when do they ever say ribs?
'''Dr. Cox:''' Never. They never say ribs. }}
* ''[[Sesame Street]]''
** In one old sketch, Ernie tells an ice cream man that he wants a "chocolate, strawberry, peach, vanilla, banana, pistachio, peppermint, lemon, orange, butterscotch ice cream cone". Once the ice cream man confirms that he ordered a chocolate, strawberry, peach, vanilla, banana, pistachio, peppermint, lemon, orange, butterscotch ice cream cone, he goes to make the chocolate, strawberry, peach, vanilla, banana, pistachio, peppermint, lemon, orange, butterscotch ice cream cone. However, Ernie is upset with what he gets, claiming he was given a butterscotch, orange, lemon, peppermint, pistachio, banana, vanilla peach, strawberry, chocolate ice cream cone, and not the chocolate, strawberry, peach, vanilla, banana, pistachio, peppermint, lemon, orange, butterscotch ice cream cone he asked for, even thought the guy insists it ''is'' a chocolate, strawberry, peach, vanilla, banana, pistachio, peppermint, lemon, orange, butterscotch ice cream cone. After this silliness goes on for another minute or two, the ice cream man just tells him to [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|"eat the same cone standing on your head".]]
** In another sketch, Ernie helps a postman who can't find the address of Ms. ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. Oddly, that doesn't narrow it down enough, and Ernie asks if he's looking for ''Miss'' ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ or ''Mrs.'' ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. Again, after several minutes of this silliness, Ernie figures out that the reason he is confused is because Mrs. ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ lives with her husband, Mr. 12345678910.
* The third season of the British version of ''[[The Apprentice (TV series)|The Apprentice]]'' had a hilarious real life example, utterly unintended. It comes a bit later in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZP3Xcuo16E this scene], after the simply bad demo.
* The "Sex" episode of Brasseye contains a notable overly long "End of part one" ident [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEt8Nv4fPPk after the Peter Stringfellow interview 11 minutes in].
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** Tim Conway and Harvey Korman did a similar skit set in (naturally) a fast-food restaurant. "Lemme just put a 'rush' on that order..R...U...."
* One sketch on ''[[Mad TV]]'' was nothing more than two people engaged in a [[Mexican Standoff]] and yelling at each other, "Drop the gun!" "No YOU drop the gun!" "I said drop the gun!" "No YOU drop the gun!" etc.
* This happens with ''plenty'' of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketches nowadays. Sometimes it completely ruins sketches that could have been funny: See the "Over 21" sketch, or the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130923190232/http://snltranscripts.jt.org/79/79awhatthehell.phtml What the hell is that?] sketch, featuring nothing but Steve Martin and Bill Murray looking off camera and asking each other the eponymous question.
** [[Will Ferrell]] as the boss from hell, stabbing Chris Parnell with a trident 33 times.
** ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' parodied this trend when Krusty appears on SNL in "The Big Ear Family" sketch. After a lame prop gag involving a large Q-Tip, Krusty sighs, "This goes on for another 14 minutes!"
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* In one episode of ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]]'', Lois sends the boys out so she can enjoy the hot tub she's been nagging Hal about for days. When they come back early, she ducks under the water to hide. Before heading back out, Hal stands around FOR HALF A MINUTE reading a film review. HALF A MINUTE.
* An episode of ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' calls for Dean to scream after a cat jumps out at him. The director told Jensen Ackles to [[Large Ham|ham it up]] and scream as loud and as long as he could. Although the version in the actual episode isn't too excessive, there is a take on the blooper reel for season 4 that combines this trope with [[Chewing the Scenery]] for ultimate hilarity ([http://youtu.be/T--dq1afEsY see 20 seconds in here]).
* Lampshaded in ''[[Community]]'' episode [[Community/Recap/S1
{{quote|'''Troy:''' "He released Annie's Boobs! Annie's Boobs could be ''anywhere''! Annie's Boobs could be on the side of the ''road'' --"
'''Shirley:''' ''[Fed-up]'' "We get it! The monkey's name is 'Annie's Boobs'." }}
* In a late 80s/early 90s episode of ''[[The Tonight Show]] with Johnny Carson'', Johnny introduces guest (then-governor) [[Bill Clinton]] with a two-minute introduction.
** What's better, after his first question to Bill, he pulls out an hourglass.
* [[Distracting Disambiguation]] and this trope make up about 90% of the jokes on [[Reno 911!]]. Most of the gags get cut down so they aren't too horrible, but some of the deleted scenes last for an eternity. Twenty minutes of clarifying exactly what is going on is a long, ''long'' time.
* ''[[Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza]]'': One word. Duststorm.
== Music ==
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* MC Chris has elements of this in a lot of the skits on his albums, but none more so than in "Happy Hunting", when a gameshow host lists the names of a huge group of Bounty Hunters. By the end of it he's calling out names like, "The Lamp", "Curtains", and "El Table".
