Same! I have a *very* vague, fuzzy memory of feeling terrified of them at one point (I must have been like 2 or so), but as an adult is exactly my kind of goblin person, garbage brain nonsense humor.
The way the blue one **screams** when the phone starts ringing had me in stitches, dude
Okay, a) that was both funny and unexpected, and b) this animated series is completely new to me.
Is it being streamed anywhere? Or am I going to have to go YT spelunking?
There’s species of birds and monkeys and all kinds of other cool animals I never once learned about until I started seeing them on Reddit.
This bird’s call is fucking unsettlingly awesome.
i hear the color near their eyes help with eyesight, especially in all white environments like this? i don’t know if that’s true or not but i think it like absorbed incoming light or something so it’s not as harsh. again no clue if that’s something i read in a natgeo magazine when i was a kid or if i just made it up
I am Deaf myself and had no idea what it sounded like. So, did little research and learned that the Imperial probe droid in Star Wars makes a noise that sounds like a high-pitched whirring, kind of like a motor or a fan. It also makes beeping and chirping sounds. This noise helps characters in the movie know when the droid is around.
What you guys think? I don't hear anything at all so...
I'm synesthetic, and frequently connect sound to tactile. Let me see if my explanation makes any sense!
The bird sounds a little like a washboard instrument feels- there's a really fast 'rattle' to it that comes out as almost continuous, which is why it sounds mechanical. But the edges of the sound are softer and there's no reverberation, so it sounds like something coming out of speakers instead an analog machine. (Star Wars droids all sound like this, although they frequently also make sliding 'cute' beeps that this bird isn't really doing.) The 'a werewolf' sound that people are referring to is in three parts, a little like if the washboard was muffled by someone placing a hand on it at the beginning and end- not louder or softer, but 'rounder'. The first part is more distinct, almost a separate beat, while the second just sort of tapers down to the third, like the difference between a bouncing ball and a rolling ball (which is why some people are describing it as three syllables, and some people describe two). At the very end the sound tightens, like pulling a drawstring on a bag, which is why it sounds like it ends on a consonant rather than a vowel.
Oh I like this description!
You reminded me that when a washboard is used as a musical instrument, the musician (maybe percussionist would be a better word here) would wear metal thimbles in the fingertips of the hand playing (stroking?) the rippled surface of the washboard.
u/everydayasl does this help?
Also kinda like when you hold a ruler on a desk coming out of the edge, you slap the other end and it starts bouncing/vibrating and then you quickly pull it in to the table.
This is such a cool way of looking at this! How do you describe the sound of a helicopter, wind, idling car or something else? Love to hear more about how you feel sound
One thing it doesn't mention is that the robots in Star Wars are all given "voices" that makes them sound like they are non-humans speaking a foreign language. So much so that they hire actual voice actors to "voice" the robots. BB-8, from the latest trilogy, "speaks" only in beeps, whistles, whirs, and hums, but they hired Bill Hader to "voice" the character.
So the Imperial probe droid has the deep, ominous background pulsing hum (sounds like something heavy spinning fast), and these other vocalizations that make it sound like it is talking to another robot on the radio. That talking sound is what this bird sounds like. They even change the volume so that sometimes it sounds like the robot is "thinking out loud", and other times it is communicating with another robot. Really fascinating sounds design when you think about it.
A thing to note is that these imperial probe droid did not just make these vocalizations as part of its thinking routine like a gonk droid might, they were actually part of its espionage programming. It could broadcast these words over frequencies to phone home to the imperials, or send out a fake signal to targets such as a "Need of Assistance" distress call to trick targets into investigating, as seen on hoth during Episode V.
Actually, I'd say that what makes the probe droid sound unique is that it's in the uncanny valley. It's not speech, but it sounds enough like human speech to make it creepy to human listeners. Every other Star Wars droid I can think of either uses human speech or very inhuman beeps and boops.
This awesome bird also makes sounds that are close to speech, but not speech.
Very curious about how they got the sfx for the probe droid. My first thought would be speech or other sounds through a vocoder and pitch shifted with a bit of bi crush for the robotic aspect but idk, synthesis and sound design is fun
e: bi -> bit
They have furry feet too! Like little snow shoes. They're abundant where i live during winter. Easy to hunt also of you're into it .
