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Thing-O-Meter
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A speedometer measures how fast you go, a radiometer measures the radiant flux of electromagnetic radiation, and the Thing-O-Meter measures everything else. Commonly seen as the Laugh-O-Meter or Applause-O-Meter, which is based on the Clap-O-Meter used in old game shows. There are thousands of variations, though— Suck-O-Meter, Creep-O-Meter, Love-O-Meter, Sarcasm-O-Meter, basically Whatever-You-Want-O-Meter. They're usually not very reliable, as their indicators are prone to going off-scale or even breaking. They generally measure things on an Abstract Scale. Though popularized by game shows and the like, this trope is Older Than Radio 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." Not to be confused with any of the meters used in games (like Karma Meter and Awesomeness Meter). Compare Thing-O-Matic, The Little Detecto, Everything Sensor and 20% More Awesome. |
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Professor Farnsworth once pulled out a "cool-o-meter" which apparently measured coolness in MegaFonzies. Unsurprisingly, pointing it at Zoidberg makes the needle go dead. | |
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The Crystal Maze: Series 2 had a meter showing how many gold and silver credits had been posted in the Crystal Dome. It was not calibrated, so it only gave a very rough idea. | |
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One Far Side strip has a dog pointing a device at a mailman which measures the subject's level of fear. | |
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Clone High's official voting system for student council president is an applause-o-meter. This meant that, in a heated competition between Abe Lincoln and JFK for the presidency, the winner was a random puppy who wandered on stage. | |
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In an episode of Tenchi Muyo! GXP, a Good Luck Meter appears during Seiryo's search for any lucky treasures and relics, hoping to use them to counter Seina's bad luck. | |
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In Sluggy Freelance, Torg is sent to Guantanamo Bay as an enemy combatant after airport security thinks he's about to blow up a plane. He comes back claiming that he was set free when his Viking blood "sent their caucasiometer through the roof," so clearly he was too white to be a terrorist. | |
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The Care Bears have, of course, the Caring Meter, which monitors how much caring is going around on Earth. In some incarnations, it's the Care-O-Meter and can take more specific readings, such as the amount of caring within a particular individual at the moment. | |
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The Ghost and Molly McGee has meters that ghosts use to gauge how miserable each town is and how well the ghouls perform in making them more awful. Naturally, when Molly McGee enters the picture, the meter for her town gradually undergoes a shift. | |
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Cluedo: In the first series, the audience could vote for who they thought the murderer was. The screen did not show bar charts rising for each suspect, but instead random numbers which would suddenly stop at their final totals. | |
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Also from The Simpsons, in the "spinoff" The Lovematic Grandpa, wherein Grandpa Simpson dies and is reincarnated as a love testing machine at Moe's. | |
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The Gong Show used a chroma-keyed clap-o-meter to settle ties at the end of the show. | |
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A season 2 episode of Laff-A-Lympics employed an applause meter to gauge which of the three teams would win a specific event. Mildew Wolf would hold his microphone to the camera, presumably for the viewers at home to vote by applause. Naturally, the Really Rottens got bupkis. | |
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Discworld: The thaumometer, which measures a magical field in "thaums". Mind you, this is just a perfectly sensible piece of equipment for a wizard on a world run by magic. Moving Pictures has the resograph, a device designed by a wizard named Riktor the Tinkerer to measure changes in the fabric of reality. On the Discworld, said fabric is a lot more flexible thanks to the power of belief and the Theory of Narrative Causality. The name is a Brick Joke from an explanation that "thaums" are made of sub-particles called "resons", which is doggy-Latin for "thingies", so the resograph is literally a thing-o-meter. Riktor also invented the Mouse Counter,note counts every mouse in the building the Rev Counternote as the previous one, but for priests and the Swamp Meter.note usage never explained Regrettably, he seems not to have been very good at keeping records of what a particular thing-o-meter was supposed to be measuring or how to read it, information that would have been immensely helpful to Ponder Stibbons when the resograph starts going off. |
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The id Tech 3-based games (Quake III: Arena, Call of Duty), as well as engines derived from id Tech 3 (Infinity Ward's IW Engine) feature a Lag-O-Meter, which measures network lag during online play. | |
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On an episode of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, the round of Mornington Crescent ended with Humph announcing "According to our clapometer, Tim is the winner". Barry Cryer then added "Report to the clinic immediately". | |
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Homestuck: Plenty of examples, as befits an RPG Mechanics 'Verse. Practical jokers John and Jane and their respective 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. How do trolls know how effective their trolling is? Kanaya uses the "Flighty Broads and Their Snarky Horseshitometer" in an exchange with Rose. It ends up exploding (after Rose goes Off the Rails and blows up her gate), because it simply couldn't take that much horseshit. |
