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dun dun! (the law and order sound)
by mg at 12:21 AM on March 13, 2001
I am writing this while sitting on the steps of the New York County Courthouse, which is backrdop to so many poignant Law & Order one-liners. I think Sam Waterston is sitting next to me eating a hot dog with all the fixin's. Oh no, its the hot blonde DA from Law & Order : SVU.
Oh, no, wait, they are actually right now, at this very moment, filming an episode and that is the hot DA from L&O:SVU. How weird and cool. A strange coincidence.
I'm not sure why I'm out here sitting on the steps now. It is a totally blah day out. If I had my camera with me I'd be taking tons of pictures of old historic downtown Manhattan since the light is all cool and diffuse. But I don't have my camera so it is just cold and grey and wet and blah. But I'm enjoying myself.
I think I'm just happy to be out of the house. Since the layoff I've not had the daily grind to get me up in the morning and out of the house. No rat race, some nowhere for this rat to race. Or even amble. Without a job I've got no where to be unless I've run out of food.
Holy crap. Not to break my train of thought but there are a lot of extras on this L&O shoot. I was thinking all these people hanging out on the steps were like me - doing a little chilling, a whole lot of illing and a tad more than a pinch of milling. But the director just yelled "action" and everybody for about half a block in either direction started doing... stuff. Jeez, I should be getting paid to look busy like the rest of these fucks.
Where was I? Oh yeah, I'm just glad to be out of the house. But I'm kind of depressed as well. I had another veil ripped cruelly from my eyes today as one of my most venerable beliefs about city life was proven untrue. For 24 years I've always believed that when riding on the subway late at night, or really anytime you might feel unsafe, i.e. all the time, that the safest part of the train to ride on was the car with the driver in it.
I was on the train this morning and was eavesdropping (what? I'm a writer I am not only allowed but legally obligated to eavesdrop) on a conversation between the conductor and this woman he was totally sweating. He was saying how he used to work the midnight shift and that is actually the safest because no one rides the trains and the criminals know that so don't even bother getting on the train.
There is something faulty in his logic somewhere but he is the professional so I'll take his word on it.
He also said that if he saw someone getting mugged he wouldn't try to stop it and would in fact completely ignore the situation so the criminal would leave him alone. Firstly, that isn't the kind of thing to admit when you are trying to get on a fly honey, but my tax dollars pay this dudes salary. He should be more than willing to take a damn bullet for me. At the very least he should be willing to yell "stop" if he sees someone trying to snatch my gold chain. The fucker.
Okay, I'm writing this bit now from another locale. Could you tell? When I got up off from sitting on the stairs my ass was really cold. And not in that good way. I guess sitting on concrete steps in 30 degree weather is not a good thing to do if you want a warm ass. When I got up I made a point of walking past exactly where they were filming the scene to get a closer look at that hot blonde DA from L&O:SVU.
The woman she was doing the scene with looked a lot like Margot Kidder, who is not hot at all. If you don't know, Margot Kidder played Superman's girlfriend, Lois Lane, in all those movies. So, if that was indeed Margot Kidder, watch for the episode of L&O:SVU with her on it. If it wasn't, look for an episode with someone who looks like her in it.
The scene entailed the hot blonde DA walking down the courtroom steps (a scene mandated to appear in every L&O episode). Well, the Margot Kidder look-a-like ran down the stairs after the hot blonde DA and they were talking. If you look behind them when they are on the steps, look for me waaaay in the background. I was wearing a grey jacket with a blue shirt and black tie. Uhm. Okay, that described half the people there. But look for me anyway.
comments (21)
Please send some photos of Detective Munch and the rest of the crew. I luv the programme!
by Grainne Hayes at April 22, 2003 6:11 PM
The "hot blonde DA from Law & OrderL SVU" is Alexandra "Alex" Cabot in the show. Her real name is Stephanie March. I am not sure who you mean by Margot Kidder, but it could have been Mariska Hargitay who plays Detective Olivia Benson on the show also. If this "Margot Kidder" was consistent throughout the show then it was Mariska Hargitay. If you want to browse and learn more about the show, there is a good website that has cast and crew, photos, bios, main (about show), and other stuff. Here it is: http://www.nbc.com/Law_&_Order:_Special_Victims_Unit/index.html
by Alexandra at April 29, 2004 2:26 AM
Wasn't Margot Kidder the gal that played Lois in the Superman movies? I don't think she's ever been on Law & Order:SVU. I think Grainne is probably right.
