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* In ''[[Bone]]'', the insult "Stupid, stupid rat creatures!" is a [[Running Gag]], as is one of the rat creature's fondness for quiche and the other's insistence that monsters should act a certain way.
* ''[[Peanuts]]'' and its TV specials were fond of these, although always with some sort of variation. Lucy pulling the football away, Charlie Brown crashing his kite, etc.
* Dagwood in ''[[Blondie (comic strip)|Blondie]]'': Always making his [[Dagwood Sandwich|decuple-decker sandwiches]], always running into the mailman on his hurried way out the door.
* In ''[[Beetle Bailey]]'', whenever General Halftrack sends his officers a written instruction, it will always have one tiny spelling error that completely changes the meaning of the orders ("buns" instead of "guns", "gag masks" instead of "gas masks", etc.). Someone will point out what the general ''meant'' to say, but then someone else will - ''always'', ''invariably'' - ask: "But who dares to tell the general that he's done a mistake?" Nobody dares, and in the end, the officers always do exactly what it says in the instruction, even though it makes no sense.
** Often, General Halftrack is depicted witnessing the end results of his subordinates' interpreting his orders in some absurd way, and his reaction is always the same: "Now what?" often rolling his eyes in the process.
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