What Actually Happened To The Smiling Critters In Poppy Playtime Chapter 3? - Story Explained

The "Red" Crafty Corn is referring to is the listener's blood. Hence, why she claims to have found more red if you press the button after her scream.

Piggy Pig could have been a good villian to fight against. She literally ate all of her friends with no remorse.

The reason why crafty corn is saying to finish her painting it’s because she had hunger and Bubba was helping her get employees to eat but when they ran out she started going insane and asked Bubba are you hiding more red for me that means employees so she couldn’t take it so she killed Bubba and then she said much better

I like how people stop listening to the cutouts after the scream. You should always talk to someone until their dialogue repeats, because you might miss something. Craftycorns dialogue does continue after the static.

KickinChicken didn't say "It's looking bad outside", he said "It's looking rad outside". CraftyCorn didn't say "Out? We can't go out", she says "Out? We can't be out". Meaning they can't be out of red paint. Also if screaming is an indicator of them being dead, why wasn't DogDay dead then and only disfigured? I mean if someone can barely pay attention to simple dialogue I wouldn't expect them to come up with a really sound theory anyways.

A little fact: 'Rad' is slang for 'good'. Meaning KickinChicken wasn't saying that it was 'bad' outside but rather that its 'rad', or good, outside. Also, CraftyCorn wasn't referring to going outside but rather disbelief that they were out of 'red paint'.

Just before we discover the picky piggy cardboard cut out we can hear a little girl's laugh that sound really similar to her voice, I bet she was hiding within the playcare and saw the player approaching her cardboard cutout

Look, great theory and all but the fact that Dogday said "We tried to fight it" and "This is what he does to heretics" means a lot of things, one of them being that Catnap fed the little critters with each and one of the smiling critters, bit by little bit

picky piggy mentions grilled chicken, seared elephant, and flayed unicorn and how “delicious” they all are. She then says she’s still hungry and then asks an unknown individual if they can “be friends”, implying they were her next victim. So thats 5 dead including dogday and catnap so what happened to hoppy hopscotch, Bobby bearhug and Picky piggy?

Yea this all works.. but DogDay literally says that they fought back against the prototype(explaining why dogday has no legs) and lost horribly and saying that he’s the last alive.

Idk about Crafty. Remember back when Huggy was chasing you? The tunnel was covered in writing. Writing of paint. They were warnings. Idk. I think she's alive. Probably a little crazy, but alive

this is just all my thoughts and theories gang hope yall like them <3 DOGDAY: i believe he was telling hoppy and bobby to run away that "go go as fast as they can" because he knew of the danger coming he probably heard the slaughter going on outside in the plaza. then his next lines i think are to CatNap telling him " why are you... just standing there?" and then proceeds to tell CatNap "he can't be here he can't stay" because i believe all centers are assigned to critters (like how Mommy was assigned to the game center). Sooo with that CatNap lunges at DogDay Tearing him in half and locking his remains below where we find him. BOBBY & HOBBY: Running away from the chaos with Hoppy, also has had a little crush on hoppy i believe since even before they were turned into bigger body toys. then says she would be lost without hoppy and that She has been lost a long time (which i believe refers to the madness of being a turned to a toy and accepting that as your life). So as they're running away they come to a HUUUGE jump that looks almost impossible to get across but hoppy is "Unafraid to hop where others might sit" and is convincing bobby to jump together don't look down or at their feet to focus on "jumping to the moon" (i believe he says that to just give bobby a little spark of hope and inspiration that they can make the jump like how bobby says "love you to the moon and back"). BUT as they attempt to jump hoppy slips falling deep below into the caverns just outside the dome leaving bobby to fend for herself all alone once again. KICKEN: With one the orphans i think just before the hour of joy is going to happen. they're inside one of the centers they are assigned to (again i assume and critters can't step out into the plaza without special permission so they each are assigned to a place, like for example catnap in the home center where they sleep, crafty in the school, etc.) and just as they're deciding to step out the massacre begins to happen and he's killed by catnap CRAFTY: Not sure who's side she's on but i do know as @bait1021 said killed her listener. i feel like since the red smoke is a big influence on the critters already as we've seen in the official short cartoon maybe this was when she finally snapped off huffing that smoke for so long and the listener didn't want to "SHARE" their red i feel crafty got angry and by accident and killed them i don't think she's dead. BUBBA: The first death by catnap (killed before hour of joy took place maybe) because he knew the critters would be the first to resist him slaughtering the employees. that's why his voice lines are "hey i remember you" because he sees a dark slender figure walking towards him and realizes it's him and he hasn't seen catnap in awhile i believe. Also i believe the protype altered catnap's body to be all long and slender to prepare him for the hour of joy, which also explains why it took bubba a second to remember him but then follows up to say "an elephant always remembers." hearing that i feel catnap knew he had to get rid of him first and kills him before he can finish his next question. PIGGY: Survives the hour of joy not sure how and is being fed by possible survivor that found the bodies of other critters and both ate to survive but piggy killed them shortly after do to her hunger whereabouts I'm not sure. CATNAP: Use to look like the others critters (i feel like its true because there's one VHS tape we find where catnap is being interviewed and we can ONLY see his face, implying his arms and legs were of regular length like how we see DogDay) but then had his body altered by the protype to prepare him for the hour of joy with irregular elongated arms and legs. Thank you for coming to my Ted TAlk!:elbowcough:

