Bill Green/History

*(March 1, 2022)*

This article describes the history of **Bill Green**, Ernest and Alice Green's son, Nancy Green's ex-husband and the father of Cricket and Tilly Green.

## Early life

Bill Green was born on a Tuesday in the plumbing section of a hardware store ("DIY Guys"; contrary to this, "Super Gramma!" reveals he was born out in the open) to Ernest and Alice Green, and was raised to be a humble father himself. Sadly, Ernest died some time after his birth, leaving Alice to raise him alone.

Once Bill came of age, he wrestled a hawk, completing his Green family rite of passage.

When the farm started to suffer because of Alice working alone due to the death of Ernest Green, a man named Quisling wanted to buy the farmland for an extraordinary price. Not wanting to lose the farm given it was growing through generations, Bill tried to find a job to pay him money to save it. He eventually encounters a girl named Nancy, who takes him to Big City where they con kids at an arcade by selling them cheap tokens. Unfortunately, they were caught and jailed, and Alice takes him home. In the end, Bill concedes and accepts Quisling's offer, downsizing the farm, and he later sold it to the Big City developers, eventually causing the city to expand and be built around the house. Alice also warns Bill to stay away from Nancy because she has a bad influence, but he doesn't listen.

When Bill was a preteen, he gained a love for gymnastics, and was given the nickname "Backflip Bill". Despite Alice's harsh training methods, he manages to make it to his first gymnastics meet, but when he tells her he'll just have fun out there, she berates him ("We'll have lots of fun, if ya think it's fun to LOSE!"), causing him to run out and give up his hobby.

In Bill's young adult years, despite Alice's protests, he continued to visit Nancy, and they eventually fell in love, got married, and started their own farm out in the country town of Smalton. While there, he gets his right index finger severed in a hay baler, and gets the family truck, Kludge A114. Some time after, he gave birth to a daughter named Tilly, followed by a son named Cricket years later.

Around his current age, Bill's marriage with Nancy didn't work out, as she proved to be a bad influence, and divorced her. Some time after this, business at the country farm suffered due to the success of various industrial farms, one of them in particular being Mass Dairy Factory Farms, resulting in a financial crisis. Nancy decided to liberate the cows there as payback, but this ended up getting her put in jail, and as a result, the farm was foreclosed. Bill eventually decides to move the family to the original Green house in Big City to live with Alice, but the kids were more or less agreeing with it. Even though Tilly comes to grips and accepts it, Cricket refuses to move because he fears he won't be able to fit in. Bill reassures Cricket that he'll always have the country in him and fills a glass jar with dirt from the cornfield so he has at least a bit of country to take with him.

## Present life

### Season 1

During the move to Big City, Bill is determined to get the kids straight to Gramma's house, but Cricket is so amazed by his new surroundings that he wants to get out for a while and take in the sights. So when the Kludge stops at a stoplight, the kids get out while Bill isn't looking, forcing Bill to follow them. However, the Kludge got parked in a no parking zone, and gets towed away as a result. After struggling to get to Gramma's on foot, the Greens reach the tow yard where they find the Kludge and get attacked by the guard dogs. It is that moment Bill realizes he knows nothing about the city and they shouldn't have come, but Cricket reassures him, saying there's at least some things they can do there. Using their country skills, they manage to get to the Kludge and escape the tow yard, finally arriving at Gramma's house. ("Welcome Home")

Some time after the move, Bill, along with Cricket and Tilly, struggles to get used to city life, but since nobody knows them yet, they have to make a good impression. However, Cricket takes this advice too literally and begins trying to impress the neighbors by launching a chicken into outer space, but their first few attempts don't work well enough, with one of them disturbing the Big Coffee property.

