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Submitted by stevenl on Sun, 05/21/2006 - 3:16pm.

Change! Mutate! Use as Tool for Evil Plan!: This rather clumsy sound effect was used when Marxist elves changed cartoonist Clint Hollingsworth into a fellow elf. (End of the Earth and Turn Left (1985))

Chew!: See Toss! Scarf! Chomp! Chew! Digest!

Chew Chomp Chew Chomp Chew Gnaw Ga-naw: "... Humans devolved into razor-thin wafer type creatures ... these creatures had to actually eat the meat of the Earth to survive. Shrinking as it was eaten, the Earth got smaller and smaller, ending with nothing, the creatures began feasting upon each other when the planet was gone. Then it narrowed down to only two, who were perpetually dining on each other ..." (Big Picture Picture Book (1983))

Chew Chomp Digest: In the 22nd century, Dave Kasper eats his Puko Flakes cold cereal for breakfast. Larry, his robot, regards the cereal box and asks, "May I dig out the free prize, Boss?" (Human Beings (1985))

Ching Ching Ching: Classic dollar signs in the eyes sound, in this case guys with frogs stuck in the top of their craniums eye a basket of money presented to them by two big sharks posing as investors. (Bezango (1994))

Choke!: See Swoop! Swoop! Choke! Gag! Skuttle Skretch Skratch

Chomp!:
(1) The sound of a Morty Dog sinking his teeth into the leg of an extremely tall (like 60 ft.) person. (Cartoon Loonacy 1 (1984))
(2) Four Nixon-Demons attack a Morty Dog, each one sinking a collective CHOMP into Morty's limbs with their sharp teeth. And they won't let go, forcing Morty to bring out his "Sleazy and Disgraced Ex-President Removal Device." (Cranium Frenzy 9 (1998))
See also: Chew Chomp Chew Chomp Chew Gnaw Ga-naw
See also: Chew Chomp Digest
See also: Kerploosh!!! Chomp! Grrrrp!!! Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrip!!! Pop! Sproing!! Zow! Splat! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk!
See also: Toss! Scarf! Chomp! Chew! Digest!

Chomp! Chomp!: A monster consumes a Morty Dog's companion as they navigate a maze. (Dog of Dawn, Dog of Dusk (1985))

Chomp! Zip! Swoosh! Zow! Smak! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee: A creature with his head inside a glass globe with wings attached to it flies by a Morty Dog, who is hanging on for dear life to a cloud. Morty CHOMPs the creatures tail, making it spiral (ZIP! SWOOSH! ZOW!) to the ground, where it lands head-first, SMAKing the globe into bits and making it scream (Eeee ... etc.). (Starhead Presents 1 (1986))

Chug! Slorp! Chug!: On the Planet of the Bobs, fast food means just that. A Bob will drive up to the drive-in window, and food is shot into his open mouth with a feed pipe, causing the Bob to exclaim, "Yummo!" (Morty Without Tears; and, Planet of the Bobs (1989)

City Zoo!: See Coo Coo! Haiku! Sez You! City Zoo! Dien Bein Phu!

Clack! Clack!: See Clickety! Clack! Clack!

Clang!: See Bong! Clang!

Clang! Clang!: When a Morty Dog runs in the Dog Toaster Races, running with his feet in toasters, this sound is made. (Lordy, Lordy, Where's Mr. Morty? (1984))

Clank!: A Morty Dog discards a halo he swiped from the Air Pump Angel, and this is the sound it makes as it bounces on the floor. (Cranium Frenzy 5 (1985))
See also: Click Clink Clunk Clinkety Clink Clank

Clap! Clap! Clap!: The King of Denmark, in shock over seeing his murderous crime portrayed on stage, stands up and absently applauds before screaming and storming out. (Tragedy of Morty, Prince of Denmarke 3 (1984))

Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap: See Yay! Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap

Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap: A group of people with government produced bombs in their craniums, standing on their heads in duck-billed hats where the little button on top of the hat acts as a pressure point to prevent the device from exploding, clap for a Morty Dog when he orders them to do so. (Cranium Frenzy 4 (1983))

