Tropes/Running Gag

## Multi-Arc

* A wild Jigglypuff would follow the Magis around and sing everyone around them to sleep... then get annoyed and doodle on their faces. Hilarity Ensues when people don't even know they had their faces doodled. It seemed to have stopped partway through *May Magica* - before returning when they visit Kanto in *Lillie Magica*.
* And then there's the ultimate running gag - Team Rocket's ubiquitous exits. This gag finally ended when they Took a Level in Bad\*bleep\*, and they just rocket off themselves when the twerps beat them. After the Unova League, old habits die hard. In *Lillie Magica* this is seemingly replaced by Bewear grabbing Team Rocket before a blast-off and taking them to its den. One time it happened even when Team Rocket weren't in any danger; in fact they were actually, legitimately winning for once.
	+ Team Rocket: ***WE'RE BLASTING OFF AGAIN!!***
* There's always one instance of Team Rocket (James especially) getting duped into buying a useless Pokémon from the Magikarp Salesman. The gag actually stopped in *Nanette Magica*, and hasn't returned since.
* Bonnie, Clemont's sister, somewhat asks any girl to marry her brother before getting pulled away by his Aipom arm.
* There are multiple Officer Jennys and Nurse Joys in the series that most characters can't tell them apart.
	+ This gets carried to Unova with the Don Georges.
* No one getting Butch's name right to the point that he breaks the fourth wall.
	+ Jim often *deliberately* mispronounces his name as "B\*\*\*\*" (which is bleeped), to Butch's fury.
	+ Doctor Namba gets this treatment as well, every time Team Rocket gets names wrong. Only this time, he senses when it happens. (*Picks up ringing phone*) **"It's Namba!"**
	+ Stephan in Unova is the embodiment of this to the point where he yelled at the organizers on public television, even after winning the Clubsplosion. Lampshaded near the end of *Nanette Magica* when the Magis say his name right.
* Sugar getting angrily spanked by Nanette whenever she pisses somecreature off big time, despite her mother's objections.
* Whenever a character gives a Disapproving Look to another. Bonus points if the character giving the look is wearing glasses and looks over the rims of them.
* Necrosis's calculations (which stops after *Melody Magica* due to her switching sides), such as "There is a 99.9999 percent chance that Sayaka Miki will become a Puella Magi."
* Jim flipping off and swearing at villains, though a censor box always appears for the former and the offending words are always bleeped for the latter. He also often refers to female villains as "\*bleep\*ed-up BDSM enthusiasts."
* Shawn, Kylie, Melissa, and Chiffon sometimes immediately transform with the others when threats appear even if they're not near water, only to forget that they don't have legs when transformed, sweatdrop, and promptly detransform in humiliation (*Amber Magica* for the first one and *Katy Magica* for the latter three). For this reason, the plots are often set up so they happen to conveniently be near a body of water when the villains/Vertexes/witches attack.
* Whenever Nova creates an item out of nothing (which is rare to avoid suspicion), whatever she creates is usually comical and played for laughs, such as in the adaptation of "The Water Flowers of Cerulean City" where she dresses Madoka in a Psyduck costume to embarrass her during her Gym battle, when she creates pairs of tiny ice skates for Garnet and Kyubey in the adaptation of "Winter Wrap-Up" (which does not take place until 2019 since *Madoka Magica* starts in May), or when she creates a Pinkan Berry pie offscreen to share with the others at the end (while it is framed as just a pie she made from Pinkan Berries she technically illegally picked) of the adaptation of "In The Pink."
* Melody *loves* to sing. Whenever she sings at the wrong time, however she will quickly stop and act quickly.
* Any time Nova calls Melody "Melly-Jelly," though this is rarer in later arcs due to the former maturing. It *always* flips her off.
* Any time Homura calls Teryn and Sayaka "Blue Duo." They have gotten used to it, however.
* Whenever somecreature says the Divinity's name in vain, especially if Arcturus (who is Her own creation) does so.

## Nina Magica

* After Alondra and Mira redeem, despite them initially being quite shaky and guilty over their actions, either Nina or Victoria will push them to participate in a new activity, grab their hand and comically drag them, and say "Come on!", usually resulting in them liking it.

## Tale of the Two Non-Magi Cherries

* After the third chapter, the two Cherries sometimes complain about not being Puella Magis compared to Melody. This gag is dropped in the second-to-final chapter.

## Cherry Magica 3

* Whenever Nicole encounters an unfamiliar human item or food and either uses it wrong or makes a huge mess, or when she has a hard time using her fingers. This gag is dropped as she becomes more used to being a human.

## Rosie Magica

* Whenever Avvy uses childish insults such as "poopyhead," or when she tries to transform but forgets she isn't with Dolores. She by far has the most running gags, and another one consists of her forcefully stopping the iris-out from closing, sticking her head through it, and then saying "That's all, folks!" before it closes. *Another* one has her and Warm Snuggly chewing loudly and having terrible table manners.
* Cordial frantically offering to donate blood any time somecreature gets even the slightest injury.

## Amber Magica

* Whenever Amber, Whitely, or Stargazer stammer around their respective crushes, the former two will often mock each other, while Whitely often mocks Stargazer whenever she stammers.