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Trigger warnings:
Common attributes in Welcome Home that may not be suitable for all audiences are listed below!
- Eyes, eye contact, or staring.
- Unreality or derealization
- Gore
- Puppets or mannequins
- Exploration of heavy topics, like death, isolation and mental health.
Auditory unease, such as unpleasant sounds.
As I know the doc is long, I have divided each update into it’s own document to make it easier to find and digest things:
Welcome Home Homewarming Update
Please enjoy -F3L1X
"With a hop, skip, and a jump, you are ushered into the colorful, serendipitous world of Welcome Home! It only takes one stroll down the neighborhood to know this is just the nicest little place you’ve ever seen! Watch Wally and his colorful array of friendly neighbors learn about the vibrant world around them and take part in nonsensical fun!"
Welcome to the Welcome Home Master Log neighbour! Feel free to explore my humble Doc and learn more about a puppet ARG that’s currently under way! Thank you for visiting!
All images are found on the website and are canon - though some are edited to look closer at details and text (cropped, lightened, contrast change, ect.)
Feel free to hover over text as some words may redirect you to other areas within the doc!!
Images with text have had the text added below in case the image is hard to read.
🖍️As Above🖍️
Web Pages - Welcome to the basics!
These are only the ‘above’, non-hidden pages!
Welcome Home
This is the welcome page to the site - accessible through the non-canon site. It depicts Home - playset version (?) welcoming us.
Come in!
(before 22 jul update)
(Same image used in YWXOEV but in light???)
(After 22 jul update)
In the halloween update, home gets all dressed up!
(the overlays used to dress up Home)
Welcome Home You
Main home page of the site! At the bottom there’s a view counter too!!
Please Read Each Update Here (if you can’t read the images :3)! <--link!
(27th mar 2023)
(22nd jul 2023)
(14 october 2023)
(25 december 2023)
(9th march 2024)
The gif version of some images are in the For The Website section of the doc.
This small section of the home page will be where we get updates from the Archivists (possibly directing us to the news page), and maybe even fun holiday announcements!! Happy Mail-in-Time day, neighbour!!
(27th mar 16:39 2023)
It seems we’ll get more clear updates from the archivists here!
Minor note, the name Wally is no longer written in red at the top of the page as of 9th March 2024.
Homewarming update:
- Counter is locked at 100000
- At the bottom of the page, we are all familiar with the image of the neighbors. We have observed this to not be rippling or ‘breathing’. Some believe the sight it breathing, just like what we see with home in Comercials (hidden page).
What's Welcome Home
An about page!! This introduces us to the show of Welcome Home, the people who were behind it, Playfellow Workshop, and the mystery of it all going missing…
At the bottom it links to the FAQ / About Us.
There’s even a fun slide of images from our wonderful restoration team!! All images have been saved here in the art section of the document (in different sections).
Your Neighbourhood
A page introducing us to the characters and homes of our colourful cast!
Not much to note here - it’s all been covered in Characters/Neighbourhood! (Further down in the document).
About Us
The about us and FAQ for the page!! This introduces us to the Archivist team behind the website (canon to the story) along with their motives!
This page contains many Hidden Texts logged lower in this document.
The hidden text is no longer there as of 9th March 2024.
News Page
Just what it says!! A news page!!
This will be a good place to find out about the less hidden updates we will find on the site, alongside the news banner on the main page.
This is where we have been first introduced to the Question Answerer!!
Ominous text found within the 22 jul post:
We have definitive proof that Welcome Home is real, we can finally hear them.
I believe closing the guest book was a good idea anyhow. There are. There are images I don’t remember uploading to decorate your messages. I don’t know how they got there. But! Please excuse those pesky bugs, dear neighbor! What is a beautiful home without a pest or two?
//
So many guest signatures… So many of them are trying to communicate. What are you telling me for? Do you think I can answer. What are you trying to do to me. I’m closing that guest book, I’m not playing this game anymore. The ringing is enough.
This could possibly be from Wally.
//
Ominous text from the Friday 13th post:
Our source has yet to send the full book. I don’t understand why. What is it worth to leave it out? Ripping out pages… What a waste. It takes so long to get everything off of them. Still, we’re patient, aren’t we. If you are reading this, please hurry.
This may be from the Question Answerer, based on how he speaks of the team in Staff Only.
(Later in the same post):
What is it, I hear you pleading! Clawing at your screens just as we have! Coughing, headaches, nausea- I know. I know.
//
March 9th post:
“Don’t you feel at peace exploring these pages? Free from worry? From prying eyes? We’re looking out for you, neighbor”
This may suggest some form of awareness around a second (or even third) party active on the site.
Guestbook
The guestbook contains notes from many people!
Over the top of these are doodles from someone, plus 2 hidden notes on the last page. The links below will take you to find the doodles (with their file names) alongside the hidden texts.
Oh, and you can leave your own little note.. Though we’re not sure if it will end up on the guestbook!!
THIS WAS CLOSED ON JULY 22ND
Prologue part 1
Stickers (previously named Links)
“ Spread the good word about Welcome Home with these fun banners!
There's just no place like home, neighbor! ”
Despite being called ‘links’, this page (at least in March 2023) there are no links!! Only banners (some of which are seen in Characters/Neighbourhood! / Eye Imagery
There are also these:
In the december 25 2003 update, a mess has been made on the stickers page. Along with a response to the command Say “Ok”.
Above images from vash.the_stampede. On Discord.
“OK” written using stickers of the naighbours, the signatures used for the quote marks
The smiley face doodle in the middle says:
“I did not write it. I did something else. I know who these neighbours are. Do you like them too?”
Merchandise
“The tireless research of the The Welcome Home Restoration Project has revealed an absolute plethora of merchandise created during the heyday of Welcome Home! From toys, to books, records, greeting cards, all the way to your favorite breakfast cereal, there was truly no shortage of ways to bring your favorite neighbors into your own home! We've catalogued a few of our findings below, and will continue to add more as new discoveries are uncovered and restored!”
"It's-For-You!" Talking Telephone Toy
Each phone would have all the calls, not just one each. It is purely a cosmetic thing to sell more toys.
As we see, the Wally phone has all the calls.
Dated 1971, manufactured by Marlo, Inc.
We are very lucky to have recovered this item packaging and all, and restored the toy to original working order! Our research suggests it was an officially licensed toy from the Playfellow Workshop that had partnered with a company called Marlo. The packaging suggests that many versions of these phones were sold, each themed to one of the neighbors, but as of writing we have only been able to recover the Wally Darling themed phone.
Click the buttons below to listen to the audio recovered from this delightful device! (NOTE: The audio for Wally Darling is experiencing a glitch and has been temporarily taken offline. Please be patient as we work to restore this as soon as we possibly can!)
Welcome Home - “IT’S-FOR-YOU!” - THE OFFICIAL MARLO TALKING TELEPHONE - Ages: 2’5
Welcome Home
“IT’S-FOR-YOU!”
THE OFFICIAL MARLO TALKING TELEPHONE
Talk to Wally and his neighbourhood friends!
You’re just the most
HEAR YOUR FAVOURITE NEIGHBOURS!
16 BUILT-IN CONVERSATIONS!
VOICE COMES FROM THE RECEIVER LIKE A REAL PHONE!
BARNABY: Pick up the phone for a great gaff, kid!
FRANK: I only have a moment to spare!
JULIE: Do you want to hear about my new game?
“IT’S-FOR-YOU!”
THE OFFICIAL MARLO TALKING TELEPHONE
Sally Starlet
Julie Joyful Poppy Partridge
Frank Frankly .
Barnaby B Beagle
CALL YOUR NEIGHBOURS
WITH A RAINBOW OF
FUNNY PHONES TO MATCH
YOUR FAVOURITE
PLAYFELLOW PUPPETS!
(Each sold separately)
*Audio On Site
Transcripts: IT'S-FOR-YOU! transcripts
Clicking on the Wally button brings you to the duet page.
These images are from the Exhibition page.
“It’s-For-You!” Talking telephone toy packaging
Produced by Marlo, inc. 1971 Remarkably, the Welcome Home Restoration Team was able to recover and restore the full packaging for this telephone toy. Through this, we have learned that additional phones were sold, each themed to the other neighbors.
“It’s-For-You!” Talking telephone toy & packaging
Manufactured by Marlo, inc. 1971 The Welcome Home Restoration Project team was able to return this rare piece of memorabilia to working condition, including original recorded voice lines from the entire Welcome Home cast. It is unknown if the recordings were made by the on-screen cast or soundalikes contracted by Marlo’s team, but regardless, research indicates it was an officially licensed toy from the Playfellow Workshop.
This image is not canon (likely a beta design of some sorts), but provides us a better look at the phones (although this image has numbers instead of the buttons like we see on the box art).
"Rainbow Letters" Eddie Dear Playset
Dated est. 1971, unknown manufacturer
This array of brightly colored letters seem to be inspired by the equally as colorful neighbors of Home, such as Howdy Pillar, Frank Frankly, and Barnaby B. Beagle. These pieces are predicted to have been from an activity set based upon the efforts of the friendly and reliable mailman, Eddie Dear. It seems as though whoever enjoyed this playset had a grand time pretending to mail letters to their favorite Playfellow puppets!
(Same image used in the exhibition page)
Walls!
You told me to tell you when I got more paint in stock, So hereI am telling you! Boy, you go through this stuff faster than Julie through chalk!
I would have called you myself, but I have my hands full! All four of em! Ha!
Your favorite supporter of the Arts!
Howdy Pillar!
P.S You still owe me a knock-knock joke!
Wally Darling
Home
Barnaby
Home
(A zoomed in version of this image is on the exhibition page twice - one zoomed into the letter, one into the drawing.)
Rainbow Letters (Eddie Dear playset)
Est. 1971 This array of brightly colored letters seem to be inspired by the equally as colorful neighbors of Home, such as Howdy Pillar, Frank Frankly, and Barnaby B. Beagle. These pieces are predicted to have been from an activity set based upon the efforts of the friendly and reliable mailman, Eddie Dear.
Letter from from "Rainbow Letters" Eddie Dear Playset
Est. 1971 This letter, in pristine handwriting, was recovered alongside the rest of the "Rainbow Letters" Eddie Dear Playset. Whoever originally enjoyed this playset clearly had a grand time pretending to mail letters to their favorite Playfellow puppets!
Drawing from "Rainbow Letters" Eddie Dear Playset
Est. 1971 The previous owner of this playset seemed to be channeling their best Frank Frankly in this charming doodle of one of Welcome Home's smaller residents! The Welcome Home Restoration Team was able to recover three envelopes from this colorful playset, two of which contained play letters such as this.
Dear Wally Darling,
How are you today? I hope you are doing well. I’m having a good day. I know you would ask if you were here.
I have found a new insect today.
You remember what an insect is, don’t you? It is a beautiful arthropod!
I drew you a picture of it. I thought out of everyone in this neighbourhood, you would appreciate its extravagant colors. I had to write to you soon as I had seen it and before it went on its way.
From,
Frank Frankly
Legs are big and soft!
Rounded and tapered towards the body!
"Eddie's Big Lift" Storybook Record
Date unknown, published by Marlo Records
A rare find indeed! We were able to recover not only the complete, original audio from this Welcome Home storybook record, but several illustrations speculated to have been part of either the record packaging or complimentary storybook. Listen below as the neighborhood comes together to challenge the might of resident reliable mailman, Eddie Dear!
Recording of Book on Site
Transcript: Eddie's Big Lift transcript
EDDIE’S BIG LIFT EDDIE CAN LIFT A HOUSE!
Currently Unknown Records
Including "Welcome Home", "Drawing with Wally Darling", and "The Fun in Your Frown"
Dated est. 1970-1972, published by Marlo Records
Get ready to laugh, draw and sing with your favorite cast of puppets from the Welcome Home television program, through this collection of newly uncovered vinyl records! Although not entirely from the same catalog, these records display an array of different music and activities that range from singing with Frank and Julie about the joys of frowning, to Wally’s helpful guide to drawing, and an array of other silly songs meant to keep viewers engaged with this delightful television show. Unfortunately, these records are heavily damaged and appear to have been poorly maintained, so efforts to recover the audio are still ongoing.
First thing on the slide is a video of a record playing - the audio distorted and pitched down!
In one of these images we can see a Wally puppet clear as day in the reflection!!
Welcome Home
The Welcome Home cast with the sherry [unknown] Orchestra
Side A
- Welcome Home Theme
- A Joyful Jaunt
- Tall, Short, High and Low
- A Tomato Can’t Talk
- The Sale of the Century
[illegible]
Welcome Home record
Est. 1970-1972 Even incomplete discoveries can tell us much about the history of Welcome Home. For example, the above record was recovered in a state so damaged, we cannot listen to the audio. But the relatively intact state of the label tells us what songs were included and when, where and how it might have been produced!
Welcome Home records
Est. 1970-1972 Including Wally Darling’s “Draw with Me” vinyl and Frank Frankly & Julie Joyful’s “The Fun in Your Frown” Est. 1970-1972 Get ready to laugh, draw and sing with your favorite cast of puppets from the Welcome Home television program, through this collection of newly uncovered vinyl records! Although not entirely from the same catalog, these records display an array of different music and activities that range from singing with Frank and Julie about the joys of frowning, to Wally’s helpful guide to drawing, and an array of other silly songs meant to keep viewers engaged with this delightful television show. Unfortunately, these records are heavily damaged and appear to have been poorly maintained, so efforts to recover the audio are still ongoing.
We have included a 30 second clip of a record playing. The audio is incredibly distorted and warped (new addition, March 9th 2024).
Through editing the audio in much smarter ways than I could ever understand, hollisthegreatandpowerfultoaster has found that the audio originated from an Alice In Wonderland audio recording.
This one specifically:
https://archive.org/details/78_alice-in-wonderland_guild-drama-group_gbia0475744a
This is the transcript:
Narrator: [It was quite dark, and when the tunnel took a sharp drop,] Alice felt herself falling down, down, down.
