Jolly Entertainment

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**Jolly Entertainment**, sometimes abbreviated as **Jolly Ent.**, is the main company that owns the Jolly brand and an antagonistic company of the *JOLLY* series. It was founded by Oliver Johnson and is currently run by the current CEO of the company, Kevin Johnson.

## History

### 1983-1985: Origins, Founding and Generation 1

The concept of the company as a partnership between it and Afton Robotics, founded by William Afton would come in 1980, when Oliver Johnson formed the idea until 1983 as a sister company, and would instead have a partnership between it and Fazbear Entertainment, which the company would receive only 10% of its sister company's monthly funding to assist in kick-starting the starter company. The two companies would work very closely together, bouncing ideas off of each other, proposing meetings for plans to come, and more.

In the same year, Jolly Entertainment would be publicly founded by Oliver Johnson, after making a deal with its former owner to manufacture and test animatronics in the Oregon factory, Afton-Johnson Manufacturing Facility, an organization which Jack Carson used to work. In the facility, animatronics of both companies were built, which were all fixed and tested in the facility. The first ever (Classic Variants) Jolly and George animatronics were coined as "Classic Jolly", the only springlock suit of the company and "Classic George", while they were all created by Eric Smith, who was unknowingly manufacturing them, so he was fired from Fazbear Entertainment.

The ownership of the characters was fully gifted to Jolly Entertainment after finishing manufacturing and testing. The first ever restaurant of the company, simply titled "Jolly's" was opened in Anaheim, California in 1983, and the reception was that kids were instantly falling in love with the characters and it craved more.

Eric was eventually rehired by Fazbear Entertainment after making a new animatronic called the Antonette, until William Afton killed 5 kids, with one of them being Zoey Smith. After her murder, Toni Smith files for a divorce. After that, Eric went on a quest of finding the body of their dead child.

#### The Springlock Incident

The Springlock incident occurred when Toni entered Antonette's room after trashing Eric's work in a room full of his previous work in the LHS Shipping Co. cargo ship. She then touched Antonette, disabled, and Eric, under the false identity of "Liam" tries to warn her, but she ends up electrocuted by the animatronic, killing her instantly.

Her soul possessed the animatronic as a vessel, holding herself in a limbo in the afterlife. Various people came to the site of the disaster, but Eric decided to hide in the Classic Jolly Suit that was located on that cargo ship. However, he was suddenly killed by the Springlocks within.

### 1985-2001: Entertainment hiatus and Generation 2

Fazbear Entertainment stated in an incident report that Jolly Entertainment is to cover up the springlocking incident by all means necessary because it was an incident caused by one of their animatronics. To plead full deniability, until the incident is fully covered up, the partnership between Jolly and Fazbear Entertainment is suspended, with no existing correlation or association to each other, and the company went into an "entertainment hiatus", between 1985 and 1989.

## Locations

These locations will be listed in order of creation.

* **Jolly's** (Gen. 1 location; one restaurant) - The first original Jolly's location, which settles in Anaheim, California in the 1980s, housing the original Jolly and George. Not much is known, but the location opened in 1983 and shut down for three years from 1985 to 1988 to be rebranded into one of the two Generation 2 restaurants.
* **Jolly’s \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ \_\_\_\_\_** (Gen. 2 chain; two restaurants) - The second iteration of Jolly's with an unknown name. It is the first chain, though with only two restaurants and only a $900,000 budget. The restaurants opened in 1988 and closed down in 2003.
* **Jolly's Fantasy World** (Gen. 3 chain; six restaurants) - The third iteration of Jolly's. It is the second restaurant chain, much bigger than the previous one with six locations, and it is made with a much higher budget as well. The restaurants were closed in 2020, though one of the locations had to be closed 3 years earlier in 2017 since a perpetrator broke into the location and destroyed the animatronics.

## Mascots

The following mascots will be listed in order of in-universe debut:

* **Jolly the Bee** (1983) - An anthropomorphic bee and the main face of the company. He began as a red bee, but throughout the generations, he changed his colours twice, from red to blue, and finally to black. His recent incarnation also appears to ditch his chef hat in favour of a fancy top hat instead.
	+ Classic Jolly / Withered Jolly
	+ Generation 2 Jolly
	+ Fantasy Jolly
		- Red Fantasy Jolly Prototype
	+ Jolly Goodtime
* **George the Tiger** (1983) - An orange tiger who is Jolly's legacy partner before the third generation. He stayed relatively true to himself throughout the generations unless you count the moment in time when George had a design makeover to fit with his new partner Maxie. His recent incarnation shows him back to his orange self to resemble an actual tiger again.
	+ Classic George / Withered George
	+ Generation 2 George
	+ Fantasy George
	+ George Goodtime
* **Tweetie the Bluebird** (1988) - A bluebird who used to just be a newcomer to Jolly's second generation, but soon swapped places with George as Jolly's partner and they have been partners ever since. She was always a bluebird, though the company originally envisioned her as a goldfinch during the creation of the third generation.
	+ Generation 2 Tweetie
	+ Fantasy Tweetie
		- Withered Tweetie
	+ Tweetie Goodtime
* **Maxie the White Tiger** (2005) - A white tiger who has been George's partner since Generation 3. Since Tweetie replaced George entirely as Jolly's partner, they decided to give George his partner in Maxie, possibly to make the cast even. Maxie has stayed pretty much the same during her time in the spotlight, with no intentions of changing her colour scheme or anything.
	+ Fantasy Maxie
		- Withered Maxie
	+ Maxie Goodtime
* **Tal the Puppet** (somewhere in the 2020s) - A humanoid puppet who was introduced in the 4th generation because the company was given the creative rights of 'Metalionette', so the company made it into a character in the form of Tal. He is so far only seen in Generation 4, meaning that during his reign he was always known as Tal Goodtime.
	+ Metalionette (not theirs until 2019)
	+ Tal Goodtime

## Known employees

### Former employees

#### Deceased

* Toni Audrey
* Eric Smith (now Withered Jolly)
* William Afton (now Springtrap)

## References

1. ↑ The Story & Lore From Jolly Games 1-4