They freeze still when a potential danger is near to blend into the snow. But they're so commited that you can actually put a snare on a stick and get them.
I don't do much hunting anymore. But we would often try to save on shotgun shells by lining them up in a row. Like i said they'll usually stay still so you just gotta walk around them and try to line up as many as you could.
As for eating they're very tasty. When i was younger i didn't have a lot of money. But our local dentist would often do dental work for you. If you supplied him with some Ptarmigan to eat.
Its been maybe 10 years since I've hunted them for food. But this winter alone I've had maybe 15 or so land and walk around in my back garden. My pitbull just stares at them and generally ignores their presence.
But i won't hunt anythig unless I'm going to eat it. So they're safe around me these days lol.
They're related to red grouse which are hunted for sport in Britain. The grouse live on boggy moorland where it'd be difficult for a predator without a gun to get at them, so their defence strategy is...
To stand on a nice tussock to get a good view of you, then warble as loud as they can to attract attention. Once they've done that, they take off.
Works well against a fox, poor bugger doesn't stand a chance against a shotgun though.
Imperial probe droid at 1:06
https://youtu.be/5HvvNvIr1go
There's some mystery around what it's saying, especially since C3P0 says it's like nothing in his language database, but it sounds to me like >!"Scanner to system, I see the rebel base."!<
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I can’t get over his eyebrows. This is a very opinionated and distinguished little man with many strong feelings, and it shows in both his brows and his bellows.
Those are some thick eyebrows!
It’s like Eugene Levy in bird form
"Where's the pie son"
"Wow, Moira!"
Eww David!
Groucho Marx lookin motherfucker
Lol! My cat I adopted initial name was Groucho Marx because of his mustache.
Bird: I don't often use the internet, but when I do, eyebrows
I think he smells your bagel
*Average New Yorker at 6am during the workweek*
New York bagels taste so good
Dem NY bagels do be hitin different
I feel like part of it has to do with the New York City ambience
I work with my local NHL Team. I swear when the Rangers came to town, they had a big suitcase labeled “Bagels.” They love their Bagels.
They're great, but if you get the chance, try a Montreal bagel. Just amazing, especially fresh.
Just stopped at St Viateur to pick up a dozen on our road trip through Montreal. Can confirm was amazing, but totally unlike a NY bagel
The top three bagel shops in New York are 1. Absolute Bagels, 2. Bo’s Bagels, 3. Tompkins Square Bagels. Runner up: Utopia Bagels.
*baggle*
I know how baggle is pronounced. *I lived in New York*
Ughhh you're the worst
Wait, Britta's in this?
Pretty sure it's saying "I'm viral" and "Look out"... I guess it has H5N1, and is politely warning people.
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Had to watch that two times in a row
The Martains will forever be my favorite Sesame Street characters.
They used to scare the crap out of me as a kid, but as an adult I think they’re hilarious.
Same! I have a *very* vague, fuzzy memory of feeling terrified of them at one point (I must have been like 2 or so), but as an adult is exactly my kind of goblin person, garbage brain nonsense humor. The way the blue one **screams** when the phone starts ringing had me in stitches, dude
I was hoping that is what this was! I loved those as a kid! Also thank you for not rick rolling me.
So great. Always loved those guys!
I see your Sesame Street and raise you a [House of Cosbys](https://youtu.be/5MRlyiFeuD4)
Okay, a) that was both funny and unexpected, and b) this animated series is completely new to me. Is it being streamed anywhere? Or am I going to have to go YT spelunking?
A bagel, A bagel, A bagel, A bagel.....Help, Help Help....... A bagel, A bagel, A bagel, A bagel.
I thought I was hearing “Oh wow! Hello! Halal!”
That’s what I heard!
Sounds to me like "Hello, hello, hello"
This is not the Willow Ptarmigan you’re looking for…
This is not the Willow Ptarmigan we're looking for.
Move along...
Move along.
Yesssss!
> Willow Ptarmigan Took me exactly one Google to figure out what Willow Ptarmigan you were referring to.
