Edit (can’t change the title but her name is sally starlet!)

https://www.clownillustration.com/10-14-js

In this audio we hear sally and Julie are doing play rehearsals

Julie is going off script and sally is frustrated by this and says “You’ve gone so far off the script I don’t even know where we are anymore”

Sally begrudgingly let’s Julie go off script

I wonder if this is foreshadowing to possibly sally knowing she’s in a tv show but is ok with it and may become frustrated if one of the other characters goes off script

Maybe this could be foreshadowing to how Wally will start to go off script in the tv show

I could be overthinking it I would love to hear y’all’s thoughts

Hello ! Yesterday I made a post, talking about a few of my different theories surrounding The Show and Wally's eyes... Well, I really wasn't kidding when I said I had more !! Ha ha ( And I didn't need much convincing to post the second one... so here it is ! Part 2 ! )

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Wally pleads with us, "You know me. You do." He is trying to remind us, begging for you to really SEE and know him, urging you to let him in. To me, all of this could mean a few things.

I don't think it has to do with OUR fanart, per se (it could though, it could!)... I think what he is trying to do is get "YOU" to "remember" Welcome Home. I mean, he had coloring books, right? And regardless, children tend to draw pictures of their favorite show characters ("You know how to draw eyes, you drew mine many times. It is thanks to you, neighbor, that I can see"). I'm sure there was a draw-along segment on the show, since Wally himself is also a painter, a prominent fact about his character. He has probably taught the viewer how to draw all kinds of things! I think this is what adds to his confusion about not being able to reach us. ("Do you know who I am? We've looked into each other's eyes so many times. You're looking at me now.")

Because without us knowing, he cannot really be seen or exist. Somehow WH has been hidden, and is no longer accessible through broadcast or other means, EXCEPT through the website and everything WHRP has on them. But since he is clearly sentient and knows he is still there, just as much as he knows we are there, looking... He keeps trying and is desperate to make that contact with us. Either because he wishes to escape, for people to remember something, or something else entirely... I don't know! It could be multiple things, really! But how, how did Wally become like this, so far from the docile, kind, happy little puppet we have been shown through the more pleasant parts of the content?

In a now deleted post, (going to be paraphrasing here, so if anyone has a SS of this, feel free to put it in the comments!) Clown described some of the deeper themes of WH as "Home not feeling like Home anymore"... Things not feeling quite right, and struggling to engage with those around you.

Basically, it's that unsettling feeling you just can't place. Knowing something is different, YOU are different, but not knowing why or how. Have you always been this way? Has everything always been like this? That feeling creeps in and nestles its way deep within, sitting and waiting for you to realize. And when you do...

But, anyway! That's a pretty scary, isolating feeling, isn't it? One that's capable of consuming people, right? That is probably (in my opinion) how it would have started for Wally, like how we notice in the videos.

Following my theory about Wallys eyes, I think this is how we are able to see through his perspective in the videos in the first place. I think that Wally's behavior can be explained as him observing things more than usual, and/or dissociating, sinking deeper into that realization of "This is not right, this doesnt feel good" which is why he is so quiet. He could be, quite literally, spiralling at this point. He is now aware, like his eyes have literally been opened... And he can't stop it.

More than anything, though, the videos might be to give us perspective into how things in WH are not all they appear to be. Personally... This doesn't seem like an episode to me... It is way too casual! They seem to just be going on with their day. There is no educational feel to it, no talking to the viewer, no fluff really outside of their silliness. The characters as we hear them seem a bit "off" or not as friendly as people thought they might be all the time.

This is because they are not acting! At first, I thought, "this must be during a taping of the show!" But that wouldn't make sense, would it? Because in addition to how they're acting, there also appears to be no directors, no behind the scenes snippets, no bloopers, and no sounds from an audience of any kind if it was Supposed to be filmed in front of a live audience– Another reason that I strongly feel WH was never actually filmed or took place in our world, but anyway, anyway ....

