I was out with a friend last night and during the course of conversation I made a particularly witty remark and thus rewarded myself with a well-deserved “Badoom-ching!”
The prick then tried to tell me that the correct form of self-congratulatory drum roll was “Badoom-doom!”
I of course immediately told him he was way off the mark, it’s always been “Badoom-ching!” and where he got this “Badoom-doom” business was sheer lunacy.
But as my beer-soaked brain and I slept that night while mentally replaying every ‘Johnny Carson Show’ episode I’d ever seen, I did come across a few “Badoom-doom’s” in the history of monologues. It seemed to me that the “Badoom-doom” was used for a joke that fell flat/wasn’t funny, whereas the “Badoom-ching” was reserved for the zingers. (“Heyyyy-Oooooo!”)
I’d like to be able to trounce my bud with the court of opinion. Any thoughts?
Tny only person I know who uses that on a regular basis does it “Badoom-boom-ching.” On the other hand, he usually uses it when someone else makes a good retort, not often for himself.