Me and my cousin play Xbox Live a whole lot (mostly CoD4) and over the last few months we have developed many a running gag:

-At summer school he thought his teacher shredded his paper and told me about the argument and at the very end of the story he said "and then I got mad" so now when we get angry we say it
-He told an especially offensive player on our team he was a pedophile and I replied with "No way, you too?" so now when faced with that situation we reenact that and laugh
-He told his mom to make his sister do a chore of his and when I had to take the trash out a guy who overheard my cousin yelled "make brooke do it!" just like my cousin and he corrected the guys, saying "no his brother is chris" so the guy said "make chris do it!". now when one of us has to take out the trash the other one says "make chris/brooke do it!".

What good running gags have you and your friends made up and how did they come about?

Well, I don't hang out with these people anymore, but my friends had racist names for all of the Super Smash Brothers Melee Characters.

I didn't stop seeing them for that reason, but it is definately a running gag.

I remember back in the days of CS 1.4, my friend was trying it out for the first time. So he was running and jumped with an AWP (sniper rifle) and shot, in the air, no scope, and got a 1 in a million head shot on someone he wasn't even aiming for.

So every now and then we would have running, jumping, no scope awp fights. They usually ended with us running out of ammo and having to knife fight.

While playing Gears of War co-op a friend and I often use the same gags.

-Referring to the Hammer of Dawn as a "space laser" and complaining about the fact that it doesn't work indoors. "Space lasers should work everywhere. It's a frickin' space laser!"

-"I'll mace you good!" when swinging a grenade around (Simpsons reference)

-"I'll save you!" - "Save-save me or *insert name here*-save me?" One time I was low on ammo and the enemy was approaching and he declared that he would save me. I thought that facing the enemy with no ammo was preferable.

-We joke about the Berserkers having a crush on one of us. "Dude, she's giving you the eye." - "Berserkers are blind." - "Well, she thinks you smell pretty."

Lately during co-op games of Halo 3 with another friend the phrase "Your mom is a classy lady!" has become a battle cry. It really should be used with Gears of War but I haven't played that in a while.

This one doesn't really make a whole lot of sense, but in World of Warcraft, it's become tradition for my friends and I to say "scooooooooop" over Ventrilo whenever we see a PvP target.

I honestly have no idea who started it, or even what it's supposed to mean.

My friend used to yell "MUH WHEEOLS!!" whenever he was in a warthog in halo 2

my brother always went on about how the Ghost was his war camel in ALL the halos

and finally when spinning the grenade in Gears o' War we would always run out screaming "MEDIEVAL WARRIOR!!"

Well, I suppose it isn't a running gag, but two things with CS:S. Once when my friend arrived early to get a ride to a movie. I was in the middle of a round in CS:S when he arrived, so he promptly asked if our team was winning. Being that we were not, he came up with a brilliant plan. Co-op. He would use the mouse while I used the keyboard, not being serious about it but I jokingly justified it as division of labor or some such. Needless to say, it went terribly, but was oh so hilarious. Especially when we got a kill once. Ever.

So every once in a while, we will sit down and play co-op CS:S.

The other is when the same guy had brought his laptop over for some LAN nonsense, but had forgotten his mouse at home. Desperate to not use the touchpad, he asked if I had any extras. The only thing I had on hand was my drawing tablet, so he tried that out. It actually was pretty easy. Anyways, I tried it out and now once in a while will plug it back in to have some good times with being terrible at CS:S.

whenever my friend insults me i tell him to go grenade jump on a spike nade

one of my more recent gags was when we used to have Halo 2 LAN parties

I would always use the moniker "FunBot" (I should really start using that one again), and everyone loved to team up on me, even though I was by far the worst player, just because of my name.

So whenever I'm at a LAN party with my friends, I always use the moniker, and I'm ALWAYS the first to die, mainly due to general suckiness, but also because it's so fun to say "AWESOME! I KILLED FUNBOT!"

-My friend and I were playing starwars battlefront 2 and the first thing I see as I spawn is a wookie being pimpslapped to death by a wompa, so I yelled that and after realising what I just said we ended up losing.

-In halo3 local my friend ended up with the name pudding as his temp gamertag, so when my friend ran him over the caption said 'you splattered pudding'

- Lord of the rings: battle for middle earth 2. I decided to see what my friend would do so I let him go ahead and skirmish. So he starts out by tourturing the builders, he ends up making a massive empire, and as soon as something got built in the wrong direction, and so he demolished it and said 'Build it again!'. And so this happened for about an hour of just: Demolish and then 'Build it again!'. So now if we make a typo we just say'Build it again!'.