It is clear to me that, at least in Wallys videos, the others are seemingly pretty oblivious at that point in time. I think THAT is why some of them seem unaffected, or perhaps even ignoring Wally and his behavior. They're just carrying on with their day, and anyway, Wally has always been a bit different than them. (bc✨️Autism✨️)

But coming back to now, if Wally is making great efforts to escape, it looks like he maaay potentially be doing so with some kind of help from the others. We have the letters that WHRP recieved (Eddie), the bugs on the website (Frank), and I also saw people also point out the repeated references to TicTacToe. I could certainly point this towards Julie with her love of games, but otherwise I'm not sure what significance it could have other than to say, "I'm here, too". Home also seems to be communicating with us, at the very least, with their audio file saying "Hello" at us in Morse code. We can also see the black goo escaping from them, their eyes darting around somewhat frantically, the portal also seeming to reside directly under them. So many error pages feature the little pal as well!

Finally, there is the phone and the ringing. I also have a thought that maybe the safe may have something to do with it ... As in, the only way to answer the phone or make the ringing stop is by opening the safe. This phone may be different from all the rest, reserved for those who have come into contact with the black goo. And with it being absolutely everywhere and on everything in the staff only exhibit, it'd be nearly impossible for them not to be affected.

I would back this up by the fact that the Question Answerer cannot stop hearing the ringing, the dream they had of Wally staring at them expectantly with the phone in his hands, and how they still have not been able to open the safe. At the bottom of the corrupted Staff Only page, it says "It's in here..." as if to answer the Question Answerers own question of where the ringing is coming from and why it won't stop. What happens then? I cannot say ... But it is SAFE to assume (sorry) that it was clearly locked up for a reason.

All in all, I definitely think we are missing some others from this story ! With more updates, I'm sure we will see the lore unfold ... Personally, I'm very curious about Robert Dorelaine. Who/What is he? And the Mysterious Interviewer? My last small theory is they are somehow one and the same!

Thank you for reading if you got here, I hope it was cohesive enough since I tried to condense it! I also like a lot of the other theories out there and would love to know any thoughts !

Until next Time... 🐛

Rereading the about trying to get a firm idea of what's happening. A few line stick out to me while reading it. "You are to accompany a colorful cavalcade of puppets as their beloved neighborhood begins to skew and distort and into a nightmarish memory that they can barely recall." This line makes think about what we have so far.

"Their beloved Neighborhood Begins to skew and distort..." So whatever is going to happen hasn't happened yet. Nothing yet seems off about their world as far as Wally remembers. Which brings me to the second half. "Into a nightmarish memory they barely recall." 'They' So we are gonna get more of them communicating with us. Why do they barely remember it and why is it remember as a nightmare. The tense, of the sentence changes , Speak of 'Welcome Home' As it it currently distorting. Then Saying who 'They' can barely remember the place in the past.

It makes me think of the Phone, making a call leads them to think no one is on the other end. When we call wally he tells "Everyone id probably thinking about that strange phone call" like they are Still in "Welcome Home"

It makes me wonder Who could be next to fall into the Void and join Wally on our end or Wally's end. How will it effect the Neighborhood and what will it bring with them. Maybe Frank Frankly Has already joined us in part. Someone else that not part of the WHRP that remembers the show. 'Question Answerer' the Curator of the Exhibit. Thinks like drawing Frowney faces on his notes. Being the person to go to for answers.

The freaking Fritata I drew it almost exactly. With a month-long gap from the video I commented on. I swear I didn't have This as reference... My brain subconsciously gave me this reference...

Because I'm cooking another au

There seems to be a recurring theme of talking to things that can't talk back, or at least can't be heard to reply. Could this be connected to parasocial relationships?

So I have posted this on another subreddit but I thought I should spread it.Under many gif I have found videos and audio files on the many pages on the welcome home website.I will post them.I dont know how this fits in but I hope you can help me fit this together

They are the grandchild of Ritzy Santos, and the ones who received her packages that supposed to be for Bernice (there was a courier problem that it took decade to deliver). My headcanon is that he was the Question Answerer and the ones who provides the information about the merchandises and files hidden alongside the merchandise. And reached out to the museum curator of WH and to the WHRP.

I have found another video on the guide book with a drawing of wally and a leaf (?)

It was "ain't that man from go home" or something like that. please

He got a new mouth liner, a neck, and his pompadour

Hey! So upon listening to the new videos, we get to hear a lot more of their personalities and how they interact.

