Sometimes in cartoons, a character may say the same line over and over, with the same recording of the same line. There is a variation in which two characters may get into an argument (Duck Season, Rabbit Season) and use the same sound clip.
Sometimes, the original dialogue tracks are lost, because they're distorted beyond usability, or because the source recordings were destroyed or otherwise disappeared. Other times, non-dialogue tracks are often recorded in separate sessions to avoid overstraining.
This is especially common for screams. Screams strain the human voice, and repeated screaming can lead to Inopportune Voice Cracking. This, in turn, leads dialogue editors to use the best-performed takes more than once. And for characters such as the Screaming Woman, this is bound to happen more often than not.
A subtrope of Stock Sound Effect, and an audio variation on Stock Footage. Also common in video games, where it usually becomes annoying. Compare Stock Scream, which denotes a stock sound effect that's commonly plastered in media. If this trope is overused, it can become an Audio Mixing Failure.
Examples:
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Anime & Manga
- 4Kids Entertainment would often apply this trope for characters who keep their Japanese voices, such as Pikachu or Kirby. In a situation where multiple characters are speaking at the same time and 4Kids can't isolate the original voice, they would instead use voice clips from past episodes to fill the gap.
Audio Plays
- Sonic the Hedgehog Presents: The Chaotix Casefiles:
- An archival recording of the Twinkle Park announcer voiced by Lani Minella ("Welcome to Twinkle Park!") is used in episode 1. By contrast, another role previously voiced by Minella (the Station Square train station announcer) had new dialogue recorded by another actress.
- In Episode 2, two lines of dialogue of a G.U.N. Soldier voiced by Andrew Rannells can be heard in the background (saying "HQ, come in!" and "Don't underestimate G.U.N.!") as the Chaotix pull up to Knackerworth Manor, taken from Shadow the Hedgehog. Every other bit of background chatter from various G.U.N. agents are voiced by other members of the cast, who do double-duty playing their regular characters.
Fan Works
- Jikuu Bouken Doctor Who: A lot of audio clips from the actual Doctor Who series are used, containing the non-original characters' dialogue or the monsters' sound effects, with the audio recontextualised to fit the anime scenes.
- Sonic the Hedgehog:
- Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers:
- A lot of characters reuse voice clips from past Sonic games, as well as other sources. A few characters returning from Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart were given new voice actors, mostly due to a change in voice clips. Arle, for example, is voiced by Ali Johnston here instead of Erica Mendez.
- Whisper the Wolf is voiced by Aoi Yūki here, via archived voice clips from one of the Avatar voice choices from Sonic Forces.
- Nazo Unleashed: Every character's dialogue except for Nazo's is made up of recycled sound clips from various games, up to Shadow the Hedgehog. The sentences are strung together to somehow form a narrative.
- Sonic RPG: Despite Sonic being played by Tom Schalk in Episode 10 in the cutscenes and some of his attack cries in battle, some of Sonic's foley in Episode 10 are recycled clips of Jason Griffith and Roger Craig Smith from games like Sonic Unleashed, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and Sonic Generations, among others.
- Dr. Robotnik's Ring Racers:
- Super Mario Bros. Z: Almost every character has partial voice acting, reused from previous games from their home series, with a few exceptions as a Shout-Out to other characters.
- Sonic's voice foley in battle are Ryan Drummond's performance, reused primarily from Sonic Adventure, Adventure 2, Heroes, and Sonic Battle. There are a few clips from Jason Griffith thrown in there from Sonic Rush, pitched-up cries of Sean Schemmel's Goku from the Dragon Ball Z: Budokai series, and whenever Sonic uses a Hurricane Kick attack, he uses Ryu's voice clip shouting "Tatsumaki Senpukyaku" from the Street Fighter Alpha series.
- Shadow's foley during fights uses a mixture of David Humphrey and Jason Griffith's clips from Adventure 2, Heroes, Sonic Battle, and Shadow the Hedgehog.
- Turbo Mecha Sonic/Metallix in Episodes 6 and 7 of the original run and in the first two Episodes of the reboot use Andrew Chandler's performance as Cooler from Dragon Ball Z, taken from the Dragon Ball Z: Budokai and Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi series of games.
Films — Animation
- The Emperor's New Groove re-uses Kuzco's yelp from when he falls into a pack of jaguars, his scream from when he gets chased by them, his whoop from when he's swept by the river, his gasp from when he sees he has hooves twice, and Pacha's Big "NO!".
- Hercules (1997):
- Hercules grunts the same way twice during the Hydra battle. The first time it was heard after he cuts of the Hydra's one and only head, then the second time as Herc slides down the cliffside only to be pinned by the Hydra's claw.
- Hades' scream after Hercules frees Zeus gets re-used after Herc punches Hades into the River of Styx.
- In How to Train Your Dragon 2, when a brainwashed Toothless (under the trance of Drago's Bewilderbeast) is about to kill Hiccup, the latter shouts "STOOOOP!!!", which was reused from the first film when Hiccup loses his cheat sheet during his first flight riding Toothless.
- The Jungle Book 2 re-uses Shanti's yelp from when she stops at the river twice, in addition to her "Don't move" statement to Ranjan.
