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{{quote|'''STAB'''*<br />
[[Footnote Fever|*:]]Actually, the sound of a wombat being stabbed is a scratchy noise of bristles scraping on steel followed by a rather unpleasant "squlorp!" noise, followed by a damp smack of hilt. But "scratch-squlorp-squithud!" lacks a certain pithiness.|''[[Digger (Webcomic)|Digger]]''}}
 
The [[Written Sound Effect]] is a basic technique for illustrating non-dialog sounds in visual media. The text is a transliteration of the sounds, usually written as onomatopoeia. But then some authors will start writing as sound effects words which only ''sound'' like onomatopoeia. "Bash!" and "Kick!" for instance, just happen to sound a bit like the impacts they're describing.
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** There's also a rather humorous "[[Pettanko]]" sound effect when Anya first sees Yue and Nodoka.
** When Negi goes all out the [[Kanji]] for "Destruction" appears when he hits someone.
** Having a sound for silence can actually be done quite seriously. In the ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'' episode entitled "Silence", a prominent scene combines a "shiiiin" noise with [[Muted Soundtrack]], to great effect. (Along with [[For Doom the Bell Tolls]], and [[Ominous Latin Chanting]], and [[Red Filter of Doom]], because ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'' is melodramatic [[Mundane Made Awesome|even when it's not given a decent excuse to be]].)
* The anime versions of ''[[Pani Poni Dash!]]'', ''[[Lucky Star]]'', ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)|Hayate the Combat Butler]]'', and ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou Sensei-sensei]]'' have all used "staring" ("jiiiiiiiiii") as a vocalised sound effect, in ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou Sensei-sensei|SZS]]'s'' case as a [[Running Gag]].
** Russia does this too in one episode of the anime of [[Axis Powers Hetalia]] - as in, he actually says "jiiiiiii..." while staring at someone. A second later, he does it again, only louder. The other character looks severely uncomfortable by this point.
** Also in ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou Sensei-sensei|SZS]]'', when [[The Voiceless]] Meru types [[Troll|abusive messages]] with her cell phone, we hear the sound "Meru Meru".
** The later seasons of ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou Sensei-sensei|SZS]]'' have ''all'' of the sound effects [[Written Sound Effect|written on screen]] and read out loud with a humorously monotone, bored-sounding voice.
** [[Lucky Star]] also has "ira-ira" appear as Kagami gets progressively more irritated with Tsukasa's attempts at texting.
** Tsukasa goes into lala-land about something, and she actually makes the sound "kira-kira" while her eyes twinkle. (This might even have been preserved in the English dub, with "twinkle-twinkle".)
* Manga publisher Tokyopop used to do this, with some such sounds including "Stand", "Glare" and "Turn".
** Probably one of the funnier ones was "Cadillac!" in ''[[Duklyon: Clamp School Defenders]]''.
* The manga ''[[MPD Psycho]]'' employs this trope in both humorous and straight forms, for instance, when Amamiya's glasses gleam with light, the other characters swear they can hear the "shing" noise that results. An example of the serious form of the trope in action is the "dokun" or "kadoom" noise that indicates Amamiya's personality changing.
* A burn victim in ''[[Detective Conan]]'' had a speech balloon reading "mouthing words" or something to that effect, having been too injured to say anything discernible.
* From ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler (Manga)|Hayate the Combat Butler]]'', we also have the inestimable: ''COINCIDENCE!''
* ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'', with [[Giving Someone the Pointer Finger|"POINT"]].
* One translation of the [[Hentai]] doujin ''Blue Eyes'' featured such sound effects as "ORGASM!", "CLIMAX!", and possibly funniest of all of all, "KA-FUCK!"
* In the space of two pages in the first chapter of ''[[Pandora Hearts]]'', we have "GRAB," "FIDGET," "SURPRISE," and of course, "THREATENING ATMOSPHERE."
* ''[[Otome Kikan Gretel]]'' has a rather freaked out Yuu with the effect "[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/otome_kikan_gretel/v01/c002/24.html startle]." (next to, of course, someone who [[Say It Withwith Hearts|talks with hearts]]
** The very next page has [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/otome_kikan_gretel/v01/c002/26.html "Confused" and "Realization" on the same panel, then "The Culprit" immediately after]
* ''[[Chi's Sweet Home]]'' uses a number of these, including things like [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/chii_s_sweet_home/v02/c032/7.html "dejected"] and [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/chii_s_sweet_home/v02/c033/9.html "loom."]
* When the author of ''[[Kaiji]]'' discovered there wasn't an onomatopoeia for dramatic tension, he invented his own: ZAWA.
** He also uses this same sound in his other works, like ''[[Akagi]]'' and ''[[Gambling Emperor Legend Zero]]''.
* Manga such as ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', ''[[Bleach]]'', and ''[[Shaman King]]'' often throw "DOOM" on dramatic panels. Even more dramatic panels might get "[[Doomy Dooms of Doom|DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM]]".
* In ''[[Doctor Slump]]'', [[Genki Girl]] Arale's greetings are so loud and boisterous that the sound effect for it ("KON'CHWA!", approximately, due to a [[Verbal Tic]]) easily dwarfs her and knocks the people she greets off their feet. The aliens attempt to weaponize this power, but fail every time.
* Fai of ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' starts saying "Fiuuu" instead of whistling, for which [[Lampshade Hanging|Kurogane mocks him]]. {{spoiler|It later [[Subverted Trope|turns out]] that he did that because his whistling has magical powers, though.}}
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** Shi--in
* One episode of ''[[Soul Eater]]'' parodies this trope. A fistfight between two gangs features such [[Unsound Effect|Unsound Effects]] as 'AH!', 'YEAH!' 'NICE!', 'PENCIL!' and 'AMERICA!'.
