# Woody Woodpecker Theme At ATM Machines? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 19, 2002, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woody-woodpecker-theme-at-atm-machines/119863 "2002-07-19T19:40:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2002, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woody-woodpecker-theme-at-atm-machines/119863/1 "2002-07-19T19:40:43Z")
Firstly, I hope I am not the only one here who remembers the Woody Woodpecker theme song… But has anybody else noticed that when you get money out of a bank ATM, there is this little noise that sounds exactly like the first three lines of the Woody Woodpecker theme song. Really! (OK…I’ll go back to looking for Aliens in area 51 now…) ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2002, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woody-woodpecker-theme-at-atm-machines/119863/2 "2002-07-19T20:17:37Z")
YES! I am NOT the only one. ha-ha-ha-ha-ha (the woody wood pecker laugh) ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2002, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woody-woodpecker-theme-at-atm-machines/119863/3 "2002-07-19T20:26:40Z")
I thought I was crazy and didn’t want to mention it to anyone. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2002, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woody-woodpecker-theme-at-atm-machines/119863/4 "2002-07-19T20:29:28Z")
Ironically, the ones I use play the “CHARGE!!” song. Buh-buh-buhbup-buh- BAHHHHHHHH!!! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2002, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woody-woodpecker-theme-at-atm-machines/119863/5 "2002-07-19T20:40:51Z")
I’m sorry, but this really drives me crazy: there is no such thing as an “Automatic Teller Machine Machine.” —Miss Prissy-Pants Copy Editor ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2002, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woody-woodpecker-theme-at-atm-machines/119863/6 "2002-07-19T20:41:26Z")
What the hell are you guys talking about, have you all lost your minds, or is it me? ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2002, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woody-woodpecker-theme-at-atm-machines/119863/7 "2002-07-19T20:47:31Z")
**World Easter** - it’s a very faint and tinny melody that plays when your cash is being dispensed (or spewed, if the the machine is torqued too high). As opposed to the nasty TEEP!! TEEP!! TEEP!! meaning “Yo, Bub, don’t fergit yer card!”. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2002, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woody-woodpecker-theme-at-atm-machines/119863/8 "2002-07-19T20:52:18Z")
I’m with **screech-owl**. It sounds like the bugle call for “Charge” to me. I’m sure it’s the exact same noise we all here just before the money is dispensed, 'cos I can see how it would sound like the Woody Woodpecker theme song as well. You’re not alone, **DMark**. As soon as I saw the title of this thread I knew exactly what the hell you were talking about. I make it more interesting by wiggling my fingers at the slot when it hits the trill at the end of the sequence. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2002, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woody-woodpecker-theme-at-atm-machines/119863/9 "2002-07-19T20:58:08Z")
I did _not_ just type “here” for “hear”… ---
**Author:** ![Pessor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pessor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pessor)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2002, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woody-woodpecker-theme-at-atm-machines/119863/10 "2002-07-19T21:35:57Z")
I also knew the second I saw the thread title. Someone should put it in GQ! Absolutely the bugle OR the Woody Woodpecker theme if you want. Nobody in this thread is crazy (except the folks that don’t know what we’re talking about.) Question is: Was it intentional? I walk out of there every time thinking "nofreakin’way, but it’s too real to be a coincidence. but why the hell would they bother… but… " etc… ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2002, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woody-woodpecker-theme-at-atm-machines/119863/11 "2002-07-19T22:12:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*I’m sorry, but this really drives me crazy: there is no such thing as an “Automatic Teller Machine Machine.” > > —Miss Prissy-Pants Copy Editor \*\* Ah, Redundant Acronym Syndrome (RAS Syndrome for short 😛 ) ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2002, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woody-woodpecker-theme-at-atm-machines/119863/12 "2002-07-19T22:55:32Z")
Wish the ATMs around here did that - all I hear is this mocking beep… ---
**Author:** ![dinahmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dinahmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinahmoe)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woody-woodpecker-theme-at-atm-machines/119863/13 "2002-07-20T03:04:26Z")
Thank you. I thought I was the only one hearing this! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woody-woodpecker-theme-at-atm-machines/119863/14 "2002-07-20T04:40:50Z")
Yes! Yes! Yes!!! Everyone at work thought I was crazy, but I know I’m not! I’m not! You can tell them! You hear the woodpecker too! You hear him! It’s not in my head! Yes! Yes! ::wanders off muttering:: ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woody-woodpecker-theme-at-atm-machines/119863/15 "2002-07-20T04:58:15Z")
While I can’t take it any farther than this, [http://voices.fuzzy.com/actor.idc?actor\_id=516](http://voices.fuzzy.com/actor.idc?actor_id=516) indicates something to the effect that Pat Fraley is the ATM voice? ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2002, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woody-woodpecker-theme-at-atm-machines/119863/16 "2002-07-20T06:13:54Z")
Now that I know I am not crazy for posting the OP, I am going to try to see if anybody on the General Questions knows WHY this happens. Please join in there - just in case people there think I am totally crazy…thank you!