The badge finally arrived in the mail today. It came in a small box that had, oddly enough, a time stamp from 2000 that I could only guess that Nickelodeon still had a few more since the show was still popular. When I opened the box and emptied the contents, the badge was on display, with a letter attached to it. The badge was made of plastic, had a silver-bronze color, and showed Happy Appy with a smile. On the back, "Happy Appy Helper Badge" was printed in stereotypical Army font. The letter had the following written on it: To my friend,
You have helped to help the Japanese!
Of course, allow me to introduce myself.
Indisputably, you have heard of me in Noggin!
Can't you understand what I'm saying? Well, I'll give you the answer! Happy Appy Appy App!
Appy App, Appy App! Happy Appy Appy Appy App, it helps kids all day long!
Now, where do I start with this gift?
Today, I've given you a nice badge, from the old playground! How did I get these, you ask?
Running through the yard, I tripped over a stone. I fell, but I realized the terrain was uneven!
Undoubtedly, something was buried, so I dug up the ground and found a box full of these badges!
Now, it's time to be off! See Noggin at 8:30 AM CST to see my new adventures!
Here's to your love,
Happy Appy
I checked the back for nothing interesting. What I found instead were these 2 lines of gibberish.
MSCPBSPOWSDCAZUONGWSEDVJNY
MZPZQLQHNREFBGHSCWFONXBULOILLWEJOCZJKN
I don't even know what they are!
Today, I received an email from a man claiming to be a user on Wiki Leaks. He had heard about my research on the Happy Appy, so he tried to find all the documents related to the show. He found one, which told employees at Nickelodeon to never air certain TV shows or movies. After browsing through a massive description of Cry Baby Lane and other shows, I found this block of text in the middle of the document.
"One show, originally called 'Happy Appy,' was cancelled due to excessive violence and gore. The show depicted an impersonated apple named 'Happy Appy' who teaches children how to handle certain injuries and, in an episode called 'Happy Hurt,' teamwork. In its final and only eighth episode, only an hour had passed when Noggin began to remove all traces of the series. Children who had seen the show's final episode aired reportedly got symptoms of nausea and sleeplessness. A 2003 report said that the episode appeared to depict explicit images of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, even though the episode aired in 1999 "
I am getting much more dubious about this show.
First of all, yes, I already know that happy Appy could have predicted that recent earthquake and tsunami. So stop emailing me about it!
To put it short, I'm back. Since my job involves working as a detective in the police department, I had to take a break from this blog so I could get paid. During this period, there were a few essays involving the murder of Kevin Christianson. However, they came to an abrupt end when the arm they found went missing one day. I bet the shadow man stole the arm! Anyway, I was watching "Happy Appy" on YouTube today, when I came across a video that said "Kevin Christianson Interview - Audio Only", so I watched it. Here's a transcript.
Interviewer: Are you Kevin Christianson?
KC: Yes.
Interviewer: So you're the one that worked on Appy happy clay model?
KC: Yes.
Interviewer: How did you get the job for Happy Appy?
KC: I had just graduated from an art school in late 1998 I heard about Nickelodeon Studios, they were doing cartoons. So I sent in a resume, and a few weeks later, I got the job, and I was happy. Well, until the shit hit the fan.
Interviewer: What happened the day you made the happy Appy model?
KC: Okay, so basically, we had to design a cute-looking puppet for the show. We started with a rusty stick that was lying on the studio floor, made an apple out of clay, and stuck it in the stick. We added baby-blue eyes as well as pupils so that it would look cuter and less scary to the kids, huge green lips, and clay arms. Finally, we added a stem and a leaf. We thought it was perfect for the show.
Interviewer: Who voiced Happy Appy?
KC: I don't remember his name, but I do remember what it was. It was a show called Fright House Screamers, where four teenagers would spend the night in haunted locations.
Interviewer: What happened to Fright House Screamers?
KC: When they were filming the fourth episode, one of the teens was found dead at the location they were doing. Also, the show sucked ass.
Interviewer: Was it the voice of the happy teen that was killed?
KC: I'm pretty sure it wasn't.
Interviewer: Back to Happy Appy, why is there no surviving copy of Happy Appy?
KC: That's a good point. See, Nickelodeon owns the tapes somewhere, but we're not going to release them for a long, long time. There have been bootlegs, of course, but none showing episodes after episode 11, which is weird.
Interviewer: How many episodes of Happy Appy were there going to be?
KC: 2 full 26 episode seasons. They only showed 8 or 10 of the first season before Happy was cancelled. However, my friend Jim says there are actually two seasons, but he was really drunk when he said that. Also, I don't trust him at all.
Interviewer: Do you know any of the other crew members who worked on Appy Happy?
KC: I only know Jim.
