No Indoor Voice / Live-Action TV

Examples of No Indoor Voice in Live-Action TV!!!

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Individuals

• Anything played by Matt Berry, for example Douglas Reynholm, or Garth Marenghis Darkplace's Dr. Lucian Sanchez. "WHAT?! AM I HOLDING A CROCK OF SHIT? IS THIS HOSPITAL CALLED 'ST. CROCK OF SHIT'?"
• Timmy Mallet made a career out of this trope, in his case to increase his image of wackiness. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it just deeply irritated everyone who saw him. This was illustrated rather nicely in an episode of Room 101 where one prop was a "scale of children's TV presenters" with the zones "Loud", "Very Loud", "Obnoxious", and finally "Timmy Mallet".
• Regis freakin' Philbin, especially on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
• Todd Newton on Whammy! The All-New Press Your Luck and Family Game Night.

Networks

• CBBC seems to have "must be audible from overhead aeroplanes" as a requirement for its presenters.
• In a lot of Disney Channel sitcoms, such as That's So Raven, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, and Lizzie McGuire, most of the characters can get pretty shouty at times.
  • And every child has to be the loudest person in the room!
• And not like Nickelodeon is a slouch, either:
  • Crazy Steve from Drake & Josh. Someone even once told him to use his indoor voice, and he continued shouting.
  • Zoey 101 had Coach Keller, who had few appearances but was always loud. At least once an episode, there will most likely be a sequence where the characters are obnoxiously shouting at each other, usually in the form of an argument.
  • Everybody on iCarly except for Freddie and Principal Franklin. Special mention goes to the cranky doorman Lewbert.
  • Victorious: Tori in the episode "Sleepover at Sikowitz's". "I AM A POLICE OFFICER!" And stuff like that. (Andre's grandmother, too.)

Series

• 24. JACK BAUER DEMANDS TO KNOW WHO THE TRAITOR IS AND WHERE YOU'VE HIDDEN THE PLANS. When he's not dramatically whispering, that is.
• The writers of All That apparently thought that if you couldn't think of a joke, just have a character act loud and obnoxious. Ms. Hushbaum in particular. The fact that she was a rather noisy librarian in addition to enforcing the rules by constantly screaming at the top of her lungs made her an example of Hypocritical Humor. Not to mention Billy Fucco.
• A memorable episode of America's Funniest Home Videos had as one of its three finalists "Boy Screams ABC's": "My name's Carlos Jones I'm gonna do my ABC's AEH! BEH! CEH! DEH!..."
• Lieutenant Atkins of Angie Tribeca speaks like this almost all the time, especially when he's yelling at his officers to get them to stop yelling at each other.
• One of Chyna's teachers in the A.N.T. Farm episode "sciANTs fair". Actually part of the plot, it turns out.
• Ms. Wolowitz in The Big Bang Theory. Whenever heard, she is always yelling. Usually justified since she's usually heard calling to Howard from the bottom of the stairs and various rooms of their rather big house. While he's on the International Space Station, Howard jokes that that she doesn't need to yell down the phone, because he can hear her even in space! On one occasion, she speaks a single line in a normal tone of voice.
• Joe from Season 14 of Big Brother US shouts a lot in the diary room. This is lampshaded hilariously by his wife and children, first when his wife STARTS FAKE SHOUTING, and when all his children tells him to STOP SHOUTING!