- In The LEGO Batman Movie, an audio clip of Batman saying "I am so sorry!" is used thrice throughout the movie; the first time when Batman accidentally kicks Alfred into the piano, the second when Robin smacks into the dashboard of the Batmobile, and the third when Batman accidentally kicks Phyllis upon arriving in the Phantom Zone.
- Kung Fu Panda: This film is very notable for the fact that non-dialogue vocalizations - grunts, yelps, screams, battle cries - are reused constantly. Most notably for Po (voiced by Jack Black) and Tai Lung (voiced by Ian McShane).
- Monsters, Inc.:
- In Monsters, Inc., many characters re-use some of the same audio clips throughout the film, mostly from Boo, but also including sounds from other characters, like Mike's pain scream (heard two times when Roz closes her office shutters on his hands and when Baby Smitty bites Mike's hand).
- Mike's pain scream from the first movie is reused in Monsters University when he gets dragged out from under the bed by Archie the scare pig.
- On The Peanuts Movie, Snoopy's and Woodstock's noises (both voiced by Bill Melendez) are reused from many Peanuts animated media, this was likely done due to his retirement in 2006 and his passing in 2008.
- Sleeping Beauty (1959):
- Aurora's crying just before Maleficent enchants her is actually a sped-up clip of Dopey's crying over Snow White's apparent death from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
- Maleficent's death scream in the film also is the same as the Evil Queen's hag form's from the said film when she gets stabbed by Prince Phillip's Sword of Truth.
- The Sword in the Stone:
- Whenever Wart stumbles or falls, it's accompanied with the same "Wha...wait! Whoa!"
- The gibbering noise the wolf makes whenever he falls down a hill.
- The sound made when Crocodile Mim snaps her jaws shut is the exact same one heard whenever Maleficent slammed her staff on the ground or when her dragon form snapped its jaws.
- Tarzan (1999) re-uses Jane's gasp from when she first sees Tarzan, some of Kerchak's roars, and Tarzan's Big "NO!" near the end of the movie.
- Toy Story:
- Woody's scream from the first film ("AAAAAAAHH!!") is used twice (first when Buzz scares him upon first meeting him and later when Babyface takes Buzz's arm away from him.)
- His scream is reused three times in the third film (first during in Andy's imagination prologue when One-Eyed Betty (Mrs. Potato Head) knocks him off the train, second when he is dropped from a very tall height from a hang glider, and later when the Monkey scares him while he and Slinky are trying to sabotage him.)
- His same screaming voice clip is used in the fourth film when he rips Bo Peep's arm off by accident.
- Woody's second scream (YAAH-AH!!) is also heard a couple times in the movies.
- Woody's "oof" when he falls off of Buster in the second film is reused from the first film when the bowling ball from the closet falls on his head.
- Jessie's "Yee-haw!" is reused several times from the second film onwards.
- All of Mr. Potato Head's dialogue in Toy Story 4 is recycled from the previous three films that are unused and other media. This was done due to his voice actor, Don Rickles, having passed away in 2017. Rickles' family suggested a Fake Shemp approach rather than recasting the role.
- Woody's scream from the first film ("AAAAAAAHH!!") is used twice (first when Buzz scares him upon first meeting him and later when Babyface takes Buzz's arm away from him.)
Films — Live-Action
- On Back to the Future Part II, 1955 Biff Tannen's same grunt sound is used two times after when he crashes into the manure truck.
- On Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Caractacus Potts' same sneezing voice clip is used twice (first during the You Two song and second while he was disguised as a clown).
- A Hong Kong martial-arts movie titled Hapkido, in its original English dub, referred to the titular martial art as "kung fu". It was later redubbed to correct this—but rather than redubbing the dialogue completely, the dubbers just pasted the word "hapkido" over "kung fu". It's frequently the same recording of the word—even when several different characters are saying it. It must be seen to be believed.
- Film/Heat does this when a certain character says "Get down." in the same manner.
- The Hobbit Film Trilogy: Several non-dialogue vocalizations (grunts, screams, battle cries) performed by Richard Armitage for Thorin crop up in all three films.
- In Humanoids From the Deep, during the attack on the carnival at the end, you hear the same audio of a woman screaming followed by a little boy saying "Mommy!" multiple times.
- Indiana Jones:
- Raiders of the Lost Ark:
- The scream Belloq utters as he's destroyed by the Ark of the Covenant is the same scream in both shots.
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade:
- The death scream used by the pilot that crashes because of the seagulls Prof. Henry Jones Sr. sent into flight is also used by Vogel during his Disney Villain Death.
- During the tank chase, Vogel utters "Schnell!" (German for "quick") twice: if you pay attention, you can tell that it's the exact same audio recording.
- Raiders of the Lost Ark:
- King Kong (2005): For Ann Darrow, played by Naomi Watts, there are several of her longer, more high-pitched screams that crop up more often throughout the film. It's Downplayed, as there is enough variety for it to go unnoticed for most people.
- In Mr. Nice Guy where a mob boss fights a rival gang called "Demons", Diana (who has the tape) and her accomplice Richard escape. Diana says "Richard, hurry!" twice in the same manner.
- Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024):
- In the first trailer, Knuckles' yell of pain when he gets his hand twisted by Shadow is the same yell from his Heroic Second Wind from the final episode of Knuckles. It ends up being used four other times in the film proper.
- Ivo's scream from the first film when he saw Sonic for the first time is used in this film, being used for the roller coaster section of the VR Good-Times Montage with Gerald.
