One Piece 10 Funniest Running Gags Ranked

One Piece: 10 Funniest Running Gags, Ranked

An iconic anime like One Piece doesn’t last as long as it has without it having some running gags, and these 10 are the funniest of them all.



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One Piece 10 Funniest Running Gags Ranked

One of the great techniques that One Piece uses to appeal to all ages is to match its more serious and endearing scenes with some great comedy. A huge part of the series’ aesthetic that separates it from other shonen series is how lighthearted and wacky it can look and feel. It’s designed to be imaginative and cartoony, where anything is possible.

This has lead to some of the series’ most wondrous scenes but also plenty of opportunities to use gags to give the series even more personality. And, in One Piece, there are plenty of running gags. One Piece’s comedy almost has a language of its own, as it highlights almost every character and relationship with some sort of gag.

10 Usopp’s Diseases

One Piece 10 Funniest Running Gags Ranked

To everyone’s surprise, Usopp may not be the grand adventurer that he talks himself up to be. More fiction than fighter, Usopp has skirted his way through the series with tales so detailed and grand that he often uses them to trick his enemies. However, he always saves his best lies for his crew, as he realizes any adventure with Monkey D. Luffy could spell disaster for him.

So, like a lot of kids trying to get out of middle school gym, Usopp turns to the doctors’ notes. If Usopp doesn’t want to go somewhere or if he doesn’t want to leave the shop, he’ll always say he has some sort of disease, like the fan favorite “Can’t-Get-On-This-Island-Disease.”

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9 Chopper Can’t Hide

One Piece 10 Funniest Running Gags Ranked

Since childhood, kids have played hide-and-seek to train themselves in the art of deception and espionage. With every nook and cranny acting as an opportunity, many people have learned to hide since a young age. Unfortunately for Tony Tony Chopper, he’s a reindeer who was raised by a crazy doctor.

Instead of hiding, he’s learned to run away from angry animals and probably legions of medical lawyers. It’s unfortunate, too, given that Chopper always seems to want to hide. Part of the Cowardly Trio, Chopper is as up for a fight as Usopp with an actual illness. Unfortunately for him, he can’t quite hide away.



8 Brook’s Skull Jokes

One Piece 10 Funniest Running Gags Ranked

Brook is an easy favorite for many fans giving the huge juxtaposition between his demeanor and life and his overall attitude. Brook is an undead skeleton who lost his crew and was lost at sea for decades. Despite that, he never lost the sense of wonder and entertainment that made his crew famous, and to this day, he’s a fantastic performer.

One of the key parts of him that highlights his talent’s infallibility is his ability to find “skull jokes” in any situation. Whether he simply had an accident or gets impaled through the stomach, Brook can always lighten the situation by reminding everyone that he doesn’t have a flesh body to harm.

7 Luffy Doesn’t Remember Names

One Piece 10 Funniest Running Gags Ranked

Monkey D. Luffy is one of the more outrageous characters of the series, but he still has one trait that makes him oddly relatable. That would be his affinity to never quite remember a few characters’ names, namely people that he hasn’t seen for a while. This includes Buggy, Marco, Boa Hancock, Enel, big villains, important rulers, etc.

It doesn’t matter. According to Eiichiro Oda himself, unless they’re joining his crew, it kind of takes a while for Luffy to learn people’s names. At best, he’ll give them a nickname like Pineapple-Head or Tra-guy.

6 Sanji’s Bounty Poster

One Piece 10 Funniest Running Gags Ranked

At this point in the story, Sanji’s bounty posters have practically become cursed. In their most recent iteration, they named him “Vinsmoke” Sanji, after the family that he detests for some really good reasons. Prior to that, his bounty poster was a tool to rope him in for an arranged marriage under said family.

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And, before all of that, his poster was part of one of the best running gags in the series, much to his dismay. Because a photographer forgot to take the lens off when he was following Sanji, the news outlets had to draw Sanji’s bounty poster with a less than flattering image. If Sanji is gonna quit the Straw Hats for anything, it’s the bounty posters.

5 Chopper Is A Raccoon Dog

One Piece 10 Funniest Running Gags Ranked

It’s not as if Chopper looks exactly like a reindeer. With the Human-Human Fruit, Chopper does look more like a tiny dog with a Rudolph costume.

With that in mind, it’s easy to understand why most characters who see him for the first time tend to think that he’s a tanuki (or a raccoon dog). While Chopper has some kinship with other animals, he certainly doesn’t like being mislabeled, particularly when this denotes him as the Straw Hat’s pet and not as the talented doctor that he truly is.

4 Nico Robin’s Dark Imagination

One Piece 10 Funniest Running Gags Ranked

Nico Robin, at first sight, is clearly one of the edgier characters of the group. She has a sharp stare to most and often carries herself with a mysterious demeanor. Her introduction into the series as an elite assassin and vice president to an underground organization likely hasn’t helped.

Fortunately for her, she’s taken to the Straw Hats to lighten her demeanor and, in recent stories, has become more of a mother figure to the crew. However, just because she’s nicer, doesn’t mean that she doesn’t have the same, dark imagination. Whenever something dangerous or mysterious happens to the crew, Nico Robin always comes up with a darker scenario that dials up everyone’s tensions further.

3 Nami Is Scary

It’s a trope almost as old as anime itself. No matter how strong or stoic an anime character might be, they can always be struck down by an angry, spunky female character. In Dragon Ball, that was Bulma and Chi-Chi. In Naruto, that was Sakura Haruno.

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In One Piece, the honor of striking down who have essentially become gods goes to the “Cat Burglar,” the Straw Hats’ navigator, the real captain of the ship, Nami. Despite being a part of the Cowardly Trio, Nami has the tenacity and apparent strength to kick around Sanji, smack Zoro, and somehow bruise Luffy, a rubber man who isn’t supposed to biologically bruise.

2 Pandaman

One Piece 10 Funniest Running Gags Ranked

Possibly the most legendary and gilded running gag in the series, Pandaman is one a One Piece staple with a more recognizable face than some of the series’ top villains. An homage to Oda’s early fan submission to Kinnikuman, Pandaman is a man with a panda face who has made frequent cameos in the background of the manga, anime, films, and even video games.

His legacy has been built up so much that he has his own ongoing story in the background and SBS and Oda’s. Much more than an Easter egg, Pandaman has become part of the community itself.

1 Zoro Gets Lost

Zoro’s sense of direction never fails to get a laugh from the fans. Coming from a man with such a stoic face and confidant attitude, it’s hilarious to see Zoro make so many mistakes just trying to turn left. He became an utter obstacle in the Davy Back Fight, struggled to just climb up a tower in Enies Lobby, and somehow got stuck in a chimney running in the streets of Water Seven.

Entire plot points are built from the fact that Zoro makes a wrong turn. It’s gotten to a point where the concept of a wandering samurai is less of a choice and more of a job that Zoro just happened to stumble upon before meeting Luffy.

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