Julie Joyful

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Julie as she appears in her Neighborhood Introduction

**Julie Joyful** was one of the 9 neighbors that lived in The Neighborhood during the 1970s television series, Welcome Home.

## Introduction

"According to uncovered scripts, Julie was a rainbow monster that was said to have come from deep within the forest that surrounded the outskirts of Home. She lived with her family in a cave but sought out a life of her own and moved away.

Many of her skits and activities centered around playing games, whether they were as familiar as jump rope and hopscotch or simply made up on a whim. She was often depicted with Frank as a comedic foil, on merchandise and advertising, and in the song, “The Fun in your Frown.” (No track.) In the storybook record, "Happy Haunting to Boo and Yours," it is implied Julie and Frank could be a couple.

Recent evidence has revealed that Julie’s family consisted of three siblings who were also rainbow monsters but with greatly differing color palettes. Their names were Bea, Franny, and Jonesy, but they do not appear to have lived in Home alongside her. There was also a prevalent theme of flowers. This can be seen with Julie herself looking like an open flower from above and illustrations that would reveal her speaking to flowers to make them bloom."

## Appearance

Julie Joyful was an adult humanoid puppet. She has salmon skin. There are four fingers on each hand, like most of the other neighbors. She has downturned, oval-shaped eyes with black pupils and two eyelashes on each eye. Her eyebrows are small and black. Her nose is round and orange. Julie has a nice-looking smile, with pinkish blush coloring her cheeks. Her honey-blonde hair is teased into a beehive hairstyle, which is held by a white headband. She has two face-framing pieces of hair hanging loose. Julie has two orange and yellow striped horns.

Julie normally wore a light red dress. The bodice of the dress has a white Peter Pan collar with a golden bow attached to it. It also has puffed sleeves. A white belt is secured around her waist with a circular golden buckle. The skirt of the dress is ruffled and rounded. The edges are gold and dark salmon. Julie had on stockings that have a blue-green gradient. She also wore white Mary Jane shoes with a golden buckle. Her overall style is reminiscent of the era in which "Welcome Home" would have aired.

## Personality

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## Relationships

### The Joyful Family

Not much is known about the relationship between Franny Joyful, Bea Joyful and Jonesy Joyful with Julie, besides the fact that they were siblings.

For now, it is known that they liked to shine their horns and butt heads with one another often, keep the cave tidy and sing songs together to the local flora.  They all visited Julie often on The Neighborhood once she left the cave.

### Frank Frankly

Julie was regarded as Frank's best friend, they were often depicted hanging out together in official media from the series. Frank served as a comedic foil to Julie. Julie regarded Frank's grumpy and cranky demeanor as an appealing attribute, finding it amusing instead.  Julie was to Frank what Frank was to Julie, her loud and rambunctious to his poised and reserved.

Julie was really nice to Frank, something he appreciated greatly. She helped him in his bug exploration without minding getting muddy and Julie listened to his very long tangents about very specific facts and interests, usually about bugs and plants.  Frank sometimes picked a bug off the ground nonchalantly and immediately started talking in-depthly about it for a long period of time to whomever is nearby, normally Julie, before putting it back where he found it and then continue with his day.

Since Julie could talk with plants, she sometimes let Frank know what his vegetables were saying and needed to help him with his garden. Frank did the same for her in return, listening to her and remembering her extremely strange made-up games and their long rules. When spending time with Julie, they sometimes would play a game she invented with too many rules, so many indeed that even Julie couldn't keep track of them, but Frank always remembered them for her.

Julie loved to play “Business Woman in the Big City” with him, a game where she was an independent business woman for only a short period of time. Frank didn't like this game because as soon as she made him the secretary and he got his desk for his fake job set up, she always announced “This Company is going down!!” and destroyed her surroundings and kicked his desk over.  Despite this, he liked spending time with Julie, enduring her destructive behavior, and he was usually the one to give some order and sense to Julie's chaotic games and ideas, also helping her afterwards if her activities took a turn to the worst.

Frank never gave up during games and tried too hard to win, even when it was impossible for him to do so. Julie loved playing with Frank because of this, since she liked challenges.  Frank and Julie were very competitive with one another, since they both were bad winners.

