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* ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures (Animation)|Jackie Chan Adventures]]'' has Uncle hitting Jackie in the head with a two-fingered strike each time he does or says something wrong. He also hit other characters such as Captain Black, Tohru, [[Enemy Within|Dark Jackie]], Super Moose, and Hsi Wu. In one occasion, he hits himself because {{spoiler|he blames himself for the kidnapping of Tohru}}, and in one episode, he gets hit by Dark Jackie and the two start hitting each other repeatedly.
** [[Catch Phrase|"One more thing..."]] Every episode, Jackie insists that Jade stays at home, or with some adult, or at any attraction they were at, only for Jade to find some loophole to his request and just appear on the battle scene; and Jackie is always surprised that she never listens.
** And this was [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in a certain episode, with a dialogue that went like:
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*** People mistaking Doofenshmirtz for a pharmacist
*** "What if a satellite falls out of the sky?"
*** The Lice Duo, Olga and Chicago Joe, are in (or at least mentioned) in several episodes. [[Makes Just Asas Much Sense in Context|Never really explained, though...]]
*** The [[Makes Just Asas Much Sense in Context|talking Zebra that calls Candace Kevin]] shows up a lot, usually when Candace is dreaming or hallucinating. It's even been [[Lampshaded]]. She realizes she's dreaming, and says so. Jeremy says that it would explain the talking zebra, but she says that she sees him all the time.
* There's a running gag in the series ''[[Kim Possible]]'', regarding faithful sidekick Ron Stoppable's [[I See London|disappearing pants]]. They regularly get slashed open or pulled off of him, exposing his [[Goofy Print Underwear|rather colorful collection of boxer shorts]]. There's even been some [[Lampshade Hanging]] on it; in "Showdown at the 'Crooked D'", when confronted with the fact, he claims it's only happened "six or eight times;" in "Exchange," when it happens once again, Ron bemoans his misfortune with a "Oh, man! Even in Japan!"
** This itself is almost becoming a running gag; in the episode "Ill Suited", his reaction is "Oh, man! Even as a senior!" This however was lampshaded and solved in Season 4 as Wade made an unbreakable titanium [[Phlebotinum]] belt for Kim to give Ron.
** In "Clean Slate", where Kim gave Ron the belt, he later used the belt to close a steam pipe, thus making his pants fall down again.
** Which culminated in a montage of previous falling-pants incidents, as Kim (who was suffering from [[Easy Amnesia]] at the time) finally remembered her relationship with Ron, and declared "I love you" to him for the first time. [[Kim Possible (Animation)/Heartwarming|Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming]]? Yeah.
** 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."
** Whatever the plot-relevant class, sport, or administrative duty is, Mr. Barkin will be covering it today as [[Two-Teacher School|the regular teacher is unavailable]].
* The [[Running Gag]] on ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|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 />
'''Cyborg:''' We're in Raven's room. We should not be in Raven's room.<br />
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** Consuela the maid's "No,...no...", and "more Lemon Pledge"
** "[indrawn hiss]...aaaahhhh...[indrawn hiss]...aaaahhhh..."
* A key element of the humor in ''[[Harvey Birdman, Attorney Atat Law|Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law]]'' is the numerous running gags, from Phil Ken Sebben's "Ha ha... [[Double Entendre]]", to Peter Pottamus' "Did you get that thing I sent ya?", to Mentok's mindtaking, to Reducto's paranoia and obsession with small things... It's a long list.
* The ''[[Transformers]]'' wiki often follows up something that makes fans happy with "and there was much [[Monty Python and The Holy Grail|rejoicing (yay...)]]". There are also a multitude of jokes about various incarnations of Ultra Magnus dealing/not dealing with things (based on a line from [[The Movie]]). Also, whenever there's a picture of [[Transformers Animated|Animated]] [[The Starscream|Starscream]] or one of his [[Cloning Blues|clones]], it's almost inevitably accompanied by a relevant quote about [[Red Dwarf (TV)|Arnold Rimmer]].
** Bonecrusher hates that he was forgotten on this list.
** Bonecrusher also hates that he was added to this list.
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** Zuko's ship being damaged in Season 1: being buried under an avalanche (ep. 02), being set on fire by Zhao's catapult (07), losing the miniboat over a waterfall (09), being struck by lightning (12), a Shirshu ripping a hole in the deck (15), and finally being ''blown up'' in the season finale.
