What is the correct onomotopaeic spelling of the Law & Order sound?

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http://www.moviewavs.com/php/sounds/?id=bst&media=MP3S&type=TV_Shows&movie=Law_And_Order"e=logavel.txt&file=logavel.mp3

(usually played twice in succession)

Poll Results

Option	Votes
DUNG DUNG	13
GONK GONK	8
other (please specify and onomotopaeize)	6
DUNK DUNK	5
QONG QONG	4
TSE TUNG	1
BONG WATER	0
FENG SHUI	0
KONG KONG	0
CONK CONK	0
GONG GONG	0

― dan m, Friday, 26 October 2007 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

DUNG DUNG

― n/a, Friday, 26 October 2007 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

DUNH DUNH

― HI DERE, Friday, 26 October 2007 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

GONK GONK

― Jenny, Friday, 26 October 2007 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

DUNG DUNK.

― Roz, Friday, 26 October 2007 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

Gavel conk = GONK

― Eazy, Friday, 26 October 2007 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

MOD NOTE: I WILL DELETE ALL POSTS TO THIS THREAD THAT ARE NOT IN ALL CAPS AND MORE THAN TWO SYLLABLES

― El Tomboto, Friday, 26 October 2007 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

KUNG KUNG

― Jesse, Friday, 26 October 2007 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, seconded.

― Michael White, Friday, 26 October 2007 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

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― antexit, Friday, 26 October 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

BIG BONG

― libcrypt, Friday, 26 October 2007 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

TUNDUNDUNNN

― Heave Ho, Friday, 26 October 2007 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

DUNEDIN

― wanko ergo sum, Friday, 26 October 2007 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

sidebar: the homicide: lots "VERRP" thing.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

my Law and Order shirt says:

CHUNG! CHUNG!

― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/Connie.jpg http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/Connie.jpg

― jaymc, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

haven't any of you people seen the USA Network promo where several cast members talk about the sound, and it's spelled as "doink doink"?

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

DANN DANN

― gff, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

(it were florek who said 'it's the doink doink')

― gff, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

but then there's this:

Kitt: What's the official name of that sound?
Mike Post: The ching.

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/59/Iching-hexagram-64.png
Hexagram 64 is named 未濟 (wei4 ji4), "Not Yet Fording". Other variations include "before completion" and "not yet completed". Its inner trigram is ☵ (坎 kan3) gorge = (水) water, and its outer trigram is ☲ (離 li2) radiance = (火) fire.

― El Tomboto, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

Besides a synthesizer, what instrument would make this noise? I picture something hollow and thick, almost like something made of animal horn or wood, but really large, struck in a big echo-y room.

― Jesse, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

from the same Mike Post thing I just quoted: "I found a sample of a jail door closing, and I put it with a couple of little other sounds, and made this ching-ching thing."

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

DUNG DUNG

-- n/a, Friday, October 26, 2007 11:16 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

― deej, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

I picture something hollow and thick, almost like something made of animal horn or wood, but really large, struck in a big echo-y room.

Like a...gavel?

― Eazy, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, wait, it's not just a gavel, it's also a cell door slamming shut!

― Eazy, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

and monks stomping on a floor

― El Tomboto, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

seriously there are people who thought that was a gavel?

― El Tomboto, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

are you deaf?

― El Tomboto, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Belzer calls it a gavel in the USA promo.

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

Belzer's deaf, tho.

― HI DERE, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

BADONKADONK

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

Not like a gavel, no. Unless it is a gigantic, hollow, sonorous gavel.

― Jesse, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

Processed gavel sound, yes.

― Eazy, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Recorded up close but then mixed with a 'cathedral' setting.

― Eazy, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

gavel: chopped and screwed

― HI DERE, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

I think there's a gavel in there and then a synth line added to go with it.

― Eazy, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

to all those who say it is a gavel, I say:

RONG RONG

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

DUNG DUNG

― J0rdan S., Friday, 26 October 2007 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

Belzer calls it a gavel in the USA promo.

-- Alex in Baltimore, Friday, October 26, 2007 1:31 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

it was originally a gavel but the 9/11 commission in league with the vatican and the rand corporation covered it up & made it a jail door

― and what, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

for the record, it's the sound of Det. Eliot Stabler slamming a child rapists' face twice into the table of the interrogation room.

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

^^^^^ someone put that to a bangin' techno beat plz

― HI DERE, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

it's the sound Yoshi's tongue makes in Super Mario World.

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

BAN BAN

― and what, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

special poppage unit

― and what, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

l&o virginal intent

― and what, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

Even though it is my own fault that my brain has made a link between Mariska Hargitay and Yoshi's tongue, I am still mad at you, Alex.

― HI DERE, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

good Lord people it's CHUNG CHUNG, I thought you had to answer this question correctly before they give you a driver's license in most states

― J0hn D., Friday, 26 October 2007 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.joystiq.com/media/2006/05/goonies_truffleshuffle.jpg http://www.joystiq.com/media/2006/05/goonies_truffleshuffle.jpg

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

All options here seem to suggest that it's the same sound both times! But there's a total difference in what MIDI would call, umm, velocity.