• Olaf the Troll in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Triangle" to the extent that his dialogue is always written in Caps Lock.
  Olaf: HAHAHA! PUNY RECEPTACLE! *smashes garbage bin for no reason*
• Played for laughs on Chappelle's Show, during the "Samuel Jackson Beer" sketch. Dave plays Jackson and yells all his lines at the people ordering his beer as loud as possible.
  Jackson: HOW'S IT TASTE, MUTHAFUCKA?! HUH?!
  Man: Could you stop yelling at me, please?
  Jackson: NO, I CAN'T STOP YELLIN', 'CAUSE THAT'S HOW I TALK! YOU AIN'T NEVER SEEN MY MOVIES?! JUICE?! THAT WAS A GOOD ONE! DEEP BLUE SEA?! THEY ATE ME! A FUCKIN' SHARK ATE ME! DRINK, BITCH!
• Played for laughs with the Crazy Warehouse Guy on The Chaser's War On Everything.
• Dustin Hoffman in the TV movie version of Death of a Salesman. He starts at about 7 or 8, cranks it up to 11 in the first five minutes and then never backs down a peg. It makes the whole play Dustin Hoffman SHOUTING AT THE TOP OF HIS LUNGS! YOU CAN'T EAT THE ORANGE AND THROW THE PEEL AWAY!!!! A MAN IS NOT A PIECE OF FRUIT!!!! It gets tiring.
• Doctor Who:
  • The Doctor often regenerates with the volume button stuck on eleven.
    • Tom Baker, who played the Fourth Doctor, is well-known for this. Off-screen he's even hammier.
    • The Eighth Doctor (Paul McGann) also suffered from this quite badly in his TV Movie, though he has got over it in the audio dramas to the point he has actually been described as soft-spoken.
      Eighth Doctor: The Master wants to take all my remaining lives... SO THAT HE WILL LIVE AND I WILL DIE!
    • The Sixth Doctor (Colin Baker) was possibly the shoutiest of the lot, to the point that Peri sometimes had to cover her ears during their seemingly endless arguments in the TARDIS.
    • The Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) does have an indoor voice, but he seems to forget this a lot. Particularly when he's excited, his standard voice setting seems to be loud and fast.
      Martha: Trust me, just nod when he stops for breath.
    • And then came the day when the Doctor, the protagonist of one of the hammiest works of fiction in existence, goes up against possibly THE largest ham in existence, BRIAN BLESSED!!. You can even taste the amount of ham created by the shouting between them.
  • When Davros removed the genes for emotions and conscience from the Daleks, he must have also removed the ones enabling them to speak quietly. As a consequence, the Daleks, even in casual conversation, scream every word out.
    The Doctor: Sealed inside your casing. Not feeling anything... ever. From birth to death, locked inside a cold metal cage. Completely alone. And that explains your voice! No wonder you scream.
  • Azal, in the Third Doctor serial "The Dæmons". For once, the effect is awesome. Partly justified by the fact that he's a 30-ft-tall megalomaniac.
  • The Captain from "The Pirate Planet". Even the Doctor called him on that:
    The Doctor: What do you want? You don't want to take over the universe, do you? No... you wouldn't know what to do with it, beyond shout at it.
• Ari Gold of Entourage punctuates almost every conversation with A LOUD AND OFFENSIVE COMMENT TO ANYONE STANDING NEARBY. Hell, he even starts conversations this way... LLOYD!
• Ty Pennington, on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Not only does the man usually forget he has an indoor voice, but the producers decided to give him a loud-hailer, like police use in crowd control, as a gimmick.
• Richard Karn during his hosting tenure on Family Feud. He would always yell "I'M DOUBLING/TRIPLING THE POINTS!!" at the start of the Double and Triple rounds, "TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS!" during Fast Money, and in general displayed an utter lack of indoor voice.
• The elderly, drunken and lecherous Father Jack Hackett from Father Ted never speaks at normal volume. Ever.
• Frasier: Chopper Dave got a little too used to reporting from a helicopter.
• The 90s Australian sketch show Full Frontal made a running gag throughout an episode of "Inappropriate Jobs for Loud People", including a doctor heard from the waiting room telling a patient they had genital warts.
  • The show also did a sketch called "What if Furniture Salesmen Took Their Medication", which inverted a popular advertising trope by having a man calmly detail some small but sensible price reductions and told viewers that while they were certainly under no obligation to do so, it would be nice if they dropped by.
• Game of Thrones: The Greatjon shouts most of his dialogue.
• Ghost Adventures' Zak Bagans has a voice that may be capable of literally waking up the dead.
• Dalton Rumba on Glee. Partially justified because he's deaf in one ear, but DAMN! SCARLET FEVER!!
• Happy Days: Tom Bosley's character of Howard Cunningham became this after the show began taping in front of a live, studio audience in 1975. Comparably quiet and somewhat distant in the early years, he became much more, well, loud in the later seasons.
• Hard Gay is almost always shouting. Lampshaded in one episode when a clerk tells him to keep his voice down, and he responds, "NO VOLUME CONTROL, HOOO!"
• Gilbert Gottfried on The Hollywood Squares when a contestant gets it wrong. "YOU FOOL!!"
• Ralph Kramden of The Honeymooners does this a lot, usually when he gets short-tempered enough, which happens a lot.
• Horrible Histories invokes this at various times. Most notably with the "I'M A SHOUTY MAN!" sketches which crop up in various episodes. Other notable sketches include one from S1E5 with Caligula "THINK YOU'RE BIGGER THAN ME?".
  • And the Historical Masterchef sketches. "That must be the LOUDEST CREATURE ON EARTH!" "It's one of them."
• Joe of Impractical Jokers does this in the very first White Castle challenge, screaming in the customer's face.

