# Best sight gags. . . EVA! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 1, 2014, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251 "2014-02-01T01:46:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![minlokwat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minlokwat/32/2844_2.png) [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/21 "2014-02-01T17:02:41Z")
I’ll go with [the Carlton dance](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS1cLOIxsQ8). It never got old no matter how many times they returned to that well. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2014, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/22 "2014-02-01T17:15:42Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > My favourite scene from that episode was after the avalanche and they open [the door](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFIxb-GZjLE). Another good one! ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/23 "2014-02-02T05:20:42Z")
[Mr. Potato Head](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_0oCPSKhfw) from Loaded Weapon 1. I don’t remember much else from the movie, but this scene still makes me laugh! ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/24 "2014-02-02T05:39:54Z")
Too many to mention in **The Pink Panther Strikes Again**. The parallel bars dismount into a stairwell, swating a fly with a mace on a chain, asassins killing eachother in the crossfire in bathroom stalls when Clouseau drops the toilet paper, etc. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/25 "2014-02-02T06:35:25Z")
I’m re-watching **Perfect Strangers** lately and it is amazing how good the slapstick is. Those guys are surprisingly athletic and also in tune like a couple weird twins. I thought I just liked the show because I was a little kid when it was on but it is _seriously_ good now as an adult. If you’re a fan of slapstick & sight gags, and not really familiar with this show (or want a trip down memory lane), check out clips on YouTube. Even better - get the DVDs from the library! ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/26 "2014-02-02T15:20:17Z")
One of the best sight gags is in the first episode of King of the Hill. They have shown Dale, his wife Nancy and how John Redcorn is helping her with her “Headaches” and then they cut to Joseph for the first time and he is obviously not Dale’s son. Really really sad and funny. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/27 "2014-02-02T16:08:15Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Laurel and Hardy The Piano Movers hard to pick a particular part from that but that’s probably my fav. Of course Charlie Chaplin doing ‘something’. > Personally I want to do the Keaton house gag. I want a set up, probably at DisneyWorld/MGM when you go and stand on a spot and the flat falls and you get to video it. For safety’s (and profit’s) sake, they’d probably want to do it as a green screen gag, and _sell_ you the DVD. Or flash drive download. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/28 "2014-02-02T16:10:55Z")
The greatest sight gag award goes to Keaton, probably for something in **Sherlock, Jr.** Depending on how you define it, it could be: [ul] [li]When Keaton goes onto the stage.[/li][li]His “quick change” to become and old woman[/li][li]The motorcycle ride.[/li][li]The final gag.[/ul][/li] Chaplin, too, had many great ones. A favorite of mine is in **The Pawnbroker,** where he casually destroys a clock, then gives the parts back to the owner with a shrug that says, “I can’t fix it.” For W. C. Fields, there’s a scene in **The Man on the Flying Trapeze** where he’s getting up to capture the burglars in the basemen. The business with the socks is hilarious. Overall, though, I suppose my favorite is the restaurant sequence in Jacques Tati’s **Playtime**. It’s about a half hour of one absolutely brilliant sight gag piled upon another (sometimes several going on at once), and where on gag leads to another one five minutes later and then, when you’ve forgotten about it, it comes up again. ---
**Author:** ![alfonzos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@alfonzos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alfonzos)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/29 "2014-02-02T22:50:59Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Laurel and Hardy The Piano Movers The movie you’re thinking of is called “The Music Box.” ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/30 "2014-02-03T02:42:05Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > I remember a Laverne and Shirley scene in which they were hung on hooks against a wall and could not get off. First they tried to run and then tried to jump. I do not remember the rest of the show because my 12 year old brain was vapor locked in hysterical mode after witnessing this. Of course, this thread, if it gets responses, will be so much better if the gags can actually be sighted. Alas, my poor search skills could not find this particular scene on line. … [Here it is](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSebvHd9idQ). I thought it was pretty funny when I first saw it too. One of my favorites from a great British series [Only Fools and Horses](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63rcdLeXiU8). ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/31 "2014-02-03T02:44:49Z")
Been too long since I’ve watched Police Squad!, but surely it must have some contenders. Anyone care to help me out, or am I going to have to rewatch the whole thing? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/32 "2014-02-03T15:20:09Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > [here’s the granddaddy of them all](http://youtu.be/mLYHhMJgTFg) Not only do I disagree, I hate that I had to link-chase to see what you were talking about. If you had said it was the Buster Keaton falling house clip, I wouldn’t had to click on it. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/33 "2014-02-03T15:42:05Z")
Yesterday’s Super Bowl, from Namath screwing up the coin toss onward. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/34 "2014-02-03T15:55:00Z")
[David Hyde Pierce](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mWiPaQ872c) irons a shirt. Hilarity ensues. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/35 "2014-02-03T16:22:53Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#): > > A top contender has to be the classic [Mirror Scene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5lU52aWTJo) from _Duck Soup_, performed by Groucho & Harpo Marx. > [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#): > > Wait…so the scene in I Love Lucy is a tribute to this? I never knew…:smack: > Thanks! she was in their movie Room\_Service. so they worked together before. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/36 "2014-02-03T16:23:36Z")
> [@dwyr](#): > > [Here it is](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSebvHd9idQ). I thought it was pretty funny when I first saw it too. > > One of my favorites from a great British series [Only Fools and Horses](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63rcdLeXiU8). Wow, I did not think it could be found. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/37 "2014-02-03T16:42:46Z")
Leslie Nielsen climbing the outside of a building, having a statue’s phallus break off in his hand, then crashing through the bedroom window of a woman who starts screaming at the sight of an intruder brandishing a dildo. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/38 "2014-02-03T16:43:48Z")
Shatner angrily wondering why he isn’t notified about these things in AIRPLANE II. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/39 "2014-02-03T17:01:34Z")
Note that the Marx Brothers’ mirror scene was an old vaudeville gag and was used previously by Charlie Chaplin and Max Linder on screen. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/40 "2014-02-03T17:23:22Z")
Looking for a link to the video but can’t find it. David Angell, one of the producers of Frasier, was killed in the 9/11 attacks. In the first episode they filmed after there was a large porcelain elephant in the middle of the apartment that was never discussed during the episode. It was the “elephant in the room” that no one was willing to talk about. Simple and effective. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251.md?page=3)