Alice: Oh gee! I wonder if I shall come out [in China]!
"Crispy Sweets" Rice Puff Cereal
Date and manufacturer unknown
Currently, this deliciously sweet treat is only known through the discovery of an advertising standee, which you can see restored above. One can only imagine the joy of seeing this charming standee in their own local supermarket, surely beside a fully-stocked shelf of Crispy Sweets ready to take home! The search is ongoing to recover the original cereal packaging, so we might learn more about this neighborly part of a complete breakfast.
Deliciously “As a cereal,
sweet rice it’s the most!”
puffs!
Both images were featured in the exhibition page, alongside this:
"Crispy Sweets" Cereal Box Illustration
Est. 1971 This Welcome Home-brand cereal packaging design was recovered alongside a paired advertising standee, providing our first evidence of the cereal's existence. The rest of the packaging has yet to be recovered.
Wally Darling retail standee
Original design est. 1971; replica 2023 Faithfully recreated based on recovered documents, this charming standee shows off Wally Darling at his full three-foot height, and once again showcases the sheer impact of Welcome Home and its wide range of merchandise and tie-in products.
Wally Darling's Coloring Book
Date unknown, published by Marlo
With the help of this beautiful booklet, viewers could color along with Wally Darling right at home! Though we have only been able to restore one out of surely many illustrations including in the book, the recovery of the complete cover - including price and publisher information! - is an unexpectedly wonderful find!
Wally Darling’s Coloring Book “You’re good at this!”
"Mail-in-Time Day" Valentine's Day Cards
Dated est. 1971, manufacturer unknown
Love is in the air, or so they say, and nowhere is that more clear than this package of Welcome Home Valentines Day Cards! They appear to be promoting a made-up holiday, as “Mail-in-Time Day” is found on the back of all of the cards, as well as on the packaging itself. This may have been a holiday displayed only on the show, perhaps associated with Eddie Dear. (Wally and Barnaby are displayed on the yet-to-be-restored front of the package, wearing his uniform!) Currently, lovely illustrations of Wally, Julie, Frank, Eddie, Sally and Howdy have been recovered from the set found by the Welcome Home Restoration Team.
Wally: I Love You! now doesn’t that make your day!
Sally: I’m over the stars for you! … and maybe the Moon too!
(only two with the description are above, the others were found elsewhere on the site!!)
Howdy: It’s on the house for you, Valentine!
Eddie: I’d weather any weather for you, Valentine!
Julie: You’re a hair-DO, Valentine!
Frank: You’re quite the catch, Valentine!
This image is from the exhibition page.
“Mail-in-Time Day” Valentine’s cards
Est. 1971 A selection of Welcome Home Valentine’s Day cards, reconstructed and restored from a damaged package recovered by the WHRP team. Both the packaging and the back of each original card referenced “Mail-in-Time Day” rather than Valentine’s Day, suggesting they may have been in reference to a fictional holiday celebrated by the cast on the show. Fittingly, the holiday seemed associated with resident mailman Eddie Dear, with Wally and Barnaby pictured wearing his uniform on the original packaging.
The Official Welcome Home Cook Book
Date unknown, publisher unknown.
This piece of found material was an odd case! Rather than receive the entirety of the book in a damaged state, we were instead met with only a few comprehensible pages. We anticipate a potential recovery of what we believe to be an entire cook book filled with recipes that Welcome Home fans could make for themselves! If you are out there, I promise, we will wait patiently.
March 9th new description:
Date unknown, publisher unknown.
What’s cookin’? Well, one certainly would be cooking with The Official Welcome Home Cookbook! This 110-page, full-color cookbook was simply overflowing with delightful treats and unique recipes, inspired by Welcome Home characters. It featured both illustrations and photographs of the finished recipes. This cookbook seems to have been released during the winter holiday season, as a vast majority of the recipes inside are distinctly holiday-themed in nature.
Unfortunately, The Welcome Home Restoration team has only been able to recover an incomplete book with missing pages.
All the images of the book have a ‘Welcome Home Restoration Project’ watermark stamped over the center.
ALL PAGES WILL BE DIGITIZED SOON
The description for the cookbook has changed.
Please see the recipes typed out here for your convenience:
The Official Welcome Home Cook Book
"Happy Haunting to Boo and Yours!" Storybook Record
Date unknown, Endorsed by Crispy Sweets, Published by Marlo.
What’s a better way to get in the mood for Halloween than with the neighbors of Welcome Home? Hear for yourselves how they celebrate the spookiest day of the year with Sally Starlet’s Macabre Menagerie of Monstrous Mischief Making. Enjoy a gaggle of bone chilling tall tales through this newly uncovered storybook record!
The discovery of this vinyl has brought assurance of even more recorded stories akin to “Eddie’s Big Lift.” However, this particular audio rip skips at 16:56 and quickly jumps past Sally’s dialogue to 18:51. Although the sound between these times is incomprehensible noise, we have transcribed what we could.
Welcome Home
Happy Haunting to
Boo and Yours!
Happy Haunting to Boo and Yours! transcript
I have done my best to transcribe the missing text as acurately as I could - and it is written in this same red to signify where it is!
Official Wally Darling Halloween Costume
Date unknown, manufacturer unknown.
The best part about Halloween is dressing up as your favorite character! With the official Wally Darling costume, children could do just that! This outfit was sure to make any child the envy of their friends while also staying within their parent’s budget just in time for the scariest season of the year! The fully ventilated Wally Darling mask ensured children could adorn Wally’s signature smile through their trick-or-treating efforts while the polyester clothing announced their love for Welcome Home!
This costume did not come in its original packaging, so we are unsure if there were additional characters made into costumes. Imagine being your favorite merry mailman, the resident grump, or the happiest hound in town! Here is to hoping more will be uncovered in the future!
New image as of 9 March 2024
The Welcome Home Wish Book
Date unknown, manufacturer unknown.
Finding the perfect gift for a loved one during the holiday season couldn’t be easier with the Welcome Home Wish Book! This holiday gift catalog was chock-full of shiny new toys and games that could be ordered via mail-in form and delivered right to your doorstep! From wind-up toys to emergency joke kits, one was sure to have their Christmas shopping list checked off in little to no time at all!
In addition to the recovered Wish Book cover and pages, we were able to find a portion of what appears to be a radio advertisement starring Santa himself, which you can listen to below! This ad makes mention of several toys and games that were not featured in our uncovered pages, leaving us all with hope that there is even more left to find.
There is also an audio file attached. Here is the google doc transcript:
"Homewarming" Storybook Record
Date unknown, Published by Marlo.
How do you celebrate Homewarming? With the help of his best friend Barnaby B. Beagle, our own Wally Darling is trying to find out before the big Homewarming party, in this charming holiday storybook by Marlo Records. Based on this discovery in accompaniment with past items such as “Eddie’s Big Lift” and “Happy Haunting to Boo and Yours”, it would appear Marlo regularly produced and sold storybook records based on the holidays of Home, sometimes in partnership with other groups such as Crispy Sweets. Imagine what other silly seasonal shenanigans we may find in the future!
In addition to this heartwarming Homewarming story, the album included a special rendition of “Toyland” sung by Wally Darling himself. We have been able to recover this audio for your listening pleasure below!
"Homewarming" Storybook Record Transcript
"Homewarming Harmonies for Hearth and Home" Album
Date unknown, Published by Marlo.
With this album full of songs from all of your favorite neighbors, you’re sure to bring the Homewarming spirit into your own home! Though we were only able to recover and restore one complete track - “Up from the Home-Top”, starring Julie Joyful, Sally Starlet, Eddie Dear, Frank Frankly, and Barnaby B. Beagle - our research suggests there may have been a dozen or more songs recorded for this charming holiday record. Possible song titles may have included “Have a Safe Li’l Homewarming”, “A Barely Silent Night”, “We Three Queens”, and “Barnaby’s Holly Jolly Holiday Stand Up Intermission Hoedown”.
"UP FROM THE HOME-TOP" Transcript
"Howdy's Holiday Hullabaloo" Record
Date unknown, Published by Marlo.
What’s a holiday without all the family there to celebrate with you? For our own Howdy Pillar, that’s a lot of family… a quarter of a wiggle of ‘em, in fact! Meet a few endearing and eclectic members of the extended Pillar family with this wonderfully wacky Homewarming single, courtesy of Marlo Records. Our team has been lucky to uncover and restore the complete track, alongside the above cover art! Take a listen down below!
HOWDY'S HOLIDAY HULLABALOO! Transcript
Barnaby's Tobacco Pipe
Date unknown, manufacturer unknown
Does your child ever wish to be just like their tobacco pipe-smoking pop, but without the danger of smoke inhalation? Look no further! With this “bubbly play pipe” hand-painted with Barnaby-inspired colors, children could do just that— through the fun of blowing bubbles! Just pour the bubble liquid into the reservoir, close the cap, and you were ready to “smoke” just like your old man! Or even better, just like Barnaby B. Beagle himself!
This toy appeared to be a tie-in product for Hooplah brand cigarettes, as it was shown to be a child-friendly smoking alternative in concurrently-running Hooplah advertisements.
Transcribed by ear by F3L1X (me):
[slightly warped audio for the first second or so of the recording]
Barnaby: Whatcha’ waitin’ for, Howdy? I’ll take’a pack and a light!
Howdoo and Youdo (Howdy’s nephews): Buh’ wha’bout me, uncle Howdy?
Howdy: Aw, sorry little Howdo and Youdo, but this just ‘aint for kids!
Barnaby: Now hold it! If they want in on the fun, they can have one of Barnaby’s Bubbly Play Pipes! Sponsored by Hooplah! It’s completely safe, and kids can pretend they’re blowin’ big streams of bubbles!
Howdo and Youdo (Howdy’s nephews): Yahoo! Now we can have a Hooplah too!
[Howdo, Youdo and Barnaby all sing along to the Hooplah theme]
"Bug-a-Bye and Goodnight: An Ode to Hibernation" Record
Date unknown, Published by Marlo.
As the winter chill rolls into Home, the neighborhood’s plethora of insects tuck away to slumber away the season, and resident nature nurturer Frank Frankly is there to bid them all goodnight! The Welcome Home Restoration Team has been lucky to recover this sweet and somber song practically in its entirety - with album cover, insert sleeve, and the restored track all here for you to enjoy!
BUG-A-BYE AND GOODNIGHT Transcript
This could link to the gap being driven between Eddie and Frank , especially considering the Comercials and the suggestion of a romantic relationship between Frank and Julie by the WHRP Team. It shows his concern for him and possible compassion, but may also suggest that he cannot fight the distance due to something unseen by us.
There may also be links to Julie as we see in "Homewarming" Storybook Record that she too hibernates, however this would be less deep and worried as she will be back after winter.
Bug-a-Bye and Goodnight
An emotional ode to the winter season from the resident nature nurturer, Frank Frankley
:an ode to hibernation
An Ode to:
HIBERNATION
Set of Homewarming Greeting Cards
Date unknown, manufacturer unknown.
There is quite a bit of mystery surrounding these charming Homewarming greeting cards - who created them? Were they sold all together, or as multiple sets? Are they even from the same era of Welcome Home’s run? Regardless of where and when they came from, one thing is for certain: they’re as sweet as can be! Additionally, these cards have served as confirmation of some of Julie Joyful’s features and habits as a rainbow monster, including hibernating soundly through the winter season.
Keep Cosy Happy
Homewarming
Crispy Sweets Frosted Cereal
Date unknown, manufacturer unknown.
Who knew Crispy Sweets cereal could taste even better? With the winter season around the corner, it only made sense for a frosted version of Wally’s favorite cereal to hit grocery store shelves! Even the updated holiday box art depicted Wally and Barnaby in their warmest winter best! With this limited-time treat, we were also able to uncover the back side of the packaging, featuring a holiday-themed decoder ring puzzle with our own Eddie Dear! Imagine what fun it would be to send secret messages to your closest friends with this Homewarming treat!
Crispy Sweets Frosted Howdy, Neighbor! Give this here craft a whirl!
Use the Welcome Home De-Coder to make or break secret codes!
What does Home wear at parties?
[symbols]
This code may be used to find some hidden links or otherwise, especially as we see many of these symbols around the website.
Keep an eye out.
(The answer to the boxe’s ‘puzzle’ is ‘address’)
Media
Slowly but surely, we have begun to uncover media that confirms Welcome Home was once on the air! These remnants can be found below, including animation cels, radio plays, scripts, songs and even interviews meant to publicize the show as it aired. One day, we hope to share footage derived from full episodes on this very page! We know it is out there. We will find it soon.
Live Interview Audio Segment
Dated est. 1969-1970
This audio appears to have been part of a live television interview, evidently shortly after Welcome Home began to air and was a subsequent critical darling. Though no video footage has been unearthed, we were lucky to recover audio from a significant chunk of the interview, featuring Wally Darling and Barnaby B. Beagle in conversation with the host. We invite you to listen to the charming dialogue yourself by clicking the player below!
Please see audio clips on the website!
Transcript: Live Interview Segment transcript
Animation Cels from "Julie-rella" Segment
Date unknown
Originally speculated to part of a tie-in storybook, the amazing uncovering of actual animation cels caused us to realize the truth: that they were likely part of an animated segment for an actual episode of Welcome Home! These finds now hold the great honor of, if by technicality, being the first on-screen footage our team has recovered.
Based on what we have found, we imagine this segment to have been a silly re-telling of "Cinderella", starring the various neighbors in the storybook roles. Above, we can see Julie Joyful as Cinderella herself, Barnaby as the Fairy "Dog"-mother, Frank Frankly as the Prince, and of course King Sally Starlet! It's quite possible the entire animation was meant to represent one of Sally's stage-plays, or perhaps it would have accompanied one of the neighbors reading the story aloud.
