Your Most and Least Favorite Sound-Effects

I like the majority of Hanna-Barbera's stock sound effects. As well as the Warner Bros. sound effects by Treg Brown. Especially the 'whacking' noises. There are some Disney sound effects I like, but the ones I like most is Donald Duck's 'Ooof' noise, and the 'bouncing saw' noise which can be heard in 'Timber'. (1941) Both of those sound effects have made their way into other cartoons from other studios.

I also like the majority of Filmation's science fiction, and laser type sound effects. Which can be heard in many of their action/sci-fi shows. My favorites are the 'dwan', and 'dyam' laser sounds, and that weird 'wrrrrriiiieeeeee' noise when something appears, disappears, or grows bigger, and bigger. I also like their 'screetching harpee' noise that John K. used near the end of 'Space Madness' when Stimpy is about to press 'the history eraser button'. (Nyaaaaaaaaaaah!)

As for yelling sound effects, I've always loved Goofy's 'Aaah Haa Haa Hoo Hooeee' yell. (Though I thought it was odd hearing it used in 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame') I also like Tom's 'Aaaaaah!', and 'Ow Wah Ho Ho Ho How!' noises. The Nostalgia Critic has used them in his 'Batman & Robin' review. ;) I also like how in 'Heathcliff', they would take an existing Hanna-Barbera sound, and speed it up a bit.
 
This is kind of an obscure sound effect, but I heard it in an old Flintstones episode on Boomerang: some magic-worker waved a wand and made something disappear, and there was this cool "ZING!! WHooooOOOOSH!!" sound. I've never forgotten it. Not even Disney has a sound effect for magic that sounds as cool as that.
 
I always liked the running sound effect used in The Flintstones and other cartoons. I read somewhere a long time ago they achieved that sound effect by banging hands against a couch (I may be wrong). I also like the Goofy Holler, the guitar strings (think El Kabong), and the cymbal crash used in Hanna-Barbera cartoons when a character falls.

As for sound effects I don't like, I don't like the Wilhelm scream all that much. The screeching cat got boring when it seemed like *everyone* was using it (as in, an off-screen cat gets hit by say, a tennis ball).
 
Thought of some more sound effects I like.

-The "poit" sound effect when someone is being poked or pointed at.
-The "boip" sound when someone is bonked on the head, used often in Disney cartoons.

And my all-time favorite that I can't believe I forgot: the "buuuu-woop" sound commonly heard during an iris out in Warner Brothers cartoons.
 
One small one I was always in love with was the "beeyoouuu" sound effect from Nick's Doug whenever a character was let down or some ironic situation set in. But one I'm getting extremely tired of is the low, roaring fart sound effects. You know when they're coming yet you dread it anyway.
 
My favorite sound effects:
-Rock crusing noise (if someone is hit with a large object, or slaming into a cliff)
-Incoming train noise (think some of the shorts from DePatie-Freleng)
-Explosions and Gunblasts
-Ricochets
-Falling to the ground with a light thud
-Usually sound effects from DePatie-Freleng, Warner Bros., and occasionaly Disney and Hanna-Barbera.
 
Sometime in the future someone should use Stan Smith's scream as a sound-effect.

My favorites would have to be the Howie scream, Wilhelm screm, and the sound effect where someone throws an object offscreen and it hits a cat (Hey Arnold, anyone?:p).
 
My least favorite sound effect is one from the Simpsons, whenever a character is dealing with something goopy or disgusting. It kind of sounds like peeling velcro, and it always sends a chill down my spine whenever I hear it.
 
Probably the classic WB head-shaking sound via the trombone or whatever they used. Every other cartoon in existence has used that effect at least once.
 
I don't really care for any stock sound effect, but one I can't stand is "children laughing". I've heard it a million times in both comedic and serious works, and in any of those it ruins them.
 
Seriously. Video games haven't had those "beep-boop-bip" sound effects and synthesized midi soundtracks since the early 90's. And yet in any movie (animated or otherwise) when you see a character playing a contemporary video game, you still hear music and sound effects right out of the Atari 2600 days. :shrug:
 
Favorite: Megatron's fusion cannon from the original Transformers cartoon. Amusingly, it was derived from a stock HB sound effect for characters slamming into walls or floors.

Least Favorite: Anything pertaining to flatulence or vomiting.
 
True. On the other hand, what sound effect(s) would you use to generically show a character's playing a video game (and it's not important which video game it is, just that they're playing them)?

Also, most people under 50 (or even under 60) would recognize Pac-Man and its sound effects; probably fewer people over a certain age would recognize "Lara Croft"/whatever-video-game-is-currently-hot (or their sound effects). :-p

Also the possibility that the writers are old enough to have grown up with early video games (or before video games at all)...
 
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