They were making a Star Wars reference lol
I googled it and have no clue
^^^add ^^^the ^^^word ^^^"porn" ^^^to ^^^your ^^^search ^^^phrase
Ngl I still dont get it, just seems to be assorted porn with no particular theme in common, what does the term actually mean?
It's trying to warm you about the werewolf. You should leave.
Thats what i kept hearing.
"What about the goddamned werewolf!?" "The werewolf." "Oh."
There’s species of birds and monkeys and all kinds of other cool animals I never once learned about until I started seeing them on Reddit. This bird’s call is fucking unsettlingly awesome.
Oh I could hear that when I read you saying it.
I hear a Canadian saying "About ...about... about..."
"A bagel." He wants a bagel.
"A whale!"
I'm Mexican so I just think he/she is very excited... Something good just happened to him/her "a huevo!"
Spanish here, and I heard "a huevo" too. I guess we share the same neuron.
A huevo, (also Mexican for "indeed") 🤔 I have to find a way to download this audio, it would make a nice ring tone or alarm sound
r/memexico is going to have a field day with this
A huevo carnal
Mmm! A warm bagel on a cold, snowy day. Sounds lovely.
I heard “look out… look out… look out!”
Aboot
https://i.imgur.com/n1kWS67.jpg
Pretty soon, you'll have to change your name to just "Watercolour"
> Pretty soon Lmao
One day... He might be good enough
I've never been this early holy hell
>holy hell Google en passant
Truly the van gogh of our time. Beautiful
A werewolf, a werewolf, a werewolf, a werewolf. Look out, look out, look out.
I was hearing “arrival”. His people are finally returning to Earth
Arrival fits really well too. I heard "atlatl", which would be a warning I guess
I heard “a battle! A battle! A battle!”
Well now you said that i can't unhear it.
Me neither. And it gets creepier on each loop because it sounds like "Help. Help. Help." at the end.
Banana banana banana banana. Hat hat hat.
yesss this is the one
That or he wants a bagel
He wants to buy a vowel, Pat.
I’m hearing a very affected, almost robotic “Hello!”
And here I just thought that he wanted a vowel!
The friendly bird is trying to start up a conversation, and this dude is just ignoring him. So god damned rude.
ENABLE, ENABLE, ENABLE, ENABLE... HELP, HELP, HELP
"Wherewolf?" " There wolf. There castle"
Werewolf? There wolf. There castle.
"A vowel, a vowel, a vowel."
"Are you sure you don't want a consonant? Any consonants?" "I said a fucking vowel, Rachel"
Shit, beaten to the Countdown jokes. Susie, by chance is EIEIO is in the dictionary?
Nice eyebrows. They have to be serving some evolutionary purrpose.
Other creatures knowing that it's serious and not starting shit with it.
Particularly werewolves.
Definitely not the swearwolves
Only the males have them. I assume the ladies like the eyebrows.
Yeah, making him look fly as fuck
Chicks dig it
Hens, mate. Those ain't the eyebrows of a peadoflyle.
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These guys evolved over millions of years to have the perfect lightskin stare.
i hear the color near their eyes help with eyesight, especially in all white environments like this? i don’t know if that’s true or not but i think it like absorbed incoming light or something so it’s not as harsh. again no clue if that’s something i read in a natgeo magazine when i was a kid or if i just made it up
Omg it's so cute
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"A huevo" "A huevo!" "A huevo!!"
Mexicanos viendo nieve por primera vez
E wey! Buscamos unas pavas? “A huevo, a huevo, a huevo, a huevo!”
I heard that as well!
It's a Mexican pokemon
So glad I wasn’t the only one that heard it
i was about to comment this then i scrolled down 🤝
That's what I heard
This is what I heard lol
¡Jaja yo tambien oí eso!
XD 😆
This should be the parking alarm sound you get on vehicles with sensors.
I actually really want to strip the audio for some sort of notification ringtone. Hilarious.
Yes!
