This sight gag was employed in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

On Roach's " Lot of Fun ", script development usually started with meetings among the gag men, who would develop what was known as an " action script ": the outline of the story and a description of the scenes and some of the sight gags, which generally would run three to six legal-size pages.

Rat Race opened to mixed to positive reviews ; on Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 44 % " rotten " rating ; the critical consensus is that " Rat Race moves from one sight gag to another, but only a handful of them are genuinely funny.

Moose had the ability to fix Kelsey Grammer with a long hard stare ; this became a running sight gag on the show.

The second figure was the " Family Couch Gag ", based on the opening sequence of each episode where the family rushes into the living room and performs a 3-second sight gag.

Much of the comedy is sight gag / action based with some focused around comical accents and stereotypical southern characteristics.

This trait turned into a common sight gag ; his action figure is equipped with ejectable arms.

Away from First, Gaunt's corpse made a one-panel appearance as a sight gag in issue # 5 of the DC Comics horror anthology title Wasteland.

" Gunder proposes that the success of this sight gag spawned in comic writers the idea of " hiding the elephant by all sorts of ridiculous means ," and thus, by extension to " other silly, stupid comparisons ", the whole genre of elephant jokes.

In comedy, a visual gag or sight gag is anything which conveys its humor visually, often without words being used at all.

The New York Times cites the fourth Gilligan's Island episode " Goodnight, Sweet Skipper " as a classic American sight gag.

This paradox is illustrated in the various joke sunglasses that Guillaume wears ( with the national flags of the USA, USSR, China, France and Britain each filling the frames ) while reading Mao's Little Red Book, as well as the sight gag of having dozens of copies of the Little Red Book piled in mounds on the floor to literally create a defensive parapet against the forces of capitalist imperialism, and a jaunty satirical pop song, " Mao-Mao " ( sung by Claude Channes ), heard on the soundtrack.

At a siding, another train which was a familiar sight these days.

The authors insist, however, that these abnormalities in the sense of touch were due absolutely to no organic disorders in that sense faculty but rather to the injuries which the patient had sustained to the sense of sight.

Hippolytus of Rome pictures the underworld ( Hades ) as a place where the righteous dead, awaiting in the bosom of Abraham their resurrection, rejoice at their future prospect, while the unrighteous are tormented at the sight of the " lake of unquenchable fire " into which they are destined to be cast.

It might appear at first sight as though one connection would serve, but the differences in pressure on which these instruments depend are so minute, that the pressure of the air in the room where the recording part is placed has to be considered.

The limitations of beam-riding guidance ( which was slaved to an optical sight on single seater fighters and a radar with night fighters ) restricted the missile to attacks against targets flying a straight course and made it essentially useless against a maneuvering target.

Havana was furnished with the fortress of Castillo de los Tres Reyes Magos del Morro to deter potential invaders, which included the English privateer Francis Drake, who sailed within sight of Havana harbour but did not disembark on the island.

Gauss's method involved determining a conic section in space, given one focus ( the Sun ) and the conic's intersection with three given lines ( lines of sight from the Earth, which is itself moving on an ellipse, to the planet ) and given the time it takes the planet to traverse the arcs determined by these lines ( from which the lengths of the arcs can be calculated by Kepler's Second Law ).

Among his principal miracles are: ( 1 ) procuring of food for a sick monk and curing the wife of his benefactor ; ( 2 ) escape from hurt when surrounded by wolves ; ( 3 ) obedience of a bear which evacuated a cave at his biddings ; ( 4 ) producing a spring of water near his cave ; ( 5 ) repletion of the Luxeuil granary when empty ; ( 6 ) multiplication of bread and beer for his community ; ( 7 ) curing of the sick monks, who rose from their beds at his request to reap the harvest ; ( 8 ) giving sight to a blind man at Orleans ; ( 9 ) taming a bear, and yoking it to a plough.

At first sight, this appears to be a reasonable assumption to make, as it seems to be a consequence of special relativity, which states that information can never be transmitted faster than the speed of light without violating causality.

The new park, unlike Sun Life Stadium ( which was criticized in its baseball configuration for poor sight lines in some locations ), was designed foremost as a baseball park.

For Silius Italicus, who wrote as the games approached their peak, the degenerate Campanians had devised the very worst of precedents, which now threatened the moral fabric of Rome: " It was their custom to enliven their banquets with bloodshed and to combine with their feasting the horrid sight of armed men fighting ; often the combatants fell dead above the very cups of the revelers, and the tables were stained with streams of blood.

It can do this with no further ado against any opponent, so long as it employs the services of theology, which as everyone knows is small and ugly and must be kept out of sight.

Another tourist sight in Anderten is the Hindenburg Lock, which was the biggest lock in Europe at the time of its construction in 1928.

