Foggle Friends

**Foggle Friends** is the fictional children's TV puppet show created by Tim Denson as well as its cast severing as the main antagonists of the *123 Slaughter Me Street* series. The cos-puppets are seen and act as the main threat in the first Slaughter Me Street, however any other reference to the show itself has yet to be seen outside of the poster. Most of the posters for the show features the Follower (Wollof), Greeter (Egret), and Hunter (Henry), despite the latter, Hunter, never appearing in the games until 123 Slaughter Me Street Super Retro.

## History

### Classic Era

In the first game, the puppets consist of three characters: the Follower, the Greeter, and the Waiter. These reanimated puppets constantly try to attack the player as they may their way down the apartment complex. The trio are seen again at the ending where the apartment catches fire and the three puppets slowly walk out of the flaming corridors towards the player.

In the second game, the cos-puppets from the first game are in a lifeless state as they are largely replaced by much more intimidating demons: the Seeker, the Stalker, and a new character called the Screamer along with an additional, mysterious demon named the Nightmare, who is implied to have made a deal with Tim Denson for the show to be successful. The puppets from the first game appear in the workshop, implying that they were the ones used for the show. While not a threat, the Follower, Greeter, and Waiter are moved to different parts of the house in different levels, with the trio ending up on the couch on the last level. It is also implied that the demonic creatures faced in this game were the inspirations to a couple of the puppets with Seeker and Stalker resembling the Follower and Greeter for example.

### Modern Era

In Evolutions, A remake of the first game, The known puppet antagonists are once again Wollof, Egret, and Walter (Follower, Greeter, and Waiter), with the addition of Henry and Gomez (The Hunter, and a hand puppet that resembles the Nightmare). The designs for the characters now more closely resemble actual puppets with most of the characters appearing more like costumes puppeteers would wear (with some exceptions) strengthening the idea that these puppets are the characters used for the Foggle Friends show. In one of the Teasers a tape called "Wollof Show\_Tape" not only establishes Foggle Friends Inc. but also gives a date that implies when the show might've been active, 1985.

In an early concept for the 3rd game, A lot of the cast would reappear again as demons Including a new character called "Mr. Pig" and the Nightmare would return as well (Who would have had a different appearance). The Follower, Greeter, Waiter, and Hunter would have gotten demonic counterparts, However the mockup models that were seen and used for them are out of date. Due to the status of SMS 3, a lot could be changed when it does eventually release including whether or not these demonic variants even make it in to the final game at all. It should be noted that their appearances from Odd Stories are non-canon as the show was not associated with IGS.

### Spin Offs

In the Retro titles the puppets appear once again as antagonists. This series introduced the character that would go on to become Gomez in 123 Slaughter Me Street Retro. This series is also the first included appearance of the Hunter as a direct threat to the player. The only direct mention of the show is the poster appearing in the opening cutscene for 123 Slaughter Me Street Super Retro.

In Slaughter Me Street 1999, The Poster for the show is now a Relic that the player needs to collect. Although none of the original puppets are in the game currently, a look into the Workshop does include recolored puppets that are largely Easter eggs or community jokes. This is also the first poster to feature more than 3 characters, Now having both the Waiter and Hunter together and adding Gomez. This is also the first time the current spelling of "Foggle" is actually used.

## Gallery

A teaser for the first game that would make up the Foggle Friends poster, featuring (from left to right) the Greeter, Follower, and the scrapped Hunter.The Poster in the first game. It notably has the portion that would contain the Hunter torn off.The Foggle Friends poster seen in SMS 2, Note that the Hunter is seen despite not making an antagonistic appearance at this pointThe Foggle Friends poster as seen in 123 Slaughter Me Street Super Retro.A Teaser from Slaughter Me Street 1999 featuring the Poster
## Trivia

* All puppets and the show are most likely based off of the real-world Jim Henson's productions like *Sesame Street* and *The Muppet Show*.
* The puppets are referred to by the Reporter as "cos-puppets", which are not only a combination of the word costume and puppet, but are also based off of full-bodied puppets that would function in largely the same way as the puppets would have.
	+ Despite this, Only one of the puppets do not appear to have this feature, Gomez who's based on a hand puppet.
	+ The Hunter is also based off of Snuffleupagus specifically.
		- While non canon to the series, in Odd Stories the Follower and Waiter appeared as live-hand puppets rather than full-bodied puppets.
* The Hunter, was scrapped from both games due to budget or time constants, was speculated to appear in the third game and teased for the second game's next update/DLC as suggested by his wire-framed model from the end of one of the developer's videos on YouTube only to be ultimately scrapped again.
	+ Weirdly enough the Hunter still appeared on the Foggle Friends poster in both SMS and SMS 2 despite this, possibly suggesting that the character has a role in the show. It was only in 123 SMS Super Retro where the Waiter would properly take Hunter's place on the poster, Which was ironically also the Hunter's debut in an official Slaughter Me Street game.
* The names for The Follower, Greeter, and Waiter were revealed in a "Favorite mainline SMS antagonist?" poll on the official SMS subreddit. The names are Wollof, Egret, and Walter respectively. Later on the name for the Hunter would be revealed to be Henry and Gomez would be introduced as it's own character.
	+ On Twitch streams rigging characters for SMS: Evolutions The names for the Puppet based on the Nightmare and Hunter were revealed as Gomez and Henry respectively.
	+ Some names are plays off of their titles, Wollof is follow backwards, Egret is one letter different from "Greet" as well as being a species of bird and Walter simply replaces the "i" with an "l".
* On most of the posters the spelling is "Foggel", rather that "Foggle", however both spellings are interchangeable.
* While most of the puppets have demons that seem to be the inspiration for their designs, Screamer is the only demon that does not appear to have a puppet directly based off it.
	+ Likewise, both the Waiter and Hunter do not have a clear direct demon inspirations the rest of the puppet cast has.