# buda bing, buda boom......origin? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 18, 2000, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buda-bing-buda-boom-origin/8921 "2000-03-18T16:32:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lvick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d07c76/32.png) [@lvick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lvick)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2000, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buda-bing-buda-boom-origin/8921/1 "2000-03-18T16:32:00Z")
Hey, I like to say this and someone at work asked be whence it came, and I realized i didn’t know. Someone else said that Andrew Dice Clay says it a lot, which don’t mean much to me, but I woundered where this expression started? Larry ---
**Author:** ![funneefarmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@funneefarmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/funneefarmer)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2000, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buda-bing-buda-boom-origin/8921/2 "2000-03-18T17:15:00Z")
Well I always thought it grew out of the standard drum rimshot but that’s just a WAG. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_Bowe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@Doug\_Bowe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_Bowe)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buda-bing-buda-boom-origin/8921/3 "2000-03-19T06:34:00Z")
The first time I noticed the phrase used a lot was in a kids show…help me here…the wierd scientist with the Larry Fine hairdo and an assistant dressed like a rat. ---
**Author:** ![mr\_john](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@mr\_john](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr_john)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2000, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buda-bing-buda-boom-origin/8921/4 "2000-03-18T19:07:00Z")
Beekman ? Sat the show? Good God!!! Larry Fine messin around in a lab!! And with a giant rat yet. It’s the end of the world as we know it! What a movie, The Pie That Creamed the World. Fine’s revenge for always being the 3rd Stooge. Even with Besser, all he ever got to do was say " Ah,leave him alone." * * * “Pardon me while I have a strange interlude.”-Marx ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2000, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buda-bing-buda-boom-origin/8921/5 "2000-03-18T19:23:00Z")
James Caan uses the phrase in “The Godfather” when he tells Al Pacino how difficult it will be to kill “The Turk” and the police captain. Something along the lines of “You gotta get up close to the guy and ‘bodda bing’ you blow his brains out.” Or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Ursa\_Major](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a88e57/32.png) [@Ursa\_Major](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ursa_Major)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2000, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buda-bing-buda-boom-origin/8921/6 "2000-03-18T21:19:00Z")
I’ve always associated this expression with the Italians from Brooklyn. It’s the kind of thing Joe Peshi or Vinnie Barbarino would say. ---
**Author:** ![bda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5e9695/32.png) [@bda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bda)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buda-bing-buda-boom-origin/8921/7 "2000-03-19T01:22:00Z")
i remember it from “moonlighting”; mid 80’s show with bruce willis and cybill shepard ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buda-bing-buda-boom-origin/8921/8 "2000-03-19T02:34:00Z")
People, people! Repeat after me: “ **Bada** -bing” Don’t you watch _The Sopranos_? * * * **Gypsy** : Tom, I don’t get you. **Tom Servo** : Nobody does. I’m the wind, baby. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2000, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buda-bing-buda-boom-origin/8921/9 "2000-03-19T15:23:00Z")
## I’ve always assumed it was the verbalization of a rim-shot. “I must leave this planet, if only for an hour.” – Antoine de St. Exupéry Are you a turtle? ---
**Author:** ![lvick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d07c76/32.png) [@lvick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lvick)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2000, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buda-bing-buda-boom-origin/8921/10 "2000-03-19T16:30:00Z")
Ok, good answers all, I had the feeling it came from some sort of East Coast/jersey/new york/italian kinda thing, anyone know an earlier use than The Godfather? Larry ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buda-bing-buda-boom-origin/8921/11 "2000-03-20T05:28:00Z")
Uhh, a verbalization of a rim shot is ba-dum bum kshhh –Tim * * * We are the children of the Eighties. We are not the first “lost generation” nor today’s lost generation; in fact, we think we know just where we stand - or are discovering it as we speak. ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buda-bing-buda-boom-origin/8921/12 "2000-03-20T07:46:00Z")
Earliest cite: Genesis 3:24 – “And from the nothingness, He created light, bada-bing bada-boom. And he saw that it was good.” * * * Voted **Best Sport** And narrowly averted the despised moniker **Smiley Master** Forward deployed until 18AUG00 ---
**Author:** ![lvick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d07c76/32.png) [@lvick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lvick)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buda-bing-buda-boom-origin/8921/13 "2000-03-20T16:06:00Z")
ROTFLMAO ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buda-bing-buda-boom-origin/8921/14 "2000-03-21T06:34:00Z")
Tim: > [@](#): > > Uhh, a verbalization of a rim shot is ba-dum bum kshhh Yes; and the verbalization of the OP was originally no doubt ba-da-boom, ba-da-bing, not the other way around.(People have been saying it without knowing what they were saying). Bing=ksssh, although ksssh comes closer. * * * Disable Similes in this Post ---
**Author:** ![labradorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@labradorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/labradorian)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2000, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buda-bing-buda-boom-origin/8921/15 "2000-03-20T23:21:00Z")
I don’t know about its origins, or care. In fact **I HEREBY BANISH THIS PHRASE FROM THE ENGLISH AND ALL OTHER LANGUAGES OF THE UNIVERSE.** Thank you. * * * **Dee da dee da dee dee do do / Dee ba ditty doh / Deedle dooby doo ba dee um bee ooby / Be doodle oodle doodle dee doh** [http://members.xoom.com/labradorian/](http://members.xoom.com/labradorian/) ---
**Author:** ![lvick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d07c76/32.png) [@lvick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lvick)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buda-bing-buda-boom-origin/8921/16 "2000-03-21T01:48:00Z")
In your dreams Labrador boy ---
**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:** [March 21, 2000, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buda-bing-buda-boom-origin/8921/17 "2000-03-21T12:28:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Bing=ksssh, although ksssh comes closer. Depends on how you hit the cymbal.