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* In ''Abbott & Costello meet the Killer'' after Costello are separated from the detectives in the cavern he shouts after them which are echoed back. He then goes to a tunnel and hum a tune which doesn't answers back, he then try another tunnel humming a higher tune and then a third tunnel but nothing happens until when he starts to walk away all three different hums answers back at the same time.
* In ''Film/GhostbustersII'', Ray, Egon, and Winston are walking through an abandoned subway tunnel. After Ray and Egon shout down the tunnel and have their calls echoed back to them, Winston tries, only to be greeted with a few ominous seconds of silence, followed by a deep voice slowly growling "WINSTON". Unlike most examples, this is played for horror rather than for comedy.
* In ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'', the Grinch gets into an argument with his echo and ends it by saying "I'm an idiot." His echo responds with "You're an idiot." Twice.


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* In ''Abbott & ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetTheKillerBorisKarloff'': After Costello meet the Killer'' after Costello are is separated from the detectives in the cavern he shouts after them which are echoed back. He then goes to a tunnel and hum a tune which doesn't answers back, he then try another tunnel humming a higher tune and then a third tunnel but nothing happens until when he starts to walk away all three different hums answers back at the same time.
* In ''Film/GhostbustersII'', ''Film/CominRoundTheMountain'': When Wilbert yells "I'm Wilbert Smith!", the echo answers back "You look like a [=McCoy=]!", freaking him out.
* ''Film/GhostbustersII'':
Ray, Egon, and Winston are walking through an abandoned subway tunnel. After Ray and Egon shout down the tunnel and have their calls echoed back to them, Winston tries, only to be greeted with a few ominous seconds of silence, followed by a deep voice slowly growling "WINSTON". Unlike most examples, this is played for horror rather than for comedy.
* In ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'', the ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'': The Grinch gets into an argument with his echo and ends it by saying "I'm an idiot." His echo responds with "You're an idiot." Twice.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode, "We Call it Maze," in a slightly different approach to this trope, Dr. Doofenshmirtz shouts "Welcome to my evil space station!" To which his echo replies, "Station... station... COOKIE!... Station" This happens to him again later in the episode, and then to Buford [[RuleOfThree at the end of the EPISODE]]!!! (EPISODE!!! EPISODE!!! Burrito! EPISODE!!!.... Wait a minute...)

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode, "We Call it Maze," in a slightly different approach to this trope, Dr. Doofenshmirtz shouts "Welcome to my evil space station!" To which his echo replies, "Station... station... COOKIE!... Station" This happens to him again later in the episode, and then to Buford [[RuleOfThree at the end of the EPISODE]]!!! (EPISODE!!! EPISODE!!! Burrito! EPISODE!!!.... Wait a minute...)episode.
-->'''Buford:''' Hey, [[ItMakesSenseInContext I never got my metaphor cheese!]]\\
'''Echo:''' ''Cheese... cheese... wombat... cheese...''\\
'''Buford:''' Huh, my echo must be broken.
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* One Don Martin cartoon in ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'' has three cavemen discovering the concept of echoes, shouting bits of gibberish that get bounced back correctly, until one of them goes into a little song and dance number, which gets back catcalls and boos.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode, "We Call it Maze," in a slightly different approach to this trope, Dr. Doofenshmirtz shouts "Welcome to my evil space station!" To which his echo replies, "Station... station... COOKIE!... Station" This happens to him again later in the episode, and then to Buford [[RuleOfThree at the end of the episode]].

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode, "We Call it Maze," in a slightly different approach to this trope, Dr. Doofenshmirtz shouts "Welcome to my evil space station!" To which his echo replies, "Station... station... COOKIE!... Station" This happens to him again later in the episode, and then to Buford [[RuleOfThree at the end of the episode]].EPISODE]]!!! (EPISODE!!! EPISODE!!! Burrito! EPISODE!!!.... Wait a minute...)

