This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

The podcast 20,000 hurts tell stories about the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds.

It is a great show that you should definitely subscribe to and I'm pleased to present one of their episodes here today.

It's all about these sounds, which almost need no introduction.

From 20,000 hurts, here is Dallas Taylor.

If you watch cartoons as a kid, you probably knew instantly that the sound you just heard was from Looney Tunes.

You probably also know that sound meant Wiley Coyote failed to catch the Roadrunner again. It's pretty crazy how we can fill in the whole

scene based solely on the sound effects even without a single meet-meep from the

Roadrunner.

Meep-Meek. Wileyaioti started falling off cliffs in 1949, yet we still hear that falling sound effect

in modern cartoons, like Teen Titans.

I wouldn't stand there if I were you.

Here it is in Justice League action.

How'd you do that?

It defies the law of physics.

And here it is, even in Family Guy. guy.

It's a guy.

O'O. It's been almost 70 years

since the first Wiley Coyote cartoon, and that sound, along with many other cartoon sounds,

remains constant.

The beauty and the joy of cartoon animation is that the characters do not have to obey the laws of physics.

They also don't have to obey the laws of logic and therefore sound

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