Julie's jokes were the only ones Frank tolerated and found funny, laughing with her. He tried to follow her and also tried making funny remarks and jokes of his own, feeling more at ease making them around Julie than with others. Julie liked to playfully tease Frank a bit at times when the moment arised, but Frank didn't took this in the wrong way and was amused instead, and at worst he just got a bit worn out with her constant games and insistence with some things. Generally, their conversations and time together was pleasant and enjoyable.

They both got distracted very easily, but because they were together, they motivated one another to become even more confused and loud as a pair.  Both were very aggressive, silly, terrible at jokes and not afraid to throw themselves into something even if it means dirtying their matching ensembles.

The Welcome Home Restoration Project comments that in the storybook record, "Happy Haunting to Boo and Yours," it is implied Frank and Julie could be a couple.

### Wally Darling

Wally and Julie had a good friendship and spent a lot of time together. Wally learned a lot of things from Julie too, and sometimes mimicked her mannerisms.  However, Julie didn't like playing games with Wally a lot of the time because he’s too easy to beat.  She sometimes accidentally hurt Wally during her games as well.

Julie liked hugging Wally and Wally liked being hugged by Julie, Wally sometimes even asked to be held by her too.  Julie insisted on picking Wally up sometimes even though they are almost the same size.

### Sally Starlet

Both of them had a lot of energy and enthusiasm, so they usually liked spending time together. Sometimes they even played by flinging each other around repeatedly,  something Frank refused to do with Julie despite her insistence. When Frank couldn't or didn't want to play a game with Julie, Sally was usually the perfect candidate for it instead. Both enjoyed playing together and Sally even invited Julie to act as the protagonist in her plays.

Even so, Julie is the most chaotic of the two, and Sally often found herself questioning Julie's ideas or got a bit irritated at her for changing the dialogue and story of her acts.

### Eddie Dear

Eddie participated in Julie's activities and played with her at times, even if he was sometimes confused about her playstyle. He tried to understand her games and spend time with her nonetheless, and Julie appreciate spending time with Eddie too.

Julie had an idealized idea of Eddie's strength, believing and trying to convince others about Eddie's capabilities to pick up everyone in the neighborhood, included Home. She trusted Eddie enough to jump at him unexpectedly while he was carrying packages, knowing that he would let them go to catch her instead and ensure she doesn't get hurt.

### Barnaby B. Beagle

Similar to Frank, Barnaby enjoyed teasing Julie to irritate and annoy her. In particular, Barnaby didn't enjoy Julie's jokes and found them boring and predictable.

Although Julie was amused hearing Frank and Barnaby interacting with each other, she sometimes defended Frank from Barnaby's mean comments when Frank wasn't around.

Despite all this, they still played together and Barnaby partaked in Julie's crazy ideas. Barnaby thought that her time around Frank is what made her have a dull taste in humor, and wouldn't mind teaching her how to properly make puns and be funny to his standards one day.

### Home

Julie occasionally Include Home in their games and visited him often, so Home didn't felt excluded from the group. Julie always tried for Home to participate in their own way, like teaching Home how to hula hoop with its door knob.

