Back at the Barnyard premiered on Nickelodeon in 2007 as a series follow-up to Steve Oedekerk's 2006 animated film Barnyard, following Otis the cow and his farm friends who talk and scheme when humans are not watching. Short music cues from cartoon episodes like this one later circulated on their own as reaction sounds, much like the Law and Order DUN DUN, because a two-second hit can summarise surprise without any dialogue. Editors keep reusing it for farm humour and for mock-serious moments in otherwise ordinary clips.