* In ''[[Area no Kishi (Manga)|Area no Kishi]]'' when [[Handsome Lech|Kouta]] gets especially irritated with his teammate [[Jerkass|Nishijima]], a "Glare" sound effect is displayed in the panel.
* [[Higurashi no Naku Koro Nini|Rika's]] catchphrase - "Ni-pah!"
* ''[[Baby Steps (Manga)|Baby Steps]]'': After his [[Naive Newcomer|first grueling day]] of tennis training, protagonist E-chan's inability to stand up from his desk was denoted by "shivering" sound effects.
* The ''[[Ranma One Half]]'' manga is ''lousy'' with the "Boot" onomatopoeia for whenever someone gets punted into the sky by a [[Megaton Punch|Megaton Kick]]. Ironically enough, NONE of the characters in the series, with the exception of Ryoga, ''ever'' wear boots.
** We also got LOOOOOOOOM for bad guys looking [[Badass]] followed by a much smaller <small>LOOOOM</small> for the good guys trying to but not managing it.
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'''Masachika:''' Bow.<br />
'''Nonplussed Student:''' She actually said "Bow"! }}
* By the fourth episode of ''[[Panty and& Stocking Withwith Garterbelt (Anime)|Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt]]'', the sound effects have branched out into unusual territory. "Nice Dunk!", "Muffin Top", and "Red Carpet" (yeah...) are just a few examples.
** A crowning example occurs in Episode 11: Panty is channel-surfing, and while we can't see the TV, we can see the [[Written Sound Effect|Written Sound Effects]] that each channel produces. The first channel goes "Blah Blah Blah," the second channel goes "Yak Yak Yak," and the third channel goes "A Cock Sucker."
*** Perhaps the third was a random [[Buddy Cop Show]]?
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** Deidara's explosions are always preceded by '''Yeeaagh!''' in the English manga. This lends itself to a [[Woolseyism]] when some of his bombs land near Tobi:
{{quote| '''Tobi''': Time out, partner! Don't '''Yeeaagh''' yet!}}
* ''[[Kenichi: theThe Mightiest Disciple]]'' once had Kenichi outlining to a bunch of delinquents exactly why being a delinquent was a bad lifestyle choice, punctuated with the words "SOUND ARGUMENT!" dramatically appearing at the end of his speech.
* Misaki's "INDIRECT KISS!" in ''[[Junjou Romantica]]''
* The everpresent "WOW~!" used to punctuate fanservice in ''[[Fairy Tail]]''.
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* One [[Scanlation]] of the ''[[Yumekui Merry]]'' manga uses "{{smallcaps|apocalyptic}} '''CRUNCH!'''" in a dream-world sequence where the moon appears to be shattered.
* [[Houou Gakuen Misoragumi]] has sounds effects such as [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/houou_gakuen_misoragumi/v01/c001/15.html 'gets up'] and [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/houou_gakuen_misoragumi/v01/c002/17.html 'barf']
* ''[[SumomoSumomomo Mo Momo MoMomomo]]'' also, at one point, uses the aforementioned [[Pettanko|Petta~n]] sound effect for both Momoka and Iroha, for good reason.
* [[Yuru -Yuri|Akkariiin!]], the sound of someone turning invisible from sheer lack of presence.
 
 
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* Subverted in an issue of the ''[[The Mighty Thor|Thor]]'' comic book, where the Hulk hits Thor with an entire freight train (complete with attached cars). The editor's note on the page confesses that there's no onomatopoeia there because nothing they could think of would do the scene justice.
** The same thing happened when [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|the Thing]] punched Sandman into his component particles while both were underwater.
* ''[[Mad (Magazine)|Mad]]'', illustrating the reality of a six-man utility crew - one guy digging a hole (accompanied by the sound effect "dig") while the other five are in various states of leisure (accompanied by "eat", "siiiip", "snooze", "hang out", and "read").
** Another comic features a massive five-way collision accompanied by "HORRENDOUS UNSPELLABLE SOUND EFFECT!"
** Wally Wood once told a detective story entirely in pictures and exaggerated sound effects (with a couple of unsounds). All the murder victims produced the same sequence of AAAARGH!..THUD...BOUNCE BOUNCE and, in the first case the guy who had been shot rounded off with a quiet BLEED BLEED. The detective was quite mystified by the screams until he realized that the killer was {{spoiler|one Joe Aaaargh, alias Joe Eeeech, alias Joe Uuuuugh.}}
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** Hercules punching Thor in the face in mid-sentence: SUKKAPUNCH!
** The sequel miniseries, ''Prince of Power'', carries on the grand tradition with getting chucked into a table being IKKKEA!, among others.
* Archie's ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (Comic Bookcomics)|Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' comics had unsound effects in the early days before they went down the toilet. Two that stand out are "RABOOM" and "ROBOOMNIK". Guess who was getting blown up on those occasions.
* ''[[Scott Pilgrim]]'' has a number of these, including "GLARE", "FLING", the rather puffy and cute "POUT", and "BOSS FIGHT."
** The [[Scott Pilgrim vs. the World|live-action movie]] has these, too, like "HOP".
* Brandon Graham's ''King City'' has "TOAST" as a sound effect for when some bread pops out of a toaster.
* In ''[[The Goon (Comic Book)|The Goon]]'', rather than show all the gruesome details of Frankie's signature "attack," it's just presented as a black panel with "[[Eye Scream|KNIFE TO THE EYE!]]" written in big white letters.
