A gag that goes excessively far and beyond a tolerable length. The concept is that something happens repeatedly, to the point of boredom.

In the 6teen episode "Fish and Make Up", Caitlin bursts in the loathsome washrooms with a Potty Emergency...and then uses the bathroom and sighs in relief ...

Overly Long Gags in web animation. Battle for Dream Island Again, “Get Digging”, we get a very long scene of Gelatin and Needle flying Puffball to Yoyle ...

"SpongeBob You're Fired" has SpongeBob crying for about a full minute after Mr. Krabs fires him. As this happens, the tears affect customers in the background.

Every time you pet the Lesser Dog, its neck stretches out slightly. You can make it stretch to absurd lengths. If you pet it until its head goes above the top ...

This IBM sales-meeting film, featuring Rowlf, includes a typewriter falling down a flight of stairs for 33 seconds (from 1:42) as Rowlf looks on in horror.

"With contrast ignored, the tone flailing, the joke explained, and with no distinctive style of my own, what happens when a joke finally does land?

A gag that goes excessively far and beyond a tolerable length. The concept is that something happens repeatedly, to the point of boredom.

Many of Family Guy's overly long gags employ dialogue with lots of empty, although realistic, filler words, averting the Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic trope.

Named after Overly Long Gag, this is where the "gag" is that the "airplane banner" is "overly long", such that they need a second airplane to complete the ...