List of Running Gags

Red vs Blue has been known to have a handful of running gags. Below is a list of them.

"Hurrrrk... blah"
Whenever a character is killed, they will suddenly shout "Hurrrrk... blah" before they pass away. A variation of this is saying,"I am dead!" or shouting out they're dead right before they die. This begins when Church is killed by Sheila, and dies while talking to Tucker, and is later performed by Tex, the Red Zealot, and Captain Flowers, amongst others. Another death-related running gag is how a character (usually when blown up, but exclusively to all character deaths in the "Every Man for Himself" ending of Episode 100) will shout "Son of a bitch!"

Tucker and no sniper rifle
Due to the scarcity of the sniper rifle, Tucker has never been able to use one. He was originally supposed to get one ordered from Captain Butch Flowers, but because of the captain's death, the order was never placed, ironically because Church accidently killed Captain Flowers with Aspirin. This gag began in the first episode of the series, when he is berated by Church for questioning him about the activity of the Reds; Tucker's response is one of irritation as Church has a sniper rifle and he, Tucker, does not. This gag is repeated numerous times throughout Seasons One and Two, eventually being phased out in Season Three after he accidentally discovers the sword during the attack on O'Malley's base. After using the sword to kill the Red Zealot, he declines an offer by Tex to trade his sword for her sniper rifle. The gag is mentioned briefly in Season 5, where it is demonstrated he has excellent eyesight, on account of he "never gets to use the fucking sniper rifle". During Episode 94 Tucker begs Church to use the sniper rifle, which he does. Tucker then displays his unfamiliarity with the device by shooting Tex in the ass, and manages to switch weapons again before she catches him. He later uses the sniper rifle again in Episode 99 and is surprisingly quite accurate with it, even able to take out Wyoming's clones without sighting through the scope, though that is probably due to the time reversal in which he remembers events prior so he probably just knew the clone was there.

Six Pedals
Since its first mention, this joke has been used 3 times:
 * Once by Caboose when he questioned "No, no, wait, go back! Why are there six pedals if there are only four directions?" while learning how to operate Sheila.
 * The second time is by Grif while hijaking the the Elephant. This time in reverse, with him complaining how there are only four pedals where there are six directions.
 * The third was during a CGI sequence where six pedals are visible inside the warthog.

Lift with the Groin
Many times during the season when a character is pulling or lifting something someone will say 'lift with your groin'. Such as when Caboose is picking up the bomb in Season 3. This is ironic and revealing as one should lift with their legs in order to avoid injury and it was often said by Sarge, who has a comedic lack of medical knowledge. A slight variation of this is seen in Season 8 when Doc gets stuck in the wall. He tells Simmons to "pull from the groin", advice that is later repeated by Washington to the Meta.

Bow-Chicka-Bow-Wow!
Bow-Chicka Bow-Wow is Tucker's catch phrase. First coined in Episode 58, he frequently uses it to express his sexual fantasies, mainly about Tex. As the season progresses, he uses it again and again, much to the annoyance of Church. But in the later series he has seemed to have stopped using it as much. And now in the series to basically never.

Variants:
 * "Blarg-Chicka-Honk-Honk!" coined by Junior in Episode 94.
 * "Hey-Chicka-Bum-Bum!" - Caboose's version from Episode 99.
 * "Bow Chika Bow Owwwww" - Tucker was in the middle of one when killed by Grif in one of the non-canon endings to Episode 100 of the Blood Gulch Chronicles.
 * "Bow-Chicka-Buy-Stuff" - said by Tucker on the Rooster Teeth Store Specials Page.
 * "Bow-Chicka-Bow-Wurrghhhhh..." - Tucker was pretending to be a zombie in Planning to Fail.
 * "Bow-Chika Chika Bow-Chicka bow bow Chika-Chika Bow wow wo wooooooow..." - in Episode 58.
 * "Bow-Chika-Bow-Whooaaahh...story's over." - after Tex threatens him with her rifle in Episode 58.

Caboose's Team Killing
Many jokes are made about Caboose Team Killing, such as when he shot Church with Sheila in episode 8, and in the alternate ending to episode 100 Fight! Fight! when Caboose gets in Sheila and accidentally shoots Church again. Caboose also activated the 40 megaton bomb inside Church's robot body, which proppelled everyone but Church into the future. Caboose also shot Sarge in the head while Church was possessing him.

When he is taken out from the brig in Reconstruction Chapter 3, he accidentally shoots Jones. During Reconstruction Chapter 6, Church tricked Caboose into shooting South by telling him "Hey, see that purple one? She's on our team. You should help her." In Chapter 19 of Reconstruction, Caboose is driving a Church's empty shell of a body falls out, though this is not likely considered to be 'killing him'.

In Revelation Chapter 20, Epsilon-Church tells Caboose to use the capture unit on him, and responds to Caboose's claims that he couldn't by saying "Yes you can. You do this all the time". Caboose responds by dejectedly saying "Yeah, I don't want to."

In Episode 4 of Season 9, Tucker asks Caboose if they should help Epsilon-Church, with Caboose responding he can't get a accurate shot on Church.

