Unfortunately, it can have the same effect on scenes that are supposed to be serious. This is likely because profanity is often a mundane occurrence in real-life conversation, whereas loud incongruous bleeps are not. This is particularly true when it's used to cover up a Cluster F-Bomb. Strangely enough, the bleep effect often makes the joke funnier than if the swear word had actually been used (thus forming the premise of This Trope Is Bleep comedy). It's the audio equivalent of Scenery Censor.
Normally used when a character is going to say something rude in a programme where the FCC (or other Media Watchdogs) will leap on it. Usually the words are completely drowned out, but sometimes the first syllable is audible before the sound effect kicks in. The solution? They added a small trill created by hammering the uppermost notes on a xylophone.When a character's words, usually expletives, are drowned out by a artificial BEEEEP, or, more creatively, by a sound effect (e.g. Which looked cute, but didn't have much impact. So what did the producers have her do instead? She wrinkled her nose.
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Samantha's nose tinkle Given it was the 1960s, when women – even witches – were throwing off the shackles of the past, it was never going to be cool enough for modern witch Samantha Stephens (played by Elizabeth Montgomery) to wave a wand when she wanted to make magic in the series Bewitched. Still, it did give the car a distinctive sound to go with the look. Which is probably not very helpful when you're supposed to be undercover. KITT's whirr KITT, the Knight Industries Two Thousand, the talking car David Hasselhof drove in Knight Rider, was a state-of-the-art crime-fighting tool equipped with offensive and defensive capabilities, more computer power than NASA and, for reasons that were never quite explained, a red flashing light that gave off a very distinctive "whirr… whirr…" noise every few seconds. And usually, it gets a laugh from anyone it's not aimed at.ĩ.
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The Family Feud bup-bow It's just two bass notes descending, the kind of simple thing anyone could replicate on a keyboard, yet the bup-bow noise used in the quiz show when a contestant gets a question wrong has become so synonymous with failure, it's been played in countless other TV shows and movies and is now actually said by everyone from kids in the schoolyard to adults. It's instantly recognisable as something only a superior alien race could create … or, in this case, a BBC sound technician could create by scraping a set of house keys over piano wire, then adding static and a bit of reverb.Ĩ. The TARDIS If ever there was an iconic sound in the TV world, it's the throbbing sound of Doctor Who's TARDIS appearing or disappearing. He also used a set of studio chimes for his version, but threw in some Hammond for authenticity.ħ. But what made the noise? According to Ben Burtt, who recreated the sound for 2009 Star Trek film, at least part was a Hammond organ.
The Star Trek transporter It's a shimmery, sparkly, chimey sound that accompanies away teams as they make use of one of the Star Trek universe's true miracles, the transporter beam. The cartoonists liked it and used if for their creation.Ħ. So what's that "beep-beep!" the cartoon version does? It's a sound Warner Bros artist Paul Julian made when he couldn't see where he was going. Road Runner's beep-beep Real road runners – the ones that live in the American wild and charge about at high speed avoiding real coyotes – are part of the cuckoo family, eat lizards and make a noise not dissimilar to a chicken (it's true, they're on YouTube!).
But now, throughout the Western world it's synonymous with current affairs, a sure sign someone is about to go under the spotlight and (we'd like to believe) Michael Usher's ringtone.ĥ. The 60 Minutes tick Before this series kicked off in the 1960s in America, the sound of a stopwatch or clock counting down was most likely an indicator that a bomb was about to go off.
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