History Main / SynchroVox

* The children's show ''WesternAnimation/Dirtgirlworld'' uses this technique combined with CG Imagery.

* In the trailer for ''Film/ShockTreatment'', has Dr Cosmo's image from the movie's poster and edits Creator/RichardOBrien's moving mouth onto it.

* The only company to seriously use the technique, Cambria Productions, used it to produce three "animated" series: ''WesternAnimation/ClutchCargo'' (1959-60), ''Space Angel'' (1962) and ''Captain Fathom'' (1965). Even they realized the technique didn't work: their sole other production, the cartoon segments of ''[[Film/TheThreeStooges The New Three Stooges]]'' (1965-66), did not use it.

* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'' unleashes Synchro-Vox on the trains of ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' to criticize the fact that the mouths of the trains don't move.

* In the ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'' "Haunted Mask" episodes, whenever the plaster bust of Carly Beth's head appears to speak, live eyes and a mouth are superimposed onto the bust.

* Music/{{Alphaville}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jkq0MQa18c video]] for ''Song For No One'' features a chorus of drag queens(?) with old [=TVs=] for heads. The screens display the singer's lips singing the refrain. Looks cheap and dated, just like the rest of the video.

* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'' unleashes Synchro-Vox on the trains of ''Film/ThomasTheTankEngine'' to criticize the fact that the mouths of the trains don't move.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' has "Secrets of Eternity" which had the Titans hamming up soap opera tropes while their lips have the same hairy mustache man.

* Markiplier plays this for especially comical effect by attaching this technique to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndsaoMFz9J4 cats]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MujRLvZ61jE dogs of all things.]]

** The hot sauce drop in "Karate Choppers".

* A clip advertising both ''Series/SteveHarvey'' and ''Series/TheTonightShow'' featured [[Creator/JimmyFallon the]] [[Creator/SteveHarvey hosts']] faces with their mouths switched.

* Creator/{{Alphaville}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jkq0MQa18c video]] for ''Song For No One'' features a chorus of drag queens(?) with old [=TVs=] for heads. The screens display the singer's lips singing the refrain. Looks cheap and dated, just like the rest of the video.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' briefly used this on Mandy.

* A clip advertising both ''Series/SteveHarvey'' and ''Series/TheTonightShow'' featured [[Creator/JimmyFallon the]] [[Creator/SteveHarvey hosts']] faces with their mouths switched.
* Edwin Gillette initially invented Synchro-Vox to simulate talking animals for commercials in the early 1950s. He later became a partner in Cambria Studios (see "Western Animation" below).

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* Used in ''Film/Batman1989'' to mask the lips of the recent victims of Joker's toxin in order to "advertise" his BrandX. [[spoiler:Which, in turn, is the Joker toxin that he is going to release at the Bicentennial celebration of Gotham City's foundation.]]

* Creator/ConanOBrien has used it quite a bit.
** Which is likewise spoofed during one segment of ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken StarWars''.
* Used to simultaneously terrifying and heartrending effect in Abed's student film in ''Series/{{Community}}''.

* The intro to the 1988-89 version of ''Series/TheNewlywedGame'' used this on early 20th-century wedding photos, the lips moving in synch to "The Book of Love" by The Monotones.
* Used in an episode of ''Series/GoodLuckCharlie'' when the family makes a short, comedic "interview" with the titular child - who can barely speak - using a deliberate English accent.
* The ''Thumbs!'' series of specials.

* Robot head 790 in ''Series/{{Lexx}}'' is a variation. The robot head's eyes and mouth are small TV screens that display a mouth played by a live actor; the eyes are fake, but are props with a camera pointed at them, not CGI. The effect was actually done live on the set; the TV screens on the prop are actual TV screens.

* ''Series/Charmed1998'' uses this in Paige's dream sequence in "Sand Francisco Dreaming," superimposing human lips onto an otherwise inanimate clown doll. As if the clown doll itself wasn't creepy enough.

* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvIAyxpjEuc Timbuk3's]] video for "The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades" this is used.

* Music/PepeDeluxe used this in their "Pussy Cat Rock" and "The Mischief of Cloud Six" videos. In the case of the former, the lips are superimposed over live-action footage of a robot cat doll.

* The infamous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-9BqFY0Pog "It's Raping Time"]] song, with an Ao Oni demon's face as the overlay.

* In Music/WeirdAlYankovic's music video for the song [[Music/DareToBeStupid Dare to be Stupid]], during the 5th verse, there's a part where Weird Al's lips are synchro-voxed onto a cat clock's face.

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* Among all the other bizarre imagery, VideoGame/LetItDie features a few uses of this in the cutscenes before and after fighting [[EliteFour the Dons]], with live-action mouths superimposed over cardboard cutouts of the bosses.

* VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub has a version [[spoiler: that is [[NightmareFuel completely unnerving.]] When Yuri pulls you into the closet on the second or third day, her eyes become [[UncannyValley disturbingly realistic.]] Also, when Natsuki walks in, there's a chance that her mouth will also become [[UncannyValley realistic as she spouts nonsense words.]]]]

* ''WebAnimation/HowItShouldHaveEnded'': Used in the ''[[{{Literature/Twilight}} Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Part 2]]'' episode to make fun of the CGI.

* In the fourth episode of ''WebAnimation/ObjectTerror'', Stapler's eyes and mouth are rendered from a live person when [[spoiler:everyone correctly guesses her to be the murderer of Paint]].

