Tropescilloscope: Running Gag

Repeat because it's funny. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes It Can Think Would Hit a Girl Dressing as the Enemy Darker and Edgier Rule of Funny Character Development Cat Scare Anyone Can Die Well-Intentioned Extremist Romantic Comedy Fiery Redhead Chekhov's Gun World of Ham Epic Movie Say My Name Better to Die than Be Killed Stealth Pun Chiaroscuro Break the Haughty Beard of Evil Five-Man Band Contrived Coincidence Unspoken Plan Guarantee Adaptation Name Change Made of Iron Mistaken for Gay Real Life Anti-Hero Only Sane Man Hope Spot Manly Tears Rated M for Manly German Films Children Are Innocent N-Word Privileges Villain Protagonist Implacable Man The Power of Love Adaptation Expansion Card-Carrying Villain Big-Bad Ensemble Wham Shot Amoral Attorney Adaptational Attractiveness Index of Film Westerns Guile Hero The Dragon Drugs Are Bad Even Evil Has Standards Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Have a Gay Old Time Time Skip Chekhov's Gunman Greater-Scope Villain Be Careful What You Wish For Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Slasher Movie Our Vampires Are Different Action Prologue Ungrateful Bastard Vomit Discretion Shot Room Full of Crazy Evil Sounds Deep For the Evulz He Knows Too Much Award-Bait Song Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Running Gag Aside Glance Shell-Shocked Veteran One-Word Title Exact Words Sole Survivor Light Is Not Good Horror Comedy Bavarian Fire Drill Determinator aka: The Determinator Chase Scene Random Events Plot Pay Evil unto Evil Grey and Gray Morality Bald of Evil I'm a Humanitarian No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Lighter and Softer Sports Stories Love at First Sight Psychological Thriller Hooker with a Heart of Gold No Good Deed Goes Unpunished The Vamp Black and Gray Morality Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy The End... Or Is It? Artistic License – Biology Silence Is Golden Green-Eyed Monster Rich Bitch Attempted Rape Demonic Possession Worthy Opponent Funny Foreigner Ironic Echo Even Evil Has Loved Ones Empathic Environment Taking You with Me Tap on the Head Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Authority Equals Asskicking Canadian Movies Take a Third Option Celebrity Paradox Call-Back As Himself The Casanova Maybe Ever After Action Girl Silent Movie Fantasy Films Show Within a Show Posthumous Character Sanity Slippage Off-into-the-Distance Ending Film Series It Will Never Catch On Neck Lift Eiffel Tower Effect Disguised in Drag Butt-Monkey The Lancer Funny Background Event Captain Ersatz Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Big "NO!" Leave the Camera Running Market-Based Title The Film of the Book Accidental Misnaming Here We Go Again! Fate Worse than Death Downer Ending Adaptation Distillation Honor Before Reason How We Got Here Break the Cutie Taking the Bullet Parental Substitute She Cleans Up Nicely Ascended Extra "Awesome McCool" Name Casting Gag Last-Name Basis Red Oni, Blue Oni Author Appeal Disproportionate Retribution In Medias Res Almost Kiss Not Using the "Z" Word Properly Paranoid Jerkass Has a Point Serious Business Red Shirt Facial Horror Book-Ends Jitter Cam Death of a Child Dark Reprise Hypocritical Humor Heterosexual Life-Partners Crucified Hero Shot Roger Ebert: Great Movies List The Smurfette Principle Pretty in Mink Curb-Stomp Battle Zombie Stories The Musical Major Injury Underreaction Outrun the Fireball Black Comedy Kill 'em All Small Name, Big Ego Bare Your Midriff My Beloved Smother Gratuitous English Deal with the Devil Madness Mantra Knife Nut The Sociopath The Lost Lenore Failed a Spot Check Beware the Nice Ones Actually Pretty Funny Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Intrepid Reporter Evil Brit The Ditz Pre-Mortem One-Liner Shipper on Deck Asshole Victim Heroes Want Redheads All There in the Script Sequel Hook Hero Antagonist Imagine Spot Daylight Horror Double-Meaning Title Needs Wiki Magic Love Re-Cut Hell Is That Noise Retcon Wham Line Big Applesauce O.O.C. Is Serious Business Demoted to Extra Affectionate Parody Freudian Excuse Reality Is Unrealistic Reckless Gun Usage "Well Done, Son!" Guy The Hero The Stoic May–December Romance The '80s Canon Foreigner Instant Death Bullet Never My Fault The Ghost Bury Your Gays Big Bad Duumvirate Creative Closing Credits Bolivian Army Ending Off with His Head! Smug Snake Crazy Jealous Guy Pimped-Out Dress Malevolent Masked Men Not So Different Artistic License – Law True Companions Ambiguous Disorder Despair Event Horizon The