10 Long TV Running Gags You Never Even Noticed

Hit detective comedy series Psych touted a most bizarre running gag across its 120 episodes, that a pineapple would appear in some form in almost every single episode.

Perhaps it might be a whole pineapple, mere slices of one, a pineapple smoothie, a pineapple pizza, or even just images of pineapples somewhere within the frame, but the commitment to the bit is nothing if not admirable.

Fans cottoned on enough that a website was made to track the pineapples' location in each episode - all 170 of them, amounting to an average of almost 1.5 per episode, in fact.

There's never been any official explanation for the gag beyond the showrunners doing it to amuse themselves, and it caught on enough with the hardcore fans eventually that it would've been a crying shame to stop.

Sometimes a running gag is its own reward, whether it makes sense or not.