Sound Ideas, BUBBLE, CARTOON - SKIP'S FLARTLES 02

This sound effect can be found on the Hanna-Barbera Sound Effects Library, which was made by Sound Ideas. It was originally a Warner Bros. sound effect that was used in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts.

Variations

• Growl Comedic Squeeg PE941609
• Mud Pots Blurps Bubb CRT040407
• Mud Pots Blurps Bubb CRT040408
• Muddy Cartoon Boinks PE940901
• Mud 03
• Pipe Monster, Giant, Low End Growling, Farting, Bubbling, Comic, Scary
• Spumco Flartle SFX

History

The sound originated sometime in the early 1960s and was made by Treg Brown.

The most notable projects that use the sound are the animated works of Craig McCracken & Genndy Tartakovsky, particularly those with sound designer Joel Valentine/Twenty-First Century Entertainment.

Used In

TV Shows

• 101 Dalmatians: The Series (Heard in "Close but No Cigar".)
• All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series (Heard once in "An Itch in Time".)
• ALF Tales (Heard once in "Alice in Wonderland".)
• ALF: The Animated Series (Heard once in "Phantom Pilot".)
• The All-New Pink Panther Show (Heard once in "Cat and the Pinkstalk" and "Yankee Doodle Pink".)
• Animaniacs
• Baggy Pants & the Nitwits
• Beakman's World (Heard once in "Geysers and Hot Springs, Beakmania & Kidneys".)
• Bear Behaving Badly (Heard twice in "It's Cow or Never".)
• Between the Lions
• Beetlejuice
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures (1990)
• Bill Nye, the Science Guy
• Bob the Builder (1999) (Heard once in "Wendy's Tennis Court/Wendy's Tennis Match", "Mucky Muck", "One-Shot Wendy" and "Scarecrow Dizzy".)
• Bobby's World
• The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show
• Clone High
• Corneil & Bernie (Heard once in "Dog's Dinner".)
• Dexter's Laboratory (Heard mostly in the first two seasons.)
• Doctor Snuggles (Heard in episodes made by DePatie-Freleng.)
• Doug
• DuckTales
• Earthworm Jim (Heard in "Bring Me the Head of Earthworm Jim".)
• The Fairly OddParents (Heard once in "Pipe Down" and lower-pitched in "Hail to the Chief".)
• Family Guy (Heard once in "Mr. Griffin Goes to Washington".)
• Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (Heard in "Busted".)
• Four Eyes! (Heard once in the intro.)
• G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
• Ghostbusters (1986)
• The Glo Friends
• Goof Troop
• Here Comes the Grump
• Higglytown Heroes (Heard once in "Soup with Stars", "Eubie's Big Boat Float", "A Slippery Situation", "Fripp's Flip-Flap Flop" and "Calling All Heroes!".)
• The Houndcats
• The Incredible Hulk (1982)
• Inspector Gadget (Heard once in a low pitch in "Health Spa".)
• Invader Zim (Heard once in "Bloaty's Pizza Hog" in a low pitch.)
• Jabberjaw (Heard once in "The Great Shark Switch".)
• KaBlam! (Heard once in "Untitled [Why June Refuses to Turn the Page]" and "The KaBlair! Witch Project".)
• Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years
• Krypto the Superdog (Heard once in "Melanie's Monkey" and "Magic Mutts".)
• LazyTown
• Meatballs & Spaghetti
• Mickey Mouse (Heard once in "Gasp!".)
• Molang (Heard once in "The Castaways".)
• MoonDreamers
• The Mouse Factory
• Mr. Bean: The Animated Series (Heard once in "The Sofa".)
• Muppet Babies (1984)
• My Gym Partner's a Monkey
• My Life as a Teenage Robot (Heard once in "Turncoats".)
• My Little Pony 'n Friends
• Mysticons (Part of it heard once in a quadruple high pitch in "A Girl and her Gumlump".)
• Ned's Newt (Heard in "Voyage to the Bottom of the Dump".)
• The New Adventures of Beany and Cecil (Heard once in "Radio with a Bite!".)
• The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
• The New Pink Panther Show
• The Oddball Couple
• Pandamonium
• Pigasso's Place
• The Pink Panther (1993)
• The Pink Panther Laugh and a Half Hour and a Half Show
• The Pink Panther Show
• Polònia
• The Powerpuff Girls (Seasons 1-6 only)
• A Pup Named Scooby-Doo (Heard once in "The Were-Doo of Doo Manor".)
• The Real Ghostbusters
• The Ren & Stimpy Show
• Rocket Power (Heard twice in a high pitch in "Typhoid Sam".)
• Rugrats (lower pitched)
• Samurai Jack
• Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? (Heard once in "When Urkel Bots Go Bad!".)
• The Scooby-Doo Show
• Sesame Street
• The Shnookums & Meat Funny Cartoon Show (Heard once in "Light or Dark Meat?")
• Sidekick (Heard once in "Identity Crisis", "News at 11:00 AM", and "Gloves on the Run".)
• The Smokey Bear Show
• Spider-Man (1981)
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• The Super 6
• Super Mario World
• Sylvanian Families (First heard in "Cooking Up Trouble".)
• Sym-Bionic Titan
• Teen Titans
• This is America, Charlie Brown
• Timon & Pumbaa
• Tiny Toon Adventures
• The Tom & Jerry Kids Show (Heard once in "Wild World of Bowling".)
• The Tom and Jerry Show
• The Wacky World of Tex Avery (Heard once in "Breakfast in Bedlam".)
• Wander Over Yonder
• What a Cartoon! (Heard once in "Sledgehammer O'Possum in: What's Goin' On Back There?".)
• What's New, Mr. Magoo?
• William's Wish Wellingtons (Heard once in "William and the Friendly Ghost".)
• The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse
• Zeke's Pad (Heard once in "A Little Sketchy".)

