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4 | [[quoteright:350:[[WesternAnimation/OutOfTheInkwell https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/clown_typewriter.png]]]] |
5 | [[caption-width-right:350:OM NOM NOM NOM DING]] |
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7 | You've probably seen it during UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation. Here, a character eats a strip starting at one end of the corncob, along its long axis (takka takka takka), reaches the other end (ding!), rotates the corncob a few degrees and returns to the starting end (kachunk!), repeat. This action [[DontExplainTheJoke mimics typing on an old-fashioned mechanical typewriter]] with moving carriage. They then continue in a different spot. |
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9 | This trope [[ForgottenTrope doesn't seem to be used anymore]] (and if ever used today, kids would ask [[WhatAreRecords what the sounds are]]). |
10 | |
11 | Compare RapidFireNailBiting, which may also use a typewriter sound effect, and BuzzsawJaw, where the sound effect is (or at least can be) a buzzsaw. See also RhythmTypewriter. |
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13 | Mind you, [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant this trope is not about]] [[ExtremeOmnivore people eating typewriters]]. |
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15 | !!Examples: |
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17 | [[foldercontrol]] |
18 | |
19 | [[folder:Advertisements]] |
20 | * Walkers used to run adverts for their "French fries" (basically long, thin potato-based snacks) where they were eaten like this (though without the ding). |
21 | [[/folder]] |
22 | |
23 | [[folder:Film -- Animation]] |
24 | * Templeton does this in the fairground scene of ''WesternAnimation/CharlottesWeb''. |
25 | [[/folder]] |
26 | |
27 | [[folder:Film -- Live-Action]] |
28 | * Rare live-action example in Creator/CharlieChaplin's ''Film/ModernTimes'', where Chaplin is strapped into an automated eating gizmo that presents the corn this way. |
29 | [[/folder]] |
30 | |
31 | [[folder:{{Literature}}]] |
32 | * In ''TheGirlsGuideToHuntingAndFishing'', the narrator says her older brother normally eats corn on the cob this way, but the first time he brings a girlfriend home from college he's suddenly too adult to do it in front of her. |
33 | [[/folder]] |
34 | |
35 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
36 | * A downplayed example occurs in an episode of the 1975 version of ''WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters''. Kong asks Spencer to grab him a hot dog on his way to the office. After being given his hot dog, Kong uses a typewriter to help him put mustard on it. |
37 | * An episode of ''Happy Endings'' concludes with Alex proudly displaying a corn cob on which she's spelled out Dave's name. |
38 | [[/folder]] |
39 | |
40 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
41 | * One of the many wacky inventions introduced by comedian Ed Wynn in his stage shows was a typewriter reconstructed for eating corn on the cob, complete with carriage return bell. |
42 | [[/folder]] |
43 | |
44 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
45 | * In ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney 2: Resolve'', Juror No. 5 in "Return of the Great Departed Soul" eats several cobs of corn while making typewriter sounds. |
46 | [[/folder]] |
47 | |
48 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
49 | * ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': In Pop's Barbecue Smoochie, the "Corn" button gives Pop a corn cob that he eats this way. |
50 | [[/folder]] |
51 | |
52 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
53 | * [[Webcomic/{{Nedroid}} Beartato]] demonstrates, [[http://nedroid.com/2012/07/summer-corn-guide/ complete with DING!]] |
54 | [[/folder]] |
55 | |
56 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
57 | * ''WesternAnimation/OutOfTheInkwell'' features a literal example of this trope with the corn being attached to a typewriter. |
58 | * On ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', Wakko did this once, complete with Leroy Anderson's "The Typewriter" as accompaniment. |
59 | * One [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Porky Pig]] cartoon when Porky was a farmer had chickens getting into his cornfield and doing this. |
60 | * Used in the Westernanimation/ClassicDisneyShorts ''Mickey's Trailer'', ''Donald's Cousin Gus'' and ''Pueblo Pluto'' (the latter case used with Pluto biting on a buffalo bone). |
61 | * Franchise/ScoobyDoo has done this several times with corn on the cob. |
62 | * Tom does this with a rib in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry''. |
63 | * Happens on the ''WesternAnimation/SanjayAndCraig'' episode "Tufflips' Tales of Terror" during the "Haüs of Vings" short when the duo eats the roof of said "haüs". |
64 | * In the opening sequence of ''WesternAnimation/TinyPlanets'', one of the protagonists eats a corn cob like this before setting out on the day's adventure. |
65 | * The Nazi goat ("A Beowulf in sheep's clothing") in the WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck cartoon "Scrap Happy Daffy" does this to a pile of tin cans in Daffy's scrap yard. |
66 | [[/folder]] |
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