# (Warning: Mundane) Flubber's sound is the same as that ant on 'Honey I shrunk the.. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 31, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-mundane-flubbers-sound-is-the-same-as-that-ant-on-honey-i-shrunk-the/247939 "2004-05-31T18:31:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-mundane-flubbers-sound-is-the-same-as-that-ant-on-honey-i-shrunk-the/247939/1 "2004-05-31T18:31:07Z")
…kids. (ran out of title space) The sound flubber makes (in ‘flubber’) is the exact same sound that the ant makes in Honey I shrunk the kids. Did they use the same sound device for both? And what was the sound device? To attempt to make this a little less mundane: What recognisable specific teqnique (voice, prop, sound, computer simulation, anything) that was first used in one film has been used again in an otherwise unrelated film? (I must be bored) ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-mundane-flubbers-sound-is-the-same-as-that-ant-on-honey-i-shrunk-the/247939/2 "2004-05-31T18:41:36Z")
I swear there’s only one scream/cheer sound used in movies (used as crowd noise). Of course, offhand I can’t think of any movies featuring the sound… …But it’s also the same one used in the PC game Rollercoaster Tycoon. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-mundane-flubbers-sound-is-the-same-as-that-ant-on-honey-i-shrunk-the/247939/3 "2004-05-31T19:22:55Z")
I’ve noticed a few sounds from _Jurassic Park_ (the roar of the t-rex and the screams of the velociraptors) making it into various places like cartoons. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Dr.Love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Love)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-mundane-flubbers-sound-is-the-same-as-that-ant-on-honey-i-shrunk-the/247939/4 "2004-05-31T21:28:53Z")
There is one sounds for a dieing scream that gets used by many sources. I first heard it (I think) in a Dune computer game. Then again in the introduction sequence in Mechwarrior 3 when some soldier gets stepped on (again, from memory), and I have sense heard it in several movies or television programs. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-mundane-flubbers-sound-is-the-same-as-that-ant-on-honey-i-shrunk-the/247939/5 "2004-05-31T23:01:39Z")
Veteran cartoon voice actor Frank Welker did most of the “ant sounds” in “Honey…” maybe he did the Flubber noise too? ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2004, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-mundane-flubbers-sound-is-the-same-as-that-ant-on-honey-i-shrunk-the/247939/6 "2004-05-31T23:05:04Z")
I don’t know how many B science fiction movies that I’ve seen from the 60’s and 70’s seem to use the “bridge sounds” from “Star Trek”.