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* [[City of Thieves]] has Kolya talking about how long its been since he had a shit
* Career criminal John Dortmunder (a character from Donald E. Westlake's novels) often introduces himself as "John Diddums". Variations of this exchange then happen: "Diddums?" "It's Welsh."
* In [[Terry Pratchett]] and [[Neil Gaiman]]'s ''[[
** [[Terry Pratchett]] explained this as being inspired by situations where you've listened to all the tapes in your car and decide to buy some different music at the next services; inevitably the only thing they sell that's at all worth listening to is a ''Best of Queen'' album. Apparently, Neil Gaiman preferred the theory that tapes left in cars really did metamorphose into ''Best of Queen'' albums.
* Likewise, the ''[[
** For example, reactions to CMOT Dibbler's sausages span both multiple books and multiple countries/incarnations of CMOT Dibbler.
** Similarly, we find multiple versions of [[Those Two Guys|Sergeant Colon and Corporal Nobbs]] elsewhere in the Discworld. These repetitions are pegged in the canon as "morphic resonance."
** Or Moist keeping stealing pencils.
** Or Granny Weatherwax's broom, which needs a large running start in order to get it to fly.
** Each book has its own, personal running gag. ''[[Discworld
** Across the later books, "It is a pune, or play on words."
** "Oh no, it's Mrs. Cake!"
** In ''[[Discworld
** Also the insistence that scrumble is made from apples. Well... mainly apples.
** Most books involving witches will mention the old idea of them dancing around in the woods at night with no clothes on, and how impractical it would be due to nettles, stones, hedgehogs, the cold, etc.
*** With the caveat "Well, [[Dirty Old Woman|maybe]] [[Bawdy Song|Nanny]] [[Boisterous Bruiser|Ogg]]" added if anyone who's met her is present.
** In ''[[Discworld
* In many of [[Peter David]]'s ''[[Star Trek]]'' novels he recycles the name of a low-level security duo. They seem to transfer between Deep Space Nine and the Enterprise-D bi-monthly.
* In the ''[[Far Fetched Fiction]]'' of Robert Rankin, it is a running gag that there are so many running gags. This fact is blatantly [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by sentences like "I hope that isn't going to be a running gag, it's crap."
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{{quote| '''Boros Blount:''' You speak to me thus? ''You''?}}
** There's also the antics of Pyp and Grenn up on the wall, especially after Jon Snow starts promoting Grenn. "Me?" "Him?"
** Shagga son of Dolf's favorite threat: [[Cut His Heart Out
* ''[[
** Rachel would always start off the mission by saying "Let's do it." In one book it was [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] when she begins with "Let's...". Marco made a bet with Jake that she would say her line only for Rachel to finish with "... go for it."
** Marco of the same series has a tendency to question the sanity of the group at least once a book, if not more; most commonly in reference to the completely whacked-out plans the group comes up with. "Are you insane?!" and "This is insane!" are practically his [[Catch Phrase|Catch Phrases]].
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** Harry blows up and/or burns down buildings. A lot. So much so that the opening line of Blood Rites is "The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault."
*** To the point where [[The Syndicate|Mar]][[Noble Demon|cone]] instructs all his various businesses/clubs to treat Dresden nicely, hopefully lessening the chance of the place winding up as rubble.
**** The [[The Dresden Files (
** Harry's [[My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels|inability to speak Latin very well]] whenever he tries to speak it on his own. Stupid Latin correspondence course.
** A bit of in/out universe example – on every single cover Harry is depicted wearing a hat, despite never having one in the books. It goes to the point where Harry usually, about once per book, make mention of how he should get a hat like everyone keeps telling him to.
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** Everyone mistaking Harry and Thomas for lovers.
* ''The Last Knight'' uses the running gag of one of the main characters Fisk saying "Heroism is vastly overrated".
** The character Fisk will often say "Obviously, [[Who Would Be Stupid Enough...?|only a complete idiot]] would say something at this point, so I wasn't surprised when Michael said..." or something extremely similar.
* ''[[Dave Barry]] Slept Here'' includes several running gags. For convenience of memorization, all major events in American history occur on October 8, his son's birthday (Most notably, he dates the attack on Pearl Harbor to "The fateful December morning of October 8."). To satisfy the demands of education professors, there are periodic allusions to the contributions of women and minorities, none of which get specifically mentioned. The later chapters have the [[Gag Words]] "The Hawley-Smoot Tariff," and at several points the end of [[Richard Nixon]]'s political career is widely predicted.
** In any Internet chat described in ''[[Dave Barry]] in Cyberspace'', someone with the handle of "Wazootyman" is likely to pop up and ask, "Anybody here from Texas?"
** For that matter, through Barry's entire oeuvre, there are at least two long-time recurring gags: references to booger jokes, and insisting that a certain phrase would be "[[A Good Name for
* If Professor McGonagall walks onto a scene in ''[[Harry Potter (
** And then there's the fact that no one in the main cast likes Divination, not even Dumbledore.
** Professor Trelawney never seems to predict anyone else's death but Harry's. {{spoiler|Completely averted with an actual prediction said ''to'' Harry about Dumbledore, not ''about'' Harry.}}
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** If you really, really need to go to the bathroom, the Room of Requirement will appear, full of chamber pots.
* In ''[[The Culture]]'' books, many ships have names with "Gravitas" in them, referring to the Culture's tendency to give (powerful) ships fairly lighthearted names. They can't even be serious with the "Gravitas" ships, generally giving them names that mention a lack of gravitas...
* ''[[
* [[Stephanie Plum]]'s car blows up. Repeat up to several times per book and [[Lampshaded]].
* In ''[[The Wheel of Time|Lord of Chaos]]'', Nynaeve meets Theodrin. Theodrin is ''very'' interested in breaking Nynaeve's block, which would let her channel anytime she wants. She is also ''very'' inventive. Her attempts include, but are certainly not limited to: "shock treatment" (the book doesn't go into detail, but they end up punching each other a few times), exhaustion (stay awake as long as possible), the calming effect of responsibly-applied alcohol, irresponsibly-applied alcohol, and other unpleasant extremes. They never work, but it's still funny.
* ''[[
* In the [[Dale Brown]] novel ''Act of War'', people keep calling Sergeant Major Ray Jefferson a Sergeant. The man's reaction is understandably [[Dude, Not Funny]].
* The [[Short Story
* In ''[[Garrett
* In the Rangers Apprentice book the Sorcerer in the North and the Siege of Macindaw: "It's not a lute, it's a mandolin."
* ''[[
* Auley in ''[[Someone Else's War
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