Faceless She's Got Legs Rasputinian Death Cold-Blooded Torture Dramedy Noodle Incident Agony of the Feet The '60s Cat Fight Cool Old Lady Killed Mid-Sentence Black Dude Dies First Idiot Ball Decoy Protagonist Ominous Latin Chanting Moment Killer Babies Ever After Big Eater All Just a Dream Fish out of Water Older Than They Look Male Gaze Paper-Thin Disguise Psychopathic Manchild Auto Erotica Blood Knight The Remake Very Loosely Based on a True Story Interrupted Suicide Faking the Dead Star-Crossed Lovers Reality Ensues Ax-Crazy Dirty Coward Papa Wolf Skewed Priorities Evil Counterpart All There in the Manual Cowboy Cop Drowning My Sorrows Redshirt Army Broken Pedestal Artistic License – Military Adaptational Villainy Badass Bookworm Driven to Suicide The '90s Calling the Old Man Out Stuff Blowing Up Bowdlerise After the End Not What It Looks Like Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Improvised Weapon Abusive Parents timeperiod Red Right Hand Mad Scientist Everyone Has Standards Recycled IN SPACE! Novelization Martial Arts Movie Obviously Evil Big Brother Instinct Up to Eleven Affably Evil Straight Gay Nice Hat Camera Abuse Shout-Out War Is Hell Mooks Drives Like Crazy Science Fiction Films Age Lift Extreme Doormat Take That! Fire-Forged Friends Only Known by Their Nickname Neck Snap Developing Doomed Characters Serial Killer Expository Hairstyle Change Obstructive Bureaucrat Bloodless Carnage Fan Disservice Dual Wielding Extremely Short Timespan Stepford Smiler Enemy Mine Dutch Angle Adaptational Heroism Fanservice Extra Works Set in World War II Becoming the Mask Sacrificial Lion Villainous Breakdown Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Apocalypse How Action Genre Bait-and-Switch Parental Abandonment Heroic BSoD Cruel and Unusual Death Depraved Bisexual Good Is Not Nice Disappeared Dad Final Girl Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Kids Are Cruel Unreliable Narrator Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Together in Death An Arm and a Leg Actor Allusion Early Installment Weirdness Once More, with Clarity! Super Strength No Name Given Television Movie Index Offscreen Moment of Awesome Evil-Detecting Dog The Dreaded The '50s Twist Ending Logo Joke Mr. Exposition The Starscream Police are Useless Heroic Sacrifice You Killed My Father Arranged Marriage Kubrick Stare Belligerent Sexual Tension Boom, Headshot! The Cavalry Never Found the Body Anachronism Stew Gilligan Cut Too Dumb to Live Karmic Death Ms. Fanservice Shown Their Work Domestic Abuse Ambiguously Gay Historical Villain Upgrade Captain Obvious Names to Run Away from Really Fast Jerkass Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Villain Opening Scene Heel Realization The Alleged Car Training Montage Roaring Rampage of Revenge Exactly What It Says on the Tin Handicapped Badass Broken Aesop Catch-Phrase Naïve Newcomer Genre Savvy Hero of Another Story Expy Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas The Load Self-Deprecation Genre Shift Token Minority Fun with Acronyms Loophole Abuse You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Deliberately Monochrome Gory Discretion Shot Artistic License – Gun Safety Aluminum Christmas Trees Sadistic Choice Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Call-Forward Red Herring Stock Footage As Long as It Sounds Foreign Ghost Fiction Spared by the Adaptation Faux Affably Evil The Big Guy Horror Films Historical In-Joke Fanservice Arch-Enemy Laser-Guided Karma Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Rule of Cool Rape as Drama Dull Surprise Badass Longcoat Meaningful Name Foil Early-Bird Cameo Wretched Hive Bunny-Ears Lawyer Animal Motifs Grievous Bottley Harm Mama Bear Left the Background Music On All Girls Want Bad Boys Dropped a Bridge on Him Only in It for the Money Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Does Not Like Shoes Love Triangle The Atoner Hypocrite Mighty Whitey Toplessness from the Back Shut Up, Hannibal! Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Smoking Is Cool One Steve Limit Russian Films Monumental Damage An Aesop As the Good Book Says... The Mafia Woman Scorned The Chick Crapsack World Improbable Aiming Skills Dramatic Irony Make It Look Like an Accident Foreshadowing Kick the Son of a Bitch Unwitting Instigator of Doom '80s Hair Slashed Throat Meaningful Echo Morality Pet Homage Pet the Dog Death Seeker Narrator Camp Gay Scare Chord Oh, Crap! Dirty Old Man Disney Death Unusually Uninteresting Sight Adaptational Badass Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Shirtless Scene Scary Black Man Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds In the Back Manipulative Bastard Bi the Way Annoying Younger Sibling Only a Flesh Wound Retirony The Ace Hollywood Law Adaptation Dye-Job A Father to His Men Playing Gertrude French Films Batman Gambit The Reveal Hate Sink Continuity Nod Diabolus ex Machina Obfuscating Stupidity Double Entendre Manic Pixie Dream Girl Dramatic Gun Cock Victoria's Secret Compartment And the Adventure Continues Villain Song Betty and Veronica Earn Your Happy Ending Fatal Family Photo Artistic License – History I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Animated Credits Opening Your Head A-Splode The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Tranquil Fury Gold Digger Biopic Villain with Good Publicity Bloodier and Gorier Loads and Loads of Characters British Films Put on a Bus Unresolved Sexual Tension Bland-Name Product Christmas Movies Index What Happened to the Mouse? Men Are the Expendable Gender A Date with Rosie Palms Retired Badass Chewing the Scenery Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Protagonist Title Man on Fire Tagline Ambiguous Ending Nice Guy Refuge in Audacity All Men Are Perverts Chekhov's Skill Bilingual Bonus Black Best Friend Anti-Villain Lock and Load Montage No Antagonist MacGuffin Car Fu Mugging the Monster Soundtrack Dissonance The X of Y Woman in White Romantic False Lead Overprotective Dad There Is No Kill Like Overkill Punch-Clock Villain Race Lift A Minor Kidroduction Arc Words Dirty Cop Spiteful Spit Henpecked Husband What You Are in the Dark Bound and Gagged Easily Forgiven Credits Gag I Have Your Wife More Dakka Mr. Fanservice It's Personal Redemption Equals Death The Mole Ship Tease Bar Brawl Determinator Cloudcuckoolander Suddenly SHOUTING! Dark Action Girl Creator Cameo Accidental Murder Pyrrhic Victory Corrupt Corporate Executive The '70s Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Bloody Hilarious The Chessmaster Sinister Minister Deliberate Values Dissonance A.I. Is a Crapshoot Suspiciously Similar Substitute What the Hell, Hero? Dark Is Not Evil No Ending Historical-Domain Character Department of Redundancy Department Dissonant Serenity Distracted by the Sexy The Place Brother–Sister Incest Combat Pragmatist Mundane Made Awesome Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass The Bad Guy Wins Abhorrent Admirer Naked People Are Funny Not So Stoic Took a Level in Jerkass Happily Married Gone Horribly Right Non-Indicative Name Precision F-Strike Slap-Slap-Kiss Took a Level in Badass Visual Pun Public Domain Feature Films Did Not Get the Girl Motor Mouth Wrong Genre Savvy Spiritual Successor Eye Scream Peek-a-Boo Corpse Artistic License – Geography Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Eureka Moment Curse Cut Short Film Noir Intergenerational Friendship Jump Scare Lampshade Hanging Karma Houdini Stalker with a Crush The Dog Bites Back Cluster F-Bomb Fingore Villain Ball Totally Radical Only One Name Badass Boast Plot Hole And Starring The Alcoholic Scenery Gorn Police Brutality Darkest Hour Fainting Black Comedy Rape Documentary Fatal Flaw Insane Troll Logic Face Death with Dignity I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Parental Neglect Fourth Date Marriage Alpha Bitch The Great Depression Stylistic Suck Revenge Sequel Escalation Pragmatic Villainy Beta Couple Brick Joke An Axe to Grind Death by Sex Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Meaningful Background Event Vomit Indiscretion Shot Hidden Depths Scenery Porn Fantastic Racism Parental Incest Evil Plan In Name Only One-Man Army Riddle for the Ages Genre Throwback Jerk with a Heart of Gold Air-Vent Passageway Pragmatic Adaptation Line-of-Sight Name Anachronic Order Rousing Speech Humiliation Conga Leaning on the Fourth Wall Wounded Gazelle Gambit Bad Boss Danny Peary Cult Movies List You Have Failed Me Vampire Fiction I Need a Freaking Drink Awesome, but Impractical He Who Fights Monsters Country Matters Large Ham Fat Bastard The Hero Dies Hong Kong Films Establishing Character Moment Japanese Films Music Stories Match Cut Action Survivor Framing Device As You Know Big Damn Heroes Politically Incorrect Villain La Résistance Bond Villain Stupidity You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Kick the Dog Made of Explodium "Shaggy Dog" Story Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Bullying a Dragon Armor-Piercing Question Overly Long Gag Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Same Language Dub Artistic License – Physics Bad "Bad Acting" Impaled with