# Funniest wordless scenes in sitcoms **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 12, 2009, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-wordless-scenes-in-sitcoms/485537 "2009-02-12T15:26:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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 13, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-wordless-scenes-in-sitcoms/485537/21 "2009-02-13T16:29:19Z")
I forgot to mention that during Dick’s take, the couple is not shown. You just see the open door at the edge of the scene, and Dick’s antics. It’s not until Greg Morris walks in that the audience knows what was going on. And that was very daring for 1963… The words “colored” and “Negro” were not spoken. Here is [wiki’s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Dick_Van_Dyke_Show_episodes#Season_3:_1963.E2.80.931964) write up. ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-wordless-scenes-in-sitcoms/485537/22 "2009-02-13T18:47:45Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Every Valentine’s Day I remember the Fraiser that started with [Niles Crane](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mWiPaQ872c) ironing his pants and ended with the blood and fire. Hysterically funny scene, and not a word was spoken. > > What are some other funny scenes with no dialog? I’m another one who as soon as I saw the title I thought of this. > [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > The scene where Carol Burnett stands at the top of the stairs in her Bob Mackie design, based on Scarlett O’Hara’s dress. The one where the curtain rod is still on her shoulders? I think eventually Harvey Korman mentions “Love your dress” and she replies “Oh, it’s just something I saw in the window…”. ---
**Author:** ![Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/48db29/32.png) [@Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Key_Lime_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-wordless-scenes-in-sitcoms/485537/23 "2009-02-13T18:52:53Z")
Don’t know if it was wordless, but… Tim Conway as the clumsy dentist ---
**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 13, 2009, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-wordless-scenes-in-sitcoms/485537/24 "2009-02-13T19:03:24Z")
> [@Emily\_Litella](#): > > The one where the curtain rod is still on her shoulders? > I think eventually Harvey Korman mentions “Love your dress” and she replies “Oh, it’s just something I saw in the window…”. Harvey: Scarlett, what a lovely dress. Carol: Thank you. I saw it in a window and just couldn’t resist. ---
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-wordless-scenes-in-sitcoms/485537/25 "2009-02-13T19:17:18Z")
Pick just about any episode of _Mr. Bean_ and you can find a contender somewhere in it. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-wordless-scenes-in-sitcoms/485537/26 "2009-02-13T19:27:25Z")
> [@RiverRunner](#): > > Pick just about any episode of _Mr. Bean_ and you can find a contender somewhere in it. All the grunting and mumbling in the aforementioned Niles Crane scene made it hard for me not to think of Bean, too. I’d nominate Frasier as the champion series for this category, though. It seems almost every episode had a silent scene behind the end credits, and they always seemed like gems to me. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-wordless-scenes-in-sitcoms/485537/27 "2009-02-13T19:34:24Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > The scene where Carol Burnett stands at the top of the stairs in her Bob Mackie design, based on Scarlett O’Hara’s dress. Of the curtain+curtain rod dress, paraphrasing(kinda), “I saw it in the window and just had to have it!” ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-wordless-scenes-in-sitcoms/485537/28 "2009-02-13T19:44:21Z")
> [@Key\_Lime\_Guy](#): > > Don’t know if it was wordless, but… > > Tim Conway as the clumsy dentist I actually thought of that scene, too, but [it’s not wordless](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9T8i4FkNVo). Korman doesn’t speak, though, so maybe we can give it half-credit. God, it’s funny. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-wordless-scenes-in-sitcoms/485537/29 "2009-02-13T20:07:59Z")
Not strictly a sitcom, but the entire “The Dull Life of a City Stockbroker” sketch from Monty Python is a classic. The brief bit from _The Drew Carey Show_ when he sits down wearing his new pleated pants and they fold to look like he has a boner knocked me right off the couch. And the episode of _The Odd Couple_ when Felix lost his voice, walked over to the blackboard, and wrote “HONK” was also great. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-wordless-scenes-in-sitcoms/485537/30 "2009-02-13T22:49:06Z")