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-->'''Third man''': I want my baby back baby back baby back~ (*goes quiet to hear the echo*)
-->'''Echo''': Chili's Baby-Back Ribs~

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-->'''Third man''': man:''' I want my baby back baby back baby back~ (*goes quiet to hear the echo*)
-->'''Echo''':
echo*)\\
'''Echo:'''
Chili's Baby-Back Ribs~



-->'''Goku''': There's only this room, and the ''void''.\\
'''Echo''': Void... void... void...\\
'''Gohan''': Does it always do that?\\
'''Goku''': Oh yeah, but only if you use the word ''void''.\\
'''Echo''': Void... void... void...\\
'''Gohan''': Okay then, I guess we'll avoid that word-\\
'''Echo''': Void... void... void...\\
'''Gohan''': ...''why!?''

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-->'''Goku''': -->'''Goku:''' There's only this room, and the ''void''.\\
'''Echo''': '''Echo:''' Void... void... void...\\
'''Gohan''': '''Gohan:''' Does it always do that?\\
'''Goku''': '''Goku:''' Oh yeah, but only if you use the word ''void''.\\
'''Echo''': '''Echo:''' Void... void... void...\\
'''Gohan''': '''Gohan:''' Okay then, I guess we'll avoid that word-\\
'''Echo''': '''Echo:''' Void... void... void...\\
'''Gohan''': ...'''Gohan:''' ...''why!?''



'''Grumpy:''' When you dig, dig, dig with a shovel or a pick.
-->'''Bashful:''' In a mine! ''(In a mine!)''
-->'''Sneezy:''' In a mine! ''(In a mine!)''
-->'''All:''' Where a million diamonds...! ''(Shine!)''

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'''Grumpy:''' When you dig, dig, dig with a shovel or a pick.
-->'''Bashful:'''
pick.\\
'''Bashful:'''
In a mine! ''(In a mine!)''
-->'''Sneezy:'''
mine!)''\\
'''Sneezy:'''
In a mine! ''(In a mine!)''
-->'''All:'''
mine!)''\\
'''All:'''
Where a million diamonds...! ''(Shine!)''



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-->'''Von Drake:''' Now, what are you doing in the echo chamber? I'll tell you what you are doing, you are getting echoes. And here's the ways the echoes go. Hello!
-->'''Echo:''' Hello!
-->'''Von Drake:''' How are you?
-->'''Echo:''' Fine!
-->'''Von Drake:''' That's good!
-->'''Echo:''' Thanks!
-->'''Von Drake:''' How's Sarah and the kids?
-->'''Echo:''' Fine!
-->'''Von Drake:''' Come over to supper sometime!
-->'''Echo:''' I will!
-->'''Von Drake:''' You see, that's the way-- Wait a second, what are we doing here?! I'm talking here to an echo- I'm talking to the echo all by myself?! That was, that's not supposed to be like that! An echo is yourself.

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* Inverted with the TropeNamer Echo from Myth/ClassicalMythology, who fell in love with Narcissus but was rendered unable to say anything but what they'd just heard by Hera (after Echo lied to Hera about seeing Zeus pass by). When Narcissus happened to look at his own reflection in a pond, he was so captivated by the appearance he spoke words of love to it, which Echo tearfully and faithfully repeated, until Narcissus wasted away into a flower and Echo into [[JustSoStory a spirit that repeated what people said.]]

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* In ''ComicStrip/USAcres'', Orson the pig walks to the edge of an echo cliff and yells "HELLOOOO!" The echo evidently has a sarcastic streak, as it bellows back, "OH, REAL ORIGINAL, PIG!"

