The clip comes from MAD, the Cartoon Network animated sketch series based on Mad Magazine that ran from 2010 to 2013 and turned pop culture into short parody gags. Pencil Gets a Shave fits its style of taking an everyday object and putting it through a human routine for visual comedy. Short segments like this were later clipped and shared on soundboards and in meme edits, where the isolated shaving audio works even without the animation because the scraping tells the whole joke on its own.