History Main / SoundDefect

* In the segment "Mr. Fix-It Fixes It" from ''Creator/RichardScarry's Best Silly Stories and Songs Video Ever!'', Mr. Fix-It has to fix Freddy's tricycle horn, Fireman Ralph's siren, Grandma Bear's cuckoo clock, and Lily Bunny's doll, by 3 o' clock. All of the items aren't making their proper sounds anymore (e.g. Freddy's horn doesn't honk) which is why they need them fixed. Once Mr. Fix-It repairs the items, the characters then go to use the items. However, they find that Mr. Fix-It got the sound effects all mixed up. They then proceed to sing a song about what if all sound effects got mixed up.

* The later ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoons from the Creator/WarnerBros- Seven Arts era near the end of TheSixties sometimes have this, due to the LimitedSoundEffects 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 Creator/HannaBarbera "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.
** ''WesternAnimation/InjunTrouble1969'' 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 ''WesternAnimation/SeeYaLaterGladiator'', the sheriff falling into a trash can in ''Bunny and Claude'', or the Big Ben ClockTower being destroyed in ''Shamrock and Roll''.

* ''Series/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]].

* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'': The page image comes from a [[https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1956/08/30 1956 strip]] in which Linus observes a falling leaf that goes "klunk" upon hitting the ground.

-->''The only time he made a bungle\\

And Rob mooed like a cow instead.''

* The Dutch comedian Henk Elsink's song ''Johanna'' has several messed-up sound effects. Some of them are due to [[LiteralMinded literal interpretations of metaphors]], others due to wrong timing.
-->''Then somebody knocks on her door.''\\
'''Sound FX:''' ring ring\\
''Then somebody rings her doorbell.''\\
'''Sound FX:''' knock knock
[frustrated] ''Then somebody knocks and rings at her door!''
* 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." Based on the co-actor's {{corpsing}} after that last line, it was a joke Van Duin [[ThrowItIn threw in on]] the spot.

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

* Two rounds on ''Radio/ImSorryIHaventAClue'' have been based on this. In one, the teams have to tell a story with random sound effects being added in, and then have to make the story fit the effects. In the other one team tells a story and the other has to add ''appropriate'' sound effects using only their voices, but the first team is deliberately misleading them as to what effects would be appropriate.

* Two rounds on ''Radio/ImSorryIHaventAClue'' have been based on this. In one, the teams have to tell a story with random sound effects being added in, and then have to make the story fit the effects. In the other one team tells a story and the other has to add ''appropriate'' sound effects, but the first team is deliberately misleading them as to what effects would be appropriate.

-->'''Graeme''': Suddenly, in came the Fife and Drum Corps.
-->''The other team make a valiant attempt at sounding like a Fife and Drum Corps''
-->'''Tim''': "What a pity they don't have their instruments with them," said Biggles.

* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' had a whole episode about this, called "Sound Judgment." [[NoForthWall The show's sound effects guy quits]] and Garfield has Odie fill in for him. ''Every sound effect for the rest of the episode'' is completely random and inappropriate, down to every footstep being a different random sound.

* When Tedd in ''Webcomics/ElGoonishShive'' is describing the possibility of Elliott suddenly [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1804 transforming during a passionate moment]]:

* 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.

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* In the Enies Lobby arc of ''Manga/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''. This doesn't wake anybody, but Usopp yelling out in surprise at the wrong sound does.
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->"Hey, wait a minute! Shoes don't go 'splut!'"
-->-- '''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'''

--> '''Sound FX''': SLORF!
--> "I really must have that phone's onomatopoeia repaired."

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* One Russ Abbot sketch opened with a sound-effects man checking that he had all the effects necessary for a radio drama about an escape from a World War 2 prison camp. Unfortunately for him, when the recording started it was for a Regency romance, and the rest of the sketch covered his increasingly desperate attempts to match the sounds he had to the action.
* A ''[[Series/{{Mash}} 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…"

--> '''Servo (enters stage right)'''
--> '''Servo:''' We'll be right back
--> '''Servo (exits stage right)'''
--> '''Crow (off):''' I thought you didn't have any legs.
--> '''Servo (off):''' I - I ''don't''.
--> '''Crow:''' So where did you get the footsteps?
--> '''Servo:''' Good question!

