Deep Note - Popular Culture

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The perceived loudness of the Deep Note is frequently depicted as having actual destructive effects:

• The 1992 direct-to-video film Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation shows a Deep Note–like trailer (which features a hand holding a baton) blasting an audience, sending many people flying and wrecking the theater, concluding with the text, "THUD: The Audience Is Now Deaf."
• The episode of Bill Nye the Science Guy called "Sound" parodied the logo, replacing "THX" with "SOUND, The Audience is listening". Instead of the Deep Note playing, an orchestra tunes up.
• In a 1994 episode of The Simpsons entitled "Burns' Heir", a THX trailer plays before a film, literally blowing the audience out of their seats, shattering eyeglasses, teeth, and even causing one person's head to explode; the audience whoops in response. Grampa Simpson shouts, "Turn it up! Turn it up!" This segment was later turned into a THX theatrical trailer.
• On Sesame Street, there was a parody of the THX logo and it reads "ABC: The Audience is Learning" before a Letter of the Day segment starts. The Deep Note sounded like kids singing along with the THX theme song and some kids laugh in the background when the logo appeared. Above the logo is "Nucasfilm," another parody of Lucasfilm.
• In the 2006 film Over the Hedge, Deep Note is featured in a scene late in the movie, when the animals enter a house and Penny accidentally switches on the television nearly waking up Gladys Sharp. The sheer force of the sound blows some of Penny's porcupine quills off. Stella the Skunk tells Gladys' Persian cat guard that the noise is the sound of her heart.
• In the very beginning of the 2006 film Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny, Deep Note is parodied in the beginning by Jack Black and Kyle Gass with cartoon versions of themselves flying via flatulence propulsion, and the words "THC: The Audience is Baking" appear on the screen.
• The LucasArts adventure game The Curse of Monkey Island opens with a large "CMI" logo with a Deep Note made by the sound of monkeys, accompanied by the caption "The Monkeys Are Listening."
• The promotion for the upcoming Cartoon Network block "Flicks" featured a parody of the Deep Note.
• A documentary on The IT Crowd Series One DVD has various male voices vocalise the Deep Note sound. As they reach the end, some of the voices in the background end up screaming. The first captions state that the video is "shittily mastered for minimal sound and picture quality." This is followed by the logo where "THX" is replaced by "KEN", which when fully read in the context of the captions on the screen reads "Mastered by "KEN using a VCR."
• The New Jersey Nets and other teams use the Deep Note when there is about 10 seconds left in warm-ups. At the end of the Deep Note, the buzzers go off.
• On The Vancouver Giants Games After O,Canada The Deep Note Plays Over Draing The Game.
• A similar sound can be heard as an easter egg in μTorrent.
• When turned on, IGT video slot machines make the Deep Note as their startup sounds.
• In an episode of Back at the Barnyard, when Otis and Pip watch a DVD, at the beginning there is a parody of the THX logo that reads "BYX," and the Deep Note is sung by a choir.
• When you start the Europe levels in Doritos Crash Course, there is a parody of the deep note.