This sound effect can be found on Series 2000 Sound Effects Library, which was made by Sound Ideas. It is similar to Sound Ideas, BABY - CRYING, HUMAN 02 and Sound Ideas, BABY - CRYING, OUT OF BREATH, HUMAN. It is also a Sony Pictures sound effect, by the name of Sound Ideas, Crying Baby Intense - Long Small infant intense cries, whines, yells and screams.
Basic Info
- First recorded: Between 1985 and 1987
- Creator: Sound Ideas Canada Ltd.
- Owner: Sound Ideas (1987-present)
- Origin: Canada
- Year debut: 1987; sometime between April 10th and December 14th.
- First heard: Alf's Special Christmas (an Alf episode).
- Area used: Worldwide (especially in Canada and UK)
Clean, Full Length and Unedited Link to the Sound Effect
Used In
TV Shows
- Absolutely Fabulous (Heard in "Birth".)
- Alf (Debut; heard once in "Alf's Special Christmas" when a woman named Denise gives birth to a baby named Tiffany off-screen in an elevator, and briefly once in "Baby, Come Back" for baby Eric Tanner when he cries on the baby monitor.)
- Bill Cosby's Picture Pages (Heard in an animated sequence.)
- Bosch (Heard in "Chapter Nine: The Magic Castle".)
- Braceface (Heard often in "Baby Think-About-It" for the Baby Think-About-It dolls when they cry.)
- Caillou (Heard twice in a high pitch in "Big Brother Caillou" for Rosie as a baby when she cries.)
- Colony (Heard in the pilot episode when a baby cries in a hospital.)
- Family Guy (Heard briefly once in "Breaking Out is Hard to Do" when a pregnant Chinese woman in a sweatshop gives birth to a baby who replaces Stewie after getting a shoe sewn to his hand.)
- The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (Heard briefly once in "Stop Will! In the Name of Love" for baby Nicky when he cries on the baby monitor while Geoffrey and Hilary Banks are in the kitchen cooking.)
- Friends (Heard briefly once in "The One With the Birth" for Ben when he is born.)
- Futurama (Heard twice in "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?" when the Pregnercise women spontaneously gave birth to premature babies off-screen in the pool after being scared by an angry Zoidberg; briefly once in "Time Keeps on Slippin'" for one of Professor Farnsworth's Mutant Atomic Supermen as babies while drinking the chronitron particles and started to grow into adults; once in "Obsoletely Fabulous" as the orphanage babies at the Cookieville Minimum-Security Orphanarium cry off-screen after Bender cackles at them after sneaking in and smashing a night light then laughs; once in "The Silence of the Clamps" as Amy holds a crying baby with an umbilical cord for Clamps to cut the cord but Zoidberg does it instead; and once in "Law and Oracle" when Chief O'Mannahan walks out of the toilet holding her newborn baby while saying "Eight pounds. I'll name her Bert".)
- Generation Kill (Heard once in "Stay Frosty" for a baby crying off-screen as the Iraqi people are on board a HMMWV.)
- Go Away, Unicorn! (Heard briefly in "Grow Up, Unicorn!" as one of the crying sounds for Alice's 3 baby cousins.)
- Goosebumps (Heard once in "Strained Peas" for baby Grace when she cries after she vomited out Nick's pet gerbil Stanley.)
- Gumby Adventures (Heard once in "Clayfully Yours" as one of the babies Gumby babysits starts crying.)
- The Haunted Hathaways (Heard once in "Haunted Boo Crew" as a customer leaves the Pie Squared bakery with her crying baby in a pram.)
- The Incredible Hulk (1996 TV Series) (Heard in a episode where a baby cries.)
- Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil (Heard once in "Brad's Room" for Harold Buttowski (the title protagonist's father) as a young child crying in a flashback of him after his older brother tells him to stay on his side of the room.)
- Mad TV (Heard once in "John C. McGinley".)
- Medium (Used as one of Allison's daughter's baby dolls.)
- Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn (Heard once in "Quad with a Blog" for one of the title characters as babies crying in a flashback 12 years ago while Anne consoles them with a teddy bear and Tom climbing a climbing wall. Heard along with Hollywoodedge, Baby Crying Slowly PE144001, Sound Ideas, HUMAN, BABY - CRYING, WHINING, Sound Ideas, HUMAN, BABY - EIGHT WEEK OLD BABY: CRYING, and Sound Ideas, HUMAN, BABY - CRYING together.)
- Nina's World (Heard often in "Nina the Babysitter" for baby Henry when he cries.)
- Noah's Island (Heard in "Adios Diamantina" for Tina (Rocco and Gertie's newborn daughter) when she cries.)
- Oggy and the Cockroaches
- Penny Dreadful (Heard in "Verbis Diablo".)
