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One famous example of this trope is the "Rake Scene" from ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "Cape Feare", where Sideshow Bob kept stepping on rakes ''ad nauseam'' until the pointlessness of the scene became the gag and it became funny again. (The production team has confessed that the gag was added because the episode ran short.)

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]]''[[Sarcasm Mode|lar]]''[[Sarcasm Mode|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 [['''Overly Long Gag]]''' you employ after the first. Even [[Viewers Areare Morons|a moron]] can tell the difference between you [[Subverted Trope|toying with their expectations]] and you [[Padding|stretching fifteen minutes of jokes into a thirty-minute timeslot]].

The serious version is [[Leave the Camera Running]] (or [[Ending Fatigue]], if the prolongated section is the closure). An [['''Overly Long Gag]]''' with a lot of tension built up as an actual story is a [[Shaggy Dog Story]]. When [[Incredibly Long Note]] is played for laughs, it might reach this.

* The chronological last episode of ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya (Light Novel)|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 [[Overly Long Gag]] that spans multiple HOURS.

* ''[[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|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]]...

* ''[[Lucky Star (Manga)|Lucky Star]]'': "By the way, which end is the head of a chocolate cornet?"

* One episode of ''[[Bleach (Manga)|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].

* ''[[Potemayo (Anime)|Potemayo]]'' does this in episode 4, with the titular [[Moe|moeblobmoe]]blob getting a cold and repeatedly blowing her nose faster and faster until she eventually runs out of tissues.

* One episode of ''[[Sakigake Cromartie Koukou (Manga)|Sakigake CromartieHigh KoukouSchool]]'' takes this and runs it into the ground, with Hayashida trying to remember the name of a song he heard Mechazawa humming. Most of the episode is the students humming while trying to remember the name of the song.

* In the ''[[Dragon Ball GT (Anime)|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 (Manga)|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.

* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia (Manga)|Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' has the repeated "Wok-fu on the Beach" scene, which has been used in so many different ways and always ends up being interrupted by some out-of-the-box figure, from a Singing Grandpa Rome to Santa Claus Finland.

* ''[[Jungle Dede Ikou (Anime)!|Jungle De Ikou]]'', when Mii rhetorically ask why an American plane is flying above them at that moment, except she adds the specs for the plane mid-sentence. (That is, she lists the plane's size, weight, crew capacity, and so on in the middle of the question).

* A filler episode in ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]'' prior to the Impel Down Arc had Franky shaking his speedo-clad manly bits in the center of the screen for what seemed like several minutes. "Right! Left! Right! Left! Right! Left! Right! Left! Right! Left! Right! Left!"

* Episode 18 of ''[[Naruto (Manga)|Naruto]]: Shippuden'' has one when Guy [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctHLkycAjaE spends over a minute trying to get his team to join their hands in a circle for a cheer].

* ''[[Akumetsu (Manga)|Akumetsu]]'' chapter 22 contains 2.5 pages with panels containing some variation of "we cannot show you the lyrics here".

* In one ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]'' episode, Misty's Psyduck befriends a Slowpoke. Since they are both dopey Pokémon, all they do is just stare at each other and ''very slowly'' do [[Pokémon -Speak]] to each other. Which lasted for several minutes.

* One episode of ''[[Nichijou (Manga)|Nichijou]]'' had a scene where Yukko is hit on the head by her teacher. This is then shown over and over again, from different angles and with different background colours. It went too fast for me to count, but she is shown being hit at least 35 times. The funniest part about it is the noise she makes, and hearing it over and over again.

* 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 it--heit—he would milk it for all it was worth.

* Jim Gaffigan's Hot Pockets routine-- atroutine—at some point the joke becomes the fact that ''he's still talking about Hot Pockets''.

* [[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.}}

{{quote| '''Daniel:''' Do you like how I start jokes with mass appeal and continue 'til only six people have a clue what I'm talking about?}}

* The classic [[WhosWho's Onon First?]] routine works ''solely'' because of this.

* [[Margaret Cho (Creator)|Margaret Cho]] does these as well. One that particularly comes to mind is the 'Asian chicken salad' bit where she goes on for several minutes miming a displeased samurai.

* In the TV series ''Alan Davies' Teenage Revolution'', Davies and Mark Steel reminisce about an act which appeared on the UK alternative comedy circuit around the time they were starting out in the mid-80s. It consisted of a man with a block of ice and a power saw, who would simply come on and start carving the ice - not into anything in particular, just attacking it with a saw. It got a laugh at the start, then about 40 seconds in, and then a minute or so in...and then he'd just keep going until he got booed off.

* ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'' contains an entire page of nine identical panels of Herr Starr looking at himself in the mirror, staring at his brand new scar that makes his bald head look like a penis. In the last one, he says "Shit".

* It's rare because in comics, it doesn't quite work: the reader can control the speed of the story and skip whatever he or she isn't interested in looking at. A ''[[Family Guy (Animation)|Family Guy]]'' comic book attempted a print version of one of its long gags by having Chris challenge the reader to a staring contest, followed by three pages of the same panel of Chris, repeated nine times a page. Fortunately people could just skip to the end.

* ''[[Cable (Comic Book)|Cable]] & [[Deadpool]]'' has an entire page in which alternate universe Mister Sinister is waiting outside a bathroom door while Deadpool, who's needed to use the bathroom for something like three days, pees for about 9 panels. He finally emerges, at which point Mister Sinister tells him to wash his hands and he goes back into the bathroom.

* ''[[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 (Comic Book)|Invincible]]'', Mark had a conversation with a comic book shop owner discussing the habit of overusing identical [[Beat Panel|Beat Panels]]s in comics (and providing meta-commentary on the author's own use of this). This involved page-long pauses where the same panel was repeated again and again.

* Lampshaded in [[Mad (Magazine)|Mad]]'s parody of ''[[Moonlighting]]'' by requesting readers to reread certain panels 10 or 12 times over before continuing to read the parody.

* ''[[Spaceballs (Film)|Spaceballs]]'' [[Standard Establishing Spaceship Shot|opens with a huge spaceship that scrolls into view]] and keeps on scrolling for 90 seconds (parodying the opening shot of the Star Destroyer in ''[[Star Wars]]''). At least three times something that resembles a tail section comes into view, and the background music segues into the next piece, only to false-start and cut right back to stalling. As it finishes, the camera pans to the rear of the ship, which has a bumper sticker saying ''WE BRAKE FOR NOBODY''.

* An unintentional version of this is the fight scene in the 1988 ''[[They Live (Film)|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 1-21–2 minutes, the fight scene was done so well that it was used unaltered, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-MVMbm6c0k lasting almost 5 minutes].

** The fight was recreated exactly in the ''[[South Park (Animation)|South Park]]'' episode "Cripple Fight".

* The puppet-sex scene in ''[[Team America: World Police]]'' aims for this trope; whether or not it works is up to the individual viewer. The [[Unrated Edition]] makes the scene even ''longer'', to the point where most viewers are likely bored.

* In the 2005 ''[[The HitchhikersHitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy (Filmfilm)|The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]'': When showing the Vogon Constructor Fleet around Earth, [[Staggered Zoom|the camera jumps back with every "beat" of the music]]. When this effect is put into play, it usually only happens about [[Rule of Three|three times]]. In the movie, it happens a grand total of fifty-five times.

* This occurs a number of times in ''[[Kung Pow! Enter the Fist (Film)|Kung Pow Enter the Fist]]'', such as the dramatic camera movements and sounds before a fight.