* The last line of the song "Joseph's Coat/The Coat of Many Colors" in ''[[Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat]]''. What makes it particularly funny is that the coat is pretty succinctly described earlier in the song as "red and yellow and green and brown and blue," which gives you a pretty good impression of what it looks like as well as being mercifully short. But later the singers describe the coat more thoroughly as "red and yellow and green and brown and scarlet and black and ochre and peach and ruby and olive and violet and fawn and lilac and gold and chocolate and mauve and cream and crimson and silver and rose and azure and lemon and russet and gray and purple and white and pink and orange and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|BLUE]]!"
* Arlo Guthrie's "[[Alice's Restaurant (music)|The Alice's Restaurant Massacree]]". It's over 18 minutes long, is ''supposed'' to be about a diner owned by a woman named Alice, but is primarily occupied by a story about going to jail for littering. Watch part one [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GguFmYRryz8 here] and part two [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2nn1HtMzuk here].
** The sequel, "The Alice's Restaurant Multi-Colored Rainbow Roach Affair", clocks in at ''just over half an hour''.
** Arlo Guthrie re-recorded "Alice's Restaurant" to mark its 30th anniversary. Though this version moves at a considerably quicker tempo than the original, its length stretches beyond the original by a few minutes due to a hilarious extra section where Arlo speculates about the role of "Alice's Restaurant" in the Watergate scandal.
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* [[Long List|Hold]] [[Chris Jericho/Funny|number 170:]] [[Chris Jericho|armbar!]]
** [[Stone Cold Steve Austin]], [[Dwayne Johnson|The Rock]]................Juventud Guerrera..........
* Possibly unintentional (but probably not): during a short WCW Hacksaw Jim Duggan match, play-by-play commentator Tony Schiavone claimed that Hacksaw was "a very intelligent man." Color commentator [[Bobby Heenan]] proceeded to laugh uncontrollably. For the ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100721112958/http://www.break.com/usercontent/2007/11/Bobby-Heenan-Loses-His-Mind-401325.html entire three-minute match].'' When Schiavone brings up Duggan's college football career near the end, Heenan yells "COLLEGE!" and starts laughing even harder.
* The [[Big "What?"|WHAT?]] chants. Can also be considered a 10-year-long running gag considering it's still very much alive today.
* My name is John Laurinaitis, Executive Vice-President of Talent Relations and General Manager of Raw and Smackdown.
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** The infamous "balloon trick," which goes on for a whopping '''one minute forty-seven seconds.''' Over a minute of that is taken up by Pee-ww letting air out of the balloon.
* [[Older Than Steam]]: In [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'', Gratiano's repeated [[Ironic Echo|ironic echoes]] of Shylock at the climax of the court scene are this.
* [[The Lord of the Rings|Fellowship!]] [[The Musical]] had a great example: Boromir, defending the hobbits, gets shot with an arrow, falls, gets back up, stumbles off stage, gets shot with a couple more arrows, stumbles back on stage...repeat several more times. The last time he stumbles off stage, different arrow-hitting-flesh sounds (getting increasingly ridiculous) are played for over a minute, before he stumbles back on stage one final time, looking like a pincushion.
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* In ''[[The Neverhood]]'', Klaymen can pick a fruit from a tree and eat it, and will consequently burp. Eating a second fruit will cause Klaymen to burp a little longer. After eating a third fruit, Klaymen will burp again...for a full minute.
** In the same game, an absurdly long corridor.
*** Something like 45-screens worth of walls covered with dense text. It's actually readable if you click on
* Dasher Inoba's ending in ''[[Ehrgeiz]]'' consists of Inoba ordering and eating bowls of noodles. Repeatedly. The video literally goes on forever - the only time it stops is if the player gets bored and skips it.
* ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney|Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney]]'' has Damon Gant bursting out into manic laughter when you {{spoiler|out him as trying to frame Ema Skye for murder.}}
** Even better is Gant's stare, which he does quite often. It lasts for so long, one would think their game had frozen!
** ''Trials and Tribulations'' has Furio Tigre's scream of rage when you first meet him at the park: [GWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA] [AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA] (for about seven boxes of text) [AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA] [AR!]
* The factory password from ''[[
* In ''[[Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge|Monkey Island 2 Le Chucks Revenge]]'', you had to get a bucket from three pirates. One way to get it was to say "please", which doesn't work right away. It will eventually.
** Another one from ''MI 2'' involved trying to answer Herman Toothrot's [[Ice Cream Koan]], "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, what color is the tree?" I bet you didn't know Pink Floyd was a color.
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*** Also, west of Celestic Town, there is an Ace Trainer who, if you talk to him, says "I'm strong!" a bunch of times to himself before noticing you, then gives you the [[TM 77]], which contains Psych Up.
