Saying Sound Effects Out Loud / Western Animation

• In Adventure Time, the banana guards are in charge of security in the Candy Kingdom. While chasing criminals, they hold their arms out to the side and make their own police siren noises.
• In the Æon Flux episode titled "Leisure," the titular character Aeon Flux is heard saying "plop," while dropping an egg on the floor.
• The American Dad! season four episode "Frannie 911", where Klaus and Hayley are in an argument:

  Klaus: Maybe we should settle this with a game of Truth or Dare?
  Hayley: How about Dare or Dare?
  Klaus: How about I punch you in the bleepin' face?! See there?! I bleeped myself! I took the joy away from the censors! Yeah... I'll play your game of dares, little girl! I'm a bleepin' force to be reckoned with!

• Both of The Angry Beavers used to say "dun dun dun dramatic reverb", whenever something was seemingly dramatic. Also, in the episode where Dagget is training to be a ninja, he calls out his attack, the Silent Wind of Doom, whoosh!
• The people behind Archer and Frisky Dingo are fond of this. Boosh! is a well known one (it's the sound of laser guns being fired). Archer ramps up the adult-ness by repeatedly using "Sploosh!" as the spoken-word indicator for female arousal (often accompanied by a groin-height splashing gesture).
• Batman: The Animated Series:
  • In the episode "Make'Em Laugh", a comedian introduces himself as "Smilin' Shecky Rimshot! Ba-doom-boom!" He's actually The Joker.
  • Another episode had Batman and Harley Quinn temporarily teaming up to find the Joker. While they are moving through a darkened storage area, Harley punctuates every step she takes while sneaking by cheerfully announcing: "Sneak, sneak, sneak!" - much to Batman's annoyance.
• Bugs Bunny from Looney Tunes has a couple of examples:
  • In "Baseball Bugs" when he is bragging about how he could beat the Gas House Gorillas:
    Bugs: WHAM! A homer! WHAM! Another homer! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM!
  • In "Falling Hare" after Bugs nearly sets off a blockbuster bomb, he confronts what he suspects is a gremlin:
    Bugs: Why, you little... you.. .you... you... [beat] Gasp!
  • In "The Hare-Brained Hypnotist," Bugs pretends to be Elmer's rifle and calls out "Bang!" each time Elmer pulls the trigger. Elmer does this trick to Bugs in "Hare Brush" (as Elmer thinks he's a rabbit and Bugs has been hypnotized to be Elmer).
• Daffy Duck uses this to pretend to be a bottle of champagne in "Daffy Dilly".
  Daffy: Pop! Gurgle gurgle gurgle gurgle...
  • This gag is referenced in an episode of Tiny Toon Adventures with Buster Bunny pretending to be a bottle of soda as he tries to free captured animals from Elmyra's room. In the same scene of the same episode he also pretends to be Elmyra's lamp ("click...").
• Dan Vs.: In "Dan vs. the Animal Shelter", Dan attempts to mimic the phone breaking up by saying "crackle" and "buzz".
  Dan: WHAT'S THAT? You're breaking up! Crackle, crackle! Buzz!
  Elise: You're not even making good noises. You're just saying crackle, and buzz!
  Dan: Crackle! Buzz! [hangs up]
• In "Voyage of the Ruthless" from The Dragon Prince, the parrot Berto comments "Nailed it. Squawk!" and Callum lampshades "Did he just say the word 'Squawk'?"
• In the DuckTales (2017) season 2 finale, Dewey makes "pew pew" noises as he's firing the turrets in an alien spaceship. Webby, who's aiming the turrets, asks to swap positions with Dewey, and once they do, she also makes "pew pew" noises as she shoots.
• Near the beginning of the Ed, Edd n Eddy episode "Fa-la-la-la-Ed", the Eds indulge in this when Ed and Eddy are playing around in Edd's parents' room.
  Eddy: Stroke! Stroke! Stroke!
  Ed: My turn! Boing!
  Eddy: Smack!
