# Tired Sight Gags (Possible Spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 17, 2002, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tired-sight-gags-possible-spoilers/109611 "2002-05-17T20:26:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![JKilez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@JKilez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKilez)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tired-sight-gags-possible-spoilers/109611/41 "2002-05-22T01:24:15Z")
I do not think this one is necessarily funny, but nevertheless it is a sight gag: A seasoned cop looking over the carnage of a multiple murder scene. One of the other officers removes the blanket over the bodies. Everyone else looks away in disgust, but this cop looks at without flinching while eating a hogie. The same scene plays in coroner’s office, ER’s, etc. Eating lunch while looking a mutilated dead bodies has been done to death. Enough already. ---
**Author:** ![RadioWave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@RadioWave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadioWave)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tired-sight-gags-possible-spoilers/109611/42 "2002-05-22T01:39:24Z")
When the loving family decides to have a suprise party for their 80-year-old-grandfather recent-heart-transplantee who has post-traumatic-stress-disorder and, shock and gasp, he falls to the floor clutching his chest while the family looks guiltily at each other. Yes, yes, we’ve seen it before. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tired-sight-gags-possible-spoilers/109611/43 "2002-05-22T01:49:16Z")
I never actually realized that the Simpsons cannon thing was an anti sight gag, but hey, so it is! 🙂 This is more of a sound gag. A character goes off on a tirade about something that they can’t have…er, let me demonstrate. “I hate the [insert band here]. Why would ANYONE want to attend one of their concerts when there are so many more productive things to do? Honestly, people these days.” “You couldn’t get tickets either?” “No.” ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tired-sight-gags-possible-spoilers/109611/44 "2002-05-22T02:51:58Z")
Brian Ekers: > [@](#): > > A water-skiing character who is being dragged around and through numerous hazards will always scream in panic instead of doing the logical thing: drop the rope. Brian, that’s not so logical. Depending on how far out the skiier is, he could end up being stranded in deep water with a pair of skis weighing him down and preventing him from swimming to safety. My answer to the OP, by the way would be the old “Crazy-glue-sticking-character-to-embarrassing object” or “sticking two body parts together” joke. Whenever someone pulls out a tube of heavy-duty glue for any reason, you know that’s coming up within minutes. ---
**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:** [May 22, 2002, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tired-sight-gags-possible-spoilers/109611/45 "2002-05-22T03:20:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dwyr \* > \*\*Spit-take. > > I’ve never seen anyone older than six months spew liquids like a fountain. It’s just messy. \*\* To read some of the invoices people around here present to one another for keyboards, it happens all the time. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tired-sight-gags-possible-spoilers/109611/46 "2002-05-22T03:27:45Z")
There’s always the way that every car seems to explode into a huge fireball whenever another car hits it or it tips over onto its side. The Simpsons has a few gags on this (milk trucks exploding). ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tired-sight-gags-possible-spoilers/109611/47 "2002-05-22T04:17:06Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Zoggie \* > \*\* the [insert band here]_\* Band name!! (I’ve always wanted to do that 🆒 ) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tired-sight-gags-possible-spoilers/109611/48 "2002-05-22T10:06:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cmkeller \* > Brian, that’s not so logical. Depending on how far out the skiier is, he could end up being stranded in deep water with a pair of skis weighing him down and preventing him from swimming to safety. Oh, please. The whole joke is that the skier is being dragged around other boats, forced to jump over docks, duck under signs, occasionally crash through a barge carrying a wedding party, etc. He’s never so far out to sea that he couldn’t swim for it, and he could kick the skis off if he wanted to. Another minor bugaboo: a parrot, once introduced, will instantly learn anything spoken in casual conversation and repeat it at the worst possible moment. Plus (though you don’t see this much any more): a blow to the head will produce amnesia. A second blow will relieve the amnesia. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tired-sight-gags-possible-spoilers/109611/49 "2002-05-22T17:21:30Z")
> [@](#): > > A water-skiing character who is being dragged around and through numerous hazards will always scream in panic instead of doing the logical thing: drop the rope. You’d be surprised. My first time waterskiing, I lasted for about a half-second upright, before turning into the Human Torpedo. Do you know how I responded? By clinging tight to the towrope, and wondering why the heck they weren’t stopping the boat (of course, they were, but it took some time). Logical? No. Actual? Yes. And even if there had been a barge carrying a wedding party, I probably wouldn’t have noticed, my face being completely submerged. > [@](#): > > There’s always the way that every car seems to explode into a huge fireball whenever another car hits it or it tips over onto its side. The Simpsons has a few gags on this (milk trucks exploding). I liked the _Family Guy_ take on it better, with an Amish buggy exploding. And the horse. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tired-sight-gags-possible-spoilers/109611/50 "2002-05-22T18:40:34Z")
My ex-girlfriend did a beautiful spit-take with cranberry juice of all things…all over white carpet. She had just taken a huge mouthful of it, and I said something funny, and she just spewed it everywhere. It was awesome to see. ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tired-sight-gags-possible-spoilers/109611/51 "2002-05-22T19:07:56Z")
I can’t believe we have gotten this far without mentioning the fruit stand in buddy movies…you just know sometime during the final chase scene a fruit stand will be whacked and fruit will fly everywhere…been there, done that, hated it the first time. Another one that is overused is the glass pyramid of champagne glasses…you just know that is doomed from the first establishing shot. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tired-sight-gags-possible-spoilers/109611/52 "2002-05-22T19:16:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bryan Ekers \* > \*\*Plus (though you don’t see this much any more): a blow to the head will produce amnesia. A second blow will relieve the amnesia. \*\* And once the amnesia is cured, the one who cured it in the first place will develop amnesia himself. I think the funniest take on the amnesia thing was an episode of the Cartoon Network original series _Sheep in the Big City_. It started innocently enough-Sheep (who is, yes, a sheep) developed amnesia after a blow to the head. Eventually, every major character (and some minor ones) had amnesia. They were basically suffering from amnesia and then not suffering amnesia because they were hitting each other on the head unwittingly. The narrator commented to the effect of “Oh please! Are we really supposed to believe you can get amnesia just by doing this? (hits himself on the head) Who am I?” ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tired-sight-gags-possible-spoilers/109611/53 "2002-05-22T22:13:54Z")
More of a sitcom sight-gag than a movie one: Two characters are on a camping trip and can’t get the tent set up. They end up sitting on a log, complaining. (or they’re stuck somewhere outside, with nowhere to get inside) One says to the other, “Hey, at least it can’t get any worse.” Sound effects of thunder and lightening, instant downpour. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tired-sight-gags-possible-spoilers/109611/54 "2002-05-22T23:02:14Z")
character A is in a whacky costume or dressed as the opposite sex. character B walks by and casually says “hi character A”. 5 to 10 seconds later character B realizes something is amiss and does a hilarious double take. Seen it too many times to be funny anymore. ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tired-sight-gags-possible-spoilers/109611/55 "2002-05-23T00:22:45Z")
McGee’s law: Any messy person who is forced to clean up will inevitably stow everything in the closet, waiting for boss/wife/mom to open the door and send everything tumbling out, usually ending with the room messier than before. Jesse and Chester’s Addendum: When neat people clean up and ask messy people to do the very last thing (dusting the Ming vase collection, taking out the bag of used diapers and beer cans, etc.), it can only end in tragedy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tired-sight-gags-possible-spoilers/109611.md?page=2)