Sentences with phrase «running gags in»

One of NeoGAF's long running gags in review threads usually amounts to «So Game α is better than Game β?»

If those names don't mean anything to you, many of the best jokes and running gags in the film will be unfortunately lost to you.

Actually, this is one of the better running gags in this lazily thrown together movie.

Georgia's kicker only stepped into the overtime spotlight because Alabama kickers remained the best running gag in college football.

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 pay off: He also had a running gag in which he said he would reward the person with the shortest speech with a $ 17,900 jet ski which was presented by Dame Helen Mirren and was ultimately given to Phantom Thread costume designer Mark Bridges at the very end of the night

He also had a running gag in which he said he would reward the person with the shortest speech with a $ 17,900 jet ski which was presented by Dame Helen Mirren and was ultimately given to Phantom Thread costume designer Mark Bridges at the very end of the night.

A great running gag in Kim Jee - woon's neo-noir A Bittersweet Life is that nobody in the Korean criminal underworld carries a gun.

There's the most marvelous running gag in the film where after Wormold tries to recruit his native shop assistant, said assistant doesn't understand Wormold, and thinks he's is asking for a «lady for the evening.»

As I write this, it is one week later and I have completed what was once the longest - running gag in the history of video games.

So it wouldn't surprise me if you looked upon certain parts of GTA V as a tonal betrayal of your legacy, such as when Franklin discovers he can communicate telepathically with a dog, or the running gag in which Trevor is compelled into a homicidal rage whenever people notice his Canadian accent, or the recurring encounters with a smooth - talking marijuana - legalization enthusiast, or the mission that commences with this on - scene text: NEUTRALIZE 20 HIPSTERS.

Not exact matches

Suddenly she gets up, runs to the sink and gags herself in order to throw up the pills.

Nationals senator John Williams has reiterated to The Australian Financial Review if Hayne doesn't come good on Monday and ask all financial institutions to waiver gag orders, he will make a speech in the chamber on Wednesday and push for a Senate inquiry to run in parallel with the royal commission.

Though I do like this as a running gag, like the new «Did you know the Warriors blew a 3 - 1 lead in the NBA Finals:» Please hold an «IS NEBRASKA GOOD?»

Tonight's running gag: WWE resident tango master Fandango Fandangobombing every segment featuring The Miz, rolling in with dance partner Summer Rae and interrupting the night's host.

Tiger Woods, like Mamie Eisenhower in that long - running, depraved yet wickedly funny National Lampoon gag back in the day, is not dead yet.

For years in our family this has been a bit of a running gag or the «don't believe the myth» example.

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.

«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.

The line was used by Han Solo and Luke Skywalker in the first Star Wars film - and has featured as a running gag since.

Secretive kinky slut, who loves to get dressed up in promiscuous lingerie and flaunt my round bubble butt for those who enjoy it;) My gag reflex is bad, so once I run out of breath with my «mouth full» I start to choke:P My booty is EXTREMELY TIGHT seeing as I don't have much experience...

He has a partner in this pursuit, and they create themselves as a DJ duo called «Cheers,» modeled in part on their idols, Daft Punk (who appear as themselves throughout the movie in a running gag where they try to get into clubs and nobody recognizes them).

«Tummy Trouble» has some amusing running gags and a fast pace, but by the time you get to the disjointed and frantic «Trail Mix - Up», the series has engaged in impossibly ante-upping mayhem and, as such, wears itself out.

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.

Decent visual gags, witty dialogue («I'm so tired of running rampant in the streets»), a droll Marlon Brando impersonation and at no point does this jolly tale flag.

A set piece featuring the penguins running amok at the Guggenheim Museum and a great gag where Popper's flooded bathroom becomes a temporary aquarium - as seen in the trailer below - also find their mark.

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....

Running a mere 80 minutes and somehow still feeling heavily padded, this Cops spoof yields a few amusing (if widely spaced) moments but otherwise simply revels in the gratuitous nudity, language and below - the - belt gags that an «R» rating provides.

A clever running gag — establishing shots, street scenes and traffic scenes and cul de sacs are illustrated in detailed models which dissolve into the photo - real scenes the action takes place in.

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.

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 are some clever digs at famous shows - «Cirque so lame» is mentioned, and there's a running gag involving a Bengal tiger that keeps mauling a Vegas showman, who always appears swathed in bandages - but the comedy never totally catches fire and it feels rather formulaic.

Whether on Earth or in space, the jokes are either flat or hopelessly crude (the running gag of the Coneheads confusing condoms with chewing gum), and in an attempt to give the film some cachet with the current «Saturday Night Live» audience, a whole bunch of early -»90s «SNL» players are dragged

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.

In Scream 2, the question of whether a sequel can be better than the original film becomes a running gag, with participants intermittently suggesting examples.

(The men, comparably monochrome and sooty, are distinguished by their tattoos; in a terrific running gag, Soderbergh places his camera judiciously in order to keep revealing new ones throughout the film.)

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.

And the running gags that work best to support the cynical undertones in the picture's conspicuous social commentary are the ones that reveal truths in a contradictorily positive manner.

, by contrast, are clearly products of a post-musical era, in which the genre itself is treated like a joke, where musical numbers are less displays of technical virtuosity than extended gags, sometimes at the expense of the performers themselves (in Hairspray, John Travolta's pseudo-drag performance becomes a running punchline; Mamma Mia!

The characters in Clint Eastwood's dark, rugged, perversely funny new Western are so seriously compromised that their flaws almost add up to a running gag.

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

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.

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

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

It helps that there are greats comedians in supporting roles here and there are few memorable running gags outside of the main storyline.

It reminds me of routine wartime musicals — not special efforts like The Gang's All Here or Cabin in the Sky or Girl Crazy or The Sky's the Limit, but those wholly forgettable Betty Grable and Alice Faye vehicles, top - heavy with running gags, dopey character actors, corny subplots, and sentimental framing devices.

Of course, they can't have one nonstop fart to fill the running length with, although they do give it a valiant effort, so they throw in a virtual kitchen sink of random «funny» characters and gags, none of which feel like they belong in this movie.

Its jokes run the gamut of prominent caricatures, exaggerated physical comedy, and plain old gross - out gags (e.g., eating a tarantula and a bathroom emergency in a hotel swimming pool).

Paddington manages a number of consistently funny running gags that keep the movie lighthearted even in the face of an incredibly creepy subplot in which a Cruella De Vil figure (played by Nicole Kidman) wants to kill and stuff Paddington.

Meanwhile, Hill makes good use of his neuroses, improvisational skills and ability to rib at himself with a half - forced grin, this time around playing the man on the outside as Jenko gets in with the popular college jocks and Schmidt has to do the walk of shame (a great, smaller running gag) and eventually gets into a hysterical kiss / fight with a scene - stealing Jillian Bell that's another highlight of the picture.