Boke and Tsukkomi Routine: Difference between revisions

* Megumi and Miki in ''[[Tenshi Na Konamaiki (Manga)|Tenshi Na Konamaiki]]'' frequently refer to Souga as "boke", and there are several joking references to Megumi being his tsukkomi, including an actual [[Hyperspace Mallet|Hyperspace Malleting]] with the [[Paper Fan of Doom]].

* Saki's willingness to be the ''[[Genshiken (Manga)|Genshiken]] tsukkomi'' is treated as a [[Running Gag]] throughout the series. In the manga, the Genshiken members even make her a [[Paper Fan of Doom]].

** She calls him ''baka-gaeru''.

* In the "Tower of Terror" episode of ''[[Pokémon (Anime)|Pokémon]]'', the Ghost Pokemon trio (Gastly, Haunter, and Gengar) are first seen watching such a routine on TV.

** In the Diamond and Pearl saga of the ''[[Pokémon Special (Manga)|Pokémon Special]]'' manga, the goal of the two main characters is not to be great Pokemon trainers, but to be great ''manzai'' performers. They take a chance to practice their act in every chapter.

* ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya (Light Novel)|Haruhi Suzumiya]]'s'' and Kyon's actions toward one another appear to be a version of this comedy routine- at least in the first season and first light novel. Haruhi makes some outlandish remark, and Kyon comments on how it doesn't makes sense, often to himself or someone else.

** Playing on the [[Anachronic Order]] in which the ''Melancholy'' episodes were first broadcast, the next-episode announcements at the end of each show of the first season were a compressed boke-tsukkomi exchange between Haruhi (giving the number of the episode in chronological order) and Kyon ("correcting" the number according to the broadcast order and stating the episode title).

** Later, [[The Cameo|an actual manzai duo]], named Audrey, guest-stars in one episode of ''[[Fresh Pretty Cure (Anime)|Fresh Pretty Cure]]''.

* In ''[[Clannad (Visual Novel)|Clannad]]'', both the [[Visual Novel]] and the [[Anime]], Tomoya and Kyou try to teach Kotomi how to perform a proper tsukkomi. Sadly, the poor girl has boke written all over her face, and she regularly ends up on the receiving end of a tsukkomi immediately after attempting her own. At one point, she expresses the desire to become a great manzai performer. Both Nagisa and Ryou motivate her to work for her goal, but Kyou and Tomoya are quick to point out that all three of them are boke to the core.

* Maria in ''[[Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei (Manga)|Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei]]'' once spent far too long time watching Boke and Tsukkomi and started slapping people who were looking dazy...''on the first day after New Years Eve!!''

** Not to mention she tended to make people [[A Twinkle in The Sky]]...And then, because it's [[Mind Screw|that kind of show]], she joined a secret Boke and Tsukommi ''underground political organization'' <ref> They were partly that, but they also represent far right-wing Japanese ultra-nationalists, who complain about Japan's "peacetime boke" (in comparison to its [[Imperial Japan|earlier attitude]])</ref>.

* ''[[Nodame Cantabile (Manga)|Nodame Cantabile]]'' has a notable gender-flip of male-on-female variant played for laughs the same way it would if female-on-male. [[Tsundere]] Chiaki often resorts to violence [[Cloudcuckoolander]] Nodame does something that annoys him. Nodame herself even [[Lampshade Hanging|admits]] to playing up the role since Chiaki is the perfect [[Straight Man]].

* In an early episode of ''[[Fushigiboshi no Futagohime (Anime)|Fushigiboshi no Futagohime]] Gyu!'', Fine and Rein meet a girl named Lemon who comes from a [[Planet of Hats|planet where everyone is into comedy]], and wants to team up with them for a manzai act. She tries to be the boke, even though she's more suited to be the tsukkomi, and eventually she tells them that she quit being a tsukkomi after she hit her brother (her old partner) so hard that he fell unconscious and quit comedy for good. Later, her brother confesses that he didn't actually faint, he just realized that he couldn't be a good enough boke for her, so he stayed down.

* ''[[Eyeshield 21 (Manga)|Eyeshield 21]]'' has this as a lot of it's humor. Hiruma tends to play a sneaky boke to his team, though almost everyone the team has their boke moments. Kakei and Mizumachi are this pretty much all the time.

* In ''[[Ichigo Mashimaro (Manga)|Ichigo Mashimaro]]'', Miu is the boke, while her usual tsukkomi is Chika. In one episode, Chika's trying to concentrate on homework, but Miu wants to know who'll be the straight man for her antics. She tries to get Matsuri to play the role instead, but she's too "boring" for it. Her other common tsukkomi is Nobue.

* A [[Running Gag]] in the ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha As (Anime)|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha As]]'' [[Fan Web Comic]] ''[http://ashitahadocchida.onmitsu.jp/as_nano.html A's Nano]'' has Hayate [http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/4272/asnano59.jpg being portrayed as a master] of the Boke and Tsukkomi routine due to having a [[Kansai Dialect]]. Note: Link may be considered [[NSFW]].

* One of the welcome surprises resulting from the [[Crazy Awesome]] that is ''[[Shinji and Warhammer 40 K (Fanfic)|Shinji and Warhammer 40 K]]'' is the Rei-Asuka comedy duo. Rei is the boke, while Asuka, perhaps understandably, thinks "tsukkomi" is some sort of bizarre Japanese perversion and refuses to listen whenever someone attempts to explain it.