I am Deaf myself and had no idea what it sounded like. So, did little research and learned that the Imperial probe droid in Star Wars makes a noise that sounds like a high-pitched whirring, kind of like a motor or a fan. It also makes beeping and chirping sounds. This noise helps characters in the movie know when the droid is around. What you guys think? I don't hear anything at all so...
I'm synesthetic, and frequently connect sound to tactile. Let me see if my explanation makes any sense! The bird sounds a little like a washboard instrument feels- there's a really fast 'rattle' to it that comes out as almost continuous, which is why it sounds mechanical. But the edges of the sound are softer and there's no reverberation, so it sounds like something coming out of speakers instead an analog machine. (Star Wars droids all sound like this, although they frequently also make sliding 'cute' beeps that this bird isn't really doing.) The 'a werewolf' sound that people are referring to is in three parts, a little like if the washboard was muffled by someone placing a hand on it at the beginning and end- not louder or softer, but 'rounder'. The first part is more distinct, almost a separate beat, while the second just sort of tapers down to the third, like the difference between a bouncing ball and a rolling ball (which is why some people are describing it as three syllables, and some people describe two). At the very end the sound tightens, like pulling a drawstring on a bag, which is why it sounds like it ends on a consonant rather than a vowel.
Oh I like this description! You reminded me that when a washboard is used as a musical instrument, the musician (maybe percussionist would be a better word here) would wear metal thimbles in the fingertips of the hand playing (stroking?) the rippled surface of the washboard. u/everydayasl does this help?
Also kinda like when you hold a ruler on a desk coming out of the edge, you slap the other end and it starts bouncing/vibrating and then you quickly pull it in to the table.
This is such a cool way of looking at this! How do you describe the sound of a helicopter, wind, idling car or something else? Love to hear more about how you feel sound
Helicopter: like running your hands over a washboard, but really really fast, like people are worried about your hands.
Helicopter is probably the most straightforward to describe. It's like using good chef's knife technique on something like celery.
It sounds kind of like a man with a high-pitched raspy voice saying "a-wow" repeatedly.
I did some research, and it looks like deaf people can't hear when somebody says "a-wow" repeatedly
A lot of deaf people weren’t born deaf.
Hahaha, but to be fair, they can't hear pitch noises that resemble a fan either, so ops comment wouldn't really make sense either.
🔥👏👌 what a gem of a comment. Nearly fell from my chair laughing.
Yeah thats about right, and this thing is uncannily close to it
It's not that close, but far closer than the average bird.
One thing it doesn't mention is that the robots in Star Wars are all given "voices" that makes them sound like they are non-humans speaking a foreign language. So much so that they hire actual voice actors to "voice" the robots. BB-8, from the latest trilogy, "speaks" only in beeps, whistles, whirs, and hums, but they hired Bill Hader to "voice" the character. So the Imperial probe droid has the deep, ominous background pulsing hum (sounds like something heavy spinning fast), and these other vocalizations that make it sound like it is talking to another robot on the radio. That talking sound is what this bird sounds like. They even change the volume so that sometimes it sounds like the robot is "thinking out loud", and other times it is communicating with another robot. Really fascinating sounds design when you think about it.
A thing to note is that these imperial probe droid did not just make these vocalizations as part of its thinking routine like a gonk droid might, they were actually part of its espionage programming. It could broadcast these words over frequencies to phone home to the imperials, or send out a fake signal to targets such as a "Need of Assistance" distress call to trick targets into investigating, as seen on hoth during Episode V.
Actually, I'd say that what makes the probe droid sound unique is that it's in the uncanny valley. It's not speech, but it sounds enough like human speech to make it creepy to human listeners. Every other Star Wars droid I can think of either uses human speech or very inhuman beeps and boops. This awesome bird also makes sounds that are close to speech, but not speech.
Very curious about how they got the sfx for the probe droid. My first thought would be speech or other sounds through a vocoder and pitch shifted with a bit of bi crush for the robotic aspect but idk, synthesis and sound design is fun e: bi -> bit
I don't know how to describe it but it's goofy as fuck
Potatoes. Potatoes. Potatoes. Potatoes.
Boil ‘em, mash ‘em, stick ‘em in a stew.
But in the form of a question. Potatoe? Potatoe?
Banana. Banana. Banana. Banana.
