# In Jokes and Running Gags: Lemme In! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 4, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-jokes-and-running-gags-lemme-in/451781 "2008-06-04T17:57:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![miamouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@miamouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miamouse)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-jokes-and-running-gags-lemme-in/451781/1 "2008-06-04T17:57:14Z")
I just stumbled upon up the [Wilhelm Scream](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbYsoEasio), and the number [47](http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/47#47). And even though they are apparently widely known, I had never heard of either. what other well known injokes are out there that I might be missing? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-jokes-and-running-gags-lemme-in/451781/2 "2008-06-04T18:05:53Z")
That would be telling. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-jokes-and-running-gags-lemme-in/451781/3 "2008-06-04T18:16:39Z")
Animation directors John Lasseter and Brad Bird both sneak the number A113 in all their films, the room number of a CalArts classroom. John Landis always puts in the phrase “See you next Wednesday,” the title of an early film of his. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-jokes-and-running-gags-lemme-in/451781/4 "2008-06-04T18:21:34Z")
Various references to [_THX 1138_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066434/) in George Lucas’s later films. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-jokes-and-running-gags-lemme-in/451781/5 "2008-06-04T18:24:49Z")
I don’t know if it’s a gag, but the name Alan Smithee was used by directors and other members of the film industry when they no longer wanted their name on the finished product. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-jokes-and-running-gags-lemme-in/451781/6 "2008-06-04T18:38:32Z")
[QUOTE=miamouse] I just stumbled upon up the Wilhelm Scream, and the number 47. [/QUOTE] Must not forget 42. And don’t forget your towel! ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-jokes-and-running-gags-lemme-in/451781/7 "2008-06-04T18:48:22Z")
[QUOTE=phouka] I don’t know if it’s a gag, but the name Alan Smithee was used by directors and other members of the film industry when they no longer wanted their name on the finished product. [/QUOTE] It wasn’t a joke- it was an actual DGA policy. It eventually became common knowledge, though, and the DGA no longer allows directors to use the psuedonym. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-jokes-and-running-gags-lemme-in/451781/8 "2008-06-04T19:25:53Z")
Klaatu barada nikto. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-jokes-and-running-gags-lemme-in/451781/9 "2008-06-04T19:33:16Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] John Landis always puts in the phrase “See you next Wednesday,” the title of an early film of his. [/QUOTE] Is this somehow related to the phrase “See yoU Next Tuesday”? (replace “see” with the letter “C”, add up the capital letters, and you’ll get it…) ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-jokes-and-running-gags-lemme-in/451781/10 "2008-06-04T19:57:52Z")
[QUOTE=The New and Improved Superman] Is this somehow related to the phrase “See yoU Next Tuesday”? (replace “see” with the letter “C”, add up the capital letters, and you’ll get it…) [/QUOTE] I was thinking the same thing. I have no idea. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-jokes-and-running-gags-lemme-in/451781/11 "2008-06-04T20:11:37Z")
My apologies to Matt Damon, we ran out of time. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-jokes-and-running-gags-lemme-in/451781/12 "2008-06-04T20:21:38Z")
If you wonder why the fanboys get all giddy and wrestless in their seats at the movies when some old man appears in a bit part it’s probably [Stan Lee](http://superherouniverse.com/articles/stanleecameo.htm) making a cameo. Then there’s the whole [4:20](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4:20) deal the potheads like and why all the clocks in Pulp Fiction were set to it. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-jokes-and-running-gags-lemme-in/451781/13 "2008-06-04T20:28:58Z")
[QUOTE=pravnik] My apologies to Matt Damon, we ran out of time. [/QUOTE] Which of course led to Sarah Silverman fucking Matt Damon…and Jimmy Kimmel fucking Ben Affleck. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-jokes-and-running-gags-lemme-in/451781/14 "2008-06-04T20:36:41Z")
never mind ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-jokes-and-running-gags-lemme-in/451781/15 "2008-06-04T20:43:11Z")
Well, there’s always “The banana gag.” But you really have to see it, it can’t be explained. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea666f/32.png) [@Two\_and\_a\_Half\_Inches\_of\_Fun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_and_a_Half_Inches_of_Fun)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-jokes-and-running-gags-lemme-in/451781/16 "2008-06-04T20:46:24Z")
Kubrick and bathrooms. [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=GLOSSARY](http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=GLOSSARY) ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-jokes-and-running-gags-lemme-in/451781/17 "2008-06-04T21:02:13Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] Well, there’s always “The banana gag.” But you really have to see it, it can’t be explained. [/QUOTE] Is that any relation to the…ha ha ha ha…the…ha ha ha…the Banan…HA HA HA…Banana Sketch? Sorry, makes me laugh just thinking about it. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-jokes-and-running-gags-lemme-in/451781/18 "2008-06-04T21:04:24Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] Is that any relation to the…ha ha ha ha…the…ha ha ha…the Banan…HA HA HA…Banana Sketch? Sorry, makes me laugh just thinking about it. [/QUOTE] That’s right! You’ve got it. I knew I wouldn’t be able to do it justice if I’d tried. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-jokes-and-running-gags-lemme-in/451781/19 "2008-06-04T21:39:01Z")
You might have heard of a shadowy group of conspirators known as the Illuminati, but no such cabal actually exists. [fnord](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fnord) ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-jokes-and-running-gags-lemme-in/451781/20 "2008-06-04T22:03:51Z")
[QUOTE=Two and a Half Inches of Fun] Kubrick and bathrooms. [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=GLOSSARY](http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=GLOSSARY) [/QUOTE] Hitchcock had something similar going on. Bathrooms, and/or the initial “BM”, in just about everything he did. It’s listed as a “director trademark” on many of his IMDb listings. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-jokes-and-running-gags-lemme-in/451781.md?page=2)