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* ''Radio/TheGoonShow'':
** In "World War One":
--->'''Seagoon:''' Hello!\\

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-->'''Von Drake:''' Now, what are you doing in the echo chamber? I'll tell you what you are doing, you are getting echoes. And here's the ways the echoes go. Hello!
-->'''Echo:''' Hello!
-->'''Von Drake:''' How are you?
-->'''Echo:''' Fine!
-->'''Von Drake:''' That's good!
-->'''Echo:''' Thanks!
-->'''Von Drake:''' How's Sarah and the kids?
-->'''Echo:''' Fine!
-->'''Von Drake:''' Come over to supper sometime!
-->'''Echo:''' I will!
-->'''Von Drake:''' You see, that's the way-- Wait a second, what are we doing here?! I'm talking here to an echo- I'm talking to the echo all by myself?! That was, that's not supposed to be like that! An echo is yourself.

[[AC:Myth]]
* Inverted with the TropeNamer Echo from Myth/ClassicalMythology, who fell in love with Narcissus but was rendered unable to say anything but what they'd just heard by Hera (after Echo lied to Hera about seeing Zeus pass by). When Narcissus happened to look at his own reflection in a pond, he was so captivated by the appearance he spoke words of love to it, which Echo tearfully and faithfully repeated, until Narcissus wasted away into a flower and Echo into [[JustSoStory a spirit that repeated what people said.]]

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* In ''ComicStrip/USAcres'', Orson the pig walks to the edge of an echo cliff and yells "HELLOOOO!" The echo evidently has a sarcastic streak, as it bellows back, "OH, REAL ORIGINAL, PIG!"

[[AC:Radio]]
* ''Radio/TheGoonShow'':
** In "World War One":
--->'''Seagoon:'''
Hello!\\



'''Von Drake:''' How are you?\\
'''Echo:''' Fine!\\
'''Von Drake:''' That's good!\\
'''Echo:''' Thanks!\\
'''Von Drake:''' How's Sarah and the kids?\\
'''Echo:''' Fine!\\
'''Von Drake:''' Come over to supper sometime!\\
'''Echo:''' I will!\\
'''Von Drake:''' You see, that's the way-- Wait a second, what are we doing here?! I'm talking here to an echo- I'm talking to the echo all by myself?! That was, that's not supposed to be like that! An echo is yourself.

[[AC:Myth]]
* Inverted with the TropeNamer Echo from Myth/ClassicalMythology, who fell in love with Narcissus but was rendered unable to say anything but what they'd just heard by Hera (after Echo lied to Hera about seeing Zeus pass by). When Narcissus happened to look at his own reflection in a pond, he was so captivated by the appearance he spoke words of love to it, which Echo tearfully and faithfully repeated, until Narcissus wasted away into a flower and Echo into [[JustSoStory a spirit that repeated what people said.]]

[[AC:Newspaper Comics]]
* In ''ComicStrip/USAcres'', Orson the pig walks to the edge of an echo cliff and yells "HELLOOOO!" The echo evidently has a sarcastic streak, as it bellows back, "OH, REAL ORIGINAL, PIG!"

[[AC:Radio]]
* ''Radio/TheGoonShow'':
** In "World War One":
--->'''Seagoon:''' Hello!\\
'''Echo:''' Hello!\\



--> '''Shaggy''': ''(calls out)'' HELLOOOOOO!\\
'''Shaggy's echo''': ''HELLOOOOOO!''\\
'''Shaggy''': ANYBODY THERE?!\\
'''Shaggy's echo''': ''NOOOOOOOO!''

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--> '''Shaggy''': '''Shaggy:''' ''(calls out)'' HELLOOOOOO!\\
'''Shaggy's echo''': echo:''' ''HELLOOOOOO!''\\
'''Shaggy''': '''Shaggy:''' ANYBODY THERE?!\\
'''Shaggy's echo''': echo:''' ''NOOOOOOOO!''



