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-->-- '''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner''', ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'' #66 "the show"

-->-- '''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'''

Wink dings are also so inherently cheesy that they are very often used in a parodic manner. Expect to hear them whenever a character [[AsideGlance winks at the camera]], especially during a theme song or character introduction. Especially cheesy examples will be accompanied by a visible twinkle. Note that they are almost always PlayedForLaughs; serious characters only wink silently. Examples in anime (and {{animesque}} works) tend to have [[https://www.japanesewithanime.com/2020/04/wink-star.html a star shooting out of the eye]], and are often an indicator of cutesiness in a character.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': When Boa Hancock wishes Luffy luck in his voyage to Fishman Island, she winks and a star comes out. When the okamas Sanji was stuck with do the same and the star ''breaks.''

Wink dings are also so inherently cheesy that they are very often used in a parodic manner. Expect to hear them whenever a character [[AsideGlance winks at the camera]], especially during a theme song or character introduction. Especially cheesy examples will be accompanied by a visible twinkle. Note that they are almost always PlayedForLaughs; serious characters only wink silently.

* ''VideoGame/TsukiAdventure'': In the diary entry "Three Musketeers", Tsuki is winking at the camera, with a star shooting out from his other eye.

Related to SqueakyEyes; see also TwinkleSmile.

* There's a hilarious version of this in the film ''Film/HotFuzz''. Timothy Dalton gives a wink, and a cha-ching sound plays. It's partly the fact that his character is a grocery store manager, but it's mostly a joke by the filmmakers about how he's one of the big stars, as well as to draw attention to the fact that he [[SpikingTheCamera looked right at the camera]].
* Done by Uma Thurman at the end of the second set of closing credits of ''Film/KillBill Vol. 2''

-->'''Homestar:''' If I could make my eye make that sound when I wink, I'd be like, winking all the time! They'd call me Wink Martindale.

When a character winks, there's an audible "DING" sound, like that of a metal triangle, to accompany it. It's mostly done in North American cartoons, but it's been seen in anime and even live action.

* In the end of a ''WesternAnimation/PunkyBrewster'' cartoon "How The Midwest was Won," Punky and Allen winks at each other, accompanied by a xylophone "clink" sound.

* Happens in the ''WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker'' cartoon ''A Fine Feathered Frenzy.'' Gorgeous Gal traps Woody Woodpecker in a dungeon room that is a part of her mansion. With her beautiful voice she calls out to her "Baaaabyyyy!" The crow who is much larger and older than the Woodpecker is wearing a white wedding dress. There is a priest on hand waiting to marry them. Gorgeous Gal completes her marriage proposal by giving the horrified Woodpecker a lingering wink with her right eye and a ding is heard.

* Heard at the end of ''Disney/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' (and the shorts that it was compiled from) when the stuffed Pooh doll winks.

* In ''ScoobyDoo: Pirates Ahoy'', Velma and Scooby, who rescue Fred's parents with remote-controlled kit planes, wink to each other, accompanied by xylophone "clink" sounds."

(''cut to a live-action old man, who winks and gives a thumbs-up'')

* During the BossBonanza with [[TheDragon King Dice]] in ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'', when you parry his pink dice and the token moves to one of the bosses in his King's Court, he gives out an [[EvilLaugh evil chuckle]] and a Wink "Ding!" at you before sending you a battle via EatTheCamera.

* Done multiple times in ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'', always during a flashback showing [[spoiler: how a character (or characters) pulled off an [[RuleOfCool awesome]] escape from [[DisneyDeath what looked like]] certain death]]. Gets ridiculous in one scene, [[spoiler: where it looks like Jeanne killed Luka and Cereza... But Luka swung them to safety. Mid-swing, Luka does another Wink Ding, another from Cereza... [[RuleOfThree Then another]] from Chesire, Cereza's ''kitty doll''.]]

%%* The undisputed king of the Wink Ding: [[http://www.youtube.com/wheezywaiter WheezyWaiter]].

* Every time Dokko Jin winks in the KoreanSeries ''BestLove''

* Happens in the ''WoodyWoodpecker'' cartoon ''A Fine Feathered Frenzy.'' Gorgeous Gal traps Woody Woodpecker in a dungeon room that is a part of her mansion. With her beautiful voice she calls out to her "Baaaabyyyy!" The crow who is much larger and older than the Woodpecker is wearing a white wedding dress. There is a priest on hand waiting to marry them. Gorgeous Gal completes her marriage proposal by giving the horrified Woodpecker a lingering wink with her right eye and a ding is heard.

* In the end of a '' PunkyBrewster'' cartoon "How The Midwest was Won," Punky and Allen winks at each other, accompanied by a xylophone "clink" sound.

-->Selma: I'll give you your license if you promise to never do that again.

* Sabrina the Teenage Witch was known for this on the {{Archie}} show in 1969 and her own show (''Sabrina And The Groovie Goolies''),winking to the viewers.