it's that or the cigarette kiss, depending on mood

here's the thing about the shoelace gag. it's narratively impossible to avoid it

either you don't look, and the comedy is that your shoelace really was untied, or you do look, and it wasn't

same danger as "look behind you"

if you look, it's a trick. if you don't, a duck crashes into the back of your head

Best scene in Black Lagoon: All of them