Sentences with phrase «running gag about»

A throwaway joke about Sybil and the severed head of the Lincoln memorial going out on a date becomes a brilliant ongoing sideplot, minor characters from the first episode of season one become the linchpin of season two's overarching plot in a twist worthy of M. Night Shyamalan (good M. Night Shyamalan, not recent M. Night Shyamalan), and a weird running gag about mariachis singing at people's birthday parties spirals into probably the most inventive time - travel plot any videogame's ever attempted.

Add in the beautifully decorated interiors, a finely judged turn from Simon Helberg as Jenkins» snivelling vocal coach and a running gag about potato salad, and this hits enough high notes to warrant an appreciative audience.

A running gag about eloping to Aruba (a Dutch protectorate) works nicely as the tension builds to a devilishly effective climax.

Indeed, despite its intermittent calamities and constant life - or - death tension, The Martian has a degree of humor uncharacteristic of a Scott film, including a running gag about the awfulness of the disco tracks that were left behind with Watney.

Aiming for innocuous, then, it makes as much hay as it can from declensions of «fuck,» surprise fatalities, and nut - shots, including a running gag about the size of Paul's space - junk.

We start off with some aggressive jokes about ogling women's bodies, move on to sex bets and end up with a running gag about Thorny (Chandrasekhar) developing a dependence on Canadian female Viagra.

So is a running gag about Sgt. Slammer himself, who turns up for a Fourth of July celebration.

Schwarzenegger is given many of these, one of them being a running gag about smiling, and it's just awkward.

And there's a running gag about Hillary's breast implants.

There is a running gag about how in America she would be a 4, but in Kabul she's a 7.

This is balanced against a ton of penis jokes and a running gag about what's happened to Bethany's phone.

In fact some of the best jokes — including a running gag about her repeatedly getting particularly frumpy alternate identities — come from others underestimating Cooper.

Also, the running gag about Bina's attire being too similar to the wait staff's earns a few good chuckles.

But sitcom vets Arnett and Applegate have no problem generating laughs from a running gag about trying to curb their cursing in front of the baby.

But, like all comedies, everything turns out okay — a running gag about the hapless Jim whose sexual misadventures form the movie's backbone is that all of his disastrous missteps turn out right in the end.

The running gags about Hagrid breaking things and telling people things he shouldn't have done are funny throughout, as are all the bad things that befall Neville Longbottom over the course of the story.

There are more oblique similarities between the pictures: both, for instance, feature comic Mexicans, running gags about their over-the-hill sleuths possibly losing their penises, and passing allusions to their former wives.

Running gags about our antihero's inability to use everyday household technologies and his reaction to the «You had me at hello» line in Jerry Maguire (he busts out laughing) are perfect examples.

There are flashes of wit — mostly tied to Greta Gerwig's airy turn as an amateur self - help guru — but running gags about suicide and anal sex fall painfully flat, and once the movie's minor charms are exhausted, it simply grinds.

For a film whose epigraph is «My life was a comedy; I just had to laugh», this is lamentably short of humour (running gags about odious mourners and computers capable of storing 700 kilobytes just grate).

Toss in running gags about the pubic hair on lesbian strippers, and what could possibly be wrong?

Not exact matches

«They must have «had a bad feeling about this,»» said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi, a nod to a running gag line in the space saga.

A meandering, whimsically surreal comedy with an indie / Euro sensibility that wants to say something important about Life but never really gets around to it; fortunately, there are some standout individual scenes from the top - notch cast, including a running NORTH BY NORTHWEST gag.

In addition to the sly humor to be found in the background of every Aardman production (labels for Costly Crackers and Stumbler's Whiskey, a wall papered with news stories about the «Veggy Monster» from «The Curse of the Were - Rabbit»), «Flushed Away» features a hilarious running gag in the form of a Greek chorus of singing slugs, who harmonize at opportune moments on everything from «Don't Worry, Be Happy» to «Mr. Lonely.»

The film's uncomplicated plotting allows plenty of space for goofy little throwaway gags — like a running joke about the young McGregor's feeble attempts at birdwatching — that other films might have cut to make way for various subplots or emotional character moments.

What is truly delightful about the film is its loopy, gently slapstick sense of humor, its use of continuous running gags that pay off cumulatively (no small feat), and the dreamy sense that Schilling's somnambulism is pierced through only by the insane incomprehensible behavior of others.

Even the most hoary of running gags — the breaking of the maestro's glasses — revels in its banality, just as the famous lines about Jew - Nazis uttered by Godard at his most contemptible are with deftness shown to be the ramblings of a farcical character.

There's a few light chuckles here and there, including a decent dynamite gag and a running joke about Curly's hair.

(Best running gag: Nicole being aggressively wooed by a little boy she babysits whose voice has dropped early, making him sound like he's about 40.)

The way he simply goes about his godly, heroic business provides the film with its best running gag

Indeed, Edwards is about the only active filmmaker who both remembers the running gag and remembers how to use it, build it, and orchestrate its confluence with a dozen other running gags as well.

The running gag is that Rockwell's unnamed assassin is going through something of an existential crisis, and as a form of self - prescribed therapy is completely honest with Martha (Kendrick) about his profession.

In as many words, this movie — the songs, the jokes, the cameos, the running gags — is mixed into about the most perfect viewing experience.

He also had a handful of other titles to announce including «Neko Ramen,» a gag manga about a cat who runs a ramen restaurant that was formerly licensed by Tokyopop, as well as «If You Wan na Destroy the World,» «My Sweet Dragon,» «Aoi Hana,» «Elemental Gelade» and «Yasuko and Kenji.»

TT Games is finally opening up about some of those features that they sneak into LEGO games to make themselves chuckle and keep a running gag going.