[Without question, Stewie breastfeeding in Family Guy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OkcucXIuVI&feature=PlayList&p=26C1B1117DDC099D&index=6). Joe ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-wordless-scenes-in-sitcoms/485537/31 "2009-02-14T00:12:31Z")
> [@zamboniracer](#): > > Not a sitcom, but the classroom scene in Buffy the Vampire Slayer show “Hush”, when Giles used flash cards with stick figure drawings From the same episode, Xander “saves” Anya from Spike, and she shows her appreciation: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFfjsn4HRFs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFfjsn4HRFs) \*\*\* Ponder ---
**Author:** ![Long\_Time\_First\_Time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@Long\_Time\_First\_Time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Long_Time_First_Time)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-wordless-scenes-in-sitcoms/485537/32 "2009-02-14T00:51:32Z")
Steven Colbert’s Daily Word after the democrats took the house and senate in 2006 is classic. The word was Sigh [http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/77985/november-08-2006/the-word—sigh](http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/77985/november-08-2006/the-word---sigh) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-wordless-scenes-in-sitcoms/485537/33 "2009-02-14T05:58:20Z")
Four of the six I immediately thought of have already been mentioned: Niles ironing his pants Carol Burnett and the curtain rod Archie & Sammy Dick Van Dyke and the black couple And the remaining two are: Mary Tyler Moore at Chuckle the Clown’s funeral Golden Girls’ Sophia and Dorothy as Sonny and Cher (not really wordless; they sing “I Got You, Babe” ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-wordless-scenes-in-sitcoms/485537/34 "2009-02-14T06:54:55Z")
Like the Buffy episode “Hush,” Two Guys and A Girl did a dialogue-less episode called “The One Without Dialogue.” It was pretty funny overall, but I liked Ashley being hounded by a group of pregnant women for not giving up her seat on the subway best. all I can find are parts 2&3, sorry ☹ [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHIShhCb9TU) [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPgD-_cVMLY) ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-wordless-scenes-in-sitcoms/485537/35 "2009-02-14T10:22:28Z")
Is Red Dwarf technically a sitcom? Anyway, Terrorform. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMMoO7GV9hU](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMMoO7GV9hU) Lister goes silent about 3:11 and Cat about 3:47. I’ve seen this scene too many times to count and I still crack up every time. ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-wordless-scenes-in-sitcoms/485537/36 "2009-02-14T13:06:12Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > [This breakfast scene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFgdhZGLJrY) from Morecambe & Wise is pretty classic in Britain. My appreciation for you will never dim, Zip. ---
**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 14, 2009, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-wordless-scenes-in-sitcoms/485537/37 "2009-02-14T13:32:41Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Mary Tyler Moore at Chuckle the Clown’s funeral Not silent. She is trying not to laugh during the minister’s eulogy. ---
**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 14, 2009, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-wordless-scenes-in-sitcoms/485537/38 "2009-02-14T14:28:16Z")
There was a great scene in Three’s Company where Jack Tripper, dressed in a tux at a formal party, did this amazing dance sequence. There’s a little bit of it in this [clip](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-UdOzAEmvY) but the whole thing is astonishingly funny, particularly since John Ritter was not a dancer. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-wordless-scenes-in-sitcoms/485537/39 "2009-02-14T18:44:00Z")
I liked Les Nessman’s appearance disguised as a black man, with a 1970’s Afro, on _WKRP in Cincinnati_. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2009, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-wordless-scenes-in-sitcoms/485537/40 "2009-02-14T19:43:02Z")
Almost all of the scenes mentioned are not wordless. They are dialog scenes with a sight gag. The OP asked for scenes with “no dialog”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-wordless-scenes-in-sitcoms/485537.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-wordless-scenes-in-sitcoms/485537.md?page=3)