Five Nights at Home Depot

The Youtube Thumbnail for the FNAHD 1 Reveal Trailer.

— **Phone Guy, *FNAHD 1 Night 1 Phone Call***

Five Nights at Home Depot is a series of repaints of Scott Cawthon's game series, Five Nights at Freddy's . The first repaint was a Sofa Dreamin' launch title and was released the day of Sofa Dreamin' Direct 1 and had been in development for a couple months before that, and was almost left partway finished, but eventually, development continued. Shortly after the release of FNAHD 1, development began on FNAHD 2, which was released a little over 4 months after the first game. FNAHD 2 is much higher effort compared to FNAHD 1 and featured several code changes, implemented by Umberbee due to their previous knowledge of Clickteam Fusion.

## FNAHD 1

In FNAHD 1, you play as Spongebob Squarepants, who has gotten a job at his local Home Depot, which is evidenced by the newspaper at the beginning of the game, the Spongebob facetime frame, and the ending check that you receive for beating the game. The player must survive 5 nights in this Home Depot, facing off against Tom Cruise, Pearl, Big Chungus, and Homer D. Poe, trying to prevent them from reaching the office and killing the player. In this world, as well as being a hardware store, Home Depot is also a children's entertainment center. Each animatronic in FNAHD has a FNAF equivalent, Tom Cruise replaces Freddy, Pearl replaces Chica, Big Chungus replaces Bonnie, and Homer replaces Foxy, and they all function the same as their original counterparts as well. In the "office", there is a poster with an image of a hot dog on it, and if the player chooses to click on this hot dog, it will play a stock scream sound effect. The game features a YTPMV created by $99DollarMan of the original Toreador March music box song featuring Tom Cruise and Jontron, which can be heard when the power goes out, when Tom Cruise is in the kitchen, and when you beat night 5, night 6, or custom night. Custom night's menu features drawings by members of the Sofa Dreamin' team for the icons of each animatronic, Cpink drawing Tom Cruise, Lord Scout drawing Big Chungus, TheEnderDwonk drawing Pearl, and $99DollarMan drawing Homer. When the player beats custom night, a newspaper clipping can be seen detailing a robbery that occurred at a Home Depot location, presumably the one you were working at during the events of the game. It features several redactions as well as some words being scratched out with a pencil and being replaced with other words. More on the newspaper clipping and what it could mean in the lore section.

The newspaper clipping.The check screen.
## FNAHD 2

In FNAHD 2, you play as Markiplier, who, after YouTube removes monetization from the platform, decides to retire from Youtube and get a more stable job at Ikea. This is indicated by the newspaper at the beginning of the game, and by the check at the end, similarly to FNAHD 1. The gameplay itself is similar to FNAHD 1 as well, with the player needing to prevent animatronics from entering their office and killing them. However in FNAHD 2, there are no doors, and instead, the player must put on a Minecraft pumpkin mask to ward off anything that enters, flash a light in the hallway to prevent Withered Homer from entering, as the mask doesn't affect him, and wind up the music box so Ben the Cow stays asleep and does not become hostile. There are returning characters from FNAHD 1 as well as new characters, and like FNAHD 1 they have FNAF equivalents. The original 4 animatronics (Tom Cruise, Pearl, Big Chungus, and Homer) all return, however, they are now withered, showcased by the damage and wear on their bodies. Real Tom Cruise replaces Toy Freddy, Lammy replaces Toy Chica, Scott the Woz replaces Toy Bonnie, Squidward replaces Mangle, Drake and Josh replace Balloon Boy, and Ben replaces the Puppet. The game features a mashup of The Living Tombstone's song, "***It's Been so Long"*** with the title theme from the game Cave Story. The mashup was created by Umberbee and is used for the title theme. Umberbee also made several other contributions to the project, including several code additions, too numerous to mention here but are detailed in the credits of the game itself. Once again, the custom night menu features drawings by Sofa Dreamin' team members, with the artists who drew a character in FNAHD 1 returning to draw them again. However, new artists are also featured, with Real Tom Cruise being drawn by 7dogmin, Lammy being drawn by Umberbee, Scott the Woz being drawn by Noodle-Kun (warning, nsfw), Squidward being drawn by Bossclips, Drake and Josh being drawn by Aliethia, and Withered Jontron being drawn by Tyler Ironminer888. After beating night 6, the player receives a newspaper clipping discussing the "Bite of '20" with a sticky note attached to it that says "A little something to pay the med. bills" and a spread of monopoly money underneath it. After custom night, the player receives a threat from Ikea, claiming that "You know too much" and to look out for "the gangs of LA." More on this in the lore section.

The threat.Homer and Squidward in the hallway.The check.The bribe.The newspaper.