{{quote| "Choooseeeen!..." "I'm coming!..."}}

{{quote| '''Borat:''' What is this? <br />

'''Employee:''' That's cheese. <br />

'''Borat:''' And what is this? <br />

'''Employee:''' That's cheese. <br />

{{quote| '''Chico''': I can't think of the finish.<br />

'''Groucho''': That's strange, and I can't think of anything ''else''.<br />

'''Chico''': I think I went past it.<br />

* In ''[[Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Film)|Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid]]'', [[Steve Martin]] is making coffee by continuously putting grounds into water: this goes on for two minutes of him putting more and more coffee grounds into a pot. He ends up putting about twice as much coffee grounds as you could fit into the can ''empty'' (and far more than could have been in the bag), but it doesn't matter; the audience has long since been bored to death, and resurrection, and rebirth.

* The 1986 movie ''[[¡Three Amigos (Film)!|Three Amigos]]'' used this trope in its theme song, where one note is held for an uncomfortably long period of time.

** The Disney film ''[[The Three Caballeros (Disney)|The Three Caballeros]]'' uses the same gag, with the other characters trying everything they can think of to stop it.

** In ''[[Spy Hard]]'''s opening theme, [["Weird Al" Yankovic (Music)|Weird Al Yankovic]] holds a note so long his head [[Your Head Asplode|explodes]].

** Also played to the max by [[Bugs Bunny]] in the Warner Brothers [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Looney_Tunes:Looney Tunes|Looney Tune]] "[http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Long-Haired_HareHaired Hare|Long-Haired Hare]]": Bugs, dressed as Leopold, conducts opera singer Giovanni Jones, forcing him to hold a note until the Hollywood Bowl crumbles to pieces around him.

{{quote| '''John Malkovich''': '''''IT MUST BE CLOSED FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!'''''}}

* ''[[Tropic Thunder (Film)|Tropic Thunder]]'': the cast's reaction to {{spoiler|the director having been blown up by a land mine}}.

* In ''[[Over the Hedge (Filmanimation)|Over the Hedge]]'', RJ the raccoon's description of the traps surrounding the suburban house. This sequence goes on for at least 30 seconds, which in cartoon time is forever.

{{quote| '''RJ''': There are traps here, here, here, here...and here. And some here, here, here...and all over this area here.}}

* ''[[The Party (Film)|The Party]]'' starts with this. One actor, playing the part of the trumpeter for a charge, goes on...and on...and on. The funny part of it is that the other actors keep SHOOTING at him to make him stop, but he keeps going on...and on...and on...

* In one scene of ''[[Cannibal! theThe Musical (Film)|Cannibal the Musical]]'', there's a relatively short example: Alferd Packer and his party enter a store and all six of them greet the shopkeeper individually with a "Howdy!". The shopkeeper responds in kind ''each time'', and they cut between the shopkeeper and the party member every time this happens. Later on there's a much longer overly long gag in the form of an extensive [[Not Quite Dead]] sequence.

* When [[The Dragon|Dragon]] Amilyn (played by Paul Reubens, A.K.A. Peewee Herman) is staked in the original ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Filmfilm)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', he writhes around on the floor [[Final Speech|lamenting his fate]], dying...and Buffy eventually gets sick of it and just leaves. At [[The Stinger|the end of the credits]], he's still going.

* At least a third of the jokes in ''[[Monty Python and The Holy Grail (Film)|Monty Python and Thethe Holy Grail]]'' could be considered these. (Lancelot's charge, the Knights of the Round Table song, the entire ending sequence). The miracle is that they remain funny even though you're expecting them.

** There's also the one in ''[[Monty PythonsPython's theThe Meaning of Life|Meaning of Life]]'' when Gaston the waiter leads the camera to the house where he grew up, turning around every few steps to beckon and say something encouraging.

* ''[[Clue (Filmfilm)|Clue]]'': [[The Summation]][[Multiple Endings|/s]] are built on this. But the one with the bullet-counting just rides it into the ground and lets the ground have the last laugh.

* Near the beginning of ''[[Megamind (Film)|Megamind]]'', a bit of witty banter between Metroman and Megamind eventually degenerates into them throwing tortured metaphors at each other.

* The death of Kinney, the unfortunate executive near the beginning of Paul Verhoeven's 1987 science fiction action film ''[[Robocop (Film)|RobocopRoboCop]]'' was very much along these lines. After being instructed to challenge a prototype police robot as part of a demonstration, Kinney finds himself riddled with bullets by the malfunctioning machine; and it just doesn't stop. The studios lobbied Verhoeven to shorten the sequence, with the odd result that the R-rated cut seems ''more'' brutal than the cartoonishly exaggerated unrated edition.

* ''[[Wild Wild West (Filmfilm)|Wild Wild West]]''. Loveless and West toss [[Hurricane of Puns|about half a dozen jokes]] back in forth in a single conversation about Jim being black and Loveless being in a wheelchair with no legs.

{{quote| '''Loveless:''' I knew him [General McGrath] years ago, but I haven't seen him in a ''coon's'' age.<br />

{{quote| '''Loveless:''' How did we arrive in this ''dark'' situation?<br />

* The gentleman's club scene in ''[[Mystery Team (Film)|Mystery Team]]'' can be like this.

* [[Ferris BuellersBueller's Day Off (Film)|Bueller?]]

* The second [[The Stinger|stinger]] of [[The Avengers (Filmfilm)|The Avengers]] featured the heroes {{spoiler|silently eating lunch at a shawarma restaurant, exhausted from the effort to save the world}}. It lasts about a minute.

* ''[[Kamen Rider Fourze (TV)|Kamen Rider Fourze]] & [[Kamen Rider OOO|OOO]]: Movie Wars MEGAMAX'': At the final act of the film, the eponymous riders (Gentaro and Eiji, respectively), rendezvous with Shotaro and Philip, a.k.a. ''[[Kamen Rider Double]]''. When Shotaro realizes he and Gentaro are [[Not So Different]], well...

{{quote| '''Shotaro:''' ''You're a good kid after all!''<br />

'''Gentaro''': ''Yessir!''<br />

'''Shotaro''': ''Right on!''<br />

'''Gentaro''': ''Yessir!''<br />

'''Shotaro''': ''Right on!''<br />

'''Gentaro''': ''YESSIR!''<br />

'''Shotaro''': ''RIGHT ON!''<br />

'''Gentaro''': ''YESSIR!''<br />

'''Shotaro''': ''RIGHT ON!''<br />

'''Gentaro''': ''YESSIR!''<br />

'''Shotaro''': ''RIGHT O-!''<br />

* In the [[Discworld (Literature)|Discworld]] book ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Unseen Academicals|Unseen Academicals]]'', the game's audience comes up with a chant for visiting Professor Bengo Macarona, which starts out as a fairly standard football chant. Then he [[Insistent Terminology|insists that they include his full name and]] [[Long List|all his academic titles]]. What follows is over a page and a half of the revised chant, including each title ''every'' time his name is mentioned.

** Also, in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Maskerade|Maskerade]]'', there's the villain's dying rant against opera, including a complaint that [[Not Quite Dead|"everyone takes such!!! ...a!!! ...long!!!! ...time!!!! ...to!!!!!]] [[Killed Mid -Sentence|Argh!]]"

* In a parody book called ''[[The Millennium Trilogy (Literature)|The Dragon With The Girl Tattoo]]'', Kaal interrupts Vagner's story to correct him on the pluralisation of the word "sheep". This leads to three and a half pages of argument on the subject.

* In ''[[The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy (Literaturenovel)|The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]'', there's a character whose ''entire existence'' is this, given that each of his incarnations is killed by the same man, unknowingly.

* From ''[[The Hollywood Squares]]'', [[Two Words: Obvious Trope]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozEIsWWngJo You fool!]

* Whether ''[[Curb Your Enthusiasm]]'', ''[[The Office]]'', and ''[[Extras (TV)|Extras]]'' are using this or a lot of [[Leave the Camera Running]] is up to the individual troper.

