Zoidberg's woop-woop sounds

Hey there,

I was sitting around editing my bios on Zoidberg, and I remembered that his woop-woop sounds are taken from somewhere else - an american TV-show, I think. Given I'm dane not being able to watch american television, I don't know which tv-show is the one in question, so I thought I'd ask here. So if anyone knows where it's from, please tell me.

Also, any other fun facts about the characters in Futurama (or the show generally) are greatly appreciated. I've thought of making a "Did you know that"-section on www.planetexpress.dk but I need some facts to do so. All suggestions will of course be fully credited ;-)

So - post here, or even better: please mail me at [email] and tell me the Futurama-fact of the day.

Thanks in advance.

On Fri, 06 Jul 2001 15:30:35 +0200, Cygnus / Anders Gissel wrote:

This was discussed here a little while ago. The sound in question is from Curly Howard of The Three Stooges.

Their short films are so ingrained in the American conscience that it is hard to believe that it is not known worldwide. However, as it was discussed before, the sound was not preserved when they were translated. There is a binaries board with three stooges shorts. If you go to download one, make certain to ask if it's a "Curly" short.

Curly joined The Three Stooges, replacing his brother Shemp, just before they became famous. Later, he suffered a stroke and Shemp returned. Late in their careers, Shemp was replaced by "Curly Joe" and "Curly Joe Dorita". Moe Howard and Larry Fihn were in the group for their entire existence.

--Larry

=v= Really? I thought it came from vintage comedic actor Harold Zoid.

=v= In all seriousness, note that the Three Stooges pioneered a *lot* of cartoony sound effects. Plucking strings for the sound of poking people in the eyes, hitting a bowling ball with a hammer for the sound of hitting someone on the head, "nee nee nee nee" for the sounds of snoring, etc.

=v= Zoidberg's whooping doesn't remind me of Curly's very much, except in the more general sense of the debt all comedy owes to these sound effects. <_Jym_>

In article ,

All seriousness aside, the Three Stooges didn't invent those sound effects, but they may have been the first to do all that Vaudeville schtick on film.

Pretty sure it's supposed to be Curly. It's supposed to be bad.

Of all the times I've heard Zoidberg "woop woop woop" it sounded a lot like Curly Howard to me. :)

=v= Well, if there's a Three Stooges flick with Curly going "woop woop woop" with a dishrag over his mouth ... <_Jym_>

I think those sound men in the Stooge shorts invented those sound effects. You should see that Stooges biography Mel Gibson made.

On 06 Jul 2001 16:51:32 -0700, Jym Dyer wrote:

And thus, an argument I had with my flatmate the other day is resolved. I win. Hurrah.

(In a nutshell: one of the later full-length movies - Around The World In A Daze - was on one of the many TV channels we gentle folk in the UK now enjoy. God, they looked old. I said that it wasn't the original Curly. My co-inhabitant disagreed. And he was wrong. And me right. Good.)

The 3 Stooges.