Mr. Smiley

## Professional Status

### Occupation(s)

Comedian (Formerly), R&B Singer (Formerly), Actor (Former), Beach City Funland Owner and Operator (Currently), Health Inspector (Temporary, Formerly)

## Personal Status

### Friends

Mr. Frowney, Steven Universe, Sadie Miller, Zebra Jasper, and Crazy Lace Agate

## Media

### Voice Actor

Sinbad (2013-2015), and Colton Dunn (2015-Present)

**Harold Smiley** , known mainly by many as **Mr. Smiley**, is a Beach City resident who made his unofficial debut and cameo in “Laser Light Canon” and his official debut in “Frybo”.   As of today, he works many jobs at Beach City Funland manning its arcade, overseeing the amusement park, and occasionally serving as emcee of Beach City Underground Wrestling and has been the host of the Beach-A-Palooza since 1991.   He previously was an actor and R&B singer and recorded the song “Do or Do Nut” for a Big Donut Employee Training Video, while he was also a comedian, working on stage with his performing partner, Quinten Frowney.

## Biography

### Early Life with R&B and Comedy Career

Smiley was born and raised in Denton Harbor, Michigan.   Growing up he was immersed in the world of show business, often attending rehearsals and performances with his parents. He began taking acting classes at a young age and soon discovered his passion for music.     Later on, while attending college, he joined and R&B group where he was a singer.

During this time , he also developed a knack for comedy, often performing stand-up at local clubs. It was during one of these performances that he met his future performing partner, Quinten Frowney.  The two became friends and began a comedy duo.  Most of their jokes were about their opposite personalities; Frowney being a pessimist and Smiley being an optimist was an advantage as they had full houses and ovations whenever they performed.

Later on a few years later, Smiley started getting sad because Frowney wasn't having any fun and nothing was making him happy, as Frowney wanted Smiley to take their act seriously. After they started to make each other unhappy, they closed the curtain on their act and their friendship.     He would continue to perform R&B, but eventually stopped singing a few years later.

### Attempted Acting Career, Moving to Beach City, and Do or Do Nut

After his comedic and R&B career sadly ended, Smiley would attempt his hand at an acting career, however it did not go well for him as it was hard to land any significant roles.

Completely demoralized, Smiley eventually opted to move to small town of Beach City, Delmarva in 1990.      After moving to the small town, he tried to find jobs.  He first attempted to get a job at Fish Stew Pizza, but employee, Kofi Pizza told him that this is meant to be run by generations of his family.

He then attempted to get a job at Cone ‘N’ Son, but he didn’t get the job because he didn’t understand how to operate the machine.  After he attempted to get a few more jobs, he was eventually approached by a director who was filming a training film for new employees who would work at the Big Donut, Beach City’s newest food place, and told him that they needed a person who can sing to perform a song called “Do or Do Nut”.  Smiley, remembering his singing days, gladly accepted the offer.

Later, Smiley donned a Big Donut shirt and performed the song for the Big Donut.  After filming the video and getting some pictures, he got some cash from doing the job.

### Funland Employee to Funland Owner

Despite the cash he was given for the job, he still would need more money to get a place.   The following days he continued to try and find work, until he went to Beach City Funland and met its owner, Ray Faschnacht.  Upon meeting Faschnacht, Smiley told him that he needed a job. Faschnacht said that he couldn't find any workers to man his arcade, so he gave Smiley the job.

Over the next several years, Smiley worked in Beach City Funland Arcade doing all kinds of jobs such as handing out prizes, cleaning games, and mostly keeping an eye out.    Also during this time, he became the host of the Beach-A-Palooze due to his jovial personality, and also started being the emcee of Beach City Underground Wrestling in 1996.

He would eventually start working in the amusement park as well, operating rides and doing all kinds of other work there.   His hard work and dedication to this job, eventually got him to be the owner of Beach City Funland when Ray Faschnacht retired in 2002.    Despite becoming the owner, Smiley still did numerous jobs for the amusement park and arcade, but due to his new position and him constantly working, most fellow employees leaving, Smiley was left running Funland by himself.

### Work as an Owner and Operator, Witnessing Gem Stuff, and being an Emcee

Over the years, Smiley would work as both the owner and operator of Beach City Funland.   Despite him enjoying making the people of Beach City, happy both his jobs were stressful on him, but he always looked to the positive.

However beginning in the early 2010’s, Mr. Smiley would begin to witness bizarre events involving Beach City residents, Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl, and Steven Universe.   First, some trouble ensued on the spinning teacups ride, when Steven jumped off the ride and knocked him over, causing the ride to break and malfunction.  After the ride was stopped, Smiley then hollered at Steven, “Steven! You are banned from all the rides! Forever!”.

