Soft Split?: Sound Effect Bleep

It's:

1. When swearwords are covered up by a standard beep.
2. When swearwords are covered up by something else, a la Mythbusters or "I'll Bet You They Won't Play This Song On The Radio'.

Removing the first from the definition would create a lot of Sinkholes, but I would want to separate the two types out on the page.

If the standard bleep really is People Sit On Chairs and thus not a trope, then I do not think it makes much sense to keep it. I would be willing to go through the examples and cut any of those uses of the trope that are just standard bleeps without being purposely invoked (i.e. the writers did not purposely want a bleep there).

That being said, I think that This Trope is [BLEEP] works with standard bleeps so long as they are purposely played for laughs. Still, I am not sure that trope really covers actually swears being covered by standard bleeps.

edited 5th Jun '11 6:20:10 PM by LouieW

The standard bleep seems like a trope to me, but it also seems tropable separately from the sound effect version.

edited 5th Jun '11 6:27:37 PM by troacctid

Why should it be separate? Whether it's a bleep or something else, it serves the exact same purpose.

I think the difference is like the difference between Censor Box and Peek-A-Boo.

Right. That's pretty much exactly the difference.

For example, would the second definition be like a school bell in story covering up what the person is saying, as suppose to a simple bleep?

Yeah, a regular bleep is just a simple blank tone (or I guess blanking the audio completely is close enough as well). The sound effect version is like, well, example: [1]

As the very oldest thread on this page I could find (at the moment), I was wondering if anything had been done about this.

I don't think there's really a difference.

I support a split. I think it's a matter for YKTTW, not TRS, though.

edited 6th Nov '11 3:13:05 PM by troacctid

So are we gonna DO anything here?!?

Polite bump.