List of running gags in Nickelodeon shows

This is a list of all the running gags in any Nickelodeon shows. Running gags are basically recurring humorous instances in an episode. A common gag in the series are things being spelled wrong or mistakenly added.

Rugrats

• Lou Pickles saying the number 15 in his sentences
• A Dinosaur appearing in various episodes
• Tommy Pickles saying "A baby's gotta do what a baby's gotta do!"
• The babies mispronouncing words, and Angelica correcting them
• Drew Pickles fighting with Stu (The Rugrats Movie/Rugrats Go Wild)

SpongeBob SquarePants

• Fred shouting "My Leg!"
• Squidward kicking SpongeBob out of his house.
• Old Man Jenkins being seen and mention.
• Mrs. Puff getting arrested, when it's usually SpongeBob's fault.
• Mrs. Puff puffing up, after getting crashed.
• Patrick spending so much time at the Krusty Krab that Mr. Krabs sometimes forgets that he doesn't work there.
• Someone shouting "My Eyes!"
• Various things randomly exploding in a mushroom cloud for little to no reason.
• Mr. Krabs forming stuff in/or on his eyes
• SpongeBob shouting "I’m Ready".
• Sandy using Metaphors and similes.
• Plankton getting thrown out of the Krusty Krab or getting squished.
• Patrick says the famous phrase "Life is like a walking shadow", he lays on the floor with joy until a lawn mower comes to shed Patrick into pieces, he starts running for life then it did shed him apart but also made mini Patrick clones running around happy. (CopyBob DittoPants)

The Loud House

• Someone saying the words "Dang it."
• Lincoln breaking the fourth wall and coming up with long operation names.
• Lori using the word literally.
• Lucy appearing suddenly, and scaring her siblings, or other people.
• Luan telling bad jokes, while a character groaning. Even saying "but seriously..." after the joke.
• Dad laughing at Luan's jokes.

The Fairly OddParents

• Vicky's head changing into various objects at the end of the opening sequence after saying her line "Yeah right!"
• Tibecuador being shown or mentioned after its creation.
• Timmy's parents name's about to get revealed but gets cuts off
• Timmy saying that the things he wishes for come from the internet.
• Timmy saying "What could possibly go wrong?"
• Mr. Crocker being pointed out that his ear is on his neck instead of his head.
• Vicky writing "Vicky was here" on the wall.
• Mr. Turner's obsession with eggnog.
• Mr. Turner saying "Dinkleberg!".
• Timmy, Chester and A.J launches water balloons from their "Anti Girl Fortress" on Tootie and she starts crying just because she wants to play with Timmy (Boy Toy)

The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

• Jimmy Neutron having a brain blast
• Jimmy making something using Hugh's toasters.
• Carl's crush on Jimmy's mom, Judy.
• Nick hurting his leg and stating the obvious immediately afterwards.
• The Twonkies that Sheen had after an episode appear in several later episodes; they don't morph however.
• Various iterations of "the little boy's room" are used when a character has to pee, including "the little boy's ocean" by Carl when the boy's are flying over the ocean in Jimmy's hovercraft.
• Carl also had his highly sensitive scapula.

Hey Arnold!

• A star effect appearing after people getting hurt.
• Harold Berman saying "i was hungry".
• Arnold's last name about to be reviewed but then cut off.
• Helga punching Brainy.
• Bird poop falling on Helga.
• Gertie has a tendency to get her holidays mixed up.
• When Helga lets out a screams, another loud sound will play while she screams, a Distant Reaction Shot of Arnold asking Gerald "Did you hear something just now?", and  the scream will set off car alarms.
• Every time Arnold hits a baseball, someone is going to get hit by it.
• A Gilligan Cut in every episode.
• Helga's parents can never remember her age, and Bob calling her Olga.
• When Arnold ask for advise, Phil usually says "I have no idea." and "never eat raspberries..."
• Someone mistakenly Calling Caesar and he says "I don't know what you're talking about! Stop calling me!".

Invader Zim

• Zim yelling his name out.
• Zim yelling that people lies.
• GIR screaming.
• Dib's big head being mention.
• Zim losing interest in whatever he's doing at the moment.
• GIR's love of animals
• During a crowd scene with people cheering, there's usually gonna be someone yelling "[Thing we're cheering about] rocks!"
• The disguised Zim imagining himself laughing maniacally atop his house, oblivious to his surroundings.

Avatar: The Last Airbender

• The Cabbage Guy getting his cabbage cart smashed and screaming "My cabbages!"
• Various characters forgetting that Toph can't see.
• Sokka's fake beard in the third season.
• His terrible drawing skills that go from "Lake Laogai"
• A character (usually Sokka) tells a bad joke, there is a moment of silence, followed by an off-screen cough.

The Ren & Stimpy Show

• Ren calling Stimpy a "eediot".
• Ren losing his temper.
• Mr. Horse saying "No sir, I don't / didn't like it."

Doug

• Mr. Dink saying things are "very expensive". Subverted in an episode where he notes something was "surprisingly cheap"
• Doug writing his journal and saying "Dear journal, hi it's me Doug..."
• Skitter's wired noises, especially "Honk, Honk"
• Porkchop adding the Doug logo with an "'s" in the title cards.

The Wild Thornberrys

• Nigel's catchphrase "SMASHING!"
• the opening sequence ends by zooming in on a map of the world, to the location where the Thornberrys were in the current episode.

CatDog

• Dog chasing random trucks which leading Cat to get hurt.
• Dog saying "Hi ho diggety!"
• Mervis and Dunglap always fighting
• Mom and Dad playing tag with Dog and Cat always gets hurt (Vexed of Kin)

Rocko's Modern Life

• Rocko saying “(name) is a very dangerous (name)”
• Ed Bighead saying “I hate my life.”

iCarly

• Spencer making things catch fire, even when it's ridiculous and/or impossible.
• Sam’s butter sock.
• Gibby taking off his shirt
• Carly’s claustrophobic
• Gibby saying his name.
• Sam eating just about everything in sight (especially meat).
• T-Bone selling stuff on a stick
• Freddie saying that he never ends at 1.

Other shows

• Aaahh!!! Real Monsters - The different phrases shouted by the Gromble during the opening credits.
• ChalkZone - Snap shouting "Rudy, you gotta draw something!" when something goes wrong.
• The Penguins of Madagascar - A man is heard yelling, "My car!"

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