** [[Yuppie Couple|The Cabbage Guy]] getting his [[Fruit Cart|cabbage cart]] smashed. ("My cabbages!", lapses for the second season before making a surprise return late in the third season when the playwright traveling the world interviewing people to research the Avatar's journey met 'a surprisingly knowledgeable merchant of cabbage'.
*** In ''[[The Legend of Korra (Animation)|The Legend of Korra]]'' Cabbage Corp is mentioned in several episodes before appearing, with a statue of its familiar-looking founder standing by his cart. As the owner is being arrested and his company's assets frozen, he cries out "Not my Cabbage Corp!".
** Various characters forgetting that Toph can't see, to the point where Toph once [[Lampshades]], "I mean, seriously, what's ''with'' you people?! I'm '''''BLIND!'''''" Toph herself isn't above taking advantage of it in order to pick on others, but one time she gets defensive about not being included in an activity that would ''require'' sight to do. They also subverted it once where Toph mocks Sokka for asking her to take the wheel of an airship, but he wasn't actually talking to her.
{{quote| '''Sokka:''' Take the wheel!<br />
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* An episode of ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' had a similar joke to Darkwing's literal running gag, only with a clown (making it even more literal).
** Buster and Babs "No relation" gag.
*** [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|Let's hope not.]] [[Animaniacs (Animation)|This is a family show!]]
* ''[[The Weekenders]]'' go out for pizza once every weekend... the pizza place is NEVER the same theme twice.
** On a few occasions, the pizza restaurant has even changed mid-episode.
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** "Mmmmmmmmm *food*..."; it changes depending on what food Homer notices at the time. It doesn't even have to ''be'' food.
** "Hi, I'm Troy McClure. [[You Might Remember Me From]]... "
*** Tragically, this gag has been [[The Character Died Withwith Him|forced into retirement]] with the passing of Phil Hartman.
** “Hi, everybody!”, "Hi, Dr. Nick!"
** All the times the show has [[Biting the Hand Humor|made fun of FOX]].
* ''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]'' frequently has Yakko, Wakko, and Dot running by in the other characters' segments, pursued by Ralph the Guard. [[Pinky and The Brain]] would also frequently appear in the background in other segments doing the same thing they do every night. Other characters occasionally get into the act as well.
** And;
{{quote| '''Yakko & Wakko:''' [[Hello, Nurse!|HELLOOOO NURSE!]]<br />
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** [[I Take Offense to That Last One|My head's not big!]]
** Several episodes have a character suffer a spinal injury and scream "MY SPINE!!"
* ''[[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]] Transformers'' has several for the characters; Megatron's "''[[Verbal Tic|Yessss]]''" and his taking his rubber ducky with him into the regeneration tank, [[Vitriolic Best Buds|Rattrap and Dinobot]]'s constant exchange of argues, everyone telling Rattrap to shut up whenever he declares that "We're all gonna die!" (which he actually [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]], once), Waspinator's [[The Chew Toy|many, many,]] ''[[Cosmic Plaything|many]]'' [[The Woobie|slaggings]], Inferno referring to Megs as "My Queen", etc.
* Jim Moralès could tell you all about ''[[Code Lyoko]]'''s example, but he'd rather not talk about it.
** "I'm not scrawny, I'm [[Insistent Terminology|svelte!]]"
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** Remember that running gag, Al?
** {{smallcaps|..."WHAAAT?"}}
* In ''[[Hey Arnold (Animation)|Hey Arnold]]'', there were two recurring gags throughout the years Brainy sneaking behind Helga and breathing heavily and [[Offhand Backhand|her punching him]], and [[The Chew Toy|Eugene]] always getting involved in some kind of accident usually on his bicycle.
** "I'm okay."
* ''[[The Venture Brothers (Animation)|The Venture Brothers]]'' includes several, including 24's [[The Alleged Car|Nissan Stanza]] and 21 complaining about not being told about things, such as the fact that the wings on the henchmen's costumes are actually flight-capable.
* ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Animation)|Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'': Any time Shake handles something, which he ends up flinging to the ground, it explodes. Notable examples including from TV remotes, to the Satellite dish he used to cook hot dogs, to three one dollar bills (which took the time to slowly drift to the ground before exploding), and causing a chain reaction once by flinging an object into the television, the object exploding, then the television exploding a few seconds later. It's implied this isn't just a visual gag by charcters silently backing away from the explosion.
* ''[[Squidbillies]]'': Early Cuyler always robbing the same convenience store, and blowing off the old man's left hand.
* ''[[Futurama]]'': Roberto robs the same bank three times in a row, in the ''same episode''.