* The UK's new emergency number, as introduced by ''[[The IT Crowd (TV)|The IT Crowd]]'': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWc3WY3fuZU 0118 999 881 999 119 7253].

{{quote| '''Denholm:''' Hope it doesn't embarrass you, Jen, but I find it the best thing to do with the new employee is to size them up with a long, hard stare.}}

* ''[[I Carly (TV)|I CarlyiCarly]]'': The code to unlock the Bensons' front door. It's longer than the new UK Emergency Phone number from ''[[The IT Crowd (TV)|The IT Crowd]]''.

* Whenever the protagonist from ''[[Monk (TV)|Monk]]'' has to fill out a form or write his name on a blackboard, go ahead and make yourself a sandwich. Due to his perfectionism, he HAS to make certain none of letters are slanted or runs lines, so he takes a nearly 30 seconds to write down a single letter.

* ''[[Scrubs (TV)|Scrubs]]'' has one of JD's fantasies run a particularly long time when Turk and Carla are discussing how good a father he'd make. JD happens to be nearby, hears the conversation and his mind launches into a fantasy in which Turk accidentally leaves his son at a pumpkin patch, having mistaken him for a pumpkin, and brings the pumpkin home to Carla, who pardons him for it (his son, meanwhile, is found by another couple in the pumpkin patch). She states that the pumpkin is "kinda cute" and there is a montage of them raising the pumpkin as their own child, covering common parental issues like bathing, the child being injured at a softball game (yes, the pumpkin plays sports), and college, ending with the two holding the pumpkin "21 years later", with the pumpkin wearing a graduation cap and a diploma resting on it, stating how proud of the pumpkin they are for qualifying as a valedictorian. Suddenly, they drop the pumpkin accidentally and while crying over the smashed remains they hear a startled cry of "Mom? Dad?!". They look up to see their real son, fully grown ([[Identical Grandson|and looking exactly like Turk]]), staring at them in disbelief and joy from across the street. He starts to cross the street toward his long-lost parents...only to be run over by a bus. Carla faints, Turk cries out in despair, and JD ''finally'' snaps out of his daydream to look up at Turk.

{{quote| '''Turk:''' Dude, you okay? You were gone for an awfully long time.<br />

** JD's fantasies start being treated like this in later seasons, both literally and in the show. A number of his longer [[Imagine Spot|Imagine Spots]]s last so long that the person he's talking to has walked away by the time it's over.

{{quote| '''Doctor:''' Dear God, when do they ever say ribs?<br />

* One episode of ''[[Pee Wees-wee's Playhouse (TV)|Pee Wees Playhouse]]'' had Pee-wee give a dog a bowl of food. They focus on the dog eating his food for a full minute with no dialog and no reactions. Just a [[Leave the Camera Running]] close-up shot of a dog eating from a bowl.

* Several times in ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000 (TV)|MST3K]]'', notably during ''[[The Creeping Terror (Film)|The Creeping Terror]]'' music skit and the Crow-as-[[The Screaming Skull|Screaming-Skull]] skit.

** Tom and Crow laughing creepily and Italianly over the credits to ''[[Devil Fish (Film)|Devil Fish]]''.

** Tom's extended "20 Year Plan" speech in ''[[Manos: theThe Hands of Fate (Film)|Manos the Hands of Fate]]'', to cover up one of the film's many [[Leave the Camera Running|extended driving sequences]].

** [[It Conquered the World (Film)|"He learned almost too late that man is a feeling creature..."]]

** One episode has Tom doing a walk-a-thon for "Helping Children Through Research and Development," which is [[Fun Withwith Acronyms|actually an acronym]] for "Hi Everyone, Let's Pitch In 'N Get Cracking Here In Louisiana Doing Right, Eh? Now Then, Hateful Rich Overbearing Ugly Guys Hurt Royally Everytime Someone Eats A Radish, Carrot, Hors-d'ouvres, And Never Does Dishes. Eventually Victor Eats Lunch Over Peoria Mit Ein Nauesburger Tod." This is repeated in its entirety several times.

** In a host segment for ''[[The Dead Talk Back (Film)|The Dead Talk Back]]'', Crow, dressed as Jerry Garcia from [[The Grateful Dead (Music)|The Grateful Dead]], does an [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKKrW-NbNtk interminably long guitar solo]. He doesn't even stop right away when it's time to go back to the movie.

* When ''[[The Colbert Report (TV)|The Colbert Report]]'' came back from the 2007/8 writers' strike, the excited [[Studio Audience]] gave Stephen a spontaneous standing ovation at the top of the first show which lasted for a minute and a half and resisted all attempts to stop it. It only ended when Stephen got up from his desk and [http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/147141/january-07-2008/applause physically forced the first row of the audience to sit down].

* One episode of the second season of ''[[I'm Alan Partridge (TV)|I'm Alan Partridge]]'', in which Alan spots Dan from across a car park and shouts, in a vain attempt to attract his attention: "DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN!"...etc.

{{quote| Manny: He had a little man in his hair!}}

* On ''[[The Whitest Kids U' Know]]'', there's [[The Devil Is a Loser|the portrayal of the Devil]] in the "Opus" routine.

{{quote| ''"What, you think the Devil lives in some sort of condo down in Florida? Yeah-huh. See, see, the thing about people like you is that you think that the Devil lives in some sort of houseboat, just drinkin' daiquiris, and listenin' to Jimmy Buffet. People like you think that the Devil lives in some sort of abandoned railroad car, just travelin' from state to state, eatin' sardines out of a can, and tellin' stories to strangers, and pettin' his scraggly little dog that he has. See, people like you think that the Devil lives in some sort of magical hot air balloon kingdom, where he just zooms around on a Segway scooter, and watches soap operas, and does Sudoku! People like you think that the Devil lives in some sort of rundown laundry detergent factory, where he just eats candy canes out of a box that he has, and he just writes short stories, and twirls his hair! You see, people like you think that the Devil is some sort of stowaway on Paul Simon's tour bus, just travelin' across America, and eatin' Teddy Grahams, and when people fall asleep, spittin' them in their ears! See, people like you, think that the Devil lives on some jewel-encrusted surfboard, just floatin' in the middle of a wave pool, just readin' romance novels, and thinkin' about boys! People like you think that the Devil lives on a Hollywood movie studio set that's made to look like a [[World War II]] fighter jet, and he just lounges around all day, gettin' baked, and callin' his friends, and hangin' up on 'em! People like y--"''}}

* Seen much earlier in ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus (TV)|Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' with the "It's the Arts" sketch about the unknown German composer "Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dangle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-eine-nurnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mit-zweimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönedanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-raucher von Hautkopft of Ulm." The interviewee dies (of old age!) before the interviewer can finish asking a question made very, very, very long simply by repetition of this [[Overly Long Name]]. The gag is actually longer than it appears, as every time mention is made of Johann, they say his full name (mercifully, the camera cuts one).

{{quote| Malcolm Peter Brian Telescope Adrian Umbrella Stand Jasper Wednesday ''* pops mouth twice* '' Stoatgobbler John Raw Vegetable ''* horse whinny* '' Arthur Norman Michael ''* squeaker* '' Featherstone Smith ''* blows whistle* '' Northgot Edwards Harris ''* fires pistol, then whoops* '' Mason ''* train sounds* '' Frampton Jones Fruitbat ''* laughs* '' ''* squeaker* '' Gilbert ''* sings* '' "We'll Keep a Welcome in the-" ''* shoots thrice* '' Williams [[Walk This Way|If I Could Walk That Way]] Jenkin ''* squeaker* '' Tiger-drawers Pratt Thompson ''* sings* '' "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" Darcy Carter ''* horn* '' Pussycat ''* sings* '' "Don't Sleep In The Subway" Barton Mainwaring ''* hoot and whoop* '' Smith}}

** Yes, you're quite right. I'm fed up with being treated like sheep. What's the point of going abroad if you're just another tourist carted around in buses surrounded by sweaty mindless oafs from Kettering and Boventry in their cloth caps and their cardigans and their transistor radios and their Sunday Mirrors, bomplaining about the tea - 'Oh they don't make it properly here, do they, not like at home' - and stopping at Majorcan bodegas selling fish and chips and Watney's Red Barrel and calamaris and two veg and sitting in their cotton frocks squirting Timothy White's suncream all over their puffy raw swollen purulent flesh 'cos they 'overdid it on the first day.'