Clench: The former Lord Oliver Crumwell is now a dentist in New Jersey. His head is the size of a ping-pong ball, so he is able to stick his entire cranium in the mouth of a patient. In one case Crumwell hit a raw nerve, making the patient "Clench" his teeth. Needless to say, that was Crumwell's last case. (Cranium Frenzy 1 (1981))

Click!:
(1) Sam turns off the film projector for the amused King. (Xenophobic Knives, And Other Love Songs pt. 2 1990))
(2) The sound created when an angel with a frog stuck on the top of his cranium unlatches the metal neckbrace around an Artnoid who was chained to a stake in the front yard (as a result of having his head being run over by a truck hauling dead frogs) and spends his days pulverizing the sidewalk with a big hammer. "Poor creature. Run wild. Run free," the frog embedded on the angel's head spiritually proclaims. After the "click" sound, the crazed Artnoid takes off after the angel with hammer raised, beads of sweat suspended, and saying "Hrg! Hrg!" The angel, being no fool, runs like Hell (Bezango (1994)
(3) Arnie Wormwood pulls the string of a ceiling light bulb, and in the new light discovers he is in a confined room with a Triceratops. (Cranium Frenzy 2 (1982))
(4) A nuclear physicist who really wants to be a stand-up comedian dies when he is shot for making a joke at an airport and goes to Heaven. All he does up there is play the harp. It is so dull, that when the 'fridge kicks on and makes a "click" noise, everyone notices. "Ye gods! B-O-R-I-N-G!" he thinks. (Cranium Frenzy 4 (1983))
(5) A hired presidential assassin known as B-9 prepares his automatic pistol for action as he watches President Theodore Twist on the TV news. (Delayed Stress Syndrome Funnies (1982))
(6) President Theodore Twist turns off the TV (Click) after watching news coverage of himself chasing the Swedish delegation off the White House with a shotgun. (Delayed Stress Syndrome Funnies (1982))
(7) Batum Schrag, who controls the rotation of the planet Saturn from deep in the heart of the orb with a machine, clicks the rotation from "Slow" to "Fast" to "Really Fast" and then suddenly dies. (Dogtown Zoo (1982))
(8) A zombie Hoosier enjoys taking photographs (Click) of canine feces. (Dogtown Zoo (1982))
(9) Dave Kasper, inter-stellar coroner, turns off a TV with legs. (Human Beings (1985))
(10) The parents of an infant turn off the light (Click!) as the child pretends to be asleep in her crib. As soon as they are gone, she picks up and reads a book about advanced calculus. (Larry of McCleary and Other Characters (1989))
(11) Channeling in Yelm: [A woman is taking a piece of paper from a goofy looking guy] "Ramtha, the great prehistoric spirit, is about to impart true enlightenment! Uh, this check has your current address, I trust."
Channeling in Elma: [Larry is sitting in an easy chair, CLICKing the remote control, as the TV plays ...] "Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip ..." (Larry of McCleary and Other Characters (1989))
(12) A TV broadcasting an adventure with Arnie Wormwood and a Morty Dog is turned off. (Limbolympia (1983))
(13) A Morty Dog unlatches a door (CLICK) and crashes a gathering of power elite in the far future. (Natural Functions (1986))
(14) The Big G wakes up in his cloud house, rubbing his head, "What time is it? Oh. A.D. 1987 ... ohhh-- I must've gotten drunk with power again ... When will I ever learn? Gotta go take a leak. Man oh man, I feel like I must've created a stone heavier than I can lift ..." And with that he turns on his bathroom light (CLICK!) and says, "Let there be light. Har! Har!" And the shaft of light emanating out of his bathroom window hits Earth and spotlights a sleeping Morty Dog, which happens to coincide with a group seeking some sign of a savior. You can figure out the next few panels. (Rise and Fall of Morty the Dog (1987))
(15) A Morty Dog turns on a spotlight that has a zillion watts. (Rise and Fall of Morty the Dog (1987))
See also: Ack! Ack! Ack! Wheeze! Click!
See also: Blip Blip Blip Blip Blop Bl-Erk Beeeyooooooooo Click
See also: Bonk! Click! Rrrrrrrrroar!
See also: Whirr Click Whirr Click Whirr Click

