Running Gag/Western Animation: Difference between revisions

* The [[Running Gag]] of the [[Animated Adaptation]] of [[The Mask]] is that the titular Character constantly gives characters Atomic Wedgies at random. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ISLV6Biu0o Lt.] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5CWMx-QoaU&feature=related Kellaway] gets the [[Crowning Moment of Funny|brunt]] of said gag.

* An episode of the animated series ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' incorporates an intentionally blatant running gag: the episode is framed as a "behind the scenes" documentary where Garfield gives advice on comedy. One of his first pieces of advice is that the secret of humor is to repeat something until it becomes funny. As part of the setup, the lights are often lowered to show a clip. Each time they are to be raised, Garfield calls "Lights!", in response to which several hands appear, offering him lightbulbs. His reaction grows in intensity with each occurrence, starting with "Not funny" and progressing to his final...y being incapacitated by helpless side-splitting laughter when it occurs for the final time.

** The show itself made constant references to the Klopman Diamond.

* ''[[Total Drama Island]]'' has tons of these, though most of them only lasted for one season:

** Without exception, at least once each recurring villain from the [[Rogues Gallery]] in ''[[Kim Possible]]'' has forgotten Ron's name. Senior Sr. and Monkey Fist remember his name a bit better than everyone else, however Dementor and Dr. Drakken have NEVER remembered his name.

** Ron himself commented on this in one episode, speaking to Monkey Fist: "You know, you're the only bad guy who ever remembers my name. I respect that."

* The [[Running Gag]] on ''[[Teen Titans (Animation)|Teen Titans]]'' about Raven's obsession with the secrecy of her room was repeated exactly [[Rule of Three|three times]]:

{{quote| '''Raven:''' They went into my room. No one should ''ever'' go into my room.<br />

** ''[[The Simpsons]]'' is full of running gags, including but by no means limited to:

** Probably the most famous one, Homer strangling Bart.

** Sideshow Bob's appearances always include him stepping on a rake at some point, since his scene with [[Overly Long Gag|the infamous many rakes]] in the episode "Cape Feare".

** Bart's prank phonecalls to Moe's Tavern.

{{quote| '''Yakko:''' Mwah! Goodnight everybody!}}

** or:

** Speaking of ''Pinky and the Brain'', it has its own. In addition to its [[Once an Episode]] gags ("The same thing we do every night" and "~Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering~"), there's also the matter of Pinky answering Brain's rhetorical questions with a cultural reference that actually fits the question (if not the way Brain intended).

* On ''~Histeria!~'', Pepper Mills constantly bothers historical celebrities for their autographs, not realizing until after she's gotten it that the person in question is not the pop cultural celebrity she has mistaken them for.

** This running gag even gets a little shout-out during the Oogle Bird adventure, when Boris yells to the bird, "Aw, shut up your beak!"

** "Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!"

* The chief weakness of ''Planet Sketch'' was that it tried to make ''all'' its jokes into running gags. In the end, there was very little incentive to watch multiple episodes, since they were all exactly the same.

* Hot dog stands being knocked over in ''[[Ben 10 (Animation)|Ben 10]]''. The joke made a brief reappearance in one of the sequels.

** Background pony "[[Fan Nickname|Bon Bon]]" ''always'' has a completely different voice in every single speaking appearance she makes. So far, this comes to five different voices.

** Twilight's [[Super OCD]] has led to chaos on multiple occasions.