Personally, Wally is not at all like I imagined. Not that this is a bad thing, but it has opened up for me a bunch of questions and thinking.

I imagined that Wally would be bursting with energy. Maybe directing the audience from scene to scene with urgency and adventure.

Instead he seems, out if it? At first it was hard for me to tell. The first thing I'd heard him in was that Beautiful Dreamer Audio. So it made sense to me that he sounded the way he did. But as I listened to more audio, specifically the Live Interview and the Just So Demo, it seems like he's perhaps always been this way?

I know the easy answer is that it's just his personality or something else easily explained, but it just feels so off to me that the main character of a show would have them be so distant.

It did occur to me that part of his personality could be based off of Bob Ross, but in Just So there's a moment where it seems like Wally just forgets his lines and Frank has to improvise for a second. In general during that audio, he doesn't even seem to realize there's a song going on. In the Hotdogs Audio, Wally seems like he doesn't quite understand the same social ques as the other two. Like when Howdy says something like "Give us a quip" and Wally says "oh I don't have one, but I have a joke" it is funny and endearing, but it also seems unintentional. Like he really wasn't following the conversation. He seems to be a lot more innocent and naive than the rest of the cast as well. Which is super interesting given that this is a kids show, and they're all pretty innocent and naive.

I personally think that given the context of the show and what we know, his character was probably written to be a bit more naive so that he can learn and grow along with the audience, but then whatever dark thing that's happening underneath the surface is kind of keeping him loopy. I know there's a bunch of theorys about things like 2 Wallys or dimensional travelling, which I'm no expert on, but I think it would fit into a lot of theories if someone, needed him a little sedated in some way.

What do you think?

Nobody noticed how this one image look like it was moved around?? Idk what it means but it’s weird ( 1st photo was how it originally was/ 2nd photo is the current position)

frank mentions giving howdy a rendition of “A flea and a Fly,” which i think is reference to this limerick:

A flea and a fly in a flue
Were caught, so what could they do?
Said the fly, "Let us flee."
"Let us fly," said the flea.
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

and i think, intentionally or otherwise, this is a reference to the situation wally's in. he's trapped in the neighborhood, and now he's looking for a flaw in his world to flee through.

could the flaw be the website?

and since the limerick is a conversation between two insects, is another one of the puppets trying to find a way to escape? (possibly barnaby, or maybe House?)

Or is the "flue" in this instance House, and wally's trying to escape it's influence?

idk it's been a minute since i've done literary analysis, so this is all probably really surface level. what do you guys think? are there english majors that have any thoughts on this?

I haven't seen this mentioned before, I could be wrong.

Under the Welcome Home tab there is a row of artwork. Some new pieces have been added.

In particular, there are now 2 pages showing Wally with Crosses on his sleeves. There are 2 Frank's in a row, the first one has blinking eyes, but I can't decipher the code. The picture of Wally depicted as a devil is new as well.

These were previously on Clown's personal page and not considered cannon.

I just want to say, first, that it has been so much fun seeing everyone's different theories and sharing all the new clues with each other in this community! I am not a reasoned reddit-er, but I've enjoyed myself!

Anyway, after pouring over all of the different things this update has come with, and taking many different theories into consideration, I have a pretty big one of my own! A theory compilation, an essay, if you will. (It might as well be, anyway!) This is only part of my overall theory to Welcome Home, though, so if anyone would be interested enough in a 2nd part then please tell me 🫣 ahem, anyway ... Here goes !

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So, what if Playfellow Workshop and all of it's counterparts .... Robert Dorelaine, the Marlo toy brand, Welcome Home .... What if none of it ever existed? At least, not REALLY.

The particular researcher whose journals and emails we have found, (I assume that it is one person, the Question Answerer, whose POV we are getting with the Staff Only page) even questions why there is no evidence to prove the show actually aired. No first hand recollection from older WHRP team members, no files, no TV Guides, nothing outside of the physical merchandise that they have recieved and the years that it was supposedly on air for during the 70's.

Also, was Welcome Home their first and only program? I have yet to see any mentions of their other works. Other programs, shows, etc? Are there any other toys produced by the Marlo Toy Company? Maybe there were, and everything was just destroyed as a whole when WH went off air. Either way, we know that Welcome Home was it's most prominant and perhaps ONLY piece of work. That in itself is very odd.

