sight gag
noun
: a comic bit or episode whose effect is produced by pantomime or camera shot rather than by words
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Carpenter’s suggestive travel neck pillow is the hook here — as a reminder, these ShopTV sketches are all about the naughty sight gags and double entendres.
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Andy Hoglund, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Oct. 2025
This year’s version channels a different set of touchstones — it’s lit like a Tony Scott movie — but the love of sight gags remains.
—Robert Rubsam, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Director Annie Tippe keeps the show’s action, one-liners, visual sight gags and sword battles moving along swiftly in a fun, colorful and engaging way.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2025
With its multicar collision of one-liners, sight gags, pratfalls, running jokes, bathroom humor, and surrealist absurdity, The Naked Gun is, in fact, a reboot — even if its original ’80s- and ’90s-era IP carries a low recognition factor with younger viewers.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2025
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Andy Hoglund, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Oct. 2025
This year’s version channels a different set of touchstones — it’s lit like a Tony Scott movie — but the love of sight gags remains.
—Robert Rubsam, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Director Annie Tippe keeps the show’s action, one-liners, visual sight gags and sword battles moving along swiftly in a fun, colorful and engaging way.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2025
With its multicar collision of one-liners, sight gags, pratfalls, running jokes, bathroom humor, and surrealist absurdity, The Naked Gun is, in fact, a reboot — even if its original ’80s- and ’90s-era IP carries a low recognition factor with younger viewers.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2025
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“Sight gag.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sight%20gag. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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