* ''Hate'' does this a lot.
* ''[[Scud the Disposable Assassin]]'' uses such sound effects as "KICK UP!" (Scud kicking a Mook's laser cannon out of the way) and "GROSS!" (A character getting his head graphically blown apart)
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== Fan Fic ==
* From ''[[Calvin and Hobbes: The Series (Fanfic)|Calvin and Hobbes The Series]]'': '''UN-BOINK!''' <ref>the [[Me's a Crowd|Duplicator]] being reversed</ref>
 
 
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** '''DEATH GLARE.'''
* In the movie ''[[Despicable Me]]'', Gru [[Saying Sound Effects Out Loud|actually says "Lightbulb" whenever he gets an idea]].
* [[Simon Pegg]]'s character in ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'' says "idea" when, well, [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|coming up with an idea]]. Thanks to the numerous cop show references there are a number of instances of characters [[Saying Sound Effects Out Loud]].
 
 
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== Live Action TV ==
* The "Bicycle Repairman" sketch from ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' has intertitle cards with effects like: "Screw!", "Bend!", "Inflate!", and "Alter Saddle!"
* The 1960s ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' TV series had sound effects in every fight scene, and always slipped a few unsounds in as well (e.g. "Sock!" or "Ouch!").
** ''[[The Monkees]]'' parody this in one episode with a fight that has words like Rumble! Plink! Plank! Plunk! Miss! Foo! Bing! Bong! Bang! Splat! Kretch! Plop! Splinter! on the screen. (At the word Kretch, Peter Tork stops fighting, [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|looks into the camera]], and says, "Kretch???" before they agree to stop fighting and start breaking furniture.)
** ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' also parodies this in "The Winged Avenger". At the end of the episode, Steed fights the villain by hitting him with poster-sized mockups of comic book panels, each containing a word like "Pow!" and "Splat!" Meanwhile, "Batman"-like music is playing in the background.
* When a piece of viewer mail on ''[[Attack of the Show (TV)|Attack of the Show]]'' asked what kind of sound effect they would want to have if they were in a comic, Kevin Pereira admitted he would want the word "SKANK!" to pop up when he slapped someone in the face.
* ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' did a sketch entirely in action and spoken sound/unsound words. It started with a creature (possibly played by Animal) trudging through the wilderness while muttering "trudge trudge trudge" until it got interrupted by something flying past with a loud "FLY! FLY!" which made it stop and go "ponder... ponder... ponder..." as it, well, pondered the strange event. After this had happened a couple of times the wanderer lost its patience and went "fret foam" as it picked up a heavy stick, and the next time the flyer passed it got stopped by a massive SMASH SMASH!
* On ''[[The Tonight Show]]'', Conan O'Brien visits a Foley stage and makes his own sound effects, including a shout of "Throw baby!" when a character throws a baby.
* While the well-loved "Sound Effects" game in ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'' tends to slip into [[Saying Sound Effects Out Loud]] instead, a recent session in ''[[Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza (TV)|Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza]]'' flies straight into this trope when one audience member, faced with voicing over ''flexing biceps'', actually goes "Magnificent!" and "Powerful!" for each arm. [[Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza (TV)/Funny|And flexing buttcheeks go "Beyonce!" for some reason.]]
** During one game of "Props", Wayne had to somehow mime being a lamp that was turned on. So he just simply said "ON!" loudly.
 
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== Music ==
* [[PDQ Bach|P.D.Q. Bach]]'s ''Good King Kong Looked Out'' has a choir ''[[Saying Sound Effects Out Loud|singing]]'' an [[Unsound Effect]] - "hear", in this case - because seriously, what onomatopoeia could possibly used?
* In ''[[Stan Freberg (Creator)]] Presents The United States of America'', Christopher Columbus' crew indicate their displeasure with a chant of "rumble rumble rumble, mutiny mutiny mutiny". This has achieved a [[Memetic Mutation]] status, and Tyne Daly mentioning the phrase to Freberg got her a role in the sequel to the program.
* On the [[The Who|Who]] song "A Quick One While He's Away," the band had originally planned to have a cello accompaniment in one section. But the money ran out, so the band just sang "cello cello cello cello" in the background over and over.
 
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* In ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver|Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver]]'', you have to help a Kimono Girl whose sandals are frozen to the ground in the [[Slippy-Slidey Ice World|Ice Cave]]. You do this by shoving her. The sound effect shown in the text box for this? "'''Shove!'''"
* [[Nanaca Crash]] has "DEATH?" when you hit one of the guys, as well as "SLOW DOWN" and "STOP!" and others, though those might just be describing what happened to you rather than being actual sound effects.
* The instruction manual for the [[PSPlay Station 2]] game ''[[Flower Sun and Rain|Flower, Sun, and Rain]]'' includes screenshots accompanied by ordinary sound effect words, until one image gets the effect "KATHARINE!"
* [[Final Fantasy VI|*gobble* *snarf* *snap* HP/MP restored, and status ailments like Poison cured!]]
* In ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'', scoring a [[Critical Hit]] on an enemy causes [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|CRITICAL HIT!!!]] to appear over his head. These are ''only'' visible to the player responsible.
** Subsequent updates have added "MINI CRIT" (from the Jarate and Buff Banner), "MISS" (from [[Caffeine Bullet Time|Bonk]]), and "YIKES!" (being scared by the ghost in the Halloween event map.
