History Main / ThingOMeter

* Sunny spends a lot of ''[[ComicBook/SunnySeries Sunny Rolls the Dice]]'' picturing an internal "Groovy Meter", a measure of how well she's fitting in with her {{Childhood Friend|s}} Deb and new friend Regina and the new "rules" of seventh grade. The levels of what are "groovy" means Sunny shouldn't do a lot of things she wants to do--like go trick or treating and play D&D--and should do a lot of things she doesn't care about like have crushes on boys and care about fashion. As Deb puts down things Sunny likes she pictures her meter going down, and then up when she gets little signs of being "groovy," but she's not comfortable with most of what's expected. She finally mentally crosses the whole meter out when Deb talks about buying expensive jeans for them to share again, and it's the last sign of her and Deb drifting apart as friends as Sunny [[ProudToBeAGeek embraces her geeky side]] and goes back to playing D&D with her new friends.

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** [[ThePrankster Practical jokers]] [[TheHero John]] and [[DistaffCounterpart Jane]] and their respective [[StandardFiftiesFather dads]] have a Prankster's Gambit, a meter that shows which of them has been most successful at pranking the other. While it appears to be part of the comic's user interface, the characters are clearly able to visually see it and check it.

* When discussing the development of the UsefulNotes/{{Wii}}, Miyamoto mentioned a theoretical "Wife-o-Meter" he used to measure his wife's increasing interest in video games over the years.

* {{Pun}} and RuleThirtyFour demand the Orgasmeter. Actually, already McKinsey effectively built one, only he was a scientist and didn't name it so. In the meantime you can get a similar one (that names itself so) even as an app. ScienceMarchesOn.

* In ''LightNovel/MagikaSwordsmanAndSummoner'', the protagonist Kazuki has a magical ring that measures how much the girls of his harem love him.

* The Summarize Proust Competition on ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' uses a graph gauge to determine who can summarize Creator/MarcelProust's ''A La Recherche du Temps Perdu'' best. (No one can, so the prize goes to the girl with the [[FanService biggest tits]].)

Though popularized by game shows and the like, this trope is OlderThanRadio at the very least: [[[[Art/MarriageALaMode William Hogarth]]'s 1727 satirical engraving ''Masquerade Ticket'' features "a pair of lecherometers, showing the company's inclinations as they approach 'em."

Though popularized by game shows and the like, this trope is OlderThanRadio at the very least: William Hogarth's 1727 satirical engraving ''Masquerade Ticket'' features "a pair of lecherometers, showing the company's inclinations as they approach 'em."

* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' Professor Farnsworth once pulled out a "cool-o-meter" which apparently measured coolness in [[Series/HappyDays MegaFonzies]].

* In ''Film/NannyMcPhee and the Big Bang'', there is the Happy-o-Meter, which measures happiness of the pigs. The levels are "amused", "tickled pink", "cloud nine", "ecstatic" and "delirious".

* The Nostalgia Critic once measured actors' performances on a [[HamAndCheese Not-Giving-A-Fuck-O-Meter]]. Apparently topped by Jeremy Irons in ''Dungeons and Dragons.''

* WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows goes with a "Douche-O-Meter" for Justin Bieber's "Sorry". [[BrokeTheRatingScale It breaks after one lyric. Then, later, it explodes.]]

* Nicorette's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qeC568u27Y "Suck-O-Meter" ads]] (the page pic is one such ad).

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