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Z-z-z-zip!: See Leap! Z-z-z-zip! Zang!: See Voop Voop Voop Voop Voop Zang! Crash! Zip! Splat! Zang! Whoosh! Zow!: The Big G takes aims at a Morty Dog and shoots a meteor-gun at the mutt. (Cartoon Loonacy 9 (1986)) Zap!: Zap! Zap!: Zap Zap Boot! Poof!: A middle-aged barfly suddenly vanishes (Zap) before the eyes of a young man, reappears behind him (Zap), kicks him to the floor (Boot!) as he declares, "All you needed was a cosmic kick in the butt ... Hahahahahahahahahahaha!" and then turns into a circus clown before disappearing (Poof!) (One Way Flight to Anywhere But Here (1977)) Zap! Zap! Zap! Zap!: The Big G sends down "Confuso Rays," affecting the mind of Orville Blatt, a retired math teacher with a pinstrip moustache. (Dogtown Zoo (1982)) Zap! Zap! Zap! Zap! Zap! Zap! Zap! Zap!: A Morty Dog and Mr. Clapsaddle are minding their own business at home when suddenly they find themselves floating aimlessly in deep outer space. ([Unnamed comic strip] (ca. 1981)) Zazz! Zirk!: A man/dog with a tail that serves as an electrical cord, is plugged into a wall and becomes transfixed by television. (Dog Boy 7 (1986)) Zeek! Zeek! Zeek!: Larry the robotic assitant to Dave Kapser, 22nd century inter-stellar coroner, picks up signals that an alien is approaching them while they are in the act of investigating why all the crew of the Cetacean have died. (Human Beings (1985)) Zerk!: In a land where telling jokes is illegal, government agents dispatch a man with ray guns (Zerk!) who simply says, "Ever hear the one about the tightwad preacher who ...?" (Cranium Frenzy 5 (1985)) Zerk! Whump!: Zing!: Zip!: Zip! Beee-yoooop! Beep! Beep! Ba-beep! Ba-bee-bop! Beep!: An alien ship descends for a landing in 1692 Massachusetts. The craft is shaped like a two-story apartment building with giant TV rabbit ears on the roof. (Cranium Frenzy 2 (1982)) Zip! Boing! Crash!: A Morty Dog leaps (Zip!), bounces off the floor (Boing! with a musical note), and crashes through a mirror to get back home. (Cranium Frenzy 5 (1985)) Zip! Boing Oing-Oing! Whang! Ang!: Prince Morty: Shall we to the court? For by my fay I cannot reason ... Zip Bonk!: Created when a cow throws a large rock at a farmer, yelling, "Take that, you meat-eating swine!" (Stuff 19 (1989)) Zip! Crack!: Cartoonist Clint Hollingsworth, who has a black belt in Karate, uses a swift karate chop (Zip! Crack!) to assist another cartoonist who has been transformed into a wall of bricks. (End of the Earth and Turn Left (1985)) Zip! Kick! Creak!: A Morty Dog in a jail cell swings his leg and kicks the cell door (ZIP! KICK!) and to his surprise the door CREAKs open, having been unlocked the whole time he was incarcerated without his knowing. (Starhead Presents 1 (1986)) Zip! Plop!: A rodent-like creature Zips down a library stairway bannister and lands with a PLOP! (Library Comix (1987)) Zip! Plunk!: Arnie Wormwood tilts back the head of a circus clown, revealing a hole in an open neck, and with a ZIP! PLUNK! sticks his face in there and sees a stairway leading downward. (Limbolympia (1983)) Zip! Poink!: In the very early days of television, there was a live broadcast called "The Clyde and Dixie Show." The short-lived series came to an abrupt end when Clyde jabbed a fork into his cranium (ZIP! POINK!) for no apparent reason. "The prongs hit a special portion of his brain, causing him to sing the same song over and over ..." Here is that song, sung to the tune of "She'll Be Comin' Around the Mountain": Zip! Puncture! Zip! Whoosh! Zow!: Using a slingshot, the earthbound Big G shoots a rock (ZIP!) into a heavenly cloud and pokes a hole in it (PUNCTURE!). The Morty Dogs who had been happily dancing on the cloud are suddenly thrown into havoc as it quickly deflates and careens through the sky (ZIP! WHOOSH! ZOW!) like a balloon releasing air. (Rise and Fall of Morty the Dog (1987)) Zip! Slice Glug! Glug! Glurg!: Prince Morty uses his sword to slit the King, and then forces the monarch to drink poison wine. (Tragedy of Morty, Prince of Denmarke 5 (1985)) Zip! Splash!: The severed (due to execution) head of Lord Oliver Crumwell, which had been placed on a pike in the 1600s, blows across town during a storm and zips down a chimney, splashing into the boiling soup of a greedy couple. (Cranium Frenzy 1 (1981)) Zip! Thunk!: Created by a rain of quills falling from floating dead porcupines and the sound one single quill makes as it impales the bulbous nose of guy in a bathtub named Augustus. (Raining Quills 1-4 (1989-1991)) Zip! Toss!: A Morty Dog with a helmet is hurled in an Australian nightclub by five hefty bouncers who have used the mutt in a dwarf-tossing contest. (It Has No Story, And It's Only Part Of A Small Cult Phenomena, or, Low-Budget 