Bill confronts Cricket and tells him this is exactly what he was talking about, and as a result of not listening to his advice properly, he's grounded and has to stay in his room for the day. However, Cricket sneaks out thanks to a secret passage, and keeps launching chickens and destroying the property until he finally gets one to go far enough. Bill comes out to this, seeing how impressed the new neighbors are, and commends him on whatever he did, he did make a good impression (albeit unaware of the stunt), but reminds him not to cause destruction next time. ("Space Chicken")

Bill's first trip to the Big City Community Center's swimming pool would turn awry; his swimming shorts are somehow sucked up by a nearby jet of water, leaving him naked. His situation is even more complicated when a perfect, patient family is in line to use Bill's pool. However, Tilly inadvertently saves Bill's shorts (and car keys). ("Swimming Fool")

Some time later, Bill decides to expand the family farm into the fries business (naming the company "It's French Fries!" for the occasion), though all his plans are sabotaged by Cricket and his "blue tater curse". However, the Greens push back against the "curse" and is able to make it, with a better-looking truck too, the Kludge going through a car wash and other deco being added. ("Blue Tater")

At the Farmer's Market, Bill finally expands the Green Famliy Farm to Big City, and expects to gain revenue. Meanwhile, Cricket fosters a deal with Wholesome Foods manager Chip Whistler, who initially serves no threat to them, as Bill can only fill out half the order. However, Cricket, due to not having actual produce in-hand, uses *fake* produce instead of real produce, causing the Greens to recall the produce themselves, going to a nearby Wholesome Foods to buy all the fake produce, because Bill warns his son anyone who eats the fake produce will turn against them and ruin the farm's reputation. With the fake produce now in stock, the Greens resell the produce; Chip returns to try one of the produce, not knowing it's fake. Alarmed, Cricket tries to warn Chip the food is fake, but he shrugs it off as an insult and bites anyway, managing to chip his tooth. Swearing vengeance against the Greens, he leaves. With this, Chip would go on to become an even bigger threat to the Greens' farm and legacy, just like Bill predicted. ("Supermarket Scandal")

When Bill gets a gift card, he uses it to make reservations at a seafood restaurant, Sea Fusïon, which sells rather out-of-the-ordinary meals. When the family is called tourists by their snobbish waiter, Bill claims he isn't and actually lives in Big City; to prove this is true, the waiter forces him to order what the locals order, the Sea Fusïon Tsunami, which is twelve courses in a row. Bill relents and begins eating one strange meal after another, but the food causes him to become violently ill, and he soon passes out and has a dream where he's a merman and a fish reassures him even though he's different, he doesn't need to change to fit in because he already does fit in. Bill wakes up, and upon realizing he truly belongs in Big City, confronts the waiter and calls him out for the way he treated him and declares he doesn't like the food, and won't be finishing his dessert. The waiter does not care, and is soon washed out to sea when Alice destroys the tank and Cricket and Tilly release all the octopuses. As punishment for ruining the restaurant, the family is banned from Sea Fusïon for life, which Bill doesn't mind because the family hated that place anyway. ("Fill Bill")

With Cricket sick for the day, Bill decides to do a dangerous stunt at the Big City Dog Park in Cricket's name. ("Cricket's Shoes")

On another day at the market, Gramma is in the market for a very hot chilli pepper she intends to use for her Ten-Alarm Chilli, so Bill takes her to the chilli section of the market, where they are approached by an eccentric merchant who sells a variety of chilli peppers. Gramma settles for the Sultan Pepper, the hottest chilli pepper he has. ("Feud Fight")

The Greens' first Halloween in the city AND with a new friend has arrived, though the Blood Moon's involvement changes their plans drastically; with the animals gone wild, the Greens are forced to fight for their survival if they want to survive the moon. Bill is revealed to be the cause of the animals going wild; by unlocking the garage, where they were locked inside, the animals were exposed to the moon and went wild. Bill states that he did this because he didn't want Cricket and Tilly to go trick-or-treating without him and wanted to spend time with them just like their times together in their country days. Of course Cricket is furious with him, so to make up for it, they escape to the Elkins building next door, but the animals follow them there and by the time they get to the roof, there's nowhere left to run. Bill prepares to willingly sacrifice himself so Cricket can enjoy the candy he learned, but Cricket realizes the true meaning of Halloween and chooses not to, and gives up his candy to the animals to save Bill. Eventually the whole family is cornered and prepares to sacrifice themselves to their fates, but the blood moon ends right before they could do so. The animals return to normal, the family celebrates, and Cricket promises never to go trick-or-treating without Bill again, who promises never to scare them and hurt their feelings like he did earlier. ("Blood Moon")

With Phoenix gone, Bill helps Cricket, Tilly and Remy look for her, but in vain; however, Phoenix is actually tracking down the scent of a certain person, explaining her disappearance. ("Phoenix Rises") This person is Nancy Green, Bill's ex-wife who was just released from prison. Bill is surprised to see his ex-wife.