  Ed: Whoosh!
  Edd: Pant! Pant! Pant! Pant!
• The Fairly OddParents!:
  • Shocking developments are generally met with one or more characters shouting "gasp!" This has not gone unnoticed by other characters.
    Mr. Turner: Those gasping mice are right!
  • Timmy and Vicky in particular are also known for saying "yawn" frequently.
• In Garfield and Friends, The US Acres cast is visited by people from, as everyone puts it, "Da dum! The network." Even the network executive's card lists him as being from "Da dum! The Network".
• G.I. Joe: "Range 42. Fire. BANG!"
• Goldie & Bear:
  • The Big Bad Wolf, "Big Bad," says "Guh-rowl" at least once.
  • In "Pig Trouble," Baley, one of the three little pigs, declares "slam really loud" after he's unable to achieve this effect closing the door on his straw house. This becomes a Running Gag throughout the episode.
• Gravity Falls:
  • Mabel loves this trope. Her favorite, or so it seems, is "boop". She says this whenever she bops Dipper in the nose.
  • Other characters indulge in it too at points, such as Stan going "pat pat" when patting a dollar bill back into his sleeve.
• Green Lantern: The Animated Series: Aya in the episode "Blue Hope".
  Aya: Sigh.
• Harvey's secretary in Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law once said "slight retch" while talking over the intercom.
  • And all those times Harvey slumps and says "sigh..."
  • And anytime Mentok does his "Bweeop!" mindtakery.
  • And Birdgirl/Judy's tendency to sound out sound effects.
  • "I'll bite you on the ass... growl."
• A Heckle and Jeckle cartoon had Jeckle pretending to be a bottle of water that Chesty the Bulldog tries to open:
  Jeckle: [as Chesty tries to open and pour] Squeak, squeak, squeak, pop! Glug glug glug glug glug glug!
• Invader Zim:
  • The episode, "Backseat Drivers from Beyond the Stars": After forcing Dib out of Tak's ship, Zim starts gloating:
    Dib: No, you've got to let me back in!
    Zim: It's over, Dib! Dun dun DUUUN!
  • The first issue of the comic continuation includes a Training Montage for Dib.
    Gaz: Are you singing your own montage music?
    Dib: I thought it was coo—
    Gaz: You can't sing your own montage music!
• King of the Hill: Dale Gribble likes to say "Shi Shaw!" or some variant when doing anything particularly action-based. It has become something of a catchphrase of his.
• Lucy Loud of The Loud House has a habit of this. ("Sigh.")
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
  • In the episode "Party of One", several ponies attempt, badly, to fake the sounds of power tools. At one point, Rainbow Dash can be heard saying "Drill, drill!" and Twilight Sparkle can be heard saying "Safety gear!"
  • In the episode "May The Best Pet Win", Rainbow Dash declares that the final challenge for who's going to be her pet is a race through Ghastly Gorge, and provides her own dramatic sting sound effects.
    Rainbow Dash: DUN DUN DUNNNNN!
  • In addition to actual chewing noises when scarfing down the ice cream, Rarity can be heard sounding out "nom nom nom" in "Inspiration Manifestation".
  • A Running Gag in "A Horse Shoe-In" is Trixie winking at Starlight Glimmer and saying "wink".
• Rico from the The Penguins of Madagascar show with his "Kaboom" catchphrase, anyone?
• Phineas and Ferb: "Perry the Platypus, did you just say, 'Gurgalingdung'?"
• It was more common during the early Fleischer era, but Popeye often did this when he let Bluto have it (after eating spinach of course).
  Popeye: Oh yeah? WHAM!!
• A Porky Pig short, "Kitty Cornered," had him contending with Sylvester and the other pet cats Porky put outside for the night. At one point when they're thrown out (again):
  Sylvester: Are we men, or are we mice?
  unnamed smallest cat: I like cheese!
  Sylvester: [while smacking the other cat] SMACK!
• Alfe in The Problem Solverz does this at times.
  Alfe: [upon breaking the magic clock] SMASH!
