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Me and my kid were watching the end of Matrix Reloaded, where Neo takes the bullet out of Trinity, and kind of throws it aside. I laughed because I thought it would be a the perfect place for one of those old "someone throws something out of scene and you hear a cat screech as if whatever was thrown had hit it" kinda moves. I was laughing about that when I realized I honestly can't recall any distinct place in any movie or show where that happens, but it seems like it's done often for a cheap laugh. I laugh every time I hear it, anyone know of directly when and where it happens, in what movies?

Mainly in cartoons

Ozzymandias speaks: It is usually in a Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker comedy.

Ozzymandias has spoken!!!

Yeah, that happened in almost every episode of Duckman.

It kind of happens in the Steve Martin comedy The Man With Two Brains.  Dr. Steve is performing brain surgery on some schmoe, and then says "will someone get that cat out of here!", which is followed by cat screeching.

Not completely the same, but there's a scene in the Waxworks where this guy in a wheelchair yells, "Tally ho!" fires a gun in the air, and suddenly a chicken falls down. 

There's the part in Young Frankenstein in which a thrown dart out a window is followed by a cat's screech.

Im pretty sure they used the cat bit in Murder by Death i'll have to watch it again to be sure.

The 3 Stoges short Malice  in the Palace has a bit with an off-screen yowling cat, a barking dog,and some roast rabbit and hot dogs...

       [youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awETJa6HUuQ

 ok,ok....not quite the same...but stil dam funny!  :bouncegiggle:  :bouncegiggle:  :bouncegiggle:

There are tons of looney tunes cartoons where the characters throw something off screen and we hear the tinkle of glass, screech of a cat etc.

I'd swear I've seen that bit a thousand times in some fairly recent comedies, but no specific example comes to mind. I've even listed it on Movie Cliche' lists here!

Of course, there is that scene in Edgar Ulmer's THE BLACK CAT where Lugosi spies the black cat and throws a handy knife at it, producing an off-screen yowl.

I was gonna say Mal Brooks uses that gag on occasion.

That sort of thing happened in INVADER ZIM once.

Watch more David Zucker and Wayans Brothers films.

I saw this a long time ago, but I'm sure it happens in Jackie Chan's The Big Brawl a.k.a. Battle Creek Brawl.

Someone is sitting on a railing on a walkway, Jackie advances and stamps his foot on the ground. The guy gets a fright and falls off the railing, landing hard, and then all you hear is a very angry cat spitting and yowling.  :teddyr:

Well, the alien-hunting crazies in Spaced Invaders did something like that in one scene, as noted in our esteemed moderator's review of that movie:


I also recall a Saturday Night Live Skit where a table full of mobsters were dumping on each other in various ways; the guy on the lowest end of the pecking order, since he can't dump on anyone else, first throws his fork at a cat offscreen, and then pulls his pistol and fires at it.

Ya want cat yowles?
MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL!
More cat abuse then any other flick.

Aw, shoot -- everyone named the ones I would've named . . .
I guess it's sort of on-topic, but the first use of a HUMAN scream that appears to start onscreen, but morphs into that of the air-brakes of a bus pulling up in the next scene, something we've seen alot since then, was Val Lewton's "Cat People"(1931).
Marty Feldman used the gag often in his "Marty Feldman's Comedy Machine" TV show in the late '60's, so maybe that's what inspired Mel to use it in Young Frankenstein -- I really don't know . . .
peter huh?/denny cat scream

Lol, seems like it's everywhere, or at least everywhere I'm interested. I watch alot of Mel Brooks, Monty Python, and catoons. I have never watched duckman though, I'll have to check it out. Funny how, as one person said, they do it almost every episode. Just like on MXC, there's ALWAYS someone with the name "Bobaganush". Sealab 2021, one of my favortie cartoons, does that alot: Takes a line of an object that is part of one episode, and cram it in somewhere else, weather it fits or not.

"Scalpel... Forceps... Retractors... Get that cat out of here..."

"Mreow!"

It was used in Orgazmo when Chodaboy fired the cock-rocket.

This actually happens twice in "Underdog," which I actually liked more than I thought I would

There is one instance earlier in the film, than there is this one.

Underdog and Polly Purebreed go on a dinner date at the top of this building, and they are eating spaghetti, ala Lady and the Tramp, and they are down to the last meatball, and it is "You eat it." "No, you eat it." "No, you eat it." And somewere between "No, you eat it" and "No, you eat it," the meatball rolls off the plate, falls off the building, and hits the ground. And you hear this cat yowl, as the meatball hits it.

I heard it in Mr. and Mrs. Smith also .  .