Later he saw a giant red eyeball floating the sky and sucking things off the ground,  then sometime later, he was attacked by a mascot costume who viciously force-fed fries to him, and despite his yells to give him anymore until Pearl and Steven and began to attack the mascot, and a few weeks later, he saw Steven and a young girl in a giant pink bubble rolled onto the tracks of Funland’s roller coaster, surprising him and stopped the ride after the coaster slammed into the bubble and pushed it along the track, sending the bubble into the ocean.     And later on, after becoming concerned about some damage the arcade machines within the facility, he tried to find out who did the damage, ultimately found out it was Steven, and made him clean up the arcade.

Additionally during this time, he was still the Emcee for Beach City Wrestling Underground seeing wrestling stars such as Purple Puma and Tiger Millionaire wrestle.  However he mostly rooted for the opponents Purple Puma and Tiger Millionare fought against, but he eventually rooted for them when the Wrestling Haters came in.     Furthermore Smiley hosted the 2014 Beach City Bike Race, where he was shocked when Steven blasted off at super-speed.     He later was the cook of the hot-dogs for the hot-dog eating contest, where he put fire salt on the hot dogs, mistaking it for some kind of condiment.  He later witness the trouble the followed.

Later in 2014, he became concerned the ocean disappeared and that it’s disappearance will reduce summer business.  Although we would celebrate with the other townies when it returned.     Sometime, Smiley caught Steven, selling Watermelon Stevens outside of the Funland Amusement Park entrance.  After asking Steven if he had permit to sell the watermelons, Steven told him he didn’t but offered him one.  Despite being hesitant, he opted to take the bribe.    However when the Watermelon Stevens came to life, Steven rushed to Smiley and after explaining what is going on. Mr. Smiley understood and willingly gave back the Watermelon Steven.     Later, when the power outage occurred in Beach City, he was mad at Mayor Dewey that night when it became nightfall despite Mayor Dewey saying the power would be back by sundown, and helped tip over Mayor Dewey's truck in protest in the rage that erupted.   However he calmed down by Steven after he was able to quickly alleviate the situation.

A few days later he evacuated Beach City when a giant gem ship came to Earth, but came back the following day after the gem ship wrecked.

### Later Years at Funland, Emcee-ing, and brief work as a Health Inspector

In 2015, Mr. Smiley hosted the Beach-A-Palooza, where he hyped the crowd on the special guest performance. When he went backstage he found out it was Sadie Miller, and acknowledged Sadie's stage fright just prior to the show and did a poor job comforting her. Later he was barely phased when Steven came out on stage instead of Sadie and continues the performance.

Later that year when, Steven, Amethyst and a friend of theirs visited Funland, Smiley stopped them and informed them that Funland had some new height restrictions on the rides, in order to make them safer. He then measured Steven and Amethyst, determining that they were too short to ride the coaster. After pushing their friends hair down, the friend got irritated, and after Smiley told them they were all too short too ride, the friend began to yell at Smiley, which led to him asking the group if they wanted another lifetime ban. Later he managed the ring toss, where he joked to Steven about Funland being "funderstaffed" and told him he hadn't seen a bed in six days. Later while supervising Steven and his friends playing the ring toss game, he was informed by Amethyst that Onion was burning down the roller coaster, but he refused to believe, until he realized Onion was actually trying to burning down the roller coaster, and ran off to stop him. When he came back to the ring toss game, he was surprised that one of Steven's friends got a ring, and thought the game was rigged, and gave said a finger alien toy, telling her that the big alien plush requires a score of 10. He then took a nap on a chair at the ring toss and woke up to find ten rigs, and gave the friend a big alien plush.

Later in said year, Mr. Smiley took up temporary work as a Health Inspector, where he inspected the Big Donut and despite a gem monster damaging the store and the other store he had to inspect that day, he deiced not to deduct points for that, but docked pots for Lars Barigga not having his shirt tucked in. He was also the face painter at the Beach City Renaissance Faire.

### Reuniting with Mr. Frowney, Years Later, and Present Day

Sometime later, Mr. Smiley set up a new machine in Future Boy Zoltron outside the entrance to Funland Arcade, despite it glitching constantly and explained to Steven about it and how he was a comedian. However when Steven accidentally broke it, he became furious but let Steven make up the cost of the machine at his insistence by pretending to be Zoltron and tell the future until he can get enough money to repair the machine after Steven begged him to not be banned, later checkin on him to see how he was doing until Steven informed him that someone was looking for him. Mr. Smiley then rushed to meet the person and ends up meeting Mr. Frowney at the bus stop. They reenacted one of their old skits, which makes Mr. Frowney smile and laugh, fixing their relationship. He would later tell Steven that the machine costs thousands of dollars. But eventually he gave up on Future Boy Zoltron, acknowledging its glitching.

