The Jungle Forest Gang

**SDH Triplicity** (formerly known as **The Rodfellows** from 2014 to 2021 and **The Jungle Forest Gang** from 2021 to 2023)are a group of anthropomorphic cartoon characters created by Dan P. Lyons. The group was formed on March 17, 2014 with its original members consisting of Finto Stencon, Samantha Hayla, Widenar and Jimmy Glover, Finniette Stencon, and Ruthie Reyes.

Hayla, Stencon, and Reyes originally left the group in 2017 with their places being taken by Kody Dendan, Alice Mousagest, and Hashbrown "H.B." Wolfgang.

Hayla would eventually return to the group in 2020 along with new member Akihiro Wantanabe. Stencon and Reyes would follow later on. Four members later joined in, consisting of Gideon Fredericks, Camden Lorentz, Mevin Sablich, and Napoleon Abbot, and later, an additional new member, Mac Smirnov would join in 2021. In 2022, Ruthie was replaced by Roxanne "Roxvix" Brady. In late 2022, Gideon and Napoleon were replaced by both Claire Myers and Riccardo Giordano.

The group disbanded on January 5, 2023 due to several instances of controversies, drama, downfalls, misinformation, lack of motivation and activity, etc. along with the Data Crew.

After both Lyons and Nichols reunited, it was confirmed that the JFG would be revived as SDH Triplicity, however with its member count being slightly reduced. Among the characters returning were Finto, Kody, Samantha, Akihiro, Camden, Claire, Riccardo, HB, Alice, Roxvix, Willard, and James, while Finniette, Maksim, and Mevin were promoted as supporting members. Former TDC member Diedre later joined as a supporting member to be with her brother full-time.

## Member Bios

### Finto Stencon

Finto is basically the leader of The Rodfellows. He is a courageous and mature person who often looks after the gang making sure things that come with them go completely under control. He was the founder of The Rodfellows since 2014 when Samantha and him went on quite simplistic adventures. His group was aimed for kids back then, until it became to the point where grand scenes would start to take place. Substantially his occupation is to watch hockey on his TV, go out and mow the yard, work out, etc. Out of boredom, he also likes to go fishing, which to make it more fun, other members of JFG join along with him catching as much fishes they can.

Voiced by: Ivona Eric (2014–2018), Dan P. Lyons (2018–present)

### Kody Dendan

Kody is the partner/sidekick of Finto, he partners with him to keep the gang group running the way it should be. At some point, Kody tends to have a maximum appetite leading him to eating dozens of food at one scene, to the point where he gets entirely stuffed and not able to eat another bite. He also adores a child named Widenar, even his son Kody Jr., as well as Naomi from The Data Crew. But one thing that he formerly had to deal with is a grindcore/death metal fan Grayson, as well as his wife Hava Miller and the Stir Fried Maggots. Kody then thinks about losing weight (which might be something Widenar would be satisfied about) by working out, exercising, walking, etc. He also is the hero of every victim who wants to have their reputations saved. With his rarely worn belt, he whops the criminal in the face, back, and bottom until they run away from the victim, and their life is saved in peace.

Voiced by: Ivona Joey (2017–2018), Dan P. Lyons (2018–2019), Matt Crowley (2019–present)

### Akihiro Wantanabe

Akihiro is an Asian coyote who tends to be a gamer, desiring games such as Batman, Spiderman, Halo, etc., especially games released in Japan. He also serves as the new member of The Rodfellows in 2020, along with Samantha returning as an active member, expanding the group from six members to eight members. When he joined the JFG, he gets along with a gamer pup named Jimmy, even Alexander considering they both share the same age.