--> ''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.''

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* In a ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' gag, the doorbell only goes "Ding - ". When Garfield opens the door, there's a technician from Ed's Dong Repair.
** In another, Garfield kicks Odie off the table with a "BLAGOONGA!" sound. He remarks on the unusual noise, then goes and tells Jon that "Odie needs tuning".
** And in a third, he gets hit with a shoe that goes "SPLUT!" when it hits him. He looks off-panel and says "Shoes don't go 'splut'!", after which a [[PieInTheFace pie hits him in the face]] with a SPLUT! sound effect.
** 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]].
-->'''Cereal''': AWOOGA!
-->'''Jon''': Awooga?
-->'''Garfield''': I hope it tastes better than it sounds.
** Hell, an episode of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' once used this as its plot!
* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': "Scientific progress goes 'boink'?"
** Similarly, apparently the sound effect of walking around in galoshes is "galosh galosh galosh".
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-->''Then somebody knocks on her door.''
-->'''Sound FX:''' ring ring
-->''Then somebody rings her doorbell.''
-->'''Sound FX:''' knock knock
-->(frustrated) ''Then somebody knocks and rings at her door!''

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-->'''Offscreen Voice:''' HALT!! Behold my power!
-->'''Sound FX:''' BURP!!
-->'''Proto Man:''' Burp?
-->'''Offscreen Voice:''' Sorry, wrong sound effect.
* As shown in [[http://www.the-gutters.com/comic/102-matt-zolman this]] ''TheGutters'', you need a good letterer if you want your sound effect to make sense.

-->'''Tedd''': Yeah, but what if they're about to kiss or something when suddenly -
-->'''Tedd''': BOING!
-->'''[[TallDarkAndSnarky Susan]]''': "Boing"? Seriously?

* ''TheSimpsons'' "[[HalloweenEpisode Treehouse of Horror XVII]]," based on the OrsonWelles radio play ''Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds''.
-->'''Orson Welles:''' The devastation is incredible! They're grinding up the bodies of human beings!
-->Sound Technician: ''Uses an eggbeater to grind up corn flakes''
-->'''Welles:''' Now they're riding horses in the rain!
-->Sound Technician: ''Clacks [[CoconutEffect coconut halves against a wooden board]] while pouring water into a metal tray''
-->'''Welles''': Now they're [[SerialEscalation playing the xylophone while bowling near an airport]]!
-->Sound Technician: ''[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Holds up sign reading "Screw you" and leaves]]''

* In the segment "Mr. Fix-It Fixes It" from ''{{Richard Scarry}}'s Best Silly Stories and Songs Video Ever!'', Mr. Fix-It has to fix Freddy's tricycle horn, Fireman Ralph's siren, Grandma Bear's cuckoo clock, and Lily Bunny's doll, by 3 o' clock. All of the items aren't making their proper sounds anymore (e.g. Freddy's horn doesn't honk) which is why they need them fixed. Once Mr. Fix-It repairs the items, the characters then go to use the items. However, they find that Mr. Fix-It got the sound effects all mixed up. They then proceed to sing a song about what if all sound effects got mixed up.

* In LaurenceOlivier's film of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/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."

* The song "My Brother Makes the Noises for the Talkies" (covered by Music/TheBonzoDogBand but possibly written much earlier) contains a reference:

When an in-universe problem with [[SoundFXTropes sound effects]] is PlayedForLaughs with the characters noticing, you've got a Sound Defect.

Contrast WackySoundEffect for "wrong" sound effects not noticed by the characters and SpecialEffectFailure, 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. BrokenEcho is a related trope, where it's a voice that's wrong instead of a sound effect.

Contrast WackySoundEffect for "wrong" sound effects not noticed by the characters and SpecialEffectFailure, 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', "We Call It Maze": Dr. Doofenschmirtz complains that his echo must be broken, as the second to last echo says "cookie". Later, the same thing happens to Buford, but with the word "wombat".

* In the Enies Lobby arc of ''Manga/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.