- Tails scream when he falls from the Tornado Biplane is reused after Knuckles accidently breaks the gravity pads control.
- In the first trailer, Knuckles' yell of pain when he gets his hand twisted by Shadow is the same yell from his Heroic Second Wind from the final episode
Live-Action TV
- In the Doctor Who serial The Chase during the Daleks' fight with the Mechanoids all the lines spoken by the Daleks were from earlier in the serial (in fact mostly from their first scene in the first episode).
- Inverted in a Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch, where a vox pop interviewee (Eric Idle) is stuck in a rut (stuck in a rut, stuck in a rut). Instead of replaying the same dialogue over and over, Idle just repeats the phrase.
Radio
- The Lone Ranger always used the same recording of Earle Graser shouting "Hi yo Silver, away!"—even after Graser's death and replacement by another actor.
Video Games
- ANNO: Mutationem: In a cutscene where Ann is given a Little Black Dress at Noctis City, Ayane gleefully yells out "Darling! Let's go! [Squee]!" When the two reunite near the end, Ayane grabs Ann's chest while the same dialogue is recycled during the moment.
- In both Disney Dreamlight Valley and Disney Speedstorm, WALL•E and EVE speak entirely though reused audio from their home movie. Given that neither of them can say much to begin with, it's not immediately obvious.
- Final Fantasy X: In the European and International versions of the game, the cutscenes for the Superboss Dark Valefor reuse dialogue recordings from other parts of the game. Valefor's summoner opens the fight by shouting "Infidel! Prepare to charge!" - lines used from the scene when Yuna tries to seek an audience with Maester Mika after finishing her pilgrimage. After the fight, the villagers of Besaid chase the summoner away, shouting "Stay away from the summoner!" and "You're a bad man!" - lines used when Tidus tried to approach Yuna after breaking religious taboos.
- Fox Hunt does this in Discs 2 and 3, where Jack, after winning the blackjack card game says "Yeah, the chicks dig me." The same line was said in the Dummied Out cinematic where he works for The Wolf.
- LEGO Adaptation Game:
- LEGO Star Wars (LucasArts):
- Many characters' voice clips on LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game are reused from the first two episodes of the original Star Wars prequel trilogy (for example: Obi-Wan's, Anakin's, Padme's, Yoda's, and C-3PO's death sounds are reused from Attack of the Clones). This was also used in its sequel, The Complete Saga, and the third game.
- Some of the characters voice clips on LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars are reused from the second game including Greedo's death sound, Dengar's death sound (used for many characters including Plo Koon, Grand Moff Tarkin, etc.), the Rebel Troopers death sound (used for the clones, Jango Fett, Boba Fett, Stormtrooper, and its shadow variant), etc.
- In LEGO Dimensions, some characters' voice lines are reused from any media including the First through Eleventh Doctors from Doctor Who (the Twelfth, being the incumbent at the time of release, sports new voice clips provided by Peter Capaldi), Dan Castellaneta-voiced characters from The Simpsons, etc.
- LEGO Star Wars (LucasArts):
- In the beta release of MultiVersus, Rick and Morty's voice lines are recycled and taken directly from many episodes of the show. The full release gave them new lines due to Justin Roiland being fired.
- On Nicktoons Racing, all voice clips for the racers are reused from many episodes of many Nicktoons (for example: Plankton's laugh, "I have you now!" and "Come back here, you swine!" are reused from the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Plankton!").
- Sega Superstars: Every voice clip in the series is reused from a prior game in their home series. For example, Sonic hitting a ball back to an opponent in Sega Superstars Tennis is him saying "Aren't you worried?" from Sonic the Hedgehog (2006).
- Super Smash Bros.: Some of the cast, playable or otherwise, reuses voice clips from their home video games. Even for characters who get new voice clips in Smash, their Smash voice clips are reused in later installments.
- Super Mario Bros. games regularly reuse voice over clips from Super Mario Galaxy and other games. Many of Yoshi's voice clips from Yoshi's Story are reused in future Mario or Yoshi games.
- For some reason, several lines of dialogue in Warcraft III are taken from the speaking unit's voiceset, most notably with Sylvanas.
- In 2005's Yakuza 1, Hirotaka Suzuoki played Prisoner No. 1356 in a very minor role before he passed away in 2006. In the game's remake, Yakuza Kiwami, most characters have had their lines re-recorded by returning or recast actors. Prisoner No. 1356 is the exception, with Suzuoki's original performance being preserved and reused as a tribute.
Web Animation
- DEATH BATTLE!: Some fights that don't have full voice acting or have a character who fits a minor role in the fight itself will reuse the character's voice clips from various other sources.
- A lot of fights in Season 1 use the character's voice clips from a variety of sources from their home series, with the major exceptions of Vegeta VS Shadow, the 2011 version of Mario VS Sonic, Starscream VS Rainbow Dash, Dr. Eggman VS Dr. Wily, and Goku VS Superman, which had full-on or partial voice acting instead.
- Metal Sonic's voice clips in "Metal Sonic VS Zero" and "Bowser VS Eggman" reuse Ryan Drummond's performance as Neo Metal Sonic and Metal Overlord from Sonic Heroes. Infinite and Sage's appearances in the latter fight have them voiced by Liam O'Brien and Ryan Bartley via recycled clips from Sonic Forces and Sonic Frontiers respectively.
