sight gag
noun
: a comic bit or episode whose effect is produced by pantomime or camera shot rather than by words
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Like the show they were based on, the movies were spoofs of popular police procedurals rife with sight gags, non-sequiturs, and Abbott and Costello-like wordplay.
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Mike Miller Published, EW.com, 7 May 2025
On Netflix July 25 27 of 31 The Naked Gun
Lt. Frank Drebin’s legacy of puns and sight gags is secured in this reboot of the 1980s and ’90s comedy franchise.
—Jack Smart, People.com, 19 Apr. 2025
This is the same episode with the fork through the patient’s nose, which is such a great sight gag.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
That plot takes a back seat to laugh-a-minute jokes and sight gags, including an underwater saloon fight and a bookstore sequence that was filmed backward.
—Hank Sanders, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2025
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Mike Miller Published, EW.com, 7 May 2025
On Netflix July 25 27 of 31 The Naked Gun
Lt. Frank Drebin’s legacy of puns and sight gags is secured in this reboot of the 1980s and ’90s comedy franchise.
—Jack Smart, People.com, 19 Apr. 2025
This is the same episode with the fork through the patient’s nose, which is such a great sight gag.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
That plot takes a back seat to laugh-a-minute jokes and sight gags, including an underwater saloon fight and a bookstore sequence that was filmed backward.
—Hank Sanders, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2025
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“Sight gag.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sight%20gag. Accessed 27 May. 2025.
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