The very next day, Bill trusts the kids with Nancy as they have a wild mom's day out with her. Wanting to follow his Mom's footsteps as a rebel who shrugs off authority, Cricket releases *all the animals* from the Big City Zoo. As this happens, Bill starts to have visions of Cricket and Tilly getting tattoos etc. Determined to get his kids back, Bill gets Gramma into the Kludge and looks all around the city for them; approaching Nancy's trailer, with a broken door, they resolve to get the kids back. Eventually seeing Nancy on the run, *from the cops*, Bill floors it and tracks her to the zoo, where Cricket and Tilly break down in sadness, admitting it was them who freed all the animals. A tearful Officer Keys lets them off the hook, and Nancy is in the clear... but not clear of Bill, who has seen the entire thing. ("Uncaged")

### Season 2

    When the Kludge is breaking down, Cricket persuades Bill to trade it in for a very advanced and sophisticated car, which quickly overwhelms him due to the many features it has. He gets the Kludge back before it is launched to Mars. ("Car Trouble")

When Bill finds out that the reason the Greens don't have visitors, outside of close friends, is because Gramma is dressing up as a "swamp witch" and causing people to flee, he decides to write this wrong and set up a barbecue, one which Gramma and Cricket manage to ruin due to making the guests believe the swamp witch is real. When this escalates to an actual witch hunt, Gramma decides to show everyone she's an actual gramma herself, and the barbeque goes on. ("Urban Legend")

Inspired by inaccurate grouting videos on the Internet, Bill decides to make his own accurate grouting video. The camerawoman, Tilly, is however quickly distracted by passing Dirtbag, whom she implements into the video; after a few edits, only few of the grouting information remains. This upsets Bill; seeing her father down, Tilly decides to remake the video using her and Bill's ideas. ("Bad Influencer")

Christmas has arrived at Big City, and Gramma and Nancy have not gotten Bill a present; passing up on the very bad "personalized" statue they made, they rush to multiple shops, which, as it turns out, close on Christmas eve. When he sees the snowstorm building up, he goes to rescue Cricket and Tilly, who are still out there in Big City. On Christmas Day, Gramma and Nancy give Bill the statue, which he likes. ("Green Christmas")

While the Greens are having fun doing their own thing, Chip Whistler returns to the Greens' house with a wrecking ball to personally see to its destruction, which spectacularly backfires in his face. On mandate from his father, he is to apologize to the Greens, but they have him fix stuff around the house. This leaves Chip in a state of insanity, which is cut short when he, on a tractor about to take the Greens' house out with him, is launched into the distance.

The Greens nurse Chip back to health; this is when he sees their true colors: friendly, caring people who look out for others. While initially pensive, Cricket and the Greens sign the forgiveness contract, declaring them friends... or so they think. ("Reckoning Ball")

After a long day at work, Cricket is stressed out; this is when Bill breaks out a DVD of a movie he has wanted to introduce to him for a very long time, *Constellation Battles*. However, throughout the movie, he spoils important plot points for him. Seeing his son upset over the spoilers, Bill apologizes to him, and Cricket lets him continue the movie, under one condition: he is to duct-tape his mouth. ("Clubbed")

On a very hot day in Big City, Bill has set up an air-conditioning unit, which quickly turns the living room into a freezer, compared to the scorching hot. He and the other Greens almost succumb to the cold, but Officer Keys lets the heat in, creating a balance of hot and cold ("Heat Beaters")

