Sound Effect Bleep: Difference between revisions

 

{{quote|''"Yippi-kay-ay, motherfu-"'' [gunshot]

 

When a [[EverQuest|[DING!]]] character's [BOING!] words, usually [[Blackadder|[BAAA!]]] expletives, are [BOOM!] drowned out by a [ZAP!] artificial ''BEEEEP'', or, more [[Animorphs|[TSEEEEER!]]] creatively, by a [BONG!] sound effect (e.g. a [HONK!] car horn or a [[Stock Scream|[AAAIIEEE!]]] scream). Usually the [BEEEEEP!] words are [TWEET!] completely drowned out, but [[Eversion|[SCREEE-BOOM!]]] sometimes the first [BLAM!] syllable is audible before the [MOOOOO!] sound effect [SLAM!] kicks in.

 

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== [TU-WHIT!] Anime and [TU-WHO!] Manga ==

* So far Berlitz's given name in ''[[Pokémon Special]]'' has always been obscured with someone's speech bubble, more than likely ''her own'' as she ''shouts something'' right as her name is said.

* ''[[B Gata H Kei]]''. Full stop. ''Anything'' related to sex (the word sex itself, condoms, virginity, etc.) gets censored out by chirping birds. Considering the [[Fan Service|kind of show this is]], you're gonna be hearing those birdies ''a lot''.

* In ''[[Mitsudomoe]]'', Mitsuba gets called an [OINK] pig.

 

== Fan [POW!] Works ==

* In ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'' Fujiwara is interrupted this by a car horn [[Curse Cut Short|when calling Tachibana a bi-<nowiki>[HONK]</nowiki>]].

 

== [BA-LUMPH!] Film ==

 

== [KABLOOIE!] Literature ==

** Captain Carrot, in his early appearances, has the unusual skill of being able to pronounce "D*mn!"

* This was sometimes done in 19th-century novels as well. Perhaps in response to this, Patrick O'Brian also -ed out some of the swear words in his ''[[Aubrey-Maturin]]'' series, resulting in one humorous scene where Diana introduces herself by yelling at her horse, "Get over, you -," which intrigues Jack, who had never heard a woman say - before.

* Though it hasn't been published, the ''whatever'' that is ''[http://transform.to/~channing/indmo.html Mundementia One]'' briefly features a Censorship Device that cloaks the characters' profanities from everyone, including onlooking hostile supernatural beings that are strengthened by such things. It is immediately dropped and becomes miscalibrated, censoring words some distance after curses.

* In ''[[Harry Potter|Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]'', Lee Jordan calls a player on the opposing team a "filthy, cheating bastard", but in print only the "b" part is heard, as Professor McGonagall's own shouting at the player drowns it out. For once she didn't pay attention to Jordan's language (or favoritism, or any other [[Accidental Innuendo|junk Jordan pulls regularly]] while commentating).

 

* [[Jerry Springer]].

* ''My Dad's the Prime Minister'' did this once.

* [[Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23|"I'm not perfect, I'm no snitch/ But I can tell you, she's a (''door buzzer sounds'')!"]]

* Used hilariously in an episode of ''[[Cinematech]]: Nocturnal Emissions'' to censor the [[Cluster Bleep Bomb|swear-laden dialog]] in the first ''[[Saints Row]]'' video game.

 

== [PLUNK!] Music ==

* A surprisingly early example is [[Spike Jones|Spike Jones and the City Slickers]]' 1946 release [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u07gqBqHc4 "I Dream of Brownie with the Light Blue Jeans"], the last third or so of which is laden with random words from the song replaced by Jones' trademark sound effects.

* The Brian Beathard Orchestra's response to "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UdB4xBR5zaE "Dammit, I'm Vixen"], has the following passage:

 

== [BZORCH!] Radio ==

Just that the (bell)-ing words are awfully strong}}

 

* "Conversation Piece" from the musical ''Wonderful Town'':

{{quote|'''Chick''': Boy, it's hot! Reminds me of that time in Panama... I was down there on a story... I was in this, well, dive, and there was this broad there... What was her name?... Marquita?... Maroota?... Ah, what's the difference what her name was? That dame was built like a brick sh--

* In the ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' promotional video "Meet the Demoman", one of the Demoman's lines is "I'm a black-Scottish cyclops! They got more f[BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP]s than they got the likes o' me." The bleep goes on for quite some time, leading the viewer to believe that the demoman has quite the colorful vocabulary.