Click! Bink!: Larry, the robotic assistant to Dave Kasper, inter-stellar coroner, turns off a monitor (Click! Bink!) as they investigate a spaceship with a deceased crew so Dave won't see an alien alien feating on a corpse. (Human Beings (1985))

Click Click:
(1) Pablo Picasso works the controls as he creates a Frankenstein type monster (Xenophobic Knives, And Other Love Songs pt. 2 1990))
(2) In a world dominated by children, one of those stock market ticker tape things clicks out soaring stocks for video games, bubble gum, comic books, and plummeting stocks for Geritol. (Dogtown Zoo (1982))
(3) Orville, a truck driver who blew a tire when he hit a porcupine at night near Starbuck, Washington, attempts to turn on his flashlight, but "Dad-blanged flashlight batts have blinked out!" (Storm Warnings (1986))
See also: Scribble! Scribble! Whirrrr Click Click

Click Click Click: Pablo Picasso works the controls as he creates a Frankenstein type monster and declares, "If I pull this off, I make millions!" (Xenophobic Knives, And Other Love Songs pt. 2 1990))
See also: Compress! Click! Click! Click!

Click Clink Clunk Clinkety Clink Clank: After being in a virtual cryogenic state while trapped in a refigerator for a considerable length of time, a Morty Dog is awakened when people of the distant future open the 'fridge door (CLICK) and as the mutt steps out, a pile of empty beer bottles falls out (CLINK, etc.) (Natural Functions (1986))

Click. Poink! Jab! Jab!: Thanks to a new virus, when someone tells a lie, a little demon with a pitchfork jumps out of the liar's mouth. The liar's old face will die (Click) and new face grows on the other side of his/her head (Poink!). Then the little demon jabs the liar in the behind with the pitchfork (Jab! Jab!) yelling, "Tell the truth! Tell the truth!" (Cranium Frenzy 6 (1990))

Click! Pow! Thunk!: "Sixty miles up in space, an old-fashioned ten-kiloton nuclear bomb (which was floating around for no logical reason) detonated [Click!] when it collided with a television satellite which was at the time beaming re-runs of 'Gilligan's Island.' The x-rays of the explosion [Pow!] reach Earth's upper atmosphere, hitting flowing air electrons. The magnetic field deflects the electrons downward, dispatching strong electro-magnetic radiation rays all over the surface of the Earth. Not only does everything run by electrical power come to a complete stop, but the additional 'cartoon rays' pose a deadly threat to the hapless characters of this disjointed tale." A pointy cartoon ray impales an innocent cartoon character [Thunk!] (Dogtown Zoo (1982))

Click! Zzaap! Zap: A Morty Dog finds himself in a diminuendo dimension, "where frail little freaks with big craniums spend all day staring at screens and pushing buttons. Later, Morty goes goes crazy with boredom." Morty approaches a computer with monitor, saying, "Let's see what's on the tube," and CLICKs the button, as the little big craniums yell, "No! No! Not that button!!!" But, of course it is too late, and a giant ray gun shooting condensed ice (ZZAAP! ZAP) emerges through the floor. (Pacemaker Defect (1982))

Clickety! Clack! Clack!: "A middle-aged pseudo-hip Christian publishes two magazines. In one title [Subliminal Tattoos], he pontificates on his religion" [On typewriter, hence the CLICKETY! CLACK! CLACK! sound: "I don't change my values the way some people change socks ..."] "But in the other title [Rude] he pretends to be a quartet of 20-something sexual swingers, and even privately corresponds under this guise." [Based on a real zine publisher based in Vancouver, Wash.]. (Mukey the Mutant Membrane (1996))

Clink!:
(1) Made from two beer bottles in a toast gesture in Topeka, Kansas by a Morty Dog with a guy in a Moe Howard haircut. (From Tokeland to Topeka (1985))
(2) In a 4 panel sequence that is of very special interest to OlyBloggers, two guys drink beers in a bar (at one point toasting with their bottles CLINK!), and as the empty bottles add up, they morph into giant reptiles, parting with the words, "Later 'gator," "In a while, crocodile." (Larry of McCleary and Other Characters (1989))
See also: Click Clink Clunk Clinkety Clink Clank