Extreme Prejudice No-Sell Storming the Castle Cool Shades Yandere The Brute Back from the Dead Mythology Gag Slasher Smile Author Avatar Translation Convention Spanner in the Works Soft Glass Famous Last Words Not So Above It All Amusing Injuries Our Zombies Are Different Suspiciously Specific Denial Eldritch Abomination Gender Flip Four-Temperament Ensemble Daddy's Girl Whole Plot Reference Evil Laugh Reality Has No Subtitles Gorn Tempting Fate No OSHA Compliance Disney Villain Death Mexican Standoff Product Placement Groin Attack Heel–Face Turn Creepy Child Bond One-Liner Those Two Bad Guys I Did What I Had to Do Antagonist Title Psycho for Hire The Smart Guy Berserk Button Missing Mom Informed Ability NO INDOOR VOICE Shoot the Shaggy Dog Mood Whiplash Humans Are Bastards Race Against the Clock Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Sassy Black Woman Breaking the Fourth Wall Sexy Discretion Shot Jerk Jock Let's Get Dangerous! A God Am I Beauty Is Never Tarnished Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Military and Warfare Films Kill It with Fire Femme Fatale Vacation Films The Stoner Nothing Is Scarier Fake Shemp Closed Circle Male Frontal Nudity From Bad to Worse The Quiet One Irony Hollywood Darkness Does This Remind You of Anything? Due to the Dead Not Quite Dead Never Trust a Trailer Adult Fear Gainax Ending Anguished Declaration of Love Body Horror Flipping the Bird Sci-Fi Horror Sealed Evil in a Can Red Eyes, Take Warning Improbable Weapon User Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Film Noir Index Animal Title Index Bittersweet Ending Italian Films Flashback Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Evil vs. Evil All for Nothing Badass Normal Cool Guns Deadpan Snarker Conspicuous CG Half the Man He Used to Be Badass Grandpa Comically Missing the Point Deus ex Machina Guns Akimbo Crazy-Prepared Mercy Kill The Bully Undying Loyalty Meet Cute Title Drop Reasonable Authority Figure Big Bad Spell My Name with an "S" Catapult Nightmare Really Gets Around Married to the Job Destination Defenestration Damsel in Distress No Celebrities Were Harmed Trailers Always Spoil folderlabel Rule of Symbolism Immune to Bullets Pretty Little Headshots And I Must Scream Truth in Television Eagleland Real Life Writes the Plot Unusual Euphemism Video Credits Hoist by His Own Petard Death by Adaptation Blatant Lies Blackmail Insistent Terminology My God, What Have I Done? Costume Porn Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Setting Update Blood from the Mouth Rule of Three Shower Scene Manchild Would Hurt a Child The Oner Big Fancy House Sir Swears-a-Lot Historical Hero Upgrade Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Cain and Abel Bring My Brown Pants Those Two Guys The Un-Reveal Death by Irony Eyepatch of Power The Cameo Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Dying Moment of Awesome Defiant to the End Deconstruction Ripped from the Headlines BFG Wicked Cultured Dies Wide Open Dumb Blonde Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Defrosting Ice Queen Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Word of God Composite Character "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Not Even Bothering with the Accent Stealth Hi/Bye Coming-of-Age Story Friend to All Children Death Glare Poor Communication Kills Dark and Troubled Past It's All About Me Cassandra Truth Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Ass Shove Get Out! Alliterative Name My Greatest Failure Mystery and Detective Films Throwing Your Sword Always Works Adapted Out Important Haircut 20 Minutes into the Future Cool Old Guy Girl-on-Girl Is Hot "The Reason You Suck" Speech Badass in a Nice Suit Rewatch Bonus Those Wacky Nazis Covers Always Lie Punny Name Your Cheating Heart Adults Are Useless Broken Bird For Want of a Nail Superhero Freeze-Frame Bonus Mind Screw Adorkable Insult Backfire This Is Gonna Suck Thriller Cool Car Face–Heel Turn Australian Movies Plucky Comic Relief Every Car Is a Pinto B-Movie Dwindling Party The Voiceless Evil Is Petty Bottomless Magazines Foregone Conclusion Leitmotif Brutal Honesty Laughing Mad Vitriolic Best Buds Evil Is Hammy Epic Fail Alas, Poor Villain Offscreen Teleportation Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Frame-Up Advertised Extra Central Theme Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Drill Sergeant Nasty Corpsing Getting Crap Past the Radar Hair-Trigger Temper Knight Templar Dogged Nice Guy The Stinger From Nobody to Nightmare Brainless Beauty Didn't Think This Through Based on a True Story