I closed my eyes and waited for the holocaust, smugly sure that I wouldn't have to rely on cheap gags to get free beer any more tonight.

While noting the film's cheap gags and formulaic plot, critics end up smiling at this slapstick courtroom comedy, which stars Michael Richards, Seinfeld 's Kramer.

Everywhere resounded the sitcom's cheap gag or the cruel self-flagellation of the stand-up monologist.

Frustrated by his early role as the target of "Krusty's cheap gags", Bob frames Krusty and takes over the show.

Says Carpenter, "I used every cheap gag - trampolines, wires, reverse movements and upside down sets.

Meme is a name given to a clichéd image that is frequently used in images as a cheap gag.

"As somebody who has traditionally relied upon cheap gags and even cheaper effects to get by," he said, "when I was stripped of them all, it was an act of faith, really."

Could a tension like that be broken, with any of the cheap gags I thought of?

Austrian ambassador wants people to protest against the "cheap" gags.

Schneider points out that where A Square's experience was originally religious, the film makes it a "wow moment used to lead into some cheap gags", and states that "the story dissolves."