History Main / SillyAnimalSound

Sometimes though, the creators just throw away any - real or perceived - realism and make up a sound for the animal in the name of RuleOfFunny. Either they have no idea what sound the animal makes and just come up with something silly, or they intentionally give the animal a different sound that the audience expects for comedic effect as a form of VocalDissonance. Occasionally the animals will straight up PokemonSpeak, or let out the SignatureRoar of a famous movie monster (as a [[{{Pun}} literal]] ShoutOut). Another possible ShoutOut is the animal singing the theme tune of a famous work - such as a JawsAttackParody where the famous "dun-DUN'' music directly coming from the shark itself. Often, [[CuteButCacophonic a big sound will come out of a small creature]] or vice-versa. Sometimes, the justification is that the animal is "speaking a foreign language". If an individual animal makes a noise it's not even personally known to make, expect VoiceChangeSurprise.

** Pooh writes a song about how "the cows are almost cooing and the turtledoves are mooing".

* In ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', snails, including Gary, Spongebob's pet snail, meow like a cat. Meanwhile, worms bark like dogs.

* Also by Creator/JohnFinnemore: ''Radio/CabinPressure'': Martin and Arthur are driving a baggage cart 20 miles across the Spanish countryside to fetch a plane engineer, singing 'One Man Went to Mow' to pass the time. Arthur replaces the 'woof woof!' with 'wah wah!' ("That's what French dogs say") because they're abroad. On the return journey, the plane engineer adds Spanish versions of Silly Animal Sounds to the mix.
-->'''Martin:''' "Carolyn, Douglas, this is Diego: a fine engineer, a useful light baritone, and a man with an inexhaustible knowledge of how Spanish animals go. Diego, do your Spanish cockerel."\\
'''Diego:''' "Quiquiriquí!"\\
'''Martin''' "...yep, that's my favourite one."

* Two Storyteller skits in ''Radio/JohnFinnemoresSouvenirProgramme'' feature Mr Floofywhiskers, a horse who was raised to believe he was a cat, and therefore makes a peculiar noise that sounds like a cross between a whinny and a meow.
* Also by ''Creator/JohnFinnemore'': ''Radio/CabinPressure'': Martin and Arthur are driving a baggage cart 20 miles across the Spanish countryside to fetch a plane engineer, singing 'One Man Went to Mow' to pass the time. Arthur replaces the 'woof woof!' with 'wah wah!' ("That's what French dogs say") because they're abroad. On the return journey, the plane engineer adds Spanish versions of Silly Animal Sounds to the mix.

* A popular French joke says that ants "cro-ondent", which comes from an untranslatable {{Portmanteau}} {{Pun}} of the words ''fourmi'' ("ant") and ''micro-ondes'' ("microwave"). The best approximation in English would be "crowave", but then the joke would be LostInTranslation.

* In one CutawayGag of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Stewie plays with an European See-and-Say. He gets baffled by the unconventional sounds that, according to the toy, the animals make. See the page quote for details. Unlike most {{Cutaway Gag}}s, this is actually referenced in a later scene. As Stewie and Brian use a TimeMachine and end up in an unfamiliar place, Stewie, correctly, deduces that they must be in Europe from a cow saying "Shazoo".

* In "[[http://www.amiright.com/parody/80s/disneysthelittlemermaid1.shtml Under a 'C']]", a parody of "Under the Sea" from ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid'', a dumb student mistakenly thinks dogs say, "meow".

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. In the DVDCommentary for "I, E.T.", the actors playing Aeryn and D'Argo mention that the script called for them to make "terrifying alien sounds" to distract the hunters, but as the actors hadn't really established their characters at that point, they had no idea what "alien sounds" were.