while dogday cutouts screaming you can hear his legs rip, fall, and splat on the ground.

i wonder if the smiling critters episode was what the smiling critters went through during the hour of joy? they are all hiding under blankets, which is was the PSA or the alarm said to do when the hour of joy was going on, and outside it’s windy and sounds pretty rough(the screams and killing). when catnap found all of them, they probably panicked and asked him to put them to sleep. the gas is known to give the kids nightmares or drive them insane so maybe this causes them to do what they do when you hear their cardboard cutouts. when you see dog day at the end of the episode, his legs are covered and his arms are up, just like how he is when we find him. all the cardboards were probably recorded when the kids were running around during the hour of joy. the screams at the end were when they were getting killed or tried escaping. except the hug bear did she have a scream? maybe she was with dog day and he told her to escape but she didn’t want to leave him and maybe still alive with the kids? and craftycorn sounds like she went insane and started killing (since she’s asking for red maybe being blood?) sorry that was a lot, just my theory.

10:44 I like how every youtuber doesn't click the last craftycorn messiage saying she has found more red, showing a bit more that she might be one of the critters who killed someone for food. Also she says "We can't BE out" not Go out. Picky Piggy also says Grilled Chicken meaning she could have eaten Kickinchicken too.

I do like the idea that Bobby and Hoppy were together but here’s my idea At the beginning Bobby and Hoppy were together not really knowing what to do till eventually running into Dogday who told them to run and he would send the others out behind them (dogday really just tried to distract Catnap to give them a chance to escape unharmed). They listened and that’s why they tried to escape ending in Hoppy falling and Bobby being left alone…. She tried to go back to where she last saw Dogday but could only find blood so she went deeper carefully to try to find Hoppy but couldn’t even find her body (the protype probably got the body) leaving Bobby alone and lost deep in the building

I kind of wondered how those recordings work, like did they record their voices constantly and eventually some of the recordings got corrupted and all we get is screams

I cant be the only one who noticed all of the animals that picky piggy named were the cutouts that ended up screaming and then cutting off??

Compiling on the other points made by the other comments. Hoppy is instructing you to jump and not look at your feet. I very strongly doubt that Hoppy was talking to DogDay. IF these audio recording were made during the chaos of the Hour of Joy, I would assume we would have some kind of background noise. But also, if DogDay was legless at the time of Hoppy's recording. Hoppy would probably not be instructing someone with no legs to jump.....

I have a theory that Kickin Chickin’s voice sequence was used to deter the orphans from trying to escape. Who would want to go outside if it hurts a character they love?