History Main / SynchroVox

* Nicktendo's SML animations look a lot like this,though they are not actually synchro-vox.

Mentioned on the DeadUnicornTrope page because only a very small number of productions used it straight, after which everyone immediately realized it looked really, ''really'' creepy and fake; anyone using it outside of those very few examples is probably going for comedic effect, MindScrew or both. You can expect it to suddenly show up in other forms of animation as a MediumShiftGag.

* The intro to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsX23WuqP2U this episode]] of the ''Kentucky Ballistics'' [=YouTube=] channel parodies this, superimposing cutouts of the host's eyes and mouth over his shoulder and wrist, complaining about the weapons he's considering using in the video. The intro ends with a similar cutout over his foot, crying after he remembers to bring along an eggplant.[[labelnote:Background]]The channel features the host, a former Kentucky state trooper, using a wide variety of firearms, very often high-powered. As for eggplant, the host frequently uses it as a target; when announcing that he'll shoot eggplant, he yells "nobody likes eggplant!" and kicks an eggplant.[[/labelnote]]

** In another [=#CellGames=] short featuring [[Manga/DeathNote Light Yagami and Ryuk]], Light begs Ryuk for help when he realizes the Death Note only stopped ''[[BizarreAlienBiology one]]'' of Cell's hearts and Cell is about to kill him. Ryuk's only response is an evil grin, but what makes it creepier is that the Synchro-Vox is not only applied to his mouth, but his ''entire face''.

* Used in an episode of ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'' when the family makes a short, comedic "interview" with the titular child - who can barely speak -- using a deliberate English accent.

* ''WebAnimation/EVTVWeather'' uses this for all of the characters.
* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' has an example played for sheer cringe in the Strong Bad Email "too cool." After watching a video tape made by [[RealityWarper Senor Cardgage]], the characters are all "cursed for life." Rather than being haunted by a spirit or some such, they discover that whenever they say the word "tertiary," their lips become creepy photo-realistic animated lips that are clearly an attempt to invoke Synchrovox, their hands involuntarily go to their hips, and they pronounce the word in a bizarre, sassy metallic voice while wiggling from side to side. Like everything else about the episode (and some would say, the site), it MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.

* [=YouTuber=] Mutant Museum's DramaticReading of ''Literature/TheEyeOfArgon'' uses this technique for StylisticSuck. All the character models are made in Heroforge, a program for designing tabletop gaming miniatures, and then his mouth is awkwardly pasted onto their faces, which means that every speaking character - including the princess - has a mustache.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Marge", Marge is declared insane. On the "Krusty the Clown Show" Krusty does Conan O'Brien's bit with an image of Marge with Sideshow Mel's mouth crudely superimposed. "She" responds to Krusty's question of who her favorite Native American warrior is with "Crazy Horse." Krusty realizes the bit is getting old and calls for the Mad Marge dancers[[note]]cf. the "Judge Ito dancers" on ''Series/TheTonightShow'' during the OJ Simpson trial[[/note]].

** Used in the opening with "Painty the Pirate", who starts the theme song. Noteworthy in that the still image is a painting of a realistic human being, which greatly reduces the UnintentionalUncannyValley effect that normally plagues instances of this trope.

* ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'':
** In ''Literature/TheHauntedMask'' episodes, whenever the plaster bust of Carly Beth's head appears to speak, live eyes and a mouth are superimposed onto the bust.
** The TV adaptation of ''Literature/MyBestFriendIsInvisible'' uses this technique during TheReveal at the end; depicting [[spoiler: the protagonist, Sammy, and his entire family, as aliens with faces on the back of their heads]].

* The videos for {{DeStorm}}'s "The Annoyed Objects" series use this.

[-[[caption-width-right:350: "[[Webcomic/NineteenSeventySevenTheComic "My old man says he's cool]], [[https://1977thecomic.com/comic/up-up-and-away but not to make fun of his mouth!"]]]]-]

Synchro-Vox is an extreme form of "LimitedAnimation": A mostly obsolete technique in which footage of the actor's mouth is superimposed upon an otherwise non-moving image. See [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncro-Vox the other Wiki]]. Can look pretty [[UncannyValley unnatural]]. A few lazier productions go one step further and also animate the eye movements this way.

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' has an example played for sheer cringe in the most recent Strong Bad Email, Too Cool. After watching a video tape made by [[RealityWarper Senor Cardgage]], the characters are all "cursed for life." Rather than being haunted by a spirit or some such, they discover that whenever they say the word "tertiary," their lips become creepy photo-realistic animated lips that are clearly an attempt to invoke Synchrovox, their hands involuntarily go to their hips, and they pronounce the word in a bizarre, sassy metallic voice while wiggling from side to side. Like everything else about the episode (and some would say, the site) it MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.

* Briefly used in ''Film/ForbiddenZone'' during a musical number: It turns out this is because the first-time actor they hired to lip-sync was so nervous he froze up and just stood there, but the film itself has [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs such a strange visual style]] that the effect fits in perfectly. To this day, Danny Elfman plays the scene for new actors as a warning to learn their lines.

* The children's show ''WesternAnimation/{{Dirtgirlworld}}'' uses this technique combined with CG Imagery.