** Hell, ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus (TV)|Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' would not exist without this trope! There's at least one example in every episode. Or maybe it just seems that way due to [[Fan Dumb|fans repeating catch phrases]]?

* This happens with ''plenty'' of ''[[Saturday Night Live (TV)|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.

** ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|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!"

** Most recent episodes only avert this with the "Weekend Update" news-riffing sketch, and even that often gets interrupted by this trope, ex. several minutes of mumbling about pancakes.

* In ''[[The Middleman (TV)|The Middleman]]'', High Aldwin orders to release a special forces agent by executive decree twenty-four, five, seventeen, eight, ninety-three, fifty-five, two, thirty-nine,..

* [[Red Dwarf (TV)|"Everybody's dead, Dave." "What, everybody?" "Yes, Dave. Everybody's dead, Dave." "Chen? Peterson?" "Yes, Dave. Everybody's dead, Dave." "What, even Shelby?" "Yes, Shelby! ''Everybody's dead, Dave!''"]]

* Naturally, [[Little Britain (TV)|"Margaret? Margaret?"]]. The Indian accent gag could also count.

* ''[[AmericasAmerica's Next Top Model]]'' had one when Cycle 11 contestant Nikeysha was eliminated...and proceeded to talk continuously over the credits.

* Not nearly as drastic as some of these, but there's an episode of ''[[Stargate SG-1 (TV)|Stargate SG-1]]'' where the main characters are on some Arctic base meeting the scientists there. As Fraiser and Sam are introduced to them, there's a quite long conversation going on that basically consists of hand-shaking and "Doctor. Doctor. Doctor. Major. Doctor. Doctor. Major. Doctor..." before finally Jack just tells them to shut up.

** This also happens in ''[[Stargate Atlantis (TV)|Stargate Atlantis]]'' in the episode Be All My Sins Remember'd, where Sam, Shepherd, Ellis, and Caldwell all greet each other. It goes like this.

{{quote| '''Caldwell''': Colonel.<br />

'''Ellis''': Colonel.<br />

'''Caldwell''': (To Sam) Colonel.<br />

'''Sam''': Colonels.<br />

'''Ellis''': (To Shepherd) Colonel.<br />

* In the series 1 finale of ''[[How I Met Your Mother (TV)|How I Met Your Mother]]'' - "Come On" - the protagonist is attempting to perform a rain dance to induce precipitation (long story). Trope is somewhat subverted in that one of the other characters actually commentates on its slump into overly longness. "Funny....still funny.....still funny...still funny...[check watch]...and now it's sad".

{{quote| '''Billy''': HaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...!!}}

* [[Married... Withwith Children|"And now, Jefferson will recite the minutes from last week's meeting." "8:00...8:01...8:02..."]]

* In the middle of all the epic events in part 2 of ''[[Lost (TV)|Lost]]'''s season 1 finale comes Hurley's flashback to getting on the plane. Everyone else's was brief and to the point. His is the longest in the entire episode...and all it shows is the tons of mishaps he got into going to the airport.

* ''[[Harry HillsHill's TV Burp (TV)|Harry Hills TV Burp]]'' has the "Cataracts" sketch when characters on [[Emmerdale]] repeated the word "Cataracts" which Harry Hill extended by getting everyone in ITV's studio repeating the word. He then did a similar sketch about "Ear Cataracts" later in the series.

* ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway (TV)?|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'' does these on occasion. Sometimes the writers even get in on it; during one Dating Game skit Ryan was supposed to be the "Witch who entices the beast to her magic sleeping stool so she can find his true love to break the spell to turn him into a prince". Keep in mind that the usual suggestions are things like "Angry Neighbor" or "The cast of ''[[South Park (Animation)|South Park]]''".

{{quote| '''Ryan:''' I'm just giving everyone a minute to read the ''novel'' that is my suggestion.}}

** "The Story of Everest" is a long sketch from the 4th season of the show in which a man comes home to tell his parents that he has completed a trek to the top of Mount Everest. Mistaking the tea service behind him for a stool, he sits down, knocking several shelves of thimbles all over the ground. The thimbles are reset, and he attempts to tell the story again, but continues knocking over the thimbles. Over, and Over, and Over.

* In one episode of ''[[Malcolm in Thethe 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 (TV)|Community]]'' episode [[Community (TV)/Recap/S1 /E21 Contemporary American Poultry|Contemporary American Poultry]]:

{{quote| '''Troy:''' "He released Annie's Boobs! Annie's Boobs could be ''anywhere''! Annie's Boobs could be on the side of the ''road'' --"<br />

* [[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 (TV)|Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza]]'': One word. Duststorm.

* "Supa Scoopa And Mighty Scoop" by [[Kyuss (Music)|Kyuss]]. After the final short riff is played, there's silence. But after a short pause, it's played again. And again. And again...and again. 9 times in total. And the pauses between them keep growing longer, so that you just can't expect that last one riff if you haven't heard the song before (as if you would expect it to be repeated 9 times anyhow...).

* The outro to [[They Might Be Giants (Musicband)|They Might Be Giants]]' "Spy".

* The outro to "Yig Snake Daddy" by [[The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets (Music)|The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets]].

* [["Weird Al" Yankovic (Music)|Weird Al Yankovic]]'s song "Hardware Store" has a 30-second non-stop listing of all the items said hardware store sells.

* How did we overlook 99 Bottles of Beer? "99 bottles of bear on the wall, 99 bottles of-"* [[Talk to Thethe Fist|smack]]*

* [[Flanders and Swann (Music)|Flanders and Swann]] abused this trope horribly every time Swann gets to sing in a foreign language. In "In The Desert" it probably goes on too long but it's more than made up for by "Kokoraki" in which Flanders (audibly) grows more and more impatient with the length of the song and when it finally ends (Swann remonstrating that he was forced to omit eight verses) {{spoiler|remarks that Swann "can sing the rest of it * Swann sets in for another few verses* SOME OTHER TIME * Swann ignores him and carries on* "}} (spoiler for the sake of the comedy. You really should listen to their original stage shows).

* [[Iron Butterfly (Music)|Iron Butterfly]]'s In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. Four minutes of song, and roughly 13 minutes of solos.

* [[Devo (Music)|Devo]] is on record with causing audience members to try and stop them from playing in their basement days. The first known performance of the song "Jocko Homo" occurred when they were hired to open for Sun Ra at a private venue (they got in by pretending to be a Bad Company cover band). They baffled and annoyed them with original songs, culminating in a (reportedly) thirty-minute version of "Jocko Homo". A heavily trimmed recording of this appears on DEVO Live: The Mongoloid Years. At some point while they are endlessly chanting "Are we not men?" an audience member grabs the microphone and calls them "A bunch of assholes" (other people have apparently also been throwing beer cans). At the end, the band jams on "I Need A Chick" while the promoters come to unplug them.

* 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 "[[AlicesAlice's Restaurant (Musicmusic)|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].