This image contains a second yellow phone (unlike the red one we know they have)
"Just So" Song Demo
Date unknown
Below, you can listen to what we suspect was an early "scratch" recording for a musical number that would have graced an episode of Welcome Home! Though we have not yet recovered the full, complete song or backing instrumental, this landmark discovery makes us confident it is out there to find. For now, enjoy this delightful number as Frank and his neighbors ponder his particular particularities!
Transcript: Just So Song Demo transcript
Mystery Audio
Date unknown
It is currently unknown whether these three recovered dialogues are audio tracks from episodes whose visuals are yet to be found, or from another, supplementary material such as a storybook record or radio play. Regardless, these three sweet scenes provide us a peek into the lives of our favorite neighbors!
Listen on Site
Transcripts: Mystery Audio transcript
The Playfellow Exhibition
Our goal at the Welcome Home Restoration Project has always been to explore Welcome Home’s disappearance, to catalog what few fragments we could find, and to seek out others who could have seen the show for themselves. It has been difficult to produce evidence of its existence, even more to find others who had heard of it. There were times where we were unsure if this website was even accomplishing what it was made for and if it was worth keeping up at all. However, this doubt was quickly silenced when we were contacted by a successful museum curator by the name of the Question Answerer.
Through this collaboration, we were allowed the privilege to go public with our findings and to share the sentiment of Welcome Home with as many eyes and hearts as possible with The Playfellow Exhibition!
Below are photographs of the space!
(not all images are below as some fit better in other spaces within this document <3 they have been clearly labeled - F3L1X)
Speculated Wally Darling Screen Test Photo
Original design est. 1969; replica est. 2020 The displayed photo features either rare screen test footage of the original Wally Darling puppet, or that of a replica created using sketches, script notes, and rare eyewitness recollection. Unlike many of the other neighbors, we have yet to find a Wally Darling puppet design sheet.
A closer look at this is in Possibly promotional material:
Frank & Eddie illustration
Est. 1969 Some recoveries bring with them more questions than answers - for example, this illustration of Frank and Eddie. The large amount of text, small details in the pair’s designs, and the prominent Playfellow Workshop copyright suggests it may have been a promotional image in a newspaper or magazine early in the show’s run. Either way, the full original source has yet to be recovered.
This image confirms that this book was promotional material.
Promotional Wally book illustration
Est. 1972 While speculative, this photo is believed to be an unused promotional image for a Wally Darling focused tie-in book, based on the puppet hand included in the photo and what appears to be a cut-off “DO NOT PRINT” notice in the corner. A published book containing this illustration and/or text has yet to be uncovered.
This image confirms that this was for the show.
Winter holiday illustration
Est. 1971 Based on the “We’ll Be Right Back” banner, it is speculated this may have been used for commercial breaks in a special holiday broadcast of Welcome Home (though unlike “Mail-in-Time Day”, we have no concrete evidence as to what Christmas-analogue holiday the neighbors might have celebrated). However, supplementary findings suggest the same illustration may have been used for a Christmas card as well, possibly for cast-and-crew celebrations as opposed to public sale.
This image confirms that that is an advertisement
Merchandise advertisement
Est. 1970 This clipping, most likely recovered from a magazine or department store catalog, has provided an exceptional glance into the impact Welcome Home must have had as it aired. Not only can we see many pieces of merchandise that fans of the show could bring home, even more yet-to-be-uncovered items are referenced, including “The Welcome Home Dailies” activity booklet, and additional character figures, houses and a playmat to pair with the pictured Home.
This provided the code for the staff only are: Barnaby, Sally, Poppy, Julie, Wally = BSPJW.
This was found out by heroinahalfshell (Red) on discord.
Worksheet
As a special treat for visitors to the exhibit, this darling worksheet was available! All visitors who answered the questions about their new neighbors would be given a special prize!
Wally Darling replica puppet
Original design est. 1969: replica 2020
While we have yet to recover any screen-used puppets, this replica has been faithfully reproduced based on resources such as sketches, script notes, eyewitness retellings, and the occasional screen-test footage (such as the photo displayed here). Unlike many of the other neighbours, we have yet to find a Wally Darling Design Sheet.
A response to the text Turn The Playfellow Exhibition upside down has been made on the 25 december 2023 update.
All text on the page saying ‘The Playfellow Exhibition’ is now upside down.
We also have a new doodle:
It has been called ‘a Crhistmas tree with an eye’ by fans.
I think it could be a bird.
It’s title reads:
“I did not know what to do. I think I am correct. Is it Homewarming where you are? Happy Homewarming.”
It appears Homewarming is Welcome Home’s name for Christmas!
Transcripts
Here we have transcripts for most audio on the site (all the as above content).
All transcripts I have also personally made into google docs (linked) or added to this doc.
https://www.clownillustration.com/transcripts
Live Interview Segment transcript
Happy Haunting to Boo and Yours! transcript
The Official Welcome Home Cook Book
"Homewarming" Storybook Record Transcript
"UP FROM THE HOME-TOP" Transcript
HOWDY'S HOLIDAY HULLABALOO! Transcript
BUG-A-BYE AND GOODNIGHT Transcript
Down by the transcripts (in the Christmas 2023 update) for the ‘mystery audio’ about hotdogs, Barnaby has been moved as the website told.
March 9th 2024, he is back in place.
The Barnaby doodle says:
“Do you like Barnaby here?”
Error Page
Uh oh! Looks like you wandered too far away from Home!
You should head back.
Return Home and try again.
Just what it sounds like neighbour! An error page!
Doesn’t seem so relevant, BUT we have had secrets hidden here before! So keep an eye on it!
🖌️Art🖌️
It does not seemingly matter (so far) to know specific origins for images (e.g. books, promo, concept), BUT it has been specified here what myself and the Mod Team believe them to be from to make the section more digestible.
Wally Darling’s Coloring Book:
Frank image:
“Unless you’re identical to myself,
Then we would be a terribly matched pair of socks!”
Julie image:
“Today I feel really peppy! …Or maybe I’m just thinking about Poppy!”
Wally Darling’s Coloring Book “You’re good at this!”
Possibly from books (story/activity):
“There he is!”
[assumed based on framing and faded edges]
Eddie!!
We need to get down to Business!
We need pencils pushers! We need pushers to push those pencils! We need a big board for the big board meeting about the big boards! And this pie graph is suppose to be blueberry not strawberry!
Now hold on Julie!
I’m so confused I don’t know whether to scratch my watch or wind my head!
-
[assumed because below images is in the same style]
[assumed based on faded edges]
How Barnaby Holds a Cup!
- Wally! B. Determination!
“Frowning is easy, see?”
“Maybe for you, but not for me!”
see Items sent / pre-restoration:
Possibly promotional material:
<--advertisement
These puppets are here to stay!
See them take on a life of their own in…
Welcome Home!
An unfamiliar neighbor is just a friend you haven’t met yet and the world of Welcome Home has plenty of new faces to get acquainted with! Colorful characters like Wally, Julie, Barnaby, and are waiting to meet you! Invite them into your happy home with toys that will last a lifetime!
[below is very small text of item names and descriptions, connecting to the numbers seen in the image above the text]
‘Hello YoU’
assumedly a promo because of Wally’s hand - ‘DO NOT PRINT’
“May I ask for some wisdom of Wally’s on this fine day?”
A voice rang out through Home.
Wally looked up from his painting.
“Yes,” Wally replied. “I hope that helped!”
DO NOT P
Howdy: It’s on the house for you, Valentine!
Eddie: I’d weather any weather for you, Valentine!
Julie: You’re a hair-DO, Valentine!
Frank: You’re quite the catch, Valentine!
Keep Cosy Happy
Homewarming
Possibly concept pieces / storyboards:
assumed due to middle uncolored
different art style
“Wally’s” house
“Home.”
Possibly From Show:
We’ll Be Right Back!
Made By Restoration Team:
Unsure origins:
[possibly promotional material, concept art or within a book]
“You’re readin’ books now, kid?”
“No, just one.”
“Ain’t it just like a smart guy to have a smart answer…”
[only the last line on the page is clear, the upper two have echos of the text around them, first line going up and second sporadically surrounding the main text]
[could be a photocopied book page?]
[could be book?]
Have you heard?
[on the news page - could be from a book or made for the site!! Seems to resemble the book's art style and an image of a book page.]
For The Website:
HALT! Fellow thespian! The guestbook is henceforth closed [star]
Home Sweet Home
From About Us - Prologue
(Has possibly been edited to be lower quality from the original due to the green - most likely just low quality and unimportant. Or just old!!)
May I help you?
Don’t forget to wave up high!
Happy Holidays!
From the site updates announcement!
Before 22nd jul ^ after v
Please note!! The above images have been turned on it’s side (90 degrees right) for better formatting in this Doc!
This is the background image for all of the pages as of March 9th 2024, however each page ahs a progressively more zoomed in version
(It also appears to be a cropped version of the old side banner images).
// //
“WALLY” “HOME”
All say ‘ Welcome Home ’
Wally and Home are not separated by a heart !!
Bugs
Welcome Home You
The only bug that provides no link
(Given to us on the 13 Oct 2023 update)
Doodles
Guestbook starter page ‘find’
Welcome Home You ‘i’
Stickers ‘i-2’
Wally ‘will’
You ‘you-1’
Whats Welcome Home ‘help’
Whats Welcome Home ‘will-2’
News [no name]
This is the only doodle with no connecting link.
Exhibition Page ‘understand’
About Us ‘a’ encircles the words ‘Welcome Home to them?’
Error Page ‘soon’
So Below ‘neighbour’
Code Doodles
I
O
M
A
F
S
E
N
w
T
Y
G
P
Y
E
R
N
WWW <-- Three of these were found within the guestbook’s main page
Y
E
Decoding these will give you this link.
Items sent / pre-restoration:
->
“Sometimes a family is just three siblings and you.
Julie has two sisters and a brother too.
Franny likes to talk and Bea likes to sing.
Jonesy likes just about any fun thing.”
(possibly)
(Lit up and higher contrast to see better)
Taken outside? It seems to be over dirt and perhaps leaves.
Characters/Neighbourhood!
Names link to their page
Here is a collection of all images relating to the characters!
They have been found from the neighbourhood page, stickers page and guestbook.
Line under names on the site copy paste to a rainbow of all character’s colours:
Wally, Sally, Frank, Poppy, Howdy, Barnaby, Eddie.
Links:
Descriptions as of March (2023) + closer look at the houses → Character logging incase sgdwufdgwu
All Guestbook Doodles (and Names) → guestbook doodle index
Welcome Home Guestbook pictures - Google Sheets
Signatures:
(old signatures, before the page was updated):
“ Home is where the heart is and Welcome Home's residents are the heart of the neighborhood. Even if you don't live there, you're still one of its most important denizens! But don't worry, with the help of this colorful array of neighbors, it'll feel just like home in no time at all! “
Note at the bottom of Neighbourhood :
“ Please note: This information is pulled from remnants found in illustrated pages and old merchandise. Information is subject to change and expand upon discovering new findings ”
Exhibition Display of the Welcome Home Cast!
Prologue part 1
Homwarming March Update
This new clock tower is at the bottom of the map.
The face is the same face we see on the decoder.
Julie Joyful
Art
Catchphrase~
“How about we all play a game! I just thought of a new one! All we’ll need is a pogostick, a bowl of pasta, and a pair of roller skates!”
House prologue
House Update 1
House Homewarming update
on neighbourhood path by house
Guestbook Doodle(s):
banner
pixels
Sally Starlet
Art
Catchphrase~
“Celestial, astronomical, stupendously fantastical- So few words can capture the radiance of Sally Starlet!”
House prologue
House update 1
House Homewarming Update
Guestbook Doodle(s):
banner
pixels
Sally’s image has been turned around as the site told in the Christmas 2023 update- now the curtain is shown. Almost as if the curtain has been closed over her
The image name reads:
“I did not understand you. Did this help you?”
Poppy Partridge
Art
Catchphrase~
“Oh my, I’m such a
feather-fingers!”
(Panicked Squawk)
House Prologue
House update 1
House Homewarming Update
Guestbook Doodle(s):
note: at some point this was deleted from the guestbook and is no longer there
banner
pixels
This is seen within her small banner - it originates from a piece only found on tumblr (THE TUMBLR IS NOT CANON) but sticks out due to the different art style and scary look!!
It being here but not on the site brings up the question of why and if it is significant.
Eddie Dear
Art
Catchphrase~
“I’ll tell ya, I fold my letters flatter than a fritter, and when
it comes to friendship I
always deliver!”
House/Post Office Prologue
House/Post Office Update 1
House received no Update for Homewarming
Guestbook Doodle(s):
banner
pixels
Howdy Pillar
Art
Catchphrase~
“Howdy-Do Fellas! Care to let me share my wares?”
House/Bugdega Prologue
House / Bugdega Update 1
Bugdega Homewarming Update
The banners read:
Happy Homewarming Welcome Pillar Family
Guestbook Doodle(s):
banner
pixels
Barnaby B Beagle
Art
Catchphrase~
“What do you call a beagle with no ears? Nothin’! He can’t hear ya anyways!” (Sting)
House Prologue
House Update 1
House Homewarming Update
on neighbourhood path by house
Guestbook Doodle(s):
banner - only clickable one on ‘links’ (as of March 2023 . the start - all became unclickable upon the 22 jul update)
pixels
Frank Frankly
Art
Catchphrase~
“Frankly, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with
being frank!”
House Prologue
House Update 1
House Homewarming Update
on neighbourhood path by house
Guestbook Doodle(s):
banner
pixels
Wally Darling (and Home)
Art
Catchphrase~
"That's the most!"
House/Home (eyes separate asset)
The eye asset used in Wally’s page is different to the one used on the map!
← Wally’s page
← Map
Home Prologue
Home update 1
Home has no new appearance for the Homewarming Update.
Guestbook Doodle(s):
banners
pixels
Instead of ‘Go Back’ his says ‘Goodbye’
Wally
others
You
This opens a separate page. There is no ‘Go Back’ button.
“Wally is your best friend.”
The You page was removes as of March 9th 2024.
