History Main / SoundsOfScience

Common SoundsOfScience include:

* [[EurekaMoment "Eureka!"]]

''Please don't list single instances of the SoundsOfScience listed above, but rather significant or JustForFun/{{Egregious}} uses of this trope as well as cases where this is [[PlayingWithATrope played with]]!''

!! Examples:

* [[Series/FamilyMatters Steve Urkel]] had SoundsOfScience catchphrases: "I'm a genius!" and the strange "Shhh... not while I'm pouring."

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!! Examples
''Please don't list single instances of the SoundsOfScience listed above, but rather significant or JustForFun/{{Egregious}} uses of this trope as well as cases where this is [[PlayingWithATrope played with]]!''

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* [[Series/FamilyMatters Steve Urkel]] had SoundsOfScience {{Catch Phrase}}s: "I'm a genius!" and the strange "Shhh... not while I'm pouring."

* David Xanatos of ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' hammed it up with"It's alive!" then lampshaded it with "[[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat I've always wanted to say that.]]"

* David Xanatos of ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' hammed it up with 'It's Alive!' then Lampshaded with: 'I've always wanted to say that.'

''Please don't list single instances of the SoundsOfScience listed above, but rather significant or {{Egregious}} uses of this trope as well as cases where this is [[PlayingWithATrope played with]]!''

* "ForScience";
* Prolonged "hmmmm"s;
* ThinkingOutLoud;
* TechnoBabble;
* "ARiddleWrappedInAMysteryInsideAnEnigma...";
* "Hm-hm...";
* "CarryTheOne...";
* "Aha!";
* "Interesting..."/"[[FascinatingEyebrow Fascinating]]..."/"Intriguing...";
* Series of "tsk"s;
* "That's funny...";
* "IfMyCalculationsAreCorrect...";
* "Oh!";
* [[EurekaMoment "Eureka!"]];
* "The ReadingsAreOffTheScale!";
* "IveNeverSeenAnythingLikeThisBefore...";

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* Gloriously [[LargeHam hammed up]] in the ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' episode "Rise of the Zitboy" where Zim lays some wicked science on a pair of hapless chickens: "Hmm.. HMMMM! Hmmmmmm! Hm? Hmmm... chicken!"
* {{Justified|Trope}} in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' where the tech-priests pray to machine spirits.
* [[http://wondermark.com/714/ A textbook example]] from ''Webcomic/{{Wondermark}}''.

-->'''Cal Meachem:''' Monitor the rate of radioactive decay.
-->'''Tom Servo:''' Increase the ''[[Film/FlashGordonSerial Flash Gordon]]'' noise and put more science stuff around!
* [[Series/FamilyMatters Steve Urkel]] had SoundsOfScience [[CatchPhrase Catch Phrases]]: "I'm a genius!" and the strange "Shhh... not while I'm pouring."

* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': "Scientific progress goes 'boink'?"

* "Interesting..."/"Fascinating..."/"Intriguing...";

* "[[BackToTheFuture Great Scott!]]"

* Gloriously [[LargeHam hammed up]] in the ''InvaderZim'' episode ''Rise of the Zitboy'' where Zim lays some wicked science on a pair of hapless chickens: "Hmm.. HMMMM! Hmmmmmm! Hm? Hmmm... chicken!"

* [[http://wondermark.com/714/ A textbook example]] from {{Wondermark}}.
* ''ThisIslandEarth'' had some kind of experiment with nuclear reactions. The ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' guys had a field day with it.

* [[FamilyMatters Steve Urkel]] had SoundsOfScience [[CatchPhrase Catch Phrases]]: "I'm a genius!" and the strange "Shhh.. not while I'm pouring."
* OingoBoingo's "Weird Science" is sung by a scientist and includes cries of "It's Alive!" [[Film/WeirdScience The movie]] it was made for shows that the scientist is actually singing while doing science.
* In ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', The issue of "Eureka!" versus "That's funny," is discussed [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2002-05-27 here]] and in the subsequent strip, directly mentioning Asimov's quote above.
* ''CalvinAndHobbes'': "Scientific progress goes 'boink'?"
* David Xanatos of Gargoyles hammed it up with 'It's Alive!' then Lampshaded with: 'I've always wanted to say that.'

* "ForScience!";

* David Xanatos of Gargoyles hammed it up with 'It's Alive!' then Lampshaded with: 'I've always wanted to say that.'

* {{Justified}} in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' where the tech-priests pray to machine spirits.

* ''CalvinAndHobbes'': "Scientific progress goes 'boink'?"

* ''CalvinAndHobbes'': "Scientific progress goes 'boink'?"
* X-Club (the X-Men's science team) runs off this. But no member more so than Doctor Nemesis:
** "Eat viral liquification, unethically cloned carbon waste! I'll put my science in you, I'll put my science in all of you!"
** “You! Petri-girl! An echinodermic specimen has chemically bonded to my person. You will remove it before it detonates an irreplaceable human treasure. This is your highest and only priority.”
** "Someone turned the cosmic energy [[UpToEleven dial to 11]]! The dial has gone past 11! We need a new dial! I repeat, we need a new dial!"
** And similiar quotable sound bites.

* ''CalvinAndHobbes'': "Scientific progress goes 'boink'?"

* {{Justified}} in ''[[{{Warhammer40000}} Warhammer 40,000]]'' where the tech-priests pray to machine spirits.

-->-- '''IsaacAsimov'''

Science is SeriousBusiness. That's why any self-respecting practitioner of theoretical or applied science, mathematician or philosopher will refuse to study samples, examine specimens or patients, look through a microscope, make calculations or even read - ''in silence''. Not being able to contain their interest in the very scientific matter at hand is considered the mark of the true AbsentMindedProfessor, [[ThinkingOutLoud who will mutter, murmur and mumble incessantly]] to prove beyond doubt that, yes, ''science is going on right now''.

-->'''Tom Servo:''' Increase the ''FlashGordon'' noise and put more science stuff around!