This clip comes from Disney's Pluto short The Purloined Pup, released on 19 July 1946, where Pluto's underwater antics called for a short, comical glugging effect. The recording later circulated as part of the Hollywood Edge sound library, listed for funny drinking and shower background use, which helped it reach editors outside animation. Because the sound is instantly recognisable as cartoon water play and lasts less than a second, creators still reach for it for quick jokes about drinking, bathing and falling in.
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A short underwater glugging sound effect from the 1946 Pluto cartoon The Purloined Pup, ideal for funny drinking, drowning and cartoon splash scenes.
This is a very brief, bubbly glugging noise that sounds like someone drinking, gargling or struggling just below the surface of the water. It opens with a quick swallow and then breaks into a few wet, gurgling bubbles that rise and pop in rapid succession, giving it a silly, cartoonish feel rather than a realistic drowning sound. Because it is so short and exaggerated, it instantly tells a viewer that a character is underwater, choking on a drink or making a mess in a bath or pool, and it usually lands as a joke rather than a moment of danger.