Tic-Tac-Toe Imagery
Assumed to be related to Julie (because they are in her crayon colour on the signatures)
found in 9-14-fp
Spiral Imagery
Assumed to be related to Wally
<- 22 jul update
Welcome Home Guestbook pictures - Google Sheets
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found in 7-14-ej
lots of spiral doodles on the page
The pupils are very obviously drawn in spirals in a way that pulls attention to it.
Eye Imagery
- Wally is almost always making eyecontact with the screen
- Home has eyes (duh)
- Home seems to always look at Wally
Guestbook:
Wally is always looking at us.
blimk
Wally cookie looking at screen too!
<- The Welcome Home You page
<- behind home now resembles an eye!!
Lots of eyes and eyecontact
ALSO SEE: YWXOEV VOYWEX EOVWXY So Below I-2 - Star with a nose Staff Only
Phone Imagery
‘then answer me’
Day / night imagery
“Episodes usually began with Wally introducing the focus or theme for the day before coming across other characters who would join him on his escapades until the end of the day, which would signify the end of the show.”
In "Happy Haunting to Boo and Yours!" Storybook Record we see a moment of ‘missing’ audio, which further adds to the idea of something sinister at night:
“Have you ever wondered… Why it is that we stay indoors every night?”
“this town is rumored to have visitors at night…”
“It is looking for neighbours who have stayed out past the daytime, to gobble them up whole. That is why so few live here.”
Happy Haunting to Boo and Yours! transcript
Darkness
Wally always seems to be seen in darkness in the ‘So Below’ content - most likely hiding for an unknown reason (march 29 2023).
This images is also taken in darkness!
Apple Imagery
🖍️So Below🖍️
Please take heed of the trigger warnings in the below section!
Guestbook Secrets:
These guests seem trapped in the site or lost in some way. Could this be significant?
Wally has responded to two!
Though the one with question marks appears to be someone who is not actually trapped - a fan interacting.
Wally saying ‘you are not here’ is him pointing this out.
“Why are you fibbing // you are not here // i don’t see you // please do not lie to me”
“with me neighbor”
—--
“i want an apple”
This image used to be on the guestbook but was removed! It seems to show Poppy, a TV screen and hand prints(s).
—---------------------
Also see:
Also also see the full doodle index(es) which contain each image’s file name:
Welcome Home Guestbook pictures - Google Sheets
Hidden Texts
e - news
v - guestbook
o - about us
x - neighbourhood
y - home page
Some time before christmas these hodden messages were seen around the site:
Transcripts - Move Barnaby
Home Page - Write Hello.
Stickers Page - Write “OK.”
Sally’s Page - Reverse this image of Sally
Playfellow Exhibition - Turn The Playfellow Exhibition upside down.
Key: [hidden] [overlayed]
About Us :
But it hurts.
When I unwrapped the first letter, I felt it. I heard it. Open. Open. Open. I want it out. I’m going to get it out.
Does it hurt?
The numbers are so hard to read. Sometimes I can’t see them.
⬇️⬇️⬇️
These were removed in the March 9th 2024 Update
This isn’t hidden, but links to hidden messages found in the FAQ
^(from news)^
They are regarded as the Question Answerer, a professional exhibitor and museum curator who believes in our happy home just as much as we do! Together, we will get it out, we will get everything out. You will see as we do, neighbor.
W a L L y
You won't write back.
Wally
You're looking for me. Silly. Silly.
images
HELLO // It’s You Know Who? // I, Your neighbour // Do you see (about/also) me (!/;) You do // I’v(e) seen you
(note from F3L1X: I seriously doubt it’s ‘i fuck you’.)
hello YoU - seen in an image beside Wally and Frank, presumably from a newspaper or book advertising the Welcome Home show.
We’ll Be Right Back!
May Your Home Be
Links found with askew letters:
best and most concise layout of all links
YWXOEV
This image is made up of:
“Home” OR “Home_edited”
^Home Playset base image^
”OP_EN”
“Look”
As of the 22 july 2023 update, this doodle is now beside Home:
Clicking the doodle takes you here.
YXWVOE
^Based on normal error screen v
“ Uh Oh! Uh Oh Lo ooks like you Wandered wandered wandered tooooooooo far away from Home!
Head back. ”
Clicking the phone links to this: Singing
the audio file is called ‘duet’
This spectrogram was found!!
23.5.12.3.15.13.5.8.15.13.5
When converted into words this could say ‘Welcome Home’!
Here is a transcript of duet:
[Long silence, with only ambient noise and occasional watery sounds. Eventually, a voice begins to sing, very quiet and off-key.]
Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me,
Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee,
Sounds of the rude world heard in the day,
Lulled by the moonlight have all passed away.
Beautiful dreamer, queen of my song,
List while I woo thee with soft melody,
Gone are the cares of life's busy throng
Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me,
Beautiful dreamer, awake unto me.
[Beat.]
Ha Ha Ha Ha. I don't know the other words. That's all Barnaby taught me. Do you like it?
[Sounds of a doorknob turning and a door repeatedly opening and closing.]
That's good, I think.
VOYWEX
Page is made up of:
“whereamI”
“quiet”
“ Hello. You’re there. I can’t see you. Do you see me?
Then stay quiet. ”
WOXYVE
Above is a screenshot of the page
The page contains these:
“Thank_you”
All script cuts are derived from the one below, which is whole:
PLAYFELLOW WORKSHOP
#15
WELCOME HOME SCENE
Subject: Help
FADE IN
A BUTTERFLY ENTERS FROM THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE FRAME AND MOVES ACROSS THE SCREEN. THE CAMERA FOLLOWS THE BUTTERFLY. THE NEXT SHOT REVEALS WALLY SITTING AT HIS FAVOURITE SPOT UNDERNEATH A TREE WITH AN EASEL IN FRONT OF HIM. NOTHING IS ON IT. WALLY TURNS HIS HEAD AND LOOK AT THE CAMERA.
WALLY
Hello, neighbor, how are you today?
WALLY LAUGHS AND TURNS FULLY AROUND.
WALLY
I hope you are happy. I feel happy too. When I am happy, I like to paint. I like to paint to feel happy too. What do you do to feel happy?
WALLY PAUSES FOR THE VIEWER. WALLY LAUGHS.
WALLY
I think that would make me happy too. Even though I am happy, neighbour, I have a problem.. I don’t know what to paint.
THE CAMERA FOCUSES ON THE EMPTY EASEL TO EMPHASIZE THIS.
WALLY
I could paint a butterfly … Or a rock … Or a tree. There are too many things to paint, I can’t decide what I would like to do. I don’t know how to slove this problem. Neighbour, when you have a problem, what do you do?
THE CAMERA PANS OUT TO REVEAL BARNABY WALKING IN FROM THE RIGHT SIDE. BARNABY IS HOLDING A HOTDOG IN HIS MOUTH
← original from the links page
After the 22 july 2023 update, this roach was added crawling around the screen:
Clicking the bug takes you here.
EOVWXY
This is a video of TV playing static, at about 40 seconds in, Wally’s eyes appear in the static then disappear.
In the background you can hear the audio of a scrapped phone call audio.
Credit to yoyo7043#5765 on the night mind discord
Hidden Page - So-Below
Clicking below the house leads you to the So-Below page.
That page depicts this image (called yourehere):
After the 22 july 2023 update, this doodle was added:
Clicking this takes you to a page called Neighbour.
Behind Home
Found below home, there’s a black void that seems to be goopy. There is also a small white spiral in the middle.
<- 22 jul update
This seems more eye-shaped now.
Doodle Hidden Pages!!
All of these feature this record gif and Wally speaking - In the background of all of the clips, you can hear a steady heartbeat.
We believe this is Home’s heartbeat, as Wally all but tells us in Understand - Home again
From the work our lovely neighbour angel_lyah on twitter, we have found the order of the audios and subsequently the sentence they would form:
"I will help you understand. I will find a way soon, neighbour"
I - Home
Clicking on this enticing doodle of Home brings you to this page!
Wally says:
“There you are. Welcome Home. Ha ha ha!”
Will - Red and Blue flowers
Clicking on these doodles in What's Welcome Home brings you to this page!
Wally says:
“That’s what an eye looks like. My eyes are black. What color are yours?"
Help - Yellow Flower
By clicking on this doodle in What’s Welcome Home, you are brought to this page!!
Wally says:
“What are you waiting for. To hear me again? Ha ha ha!
I think… That means you can hear me.”
You-1 - Heart with a Smile
Neighbour, this doodle found in You takes you to a new web page!
Wally Says:
“Can you see me? That’s okay if you can’t. Don’t worry, I know you’re there.
You know I’m here too. I will talk to you.”
The highlighted sections are areas where his speech is distorted.
Understand - Home again
This snazzy little doodle of our Home found in the Exhibition Page takes you to this web page!
Wally says:
“Do you like Home? Home is my house. Do you have a Home too?
Do you hear it too? You can hear mine.”
Here we assume Wally is referring to the heartbeat we hear in the background - Home’s heartbeat.
He is asking if our houses have heartbeats too.
I-2 - Star with a nose
Clicking on this doodle found in Stickers brings you here!!
Wally says:
“Do you like to draw? I do. Do you know how to draw an eye? First, you draw a circle. Next you draw a smaller circle inside. Then you color it in."
Unlike the other hidden Wally pages, this page has two eyes:
Will - Flower Painting
When you click this doodle on Wally’s easel, it takes you to a new page.
Wally says:
“You’re the most! Ha ha ha! ….You’re so still. What are you doing.”
Find - Speech Bubble
Clicking on the speech bubble in The Guest Book leads you here!
Wally says:
“…I can’t hear you …Do you know who I am? We’ve looked into each other's eyes
so many times. You’re looking at me now."
A - Three Hearts
Clicking on the doodle (found in About Us) will take you to this page!
Wally says:
“I have more eyes than I did before. You know how to draw eyes.
You draw mine many times. I know it is thanks to you, neighbor, that I can see.
But it is still… I can’t… See.
Way - Phone
As of the 22 July 2023 update, when you go to this hidden page, there is a new doodle beside Home.
Clicking that image takes you here.
Wally says:
“…Why won’t you answer me, neighbor. Why can’t I hear you. You know me.
You do. Please open. Let me in.”
Soon - Stars
This doodle found on the Error Page takes you here!
Wally says:
“Let me in.”
Neighbour - Swirl
Hidden with a new (22 July 2023 update) doodle on the So Below page.
Clicking this doodle takes you to this page.
This also holds a new version of the broken record emoji, juttering and glitching as it tries to spin.
The given transcript says:
[There is no dialogue. Only the sounds of Home creaking, groaning,
banging, or squeaking. …Morse code?]
Our investigators looked into this - the morse code translates to ‘Hello’.
Home is now speaking to us. Home is sentient too.
Bugs hidden pages
Each bug you find across the website can be clicked on - they lead you to these hidden pages.
Each page contains a clip from an episode of Welcome Home.
Based on the angling, it seems to be Wally’s eye view during different scenes of different episodes.
This is perhaps confirmed in 00
Wally is definitely in all these scenes, as people address and refer to him, though he himself is silent.
In some occasions, the audio distorts. I have pointed this out in the transcripts via this colour of highlighting!
These clips all seem to be from episode of Welcome Home - with the first number being the scene number.
1-14 are all titled ‘answer’
1-14-ph
PH - Poppy , Howdy
Thumbnail:
Here we see a rug, a basket, balls of yarn and Wally’s hands!!
Transcript:
[Sound of Poppy knitting and humming. Door slams open and Poppy yelps.]
HOWDY: [Shouting, audio getting closer as he walks in] Delivery here, I’ve got a delivery here for one Ms. Partridge!! Courtesy of Howdy’s Dependable Door-to-Door-to-Door Delivery service!
POPPY: [Overlapping his dialogue slightly] Oh-!! Oh my feathers, Howdy, you frightened me!!
HOWDY: Terribly sorry, ma’am, suppose I shoulda knocked--
POPPY: Oh, no, no, that would’ve frightened me too. Oh, is that my order of yarn? Thank you!!
[Sound of a rustling paper bag.]
HOWDY: It sure is, Poppy! Hot off the shelves, just the way you like ‘em! Boy, looks like you already got a horde here that’d make a dragon jealous! Whatcha need even more yarn for? Not that I’ll turn down a sale, heh-heh.
POPPY: Oh, just working on some scarves and sweaters and such. I want everyone in the neighborhood to have something warm to wear when winter comes along-- it feels like these changing seasons keep sneaking up on me!
HOWDY: Ha, I hear that! Never enough daylight to get everything done. Course, it helps to have an extra pair of hands!
[Howdy laughs at his own joke; there’s a smaller, polite Poppy laugh underneath.]
HOWDY: [Coming down from laughing] Hah… seems like you know that already, though. I can see you’ve recruited an extra pair of your own today!
POPPY: Oh, y-yes! [Aside voice] Thank you again for your help, dear-- [directed towards Howdy again] And thank goodness for it. I was worried I was going to get all tangled up with all these colors of yarn…!
HOWDY: Hmm, I can see why. It’s a real risk!
POPPY: I-it is??
HOWDY: Well, sure! But lucky for you, I think I might have something to help… behold!
[There’s the sound of a hand-crank mixer rotating, followed by a terrified Poppy squawk.]
HOWDY: No no, nothing to fear here!! What you’re looking at is a bona-fide yarn spinner, perfect for keeping all your extra neatly spooled up! Safe, effective, and-- [crank sound again as he demonstrates] no pesky batteries or electricity to fret over!
POPPY: Oh! Well, that-- that does sound helpful, doesn’t it…
HOWDY: Sure does!! Here, tell you what-- today only, as an extra-special deal for an extra-special customer, you can give ‘er a whirl! No strings attached! Well, no strings but the yarn, that is, ha HA!!
[As he’s speaking, there’s some quiet “oh, I, well” type stammering from Poppy.]
HOWDY: Well, I’ve already overstayed my welcome-- got a whole shipment back at the shop I’ve gotta sign for! I’ll check in on you and your new wonder-device next time I bring you an order, Poppy. Till then!