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* ''WebVideo/TheAnnoyingOrange'' uses the "with eyes" variation. Though it isn't as odd-looking since the characters are mostly real pictures of household food and items.

* ''Têtes à claques'' (a.k.a. ''CLAC''), in a fashion almost identical to ''The Annoying Orange'', though it predates it.
* ''WebVideo/CrashCourse'': John & Hank will occasionally superimpose their lips onto the mouths of famous scientists and historical figures.

* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'' unleashes Synchro-Vox on the trains of ''Film/ThomasTheTankEngine'' to criticize the fact that the mouths of the trains don't move.
-->'''Critic:''' AND THAT'S SOMEHOW STILL LESS CREEPY THAN WHAT YOU'RE DOING!!!
* A series of educational VHS tapes called "Standard Deviants" use this in some of their animated clips.

* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' occasionally uses this for both hilarious and creepy effect:
** In the [=#CellGames=] short featuring [[VideoGame/StreetFighter Ryu and Ken]], Ryu mentions how the way fighters communicate is through their fists, Cell responds by saying that they should do so with their mouths, using this effect as he says it.
** In another [=#CellGames=] short featuring [[Manga/DeathNote Light Yagami and Ryuk]], Light begs Ryuk for help when he realizes the Death Note only stopped ''[[BizarreAlienBiology one]]'' of Cell's hearts and Cell is about to kill him. Ryuk's only response is an evil grin, but what makes it creepier is that the Synchro-Vox is not only applied to his mouth, but his ''entire face''.
** In the first episode of ''WebAnimation/DragonShortZ'', Nappa briefly uses this effect when he tells Vegeta "Don't shake the baby", complete with unsettling music in the background as he says it.
* For the episode ending animation in their LetsPlay of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7'', WebVideo/TwoBestFriendsPlay depicted Pat like this.
* Markiplier plays this for especially comical effect by attaching this technique to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndsaoMFz9J4 cats]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MujRLvZ61jE dogs of all things.]]
* In the ''WebVideo/{{Jacksfilms}}'' video "Kermit Sings", the animation on Kermit abruptly shifts into this whenever he decides to berate "Billy" ([[MaliciousMisnaming a child whose real name is Jason]]).

* In the 1992 ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "WesternAnimation/InvasionOfTheBunnySnatchers", [[spoiler:clone!]]Daffy has this for a brief moment. It's ''extremely'' creepy. [[NightmareFuel In fact, it may be one of the creepiest Looney Tunes cartoons.]]
* This technique has been used in ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'', though unlike some of the other examples here "comedic" [[NightmareFuel isn't what they were going for]]. For example, the Magic Tree of Nowhere.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Marge", Marge is declared insane. On the "Krusty the Clown Show" Krusty does Conan O'Brien's bit, asking questions of an image of Marge with Sideshow Mel's mouth crudely superimposed. Krusty realizes the bit is getting old and calls for the Mad Marge dancers[[note]]cf. the "Judge Ito dancers" on ''Series/TheTonightShow'' during the OJ Simpson trial[[/note]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Seahorse Seashell Party", Brian uses psychedelic mushrooms and has terrifying images. When Stewie tries to comfort him, Brian then hallucinates Stewie having this styled mouth.
* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' did a similar take with a late-night host making fun of [[Franchise/StarWars Emperor Palpatine]]. Suffice to say, [[EarthShatteringKaboom the Emperor doesn't have much of a sense of humor]].
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' briefly used this on Mandy.
* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Clarence}}'', the principal of Clarence's school is depicted this way with only the lower half of his face visible.
* Used in the ''WesternAnimation/ClassOf3000'' episode "Nothin' to It But to Do It" in the music video "Clean Up".
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'':
** In "The Club", the Reject Club made a fake video of Gumball confessing to a bunch of embarrassing things. It consists of a poorly drawn picture of Gumball with a superimposed, live-action mouth wearing braces.
** "The Treasure" had live-action eyes superimposed on Gumball's face when he suddenly realizes he was a hypnotist in a past life.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Knuckleheads}}'' practically [=RUNS=] on this trope, with pretty much every character's mouth and eyes being synchro voxed in.

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* "Mr. Incredible and Pals" short from ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' DVD is a parody of ''WesternAnimation/ClutchCargo''.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Marge" Marge is declared insane. On the "Krusty the Clown Show" Krusty does Conan O'Brien's bit, asking an image of Marge who her favorite Native American warrior is. "Crazy Horse." Krusty realizes the bit is getting old and calls for the Mad Marge dancers[[note]]cf. the "Judge Ito dancers" on ''Series/TheTonightShow'' during the OJ Simpson trial[[/note]].

* A variation is used in "WesternAnimation/MadameTutliPutli", a Canadian short film that superimposes live-action "eyes" on to StopMotion characters using CGI. [[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome The effect is incredible]], it may be the only example of this technique used well, although it's still intended to be kinda scary.

* ''WebAnimation/HowItShouldHaveEnded'': Used in the ''[[{{Literature/Twilight}} Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Part 2]]'' episode to make fun of the ConspicuousCGI.

* In the 1992 ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers", [[spoiler:clone!]]Daffy has this for a brief moment. It's ''extremely'' creepy. [[NightmareFuel In fact, it may be one of the creepiest Looney Tunes cartoons.]]

* The (no longer manufactured) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkzVPwHGORI Vertigo]] [[https://youtu.be/u2MRTjGip8E Candy]] had commercials that did this, in the style of the below-mentioned ''Têtes à claques''. [[NightmareFuel Sweet dreams.]]

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