Funny / Can't Go Home Again

Beyond the horror, beyond the tragedy, and beyond overcoming them, the Home series is about being human, be it in body or in soul. And there's nothing more human than laughter, is there?

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Can't Go Home Again

• Mike and Marionette's first encounter is tense, if not downright depressing at certain points. That is, until Mike's phone accidentally goes off... his ringtone? The Toreador's March.
  • Mike mentally notes that he should've changed it long ago, and he really needs to now, just in case it might set the Puppet off. He still has the same ringtone in Going Home In A Box!
• Mike and Mari's first interactions in general are right out of a slapstick routine at times.
  • As Mike's cleaning the bathroom, he suddenly jumps and hits his head against the sink because of... the TV blasting out an old Fredbear and Friends VHS that Marionette's rewound. One can only wonder if the volume being turned up so much wasn't on purpose.
  • After Mike decides to stick around, he mockingly reminds Marionette that he will be headed back to work in a few days. Mari goes from happily chiming to a staticky mess, much like a child throwing a tantrum.
  • Mike's constant insults towards the dirty Golden Freddy plush, and in spite of that, Marionette's insistence on holding on to it and almost shoving it into his face. It stops being funny when the truth about it and Golden Freddy come out, though.
• How easily Mike throws it into Fritz's face that he knows about the name change, and how horrified Fritz is about it.
• Mike and the warehouse pizza, from start to finish.
  • Mike finds a pre-cooked Freddy's pizza in the warehouse and takes it home with him to throw into the oven and heat. Without even asking himself how old it might be. The results are predictable.
  • During his food-poisoning-induced fever, Mike starts talking with one of Marionette's plushes, a Foxy plush. He's either so out of it he legitimately thinks begging a plushie for help is a viable tactic, or not even food poisoning is enough to stop him from snarking.
    • Even better, when he gets no answer, he's atleast relieved by that, not wanting to deal with talking toys. Then, a few months later, Jeremy takes a Minireena home from Afton Robotics... then, a couple of years later, he's sharing his house with a dozen toy-sized animatronics. So much for that!
  • Marionette's first attempt-slash-solution at helping Mike? Offering him a cupcake, of course!
• As the former security guards discuss about opening a new animatronic pizzeria, Jeremy's rap sheet is brought up. Mike can only react with a Double Take, meekly asking clarification whilst Fritz and Jeremy soldier on with the conversation.
• When Natalie asks about "Mary", Mike thinks she's messing with him. She the points at the signature on his cast: "Mari", accompanied by a smiley face. Mike, of course, hadn't even noticed that Marionette scribbled on his cast.
  • And then Natalie doubles down, asking if they're an item, which Mike rebukes as hard as he can.
• Staying on Natalie as the topic, her dad's first appearance. Red-faced, he knocks on Mike's door and then proceeds to scream at him to stay away from "his daughter" and leave Hurricane, leaving Mike completely and utterly confused. What actually makes it funny is that not even five minutes later, Nat shows up and almost pleads to Mike to forgive him, clarifying that she is the daughter in question. And that her dad probably thought they were seeing each other.
• Once they've got the SNES set up, Mike and Marionette proceed to play it. Or rather, Marionette tries to learn the game whilst Mike tells him everything he's doing is wrong whilst lazily laying on the couch. Yes, Mike's literally backseat-gaming!
  • Mari isn't amused by it, saying out loud he's being puppeteered. Mike shuts him down by pointing out the Puppet likes it when he pulls his strings.
  • The next day, Mike leaves for the warehouse to check on Foxy. What's the first thing Marionette does? Look for the cartridge the security guard had explicitly forbade him from playing. The next time we see him, he's about to pull it out of the console and smash it to pieces, before Fritz and Jeremy interrupt him...
  • ...Which leads to Marionette inviting them to play the game, as part of his ongoing efforts of messing with them. It goes just as poorly, with Fritz doing the exact same thing Mike did the previous day and Jeremy shaking with anger before tossing the controller and leaving the house to get a breath of air.
• Glenn Voronoff's first appearance, where he asks Mike if they're opening a new restaurant, then asks him if they're using the same animatronics. Mike replies both times with the near-exact same words, earning himself a Death Glare:
  Glenn: So you're reopening Freddy's.
  Mike: Sort of. Except without Freddy. We're calling it "Foxy's Pirate Pizza Place" as a working title.
  Glenn: Are you bringing back the old animatronics?
  Mike: Sort of. Except without Freddy. We're calling it "Foxy's Pirate Pizza Place" as a working title.
  • Glenn then telling Mike that Fredrick must have told his workers about him. It's very much not the case, and you can almost hear poor Glenn deflating when told so.
• The trip to Chipper and Son's, which starts with Marionette leering at Mike all morning long over something minor. That's before we get to the demo show itself.
  • Which opens, yes, opens, with Chipper's son, Tyke, wheeling out on stage, followed by Chipper himself walking out. Both move as stiff as the planks actual lumberjacks would use, and speak with the same awkward pauses you'd expect of a live-audience sitcom.
  • Chipper goes from listing off his various jobs to trying to warm up the crowd. Marionette actually glances out to the empty theatre.
  • "I'm not kicking you out on your furry ear just yet." It both makes sense as a smaller part of the speech, and makes zero sense in the wider sense. Mike lets out an audible "What?" in complete and utter confusion at it.
  • And then the whale cut-outs show up. No, not whale animatronics. Giant, cardboard whale cut-outs on wheels.
  • It gets so bad that Marionette starts looking towards the floor and facepalming in second-hand embarassment. The moment a termite animatronic's arm falls off, he falls off his chair entirely in laughter.
• As they prepare the future Foxy's, Mike tests out the speaker system by playing old prize corner tapes, accidentally revealing that Marionette's programming makes him react differently to a wide range of songs, and Mari himself accidentally tips him off about how the "closing time" song makes him "act a fool". After much prodding, the Puppet finally spills the beans... the song in question is "Les Cloches du Monastere", which causes him to dance for the children as they leave.
• Jeremy revealing that, after his and Fritz's first trip down to the remains of Afton Robotics, he brought one of the Minireenas back with him. Reactions range from Marionette shrugging, if not defending them, to Fritz's Double Take.
• Natalie's proper introduction to Foxy's behind-the-scenes, as Jeremy and Fritz scramble between preparing food and keeping the former's Minireena under control. Jeremy then proceeds to slam the door open into Marionette's face, all the while Natalie flatly notes they really need all the help they can get.

Almost Feels Like Home

• As the gang first starts looking into Magictime Theatre, they can't help but note the low quality of the Freddy's knock-offs they have. For some reason, Orville The Elephant gets most of the flak.
  • "Is that Orville The Elephant?"

Going Home In A Box