Sound Effect Funny Video

[Ceola Roefaro]

You ever come across sound effects put in a comic that you just can't imagine actually happening in the real world? Stuff like BOOM and POW make sense but 3 syllable ones always boggle my mind. What are some of the funniest/weirdest comic sounds you've ever seen?

There are six sound effects to choose from, including a fart noise, which all correspond to existing emoji. You can play the audio emoji directly during a phone call to annoy whoever you're talking with, because I can't see how anyone on the receiving end could love this feature.

If I had to choose an equivalent, it would be to those soundboards that old school radio hosts used to play with during interviews and dead air, with all sorts of quirky sound effects, like a toilet flushing or a sad trombone. It's annoying then too.

If you're looking to be that person, and I think you know what I mean by that person, well, then you'll definitely want to take advantage of the new audio emoji on your Android device. Here's everything you need to know.

While most of the audio emoji are straightforward, the crying face emoji corresponds to the sad trombone noise made as a joke when someone fails at something, and the drum emoji is the rimshot sound effect made after someone tells the punchline to a joke.

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Now, before I show you how to use these audio emoji, please remember that with great power comes great responsibility, so use the audio emoji only when necessary or else you risk your friends, colleagues and family members hanging up on you and never wanting to talk to you on the phone ever again. Got it?

OK, to use audio emoji, call someone on your Android or pick up a phone call and then hit the new audio emoji button that appears right above your phone dialer buttons (keypad, mute and speaker). After you hit the audio emoji button, it will expand to show you the six audio emoji options you have.

Tap an audio emoji button, like the poop or drum emoji, and the corresponding sound effect will play for a few seconds, along with an equally annoying and low-quality full-screen animation. The sound effect will be heard by both parties, and as someone who's already been a victim to audio emoji, let me tell you, it's pretty dang loud and annoying.

Pretty simple to use, but at the same time, shouldn't be used all the time, especially during professional phone calls or more serious conversations. As someone who loves to prank my friends, I can see these audio emoji being overused and quickly becoming more annoying than funny. Imagine dropping a womp womp as your friend cries to you about a breakup?

On some shows, this is done routinely and serves to enhance the overall wackiness, on others it is used sparingly and to make a specific auditive point or gag, for example when the impact of a huge object fails to produce the ear-shattering KABOOM sound the audience expects. Typically, 'big' things get a 'small' or silly sound, but the trope works the other way around as well. Stock Sound Effects and inherently funny sounds (associated with circuses and clowns) are especially popular. In a common variation, this trope is Exaggerated by the use of a different Wacky Sound Effect every time an action is repeated, for example when a character is repeatedly hit on the head with the same object.

Sometimes, a sound is played where there shouldn't be anything to hear, for example Squeaky Eyes (a subtrope). Contrast with Audible Sharpness and Audible Gleam which aren't considered wacky but rather cross over to Coconut Effect territory. Contrast also with Space Is Noisy, where 1) the space noise is also more or less expected by the viewer and 2) the sound effects are pseudorealistic rather than wacky. See also Editorial Synaesthesia.

Wacky sound effects are a staple of animation, but also sometimes used in older live-action works where it is likely, however, to be deemed by a present-day audience to feel inappropriate and tantamount to Special Effects Failure. Then, there's the connection to Slapstick and, by association, to funny home videos. Compare Unsound Effect, which involves similarly odd sound effects, but the oddness is centered around non-sound effects being rendered as being such anyway.

Fan Works

• After Ultra Fast Pony's first two episodes conspicuously lack any sound effects, the third episode, titled "Now With A Sound Effect", has the characters admiring the use of an overly loud apple-biting sound. The rest of the show follows the precedent, using loud and unfitting sound effects whenever possible.
• An especially notable instance is in "The Longest Wedding", where no less than fourteen different sounds are used as the changelings ram the Orb repeatedly. This is lampshaded in the Director's Commentary.

Live-Action TV

• Gullah Gullah Island did this in Season 1, when Binyah Binyah hopped, there was a boinging sound. It ended up being abandoned by Season 2.
• Studio C's Radio Mystery Hour starts out fine until the Special Effects gal topples the table with all the special effects things so she has to improvise.

Music Videos

• Cat Hairballs has several cartoon sound effects throughout the video. Among them are:
• A whirling sound when Stimpy spins Ren around.
• A rubbery spring noise when they spring off of a chair.
• Coughing after the line "or a fine cigar".
• A sucking sound as Ren gets sucked into Stimpy's nose.
• Countless splat sounds when one of Stimpy's hwarfs hits the conveyor belt.
• And of course the painful hluarf sound when Stimpy passes out on the conveyor belt and gets branded on the ass cheeks.

Theme Parks

• In Special Effects Show at Universal Studios, volunteers are brought up to try to recreate sound effects used in a scene from Identity Thief, this trope being the natural result.

