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Submitted by stevenl on Sun, 05/21/2006 - 5:08pm.

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!:
(1) A man is executed in an electric chair. The three panel sequence reads: "Murderers are punished by death! Soldiers are awarded for inflicting death!! Pacifists are thrown in the clink for refusing to kill!" (Cranium Frenzy 1 (1981))
(2) An informer is electrocuted in his bathtub by an unknown assailant while being interviewed by Arnie Wormwood, P.I. (Cranium Frenzy 2 (1982))
(3) Bub shoots a a ray cannon at a million little Hectors, who are re-atomized into one normal adult-sized Hector, save for one lone miniature version. (Dogtown Zoo (1982))
(4) A man in the future knocks out a Morty Dog by zapping him with some sort of electric stick. (Natural Functions (1986))
See also: Click! Zzaap! Zap
See also: Pop! Sizzle! Zap!

Zap! Zap!:
(1) Mysterious electrical rays used as a metamorphosis plot device. (Amused To No End (1986))
(2) A Morty Dog runs amok, shooting his "Morty Death-Ray Vision" at random. (Ultra Klutz 25 (1988))

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!:
Ralph, a Dog Man: I'm gonna make a try for it, boys ...
Dogman 1: I dunno Ralph, you should ask Morty about this.
Dogman 2: Yeah, he's been here forever! [Dogman 2 lights Morty's cigar] What do you think, Mort? Should he try it?
Morty: Whatever it is, I say "Give up."
Ralph: Aww, that old fart always looks on the dark side. Look at him, he's dead already. [Points to stairs leading to a door] You've gotta live and go for the gusto! I'm going up there, I've just gotta be me! So long, chumps! Erk! [a mysterious "Zerk" sound emanates from behind Ralph, followed by him falling to the floor with his tongue hanging out and each eye replaced by an "X"]
Morty: He never does learn, poor guy ...
[Zoomout reveals all dogs are plugged into the wall with short cords, Ralph's cord has been pulled out when he nade his escape attempt]
Dogman 2: Maybe we should plug him back in.
Morty: I think it would better for all concerned if we didn't. (Equinox 2 (1984))