by Nathan Strong at September 7, 2004 10:29 AM
margot kidder did do a guest role on svu
by james bowamn at September 14, 2004 11:12 PM
Strange, this post came up #3 on Google search for "law and order sound"
by Shar at December 29, 2004 11:25 AM
where's the law and order sound?... oh... wow... on the steps as they were filming... that's awesome...
man...
i can't believe the old dude is dead.... from the regular series... jerry orbach? however you spell it. horrible.
old dude from law and order... we will never forget
by mark martin at December 30, 2004 2:12 AM
So, what IS that dundun! sound on L&O? Anyone, anyone? Some say it's a slowed down gavel, some say water pipes being hit with a hammer, or maybe it's a lot of layered stuff. Whatever it is .. I like it. Greets me when I open my computer... Yeah, too bad about Orbach.. great guy.. remember him as the father in "Dirty Dancing" ? He would have played a really good Joe DiMaggio in the TV movie. See ya!
by ginnyarnell at March 5, 2005 1:57 AM
On an intellectual level, if you truly want to be a writer then you need to be more descriptive. For two, loose the bad language. Vulger words are a turn off. Carry a dictionary with you and when you want to use a vulger word, look up another word that doesn't sound bad and use it instead. IMAGINATION......
Number three, Law and Order SVU ROCKS!!!!
by Che at April 14, 2005 11:05 AM
I actually came here through a Google search looking for the origin of the 'dun dun' as well.
Guess it's not here. SVU rules, by the way. Did they ever have the conclusion to that one episode where they were letting the audience vote the verdict on the website?
by Kunami at April 18, 2005 4:28 AM
so like Law&Order:SVU is like the best thing in my life i dont know what i would do without it and the 'dun dun' sound is the best sound i have ever heard.
by holly ermely at April 20, 2005 1:13 AM
I found it! Tho I think he must have jazzed it up. This is from an interview with the composer on L&O:
THR: And what is that scene-changing "chunk-chunk" sound?
Post: I found a sample of a jail door closing, and I put it with a couple of little other sounds and made this ching-ching thing. The official name of it is the "ching."
by Roadtrippin' at May 27, 2005 9:28 AM
What is the chord? What notes are they playing?
by tricky at August 1, 2005 8:44 PM
The L&O sound is the sound of Dick Wolf's money vault opening.
by Mark Gulbinsky at October 7, 2005 8:49 PM
Margot Kidder played "Grace Mayberry" in the svu episode "Pique"
that was a good episode...
gee, what a coincidence, I came by googling "law and order sound" too...
by anonymous at October 8, 2005 9:07 PM
where can i download that "dun dun" sound from law and order, i need it for a presentation in class
by simone harvey at October 11, 2005 9:26 PM
where can i download that "dun dun" sound from law and order, i need it for a presentation in class
by simone harvey at October 11, 2005 9:26 PM
Here's a link to a page that has a downloadable version of the Law & Order sound effect in .wav format:
http://blog.rickbreslin.com/blog/law_and_order_doink_doink_sound.asp
Doink Doink.
by Clarence at May 9, 2006 1:36 AM
So a collective thought throughout the office is that ..........we think it's full water pipes. Yeah too bad Jerry Orbach is gone. He was the show.
May 3, 2007
by valerie at May 3, 2007 3:57 PM
Nice, i came here on a google search for Dun dun dun sound. lol
by Tannen at October 31, 2007 11:51 AM
http://www.moviewavs.com/php/sounds/?id=bst&media=WAVS&type=TV_Shows&movie=Law_And_Order"e=logavel.txt&file=logavel.wav
by John at February 13, 2008 2:22 PM
oh thanks john for that, i'd love it as my new message alert sound :P
by Tr at March 27, 2008 4:11 AM