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| “ | You want to know what happened, and why. This... is your answer. We called it "The Hour of Joy". | ” |
| — Poppy Playtime | ||
The Hour of Joy is a VHS tape recording seen within Chapter 3: Deep Sleep of Poppy Playtime.
The tape features footage of the events that transpired during the incident of the same name that lead to the factory's closure.
Location[]
This tape is presented to The Player by Poppy Playtime after CatNap's death.
Analysis[]
After The Player diverts the Red Smoke and powers the Gas Production Zone, Poppy appears, showing them a tape containing CCTV footage of what happened to the company's staff, an incident the toys call "The Hour of Joy." She then inserts the tape into the VHS player. The tape starts with showing the name of the incident before switching to camera footage of several employees walking in the Lobby. Once 11:00 AM EST had struck, the Bigger Bodies went on a rampage. As seen in the footage, Huggy Wuggy begins to ambush and attack everyone in the room. The next scene shows the Game Station, with Mommy Long Legs beginning her attack on the employees by tearing one in half, and grabbing others, lifting them up, then dropping them from lethal heights.
The scene switches to an employee running into an unknown area from a swarm of Mini Huggies and Mini Critters, eventually getting devoured by them. The scene changes to an employee in the School running from Miss Delight and her sisters into a room after being cornered by them in a hallway. The scene then cuts to Kissy Missy's relocation to Playcare and the moment she attacked some of the employees who were transporting her; she is seen chasing after another employee who ran away.
Then Boxy Boo is shown devouring employees whole and continuing his rampage elsewhere. Afterward, CatNap is shown walking in the center of Playcare with the floor covered in human bodies while throwing someone into the stairs of the Counselor's Office. The tape shows a few other rooms, now covered in bodies after the massacre. Finally, it switches to the exterior of the Poppy Area, ending with a static screen.
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Trivia[]
- The Final Log VHS tape took place in The Hour of Joy, since there is screaming, banging and alarm sounds heard during the tape and Scientist #4 mentions that the events on that day are undoubtedly in relation to The Prototype. However, it's still unknown who killed the Scientist in the VHS. In addition, The Player was most likely shocked and horrified while viewing the tape.
- There are an estimated 172 bodies shown during the end of the tape, with the implication this is only a fraction of Playtime's total staff.
- The tape officially confirms that Boxy Boo is canon to the Poppy Playtime universe.
- This was initially confirmed by a former developer on Discord.
- It's likely that the CCTV footage was originally going to appear in the Chapter 3 Interactable ARG, as the footage of August 8, 1995 was archived and password-locked.
- This makes sense, as The Hour Of Joy as a whole was one of the big reveals of Chapter 3.
- Kissy Missy's scene in this tape takes place directly before the ending scene of RESTRICTED_relocation_08-08-1995.mp4.