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The movie That Thing You Do! has an applause-o-meter that determines the winner of a band contest. It's not a machine but a model standing in front of a marked-off dial backdrop; she uses her hands to show how high the applause goes. The gradations are: "You stink", "Not terrible", "Good", "Extra good", "Super", and "Wicked". (The fact that Jimmy is seriously butthurt over Guy changing the tempo on his song while ignoring the applause-o-meter redlining at the far end of "Wicked" behind him neatly foreshadows some of the problems to come.) | |
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Hot Seat was a short-lived ABC game show from 1976 note (which premiered the same day Family Feud did) in which married couples are attached to sensors that gauge emotional levels while answering yes-or-no questions about their married life. | |
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Left Foot Living Review gives trade values of things that are not easily traded, such as body parts. | |
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Fallout: New Vegas gives us the "Vit-O-Matic Vigor Tester", a device capable of displaying a user's strength, perception, endurance, charisma, intelligence, agility and luck, each on a scale from 1 to 10. It's apparently reliable enough that a doctor can confidently use it to assess a patient's general state of health - in context of gameplay, it's how the player chooses their primary statistics. Mr. New Vegas sometimes mentions trying to measure his charisma with one - "the machine burst into flames". |
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During his reign as WWE Intercontinental Champion, Santino Marella would rate himself against the longest-reigning IC champ in history, The Honky Tonk Man, using the "Honk-A-Meter". | |
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Schlock Mercenary has the Ouchdammitometer, which measures pain in Hurtz, demonstrated in this comic (Not the first appearance of it, but the funnier one). | |
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In Sonic the Hedgehog 2: Special Edition, a clap-o-meter is used during the Clap Your Hands If You Believe segment. | |
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An Ascendometer is a self-contained, portable unit from the Stargate-verse used to analyze neural activity in the brain. This allows people to judge how close to ascension someone is. Originally found on P3X-584 in Stargate SG-1, the device was named as such by Cameron Mitchell, leaving Samantha Carter wishing she had thought of it first. Assumably the very same device was used in Stargate Atlantis when they were monitoring how near to ascension Dr. Rodney McKay was during the events of 'The Tao of Rodney'. |
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Originally found on P3X-584 in Stargate SG-1, the device was named as such by Cameron Mitchell, leaving Samantha Carter wishing she had thought of it first. | |
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In the Arthur episode "Bossy Boots" Brain designs a machine in the episode intro called the "Boss-O-Meter" to measure how many bosses a child has in the life. D.W. makes the machine break down by overloading it. In "Bitzi's Beau" Buster and Harry have handheld Alien-O-Meters which can tell if a person or character is an alien. They are supposedly just toys that always show someone is an alien if activated. |
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A short arc in Bloom County had a dork detector. Opus didn't understand why it was always going off when he was holding it. | |
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Saved by the Bell had a Love-O-Meter at The Max. | |
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A laugh-o-meter features prominently in a the Batman: The Animated Series episode "Almost Got 'Im," where Joker rigs one up to an electric chair, straps Batman to it, and lets laughing gas leak into a studio audience. | |
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Nickelodeon Kids' Court has the Honorable Judge O'Meter (An applauding meter dressed like an English judge with grey-haired wig Analog VU meter for eyes and 2 LED Meters for nose and mouth). Most loud sound of the audience applauding and screaming, Wins the case. Whether the suspect is guilty or not guilty! | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: In the episode featuring Angel's Revenge, Tom Servo invents a Shame-O-Meter (pronounced "shuh-MAH-meh-ter") to measure the shame the actors in the film are feeling, using Peter Lawford as a baseline. Pat Buttram as a used-car salesman managed to reach mega-Lawfords, Jim Backus as a right-wing Crazy Survivalist registered well into the giga-Lawford range, while exposure to Dr. Forrester and TV's Frank dressed as Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs nearly breaks the meter. In another episode, Joel invents the Steve-O-Meter, which measures whether a given idea has already been thought up by Steve Allen. |
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Sunny spends a lot of Sunny Rolls the Dice picturing an internal "Groovy Meter" (based on one she saw in a teen magazine), a measure of how well she's fitting in with her Childhood Friend Deb and new friend Regina and the new "rules" of seventh grade that make her cool or not. 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 with her new friends — and should do a lot of things she doesn't care about like have crushes on boys and worry 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 tells Deb she spent her money on what she wanted: a D&D Figure of her fighter character. Dropping her mental Groovy Meter is the last sign of her and Deb drifting apart as friends as Sunny embraces her geeky side and goes back to playing D&D with her new friends. | |