-->'''Lois:''' I'm so happy!
-->'''Echo:''' ''I'm very unhappy!''
-->'''Lois:''' My house is at peace, so ''I'' am at peace!
-->'''Echo:''' ''You're all alone and sad!''
-->'''Lois:''' ''(growing concerned)'' Simplicity is good for the soul!
-->'''Echo:''' ''Your soul is as empty as this house! [-...this house!-] [--...this house!--]''

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-->'''Lois:''' I'm so happy!
-->'''Echo:'''
happy!\\
'''Echo:'''
''I'm very unhappy!''
-->'''Lois:'''
unhappy!''\\
'''Lois:'''
My house is at peace, so ''I'' am at peace!
-->'''Echo:'''
peace!\\
'''Echo:'''
''You're all alone and sad!''
-->'''Lois:'''
sad!''\\
'''Lois:'''
''(growing concerned)'' Simplicity is good for the soul!
-->'''Echo:'''
soul!\\
'''Echo:'''
''Your soul is as empty as this house! [-...this house!-] [--...this house!--]''house!--]''
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* In the ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' Season 11 episode "[[http://tinyurl.com/hv74zlj Heavy Mettle]]" Caboose shouts, "Have a nice day!" Into a cave. His echo replies, "Thanks. you too!"

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* In the ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' Season 11 episode "[[http://tinyurl.com/hv74zlj Heavy Mettle]]" Caboose shouts, "Have a nice day!" Into a cave. His echo replies, "Thanks. you You too!"



* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode, "We Call it Maze," in a slightly different approach to this trope, Dr. Doofenshmirtz shouts "Welcome to my evil space station!" To which his echo replies, "Station... station... COOKIE!... Station" This happens to him again later in the episode. and then to Buford [[RuleOfThree at the end of the episode]].

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode, "We Call it Maze," in a slightly different approach to this trope, Dr. Doofenshmirtz shouts "Welcome to my evil space station!" To which his echo replies, "Station... station... COOKIE!... Station" This happens to him again later in the episode. episode, and then to Buford [[RuleOfThree at the end of the episode]].
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* ''WebVideo/DragonBallAbridged'': The Hyperbolic Time Chamber echoes spectacularly, but ''only'' with the word "void".
-->'''Goku''': There's only this room, and the ''void''.\\
'''Echo''': Void... void... void...\\
'''Gohan''': Does it always do that?\\
'''Goku''': Oh yeah, but only if you use the word ''void''.\\
'''Echo''': Void... void... void...\\
'''Gohan''': Okay then, I guess we'll avoid that word-\\
'''Echo''': Void... void... void...\\
'''Gohan''': ...''why!?''
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Not to be confused with an IronicEcho or MeaningfulEcho, which are not literally echoes and are instead someone repeating the words someone else said.

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Not to be confused with an IronicEcho or MeaningfulEcho, which are not literally echoes and are instead someone repeating the words someone else said. Compare SoundDefect.
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* In ''Abbott & Costello meet the Killer'' after Costello are separated from the detectives in the cavern he shouts after them which are echoed back. He then goes to a tunnel and hum a tune which doesn't answers back, he then try another tunnel humming a higher tune and then a third tunnel but nothing happens until when he starts to walk away all three different hums answers back at the same time.
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* In the ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' Season 11 episode "[[http://tinyurl.com/hv74zlj Heavy Mettle]]" Caboose shouts, "Have a nice day!" Into a cave. His echo replies, "Thanks. you too!"

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* In the ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' Season 11 episode "[[http://tinyurl.com/hv74zlj Heavy Mettle]]" Caboose shouts, "Have a nice day!" Into a cave. His echo replies, "Thanks. you too!"
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* In ''Film/GhostbustersII'', Ray, Egon, and Winston are walking through an abandoned subway tunnel. After Ray and Egon shout down the tunnel and have their calls echoed back to them, Winston tries, only to be greeted with a few ominous seconds of silence, followed by a deep voice slowly growling "WINSTON". Unlike most examples, this is played for horror rather than for comedy.
* In ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'', the Grinch gets into an argument with his echo and ends it by saying "I'm an idiot." His echo responds with "You're an idiot." Twice.

