# 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:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/41 "2014-02-03T17:38:19Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > [David Hyde Pierce](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mWiPaQ872c) irons a shirt. Hilarity ensues. I was coming into this thread to mention this scene. Brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/42 "2014-02-03T19:29:45Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > 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. OK, I will do that from now on. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/43 "2014-02-03T20:45:59Z")
**Top Secret!** , IMO the funniest of the Abrams/Zucker films, has dozens of great ones. These are just the ones I can remember right now, but I know I’m forgetting dozens more: [ul][li]German officer reads escape telegram, stamps it with a stamp that reads “Find Him and Kill Him”[/li][li]Nick reading a note with an out loud voiceover, then they show the guy was actually shouting into a megaphone[/li][li]“I know a little German - he’s sitting over there!”[/li][li]Giant telephone in the foreground[/li][li]Making out, then end scene with a shot of a fireplace…while they’re parachuting[/li][li]Sending a bunch of vehicles to chase after the prisoner, pan out and it’s just the same trucks driving in a circle[/li][li]Yodeling horse[/li][li]Crawling towards a pair of boots, pan up and it’s just the boots[/li][li]Playing darts against the British airplane logo[/li][li]Out-of-control truck lightly touching the back of a Ford Pinto, exploding[/li] And two entire great scenes: [li]The entire [scene at the bookshop](http://movieclips.com/twFk5-top-secret-movie-backwards-bookstore/), slowly revealed to have been filmed backwards[/li][\*]The stereotypical Western saloon fight, except they were [underwater](http://youtu.be/MfRi-a8hPh0)[/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/44 "2014-02-03T22:15:09Z")
Playing ping-pong in bullet time [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/11O9IrG8zzg/hqdefault.jpg "matrix ping pong") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11O9IrG8zzg) ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/45 "2014-02-03T23:04:35Z")
[Family Ties Driving Lesson](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhacXz-WoOk) ---
**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, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/46 "2014-02-03T23:32:15Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Playing ping-pong in bullet time > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11O9IrG8zzg](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11O9IrG8zzg) This was just strange. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/47 "2014-02-04T00:03:38Z")
Pretty much anything by Mr. Bean…especially this. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zavsd6etz_Q) There was one episode of Waiting For God where Tom falls down and an ape reaches into his open fly :eek: ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/48 "2014-02-04T00:23:00Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > **Top Secret!** , IMO the funniest of the Abrams/Zucker films, has dozens of great ones. These are just the ones I can remember right now, but I know I’m forgetting dozens more: I can’t count the number of times I’ve watched Top Secret, and I’m still embarrassed it took several viewings before I noticed the [binoculars/cow gag](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSBruN0p-Oc). ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/49 "2014-02-04T01:17:12Z")
**Top Secret** , my God…so many sight gags. A couple of others… The guard falling off the tower, only to shatter into porcelain-like pieces. The giant watch The brute on top of the train, busting through the overpass Several machine-gun / grenade gags at the farmhouse shootout The station pulling away from the train (instead of the train pulling away from the station) Tallying the minutes in prison with hash-marks on the concrete wall The “travel dots” turning into a Pac-Man game There are so many more ---
**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 4, 2014, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/50 "2014-02-04T02:40:09Z")
Another of my favorites is the fight at the end of Blazing Saddles. ---
**Author:** ![urban1a](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e47c2d/32.png) [@urban1a](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/urban1a)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/51 "2014-02-04T03:12:28Z")
> [@](#): > > Luckily there are many clips of the very best sight gag of TV and film and any other medium-- See if you can beat Carol Burnett’s Went With The Wind dress gag. (it’s the whole hilarious skit, the gag is in about 13:11) Thank you. One of my favorite memories of the Carol Burnett show and one that I have been wanting to rewatch for a long time. Bob ---
**Author:** ![urban1a](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e47c2d/32.png) [@urban1a](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/urban1a)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/52 "2014-02-04T03:15:43Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > This was from _Young Frankenstein_. He and Igor have just had a little grave robbery and are taking the material medica back to the Lab. There was a very similar scene in Haunted Honeymoon where he was trying to hide a corpse, in a coal bin, from some nosey cops. I didn’t remember it was in Young Frankstein. Bob ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/53 "2014-02-04T03:23:04Z")
You can’t have a sight gag without an [inflatable raft.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWiDSmeka_A) And if you can do it in a[confined space (20:58)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LRhIslyX-M), even better. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/54 "2014-02-04T05:55:45Z")
Ernie Kovacs. 'Nuff said. [- YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_5lSrAYNU8) ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/55 "2014-02-04T08:18:17Z")
> [@LawMonkey](#): > > 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? 🙂 Tons of them, but the first one I thought of is when Drebin and his pal are pinned down in an alley during a shootout, and Drebin decides his best chance is to rush the bad guys. “Cover me!” he yells, so his pal promptly throws a blanket over him, so Drebin can’t see a thing, and is stumbling around knocking over garbage cans. And the first one I thought of when I saw the title of the thread is from an old Three Stooges short. The boys are out west, waiting for the stagecoach, and one of them, probably Curly but I forget, remembers the “old Indian trick” of putting your ear to the ground in order to hear when it’s coming. Of course, it runs right over him, driving his head into the mud. When he extricates himself, he can’t hear anything, but Moe, thinking quickly, blows into his left ear, which makes all the mud shoot out of his right ear, and he can hear again. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/56 "2014-02-05T21:03:09Z")
**Superman** (1978): Clark Kent goes to rescue Lois Lane, who is hanging from a helicopter seat belt. Looking for a place to change. Close up of MA BELL sign. Pull back to reveal one of those waist-high pay phone thingies (remember pay phones, kids?). The look on Christopher Reeves’s face is priceless. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2014, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/57 "2014-02-05T21:14:54Z")
Police Squad: Drebin and Sally Decker exchanging gun fire. Camera shows Drebin hiding behind a garbage can, peeking out and shooting periodically. The camera switches to Sally behind a bench doing the same. After a few back and forths the camera pans back and they’re only about 5 feet apart. Club Flamingo. The Colosseum in the background as they arrive in the part of town named “Little Italy.” Ditto for the Leaning Tower of Pisa out the apartment window. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2014, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251/58 "2014-02-06T16:47:24Z")
[The jeep called “The AntiChrist” from _The Gods Must Be Crazy_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnU2DY9TRDs) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-sight-gags-eva/680251.md?page=2)