- Seinfeld (Heard in "The Bris".)
- The Simpsons (Heard briefly once in "Lost Our Lisa" when Brandine Spuckler gives birth to a baby off-screen, briefly once in "Four Great Women and a Manicure" for one of the babies in the Daycare Center Mediocri-Tots, and briefly once in "3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage" for the toddlers in the Springfield Gymdandee after a 2-year-old Bart hurts them.)
- 6Teen (Heard often in "6 Teens and A Baby" for Emma Jr when she cries.)
- Texas Rising (Miniseries) (Heard once in "From the Ashes" as a baby cries with her mother sitting by a burnt wagon train.)
- The Tofus (Heard briefly in a high pitch in some comedic gag scene transition when a character (or two characters) literally cry like babies, such as Lola Tofu in "Lovesick", "School Dinner Blues", and "When Worms Attack"; Curly the Sheep in "Just Call Me April Tofu"; and both Mrs Tofu and Buba together in "Running Away at Christmas Time".)
- Wayside (Heard briefly once in "Kidswatter's Opus" for Myron when he literally cries like a baby before he gets up and asks "So this is what being a principal's like?".)
- Willa's Wild Life (Heard often in "Baby, It's You" for Buzzy when he cries.)
TV Specials
- Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby (1993) (Heard once as one of the crying sounds for either Roxy or Chip (Pebbles and Bamm Bamm's twin babies).)
Movies
- All Dogs Go To Heaven 2 (1996) (Heard once in the song "On Easy Street" when a baby cries wanting the ball David used for his magic tricks back after the ball turned into a dove.)
- Bird Box (2018)
- Blade: Trinity (2004) (Heard when a baby cries during the scenes where Blade chases Drake and Blade confronts Drake at a rooftop.)
- Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) (Heard once when Catarina gives birth to a baby named Franciscus.)
- Monkey King: Hero is Back (2015)
- Penelope (2006) (Heard once for the title character when she cries while her mother, Jessica attacks Lemon after breaking into their house and stalking while trying to take a photo.)
- Robots (2005) (Heard briefly once off-screen for the protagonist, Rodney Copperbottom, when he is "born" after being assembled by his parents who were "making a baby".)
- Schindler's List (1993) (Heard once when a Polish woman sings a lullaby to her crying newborn baby.)
- Twin Sitters (1994) (Heard once when a baby cries while being returned to its mother by the Falcone brothers after they rescued it along with its mother from being hit by a gangster car, which hit the pram the baby was in.)
- What's Love Got To Do With It (1993) (Used for Ike and Tina Turner's newborn son Craig when he cries.)
- The Willoughbys (2020) (Used for Baby Ruth when she cries.)
Video Games
PC:
- Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (Heard briefly in the first few seconds of a cutscene in the mission "Ashes to Ashes".)
- Living Books: Green Eggs and Ham (Heard briefly once in page 2 when you click on Sam-I-am's plate of green eggs and ham and the green ham randomly turns into baby in a crib (while the green eggs are the parents in rocking chairs) who cries after it spits out its pacifier.)
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Heard only once in the quest "Possession" if you chose not to throw the baby into the oven then Aki II, the baby, will cry like this.)
Xbox One:
- Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (Heard briefly in the first few seconds of a cutscene in the mission "Ashes to Ashes".)
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Heard only once in the quest "Possession" if you chose not to throw the baby into the oven then Aki II, the baby, will cry like this.)
PlayStation 4:
- Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (Heard briefly in the first few seconds of a cutscene in the mission "Ashes to Ashes".)
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Heard only once in the quest "Possession" if you chose not to throw the baby into the oven then Aki II, the baby, will cry like this.)
SNES:
- Batman Returns (Konami) (A portion of this sound is heard repeatedly in the intro during the Penguin's birth story.)
Nintendo Switch:
- Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (Heard briefly in the first few seconds of a cutscene in the mission "Ashes to Ashes".)
Commercials
New Zealand:
- Yellow Pages (2001)
UK:
- NSPCC - Bottle (2001) (A neglected baby cries like this off-screen as the milk in the baby bottle curdles.)
Bumpers
- MTV - Zipper (1993) (Heard once in a low pitch.)
Trailers
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) (Trailers) (Heard briefly once in the second trailer when a baby cries before its mother feeds it with a bottle containing sardines.)
Music
Music Videos
- Linkin Park - The Final Masquerade (2014)
Shorts
Videos
YouTube Videos
- TomoNews (Heard in the animation of this news story.)
- Troom Troom
Miscellaneous
- Grojband Pilot animatic (Heard once for the egg yolk crying after it cracked from an egg in a bird family's nest caused by Grojband's loud music.)
Image Gallery
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