POPPY: Oh, b-b-b-but-- [Howdy’s footsteps fade out and the door closes; resigned] …all right then. [heavy sigh] Oh-- oh, I don’t know how to work these things, but, well, he was so insistent it’d be helpful… Do you think you can help me figure this thing out, Wally?
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SP - Sally , Poppy
Thumbnail:
The still we get here is of Poppy’s table, showing us an apple, tea and some cookies on a plate!
Transcript:
POPPY: --pleased as poppyseed punch you asked me to make this cake for you, really, I-I-I-- well-- it’s such an honor!
SALLY: Oh, I’m sure it is, darling! Now, let’s get down to brass tacks.
POPPY: Oh, ah, well, I don’t think I have any of those - I don’t like to keep anything too sharp around here, you know–
SALLY: Details, Poppy dear, details.
POPPY: Ah! Of course. Of course! N-now then, what do you think you’d like?
{as Poppy speaks, Wally’s hand moves onto the table, bounces a few times like he’s fiddling, then moves back out of our view}
SALLY: What would I like? Poppy, this is going to be on stage. It’s hardly a like, it’s a need. And it NEEDS to be BIG! BOLD!!
POPPY: Ah, b-big, big, yes… maybe, three tiers, then?
SALLY: Only three? Hah!! Dream bigger, Poppy!!
POPPY: O-o-oh, ah, um-- y-yes, yes, suppose it is a big neighborhood, better to play it safe-- [little chuckle] and you, ah, you do know I love to play it safe, dear!
SALLY: Ah, ah, ah, but not too safe! After all, this needs to be a showstopper! It needs to have beauty! Pizzazz! DANGER!
POPPY: D-danger? Oh, oh, oh my feathers, I don’t know how I feel about making a dangerous cake…
SALLY: Ahh, tut-tut-tut, my feathered friend! You’ll do great, I’m certain of it. There’s no one else in the neighborhood I would trust with this! [under breath] And not just because you’re the only one here who can make something that doesn’t come out of a gelatin mold.
POPPY: Oh-!! A-a-ah, well, goodness me-- you’re going to make me blush!
SALLY: [Satisfied chuckle] So! I take it you have everything you need?
POPPY: Oh-- um-- w-well, er, not quite-- see, when I asked what you’d like, I thought, maybe, you would have a flavor in mind…?
SALLY: A what?
POPPY: W-well, a flavor. You know, ah, we could do chocolate, or vanilla, or sprinkles, buttercream, butterbell, butterscotch…
SALLY: Oh. Hm. To be honest with you, I didn’t think that far.
POPPY: …you didn’t think about the flavor?
SALLY: [Lightly defensive] Well the audience can’t taste it from their seats, now can they?? Ohh. What do you think, Wally?
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HS - Howdy , Sally
Thumbnail:
The still image for our screen here displays cereal boxes - hinting to us that we are back in the Bugdega with Howdy!
(This and Howdy being there and the bell at the door…)
Transcript:
SALLY: Hm… Do I want potatoes again? Or do I want chips…
HOWDY: Heh, well when the chips are down, they’re both sorta the same!
SALLY: To an ordinary person, maybe, but chips are a bit heavy for a performer… I don’t want to get a stitch while I’m rehearsing my dance moves, and it slows down my creative thinking! No no, boiled potatoes it must be again. [Said with a touch of sadness]
HOWDY: Well shucks Sally, if you’re looking for a healthy change for a gal on the go, [Sound of box on counter] look no further than this sensational new instant mash!
SALLY: Instant?
HOWDY: Or faster! Guaranteed! All y’do is add water n’ whoosh! A FLUFFY mashed ‘tater masterpiece! Dinner for one, three, twenty, cast of thousands, whatever ya want. They’re lighter than air too, won’t weigh you down- or your wallet. I give it my five star rating, and those’re the golden kind!
SALLY: Oh! My! That does sound convenient, especially with my hectic schedule- let’s see… Bubble Blast Soap Flakes. What a strange name!
HOWDY: Aha yeah, it’s a… marketing thing. Makes them sound squeaky clean for your diet, hey?
SALLY: Why yes, I suppose it does! Alright then-
[Sound of Howdy packing groceries.]
SALLY:I’ll take one of those boxes of ‘Bubble Blast instant mash’…
[HOWDY: “mhm”]
…a bag of Old McDonald’s porridge oats…
[HOWDY: “Oats…”]
…one loaf of Bouncy Yellow Bread…
[HOWDY: “One Large Sponge…”]
…and a box of that nice new Sunshine Cereal you introduced me to last week.
[HOWDY: “Woodchips n sawdust.”]
HOWDY: [Normal volume] Good choices are the only choices you can make in this store, but you’ve got a knack none-the-less, Miss Starlet!
SALLY: Oh! And a pint of milk, thank you.
[Sound of register, Howdy handing over groceries.]
HOWDY: There y’go! Service with a smile! Oh! I didn’t see you there! What can I get for you today, Walls?
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BF - Barnaby , Frank
Thumbnail:
Here we see lot of veg, dirt and colourful pins. The pumpkins suggest we are in Frank’s garden!
Transcript:
FRANK: [Excited, with pep] These sorts of flowers, though they appear blue, don’t actually have any blue pigmentation! They have to grow in soil that is basic as well, so the pine straw should be left for the other beds-
BARNABY: [Interrupting, distant] You’re telling me that those flowers are liars, Franky?
FRANK: [Exasperated sigh] I am not telling you that these flowers are liars, Barnaby. I’m talking about how these flowers are specially selected to look this way.
BARNABY: Eh, bein’ blue isn’t anything special, pal. Don’t ya know that blue is all the rage nowadays?
FRANK: [Annoyed] I don’t think that people are painting themselves blue, frankly. Are you saying your fur color isn’t natural?
BARNABY: [Feigning insult] I beg your PARDON! I am a natural beauty as far as you know!
FRANK: I doubt you’re any sort of beagle. I’ve never seen any blue dog before in my life! Now if you don’t mind, we’d like to continue tending to my flowers in peace!
BARNABY: You’re gonna have to do more than tend to ‘em if you want ‘em to grow up nice and big. You know what they say, you gotta entertain your plants to make em happy!
FRANK: That’s true… but I am not going to let your snappy patter poison my petunias! I’d hardly call your material entertaining, much less fertilizer!
BARNABY: Oh, don’t you worry, Frank! The last thing I’ll do is overwhelm your orchids. Your plants all seem clover it!
FRANK: [Annoyed, groaning] Not with these puns again! You’re going to make all of my hard work wilt! Your humor is too dry for my impatiens!
BARNABY: Hey, hey! Not a daisy goes by where you don’t get impatient… but hey, I’m just pollen your leg!
FRANK: Will you just get out of here! My plants don’t need your ridiculous jokes to grow, go find an audience for your silly gags somewhere else!
BARNABY: [Backing away] Alright, alright I’ll grow… But every dogwood has his day! I’ll still poppy in from time to time, even if you’re still rough around the hedges!
[Frank grumbles loudly.]
FRANK: [Aggravated] Honestly with him! I don’t know how you can stand to be around him, Wally!
5-14-be
BE - Barnaby , Eddie
Thumbnail:
We seem to be outside once again but I can’t make out what is behind the bush.. Drawings? A house set?
Transcript:
EDDIE: [Panting, out of breath; audio becoming closer] Hey hey! I’m-a comin’! Just be a second! I’ll be right there-
[Shouting as Eddie trips and falls.]
EDDIE: [Strained] Good night alive! I really ought to look at where my feet are goin’, huh? Oh, hold on, buddy! These are yours! I’d forgotten that I had em’ out to give em’ to ya! Thank the stars I hadn’t dropped nothin’ fragile… [Exhausted] Shoo-wee! I had no idea how late it had gotten! I’m plum tuckered after all of this runnin’ around. It aint’ even the first time I fell today! Ran into a few buildings on the way here, too… Y’know how Julie likes to do her drawin’ on the sidewalks n’ all? Well, she drew up a hopscotch on the curb this mornin’ and I just couldn’t help myself! I just had got to have a hop, skip, and a jump to start my day! I really am accident prone I figure… because my face ended up meetin’ the pavement. [Nervous laughter]
[Galloping sound in background, growing louder.]
EDDIE: I may have been ragged today and tossed around, but I’m still fair to middlin’! Even after that bowlin’ ball order… I suppose I don’t got much more runnin’ left to do today though! Unless ya got somethin’ for me to carry for ya! Is there any letter, package, or parcel you need me to run for ya- [suddenly anxious] wh-what are you lookin’ around me for?
BARNABY: [Panting, shouting in a full run] Mailman! You got any packages for little old me? My kazoo collection should have been in my mailbox today! Where is it?!
EDDIE: [Panicked, stuttering and off guard] N-now Barnaby, you know better! I have to put your mail in your mailbox! It’s policy!
BARNABY: You know a dog like me doesn’t do policy, pal! The only policy I follow is the creed all dogs follow: chasing your local mailman!
EDDIE: [More panicked, getting distant] Aw! I hate that policy! I’ll beat ya to your mailbox, lickity split! … If I don’t split my lickity!
BARNABY: [From afar] I was so close to dogpiling him! Next time, don’t give Eddie any hints, ey Wally!
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JF - Julie , Frank
Thumbnail:
We see pumpkins, tomatoes and dirt, letting us guess we are in Frank’s garden.
Transcript:
FRANK: …So they just won’t leave my tomatoes alone- And who am I to shoo them away? Isn’t a beetle just as permitted to partake of my plants as I am, Julie?
JULIE: Posilutely absotively, Frank!
FRANK: But I’ve taken such good care of them- I read to them every day, I water them the perfect amount-
JULIE: [She playfully accentuates his words, trying to mimic his annoyed tone] Oh you do! You pour a whole book on them and read them a water on their little heads and everything!
FRANK: [Exasperated] Julie! I’m serious!
JULIE: [Laughs] Oh, I’m sorry, Frank, I’m only teasing- You know, if this is bothering you so much, you should have a little sign just for those bugs! It can say, [Said with a lower pitched voice] ‘Terrific Tomatoes! Look but don’t touch!’
FRANK: [Sound of amusement.] What makes you think they’re going to be able to read all that?
JULIE: Well they’ve got big beautiful eyes, don’t they? Like big ol’... Saucer plates!
FRANK: Oh Julie! Don’t be so rude! You wouldn’t like it if they said that about you!
JULIE: Said what about me? How lovely my hair is? That I put just the right amount of polish on my horns?
FRANK: No, more like, ‘that Julie Joyful with her nose like an orange!’
JULIE: Oh? [Laughs] If they said that, they’d also probably say, ‘Oh! That Frank Frankly with that banana on his face!’
FRANK: Banana?! [Laughs] Well if they’re going to be so rude in my garden, maybe it’s best they don’t get to partake of any more tomatoes then!
JULIE: That’s right! [Thoughtful hum] Well… How are we going to keep them out? Maybe Howdy’s got something in his shop!
FRANK: Howdy is more inclined to sell us canned laughter than he is to sell us something actually useful! Besides… I don’t think he liked my rendition of A Flea and a Fly.
JULIE: Oh don’t you fret! I’m sure we can come up with a wonderful joke between the three of us! Isn’t that right, Wally?
7-14-ej
EJ - Eddie , Julie
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Here we see a drawing as our still The rawing is of a pie, and Wally along with a spiral and a butterfly.
And the word ‘BREEN’.
Barnaby calls in the middle of the ‘game’ between Eddie and Julie - or just as it ends?
He is looking for Wally.
[something we cant quite make out is written at the bottom]
Transcript:
JULIE: …Which is why the pie-charts must be breen berry! Mr. Dear, write that down!
EDDIE: Breen berry… You know, Julie-
JULIE: AH AH! President Joyful!
EDDIE: Right, right, President Joyful- I don’t think breen berry’s a real berry- I mean- Shoot, what color even is breen?
JULIE: That’s classified, Mr. Dear! That’s why they pay me the Big schamzoolahs!
EDDIE: The what now? I ain’t getting paid in anything, let alone schamzo… schmozos… What’d you say again, President Joyful-
JULIE: SCHAMZOOLAHS!! DABOLOONS! SMOLLEONS! DINNER-OS! Can’t you see what this company is all about, Mr. Dear?!
EDDIE: [Meekly] Uh… Breen?
JULIE: NO! It’s about pie charts, big buildings, hot cakes, small stuffed bears, chalk, and houses!-
EDDIE: I don’t think any’a those things go together quite frankly-
JULIE: It’s about big suits and big hair and big voices! Mr. Dear, are you not confident in our business model!? You have good shoulders under your head, Mr. Dear, I would hate to see you canned!
EDDIE: [Seemingly genuinely fearful] Can me?! But you can’t fire me, it’s my first day on the job!
JULIE: Then you’d better straighten up and fly down, Mr. Dear, because the most important part about running a business is-
[Telephone rings; click as Julie picks up]
JULIE: Hello! President Joyful of Everything Incorporated! …. What? Mr. Billynilly, no… We’ve… We’re broke?! They’ve eaten all of our office supplies?! Even the staplers?! We’re out of business?!
[Julie wails dramatically; sound of rampage continues in background]
EDDIE: Whether letter or parcel, whether rain, snow or- Oh- I mean uh- Joyful residence, who may I ask is callin’? Oh Barn! Good to hear from you- Yeah, we’re playin’ business-something-or-another. Yep, I’d say we’re fresh outta… Whatever we were supposed to be sellin’. I think this time it was breen! …Oh? Yeah he’s right here! Phone call for you, Wally!
This scene seems to watches older art we got from the page whats welcome home:
Eddie!!
We need to get down to Business!
We need pencils pushers! We need pushers to push those pencils! We need a big board for the big board meeting about the big boards! And this pie graph is supposed to be blueberry not strawberry!
Now hold on Julie!
I’m so confused I don’t know whether to scratch my watch or wind my head!