'Pataphysics Made Easy (1985)) Zip! Whap! Pop! Poosh!: Fred C. Plughole, who dwells on the outside surface of the hollow Earth, swings a mallet (Zip) to hammer back the protruding beak of a despondent swordfish (Whap), who had jumped off a tall building in the hollow Earth below and landed beak first. The dead swordfish is shot back into the hollow Earth (Pop) and the opening that was created by his beak now lets all the air out of the hollow Earth (Poosh!). (Cranium Frenzy 2 (1982)) Zip! Whoompf!: A Morty Dog, kicked into the air by a 60 ft. man, lands on a cloud in Heaven. (Cartoon Loonacy 1 (1983)) Zip! Whoosh!: A rodent-like creature has a trap door slide open beneath him (ZIP) and he slips down a curved slide (WHOOSH!) (Library Comix (1987)) Zip Whump!: A skinless dog is forced up a trap door and lands hard on the floor. "Nghghmp!" he says in response. (Limbolympia (1983)) Zip! Zip!: Zip! Zip! Shoop! Zip! Zip! Shoop! Shoop!: Otto Manic's brain absorbs everything around him. The ZIP effect comes from objects that race toward him, and the SHOOP is the sound of said objects entering his cranium. The items absorbed include "little babies and cats with rabies, old film reels and ducks on wheels, a cantaloup from Pakistan, a New York City ice cream man, ol' Slim Whitman's swimming pool, the entire city of Liverpool, the Earth, the Moon, the lakes, the seas, stars and suns and galaxies." (Scratchez 8 (1986)) Zip! Zip! Zip!: Three computer globes quickly roll past a box of unused captions. (Dogtown Zoo (1982)) Zip! Zip! Zip! Zip! Zip! Zip!: See Thud! Zip! Zip! Zip! Zip! Zip! Zip! Zip! Zip! Zoop!: In Ketchikan there is a man with no mouth. Where most people have a forehead, this man has a little theater stage, and on it is a tiny fellow who entertains one and all with upbeat songs, like this one: "It's sadness I rebuke, I'm so happy I could puke!" Even though the music is joyous, the eyes of the man with no mouth are incredibly sad. Then one day a mysterious lady (who looks like a generic 1950s advertising icon) flew by in a corkscrew flight pattern (ZIP! ZIP! ZOOP!) and pulled the forehead theater curtain to reveal a small army of little monsters. The creatures flew away, and the man with no mouth suddenly developed a smile. (State of Beings 2 (1991)) Zip! Zoop!: A Morty Dog (Zip!), followed by the Big G (Zoop!), jump into a hole in order to escape two very hungry alligators. (Cranium Frenzy 8 (1995)) Zip! Zoop! Plop! Sniff Sniff Gak!: Robin: [Pointing at a large bag resting on an outcropping about 6 feet below the edge of the cliff] Hey, what's that bag doing down there? "Doug, who must be part mountain goat, brought the bag back with a single hop--" Doug: [Zip! Zoop!] Got it! [Throws bag at Willis, the narrator. It lands with a Plop!] You're the librarian, Willis. You figure out what this stuff is! Nyahahahaha! Willis: Sniff! Hmm ... Petrified granola? Snarf! Old drugs? [He tastes it]. "Then Lee, a registered nurse ..." Lee: Hey, I know what this stuff is ..." Willis: [Sniff Sniff, the material is getting all over his beard at this point]. " ... Had an immediate recognition." Lee: (Cheerfully)... Cremated human remains! Willis: [A word balloon with only a * symbol in it, followed in the next panel with ...] Gak! (How Two Ex-Presidents Went Up My Nose! (1994)) Zirk!: See Zazz! Zirk! Ziz Ziz Ziz Ziz: The sound from little thought control rays shooting from the eyes of craniums from the future, craniums that have replaced the hands of a creationist named Darwin Corksniffer. They order Darwin to get them burgers and fries (hold the onions). (Limbolympia (1983)) Zizz! Fizz!: A mysterious power emanating from the fingers of Handy Harold. (Fan'Toons 18 (1987)) Zoink!: A worker with a dull assembly line job at the Penguin Helmet Factory says out loud, "God, I hate this! The same meaningless repitition day after day! I wish it would all come to an end!" At which point an elf with a cigar and a 5 o'clock shadow pops up and declares, "Hi! I'm the Surly Elf, here to grant your wish!" Delighted, the worker says, "I wish I was on a distant planet, far from here!" And so, with a ZOINK! the Surly Elf responds with, "Granted!" The following caption explains the result: "And with that the hapless worker went to a distant planet in close orbit to a giant star, and he perished in an explosion of fire!" (Cranium Frenzy 10 (2003)) Zonk!: The Being of Light hits a time travel craft conveying a Morty Dog and the Big G with a disabling bolt of mysterious energy. (Cranium Frenzy 8 (1995)) Zoom: See Zow! Zip Toss! Bungala Bungala Bungala Zoom Boing Zoop Zip Whump! Zoooop!!: A slob in an easy chair is reduced to a mushy pile of pudding, and this sound is made in the process. (Big Picture Picture Book (1983)) Zoop!: