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Yeah, nothing pulls me out of the moment quite like a Wilhelm.
There are times when it's used ironically or as an in-joke, and then I quite enjoy it--like the Family Guy clip. I pretty much assume everything on that show is done with a wink, so having the piano guy dive off the stage and give a Wilhelm is quite a nice little gag, for all three of us who caught it. But when a movie's trying to be serious and they throw down a fifty year old stock "I'm falling" scream.... Suddenly I'm not on the (multi-million-dollar) fields of Pelenor, instead I'm sitting in a movie theater wondering how they could be so lazy.
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