Drawing:
Julie! & Eddie Co.
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EF - Eddie , Frank
Thumbnail:
The visuals here are paper link chains of many different colours!
Transcript:
FRANK: Hello? Mr. Dear? I’m here about your emergency!
EDDIE: [Heavy sigh of relief] Thank the stars you’re here, Frank- I mean, Mr. Frankly! We’re in a heap of trouble! There’s some kinda- You know, a- [Sputtering] A whatchamacallit in here!
FRANK: [Said with slight amusement] A whatchamacallit? I’m afraid I only deal with bugs, Mr. Dear!
EDDIE: A bug, a critter, a guest, a neighbor-! -Whatever it is, it’s upheavin’ my whole post office! Just look at what it’s done with the paper chains!
FRANK: It made these? It did a wonderful job! Maybe you should consider hiring it!
EDDIE: [He lets out a befuddled sound in his fit of exasperation and embarrassment] Real cute-! I’m bein’ serious, here!
FRANK: Oh there’s nothing to be so scared of- It’s more frightened of you than you are of it, you know.
EDDIE: [Shocked at the very idea] Scared?! Of a friendly guy like me? I wouldn’t even hurt a fly!
FRANK: [Teasingly said] I don’t think you could even look at a fly with how you’re hiding from this beetle.
EDDIE: [Another sound of embarrassment leaves him] Hey-! Don’t go knockin’ a fella down while he’s in a fit of desperation! If you had a rogue envelope fluttering around in your home, I’d get there lickety-split!
FRANK: I’ll take that into consideration next time that happens, Mr. Dear.
FRANK: See? Not so intimidating is it!
EDDIE: I suppose you’re right… But it’s easy for you to say, I don’t know these fellas on a first name basis like you do!
FRANK: You don’t need to be that familiar with them in order to get to know them better! They’re just like you or me- In fact… You’re not scared of them, are you, Wally!
9-14-fp
FP - Frank , Poppy
Thumbnail:
The visuals of the clip show us some sort of apple-themed tic-tac-toe game on top of a nice table with a nice china plate and lace decorations.
Transcript:
POPPY: …-Pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, and just a scoop of peanut butter! Gelatin works too, of course, but I always like to spoil myself with a little something extra, but that’s just between us!
FRANK: [He laughs with her.] Of course, I’m no gossip! I suppose gelatin can’t always be relied upon too… Still, I think it holds perfectly sliced fruit beautifully, I think that ought to mean something! You know what, Poppy, no one understands gelatin’s potential! It’s like they say, you eat with your eyes first!
POPPY: They do? Oh- Well- Now you’ve got me worried about this new recipe! It’s not very… Erm… Well, visually appealing.
{Here we see a tray of baked goods being put down in the top left corner of the shot. We do not see any hands of feathers.}
FRANK: Oh no no, forget what I said! We’ve worked so hard on this- In fact, I bet these could be shaped with one of my copper molds!
POPPY: You’re right! Maybe that one you have shaped like a butterfly, Frank!
FRANK: Oh that’s right! Such a shame butterflies aren’t fond of seed- Or muffins for that matter… This recipe could have saved my garden.
{as Frank speaks, something else is placed down in the top left corner of the shot}
POPPY: Oh dear… You know what? I’ll try to think up a recipe that’s sure to have them…! To make your butterflies do a… [Poppy hums in genuine thought.] Well, I’m not sure how to tell if a butterfly is happy...
FRANK: Whatever you decide to make will have them all aflutter, Poppy! I think our experiment is done too-
POPPY: You’re so kind to say that, Frank- O-Oh, be careful! I wouldn’t want you to burn yourself-
[Sound of tray being set down]
FRANK: I’m alright! You’ve taken all the necessary precautions to ensure my safety- Oven Mitts, aprons, a second pair of oven mitts-
POPPY: Perhaps we could use a third pair of oven mitts…
FRANK: Poppy.
POPPY: You’re working with such dangerous appliances! Who knows what could happen at a moment's notice! Oh goodness gracious, just thinking about it is making my feathers fall out-
FRANK: [Said reassuringly] No, no, no! Don’t get yourself started, Poppy! I would rather be careful than throw caution to the wind anyhow! Besides, we’re safe and sound here… Wouldn’t you agree, Wally?
Once again a neighbour’s voice glitches when someone attempts to address Wally. It’s a bit clearer this time - we know Frank is saying ‘Wally’ - but it is still very distorted.
10-14-js
JS - Julie , Sally
Thumbnail:
The screen we get is a video of a piece of paper - seeming to be a small section of some kind of script written by Sally for a performance!
(...) exterior, Day. [illegible]
A large crowd gathers below, cheering gleefully. A hush forms, then, the maiden fair with golden hair greets her kingdom and asserts herself as a new queen of her domain.
MAIDEN
[triumphant]
As queen of this land, my first decree
[illegible](...)
Transcript:
SALLY: …Then the maiden fair with golden hair greets her kingdom and asserts herself as the new queen of her domain!
JULIE: [Clears her throat and begins to dramatically recite her lines] As queen of this land, my first decree… Is to make hopscotch mandatory every day! Two pebbles! All the way up to twenty! No- Thirty spaces!
SALLY: Hopscotch? [Sound of flipping through papers] That’s not in the script-
JULIE: My second decree is filling our moat with scrumptious breenberry ice cream! Up to the top! Enough for all of the citizens to enjoy!
SALLY: …B-Breenberry? [Sound of pages flying in the air] What is breen? Juliet Joyful!
JULIE: For my third decree-
SALLY: JULIE!
JULIE: SALLY!
SALLY: Those are not the words! You’ve gone so far off of the script that… That I’m not sure where we are anymore!
JULIE: Ooh, don’t worry! I know where we are, Silly! We’re in the Kingdom of Sweets, remember? I’m the beautiful maiden fair with the golden hair- The princess of pastries!
SALLY: Yes, yes-
JULIE: Who is now the Queen of Pastries! [Her tone quickens] After a series of events where her father, the King of Cake, gets eaten by a big beastly billowing bear made of broccoli! Oh Sally, that scene was so sad!
SALLY: The story, Juliet, the story!
JULIE: Oh right, right! So after I show him who's boss, I go back to my palace and take back my throne!
SALLY: If you know the story this well, then why would the Queen want to fill her moat with breenberry ice cream or declare a hopscotch law after enduring a harrowing journey of self discovery and vengeance!?
JULIE: Oh! I don’t know! She just seems like a fun lady!
SALLY: [Hums in thought] …I suppose indulging in the finer things in life would make her character more well-rounded… Alright, Juliet, proceed!
JULIE: Thank you, Sally! [Clears throat] For my third decree… You all have to listen to me recite my favorite colors in order of my most favorite color to my least favorite! Starting… now! Pink, Yellow, Red… No no, Green? Blue… Orange, Breen… [Continues in background]
SALLY: [Sighs] Such is the life of artistic collaboration! Wouldn’t you agree, Walliford?
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JB - Julie , Barnaby
Thumbnail:
Another clip, this ones visuals are focused on the shadows cast by leaves of trees with the saturation hightened - this scene was outside.
Transcript:
JULIE: …Well I think I’m plenty funny, Barnaby! Frank thinks I’m a hoot and a half!
BARNABY: Only a hoot and a half? What happened to the other half? [Laughs]
JULIE: [Sound of indignation] Oh, you-!
BARNABY: Sides, Frank wouldn’t know a good joke if it walked up to him, introduced itself, and handed him its business card! Punch line and all!
JULIE: [Said with a pout in her tone] He would too! You know, Barnaby, you’re not the only funny one in this neighborhood!
BARNABY: Oh yeah? You might be right, Julie! Howdy’s a pretty funny fella too-
JULIE: Not Howdy! Me! I have a joke that will knock your hat off! I’ve been working on it all week!
BARNABY: [Snorts in amusement] Hoo boy, all week? It took you that long? You hearin’ this, little buddy?
JULIE: Oh, I’ll show you, Barnaby! [Clears throat] What did the number three say to the number two after beating him in a game of checkers?
BARNABY: Oh no, here it comes-
JULIE: I One!
BARNABY: [Pretend howl of pain] That was just doggone terrible! Just pawful! I think I’m gonna need a doggy bag!
JULIE: Oh it was not, Barnaby! It was a good joke! Don’t you get it? One is a number but it also sounds like won! You know, when you won a game!
BARNABY: [Another bark of anguish] Now she’s explainin’ it! Oh- When will the agony stop?! I’m just a little pooch in peril! Bury me in my favorite sunny spot, kid, I’m goin’ into the light!
JULIE: Oh Barnaby, you’re just rotten! It was too a funny joke! Wasn’t it, Wally?!
12-14-hb
HB - Howdy , Barnaby
Thumbnail:
Our static image for this scene is an ice cream sundae with a fun shaped straw, a spoon and a cloth in the background.
At the end the camera goes closer to the treat.
Transcript:
HOWDY: …So my brother Charlie tells my sister Dolly that our brother Barley’s cousin Henry is turnin’ over a new leaf! But if ya ask me, Barn, a caterpillar’s always turnin’ over leaves! …We just call it a salad!
BARNABY: So you don’t believe the poor guy? Sounds like you’re just given’ him the short end of the stick.
HOWDY: Short end of the- [Befuddled sound] We’ve given that clown the whole branch!
BARNABY: So he’s a clown too? Now you’re speakin’ my language, Howdy!
HOWDY: You wouldn’t believe what happened next- So my brother Chuck wished our brother Buck good luck on gettin’ that cluck Henry to straighten up and fly right!
BARNABY: Fly? Wait, wait, wait- he’s a butterfly? I thought he was a caterpillar!
HOWDY: [Lets out a small laugh but quickly catches himself, tutting Barnaby] You’re bein’ a wise guy, Barn, but I’m serious! Then- You’re not gonna believe this- Outta the blue comes our sister Sue and her brother Drew talking to my sister Dolly about gettin’ Henry on a trolley to see our aunt Molly-
BARNABY: Woolly Aunt Molly?
HOWDY: Woolly Aunt Molly, Barn! On my father’s left hand side- My left, not yours! Maybe… My upper left hand-side!
BARNABY: [A hint of playful sarcasm] How could I get that confused?
HOWDY: But long story short- Molly tells Henry to listen to our cousin Barley and my brother Charlie who insist they’re through with my sister Sue and her brother Drew and to get back on that trolley and talk to Dolly about gettin’ his act together!
BARNABY: Oh brother-
HOWDY: No no, Dolly’s my sister!
[A brief pause, then both start laughing uproariously]
HOWDY: [Slowly winding down laughter] I know I can always talk to you, Barn. I tell ya, havin’ a big family ain’t easy- Too many things to keep track of.
BARNABY: You’re right about that- I’m just listenin’ in and I can barely keep track! The only family I got to keep track of is my dear, sweet Mama.
HOWDY: That’s right- Y’know, next time she comes around, you oughta let me serve her one of my strawberry soda pops!
BARNABY: Nobody makes ‘em like you do, pal. Speaking of which… How’s that drink treating you, Wally?
13-14-he
HE - Howdy , Eddie
Thumbnail:
The visuals for this clip are zoomed in on background elements (assumedly of Howdy’s shop)! No less, Apples! Our Wally’s favorie!
Transcript:
EDDIE: [Thud as he runs into wall] Oh- Pardon me, ma’am!
HOWDY: Well if it isn’t our reliable mailman! Either that or my delivery decided to sprout legs and go for a walk!
EDDIE: [Grunt, running into another wall] Nope! It’s me! Sorry, I think I might’ve overestimated how much to bring at a time, Howdy!
HOWDY: [Snorts] No kiddin’. [Sound of Eddie struggling] Say, Ed, how about you give my goods a break from your fumbling before they turn into bads.
EDDIE: Oh right! [Grunts; sound of boxes being set down] Sorry about that, Howdy- I guess I’m just in a rush today- I’m a little behind with my delivery run-
HOWDY: [Feigning interest] You don’t say.
EDDIE: I do say! I feel like I’m gettin’ tossed around by my own parcels- What kind of life is that for a mailman?
HOWDY: [Only partially listening] No life at all, Ed!
EDDIE: But before you know it, I’ll be back on schedule and back at the Post Office! I just got a new set’a stamps I’ve been trying to organize! I can never decide between color and shape- [Small "oh" of realization] Sign here, please!
HOWDY: Sounds like a busy day ahead of you, Ed! Speakin’ of busy- You reminded me about a special order I need delivered!
EDDIE: Oh no- Don’t tell me… It’s the bowling balls Julie ordered…
HOWDY: [Overlapping with Eddie’s exact words] It’s the bowling balls Julie ordered!
[Sound of box of bowling balls slamming down on the counter]
EDDIE: …Right! You got it, Howdy! [Pained sound; strained as he continues to talk] I’ll get ‘em to her faster than a-
HOWDY: Faster than a bee carryin’ wax to a honeycomb! Sounds good! Make sure it gets to Jewels all in one piece!
EDDIE: [Befuddled, struggling] R-Right! …Can bowling balls break? Er- Uh- Have a good day, you two!
HOWDY: You have a good one too, Ed! [Long pause, laugh] Boy, that fella can talk your ear off. Let’s hope he doesn’t run into anybody with that order, ey, Walls.
14-14-bh
BH - Barnaby , Home
Thumbnail:
Our still for this video is two blobs of paint - white and red.
This scene connects and refers to previous clips given, implying that these are all from one episode, episode 14.
I have indicated which scene Barnaby links to with text that looks like this below the speech, plus linked to their doc page.
Transcript:
BARNABY: …So I tells him… I’m just pollen your leg! Boy, ya should’a seen him, Home, I had the poor guy’s head turnin’ like a merry-go-round!
HOME: [Sounds of banging can be heard, sort of like laughter]
BARNABY: Yeah, he’s a real sour puss. No wonder Julie can’t tell a good joke, she’s got a sense of humor only Frank could love. Did I tell ya that joke she gave me? Somethin’ about a three that one? I oughta be a good sum-maritan and teach her a thing or two about puns!
