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* ''Series/FawltyTowers'': Sibyl Fawlty. A combination of the Machine-Gun Chuckle with a Donkey Bray finish. According to her husband, it sounds like "somebody machine-gunning a seal". At least one set of [[UsefulNotes/ClosedCaptioning closed captions]] describes it as "braying" rather than "laughing."

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* ''Series/FawltyTowers'': Sibyl Fawlty. A combination of the Machine-Gun Chuckle with a Donkey Bray finish. According to her husband, it sounds like "somebody machine-gunning a seal". At least one set of [[UsefulNotes/ClosedCaptioning [[MediaNotes/ClosedCaptioning closed captions]] describes it as "braying" rather than "laughing."
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* ''Creator/RandyFeltface'': During his "Gumtree" story where he buys a bookshelf online, Randy describes Morgan's laugh as that of a demonic, baritone kookaburra.

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* The villain Nazalloff from ''Anime/LupinIIITheColumbusFiles'' has a laugh, several characters note this and Lupin even mocks his laugh at one point.
* In ''[[Literature/MyYouthRomanticComedyIsWrongAsIExpected My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU]]'', Yukino and Yui find Hikigaya's laugh unpleasant.

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* ''Anime/LupinIIITheColumbusFiles'': The villain Nazalloff from ''Anime/LupinIIITheColumbusFiles'' has a laugh, several characters note this and Lupin even mocks his laugh at one point.
* ''Manga/LoveIsInTheBag'': Lorelei often laughs boisterously (BWAHAHAHA) to the chagrin of everyone in the vicinity, while Lulu's laughter (OHOHOHO) only annoys Kate.
* ''Literature/MyYouthRomanticComedyIsWrongAsIExpected'':
In ''[[Literature/MyYouthRomanticComedyIsWrongAsIExpected My ''My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU]]'', SNAFU'', Yukino and Yui find Hikigaya's laugh unpleasant.



* Kodachi in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''. Her shrill, maniacal cackle that is one of her trademarks. It's not a coincidence that Kodachi shares Naga's voice actress. Mocked often in ''WebVideo/RanmaOneHalfTheAbridgedChronicles''.

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* Kodachi in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''. Her ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Kodachi's shrill, maniacal cackle that is one of her trademarks. It's not a coincidence that Kodachi shares Naga's voice actress. Mocked often in ''WebVideo/RanmaOneHalfTheAbridgedChronicles''.



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* ''ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark'': Bear's on-again-off-again girlfriend, who everyone else calls "Zig-pig" because she's incredibly obnoxious, has a nails-on-chalkboard laugh.
* ''ComicBook/Ratman1989'': Graziello, the BigBad of the "Comic School" story, is a doodle-boy with an irritating, piercing laugh.
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* ''WebAnimation/TheMarionetteTriesToListenToHisMusicbox'': [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 Balloon Boy]] laughs to the tune of "My Grandfather's Clock", resulting in him making several clipped-sounding "HA!" noises in rapid succession. The already-irritated Marionette finds it annoying enough to lob a nuclear warhead at the kid after only hearing it for a few seconds.
* In ''Fanfic/OriginStory'', Alex Harris's laugh is described as a combination of a howl and a honk. One character described her laugh as sounding "for all the world like a seal being tortured."
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12164757/7/The-Fifth-House The Fifth House]]'' before Amelia fell in love with Sirius, she believed that his laugh sounded like a cross between a hyena and a constipated bear.