Two of my friends routinely prove that a medic/heavy duo using "fisticuffs" is more viable a strategy than it shoud be.

In Halo 3, whenever one of my friends rip off a turret to use as a minigun he starts singing the Terminator theme.

Gotham Soul:
In Halo 3, whenever one of my friends rip off a turret to use as a minigun he starts singing the Terminator theme.

whenever someone picks up missle pod we always say "here's jeffray!" we call the turrets miguel.

My brother and I often imitate Tim Taylor's "Hur hur hur hur hur" grunting whenever one of us picks up the Redeemer in Unreal Tournament,
and at my former university "It's the greed" became a common reaction to minor failures. It originated from a game of battle pong where almost every one of us would rather drop the ball instead of letting an item go.

-In Halo 3, I was playing a match with a couple friends, and some random people from the "Recent Players" list, and during one of those things where it gets disconnected and it shows the scores, everyone started "bah"ing...Really loud. So whenever my friend and I get disconnected we'll start "bah"ing.

-When me and my friend would play Halo 3 Big Team Social, when ever both of us would die and respawn, or move in with a large group of people, we would say, "The red/blue team's name is Tiffany", in reference to the Mad TV skit "Scared Straight."

-In CSS when me and my friends would play together we would have a few gags. If I was losing a lot to them and then I would make a massive comeback it would always be after me going "you have angered the tiki god!!". The second they heard that they knew it was over for them lol.

-We refer to the TMP as: the pezz dispenser, or staple gun of doom.

-I am apparently the master of all the sucky weapons.

-When we would knife fight we would always play the star trek music, you know that one...where spock and kirk fight to the death :P

-I apparently have noob seeking grenades, as every time I throw one it always critical hits the enemy

- And my favorite: whenever I am in a big fire fight and I run out of bullets and have to hide behind a wall or am just standing in the open I yell "dont shoot I'm reloading!". Some people stop shooting long enough for me to load up and pop them lol

-my friend's mom doesn't let him curse so he used to say "effin A" (it's hard to type how he says it) it's always funny so we started saying it.
-he lives with his aunt instead of a mom so instead of calling him a mother****er I'd call him an aunt****er (can we swear on hear I forgot) anyway it gets at least a chuckle out of him.

(to state the obvious this is over xboxlive)

Kahuna-Kurt:

Gotham Soul:
In Halo 3, whenever one of my friends rip off a turret to use as a minigun he starts singing the Terminator theme.

whenever someone picks up missle pod we always say "here's jeffray!" we call the turrets miguel.

when my friend is chain-headshotting people in any FPS, he'll start singing "I'm so pretty... oh so pretty..." etc.

Singing Every Breath You Take into the mic while we're playing spy in TF2. :D

Hmm...not much here, other than calling Toon Link in Brawl "Captian Marvelous".

Also, in dedication to a friend who we fell out of contact with, we always call any aerial battle involving swords in any game an "Air Duelz".

Oh god. I have loads.
-In our household, Mr Saturn is Mr Snubbl. (due to a goof i made once)
-In SSBB, when a Smash ball appeared once, me and my brother were trying to get it and i suddenly yelled "THE BALLS ARE INERT." ...No matter how many times i say it, he still gets struck by paralytic laughing fits.
-Brothers randomly call Game-And-Watch "Mr Key-and-Match" due to my old tactics of smash and air-down-b spamming.
-Often when im exploring in certain games, i say one of the following -
-"Lets go to the left/right. We have treasure, we have - (whatever's there)
-"...Whats up here? Is it a secret? Is it pizza? is it secret pizza?

After having a friend continually shoot a repair icon in Warhawk, I calmly told him :"That is a health pickup. It will do you no harm." Now I consistently replace "health pickup" with all manner of things.

-"*Insert name here*, you're an idiot."
-"Yes I are." (Battlefront 2)

Ah, self-referencial hilarity.

In James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing, there is a character in multiplayer called "Egypt Commander." So my friend says "Hmm. Egypt Commander. I wonder if he commands Egypt. "Get Back to work, Egypt!"

I've got a few.
- When ever I play with one friend we both customise your characters to be gay (as in boarder-line offensive to homosexuals) and use it to make fun of homophobic guys. My friend is gay for real aswell.
- I have one friend I coop with. If he gets swarmed I either yell 'I'LL SAVE ME!' and leave him to die (which usually makes him kill me later) or I 'I'LL SAVE YOU, DON'T WORRY!' and charge with my knife/chainsaw/blunt object. It can result in epic rescues, but usually ends in two dead bodies.
- My friend will randomly kill me for no reason, I play a stealth class so I survive slightly longer.
- I call my brother the 'Shotgun Ninja' because he says 'Look out for the shotgun ninja.' and if someone replies he will take a kill. I've never seen him until I was dead.

