The Typewriter

In some cases the sound of the typewriter’s carriage returning is made by a musical gourd,[4] flute, string or other instrument.

[9][5] The piece was featured in the Jerry Lewis film Who's Minding the Store (1963)[citation needed] and in the musical montage that opens Lewis' 1980 film Hardly Working,[citation needed] although his first recorded performance was on a January 1954 episode of The Colgate Comedy Hour.

[citation needed] The Radio 4 satirical programme The News Quiz adopted it as its theme tune (though in an arrangement not featuring a typewriter).

[10] The piece was featured in the Warner Bros. cartoon show Animaniacs, in the segment "Temporary Insanity" in the sixth episode of season one originally airing on September 20th, 1993.

[citation needed] Yakko Warner, in the role of an office temp, mimes using an invisible typewriter to type up a drafted letter while an abbreviated version of The Typewriter plays; at the end of the song, he pulls the typed letter from thin air.