• A minor Running Gag with Donnie in Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
  Donnie: [upon having a "Eureka!" Moment] Gasp, I've got it!
• In "Getting to Paris is Hard" on Robot Chicken, Spencer walks away in anger saying "frustrated grunt."
• The space-traveling Solenoid Robots from Roger Ramjet constantly hummed, buzzed, and clicked ... by saying "Hum, buzz, click".
• In The Roman Holidays, Brutus the lion uses these a lot, such as snarl, sob, whimper, and snicker.
• A sheriff pig... thing on Samurai Jack. It's actually the most coherent word he says the whole episode.
  Sheriff Pig... Thing: BANGBANGBANGITYBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG!
• The Simpsons:
  • They have the time-honored "yoink!"
  • Homer does this at least once.
    Homer: Goodbye? Dial tone?
  • Zaaaaaaaaaaaap.
  • In "Angry Dad: The Movie":
    Lisa: [reading script] Angry Dad addresses the family from the top of the stairs.
    Homer: [via speakerphone] "Family, today I graduate from my anger management class."
    Lisa: Angry Dad slips and crashes down the stairs.
    Homer: "Pained noises."
    Lisa: No, dad, don't say "pained noises", you make pained noises.
    Homer: Oh, okay. Lenny? Hit me with that chair.
    Lenny: Okay. [the sound of Homer being hit with the chair is heard; he groans and disconnects]
  • In "Duffless", after Homer is pulled over by the cops as he leaves the Duff Factory tour and is eventually arrested for drunk driving: Gulp!
• On Smiling Friends, Shrimp does this when expressing his frustration over his recent break-up.
  Shrimp: Sigh. My girlfriend just broke up with me. I am 'artbroken.
• Sonic Boom episode "Tommy Thunder: Method Actor" has the titular characters use sound effects in their dialogue because said effects involve a door, which Sonic's hut doesn't have.
• In at least one episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast, whenever Space Ghost took off, you would hear what was either a woman or a little kid going "WHOOSH!"
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • Plankton does this in place of Audible Sharpness when he presents SpongeBob with a golden spatula. "Shing! Sparkle sparkle."
  • He also GASPS during another episode.
  • In yet another episode, he has a dream where he is a giant destroying Bikini Bottom:
    Plankton: I see you... ZAP! [shoots a laser from his eye; then sees the Krusty Krab] Oh, look, it's the Krusty Krab, home of the Krabby Patty. [steps down hard on it, smashing it] CRUSH! [takes the sign and walks off with it, licking it like a lollipop] Lick, lick...
  • Squidward in "Christmas Who?" sarcastically says "yawn" after SpongeBob explains the concept of Christmas.
• Steven Universe:
  • "Earthlings": After Smoky Quartz blows Jasper into the air with their Blow You Away attack, they mimic the sound of her falling and hitting the ground: "Wheeeoooooo-BHOOM!"
  • "The Question": Ruby, spitting a piece of wheat out of her mouth while playing cowboy, says "Patooie!"
  • "Change Your Mind": When Steven sees Bismuth emerging from Yellow Diamond's arm ship, he literally says "Gasp!"
• Super Bwoing of The Super 6 — "ZIP, ZAM, ZOWIE and SWOOOSH!" — CLICK!
• Transformers has Warpath, a tank Autobot with a habit of saying things like 'BLAM' and 'POW', for no apparent reason. Also may count as a weird speech defect, which isn't uncommon among Transformers. However, it is almost certainly a Stealth Pun... they never explicitly say it, but he is a tank that has Tourette's Syndrome.
• What If…? (2021): Amusingly, Episode 5 shows that Happy Hogan feels the need to shout "BLAM!" whenever he fires his Repulsor Gauntlet. Less amusingly, he still does it after becoming a zombie.
• Work It Out Wombats!: In "Helper for the Day," Mr. E says "ka-ching" while briefly playing with the cash register. Zeke also does this when he gets to play with the cash register at the end of the episode.

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