Open Season is a 2006 animated comedy from Sony Pictures Animation about a domesticated grizzly and Elliot, a fast-talking mule deer who pull him into forest life. Elliot's loud, startled scream became a reusable clip outside the film because it is short, instantly recognisable and easy to place over unrelated footage. Shared on soundboards and in short edits, it now functions as a general cartoon panic cue, used whenever a creator needs a deer-like shriek without recording one.