• Jam and Jerusalem has Tim Brewer, a local politician with volume issues.
• As Entertainment Weekly put it whilst discussing Kid Nation, "MY NAME IS JONATHAN KARSH! I YELL LOUDER THAN ANY OTHER HOST IN REALITY SHOW HISTORY!"
• Joel Godard, the announcer on Late Night during the Conan O'Brien era. Just listen to him shriek "CO-nan O-BRIIIIII-YUUUUUUUUUHHN!!!!!"
• Jack McCoy on Law & Order, even during his version of "normal" speech. In the courtroom, he shouts for real. In the office, it's not always exactly shouting, but his normal speech is much more aggressive and loud than even the cops he works with; he sort of stays in "badgering" mode. Happens more in the later seasons before he's the D.A. This is in stark contrast to his predecessor, Ben Stone, who was more soft-spoken (sometimes to the point of barely being audible).
  • Captain Cragen for most of his original run on the show. His actor started complaining about how many of his scenes just involved him yelling at his detectives, so his role was expanded in Season 3...right before Executive Meddling forced the character to be Put on a Bus. (Cragen would return for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, where he's been much more mellow.)

• Bob Fossil in The Mighty Boosh yells (and yells nonsense) at least 90% of the time he's onscreen (of the remaining screen time, 8% is spent dancing).
• Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers has Jason Lee Scott, the first Red Ranger. He was pretty loud most of the time out of suit, but morphed, he shouted everything. The man was living evidence of why this trope works best mixed 1:1 with Captain Obvious.
  AH, AFTER TEN THOUSAND YEARS I'M FREE! IT'S TIME TO CONQUER EARTH!
• Monty Python's Flying Circus
  • The Gumbies. "MY BRAIN HURTS!"
  • The army instructor in 'The Meaning of Life'. "DON'T STAND THERE GAWPIN'! LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN THE HAND O' GOD BEFORE!"
  • As well as this instance from the skit "Interesting People":
    David: ... With me now is Mr. Ken Dove, the most interesting man in Dorking. Mr. Dove, I do believe you're interested in shouting.
    Mr. Dove: YEAH THAT'S RIGHT DAVID! I'M VERY INTERESTED IN SHOUTING ALRIGHT! I THINK SHOUTING IS WONDERFUL!
    David: What does your wife think about it?
    Mrs. Dove: I AGREE WITH HIM!
    Mr. Dove: SHUT UP!
  • NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!
  • The "Pepperpots" — initially introduced in How to Irritate People, but more memorably showcased here — are loud-mouthed old women whose most common saying is "OOH! WELL I NEVER!"
• The one rule of National Bingo Night: you need a loud commissioner that can pull off a good "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~ BINGO!". Preferably Indian.
• Odd Squad:
  • Oprah, the head of Precinct 13579, is famous for her tendency to yell at agents, especially when shouting her Catchphrase. While she does tone it down in Season 2 onward, there are still moments where she'll turn the volume knob back up, usually when frustrated or authoritative.
  Oprah: Well, what are you waiting for? GO!
  • Party Pam has a tendency to scream as well, up until Oprah pulls her aside and suggests that she not yell. In response to the suggestion, Party Pam decides to settle for "creepy whisper", which doesn't help.
  • Coach O, being a Drill Sergeant Nasty, is an agent who definitely doesn't have the word "quiet" in his dictionary. His shouting manages to unnerve Olympia and Otis at one point in "Put Me In, Coach".
  • Both Opal and Omar are some of the loudest agents on the show. "Odd Beginnings, Part 1" has them screaming and shouting with joy when they are told by Arctic Mr. O that he has a gift for them, while "Overdue!" shows off their inability to be quiet while inside a library. Since they worked in the desolate Arctic for a long time, and since they're children, it would make sense that they would naturally be loud.
• In On the Buses it seems every character uses their outdoor voices all the time, especially when the family is at home.
• Mr. Conklin on Our Miss Brooks can be a real loudmouth.
• Parks and Recreation:
  • One-shot character Carl Lorthner, played by Andy Samberg. He was made a head park ranger specifically because he was too loud and insufferable in an office job. He's always yelling, much to the annoyance of the staff and doesn't lower his voice when others try to shush him.
    "LESLIE, HAVE YOU SEEN AVATAR? I NEVER SAW AVATAR. I WANTED TO READ THE BOOK FIRST, BUT THEN I REALIZED THERE'S NO BOOK VERSION OF AVATAR."
  • Craig Middlebrooks (Billy Eichner), who was brought into the Pawnee parks department following the town's merger with neighboring Eagleton in season 6, speaks loudly as part of his generally overdramatic tendencies. Though this was scaled back somewhat in season 7.
• Sometimes, this came from the announcer's booth on The Price Is Right.
  • When longtime announcer Rod Roddy fell ill in the early 2000s, Paul Boland (formerly of the 1998 revival of Match Game) did a week of guest announcing. The staff asked him to tone down his delivery; he refused, and never set foot in studio 33 again.
  • Rod's successor, Rich Fields, started out with a reasonably pleasant voice, but quickly became much, much louder (not to mention increasingly high-pitched and shrill). His delivery of "Here it CAAAAAHMS! From the Bob Barker studio…" and "A NEW CAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!" in particular received Memetic Mutation. And then there are the contestants...
• In one episode of Red Dwarf, The Cat brought a megaphone to a movie, for some reason:
  The Cat: SHUT UP!!!
  Lister: Will you stop doing that?
  The Cat: I'M TRYING TO WATCH THE FILM!!!
  Lister: I'm only eating!
  The Cat: (puts down megaphone) No, eating is when the food goes in your mouth!
  • Rimmer turns into this if you push him to far.
    Rimmer: Now, I don't want to be a bore about this but, THE APPEAL!!!
• Saturday Night Live:
  • Chris Farley.
  • "HELLO, I'M ROBIN LEACH! I'M YELLING! I DON'T KNOW WHY!"
  • Announcer Don Pardo, especially on the rare occasions he appears on-camera.
  • Jon Lovitz's character MASTER THESPIAN!!
  • One of Will Ferrell's recurring characters on was Jacob Silge, a correspondent on Weekend Update who suffered from "Voice Immodulation Syndrome", which caused him to speak in a uniformly loud voice.
  • Inverted for laughs with the character "Man Without a Shout" played by John Goodman. A fake television series where the main character feels so guilty of killing his friends by triggering an avalanche that he is incapable of anything higher than a subdued murmur. He constantly gets placed in situations where he is required to scream and fails to do so.
    "fire... fire... everybody run for your life..."
• Sesame Street: The wild-haired radio DJ, named Bushman Bill (Who introduces Didi O'Dey and the Dew-Drops in Be My D) talks very loud and over-excited. At least the song he is playing is kind of nice and catchy.
• Jeremy Brett's performance as Sherlock Holmes features ample amounts of this trope; Holmes is prone of shifting from near-whisper to shouting his lungs out at a moment's notice, sometimes accompanied by complete ignorance of furniture or other obstacles as he skips to meet his newest client, or Watson with some new clue at hand.
• Squid Game: Mi-nyeo makes every conversation into a presentation about herself to the entire room. She even whispers so loudly that she ends up spoiling Sae-byeong's otherwise clean snooping operation to at least one sleeping player in the middle of the night.
• Leslie Jones tends to host Supermarket Sweep this way, such as 3:50 in this clip.
• The Supernatural boys have no concept of this. Perhaps they learned it from their father?
• Ken Kurenai from Super Robot Red Baron tends to have a louder voice tone compared to everyone else.
• Super Sentai has a string of Red Rangers who fell into this category starting from the early 2000s: Yousuke in Hurricanger, Ryoga in Abaranger, Ban in Dekaranger, Kai in Magiranger, Jan in Gekiranger, and Sousuke in Go-Onger. Many of these can also be classified as Keets as well. Gokaiger avoided this trope for Gokai Red, but boy howdy did they ever bring it back for Gokai Silver.
  • Kyoryuger's Kyoryu Red Daigo may be the shoutiest of them all.
• G4 TV's show That's Tough — because you know things are tough when EVERY WORD OF THE NARRATOR IS DELIVERED LIKE A JERRY BRUCKHEIMER MOVIE TRAILER FILLED WITH EXPLOSIONS! THAT'S TOUGH!!!