Clinkety: See Click Clink Clunk Clinkety Clink Clank

Clip Clop: The sound of cloven hoofs on pavement, made by a Nixon-Demon as he approaches the driver of the car that just rear-ended his limo. See OlyBlog Twisted Conundrum, Renfield/Penguin (complete with audio) for another version of this scene. (Cranium Frenzy 9 (1998))

Clip! Slip! Slip! Snip! Snip! Clip!: Aesthetic minded human heads float high in the atmosphere, attached by long find threads to the craniums of Morty Dogs, who one day see fit to CLIP, etc. them off. (Morty the Dog Who Walks Like a Man (1987))

Clomp Clomp: See Clompity Clomp Clomp

Clompity Clomp Clomp: Stanley stands at the edge of a cliff, trapped as he attempts to flee his former selves. As they close in, this is the sound they make. (One Way Flight to Anywhere But Here (1977))

Clonk!: See Bonk! Clonk!

Clonk! Plop!: During the "Great Frog Rain" a frog bounces off the bald cranium of a puzzled man and lands in that gentleman's open palm. (Bezango (1994))

Clop: See Clip Clop

Clunk!:
(1) A group of dead frogs, torn asunder from their hosts after living for awhile embedded in the craniums of certain people, collectively fall to the floor. Needless to say, the frogs are now dead. (Bezango (1994))
(2) An Artnoid falls to the ground, creating this sound, and subsequently a beautiful vapor-like butterfly, a work of art, emerges out of the mouth of the temporarily striken artist. (Bezango (1994))
(3) A rabbit goes bowling with a ball that contains the living head of an unfortunate man, hence the ball always rolls (CLUNK!) into the gutter. (Pacemaker Defect (1982))
(4) The Queen's cranium CLUNKs on the floor, and her eyes look like two "X"s after she drinks poisoned wine. (Tragedy of Morty, Prince of Denmarke 5 (1985))
See also: Click Clink Clunk Clinkety Clink Clank
See also: Poink! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Thunk! Clunk! Plinka Plinka Plinka
See also: Poink! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Thunk! Clunk! Plink!
See also: Skritch Scratch, Skritch Scratch Honk! Skritch Scratch Clunk! Yap Yap Yap Yap Kick! Glug Gabug Glug Gabug

Collide!: See Bend! Collide! Brunch! Crunch! Bash! Crash! Bump!

Compress! Click! Click! Click!: In order to leave real life and return to being a 2-D cartoon character, a rodent-like creature clicks his heels three times and begins to compress. (Library Comix (1987))

Coo Coo! Haiku! Sez You! City Zoo! Dien Bein Phu!: The sounds made by a very unusual coo-coo clock. (Limbolympia (1983))

Cr-reeeak!: A Morty Dog, floating in deep outer space, sees a door on the side of a small asteroid and opens it. ([Unnamed comic strip] (ca. 1981))

Cra-a-a-ck!: See Bam Bam Bam Cra-a-a-ck!

Crack!:
(1) Of dawn. (Fan'Toons 18 (1987))
(2) The central object in this sound effect is a toy that looks very much like Caspar, the Friendly Ghost:
"It was an innocent toy. Pull the cord, and it spoke"
Toy: Can I be your friend?
"After some time, the words just wore out."
Toy: Gr-r-rxx! G-ack-ack!
"It sat, gathering dust, for awhile. Then one fateful day I pulled the cord 'just for fun.'"
Toy: Kill your parents! Burn the church! Drink blood! Jaywalk!
Toy owner: Nngh!
"I threw him in a box and hid it in a dark corner of the basement."
Muffled voice of Toy in box: Steal from the blind! Swim in saliva! Vote Republican!
"And there it sat, unmolested, for several years. It took great force of will not to revisit that toy. But finally I gave in and-- Found a dead toy. I cracked open the head (CRACK!). Inside was a very dead, dried demon. And now I have the coolest rear-view mirror ornament in Little Rock." (State of Beings 4 (1991))
See also: Flop! Thud! Thunk! Crack! Arrr! Garrr! Yarr! Arrrr! Yarrrg! Skreee Arrrr! Grrr! Yaarrr! Pfffftt! Slam! Whap Whap Whap Whap
See also: Swat! Crack!
See also Zip! Crack!

