History RunningGag / LiveActionTVNoToG

* ''Series/AlexRider'': Early in the first episode, Tom loses his phone, and Alex gets caught stealing it back. Cue Tom being deprived of his phone at really inconvenient times. Then, after he gets it back, it causes even ''more'' trouble.

** CanadaEh is often brought up, either as a nice place, but more likely as the butt of jokes. Nine-Nine people just can't help themselves and snark at how unspeakably nice and safe or boring and useless Canada is compared to Brooklyn.

** Whenever the team has to put on new outfits or assume new identities, they will be introduced with a PowerWalk set to blaring rap music.

*** This sets up another even longer running gag, as the two of them spend the entire remainder of the series engaging in SnarkToSnarkCombat as elite {{DeadpanSnarker}}s--he generally with comments on [[UnfortunateImplications promiscuity]] and lack of refinement, and her comments generally directed at his foppishness and lack of familiarity with adversity--although it's clear that in time they are actually VitriolicBestBuds and {{foil}}s, not [[SitcomArchNemesis genuine foes]].

* ''Series/{{Parks and Recreation}}'' is practically built on running gags.
** Ron dressing like Tiger Woods after having sex.
** Duke Silver.
** Councilman Howser appearing in the nick of time to see Leslie's out-of-context unprofessional behaviour.
** April's unusual love for animals (including Champion, the three-legged dog).
** Jerry being...well, Jerry.
** Leslie over-exaggerating Ann's role as a nurse.
** Leslie's weird yet flattering compliments to Ann.
** Donna's colorful yet elusive personal life.
** Li'l Sebastian.
** Andy's numerous amount of jobs.
** Breakfast food being favored by ''everyone''
** And tons more...

* ''Series/TheTenthKingdom'': After entering New York and discovering what Earth culture was like, the three Troll siblings come upon a CD boom box with the Bee Gees' ''Saturday Night Fever'' soundtrack in it. Upon hearing it, they immediately become instant fans, toting it everywhere with them and singing along as loudly and annoyingly as possible until the batteries on the boom box die. They attempt to explain the music and its origin to their father, with genuinely hilarious results -- although the usage of the Bee Gees' full name as the Brothers Gibb, hardly common knowledge, seems rather out of place, especially coming from such moronic characters who can't even read properly. (See: ''East Eighty-onest Street''.) Presumably this was included in order to avoid being obvious or [[RuleOfFunny to make it funnier]]. (And it works.) They then proceed to continue singing the song ''for the rest of the miniseries''.

** [[Creator/JimBelushi]] being disparaged, usually by someone saying "X is the Jim Belushi of Y"

** Conan has been subjected to one for years now by Paul Rudd. Whenever Rudd visits one of Conan's shows, he will claim that he has a clip from the film he's promoting, only for the clip to be from the atrocious ''Film/MacAndMe''.

** A dark version of the RunningGag is Caitlin's OnceASeason CartwrightCurse. [[spoiler:Her lover, Ronnie Raymond (one half of ''ComicBook/{{Firestorm}} I'') pulls a HeroicSacrifice at the end of Season 1 on their wedding day, even; "Jay Garrick" from Season 2 is merely a time remnant of that season's BigBad Zoom, and was killed to end the ruse; Julian Albert in Season 3 fares a little better, if by better you mean Caitlin (or rather, her SuperpoweredEvilSide, Killer Frost) outright rejects him.]] For a lighter, true example of a RunningGag for Caitlin, there's Killer Frost's (post-HazyFeelTurn) and her very different tastes in clothing; for starters, they're the TomboyAndGirlyGirl, respectively. Frost will ''always'' complain about her alter-ego's wardrobe whenever Caitlin has to transform into her.

** George Michael is ''StarWars'' Kid

* There's a running joke that Fitz from ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' really, really likes monkeys. The joke culminates in season seven when we learn that [[spoiler:[[HeartwarmingMoments he calls his and Simmons's daughter, Alya, the "little monkey"]]]]

* ''Series/TheGreatestAmericanHero'' has Ralph Hinkley / [[TooSoon "Hanley"]]'s superpowers not working the way he wants them to; usually when he crash lands after flying (or trying to).

** There's a gag whereby Ted would ring his friend Father Larry Duff on his mobile at the most inconvenient moments (When Larry Duff was skiing, being held up at gunpoint etc.). Duff would suffer the inevitable consequence only for Ted to conclude that Duff had his mobile switched off.

*** And his habit of throwing up whenever Barry whisks him off somewhere. [[StealthPun In other words,]] it's a ''literal'' RunningGag.