The sound comes from Old MacDonald Duck, a Donald Duck cartoon released on 12 September 1941, where short, exaggerated noises helped sell the farmyard slapstick. The squeak and pop were later catalogued as a stock cartoon effect in the Hollywood Edge library, under a collection of varied squeak and pop creaks, which made the clip easy for editors to reuse. Because it is only a fraction of a second long and instantly reads as playful, it has stayed in use for short videos, memes and animated edits that need a quick comic accent without dialogue.