The Take

Combination of sight gags and reaction shots originally from silent film and vaudeville taken to a predictably ridiculous extreme. These include:
 * Aside Glance
 * Double Take
 * Eye Take
 * Flip Take
 * GASP
 * Glasses Pull
 * People Fall Off Chairs
 * Shrug Take
 * Spit Take
 * Wild Take

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 did a Double Take in the Beavis and Butthead episode "Sporting Goods", though.

Meta

 * 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.