# "Sousa's Liberty Bell March ends in a fart." A Fart??? A Fart??? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 11, 2005, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sousas-liberty-bell-march-ends-in-a-fart-a-fart-a-fart/284199 "2005-01-11T13:14:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sousas-liberty-bell-march-ends-in-a-fart-a-fart-a-fart/284199/1 "2005-01-11T13:14:08Z")
I put in one of my Monty Python DVDs the other day and somehow I accidently started playing it with the captions for the hearing impaired. The show opens: “It’s” As the music starts there is a caption at the bottom of the screen reporting that the opening music has begun- Sousa’s _Liberty Bell March._ As the opening titles come to an end the caption reads: > [@](#): > > Music ends in a fart. Huh? Now I like a good fart joke as much as the next guy, but the sound at the end of the openings titles of _Monty Python’s Flying Circus_ is clearly the sound of the Chicken-Man getting squished by the giant foot! It’s obvious! Chicken-Man dashes across the screen, giant foot comes down upon him, cue noise. There’s no fart about it! It’s the sound of a Chicken-Man getting squished by the giant foot! ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sousas-liberty-bell-march-ends-in-a-fart-a-fart-a-fart/284199/2 "2005-01-11T13:24:25Z")
I always thought the chicken man farted \*as \*he was squished. If I wasn’t watching, I’d hear it as a fart. Perhaps a fart sound is the sound effect used to indicate said squish? Can you think of a better description of the sound to put on subtitles? It’s clearly not “squish.” ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sousas-liberty-bell-march-ends-in-a-fart-a-fart-a-fart/284199/3 "2005-01-11T13:38:13Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Can you think of a better description of the sound to put on subtitles? _Not Entirely Unfartlike Chicken-Man Squishing Noise- Bass_ ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sousas-liberty-bell-march-ends-in-a-fart-a-fart-a-fart/284199/4 "2005-01-11T13:44:59Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > _Not Entirely Unfartlike Chicken-Man Squishing Noise- Bass_ Nice. I like it. Let’s commence the letter-writing campaign. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sousas-liberty-bell-march-ends-in-a-fart-a-fart-a-fart/284199/5 "2005-01-11T14:18:34Z")
Subtitles are often… ah… amusing in their own light. And sometimes revealing. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sousas-liberty-bell-march-ends-in-a-fart-a-fart-a-fart/284199/6 "2005-01-11T15:38:06Z")
I would’ve described it more as a raspberry… ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2005, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sousas-liberty-bell-march-ends-in-a-fart-a-fart-a-fart/284199/7 "2005-01-11T15:52:56Z")
**bienville** , if you don’t quit it, you’ll soon be my new favorite poster. Ha!