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Compared to [[Overused Running Gag]], where instead of the writers retiring the event they keep on using it anyway. If the [[Running Gag]] makes a reappearance after a while, it would be a [[Call Back]] or a [[Continuity Nod]], depending on the example. [[I Thought It Meant|Has nothing to do]] with jogging with your mouth gagged.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In Part 1 of ''[[Naruto]]'', viewers would sometimes see how Sakura feels through Inner Sakura whenever she felt differently then how she responded. In Part 2, Sakura has learned how to express her true feelings and Inner Sakura only appears once in what could be considered a [[Call Back]].
** The last time the gag is used in Part 1 is when Inner Sakura is implied to be a full on 2nd personality and foils Ino's attempt at [[Grand Theft Me]].
* Usopp's lies in ''[[One Piece]]''. His fighting style used to heavily rely on flat-out lying to his opponents to scare them and gave him the upper edge. This is a variation because instead of entirely dropping them at a certain point, he used them less and less and utilized more of his inventions. He still lies, but only occasionally, and he will usually have a plan instead of improvising a lie, such as the Usopp Golden Pound in his Thriller Bark fight against Perona.
* In the Funimation dub of ''[[
== [[Film]] ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Maeby in ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' often says "Marry me!" to her coworkers as a means of allaying suspicion whenever they point out how young she looks. But one time when she uses it, the proposal is taken a little too seriously and she quickly stops.
** Another (temporary) example in ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' is Tobias' "never-nude" syndrome. For those who don't know, never-nude syndrome is when whenever you are required to be naked, you instinctively wear cutoff jeans. He recovers from it in a mid-season 1 episode, but at the beginning of season 2, he develops this again after an extreme close-up of his testicles is aired on TV as "proof of weapons of mass destruction".
* A rare example of a [[Running Gag]] ending dramatically instead of comically happened on ''[[Hill Street Blues]]''. Every few episodes Belker would arrest the same petty criminal. Whenever Belker asked him for his name, he would always give an obviously fake one. Belker would often be on the phone with [[My Beloved Smother|his mother]] while booking the criminal, who smirked at the incongruity of a tough detective being nagged by his mom. This went on for years, until the criminal was accidentally caught in the crossfire of a shootout. He had nothing to do with the gang shooting it out with the police; he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. When Belker ran up to him where he lay dying he finally told Belker his real name and asked Belker to tell his (the criminal's) mother what had happened.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In the first ''[[Portal (
== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''[[
** References to Tedd being androgynous have also stopped, probably because in the [[Art Evolution|newer art style]] he doesn't really look all that androgynous. Especially with [http://egscomics.com/?date=2011-01-26 Noah] in the comic...
* In ''[http://dbzu.3gkai.com/ Dragon Ball Z Uncensored]'' (a comparison of the original ''[[Dragon Ball
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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** Yet another example is Vern and Johnny. They started making appearances after the show's revival, and were killed by Stewie in the next season. Their ghosts made one reappearance as a [[Continuity Nod]].
** Possibly Quagmire's hatred for Brian, which was last seen in an [[Escalating War]] in "Teigs For Two" where Brian suggested the two making amends. Granted it cultimated in Quagmire running him over with his car, but the feud has not been brought up since.
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'', with a combination of [[Aborted Arc]]. Pre-season 8, Skinner was a [[Non
* "Oh, my God! [[They Killed Kenny]]!" In its early seasons, Kenny McCormick's death [[Once an Episode]] was one of the defining traits of ''[[South Park]]''. Many a fan eagerly awaited to see how Kenny would bite it this week. Soon, however, the writers felt that it was becoming an [[Overused Running Gag]], and decided to end it before it got too much. And so, Kenny was [[Killed Off for Real]] in the aptly titled episode "Kenny Dies", and stayed dead for the better part of the following season. Eventually, Kenny was brought back from the dead, only now he wasn't killed off... at least not as often. The whole thing got a good [[Deconstruction]] in the "Coon and Friends" arc, where we learn that {{spoiler|Kenny's parents were part of a Lovecraftian cult and his immortality was a curse from the Dark Ones.}}
** The boys trying to find a replacement fourth friend in the sixth season. For the majority of the first half they took in Butters, who [[Got Volunteered]] into all sorts of [[Zany Scheme|ZanySchemes]] [[Once Per Episode]], before finally getting thrown out with Tweek being placed in the role instead. However Tweek was eventually phased out before Kenny himself finally reappeared at the end of the season.
* In the first season of ''[[
** In the early seasons of ''[[
* For four and a half seasons of ''[[Daria]]'', Quinn refused to admit that Daria was her sister, insisting that she was her "cousin" instead. She was especially nervous that her friends in the [[Girl Posse|Fashion Club]] not find out her real relationship with Daria. But thanks to [[Character Development]], by the fifth season Quinn's relationship with Daria had improved and she started sticking up for herself more in the Fashion Club. This led to the following exchange in the episode "Lucky Strike":
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'''Tiffany''': We were just being polite about it. }}
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