** [http://www.teamfortress.com/war/saxtonhale/ This] Saxton Hale comic has soundeffects that include "BRAVE JUMP" and "FLAWLESS ROLL"
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*** Not even Saxton's ancestor Barnabus is immune to this. '''''[http://www.teamfortress.com/loosecanon/04.html COUGAR!]'''''
*** The Smissmass Update also brings us '''COMPOUND ELEVATED SKULL FRACTURE'''.
* Any Valve game since ''[[Half-Life 2 (Video Game)|Half-Life 2]]'' has this in the closed captions. Includes things like "*pain!*", "*laughter*", "[Crowbar Thwap!]", "[Bullet--Near Miss!]", "[Engine starting in water]", "[Headcrab Burning]", and of course, "[Beep-beep-beeeeeeeeep.] User Fatality.". Portal brings us "Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee[bzzt]", "[Peppy Music]" and "[Calming Wind]".
* The planting of a Doom-Shroom in ''[[Plants vs. Zombies (Video Game)|Plants vs. Zombies]]'' is immediately followed by an explosive "[[Doomy Dooms of Doom|DOOM]]!"
* In ''[[Return to Zork (Video Game)|Return to Zork]],'' the first hint that [[Baleful Polymorph|a duck is really a transformed wizard]] is the fact that it actually says "quack quack" in a human voice.
* [[The World Ends With You (Video Game)|The World Ends With You]]: Bling!
* A cheat in ''[[Age of Empires III (Video Game)|Age of Empires III]]'', in reference to Teen Girl Squad (see just below), causes an effect that when a unit dies, the name of its killer pops up above it, followed by "-ed". So units can get "Musketeer'ed!", "Imperial Rocket'ed!", or, in one campaign level, "Fixed Gun Ruins'ed!".
* In ''[[Super Mario Bros 2 (Video Game)|Super Mario Bros 2]]'' and ''[[Super Mario World (Videovideo Gamegame)|Super Mario World]]'', when a bomb explodes (or when Mario destroys a castle), "BOMB!" appears.
* An April Fool's joke for ''[[City of Heroes]]'' was that all in-game sounds would be replaced with onomatopoeia, including for [[Memetic Mutation|energy-based attacks]] [[Turn Signals Onon a Land Raider|FREEM!!!]]
* ''[[Persona 3]]'' has "GLARE" appear occasionally.
* In ''[[Brutal Legend]]'', there is a scene where Ophelia stabs a Druid. SHANK!
* ''[[Freedom Force]]'', as a homage to the [[Silver Age]], features this in spades. ''Every'' attack has an [[Unsound Effect]].
* In fanworks based on ''[[Touhou]]'', the "ZUN!" unsound effect is popular. It's often used for dramatic or shocking moments. It's a reference to ZUN, the pen name of the series creator.
* In ''[[Final Fantasy VIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VIII]]'', the Tonberry summon has a pronounced "doink!" to accompany the GF stabbing the summon's target with a chef's knife.
 
 
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** [http://www.homestarrunner.com/404error.html 404'd!!!]
** And in the [http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail204.html dictionary] sbemail: "Hurl!" "Tooth!", actually [[Saying Sound Effects Out Loud|SAID by Strong Bad and Homestar respectively]].
* [[The Angry Video Game Nerd (Web Video)|The Angry Video Game Nerd]] parodies the Adam West ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' show's visual onomatopoeia in the second Batman episode. Visuals include ''[[Back to The Future|"Biff! Marty!"]]'', ''"Splash!"'', ''"Jugyiop!"'', ''[[Pac-Man|"Wakawaka!"]]'', and ''"FUCKBALLS!"''
* One segment from ''[[AMV Hell]] 4'' involved a ''[[Paranoia Agent]]'' / Batman mash-up. In it, Shonen Bat/Lil' Slugger is beating down people with his bat, while the typical [[Written Sound Effect]] staples seen in Adam West's Batman. The last one of the bunch (it's very briefly seen; you have to be quick to catch it) is OMGWTF!. The clip was titled [[Incredibly Lame Pun|"Shonen Batman"]].
* The Ogres on ''[[Unforgotten Realms]]'' frequently mutter the words "Ogre Sounds" to no one in particular.
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** Other sound effects include [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/erf0139.html "YTMND," "NSFW," and "4CHAN."]
*** And the incantation for the spell that caused the "NSFW" sound effect was "[[Shock Site|Lemonparty, Tubgirl, Meatspin, Goatse]]." The epitome of NSFW sites.
** And someone was killed by the sound effect RROD referring to the [[Xbox Three Sixty360|Red Rings of Death]].
* [http://www.antiheroforhire.com/d/20060501.html Nicely parodied] by [[Antihero for Hire]].
** [http://www.antiheroforhire.com/d/20100510.html EXIT CLOSED!]
* Done at least [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=429#comic once]in ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]''. Well, what sound would you expect when you [[British English|lamp]] someone with a lamp?
* ''Framed!!!'' used effects like "walk" for walking.
* ''[[Dead Winter (Webcomic)|Dead Winter]]'' used "mop" for someone being hit with one in [http://www.deadwinter.cc/page/223.htm this strip].
** Also, the sound effect [[Law of Inverse Recoil|"RECOILLESS"]] [http://deadwinter.cc/page/260.htm here.]
* ''[[Sinfest]]'' uses this nearly every other strip, notably [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=521 here], [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3213 here], [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3223 here], [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2614 here], and [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3319 here] ("VERKLEMPT!" It's Yiddish for "quite upset or emotional.")
** [[The Bully|The bullies]]' attack on Crimney had no words in the entire panel, but many sound effects, and unsound effects such as [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4247 such as snatch and tackle].
* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]'': "[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=284 Spankies!]", "Trundle", '''[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=239 SLAM DUNKIN]''', [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=172 "Rocket!"].
** Also, ''GC'' deserves props for possibly being the first ever use of "[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=511 Blink]" for something ''completely unrelated'' to [[Squeaky Eyes]].
** This is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by the author in the footnotes of this page: [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=268 "Single bound!"].
*** There's also, for a door slamming, "[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=588 SLAM]" and then "SLAM AGAIN"
* ''Badass Muthas'' does [http://badassmuthas.com/pages/comic.php?7 this].
* "Sucker Punch'd!" in many ''[[Dan and MabsMab's Furry Adventures]]'' strips. [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_686.php\] [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_706.php\] [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_733.php\]
** DMFA also had "De-Pantsu'd!" and "De-Dressu'd!".
** And "Ker-Pwned!"
** And now: "[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_1176.php (magical) SUCKERPUNCH!]"
* ''[[User Friendly]]'' had some 'interesting' sounds for coffee brewing: "sizzle", "congeal", "fold proteins", "curdle", "sprout". Of course, given that previous coffee-brewing efforts have intentionally created a brew that has the properties of [[Alien (Filmfranchise)|Xenomorph]] acid-for-blood and one that was made with parts of [[HPH.P. Lovecraft|Hastur]], this may indicate a success.
** In another strip, when someone was writing a program to trick someone else, the Unsounds were 'Code Plot Plan' as he was typing.
* ''[[No Need for Bushido]]'' uses these in nearly every comic.
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** And, [http://noneedforbushido.com/2009/comic/375/ '''REBUTTAL!''']
** Not to forget, [http://noneedforbushido.com/2006/comic/236/ Hat!]
* ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (Webcomic)|The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'': Dr McN jumps on a motorbike driven by a ninja and whispers something in his ear to creep him out and throw him off the bike. The [http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=26&issue=4 resulting] sound effect is "CREEPED OUT ENOUGH TO BE THROWN EASILY FROM THE BIKE". This is then [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in the [[Alt Text]] which reads "Oh come on. That is not a real sound effect at all."
** [http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=6&issue=15 SICKNASTY!]
** Also, [http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=45&issue=5 BUTT PUNCH.]
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* [http://www.middlecenter.com/comic/display.php?pg=30 These] [http://www.middlecenter.com/comic/display.php?pg=69 two] ''[[The Heroes of Middlecenter]]'' strips.
* [http://pasteldefender.com/222.html Here's a variation from ''Pastel Defender Heliotrope'' (panel 4)]
* In ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'', shrinking with "shrink soda" gives off a "sha-rink!" sound.
** And also "insert rather ordinary door bell sound here".
* [[Grey Is (Webcomic)...|Grey Is]]: [http://greyismanga.com/manga/ch008-hearts-strength/chapter-008-page-17 Check check check]
* ''[[Zebra Girl]]'' uses this in one strip, alongside a [[Clue From Ed|Message From Ed]] that states that the creator has no idea what the actions depicted would actually sound like, so he's just gonna make things up.
* [http://www.alessonislearned.com/index.php?comic=6 This] ''[[A Lesson Is Learned but The Damage Is Irreversible]]'' comic uses "GASOLINE". Others used include "MOONROCK" and "COMBINE".
* "Bang" not for you? ''Gone with the Blastwave'' has [http://www.blastwavecomic.com/index.php?p=comic&nro=40 -BULLET SOUND-]
** Don't forget the legendary "shotgun" sound from the impossible to find green comic.
* ''[[Xkcd (Webcomic)|Xkcd]]'' dabbles with this [http://xkcd.com/260/ occasionally]. [http://www.xkcd.com/433/ This strip] has "park" as a sound effect.
* ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'' examples include:
** '''[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2006/04/08/episode-682-pointless-retribution/ ORGY OF VIOLENCE]'''
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** [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2964.html TRANSCEND!]
** [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/3032.html ICE!]
* ''[[Adventurers (Webcomic)|Adventurers]]'' had several. One strip in the final boss battle gives us "Slash! Cleave! Bisect!" Another from earlier has [http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/20030610.html "That sound ninjas make when they jump silently!"], and then later [http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/20030612.html "That same sound from the last comic about jumping ninjas!"]
** [http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/20020725.html Sound associated with a falling safe!]
* ''[[Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki]]'': [http://www.sgvy.com/archives/Edda5/Issue7/Page1.html *non-squish non-squish* ]
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* ''[[Stickman and Cube|T-T-T-TIMEWARP!]]''
** ''[[Spamusement]]'' has [http://spamusement.com/index.php/comics/view/290 "KER-TIME-TRAVEL!"]
* ''[[Casey and Andy (Webcomic)|Casey and Andy]]'' has the Mime Assassin firing an invisible sniper rifle with [http://www.galactanet.com/comic/view.php?strip=90 "SILENCE!"]
** Also [http://www.galactanet.com/comic/view.php?strip=579 this strip], which has "Silence" amongst others.
* From ''[[Bigger Than Cheeses]]'': [http://www.biggercheese.com/index.php?comic=678 SPINE!]
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** The "chief" character's warning came too late, it seems, as someone already made a move and got trashcanned, while the "vixen" is now blowing a bubble of chewing gum. The rest of the comic goes directly into "I Am Not Making This Up" territory (and in several places, makes me wish for some kind of mind/eye bleach).
