The Most Underrated Game Show Sound Effect

[BillCullen1]

Another possibility. The "tacky buzzer" indicating time's up on Marshall's nighttime HS.

[mystery7]

Another one: I love the reverberating sound made when someone freezes a window in Bullseye. Would love to know how composers and sound editors came up with some of the SFX.

I'll double up on this, and add the sound of the windows swirling.

I may be weird, but I was really disappointed when Bullseye moved to Television City because CBS couldn't quite duplicate the bells NBC had on hand for right answers or player control.

[TimK2003]

Another one: I love the reverberating sound made when someone freezes a window in Bullseye. Would love to know how composers and sound editors came up with some of the SFX.

I'll double up on this, and add the sound of the windows swirling.

Anybody remember back in the 80s or 90s when the Charlotte Hornets used to play a bee-swarming sound effect at their home games?  You could hear it on the TV telecasts on occasion.  Everytime I heard it, I always thought of the Bullseye swirls.

[clemon79]

If we can qualify "underrated" to "underrated in the United States", the Sale Of The Century buzzer. This is such an iconic sound to Australians that when Temptation was on its way back, they had an ad campaign revolving around the buzzer. The show ran quite a while here and I don't think anyone really thought twice about it but it really is a pretty defining sound.

[Neumms]

The “beeee-oooop” for wrong answers on Trivia Trap and TPIR’s Pathfinder.

[whewfan]

Not one but 14.... the original run of Scrabble! (According to Come on Down, The Game Show Book)
1- The gameboard opening up
2- The outline of the word appearing on the screen
3 and 4- Contestant ring in
5- Plunger sound in the bonus game
6- NBC right answer bells
7- Stopper cue
8- Letter scrolling left and right
9- Letter pops into place after scrolling
10- Letters popping in as contestants drop the tiles/letters appearing in the bonus game
11- Siren sounding for the solo bonus win
12- The cue that plays as Chuck reads the clue for the first time
13- Buzzer for wrong answers/time's up in the Scrabble Sprint
14- Buzzer to indicate thinking time has expired and contestant must pick tile(s)

[JasonA1]

I know you're merely copying the list from the book and not trying to be exhaustive, but to wit, Jefferson's list doesn't include the "last letter" sound previously discussed, the "last stopper" sound that supplements the normal stopper sound, and the "we're running out of time"/"...finish the game in Speedword" bells. (Sound 14 would be phased out in later years.) Anything else?

-Jason

[davidhammett]

It may be a function of all the "new" Musical Chairs episodes being posted, but I do love the buzz-in sounds as players race to lock in their choices of lyrics.