Smiling Critters

The toy line

There are eight of them. DogDay is the leader. Bubba Bubbaphant is the brains. Hoppy Hopscotch keeps up the energy. KickinChicken is the cool kid. CraftyCorn values art and creativity. PickyPiggy cares about eating well. Bobby BearHug is the caring one. CatNap is the calm one, who makes sure his friends sleep.

Each toy has a zipper with its own pendant and gives off its own scent. The WLE 4 newscaster says you pull the toy's tail to release it. The scents are vanilla for DogDay, lemongrass for Bubba Bubbaphant, peppermint for Hoppy Hopscotch, ylang-ylang for KickinChicken, jasmine for CraftyCorn, citrus for PickyPiggy, rose for Bobby BearHug and lavender for CatNap.

The cartoon

Chapter 3 opens with a Smiling Critters cartoon. The newscaster calls it a limited series, made to celebrate the release of the toys.

In the episode the critters are at DogDay's house on a windy night and cannot sleep. CatNap arrives and breathes out red gas. The others laugh wildly, and then they fall asleep.

The news report that follows says children with CatNap dolls were having violent nightmares, and that Playtime Co. recalled every CatNap toy from the line.

What happened to them

On the CatNap Check-In tape Leith Pierre says CatNap and the other Smiling Critters were added into Playcare.

They did not stay together. DogDay says he and the others tried to fight the Prototype's control, and that he is the last of them. Ollie says there used to be eight, and that now it is just CatNap. Nobody knows how the other six big critters died.

Small living versions of all eight are still in the Playhouse, as the Ruined Critters.

Quotes