Running Gag/Film: Difference between revisions

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== Animation ==

* ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]'': The ridiculously-long flight of steps leading up to the Jade Palace, and Po's inability to climb them without collapsing in exhaustion. It even precedes his [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] fight with Tai Lung. Interestingly, when he realizes that Shifu may be dying, we have a cut from him in the town square to him in the temple, never showing how he got up the steps so fast. Either the writers decided the gag had run long enough, or having become the true Dragon Warrior put Po above this sort of thing. Or it did give him some very cool abilities… like superspeed, or teleportation…?

** Though he does struggle a bit when he goes up the steps one last time.

*** Could be as a sign on how far he's gone from "kung fu fan boy" to "kung fu master". First, he's on his back just halfway. Second, he make it to the top, only needing to rest a bit on the wall. Last, well…

** Also, "_____ is such a strong word."

** Gobber's advice can never come out right.

** Ruffnut and Tuffnut argue, and get in trouble with a dragon.

 

== Live Action ==

** It's a response that describes the place where the situation is taking place, rather than the situation itself which the questioner wants to know more about, but that's not important right now.

** I just want to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you.

*** The greater good.

**** Shut it!

** Which was done previously in ''[[Big Jake]]'' with John Wayne.

* Similarly, in ''[[Road House]]'', people tell Patrick Swayze, "I thought you'd be bigger." What it lacks in humor it makes up for in [[Ho Yay|homoeroticism]].

* ''The Long Goodbye'', which features an anachronistic '50s private eye in the '70s has the protagonist not only be the only character that smoked, but as a [[Running Gag]] has him light a cigarette in every single scene.

** Thank you, Jack.

** I hate that monkey.

** INCONCEIVABLE!

** [[You Keep Using That Word]]. [[Memetic Mutation|I do not think it means what you think it means.]]

** "Cornetto." (It's an ice cream.) Appears in all their movies.

* ''[[Juno]]''. "Pork Swords". Double hilarity if you listen to the commentary track and find out just ''[[Gag Penis|how far]]'' the filmmakers had to go to get the effect.

* A running gag in ''[[Mallrats]]'' is that Shannon Hamilton likes to have sex in a very uncomfortable place.

*** What... like the back of a Volkswagen?

** "Manure! I ''hate'' manure!"

* ''[[The Blues Brothers]]'' has lots of them, ranging from the obvious, such as "We're on a mission from God!" to the subtle, like Jake constantly checking his watch which was declared broken in the first scene. (And other people's watches getting broken as well.)

* ''[[Better Off Dead]]'': [[The Determinator|"I want my two dollars!!"]]

* ''[[Space Cowboys]]'': (after a while) [[Badass Grandpa|"You notice that everyone we know is dead?"]]

** Sarah does this at first, but quickly learns his name. Jareth is the one that never gets Higgle's (HOGGLE!) name right.

* ''I Love You, Man.'' "...Why does everything I say sound like a leprechaun?"

* ''[[I'm Gonna Git You Sucka]]''

** "I have a bad feeling about this." (Uttered at least once by Luke, Han, and Leia. Arguably by Chewie, too.)

*** Yoda, too: "Bad feeling have I."

** I sense a disturbance in the Force

*** [[Dark Forces Saga|You always feel a disturbance in the force.]]

* ''[[Inglourious Basterds]]'': Landa's insistence on using American idioms and getting them slightly wrong.

* During the filming of ''[[Rush Hour]] 2'', a real life running gag showed up: As shown in the outtakes, Chris Tucker ''cannot'' remember to call Jackie Chan by his character's name.

* ''Kingpin'' had two major running gags. One was Roy Munson referring to his 1979 championship ring as "this", only for people to think he's talking about the rubber hand it's situated on (this gets reversed at the end when he actually is talking about the rubber hand). The second is different characters referring to being put in an unwinnable situation as being "Munsoned".

* ''Any Given Sunday'' had the third-string quarterback, Willie Beamen to throw-up in the middle of the game. Every time the Sharks were playing.

** Also, everyone asking if Graeme and Clive are gay.

** "Who the hell is Adam Shadowchild?"

* ''[[A Fish Called Wanda]]'': "What was the middle one?"

* ''[[Mystery Team]]'': Jason's [[Paper-Thin Disguise|disguises]]

** Chekhov's accent.

** A ''literal'' running gag: Kirk suffering from various anaphylactic reactions to a vaccine he was given, running down the halls trying to get to the bridge as McCoy repeatedly gives him shots to counteract the symptoms.