# Gags through repetition **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 18, 2019, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gags-through-repetition/838852 "2019-08-18T22:26:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gags-through-repetition/838852/121 "2019-08-22T21:18:24Z")
Mr. Moose had a number of ways to bombard Captain Kangaroo with ping-pong balls. [Cite](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg-77ParGYI) ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gags-through-repetition/838852/122 "2019-08-22T23:15:18Z")
Bullwinkle: “Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!” Rocky: “_AGAIN?_” ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2019, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gags-through-repetition/838852/123 "2019-08-23T00:04:24Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > In most of the Road Runner cartoons, Wile E. Coyote usually gives up his latest scheme after it fails. Even when it was due to either bad luck, his own mistakes, or an unanticipated failure mode, when conceivably it might have worked if he’d tried again. One of the few times he tried repeatedly was with the boulder-tossing catapult. > > He first tried it standing behind it; the boulder fell off the bucket on him. > > He tried standing further back; the entire catapult flipped back onto him. > > He tried standing in front of it; the catapult only tossed the boulder far enough to land on him. > > He tried standing to the side of it;the boulder was tossed sideways onto him. > > He tried hiding under it; the catapult collapsed on him. > > He tried hiding inside a covered manhole; when there was no way it could possibly reach him, then it simply refused to work. Until he made the mistake of coming out and trying to unjam it. Well, no wonder. The catapult was made by the Road-Runner Manufacturing Co., after all. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2019, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gags-through-repetition/838852/124 "2019-08-23T02:05:43Z")
More Simpsons: Nelson Muntz: “Ha-Ha!” ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2019, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gags-through-repetition/838852/125 "2019-08-23T07:46:44Z")
Lucy and the football ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2019, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gags-through-repetition/838852/126 "2019-08-23T13:43:05Z")
> [@Jeff\_Lichtman](#): > > Lucy and the football Schroeder and his piano (with the bust of Beethoven on it). ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2019, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gags-through-repetition/838852/127 "2019-08-23T14:21:21Z")
Snoopy typing “It was a dark and stormy night.” ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2019, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gags-through-repetition/838852/128 "2019-08-23T15:34:10Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Snoopy typing “It was a dark and stormy night.” Charlie Brown and the kite-eating tree. Linus and the Great Pumpkin. Snoopy, the World War I flying ace. Woodstock’s erratic flying. Lucy and her psychiatric advice booth. (5¢). ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2019, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gags-through-repetition/838852/129 "2019-08-23T16:09:26Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > “The Fallen Madonna with the Big Boobies?” And the Cracked Vase With The Big Daisies. Actually, on re-viewing them on the archive channels (I know, I’m sad) I’m impressed by the way the non-repeat gags emerge by a perfectly logical (in the context - the essence of farce, it seems to me) sequence of events into something that sounds as though it’s come from a completely surreal phrase book: “General! Your nose is smouldering!” “Arrest all gypsies driving fire engines!” “I will NOT pour carrot soup down my mother’s ear-trumpet!” ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2019, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gags-through-repetition/838852/130 "2019-08-23T17:43:40Z")
Welcome Back Kotter had several. Kotter: “Did I ever tell you about…” Horshack: “Oh oh oh oh…” Freddie Washington: “Hi there”. Juan Epstein: The note from his mother. Vinnie Barbarino: “What…” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2019, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gags-through-repetition/838852/131 "2019-08-24T18:55:19Z")
During his first appearance, SNL’s motivational speaker Matt Foley noted that he’s thrice-divorced and _living in a van down by the river_ — and warned folks to change their ways, lest they wind up _living in a van down by the river_. Son, you oughta be writing papers for _school,_ not rolling papers for _doobies_ — or else you’re gonna be doing a LOT of doobie-rolling when you’re _LIVING IN A VAAAN_ down by the _RIVER!_ Young lady, what do YOU want to do with your life? [she replies the only way that makes sense] “I want to live in a van, down by the river.” [audience is already losing it] “Well, you’ll have plenty of time to live in a van down by the river when [pauses as it sinks in; awkwardly barrels ahead] yer livin’ in a _VAN_ down by the _RIVER!_” (Next week: _“¡Yo vivo en VAN circa de un RIO!”_) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2019, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gags-through-repetition/838852/132 "2019-08-24T19:07:54Z")
> [@Author\_Balk](#): > > Welcome Back Kotter had several. > > Kotter: “Did I ever tell you about…” > Horshack: “Oh oh oh oh…” > Freddie Washington: “Hi there”. > Juan Epstein: The note from his mother. > Vinnie Barbarino: “What…” “Up your nose with a rubber hose!” In _Mr. Belvedere_, Belvedere was often seen going about the house with a feather duster and humming _Ride of the Valkyries_. Except in one episode where he was singing, “Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit!” ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2019, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gags-through-repetition/838852/133 "2019-08-25T18:42:23Z")
Mitchell and Webb have an repeating sketch about a dickish snooty service person where the script is largely the same each time, the identity of the service gets changed - waiter, clothes shop assistant, vicar… And of course, that’s Numberwang! ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gags-through-repetition/838852/134 "2019-11-10T04:01:28Z")
Been a bit, so I can’t remember if it was already mentioned (ha, said the OP) - In “Team America: World Police”: [Matt Damon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnPWJOJYVKc) Austin Power’s issue with [moles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc5G04nJecI) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gags-through-repetition/838852/135 "2019-11-10T04:43:40Z")
**David Letterman:** “Ham, ham, ham.” “Hailstones the size of canned hams.” “They pelted us with rocks and garbage.” “Ladies and gentlemen, once again… this is why the rest of the world hates us.” ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gags-through-repetition/838852/136 "2019-11-10T07:35:35Z")
also: “I was _hyp-no-tized_” “Goodnight, ladies and gentlemen. Drive home safely.” (often said only a minute or two in) Dare I mention the “Ber-mu-da-aaa…”? (Paul) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gags-through-repetition/838852/137 "2019-11-10T14:32:50Z")
“Hey, that’s not egg nog!” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gags-through-repetition/838852/138 "2019-11-10T14:35:56Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > “Put it in a sock, Benson!” “You want me to get that?” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gags-through-repetition/838852/139 "2019-11-10T14:44:16Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > “You want me to get that?” “If you don’t mind.” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2019, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gags-through-repetition/838852/140 "2019-11-10T14:50:33Z")
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