TV Shows Sounds
A TV shows soundboard built from cartoon audio that outlived its episodes: the SpongeBob boowomp and My Leg yell, the narrator time cards, Plankton laughing and the Tom and Jerry scream. Play each TV sound effect instantly or download it as a free MP3.
A TV shows soundboard sounds like it should span decades of television. This one is mostly SpongeBob, some Tom and Jerry, and a scattering of lines that escaped their episodes years ago. That isn't a gap in the collection. It's what actually gets played.
One Show Does Most of the Talking
SpongeBob accounts for the bulk of what's popular here, and not the obvious clips either. The boowomp, the "My leg!" yell, Plankton's laugh and the sad ukulele sting all outperform anything from a live-action show. The SpongeBob soundboard collects them. The SpongeBob laugh splits into several versions on its own, because different edits need different lengths of it.
Everything else is a long tail. Tom and Jerry contributes the screams, which travel well because they're pure sound with no dialogue to date them. Then there are the strays: "You what?", a fart echo, a handful of one-line reactions that have drifted so far from their episodes that most people playing them could not name the show.
The Narrator Cards and What They Became
The French narrator's time cards are their own small genre. "A few moments later", "one hour later", "one eternity later" — the same joke stretched across increasingly absurd intervals, and all three get played independently of each other. They work because they impose a structure on whatever is happening. Drop one after a long silence and the silence becomes the joke retroactively.
Why Cartoon Audio Travels
Cartoon sound is mixed to stay legible on bad speakers at low volume, which happens to be exactly what a phone is. A Tom scream was built to read as pain with no visual attached, and it still does through a laptop mic. Live-action dialogue rarely survives that trip, which is why shows with far bigger audiences than SpongeBob contribute almost nothing to this page.
From Broadcast to Group Chat
These clips have outlived their delivery format twice. They were television, then they were reaction images with audio attached, and now they're buttons pressed mid-conversation. Almost nobody playing one is thinking about the episode it came from, and plenty have never seen it. For the clips that finished that journey and stopped referencing a source at all, the meme sound effects are the next stop. The rest of the soundboard sounds range from game audio to notifications with no reference in them whatsoever.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is this category mostly SpongeBob?
Because that is what gets played. SpongeBob audio is short, exaggerated and mixed to survive terrible speakers, which makes it unusually well suited to soundboard use. Live-action dialogue tends to need context and volume that a Discord call does not give it.
Where is the "one eternity later" sound from?
It is one of the French narrator time cards from SpongeBob, alongside "a few moments later" and "one hour later". All three exist here as separate clips because edits use them at different lengths depending on how absurd the implied wait needs to be.
What is the "My leg!" sound?
A recurring cry from a minor SpongeBob character, used almost every time something collapses in the show. It escaped the series a long time ago and now works as a general reaction to any small disaster, which is why it outperforms most deliberate jokes here.
Can I use TV clips in my own videos?
Short cartoon audio appears in edits constantly, but it stays the property of the studio that produced the show, and platform copyright systems do detect it. Treat a monetised upload differently from a Discord call and check the specific clip if the video matters.