- Zero's audio in "Metal Sonic VS Zero" comes from his appearance in Marvel vs. Capcom 3, where he's voiced by Johnny Yong Bosch (aside from one Oh, Crap! line, which is taken from a different character that Bosch has voiced).
- Happy Tree Friends frequently recycles character voices and background music to the point where the wiki has compiled a list of these instances.
- Object Shows:
- Battle for Dream Island: Exaggerated with Ice Cube, who speaks entirely in recycled lines. Needle used to do so as well until she got a new VA in episode 5 of season 2 and hasn't used nearly as many recycled lines since then.
- Inanimate Insanity's Balloon spoke entirely in recycled lines right before his elimination in season 1, but he started to use new lines once he found out he joined the competition in season 2.
Balloon: Well, now that I've joined the season, I figured I might as well start saying actual stuff again!
- Contest for Millions of Thousands would constantly used the same collective "wow" sound effect whenever the contestants excitedly react to something.
Western Animation
- Adventure Time: Finn's girly scream from "Burning Low" pops up now and again for the rest of the series.
- The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police has the same sound for Max's screaming from "A Glitch in Time". This particular piece of audio was used in "We Drop At Dawn" and in "The Invaders"
- American Dad!:
- In one episode, Stan accidentally discovers the joys of masturbation while trying to treat an injury to his groin. The same ludicrously over-the-top scream is recycled every time he orgasms.
- Another episode "Stan Knows Best" had Hayley do the exact same grunt and scream when she is first stuffed into a sack by government agents and later when Francine pulls duct tape off her mouth.
- The Angry Beavers has Daggett's famous scream, "Whoo!"
- Arthur:
- The title character's trademark gasp has been continually recycled long after his original voice actor was replaced.
- Also his trademark laugh from his original voice actor was also recycled throughout the years.
- His trademark scream from his original voice actor is reused in many episodes (for example: heard during the fantasy sequence when the plane breaks into pieces and Arthur falls down screaming on "Arthur's Big Hit").
- Arthur's very first lines of the series are composed of stock audio: first, a gasp, then, "Uh-oh. Great." Both sentences were clearly recorded separately and both were used several times in the early seasons.
- In "Sick as a Dog", Arthur has a nightmare involving D.W. unlocking Pal's cage while he stays at the veterinarian overnight. Right before she does so, she says, "No, wait. I can do it." This is pieced together from lines recycled from other episodes: "No, wait." is from the end of "D.W. All Wet" when Mrs. Read says it's time to go home ("No, wait. Ten more minutes."), and "I can do it." is from "D.W. Thinks Big" when wedding guests try to squeeze through a small door to retrieve a lost ring ("How about me? I can do it.").
- Many episodes have a stock sound of kids cheering, "Yahoo! We win! Yay!" This is even used when nobody "wins" anything, or when it's someone else winning, such as a fantasy sequence of Arthur accepting an award.
- Kate's crying is this due to being a same stock infant crying sound effect from Sound Ideas.
- The same whistling sound is used any time someone puts their fingers in their mouth to whistle loudly, whether to cheer someone on or get someone's attention.
- The title character's trademark gasp
- The Backyardigans:
- Tyrone and Uniqua seem to gasp the exact same way every episode. Every character's laugh is also used during the span of the series, which becomes evident when the characters' voice actors change.
- In "The Heart of the Jungle", Pablo, Austin, and Tyrone's Tarzan yells sound the same every time they're uttered. To add to this, Tyrone has two different variations of his yell.
- "It's Great to Be a Ghost!" doesn't seem to limit Tyrone's "Boo!" and his and Tasha's screams to one usage.
- Ben 10: In the second episode, when Dr. Animo resurrects a T. rex, sound effects from Jurassic Park are used.
- Blaze and the Monster Machines: Blaze's "To give me/us Blazing Speed, say 'Let's Blaze!'", which used the exact same audio as of the newer seasons, only using new recordings on occasion.
- Bluey (2018):
- Two screaming sound effects are used various times throughout the series.
- In "Queens", Bingo's "That must be very interesting" line is used twice in a row when she thinks one of the things queens do is shake people's hands and say "Oh, yes! That must be very interesting!", regardless of what that person tells her.
- The Buzz on Maggie:
- Maggie's Big "NO!".
- A high-pitched scream used in almost every episode, for any character, even Aldrin and Mr. Pesky.
- Caillou:
- The title character's crying sound from "Caillou Joins the Circus" is re-used in "Caillou's Teddy Shirt", "Caillou Learns to Skate", "Caillou Visits the Doctor" and "Caillou Makes a New Friend". His laughs are also re-used too in some season one episodes.
- Caillou's "Oh!" from "Caillou's All Alone" is reused in "Caillou Joins the Circus".
- Daddy's "Oh!" is reused on some season one episodes (For example: Heard in "Caillou Learns to Drive" when he gets all wet with his water hose when he gets startled by the horn honking).
- The same voice clip of Rosie's crying is used on many season two episodes. Her same audio clip where she says "Daddy!" is also reused in many episodes for this second season.