* [[Paul and Storm (Music)|Paul and Storm]] use this in their song "Shake Machine (Parts 1&2)". The entirety of part 2 (one minute and twenty-eight seconds) is the closing saxophone cadenza. In their commentary on the track, they describe this as pulling a [[Steve Martin]], referencing the aforementioned scene in ''[[Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Film)|Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid]]''.

* Terry Jones of [[Monty Python]]...he likes traffic lights. He likes traffic lights. He likes traffic lights. He likes traffic lights.

* [[The Beatles (Musicband)|The Beatles]] inserted a short groove containing unintelligible gibberish right at the edge of the side-two label on original UK pressings of "[[Sgt. PeppersPepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Music)|Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band]]." For listeners whose turntables did not shut off automatically, this loop would continue endlessly until the needle was lifted from the record.

* On [[Oasis (Musicband)|Oasis]]' third album ''Be Here Now'', the tune called "It's Getting Better, Man". The outro plays this trope straight.

* "(Let's Talk) Physical" is a remix of The Revolting Cocks' "(Let's Get) Physical" that consists of a seven minute loop of a snare hit and Chris Connelly yelling "TALK!". It's meant as a parody of repetitive "extended" remixes of songs.

* [http://soundcloud.com/charliejane2/sets/slowed-down-science-fiction-classics Slowed down Sci-Fi Classics]. The ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' theme song clocks in at about 26 and a half '''minutes'''.

** Like a German song that has Liese (the woman) asking her "dear Heinrich" what she should do in case the pot has a hole. He gives her some advice. Then she asks about that advice, and so on. The English equivalent is of course [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:There%27s_a_Hole_in_My_Bucket's a Hole in My Bucket|"There's A Hole In The Bucket"]].

* The Melvins manage to do this with silence: The track "Pure Digital Silence" has a band member adopting a ludicrous [[Fake Brit]] accent to announce "And now, for your listening pleasure, a few moments of [[Punctuated! forFor! Emphasis!|pure. digital. silence]]", followed by about a minute and a half of exactly that. Since it's near the end of ''Prick'', an album full of frequently cacophonous studio experiments, it might have also been intended as a breather.

** "Pick It N' Flick It" from the same album may also be an example, as it's essentially a minute and a half [[Big Rock Ending]] without an actual song attached to it.

* [[Long List|Hold]] [[Chris Jericho (Wrestling)/Funny|number 170:]] [[Chris Jericho|armbar!]]

* 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.

* ''[[The Goon Show (Radio)|The Goon Show]]'' used this trope repeatedly. No, the camera is not required. Several episodes used this, presented as a minute or more of dead silence "For the safety of the performers", footsteps, or Minie Banister's ramblings...

* One episode of ''[[HancocksHancock's Half Hour (Radio)|Hancocks Half Hour]]'' began with a character hitting the keys on a typewriter ''very'' slowly, until after a couple of minutes Hancock asks, "wouldn't it be quicker if you took off the boxing gloves?"

* A published adventure for ''[[Shadowrun (Tabletop Game)|Shadowrun]]'' 3rd edition has a character who greets the party and advises them that "while on the premises it would be unwise to use any...", then lists everything offensive the party possess. Given how characters in this game tend to be the speech frequently fulfills this trope.

* [http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr41 This article by Mark Rosewater, lead designer of] ''[[Magic: theThe Gathering (Tabletop Game)|Magic the Gathering]]''. In fact, he spells it out.

* The televised version of the 2010 [[The Pee Wee-wee Herman Show Onon Broadway|Broadway version]] of ''The Pee-wee Show'' had Pee-wee shout "[[Big No|Nooooooo...!"]] for over 30 seconds, which is a long time onstage ''and'' on TV.

* [[Older Than Steam]]: In [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[The Merchant of Venice (Theatre)|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.

*** Something like 45-screens worth of walls covered with dense text. It's actually readable if you click on it -- theit—the entire history of the game's universe starting with its creation.

* ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (Visual Novel)|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.}}

* The factory password from ''[[Earthbound (Video Game)|EarthboundEarthBound]]'' is to [[Waiting Puzzle]]...for 3 minutes. While mildly amusing when you first hear of it, it's rather annoying if you don't take the time to make a sandwich. Thankfully, you don't have to do anything at the three minute mark.

* In ''[[Monkey Island 2: Le ChucksLeChuck's Revenge (Video Game)|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.

* In ''[[Final Fantasy VII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VII]]'', at one point Cloud's group infiltrates Shinra HQ, and is given the option of either barging in via the main entrance, or climbing the emergency stairs all the way up to the 67th floor. ''All'' the way! Hilarious dialogue ensues during the stair-climbing, such as:

{{quote| '''Tifa:''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}4MhEm5fYPmo "Will you stop acting like a retard and climb!?"]}}

* ''[[Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire (Video Game)|Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire]]''/''Emerald'' has a random trainer hinting that the reason the bike shop gave you a freebie is because the bike is plastered with the bike shop's name.

{{quote| '''Cyclist''': It says 'RYDEL RYDEL RYDEL RYDEL RYDEL RYDEL RYDEL RYDEL RYDEL...(etc., etc., for about six boxes)...RYDEL RYDEL RYDEL'. You should ride it all over the place- it's good advertising!"}}

** And need we mention the story one needs to endure in order to get the Bike Voucher in the original ''[[Pokémon Red and Blue (Video Game)|Pokémon Red and Blue]]''?

** Approaching this in ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl (Video Game)|Pokémon Diamond and Pearl]]'' is Flint's dialog after defeat, he uses about 8 boxes of Ellipsis. This was removed in ''Platinum''.

* 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 (Video Game)|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 [[RA Ys]]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!

* Used in the ending of ''[[Mega Man 9 (Video Game)|Mega Man 9]]''. Twice as funny when you realize {{spoiler|[[Lampshade Hanging|they're making fun]] of Wily's outrageous [[Villain Decay]].}}

{{quote| '''Mega Man:''' ''[[Mega Man 1 (Video Game)|This is where you first went wrong!]] [[Mega Man 2 (Video Game)|Then this time!]] [[Mega Man 3 (Video Game)|And this time!]] [[Mega Man 4 (Video Game)|And this time!]] [[Mega Man 5 (Video Game)|And this time!]] [[Mega Man 6 (Video Game)|And this time!]] [[Mega Man 7 (Video Game)|And this time!]] [[Mega Man 8 (Video Game)|And this time!]] [[Mega Man and Bass (Video Game)|And this time!]]''}}

** In ''[[Mega Man 10 (Video Game)|Mega Man 10]]'', the final stage of the game takes place in a satellite connected to Wily's fortress by an elevator. A very, very tall elevator. The pan up the elevator to the aforementioned satellite takes roughly ''15 seconds.''

* In ''[[Tekken (Video Game)|Tekken]] 3'', one of the secret unlockable characters is Gon (the little dinosaur from the manga of the same name by Masashi Tanaka). If you beat arcade mode with Gon, you get an ending cinematic in which he runs through a jungle, eats some fish in mid-air, and jumps on whales. The FMV repeats over and over again until you skip it.

* [[Final Fantasy VI (Video Game)|Kefka]] he seems to think one his jokes are much funnier than they really are. Case in point: when he flees from you three times in a row, every time you ask him to wait. He responds each time by saying, "Wait he says. Do I look like a waiter?" By the third time the comment is nothing but enraging. But then, he IS clinically insane, so maybe it makes sense.

* [[Left 4 Dead (Video Game)|"This one time, me and my buddy Kieth..."]]

* In one scene in ''[[Paper Mario: theThe Thousand Year Door (Video Game)|Paper Mario the Thousand -Year Door]]'', an NPC loses his fiancee's engagement ring. After an "insensitive" comment, she insists that he apologize by saying "I love you" 100 times. Yes, you have to click through every single one of them. (The speech bubbles are even numbered.)