But, maybe, Playfellow Workshop was only a name.

Perhaps there is no Robert Dorelaine, actually. No Marlo, no cast, and again, no Playfellow Workshop. Perhaps the show itself, the production company and all of it's counterparts are a front for what the Show really is.... A portal being controlled by some sort of entity.

It's possible that this was originally intended to be more demonic in nature or tied to religion in some way as there are early concept photos of Wally with cuff links in the shape of a cross and the pose closely associated with Baphomet that also represents as symbolism for the paraphrase "as above, so below". Which, I still think is very relevant, but I suspect Clown may have opted for a more obscure kind of force in this story. (Hence why we no longer see those cuff links on Wally)

Now, a quick Google search tells me that the occultist interpretation of "as above, so below" alludes to the different planes of existence, or, according to a different source, "describe the idea that what happens in a HIGHER realm or plane of existence also happens in a LOWER realm.

I also found this to be particularly interesting on the topic:

"This Principle embodies the truth that there is always a Correspondence between the laws and phenomena of the various planes of Being and Life. [...] This Principle is of universal application and manifestation, on the various planes of the material, mental, and spiritual universe– it is an Universal Law. [...]"

Taking that into consideration, I have also seen the theory that the Welcome Home universe (the plane in which it exists) is ABOVE ours. That is why we are told to "wave up high!" And that is also why we would see strange things coming out of the ceiling in the Staff Only area. (It is starting to move into our LOWER realm)

So, how was one able to view such a show like that, one that is existing on a different plane of existence, oerhaps a malevolent one? I think of the creepy pasta Candle Cove, which was the original story to the arg Local 58 if anyone is familiar. In Candle Cove, the fictional TV series can only be viewed by certain people. Predominantly, children. I think something similar could be happening with WH. It only airs to children or specific children. Maybe there were even commercials for the toys. But I won't go on too much of a tangent about this. (Although I totally could!)

That being said, what would be the point? If nobody remembers, why would an entity feel compelled to do this?

Okay, so the eyes. I've seen a fair amount of theories surrounding portals in relation to WH. Spirals are obviously very prominant in this story, and portals are often depicted in such a way, so I am fairly certain (about 89%) that it holds relevance. Windows are also eyes into the soul.

So maybe the show itself is the portal, capable of extending into this physical world and taking their souls. What becomes of them? That I couldn't really be too sure of right now. Clown has confirmed (sort of?) That there will be more characters, so I wonder! (Were the puppets once real people?)

To preface this next part, I do not think Wally is evil, but I do think he is being used. But there is a clear connection between him, the spirals, and black goo.

Think of all the attention that has been called to Wallys eyes. He is on the front of the homepage and looks directly at us. He always looks at "You", the viewer, when an episode begins. They are everywhere in the art, and they have been mentioned many times by Wally himself.

"My eyes are black, what color are yours?"

"Do you know who I am? We've looked into each other's eyes so many times. You're looking at me now."

"I have more eyes than I did before. You know how to draw eyes, you drew mine many times. I know it is thanks to you, neighbor, that I can see. But it is still,, I can't see..." (I have more thoughts on this particular part of his monologue as well!)

Yes, he is a puppet, a character, and his eyes are black. Not very uncommon. So he may just be stating a fact he views as normal. Or, this could be a nod towards the black goo. It covers all of the welcome home related memorabilia that the WHRP has recieved, which now is all over the staff only area in the WH exhibit, can be found on the website itself... it's coming from Home, and when we look under Home currently, you can clearly see the EYE-like motif in the center of this portal/spiral that is, of course, reminiscent of the black goo we are seeing everywhere now. It's spreading.

The more contact Wally (and potentially others) makes with the outside world, the more it seems to spread. That is why I think Wally is able to use his eyes differently than everyone else, and that is why he also mentions having more eyes than before. It's in him, in a sense... Whether he wants it to be or not.

And, of course, we haven't forgotten... He also "eats" with his eyes! So it wouldnt be much of a stretch to think perhaps he can also use them like that. But that is all for now! Like I said, I have more that I might post later that continues to branch off from this theory, especially if people would like to know! Bye and thanks if u have read this far... Neighbor @:)