** Similar to the Earthbound example above, in order to get into Regice's room in R/S/E, you have to wait. The length of time is ''just'' enough time to completely translate the message.
* At one point in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]'', Naked Snake has to climb a ladder. A very, very tall ladder. Partway up, the game's theme song starts playing, and even at maximum climbing speed, it has time to finish before you reach the top.
** And in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'', those ''stairs''.
** And again at the end of ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'', fighting through seemingly-endless corridors of Scarabs, and then suffering from early-onset-RSI destroying your Triangle button as Snake slooooowly crawls through the many, many microwave-emitting Corridors of DOOM.
** Completing the set, ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]'' pits Raiden against {{spoiler|a whole squad of knock-off Metal Gear RAYs}} for the penultimate boss battle. As part of the game's infamous ending, it's no surprise that there's no indication as to how many you have to fight (apart from an estimate by Snake). The following scene is a real ''overly long gag'' ({{spoiler|a minute-long chokehold}}) on European Extreme.
** Before all of those, ''[[Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake]]'' already made you climb 30 floors of stairs. Fun!
** Speaking of ''MGS'', [http://gigaville.com/comic.php?id=467 this strip] from ''[[The Last Days of Foxhound]]''.
* Used in the ending of ''[[Mega Man 9]]''. Twice as funny when you realize {{spoiler|[[Lampshade Hanging|they're making fun]] of Wily's outrageous [[Villain Decay]].}}
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* Vernon Tripe's rambling stories in ''[[Psychonauts]]''.
** Boyd and his theories...
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20140714223148/http://v2.razputin.net/index.html@page=razputin%252Ffeatures%252Ftimwords.html This interview] with [[Tim Schafer]], the game's creative designer. Specifically, his response to the first question.
* Loom's unending temple corridor in the very beginning.
* Continuing the list of Mario games on here, ''[[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]'' has one in the back surgery scene. You drill into Bowser's back, and wait. Really wait. At least the game is nice enough to let you know it will take a while, more specifically, it tells you to go take a tea break. It won't do anything for about five minutes.
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* ''[[Fallout 3]]'': While [[Escort Mission|escorting Sticky]], his rambling, implausible yet not particularly inventive story will repeat over and over, with little variation. You can always skip through by fast traveling if you'd been to the destination before; otherwise, you don't have to imagine what your character is going through for the trip, you get to experience it yourself.
* The ''[[Doom (series)|Doom]]'' mod [http://doomworld.com/idgames/index.php?id=12264 "Mock 2: The Speed of Stupid"] has a level named "Mining Fecality". It consists of a long, U-turn corridor with a button visible right next to where you start, blocked by a grate. You travel down it and hit the button. Only for another button to appear where you just were. You go back to press THAT button...and another one opens up right at the end. You make it to the turning point in the hallway to find out it's gotten ''even longer.'' You press the button finally, only for ''yet another'' '''''goddamn''''' ''button'' to appear back at the start. Luckily, this one ends the level.
* The leaked unreleased game ''[[Penn & Teller|Penn & Teller's]] Smoke and Mirrors'' was supposed to accomplish this with the "Desert Bus" sequence. It is a real time drive between Tuscon and Las Vegas, with the idea being that someone would eventually wonder when it's supposed to end (and at the end...you do it again in the opposite direction...forever; screw up and crash and you get towed back to Tuscon...also in real time). The dull-yet-unending nature of this 'game' eventually lead to a charity effort conducted online called "Desert Bus for Hope".<ref>Donations submitted to the charity effort would determine how long the players would play Desert Bus. The more donations, the longer the playtime, with the whole thing going up on a stream.</ref>
== Web Animation ==
* From ''[[Homestar Runner]]'': In the Strong Bad email [http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail131.html boring (really)], Strong Bad gets an email from a viewer complaining of boredom, and asking how exciting day-to-day life in Free Country USA really was. He and several other characters manage (by speaking and moving ''very'' slowly) to make a twenty-five-second conversation last four minutes - which, SB insists, makes for an extremely exciting day.
** To commemorate his [https://web.archive.org/web/20131105121929/http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemailahundred.html 100th email], Strong Bad decides he'll say "email" 100 times. And does it. His computer provides him with a virtual glass of water afterwards.
** "Yeah...''shaped'' like there's a bite taken out of it."
* [[Zero Punctuation|Yahtzee's]] short answer as to whether or not ''[[Spore]]'' could live up to creator [[Will Wright]]'s legacy was "No." His ''long'' answer was a [[Big No]] which lasted a full sixteen seconds. There's a second, slightly shorter [[Big No]] near the end of the review, too.
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* Episode 21 of ''[[Retarded Animal Babies]]'' features, after the credits, a very long phone call from Puppy's insanely drunk (or drugged out) cousin.
* [[Charlie the Unicorn|"Chaaaaaaarrliiiiiiiie....Chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeee...We're on a bridge, Chaaaaarrrrlliiiiieeeeeee..."]]
