Pizza Tower is a fast-paced indie platformer released in 2023, built around Peppino Spaghetti racing through levels during Pizza Time escape sequences. If the player does not reach the exit before the clock expires, the run ends and Pizzaface, the game's floating pizza-headed villain, taunts the failure with his distinctive laugh. Clips of that defeat spread through gameplay videos, speedrun fails and short-form edits, where the laugh became shorthand for running out of time. It remains popular because the moment is instantly recognisable to fans and easy to reuse for any timed failure.