# Your Favorite Sound Effects **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 7, 2005, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects/307296 "2005-06-07T15:02:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects/307296/61 "2005-06-10T18:46:44Z")
I’m sure there’s many for me, but the only one I can think of right now is Tarzan’s yell. The trademark record (yes, it’s trademarked) is very funny, pointing out exactly when the yell goes up and down and by how much. ---
**Author:** ![Spacegirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Spacegirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spacegirl)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects/307296/62 "2005-06-10T18:49:50Z")
I like the THX surround sound theme. I also like the sound of rubber tires going over bumps or railroad tracks in the pavement. ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects/307296/63 "2005-06-10T19:21:00Z")
> [@kingpengvin](#): > > From WWII ocumentaries the sound of the Soviet multiple Rocket launchers (can’t remember what they were called) There is the high pitched roar that makes your hair stand on end. [Katyusha](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyusha) (aka Stalin’s Organ :eek: )… cool sound indeed, unless you are on the other end. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects/307296/64 "2005-06-10T19:25:23Z")
Was anyone as nerdy as me? I used to buy whole sound effects albums. Not for anything other than the pleasure of listening to sound effects. There used to be a whole series on the same record label. And then there were the Halloween sound effects records! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bigdfrombigd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df705f/32.png) [@bigdfrombigd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bigdfrombigd)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects/307296/65 "2005-06-10T20:13:49Z")
I have always liked the sound of cowboys in the old westerns walking-it sounds like their walking on gravel. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects/307296/66 "2005-06-10T20:48:14Z")
Can’t forget the “Tom and Jerry” yell (not really a sound effect I suppose, lets call it an honourable mention) The big “BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!” yell Tom gives out when someone whacks his tail, well described as a chainsaw slowed down in reverse 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Broken\_Wind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Broken\_Wind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broken_Wind)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects/307296/67 "2005-06-10T21:34:46Z")
**The Three Stooges** sound effects. Any of 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2005, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects/307296/68 "2005-06-10T22:00:31Z")
> [@BluMoon](#): > > I like the THX surround sound theme. You would have loved my college marching band, the trombones anyway. As a tradition before games they would play THX. Its good to have nerdy music major friends for stuff like that. Another video game one: Kirby’s “Final Cutter” sound effect from Super Smash Bros. Melee. “Eat that, eh!” Who knew that Kirby was Canadian? ---
**Author:** ![VernWinterbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c67d28/32.png) [@VernWinterbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VernWinterbottom)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2005, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects/307296/69 "2005-06-11T01:12:51Z")
I love the fact that nearly every time a character in SpongeBob blinks its eyes, there’s a sound, which can only be described as “the SpongeBob eye-blink sound.” ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2005, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects/307296/70 "2005-06-12T07:21:09Z")
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you…the Holy Trinity of scream effects. The [Wilhelm Scream](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=6245240) (link borrowed from **sleeepy2** ), the [“Dark Forces Fall” scream](http://home.comcast.net/~Ranchoth/DF-Fall.wav)…and [another scream (176k) who’s name is as yet unknown.](http://home.comcast.net/~Ranchoth/Wolfscream3.wav) (That was the best recording I could find) ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2005, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects/307296/71 "2005-06-12T23:09:59Z")
> [@Pushkin](#): > > The big “BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!” yell Tom gives out when someone whacks his tail, well described as a chainsaw slowed down in reverse 😃 Useless fact: This sound (which I like as well) was provided by the vocal chords of Bill Hanna himself. ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2005, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects/307296/72 "2005-06-13T16:44:55Z")
> [@Walloon](#): > > Was anyone as nerdy as me? I used to buy whole sound effects albums. Not for anything other than the pleasure of listening to sound effects. There used to be a whole series on the same record label. And then there were the Halloween sound effects records! 🙂 Erm…I have a Hanna-Barbera sound effects CD. It’s cool! Mostly Flintstones stuff, including the bongo-drum car feet sound. Does that make me nerdy? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Jurph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jurph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurph)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2005, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects/307296/73 "2005-06-13T20:16:08Z")
> [@vl\_mungo](#): > > [Katyusha](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyusha) (aka Stalin’s Organ :eek: )… cool sound indeed, unless you are on the other end. Katyusha are awesome, and in that same vein – but also slightly related to the “mortar” noise from earlier – I love the sound of a Tomahawk, SS-25 or any other “cold-launched” missile. There’s the loud POP of the pancake motor kicking the missile out of the tube, that _glorious_ pregnant silence, and then the high-pitched hissing roar of the missile’s first/main stage igniting, which, for an ICBM, rapidly drops down into the living-room-shaking bass of a real rocket. Count me in for the similar quiet _piff_ of R2-D2 tossing Luke his lightsaber near the beginning of _Return of the Jedi_. The sound of a bolt-action rifle being cycled, especially right after a shot: _CRACK! sh’lick-chick_. TIE fighters and the Falcon’s engines are also both high on my list. ---
**Author:** ![carlb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carlb/32/5930_2.png) [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2005, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects/307296/74 "2005-06-15T02:04:37Z")
There’s a stock Hollywood sound effect used whenever someone is emerging from a pile of bricks, and the bricks are falling away and scraping against each other. It does, indeed, sound brick-like, but lighter, like the bricks are hollow. I’ve always found that sound pleasing to my ear, and I have no idea why. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-sound-effects/307296.md?page=3)