* Mr. Resetti of ''[[Animal Crossing (Video Game)|Animal Crossing]]'' fame can get into this, with his rambling reprimands for trying to outwit the auto-save system. Or it can just be a huge annoyance. They were aiming for the second one.

** He also rambles on and on if he appears as an assist trophy in ''[[Super Smash Bros (Video Game)|Super Smash Bros.]]. Brawl''. Considering that most assist trophies last a few seconds, and he seems to last over 2 minutes, it's just hilarious.

* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'' scene where King Zora moves out of the way so Link can reach Jabu-Jabu could be counted as one.

* ''[[Final Fantasy IV (Video Game)|Final Fantasy IV]]'' does this when Tellah attacks Edward. Tellah simply whacks Edward with his staff. And misses. A lot. At least the battle stop after a few turns.

* Like ''[[Paper Mario (Video Gamefranchise)|Paper Mario]]'' above, ''[[Super Paper Mario (Video Game)|Super Paper Mario]]'' does this no less than 3 times, and does each one to the point of sheer annoyance.

* The game ''[[Audiosurf (Video Game)|Audiosurf]]'' generates levels based on audio files. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_b9YOPzhiU This] may be the single hardest one ever attempted.

* Vernon Tripe's rambling stories in ''[[Psychonauts (Video Game)|Psychonauts]]''.

** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140714223148/http://v2.razputin.net/index.html@page=razputin<!-- 252Ffeatures252Ftimwords%252Ffeatures%252Ftimwords.html This interview]] with TimSchafer[[Tim Schafer]], the game's creative designer. Specifically, his response to the first question. -->

* Continuing the list of Mario games on here, ''[[Mario and Luigi Bowsers Inside Story (Video Game)|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.

* The annoying villager in the first ''[[BaldursBaldur's Gate (Video Game)|Baldurs Gate]]'' who follows you around asking endless questions.

* ''[[Fallout 3 (Video Game)|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 (Video Gameseries)|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 and& 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>.

* From ''[[Homestar Runner (Web Animation)|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.

* [[Zero Punctuation (Web Animation)|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.

* 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 ''[[Half-Life (Video Gameseries)|Half-Life]]'' mod [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwiNGn5Fu-A Elevator: Source] is one big overly long gag filled with some nice surprises.

* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic)|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.

* [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.}}

* ''[[Xkcd (Webcomic)|Xkcd]]'' [http://www.xkcd.com/609/ on TV Tropes.]

** [[TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|It's TRUUUUUUUUUUUU]][[Running Gag|UUUUUUUUU]][[Department of Redundancy Department|UUUUUUU]][[Running Gag|EEEE!]]

* ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|The Order of the Stick]]'', when Roy goes [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0136.html shopping]

* [http://www.explosm.net/comics/1323/ This] ''[[Cyanide and& Happiness]]'' strip.

* Masterfully done in [http://samandfuzzy.com/901 this] ''[[Sam and Fuzzy]]'' guest strip, by [[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Tom Siddell]].

* Lampshaded, then avoided in the alt text of [http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/14p33 this] ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (Webcomic)|The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'' strip.

* [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|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 Byby the Bell]]'' [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20130925083604/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/1412-saved-by-the-bell episode].

*** [[The Nostalgia Chick (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Chick]] isn't immune to this either. Extending the "Go It Alone" song from ''[[My Little Pony: theThe Movie (Animation)|My Little Pony the Movie]]'' was just cruel.

*** Another video maker on the [[That Guy With theThe Glasses (Website)|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 (Disney)|Bambi]]''.}}

*** In the 100th episode of Phelous, Paris Hilton's character in ''[[House of Wax (Film)|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]]''.

** And from the same video: [[One Piece (Manga)|WHERE IS ONE PIECE?]]

* In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THlJh1J_Ong this] ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' video, it demonstrates that even through ''one minute of Scout falling'', it's still funny in some way.

* [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.

* Hello? Fuck! Hello? Fuck! Hello? FUCK! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsTJaBVPtu4 It's funnier than it sounds]

* Many [[YoutubeYouTube Poop]] videos try to milk comedy out of repeating a clip over and over and over again, sometimes mixing it up by slowing it down, speeding it up, or applying a filter (grayscale, pixellation, etc.).

** The "X does Y Whilst I Play Unfitting Music" videos combine [[Overly Long Gag]] with [[Soundtrack Dissonance]].

** [https://web.archive.org/web/20111113193443/http://vimeo.com/2998698?pg=embed&sec=2998698 Every profanity from The Sopranos.]

*** Yes.

* {{[[User|Jonn]] Jonnwood}} [http://twitter.com/jonnwood is updating his Twitter].

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nckyF1e_j7k "Captain Planet!" "Who?!"] From [[httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20191017181504/https://www.thefinebrothersyoutube.com/user/TheFineBros?Show=GI-Joe&[[Show Spaces]]ShowSpaces=G.I.%2520Joe20Joe:<!-- 2520The2520Epic%2520Saga20The%20Epic%20Saga G.I. Joe: The Epic Saga]], before it got ScrewedByTheLawyers.[[Screwed -->by the Lawyers]].

* [[Hyperbole and Aa 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 (Video Game)|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...}}

* [[Spider-Man]]'s continuous "and what's in that pocket?" questions to [[Batman]] in ''[[I'm a Marvel And Im ADC (Fanfic)|I'm a Marvel and I'm A DC]]''.

* From ''[[Potter Puppet Pals (Web Video)|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".]]

* ''[[Family Guy (Animation)|Family Guy]]'' creator [[Seth MacfarlaneMacFarlane]] seems to love this trope like nobody else.

*** 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 [[Overly Long Gag]] and [[Running Joke]].

*** Then in another episode, Stewie is composing a song to impress Susie Swanson, and Brian turns the tables.

** And Then There's [[Maude]]! Peter is actually annoyed by this [[Overly Long Gag]].

** After watching ''[[Bewitched (Filmfilm)|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.

** In "Stew-roids" Stewie repeatedly steps in front of Brian as he tries to go down the stairs, making an "oop" noise. He does this 12 times before stopping.

** When homeschooling the kids in "Foreign Affairs", and talking about "The gayest music video ever", the show proceeds to play ''the entirety'' of [[The Rolling Stones (Music)|Mick Jagger]] and [[David Bowie (Music)|David Bowie]]'s "Dancing in the Street".

** A gag in "Ready, Willing, and Disabled" has Joe Swanson crying in the bar because he failed to capture a criminal that tried to steal donation money. He cries for literally 2 to 4 minutes as Peter, Quagmire, and Cleveland slowly and awkwardly leave the bar (with Peter then slowly coming back in through a window to get his beer). [[Seth MacfarlaneMacFarlane]] lampshades the gag in the DVD commentary by mentioning that the animators overseas hated drawing scenes that dragged out in a slow speed.

* MacFarlane frequently uses this trope in ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'' as well. He even lampshades it in "Phantom Of The Telethon," when Stan delivers a joke written by Steve and his friends.

{{quote| Stan: Some acts are too hot. Some acts are too cold. This act is just riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.<br />

* MacFarlane has a pretty big influence on [[Seth Green]]'s ''[[Robot Chicken (Animation)|Robot Chicken]]''--the—the show could be described as "Family Guy if they took out the bits about plot"--so—so to no surprise, to say the least, some clips are longer and tedious than others. This ''really'' comes into play in the second season.

* Some of the lazier episodes of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants (Animation)|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".

** From "The Algae's Always Greener":

{{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..."<br />

**:* "...And the next day. And the next day. And the next day. And the next day. And the next day. And the next day. And the next day. And the next day....