When Cricket accidentally destroys Bill's crops, he has to make up an elaborate story involving aliens; while Bill initially doesn't buy it, an alien "encounter" late at night makes him believe aliens are real, this extending to the following day where he strips to his underwear in anticipation of the alien "invasion". When Cricket panics and apologizes, Bill reveals he had always knew it was Cricket that destroyed the farm. ("Bill-iever")

At the beach, Bill assigns Nancy to be the responsible parent as Cricket has brought his shark fin. However, Tilly has Bill, now the "fun parent", pinned down by a mountain of sand, allowing Cricket to utilize a loophole so he can ask Nancy for the fin; some time later, when he realizes Cricket is pranking the beachgoers, Bill tries to get out of his sandy prison, but can't, This turns to a head when Cricket gets himself into trouble as a lifeguard is about to spear him; however, a crab bites him in the butt, freeing him. Bill sees Nancy grounding herself; Cricket is sent into complete sadness. ("Shark Objects")

When Remy gives Cricket his old Bintendo Twist minus, Bill immediately falls in love with a video game named *Simulated Farm: Ultra Dull Edition*, to the point he has been playing it continously for hours on end. The Greens successfully save him from this addiction, and to make up for his sadness shortly after, Cricket expands the farm into the rooftops of Big Coffee. ("Level Up")

When Bill meets another Bill Green, a doppelganger who looks just like him, only younger and thinner, he is floored to see another Bill Green in the very same Farmer's Market; when the other Bill reveals he was inspired by the real Bill, he is touched. ("Animal Farm")

Cricket takes the family to Crispy's purely out of kindness; when he realizes he nor Bill can't pay, he resorts to eating a large sundae to eat for free. However, the family isn't able to. Cricket resorts to eating the sundae himself; he manages to complete the sundae challenge in time, meaning his family eats for free. ("Desserted")

On Father's Day, Bill recieves a multitude of gifts from Cricket and Tilly, ranging from coupons to a popsicle-stick statue in his likeness to a "sweater", and one birthday card from Gramma. ("The Gifted")

When Bill treats the Greens to their very own smartphones, he gets his very first call, which is from an autobody service center telling him the car Gramma totaled is ready. It is revealed Bill has been keeping it a secret from Gramma because he doesn't trust her with driving. Gramma signs up for ride-sharing app Swyft and starts to lug around criminals; the latter revelation throws Bill off as Gramma only wanted to do it for the stars. ("Gramma Driver")

Bill has served zucchini for the sixth day in a row, and Cricket has had enough of it; however, Cricket doesn't tell him outright until he organizes a small "protest" against zucchini. Now recognizing Cricket wants variety in his meals, he hands an apple to Cricket, who wolfs it down viciously. ("Tilly Style")

The Greens attend the farming convention Farm Con, where Bill is a VIP speaker for Green Family Farms, but has been lonely since the move to Big City, and especially misses his childhood friend Good Ol' Joe. Tilly has Bill befriend Chip Whistler, who he sees has changed ever since the Forgiveness Contract. They are able to get along well, until Chip reveals his true intentions; he kicks Cricket and Tilly out and gives Bill a peanut butter and saltine sandwich so his talking will be muffled. On stage, Chip flanderizes Green Family Farms, but he is thwarted, and Bill realizes Chip's true nature and announces they cannot be friends anymore as of then, and reunites with Joe. ("Friend Con")

Bill follows the others into Li'l Ladies to celebrate Tilly's sack pal Saxon's birthday; he initially does not know what to do, but he is drawn in by a doll house workshop, where he is able to make an intricate dollhouse, with working electronics and appliances, with one piece of wood, which would be effortlessly destroyed by a toddler when he gives it to her in exchange for Cricket. ("Dolled Up")

Citing budget problems, Bill disallows the family from going to the huge street fair just nearby, so they all use their imaginations and reminisce about past events. Bill relents and lets them go to the fair when the family shows frugality. ("Cheap Show")

On a tip from Tilly, Bill and the Greens are chosen to beta-test BigTech's new "Flawless You!" supercomputer, which detects inherent flaws in people and erases them to create the flawless family Tilly has dreamed of. However, Tilly does not like how the flawless family acts, and decides she wants the old, flawed family back. After defeating the flawless family, Tilly and the others escape the collapsing system. ("Green Mirror")