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

Zip!:
(1) The headless body of a guy named Huey falling toward a gumball machine, where the glass orb is about to replace his head. (Fan'Toons 18 (1987))
(2) The sound of the top lid of a cage holding a Morty Dog prisoner in Memphis opening when the resurrected yet decayed Elvis Presley shows up to free him. (Pod Meets Morty The Dog (198something))
(3) The sound created when the drunken Sheriff of Grub Harbor County quickly produces his credentials out of his pocket. (Sasquatch Comix 5 (1983))
(4) The noise produced when a Morty Dog rides on top of a giant Floating Baby Head over the city. See OlyBlog Twisted Conundra, 3/19/06 for more info on this awesome event. (Bezango (1994))
(5) Arnie Wormwood zips up his fly. (Big Picture Picture Book (1983))
(6) A naked man with a newly acquired college diploma runs up the stairs to the Good Life. (Big Picture Picture Book (1983))
(7) A Morty Dog and the Big G travel back in time (Zip!) to 1947 over Qumran Cave and the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. (Cranium Frenzy 8 (1995))
(8) A man with magnetic eyes attracts refrigerator magnets and they fly to his face. (Cryogenic Comix 11 (1998))
(9) A Morty Dog climbs into a hole in the sky. (How Two Ex-Presidents Went Up My Nose! (1994))
(10) Dave Kasper, 22nd century inter-stellar coroner and his robotic assisant Larry are investigating the death of the entire crew of the Cetacean when a small TV with legs ZIPs out of a special door to join them. (Human Beings (1985))
(11) A skinless dog falls through a trap door. (Limbolympia (1983))
(12) A baby in a giant clamshell flies over a desert landscape. (Mythic Residue (1978))
(13) The Big G drops a mirror from the heavens to Earth in order to foil a Morty Dog. The plot is too convoluted to explain in this venue. (Rise and Fall of Morty the Dog (1987))
(14) The Big G drops a bag of bad music from the heavens on the cranium of a Morty Dog. In response, Morty declares, "This must mean someone has a score to settle with me. This is full scale war!" (Bad puns, get it?). So Morty rearranges the musical notes floating around and sings a song to the tune of "Rawhide":
"Rollin', rollin', rollin',
Tho' my brain is swollen,
Keep this doggie rollin',
Toward light.
Thru geeks and gods and eyeballs,
Fueled by highballs,
Wishin' my mind was in my head.
All the things I'm missin',
A meaning to my mission,
Will only come to me when I'm dead!
Move it on, head it up, head it up, move it on,
Move it on, head it up tonight!
Cut it out! Tie it on! Ride it in! Turn it in! Cut it out!
Ride it out, toward liiiiiight!!!!"
(Rise and Fall of Morty the Dog (1987))
(15) A Morty Dog gets to the end of a rainbow and spirals quickly (ZIP!) underground, like water down a bathtub drain. (Starhead Presents 1 (1986))
See also: Brrrrrg! Zip!
See also: Bumpety Bumpety Bumpety Bump Zip! Plip! Affix! Boot! Boot! Plup!
See also: Chomp! Zip! Swoosh! Zow! Smak! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
See also: Pluck! Zip! Splook!
See also: Poink Zip! Gloop!
See also: Pop! Zip! Crash!
See also: Screech! Snap! Tangle! Wrap! Tie! Zip! Grab!
See also: Shoop Shemp Moe Zip
See also: Smash! Bash! Crash! Mash! Zip!
See also: Snap! Zip!
See also: Sw-kick! Zip!
See also: Swoop! Zip! Whirl! Zow! Jab! Zorp!
See also: Toss! Zip!
See also: Toss! Zip! Thunk! Poink! Sniff! Snarf! Swik Swak Swik Swak Swik Jab!
See also: Tug! Zip! Poink!
See also: Voop Voop Voop Voop Voop Zang! Crash! Zip! Splat!
See also: Vrrooooomm! Zip!
See also: Whoosh! Crash! Zow! Bonk! Bonk! Smash! Zip! Zow! Zip! Skrash! Rrrrr-rrrr-sput-rrrr-sput Blink! Ka-rash!
See also: Whoosh! Zip! Whooosh! Zip! Whooosh! Pssssshh
See also: Yank! Twirl Twirl R-r-rip! Snap Zip Bonk!
See also: Zow! Whump! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk! Zow! Bonk! Whoompf! Bonk!
See also: Zow! Zip Toss! Bungala Bungala Bungala Zoom Boing Zoop Zip Whump!
See also: Zow! Zip! Whirggg! Whirgggg!

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 ...
Roseyhead and Goldenass: We'll wait upon you!
Prince Morty: No such matter. I will not sort you with the rest of my servants ; for to speak to you like an honest dog, I am most dreadfully attended ...
Farewell. [Prince Morty walks away]
...But ...
[Prince Morty suddenly turns around, creating the ZIP! sound] In the beaten way of friendship, why are you really in Elsinore?
Goldenass: To visit you my Lord, no other occasion ...
Prince Morty: Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; And sure ... DEAR friends ... my thanks are too dear a halfpenny ... [suddenly grabs Roseyhead and Goldenass's heads and pulls them toward himself, revealing their necks to be big springs, creating the BOING OING-OING sound effect] Were you not sent for? Is it your own inclining? Is it a free visitation? Come, deal justly with me. Come, come-- nay, speak!!!
Goldenass: What should we say my Lord?
[Morty releases their heads, and as they spring back to their normal place the springs create the WHANG! ANG! sound effect] Why, anything but to th' purpose, you were sent for, and there is a kind of confession in your looks, which your empty heads have not craft enough to hide. I know the King and Queen have sent for you.
(Tragedy of Morty, Prince of Denmarke 2 (1984))

