Pingu is a Swiss claymation television series created by Otmar Gutmann that first aired in 1990, following a mischievous young penguin and his family. Pingu speaks 'Penguinese', a playful gibberish voiced by human actors, which is why his lines work so well as reaction sounds divorced from any plot. Short clips of the show have circulated as memes and soundboard staples for years, alongside other reaction clips like the laughing dog meme, because the voice is instantly recognisable even to people who never watched the series.