Cartoon Sounds Reused

[Media Lover]

I recently viewed the cartoon special"Halloween Night Is Grinch Night".One minor thing I noticed,was during the scene where the Grinch opens up a trap door on top of his wagon,releasing a whole world of wacky monsters and a maze for the boy from Whoville to walk through.One monster made a sound that was identical to the sound of a blue bull,who had been The Pink Panther's opponent in The Pink Panther cartoon"Bully For Pink".Which isn't too surprising since The Grinches'Halloween special was done by the same people that did The Pink Panther cartoons,DePatie & Freling.But it's interesting how I instantly recognized that monster's sound from that Pink Panther cartoon.The cartoon studios must have certain recorded sounds which the cartoonists tend to reuse from time to time.

[D-Dey]

I've always had the impression that the sound effects in "A Charlie Brown Christmas" might've been borrowed from Hanna-Barbera.

[Media Lover]

Yes that's possible.Those sound effects could also be heard in"It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown".

[Steve Carras]

That's quite a near-and-dear topic with me! Many studios use those HB SFX-in point of fact, the SFX in many cases ORIGINATED with other studios, oft-PRE HB.

For instance...
(studio of origin, pre-HB, follows in paranthesis)

--a heavy metallic and resounding BONGG for impacts (Disney)

--A "Beeu" sound, used for trying something (MGM)

--The most famous of all, a "WheeshwheeshwheeshwheesH" with typani soudn effect,used for many purproses but mostly when someone is digging out his/her feet for running or is spinning either in an attempt to free themselves (always successful) or to change into something (the long forgotten UNDERCOVER ELEPHANT from CB BEARS), or out-of-control, always with drums underneath ,dating bakc to the thirties (first used I think with Disney in LONESOME GHOSTS in 1937)

--A sound like the Warner Bros. shield springing then the Wetsern Exterminator mascot (hammer man from the 1984 Van Halen tour logo) clobbering the WE rat on a piano, followed by a marble-polishing sound..used for magical tranformations, hypnosis, blackouts, sudden emotional change (ehorniness,anger,relaxation,etc.-used in post-1966 shows like SPACE GHOST, SHAZZAN,etc.(UPA)

--a low-picthed,m guitar vibrating sound used for Scoob and Shaggy quivering in fear or for JOSIE's Melody's ears wriggling becuase of her sixth sense in recongizing danger (UPA)

And some I think originated at Hanna Barbera themsevles,without being borrowed (of course Hanna and Barbera were longt time at MGM) like a cat meow sound effect (this has been rediscovered by Disney in its Toon Disney ads--go to ANY Disney store, when that kid who anchors BILL FROM THE FUTURE shows up, all of the above ar heard.).Another is a wooden,short THUD. The Farrelly Bros.(SHALLOW HAL) have a Hanna BArbera sound effect fascination--my DVD of THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY has on the menu that effect and others with the famous "bangaded dog" and Cameron Diaz pose as the dog knocks Cam off (the thud's heard0.Another HB SFX drawn from elsewhere heard on the TCF TSaM vid's a Three Stooges-dervied leading effect,m the world-famous eye poke ukele/violin sound. There is a Clokey/Gumby-derived variaiton on the cat effect, heard in HB shows and in GUMBY's short-0lived HENRY and CLAYMATES (Bear and his Brooklyn accented boids-buddy) in the open titles.

When Hanna-Barbera director and creative and productive force Alex Lovy (also former Walter Lantz veteran) left H-B to the reconsitituted (in 1967) Warner Bros. he took the sound effects with him (SFX btw, are easiy imitated and are not even copyrightable)

The Sound IDeas library (Ironically not in Hollywood or anywhere else for that matter in USA but in Toronto, Canada), offers thes,er the Jay Ward, Warner Bros.classic (as well as those that crept into HB ands became associated with them,not to mention those that are known to just WB but used much later in the 80s at HB or at both), libaries on CD!

[TMC]

Originally Posted by Media Lover

I recently viewed the cartoon special"Halloween Night Is Grinch Night".One minor thing I noticed,was during the scene where the Grinch opens up a trap door on top of his wagon,releasing a whole world of wacky monsters and a maze for the boy from Whoville to walk through.One monster made a sound that was identical to the sound of a blue bull,who had been The Pink Panther's opponent in The Pink Panther cartoon"Bully For Pink".Which isn't too surprising since The Grinches'Halloween special was done by the same people that did The Pink Panther cartoons,DePatie & Freling.But it's interesting how I instantly recognized that monster's sound from that Pink Panther cartoon.The cartoon studios must have certain recorded sounds which the cartoonists tend to reuse from time to time.

http://rowdyc.com/tv-trash-halloween-is-grinch-night/

Just how SCARY can Dr. Seuss get???

[king of comedy]

I never saw this or even heard of it. Now I hope I never find it.