* The flash game, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130814151044/http://www.e4.com/game/steamshovel-harry/play.e4 Steamshovel Harry]''. Watch out for that gravity.
* ''[[The Demented Cartoon Movie]]!'' has the many attempts of the characters to go to Mars and find out what's behind the [[Brown Note|Zeeky Words]] causing explosions without blowing up or crashing. Lampshaded by the guy in the green chair: "Damn it, this scene is taking freaking forever."
* The Cyanide & Happiness animated short "Speed Racist", where the aforementioned Speed Racist suffers a crash and spends a full two and a half minutes in a monologue of screaming pain about the fire and the irony of his racism....from off panel.
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== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', Dr. Viennason [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20050210 explains] the dimension of timeless space by illustrating what happens when you run out of time supplies. By standing perfectly still for thirteen panels. Although he breaks it to surreptitiously glance at the camera if you look carefully in the tenth panel. Also in Sluggy, sixteen panels drive home the pun in a [https://web.archive.org/web/20141227014506/http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=010715 Gofotron] battle with a sledgehammer.
* "Scientifically" sketched out in [http://www.chrisyates.net/reprographics/index.php?page=648 this] ''Reprographics'' strip.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110123135656/http://pc.gamespy.com/flintlocke-vs-the-horde/episode-9-when-orcs-attack/938136p1.html This Flintelocke strip]. {{spoiler|And then brutally subverted.}}
* [http://catandgirl.com/?p=2035 This] ''Cat and Girl'' strip.
* ''[[Xkcd]]'' [http://www.xkcd.com/609/ on TV Tropes.]
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* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'', when Roy goes [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0136.html shopping]
** That scene is actually a spoof of the classic [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3KBuQHHKx0 Monty Python cheese shop sketch], which some may argue is, in itself, an Overly Long Gag.
* [http://www.explosm.net/comics/1323/ This] ''[[Cyanide
** [http://www.explosm.net/comics/2030/ This] strip also qualifies. They did subtle enough changes that you could animate that damn thing. Scroll click with the correct speed might do it!
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in ''[[Mezzacotta|Square Root of Minus Garfield]]'' [http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=139 here].
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* Masterfully done in [http://samandfuzzy.com/901 this] ''[[Sam and Fuzzy]]'' guest strip, by [[Gunnerkrigg Court|Tom Siddell]].
* Lampshaded, then avoided in the alt text of [http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p33 this] ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'' strip.
* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005986 Karkat] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005987 shoosh-papping] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005988 Gamzee] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005989 into] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005990 submission] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005991 takes] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005992 nine] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005993 whole] [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005994 panels.]
* The ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' strip [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/11/03 "Perhaps Slightly Exaggerated"] contains ''four whole panels'' of [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot|Gabe puking]].
== Web Original ==
* The stinger of the [[Noodle Implements]] page on this very wiki.
* [[The Nostalgia Critic]] is known for deliberately extending gags so he can act annoyed at how long they are:
** Laughing at Zack's "rock star" outfit in the ''[[Saved by the Bell]]'' [
** Then there's the "Grape Nose Boy" scene in the ''[[Good Burger]]'' review, in which the film's [[The Ditz|ditz]] stuffs grapes up his nose and shouts "Bloopity Bloopity Bloopity" for over a minute while the Nostalgia Critic desperately tries to get him to stop. It's exactly as painful as it sounds.
*** Especially as the Nostalgia Critic repeated the footage to make it seem longer and more painful.
**** He did the same thing with the tornado chasers' song on his review of ''[[Twister]]''.
*** [[The Nostalgia Chick]] isn't immune to this either. Extending the "Go It Alone" song from ''[[My Little Pony: The Movie|My Little Pony the Movie]]'' was just cruel.
*** Another video maker on the [[That Guy With The Glasses|same website]] also used an overly long gag in one of [https://web.archive.org/web/20130924023131/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/cr/ff/18880-episode-23 his own videos], where he discusses Mrs. Klump from ''[[The Nutty Professor]]'' and notes that we don't know much about her. He then asks a series of questions about her (like "What is her favorite TV show?"), always answered by a clip of her saying "Oh, Hercules! Hercules! Hercules!" that goes on for over a minute. It's later subverted when {{spoiler|He asks "what's the name of her favorite Disney movie?" and she answers ''[[Bambi]]''.}}
*** In the 100th episode of Phelous, Paris Hilton's character in ''[[House of Wax]]'' gets killed with a huge pipe through the head. This sets off a montage of many of the other critics applauding the death of Paris Hilton for over 3 minutes.
** The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDEJDwwTa1k "Soundwave's romantic comedy" description] somehow goes on longer than the overly long-gags in ''[[Family Guy]]''.