** Also, Gonterman's short-lived "Kitsune .44" gives us the infamous "[http://commuterbarnacle.com/gonterman/4413.html "AUTOMATIC MACHINE GUN FIRE!"], "[http://commuterbarnacle.com/gonterman/4415.html TAKE OFF...]", [http://commuterbarnacle.com/gonterman/4416.html "tap tap tappity tap tap and so on tap tappit"], "DISARM!" and "...HOLSTER" and one instance where a character ''[http://commuterbarnacle.com/gonterman/4419.html says ":-)"]''.
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|Schlock Mercenary]]'': Schlock's signature plasgun charges up with the sound effect "Ommmminous hummmm....". On one occasion where it's broken and he tries to fire it, the (lack of) sound effect is "Ominous ''[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20020221.html silence]''."
** And then there's [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20080521.html this strip]:
{{quote| '''Lieutenant:''' What are they going to do? [[Tempting Fate|Take a potshot through two layers of hullmetal]]?<br />
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** [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0702.html Unfurl!]
** [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0761.html Swinganamiss!] Rich Burlew seems to really like these.
** [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0608.html Eee! Eee! Eee! Eee!] is the sound of someone being [[Psycho (Film)|stabbed in the shower]].
** [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0609.html FTTH!] is the sound of someone getting a Foot To The Head. Also, SCHTUTH! may or may not stand for something similar.
** [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0748.html Thjunk!]
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** How about "[http://www.hookiedookiepanic.com/geist/comic.php?ID=59 No HMO Will Ever Cover This!]"? That's another good one.
** [http://www.hookiedookiepanic.com/geist/comic.php?ID=74 FOOT!]
* ''[[Girl Genius (Webcomic)|Girl Genius]]'' had lots of fun with these:
** One of [[Mad Scientist|Gil's]] inventions is the Hand Cranked Runcible Gun, which makes the sound "Spork! Spork! Spork!" as it fires... [[Spork|Sporks]].
** [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080926 Boot! Boot! Boot!]
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** A deflected borfomite beam [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20100427.html "careens off into deep space..."]
* ''[[Achewood]]'' has [http://achewood.com/index.php?date=05022005 one] that crosses over with [[Bilingual Bonus]]: ''diis aliter visum'' translates from Latin to "the gods decided otherwise". Highly appropriate for one who has come [[Back From the Dead]].
* ''[[Dandy and Company (Webcomic)|Dandy and Company]]'': Christmas decorations appear with a massive [http://www.dandyandcompany.com/2007/11/26/november-26-2007/ JINGLE!]
* ''Tails From The Mynarski Forest'' inverts this by using real words and names that ''sound'' like real sound effects, such as "GDANSK!"
* ''[[MS Paint Masterpieces]]'' uses "telprot!" (yes, that's spelled correctly) for teleportation.
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* [http://www.blue-uncia.nl/pages/SoL/SoL0111.shtml This] [[Stuff of Legend]] strip: SUPER SPECIAL SHOVE [[Doomy Dooms of Doom|OF DOOM!]]
* The defunct [[Sprite Comic]] ''[http://www.yosc.net/194X/ 194X]'' had a strip wherein a character hits several people with his "Volunteerin' Stick," making sound effects such as "PERSUADE!" (194X's archive doesn't allow direct links to comics; this happens in #70.)
* ''[[Double K (Webcomic)|Double K]]'' brings us [http://captainosaka.deviantart.com/art/DOUBLE-K-023-105633536 BAIL]. And later on, '''"[http://captainosaka.deviantart.com/gallery/704630#/d36kzc0 C4.]"''' Yes, period and all.
* [http://taleotc.com/155 This] ''Tale of the Cave'' strip features insults hidden in the miss sound effects. Naturally, the protagonist shoots the sound effect guy. This is the only shot he has successfully made to date.
* ''[[Mac Hall]]'' had one strip where a human character in ''[[The Matrix]]'' universe who points out the film's plotholes is blasted by a laser gun, which makes the sound '''*VOIP!*'''. Not really an [[Unsound Effect]]...until one sees the strip immediately after, where one of the machines points out a plothole, and is blasted by a '''*VERY ADVANCED VOIP!*'''
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** Much later, [http://www.ansemretort.org/ansemretort/index.html?comic=494 bats]. Then [[Cloudcuckoolander|Larxene.]]
** One strip even had the sound effect of "TIME GETTING F***ED".
* Lampshaded and justified in ''[[Digger (Webcomic)|Digger]]'' a number of times, including the page quote, as well as with [http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=675 SOUNDS OF DISTANT ETHEREAL CHANTING!]<ref>There is no feasible onomatopoeia of this.</ref>.
** [http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=678 SOMEWHAT MORE DISGRUNTLED ETHEREAL CHANTING!]
** [http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=744 BY-NOW-FAMILIAR SOUNDS OF GRUMPY ETHEREAL CHANTING!]
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* These have become something of a [[Running Gag]] on ''[[Daisy Owl]]''. A recent strip indicates the tucking in of a bib with ''"tuck tuck"'', while the [[Alt Text]] explains "that sound effect was originally going to be ''"bib bib bib"'' but I felt [[The World Is Not Ready|the world was not ready]]".
* [[Kevin and Kell]]: [[Dope Slap]] [http://www.kevinandkell.com/2004/kk0418.html Slap]!
* ''[[Turn Signals Onon a Land Raider]]'' used these occasionally. The effect in the last panel of the last comic is, fittingly, "KA-DISCONTINUE!" when an Imperator Titan kicked Jack.
* [[Anthronauts]] recently gave us the unusual "''Ker-Squid''".