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Futurama Professor Farnsworth once pulled out a "cool-o-meter" which apparently measured coolness in MegaFonzies. Unsurprisingly, pointing it at Zoidberg makes the needle go dead. On another occasion, he pulled out a "Doom-o-meter" that measures just how doomed something is, in Milidooms. Of course, 1000 Milidooms = 1 Doom. When Bender, Amy and Leela are at club looking for someone for Leela, Bender mentions he has "Gaydar" and can tell if someone is gay, unless he gets interference from a gay weather balloon. The company Kidnappster have a Liu-mo-Stat, which controls every Lucy Liu robot they have, with three settings; Plucky Lawyer (default), Icy Dominatrix, and the fullest setting of Erotic Assassin. |
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In Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, the FLDSMDFR has a dangeometer to warn Flt if the food is going to over-mutate. | |
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Queen for a Day's Applause Meter is the Trope Maker, if not the Ur-Example. | |
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Moshi Monsters: Apparently, Buster Bumblechops possesses something called a "snore-o-meter". At the disco, your score is measured on the "Cheer-o-meter". |
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In Men in Black, Agent J comments that the Edgar Bug gets a 9 on his "Weird-Shit-O-Meter." Seriously though, Agent K uses a small soil analyzer with a row of multicolored lights to determine what kind of alien he's dealing with. ("Green" apparently means "Bug.") | |
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Moving Pictures has the resograph, a device designed by a wizard named Riktor the Tinkerer to measure changes in the fabric of reality. On the Discworld, said fabric is a lot more flexible thanks to the power of belief and the Theory of Narrative Causality. The name is a Brick Joke from an explanation that "thaums" are made of sub-particles called "resons", which is doggy-Latin for "thingies", so the resograph is literally a thing-o-meter. Riktor also invented the Mouse Counter,note counts every mouse in the building the Rev Counternote as the previous one, but for priests and the Swamp Meter.note usage never explained Regrettably, he seems not to have been very good at keeping records of what a particular thing-o-meter was supposed to be measuring or how to read it, information that would have been immensely helpful to Ponder Stibbons when the resograph starts going off. | |
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Todd in the Shadows goes with a "Douche-O-Meter" for Justin Bieber's "Sorry". It breaks after one lyric. Then, later, it explodes. | |
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British election coverage always features the Swingometer, a needle that is turned from one major party to the other to indicate how many voters have switched their allegiance. Originally a cardboard prop (which was parodied in the election night sketch on Monty Python's Flying Circus as spinning crazily around), it has more recently taken the form of CGI. | |
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In Nanny McPhee 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". | |
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In Ask King Sombra, Sombra rates Equestria's three Princesses by their bitchiness using The Royal◊ Bitch-o-meter. Coffee Talk later shows the Crystal Ponies'◊ Royal Bitch-o-meter, in which Sombra ranks 5000%. | |
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Ghostbusters (1984). When the team goes after the library ghost, Egon Spengler has a meter that reads PKE (Psycho Kinetic Energy) valences, which are apparently given off by ghosts. It's the one that has the "arms" go up when the PKE increases. When Venkmann goes into Dana's apartment, he brings an odd meter of some sort with a long pole that sucks in air, with a hand-pump. When Dana asks him about it, he only says that it's one of their "little toys". It's based on a real-life device called a "Bacharach Chemical Sniffer", once used to check for gas leaks and other things. One could, in theory, use it to find evidence of a haunting (vapor trails and such), but con-man Venkman is only trying to look like he knows what he's doing. | |
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QI: The episode "Happiness" features the "QI Pleasure Gauge," which measures audience happiness. Extra points are awarded for maxing it out. | |
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Top Gear's cock-o-meter measures how much of cock you are judging by the car you're driving. Hammond's BMW M3 tops it. | |
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The Nostalgia Critic once measured actors' performances on a Not-Giving-A-Fuck-O-Meter. Apparently topped by Jeremy Irons in Dungeons and Dragons. | |
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Assumably the very same device was used in Stargate Atlantis when they were monitoring how near to ascension Dr. Rodney McKay was during the events of 'The Tao of Rodney'. | |
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When kids enter an audition for a singing contest not affiliated to American Idol and produced by people who claim to have never heard of American Idol, Krusty uses an applause-o-meter so he won't have to pay attention to the songs. | |
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The Slammer uses a clap-o-meter to register the audience applause and decide who is the winner of the Freedom Show. | |
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In Magika Swordsman and Summoner, the protagonist Kazuki has a magical ring that measures how much the girls of his harem love him. | |
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On Frasier, Niles snarks that the psychic debunker they've invited over will be bringing a "ghost-oh-meter" (hard "o"). Daphne rejoins that it's called a "ghost-ah-meter" (soft "o"). | |
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