Voiced by: Darren A. Nichols

### Samantha Hayla

Samantha is a cat that returned to The Rodfellows after her departure in 2017. She was persuaded to come back as an active member of the group, which helped make The Rodfellows be like 2014 in general. In addition, she is the wife of Data Crew member Alexander, and even has three kids named Seaborn, Samantha Jr, and Ruby. In 2014, she and Finto starred in their original series The Rodfellows to The Rodfellows Improved, until 2017, when Kody replaced her. Now after her plan to return as an active member of JFG, it expands the group from 6 to 8, as a result of Akihiro's new membership of it as well.

Voiced by: NeoSpeech Julie (2014), NeoSpeech Kate (2015–2018), Dan P. Lyons (2018–2019), Juli DePallo (2019–present)

### Gideon Fredericks

Gideon is a chill man, and tends to be really funny at times. What he does is give others (sometimes himself) some entertainment, by saying things in terms of comedy. He also has the same favorite foods as Kody, but he randomly eats at various speeds. Of course, he does look like other guinea pigs, but that explains it all.

Voiced by: Marshall Bourne

### Camden Lorentz

Camdenis mostly a stubborn and enraged man, who tries so hard beating games that are hard to the maximum, most specifically on the Xbox. Whenever he ends up in a mistake during playing a game, his anger builds up every attempt he gets through completing a stage, but he keeps failing constantly, which makes him come off as a "rage quitter". He is the current boyfriend of Data Crew member Talya.

Voiced by: Darren A. Nichols

### Alice Mousagest

Alice is the mouse woman of The Rodfellows, as her occupation at this point is "seed planting", filling up the forest with more and more trees. Her favorite food tends to be cheese in any kind - provolone cheese on a GCS (grilled cheese sandwich) and triangle-shaped cheese in that flavor. She and Finniette both wear necklaces, except hers is a heart, and Finniette's is a cross sign of Christianity.

Voiced by: Vocalware Beth (2017–2018), Dan P. Lyons (2018–present)

### Hashbrown "H.B." Wolfgang

Hashbrown, who goes by HB, is the wolf lady of The Rodfellows, and what occupies her time is she does some illustrations on paper and a sketchbook, even on her computer and tablet. That's not it, she also likes to cook food whenever one of the Rodfellows gets hungry, Kody mostly. She's learned how to cook since 2017, and her methods of cooking get better each and every time. And her favorite genres of music at this point are rap, R&B, pop, electric, etc. Her favorite music for nighttime sleeping is "Aquarella" by Alain Morisod.

Voiced by: Ivona Salli (2017–2018), Dan P. Lyons (2018–2019), Juli DePallo (2019–present)

### Mevin Sibalich

Mevin Sibalich is an athletic cheetah who plays sports like soccer and basketball.

Voiced by: Calvin Woods-Mitchell (originally), Alexander Mortensen

### Maksim "Mac" Smirnov

Mac Smirnov is Diedre (Cheese)'s brother.

Voiced by: Kenzie Backlin

### Napoleon Abbot

*Coming soon!*

Voiced by: Jayden Chandler

### Finniette Stencon

Finniette is a JFG member, and is the wife of Finto. Her occupation is listening to Christanity music while rocking on her chair crocheting vails and other projects related to it. She also likes to hang out with the other members aside from all the mentioned doings of her.

Voiced by: Ivona Kendra (2014–2018), Dan P. Lyons (2018–present)

### Roxanne "Roxvix" Brady

Roxanne is the newest JFG member.

Voiced by: TBA

### Jimmy "James" Glover

James is a teenage puppy of The Rodfellows, and what he does is playing games built for Piwi, Xbox, PlayStation, etc. He has a wide variety of games that are built for the mentioned consoles in his games shelf. His most favorite games are *Call of Duty, Mortal Kombat, Ratchet & Clank, The Sims*, etc. He has a younger brother by the name of Widenar, and he's 6 years younger than him, and yet they get along quite nicely as time goes on.