On a trip to Times Circle, Bill tags along with Cricket when the latter sees his favorite superheroes on the sidewalk. When a group of Croblin performers arrive and take the superheroes' place as the more popular cosplayers, Bill goes to reason with them, only for them to humiliate him. ("Times Circle")

While Gramma is recovering from cataracts surgery, Bill is to grab her burger and newspaper; his quest to get the burger brings him to the trendy burger joint BRGR, where he is initially criticized for ordering a "normal" burger, but later praised for his attire, which gets him a normal burger, named the "Bill"; all made out of kale. ("Super Gramma!")

As with Cricket, Bill is invited to Remy's birthday, which takes place at Snuggly Pete's House of Pizza. While finding a game to play, Tilly finds a whack-a-mole machine and becomes infatuated with the cute moles; she is horrified when Bill shows her the proper way to play. This leads to a long argument; when Cricket and Remy make up for Cricket's mistakes, Tilly and Bill make up too. ("Present Tense")

When Bill sees Cricket traumatized due to a bike accident that almost injures him, he teaches his son the "Uh-oh Method", which only drives Cricket further deeper into insanity; this leads to him safety-proofing the entire house. ("Hurt Bike")

When Bill sees his son watching TV, he recommends Cricket take up reading at the Big City Library, notable for being run by very strict librarians who hear even the slightest of sounds, even talking and whispering. To avoid facing her wrath, Tilly suggests the family communicate through sign language and charades which they pick up on. Seeing Cricket is not able to get into other genres because he has an overly-stimulus brain, Bill brings in his favorite book series *The Adventures of Li'l Abe*, which Cricket also has a hard time getting into. Some time later, Cricket reveals his energetic brain can't handle reading; when they are about to get Gramma and leave, Cricket steps on a BLEGO brick, causing him to shriek very loudly, causing the librarian to call more librarians. When he sees Cricket, enjoying a graphic novel, obliviously about to be taken away due to making noise when he should be quiet, Bill tries to warn him, but because his back was turned, he doesn't respond. As a final resort, Bill sacrifices himself by letting out the loudest scream ever, causing him to be attacked by the librarians, allowing Cricket to escape and given the gift of reading, which also simultaneously results in Bill being permanently banned from every library worldwide. ("Quiet Please")

On another day of work at Big Coffee, Bill is brought to Cricket's "Bring Your Family to Work Day", where he has the family work in his place while he takes a break. At the same time, Chip Whistler attempts to put the café out of business, but the family no longer takes him seriously and calls him a joke to his chagrin. The following day, he, along with the others, discovers he only used the family to do his job for him and is not keen on working anymore; the day worsens when Chip and his Wholesome Squad dismantle everything; Cricket tries to stop him, but he is immediately outmatched. Chip then proceeds to kick the Greens and Gloria out, having taken Big Coffee for his own, firing Cricket and Gloria, and setting his eyes on the Greens' house for the next step in his expansion plan, leaving Bill and the others worried over what's going to happen next. ("Chipwrecked")

After telling about Chip's actions to Nancy, Bill and the Greens get a visit from Chip who notifies them that the new Wholesome Foods Mega-Store will not just be where Big Coffee stands, but on both sides of the house, as he bought out the Elkins Apartment as well. Upon detonating both buildings, the Mega-Store is constructed around the Greens' house, which worries Bill as this results in troubled production for them.

After the kids and Gramma fail to prank the customers in the Mega-Store, Chip appears and reveals the house itself is going to be demolished and replaced with a store parking lot. Only Bill is not intent on fighting back, as he realizes it's history repeating all over again; the country farm suffered the same problem when it went into debt, and Nancy tried to liberate cows from the dairy farm it competed with, only to end up in jail and the farm is foreclosed. Not wanting to get the kids in more danger, Bill decides to move on; but the kids, as per tradition, refuse to give up and vow they will save everything.

