MetaChat - The "Law & Order" noise is "chung-chung"?

MetaChat is an informal place for MeFites to touch base and post, discuss and chatter about topics that may not belong on MetaFilter. Questions? Check the FAQ. Please note: This is important.

04 November 2007

The "Law & Order" noise is "chung-chung"? So decrees a headline writer for the NYT. I always thought it was more of a "bok-bok!" myself.

post by: psho at: 18:00 | 19 comments

I always heard it as 'ka-chunk.'

posted by jonmc 04 November | 18:04

Dunh-DUNNH.

posted by mdonley 04 November | 18:21

I've heard the actors call it the doink doink sound.

posted by arse_hat 04 November | 18:38

I'd go Dhung Dhung

posted by drezdn 04 November | 18:56

It's totally "chung chung." What's wrong with you people?

posted by occhiblu 04 November | 18:57

I can imagine chung-chung, ka-chunk, dunh-dunnh, doink doink, but...

bok-bok?? That's a chicken!

(I hear it as dunng-dunng.) Yeah, on preview what drezdn says.

posted by typewriter 04 November | 18:57

I always figured they meant it to sound like a judge's gavel or a slamming cell door.

posted by jonmc 04 November | 19:06

Absolutely "chung-chung".

posted by matthewr 04 November | 19:24

Yes, it's always been chung-chung.

posted by rhapsodie 04 November | 20:02

For me, "gunk-gunk."

posted by mudpuppie 04 November | 20:05

I've always heard it called "Doink Doink." But the official name for it is apparently The Ching:

Mike Post: ...(Dick Wolf) said I need a sound that goes along with these cards that are going to identify our location.

Q: The chunk, chunk sound.

Post: Right. And those could happen every 2 minutes, every 4 minutes, it's going to happen a lot in the show. So I went and sampled -- I found a sample of a jail door closing, and I put it with a couple of little other sounds, and made this ching-ching thing.

Q: What's the official name of that sound?

Post: The ching.

posted by miss lynnster 04 November | 20:06

The "ching"? IT IS SO TOTALLY NOT A CHING!

/not chingist

posted by psho 04 November | 20:45

Donk donk

posted by Joe Invisible 04 November | 21:05

Dung-Dung

posted by Reggie Digest 04 November | 21:24

Done-Done

posted by spock 04 November | 23:32

Doonk-doonk.

Fully not a ching.

posted by pompomtom 04 November | 23:58

Ooh, "doonk doonk." I could get behind that.

And agreed -- not a ching. Or a chung. There's no ch- whatever.

posted by mudpuppie 05 November | 00:03

It is so totally "Dun Dun", and nothing else. No question about it. "The York Times"? Who the hell has even heard of this "newspaper"?

posted by spiderskull 05 November | 03:33

This discussion reminds me of the way that chickens say 'Cock-a-doodle-doo!' in the US and 'Co-co-ri-co!' in France.

posted by box 05 November | 09:09

← This post is for you just in case || I am trapped on the couch. →

HOME || REGISTER || LOGIN