Sentences with phrase «using running gags»

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

The key to using a Neti pot is to tip the head sideways, so the water runs out the other nostril, rather than tipping the head back, which makes it run down the back of the throat and cause gagging.

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.

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.

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.

Fair (1 star) Rated R for violence, sexuality, nudity, drug use, inncessant ethnic slurs and pervasive profanity Running time: 100 minutes Distributor: Warner Brothers Home Entertainment Group Blu - ray / DVD Combo Pack Extras: Deleted scenes; gag reel; and Keanu: My First Movie.

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.

The same goes for the film's other groan / migraine - inducing running gags: The use of «Mariska Hargitay» as a mystic greeting, shortness jokes directed at long - suffering comic foil Verne Troyer, convoluted pseudo-profound wordplay, and masturbation jokes involving Tugginmypudha.

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.

, running gags run amok (the same low - rent glass - shattering sound effect is used every time something breaks, for instance), and every actor onboard gets at least one moment (often many more) in the self - evident sun.

His earlier films, funny as they are, are hampered by unevenness and overemphasis, and by the kind of selfcongratulatory distrust of the audience that makes Brooks hold his shots too long, zoom in insistently on his sight gags, use the same joke again and again under the misapprehension that that makes it a running gag, or — when in doubt — have an unlikely person say «bullshit» or burst into Cole Porter.

All three adjectives apply to Vetters, Kolbowicz, and Charney's first time as comedy writers, since the movie runs just 85 minutes with credits and uses them for discomforting gags sure to charm not even the excitable teens this is presumably meant for.

Find him at his hilarious best in a running gag — used at least once per episode, natch — where Morticia's (Carolyn Jones, charming and bitter) blasé use of the French language causes Gomez to «go wild» and manically kiss her along her arms and back.

The dog may also display exercise resistance; he may not be able to walk or run as much as he used to and frequently, the coughing and gagging will occur after an exercise session.

Using familiar imagery, such as The Simpsons» long running couch gag, Salavon layers and manipulates visual data into abstraction.

* The editorial continues the WSJ's disregard of the difference in significance between odd weather events and climate change overall, which is the basis for a running gag that the WSJ's James Taranto uses in his Best of the Web e-mail column — usually, but not always, by targeting an instance when Al Gore gave a global warming speech on a really, really cold day.