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":
I haven't seen my underpants in weeks!
Oh, I haven't seen my underpants in weeks!
I haven't seen my underpants
Haven't seen my underpants
I haven't seen my underpants in weeeeeeks!
(State of Beings 7 (1992))

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!:
(1) Jethro and Zeke, two Florida rednecks, drink water out of the fountain of youth (which happens to be in a toilet) and magically turn into children. These two regenerated children enjoy terrorizing pedestrians on their skateboards, "Outta my way, Pops!" Zip! Zip! (Dogtown Zoo (1982))
(2) Two giant computer globes are about to smash into each other in a fight to the finish. (Dogtown Zoo (1982))
(3) A giant computer globes chases a Morty Dog, "Here doggie, nice little poochie, I won't hurt you." Morty keeps running, "Like Hell you won't!" (Dogtown Zoo (1982))

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))
See also: Thunk Thunk Zip! Zip! Zip! Thunk

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!:
"In Sept. 1993, Robin and Rose (my wife and daughter) and I were on the peak of Blue Mountain, in the Olympic Range ... We were visiting our friends Lee and Doug. Doug was the local forest ranger. Or park ranger. Anyway ... they were all having fun dancing on the edge (one false slip meant plummenting thousands of feet to certain death). It was Robin who first saw it--"

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))
See also: Zip! Zip! Zoop!
See also: Zip! Zoop!
See also: Zip! Zoop! Plop! Sniff Sniff Gak!
See also: Zow! Zip Toss! Bungala Bungala Bungala Zoom Boing Zoop Zip Whump!

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!:
(1) In a land where humor is a physical substance that oozes out of many potholes, the government has invented a ray gun called the anal-izer that shoots a ray into the potholes (Zork!) reducing the humor to lifeless pockets of dust. As one government spokesman said, "I'll be blunt. I do not like this abundance of humor. The people are not taking anything seriously, especially us, the political, economic, and moral backbone of this land!" (Cranium Frenzy 5 (1985))
(2) Mukey the Mutant Membrane is about to pose for a GQ cover shot when suddenly an alien transport ray hits him (ZORK!) (Modernman 3 (1999))

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!:
(1) The FrankEinstein Monster swings an ax (Zow) on a "humor ooze" atom in an attempt to split it. (Cranium Frenzy 5 (1985))
(2) A lawnmower chases Snoodle B. Clapsaddle, unaware that it passed a very furtive Mukey the Mutant Membrane. (Cranium Frenzy 7 (1994))
(3) A Morty Dog flees from a group of government agents who want to open his cranium and insert a programming box. (Cranium Frenzy 10 (2003))
(4) An enormous atomic meteor zig-zags toward Earth. (Dogtown Zoo (1982))
(5) Prince Morty, with bottle in hand, sits in a cow field and watches the army of Fortinbrat pass by. And he says to himself: "How all occasions do inform against me, and spur my dull revenge. What is dog if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more. [A cow regards Morty with a '?' in a word balloon]. Sure he-she-it that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and doglike reason to fust like pus in us abusingly unused and refused. And now, whether it be beastial oblivion, or some craven scruple of thinking too precisely on the event-- (a thought, which quartered, hath but one part reason and ever three parts chickenshit)-- I do not know why I yet live!!! What's wrong with me? Why do I balk? Examples gross as Earth exhort me. Witness this army of such mass and charge. They are led by a delicate and hoit-de-la-toit prince; whose spirit with 'divine' ambition puffed and huffed at the invisible event, exposing what is mortal, and unsure, to all that fortune, death, and danger dare, even for an eggshell! They'll lay down their lives because some rich old fart waves a flag. They die for glory. They die for nothing. How stand I then, that have a father killed, a mother stained, excitements of my reason, and my love, and let all sleep while to my shame I see the imminent death of 20,000 men, that for a fantasy and trick of fame go to their graves like beds!!! [Throws bottle, ZOW!, and it breaks on the ground] O from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!!!" (Tragedy of Morty, Prince of Denmarke (1984))
See also: Chomp! Zip! Swoosh! Zow! Smak! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
See also: Kerploosh!!! Chomp! Grrrrp!!! Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrip!!! Pop! Sproing!! Zow! Splat! Bonk! Bonk! Bonk!
See also: Oing! Zow! Pop!
See also: Swoop! Zip! Whirl! Zow! Jab! Zorp!
See also: Whoosh! Crash! Zow! Bonk! Bonk! Smash! Zip! Zow! Zip! Skrash! Rrrrr-rrrr-sput-rrrr-sput Blink! Ka-rash!
See also: Zang! Whoosh! Zow!
See also: Zip! Puncture! Zip! Whoosh! 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.
#1 (Standing over Morty and the Big G, both have the letter "X" where there eyes are supposed to be) "I ain't seen nothin' like it!"
#2 "Obviously not from our world."
#1 "We'll have to hush this up."
#2 "Say it was a weather balloon."
#2 "A story like this would threaten the stability of our political and religious institutions!"
#2 "Nationalism would die! The world would become a real Tower of Babel!" (Cranium Frenzy 8 (1995))