** Exactly what sound '''should''' a squid make when it crash-lands on somebody's head?
* ''[[The Fancy Adventures of Jack Cannon (Webcomic)|The Fancy Adventures of Jack Cannon]]'' gives us '''''[http://fancyadventures.com/2009/06/08/page-96/ AWWKWAAARD!]'''''
** [http://fancyadventures.com/2009/08/31/page-120/ *STRUGGLE STRUGGLE*]
* The [[Touhou]] fancomic ''[[Touhou Nekokayou (Webcomic)|Touhou Nekokayou]]'' often uses these to compensate for the fact that it's hard to show actions in [[Virtual Paper Doll|create.swf]], i.e. "[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic67 ready to pounce]," or even for exposition, i.e. the same strip also has "was just faking it."
** '''[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=thcomic96 KER-SLAMUEL!]'''
** And now, [http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=csa01marisa0002 JOKE STOLEN VERBATIM!]
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* Lucy Knisley makes good use of this one, particularly in "Some Thumb Sucking", in which she uses 'stress stress stress', 'calm', 'suspicion' and 'sneaky' (not to mention the variant 'sneeeaky' and then some more 'calm') as sound effects in only 9 panels.
* Used and abused by ''[[Chicanery]]'', with such sterling examples as "*spork*", "STEVE!", and "Brain refusing to function noises".
* ''[[Hark! aA Vagrant]]'' shows us what exposing fascism while on the run sounds like: [http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=44 write write huff write huff write]
* ''[[Hanna Is Not a BoysBoy's Name]]'' uses this occasionally: for example, [http://hanna.aftertorque.com/?p=162 "awkward."]
* ''[[Homestuck (Webcomic)|Homestuck]]'': '''[http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003403 "Egg!"]'''
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] (uh, sort of) a little later, when Wayward Vagabond hears "EGG" and thinks "it sounds like a giant egg just materialized in the sky and fell to the ground" or something along those lines.
** Inverted with PCHOOOOO, which John believes is a blast-off rocket sound effect, but it's actually the captcha code for the rocket pack.
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** [[Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff|griiiiinb]]
* In ''[[Sonichu]]'', the abilities are presented as such, as is teleporting in. Lampshaded in the Audiobooks when Dethchemist describes a character as using "TELEPORTS IN."
* ''[[Brawl in The Family (Webcomic)|Brawl in Thethe Family]]'': FALCON SLEEP! FALCON SLEEP! FALCON SLEEP!
* Steve of ''[[Life and Death (Webcomic)|Life and Death]]'', being [[The Unfettered|who he is]], [[Groin Attack|goes right for the nuts]] with the sound effect, "Cheap shot!" Don't worry, the guy on the receiving end didn't feel a thing (at the moment), and he's a [[Jerkass]] anyway.
* ''[[Keychain of Creation]]'' gives us the [http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0280.html "Bro"] fist bump.
* ''[[The Way of the Metagamer]]'' includes "Temporarycollapse!" several times.
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* ''[[A Loonatics Tale]]'' has [http://static2007.deviantart.com/art/Stone-Cold-Crazy-69-129780175 BWARB], along with a "Twitch" sound effect for... well, whenever Riley's eye twitches.
** And in [http://zibaricon.org/animation/therapy/therapy.php this animation], we see that the twitch DOES make an actual sound.
* In ''[[GonewithGone With the Blastwave]]''; we get *Bullet Sound* for-what else?-bullets whizzing by.
* [http://woodsforthetrees.comicgenesis.com/d/20061213.html Generic collision noise!]
* ''[[Curvy]]'' has quite a few of these, including (NSFW) [http://c.urvy.org/?date=20100522 plug] for a shark being used to plug a hole in a ship, and [http://c.urvy.org/?date=20100529 inflate] for someone being magically inflated so she can breathe underwater.
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* Occasionally seen in ''[[A Miracle of Science]]'', though the comic usually uses onomatopoeic sound effects. Like "crumple." on [http://www.project-apollo.net/mos/mos328.html this rather spoilery page].
* ''[http://www.firmanproductions.com/ Moe]'' has several, including [http://www.firmanproductions.com/?p=671 'BRIBE SLIDE']
* ''[[Shortpacked (Webcomic)|Shortpacked]]!'': ''[[Spit Take|SPIT-TAKE]]''
* ''[[Dragon Mail]]'' gets off to a running start with this trope, using "[http://dragonmail.fadri.org/index.php?pg=3&lg=en Quicky Quicky!]" on the third page.
* ''[[Far Out There]]'' has featured several, including but not limited to:
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* ''[[Awkward Zombie]]'': [http://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic1-072009.php BELAY!], and [http://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic1-060109.php ANGST!], among others.
* In ''[[Overcompensating]]'', an olfactory assault makes a [http://www.overcompensating.com/posts/20101015.html STAAAAAANK] sound. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in the caption.
* Whenever some machinery activates in ''[[The Mansion of E (Webcomic)|The Mansion of E]]'', especially in the SubShafts, and it goes, say, ''click'', there's a good chance that it's going to deactivate with an ''unclick''.
* Played with in this ''[[Housepets (Webcomic)|Housepets]]'' [http://www.housepetscomic.com/2008/06/11/it-gets-worse/ strip]
* [http://mountaincomics.com/2010/07/19/refractions/ This] Mountain Time offers "gentle descent!" and "suspenseful ascent!"
* ''[[Vexxarr]]'' has "{{smallcaps|Explode!!!}}. No [[Space Is Noisy|"Kaboom!" in space]], you see.
