That signature seven-note laugh — ha-ha-ha-HA-ha-ha-ha — has been bouncing around American animation since 1940, and these 6 Woody Woodpecker clips reproduce its cartoon vocabulary cleanly enough to drop into retro edits without lifting copyrighted broadcast audio. The iconic laugh comes in a few takes at different tempos, alongside rapid pecking on wood, classic chase stings, and the woodpecker sound effects that punctuate hits and pratfalls in old animation grammar.
Retro-edit YouTube creators use the laugh as a punchline beat over modern footage where the absurdity is the joke. Animation work that's stylistically nodding to mid-century cartooning pulls the chase stings and pecking sounds — they read as a whole era of comedic timing in one cue. For sound-design experimentation, pitch the laugh down a fifth and it crosses from cartoon to genuinely unsettling, which several horror shorts have leaned on. Free to download for personal and commercial projects, no signup or attribution.