- Classic Disney Shorts: Some of Goofy's laughs, yelps and other recordings (like singing "The World Owes Me a Living") were reused beyond the 1930's. This was mainly done as a stopgap when Pinto Colvig left the studio in 1937, but they continued to be used even after Colvig reassumed the role in the mid-1940's.
- Clifford the Big Red Dog:
- Clifford's gasp.
- Cleo's "Whoa!"
- Emily Elizabeth's giggle.
- Any time someone whistles, the same audio is used of someone whistling the show's theme song. It is used for Sheriff Lewis every single time he passes by in "Clothes Don't Make the Dog".
- Courage the Cowardly Dog:
- Muriel: Two recordings of "Oh my!", one somewhat exasperated, one surprised.
- Eustace: "Stupid dog!", "OOGA BOOGA BOOGA!", "What's- huh?", "Blah blah blah", various laughs and grumbles. These were used even after the original actor, Lionel Wilson, retired and Arthur Anderson took over.
- Courage: The majority of his sounds are stock clips, especially after he speaks far less from season two on. "Oh no!", his whining noise, his scream, the oddly low-pitched laugh, "The things I do for love!", "Muriel, I'll save you!", and babbling all sound the same each time you hear them. It's quite possible that Marty Grabstein recorded one session and never stepped into the studio again.
- All characters: screaming. Sometimes other characters use the same low-pitched laugh as Courage.
- Dr. Vindaloo: What is up with that?
- Disney has the Goofy holler. ("Waah-hoo-hoo-hooey!") Used mostly on the Goofy shorts (natch), but pops up on the animated features, theme parks, and even the live-action films.
- His yelping from "The Whalers" is reused in many Mickey Mouse shorts and Goofy shorts until "How to Relax". Pluto did this on the short "Pluto's Christmas Tree", but only the "Wow!" part is heard.
- Goofy's "Ouch!" from "Lonesome Ghosts" is used in other shorts until "How to Relax". The slowed-down version of the audio clip is used in Song of the South heard two times.
- His painful yelling from "Boat Builders" is reused in other shorts until "How to Dance". The audio clip is used again on "Disneyland Around the Seasons".
- The line "Somethin' wrong here" from "Lonesome Ghosts" is used again in the shorts "Goofy's Glider", "Baggage Buster", "No Sail", "Foul Hunting", "The Big Wash" and "Hold That Pose".
- His yelp scream from "Boat Builders" is reused in other shorts until "How to Relax".
- Goofy's scream from "Mickey's Service Station" is reused in other shorts until "For Whom the Bulls Toil". The scream is heard again on the Goof Troop episode "To Heir Is Human" by an unnamed customer. Donald also did the scream in the short "Frank Duck Brings 'em Back Alive".
- Dora the Explorer:
- Dora: "Hi, I'm Dora!" (used in many season one episodes), "¡Vamos!/Vamonos!" (used in many season one episodes), various laughing and giggling.
- Boots: "Say Map! Say Map!", "Say Backpack! Say Backpack!", "Ooh Ooh Aah Aah!", various laughing and giggling.
- Swiper: "Oh Man!" (both two), "You're too late! Ha ha ha!", "You'll never find it now!", Sinister laughing (first heard in "Beaches"). Those are also his only dialogue throughout the show unless the scene calls for it.
- On Dragon Tales, Ord and Cassie's gasping is recycled on many season one episodes.
- Also Max's grunts is also recycled in many episodes for the first season.
- The audio clips of Emmy and Max saying the rhyme to enter Dragon Land and when they use their rhyme to go back home is reused on many episodes, this applies to Enrique in the final season.
- Ed, Edd n Eddy: Has tons of 'em, usually laughs and other comical sounds the characters made are recycled.
- Ed: "Gravy!", "Cool!"
- Edd: "I'm surrounded by idiots." , "Oh dear!"
- Eddy: "Let's hunt em' down!" is first used in "Sir Ed-a-Lot", then recycled in the episode "Keeping Up with the Eds".
- Rolf: "Aaaawhoooo!", "Your garden is overgrown and your cucumbers are soft!", "Shaklava!", "You crazy!", laughing.
- Nazz: "This is stupid." In fact, most of her dialog in the first season is a sound clip of her laughing.
- Kevin: "Dork!"
- Jimmy: "And it was such a cute squirrel, too", "Ouch!", "Wah-ha-ha-haaaa" (that whiny crying he does from time to time, such as getting hoodwinked by Eddy with "Smileyville" or after getting maimed by his own eyelash curler).
- Sarah often makes a distinctive growl, usually as she's about to beat somebody up.
- Edd also had a wheezy-sounding gasp that is used in many episodes. It almost sounds like he's yelling "Ed!", and the Closed Captioning even misinterprets it as "Ed!" in "Ed-n-Seek".
- In the episode "Stop, Look and Ed", Jonny's lines "Listen to the clams gurgle in the bucket, Plank." and "Gesundheit!" are reused from two episodes "Who, What, Where, Ed" and "Key to My Ed".
- In "Stiff Upper Ed", Ed's line "But I can't dance, Eddy!" is reused from "Honor Thy Ed".
- On "Here's Mud in Your Ed", Jonny and Sarah's lines "Touché!", "Jonny, get out of there!", "Holy moley!" and "GET UP, STUPID!" are reused from "Rent-a-Ed", "Shoo Ed", "It Came From Outer Ed" and "Thick as an Ed".