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* [[Mega 64]]'s spoof of ''[[Heavy Rain]]'' counts when it is revealed that {{spoiler|the cause of Shawn (Sean)'s unhappiness is that he was diagnosed with cancer.}}
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87p53rAD7Sk&feature=player_embedded 100 Ways To Love A Cat]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100905232442/http://verydemotivational.com/2010/09/01/demotivational-posters-opps/ This] [[Fauxtivational Poster|Demotivational Poster]]. Dear god, it never ends!
* 4Chan is responsible for [https://web.archive.org/web/20130312072306/http://fukung.net/v/8649/7fd20aebbd29caf40ed0f94bed5aa0de.jpg lots] and lots and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130312072251/http://fukung.net/v/6216/teamrocket.jpg lots] and lots and lots and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130312072310/http://fukung.net/v/6223/dick.jpg lots] and [http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/6971/1186900688091ya6.jpg lots] and lots and [http://sinth.info/pix/4chan%20epic/21.jpg lots]{{Dead link}} of these, including [http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/9326/metqs5.jpg these] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130312072259/http://fukung.net/v/1766/longcat.jpg two], the former of which goes from cute gimmick to [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] after the first few, the latter of which simply speaks for itself.
* ''[[The Onion]]'' will occasionally print an article that contains the sentence "Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood" repeated for the entire article.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKzqP4-0Z6M Our collective liek of mudkips embodies this trope.]
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** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKwaPSkjXp0 Black Lagoon, The Fucking Short Version]
** An extra on DVD release of ''[[Withnail and I]]'' does something very similar.
* Many [[
** The "X does Y Whilst I Play Unfitting Music" videos combine
** [[Jittery Dragon|And it flew real low. And it flew real low. And it flew real low. And it flew real low.]]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i69Xb2ZMgGI KRISTEN SCHAAL IS A HORSE!]
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** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OkgnnbSxTI Now, Magikarp, hit 'im with a splash attack!]
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YUAxafnYP8 Nani, mai hunni~?]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20111113193443/http://vimeo.com/2998698?pg=embed&sec=2998698 Every profanity from The Sopranos.]
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fhd06OAngZA Bagel!]
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbzflQJo6pI 'WE'VE ENTERED AN ENDLESS RECURSSION OF TIME.' 'Huh, what?']
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddUbsWnEVXM Michael Caine does not blink.]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LxgjSBqwEE This fan video] at about 6:15. Understandably there were several takes involved.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nckyF1e_j7k "Captain Planet!" "Who?!"] From [
* Did someone say [http://www.fenslerfilm.com/moviesF/PSAsmall/FenslerFilm_PSA09_small.mpg G.I. Joe]?
* [[Hyperbole and a Half]]: "I'm a bird! I'm a bird! I'm a bird! I'm a bird! I'm a bird! I'm a bird! I'm a bird! I'm a bird!"
* [[Tobuscus]]: ''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]'' [[Let's Play]], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpbRDo5poT0&t=6m55s Episode 1]. The Ubisoft titles. Made doubly funny because they're that long in the actual game, and Toby's reaction is therefore priceless.
{{quote|'''Toby:''' Ubisoft presents...a game by Ubisoft. And Ubisoft. And also Ubisoft...}}
* [[Shiny Objects Videos]]: "Nerd Fight" uses this for an unnecessarily long, drawn-out fight. In "An Earnest Discussion", the beats go on for quite a while.
* [[Spider-Man]]'s continuous "and what's in that pocket?" questions to [[Batman]] in ''[[I'm a Marvel And I'm a DC]]''.
* From ''[[Potter Puppet Pals]]'': In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqTHmzMk0Cw Wizard Swears], Dumbledore introduces the gang to the Elder Swear, a swear that lasts a minute and is mostly [[Sound Effect Bleep|a long series of bleeps]] punctuated by [[Noodle Implements|things like "Republican", "Daniel Radcliffe", and "a stick of dynamite".]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20220320105733/https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/adult:the-things-dr-bright-is-not-allowed-to-do-at-the-found/noredirect/true The Things Dr. Bright is Not Allowed to Do.] In fact, the ''[[SCP Foundation]]'' website seemed to think this joke had gone a little ''too'' long and no longer accepts new submissions for it.
== Western Animation ==
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*** Repeated in ''[[Family Guy Presents Laugh It Up Fuzzball]]'' with the AT-AT Walker, who starts groaning in pain after tripping over the cable. He only does it three times before being blown up by the snowspeeders.
** The infamous chicken fights are frequently accused of being nothing more than Overly Long Gags, although there's usually a good wealth of film references in each.
*** And it's almost got to the point where the bird's re-appearance in ridiculous places is itself part of the joke, and the ideas played with (like when they realise they can't remember why they're fighting, go for a meal to make up...and of course start a fight of equally excessive length over who pays the bill) which might make it a combination of
** "Everything I say is a lie! Except for that. And that. And that. And that. And that. And that. And that."
** It was [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] when Peter is singing "Surfin' Bird", over and over, and Stewie comments, "Oh, I just love repetition!" Later in the same episode, in what may have been a jab at how the fans perceive these jokes, Stewie slowly pulls out a revolver and aims it at his face as Peter continues singing the song ''ad nauseum''.
