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The Most Underrated Game Show Sound Effect
TimK2003:
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.
BillCullen1:
My nominee for this is the "cuckoo" from Pyramid.
chrisholland03:
The Hot Potato 'pass' sound
parliboy:
--- Quote from: TimK2003 on November 05, 2025, 12:06:12 PM ---Hence why I nominate it as the most underrated sound effect in game show history.
--- End quote ---
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.
Brian44:
The BING when a contestant passed spins on PYL.
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