## Trivia

* Despite Julie moving out of the cave her family lived in, Clown stated that her siblings still visited her from time to time.
* Her voice was described as sweet, and was compared with Mitzy Mozzarella's with a bit of a Minnie Mouse tone to it.
* Julie was first conceptualized in March 2018.
	+ Clown cites the aesthetics of the 1960s as inspiration for Julie, as well as Ernie, Minnie Mouse, and Princess Peach. Star Butterfly was not an influence attributed to Julie, though Clown admitted that they shared some similarities.
	+ In earlier concept work (now non-canonical), Julie's name was Julie B. rather than Julie Joyful, and she had one horn longer than the other.
		- She was going to be called Julie Dear at some point until this surname was given to Eddie Dear instead.
		- Julie was going to be without her horns at first.
* It's been revealed that Julie was bisexual.
* Julie's puppet was a hand and rod puppet.
* Julie knew how to play the saxophone.
* Her favorite food was peanut butter and honey sandwich, with a lot of honey. She also liked to make it look as she pleased.
	+ Her favorite type of cheesecake was "Celebration Cheesecake".
	+ Julie's favorite type of coffee was an Americano without much beyond a few sugars. She loved how bitter coffee is and only drank it for the taste.
* Her favorite color was pink. All the favorite colors of every neighbor put next to each other forms a rainbow.
	+ It seems that her second favorite color was yellow.
* She was really good playing carnival games. She beated all of them and always found the ruse in them. She gave all her prizes to Frank.
* Julie talked with flowers, fruits and vegetables, especially with Frank's.
* Her and Sally had their own holiday created by them called Make-Me-Mean day, which was a day to look your rudest and strangest, pretending to be "something mean" to prank the other neighbors. It was the equivalent to Halloween in our world.
* At firsts, she was planned to be the second best joke teller, after Barnaby.  However, this was later changed with the website update and now she is terrible at jokes.
* It seems that she was a great actress. Unfortunately, she always changed the story and dialogue during Sally's plays when she performed.
* She was not good at baking and cooking, she was too clumsy.
* She liked to kick her feet while talking on the phone.
* She would have enjoyed comics and super heroes, but there weren't any comics in the neighborhood.
* She was the neighbor that most likely would have liked to have a cool sword, she found them to be like extremely dangerous baseball bats. She would have sleept with it and give it bed time beauty regiments.
* None of the neighbors were prone to wear jewelry, but Julie would have been the most inclined of the cast to do so, maybe for her horns.
* Julie is really good at sports, but these usually ended in accidents.  The other neighbors called this "Julie Accidents".
	+ She liked baseball.
* She would have liked jelly clothing.
* She sometimes ran on all fours.
* Both Julie and Frank would have wrote down "Frank" under the question "Who’s the funniest neighbor?" on the exhibition worksheet instead of "Barnaby".
* Clown made a funny non-canonical audio of Julie talking on the phone as a reply to this ask.
* Clown has confirmed that Julie and other Welcome Home characters are autistic, like himself.
	+ Julie stimmed in a lot of different ways, like jumping, spinning, running around, walking in the same spot and making noises. She sometimes flapped her arms as well, something she learned from Poppy.
* If the Welcome Home puppets meet the Muppets, Clown thinks that Julie would get along with Gonzo because he dresses elegantly but is volatile, chaotic and messy.
* If Clown had to compare Julie with one of the Habiticians from *Smile for Me*, it would be Randy.
* Julie would have loved the movie "Cinderella".
* When dancing, Julie was more inclined to sway the same way they do in several ABBA music videos.
* She would have liked the song "First Of The Year (Equinox)" by Skrillex.  She would have enjoyed and sung to Minecraft variations of pop songs, like "Revenge".
* If she had been in the world of Splatoon, she would have had the Aerospray RG as a weapon and the Booyah Bomb as her special weapon because of how wild, loud and silly she was.
	+ Her favorite idols would be Frye and Pearl.
* Clown has created a personal Welcome Home x Pokémon AU just for fun.  They even created humanized designs and drawings of Julie and other characters.
	+ In this AU, Julie is a Poison-Type Gym Leader whose entire theme is a floral, toxic disco. Her Gym is very flowery, groovy, multi-colored and full of nature that she insisted on filling with poison before Frank stopped her from doing so. Her "Groove and Survive" theme means trainers have to wear gas masks upon entering and make a dance test before battling her. Her goal is to preserve the well-being of Poison-type Pokémon, all of whom she loves very dearly and has been consistently poisoned by when she does not wear the proper safety gear.
	+ Julie helps Frank with his research for the betterment of Pokémon survival and the prevention of villainous over-breeding, and Frank keeps her from accidental poisonings in return. Before battling Julie, trainers have to face Frank first. . Frank's work place is close to Julie's Gym. They would have met either in a fashion shop or in a deadly environment.
	+ Her Pokémon team is Alolan Muk, Weezing/Galarian Slowking, Vileplume, Venusaur/Starmie, Toxicroak and Galarian Corsola. Her Alolan Muk is covered in fashionable bobbles.
* Clown also described their own take in a Welcome Home x Alice in Wonderland AU. Julie would be the one to take the role of the March Hare, always close to Frank, who would be the Mad Hatter in this universe. Instead of tea parties, they have playdates.

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