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Seriously, there's no better way to arrest attention than to ''screeEEEEeeeeEEEEEeeEEEEEEEK!''
 
[shudder chill] ...no better way to arrest attention than to rake a nail or two across a blackboard. Usually works best with actual nails or a piece of chalk (especially a long, fresh piece), but some [[Badass Normal|Badass Normals]]s can use their ''finger'' nails. In the absence of a chalkboard, a sharp object against glass produces a similar sound.
 
''screeEEEEeeeeEEEEEeeEEEEEEEK!''
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'''Will you STOP that!!!''' [[Here Comes the Science!|Fun fact:]] certain schools of thought posit that the reaction to this sound is an atavistic response to when humanity's pre-evolved ancestors used a similar noise to warn each other of danger that should be fled from at once.
 
See also [[Sinister Scraping Sound]], a dangerous [[Sister Trope]]. Believe it or not, [[Wikipedia (Wiki)|Wikipedia]] actually has [[wikipedia:Sound of fingernails scraping chalkboard|its own article]] about it.
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== [[Anime]] ==
* ''[[Great Teacher Onizuka]]''.
* It was also in ''[[Excel Saga (Animeanime)|Excel Saga]]'', but done with a knife glove. Luckily for the audience, [[Relax-O-Vision|the sound was replaced with music]].
* And ''Crossworlds''. Although that was on a stalagmite. It gains extra kudos for being weaponized -- theweaponized—the sound being used to disable a sharp-eared cat-person.
* ''[[One Piece]]'' has it too. It's called Usopp Noise.
* ''[[Full Metal Panic!|Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu]]''. In the last episode Kaname does this to calm a mass panic. She's badass enough that it works immediately.
* In ''[[DragonballDragon Ball]]'', whistling has this effect on Namekians
* In ''[[GA Geijutsuka Art Design Class]]'', the main characters have been asked to retrieve an easel from the art room, which the art club has outfitted with a number of horror props. Namiko wants to get the object (though they've forgotten what it was), and leave, but Tomokane is determined not to be defeated in that way. Namiko has Miyabi stop her, and this is what she comes up with... to the displeasure of everyone else in the room.
 
== [[Film]] ==
* Judge Doom in ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]''.
* Quint, making his legendary entrance in ''[[Jaws (Filmfilm)|Jaws]]''.
* And it was used in ''[[The Pink Panther]] Strikes Again'' as [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]. The villain puts on a steel gauntlet from a suit of armor, grins at the tied-up female, walks to the slate blackboard, and -- [[Distant Reaction Shot|CUT! to quite a distance away]], outside, and you STILL hear it. And her screaming.
* ''Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit''.
* The ''soundtrack'' of ''[[The Dark Knight]]'' somehow manages to incorporate this (fittingly, as the Joker's motif). [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB5tbTpQvsM Have a listen].
* [[A Nightmare Onon Elm Street|Freddy]] used this to torture a deaf character in the sixth installment.
** Freddy stole the deaf kid's hearing aid, turned the volume up to 11, gave it back, (made it unremovable via literal [[Ear Worm]]) and dragged his murder-glove all over a giant chalkboard. Then the deaf kid's head exploded.
** He also used it to less fatal and more annoying effect in movie number 4. Give a guy a glove with sharp metal claws and it's inevitable that sooner or later he will do this, psychopath or no.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* One ''[[Goosebumps]]'' short story features a school that punishes bad kids by making them listen to nails on a chalkboard for all eternity.
* ''[[Septimus Heap (Literature)|Septimus Heap]]''
** ''Physik'' compares Queen Etheldredda's voice to this sound.
** According to ''Magyk'', Magogs enjoy this sound and make it in their freetime.
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== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]]'', when you create a [[Catgirl|Nekomata]] character, she will make her entrance by scraping her cat claws on the blackboard.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'' has done this quite a few times -- onetimes—one time featured Groundskeeper Willie doing it on a stained glass window, in a direct parody of Quint's use of the trope.
* In one episode of ''[[Arthur (Animationanimation)|Arthur]]'', the title character daydreams that a villainous teacher is using the noise for torture rather than for straight attention-getting.
* On the [[Tex Avery]] cartoon ''One Ham's Family'', when the villain is indisposed, the main character decides to [[No Fourth Wall|"heckle you folks out there"]] while he returns. So he takes out a chalkboard and a piece of chalk and screeches away.
* One ''[[South Park (Animation)|South Park]]'' episode has Mr Garrison using a rusty nail to write on the chalkboard, because lawsuits have made chalk too expensive for the school.
* In ''[[Aaahh Real Monsters (Animation)|AAAHH!!! Real Monsters]]'', a human kid disguised as a monster wins big points with the teacher for doing this.
* The ''[[Jaws (Filmfilm)|Jaws]]'' scene is also spoofed in the ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants (Animation)|SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' episode "[[SpongeBob]], Sandy and the Worm". The character doing it just wanted to know where the bathroom was.
* ''[[Two Stupid Dogs (Animation)|Two Stupid Dogs]]'' had this when Mr. H wrote his name on a chalkboard when he was substituting a class. It was ''excruciatingly'' long, and was enough to blow out the school's windows out. Just when the students think it's over, he adds a final ''scrEE!'' for the period.
* In an episode of ''[[Tale Spin (Animation)|Tale Spin]]'', Don Karnage puts on a Tiger's Claw glove and proceeds to rake it across a chalkboard to get his victim to talk.
* Alvin does this in the ''[[Alvin and The Chipmunks (Animation)|Alvin and The Chipmunks]]'' episode ''The Brunch Club'' in order to get a confession out of Brittany.
 
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