The clip comes from The Golden Child, the 1986 fantasy comedy starring Eddie Murphy, known in French as L'Enfant sacré du Tibet. In the film Murphy plays Chandler Jarrell, a detective drawn into a quest to rescue a sacred child, and the short Pepe call is one of the film's small, quotable vocal moments. Shared on soundboards, it has survived as a compact reaction sound because it is instantly recognisable, easy to place over a cut and tied to Murphy's energetic screen presence.