# Duh duh DUH!!!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 29, 2006, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duh-duh-duh/366496 "2006-07-29T02:23:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2006, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duh-duh-duh/366496/1 "2006-07-29T02:23:26Z")
You know, that music they play in really bad movies to let you know that Something Bad Is About To Happen… Does it have a name? Is there an MP3 of it somewhere online? ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2006, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duh-duh-duh/366496/2 "2006-07-29T02:28:10Z")
Well, this thread will certainly get a lot of views (and possibly a prima facie moving to El Pit 😉 I believe the traditional way of typing out the music you’re refererring to is “Dun Dun DAAH!!”. No idea what the name is- “That music from TV and movies when someone finds out a terrible secret”- seems to work as well as any. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2006, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/duh-duh-duh/366496/3 "2006-07-29T03:01:28Z")
That three-note music cue, played on horns, goes back to _[The Creature from the Black Lagoon](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046876/)_ (1954), whose [score](http://www.mmmrecordings.com/Creature/creature.html) had no credited composer. The three-note cue was titled the “Creature theme,” and was heard many times during the score, and subsequently used in many other movies.