In a land where humor is illegal, a Morty Dog performs an act of civil disobedience by throwing a pie in the face of a government enforcer (Zoop!) (Cranium Frenzy 5 (1985)) Zoop! Pop-Plop!: A Morty Dog, who had been trapped in a floating word balloon, is finally released when the balloon lands on the ground and pops. (Cranium Frenzy 5 (1985)) Zoop! Slam!: While reaching for a beer in back of a 'fridge, a Morty Dog finds himself sucked in (ZOOP!) with the door SLAMming shut behind him. (Natural Functions (1986)) Zoop! Zoop! Zoop! Tap Tap Tap Tippity Tap Tap: A writer types on a typewriter at such a fast pace that the paper ZOOPs out of the machine at a speed that creates smoke. (Morty Comix 1853 (1989)) Zork!: Zorp!: See Swoop! Zip! Whirl! Zow! Jab! Zorp! Zot!: See Eep! Eep! Eep! Zot! Zot! Poof! Poof! Poof! Poof!: Mr. Morgan sends a Zot ray and instantly eliminates all the guns being carried by soldiers who are about to engage in battle. (Random Reflections (1976)) Zow!: Zow Crunch!: A Morty Dog and the Big G, aboard a disabled time machine, crash, burn, and die near Roswell, N.M. in 1947, earning this headline in the Roswell Daily Record, "RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region." Naturally, the powers that be cover it up. Zow! Thunk Thunk Thunk: A Morty Dog tricks the power elite of the future to jump off of a cliff. They have huge antlers as a symbol of their power, and when they land on their heads the antlers are buried deep in the ground. At this point, Morty and a friendly scientist shoot a ray gun at the elite, causing the antlers to transform into roots and their bodies to become trees, thus reforesting the Earth. (Natural Functions (1986)) Zow! Whump! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Zip! Bonk! Zow! Bonk! Whoompf! Bonk!: Clint Hollingsworth, who has been reduced to the size of a Marxist elf, is riding on a magic carpet when a ton of bricks falls on him, causing him to rip through the carpet and land on the ground (Zow! Whump!). The bricks fall on his head one by one (Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk!) and after a pause a final brick falls on his head, but this particular brick is another cartoonist who was changed into this form earlier in the story (Bonk!). Then a couple of deceased Marxist elves land on Clint's head (Zip! Bonk! Zow! Bonk!) followed by the carpet, which lands on him like a robe (Whumpf!). Clint is handed a crown, and finally a dead duck lands in the crown itself, becoming part of the decor (Bonk!) (End of the Earth and Turn Left (1985)) Zow! Zip Toss! Bungala Bungala Bungala Zoom Boing Zoop Zip Whump!: A skinless Morty Dog falls through a trap door (ZOW) falls some distance (ZIP) right above a bowling ball as it is TOSSEed down an a bowling alley by a character who looks an awful lot like a certain cartoon caveman. Landing on the ball, Morty rides it down the alley as if he was log rolling (BUNGALA x 3, ZOOM). Just before he reaches the end, the bowling pins sing, "Up you go, Morty, back to the sky ..." and a spring coils out of the ball (BOING, with musical notes) sending Morty up to the ceiling (ZOOP) where he goes up into another trap door (ZIP) and lands back where he started (WHUMP). Zow! Zip! Whirggg! Whirgggg!: A Morty Dog wraps a lawn mower cord around his cranium, stands on his head, and pulls. He spins like a top and soon becomes a drill through the hard, hard ground. (Cranium Frenzy 6 (1990)) Zwip! Zwoop!: A Morty Dog, finding himself the object of unwanted worship of a group who have holes where their torso used to be (making them holier-than-thou), asks his followers to stand together to form one giant hole. This sound is made when Morty jumps into the hole and on the other side declares, "Just as I suspected, a vast, empty space full of hot air ..." (Cartoon Loonacy 9 (1986)) Zwoop!: See Zwip! Zwoop! Zzaap!: See Click! Zzaap! Zap Zzap!: Zzip!: Zzz: Zzzap! Zzzap!: The Big G conjures up enormous lightning bolts and aims them at Earth in order to wipe out the planet. (Cartoon Loonacy 1 (1984)) Zzzz: Zzzz Boom! Boom Bam Ba-Zom: Mr. Morgan, a bearded giant, is awakened from a his sleep by the sounds of a war. "Those little bastards are at it again!! This is the last straw!" (Random Reflections (1976)) Zzzzz: Zzzzzz: Zzzzzzoink!: A microscopic Morty Dog instantly returns to the Whole Hole, which resides in the head of a normal citizen. (Cranium Frenzy 6 (1990)) Zzzzzzow!!: Made when an eye-enlarger ray gun is employed by Harry the Artist. This device enlarges eyes to the size of basketballs, Harry "used it because he thought people could see things better, and thus understand his art on his terms." (Big Picture Picture Book (1983)) Zzzzzzz:
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