SKYWALKER BABY CRYING SOUND

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This is a sound effect from an unknown library that made its debut no later than 1993. Its current nickname on this wiki originates from the sound's rather frequent use in Skywalker Sound's projects, though it has also been heard in several other projects that don't have said company involved.

Info

• First recorded: No later than 1993
• Creator: unknown
• Owner: Skywalker Sound (possibly)
• Origin: United States
• Year debut: May 18, 1993(?)
• First heard: "Baby Makes Uh, Three" (A Beavis and Butt-Head episode.) (?)
• Area used: Worldwide

Used In

TV Shows

• Angry Birds: Summer Madness (Used briefly once for one of the Hatchlings when they cry in "Much Ado About Pudding".)
• Batwoman (Used for baby Jonathan Kent crying in "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Two".)
• Beat Bugs (Heard once in "All Together Now".)
• Beavis and Butt-Head (Debut; only the screaming part heard once in "Baby Makes Uh, Three".)
• Between the Lions (Heard once in "Violet's Music" and "'My Dog Is As Smelly As Dirty Socks".)
• Blue Eye Samurai (Heard once in "A Fixed Number of Paths".)
• Bones (TV Series)
• Breaking Bad (Used once for Holly White when she cries in "Phoenix".)
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Caillou (Heard once in the beginning of "Caillou Visits the Doctor".)
• Call the Midwife
• Castle (TV Series) (Heard once in "Scared to Death".)
• Criminal Minds
• Cross Flash (Heard once in "The Hospital 2", and used twice for Imaya's baby sister Nile when she cries in "NOPE!".)
• Chowder (Heard once in "The Belgian Waffle Slobber-Barker" along with Baby Crying Slowly PE144001, HUMAN, BABY - CRYING, WHINING, and CARTOON, CRY - BABY CRYING 01; used for the pies when they cry while they were being cooled off.)
• Downton Abbey (Heard once in the seventh episode of Season 2 and the eighth episode of Season 4.)
• Farscape (Heard once in "Won't Get Fooled Again".)
• The Flash (2014 TV Series) (Heard once in "Back to Normal" and "Luck Be a Lady".)
• The Forgotten Toys (Heard in "Baby".)
• The Fungies!
• Game Shakers (Heard once in "Armed & Coded" when Hudson hears a baby doll crying in a hallway at school.)
• Gilmore Girls (Used once for Davey as a baby when he cries off-screen in "The Incredible Sinking Lorelais"; and used once for Martha when she cries off-screen in "We've Got Magic to Do".)
• Grey's Anatomy
• Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities (Heard in "The Murmuring".)
• Heartland (Heard once in "Passages" and "Beyond Hell's Half Mile".)
• Henry's Amazing Animals (Heard once in "Backyard Animals".)
• The Hoobs (Heard often in "Mums and Dads".)
• Invader Zim (Heard once in "Invasion of the Idiot Dog Brain".)
• Leap Year (2011 TV Series)
• Little Dorrit (Heard once in the first episode.)
• Lost
• Lu & the Bally Bunch (Used in a low pitch for Luka when he cries in "Bug Nollig".)
• Lucifer (Heard in "BlueBallz".)
• Ooglies (Heard once in Season 2 Episode 13.)
• Only Murders in the Building
• Parenthood (2010 TV Series) (This or a very similar sound effect is used twice for Aida when she cries off-screen in "All Aboard Who's Coming Aboard".)
• Peaky Blinders
• Pinky Dinky Doo (Heard once in "Burpzilla" and "Super Doo and Traffic Too".)
• Pretty Little Liars (Heard once in "Power Play".)
• Rick and Morty
• Robot Chicken
• Some Assembly Required (Heard in "Just Like a Baby".)
• South Park (Heard often whenever the PC Babies cry in "The Problem with a Poo", "Buddha Box", "Bike Parade", "Board Girls" and "Basic Cable".)
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars
• The Suite Life of Zack and Cody (Heard once in "A Kept Man" and "Mr. Tipton Comes to Visit" and twice in "Day Care".)
• That's So Raven (Heard once in "When 6021 Met 4267".)

Movies

• Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014)
• Ali (2001)
• Baby Ruby (2022)
• Beverly Hills Ninja (1997)
• Blind Justice (1994)
• The Boss Baby: Family Business (2021)
• The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
• Dragonheart: Battle for the Heartfire (2017) (Heard once at the beginning alongside Hollywoodedge, Baby Crying Slowly PE144001.)
• Hannibal (2001)
• Hercules (1997) (Used for Hercules as a baby when he cries.)
• Here (2024)
• Hotel Rwanda (2004) (Heard several times at low volume for an off-screen baby crying.)
• Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018) (Used once for one of the werewolf pups when they cry.)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) (Used for Quasimodo as a baby when he cries.)
• It's Alive (2009)
• Larry Crowne (2011) (An offscreen baby cries like this once in a low volume at the beginning.)
• The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017) (Heard in a deleted scene.)
• Marty Supreme (2025)? (Heard at low volume at the end of the movie. Needs clarification.)
• Mary of Nazareth (2012)
• Meet the Robinsons (2007)
• The Mists of Avalon (2001) (Heard once when Arthur is born.)
• Monsters: Dark Continent (2014)
• Mother and Child (2009)
• No Tell Motel (2012)
• Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (2021) (Used for a baby doll crying at the beginning and during the mid-credits scene.)
• Powder (1995)
• Reality Bites (1994) (Heard once in a low volume for a baby crying off-screen during the graduation scene that takes place during the opening credits when Lelaina is giving her speech and she pauses after saying "The answer is...".)
• Regan (2024)
• Replicant (2001)
• The Shawshank Redemption (1994) (Heard at one time when Brooks Hatlen worked as a grocery store clerk at Foodway, bagging the groceries.)
• Sunset Song (2015)
• Tangled (2010)
• Tarzan (1999)
• Thrash (2026)
• Welcome to Siegheilkirchen (2021)
• William (2019) (Heard once in a low pitch when the main title character is born.)
• World Trade Center (2006) (This sound or a very similar sound is used once in a very low volume as part of the background ambience at the hospital as Donna tries to use a coffee vending machine.)

Commercials

Canada:

• Amazon - One-Day Delivery (2024)

UK:

• Ancestry.com - Travel Woman (2013) (Used for Matthew Abbey in the year 1653.)

Trailers

• Baby Blues (2008) (Trailers)
• Tarzan (1999) (Trailers)

YouTube Videos

• Brooklynn The Cartoon Girl (Used once for Flint as a baby when he cries in "[Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs] Little Sailor Man Skipper (Short)".)
• Inside Out YTPs (Heard once in "Insood Oot".)
• The Nightmare Before Christmas YTPs (Heard once in TheITinFit's "The Nightmare Before Christmas YouTube Poop Collab".)
• Princess Isabela Entertainment, Inc.

Image Gallery

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Audio Samples