History Main / SynchroVox

** Used in the opening with "Painty the Pirate", who starts the theme song.

* The intro to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsX23WuqP2U this episode]] of the ''Kentucky Ballistics'' [=YouTube=] channel parodies this, superimposing cutouts of the host's eyes and face over his shoulder and wrist, complaining about the weapons he's considering using in the video. The intro ends with a similar cutout over his foot, crying after he remembers to bring along an eggplant.[[labelnote:Background]]The channel features the host, a former Kentucky state trooper, using a wide variety of firearms, very often high-powered. As for eggplant, the host frequently uses it as a target; when announcing that he'll shoot eggplant, he yells "nobody likes eggplant!" and kicks an eggplant.[[/labelnote]]

* The videos for DeStorm's "The Annoyed Objects" series use this.

** In "Moving Bubble Bass", when [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick find out that Bubble Bass ate the free lunches he promised to give to them for moving his stuff while they were doing said task, Patrick angrily walks up to Bubble Bass, and this happens:

-->-- '''[[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles Frozone]]''', the [[InCharacterCommentaries commentary]] of ''WesternAnimation/MrIncredibleAndPals''

* The "WesternAnimation/MrIncredibleAndPals" short from ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' DVD is a parody of ''WesternAnimation/ClutchCargo''.

* Creator/SteveOedekerk has made something of a trademark of this technique (using eyes as well as a mouth), most notably with his "Thumb Wars" series of parody shorts, in which Steve's thumbs play characters from ''Star Wars'', ''The Godfather'', ''Batman'', etc. It also appears as one of the primary gags in ''Film/KungPowEnterTheFist'', with the main character's tongue being its own character named "Tonguey".

%%* The ''Thumbs!'' series of specials.

* The only company to seriously use the technique, Cambria Productions, used it to produce three "animated" series: ''WesternAnimation/ClutchCargo'' (1959-60), ''Space Angel'' (1962) and ''Captain Fathom'' (1965). Eventually, even they abandoned the technique: their final project , the cartoon segments of ''[[Film/TheThreeStooges The New Three Stooges]]'' (1965-66), did not use it.

* The only company to seriously use the technique, Cambria Productions, used it to produce three "animated" series: ''WesternAnimation/ClutchCargo'' (1959-60), ''Space Angel'' (1962) and ''Captain Fathom'' (1965). Even they realized the technique didn't work: their sole other production, the cartoon segments of ''[[Film/TheThreeStooges The New Three Stooges]]'' (1965-66), did not use it.

* In the ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'' ''Literature/TheHauntedMask'' episodes, whenever the plaster bust of Carly Beth's head appears to speak, live eyes and a mouth are superimposed onto the bust.
** From the same series, the TV adaptation of ''Literature/MyBestFriendIsInvisible'' uses this technique during TheReveal at the end; depicting [[spoiler: the protagonist, Sammy, and his entire family, as aliens with faces on the back of their heads]].

* Wrestling example, on the August 10 2015 episode of [[Wrestling/{{WWERAW}} Monday Night Raw]]: "Wrestling/JohnCena" talks to Wrestling/SethRollins [[https://youtu.be/BuwF8Opc0F4?t=2m19s this way]].

* ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'' has a version [[spoiler: that is [[NightmareFuel completely unnerving.]] When Yuri pulls you into the closet on the second or third day, her eyes become [[UncannyValley disturbingly realistic.]] Also, when Natsuki walks in, there's a chance that her mouth will also become [[UncannyValley realistic as she spouts nonsense words.]]]]

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' has an example played for sheer cringe in the most recent Strong Bad Email, Too Cool. After watching a video tape made by [[RealityWarper Senor Cardgage]], the characters are all "cursed for life." Rather than being haunted by a spirit or some such, they discover that whenever they say the word "tertiary," their lips become creepy photo-realistic animated lips that are clearly an attempt to invoke Synchrovox, their hands involuntarily go to their hips, and they pronounce the word in a bizarre, sassy metallic voice while wiggling from side to side. Like everything else about the episode (and some would say, the site) ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.

* ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd '':

* In the 1992 ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "WesternAnimation/InvasionOfTheBunnySnatchers", [[spoiler:clone!]]Daffy has this for a brief moment. It's ''extremely'' creepy. [[NightmareFuel In fact, it may be one of the creepiest Looney Tunes cartoons.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Marge", Marge is declared insane. On the "Krusty the Clown Show" Krusty does Conan O'Brien's bit, asking questions of an image of Marge with Sideshow Mel's mouth crudely superimposed. Krusty realizes the bit is getting old and calls for the Mad Marge dancers[[note]]cf. the "Judge Ito dancers" on ''Series/TheTonightShow'' during the OJ Simpson trial[[/note]].

* This was used in Music/TheWiggles for "The Banana Boat Song", where the boy has an adult mouth (Anthony stated that it's his son with is mouth plastered over). Unlike most examples, the edit is much smoother, though it can look dodgy at times.

* Used in ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'' to mask the lips of the recent victims of Joker's toxin in order to "advertise" his BrandX. [[spoiler:Which, in turn, is the Joker toxin that he is going to release at the Bicentennial celebration of Gotham City's foundation.]]

[-[[caption-width-right:350: "[[Webcomic/NineteenSeventySevenTheComic My old man says he's cool]], [[https://1977thecomic.com/comic/up-up-and-away/ but not to make fun of his mouth!]]"]]-]

[[caption-width-right:350: "[[Webcomic/NineteenSeventySevenTheComic My old man says he's cool,]] [[https://1977thecomic.com/comic/up-up-and-away/ but not to make fun of his mouth!]]"]]

Just as primitive {{Rotoscoping}} has given way to MotionCapture, the great-great-grandson of this technique can be found in the advanced facial performance capture techniques used in ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' and ''VideoGame/LANoire''.

* Edwin Gillette initially invented Synchro-Vox to simulate talking animals for commercials in the early 1950s. He later became a partner in Cambria Studios (see "Western Animation" below).

Mentioned on the DeadUnicornTrope page because only a very small number of productions used it straight, after which everyone immediately realised it looked really, ''really'' creepy and fake; anyone using it outside of those very few examples is probably going for comedic effect, MindScrew or both. You can expect it to suddenly show up in other forms of animation as a MediumShiftGag.

** In the [=#CellGames=] short featuring [[VideoGame/StreetFighter Ryu and Ken]], Ryu mentions how the way fighters communicate is through their fists, Cell responds by saying that they should do so with their mouths, using this effect as he says it.