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Harold Guildford
Rehehehe or Scooby-Doo Laugh refers to a high-pitched laugh that Scooby-Doo does throughout the series. In 2020, a video where an echoing version of the laugh comes from a well was posted online, becoming the subject of memes on YouTube and TikTok over the following years, including being mixed with a Megamind clip. The laugh also appears in numerous Quandale Dingle Voice memes.
Throughout the Scooby Doo series', Scooby is known to make a specific laugh that sounds like "rehehehe." The laugh has become iconic among fans of the show. It was notably uploaded to YouTube[1] by Aran on May 13th, 2011 for use as a ringtone, garnering over 916,000 views in 11 years (shown below, left). On October 3rd, 2015, YouTuber[2] Xoltarr424 posted an impression of the laugh, garnering over 764,000 views in seven years (shown below, right). On October 21st, 2016, YouTuber[3] Sunville Sounds uploaded a 10-hour cut of the laugh taken from the show, garnering over 630,000 views in six years.
On July 12th, 2020, YouTuber[4] KFC IS CHICKEN posted a video where a man looks down a well and asks, "Is there anybody in here?" followed by an echoing "rehehehe" laugh coming from the well, garnering over 11 million views in two years (shown below).
The echoing Scooby-Doo laugh became a popular sound effect on YouTube and TikTok throughout 2021, as well as impressions of the laugh. On July 20th, 2021, YouTuber Froge Hub posted a video of someone doing a similar laugh, garnering over 100,000 views in a year (shown below). In August, the viral well video was posted to TikTok[5] and its original sound inspired over 400 videos where people look inside something and hear the laugh.
On October 15th, YouTuber[6] Tsuko reuploaded a seemingly deleted video from TikTok adding the echoing laugh to the end of a scene from Megamind where Megamind says, "I'll always be a villain," garnering over 64,000 views in a year. That year throughout 2022, Ticklemytip began using a sped-up, goofy ahh version of the sound effect in his Quandale Dingle videos (shown below).[7]
I have a hard time seeing this as a 75-minute commercial when it's so well-made and laugh-out-loud funny, so I'll call it a resounding marketing victory. As with "Lego Movie," "Lego Scooby Doo"manages to integrate quotable dialogue and occasional fourth wall breaks into a script that references the Universal monster legacy and Roger Corman's bargain-basement business ethic. Lines like, "If I just tell you what everything means, then it wouldn't be art" reveal that these movies are being made with an awareness of what they're doing and a commendable desire to transcend expectations.
Laugh tracks were used by Hanna-Barbera used for several of its shows, mostly for Saturday morning cartoons from the 1970s. They first used the laugh track for their prime-time shows, such as The Flintstones, Top Cat, and The Jetsons. They then expanded using the laugh track into their daytime fare, starting with The Banana Splits in 1968, which emulated Filmation's The Archies, and from 1968 to 1971 used Charley Douglass' full laugh track on their popular Saturday morning content including Scooby Doo Where Are You! and Josie and the Pussy Cats.
However, by the 1970s, the laugh track had become increasingly expensive. Even though the success of Scooby-Doo set a new direction for the studio, at the end of the 1970-71 television season, the studio decided to cut back on a few of their assets, including Douglass' services. They still felt having a laugh track was necessary, however, so they came up with an alternative track to compensate: sound engineers at the Hanna-Barbera studios isolated half a dozen of Douglass' canned chuckles from some of their shows and mixed them with a Mackenzie repeater machine, a playback device that can play up to five tapes repeatedly. There were four mild laughs, plus two uncontrollable belly laughs (one contains an audible woman laughing prominently at the tail end). This limited laugh track did not contain any looping tapes, no endless variety of chuckles and no titter track. With the exception of the pilot episode of Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, which first aired as a segment in a Season 3 episode of Love, American Style, and their variety shows, such as the short-lived The Hanna-Barbera Happy Hour and the Legends of the Superheroes, in which they briefly turned to Douglass for sweetening, this laugh track, containing six tapes and fewer than ten snippets of laughter, would be used incessantly in nearly all of Hanna-Barbera's comedic fare for a decade.
Critics took note of the inferior-sounding laugh track permeating Hanna-Barbera's Saturday morning fare. The same prerecorded laugh can be heard after nearly every punchline. The fact that the treble was mixed far too high for the accompanying soundtrack also drew attention to the falsity of the practice. In a 1994 detailed assessment of the laugh track, re-recording mixer and laugh track historian Paul Iverson was especially critical of the lack of realism that existed in Hanna-Barbera's compiled track, commenting: "The Hanna Barbera laugh track did more to give laugh tracks a bad name than Douglass's work could ever have done. Using the same five or so laughs repeatedly for a decade does not go by unnoticed, no matter how young the viewer is."
The laugh track affected several TV specials as well, such as Casper's First Christmas, many specials from The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie (1972-73), and all The Flintstones' prime-time specials that aired during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Hanna-Barbera also used the limited laugh track when it produced Wait till Your Father Gets Home in 1972, the studio's first prime-time animated television show since the demise of The Flintstones in 1966. This laugh track was also slowed down during production, plus the studio added a third belly laugh to add a little more "variety" to the track. (This was the only TV series made by Hanna-Barbera to have this added belly laugh.)
The laugh track was discontinued after the 1981-82 television season. Except for The Flinstones package shows, the final shows to receive the chuckles were Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels, the first season of Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo, The New Fred and Barney Show, and The Super Globetrotters. The last special to feature the laugh track was The Flintstones: Jogging Fever, which aired 11 October 1981.
As the years have gone by, possibly due to the original master tapes wearing out, embarrassment, or introducing younger audiences who weren't familiar with the laugh track of the 1960s, Hanna-Barbera has aired their older shows in syndication on Cartoon Network, TBS, and Boomerang without the laugh track. Josie and the Pussy Cats is one primary example of this. Until the late 2010s, the show has aired on Cartoon Network and Boomerang with the original prints, which featured a laugh track, while home video releases of the show don't include the track at all. Many other shows have mirrored the same situation, including Hong Kong Phooey and Funky Phantom (which originally aired with the inferior track). Some shows, like Scooby-Doo and The Flintstones, still air their episodes with the laugh track, while a few of them have been muted and resulting in some cases the soundtrack being poorly re-mixed. As such, enthusiasts may never know entirely which shows from 1968 to 1981 aired with a laugh track as the original prints may altogether be lost or remain undisclosed by Time-Warner (who owns most of Hanna-Barbera's library).
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