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).
Another Skinless Dog: Fun, wasn't it?
Morty: How long do I have to go through with this?
ASD: Forever ...
Morty: WHAT?!?
ASD: Yes. You see, all chain of events have a common origin-- and this is it. By repeating this process over and over, we are maintaining order in the world.
Morty: And what happens if we stop?
ASD: A gear would shift in the universe. As our guru Fred says, "All dogs will be men, all men will be dogs, all dogs will be nuns. Amen."
(Limbolympia (1983))

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!:
(1) Bub shoots a ray cannon at Hector, transforming the latter into a million little Hectors. (Dogtown Zoo (1982))
(2) TV evangelist Moral Robots becomes afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome and suffers an episode of uttering a long string of obscenities before a national audience on a live broadcast. Even though his Nielson ratings go up, the Big G decides to Zzap him out of existence. (Fun in Acapulco (1982))

Zzip!:
(1) A Morty Dog unzips the front of his body to reveal he is in reality-- Cosmo Bear in a Morty costume. (Cranium Frenzy 10 (2003))
(2) Cosmo Bear, who had earlier unzipped the front of his Morty costume, unzips yet again to reveal he is-- Morty the Dog. "Just playing with your mind, pal," Morty tells his companion. (Cranium Frenzy 10 (2003))

Zzz:
(1) Mr. Lundi snores in bed while his astral projected self in a cartoon dream observes the bedroom catching fire, but he can't get out of the dream thought balloon! (One Way Flight to Anywhere But here (1977))
(2) An actor portrays the former King of Denmarke sleeping. (Tragedy of Morty, Prince of Denmarke 3 (1984))

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:
(1) Mr Lundi snores in bed while his astral projected self makes a deal to let "Crazy Ray" escape the dream world and enter our reality. (One Way Flight to Anywhere But Here (1977))
(2) As a Morty Dog sleeps, he dreams about a saw cutting into a hardwood log, thus creating the ZZZZ sound. (Rise and Fall of Morty the Dog (1987))

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:
(1) A person with a head shaped like an egg snores away. (Mythic Residue (1978))
(2) A homeless man sitting in a Salvation Army type shelter snores during a sermon. (Storm Warnings (1986))

Zzzzzz:
(1) Mr. Lundi snores in bed while his astral projected self observes his body from a cartoon dream. (One Way Flight to Anywhere But Here (1977))
(2) Mr. Morgan, a bearded giant, finally gets a good sleep after stopping those pesky little mortals from having their noisy war. (Random Reflections (1976))

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:
(1) A robotic creature sleeps on the job as he guards a door. (Limbolympia (1983))
(2) The Great Cat Spirit falls asleep, drunk, in a seedy tavern. (Natural Functions (1986))
(3) The King sleeps under a tree, unaware that he is about to have poison poured into his ears. (Tragedy of Morty, Prince of Denmarke 1 (1983))

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