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** Ranjit, the taxi/limo driver

** Lily ALWAYS breaks up people's relationships when she thinks they're bad ideas.

* ''[[LA Law]]'''s Arnie Becker couldn't keep his pecker in his pants. Being a successful divorce lawyer meant he had lots of clients that he could bed.

* ''[[L.A. Law]]'''s Arnie Becker couldn't keep his pecker in his pants. Being a successful divorce lawyer meant he had lots of clients that he could bed.

* "Dirty!" is [[Gilmore Girls|Lorelai Gilmore's]] favorite running joke. She's passed it along to Rory and Luke.

** No love for Kirk, who occupies every job in town and still lives with his controlling mom?

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** The names of the German higher level officers, which got weirder as the series went on.

* In ''<nowiki>[[M*A*S*H (television)]]</nowiki>'', how terrible the Mess Tent food is.

* ''[[Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip]]'': Writer/creator [[Aaron Sorkin]] loves to incorporate throw-away running gags, often with each instance rephrasing the joke from a different angle. In "The Option Period", off-camera guest-host (and real-life [[Malaproper]]) [[Jessica Simpson]] supposedly had to fill in extra airtime at the end of the fictional show's live broadcast, as described by Cal:

* ''[[Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip]]'': Writer/creator [[Aaron Sorkin]] loves to incorporate throw-away running gags, often with each instance rephrasing the joke from a different angle. In "The Option Period", off-camera guest-host (and real-life [[Malaproper]]) [[Jessica Simpson]] supposedly had to fill in extra airtime at the end of the fictional show's live broadcast, as described by Cal:

{{quote|'''Cal''': Nice girl, nice performer... don't want her to extemporize on our air. She had time to thank her pets, and then she asked us all to pray for peace in the Mid''west''.<ref>(She should have said "Middle East".)</ref>

[+ The regulars continue wisecracking about this as the (real) show continues.+ ]

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** Laurie's promiscuity is a running gag.

** Red's recurring threat of putting his foot in someone's ass, and calling people Dumbasses.

* ''[[Home Improvement]]'' had a ton of these:

* ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'' had a ton of these:

** The most prominent one was that whenever Tim would pass along Wilson's advice he would mangle it into incomprehensible gibberish.

** "I don't think so, Tim."

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