# Your favorite sound effects as a kid! (Update) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 21, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects-as-a-kid-update/579235 "2011-04-21T14:58:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects-as-a-kid-update/579235/21 "2011-04-22T22:21:23Z")
I liked the sound of cartoon character feet when they had to skedaddle. Like Fred Flintstone, although he was not much of a skedaddler. A bongo riff, I think it was. Up north here, we have loons, and their dawn and dusk calls are unforgettable. I had a friend who could mimic it superbly. I never even tried, but . . . . . . I can do a pretty good chicken. ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects-as-a-kid-update/579235/22 "2011-04-23T03:08:19Z")
I could listen to the [Jupiter 2 Liftoff](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGkrtZwr248) all day. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects-as-a-kid-update/579235/23 "2011-04-23T04:21:45Z")
I liked two cupped-hands effects (where you cup your hands together in front of your mouth to form a sound chamber), storm winds and chopper. The wind was basically the classic “blizzard wind” effect from old movies and cartoons, and the chopper effect was like the sound of choppers in the distance on M_A_S\*H. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects-as-a-kid-update/579235/24 "2011-04-23T04:30:16Z")
> [@Bearflag70](#): > > fart > [@Zeldar](#): > > Which one?! I prefer the cupped hand in the armpit. I love it when girls do that one. > [@Bearflag70](#): > > both palms pressed up against your mouth. Oh yeah. Still a classic. Just a few years ago I managed to make a 10 year old boy fall off his chair laughing at an epic, 30-second long flappy wet fart noise this way. I am both proud and ashamed. As a kid I always liked laser gun noises PYEW PYEW PYEW! and the particular mess of notes played in a cartoon when a piano fell on someone. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects-as-a-kid-update/579235/25 "2011-04-23T05:03:15Z")
This toy “laser” gun was one of my favorite non-Lego Christmas presents. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Hk9FE5THjeI/hqdefault.jpg "Look out, I have a 1980s laser gun!!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk9FE5THjeI) Not me in the video. Mine died around 1990. No volume control…I’m sure my parents hated it (they didn’t give it to me)… Comments for the video are a hoot… ---
**Author:** ![enomaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects-as-a-kid-update/579235/26 "2011-04-23T09:29:39Z")
Of course the Transformer sound effect was mentioned in the old thread. But how about the [Transformer Scratch](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhS6OHdYf60&NR=1&feature=fvwp) ---
**Author:** ![Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunzio_Tavulari)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects-as-a-kid-update/579235/27 "2011-04-23T09:56:24Z")
I was partial to, what I think was taffy, in the old Our gang episode. Weeet…Waaaaaaaaoh. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects-as-a-kid-update/579235/28 "2011-04-23T20:47:04Z")
I was a sound effect machine as a kid, but my favorite sound effect was the simple explosion, done completely with the mouth. I also did some crappy beatboxing that I still do to this day. It sound great inside my head, and I thought I was getting good. But now that I have recordings of myself, I know how crappy it sounds. It’s the same phenomenon as when you think a recording doesn’t sound a thing like you, but everyone else says it does. It affects any sound made in the mouth. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2011, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects-as-a-kid-update/579235/29 "2011-04-23T21:33:29Z")
[Goofy falling off a cliff](http://hutchinsonleader.com/audio-clips/infamous-goofy-holler-6634) - cracks me up every time! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects-as-a-kid-update/579235.md?page=1)