Meet the Team is Valve's series of character shorts for Team Fortress 2, released between 2007 and 2012 to introduce the game's nine mercenaries. Each video closes with the same jaunty brass outro sting, which quickly became shorthand for the series itself. As TF2 clips spread across YouTube, Source Filmmaker animations and meme compilations, editors lifted the outro to signal a polished ending. It endures because TF2 remains a meme staple, and the sting instantly tells viewers the joke has landed.