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*** ''Attack of the Killer App'' adds 40% chromium to Bender.
**** And ''All the Presidents' Heads'' makes him 40% scrap metal.
* ''[[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]]'': Whenever there's a panicking crowd, a guy can often be heard shouting: "My leg!"
** How about Old Man Jenkins as a running gag character? Or his name, rather, considering that it's apparently the name of several different elderly fish in Bikini Bottom.
** ''[[The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie]]'' we have the reaction to King Trion's Baldness. "B-B-B-Bald! Bald! Bald!" "My Eyes!"
* ''[[Swat Kats (Animation)|Swat Kats]]'': Mac can't drive straight no matter what vehicle he's in. Molly loves to remind him of this.
** "This is Feral! Bring me chopper backup!"
* In ''[[Space Ghost Coast to Coast]]'' and ''Cartoon Planet'', [[Space Ghost]] has what is essentially a reflex to shoot Zorak whenever the latter says something incredibly insulting. This got a skit/episode dedicated to lampshading it in both series. The former had Zorak faking his death after getting shot repeatedly, and the latter had Brak incurring Space Ghost's wrath simply because he "isn't animated to explode" like Zorak is, with the mantis taking all the heat(rays).
* ''[[Ka Blam!]]'' has A TON. Henry getting beat up by Mr. Foot, the duo [[Lampshade Hanging]], and many, many, more...
* Almost every ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' character had at least one [[Running Gag]].
** "I knew I shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque..."
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** [[Road Runner vs. Coyote|Coyote.]] Cliff. 'Nuff said.
* ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' makes frequent use of [[Orphaned Punchline]] and [[Sorry I Left the BGM On]].
* ''[[Mickey, Donald, Goofy: theThe Three Musketeers]]'' has a running gag of [[Villain Withwith Good Publicity|Pete]] motioning to a poster for an opera [[At the Opera Tonight|where he plans to overthrow Minnie]]. Everytime it's shown, a small tune plays, noticed only by Pete.
* ''[[Beetlejuice (Animationanimation)|Beetlejuice]]'' has tons of running gags. One of the funniest was a [[Gory Discretion Shot]] whenever BJ ate a bug.
* ''[[The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh]]'': Gopher falling into one of his own gopher holes. "HE-E-E-E-E-E-e-e-e-e-e-lp!
* Series 9 and 10 of ''[[Danger Mouse]]'' had Greenback activating a "hit box," which contained a mallet that bopped Stiletto on the head whenever he said something stupid.
{{quote| '''Stiletto:''' Ow! Ow! And Ow!}}
* ''[[Young Justice (Animationanimation)|Young Justice]]'' has a few: Kid Flash's habit of picking up souvenirs, Robin's backformations and prefix removal, Superboy's hatred of monkeys, and Artemis nearly drowning has officially been repeated three times, so it counts, too. They're starting to play around the various gags, as well, with Kid Flash complaining about forgetting a souvenir and Robin using one of his created words in a deadly serious context.
* On ''[[Doug]]'', Mr. Dink always says things are "very expensive". Subverted in an episode where he notes something was "surprisingly cheap".
* One can always tell when a ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'' adventure is about to come to a close when Boris finds one last thing to say to Natasha as their plans lie in ruins around them:
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** 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!"
* ''[[Superman: The Animated Series (Animation)|Superman the Animated Series]]'': Batman was missing from Gotham {{spoiler|and really under Braniac mind control}}. After Superman as Batman leaves after talking to Gordon, one of the cops standing around remarks "Did he look taller to you?". This is carry-over from the print comic running gag where characters often expect Batman to be taller.
* 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.
* Fluttershy on ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' is often depicted demonstrating some strong feeling (frustration, excitement, etc.) with the [[Flat Joy|most understated display of emotion possible]]. "yay!"
** 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.
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** Every time Pinkie Pie has "Pinkie Sense" in episodes other than its introduction, it is always twitchy-tail, the falling sense, and invariably, a flower pot falls from the sky. Once, it fell from the sky inside a tent. Pinkie Pie was kind enough to lampshade it.
* ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'': Whenever there's any off-screen destruction a man is heard yelling, "My car!". In ''[[Long Title|The Return of the Revenge of Doctor Blowhole]]'' Skipper destroys a building in Shanghai and someone yells it in Mandarin.
* ''[[Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness]]'': Tigress being mistaken for a man.
** "The Princess and the Po"
{{quote| '''Mei Li:''' I never have any friends. Not real friends like you have. Like the cricket and that ''mean man with the stripes''.}}
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