- On the episode "See No Ed", Jonny and Nazz's lines "Flutter around the mushrooms." and "I think I'll pass." are reused from "Shoo Ed" and "Over Your Ed" while Rolf's line "Bada boom! Ha ha ha ha! Do not ask Rolf to stop!" is reused from "Hot Buttered Ed" and Jimmy's line "I hear wedding bells." is also reused from "Honor Thy Ed".
- In "From Here to Ed", Jimmy's lines "Farewell cruel world!", "Oh, my legs." and "My hair!" are reused from "Once Upon an Ed" and "Avast Ye Eds" while Ed and Edd's screaming clip is recycled from "Avast Ye Eds". Jonny's line "For crying out loud!" in the episode is later reused again on "Ed... Pass it On...".
- Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Eduardo's crying in the episode "Busted" is re-used in one of the show's games, "A Friend in Need".
- Futurama:
- The exact same scream is used every time Amy falls over.
- The episode "Brannigan, Begin Again" uses a recording of the judge calmly saying "I'm going to allow this" several times, in increasingly odd circumstances.
- The Garfield Show: And how! The show LOVES this trope to the point where you could make a drinking game for each time you hear a recurring laugh or scream.
- Starting with "Down on the Farm", you can guarantee that you'll hear Garfield's "Hoo-hoo-hoo-ha-ha-ha" laugh used somewhere in MOST episode.
- The real reason is that due to the show's low budget, the show constantly reuses audio clips of certain characters, especially Garfield himself, Jon Arbuckle, Nermal, and a majority of the characters voiced by Greg Berger whenever they scream or laugh.
- George of the Jungle (2015):
- George's hollers.
- Magnolia's screams, shrieks, yells and groans whenever she gets injured.
- Ursula's roar.
- The Golden Step-Ahead Video, Journey Through the Jungle of Words does this with two characters: Olivia Ostrich and Dualot the Jungle Princess panther.
- Olivia's same screaming sound clip is used first when she and Groucho fall through the Trap Door of King Tut's Hut, and later on when she and Groucho fall off a cliff and into a muddy pool below.
- Dualot's same Tarzan yell clip is used when she vine-swings over to check on the duo, and then again when she and Seealot swing away to King Solomon's Mind before Olivia and Groucho follow them.
- Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law uses the same clip of Peter Potamus saying "What the?" whenever he's exposed mid-coitus for the first three seasons, even long after he'd changed to a completely different voice than the one saying the line. It's not until the fourth season that they re-recorded it with Chris Edgerly instead of Joe Alaskey.
- Hey Arnold! has one in the form of Helga's "Oh!" when she expresses her love of Arnold privately. Even in The Jungle Movie, which was made after her voice actress had become an adult.
- On KaBlam!, Henry's same screaming sound is used in many episodes:
- "Comics for Tomorrow Today" - When Henry tries to open a bag of Potato Stiks
- A Little Dab'll Do Ya" - When Mr. Foot tries to put Henry through his armpit and when Henry tries to unclog Mr. Foot out of the toilet.
- Won't Stick to Most Dental Work" - On one of the flashback scenes from "Your Real Best Friend" when Henry tries to escape a black widow's web.
- Won't Crack or Peel" - When a hermit crab attacks Henry in its shell.
- Tastes Like Paper" - When Henry and June trying to arm wrestle.
- I Just Don't Get It" - When Henry being strangled by the Nutty Putty clone.
- Get Sam Donaldson's Mystery Bag" - When Henry getting whacked multiple times by June.
- Cramming Cartoons Since 1627" - When Henry tries to hold June's Dad.
- Lilo & Stitch: The Series: Stitch's drawn out "Hi!" from the original film is used in various episodes as a regular greeting for him, as well as the show's title sequence.
- Little Bear:
- Duck: various quacking sounds, grunting, laughing.
- Owl: "OH, NOOOOOOOO!!!"note , various hooting sounds, "Whoaaaow!".
- Little Bear: "Wow!", "Oh!", "Yay!", various laughs, grunts and gasps.
- Littlest Pet Shop (2012)
- Penny Ling's roar from "Mean Isn't Your Color" was later used in "Lights, Action, Mongoose!" and her growl was used in "Blythe's Big Idea", at the end of the Pet-Friendly Skies fantasy.
- Looney Tunes:
- Lampshaded in the latter-day Bugs Bunny cartoon Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers, where the badly drawn and animated alien dopplegangers of Daffy, Elmer and Sam constantly repeat (respectively) "You're despicable", "I'm hunting wabbits" and "Rackafrackin' varmint" ad nauseum. Bugs, collecting the lookalikes to get rid of them, calls them "broken records."
- The Roadrunner's "Meep Meep". The practice is parodied in The Simpsons episode "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show", when one of the people working on the Itchy & Scratchy show claims that not only did Warners reuse a single "Meep Meep", they actually had the voice artist say "Meep" once and then doubled it up.
- The Magic School Bus had a number of stock audio clips, including a stock laugh, stock scream, and especially a stock cheer which always sounds like "waa-haa! Whoo! Yaaay!"
- The stock cheer was so popular it could even be heard on other Nelvana programs from the same era.
- My Friends Tigger & Pooh: The audio clips of Pooh, Tigger, and Darby saying the Super Sleuth Oath is reused throughout the entire series, only using different clips if someone is absent from the team or if they're feeling down somewhat.
