Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Unnecessary text?
, started by melloncollie on Feb 8th 2011 at 5:37:57 PM
Another appearance is in the anime "Dream Hunter Rem" (third OVA/episode) when Rem first arrives at Bishu House, the garden has the thing that goes doink.
It's not a Shishi-odoshi. The other wiki has this to say
Shishi-odoshi (鹿威し lit. "scaredeer" or "scareboar"), in a wide sense, refers to Japanese devices made to frighten away animals which pose a threat to agriculture, such as the kakashi (scarecrow), naruko (clappers) and sōzu (see below). In a narrower sense, it is synonymous with sōzu.
It's a sozu. Or at least I think it's more proper to call it that. The other wiki does say "in a narrower sense."
Sōzu is a type of water fountain used in Japanese gardens. It consists of a segmented tube, usually of bamboo, pivoted to one side of its balance point. At rest, its heavier end is down and resting against a rock. A trickle of water into the upper end of the tube accumulates and eventually moves the tube's centre of gravity past the pivot, causing the tube to rotate and dump out the water. The heavier end then falls back against the rock, making a sharp sound, and the cycle repeats. This noise is intended to startle any herbivores such as deer or boars which may be grazing on the plants in the garden.
The former is a genus (of stuff that's used to scare off wildlife that might be harmful to agriculture), while the latter is a specie.
The description gag was way too long, and people just shoehorned any random thing in there. I think it's funnier now that every example really is something that could possibly be confused with The Thing That Goes Doink. Here's the old version for comparison.
Not to be confused with the thing that goes parp, the thing that goes ding when there's stuff, the scientific progress that goes boink, the scientific progress that goes Oi, the machine that goes ping, the button that goes ting, the man who goes BONK, the chef who goes bork, the site that goes bork, The thing that goes like someone sucking in spit, The Knights Who Say Ni!, The Song That Goes Like This, the thing your aunt gave that you don't know what it is, the Thing that lives in a box, The Thing that goes 'It's clobberin' time!', the thing that goes doink-doink, the things that go squee, The Thing-we-don't-know-what-it-does, the thing that goes boing, The Thing That Would Not Leave, the small round paisley thing that goes 'poing', the goggles that do nothing, or the thing that keeps going. Definitely shouldn't be confused with The Thing. Or with Tonberries, though they do go doink with their knives.
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Unfortunately, the description gag is now gone. Here's the last version before it was removed entirely:
Not to be confused with the thing that goes parp, The Thing That Goes Donk-Donk, the thing from another world, the other thing from another world, the thing which, if it doinks you, you die, the thing that goes doink-doink, the green kid who says doink, the scientific progress that goes boink, the man who says "BOINK", Things That Go "Bump" in the Night, the thing that goes ding when there's stuff, the machine that goes ping, the button that goes ting, the thing-we-don't-know-what-it-does, the Thing that lives in a box, the thing your aunt gave that you don't know what it is, The Thing that goes "It's clobberin' time!", the Giant Size Man-Thing, Thing 1 and Thing 2, the clown that's named Doink, the caveman named Bonk, the "What-Is-It" from Borneo, the Thing No One's Quite Sure What It Is, The Thing That Would Not Leave, or the thing from that IKEA commercial.
... good riddance.
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Aw. I loved that bit. Could we put it back in a little folder or labelnote so that it's not in the way?
Edited by 87.113.10.175 That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
We need a page quote. I think Issun's description of the things in Okami would do nicely. I'd look it up, but I sold back my copy of the game long ago.
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Concerning the last entry for the gag...
Oh,...Overly Long Gag and Don't Explain the Joke get used too much and really can't we just take The Thing (possible the only serious entry) as the end point?
Merged with UsefulNotes.Japanese Architecture and disambiguated per TRS:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16810087320.58659200&page=1#comment-17
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