February 3, 2015 5:58 PM EST
P eople watch Judge Judy for a number of reasons, but chief among them is her extraordinary bluntness. So it’s especially interesting to watch an edited clip uploaded by YouTube user “Bill Smith” that shows part of an episode without dialogue. Instead, we just see the show’s star, Judith Sheindlin, the plaintiff and the defendant listening and reacting to one another. The funniest part is when Judge Judy waves her hand at the 1:23 mark as if she is putting a “spell” on the two, as Digg joked .
The video is entertaining, but we suspect most people tune in to her program because they want to hear her zingers, so maybe in the end, the show is better off with dialogue.
LIFE Watches TV: Classic Photos of People and Their Television Sets Radio Corporation of America (RCA) executives watch a brand new invention called television, their New York offices before introducing the product to the public, 1939. Carl Mydans—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Writer Russell Finch enjoys a smoke, a bath and a TV show in 1948 George Skadding—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Men gather to watch TV through a store window in Pennsylvania in 1948. Ralph Morse—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images A boy watches TV in an appliance store window in 1948. Ralph Morse—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Sisters at St. Vincent's Hospital in Erie, Penn., watch a program on a new local TV station, 1949. Ralph Morse—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Watching a Western on TV in 1950. Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images A group of swimmers at an indoor pool watch the Russian ambassador to the United Nations, Jacob Malik, filibustering in the UN Security Council in 1950. George Skadding—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Grade school kids in Minneapolis watch a video "classroom lesson" on TV while the city's public schools are on strike in 1951. Francis Miller—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images A rapt audience in a Chicago bar watches the 1952 World Series between the Dodgers and Yankees. (The Yankees won.) Francis Miller—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Six-year-old girls use a "Winky Dink" drawing kit on their home TV screen as they watch the kids' program, 1953. The show, which aired for four years in the 1950s, has been cited as "the first interactive TV show," especially in light of its "magic drawing screen" — a piece of plastic that stuck to the TV screen, and on which kids (and, no doubt, some adults) would trace the action on the screen. Walter Sanders—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images A performing chimpanzee named Zippy watches TV in 1955. Michael Rougier—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images An adopted Korean war orphan, Kang Koo Ri, watches television in his new home in Los Angeles in 1956. Allan Grant—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Milwaukee fans watch the 1957 World Series, when their Braves beat the Yankees in seven, behind three complete-game victories by the gutsy Lew Burdette. Francis Miller—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images A railroad worker's family watches TV in a trailer at a camp for Southern Pacific employees in Utah in 1957. Frank Scherschel—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images An awe-struck baseball fan is seized with utter delight as he watches the Braves win their first and only World Series while based in Milwaukee in 1957. Francis Miller—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images A traveling businessman watches TV in a hotel room in 1958. Nat Farbman—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Tenant farmer Thomas B. Knox and his family watch Ed Sullivan and ventriloquist Rickie Layne on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1958. Ed Clark—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Picketing workers watch TV in a tent outside the gates of a U.S. Steel plant in Gary, Indiana, during a strike in 1959. Francis Miller—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife, Pat, watch the 1960 GOP convention in Chicago from their hotel suite. Hank Walker—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images The Kim Sisters — a Korean-born singing trio who had some success in the U.S. in the 1960s — watch television in Chicago in 1960. Robert W. Kelley—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Eventual VP candidate Lyndon Johnson watches TV during the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. Thomas D. McAvoy—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images A "Three-Eyed TV Monster" created by Ulises Sanabria which permits simultaneous two- and three-screen viewing, 1961. Francis Miller—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Astronaut Scott Carpenter's wife, Rene, and son, Marc, watch his 1962 orbital flight on TV. Carpenter's was NASA's second manned orbital flight, after John Glenn's, and lasted nearly five hours. Ralph Morse—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Die-hard New York Giants fans watch the 1962 NFL championship game against the Packers outside a Connecticut motel, beyond the range of the NYC-area TV blackout, December 1962. Green Bay won, 16-7. John Loengard—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images A crowd watches John F. Kennedy address the nation during the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962. Ralph Crane—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Frank Sinatra watches his son, Frank Jr., 21, emcee a TV show, 1964.
John Dominis—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Different CATV (Community Antenna Television) stations available to subscribers in Elmira, New York, in 1966. Arthur Schatz —The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Actress Diahann Carroll and journalist David Frost watch themselves on separate talk shows. Carroll and Frost were engaged for a while, but never married. Bill Ray—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images More Must-Reads from TIME Donald Trump Is TIME's 2024 Person of the Year Why We Chose Trump as Person of the Year Is Intermittent Fasting Good or Bad for You? The 100 Must-Read Books of 2024 The 20 Best Christmas TV Episodes Column: If Optimism Feels Ridiculous Now, Try Hope The Future of Climate Action Is Trade Policy Merle Bombardieri Is Helping People Make the Baby Decision