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
- The part when Pinkie Pie gasps loud and very long when she first sees Twilight Sparkle in "Friendship is Magic, part 1" is reused multiple times: Later in the same episode when Rarity points out Princess Celestia is missing, in "Bridal Gossip" when the girls think they crushed Applejack in the tub, played in reverse for Fluttershy's inhaling in "Sonic Rainboom", as Mrs. Cake's voice in "A Bird in the Hoof" when Pinkie mooches Celestia's cupcake, and in "MMMystery on the Friendship Express" when Pinkie sees the Marzipan Mascarpone Meringue Madness has been eaten.
- Fluttershy's squeaky "I'm Fluttershy" from "Friendship is Magic, part 1" is used again in "A Bird in the Hoof" when she sees Philomena Reduced to Dust.
- Rarity's shocked yelp when she sees Twilight's mane frizzled in "Friendship is Magic, part 1" is reused for her excited laugh in "Sonic Rainboom".
- Twilight screaming "PIIIINKIIIIEEEEE!!!" in "The Ticket Master" was reused in "Hearth's Warming Eve".
- Scootaloo's "What are you, a dictionary?!" from "The Return of Harmony Part 1" was reused in "Family Appreciation Day".
- Twilight's yelling when Tirek is stealing the alicorn magic from her in "Twilight's Kingdom - Part 2" is used again in "The Cutie Map - Part 1" when Starlight Glimmer removes her cutie mark.
- The Ollie & Moon Show: In "The Italian Gelato Twist", when Ollie and Moon argue over how they pronounce "tomato", one of the voice clips of Moon saying "To-MAH-to!" is noticeably used twice.
- On later Peanuts specials, the voice clip of Charlie Brown (voiced by the late-Peter Robbins) screaming "Aaugh!", when he failed the spelling bee in the 1969 film A Boy Named Charlie Brown was reused, even when the character was voiced by another child actor. It was even used when other characters, especially girls, screamed.
- Peep and the Big Wide World:
- The audio clip of Quack saying "Waaoh!" from "A Duck's Tale" is reused in the episode "Birds of a Feather".
- Chirp's "Woah!" from "Shadow Play" is reused in the episode "Windy Day".
- Tom's same "Merow!" sound clip from Shadow Play is reused in "Peep's Lost Leaf" and "That's A Cat".
- Peppa Pig has distinct crying sound effects for the younger kids. This is just George's.
- Phineas and Ferb:
- Candace: her Signature Laugh, several different screams, "Meep...".
- The recycled screams became more prevalent in Season 5. Ashley Tisdale stated in an interview that she was pregnant during the recording sessions and refused to do any screaming because she was afraid she would scare her baby. She said to the producers, "You have enough from me. You have 17 years of screams. You can find one."
- Perry: chattering.
- Isabella: "Whatcha doin'?".
- Bob Webber: "Okay!"
- Candace: her Signature Laugh, several different screams, "Meep...".
- Ready Jet Go! uses the same stock audio clip of Sean (voiced by William Ainscough) screaming every time the gang goes into space, even after Sean was recasted. Another stock audio clip includes Mindy's "yay!"
- Rugrats: Numerous...
- Tommy's WAAAAH! AHHH! AAAAH! cry from "Touchdown Tommy" is recycled in several episodes, along with a few other sounds of the kids crying.
- Tommy also has a distinct giggle that's used in numerous episodes, primarily in Seasons 2 to 5.
- There's also the same recording of Stu screaming (like a girl!) from "Regarding Stuie" that was used in several episodes from Seasons 2 to 4 until "America's Wackiest Home Movies" (including most famously the "chocolate pudding" bit from "Angelica Breaks a Leg.")
- Chas also has his own high girlish scream that's often reused, and Drew and Charlotte have their own recurring stock screams as well.
- Angelica's evil laughter from "Reptar's Revenge" is reused often in several episodes.
- On the episode "Regarding Stuie", the same audio clip of Stu's "Goo-Goo." is used two times, Tommy's line "You guys." is also reused two times.
- On the episode "Special Delivery", Lou's line at the end "If I didn't know better, I'd say that was Tommy." is reused from "Baseball".
- Charlotte's scream from "Word of the Day" is reused from "Vacation" when she rides a roller coaster with Didi and Betty.
- Tommy's WAAAAH! AHHH! AAAAH!
- Sabrina's Secret Life:
- Sabrina had three stock screams, all of which are used at least once an episode: a startled "Ah!", a louder "AAAAUGH!", and a disgusted "Ugh!" which is also sometimes used when she falls down. In "Food 'Tude", all three screams are played consecutively when Sabrina gets swarmed by butterfly-like creatures made out of sandwiches.
- Maritza has a stock "Hmm..." used in several episodes. It's difficult to tell where it originated, as all of its uses sound unnatural within the context of the scene. It is also used for a random woman in "School Spirit".
- The Simpsons:
- Sideshow Bob's infamous shudder after stepping on a rake, first used in "Cape Feare".
- Bart's "Ay carumba!" also uses the same recording frequently.
- Homer's trademark "D'oh!" was reused in many episodes for the same voice clip from the fall-down couch gag from the episode "Bart Gets an F" (For example: Used on "Marge in Chains" by his brain after he says "My name is Mr. Burns!").