** "Meet the Scout" and "Meet the Spy" do it too, but less as a gag and more to make a point: "If you were from where I was from, you'd be f***in' dead." in the former, "And now he's here to f*** ''us!''" in the latter.

* The commando's first mission in ''[[Command & Conquer]]'' comes through bad interference: "Get in, ''kkk'' destroy the ''kkkkk'' and get the ''kkkkk'' out."

* ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]''

* A Rabbids Facebook launch trailer on had the narator [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLDr9_dUYfY&feature=channel&list=UL bleeped near the end.]

{{quote|Narator: It's a f***in' scream.}}

 

== Web [ZIP!] Comics ==

{{quote|"You have got to be [Flarking] [Pooping] me! [Flarking] [Pooping] me!"}}

** One comic censors [[Flipping the Bird|fingers]] ([[Rule of Funny|ineffectively]]) with little black boxes saying things like "[How] [Rude!]"

* [[8-Bit Theater]] also has at least [https://web.archive.org/web/20090222162542/http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=060425 one.]

** [https://web.archive.org/web/20090222162828/http://nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=061024 Or two.]

* In [[The 10K Commotion]], after experimenting with a few variations to deal with the occasional (or in the case of Pict, not so occasional) swear-word, the author eventually settled on censor bars with cleaner alternatives, such as [https://web.archive.org/web/20110623190839/http://10kcommotion.com/theTENKAYcomic/4thSTAGE/4thSTAGE.shtml?40 "Don't this *music* make a *nice guy* wanna jump?"] or [https://web.archive.org/web/20170115192356/http://www.10kcommotion.com/theTENKAYcomic/5thSTAGE/5thSTAGE.shtml?30 "Crimony!"].

* In [https://web.archive.org/web/20150503202901/http://www.goodcheese.com/index.php?date=2007-12-03 this strip], when the victim discovers that her date might [[Rule of Drama|be involved]] with another man- exactly as he arrives to take her on a date. ([[Ho Yay|Un]])luckily, [[Not What It Looks Like]].

 

== Web [KABOOM!] Original ==

* A [http://www.somethingawful.com/d/flash-tub/jefferson-brothers-pancakes.php Jefferson Brothers episode] of the Flash Tub in ''[[Something Awful]]'' [[Lampshade Hanging|hangs a lampshade on it]]:

{{quote|'''Jeff''': Goddamn it, you stupid piece of *BEEP*, I mean you {{spoiler|stupid fuckface!}}}}

* Extremely *honk*ing popular in ''[[Sailor Moon Abridged]]''.

* The beginning of an [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEszTVm4Wek episode] of ''[[The Legend of Zelda|LoZ]]: Four Swords Misadventures'':

{{quote|Smugleaf: Have you heard all the fuzz about the new starters? I pity the guys, it's kinda pointless ranting, I mean... "Snake Pokemon? Snakes have no arms, idiot." "That Wotter is ugly as [censored]." <ref>The original version's line was, "That Wotter is ugly as hell."</ref>}}

* In the ''[[Retsupurae]]'' video, ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5TW2PfwxMQ What The (CENSORED)]'', The [[Let's Play]]er, Raven Rage, ends up peppering his entire video with nothing but these, drowning out the rest of his play of ''[[Super Mario Bros 3]]'', leaving slowbeef, Diabeetus and Proteus very confused and wondering if they can find other sounds elsewhere.

 

== Western [CHUKONG!] Animation ==

* Used through an entire episode of ''[[Rugrats]]'', "Word of the Day", where Angelica overhears and starts using a (bad) word used backstage by [[Depraved Kids' Show Host|a disgruntled kids' show host]]. The sound effects became increasingly inventive/desperate. It started with the whirr of a floor polisher, and ended with a testcard tone. She still managed to get it onto national TV and cause the mental breakdown of [[Stepford Smiler|the disgruntled TV host]], so it's all good.

* ''[[The Flintstones]]'' also did this once.

* In the ''[[King of the Hill]]'' episode "Father of the Bribe" Dale is getting tired of not getting enough viewers for his radio talk show he says "And I can't drum up any new sales because I'm stuck behind this f(beep)ing microphone 24 hours a day".

* Parodied in ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'': When Heffer reads a chapter in a home improvement book about things you can say when the hammer slips, random sound effects come out of his mouth. Rocko asks to read the book himself, and finds the exact sounds written down.

 

== Real [RAT-TAT-TAT!] Life ==

 

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[[Category:Abridged Series Tropes]]

[[Category:Censorship Tropes]]

[[Category:Sound FX Tropes]]

[[Category:Self-Demonstrating Article]]