― nabisco, Friday, 26 October 2007 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

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the only reason i can be on this thread is because i don't watch the show. i'm amused by hundreds of ilxors trying not to hear the sound as YUB NUB or BIG DICK the next time they watch it, tho.

xpost: or that

― John Justen, Friday, 26 October 2007 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

FRENCH FRY

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 26 October 2007 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

I don't watch the show either. Seen it a few times in reruns, is all.

GLUG GLUG

― dan m, Friday, 26 October 2007 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

i just made all these sounds out loud to my co-worker/friend and he repeated each one after me
friday workplace yeeah

― rrrobyn, Friday, 26 October 2007 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

SEX FARM

― Mr. Que, Friday, 26 October 2007 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

WAIT WAIT OH SHIT
I want to change my vote to "BONG WATER"

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 26 October 2007 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

BONG BONG

GLUB GLUB

COUGH COUGH

― elmo argonaut, Friday, 26 October 2007 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

DIG DUG

― gabbneb, Friday, 26 October 2007 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

POP ROCKS

― El Tomboto, Friday, 26 October 2007 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

KUNG KUNG is correct.

― forksclovetofu, Friday, 26 October 2007 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

i feel like all of these are correct!

― rrrobyn, Saturday, 27 October 2007 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

DUNK DUHN

― The Reverend, Saturday, 27 October 2007 07:19 (nineteen years ago)

While watching the show I always imitate the sound and it's kind of a *ching ching* for me.

― Kate, non masonic, Saturday, 27 October 2007 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

I would have thought "kuh-kung."

― roxymuzak, Saturday, 27 October 2007 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

remember when it was a clock ticking?

― dan selzer, Saturday, 27 October 2007 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

ROSE BUD

― wanko ergo sum, Saturday, 27 October 2007 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

UPDATE: It had not occurred to me that they have variations on the signature sound, from the low dunk-dunk to the high ch-chhhh. But if you go by the repeating-sound gag in this YouTube clip

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5xM2XY4h-70

the first iteration is very clearly way more accented -- in the single-echo way I was talking about upthread.

― nabisco, Saturday, 27 October 2007 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

AND if you listen at the beginning of this clip, you will notice the second one seems maybe even slightly lower in pitch?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dCV5G-ZTc14

― nabisco, Saturday, 27 October 2007 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

(I think there is a repeating sound with two different tones mixed in, for a kind of doorbell-like DUNG dung.)

― nabisco, Saturday, 27 October 2007 23:00 (nineteen years ago)

each spinoff ought to have its own signature tone really
the CI one could just be a guy saying "donofrio!!"

― El Tomboto, Monday, 29 October 2007 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

No, the CI one should be the clip of D'Onofrio whinnying like a horse.

― n/a, Monday, 29 October 2007 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

The one for Trial By Jury should be the anguished squeal of a man getting punched in the nuts.

― HI DERE, Monday, 29 October 2007 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dCV5G-ZTc14

haahahaaha holy shit everybody needs to watch this

― and what, Monday, 29 October 2007 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

how come special victims unit was never this amazing when i tried to watch it

― and what, Monday, 29 October 2007 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

BARBIE I LOVE YOU

― max, Monday, 29 October 2007 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 29 October 2007 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

IM COMIN FOR YA BARBIE

― and what, Monday, 29 October 2007 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

DONT MAKE ME HURT YOU... YOURE JUST JEALOUS OF HER BEAUTY!!!!

― and what, Monday, 29 October 2007 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

omg

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 29 October 2007 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

I can't watch SVU at all because Meloni is permanently typecast in my mind as the camp cook in WHAS

I wish I had sound right now

― El Tomboto, Monday, 29 October 2007 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

SVU is almost always this awesome.

― HI DERE, Monday, 29 October 2007 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

haha that whole thing was just a setup to get meloni out of the episode!

― gff, Monday, 29 October 2007 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.cookcountycourt.org/images/1.gif

― Jesse, Monday, 29 October 2007 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

and the end of the clip the letter M calls the sound "chung chung"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2CSkLR6mUQ

― jbsquared, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 00:54 (nineteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Thursday, 1 November 2007 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

i just walked by another Law & Order shoot this morning and when passing the crew suppressed an almost irresistible urge to shout "DUNH DUNH!" at them.

― sanskrit, Thursday, 1 November 2007 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

haha

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 1 November 2007 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

"other" was robbed. none of the given options were right.

― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 1 November 2007 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

¡Tchkung!¡Tchkung!

― dan m, Thursday, 1 November 2007 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

it's "DUNG GUNK" obv

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 1 November 2007 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

BUNKUM

― El Tomboto, Thursday, 1 November 2007 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

¡Tchkung!¡Tchkung!

Minus the Spanish exclamation points, this looks like a Wade-Giles transliteration of a Pinyin version already mentioned.

― jaymc, Thursday, 1 November 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

Kraftwerk to thread!

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 1 November 2007 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

ny times weighs in
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/arts/television/04kant.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=slogin

― mizzell, Saturday, 3 November 2007 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Great is the truth and it prevails

― gabbneb, Saturday, 3 November 2007 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

need an iphone app for this

― Kramkoob (Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃), Friday, 10 October 2008 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

BIG HOOS

― jigglepanda.gif (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 10 October 2008 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha how did I miss "FART BATH" before

― al kaline trio (dan m), Friday, 10 October 2008 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

'shump shump'

― akm, Friday, 10 October 2008 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

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