Voiced By: Ivona Brian (2014–2015), NeoSpeech Paul (2015–2018), Dan P. Lyons (2018–2019), Almir Velovic (2019–present)

### Widenar Glover

Widenar is a puppy of The Rodfellows, and it seems as if he is a very playful kid in general. In a way he tries to be straight, he desires to hang out with a big fox named Kody, even they both like to chill, go for a walk, play with each other, etc. Not only is he addicted to Kody, he's also addicted to Ruthie, Samantha, and HB, which justifies that he does like to hang out with them too. Widenar also tends to read books to occupy his time, as well as books from the library.

Voiced by: Cepstral Charlie (2014–2018), Dan P. Lyons (2018–present), Juli Depallo (2020-present, *Comix Minis* only)

## Advanced Characters

### Tater Wolfgang

Tater is the older brother of HB whose strives are making better music with the guitar and other types of music performances, such as playing the piano and whatnot.

Voiced by: Mike from IBM Watson (2018), Dan P. Lyons (2017, 2018–2019), Darren A. Nichols (2019–present)

### Kristine Dendan

Kristine is the wife of Kody and a friend to the Rodfellows. Grayson used to be one of her admirers since he first met her at a restaurant on Valentine's Day 2018. Naomi is also a step daughter to Kristine since both of Naomi's parents died.

Voiced by: NeoSpeech Kate (2017–2018), Dan P. Lyons (2018–present)

### Mr. Mousagest

Mr. M is Alice's husband who works as a news reporter and talk show host for JFNN and WJF6.

Voiced by: Vocalware Dave (2018), Dan P. Lyons (2018–present)

## Past Members

### Joan Griffin

Joan Griffin is a former JFG member who is really into British culture.

Voiced by: Kenzie Backlin

### Ruthie Reyes (2014-2017; 2019-2022)

Ruthie was a JFG member. Whenever she's bored, she goes around walking in the forest whistling to one of her favorite music in general. Ruthie plans to hang out with Kody when he visits her, and she was also Widenar's favorite one too, besides Kody. She also loved Data Crew member Phillop.

Voiced by: Ivona Kimberly (2014–2018), Dan P. Lyons (2018–present)

## History

### 2014: Start of the gang

*The Rodfellows* characters were conceived by Dan P. Lyons in March 2014. Around the time, a short was released. The first series started in April 2014 and ended in June. To follow up, some classic episodes were remade in Flash, suggesting a potential reboot.

### 2015–2017: Improved animation

In March 2015, a short-lived series of 4 episodes was made. The franchise remained dormant until around July 2015, when new assets were made for *The Rodfellows Improved*, the next series of the franchise. TRFI featured other copyrighted characters from the likes of the *Looney Tunes* and *Sonic the Hedgehog* franchises.

### 2017–2018: Departures of Samantha, Finniette, and Ruthie / Character redesigns

By 2017, the franchise once again entered dormancy, with Samantha, Finniette and Ruthie making their departures to make room for Kody. *The Disney Rodfellows Movie*, a near-carbon copy of *Stitch!* was released in May. Seasonal specials did keep the franchise alive later on in the year, with a huge asset overhaul coming in December of that year. The last production to use the legacy/TRFI assets was *Thanksgiving with the Rodfellow*s.

### 2018–2019: *The Rodfellows: Back Again!* and film production

In May of 2018, an announcement regarding a reboot of the franchise was posted onto Dan P. Lyons' YouTube channel. Around that time, the reboot was given the name: *The Rodfellows: Back Again!* and entered production. The series was the last to use text-to-speech voices, and starting with episode 3, Dan himself took over voicing the characters.

### 2019–present: Expansion

In August 2019, a feature film titled *The Rodfellows Movie* was reported to be in production and a script for the film was being written by Dan along with Darren A. Nichols. On October 18, that same year, Fredbear Studios (at the time) acquired the DLE Coroporation, along with Pip Pip Enterprises, Inc. and French Fry Animations, giving them IP rights to The Rodfellows.

In late December 2019, it was reported that Samantha would be returning to the group along with new member Akihiro, with Finniette and Ruthie following on early next year.