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* ''Fanfic/HereThereBeMonsters'': Dr. Sivana and his children have a loud, irritating laughter, and they can keep it up for hours, to his allies' disgust and irritation.
-->''Dr. Sivana was so pleased with himself he hadn't stopped "heh-heh-heh"ing in the last thirty minutes. If he hadn't been so important to the Monster Society, his associates probably would have squashed him just to shut him up.''
* ''WebAnimation/TheMarionetteTriesToListenToHisMusicbox'': [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 Balloon Boy]] Boy laughs to the tune of "My Grandfather's Clock", resulting in him making several clipped-sounding "HA!" noises in rapid succession. The already-irritated Marionette finds it annoying enough to lob a nuclear warhead at the kid after only hearing it for a few seconds.
* In ''Fanfic/OriginStory'', Alex Harris's laugh is described as a combination of a howl and a honk. One character described her laugh as sounding "for all the world like a seal being tortured."
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''Harry Potter'' fanfiction ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12164757/7/The-Fifth-House The Fifth House]]'' before Amelia fell in love with Sirius, she believed that his laugh sounded like a cross between a hyena and a constipated bear.



* ''Film/{{Amadeus}}'' has Mozart delivering a shrill, obnoxious, hyena-like cackle (which as the Real Life folder below shows, is historically accurate!).

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* ''Film/{{Amadeus}}'' has Mozart delivering a shrill, obnoxious, hyena-like cackle (which as the Real Life folder below shows, is historically accurate!).cackle.



* Benedict the rocket wielding [[BirdPeople hawk man]] from ''VideoGame/{{Battleborn}}'' has a really annoying laugh. When laughing too hard, it'll sometimes go over into clucking. Amusingly enough, it seems to annoy himself the most.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Battleborn}}'': Benedict the rocket wielding [[BirdPeople hawk man]] from ''VideoGame/{{Battleborn}}'' has a really annoying laugh. When laughing too hard, it'll sometimes go over into clucking. Amusingly enough, it seems to annoy himself the most.
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* Rosie from ''Film/DoctorInDistress1963'' has a high-pitched manic giggle that gets on everyone's nerves except for the Australian sailor who fancies her.
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* Melanie Pearson from ''Series/{{Neighbours}}'', whose laugh has been compared to "a seal having a hernia", not helped by her tendency to overreact to Henry's lame quips.

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* Melanie Pearson from ''Series/{{Neighbours}}'', whose laugh has been compared to "a seal having a hernia", not helped by hernia". This was established in her tendency to overreact [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh26C7GwUKM first scene in 1987]] when she overreacted to Henry's lame quips.quip about the house having thick walls. It hadn't improved much when she returned in 2021, but she did seem more aware of how annoying other people find it.
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* Creator/JamesLBrooks has a distinctive loud staccato laugh, sometimes referred to as "The Honk," which can be annoyingly prominent on the sitcoms he created, sometimes drowning out the StudioAudience. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo4Xecm4uT8 Here's one example]] from ''Series/{{Taxi}}''.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOutOfWater'' has Mr. Krabs torturing a captive Plankton by leaving him in a room with a cackling [=SpongeBob=], who laughs uncontrollably in response to a Knock-Knock joke.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOutOfWater'' ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongebobMovieSpongeOutOfWater'' has Mr. Krabs torturing a captive Plankton by leaving him in a room with a cackling [=SpongeBob=], who laughs uncontrollably in response to a Knock-Knock joke.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOutOfWater'' has Mr. Krabs torturing a captive Plankton by leaving him in a room with a cackling SpongeBob, who laughs uncontrollably in response to a Knock-Knock joke.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOutOfWater'' has Mr. Krabs torturing a captive Plankton by leaving him in a room with a cackling SpongeBob, [=SpongeBob=], who laughs uncontrollably in response to a Knock-Knock joke.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobMovieSpongeOutOfWater'' has Mr. Krabs torturing a captive Plankton by leaving him in a room with a cackling SpongeBob, who laughs uncontrollably in response to a Knock-Knock joke.
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* ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'': When Ned looks for a new girlfriend after Suzie moves away, Moze sets him up with a girl whose father owns a pizza place. However, her laugh proves a real deal-breaker.


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* ''Radio/TheJackBennyProgram'': Mary has a very distinctive cackle whenever she wants to make a crack at Jack.

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