The Lamby Show

## January 30, 2021 (no idea why i'm putting this here but whatever lmao)

Remember something called "The Lamby Show"? If not, that's okay, since it's not something that's widely-known, hence why I'm typing this up for... Nostalgia's sake I guess. So, let me explain.

The Lamby Show was a cartoon created by Jack Azel (a real creep, but more on him later), and aired on the Natel Corporation channel. If everything I've said still doesn't make sense, or you don't recognize any of this, that's fine. Like I said, it's pretty obscure. The Lamby Show was a big part of my childhood. The structure of every episode was the same, the first part being Lamby or one of his friends trying to do something or make something, and then a character known as The Warlock (Voiced by Jack Azel) shows up and ruins it, then he leaves. Lamby and his friends fix the problem, and the episode ends. The Warlock never gets comeuppance for this, oddly enough.

Sounds boring, doesn't it? 4-year old me would beg to differ, but older me agrees. Fortunately for you (and my sanity) dear reader, we're not going to be talking about that. Instead, I want to bring your attention to another show also by Jack Azel, featuring the same cast of characters.

First off, there's Lamby (voiced by Alan West), a humanoid sheep who wears a red robe. He has social anxiety and is a bit chubby, making him prone to being pushed around.

There's Max (voiced by Brad Weeks), a humanoid dog, who's a fan of sports. He doesn't have much personality other than that, to be honest.

There's also Sally (voiced by Nancy Armstrong), a posh humanoid cat with pink fur. She usually cares about her appearance more than peoples' wellbeing.

The antagonist of the show is The Warlock (voiced by Jack Azel, the creator of the show), a tall man who wears a faded red cloak. Oddly, he looks pretty realistic in contrast to the rest of the show's art style.

There's Charlie, a character I'm not even sure exists. He's a sheep like Lamby. A forum with fans of The Lamby Show seem to insist that he exists, and say that he's voiced by a woman named Cindy Roberts, despite him only appearing in random frames, or his voice being heard at certain points.

Finally, there's Lily, probably the only character who fully cares about Lamby. She's chubby as well, and very shy.

They're all in The Lamby Show (save for Lily), and a cartoon called Lamby's Adventure. I'm going to be watching the latter, as I've found a .zip file that has a few full episodes on my laptop (What are the odds?). The odd thing is, there's not just that. There's peculiar things like "jackmurd.mp4", "brad\_interview.mp4" and "alan\_interview.mp4". But here's a list of all the episodes in the .zip in theoretical order:

1. S1E1Awakening.mp4
2. S1E2Friends!.mp4
3. S1E3CHARLIE.mp4
4. S1E3TheAdventure.mp4

No, I didn't misspell any. There's a fake 3rd episode, and a real one. Someone really seems to be insisting that Charlie exists.

Anyway, I've somehow gone from attempting to review an obscure cartoon to writing a story or something, because I'm basically rambling now. It's late, so I'll watch the first episode tomorrow.

## January 31, 2021

The first thing I did when I woke up was get my laptop and watch the first episode.

The episode starts with Lamby asleep at a bar, with no intro or anything. It's not even hiding the fact that he's at a bar. Wasn't this a show for kids? Lamby gets up from the chair he's sitting in, and begins to walk to the door.

"Hey, Lamby." Max says, standing in front of him.

"What?" Lamby replies weakly.

"You can't keep doing this."

"You're the one who keeps letting me."

"Fine." Max says. "I'll just drag you over to my house."

"Works for me."

And Max does just that. The inside of Max's house is rather decent, with posters all over the walls.

"You sleep on the couch." Max says. "We'll talk in the morning."

"Sure."

Lamby lays down on the couch, staring up at the ceiling as Max goes upstairs. Lamby goes to sleep, but during the night, he's woken up by a loud noise. He gets up off the couch, and goes into the basement, where the sound seems to be coming from. As soon as he's in the basement, a lightbulb turns on and then shatters, before the floor begins crumbling. Lamby falls into a dark void.

The episode ends there. Yeah, you're probably thinking it's pretty bland for a pilot episode. Like, even The Lamby Show had more substance, and it was a Poochee and Pansy-esque low-budget cartoon with blinding pastel colors. Lamby's Adventure is mostly the opposite. Anyway, I'm out of motivation to watch another episode. I'll just talk to my friend over Discord to see what he knows. He has to have *something*, because he knows about the show, and he's a huge fan of it. He managed to scrounge up stuff about the show I never thought existed. He even has a box full of Lamby merchandise! (I'll have to ask for a Lamby plush later.)