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\n[[AC:{{Film}}]]\n* In ''Film/GhostbustersII'', Ray, Egon, and Winston are walking through an abandoned subway tunnel. After Ray and Egon shout down the tunnel and have their calls echoed back to them, Winston tries, only to be greeted with a few ominous seconds of silence, followed by a deep voice slowly growling "WINSTON". Unlike most examples, this is played for horror rather than for comedy.\n* In ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'', the Grinch gets into an argument with his echo and ends it by saying "I'm an idiot." His echo responds with "You're an idiot." Twice.[[AC:{{Film}} - Animated]]


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* In ''Film/GhostbustersII'', Ray, Egon, and Winston are walking through an abandoned subway tunnel. After Ray and Egon shout down the tunnel and have their calls echoed back to them, Winston tries, only to be greeted with a few ominous seconds of silence, followed by a deep voice slowly growling "WINSTON". Unlike most examples, this is played for horror rather than for comedy.
* In ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'', the Grinch gets into an argument with his echo and ends it by saying "I'm an idiot." His echo responds with "You're an idiot." Twice.

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* An advertisement for ''Chili's'' had three men in a gorge, testing out the echoes. The third man started off Chili's famous jingle, only for the echo to respond with the second part, spooking the trio and convincing them to leave.
-->'''Third man''': I want my baby back baby back baby back~ (*goes quiet to hear the echo*)
-->'''Echo''': Chili's Baby-Back Ribs~
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* [[Series/WaltDisneyPresents Professor Ludwig Von Drake]] dealt with this on his self-titled album, when he takes the listeners behind the scenes on music production and showcases an echo chamber.
-->'''Von Drake:''' Now, what are you doing in the echo chamber? I'll tell you what you are doing, you are getting echoes. And here's the ways the echoes go. Hello!
-->'''Echo:''' Hello!
-->'''Von Drake:''' How are you?
-->'''Echo:''' Fine!
-->'''Von Drake:''' That's good!
-->'''Echo:''' Thanks!
-->'''Von Drake:''' How's Sarah and the kids?
-->'''Echo:''' Fine!
-->'''Von Drake:''' Come over to supper sometime!
-->'''Echo:''' I will!
-->'''Von Drake:''' You see, that's the way-- Wait a second, what are we doing here?! I'm talking here to an echo- I'm talking to the echo all by myself?! That was, that's not supposed to be like that! An echo is yourself.
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* In the WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck cartoon ''Grand Canyonscope'', Donald sneezes and the sneeze echoes all over the Grand Canyon... but then one of the echoes comes out as "Gesundheit". Donald then argues with the echo until the ranger yells [[BigShutUp "QUIET!"]], and both Donald ''and'' the echo shut up.

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* In the WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck cartoon ''Grand Canyonscope'', ''WesternAnimation/GrandCanyonscope'', Donald sneezes and the sneeze echoes all over the Grand Canyon... but then one of the echoes comes out as "Gesundheit". Donald then argues with the echo until the ranger yells [[BigShutUp "QUIET!"]], and both Donald ''and'' the echo shut up.
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This is frequently [[LampshadeHanging acknowledged]] by the person being echoed. A broken echo always follows the RuleOfFunny. This is a completely unrealistic trope as an echo is a property of acoustics and in reality, cannot be altered from its original source, or it's not an echo.

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This is frequently [[LampshadeHanging acknowledged]] by the person being echoed. A broken echo always follows the RuleOfFunny.RuleOfFunny and is very rarely justified as even something supernatural. This is a completely unrealistic trope as an echo is a property of acoustics and in reality, cannot be altered from its original source, or it's not an echo.
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* ''{{VideoGame/Touhou}}'' fanworks make Kyouko (a yamabiko who repeats what she's told) the butt of many a joke, usually trying to get her to repeat inappropriate words so she'll blush and refuse to echo them.

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* ''{{VideoGame/Touhou}}'' ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' fanworks make Kyouko (a yamabiko who repeats what she's told) the butt of many a joke, usually trying to get her to repeat inappropriate words so she'll blush and refuse to echo them.

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