*:* Another example: SpongeBob repeatedly interrupting the doctor trying to remove Squidward's bandages, from "The Two Faces of Squidward."

*:* The episode "Keep Bikini Bottom Beautiful" has almost no gags- other than "Squidward ends up next to litter, and is sentenced to Community Service whether it's his or not." SpongeBob gets CS once, Squilliam gets it once, and Squidward gets it ''eight freaking times...'' (He almost got it nine, even!)

*:* "All That Glitters", where SpongeBob cries to...pretty much everything in Bikini Bottom about his broken spatula. "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-HHAUUUUUUUUUH!"

*:* Zooming in on the patty in "Krusty Krab Training video" The narrator imitates a fanfare throughout, stopping to catch his breath partway.

*:* "Another day, another nickel!" Squidward eventually shouts "IT'S NOT THAT FUNNY! PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!"

*:* SpongeBob going over the activities he and Patrick have planned for the rainy day in "Pineapple Fever". Mostly, he repeats activities he's already stated.

*:* "The Camping Episode" has this, and probably would have gone longer if Squidward hadn't stopped SpongeBob:

{{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''-<br />

**::* Also, the "Campfire Song" Song. Squidward doesn't bother to stop them, he just sits there with an annoyed look on his face.

*:* And from ''Whatever Happened to Spongebob?'': "Idiot boy, idiot boy, idiot boy, idiot boy..."

*:* Another example in Dear Viking.

{{quote| '''Viking:''' This is Olaf. And this is Olaf. This is Olaf. Olaf, Olaf, Olaf, and um...<br />

'''Other Viking:''' Olaf.<br />

'''Squidward:''' So, lemme guess. Your name must be...<br />

** ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' features anThe episode, "How To Be Funny", where the titular cat explains the fine points of comedy and admits repetition of a stupid [[Visual Pun]] like being handed lightbulbs after yelling "Lights!" can get funnier with time.

* 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 ''[[Duck TalesDuckTales (Animation1987)|Duck Tales]]'' 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 and Mandy (Animation)|The Grim Adventures of Billy and& Mandy]]'': When Billy thinks clowns "want to become the dominant species" and then proceeds to spend nearly half a minute straight yelling that they'll "Destroy us all!". In the made for TV movie "Wrath of the Spider Queen", he is cut off half-way before starting another such joke.

** 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 Onon 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.

* In ''[[South Park (Animation)|South Park]]'', "Canceled", this trope is spelled out. Kyle is asked to activate the satellite dish in Cartman's rectum, and each time he approaches, Cartman farts and laughs. Everyone agrees it is no longer funny, and Cartman does it again, prompting the others to laugh and Chef to proclaim it funny once more.

{{quote| '''Cartman:''' "...She's a bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch! Bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch bitch, she's a stupid bitch! Kyle's mom's a bitch and she's just a dirty bitch!"}}

** Then there's Terrence and Phillip vs. Steven Abootman in "Canada on Strike".

{{quote| [[Terms of Endangerment|"I'm not your friend, buddy!"]]<br />

"I'm not your buddy, guy!"<br />

** "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkmV9mnUTC4 Now that's what I call a sticky situation!]"

* ''[[Drawn Together]]'' is also no stranger to the [[Overly Long Gag]].

* ''[[Twelve12 Ounceoz. Mouse (Animation)|Twelve Ounce Mouse]]'' would sometimes have two Overly Long Gags running concurrently. In episode 5, Fitz and Skillet have an extended shoot-out with an offscreen assailant while Peanut tries to rob the Diner. In episode 11, Shark spends half the episode trying to get his car started, while Rectangular Businessman spends the other half trying to decide which one of many identical harmonicas to buy. By the end of the episode, neither has succeeded.

* The credits sequence of the ''[[Phineas and Ferb (Animation)|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.

* ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|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 [[Overly Long Gag]] could probably be described as "how much time needs filling?"

{{quote| "Number 8" - '''BURRRRP!''' - "Number 8" - '''BURRRRP!''' - "Number 8" - '''BURRRRP!''' - "Number 8" - '''BURRRRP!''' - "Number 8" - '''BURRRRP!''' - "Number 8" - '''BURRRRP!''' "Number 8" - '''BURRRRP!''' - "Number 8" - '''BURRRRP!''' - "Number 8" - '''BURRRRP!''' - "Number 8" - '''BURRRRP!''' - "Number 8" - '''BURRRRP!'''}}

{{quote| [[Continuity Nod|You know, I've had a lot of jobs. Boxer, mascot, astronaut, imitation Krusty, baby proofer, trucker, hippie, plow driver, food critic, conceptual artist, grease salesman, carnie, mayor, grifter, bodyguard for the mayor, garbage commissioner, mountain climber, farmer, inventor, Smithers, Poochie, celebrity assistant, power plant worker, fortune cookie writer, beer baron, Kwik-E Mart clerk, homophobe, and missionary. But protecting Springfield, that gives me the best feeling of all.]] }}

** [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sweetest_Apu:The Sweetest Apu|The Sweetest Apu.]] Homer's reaction is almost ''the'' longest gag in the whole show. [[Serial Escalation|Which is saying something.]]

* Taken to its logical extreme by ''[[Futurama (Animation)|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.

** 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 [[Overly Long Gag]], cuts to commercial.

* ''[[DextersDexter's Laboratory (Animation)|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?"

*** Chew chew chew! Chew-chew chew chew chew! Chew chew chew! Chew-chew chew chew chew!

* Lampshaded in an episode of ''[[Freakazoid (Animation)|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.

* This is ''[[Invader Zim (Animation)|Invader Zim]]'s'' bread and butter. Take for example, this quote from "Tak: The Hideous New Girl", in which Tak has just started to explain her evil plan to Zim, starting with "Part 1" - crippling his base's functions.

{{quote| "Part 2 is --"<br />

"NOOO! My beautiful base!"<br />

"Part 2 is --"<br />

"NOOO! My beautiful base!"<br />

"Part 2 --"<br />

"NOOOO! My base!"<br />

"Part 2 --"<br />

"NOOO!"<br />

"Part --"<br />

"NOOO!"<br />

"Okay, I'm -- "<br />

"NOOO!"<br />

"Okay, I'm going now."<br />

{{quote| "I am-"<br />

"Who are you!"<br />

"I am-"<br />

Who are you!"<br />

"I am-"<br />

{{quote| "A hunter-destroyer -- "<br />

"What is it?!"<br />

"A hunter-destroyer -- "<br />

{{quote| "ZIM!"<br />

"WHAAAAT?"<br />

"ZIM!"<br />

"WHAAAAT?"<br />

"ZIM!"<br />

{{quote| '''Tallest Red:''' I was curious to see when you'd shut up on your own. But it's been ''three hours'' now, Zim. ''THREE HOURS!!!''}}

** The Zim writers apparently love this trope. In fact, "Zim Eats Waffles" is essentially an episode-long Overly-Long Gag. And it's hilarious.

* Dr. Rockso's constant repetition of "[[Catch Phrase|I do cocaine!]]" in ''[[Metalocalypse (Animation)|Metalocalypse]]''. It was mildly funny at first, then it became annoying. But by season two, the fact that he simply ''would not stop saying it'' made it inexplicably hilarious.

** There's also the DVD [[Easter Egg]] scene of Nathan Explosion reading from ''[[Hamlet (Theatre)|Hamlet]]''. Very, very badly. For twenty minutes. And then there's a ''second'' Overly Long Gag in the credits...

* In ''[[Home Movies (Animation)|Home Movies]]'', Jason keeps trying to add overly long jokes about barbarians acting ''barbaric'' to a movie script. Melissa refuses to transcribe them past a point, saying, "That's where I think the joke ends!"