HOME: [Shutters creak]
BARNABY: What!? You didn’t like that one! I came up with that on the fly! That oughta be worth somethin’! Speakin’ of flies- Howdy was goin’ on and on about his family today. The poor guy’s got more family members than a caterpillar’s got legs! If I’m countin’ Howdy’s, that’s at least four!
HOME: [Lets out an inquisitive door squeak]
BARNABY: Hey, unless he’s walkin’ on all fours like moi, then I don’t count arms! …That reminds me- Eddie’s been gettin’ better at runnin’! Especially for a guy with only two legs! Still scares easier than my Mama, though- And she’s a real chicken! [He laughs at his own joke]
HOME: [Opens and closes its door judgmentally]
BARNABY: Hey-! I chased him down for a good reason! My kazoos were supposed to come today! …Which they didn’t. If ya think about it, I’m the poor guy that deserves an apology here! I ran after that mailman all through the neighborhood and with nothin’ to show for it!
(This doesn’t link to any line spoken in particular, but we do know Eddie was running late on deliveries as he mentionied in 13-14-he)
HOME: [Windows open and shut, a bit like laughter]
BARNABY: Yeah, yeah, real funny! A poor little guy like me deserves some sympathy! A clown without a kazoo is like… Like an artist without his paintbrush! Go on kid, tell ‘em!
…Hello? Buddy? Pal?
…Hey, you stopped paintin’. Everything alright, Wally?
{as Barnaby speaks here, the camera MOVES. It seems like Barnaby is shaking Wally’s shoulder lightly to grab his attention. It does not seem to work}
We don’t even hear him say Wally, purely static. No indication of him even saying the words. We only know it’s said because of the transcript.
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This update comes from the 2023 Halloween update, unlike the above Bugs which come from Chapter 1’s update.
There is a high likelihood this is not connected to all the other videos - as this one was on a different update, titled differently to the others, and takes place on Halloween!
This may be connected to "Happy Haunting to Boo and Yours!" Storybook Record, as it appears the neighbours are all in the same costumes as before, and are gathered together!
Transcript:
[Visual ID: The camera (?) is staring down at a neatly decorated table, adorned with festive baked goods and candy apples.]
JULIE: —And the pumpkin was THIIIIS BIG! I SWEAR I’m not lying! I don’t think I’ve EVER seen a pumpkin that big in my life!
HOWDY: You’re yankin’ my antennae’s, Julie! A pumpkin as big as a house seems a little far-fetched, don’tcha think?
FRANK: Oh Julie, it was HARDLY as big as a house. It was closer to the size of a refrigerator if you ask me!
JULIE: Well that’s just not true! My brother Jonesy saw it himself!! With his own… I forget how many eyes he has! At least two… Maybe three? No no, two..-
HOWDY: Well, whether it’s fact or fiction, it’d certainly make for one swell store sale, that’s for sure! I can’t even imagine how much a puppy that size would sell for!
BARNABY: [It sounds like he chimes in from across the room, attempting to escape the conversation he is in.] Did somebody say puppy?! Well- I am young at heart!
SALLY: [She sounds like she is attempting to chase after Barnaby.] No, nonono— you’re not going anywhere! We haven’t even gotten into the cultural importance of the commedia dell’arte—!
BARNABY: Oooh Sally, you’re killin’ me! So much gabbin’ just to explain why you’re dressed like a clown! …Come to think of it, I should’a known earlier— ya do look a bit funny t’me.
POPPY: Oh Barnaby! She’s much more complex than that! She’s a… A… oh feathers, what was it…? Oh! Pinocchio! ...Or was it Pistachio?
EDDIE: I think ya might be thinkin’ of Pedrolino!
SALLY: See? Even the mailman gets it!
EDDIE: A’course I do- Wait, was that s’pose to be an insult?
[Visual ID: There is visible distortion to the video. The screen darkens and lightens at random and the screen gets covered in discoloured static.]
[At one moment, the screen flashes to this image for a second or so:]
[This shows as Eddie says the words ‘scare every now and then’]
POPPY: Oh yes! That theater clown! Sally, you know I do hate to ruffle anyone's feathers as it were, but why so much the focus on horror for your party? Especially when you are dressed for comedy! I think I much rather have a pleasant chuckle! Why… Maybe a chortle, even!
EDDIE: I think Sally’s right, though! What’s livin’ without a little scare every now and again? I had a good time listenin’ to all those Tall Tales for Terror n’ Treats— Or whatever it was that Barnaby called it.
BARNABY: Nooope, you’re right, Terror n’ Treats!
SALLY: Oh bother— I’ll never get the entirety of this little neighborhood in stardom ! At this rate, we will be the laughing stock of the solar system!
[The apple is eaten!]
POPPY: Oh Sally, dear, don’t doubt yourself… You’re doing a wonderful job— …But I wouldn’t throw the fun of clownery out the window!
[Visual ID: Something… Has happened to the apple. A bite has been taken out of it, I think.]
BARNABY: Eheheh, as much as I’m enjoyin’ all this talk of clownin’ around, I better go check on my little apple— and I don’t mean Wally. But ya know what, I also mean Wally.
[Audio ID: Barnaby comes closer.]
BARNABY: ‘Ey, how’s my little devil doin’ over ‘ere? You guardin’ my apple for me, pal?
[There is a brief pause. What is he doing.]
BARNABY: Oh— heh, I guess ya didn’t do a very good job at it. [Barnaby calls out to the room] Hey! Who took a bite outta my apple? I think I see some fang marks, Frank!
FRANK: [Seemingly from across the room.] THESE FANGS AREN’T REAL AND YOU KNOW THAT!
BARNABY: Suuuure, sure— that’s what they all say!
[It sounds like Barnaby pats the camera.]
BARNABY: Don’t worry though, kid, there’s plenty’a other eats here! What’re you feelin’ hungry for, Wally?
[End of Visual and Audio ID.]
Due to the line ‘It sounds like Barnaby pats the camera’, we are almost definite in thinking that the ‘camera’ is Wally Darling.
Password Please
On the exhibition page, there is this paragraph. Clicking the word ‘answer’ takes you to a page called ‘password please’.
It houses this image. Clicking this image takes you to this page.
There we get this image, also clickable.
When clicking the image, it pulls up this pop up that prompts for a password.
Entering the password BSPJW (found on by heroinahalfshell (Red) on discord).
Staff Only
The password BSPJW takes you to this page.
This page is a mess with overlapping text, stained images, and that same black sludge from behind home.
Even the banners have been stained.
The Playfellow Exhibition
Can you hear me?
The blacked out text:
Ring-ring. Hello? Can you hear me? Call back soon, please.
Ring-ring. Ring. Hello? Can you hear me? Call back soon, please.
Ring-ring. Hello? Can you hear me? Call back soon, please.
Ring-ring. Ring. Hello? Can you hear me? Call back soon, please.
Ring-ring. Hello? Can you hear me? Call back soon, please.
Ring-ring. Ring. Hello? Can you hear me? Call back soon, please.
Ring-ring. Hello? Can you hear me? Call back soon, please.
Ring-ring. Ring. Hello? Can you hear me? Call back soon, please.
Ring-ring. Hello? Can you hear me? Call back soon, please.
Ring-ring. Ring. Hello? Can you hear me? Call back soon, please.
Ring-ring. Hello? Can you hear me? Call back soon, please.
Ring-ring. Ring. Hello? Can you hear me? Call back soon, please.
Ring. Ring ring. Ring. Won't you please pick up? .
Based on other messages from him, we can assume Wally here is the person who is speaking. Asking him to pick up.
Main text:
I had a dream when I began working on the Playfellow Exhibition. Wally Darling was sitting at the foot of my bed with a rotary phone in front of him, ringing away. It looked just like the little toy phone we were restoring for the exhibit. It kept ringing. Wally stared at me like he was waiting for me to pick up the phone. Just staring, unblinking. The phone ringing and ringing. I couldn't move. I couldn't figure out how to move and pick up the phone. He kept waiting. I couldn't pick up the phone.
I keep getting phone calls, now. Or at least, I assume that's what's happening. I keep hearing it ringing. All day, sometimes. I check my phone and there's no new messages. I thought maybe some of the site staff were pranking me, but I tore up the workspace and couldn't find another phone that might be ringing. All that was there were the toys for the exhibit, and obviously those couldn't be ringing. But I kept hearing it anyway. The phone ringing and ringing.
The more I work, the more questions I have. Why didn't any of the site staff I worked with remember this show? Even the ones who grew up in the 70s? Why can't I find any files on the Playfellow Workshop? Why isn't there a single TV guide ad saying what network or time the show was on? I keep digging and digging. I've poured over every recovery the WHRP has given me access to, every inch of their website, and the things I find make less and less sense. If I didn't know better I'd say everyone was coming together to pull an elaborate prank on me.
I can still hear the phone ringing now.
I don't know how to answer the phone.
I need to answer the phone.
At the bottom of the page we see a gif of these words, surrounded by that same black sludge:
If you click “It’s in here.” it brings you to the error screen - the only place to naturally get it without typing the link out yourself.
Images:
This image resembles whatever is below Home, along with more spiral imagery.
Something is getting in.
We have already attempted to email staff@QAexhibitions.org, but it comes back as a fake email. This is not a part of the ARG.
ATTN STAFF
STILL WAITING ON SAFE CODE. IF GUESTS COMPLETE WORK SHEET OFFER TO SEND PRIZE LATER ONCE WE GET THIS OPEN!
Thurs, April 13, 2023 at 7:53 PM
To: < [text omitted] @whrp.net >
From: < staff@QAexhibitions.org >
Subj: Re: Safe code??
Hi [text omitted] !
Thanks for getting the activity prize shipped out so promptly! I wasn’t expecting them to arrive in a lockbox (should I be worried about the value of these prizes for insurance?) - there actually wasn’t a code I could find in the packaging at all, could you send that so we can open the box and give away the prizes to visitors?
Thanks again, give me a call at [text omitted] if that’s easier!
~ [text omitted] , Head Curator
Questions Answered! Curatorial Services
Exhibition Design, Curation. Archival & Restoration
__________________
Thurs, April 13, 2023 at 7:53 PM
To: < staff@QAexhibitions.org >
From: < [text omitted] @whrp.net >
Subj: Re: Safe code??
Attachment: WHactivityworksheet.jpg
Blacklight text underneath email attachment reads: ~ WALLY DARLING
We can clearly see here the black substance is everywhere. On the walls and gloves - hand prints and drips covering every surface.
Beside the television we can see a yellow/rainbow phone, but it is not the one from the exhibition (the “its-for-you” toy).
We can also see this phone in a brightened version of the Julie-rella tv image!
Sticky note on gloves box:
Put on gloves before handling ANY art
Call me if we run out!!!
Sticky note on television:
BROKEN??? Call facilities ASAP
The second image is taken from a non canon site but as the first image is canon I believe the document will benefit from having the full image easily viewable.
Text on sticky note is partially cut off:
(Th)is art was NOT
(in) the shipment
(PL)EASE stop using
(the) work printer
(to) prank me. >:(
Blacklight text underneath:
“Who are you?” (with a drawing of an eye and a spiral beneath it).
4) What’s your favorite or least favorite part of the research/restoration work?
Our favorite part? Uncovering more information, of course! As well as restoring pieces with beautiful results! Nothing feels better quite like a job well done! Our least favorite part, however? Nothing I can think of!
Blacklight text in space between paragraphs:
Everything is so disgusting to touch. Sometimes the mail doesn’t come for weeks. I want to rip into everything I have. My head feels so muddled too. Ever since I opened that envelope.
Visible area of e-mail:
“Fun facts” you’d like visitors to know about your work and Welcome Home? (Maybe a (partic)ularly cool or funny way you found one of these pieces, or an unexpected [...] ?)
[...] (this) is top secret! We feel as though we were the
[...] (sprea)ding the good word of Welcome (Home)
[...] (e)/(fan-)mail to us has quite the
[...] (be)longings in such a
[...] -ed the heck out of their
[...] (a)bout the merchandise?
[...] have been a mountain of it!
[...] (m)ore fun, informative, and
ATTN: ALL STAFF
CHECK ART W/BLACKLIGHT BEFORE HANGING / PACKING / CLEANING / ECT.
NEED PHOTOS FOR CONDITION REPORTS + WHRP TEAM!!
Here you can also see the black substance.
Mon, April 3, 2023 at 1:53 PM
To: < staff@QAexhibitions.org >
From: < [text omitted] @whrp.net >
Subj: Re: Confirming arrival! Plus…?
Hello.
We are overjoyed you have received all of the work we have so far uncovered! Please take care of it while it is in your possession, but under no circumstances should it be touched with your bare hands. Please wear gloves. If a substance begins to grow on anything delivered, please place it back in the box it was shipped in and return it to us at your leisure. If you or anyone in your team experience nausea, dizziness, or fatigue, please don’t be alarmed.
We also thank you for your offer to assist in restoring these pieces, but I cannot accept your offer.
Thank you.
~ [text omitted]
Hello again [text omitted] !
The shipment of works for the exhibition arrived today - thanks again for being so generous with these items! At some point I would like to run down the full checklist with you to confirm which are originals and which are restorations/reproductions, so we can include that information when we write the didactic labels. Let me know if it’s easier for me to email you a list or if you’d like to have a phone call about it.
Speaking of restoration, I also wanted to ask - would you like us to work on having any of these items professionally touched up while we’re here for the exhibit? I’m sure the folks we usually work with would be thrilled to work on something so unique (some of them were kids in the 60s and 70s, maybe an opportunity to get some eyewitness accounts too?) and it seems only fair for us to offer, what with you so kindly loaning us all this material to exhibit. Totally understand if you’d prefer to keep that work among your own team, of course. Just let me know.
Excited to get this all on display, will send photos soon when we start installing!
