It begins with Happy Appy walking through the park when two children ask him the cycle of life so they can complete their homework. He proceeds to tell the children about the life cycle of frogs and plants. The children say "Thank you, Manzanita! Can you play with us for a while?" Manzanita agrees, and they begin to play in the yard. As this happens, smoke begins to creep up behind Manzanita and the children. It gets to a point where they start coughing because of how thick the smoke is, so they turn around to see what the smoke was doing. Happy gasps at the sight in front of them.
Two towers were on fire and were burning. A few people were falling out of the windows to escape the fire. There was a lot of screaming, falling debris, and a plane crashed into one of the towers. Only the tail of the plane was visible, which was approaching the edge of collapse. I could hear a faint hissing sound at this point, and I think it was the plane's engine that was probably still standing. Seven seconds later, the tail of the plane finally broke off, with the largest piece of the tail hitting and killing someone. During this scene, fire trucks could be heard trying to extinguish the flames, but only slowing the flames down. The wailing of ambulances could also be heard, removing the bodies of people who jumped from the towers. It showed a strange guy in the fire fall from one of the towers, screaming.
Manzanita and the children were seen again, but this time, they stood in fear. The smoke grew thicker and thicker, gradually obscuring the trees and playground equipment. Debris from the towers fell around the children and apple, and a person ran up to them and told them to run away from the towers before running away. When the older boy worried, he said "Manzanita, why are the towers on fire?" that cut to a top-up plant that was near where the plane crashed, which revealed a child standing under a huge piece of concrete, crying out for help.
Some other children tried to help him by lifting the piece of concrete off him. He was screaming so loud, it was almost painful. There were bodies and blood everywhere, and the pain and fear on the trapped child's face was so realistic, I cringed. After the shot with the child trapped under the concrete, the younger boy turns to the side to say "Happy Appy, why do people run and fall off the towers?" Happy Appy turns back towards the camera, the death grin on his face, and very coldly said three words. Those three words will haunt me as long as I investigate this show.
"That's natural, kids."
He took the two sons away from the towers, leaving the boy trapped under concrete screams for help. When the end credits rolled, the audio of the scene kept playing, and at the end, before the video cuts out, something collapsed, making a very loud noise that could scare anyone to look at.
I jumped out of my seat. Was a bringer of death in the form of an apple happy? Or was it a master predictor? If that episode somehow predicted 9.11, I have to watch episodes 10 and 11 to see if there was anything else predicted! I couldn't see any predictions, though, and, honestly, I hope not. Oh, and you want to know what happens when someone calls the tsunami helpline number? Tomorrow, I'll go and call it.
Hey, I called the 1-800 hotline mentioned in Episode 3 It was a pre-recording, which I'll transcribe for you.
"Hello, my name is Happy Appy! I am every child's most helpful and favorite Apple! If you want to make a donation, press 1 If you want to know about the earthquake, press 2."
When I pressed 2, the helpline, said this.
"An earthquake and tsunami has recently hit Japan, and we need all the help we can get! If you can make a donation of $1, $2, $5, $5, $10, $10, $20, $50, or $100, that will be a great help! Anyone who donates to create a Happy Appy plaque! "
So, I went ahead and donated a dollar to the donation for the pleasure of doing so by using an obsolete bank account that I have never used. He responded.
"Thank you for helping us with Tsunami relief! Look for it in your mailbox a week from now, because you'll get your Happy Appy badge!"
I wonder which earthquake he predicted happy. Between 1999 and today, there were no 9.0 earthquakes in Japan. Since the 2003 Hokkaido earthquake was pretty close when the episode was released, as well as the magnitude mentioned in the radio broadcast, I guess he was predicting about that.
Episode 10 was corrupt, to say the least. It was released, but had no audio, and the first part was so badly compressed that it was barely visible. The next part was just static for the rest of the video.
"Great, a missing episode," I thought.
Episode 11, called "Trick of the Happy," was actually let's see. The intro was just a strange, off beat carnival music, with his happy smile doing death to the camera. The episode began with him in his pickup truck, driving on a winding road. As the episode passed, scars began to appear on his body. Eventually, Manzana arrived at the playground, where many children were at play. He jumped up, looking as if he was ready to kidnap them all, and said, "Hey guys, who wants to see happy to do a magic trick?" Just like brainwashed zombies, the kids clapped their hands and ran to his truck. Happy closes the door and drives away from the playground.
After a few minutes, the van returned, and the side door opened, revealing a motionless, expressionless Manzanita covered in blood. I couldn't take it anymore. Happy was making me very queasy for some reason, so I skipped to the end of the episode. From what I saw, the rest of the episode you'll be watching TV and reading the news, with random zoom-ins on the newspaper. Why, though I guess they're predictions like Episode 9, but after that episode, I'm not going back to read them.
There was a brief scene where Appy started stabbing a kid, but it was quickly cut to happy watching a scene on his TV inside a spaceship catches fire Why the hell didn't the show keep showing scenes very reminiscent of future disasters? Once he had reached the end of the episode, Apple was holding a knife, covered in blood. The camera started scrolling down to a table, which had a hand with cut marks laying on it. What was probably the most unusual thing in this episode happened after this scene. After a few seconds of the credits play, it very suddenly cuts to a black screen with text that reads;
"If you receive this type of DVD, I have copied the show to them from any master tapes I could find I wanted to preserve this show so that the later episodes would not be lost forever Now you may be wondering one thing:.. how?
Nickelodeon aired all those episodes I don't know how, but they just did, that's what If you want to know more about the show, including its fate, see me.
-KC "
Fortunately, I had a good understanding that the most likely KC was; Kevin Seward Christianson, a friend of mine. I wouldn't be out of the question; when I met him, he mentioned something about working with Nickelodeon until the end of the millennium. Wanting to learn more about the fate of the series, I went to his house.
What happened when I got there was, to put it bluntly, odd.
When I got to his house and rang the doorbell, no one answered. The door was unlocked, so I decided to go into the house and see what was going on. I heard a middle-aged woman crying upstairs, so I stumbled into the living room and went upstairs to see what was going on. Kevin's wife was in their bedroom, crying into a framed portrait of them together. I asked her what had happened to Kevin, and she responded with a very strange answer;
"Last night, someone or something took him in his sleep. The police are trying to look for him, but I have come up with nothing, as usual! They have questioned me and searched our house for any kind of evidence, but there is none ... except for this piece of paper.
He reached into his pocket and pulled out a folded piece of paper. I unfolded it, and it revealed itself to be a low-quality photograph of the Happy Appy scar during the "Natural" scene. While I was at his house, I asked him how those episodes had gotten aired on Noggin.
"T-this man h-had drugged the producers! He was going to-"
She only managed to say that long before bursting into tears. All I could think about was that the whole 'that man' had kidnapped Kevin on 26th. After consoling her, I left the Christianson house and walked away. Once I started to get close to my house, I was startled by the sound of a gunshot nearby. I instantly ran to my house, fearing that whoever Kevin kidnapped and killed his wife was trying to chase me. Before closing the door, I took one last look at the bushes on the other side of the street. In one of them was a mutilated arm, with an unknown figure standing behind it.
Now I wanted to know if anyone has any recordings of a happy Appy episode. If you do, please email me with video of it. You might be wondering why I am asking this. Well, I found my disk in pieces on my desk, and no, I don't save the videos to my laptop. Interestingly, the way it broke was almost like a claw had cut the disk into three pieces. The paper with Happy Appy on it was nearby, with writing that said "No more tests now, huh?" I wonder who was angry enough to destroy my disk...