## Lore

The lore of the series is able to be decoded by hints left in the games, however the series is incomplete so a lot of the lore is unknown at this point. We know that Spongebob got his job at Home Depot to steal the animatronics there, however we do not know why. We can infer this based off the robbery newspaper clipping seen in the end of FNAHD 1 and the description of the "Home Depot Criminal" Markipllier is said to give in the newspaper clipping seen in FNAHD 2 (a square, yellow man). It can be inferred that backrooms are something common in the universe of FNAHD as both Home Depot and Ikea have identical backrooms, and from this it can be inferred that Spongebob has one in his house as well, which could be how the FNAHD 1 animatronics arrived at Ikea, through the backrooms, and also how Spongebob himself appears at Ikea in FNAHD 2's 5th night. Based off the physical state of the FNAHD 1 animatronics in FNAHD 2, it can be inferred that during their brief stay with Spongebob, they were physically damaged and abused by him, which could explain why they attempted escape through the backrooms, and why Spongebob arrived at Ikea, to get them back. Additionally, phone guy on FNAHD 2's 6th night mentions that all the animatronics are malfunctioning, and that someone yellow used the suits in the back. At first this may be confusing, but in the 8-bit minigames of FNAHD 2 we can find an explanation for this. Several corpses wearing Ikea uniforms can be found littered around the location and the player can be ambushed by Spongebob by this minigame, and even fight him if they discover the secret trick. This gives us a solid answer to the question of why the animatronics are malfunctioning, and why one bites Markiplier. They become possessed by the souls of the Ikea employees murdered by Spongebob the day before Night 6. Why exactly Spongebob murders these people is less clear however, but due to the time between the withered animatronics arriving and Spongebob arriving it can be inferred that Spongebob has been traversing through the backrooms for some time, and went several days without sleep, becoming increasingly unstable, thinking that Ikea intentionally stole the animatronics from him. Lastly, the post credits news report from FNAHD 2 gives us setup for a future game, mentioning Elmer Fudd and Depot Frights, a Home Depot themed horror attraction, but not much can be gained from this, until the 3rd game comes out and shows us Depot Frights.
Given the new teasers, Spongebob appears to be in a suit resembling Big Chungus, possibly being the FNAHD equivalent to Springtrap, which further cements these teasers being for FNAHD 3. Additionally, the Sofa Dreamin' Youtube account was hacked by a user known as RockoRocks2011 and a build of FNAHD 3 was "leaked," however, this was simply a Touhou-styled bullet hell game featuring Tom Cruise and Spongebob. This had led many fans to assume the account was not hacked, but rather, this is simply a "troll," meaning it is simply a game made as a joke by the Sofa Dreamin' team.

## Future

As mentioned earlier, the post credits scene of FNAHD 2 implies a future game, but that is not confirmed yet. However, teasers for what can only be FNAHD 3 have been popping up in the FNAHD channel of the Sofa Dreamin' Discord, so a third FNAHD is all but confirmed at this point.

## Other

Project leader TheEnderDwonk has made several teasers and drawings for the series, which can be seen in the gallery. $99DollarMan also created the Facial Recognition teaser, based on the FNAF VHS video of the same name by Squimpus McGrimpus. Almost every image teaser has a secret if you brighten the image. As of December 21, 2020, another video teaser has been uploaded to the channel, titled *Depot Frights Recording 7/15/20,* assumedly for FNAHD 3. It is similar to a YouTube video known simply as Purple guy death sound by Narax -5000. Additionally, while not a hint at a future game, a comical video of a Lego Skeleton dancing was uploaded the day before, and can be found here.

The first teaser.The second teaser.The third teaser.The fourth teaser.The fifth and final FNAHD 1 teaser.The first FNAHD 2 teaser, and the only one that is drawn.The second FNAHD 2 teaser, the first reveal of Scott the Woz and Withered Chungus.The third FNAHD 2 teaser, revealing Squidward. This teaser does not use Withered Homer, but instead Homer from FNAHD 1, which is a reference to the original teaser where FNAF 1 foxy is used instead of Withered Foxy.The fourth FNAHD 2 teaser, revealing the office, Withered Homer, and the pumpkin mask.The final FNAHD 2 teaser, revealing Ben the Cow and the prize corner.The first FNAHD 3 teaser, depicting Spongebob in a Big Chungus Suit.The second FNAHD 3 teaser, showing a box full of scrapped parts of the FNAHD 2 animatronics with Spongebob standing beside the box if you brighten the image.A drawing of Pearl as Liberty Chica from FNAF AR: Special DeliveryA drawing of a hypothetical "Five Nights at Home Depot World" drawn by TheEnderDwonk