The sting comes from the production logo for Eddie Murphy Television, the company behind series Murphy produced and starred in during the late 1980s and 1990s. Viewers heard it as the closing ident after episodes, with Murphy's laugh serving as an audio signature instead of a traditional announcer voice. Clips of old TV logos later spread on YouTube and soundboards as nostalgia pieces, and this one endured because the laugh is instantly identifiable even without seeing the logo animation or Murphy himself on screen.