- Nelson's "Ha ha!" laugh from "Bart Gets Famous" is re-used on occasion, such as in "Lisa's Rival", "A Star is Burns", "Who Shot Mr. Burns?", "The Old Man and the Lisa", "The Principal and the Pauper", "Treehouse of Horror VIII", and "Homer to the Max".
- In "Barting Over", Homer uses the exact same voice clip of threatening "Why you little!" four times in a 15-second period.
- On "Homer's Barbershop Quartet", the same voice clip Young Bart and Baby Lisa's scream is used two times.
- On "Homerazzi", Gabbo's same "Ay-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi!" is used two times when he sprays water out of his mouth at Homer.
- In the Season 19 premiere "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs", Bart's same "D'oh" is used three times when Homer slaps him.
- On "Krusty Gets Kancelled", Krusty's same "Ow!" is used two times when he hits himself over the head with the phone during Gabbo's Crank Call with him.
- On "Realty Bites", Snake uses the same "Ow!" sound four times when he gets punched by Homer.
- SpongeBob SquarePants:
- Frequently has Fred (voiced by Doug Lawrence), often from off-screen, shout "My leg!", usually as the series' equivalent of That Poor Cat. It is sometimes even used in situations where a leg injury wouldn't be expected, such as Krusty Krab customers panicking after they overhear Mr. Krabs speak of SpongeBob sneezing on the food.
- Parodied in one episode in which a character screams about pain in his eyes, only to momentarily stop to nonchalantly say, "Also, my leg."
- An entire episode was made about this gag, titled "My Leg!" Ironically, the original stock clip of the line is never used; the dozens of times Fred or someone else says the line are all new recordings.
- The "My leg!" sound clip is also played in The SpongeBob Musical when Squidward unrolls a Long List that falls into the orchestra pit.
- Patrick's scream is even recycled in the first three seasons of the show (for example: Heard twice on "I Had An Accident" when he crashes into a mountain (both video game and reality) and when he gets stung by a jellyfish). It came back once more in the season 5 episode "To Save A Squirrel", when he and SpongeBob are falling from a plane.
- Patrick's laugh from "Bubblestand" is reused in "I'm With Stupid".
- SpongeBob's Signature Laugh.
- Mr. Krabs' scream from "Squeaky Boots" is reused in "Patty Hype" and "Squilliam Returns".
- In "Doodle Dimension", all of DoodleBob's gibberish is recycled from his original appearance in "Frankendoodle"; presumably Paul Tibbitt was too busy to come in to record new dialogue.
- SpongeBob's line "Yeah, I know!" from "Squid's Day Off" was reused in "Procrastination".
- SpongeBob's grunting during the Calvinball scene in "Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost" was recycled in "Your Shoe's Untied", "Something Smells", and "Jellyfish Hunter".
- SpongeBob's surprised gasp from "Walking Small" (when he sees the fish at the hot dog stand) is used again in "Suds", "Imitation Krabs", "Bossy Boots", and "The Smoking Peanut".
- "Night Light reuses some of SpongeBob's voice clips from Season 1, specifically his painful yells in "Suds" when Patrick removes a bandage from his back, his screaming from when he fell off the jellyfish in "Jellyfish Jam", a surprised gasp when he sees Gary tied his shoes in "Your Shoe's Untied" (also used when he sees the parade in "Something Smells"), and another scream when he is running from the "maniac" in "Hall Monitor".
- Frequently has Fred (voiced by Doug Lawrence), often from off-screen, shout "My leg!", usually as the series' equivalent of That Poor Cat. It is sometimes even used in situations where a leg injury wouldn't be expected, such as Krusty Krab customers panicking after they overhear Mr. Krabs speak of SpongeBob sneezing on the food.
- Stressed Eric: The audio clip of P.P. angrily yelling "FEEBLE!" from "Sex" is reused in "Hospital" and "Tidy".
- On Tom and Jerry, much of Tom's screams and yelps are recycled throughout the many shorts he has appeared in. Many of them were voiced by co-creator William Hanna.
- VeggieTales: In "Larry-Boy and the Rumor Weed", during a discussion between Junior and Laura early on concerning Alfred, Junior says "I don't know" in two instances, with the exact same audio recording used for both.
- Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!: It's notable that the titular character's "wow", which he says every single chance he gets, are for the most part reused takes. According to "The Wow Reel", Wubbzy says "wow" in one form or another 843 times throughout all 52 episodes! That recycling should've kept his voice actress from going up the wall for the most part.
- The other characters' catchphrases are also recycled voice clips, such as Walden's "Yes, yes, yes!", Widget's "That wasn't supposed to happen!", Daizy's "Lavender lollipops!" plus a clip of her singing the background music that usually plays when she is on screen, and a Running Gag scenario when an orange squared kid says "That's koo-oo-ooky!" the exact same way every time when an unpredictable event happens, though sometimes the "That's" is edited out.
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- The Wilhelm scream is probably the most famous example of this.
- There's stock background radio noise, including one that sounds like "Seventy-Eight Straight Track Cupcake".
- That outrageously overused sound of a cat screeching: "Mrrr-EEOOOWWW!!" Sometimes, not just the one screech, but several from that one stock audio track.
- Chris and Ciara: Chris's favorite is "WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?!" (from Fatal Deviation).