# Badoom-ching! vs. Badoom-doom! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 2, 2005, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badoom-ching-vs-badoom-doom/297404 "2005-04-02T15:03:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Broken\_Wind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Broken\_Wind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broken_Wind)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badoom-ching-vs-badoom-doom/297404/1 "2005-04-02T15:03:20Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Chimpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@Chimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimpy)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badoom-ching-vs-badoom-doom/297404/2 "2005-04-02T15:18:03Z")
I’ve always used Badoom-doom-tish. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badoom-ching-vs-badoom-doom/297404/3 "2005-04-02T15:28:06Z")
It’s actually “badoom-boom.” ---
**Author:** ![Broken\_Wind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Broken\_Wind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broken_Wind)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badoom-ching-vs-badoom-doom/297404/4 "2005-04-02T15:39:13Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > It’s actually “badoom-boom.” A point that I also brought up to my friend - “It’s BOOM, not DOOM!”, dumbass. But he failed to listen to reason. So I quote him verbatim as he burbled it out. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badoom-ching-vs-badoom-doom/297404/5 "2005-04-02T15:57:33Z")
Yeah, clearly you need a better class of friends. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Broken\_Wind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Broken\_Wind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broken_Wind)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badoom-ching-vs-badoom-doom/297404/6 "2005-04-02T16:02:48Z")
People who share my CHIng, no? **"Badoom-CHIng!"** ---
**Author:** ![Broken\_Wind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Broken\_Wind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broken_Wind)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badoom-ching-vs-badoom-doom/297404/7 "2005-04-02T16:07:59Z")
> [@Broken Wind](#): > > People who share my CHIng, no? > > **"Badoom-CHIng!"** OK, that was just dumb. My app-e-olly-gees. “Badoom-” Aaagghh!!! It’s so hard to stop once you’ve started. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badoom-ching-vs-badoom-doom/297404/8 "2005-04-02T16:27:18Z")
I always used “Ba-Da-Boom!” Ba: Tom1 Da: Tom2 Boom!: Bass Drum with snare hit or rimshot But what do I know, I’m only an ex-musician. Maybe striptease drum licks have changed. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badoom-ching-vs-badoom-doom/297404/9 "2005-04-02T16:33:20Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badoom-ching-vs-badoom-doom/297404/10 "2005-04-02T16:49:24Z")
I use **TITTI-boom, TSHhh!** ---
**Author:** ![Broken\_Wind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Broken\_Wind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broken_Wind)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badoom-ching-vs-badoom-doom/297404/11 "2005-04-02T22:39:02Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > I use **TITTI-boom, TSHhh!** So on the Left Coast, I could supplant “Badoom” with “TITTI”?!?! I’ve gotta move… ---
**Author:** ![foxymoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d26b3c/32.png) [@foxymoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foxymoron)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badoom-ching-vs-badoom-doom/297404/12 "2005-04-02T23:23:07Z")
Badoomp-Tch! ---
**Author:** ![Broken\_Wind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Broken\_Wind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broken_Wind)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badoom-ching-vs-badoom-doom/297404/13 "2005-04-02T23:29:33Z")
> [@foxymoron](#): > > Badoomp-Tch! Thank you. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![foxymoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d26b3c/32.png) [@foxymoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foxymoron)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badoom-ching-vs-badoom-doom/297404/14 "2005-04-03T05:26:10Z")
No prob. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2005, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/badoom-ching-vs-badoom-doom/297404/15 "2005-04-03T06:45:09Z")
I really like the ‘Ching!’ at the end. It fits, somehow. [just an opinion of a non-native speaker]