Running Gags in podcasts.
- The Adventure Zone: Balance:
- In General
- Griffin's insistence on including elevators in every single arc.
- "You've solved my [X] puzzle."
- Justin ragging on the other players (mostly Clint) for not doing their character voices.
- Magnus
- Taako
- "Taako's good out here." Mostly in response to Magnus's Catchphrase.
- Taako insisting he's "Taako, you know, from TV".
- Merle
- Everyone doubting Merle's healing abilities, including Merle himself.
- Merle casting Zone of Truth, usually at the most inappropriate moments.
- In General
- Cool Kids Table:
- Each game has their own, though people getting banned for violating the "no crossovers" rule is common amongst them all.
- In All I Want for Christmas, Chrissy drives a Ford Taurus Station Wagon, New From Ford, TM.
- In Small Magic, Janus falling over and crying. Also trying to find a use for his oddly-specific "create a cubic meter of dead leaves" spell.
- Creepy Town has Alan getting blamed for the character's deaths since his own characters keep escaping. There are many accusations, especially in the final act, of him rigging the game and being the true villain.
- 'The Wreck'':
- Calling the starboard "starburst" and the bow "Bow Wow", and attempting to quote Lil' Bow Wow lyrics.
- Josh saving, pouring the watering canteen on basically anything he can to see if anything happens, and reloading when nothing does.
- Trying to open many locked doors with anything in their inventory, which ranges from the logical metal rods to the less-so stepping stool or stuffed pig. Notably the linen closet, which seems to be immune to any item or attack they throw at it.
- Here We Gooooo! has Dario and Crania getting disgusted by Yoshi on account of him using his tongue for everything, from breaking windows to cleaning soda off of himself. On the flip side, Yoshi seems oblivious to this and continues to offer them rides or assist them by grabbing them with his tongue.
- The Fallen Gods:
- Tuatha's disdain for wizards (or as she puts it, "fuck a wizard").
- Flint insisting that he's not scared, even when he obviously is, and Solvin and Tuatha roasting him about it.
- Whenever Flint fails an important roll, Josh announces he'll have to roll a new character named "Flont", complete with a funny voice.
- Tuatha saying that she must've missed a class when she fails a history roll, or when it's funny.
- Sequinox
- Tellie not telling the girls something important because it forgot, and also it eating everything.
- Chell adding random and pointless emojis to the end of her texts.
- A lot of mileage is gotten out of the poorly-named damage-enhancing skill "Massive D".
- All the girls calling each other by their real names instead of their code names, then immediately trying to backpedal.
- During the Gemini arc, every version of Vivaldi being repeatedly disappointed in the girls since they always show up in a new dimension caught off guard and have no idea what they're supposed to be doing.
- Sid always has a knife. Even when transformed. Even when dreaming.
- "Dan, Danny, and Daniel" has Danny spitting egg-salad sandwich in people's faces over the course of nearly the entire game.
- Disc Only Podcast
- The podcast itself originated from a running gag, in which the Game Boy Player would be suggested for a charity event, with a condition: just play the disc with no game and talk over the screen. The gag started in 2018 with ProtonJon suggesting this to Stephen Georg during the latter's charity stream. Two years later, during The Runaway Guys Colosseum, Stephen suggests the same thing as a Call-Back during Jon's Chaos Fortune Cookie segment. Eventually, an official podcast was born.
- Episode 5 and 6 has Stephen's Outback Stabhouse, a steakhouse where patrons pay by getting stabbed. Other businesses hatched up are Tom Fawkes's Blood Bath and Beyond (which runs a similar payment model), and a breakfast parlor in which a patron gets a frying pan to the head for free eggs.
- Episode 8: Jon constantly replays the podcast's intro and gets called out for it, even after the outro.
- Escape from Vault Disney!:
- Every time the "What's the Attraction?" is introduced, Tony says that it's the question that has baffled mankind and (insert relevant to subject thing here)kind through the ages.
- Also in the "What's the Attraction?" segment, Tony claims that Disney will need to build something now that the title they watched has become the most watched title on Disney Plus, no matter how baffling the title's success would be.
- After The Little Mermaid (1992) discussion made it a running gag in its own episode, "CRAB EXPERIMENTS" is brought up anytime anything vaguely experiment-like or crustacean-like appears in something they talk about.
- Tony's apprehension to centrist fence-sitters when deciding on rating something a Disney Plus or Disney Minus. If anyone attempts it, Tony will scold them without fail.
- Whenever a novelty character appears on the show, Tony claims that the special guest for next week's episode is an A-list celebrity, such as Tom Holland. Suddenly, a phone call from the novelty character interrupts Tony, and they take so long to get to their point that they "scare" the A-list celebrity away, meaning that the guest slot is now the novelty character's.
- During season 1 of Gilmore Ball Z, Grant will often make jokes on Chad Michael Murray's name, replacing Murray with other words beginning with m, such as Chad Michael Melee and Chad Michael Moping. These stopped after Chad Michael Murray left Gilmore Girls in season 2, though we will all Chad Michael Miss them.
- They also often posit the theory that Stars Hollow is a dementia town, and were all sent there to minimize danger to the outside world.
- The Fantasticast:
- Especially in the earlier episodes, whenever a flying vehicle appeared they would compare it to Airwolf and play the theme.
- There is also the clubbing of vagrants whenever an omnibus was pulled out.
- In The Hidden Almanac, a podcast in which Reverend Mord gives gardening advice and recounts items of historical interest from a history that is not our own:
- Events that had no witnesses, or which otherwise occurred in circumstances such that it's not clear how Reverend Mord knows so precisely what happened.
