TV Sounds
So I’m watching Law and Order and I’m reminded of a post I thought about last week. What is your favorite “trademark sound” from tv shows and/or the one you find the most distinctive. Not theme song, just a sound or few notes. Examples:
- Patatuhh. Patatatatuh! (with fast cuts of NY landscape) on the dearly departed NYPD Blue.
- TunnTung. on Law and Order, at every transition. As Lightspeedchick would say: Murder, tunntung, get in the car tunntung, talk to judge, tunntung.
- Twing twing! Pah pah twing twing!! the background music playing every time Kirk on the original Star Trek was fighting a purple guy with horns so he could get his hands on the purple chick in a bathing suit.
Others?
Michel – September 15th, 2005 at 7:25 am
Well, since it’s starting tonight, the throats sounds at the beginning of Survivor makes me happy.
Martine – September 15th, 2005 at 7:54 am
Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick…
The digital timer on 24. I swear I have a light switch in my house that makes this exact same sound.
blork – September 15th, 2005 at 8:01 am
Also with the 24:
Dit-dit…DAH-doooooooooooo
(The phone ringer)
lightspeedchick – September 15th, 2005 at 11:30 am
Actually the 24 ticker goes:
Poop. Peep. Poop. Peep. Poop. Peep. Poop.
Martine – September 15th, 2005 at 2:52 pm
That’s funny, MJ, because I thought I would write exactly that: POOP PEEP, but I was afraid it would read funny. ;-)
John – September 15th, 2005 at 3:05 pm
(let’s try this again)
I like the TARDIS sound – “SKRAAANK-SKRAAANK” from Doctor Who.
And the big “THUMP!” from Lost.
karl – September 18th, 2005 at 12:06 pm
The sounds of tires of Starsky and Hutch when the car is starting. And the laugh of the voice of Magnum P.I. in French.
How so I sound my age. :p