Additionally during this time, he was one of judges for a dance off competition in which the winner won a year’s worth of pizza.

He would then continue to work at Funland, and emcee Beach City Underground Wrestling. He would also join Jamie's new comedy club for a brief bit, while also attending events such as the election for Mayor of Beach City, visit the newly-reopened Big Donut, where he had record new material for employee training videos and sang a new version of "Do Or Do Nut" that year, attended the wedding of Ruby and Sapphire and later welcome the Crystal Gems back after their biggest mission yet. Two years layer, things would change again the following months after an attack on Earth by a gem, as Mr. Smiley got new employees for Funland such as Zebra Jasper and Crazy Lace Agate, and he would later say goodbye to Seven when left for his road trip.

As of today, Mr. Smiley lives happily as the owner of Beach City Funland and Arcade, and continues to work as a comedian in his spare time. Despite the passage of time, he still finds ways to stay connected with the people and gems of Beach City.

## Appearance

Mr. Smiley is a tall and muscular bald man with a darker complexion and a mustache that frames his very large and bright smile. He usually wore a collared gray-blue shirt with a geometric print of periwinkle circles and sulfur yellow triangles tucked into black mid-thigh length shorts from 2002-2018, light brown boots, and a fanny pack. From 2019 to the present day, Mr. Smiley has worn a collared gray-blue shirt with a geometric print with lighting bolts, pink plus signs, and purple triangles while retaining his black mid-thigh length shorts, brown boots, and a fanny pack.

When hosting the Beach-A-Palooza, being the emcee at Beach City Underground Wrestling, or attend sophisticated events, he wears a black and violet formal sports coat, blue-gray shirt, dark gray shorts, a yellow tie, and light brown boots.

### Younger

During his acting and R&B singing career, he had a flat-top afro and does not have a mustache. While he recorded the "Do or Do Nut" video, he wore a Big Donut employee shirt and a pair of dark blue shorts with light brown boots.

## Personality

Mr. Smiley is a jovial and hardworking man. He loves singing and dancing and is never seen not smiling, but under the cheerful façade he was overworked and constantly stressed. But ever since Zebra Jasper and Crazy Lace Agate bean working at Funland, he has not been overworked and stressed since then.

## Relationships

### Quinten Frowney

For his comedy career, Mr. Smiley and Mr. Frowney were a comedic duo but eventually became sad with each other due to Frowney not having fun.   However the two reunited in 2017, and after doing one of their old routines, Frowney smiled, witch patched and resumed their friendship, with them occasionally seeing each other.

### Steven Universe

Mr. Smiley as an on an off relationship with Steven.  Mainly irritated with Steven for his frequent, though unintended, destruction of the Beach City Funland amusements. However he did a sympathetic side to Steven, being happy to accept a Watermelon Steven as a "bribe" from him in order to sell the rest outside of Funland, reneging on the lifetime bans, letting Steven make up the damage to his Zoltron machine without banning him, but he was not above threatening the return of these bans if Steven and his friends do not abide by the rules.    However since Steven had grown up, Mr. Smiley is good friends with him.

### Sadie Miller

Mr. Smiley knew Sadie since she was eleven.  Additionally he saw her a lot when she began working at The Big Donut and even when she sung “Do or Do Nut”, he got happy and sing along to the point where Sadie couldn’t get him home.   He additionally tried to comfort her stage fright before her “special guest performance” at the Beach-A-Palooza, with him doing a poor job.    He and Sadie still remain good friends as of today.

### Zebra Jasper

Mr. Smiley has held a good friendship with Zebra Jasper, as she has done a good job at being an employee at Funland.

### Crazy Lace Agate

Crazy Lace is good help as an employee at Funland with Crazy Lace handing out balloons, prizes and even delivering prize shipments to him, making them good friends.

## Trivia

* Mr. Smiley was the first of several characters to have had a different voice actor, with Sinbad voicing him in Season 1, before Colton Dunn took over as the permanent voice actor for Mr. Smiley in Season 2 onwards. Additionally him being a comedian is a nod to both Sinbad and Colton Dunn being comedians as well.
* Storyboard artist Raven Molisee confirmed that Mr. Smiley is gay, making him the first human character to be confirmed as such. This was further explained in *Steven Universe: Art & Origins*, as in concepts for the episode "Future Boy Zoltron" detail that Mr. Smiley and Mr. Frowney were written to be in a relationship, with notes mentioning "they were clearly lovers".
* Denton Harbor, Michigan, Mr. Smiley's original hometown before Beach City, is based on Benton Harbor, Michigan, which was the hometown of his original voice actor, Sinbad.