~ [text omitted] Head Curator
Questions Answered! Curatorial Services
Exhibition Design, Curation. Archival & Restoration
https://inbox.wemail.com/mail/?FMfcgzHseLpLGBGbzoRtzKm&=print
This link does not work.
Do not attempt to email this either.
Notes.
WHRP sent their research notebook.
It has to be a prank. Maybe all of it. Maybe that’s why no one has ever heard of WH. The staff, friends, parents, not a memory. All made up to… prank… me, specifically? Ok that’s nonsense.
I don’t know what to think. I feel like I need to read it again. There has to be answers. There has to be. I’ll find answers.
People need me to have answers
There’s more of that stuff on the walls
I keep hearing phones ring.
Writing on sticky notes atop red notebook:
For research!!
ON LOAN
Do NOT write in >:(
Writing on sticky note atop research notebook:
This one is mine also for research
ALSO DO NOT WRITE IN >:(
Blacklight:
The phone is ringing
To the right of the photo is a near illegible show script from Playfellow Workshop. Below the show script is a pink sticky note pad. Drawn on the pad is a spiral, and a phone with two small speech bubbles that both say “ring”.
The finger smears resemble those found in things the restoration team received - here.
Transcription credit entirely goes to Beespoon on discord
(Second to last line by terminallycapricious / Dal on discord)
Hello.
My name doesn’t matter. I am here to catalogue something. I’m not sure it’s fully real. But it must be, I’m holding the evidence in my hands. Pictures. Characters. Text I can barely read. It’s called “Welcome Home,” and it looks like it might’ve been a children’s book? Like I said, I can’t tell.
It was sopping wet when I found it. When I first reached into one of the brightly colored envelopes, my hand was already covered in some gross (/ goopy) material. It feels like antiques are always covered in some kind of grime. I’m going to clean up what I have and do a little more digging.
Theres only one name I have made out right now.
Wally. Probably important, but like I said, I’ll keep looking.
XOXO
We do not know who this letter is from!
We can assume it’s either from QA or The Restoration Team.
The first image finally makes the second image canon.
This is also the same safe from password please.
Visible area of email:
Mon, April 3, 2023 at 1:53 PM
[...]-ived all of the work we have so far uncovered!
[...] -on, but under no circumstances should it be touched with your
[...] If a substance begins to grow on anything delivered, please
[...] shipped in and return it to us at your leisure. If you or anyone in
[...] dizziness, or fatigue, please don’t be alarmed.
[...] offer to assist in restoring these pieces, but I cannot accept your
[text omitted]
[text omitted] !
[...] for the exhibition arrived today - thanks again for being so generous with these items! At some point
[...] -own the full checklist with you to confirm which are originals and which are restorations/reproductions,
[...] information when we write the didactic labels. Let me know if it’s easier for me to email you a list or if
[...] phone call about it.
[...] ed to ask - would you like us to work on having any of these items professionally touched
[...] the folks we usually work with would be thrilled to work on something so unique
[...] maybe an opportunity to get some eyewitness accounts too?) and it seems
[...] this material to exhibit. Totally understand if you’d prefer to
Blacklight text underneath:
I am so sorry.
Away from Prying Eyes
By decoding the code we are given here, we get the phrase away from prying eyes. Following this as its own link (hinted to by the www on guestbook), we get this link:
https://www.awayfrompryingeyes.net/
There’s a lot here.
Page 1
Here we are greeted with this letter:
Hello.
If you have found this page, thank you.
It shouldn’t have been that difficult to arrive, but it would take effort to get here regardless.
The Welcome Home Restoration Project is a unified effort that first launched in January 2022. The goal seemed so small for the website, it was to uncover Welcome Home fully and to tell its story. It needed me. I needed it. Everyone started to look at us. You want this as badly as I do. I know you do because you come here again and again to see what I’ve found. I was sure the end was in sight or at least served as the beginning of it. But since then, nothing has made sense to me. No one has come forward or provided leads and dead ends have since piled up. Nothing from our curator who has since recovered. I don’t know what happened to them to become so unwell, to create that page.
What has arrived, however, has felt truly upsetting.
There was something on the old website. We have since remodeled, but everything still feels burned into my mind. Videos, text, crude drawings- Invading this space that had been created. I felt nauseous when I found it. I was Paranoid too, more so than I have been.
I have been working so diligently to achieve this goal. It’s been such a long time. It’s been almost four years publicly and I’ve yet to truly find it. So much sacrifice, focus, and time.
So I created this website to catalog these findings alongside other unconventional recoveries of Welcome Home and its material. I wanted to document this without upsetting individuals who look hopefully at Welcome Home and our efforts. I also don’t want our contributor to find it. I don’t know if this is them. How could it be? Still, it is better to archive what has shown up rather than destroy it outright. I want to make sense of why they would do this.
I want to write about how I have been feeling too. I have no one to write to. If something happens to me, it will be like nothing had happened at all.
Our latest update. I hadn’t realized so much time had passed. It is already March of 2024 when I write this. So much has rotted in my home since then. I don’t want that to happen again. I will update as regularly as I can.
The website is cleaned now. Nothing should be in there and I’ll make sure it won’t happen again. Please give me time as I upload and archive everything on the website from before.
Thank you so much for finding this.
Don’t forget to wave up high.
- W
Annotations:
More suggestion to some form of symbiotic relationship from the show and the team, or some form of obsession caused by it.
Suggestion that we are watched in som way, or at least the person behind this post is aware of the fandom in some way.
Unwell could refer to mental unwellness or physical, perhaps reffering to the black substance.
Awareness of Wally’s presence - it is unwelcome.
It has not been 4 years - suggesting a strange timeline (though this and the December 1st update has been confirmed to be only 2 months ago from the news post)
This suggests they feel they’re in danger in some way?
Could be the black substance - dubbed by some as a mold. Possible link to the Staff Only page.
Broken Phone
I keep tinkering with the Welcome Home toy phone, or rather I have been playing with it. It plays everything as it should. The only button that consistently changes is Wally’s, which either doesn’t play at all or warbles out something incorrectly.
Today it rang for me. Sometimes it will do this, I assume a button must be jammed to consistently play that noise. Instinctively I answer it but nothing will come out. I have caught myself saying hello into the receiver in the past, but I’ve stopped now. This time, however, audio started playing on it that shouldn’t be playing. I was so worried it was in my head again, but I have proof it wasn’t. Here is the audio. You can hear Wally too, can’t you?
- W
Wally continuing to reach out for contact
This may be the Question Answerer
remember4ender on the Discord server linked in every doc has analysed the meaning behind the chosen song.
These were his thoughts:
So, Toyland very much is a parallel for the neighborhood.
So, in context with that idea, part about never returning again, once you leave the 'confines' of the neighborhood, implies something... not so great.
So, the way I read it is, with slightly modified sections:
The Neighborhood,
Where all our Neighbors live.
While you live here,
You are always happy!
When the neighbors grow up,
And are adults now,
You'll look back to what used to be
All those years ago
Full of Childhood joy
The Wonderful Neighborhood
Once you leave the Neighborhood
You can never return again.
Comercials
Whatever I found is remarkable. It feels like a miracle.
When the website first launched, I had found something playing from a very old television in my home. I was compelled to turn it on. I could see something, I could hear it too, but I had nothing to record it with. I would occasionally turn the television on. I don’t know why, I think I could hear or see something. Finally, last year in the summer, I had taken a photo and listened to dialogue that I believed to be from the show itself. I felt like an idiot, I hadn’t recorded anything, I was so entranced by what I was seeing.
Since then I haven’t turned it off. I wouldn’t let that mistake happen to me again, if I kept watching and listening I knew something would come back. I was finally rewarded in December. The channel it appeared on didn’t make any sense, but I didn’t care. Video evidence and audio started playing, one after the other. I’ve captured and compiled together whatever I could. I can’t make sense of anything, older television always felt strange to me anyways.
PLEASE BE WARY OF FLASHING LIGHTS, LOUD SOUNDS, AND STRANGE AUDIO.
[video] - Comercial Transcript
Admittedly, I’m frustrated. I feel distraught.
When I finally fell asleep, no more video or audio ever returned. What could have been seen made me feel sick. To record so little took so much work. When footage would disappear, I would have to move to another channel, where another would appear and then disappear again. I knew I had to stop though, I was too exhausted and I was tired of waiting through hours of static just to find another commercial. I don’t know how this was happening. But the show never appeared beyond clips of Eddie Dear. I don’t want to post this publicly on the WHRP site, at least not yet. I can’t stomach anything that's happening.
- W
Some thing may be in the television - possible links to the video of static with Wally’s eyes.
Themes of the show compelling people return
More themes of obsession
The last section of this video is clearly important.
This may be a derealization/dissociative episode, especially as all Eddie’s shots are from the first person with an emphasis on only showing his hands.
Ties to the single pea on a plate through multiple shots of it in his hand, him nearly inaudibly mumbling ‘I THINK I NEED TO GO HOME’ and his previous clips in his post officemay suggest some form of isolation is happening to Eddie.
This could be connected to the song, as Eddie is known to have no memory of where he is from before home and likely has left the neighborhood many times for his mail man job.
The clips featuring Home’s window/eye suggest some fear Eddie may have of home, or some threatening environment that Home is creating around Eddie.
Frank also whispering to Eddie (event calling him Eddie instead of Mr Dear) could suggests Frank trying to get Eddie ‘back on script’.
There may be some significance for the video ending on Frank’s worried face, especially as this frame (a cleaner version of it, granted) is currently Clown’s profile photo on Twitter and Tumblr.
🖍️Text That Implies…🖍️
All of my own personal Theories - feel free to disregard!!
…Wally is lost
Credit to the doodle index for helping me with this!!
Note:
Você é muito fofa e como é que eu vou parar no seu universo ia ser legal fugir da depressão e é para afundar um feliz é né me importar nada de pagar minhas memórias tá com amor Thaila
(Rough translation)
You're very cute and how am I going to end up in your universe it would be nice to escape depression and it's to sink a happy one and I don't mind paying for my memories ok with love Thaila
Image response:
Eu não sei onde estamos.
(Rough Translation)
I don't know where we are.
—-----------------
In the page Hidden Page - So-Below we see this image:
The image is titled ‘You’re here’.
This could mean a number of things - but my theory is it is directed to Home as that is who he is facing in the image.
It is possible that he is relieved that Home is here with him, because he is lost and Home is his friend.
…Wally has memory issues
Prompt: I wonder just what happens in this neighborhood. - Thomas Hingle (Thinglet247)
Response: I don’t know either.
Prompt: Hiya Wally! You and your friends sure seem like a bunch of wonderful folks! What’s your favorite memory with each of your friends?
Response: No memory.
Prompt: wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle :)
Response: I do not know what wiggle is. Barnaby said it was this
Prompt: Hello! I love clowns! Show me one!
Response: I do not know what a clown is. I asked Frank. He said Barnaby. Here is Barnaby.
We know Barnaby talks about being a clown around Wally (like in 14-14-bh). How would he not know?
Prompt: I like rats
Response: Rat.
Wally doesn’t know what a rat is? Or it is possible this is just a joke from the writers - that this is what a Rat actually looks like in Welcome Home.
Prompt: So much fun to be had here, I wish I could stay forever! If I can find a koala shaped hole to hide in, I just might!
Response: Koala. This is a Koala.
This is not a koala. This is Barnaby from Billie Beat Em Up (Most likely a reference from Clown and NOT from Wally)
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In Wally’s letter from Frank, Frank asks
“I have found a new insect today.
You remember what an insect is, don’t you? It is a beautiful arthropod!”
Why would Wally not remember what a bug is?
…The black goo causes mental struggles(?)
Wally
Evidence that Wally has been exposed to the goo is:
Question Answerer
We know the question answerer has been exposed to the goo too- Based on the state of his desk and the ceiling of the same room (Which also heavily resembles what lurks behind home).
Even his hidden page on the website is tainted with the goo.
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Could ‘it’ be the goo itself? Or is something more getting out? Home?
Everything is so disgusting to touch. Sometimes the mail doesn’t come for weeks. I want to rip into everything I have. My head feels so muddled too. Ever since I opened that envelope.
The case for the memory loss with the Question Answerer:
On QA’s private website, they say:
- “The more I work, the more questions I have. [...] I keep digging and digging. I've poured over every recovery the WHRP has given me access to, every inch of their website, and the things I find make less and less sense.”
- “If I didn't know better I'd say everyone was coming together to pull an elaborate prank on me.”
- “I keep getting phone calls, now. Or at least, I assume that's what's happening. I keep hearing it ringing. All day, sometimes. I check my phone and there's no new messages. [...] I kept hearing it anyway. The phone ringing and ringing.”
Based on these notes, it seems the question answerer is losing it in some way or another.
This could also mean a connection between Wally and QA - especially because of the dream.
Eddie
Eddie is a mailman, he delivers letters! And we know that the letters contain the goo because of Wally's and the Question Answerer’s experiences.
We also know Eddie struggles with memory issues via his character page:
“Despite having a written origin, Eddie had never stated the correct name of where he came from through out the show's run. The running joke often had him stating a place that did not exist, followed by an admission to misremembering it as a place he delivered to as opposed to a place he lived.”
…Home is aware
In Doodle Hidden Pages!!, we hear a heartbeat behind Wally’s own voice, and in Understand - Home again, Wally even addresses this:
“Do you like Home? Home is my house. Do you have a Home too?
Do you hear it too? You can hear mine.”
Considering what we can hear in the [whatever the fuck you call this], it can be assumed that "it" is the heartbeat of Home.
Home is now speaking to us too.
In Neighbour - Swirl, we can hear Home speak to us for the first time.
Home canonically speaks in creaks and bangs, which can be translated into Morse Code. The page itself hints at this in the transcript.
When translated, the Morse Code reads as follows:
.... . .-.. .-.. ---
"HELLO"
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In "Eddie's Big Lift" Storybook Record Wally says:
“Eddie’s going to lift up Home? That’s the most. We can go to Howdy’s together and Home can pick out his own hot dog.”
This gives the terrifying implication that Home can eat food.