Dear God! I've had some feverish Happy Appy nightmares since watching the last few episodes. The dreams range from Happy doing his death smile for hours, to him brutally murdering a child off camera. Not only that, but I've become paranoid of apples. If I see him in my house, I eat him as fast as I can or throw him in the trash. I've seen the mysterious figure more, whether he's sitting on the side of a hill, or standing near some trees. It never seems to leave me alone. However, I can at least describe its appearance.
First of all, he cannot be made of shadow because he has some kind of face with his mouth. However, his mouth is locked into an expression, which happens to be the death of happy smile. I'm going to sound weird for this, but I wonder if he is happy. No, he can't be! There is a subtle difference between this happy figure and Appy, a child-sized apple! Oh well. Here's more about the stalker's body. He looks like he's a little taller than me (for reference, I'm about 6'2") and looks close to average weight for his height.
If he keeps showing up, I'm going to have to go up to my house. I'm not sure what his problem is, but if he doesn't stop, I'm off to call the police the next time I see him.
Great, just fucking great! How the hell am I going to put this to bed? Right now, I'm in the library, which may very well be the only place in Aberdeen that has a free computer to use! It's been five full days since I last found the figure, and that son of a bitch has some kind of problem because he burned my house down! Oh yeah, he burned the whole thing out of commission for no reason at all! I managed to salvage a few things from my house, like my laptop and Happy Appy board and letter.
Still, I feel like I've cast some kind of shitty curse of watching those Happy Appy episodes, and the library is my only point of hope. Thanks to that figure, I'm not even going to look into this show anymore! After I destroy the ID card and the letter, I'm going to shut this blog down. Or, better yet, I should kill that son of a bitch for what he did! I don't give a damn if I break the law and send him to jail! Whoever the cipher is has to pay for what he has done to me!
However, I am not sure if the figure burned my house. I didn't see his figure near my house, so it could have just been a chimney or electrical fire. So, you know what? Forget what I said about shutting down the blog and killing the figure! I'm going to treat the fire like it's natural and keep investigating the show. Don't expect me to act too well in the next few months, though.
Fin I have a place to live! To be more precise, I bought a mobile home at the nearby trailer park a few days ago. Since I'm not the richest guy in my neighborhood, this is definitely going to do for now until I come up with enough money to buy a house of my own.
The Happy Appy, however, one of my friends, Jim Forester, actually remembered Happy Appy, and most likely mentioned it in Kevin's interview. He said there were more episodes that I didn't have on the DVD. It turns out that the most violent episodes were actually at the end of the season. The entire first season was supposed to have 25 episodes, plus a TV movie. No one mentioned it because Jim and Nickelodeon had the only known high quality tapes until I found the DVD. It's also worth mentioning that the series slowly got more violent as the series progressed. Jim sent me a disc with clips of Happy Appy episodes. These are the contents of the disc.
The first clip begins with a close-up of a school bell ringing. It cuts to Happy Appy standing next to a boy sitting at a desk. The boy is trying to answer a math problem, but gives up and says, "I don't know how to do my homework!" Soon, the teacher says "Classes dismissed" And leaves. The boy is embarrassed that he didn't know how to do his homework, but happily says "That's okay! I'll sing you the math song and I'll understand you! " After the boy is out of breath, happy sings a song about math. It was distorted in audio and video, but luckily I could make out the lyrics.
I'll show you how to do your homework!
7 plus 4 is 11, and 9 minus 2 is 7,
Math is not homework, because 15 minus 11 equals 4!
6 plus 2 is eight, and you're doing it right,
Now, here's the last 3! You are in a lot of money!
66 minus 39 is 27, and 16 is 11 -5 most recent,
Two minus one, and now your homework is done!
After that, the kid says "Wow! Thank you, Happy Appy!" I find it strange that the kids were doing math that was more appropriate for older elementary students.
The next clip was one of the violent episodes. Even though the clips looked like they were separate and from different episodes, they actually seemed to be in order. It began with three children saying that their families were gone. They proceeded to cry so hard it was almost painful to watch. Happy Appy and two other children come into the shot and tried to calm them down. Eventually, they manage to calm the three kids down, and all five of them leave. However, Happy had this strange, perverse, and greedy expression. He tells the children to go with him, and they follow him into an abandoned office building. Two minutes later, he leaves the building, dragging several bags of money with him. The children were screaming for help again.
It didn't end there. There was a snippet of a somewhat violent episode. Feliz was putting a bandage on a child's arm. Oddly enough, he was wearing a long coat in this episode, and in the corner of his pocket, a needle with green liquids is visible. Feliz gave the boy a shot with the needle, which hit the boy. He dragged the boy to his truck, and a chainsaw was heard. The DVD stopped after that.
Oh, you want to know more about that encounter with the figure? First of all, it turns out he was in the library, so he got me out of there. However, about Kleiner, however, what I thought was Harold was actually someone else who looked like him. Secondly, I gave him a nickname. It's Forenzik, which is better he calls it "the figure".