- Stories of fishermen catching record fish and being awarded "a small certificate, and a beer." This is eventually turned around in Echo Harbor, where a fisherman was dragged by a massive sturgeon until he managed to cut his line. The sturgeon was given the certificate and beer for catching a fisherman of record size.
- In an early episode, the gardening section discussed zucchini, and the danger of ending up with more than you know what to do with. Several episodes over the next few weeks returned to the subject of Things To Do With All That Zucchini.
- The dangers of getting lost in a book.
- Sponsors' messages that respond to the previous episode's sponsor's message.
- Jemjammer:
- Jylliana's armor makes her bad at hiding. She goes "clink clank clonk".
- Mr. Herst trying to build houses of cards. He used to do it in the wardroom, but after several instances of them collapsing in there he's moved them into his quarters.
- Kingdom Smarts:
- Because Chain of Memories was released between the first and second Kingdom Hearts games, Jake and Shannon make a specific point of referring to Kingdom Hearts II as "the third game of the series, Kingdom Hearts II."
- Throughout The Land of Dragons, Kingdom Hearts II's Mulan stage, Shannon refers to Li Shang exclusively as "Bisexual Icon Li Shang", going so far as to have it in her notes and to correct herself if she doesn't say it properly.
- Several in Mission to Zyxx:
- Pleck never reads the pre-mission briefings and handouts that C-53 prepares for him, to C-53's increasing consternation.
- First and second season: The Federated Alliance Identification Card or FAIC (pronounced "fake"). The traditional reaction upon confirming that one is valid is a dubious-sounding, "Hm, that's a pretty good FAIC".
- Second season: "Beano wuv [x]."
- First, second, and third season finales all use the same episode summary "Nermut gets a promotion".
- Ongoing: Pleck will always order, but never receive, orange beer.
- Mom Can't Cook!: Several across the podcast, plus many in each individual episode which aren't listed here for space. The cross-episode gags include:
- Guessing when the protagonist of the movie died and "dreamed a wonderful adventure", as they put it, involving the events of the movie.
- DCOMs being made on No Budget and having a rushed production. The latter is often accompanied by a description of Michael Eisner, CEO of Disney at the time, telling the creators to hurry up (or, in the case of Hounded, Mickey telling Eisner to hurry up, as a way to explain how a shot of a possibly-dead dog got past the radar).
- On a related note, the scriptwriters realising that the part of the movie they've written so far takes up all but 5 minutes of its allotted time, leading to a very rushed conclusion.
- DCOM fathers are generally awful people.
- Coming up with better plot ideas than what the writers could.
- Any character looking out a top floor window is probably going to be compared to a "Victorian ghost".
- Side characters having horrible (and/or more interesting) home lives which just get glossed over.
- The Running Gag that named the podcast, that the protagonists' mothers can never cooknote . In the episode on The Luck of the Irish, Luke and Andy hypothesise that there was a healthy-eating fad in the late 90s and early 00s, leading to the scriptwriters putting exaggerated versions of the food they were getting served in their films.
- The duo repeatedly jokes about the possibility of being hit by a cease-and-desist from Disney for covering the movies.
- The props department just not being bothered to make anything that looks particularly convincing. Or, when they do, mixing it with props of the usual quality, referred to as props "of varying levels of attention to detail".
- Describing the movie reviewed as "one of the movies that happened".
- Trying to work out what the lower face of the neighbour from Home Improvement looks like.
- Whenever a character is frozen, Andy and Luke describe the people freezing them as using "an evil [insert mechanism here] that freezes them", quoting Halloweentown.
- In films that get overly patriotic, expect the phrase "America's enemies" to be brought up. They will likely be described as "becoming emboldened".
- Voiceovers are always assumed to be the result of the crew realising that the film, as it stood without it, didn't make any sense.
- In Horse Sense, Jumping Ship, and Ready to Run, a main character's father is dead and used to work with horses. In all 3 episodes, Luke and Andy joke they must have been "kicked to death by a thousand horses".
- Mystery Show: An episode revolves around Starlee trying to find out why there's a jacket with knotted sleeves on the Welcome Back, Kotter lunchbox. Everyone she asks about it can say that it's probably a prank, but not where it came from or why it's funny.
- When Myths and Legends host Jason Weiser asks people to subscribe to his show, he states it's "Less than the price of (a very unusual thing to buy)".
- Relative Disasters:
- Ella likes to refer to a science-fiction or action movie as if they were documentaries.
- Trials & Trebuchets:
- References to trains, which have not been invented In-Universe.
- SWIM's troubles with Locked Door puzzles.
- Integrity opening and closing Artis's office door with excessive amount of force.
- Well There's Your Problem:
- The sentence "shake hands with danger", which is always followed by the guitar riff from the safety video of the same name.
- The hosts blaming the problem of the week on a conspiracy and/or cryptid, especially Mothman.
- Justin using his professional MS Paint skills to fill in if a suitable slide is missing.
- Liam taking the podcast Off the Rails to talk about sports.
- "Add that to our goddamn TVTropes page!"
- Why Am I Watching This has several:
- All of the strange hills Lizzy is willing to die on, when she points out things that don't make logical sense in the things they watch, such as why the kids shouldn't be flying unacompanied in Bey Blade and why there shouldn't be so many graves in The Haunted Mansion (2003). This culminated in Ash writing a song about them in episode 19
- Spider-Man, Lizzy’s cat interrupting the recording
- Ash introduces herself differently on every episode
- That time a a kid gave Lizzy a dead frog for Valentine’s Day when she was a child
