10 Long TV Running Gags You Never Even Noticed

[@PapaCoco1128]

It was in Series 3 of Peaky that I noticed the effort to have Tommy not eat. He’s at home recovering from his head injury, sitting in front of a full breakfast, then proceeds to smoke instead of eat. It’s a nice touch that really helps with Tommy’s enigmatic personality.

[@donharris8371]

In Malcolm In The Middle, the kids release a hamster inside its exercise ball early in the six-season run. Then throughout the series you'll see it randomly go tooling by in the background. That was effing hilarious!!

[@davidlazerz8564]

Arrested Development is full of those kinds of gags. One of the best comedy series of all time and should be mandatory watching for anyone that is trying to understand television comedy

[@daudimasinde6280]

The first 3 seasons are just comedy gold.

[@empurress77]

Phineas & Ferb. The all-time master of the running joke! Hands down.

[@DavidNash1948]

Yes. Yes, it is.

[@davidpumpkinsjr.5108]

Another reason for Riker leaning on things was to keep in in the frame because Frakes is so tall. Another trick they often used was to have him have conversations where the person he is speaking to close to the camera and him standing across the room.

[@ejgoldlust]

I was just thinking, how tall does he have to be to casually raise his leg over the back of a chair without it being distractingly obvious

[@keith6706]

@@ejgoldlust Frakes is 6'3". Add a little bit for the boots/shoes on the costume. What assisted is that, coincidentally, most of the seats used on sets like 10 Forward and the secondary chairs in front of desks had low backs, basically like the seats used in fast-food places. I'm 5'9" and I can easily step over one of those, but because I'm not as tall it's much more obvious. It also wasn't as noticeable because when it happened something else was usually going on in the scene that people had reason to pay attention to, like someone talking. Also, presumably, the takes where he didn't do it so smoothly for whatever reason didn't make it on air.

[@Amizare1]

Literally everyone noticed the Riker Maneuver. And Tyrion's joke.

[@SpamEggSausage]

a lot of these videos seem to think we can't notice or remember a damn thing

[@perriponders289]

surprised you didn't include Seinfeld having a superman reference in every single episode. Then again that one became very obvious.

[@MaxWeb2599]

For psych the pineapple is so famous it's even the cover on the complete DVD box set.

[@Jacurutu]

Stargate SG1 had a director that put pineapples hidden in most shots, I wonder if its the same guy.

[@jcj268]

Fun fact: It’s use in the pilot episode was an ad lib

[@ladylestranj]

And the "3 hole punch" joke.

[@keiththorpe9571]

I always thought that mounting of the chair Riker did was Jonathan Frakes playing up how tall and physically imposing he was by simply swinging a leg over the back of a chair (a move I imagine only Michael Dorn, among the rest of the cast, was tall enough to replicate) and lowering himself into the seat.

[@ejgoldlust]

Right - it IS a pretty strong, subtle power move

[@angelicagaldos]

Oh that Ricker Maneuver! Best part of the show

[@trophyhunter8106]

Saw the Simpsons one I thought it might of been about. How since homer started working at the power plant. You can hear a crow every single time they show the power plant

[@antoniacosta6221]

Wasn’t the Psych pineapple gag because James ad libbed “should I cut this (pineapple) up for the road” in the pilot, and the writers thought it was funny enough to build off?

[@robertlevine2827]

I don't know how often they did this, but the "Sesame Street" crew used to stock the shelves of Mr. Hooper's store with boxes of condoms.

[@Legendofzellybelly]

Superstore should be on here! The tornado foreshadowing was phenomenal, all through season 2. Ughh so good!

[@TimberWolf99]

Literally everyone knows about the Riker Maneuver, the McBain movie, and Tyrion's joke.

[@bubbajoshproductions3990]

My favorite one is in Fresh Prince Of Belair with Uncle Phil throwing Jazzy Jeff out of his house. Everytime this happens, it is the same shot. The shirt is always the same. They filmed that one scene if him flying out the door separately and make sure that when it happens in the show he is wearing that particular shirt.

[@TommyCrosby]

Getting this video while eating was hilarious for me.

