HRWiki:Running gag
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*A running gag is a simple comedic element that recurs. | *A running gag is a simple comedic element that recurs. | ||
*An inside joke is something that's not funny unless one knows what it's referring to. A running gag is something that's funny per se, but is funnier if one knows it's been done many times before on the site. | *An inside joke is something that's not funny unless one knows what it's referring to. A running gag is something that's funny per se, but is funnier if one knows it's been done many times before on the site. | ||
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+ | There are many articles in the running gag category, however, that unify a certain topic, subject, or idea which is used as a foil for making jokes. These articles are more like compilations of many unrelated jokes or just plain appearances that have the same topic. Future discussion will decide which articles these are, what they will be called, and what will be done with them. |
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- A WikiProject to discover (or rediscover) the definition of a running gag, and what to do with topic-unifying articles that aren't.
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A running gag may have several definitions and requirements:
- A running gag is an amusing situation or line that constantly reappears throughout the site. Often the repetition of the running gag is exactly what makes it so humorous.
- A running gag is like an inside joke, only bigger in scope.
- Its appearances are connected or may refer to its previous appearances.
- There may be an underlying trigger that kicks off the joke and future appearances of it.
- It has to be the same joke, or similar enough in premise.
- A running gag is a simple comedic element that recurs.
- An inside joke is something that's not funny unless one knows what it's referring to. A running gag is something that's funny per se, but is funnier if one knows it's been done many times before on the site.
There are many articles in the running gag category, however, that unify a certain topic, subject, or idea which is used as a foil for making jokes. These articles are more like compilations of many unrelated jokes or just plain appearances that have the same topic. Future discussion will decide which articles these are, what they will be called, and what will be done with them.