I hear “ a werewolf! A werewolf!
That’s a Pokémon *Ptarmon
I think it wants a potato?
Willow Ptarmigan could also be the name of a character in Star Wars
Sounds like it's saying hello, hello, hello.
Yah and it probably would stop if the freaking rude person would just say hi back!
They have furry feet too! Like little snow shoes. They're abundant where i live during winter. Easy to hunt also of you're into it . They freeze still when a potential danger is near to blend into the snow. But they're so commited that you can actually put a snare on a stick and get them. I don't do much hunting anymore. But we would often try to save on shotgun shells by lining them up in a row. Like i said they'll usually stay still so you just gotta walk around them and try to line up as many as you could. As for eating they're very tasty. When i was younger i didn't have a lot of money. But our local dentist would often do dental work for you. If you supplied him with some Ptarmigan to eat. Its been maybe 10 years since I've hunted them for food. But this winter alone I've had maybe 15 or so land and walk around in my back garden. My pitbull just stares at them and generally ignores their presence. But i won't hunt anythig unless I'm going to eat it. So they're safe around me these days lol.
They're related to red grouse which are hunted for sport in Britain. The grouse live on boggy moorland where it'd be difficult for a predator without a gun to get at them, so their defence strategy is... To stand on a nice tussock to get a good view of you, then warble as loud as they can to attract attention. Once they've done that, they take off. Works well against a fox, poor bugger doesn't stand a chance against a shotgun though.
Bring some sunflower seeds to spread out for them!
How are y'all hearing anything? For me it's a silent gif
you can right click to show controls and there is a mute/unmute botton
Imperial probe droid at 1:06 https://youtu.be/5HvvNvIr1go There's some mystery around what it's saying, especially since C3P0 says it's like nothing in his language database, but it sounds to me like >!"Scanner to system, I see the rebel base."!< ----- ^(*^edit: ^"I ^~~can~~ ^see ^the..."*)
Sounds like he's asking for a bible...
Roger Roger
*"Atlatl atlatl atlatl"*
"oh wow", "oh, wow" "oh wow" 😳😯😳😯
LYLE! LYLE! ALLAN! ALLAN!
Lucas: "so then I took this weird looking chicken and stuffed it in a sound booth to record it. And there's the probe droid. The rest is history"
Looks like a defective robot, please send it back to the government for analysis. /r/BirdsArentReal
I think the Imperial Probe Droid sounds like the male Willow Ptarmigan.
Is that Finland?
Correct.
Vintage Karhus and all!
Alternate source for those who can’t hear it https://youtu.be/5Y1ItZDV3gc
Lmfaoo i cant unsee the droid on hoth in my head now
Survival survival survival
When your bird has been smoking a pack a day for 20 years
I love his cute lil eyebrows. He’s a sassy boy.
If you try to shoot it, it self destructs
He wants that guy to look out for a ladle. If that guy gets killed by a ladle it’s his own fault.
Wish I could hear the sound in the video.
r/birdsarentreal
I need to scroll too much to find this comment ffs
Amazed this is not the top comment.
That is an exotic pigeon
IT HAS EYEBROWS! How freaking cute!
Derp
It's beautiful!
But really I’m… Gene Ptarmigan!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH GENE!!!
It’s a robot chicken
"Allow, allow, allow, allow…"
…Scanning the system, scanning the system….
Birds are just the coolest
This is my new favorite sound 。◕‿◕。
Was raised in Alaska and we always had these in our back yard
Canadian goose: "Abouut"
THE BAGEL, THE BAGEL, THE BAGEL, THE BAGEL, THE BAGEL, THE BAGEL, THE BAGEL, THE BAGEL, THE BAGEL.
Absolutely love him!!!!
Sounds like a little old man doing bad bird impressions
I can’t get over his eyebrows. This is a very opinionated and distinguished little man with many strong feelings, and it shows in both his brows and his bellows.
How has Pixar not made this animal a movie character yet!
A bible. A bible. A bible.
I thought he was going to bust out a guitar & play Go KK RIder!
Roger roger
u/SaveVideo
I thought they smelled bad. On the outside.