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Woody Woodpecker, created by Walter Lantz and first appearing in 1940, is known in Brazil as Pica-Pau, where dubbed reruns made his manic laugh a childhood staple. In Brazilian internet slang, zoeira means playful mockery and teasing, and short laugh clips like this are shared on soundboards and messaging apps for exactly that purpose. The hyena comparison comes from the wild, cackling delivery that sounds more animal than human. Editors still reach for it because the character is instantly recognisable and the laugh needs no context to read as ridicule.
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The hyena laugh from Woody Woodpecker, known in Brazil as Pica-Pau, a wild cackling cartoon sound used for mocking reactions and joke punchlines in edits.
This is a short, high-pitched cackling laugh lifted from Woody Woodpecker cartoons, where the character bursts into a rapid hyena-like giggle. The laugh starts shrill and uneven, bouncing up and down in pitch as if he cannot contain himself after a prank or a rival's failure. It sounds manic, teasing and instantly cartoonish, rather than warm or friendly. Placed over a reaction shot it turns a simple moment into open mockery, signalling to the viewer that someone has been tricked, embarrassed or caught out, and that the joke is entirely at their expense.