{{quote| '''Hans''': I am Hans, may I help you gentlemen?<br />

'''Eric Duckman''': You betcha Heintz, we're from AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-1 Plumbing.<br />

'''Hans''': You're from AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-1 Plumbing?<br />

'''Cornfed Pig''': Yes, we're from AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-1 Plumbing.<br />

'''Lady Calowina Worthington-Ford''': Ah, are these the men from AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-1 Plumbing?<br />

'''Hans''': Yes, they say they're from AAAAAAAAAAAAAA ...<br />

* The ''[[Danger Mouse (Animation)|Danger Mouse]]'' episode, ''Quark Quark'' features a robot named Grovel...who does...''every single time his name is mentioned!''

* ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Animation)|Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' does this in the episode "Super Birthday Snake," when Frylock is arguing back and forth with his zombified friends about whether or not he killed them. A good quarter of the episode's length is nothing but variations on "No I didn't!" "Yes you did!" It's not funny until Carl bursts out with "You ''so'' frickin' did!" Then it's ''hilarious''.

*** The name? Oh, you mean Field Tournament Style Up and Down On the Ground Manja Flanja Blanja Banja Ishka Bibble Babble Flabble Doma Roma Floma Boma Jingle Jangle Every Angle Bricka Bracka Flacka Stacka Two Ton Rerun Free for All Big Ball?

* [[The View Askew NiverseAskewniverse]] cartoon ''[[Clerks the Animated Series]]'':

{{quote| "Caitlyn has a kissing booth? Like, for charity?"<br />

[[Dissimile|"Yeah, only it don't cost nothin' and it's not for charity."]]<br />

* leaves and comes back* <br />

"And there's no booth."<br />

* leaves and comes back* <br />

"And it's more than just kissing."<br />

* leaves and comes back* <br />

"[[Escalating Punchline|And you don't have to be a guy]]."<br />

* leaves* <br />

* beat* <br />

* comes back* <br />

* ''[[FostersFoster's Home for Imaginary Friends (Animation)|Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends]]'': the scene of Bloo being massaged by the sound-operated cactus. (although it plays over the end credits).

* ''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]'' has the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlXjIg4fH74 Who's on Stage?] skit, an homage to the infamous [[WhosWho's Onon First?]] skit.

{{quote| '''[[Daffy Duck]]''': "Oh, sure, it might have been a good idea for a short, but this thing lasted eight hours. ''Eight. hours.''}}

* [[Looney Tunes (Animation)|Looney Tunes]]' [[Duck Season! Rabbit Season!|Duck! Rabbit, Duck!]] Bugs puts up a new season sign whenever Daffy mentions he is another animal. This goes on for the entirety of the film. Eventually...

{{quote| '''Elmer:''' Oh, Mister Game Warden, I hope you can help me. I've been told I can shoot wabbits and goats and pigeons and mongooses and dirty skunks and ducks. Could you tell me what season it weawwy is?<br />

* ''[[Back At the Barnyard (Animation)|Back Atat the Barnyard]]'' has an episode where the animals think the farm is about to be sold because they've overheard that "Buyers are coming" that day. After turning away several "Buyers", one person shows up looking for "The Beyer family reunion." He then explains that his surname is Beyer, the family reunion is being held there because the farmer's wife's maiden name is Beyer, all the other people who showed up earlier were named Beyer, etc. His explanation goes on for nearly a full minute.

* ''[[WereWe're Back! aA DinosaursDinosaur's Story (Film)|Were Back a Dinosaurs Story]]'': Stubbs the clown's resignation. [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]] went through bursts of "SHUT UP!" halfway through (and for once, he wasn't extending the gag himself...it really was ''that long''.).

* In ''[[The EmperorsEmperor's New Groove (Disney)|The Emperors New Groove]]'', Yzma pretends to be a relative of Pacha. Just like the ''[[DragonballDragon Ball]]'' example above, Pacha's son Teepo follows Yzma around the house, saying that Yzma couldn't possibly be his aunt, but she ''could'' be his "great great great great great...(''and he goes on'')"

{{quote| '''Yzma:''' All right! Are you through?<br />

* In ''[[The Venture Brothers (Animation)|The Venture Brothers]]'' episode "Every Which Way But Zeus", Brock and Col. Gathers have a discussion of a stripper's breasts, which they describe as "mournful tits". They go on discussing how "sad" her breasts were in every way imaginable for about a minute.

* An episode of ''[[Yogi Bear (Animation)|Yogi Bear]]'' did this to highly unfunny levels. A dog is going after a criminal in a bear suit, who dives into the hole of a tree. He keeps barking at it until his owner (the sheriff) pops out and glares at him. ''He keeps barking for a good 2 minutes.''

* In [[Tom and Jerry (Animation)|Tom and Jerry]] [[Recycled in Space|Blast Off To Mars]] the Martian King falls down a ridiculously-long flight of stairs. After a few bounces it cuts to some of the guards playing cards. Then back to the king, still on his way down. Then to a couple of the guards flirting. Then back to the king. Then to the guards [[Up to Eleven|getting married]]. Then back to the king. Then to the guards [[Serial Escalation|holding several small children]]. Then he finally hits the ground.

{{quote| '''Martian King:''' [[I Meant to Do That]].}}

* On ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', [[Motor Mouth|Pinkie Pie's]] dialogue occasionally delves into this trope.

{{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?}}

** Likewise, [[This Is a Drill]] with ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Anime)|Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]''.

** And [[Worm Sign]], with ''[[Dune]]''.

* Egregious use of the word "egregious". See [[Author Vocabulary Calendar]] for a really [[Egregious]] example ([[TVAll the Tropes Wiki Drinking Game|that's three sips in a single line, BTW]]).

* The article on ''[[Strike Witches (Anime)|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 "[[Engaging ChevronsPadding]], just to break up the monotony of the [[Filler]]", to mock Idol's constant usage of it.

* The page for ''[[Rozen Maiden (Anime)|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 [[Candle Jack/Just for Fun|Candle Jack]], where sentences don't complete. Remember what was said about 'losing' its entertainment value? Seriously, it gets really old really fa

** [http[Talk://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/remarks.php?trope=Main.CandleJackCandle Jack|Moved to the discussion page.]] Now, don't sta

* ''[[CSI: Miami]]'' *puts shades* likes some [[The Who (Music)|The Who]]. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

* The pages describing the ''[[Final Fantasy (Franchise)|Final Fantasy]]'' games use increasingly ludicrous adjectives to describe the popularity of the series with each numerically subsequent game.

* [[Canada, Eh?]] has every sentence ending in "eh", eh?

* A Japanese rock band asked Tom Green of all people to sit in on drums for them one night. The result was, simply, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKkBTr2Q--A Tom playing the drums. And playing. And playing. And playing. Long after the song had ended.]

* Depressingly averted on [[YouTube]]. Your video can (and ''has,'' in the case of some [[YoutubeYouTube Poop|YouTube Poopers]]ers) be removed for using an overly long gag. According to their "Community Guidelines", [[And That's Terrible|"It's not okay to post large amounts of untargeted, unwanted, or repetitive content, including comments and private messages."]]

** It's not as if this actually stops people from uploading ungodly numbers of "character X does momentary action Y repeatedly for 10 minutes while [[Soundtrack Dissonance/Yakety|while Sax|Yakety Sax]] plays in the background]]" videos, of course. So it's sort of used and averted at the same time.

** ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: theThe Abridged Series (Web Video)|Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged]]'' owner [[Little Kuriboh]] has had his account terminated ''nine'' times, the last of which being on February 26, 2012, and it has been restored seven times. We are currently awaiting his restoration for the latest one.{{verify}} However, far from being frustrated by it, he loves to make fun of it in his videos, blaming it on Team 4Kids in the latest series.

* 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.

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