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

DUNG DUNG

DUNH DUNH

GONK GONK

DUNG DUNK.

Gavel conk = GONK

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KUNG KUNG

Dan, seconded.

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BIG BONG

TUNDUNDUNNN

DUNEDIN

sidebar: the homicide: lots "VERRP" thing.

my Law and Order shirt says:

CHUNG! CHUNG!

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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"?

DANN DANN

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

but then there's this:

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

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.

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.

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."

DUNG DUNG

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

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?

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

and monks stomping on a floor

seriously there are people who thought that was a gavel?

are you deaf?

Belzer calls it a gavel in the USA promo.

Belzer's deaf, tho.

BADONKADONK

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

Processed gavel sound, yes.

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

gavel: chopped and screwed

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

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

RONG RONG

DUNG DUNG

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

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

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

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

BAN BAN

special poppage unit

l&o virginal intent

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.

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

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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.

I mean, it's got the same phrasing as "ch-ching," if instead of "ching" the root were "dung."

This is my compy's "you f'ed up" sound. DUNG DUNG.

I just watched one last night about a writer in some blackmail circle, was surprisingly good. Second ep I've ever seen and fuck if I need another TV show to zone out to but there it is.

nabisco, sorry, but the metrical rhythm of this sound is definitely spondaic, not iambic

QONG QONG

doesn't this sound out as "chung chung" in pinyin?

I think you have that backwards elmo - "ch-ching" would be short-long/unstressed-stressed, in the theme the second beat is harder/longer = it's an iamb

You're right, Elmo, I'm remembering it backwards.

It's almost like a long delay/echo that's been truncated to just two sounds: DUNG-Dung (dung dung dung dung...)

!!!! CONFUSION

you're a dactyl

also john and tokyo rosemary are right: it's CHUNG CHUNG.

J0hn I think Elmo's right! First one shorter but more stressed: DA-dunnng

doesn't this sound out as "chung chung" in pinyin?

Not quite. QENG QENG would be closer to "chung chung."

there's absolutely nothing resembling a hard "ch-" sound in it.

no no! both beats have the same emphasis! SPONDEE.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_&_Order#The_card.2C_and_the_sound

This is accompanied by a tone, which has been described as a "DUN dun" or "thunk thunk" sound. It was originally developed to sound like a barred door in a jail cell slamming shut (Law). In promos for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit reruns on the USA Network, actor Dann Florek refers to the sound as the "doink doink"[9], while Richard Belzer refers to it as the sound of a judge's gavel. According to IMDb.com, it "was created by combining close to a dozen sounds, including that of a group of monks stamping on a floor."

Tomboto was right.

i'd call it KUNG KUNG tbh

both beats have the same emphasis, elmo's right. it's just that first one's overwritten by the attack of the second one, which is allowed a slow decay.

no no! both beats have the same emphasis! SPONDEE.

I definitely hear the first one shorter/more staccato but haven't counted the note values so you could be right

ARGH I thought you were saying it was trochaic.

I need to hear this now! I feel there is a definite variation between the two sounds -- length, obviously, but also MIDI velocity! I'm sure of it!

nabisco: follow the link at the top of the thread?

http://www.audiologyillustrated.org/images/spondee.jpeg

If it were just length, the second one cutting off the decay/release of the first, it would sound like a stutter, and artificial. But it doesn't; it sounds more like an echo than a stutter -- the sounds are definitely shaped to be different, so they read naturally. The exact same sound triggered twice ... sounds like it.

I don't have speakers, so I should probably be quiet for a while.

I think remy's closest - the 2nd one is allowed to decay, which in some ears (mine for example) make it sound like a much longer note

see, i don't hear them as notes, but as percussive beats that reverb and decay.

all audio for television is compressed to fuck because otherwise commercial breaks blow your speaker cones

so the first and second are exactly the same except that the compression bites off the decay of the first hit completely, making only the second hit sound sustained.

it's really not like a big fucking puzzle people. Although I am going to start telling people it's based on the I Ching for "incomplete" because it's used to remind viewers that the show is not over yet.

yeah, with a lot of reverb, the second sound will seem to persist longer, but i don't think they are different in any other way.

oh wait never effing mind, I am dumb, I'm talking about the opening notes of the theme song. Which are to me "the Law and Order sound." Y'all are talking about the interstitial/chapter-change sound. I think those have identical note values (percussive beats are also notes!) and emphases.

I love the theme song and its slap bass so much.

lol at J0hn

in my defense I'd like to say that I'm the only guy here who's been to the L&O soundstages and got winked at by Mariska, so catch the vapors

ohhh shiiiiit

That's just a tympani at the start of the theme song, isn't it?

J0hn I still hate you for that, btw.

Because Olivia is MINE MINE.

you'll both have to share her with Yoshi

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-- El Tomboto, Friday, October 26, 2007 4:26 PM (2 hours ago)

LIES.

also, its clearly tuh tung

Yoshi's Island: Criminal Intent

Because Olivia is MINE MINE.

I don't know man, that's not how things looked when I was WALKING DOWN THE HALL WITH HER YES YES ACCEPT REALITY

There is also an ILXor who has touched Sam Waterston, so you might have competition.

seethe seethe seethe

you folks have nothing on THE PEOPLE WHO GOT JERRY ORBACH'S EYES

http://www.gothamist.com/attachments/jen/2007_01_jerryorbach.JPG

i work for an eye bank and for a sec i was gonna be excited that maybe we got his eyes, but alas. damn you, orbach!

what i wouldn't give to know the cell count and death-to-preservation stats on those peepers of his.

this thread is fucking retarded.

short of having BRISCOE-VISION, i would possibly settle for chris meloni sitting on my face.

