Sunday, October 17, 2010

Spiderman Cartoon Maker

Back in 1994 when we got our new Windows '95 computer, one of the many useless pieces of software it shipped with was the Spiderman Cartoon Maker. This allowed you to make terrible Spiderman cartoons. (This is a typical example). This piece of software had a really annoying sound effect of a cop radio broadcast which goes something like "785 code six, 105 north avenue, 52" (see 1:50 in the above video).

The problem is, 16 years later this sound effect keeps haunting me because it seems anytime a TV show or film need some background radio chatter sound effect, they just use this one. I noticed it most recently in The Town and tried to find out more information about it online, but most places seem to just be message boards where someone tries to explain it and someone else says "That annoying clip from the Spiderman Cartoon Maker?"

Why has it become so ubiquitous? Maybe I should start a catalogue of everywhere I hear that stupid sound clip.

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