• Trigger Happy TV has the giant cellphone man who answers his ridiculously large phone and shouts into it as loud as possible, and does it in traditionally quiet places, such as a restaurant, or a movie theater, or an acapella concert, or even a book store.
• Sketch Comedy Vaya semanita, aired on ETB (the Basque Country public television) featured several skits starring a character known as "El Voceras" ("The Loudmouth"), whose main trait was that he always spoke incredibly loud, which tended to result in uncomfortable situations.
  El Voceras: I'M NOT SHOUTING! I JUST HAVE A STRONG VOICE!
  • Other two characters on the show, the pair of ravers known as El Jonan and El Txori, would often fall into this trope as well due to their hyperactive demeanor.
• FBI Agent Gordon Cole — played by David Lynch himself — in Twin Peaks is nearly deaf and yells nearly every line of dialogue. Combined with his Cloudcuckoolander personality, this makes for one odd character.
• Peter Boyd in Waking the Dead is surely one of the most obnoxious examples of the trope. Constant shouting is supposed to reinforce how mentally edgy the character is — if the police harassment, property damage and general violence haven't tipped you off already. Might be a case of Chewing the Scenery gone badly wrong... especially in later episodes, when every other regular character follows suit. The fact that they're always interrupting each other makes it even more frustrating.
• Wandavision: Child Pietro is the flashbacks to Wanda's youth. Agatha even points out how unnecessarily loud he is.
• The West Wing - "I'M MARION COTESWORTH-HAYE"
• Wheel of Fortune is sometimes known for having very loud contestants. Host Pat Sajak likes to lampshade this by asking said contestants to "speak up".
• The X-Files episode "Fight Club" has a prison inmate who is perpetually enraged and shouts everything he says.
• X-Play comedy character CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY CRAAAAAAZY ADAM!!!
• The Young Ones: Rick and Vyvyan shout constantly at the top of their lungs. The latter gets bonus points for already possessing the vox humana equivalent of broken glass in a wood chipper.

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