Crackle: See Snap! Crackle Pop

Crank Crank Crank Grind!: Darwin Corksniffer cranks out anti-evolution pamphlets on the church mimeograph, but is so fatigued he falls into the machine and injures his hands (which eventually turn into fish and evolve into higher life forms). (Limbolympia (1983))

Crank! Crank! Fill! Crank! Crank! Fill!: A Morty Dog uses a bulldozer to bury his former jail cell. (Starhead Presents 1 (1986))

Crash!:
(1) A dog-man breaks through the door of a tiny little dirt mound house, faces a tiny little TV on a special stand and asks, "Are you 'It'?" (Little Snowjob (1986))
(2) A big shark peers through the window of a submerged house and sees a group of men standing around with delicious green frogs sticking out of the tops of their craniums. Naturally, the shark makes the "Crash" sound as he bursts through the window. But he gets stuck. (Bezango (1994))
(3) Arnie Wormwood makes a flying leap at a robot guarding a door. The robot is tackled and they both CRASH through the door. (Limbolympia (1983))
(4) Curve-Vision Man walks through a plate glass door. (Modernman 3 (1999))
(5) A surprised fish CRASHes into a house through a window. (Mythic Residue (1978))
(6) Willie X falls over with a heart attack and CRASHes to the floor when confronted by his supposed murder victim (Jobbo Bonobo) during a police interrogation led by Lt. Sado. (Mythic Residue (1978))
See also: Bang! Bang! Pow! K-Pow! Crash! Bash!
See also: Bend! Collide! Brunch! Crunch! Bash! Crash! Bump!
See also: Bonk! Bonk! Crash!
See also: Pop! Zip! Crash!
See also: Push! Grab! Bash Hit Rip Shred Smash Crash Fight
See also: Smash! Bash! Crash! Mash! Zip!
See also: Voop Voop Voop Voop Voop Zang! Crash! Zip! Splat!
See also: Whoosh! Crash!
See also: Whoosh! Crash! Zow! Bonk! Bonk! Smash! Zip! Zow! Zip! Skrash! Rrrrr-rrrr-sput-rrrr-sput Blink! Ka-rash!
See also: Zip! Boing! Crash!

Creak!: See Zip! Kick! Creak!

Crreak!: See Whoosh! Crreak! Zing! Whak! Whak!

Crunch!:
(1) For reasons that are far too complicated to explain here, a desperate soul who wants a hole in place of his torso has a giant boulder pushed off an elevated place onto his body. (Cartoon Loonacy 9 (1986))
(2) Snoodle B. Clapsaddle, an employee of the U.S. Postal Service hits a package on a conveyor belt at random with a giant mallet. (Cranium Frenzy 7 (1994))
(3) Snoodle B. Clapsaddle, fleeing his homicidal runaway lawnmower, knocks over a Morty Dog and steps on his head (Crunch!) in his panic. (Cranium Frenzy 7 (1994))
(4) A Morty Dog, who works as a salesman for a product called "Dord," accidentally drives his car into the back of an expensive looking limo. See OlyBlog Twisted Conundrum, Renfield/Penguin (complete with audio) for another version of this scene. (Cranium Frenzy 9 (1998))
(5) A Morty Dog lands hard on his head, plummeting from the sky after his floating porcupine had been punctured by a screaming orb. (Cranium Frenzy 10 (2003))
See also: Bend! Collide! Brunch! Crunch! Bash! Crash! Bump!
See also: Poke! Crunch!
See also: Zow Crunch!

Crunch Crunch: See Grab! Rrrip! Toss! Smack Crunch Crunch

Crush!: In the Dark Ages, I'm not making this up, there was this sport called Dog Butting, apparently popular in parts of Europe. A Dog would be tied up along a vertical stake, and men would run headlong into the canines, attempting to kill them with the force of their heads. The object was to do so without getting injured too much. In this story, we are introduced to Bob Richartolovskii, who is demonstrating why he is the Dog Butting world champion (Crush!) (Dog of Dawn, Dog of Dusk (1985))

Cut: See Hack Hack Cut

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