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* ''[[The Man Show]]'' had a "Museum of Annoying Guys", and one of them was the [[Real Life]] version of this trope. "It's the beat a [[Catch Phrase]] to death guy."
* The Rita Moreno episode (#5 of season 1) of ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' features an old-style phone backstage. When it rings, Fozzie answers it, and something comes out of the receiver related to who's calling. At the fifth call, Kermit gets fed up and asks, "Is there no end to this [[Running Gag]]?"; then Animal comes in and puts an end to it (as well as to incoming calls, unless someone thinks to call the number for the phone on the desk).
* In the 2000 ''[[The Invisible Man (TV)|The Invisible Man]]'' TV series, Darien Fawkes would greet each worsening situation with "[[Oh Crap]]" in a resigned manner. Eventually, the ''characters'' find it annoying. By the second season, there are lampshades; for instance, it's ''the only thing he remembers about himself'' when he gets [[Laser
* Parodied in ''[[The State]]''. Under pressure to create more catchphrase-driven characters like ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', the writers created "Louie, the guy who says his catchphrase over and over again." The character would repeatedly ask for volunteers to present him with a substance and then loudly announce, "I wanna dip my balls in it!" while holding up two golf balls. The [[Only Sane Man]] in the sketch can't understand why the gag never gets old to any of the other characters. Ironically, the character proved popular and was brought back a few times.
* ''[[Hannah Montana]]'''s tendency towards [[Zany Scheme|zany schemes]] is noted, repeatedly, by Lilly, who eventually gets fed up at never being asked to just sit down and have breakfast but constantly being roped into Miley's schemes.
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* ''[[The IT Crowd]]'' has Roy answer the phone almost every time with the line, "Hello IT, have you tried turning it off and on again?" However, early in the second season he interrupts his signature line with, "I'm sick of saying that. What do you want?" From that point on he never again utters that catchphrase {{spoiler|until he brings it back in the fourth}}.
* In the film ''Escape 2000'', there is a scene at the beginning where the phrase "leave the Bronx" is repeated constantly. [[Mystery Science Theater 3000|Mike and the Bots]] naturally turn this into a [[Running Gag]], with Servo even singing the phrase repeatedly along to the music at the end credits. But when the movie is over and Mike tries to make the joke again, Crow tells him that it's not funny any more.
* ''[[Stargate SG 1]]'' had a habit of making [[
{{quote| '''Daniel:''' Don't. Every joke, every pun, done to death.}}
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== Web Original ==
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!:
* [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]] has [[Street Fighter|M. Bison's]] "Of course!" that pops up every time someone wants to [[Take Over the World]]. When the Nostalgia Critic got sick of it, it showed up on its own and crushed him.
** Saying the word "Elephant" summons the Burger King who silences the characters in the movie who won't shut up. It didn't work on [[Twister]]. After the Top 11 Nostalgic Mindfucks, he recalls that it didn't come when he talked about the Pink Elephants from [[Dumbo (Disney)|Dumbo]]; after some experimentation, the Burger King logo brained him out of irritation.
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{{quote| '''Chick''': Oh, fine... PUPPIES!"<br />
'''Children''': Yaaay! }}
* The [[MS Paint Adventures]] series ''[[Problem Sleuth]]'' featured Demonhead Mobster Kingpin, a [[Marathon Boss]] who kept revealing new [[One
** The series is riddled with running gags, some of which are overused for comedic effect. Most notoriously, the "Retrieve arms from x" command has been done about ''12 times'' in ''[[Problem Sleuth]]'' and ''[[Homestuck]]''. ''So far''.
** Subverted in Act 5. When the first new character of this act is introduced, it seems that, as usual, all the typical running gags will play out before he's introduced for real... [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003893 but the narrator and the character are having none of it].
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** Now Older Than Dirt itself has become way overused and misused, being frequently applied to pages that are nowhere near old enough to count (currently the cutoff is 800 BCE; previously it was 500 BCE). Doesn't help that despite being an index, it's often treated as a trope.
* I Am Not Making This Up and So Yeah ended up being [[Discredited Meme|discredited]] and finally dead. So Yeah ([[About/Permanent Red Link Club|which met the same fate]]).
* [[Or So
* The members of the [[About/Permanent Red Link Club|Permanent Red Link Club]], just the members of the [[About/Permanent Red Link Club|Permanent Red Link Club]]. This Troper used to see them on [[You Keep Using That Word|literally every page]] of the wiki. I am not making this up. So yeah.
* Any trope that is listed on [[Pothole Magnet]] tends to become this.
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