Back in the day if you watched shit like Ricki Lake or Sally Jesse Raphael when the show came back from commercial the audience would often be clapping and doing this weird high pitched "oowa oowa" chant. It seemed to originate in the 90s and died in the early 2000s. Anyone know what I'm talking about, or what the origin of it was?
Woooo there it is
>>217472331that wasn't it
you mean the 'ooh-ooh-ooh.' like a gorilla beating its chest? on Jerry Springer and such?
>>217472508it was always done twice in a row after two claps. and it was very high pitched. Like this:*clap**clap*oowa oowa*clap**clap*oowa oowa
>>217472296Talk shows indicators for when to clap, cheer, boo, etc that home viewers don't seePeople in the audience were sincerely coached on how to act (about 20 minutes per show) and genuinely if people would refuse, they'd have their ticket refunded and be told to leave
>>217472761I've never heard of that in my life
>>217472761are you high and thinking of this intro?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6DepmNwbn8
ohhh i think i know what you mean. more of like a "woop woop".https://vocaroo.com/1omQFSijRpOOthis type of thing? but less owl-y.
OP, are you talking about an Arsenio woof?
>>217473190exactly
>>217473145>>217473561no this anon >>217473190has got it
>>217473190That's the sound of da police.
>>217473190that's not oowa oowa
>>217473586https://youtu.be/9ZrAYxWPN6c?si=PmmvCU5mLu1EaSjR
>>217472296It was rather startling in a Mandela sort of way to find out Joy Behar was not Sally Jesse Raphael.
>>217473607lol
>>217472296https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rInLLpwuQH4Probably comes from Arsenio Hall doing the whoop whoop fist pump thing. It was huge meme back in the 90s and sort of became associated with talk shows.
>>217472296i know what you mean, here's an example at 0:37 (they do it more times, but that's the first one)in ukraine they liked that chant still in, or maybe it only reached them by, 2007https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfjHJneVonE
>>217473686It's this. It came from Arsenio Hall's talk show.
I swear it originates from some 70s funk or disco hit or something
>>217473800Made a short exploration and yep I was righthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmzxG9kdZhM
arsenio hall started the trend of signature audience behavior and everyone copied it somehow until they all realized it was stupid
>>217473900let's all chant oowa oowa ! oh yeah
>went to a mixed race school>graduation day>becky smith>cheers and applause>davarious jackson>hoot hoot hoot hoot
Great, now I have a cgi dancing baby and hooked on a feeling stuck in my head. Fuck you guys
>>217473900>>217473926Pre-internet memes were so cute and simple
>>217472331It's actually Whoothttps://youtu.be/aBwvFBxf_Eg?si=qB1on7wz_0IJbgR5
>>217473900I was also thinking of thishttps://youtu.be/M6lqTTyKeCs?si=fqzuVNs16K-GrNOT
>>217473190
>>217473724>>217473900yeah these are it
>>217473900Almost right.>It was based on an idea originally suggested by former A&M Records head of A&R Jerry Love after he visited clubs in New York and saw people endlessly chanting "Ooh-ah, Ooh-ah".So people were already doing it in clubs and it was worked into the song.
>>217474449Interesting. So studio audiences in the 90s were doing a club chant from the 70s.
>>217472296>"oowa oowa" chant.Another example. You don't have to watch the entire thing. The "oowa oowa" only happens in the intro. But, it is a fun watch.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nclj3vtg8M
>>217474545seems like it was a continual thing them from the 70s through the 90s. I always associated it with the 90s cause I swear every commercial break on Jenny Jones or whatever the audience would be doing it when they came back.
>>217474624Yeah. Earliest recorded one I can find is from the 1977, a year before the Zager song. Comes in around the 2 minute mark but who knows when it appeared or how.https://youtu.be/KQwvgPnWfKI?si=gYqE-aoPNZVwC77j