- My clan love to make games challenging for us. So our thing (which I started) is to play Cod 4 using only knives and rockets. The rule about rockets is you can only use it to save a teammate.
- We empty our ammo at the start of the round so noone cheats.

Me and my brothers are not so much video games as movies.

Geh, too many to mention.

I've got quite a few of them, but I'll just name my favorites:

1. Whenever my friends and I are playing Halo 3 on XBL, the three of us will get into a warthog and begin to sing the main Halo theme into our mics as we hunt down and kill the opposing team. This annoys the shit out of the other players and we get a good laugh out of it.

2. We have insulting/random names for most of the characters/items/attacks on Super Smash Bros. However, a few of our favorite characters have cool nick names. For examle, Luigi is "The General", Mr. Saturn is "Nose fighter", Luigi's side smash is known as a "Hoobie." and Kirby's sword and hammer attacks are known as "Anal hammer" and "Anal sword." becuase, we can't for the live of us figure out where else he could be pulling them from.

Whenever me and my friend hang out at my house we piss around in Assassin's Creed doing something we call the "Anti-Idiot Patrol" which basically involves killing the beggar women, the
guys speaking to the large crowds, the drunks/lepers/mental guys. Basically anyone who does something annoying but we specifically kill them in their own way. The Speakers are silently killed with the hidden blade, beggar women are beaten to death with bear fists and the drunks/lepers/mental guys are just thrown around until they hit a stall/scaffolding or water

When a freind uses a light machine gun non-stop from the level starts to the end we recite."THIS MACHINE GUNS MAKE UP FOR OUR TINY PENISES!!!"

Exploding cows in Diablo 2 mostly in Tristam(spelling) I remember going back with my ex many many many times just to click on each of the two cows and watch them explode.

Ah it's kinda hard to explain, but it made the game so much better.

My mate hadn't played Dead Rising before, so he found some wierd hat with a big smiley face on it. Later we had to restart the game and didn't realise he had the hat on... so all the cutscenes were played through with this ridiculous face pretty much annihilating all sincerity in the game and making it really quite funny to watch!!

I was playing Halo 3 campaign co-op with a friend, and I end up crashing the Warthog into a rock, it flips over, rolls down a hill, rams a Ghost (blowing it up) and falls off the edge of a cliff into a pool of water. I'm thrown out of the driver's seat, and as I run to get back in the car it gets blown up. Me and my friend say nothing for a few seconds, and I say:

"Good thing I've got my AA Card." (The AA is a UK organisation for car insurance/repairs) So now, any time either one of us destroys a vehicle that we are in quite spectacularly in any game, we just say that.

Me and my buddy mike when we are playing HQ on COD4, usually take it turns to be the 'Keptin'. This entails one of us putting on a upper crust english accent and saying things like 'follow me lads, over the top for blighty' and trying to knife/pistol kill the entire other team, it usually fails miserably, but does allow the rest of our team to actually catch the HQ, more often then not.

What makes it funnier is that mike is a yank, and usually stoned when we play, and i'm british, usually drunk when playing. When we start rolling on a big win streak it's usually celebrated by singing 'baby got back', which usually gets our whole team laughing and messing about.

the other is when sniping and you get the headshot, to shout 'you dirty bitch, you love the money shot!'. always amusing

oh, and whenever you are the last man standing on your team, to start saying 'save me jeebus, save me!'

My friends and I were goofing around on a Gmod Build server I was an admin on. Some mingetard came on and started screwing around with the color tool and prop resizer. When I teleported to him to do the admin bit, he colored me purple and resized me to 3x the normal size. On impulse, I shouted "NADER SMASH" into the mic and permbanned him. Now everyone says "Smashed" or "Nadersmashed" every time I ban/kick/slay/etc.

When I was young, me and my brother and sister would play a lot of adventure games. We got stuck at one point while playing Full Throttle during the stage where you need to find gas for your bike. We figured out how we were supposed to get the gas, by draining it from the police hovercraft thingy, but we didn't understand the idea of siphoning gas back then. So after trying many different combinations of items and and actions we were about to give up when I angrily said, "Make him suck the gas pipe!" as a joke. To our surprise, he began to suck the gas through the pipe and siphon it into the canister. From then on, we've used the phrase "Suck the gas pipe" whenever we become stuck in a game, to remind us to chase every option no matter how silly it may seem.