Sentences with phrase «running gags from»

Filled with clever references and running gags from throughout the show's run, Stick of Truth is an amazing experience.

Here are six of my favorite running gags from the series:

Yet it's disappointing that the best moments in The World's End are continuations of running gags from the two previous films.

As for the ladder line, it is a running gag from one of my all - time favorite franchises.

Not exact matches

Hundreds of those who did vote in Malliotakis» race, but not for her, cast write - ins, including several for local Democrat Justin Brannan, who is now running for City Council, certain write - ins for presidential candidates such as Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, and even gag votes for deceased individuals, such as Elvis Presley, or fictional characters from popular culture, such as Tywin Lannister from Game of Thrones.

There is one running gag that really annoyed me and it involved one of their friends from their childhood thinking he's funny and he kept making these painfully bad jokes.

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.»

But while the sequel benefits from Reynolds» superhuman charisma as the charmingly annoying, katana - wielding protagonist, the film nevertheless feels too much like more of the same: more of the same gross - out gags, more of the same irreverent jokes, more bits where Deadpool has to regrow severed limbs to the disgust of everyone around him, more running commentary on the movie he's in....

For example, there is a funny bit where Kevin James» character, Eric, is a little too attached to his mom (the super adorable Georgia Engel from The Mary Tyler Moore Show), but they chose to spend more time on a stupid running gag: Eric has the ability to «burp - snart» (burping, sneezing, and farting at the same time).

Meanwhile, it becomes something of a running gag that after his decision to temporarily retreat from the director's chair in the early 1970s to focus on production and distribution, Corman continually promises, in interview after interview, to return to directing in a year's time.

There is a recurring gag that has Paul Rudd doing his finest Tony Montana impression (it gets old quick), a scene where the cops try to remove a beached whale from the shoreline, and a couple of run - ins with oft - appearing supporting performer on the TV show, Nick Swardson (The Benchwarmers), as the flamboyantly gay Terry.

by Walter Chaw Because there is no plot save the scrambling for rent money that has been stolen from the Abbot and Costello - ian pairing of Ice Cube and Michael Epps, the closest one might come to a description of Friday After Next's narrative would involve the running gag of a Santa Claus bandit who breaks into homes to steal presents and beat people with Christmas trees (maybe inspired by Eddie Murphy's Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood Christmas sketch).

What differentiates Rudolph's compulsive use of such howlers — which comprise much of the «screwball» part of «screwball noir» — from Altman's otherwise similar running gags is that they conjure up classic Hollywood archetypes.

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.

Those who might admire the film will probably not be admirers of Raymond Chandler, from which the movie borrows heavily without acknowledgment, but perhaps fans of physics and astrophysics since there is a running subtext of gags, references and puns revolving around the big bang theory and a particle collider beneath the New Mexican desert.

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

The only running gag that somewhat works is the version of Tom Cruise's character from War of the Worlds being a bad father, but it's also probably the only joke that is actually based on observation of the source material.

There are only a few moments where the actors take a break from the shooting and running to make a quick gag.

It's a constant run of gags and one liners with some fantastic performances from the main actors.

run the gamut from a phone call to a walk to nowhere; a «Gag Reel» basically consists of Grey cracking up (30s); and four screen - tests bugger the imagination in addition to explaining why Swayze and Grey were the dream participants in this danse macabre.

The season's running gag, modeled after the different milk flavors of Season 3, sees Trish (Brownstein) and Jamie (Armisen) try to get pets adopted from Portland Pet Haven.

And it's a tough week: Jean reveals he's pregnant with his child; he's saddled carrying the Gorfeins» cat after it escapes out the door, and accidentally locks the door behind him after staying the night (a great running gag that eventually turns into a lovely metaphor for Llewyn's journey); he's chasing payments from Legacy and trying to line up some gigs.

But it features terrific supporting performances as well, especially from male love interests portrayed by Don Johnson, Richard Dreyfuss, Andy Garcia and Nelson, who is responsible for the film's Big Talker of a sight gag, when his character runs afoul of a double dose of Viagra.

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.

The two have a lot in common: They're both tough and independent (aside from leaning on one another), and there's a running gag throughout the film where the two yell at each other as though they're strangers when they encounter one another on the road.

There's a lot, yet still too little, made of a fake breast that Robert De Niro's character has fashioned from his daughter's breast so that he can approximate breastfeeding (though the film balks at actually paying off the sight gag with the sight of him doing it) and a bit of unkindness towards southern policemen (Tim Blake Nelson, deserving better), and a good eighty - percent of the alleged humour of this stillbirth is invested in «Focker» sounding a lot like «Fucker» and people at a Focker family reunion having names like «Dom» which sounds like «Dumb,» «Randy» which sounds like «Randy,» and «Horny» which sounds like someone's already run out of ideas for how to stretch a one - word punchline into a feature - length film.

Children are shot in the back, mothers are run down like animals, a heroic geek is tortured mercilessly, and the final reward of at least a couple of the baddies would make Dario Argento blush (indeed, a knife - through - the - chin gag from Opera is ripped off with gory gusto).

For all the deft sight gags and comic situations — and there are plenty (including a comic symphony around the shenanigans of salarymen trying to count their bonus money away from prying eyes)-- there is also an undercurrent of anxiety running through the film as Shinji struggles to find work in Japan's depressed economy.

But the gags are predominantly broad and the cynically - minded commentary, which touches on everything from cultural capitalism and art world smuggery to the current political climate and the fickleness of success, doesn't run very deep.

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.

Running throughout the pleasant - surprise teen comedy «Easy A» is a rib - tickling little gag whereby various characters quote memorable lines from quintessentially 1980s teen movies, from Hughes» «The Breakfast Club» and «Ferris Bueller's Day Off» to «The Outsiders» to «Say Anything.»

Even after the scene switches to India, we're not allowed to forget Liz's newfound appetite: A running gag has fellow ashrammer «Richard from Texas» (the always excellent Richard Jenkins) always calling her «Groceries» because of the way she can wolf it down.

The major gag in George Herrimann's Krazy Kat comic strip, which ran from 1913 to 1944, was Ignatz Mouse's repeated attempts to clobber the title character with a brick.

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.