# Unnecessary, but expected, sounds **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 11, 2006, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unnecessary-but-expected-sounds/368271 "2006-08-11T12:11:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unnecessary-but-expected-sounds/368271/41 "2006-08-11T22:04:33Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > When you see an eagle, and the sound they play isn’t an eagle’s cry, but some kind of hawk. An eagle’s cry isn’t that exciting. I was going to mention that. When I was trying to get into falconry, I had it on good authority that the “lonely raptor cry” is almost always that of a red-tail hawk ([link](http://www.imperial.edu/birds/rt-hawk.htm) towards the bottom of the page, direct link might violate copywrite so you’ll have to scroll) and more [here](http://www.filmsound.org/cliche/) ---
**Author:** ![davmilasav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@davmilasav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davmilasav)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unnecessary-but-expected-sounds/368271/42 "2006-08-11T22:25:17Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#): > > My husband and I have had several pet rats in the past, and whenever some squeaking rats appear in a movie or on TV, we whisper “Hollywood rats” to each other. > > When movies and television programs have a group of rats scurrying, there’s invariably a whole lotta squeaking going on. Actual rats don’t squeak constantly as they move. They don’t squeak very often at all. Squeaking draws the attention of predators. Like the way all snakes rattle, even constrictors? And as a ferret owner, I have to ask what the hell Marc Singer was doing to the pair in Beastmaster to get them to make that noise? Mine only make chuff chuff or dook dook noises when they are dancing and are otherwise silent. ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unnecessary-but-expected-sounds/368271/43 "2006-08-11T22:31:47Z")
I have always wished that my ID badge would make that _bloop_ sound that they make in the movies when you swipe them through the badge reader. Even better if it’s a series of bloops. ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unnecessary-but-expected-sounds/368271/44 "2006-08-12T00:09:56Z")
Any time a cat runs across the screen, especially for a frightening scene, it makes the sound that cats only make if they’re being injured, like if you step on their feet. Saw that on a Carnivale disc yesterday. Ben turns around and a black cat dashes in front of him, making that angry hurt sound. I actually looked to see if he’d stepped on the animal’s feet, because cats just don’t make that sound normally. For that matter, cats rarely meow at all unless they’re calling to their mother (and by extension their owners). ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2006, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unnecessary-but-expected-sounds/368271/45 "2006-08-12T03:01:36Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I was so disappointed when I started working with lasers and they made no noises (or else sounded like vacuum pumps, water chillers, and fans). Laser guns/blasters go “Skree-ooo-pish!”. I’ve tried like hell to make my laser pointer do that, but it won’t. Lightsabres, of course, go “Schlip-shwumm-tish-tish-shwumm-schlip.” ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2006, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unnecessary-but-expected-sounds/368271/46 "2006-08-12T03:52:19Z")
> [@acsenray](#): > > Yeah because it’s too funny to make fat jokes about a guy etc Don’t worry. We’ll get Roger fattened back up in no time, as soon as he quits the chemo and the very thought of what people in Chicago actually, regularly eat no longer makes him vomit. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2006, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unnecessary-but-expected-sounds/368271/47 "2006-08-12T08:30:58Z")
Whenever a helicopter lands and powers down in a movie, there’s always the descending clunking whine of a drive belt disengaging - helicopters may well have done that fifty years ago, but they don’t anymore. ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2006, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unnecessary-but-expected-sounds/368271/48 "2006-08-12T08:38:17Z")
How 'bout that little keyboard plink whenever a cartoon character blinks his or her eyes? Hell, sometimes when I’m by myself in a quiet room, I almost expect to hear myself blinking! ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2006, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unnecessary-but-expected-sounds/368271/49 "2006-08-13T01:12:39Z")
> [@Case Sensitive](#): > > Whenever a helicopter lands and powers down in a movie, there’s always the descending clunking whine of a drive belt disengaging - helicopters may well have done that fifty years ago, but they don’t anymore. Um, well, the fify-year old helicoptors I’ve been in still do… But you’re right, a lot of the newer ones are turbine, and they sound more like jet engines. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2006, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unnecessary-but-expected-sounds/368271/50 "2006-08-13T01:35:48Z")
> [@davmilasav](#): > > And as a ferret owner, I have to ask what the hell Marc Singer was doing to the pair in Beastmaster to get them to make that noise? Mine only make chuff chuff or dook dook noises when they are dancing and are otherwise silent. If I were stuffed down Marc Singer’s pants, I bet I’d make some odd noises. Chuff chuff would be only a beginning. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2006, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unnecessary-but-expected-sounds/368271/51 "2006-08-13T02:29:42Z")
Usually in submarine movies, you have the dramatic sound of a submarine or destroyer searching for it’s prey… \*ping…ping…ping…ping" with the sound getting faster and faster and FASTER the closer they get! _ping…ping…ping…pingpingpingpingpingpignPINGPINGPINGPINGPINGPIGNPING_ :eek: According to a guy I met who served aboard Destroyers, modern sonars sound more like dolphins. In fact, this guy (who may have been pulling on my leg for kicks and giggles) claimed that they would on occasion have pods of dolphins poking around to figure out who was shouting at them. ---
**Author:** ![Hogwash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e57/32.png) [@Hogwash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hogwash)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2006, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unnecessary-but-expected-sounds/368271/52 "2006-08-13T02:55:18Z")
Any scene involving roadworks must include the sound of a jackhammer. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unnecessary-but-expected-sounds/368271/53 "2006-08-14T01:06:06Z")
> [@bluethree](#): > > I have always wished that my ID badge would make that _bloop_ sound that they make in the movies when you swipe them through the badge reader. Even better if it’s a series of bloops. Our badge readers actually go “deet” when a valid badge is held in front of them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unnecessary-but-expected-sounds/368271.md?page=2)