* ''[[Rusty and Co (Webcomic).|Rusty and Co]]'' [[Spam Attack|improved]] the one with "{{smallcaps|[http://rustyandco.com/comic/level-4-1/ stab]}}". Also, "[[Vancian Magic|VANCE!]]" and "MELF!", and [http://rustyandco.com/comic/11/ THAC0].
* When pookas go back to being visible in ''[http://mopsy.com/ Never Never]'', they go "[[Sdrawkcab Name|Foop!]]"
* ''[[Fruit Incest]]'' uses a few, including the frequently occurring "Explosion" and "Barge In".
* ''[[Life Withwith Lamarr]]'' gives us [http://jill-sandwich.com/lwl/index.php?episode=139 tl;dr]. There's also the regular use of 'Sqwerk!' for Lamarr.
* Not sure if this was on purpose, but when a character in ''[[Ménage à 3]]'' [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20110205.html suggests] that Gary enjoyed an accidental [[Ho Yay]] encounter, Gary chokes on his drink, which makes the sound [http://www.nasponline.org/advocacy/glb.aspx Glb!]
* ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' once [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/08132004/ used] the sound effect [[Chirping Crickets|cricket cricket]].
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* ''[[Blip]]'' constantly parodies this, often reacting to real onomatopoeias in-universe.
* ''[[Goblins]]'': [http://www.goblinscomic.com/09162011/ KERSPLOSIONFORNOREASON!]
* In ''[[Sandra and Woo (Webcomic)|Sandra and Woo]]'', the sound of [http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2011/11/24/0328-values-that-count/ Woo enjoying a pretty bird] is: >catch< >behead< >devour<.
* ''[[Arthur, King of Time and Space]]'' has "[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/0683.htm UPSIDE]".
* Unsound effects occur regularly in ''Not a Villain'': for example, [http://navcomic.com/archive/page-76/ "ELONGATE" and "IGNORE"].
* [[Swords And Sausages]] used both "shove" and "violence!" in a [[Big Ball of Violence]].
* ''[[This Is Not Fiction (Webcomic)|This Is Not Fiction]]'' uses these often. Almost any given sound effect will just be a regular word with the vowels removed, in addition to classics like "NAKED" and "CRIMINAL".
* [http://commedia2x00.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/page-06-interrobang/ This] page of Commedia 2X00 has Pantalone playing a guitar (autographed by Mozart) to announce his imminent engagement. The sound effect: "EPIC CHORD!"
* [[Frankie and Stein]] uses this frequently, purposely misspelled, to hysterical affect.
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== Web Original ==
* Some hovertext on [http://cuteoverload.com/2009/09/08/so-dr-charmin-my-old-nemesis/ CuteOverload] includes "Perforate! Unspool!" and then goes into "Verb! Another verb! Yet another completely different verb!"
* During [[The Angry Video Game Nerd (Web Video)|The Angry Video Game Nerd]]'s fight with [[The Joker]] in the second half of his ''[[Batman]]'' review, sound effects such as 'MARTY', 'JUGYIOP', and 'FUCKBALLS' appear.
* [[Cracked]].com does it here [http://www.cracked.com/video_18156_a-trailer-every-academy-award-winning-movie-ever.html\]
* At [http://www.fiveminute.net FiveMinute.net], "GAK!" is always the sound of a character dying, regardless of how they die.
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{{quote| KA-CHIN!}}
** The best comes from the opening cutscene of a videogame, where Cosmo summons up Da Rules with the "Poof" cloud [[MacGuffin|"PLOT DEVICE!"]]
* Appearances by Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy on ''[[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]]'' often use these as part of their being a Batman spoof: "HANG UP!" "SIT!" "WINK!"
** NAP!
** KING ME! when the characters were playing checkers.
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* The [[Looney Tunes]] short "Now Hear This" climaxes with a gigantic explosion, accompanied by the words "GIGANTIC EXPLOSION" appearing onscreen, probably one of the most unimaginative onomatopoeia ever devised.
** [[Rule of Funny]]
** It was [[media:giganticexplosion.jpg|used again]] in the [[Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner (Animation)|Wile E Coyote and The Road Runner]] short "Soup or Sonic", to cap off the penultimate scene.
** When Bugs first sees the spaceship in "The Hasty Hare", he says "[[Loud Gulp|Gulp!]]"
* When the townspeople of ''[[South Park]]'' get upset, they form a mob and just yell "[http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/153618 RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!]"
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* In the ''[[Space Ghost Coast to Coast]]'' episode "Batmantis", Space Ghost notes the presence of word balloons out of the 1960s Batman series: "Oh, look! Shoot a ray, and you get a word." He then produces word balloons reading "Obvious Parody!", "Insipid!", "Kenny Rogers!", and three paragraphs of unreadably-small text on the theory of evolution.
* The ''Self-Medication'' episode of ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' features a bar fight chock full of these: examples include "Judo!" "Cower!" and "Torn Meniscus!"
* A [[Scott Pilgrim]] parody on ''[[MAD (Animation)|MAD]]'' had "PUBLIC DOMAIN MUSIC".
* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode "Party of One", Applejack and her friends are up to something in the barn at Sweet Apple Acres, and keeping it a secret from Pinkie Pie. Applejack tells a skeptical Pinkie that they're doing renovations, and has the other girls make construction noises in the background... which includes Twilight Sparkle shouting "Safety gear!" and Rainbow Dash saying "Drill, drill!"
* The "Good Manners with Max" shorts on the old Playhouse Disney block always began like this:
{{quote| '''Max:''' Hi, my name is Max, and this is my dog Banjo. Say hi, Banjo.<br />
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