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** "Ooh piece of candy. Ooh piece of candy. Ooh piece of candy. Ooh piece of candy. Ooh piece of candy. Ooh piece of candy. Ooh piece of candy. Ooh piece of candy. Ooh piece of candy. Ooh piece of candy. Ooh piece of candy. Ooh piece of candy. Ooh piece of candy."
*** This is also done twice.
** And Then There's [[Maude]]! Peter is actually annoyed by this
** Conway Twitty in "The Juice is Loose": they put the ENTIRE SONG in the episode!
** After watching ''[[Bewitched (film)|Bewitched]]'', Stewie leaves the theater, rides a cab, stands in line at the airport, flies on a plane, arrives at LAX, hails another cab, arrives at [[Will Ferrell]]'s house, and punches him in the face.
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Barry (backstage): Joke-killer! He's a joke-killer! }}
** "TUNGEE!!!"
* MacFarlane has a pretty big influence on [[Seth Green]]'s ''[[Robot Chicken]]''
** Thing is, these clips are never seen again, and are thus funny.
* Some of the lazier episodes of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' use this trope excessively, often to the point that an entire episode will actually ''become'' this trope. Examples: "Slide-Whistle Stooges", "Blackjack", and "Grandpappy the Pirate".
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{{quote|'''SpongeBob''': "A customer ordered a medium soda, and I gave him a large! I GAVE HIM A LARGE! I've soiled the good Krusty Krab name! Soiled it, soiled it, soiled it, soiled it! Soiled it, soiled it, soiled it, soiled it! Soiled it..."
'''Plankton''': (poking Spongebob) "[[Lampshade Hanging|Where's the off button on this thing?]]" }}
{{quote|'''SpongeBob''': Patrick's right Squidward, sea bears are no laughing matter. Why one time I met this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy who knew this guy's ''cousin''-
'''Squidward''': YOU'RE RIGHT! }}
{{quote|'''Viking:''' This is Olaf. And this is Olaf. This is Olaf. Olaf, Olaf, Olaf, and um...
'''Other Viking:''' Olaf.
'''Squidward:''' So, lemme guess. Your name must be...
'''Viking:''' That's right. Gordon! }}
* ''[[Garfield and Friends]]''
**
** In another episode, Jon puts leftovers in the refrigerator that turns into a monster which is referred to throughout the entire episode, many times, as "the monster that lives behind the mayonnaise next to the ketchup to the left of the cole slaw" [[Title Drop|(which is also the name of the episode)]]. They play this for all its worth; a policeman goes into the house to get rid of the monster, but comes back without having seen it, and then says, "Oh, did you say 'to the ''left'' of the cole slaw?" This is even lampshaded at the end by Garfield [[Narrator|(who is narrating)]] when he said, "and the monster grabbed the brave cat and dragged him to its lair behind the mayonnaise, next to... ah, you know all this already."
** One recurring gag in ''[[U.S. Acres|US Acres]]'' is that whenever Orson sorts his books, he always has to put one in particular - ''Deja Vu, the Sensation of Experiencing Something You Have Experienced Before'' - away about five times in a row. This gag was eventually [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] when after the third copy he stopped, looked down, and started [[Bill, Bill, Junk, Bill|going through the stack of books]]...all of which turned out to be ''Deja Vu''.
** In the ''U.S. Acres'' episode "Bad Time Story", Bo, Lanolin, Roy, and Wade take turns fighting over who reads a "Chicken Little" like story. At one point, Wade reads a [[Long List]] of all '''twenty seven''' people who are off to see the king, including Eggy Leggy (Sheldon), Wormy Squirmy, Catty Fatty (Garfield), [[Leave It to Beaver|Beaver Cleaver]], and Puppy Wuppy (Odie)!
* In the ''[[Sealab 2021]]'' episode "Vacation", the suggestion that Quinn is in his room with a prostitute twice prompts a segue into a ''ridiculously'' long chain of characters going "Uh-oh!" The [[Rule of Three]] comes into play at the end of the episode, as Quinn interrupts the beginning of a third such chain.
* In the ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' episode "A Whale of a Bad Time", Scrooge McDuck is informed that a shipment of ice cream (in which he'd concealed half his fortune) has been eaten by a sea monster, which causes him to go berserk and spend about a minute jumping around the room repeatedly yelling "[http://youtube.com/watch?v=79c5JKjAQFg A sea monster ate my ice cream]!!" before his nephews can subdue him.
* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
** DESTROY US ALL! DESTROY US ALL! DESTROY US ALL! DESTROY US ALL! I'll take the chicken. DESTROY US ALL!
** In the episode where they visit a retirement home for elderly monsters, Billy is reluctant when he finds he has to go through a portal to [[Another Dimension]] to get there. Grim and Billy get into [[Rhymes on a Dime|an argument loaded with rhymes on the word "dimension"]] that goes on for long enough that Mandy gets sick of it and pushes them both through the portal before leaping in after them.
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** The main plot of "Jared Has Aides" consists entirely of people confusing the word "aides" with "AIDS", to the point where the titular Jared starts [[Lampshade Hanging|flogging a literal dead horse]].
** Then there's Terrence and Phillip vs. Steven Abootman in "Canada on Strike".
{{quote|[[Terms of Endangerment|"I'm not your friend, buddy!"]]
"I'm not your buddy, guy!"
"I'm not your guy, friend!" }}
** "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkmV9mnUTC4 Now that's what I call a sticky situation!]"
* ''[[Drawn Together]]'' is also no stranger to the
** In the first episode, Captain Hero wishes for a hot black woman to appear, at which moment Foxxy Love walks through the door. He then [[Retroactive Wish|wishes for]] [[Crosses the Line Twice|a 12-year-old girl and a donkey to appear]], and proceeds to wait...and wait, and wait, and wait...
** In the first season finale, the housemates stage a sit-in in an attempt to deliberately make the show boring so that the producer will be forced to give them some perks. And true to their word, the sit-in consists of them doing nothing but sitting there and blinking for well over a minute.
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* The credits sequence of the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "It's About Time!" consists of Mr. Fletcher saying/humming "Fossils! Dun dun dun!", in an imitation of the end of a museum tour tape he listened to earlier in the episode, repeatedly for about half a minute.
** "I, Brobot" has a several-seconds-long clip of Candace running screaming to the basement and hiding in the panic room.
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': This trope could easily be called "Rake Scene". Given the origin of the rake scene, the probable circumstances that determine exactly how overly long an
** The scene from "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds", where Homer tries to eat chips which are repeatedly stolen from his hands by the greyhound puppies. This happens eight times, and the first four are recognisably the same footage as the second four, except for Homer saying "This time," before the last one.
** In the episode "Pranksta Rap", Milhouse tosses a frisbee six total times, picks it up each time, until he finally says, "This is no fun without Bart. He used to watch me while I did this."
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* Taken to its logical extreme by ''[[Futurama]]''; "Everybody Loves Hypnotoad", a special episode included on the ''Bender's Big Score'' DVD, takes the gag and runs with it for ''twenty-two minutes'', the entire length of the episode. There are some other gags included ("Guests of ''Everybody Loves Hypnotoad'' stay at the famous Cragmont Human Cage!"), and, indeed, the whole point is that, in order not to miss these shorter gags, the viewer ''has'' to sit through the entire episode. Some of them are so short that they can easily be missed by fast-forwarding through them.
** ''Into The Wild Green Yonder'' gives us Leela's attempts to protect a leech, which keeps attacking her; she reflexively crushes it, then regrets it, then it comes back to life and attacks her again.
** Actually subverted in "Bender Gets Made", [[The One With...|the one where]] Bender joined the Robot Mafia. After seeing that the Robot Mafia are going to be attacking the Planet Express Ship, Bender does an extended [[Spit Take]] that, just as it looks like it is going to become an
* ''[[Dexter's Laboratory|Dexters Laboratory]]'' used this quite a bit, usually centering around endlessly repeated shots of Dexter typing on a keyboard, tightening a screw, pulling the same lever, etc. One commercial lampshaded this by asking after about thirty seconds of the screw-tightening, "Isn't he going to overtighten that thing some day?"
** In one episode starring Mandark, every sound made was similar to his signature laugh. For the ''entire episode''.
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** Youtube video makers particularly enjoy making videos of particular scenes, like Dexter eating corn for ten minutes or drinking milk for ten minutes.
** "The Continuum of Cartoon Fools" opens with about half a minute of Dexter making faces and funny noises while apparently timing a storyboard, and ends with Dexter spending about a minute lamenting the fact that he's locked himself out of his secret laboratory in his efforts to [[The Cat Came Back|keep Dee-Dee out]].
* Lampshaded in an episode of ''[[Freakazoid!]]'' ("Virtual Freak"), where Freakazoid and the Lobe [[I Fell for Hours|take an overly long time to fall]] from the top of a mall.
** The premise of the episode "[[Relax-O-Vision]]" was a running gag that quickly grew old. This was eventually subverted at the end, when Freakazoid beats up the suit who came up with the idea in the first place.
** A perfect example is the ''Hand-man'' segment in the first episode, noted as such on the DVD commentary.
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* [[The View Askewniverse]] cartoon ''[[Clerks the Animated Series]]'':
{{quote|"Caitlyn has a kissing booth? Like, for charity?"
