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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The characters are high strung but also highly articulate, and the humor is more verbal than physical, though there are plenty of sight gags as well.
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Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2025
There’s movement, of course, in every Anderson comedy, and in the best ones, the movement and the sight gags are funnier because of the stillness surrounding that movement.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025
Plot details for The Naked Gun are being kept under wraps, but like the first three movies, viewers can expect a cop spoof filled with ridiculous sight gags.
—Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 6 Apr. 2025
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.
—Mike Miller Published, EW.com, 7 May 2025
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Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2025
There’s movement, of course, in every Anderson comedy, and in the best ones, the movement and the sight gags are funnier because of the stillness surrounding that movement.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025
Plot details for The Naked Gun are being kept under wraps, but like the first three movies, viewers can expect a cop spoof filled with ridiculous sight gags.
—Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 6 Apr. 2025
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.
—Mike Miller Published, EW.com, 7 May 2025
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“Sight gag.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sight%20gag. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.
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