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Combination of sight gags and reaction shots originally from silent film and vaudeville taken to a predictably ridiculous extreme. These include:

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• Aside Glance
• Double Take
• Eye Take
• Flip Take
• GASP!
• Glasses Pull
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• Shrug Take
• Spit Take
• Wild Take

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Examples:

Western Animation

• In one episode of Garfield and Friends, Garfield mentions while speaking to the audience he has a particular dislike of cartoon characters who overreact with Wild Takes (which, ironically, describes the hypochondriac Wade Duck on the same show pretty well).
• In an episode of Tiny Toon Adventures, Plucky Duck gets stuck in a Wild Take.
• Averted in Daria, whose shtick involves rarely reacting noticeably to any sight gag beyond a subtle change of facial expression.
  • She made a Double Take in the Beavis And Butthead episode Sporting Goods, though.

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• A particular take is someone coming across something harmless that they find scary, like a rat or cockroach, and then screaming while grabbing at another person.

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Tabloid Melodrama

Comedy Tropes

Eye Take