### 2020–2021: Planned shift to mixed audience

In September 2020, Harmonic announced their intent to shift the *Jungle Forest Gang* franchise into a mixed audience. Reasons cited for the shift included the major backlash that struck the Netflix film *Cuties* for sexualizing underage girls as a result of the initial poster that was made before it was changed. In result, GlideFan was highly scared by this because he felt that Harmonic would get backlash and have a similar *Cuties* controversy of their own. However Lyons, Nichols, Mortensen, and Bourne have all approved the idea, but this is yet to take effect under further investigation by both Mikkelson and Michael Grover.

Nick Fischer, of BTP Enterprises criticized the mixed audience shift by stating that the DLE took a franchise meant for kids and planned to turn it into a "modern *Family Guy* 2.0".

## Critical reception, controversy, and impact

The *SDH Triplicity* franchise has received mostly negative criticism throughout late 2020 and early 2021, due to the nature of the franchise's fanbase, which many of the employees of Harmonic Entertainment (prior to the company's shutdown on December 16. 2020) have described as "toxic, immature, and butthurt". The designs, characters, voice acting, references, and choice of music were also criticized in terms of the series.

Additionally, *The Rodfellows* was also often criticized for it's similarities with *The Bedfellows*.

### 2021: Daniel Lyons, Alexander Mortensen, and Darren Pipster scandal

In the recent months that followed, news broke out and circulated around a company known as Azul Gemstone and other related companies, that Alexander Mortensen was fired and blacklisted for allegedly sexualizing the series' characters, especially the underaged characters. There was also an incident where he once uttered a word of racist, vulgar, and offensive nature, which is commonly referred to as "the N word", in a YouTube livestream, for which he was fired on account of racism.

An upcoming project known as *Life of Danny Cat* was being produced, and part of a script from the project was shown, in which it featured Dan with multiple wives, and it also featured him sexualizing a 17-year-old character despite Dan being 20 years old. This led to him facing a ton of negative criticism and backlash due to the pedophilic and polygamist nature of the project, due to the concept of him having multiple wives and technically sexualizing a minor. Dan was also fired and blacklisted shortly after the news broke out. His short film Life of Danny Cat was finally cancelled by Darren A. Nichols on March 8, 2021 and the public service announcement about polygamy was released on both LMNB and Peppermint City Entertainment YouTube channels on March 22, 2021.

## Filmography

### Web series

* *The Rodfellows* (original) (April 9 – June 18, 2014)
* *The Rodfellows Flash* (September 22, 2014)
* *The Rodfellows 2015* (March 31 - May 22, 2015)
* *The Rodfellows Improved* (August 29, 2015 – November 8, 2016)
* *The Rodfellows: Back Again!/The Jungle Forest Show* (September 27, 2018 – present)

### Films

* *The Disney Rodfellows Movie* (May 13, 2017; original, August 20, 2017; copyright edit)
* *The Rodfellows Movie* (November 25, 2020)
* *The Rodfellows Movie 2: Showdown in Toronto* (TBA)

### Specials

* *It's the Great Rodfellow Pumpkin* (October 30, 2017)
* *Thanksgiving with the Rodfellows* (November 23, 2017)
* *Once Upon a Rodfellow Christmas* (December 24, 2017)
* *Valentine's with the Rodfellows* (February 14, 2018)
* *The Rodfellows: 5 Year Anniversary* (March 17, 2019)
* *The Rodfellows: 6 Year Anniversary Special* (March 24, 2020)

### Other appearances

* *Comix Shorts* (April 13, 2015 – December 9, 2017)
* *Comix Minis* (January 10, 2018 – present)
* *The JFG Data Crew* (April 25, 2019 – February 23rd, 2021)
* *The JFG Data Crew: The Team-Up* (TBA)

## Associations

* The Data Crew
* The L.A. Gals
* Stir Fried Maggots