The kids and Nancy go to city hall to confront the mayor over what Chip is doing, but Chip shows a signed petition that the Greens have to leave. After a failed fight, Nancy is thrown back in jail and Bill takes the kids home, not happy over what they did. They start packing up to move away (but Gramma puts up defenses), and Bill searches for various city apartments which are in their price range, which are rather mediocre and cheap. Fortunately, Nancy forwards the petition to Bill's phone, and with it, Cricket manages to decipher the signatures are fake with Remy's help.

When Bill is close to packing up the house, Chip and his wrecking crew arrive early, and despite Cricket's plan to save the farm, Bill still refuses. While Cricket and Remy sneak into the store and Tilly and Gramma start fighting Chip's goons, Bill is close to moving out, but Tilly stops him and gives him a rousing speech about standing up for themselves and fighting for what's right, just like what Nancy did when she tried to save the country farm, which is broadcast all over Big City by Channel 11 News. His mojo reigniting, Bill decides to join the war and helps the family fight back.

Eventually, Cricket manages to print out the proof and attempts to show it to everyone (just as Nancy arrives with the mayor), but it is ripped up by Chip's chopper. Fortunately, all the citygoers who watched Tilly's speech on TV show up and stand up for the family, prompting the mayor to cancel the demolition and ban Chip from Big City permanently, saving the farm once again. But Chip is not done with this, and tries to strike Cricket down, but he jumps off the roof and Bill safely catches him. Chip then tries to strike all the Greens at once, but the chopper skids get caught in the phone line, stopping it just mere inches from Cricket's face, and he is slung out of Big City to parts unknown.

Their legacy safe once more, Elkins Street is restored (but Big Coffee is still closed), and Bill and the Greens put all their things back. To their surprise, Gloria moves in with them having been evicted from her apartment due to having no money to pay her rent, and Bill thinks she's real serious about it. ("Chipocalypse Now")

### Season 3

After another successful day at the Farmer's Market and having sold all their produce, Bill reveals to his family he grew an extra amount of blackberries for picking, which they don't approve of a well. Worried about their complaining and wishing they could see the positive side of things, Bill goes to Janice's Niceties where he is inspired by a motivational poster reading "Live, Laugh, Love" and decides to start a propaganda based on it, where one must smile and always stay positive about something no matter what. While Cricket and Gramma are against this forced positivity, Tilly immediately takes to it. Throughout the day, Bill goes out of his way to insist his son and mother become positive about their farming, to the point he chains them up and forces them to listen to a tape which brainwashes them of all their will so that they can only smile now, but because they have to. After seeing the results though, Bill soon realizes seeing his family being happy all the time is not perfect at all, so he snaps and destroys all the posters, revealing it's wrong to see his family always being happy and admits it's best if they express their feelings honestly. The Greens reconcile with Bill and begin arguing and complaining as they resume their harvest. ("Papaganda")

Soon the farm and café have become a success, but at one point, Bill goes on a cleaning spree and winds up throwing out a jar of dirt, which happened to be the dirt jar Cricket saved from the moving day. When Cricket comes in to alert the family, Bill realizes he threw it out and keeps it a secret from Cricket while escaping outside. He finds the dirt jar, but it is quickly destroyed, so he creates a makeshift jar of dirt using the dirt from the backyard topped with Gramma's paprika so Cricket won't know the difference. However, Cricket recognizes the dirt as fake when he smells it, and Bill is forced to tell the truth. Seeing how sad his son is without at least one part of the country with him, Bill decides to take Cricket on a road trip to Smalton so he can get a new dirt jar. Once there however, Bill sees the family's old house up for sale, realizing the bank never sold it to anyone following the move, and he purchases it back some time later. ("Dirt Jar")

After buying back the old house, this means the Greens have to move back to the country, and Gramma and Gloria have to stay in the city to watch the café. Upon arrival with Remy in tow, Bill sees the house has fallen into shambles and offers to fix them, but one new mishap occurs after another causing him to get obsessed, missing out on his relaxation time on the front porch swing to Nancy's insistence. Eventually he gives in, and has Nancy help him fix the house before finally relaxing with her. ("The Move")