In 1789 he lost the sight of his left eye, which finally forced him into retirement.

Perhaps as a result of the pharaoh's role in Pompey's murder, Caesar sided with Cleopatra ; he is reported to have wept at the sight of Pompey's head, which was offered to him by the pharaoh as a gift.

European moose are often more aggressive than North American moose, such as the moose in Sweden, which often become very agitated at the sight of a predator.

And the instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it, and if it does evil in My sight so that it does not obey My voice, then I will relent concerning the good with which I said I would benefit it.

The Arabs lost sight of Aristotle's political science but continued to study Plato's Republic which became the basic text of Judeo-Islamic political philosophy as in the works of Alfarabi and Averroes ; this did not happen in the Christian world, where Aristotle's Politics was translated in the 13th century and became the basic text as in the works of Saint Thomas Aquinas.

* Line of sight, which depends on height above ground.

After the first pass, only those patches which are in direct line of sight of a light-emitting patch will be illuminated.

Rigel is also associated with the Orion Nebula, which — while more or less along the same line of sight as the star — is almost twice as far away from Earth.

Then the disciples marched to pick the oxen, which were actually wild bulls which the queen used to punish her enemies ; but again, at the sight of the Christian's cross, the bulls calmed down, and after being subjected to a yoke they carried the apostle's body to the place where now Compostela is.

Infection of the eye socket is possible, which may result in the loss of sight and is accompanied by fever and severe illness.

Thomas Hardy, who built his house within sight of it, described the castle in a short story, " Ancient Earthworks and What Two Enthusiastic Scientists Found Therein " ( 1885 ) about a local antiquarian who spent much time investigating the site.

The party is usually in a room small enough so that all guests are within sight and hearing of one another.

Many home-bound subway riders utilizing the Flushing-Main Street express are daily confronted with the sight of the local departing from the Woodside station as their express comes to a stop, leaving them stranded and strained.

Another Virginia sight and a photographic adventure are the Luray Caverns, lit by photofloodlights.

The Sequoia Grove presents another unique aspect of Yosemite, for these ancient giant trees are a sight never to be forgotten.

Therefore, if the sense of touch is functioning normally and there is a complete absence of spatial awareness in a psychically-blind person when the eyes are closed and an object is handled, the conclusion seems unavoidable that touch by itself cannot focus and take possession of the third-dimensionality of things and that actual sight or visual representations are necessary.

The eyes of the figure of the Nile are covered, perhaps either to symbolize the mystery of her source or to obscure from her sight the baroque facade of the Church of Sant' Agnese in Agone, the work of Bernini's rival, Borromini.

Many amphibians are nocturnal and hide during the day, thereby avoiding diurnal predators that hunt by sight.

He recorded in his journal: " Fair figures one by one are fading from sight.

Empanadas — small pastries of meat, cheese, sweet corn, and a hundred other fillings — are a common sight at parties and picnics, or as starters to a meal.

You will see a multitude of tiny particles mingling in a multitude of ways ... their dancing is an actual indication of underlying movements of matter that are hidden from our sight ...

Broadway then runs past the proposed uptown campus of Columbia University, and the main campus of CUNY — City College ; the beautiful Gothic buildings of the original City College campus are out of sight, a block to the east.

Abstracting yet again, constructions are often " naturally related " – a vague notion, at first sight.

The primary advantages of a pistol caliber carbine are increased accuracy due to the buttstock and longer barrel ( and with it, sight radius ), relatively low muzzle blast / flash / recoil, higher muzzle velocity and energy of a longer barrel for increased wounding potential and penetration ( depending on the particular load used ), and ( sometimes, but not always ) greater adaptability for easily accepting accessories such as optics, weaponlights, and lasers.

In the late 1970s, Kerry Packer established the rival World Series Cricket ( WSC ) competition, and it introduced many of the features of One Day International cricket that are now commonplace, including coloured uniforms, matches played at night under floodlights with a white ball and dark sight screens, and, for television broadcasts, multiple camera angles, effects microphones to capture sounds from the players on the pitch, and on-screen graphics.

Christadelphians understand the Bible to teach that male and female believers are equal in God's sight, and also that there is a distinction between the roles of male and female members.

For example, in Man with a Movie Camera, two trains are shown almost melting into each other, although we are taught to see trains as not riding that close, Vertov tried to portray the actual sight of two passing trains.

As one of the most important waterways in the world, large cargo ship | freighters are a common sight on the Detroit River.

He warns Ahab that there will be years of catastrophic drought so severe that not even dew will fall, because Ahab and his queen stand at the end of a line of kings of Israel who are said to have " done evil in the sight of the Lord.

There are also a large graffiti influences in Southeast Asian countries that mostly come from modern Western culture, such as Malaysia, where graffiti has long been a common sight in Malaysia's capital city, Kuala Lumpur.