History Main / GagSeries

See also BigLippedAlligatorMoment, for cases where an otherwise coherent story has occasional Gag Series interludes.

Occasionally the GagSeries is an adaptation of some 'canonical' source, except now the writers pretty much do whatever they like.

See also BigLippedAlligatorMoment, for cases where an otherwise coherent story has occasional GagSeries interludes.

* ''Anime/TheAdventuresOfMiniGoddess'' is a {{SpinOff}} of ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'', featuring FunSize versions of the goddesses and a talking rat named Gan constantly suffering AmusingInjuries during 48 7-minute episodes filled with wacky hijinks.

** That said, it's roots as a gag series still shine through from time to time, with villains that do elaborate poses in the style of Super Sentai characters, or moments like Goku having to catch his teacher's pet monkey as part of his training. The Majin Buu arc especially reads like a marriage between the silly and serious sides of the manga; Majin Buu is a fat, pink demon that goes around turning people into candy, but he's also a serious threat and slaughters entire cities. Goku and Vegeta do a silly-looking fusion dance that makes them even more powerful, and at one point they kick Buu's ass ''after being turned into a coffee-flavored jawbreaker.''

* ''{{Franchise/Jewelpet}}'':

* ''Manga/LuckyStar'': The series follows the norm and is quite realistic for the most part but has it's ''slight'' share of wackiness, especially in the anime.

* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' is a wacky series about the shenanigans caused by the increasingly ridiculous forms of MartialArtsAndCraft, BalefulPolymorph curses, and tangled LoveDodecahedron.
* ''Manga/SamuraiHighSchool'': Almost everything that happens in the story is PlayedForLaughs, and any time a serious conflict arise, it rarely affects anyone too badly and gets resolved rather quickly. Despite this, their is the semi-serious main storyline about a brother and sister who ([[MasculineGirlFeminineBoy fittingly]]) crossdress as eachother to attend the titular school. That being said, this premise is the cause of a lot of hilarity, as the universe itself is quite silly.

* ''LightNovel/SeitokaiNoIchizon'': A parody Anime with bits of Romance added in ..

* ''Manga/SgtFrog'': A wacky gag manga about a gang of frog-like aliens who constantly try to TakeOverTheWorld, only for [[HilarityEnsues hilarity to ensue]] instead

* ''Manga/StrangePlus'': the sordid tale of a 20-something year old who looks 12, likes to crossdress and get naked in public, and is in general a tremendous jerkass, his younger, saner brother, and their two co-workers - a violent woman and a possibly gay, dreadlocked, muscled guy. TheyFightCrime.

* ''VideoGame/{{Warioware}}'''s gameplay consists of a series of bizarre and humorous microgames that last less that 5 seconds most of the time and are completely unrelated to each other.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' was always one, but later episodes take it UpToEleven.

** Likewise, CH Greenblatt's other cartoon ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBeaks'', though it's much more relaxed and less surreal than most.
* ''WesternAnimation/SecretMountainFortAwesome'' and its' spin-off ''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'' take this UpToEleven.

* ''WesternAnimation/ScaredySquirrel''. It relies on the same random humor as Yakkity Yak.

* ''VideoGame/GodHand'': There actually ''is'' a plot, but even the characters make fun of it. Also, there are midget SuperSentai and a gorilla in a luchador mask.

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* Many of the now classic comedy shorts from UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfHollywood and UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood are this such as Creator/BusterKeaton, Creator/CharlieChaplin, Film/TheLittleRascals, Creator/LaurelAndHardy, Film/TheThreeStooges and so on.

* ''Anime/HareGuu'': With a mix of serious and nonserious subplots.

* ''Manga/KillMeBaby'', 99.9% of which is played for a purely comedic scenario where all seriousness and compassion are thrown out the window.

* Any series about ''ComicBook/Deadpool'', usually of the MediumAwareness, BreakingTheFourthWall, and BlackComedy with a dose of RefugeInAudacity.

%%* ''Manga/HaruhiChan''

%%* ''Manga/{{Nichijou}}''

* ''[[WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters The Ghost Busters]]'' was, like the "Abbott and Costello Meet the Monsters" movies, a beginning, an ending, and a rapid-fire succession of jokes in between. The writers and artists who worked on the [[AnimatedAdaptation animated sequel]] regarded it as a gag series compared to the more serious ''HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse''.

* While ''HisCooolSeHaGirls'' has a serialized plot, it's more interested in being this.

* ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'' is this at the start before the plot really gets going. The first few chapters have an episodic feel where Team Thorden is mainly just going around the dungeon's first floors killing and eating whatever monster they come across.

* ''Manga/GugureKokkuriSan'': A girl gets into wacky hijinks with the three supernatural spirits who had invited themselves into her house. Whatever happens in one chapter would almost certainly be reverted to before the next one starts, and the story moves on as if nothing had happened. At one point, the manga decides to make a storyline continue for more than 1 chapter, and the main character expresses surprise that the previous event ''hasn't'' been reset.

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%%* ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'': To a lesser degree, since the series does have continuity and plot, but each episode is definitely a Gag Episode.

%%* ''Manga/SgtFrog'': [[SarcasmMode ...tell me it isn't.]]

%%* ComicBook/TheSmurfs (original books; the AnimatedAdaptation not so much)
%%* Any series about ''ComicBook/DeadPool''.

%%* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''.

%%* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner''

%%* The ''WebAnimation/{{asdfmovie}}s''
%%* ''WebAnimation/TheLazerCollection''

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperHeroSquadShow'': a wacky, lighthearted spoof of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse.

%%* ''Manga/DoctorSlump''

** ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'', ''ComicStrip/HagarTheHorrible'', ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', ''ComicStrip/{{BC}}'', ''ComicStrip/TheWizardOfId'', ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'', ''Piet Fluwijn en Bolleke'', ''Robin Dubois'', ''ComicBook/LeonardLeGenie'', ''ComicBook/{{Cubitus}}'', ''ComicBook/KidPaddle'', ''ComicBook/GastonLagaffe'', ''ComicBook/IdeesNoires'', ''ComicBook/JanJansEnDeKinderen'', ''ComicBook/DeGeneraal'', ''ComicBook/HaagseHarry'', ''Le Chat'', ''Kabout Wesley'', ''L' Agent 212'', ''ComicBook/AchilleTalon'', ''ComicBook/LePetitSpirou'', ''ComicBook/{{Titeuf}}'', ... are all typical newspaper or magazine comics which work towards one punchline.

* ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan'', a hyperactive, ReferenceOverdosed parody of the HaremGenre in which a majority of the cast are the human forms of CthulhuMythos creatures (that Nyarko in the title? Short for Nyarlathotep). It tends to split its time between zany comedy and more serious moments, either gory battles with {{Cosmic Horror}}s or the emerging romance between the human Mahiro Yasaka and Nyarko.

* ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'' has slowly drifted into this. The first game was a dead-serious ''GrandTheftAuto'' clone; the second game decided to swing for the fences, and it's gotten increasingly bizarre ever since. Also, it's in the same universe as ''VideoGame/RedFaction''.

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A comedic show specifically concentrating on [[SurrealHumor being humorous before any concern of plot, drama, or even comprehensibility.]] Noted for a complete lack of tact or pomposity on the part of the writers, and frequent [[PostModernism postmodern]] commentary. Can have occasional {{Fanservice}} which the series will openly acknowledge. The RuleOfFunny will be observed.