Rehehehe / Scooby-Doo Laugh

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About

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.

Origin

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).

Spread

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]

On July 10th, 2022, TikToker^[8] @sumoslug posted an animation where Scooby does the laugh, garnering over 6.7 million views in three months (shown below).

On September 18th, TikToker^[9] @arbidfingernoodle uploaded the Megamind meme, garnering over 2.3 million views in a month. Over the following weeks the original sound went viral in lip dub videos where users make jokes about people doing comedically evil things, inspiring over 400 videos by October 6th (popular examples shown below).