BookerBio333 Today at 5:52 PM

Anything new you got?

baphomet33465 Today at 6:23 PM

oh yeah
i found the official natel website on the web archive

BookerBio333 Today at 6:24 PM

Nice!
send me the link

baphomet33465 Today at 6:27 PM

natel.com/azel/characters

BookerBio333 Today at 6:28 PM

That's... specific

baphomet33465 Today at 6:30 PM

the web archive has the whole damn site archived, so you'll be fine
just thought that webpage would be the most interesting to you

BookerBio333 Today at 6:31 PM

Thanks

baphomet33465 Today at 6:31 PM

no problem
I take a look at the webpage. It's a simple white and blue design, with "NATEL" in colorful letters in the top right corner. Cute. The webpage has descriptions of several characters in The Lamby Show, along with some characters I've never seen before, like Anto & Deca, who are twin humanoid foxes, and a character simply named "Pincushion", who is a humanoid dragon with smooth blue skin, a stubby snout and eyes that lack pupils and glow light blue. The twins don't seem to have any special abilities, but Pincushion can regenerate.

Finally, there's one more character. Someone simply named "Neptune". Neptune is a humanoid dragon with white skin and orange horns. He claims to be a great adventurer, but he's actually just a sham.

Alright, that seems to be all of the characters. Now onto the people I know who were involved in the making of the show. Here's a list of all of them:

* Jack Azel. He's disappeared off the face of the Earth, but the only thing most people know about him is that he has a wife (Who wants to distance herself from anything related to Jack) and a son, Paul, who went missing back in 2007 and is presumed dead. He was fired from his job at the Natel Corporation for disrespectful behavior and adding inappropriate content into the shows he made.
* Alan West. Still has a job voice acting, but is clearly traumatized from certain events involving the show. What events, I don't know, but it was definitely involving Jack.
* Evelyn Valentine. Pretty sure Valentine isn't her real last name. All I know about her is that she did the stories for most episodes of the original series. She's in prison for murdering several people, or, she was. She's also the biggest danger linked to me researching this show (Which isn't that much in the first place, to be honest).
* Brad Weeks. He doesn't seem to remember much about the show, except for the way Jack acted (A sociopathic control freak, as most people know him).
* John Verde. He's the former CEO of the now-bankrupt Natel Corporation. He's still around, trying to be a writer or something. He hired Jack Azel because he was an old friend. I bet he regrets that decision.
* Nancy Armstrong. She has social media and seems to just be doing her own thing. She's apparently forgotten about the show entirely.
* Cindy Roberts. First of all, WHO IS SHE? The Natel site simply displays:

Cindy is a great friend and a hard worker!

That doesn't help at all.

### What I know so far

* Jack Azel is likely dead, and so is his son Paul.
* Cindy Roberts voices Charlie (sort of like Bart Simpson in how she voices a male character).

### My main goals

* Find out what happened to Jack
* Talk to people for more information

## February 1, 2021

Apparently, there's a lot of games based on The Lamby Show. I was sent a ROM simply labeled "lamby" over Discord. I'm usually cautious with these things, but that file name is so obvious. Someone wants to help me. Unfortunately, they haven't been online since they sent me the file. I know I shouldn't feel so concerned, but still...

I get a SNES emulator to play it. I get through the title screen, and the game finally starts. So far, the game is like Kirby Super Star. Lamby (*Are* they Lamby? He doesn't have horns for some reason, so I'm a bit skeptical.) can't copy an enemy's abilities, though he can use physical attacks and magic to defeat them. The enemies are just tiny robots. Nothing too special. After defeating some enemies and getting to what seems to be the middle of the level, I meet an NPC that looks oddly like a Vulpix. I stand in front of them, and a speech bubble appears above them, with text reading:

Hey there! I left a paper in my house, and I can't find it for the life of me! Could you find it for me?
Well, I guess I have an objective now. So I go into their house. I enter the kitchen, and I swear I see someone in one of the windows, but they're gone in less than a second. All I take note of is their bright blonde hair. I then leave the kitchen through a hallway, which has a lot of doors, but none I can enter.

The hallway seems to go on forever, but after about a minute, I reach the end. The door at the very end of the hallway has a paper pinned to it. I interact with the paper, which shows it up close. Scrawled on it in red is text reading:

RIGHT BEHIND YOU

I press the interact button again to close the menu. Lamby(?) takes the paper, and a shadowy figure appears behind him. It vanishes when he looks back, and when he walks through the hallway for the second time, its size has gone back to normal. The kitchen has also changed as well. One of the windows is open, and on the table is a jar of jam. Some of the jam has spilled on the table. I interact with the jar, which shows it up close like the paper. Text on the bottom of the screen appears, reading

It's jam! But someone left some chewed-up bubblegum in it...

I leave the house, taking the jar of jam with me, and the Vulpix-like creature is gone. Trying to ignore all the weird things this game is doing, I continue through the level. I come across a blonde woman wearing a chef's hat. When I interact with her, she just says "*Hello there!*" and gives me another jar of jam and a piece of bacon. Text accompanying it just reads "*Not sure how marmalade and bacon could to together... Bunches of orange hair are stuck to the bacon, and it's ruining my appetite...*"

I can't interact with her any more, so I continue through the rest of level, which is oddly devoid of enemies. I fail a jump, and accidentally fall down a pit. The ominous game over screen shows up, giving me the only screenshot I have of the whole thing:

I'm genuinely concerned at this point, but I don't know why. The game loads, and I end up in a spot on the other side of the pit. To the right is a cave, which I enter. The cheerful music is quickly replaced by piercing silence.