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** Hell, an episode of ''GarfieldAndFriends'' once used this as its plot!

* ''WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' had this as a recurring game, called "Sound Effects", where they'd pull volunteers from the audience to make sound effects for a scene acted out by two of the comedians. HilarityEnsues. In the most memorable incident, Drew Carey is [[{{Corpsing}} reduced to tears]] by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2_thHqiYsE an inappropriately foleyed elephant]].
* In a ''SaturdayNightLive'' sketch called "Pranksters", Seth Meyers hosts a show where guests show video of themselves pulling pranks on other people, accompanied by wacky sound effects. When one psycho guest shows himself actually murdering a guy in the parking lot, the FX continue, much to the host's annoyance.

* ''WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' had this as a recurring game, called "Sound Effects", where they'd pull volunteers from the audience to make sound effects for a scene acted out by two of the comedians. HilarityEnsues.

* In a ''{{Garfield}}'' gag, the doorbell only goes "Ding - ". When Garfield opens the door, there's a technician from Ed's Dong Repair.

* ''CalvinAndHobbes'': "Scientific progress goes 'boink'?"

* BobAndGeorge, starting in the appropriately titled [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/000430 Sack the Sound Effects Guy!]] strip of the Introducing the Author arc and carrying on for a while.

-->'''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'''

-->"Hey, wait a minute! Shoes don't go 'splut!'"

* During a host segment from [[Series/MST3K Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'s riff on ''The Projected Man'', Crow kills Mike with the "Touch of Death". While dragging his body into the theater, Servo remembers that they had forgotten to sign off for commercial sign.

* The song "My Brother Makes the Noises for the Talkies" (covered by TheBonzoDogDooDahBand but possibly written much earlier) contains a reference:
-->The only time he made a bungle
-->was when a tiger in the jungle
-->With a mighty roar, dropped dead
-->With bullets in its head
-->And Rob mooed like a cow instead.
* In TheWho's "A Quick One While He's Away", there's a section where the chorus sings "cello, cello, cello" because the band couldn't afford real cellos.

* In his sketch ''The Mailman'', another Dutch comedian, Andre Van Duin, had several problems with a prop doorbell. At first the bell doesn't work, so he decides to [[SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud say the sound effect]] himself: [[UnsoundEffect "Bell."]] The second time the sound does work, and when his co-actor asks, "Did you ring the bell again?" Van Duin answers, "No, [[BreakingTheFourthWall the sound technician]] did."

* A part of ''WesternAnimation/DuckAmuck'' has the tormenting animator replace the sound effects for Daffy. So when Daffy attempts to play the guitar, machine-gun sounds erupt, then the sound of a car horn. When Daffy throws down the guitar in disgust, there's a gunshot and the braying of a donkey. When Daffy tries to shout in protest, sounds of a rooster, a monkey, and a kookaburra come out.

* The ''Dangermouse'' episode "Play it again Wufgang" went all meta with this trope: the episode's incidental music soundtrack failed, requiring Penfold to carry and operate a tapedeck everywhere.
-->'''Dangermouse:''' Are you sure that's the right tape?

* In a ''CaptainKlutz'' comic by [[Magazine/{{Mad}} Don Martin]], MadScientist Dr. Rotten has his home-made missile [[HoistByHisOwnPetard blow up in his face]], but seems more disappointed with the sound effect it produces: "''Wango''? After all those years of sweat and toil, my Rotten Atomic Missle goes 'Wango'?!"

* A part of ''DuckAmuck'' has the tormenting animator replace the sound effects for Daffy. So when Daffy attempts to play the guitar, machine-gun sounds erupt, then the sound of a car horn. When Daffy throws down the guitar in disgust, there's a gunshot and the braying of a donkey. When Daffy tries to shout in protest, sounds of a rooster, a monkey, and a kookaburra come out.

* A ''Series/{{M*A*S*H}}'' episode has Hawkeye mock-announcing a phony baseball broadcast for Frank Burns' "benefit", with B.J., Radar, and Klinger providing sound effects. At one point Hawkeye says, "…and it's in there for a strike!" and an unthinking B.J. taps the wooden bat he's holding. After glaring at him, Hawkeye continues: "…wait a minute, he got a part of it…"

* In a "Mama's Family" sketch on ''TheCarolBurnettShow'', Tim Conway started adlibbing about siamese circus elephants that were joined at the trunk. He went to make the trumpeting sound they made, and it came out sounding something like, "fnork!"... which sent the rest of the cast into hysterics.

* Whenever Ricochet Rabbit (a Hanna-Barbera character from 1964) "ricochets into the sunset, he bounces off a rock, a cactus and another rock to the sound of zings, pings and gunshots. When his assistant, Droopalong Coyote tries to do the same, the sounds of thuds, clanks and boings accompany him before he crashes into one of the objects or--as in one cartoon's end--the sun itself.

* ''TheSimpsons'' "[[HalloweenEpisode Treehouse of Horror XVII]]," based on the OrsonWelles radio play ''WarOfTheWorlds''.

** Another strip had Jon pouring milk into cereal telling Garfield that it makes sounds when milk is added. The cereal makes the sound of a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_horn#Klaxon Klaxon horn]].

** Another strip had John pouring milk into cereal telling Garfield that it makes sounds when milk is added. The cereal makes the sound of a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_horn#Klaxon Klaxon horn]].

-->'''John''': Awooga?

-->'''{{Garfield}}'''

Contrast WackySoundEffect for "wrong" sound effects not noticed by the characters and SpecialEffectsFailure, which happens when the sound effect goes unintentionally wrong, regardless of the amusement factor of said error. Also contrast UnsoundEffect, which uses something that isn't really a sound at all.

* In the Enies Lobby arc of ''OnePiece'', Usopp finds himself face to face with a rooster as he's trying desperately to sneak up to an enemy and snatch the key he needs. Usopp is worrying himself silly that the rooster will crow and awaken his opponent, only for it to ''tweet'', causing Usopp to yell out in surprise at the wrong sound and awakening his opponent.

* In LaurenceOlivier's film of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''HenryV'' (of all things!), during the Elizabethan-style production with which it opens, the Archbishop of Canterbury asks the Bishop of Ely, "Is it four o'clock?" A bell duly rings -- three times; we see Shakespeare himself rushing backstage, the bell rings once more, and Ely replies, "It is."

* In a ''Captain Klutz'' comic by Don Martin, MadScientist Dr. Rotten has his home-made missile [[HoistByHisOwnPetard blow up in his face]], but seems more disappointed with the sound effect it produces: "''Wango''? After all those years of sweat and toil, my Rotten Atomic Missle goes 'Wango'?!"