Penny Fitzgerald is a main character in Cartoon Network's The Amazing World of Gumball, which first aired in 2011, where she is Gumball Watterson's girlfriend and a peanut-shaped classmate. Her exaggerated laugh fits the show's surreal, fast-paced humour, in which ordinary school situations regularly collapse into chaos. Short clips of cartoon voices like this one have long circulated on soundboards and in fan edits, where a recognisable character voice can sell a joke instantly. The laugh endures because it is both familiar to Gumball fans and flexible enough for almost any over-the-top reaction.