Command
Command has a keyboard shortcut (or Macro) for whenever Caboose Team Kills. It is revealed by Caboose to be Ctrl+F+U (FU is a generally accepted abbreviation of Fuck You). Command used this macro when Washington lies to them saying Caboose killed South, instead of him (Washington).

Cockbite
Cockbite is an insult used as the basis for the company name 'Rooster Teeth', the title being very similar to cockbite (the rooster being the 'cock' and the teeth being the 'bite'). It is used numerous time as an insult between soldiers, mostly in the first couple of seasons.

Variants:
 * "Oh, you backstabbing cockbite." Simmons to Grif in Season 1
 * "Oh, great. You broke my voice filter, you cock biting fucktards." Tex to the Reds when captured in Season 1.
 * "Buenos dias, cockbites." Tex possessing Lopez in Season 2.
 * Before O'Malley disappears at the end of episode 19 of Season 2, He transmits "Cockbite" in morse code
 * "Enjoy the show. Cockbite." The start menu on the Season 2 DVD insulting the viewer.
 * Before the Season 5 DVD menu is displayed, a group of warnings is shown under the label "DVD may contain". One of these stated "Cockbites".
 * Also in Season 5 Simmons while possessed by O'malley calls Sarge a cockbite.

Grif Related Injuries
There were numerous occasions which involved Grif being injured. Some of the incidents were real, while many more were imagined by Sarge.

Higakergerk
Higakergerk is a line a person says whenever he or she is possessed by Church. For example, when he possesses Sarge to free Tex, Sarge says "Higakergerk" as he is possessed. The same happens with Lopez. In Chapter 13 of Reconstruction, Church possesses a command soldier who also says "Higakergerk" as he is being possessed.

Mental Images of Characters
These minor characters appeared in episodes 31-33 and episode 100 and Reconstruction represent how Caboose represents himself and the others within his own mind. They are different from their real world counterparts, to which the real Church states that Caboose hasn't been really paying attention. The only characters that act as themselves are the Omega and Delta AIs, due to Omega's partial control of Caboose and Caboose's mental image of Delta being prerecorded message from Delta.

Shisno
Shisno is a term the Aliens supposedly refer to humans as in a prejudicial manner. Gamma has stated that a Shisno is an alien term that is pronounced Shiz-no which refers to a foul creature that deficates in which produces its own excretment. The only people to use this term are Andy, Gary, and one of the Sandtrap Aliens.

Black stuff
Starting in Season 1, whenever he goes into a teleporter, Tucker comes out with mysterious black stuff. The running gag lasted throughout Seasons 1 to 3. The gag was later abandoned in Season 4 onwards, though it was mentioned in Season 5. It later returned in Revelation, when Tex throws Tucker through the teleporters at the Freelancer offsite facility. It hasn't been seen since.

Bad Throws
In Chapter 6 of Reconstruction, when Washington, Caboose and Church are attempting to disable the Meta, Washington orders Caboose to throw a spike grenade in an attempt to assist Church's assault on the Meta. Church's response of "No! Don't let Caboose help me!" is quickly justified when Caboose tosses the grenade directly into the wall in front of himself and Washington, to which Washington comments "That was the worst throw ever. Of all time." To which Caboose says "Not my fault. Someone put a wall in my way".

In Episode 19 of Revelation, after Tex blows half of the Glacier over the side of the canyon, Doc attempts to rescue Washington by throwing the tow hook of the Warthog to him, to which it moves in a plausible trajectory, until it suddenly falls straight down, to which Washington comments after getting to the top of the tow "rope" "That was the Second worst throw ever. Of all time." Doc asks Washington "What d'you want from me? I ran track in high school."

Lopez
Lopez can be considered to have the the biggest gags in the series for two reasons, his spoken language which no one understands and also the only person (or robot) to have a "logical" mind in the red army (or possibly among all the other characters of Blood Gulch). Since Sarge failed to ground himself when deploying the voice card into Lopez, discharging static which damaged the voice card thus resulting with Lopez only being to speak in Spanish. Due to this, many characters aren't unable to understand a word he's saying save for Doc, O'Malley,Sheila and, rarely, Donut. This however happpens to be an advantage and disadvantage for Lopez as he could insult people without people not knowing what he's saying but also can't inform people of something important due to the language barrier. In an instance, in the 16th episode of Recreation, where Lopez, Simmons and Donut are discussing how they imagined their end would be, Lopez commented they he thought he would be taken out by poor maintenance which was misconcieved by Donut as another meaning which resulted in more improper translation by Donuts.

Spider.
A gag that started in the season 1 episode Knock, knock. Who's there? Pain, and continued in later seasons. In the episode Tex was invading red base to retrieve the blue flag. The first thing she did was throw a plasma grenade on Donut's head, when Simmons and Grif noticed, they told Donut that there was "something" on his head. He then asked if it was a spider, and to get it off. The grenade then exploded. The gag resurfaced in the season 3 finale episode The Storm, when the Alien threw a plasma grenade at one of Lopez's robot soldiers. The caption said "Hey a Spid-" but it exploded and was cut off before it could finish. A variation of the gag ocuured in the season 5 episode The Haystack. While in the underground cavern Simmons was shot with a spike from a needler. When Grif noticed he told Simmons he had a "pink thing" on him. He asked if it was a snake and, like Donut did told him to get it off, before passing out.