This sound effect can be found on Cartoon Trax Volume 1, which was made by The Hollywood Edge. The cuckoo bird part is very similar to CARTOON, WHISTLE - QUICK CUCKOO WHISTLE on the Warner Bros. Sound Effects Library.
Info
- First recorded: 1970s
- Creator: Unknown
- Owner: Horta Editorial and Sound (1970s-1992), The Hollywood Edge (1992-2014), Sound Ideas (2014-present)
- Origin: United States
- Year debut: 1970s
- First heard: Unknown
- Area used: Worldwide
Sound Effect Description
Cuckoo Bird Followed by Sustained, String Pluck Boing ( I.E. Cuckoo Clock Breaks ).
Clean, Full Length and Unedited Link to the Sound Effect
Used In
TV Shows
- Angela Anaconda (Pluck only; heard once in "Pet Peeves".)
- Baby Races (Cuckoo only; heard when time runs out in a game.)
- Chowder (Pluck only; heard once in "The Bruised Bluenana".)
- Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island (Heard once in "One Bad Apple".)
- Esme and Roy (Pluck only; heard once in "Imitation Frustration".)
- Get Ace (Pluck only; heard once in a high pitch in "Dawn of the Dumb".)
- Grojband (Pluck only; heard once in "It's in the Card".)
- JoJo's Circus (Pluck only; heard once in "Hamster-cize!", "The Clown Family Picnic" and "Charlie the Clown Baby".)
- The Life and Times of Juniper Lee (Pluck only.)
- Pinky Dinky Doo (Cuckoo only; heard once in "Tyler's Best Sleepover Ever".)
- The Ren & Stimpy Show (Pluck only; heard once in "Stimpy's Big Day", "Ren's Toothache" and "Out West".)
- Rocko's Modern Life (Pluck heard once in "Clean Lovin'".)
- Sidekick (Pluck only; heard once in "Beneath the Missile-Toe", "Super Frenemies", and "My Brother, My Pimple".)
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- WordWorld (Heard once in "Snug as a Bug".)
TV Specials
- The Happy Elf (2005) (pluck only)
Movies
- Bee Movie (2007) (pluck only)
- The Cat in the Hat (2003) (Pluck only; heard in a deleted scene.)
- Despicable Me 4 (2024) (pluck only)
- An Extremely Goofy Movie (2000) (cuckoo only)
- Popeye (1980) (Debut; pluck only)
Shorts
Commercials
- Ortho – Flamingo (1995) (pluck only)
Video Games
PC:
- Living Books: The Cat in the Hat
- Nickelodeon Toon Twister 3-D (cuckoo only; labeled as "cuckoo bird".)
- Stay Tooned (Cuckoo only.)
- Timmy and the Magic Pictures
Videos/DVDs
Bumpers/Interstitials/Station IDs
- Nickelodeon ID - Earth
DVD Menus
- Schoolhouse Rock! Special 30th Anniversary Edition (2002) (DVD Menus) (Pluck only.)
YouTube Videos
Anime
Image Gallery
Audio Samples