[[Dissimile|"Yeah, only it don't cost nothin' and it's not for charity."]]
* leaves and comes back*
"And there's no booth."
* leaves and comes back*
"And it's more than just kissing."
* leaves and comes back*
"[[Escalating Punchline|And you don't have to be a guy]]."
* leaves*
* beat*
* comes back*
[[Don't Explain the Joke|"Dude, she's cheating on you."]] }}
* ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends|Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends]]'': the scene of Bloo being massaged by the sound-operated cactus. (although it plays over the end credits).
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{{quote|'''Pinkie Pie:''' Are you excited? Because I'm excited! I've never been so excited! Well, except for the time I saw you walking into town, and I went ''[[GASP]]!'', but I mean really, who could top that?}}
** Near the end of "A Friend in Deed", Pinkie tries to chase Cranky Doodle Donkey down and tell him that she's "really really really really really really really really [etc.]" sorry for ruining his scrapbook.
* In one [[Baseball Episode]] of a ''[[Popeye]]'' cartoon, Bluto decides to pitch his slow ball to Popeye. However, it's a very, ''very'' slow ball. At first, Wimpy (the umpire) asks Popeye if he would like to go home and come back later (he declines); while waiting for the ball, Popeye calls his mother, Bluto flirts with a female spectator, and Wimpy, naturally, goes to the hamburger stand. After about a full minute of this, the ball is about to reach the plate, and Popeye finally hits it.
== Meta ==
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* The page for [[Loads and Loads of Loading]].
* The article on ''[[Strike Witches]]'' used to mention the fact that they weren't wearing any pants more or less every entry, until the [[Genre Shift]] of the show itself prompted deletion.
* The [[Filler]] example on the page for ''[[American Idol]]'' used to be duplicated on the page, including such trope entries as "More [[Filler]]" and "[[
* On the page for [[Seattle]], "Filmed in [[Stargate City|Vancouver]]."
* The entry for ''[[Monty Python]]'' on this very page used to be so much, much longer, having been reduced to a shameless parroting of favorite lines from various sketches or the movies.
* The page for ''[[Rozen Maiden]]'' has every trope example ending in ''desu'' to demonstrate Suiseiseki...and [[Image Boards|4Chan]]'s constant [[Memetic Mutation]] of it.
* Several profanity tropes overuse their respective curses; [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]] uses the word "Bitch" after every sentence and header (Bitch), [[Cluster F-Bomb]] is covered in profanity (though not as much as it should), and [[Symbol Swearing]] has, well, [[Captain Obvious|symbol swearing]] in every sentence and header.
* The article about [[
** [
* ''[[CSI: Miami]]'' *puts shades* likes some [[The Who]]. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
* Remember kids: On the [[How Not to Write An Example (Darth Wiki)|How Not to Write An Example]] page, always be sure to add an entry saying how one should always duplicate examples in case someone missed it.
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* When Flava Flav his 50th birthday, at the party celebrated with the longest "Yeeeaah, boyyyyy" in history.
* For numerous long gag made into names in real life, check this [http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/ index].
* Depressingly averted on [[YouTube]]. Your video can (and ''has,'' in the case of some [[
** [[YouTube]] videos are damned [[Serious Business]].
** It's not as if this actually stops people from uploading ungodly numbers of "character X does momentary action Y repeatedly for 10 minutes
** ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series
* The John Isner vs Nicolas Mahut tennis match at Wimbledon 2010 got like this at times. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/jun/23/wimbledon-2010-tennis-live The bloke doing the writeup for the Guardian] certainly thought so.
* A paper presented at the annual meeting of the Annals of Improbable Research: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk Chicken Chicken Chicken].
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** All irrational numbers, for that matter.
* The full chemical name of Titin. Which has 189,819 letters. Seriously.
* A perfect example on [http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/thursday-oct-6-emotional-breakdown-on-x-factor/5eigm46?q=last+night+on+tv&rel=msn&from=en-us_msnhp&form=msnhro>1=28150&overlaytype=multimediaviewer&name=hpvideo2&csid=ux-en-us&initialmoduleindex=3 this clip]{{broken link}} of X-Factor.
* Famous writer [[Mark Twain]] would on occasion go on tours where he would tell stories and run routines that were known to be hilariously funny. On the night of one such performance, Mark Twain stepped on the stage and proceed to stare at the audience for several minutes without saying a word. The confused audience stared back for a VERY long time, until finally they started to chuckle slightly. This was followed by some light laughter, and before long the whole audience was inexplicably in stitches. This led into a very successful (and more typical) performance by Mark Twain for the rest of the evening.
* The Owl Channel is a website that broadcasts a live feed of the nest of two barn owls, Roy and Dale. As of the time of this entry, the male barn owl has brought the female 87 rabbits over the course of about two months. ''Eighty seven.'' For those not familiar with barn owls, that is ridiculous.
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