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** When the four first meet the exiled skahs wizard Lyndess, she immediately asks them, “What are you selling, olyrr-sars [outworlders]?” When they are sent to Ta'akan, every single person they meet thereafter asks them the same question, until word finally spreads that they have nothing to sell. (At one point a very annoyed John comments that if they get asked that stupid question one more time, he's going to pull his trousers down and say “Yeah.”) Much later, when the Hunter is brought to Ta'akan, he gets swamped with people asking him that.
** There's a literal [[Running Gag]] that starts in the New Zork chapter. Ringo finds himself yanked, dragged, and carried around by practically everyone he meets. This includes a pair of disembodied arms that throw him off a roof, Beagle Brian Epstein, some cops, Flyboy from the “Hitler Youth,” and John. He gets picked up and carried in someone's arms several more times during the book (including twice during the climactic assault on the warehouse), and at one point the Hunter offers to carry him.
* In ''[[Turnabout Storm]]'', [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|everypony]] seems to think that [[Ace Attorney|Phoenix Wright's]] hair it's some sort of beast or critter
*''[https://archiveofourown.org/works/31492754?view_full_work=true Mars Attacks: Simpsons]'' had a random character call a random location or person for a prank in each chapter.
* Paperwork in the ''[[Worm]]'' [[Alternate Universe Fic]] ''[[Mauling Snarks]]'' -- it seems like someone has to fill out paperwork for something ''every single day'', and the variety and purposes of the forms to be filled out sometimes reaches pinnacles of absurdity -- there's a form that has to be completed in order to play a prank on someone in the PRT building, for instance. Played with [[In-Universe]] with the requirements for submitting oneself to a tinker fugue, which are ridiculously (and intentionally) over-the-top and complex, combining excessive paperwork with what for all purposes is a scavenger hunt.
** Another in-universe running gag -- referred to as such by the participants -- exists, in which the Wards are subject to a conspiracy of silence about the courses and resources available to them, with the intention of teaching them to ask questions rather than just accept things as they seem to be. Those participating in the conspiracy gladly answer all questions, but do not volunteer any information, not even to suggest that the Wards should be asking questions.
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