TV Specials

• B.C.: The First Thanksgiving (1973)
• Billy & Mandy: Wrath of the Spider Queen (2007)
• Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales (1979) (When snow falls on Yosemite Sam off-screen at one point, the "bluck" sound heard may be from this effect.)
• Clerow Wilson's Great Escape (1974)
• The Fantastic Funnies (1980)
• Garfield and Friends (One of the "blucks" from this effect is heard when a pumpkin falls on Jon's head.)
• Here Comes Garfield (1982)
• The Incredible, Indelible, Magical, Physical Mystery Trip (1973)
• The Lorax (1972)
• It's Magic, Charlie Brown (1981)
• Michel's Mixed-Up Musical Bird (1978)
• The Pink Panther: A Pink Christmas (1978)
• The Pink Panther in: Pink at First Sight (1981)
• Pink Panther in the Olym-pinks (1980)
• What a Nightmare, Charlie Brown (1978)
• You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown (1975)

Movies

• An All Dogs Christmas Carol (1998) (Used twice; 2nd is near the end of "I Always Get Emotional at Christmas Time".)
• Blazing Saddles (1974)
• Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!) (1980)
• Cats & Dogs (2001)
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
• The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (2024)
• The Emperor's New Groove (2000)
• The Great Race (1965)
• Happily Ever After (1993)
• Help! I'm a Fish (2000)
• The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964)
• Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
• The Love Bug (1968)
• Migration (2023)
• My Little Pony: The Movie (1986)
• The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002)
• Pufnstuf (1970)
• Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977)
• Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure (1977) (Low pitched and slowed down; heard in the sequence with "The Greedy".)
• Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade (2003)
• Rock & Rule (1983)
• Rover Dangerfield (1991)
• Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire (2003)
• Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico (2003)
• Sky High (2005)
• Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
• The Sword in the Stone (1963) (A single "bluck!" from this effect can be heard when Merlin's model plane falls into the water.)
• Teen Beach 2 (2015)
• TerrorVision (1986)
• Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry (2005)
• Tom and Jerry: Shiver Me Whiskers (2006)
• The Transformers: The Movie (1986)
• Tweety's High-Flying Adventure (2000)

Shorts

• The Ant and the Aardvark Cartoons
• The Date (1997) (last part only)
• DePatie-Freleng Cartoons
• Funny Face (Heard once in "World Record Day".)
• Inacio Studios Media
• Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies
• Misterjaw Cartoons
• Pink Panther Cartoons
• Pops
• Ren Höek & Stimpy: Big House Blues (1990) (Heard once in a high pitch.)
• Roland and Rattfink Cartoons
• Tom and Jerry (High pitched and sped up; heard in "Cannery Rodent" and "Shutter Bugged Cat".)
• Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008)

Video Games

DS:

• SpongeBob SquarePants: Truth or Square

GBA:

• Donkey Kong Country 2 (Used for ambience in volcano levels.)

Nintendo Switch:

• The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (last portion)

Nintendo Switch 2:

• Donkey Kong Bananza

PC:

• Just Me and My Mom
• Lego Loco
• Little Explorer Adventures: Reading Fun
• Living Books: Arthur's Birthday
• Pajama Sam 2: Thunder and Lightning Aren't So Frightening
• South Park Rally

PlayStation Portable:

• SpongeBob SquarePants: Truth or Square

SNES:

• Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (Used for ambience in volcano levels.)
• Mario's Mystery Meat (Used in a high pitch when damaging the 2nd phase of the final boss.)

View-Master Interactive Vision:

• Muppet Studios Presents: You're the Director

Wii:

• SpongeBob SquarePants: Truth or Square

Xbox 360:

• SpongeBob SquarePants: Truth or Square

Videos/DVDs

• Hallelujah Hop

Trailers

• Trolls World Tour (2020) (Trailers)

TV Spots

• Trolls World Tour (2020) (TV Spots)

Audiobooks

• The Dr. Seuss Collection (1999)

Web Originals

• Pink Donkey and the Fly (Heard in "Apples".)

YouTube Videos

• AlienMyth64
• Annoying Orange
• Arthur YTPs (Heard once in "The Rat Who Shagged Me".)
• Beanie Babies 5 (2026)
• CollegeHumor Originals
• Golden Book Video Killers
• Shelly and Terry's Holiday Season (2025)
• What's New Looney Tunes?
• WhitneyGoLucky
• Yo Mama (Heard once in "Yo Mama So Slimy: Her Blood Type is Swamp Water".)

Anime

• Calimero (1963)
• Di Gi Charat (First second; heard in "Summer Special 2000", Ep. 2; "A Summer Bug".)
• Dōbutsu no Mori (2006)
• Slayers Next
• To Love-Ru Darkness 2nd

Image Gallery

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Audio Samples

(as heard in The Pied Piper of Guadalupe)