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The Big Board / Re: The Most Underrated Game Show Sound Effect
« Last post by Joe Mello on November 05, 2025, 03:24:17 PM »
Hence why I nominate it as the most underrated sound effect in game show history.

A sound effect that is so synonymous with a product that it's still being used over 50 years later and had other people copying it has a hard sell with me on being underrated.
I assume the argument is that, given the level of notoriety within the industry, the Pyramid tick should be as prominent in the public consciousness as the "Fail Horns" or "The Jeopardy Song" or any number of dings, buzzes, or womp womps.
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The Big Board / Re: The Most Underrated Game Show Sound Effect
« Last post by BrandonFG on November 05, 2025, 03:16:50 PM »
The “only one letter left” sound from Scrabble. Honestly a lotta SFX from that show qualify. The Speedword sound effect comes to mind. Anything that sounds like it came from a synthesizer or Casio keyboard fascinates me…the X/O sound from Davidson’s Hollywood Squares also comes to mind.

The TPiR fail horn is too mainstream to be considered “underrated” IMO. That one is well-known even amongst non-diehards. The abridged Card Sharks (Perry) BUST horns on the other hand is somehow underrated for me. I think a lot of it is because I have to listen hard to realize it’s the same horn minus the first two notes.

I second the Pyramid cuckoo.
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The Big Board / Re: The Most Underrated Game Show Sound Effect
« Last post by TLEberle on November 05, 2025, 02:18:02 PM »
How would you even quantify underrated?
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The Big Board / Re: The Most Underrated Game Show Sound Effect
« Last post by Brian44 on November 05, 2025, 02:08:47 PM »
The BING when a contestant passed spins on PYL.
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The Big Board / Re: The Most Underrated Game Show Sound Effect
« Last post by parliboy on November 05, 2025, 01:32:06 PM »
Hence why I nominate it as the most underrated sound effect in game show history.

A sound effect that is so synonymous with a product that it's still being used over 50 years later and had other people copying it has a hard sell with me on being underrated.

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The Big Board / Re: The Most Underrated Game Show Sound Effect
« Last post by chrisholland03 on November 05, 2025, 01:20:27 PM »
The Hot Potato 'pass' sound

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The Big Board / Re: The Most Underrated Game Show Sound Effect
« Last post by BillCullen1 on November 05, 2025, 12:53:09 PM »
My nominee for this is the "cuckoo" from Pyramid.
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The Big Board / The Most Underrated Game Show Sound Effect
« Last post by TimK2003 on November 05, 2025, 12:06:12 PM »
Many game- and non-game show fans can identify certain game show sfx and apply them to their daily lives.

The TPIR losing horns is a great example, as is the CLANG for the FF reveals.

One sound effect that I don't think ever got it's full respect is the $xxx,xxx Pyramid clock.  That original cue has been used consistently.for over 50 years in the Pyramid incarnations, or used on other Bob Stewart shows.

That cue was so good, other producers had tried to imitate it in their shows.  The last $OTC end game as well as the Every Second Counts end game countdown clocks are examples of the "oftern imitated, never duplicated" category.  I think the Stewart family owned their countdown clock cue outright and never let anyone else use it.

Hence why I nominate it as the most underrated sound effect in game show history.
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The Big Board / Re: Bonus round over the front game?
« Last post by Blanquepage on November 05, 2025, 10:08:01 AM »
I don't understand the premise of the question.  Isn't the bonus round supposed to be the most exciting part of the show, the one part everybody looks forward to seeing at the end?  I would argue that it's far more rare to have a lousy bonus round that the main game overshadows.   (Musical Chairs for example.)
I find that most of the Barry / Enright "avoid the bad guy" endgames were rather uninspired. Can't say I looked forward to seeing the contestant pick numbered boxes in TTD's bonus game.
At least Bumper Stumpers had a tie-in the main game with the contestants still solving plates before playing "avoid the stop sign." Wasn't a fan of Battlestars and with its random guess the famous face round, either.
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The Big Board / Re: Bonus round over the front game?
« Last post by TimK2003 on November 05, 2025, 08:58:28 AM »
For some reason, Bill Rafferty's Every Second Counts came to mind first.

Likely because the main game was all softball and goofy "this or that" questions.  Once you got to the bonus round, it went all serious and was pretty intense.
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