Who could forget the pluck the violin strings “plinckkkk” when Moe poked Larry or Curly in the eyes?
There’s also the drinking straw slurping sound, like every drink from a full container is the last.
Not exactly on topic, but a good excuse to pimp a cool video I found on Youtube.
Wilhelm Scream compilation!. So many years…the same exact sound effect.
When someone hangs up on you, you don’t hear a dial tone. You hear silence. Except in movies and TV.
The sound of thunder before every rainstorm. (And the rain begins immediately after the thunder, but that’s off topic).
Whenever an establishing shot of a hot, dry place is shown, you’ll hear a falcon go “Screeeeeeeeeeeeeee!”
Scuba-regulator sounds in space suits.
Loud fabric rustling in kung fu fights.
A repeated “click…click…click…” from an empty gun, even if it is a semi-auto. I still here old recycled revolver sound effects applied to any type of handgun.
The default Nokia ringtone for cell phone rings.
Unless it’s not really an owl, but Indians sneaking up on you!
Cowboys talking…. hooting sound effect…
Cowboy: Shhh! Indians!
Those poor Indians, it never fools them. They might as well just yell to each other.
Where’s there’s lightning, there’s always thunder, and it’s always in perfect sync, too. In real life I have seen lightning in the distance, but not heard thunder.
I don’t have a cell phone, but if this is the one on 24 I totally agree. If I had to work one hour in that place there wouldn’t be a single working phone. I’d have busted every one of them.
There was an old spy show on TV, maybe one of these:
Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Avengers
Get Smart
I Spy
Secret Agent
something altogether weirder
but the “ringtones” on that phone would drive a monk to cuss.
This thread isn’t automatically about bothersome noises, but I just had to vent on this one.
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.
That was probably me. I bring that up a lot.
Another one: the revving engine to imply speed, even along a straightaway. Used to death in Smokey and the Bandit. Ban-One is driving along and you hear the engine going VROOM-VROOM-VROOM. What’s he doing - pumping the clutch?
Or how about the really silent silencer? The one that goes “pyeeeeoooooh!” The most silent gun silencer in existence would still sound like you dropped a phone book. And don’t get me started on the one in Dr. No.
I think of this sound as being more of a “sha-ching!” Roger Ebert calls it the “snicker-snack.”
Yeah, I was going to say that punches to the face aren’t as loud as they make them out to be.
Often, when small toy dogs are shown, lots of irritating yapping is dubbed in. This is despite the fact that I’m looking at the dogs’ faces and can see that not one of them is barking. Usually this is a clue that something cruel and horrible is going to happen to the dogs, which we all know they deserve, because hey, small dogs are yappy and should be killed.
See: A Fish Called Wanda, for one example.
That’s just the sound a vorpal blade makes when it kills a jabberwock.
And Roge knows his snack noises!
C’mon, someone had to say it!
:dubious:
Yeah because it’s too funny to make fat jokes about a guy who is undergoing treatment for cancer and currently looks like this.
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.
So that means that the groups of scurrying rats in the world are silent!!! :eek:
They could be anywhere? Like sneaking up right behind me???
This has made me think of another car thing that was most noticeable in Steve McQueen’s classic Bullitt and that’s the forever shifting of gears after a car is already going flat out. I guess it’s to let you know that that ride is truly smoking. Phony shit.