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 write up.
I’m another one who as soon as I saw the title I thought of this.
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…”.
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.
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.
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.
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 but the whole thing is astonishingly funny, particularly since John Ritter was not a dancer.