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Typewriter Eating

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You've probably seen it during The Golden Age of Animation. 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 mimics typing on an old-fashioned mechanical typewriter with moving carriage. They then continue in a different spot.
This trope doesn't seem to be used anymore (and if ever used today, kids would ask what the sounds are).
Compare Rapid-Fire Nail Biting, which may also use a typewriter sound effect, and Buzzsaw Jaw, where the sound effect is (or at least can be) a buzzsaw. See also Rhythm Typewriter.
Mind you, this trope is not about people eating typewriters.
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Tom does this with a rib in an episode of Tom and Jerry.
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One Porky Pig cartoon when Porky was a farmer had chickens getting into his cornfield and doing this.
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On Animaniacs, Wakko did this once, complete with Leroy Anderson's "The Typewriter" as accompaniment.
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Beartato demonstrates, complete with DING!
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The Nazi goat ("A Beowulf in sheep's clothing") in the Daffy Duck cartoon "Scrap Happy Daffy" does this to a pile of tin cans in Daffy's scrap yard.
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Out of the Inkwell features a literal example of this trope with the corn being attached to a typewriter.
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Used in the Classic Disney Shorts Mickey's Trailer, Donald's Cousin Gus and Pueblo Pluto (the latter case used with Pluto biting on a buffalo bone).
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Happens on the Sanjay and Craig episode "Tufflips' Tales of Terror" during the "Haüs of Vings" short when the duo eats the roof of said "haüs".
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In The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve, Juror No. 5 in "Return of the Great Departed Soul" eats several cobs of corn while making typewriter sounds.
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In the opening sequence of Tiny Planets, one of the protagonists eats a corn cob like this before setting out on the day's adventure.
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Scooby-Doo has done this several times with corn on the cob.
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Templeton does this in the fairground scene of Charlotte's Web.
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Happy Tree Friends: In Pop's Barbecue Smoochie, the "Corn" button gives Pop a corn cob that he eats this way.
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A downplayed example occurs in an episode of the 1975 version of Filmation's Ghostbusters. 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.
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