Video Games

• The Jackbox Party Pack 2 has the "Earwax" game, which is about picking two sounds from a library of Stock Sound Effects that best fit a certain prompt.
• In Neverwinter Nights, searching a pile of rocks, or other such rubble, would occasionally be accompanied by a slamming door sound.
• Whenever Glukkons walk in Oddworld games, it is accompanied by a xylophone sound effect. This is notably absent in Soulstorm's ending to emphasize the game's darker tone.
• In The Ring: Terror's Realm, there's a wacky "SppplllAAAAT" sound effect used throughout the game (it's even used on the menu screens).Spoony: That was the best sound effect they could come up with, the sound of someone stepping on a mustard bottle.
• Sim Farm gives us some truly bizarre sound effects. Watch this guy's reactions to them (starting at 1:43).
• Soul Series: Joke weapons in Soulcalibur II produce Wacky Sound Effects every time they connect: Astaroth's Rock trumpets like an elephant, Yoshimitsu's Shepherd's Crook bleats like a sheep, Necrid's Ethereal Edge makes a "boi-oi-oing" noise, Nightmare's Galley Oar makes a sound like breaking waves, and so on.
• The weapons in Worms games, which include everything from bazookas to sheep and exploding bananas, are as wacky as they sound.

Web Animation

• Mass Defect involves one of two "fancy" Servant Grunts from Amnesia: The Dark Descent saying "Fregley, get into character quick!" Immediately afterward, a Wacky Sound Effect along the lines of "BAP" plays, they lose their top hats and monocles, and they proceed to growl like zombies and chase after the "protagonist."

Western Animation

• Drawn Together has lots of these, with Wooldoor Sockbat as the epicenter. His masturbation technique involves a long string of Wacky Sound Effects.
• Ed, Edd n Eddy absolutely reveled in using deliberately inappropriate sound effects, such as microphone feedback for when Eddy's hand gets a cactus stuck on it, or a truck backing up when Double D awkwardly motions himself away from Ed. It even delighted in using some seen (almost) nowhere else, such as the iconic "SUBALUWA!"
• Freakazoid! features one in Toby Danger: when something collapses, explodes, or otherwise goes horribly awry, the sound effect used is that of a flushing toilet. Lampshaded for laughs near the end of the short when water comes cascading down. Potentially toilet humor.
• All spaceships in Futurama seem to be fitted with horns.
• Done in-universe in "The Birdbot of Ice-Catrez", the newscast of the dark matter spill on Pluto's penguin preserve has footage accompanied by comical sound-effects of the penguins slipping on the dark matter. a helpful caption, "Sound Effects Added To Lessen Tragedy" is displayed on-screen.
• Invader Zim had this in spades. The sound of air slowly being let out of a balloon was often used for when stupid people were straining their brains.
• Done regularly in Looney Tunes cartoons - a gunshot sound for a slamming door, for instance.
• Bugs gives Daffy some weird sounds in Duck Amuck during one segment.
• The cartoons from the Warner Bros.- Seven Arts era near the end of The '60s sometimes uninteltionally have this, due to the Limited Sound Effects library the studio had at the time...
• The second "Bunny and Claude" short, The Great Carrot Train Robbery, has Claude quickly hammer a barrel shut with a sped-up version of the Hanna-Barbera "temple block riot" sound effect, which is generally used for characters preparing to run off and sounds nothing like hammering.
• The short released after that, ''Fistic Mystic" with Merlin the Magic Mouse, has Merlin conjure up a pair of magic boxing gloves that rapidly punch with the same "temple block riot" sound effect.
• Injun Trouble (1969) has one of the Indians try painting a ring around his teepee, and his paintbrush makes a "Poof!" sound effect (like when a puff of dust arises or a magic trick is performed) when it initially touches the teepee.
• During this era, it was not uncommon for anything that was breaking or crashing to make the exact same Hanna-Barbera "smash against wall" sound effect (sounding like china being broken), and half the time it wouldn't fit well with what was being smashed (such as Daffy Duck crashing through a wooden floor in Rodent to Stardom, a race car crashing in Hippydrome Tiger, Nero's throne and violin being smashed in See Ya Later Gladiator, the sheriff falling into a trash can in Bunny and Claude, or the Big Ben Clock Tower being destroyed in Shamrock and Roll).
• Interestingly enough, Discord from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic tends to have a subtle version of this played it for drama. In his initial appearance, his every footstep was accompanied by a random noise, and in the season four finale there was the occasional out of place squeaking as his magic was drained from him. Then again, he is a spirit of chaos, so it makes some sort of sense...
• The "squeaky dog toy" sound effect that accompanies a forced smile.
• The Ren & Stimpy Show was a major Trope Codifier for this in animation. For example, Ren slapping Stimpy will be accompanied with sound effects like glass shattering or bowling pins being knocked down.
• At the end of most of Hanna-Barbera's Ricochet Rabbit and Droop-a-Long Coyote cartoons, Ricochet zips off into the sunset, ricocheting off boulders, plants and things with the sound of "pings", "zings" and gunshots. When his deputy, Droopalong Coyote, tries it, he gets sound effects of clanks, thuds and crashes.
• Rocko's Modern Life also loved this trope, often having such sound effects be randomly heard or used for inappropriate situations (very much like the above-mentioned Ed, Edd n' Eddy.) This became especially prevalent in the third and fourth seasons, when Jeff Hutchins was the sound effects editor.
• SpongeBob SquarePants has lots of illustrative sound effects to enhance the physicality of the characters: SpongeBob has both 'woody' (when his arms break off) and 'spongy' (when he walks) sound effects. Also, his facial expressions are quite noisy.
• Xiaolin Showdown does this most often with random, small fart noises during a dumb or stupid scene. When Dojo drinks several bottles of hot sauce in one episode, he belches out a huge column of soot, and a split-second fart sound is played.

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