[@robnorrisradio]

Here are other running gags that may be overlooked: Hawkeye smells his food before he eats it, MASH - Throughout the 11 seasons of MASH, Hawkeye Pierce (played by Alan Alda) has such a disdain for performing "meatball surgery" at an army field hospital, that even the food tends to be unappealing. That's why, throughout the show, whenever he serves himself at the mess hall or sits down at the table with a full plate, he will frequently take a moment to smell his food before eating it. It's a small thing, yes, but at the same time, Hawkeye clearing has no intention of getting self-inflicted food poisoning. Walter adapts behavior patterns of those he kills, Breaking Bad - Breaking Bad is considered one of the greatest TV shows (Say it with me, kids) OF ALL TIME, thanks in no small part to Bryan Cranston's brilliant performance as Walter White, science-teacher-turned-drug-kingpin. As the show progresses throughout its five seasons, Walter begins adapting habits and behavior patterns of the people he kills over the run of the show. For example, after his first victim, Krazy-8, dies, Walter begins cutting the crusts off his sandwiches, which is how Krazy-8 liked them. After killing Mike, Walter starts taking his whiskey on the rocks, which is how Mike drank his whiskey. But the most notable example comes late in Season 4. Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) shares a drink of poisoned tequila with cartel leader Don Eladio Vuente (Steven Bauer) and his crew. He excuses himself to the bathroom, and while everyone else is keeling over, Gus meticulously rolls up a towel, sets it on the floor as makeshift kneepads, and purges the bad liquor into the toilet. In a later episode after Walter kills Gus, we see him go through the same exact ritual himself as he prepares to throw up after receiving chemotherapy.

[@SteveMoncuse]

Speaking of The Riker Maneuver and CJ's goldfish bowl - and Thw West Wing specifically - there was The Barlett Coat Flip, coming from Martin Sheen's serious arm injury.

[@Taft138]

You missed the BEST of Buster. When he want to the maids apartment, and he noticed she had been stealing everything for Years.. he said .. “I had a hand chair like that once… who ever thought I’d miss a hand that much?!”

[@Maykay524]

Psych had a contest after each aired episode. Find the hidden one or count the pineapples in the episodes

[@Sekusamu]

I'm thinking that a lot of nerdy people watching this video said, "Yes, he did! Rick wore a seatbelt in Pickle Rick!" ...And then, "Oh. Okay", when the presenter said, "...Except in Pckle Rick".

[@TheNedH]

At least one of the Psych DVD boxes has just a picture of a pineapple on the cover. It's pretty well-known among viewers

[@teddyray8597]

I noticed the song on Community, but I never knew it was an actual song. I just thought it was some sort of stock music.

[@davidblank420]

"The Riker Maneuver" is on this? Something every one knows about. Something the actor is sick of talking about? Really guys? Whats next, did you know the Cylons arent robots but just actors in a costume? Did you know South Park shows aliens in several backgrounds? And also in Cannibal the Musical? In Community they show Beatlejuice after saying Beatlejuice three times. Derr fucking derr. You all should feel shame.

[@LoverOfBellies]

Inside Number 9: there's a golden rabbit statue in each episode

[@Czarzhan]

A running gag I noticed in The Big Bang Theory, until she gets married, Penny doesn't have a last name. This might not seem that odd, except we meet her father, mother, and brother, and never hear a last name for them either.

[@ladylestranj]

The producers thing on all those shows was always having someone who's never seen, Like Norm's wife, Niles' wife. Mrs. Walowitz, Mary's doorman Carlton etc....

[@ilshaguides]

1) Rick never wearing his seat belt was not only something that was very much noticed, it was extensively discussed in many forums specifically because of the Pickle Rick episode when, after his very close brush with actual death, he puts his seat belt on - showing a shift in his perspective. 2) The Riker Maneuver has been famous since long before the internet. Also, the Picard Maneuver (where he would pull the bottom of his shirt down). Seriously, these have been famous for a long time. 3) Community's constant use of the same song? Seriously? Of all the things that went on in the background of this show, you think _that_ was something no one noticed? Come on now. 4) Pretty sure everyone knew about the pineapple gag in Psych. You know, since there was a website made to track the pineapples in each episode (you even mentioned this IN YOUR VIDEO). 5) I'm just gonna stop here, and say that most of these are from either very self-aware and meta shows that fans intentionally looked for (and found) all of these things in, or they are massively popular shows that were cultural phenomenons that also had fans seeing or noticing these things. Perhaps think about renaming this video by just removing the last 4 words of the current title.

[@LP2Life]

You mention the song coming back again and again in Community but DON'T mention Abed delivering a baby OR the Beetlejuice bit? And you as well don't finish the GOT joke? Shame on you ;-)

[@davidblank420]

Delete this video and try again.

[@Jonnytjat]

Why?

[@alexius23]

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[@richardjamesgallardojr.7584]

Can you get a mini series sequel to the movie enemy mine❤ I wouldn't mind seeing Dennis quaid's adopted alien son become a fighter pilot❤❤❤

[@doriancrimpton457]

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