History Main / ThingOMeter

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* Lampshades by George Carlin in his baseball/football bit:
-->Baseball has no time limit. You don't know when it's gonna end! (''deeper voice'') Football is rigidly timed and will end even if we have to go to '''sudden death!'''
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* In ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'', the FLDSMDFR has a dangeometer to warn Flint if the food is going to over-mutate.

** Take the [[SillinessSwitch Wild Wasteland]] perk and Mr. New Vegas sometimes mentions trying to measure his charisma with one - "[[ReadingsAreOffTheScale the machine burst into flames]]".

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They're usually not very reliable, as their indicators are prone to [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale going off-scale]] or even [[ExplosiveInstrumentation breaking]]. They generally measure things on an AbstractScale.

'''Frink:''' [''With sarcasm detector''] Are you kidding? This baby is off the charts, [[VerbalTic mm-hai]].\\
'''Comic Book Guy:''' A sarcasm detector, that's a ''[[SarcasmMode really]]'' useful invention. [''[[ReadingsBlewUpTheScale Sarcasm detector explodes]]'']

* On an episode of ''Radio/ImSorryIHaventAClue'', the round of MorningtonCrescent ended with Humph announcing "According to our clapometer, Tim is the winner". Barry Cryer then added "Report to the clinic immediately".

* ''[[Series/KidsCourt]] Nickelodeon Kids' Court]]'' has the Honorable Judge O'Meter (An applauding meter dressed like an English judge with grey-haired wig). Most loud sound of the audience applauding and screaming, Wins the case. Whether the suspect is guilty or not guilty!

* ''Hot Seat'' was a short-lived ABC game show from 1976 [[note]](which premiered the same day ''Series/FamilyFeud'' did)[[/note]] in which married couples are attached to {{lie detector}}s while answering questions about their married life.

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** Practical jokers John and Jane and their respective dads have a Prankster's Gambit, a meter that shows which of them has been most successful at pranking the other. While it appears to be part of the comic's user interface, the characters are clearly able to visually see it and check it.
** How do trolls know how effective their trolling is? Kanaya uses the "[[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004595 Flighty Broads and Their Snarky Horseshitometer]]" in an exchange with Rose. It ends up exploding (after Rose goes OffTheRails and blows up her gate), because it simply couldn't take that much horseshit.

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** ''Discworld/MovingPictures'' has the resograph, a device designed by a wizard named [[PunnyName Riktor]] the Tinkerer to measure changes in the fabric of reality. On the Discworld, said fabric is a lot more flexible thanks to [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve the power of belief]] and the TheoryOfNarrativeCausality. The name is a BrickJoke from an explanation that "thaums" are made of sub-particles called "resons", which is [[CanisLatinicus doggy-Latin]] for "thingies", so the resograph is literally a thing-o-meter. Riktor also invented the Mouse Counter[[note]]counts every mouse in the building[[/note]], the Rev Counter[[note]]as the previous one, but for priests[[/note]] and the Swamp Meter[[note]]usage never explained[[/note]].

* ''Pinball/FishTales'' has "Stretch The Truth", a gauge which measures how big the current catch really is -- from "5X Actual Size" to "Total Lie".

* "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Word Crimes" video uses a Care-o-meter to illustrate the unintended meaning of "couldn't care less".

* How do ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' trolls know how effective their trolling is? Kanaya uses the "[[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004595 Flighty Broads and Their Snarky Horseshitometer]]" in an exchange with Rose. It ends up exploding (after Rose goes OffTheRails and blows up her gate), because it simply couldn't take that much horseshit.
** You can't forget the Prankster's Gambit.

* An Ascendometer is a self-contained, portable unit from the ''StargateVerse'' used to analyze neural activity in the brain. This allows people to judge how close to ascension someone is.

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* In ''Film/NannyMcPheeAndTheBigBang'', there is the Happy-o-Meter, which measures happiness of the pigs. The levels are "amused", "tickled pink", "cloud nine", "ecstatic" and "delirious".

* In the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' episode featuring ''Angel's Revenge,'' Tom Servo invents a Shame-O-Meter (pronounced "shuh-MAH-meh-ter") to measure the shame the actors in the film are feeling.

* During his reign as Wrestling/{{WWE}} Intercontinental Champion, Wrestling/SantinoMarella would rate himself against the longest-reigning IC champ in history, The Wrestling/HonkyTonkNan, using the "Honk-A-Meter".

* ''Hot Seat'' was a short-lived ABC game show from 1976 [[note]](which premiered the same day ''Series/FamilyFeud'' did)[[/note]] in which married couples are attached to [{{lie detector}}s in answering questions about their married life.

* When discussing the development of the {{Wii}}, Miyamoto mentioned a theoretical "Wife-o-Meter" he used to measure his wife's increasing interest in video games over the years.