Looks like I'll be putting off lunch for another hour or two, then.

Her hair is Logan brown
Her lips sweet surprise
Her hands are never cold
She's got Jerry Orbach eyes
She'll turn her music on you
You won't have to think twice
She's pure as New York snow
She got Jerry Orbach eyes

And she'll tease you
She'll unease you
All the better just to please you
She's precocious and she knows just
What it takes to make a pro blush
She got Serena Southerlyn stand off sighs
She's got Jerry Orbach eyes

She'll let you take her home
It whets her appetite
She'll lay you on her throne
She got Jerry Orbach eyes
She'll take a tumble on you
Roll you like you were dice
Until you come out blue
She's got Jerry Orbach eyes

She'll expose you, when she snows you
Off your feet with the crumbs she throws you
She's ferocious and she knows just
What it takes to make a pro blush
All the boys think she's a spy
She's got Jerry Orbach eyes

And she'll tease you
She'll unease you
All the better just to please ya
She's precocious, and she knows just
What it takes to make a pro blush
All the boys think she's a spy
She's got Jerry Orbach eyes

She'll tease you
She'll unease you
Just to please ya
She's got Jerry Orbach eyes
She'll expose you, when she snows you
She knows ya
She's got Jerry Orbach eyes

this thread is fucking retarded.

Hush, you, this is the greatest thread I have ever started.

And I realize that isn't saying much.

She's pure as New York snow

I just realized this lyric is hilarious

THUNK THUNK.

DUMP DUMP

KRUNK KRUNK

Fremmeneppe - Venetta

That's the theme song, nabisco.

BIRD WORD

We've discussed the theme song already:

Law and Order show
Law and Order show now
Law and Order show

Okay so first comes the law part,
and then comes the order part
First we'll arrest them and
then we'll indict them and
then ...

There is gonna be a twi - ist
And it'll blow your mind

Law and Order show ...

Those are the lyrics, not a phonetic transcription of the music!

In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police who investigate crime and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories.

dum dum da-nump dah
dum dum da-nump dah, dah
dum dum da-nump daaaaah

la de-de deedle da dee dee
da deedle da dee dee
da doodle-dee doodle-da
doodle-dee doodle-da DAAAAAA

bweedle-oop BA dup dup dup DWEE-DAAOOOW
bam bwanump BWEE-dwaow DAA

dum dum da-nump dah

TAN DUN

"So I told her, I'm not filing those reports unless you -- hey, what's THAT?"

"Someone call the police!"

LONG PIG

TIN TIN

DUNH DUNH

-- HI DERE

Definitely.

I can't decide if this thread is getting better or worse.

QUIN QUIN

JAR VIK

DAN DAN

hey quincie how bout you lick my nuts

TEA BAG

FALUN GONG

JUS TEN

BIG HOOS

CHING CHUNG

STF UP

DOG TITS

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all wanna do is zooma zooma ZOOM ZOOM in a POOM POOM

It's BOOM BOOM, not POOM POOM, man!

jesus this thread

POON TANG

.

DIDDY KONG

FAT LIP

BAT SHIT

quincie trying to rack up some pissy points this afternoon

I don't even want to know where you can redeem those.

dude can I help it that I spent the better part of the day trying to remove some of the beachfull of sand up my ed asst's vagina? Some was bound to enter mine!

xpost NB?

BIG DICK

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GABB NEBB

FUCK BEES

RUMP PUMP

NOM NOM

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JAR JAR

PING PONG

SING SING

LAME DUCK

GLUG GLUG

BLOW JOB

FART BATH

okay this is crazy
http://www.neuvel.net/ewoksong.htm

MOME RATHS

okay this is crazy
http://www.neuvel.net/ewoksong.htm

-- HI DERE, Friday, October 26, 2007 8:32 PM (1 minute ago)

OPERATION: ENDURING YUB NUB

CORE DUMP

PINK SOCK

YUB NUB ISN'T FREE xposts

guys hate to break the chain but I totally outdid everybody with the ewok song like a year ago

TOE ROCK
HE IS
MAAAAADE
OUT OF ROCKS
HE IS MADE OUT OF ROCKS
HE IS MADE FROM ROOOOCCCKS

DOCTOR ROCKTOE ROCK (toot toot)
DOCTOR ROCKTOE ROCK (toot toot)
DOCTOR ROCKTOE ROOOOOOCCCCK

THE YAH WAH OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU

xpost

ok im done for now. i will explore further later on ITR.

the mp3 at the top of the page sounds like the gavel only taps once

(usually played twice in succession)

ohhhhhh. i should get off this thread i don't watch the show

DUCK DUCK

BLACK COCK

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

FRENCH FRY

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

GLUG GLUG

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

SEX FARM

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

BONG BONG

GLUB GLUB

COUGH COUGH

DIG DUG

POP ROCKS

KUNG KUNG is correct.

i feel like all of these are correct!

DUNK DUHN

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

I would have thought "kuh-kung."

remember when it was a clock ticking?

ROSE BUD

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

haahahaaha holy shit everybody needs to watch this

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

BARBIE I LOVE YOU

hahaha

IM COMIN FOR YA BARBIE

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

omg

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

SVU is almost always this awesome.

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

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

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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

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

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

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.

haha

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

¡Tchkung!¡Tchkung!

it's "DUNG GUNK" obv

BUNKUM

¡Tchkung!¡Tchkung!

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

Kraftwerk to thread!

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

Great is the truth and it prevails

need an iphone app for this

BIG HOOS

hahaha how did I miss "FART BATH" before

'shump shump'