Funtime Freddy: When Freddy became a Star

Today we're taking a look at Freddy's sinister, loudmouthed, and much more popular cousin, Funtime Freddy. Where did he come from and where did he go? You might be surprised to hear that he hasn't gone too far.

0:00 The Handsome One
1:33 F. Freddy's personality (and voice)
2:17 Fun with Funtime Freddy
2:58 Compares to his Bandmates
3:30 Freddy's Sinister Secret (his blueprints)
4:23 What makes F. Freddy Scary (and popular)
4:58 The Trouble with Molten Freddy
6:19 Funtime Freddy in Fnaf AR
6:43 Funtime Freddy in Help Wanted
7:19 The Fourth Closet
7:40 Count the Ways
8:42 Addressing the Blob
9:14 Did Funtime Freddy deserve better?
11:03 Or, y'know...

[elizabeth]

Kellen’s talent as a VA is astronomical. the way he can take these otherwise visually non-threatening characters and turn them into the most unnerving and sadistic sounding character possible is fucking insane. he’s such a talented dude, i can’t imagine Sun, Moon, and F. Freddy with any other voice. he nails the shrill, metallic, unnatural tones of an animatronic perfectly

[quememirai]

It's weird how the most popular Freddy variants are the one that are voiced by Kellen Goff

[rwqfsfasxc]

I still can't believe Scott decided to add JJ instead of Funtime Freddy in UCN lmao.

[projesusantisatan]

I can confirm his voice is just hit all the right notes. And this is probably why my only favorite security breach characters are sun and moon

[SHDW-nfki]

Normal Freddy: Lowkey chill. Talks with a soft drawling voice.

Funtime Freddy: BY THE NINE I'M TWEAKING!

[Adam-nxcx]

All in all a good run, though this still feels like another example of wasted potential for Ennard. Imagine the malice of Funtime Freddy being fully explored as part of this hive mind’s psyche - a devil on their shoulder enticing them to hurt others like they have been hurt, or perhaps as a tyrannical entity forcing the others to do his bidding after Baby was exiled. Or, heck, maybe he’s exiled instead and becomes his own kind of monster.

I’ll say this: Fnaf as a franchise is a great idea generator!

[pizzaisneat]

Imagine if they kept his German voice. That would be funny

[whiterhabbit]

He "Bawn Bawn'd" his way right into our hearts.

[TheIron_Stomach]

Kellen Goff just nails the character. Funtime Freddy is probably my second favorite character he has voiced, just under Fiddlesticks from LoL.

[DerpaTure]

I'd definitely say Freddy was the star in FNAF 1. He's the only one that takes a while before becoming active in the game, and when he does, he's by the far the most ominous character. He's not really seen on camera, only his glowing eyes being visible in the dark. And when he reaches your office, your attention will be on that for the whole night. 4/20 is pretty much just dealing with him. Plus the power outage sequences with him are easily the most iconic part of the game, and for a good reason.

[Prominexus]

Funtime Freddy feels like Freddy going on a Joker arc.

[sleepybearcubxx]

Probably the _freakiest_ thing about him to me, is the fact that in Night 3 when we have to work on him, HandUnit mentions having to pay for physical therapy, which sort of implies that Funtime Freddy might have even put someone in the hospital at least once

[j.a.m.m]

5:23 I've said it before, I'll say it again, I still really love Molten Freddy, at the very least design-wise.

Also, another thing you kinda didn't mention in Funtime Freddy's appeal is the whole Bon-Bon part. I mean, a 2-character dynamic in a single chatacter is always very appealing, with the whole "2 personalities" thing. It also is one of the main things FF has in common with Sun&Moon (which also made those two pretty popular in my opinion)
I mean, I know it's a bit of a stretch, bu do you remember that fan-song made by CK9C about Funtime Freddy, "You Can't Hide"? That most popular part is that conversation bit for a reason.


Still, great vid as always!

[LocalAceAJ]

I think the “Count The Ways” setup fits to how Funtime Freddy seemingly acts. His voice gives me the idea that he’s a very hyper character when he would be around kids to match their hyperactivity.
So maybe the way it switches between the MC’s teenage angst story and their conversations inside him, it’s almost like constant shifting of attention. His attention constantly hopping between different things, never solely focusing on one thing, though loosely tying into each other in one way or another (if I remember right, haven’t read it in a while).

[SpringTimeFun]

Everyone say "Thank you Kellen" for giving us the BEST voiced characters

[someone]

I love Funtime Freddy.
He seems like someone who has character and inexhaustible charisma.
Maybe it's thanks to Kallen Goof's voice acting, or it's just that Freddy was lucky that for the first time in many years he really became a small star of the game named after him, even if he was not the plot "driver", I don't care.
He is the ONE that this game needed for a long time, as the main mascot. And I would be happy to see Funtime Freddy in his best role in books or other games ✨😌✨

[marblemojitomarblejack]

I remember when Toy Freddy became the least favourite character according to fan survey, beaten by Balloon Boy. Not because he was actively disliked, but simply because nobody cared.
To this day I think being beaten by BB is an insult.

[cherricandy]

FF is absolutely my favorite FNAF animatronic, like a cheesy serial killer he brings such a fun and unique charm to the table, almost like a witty villain from a comic book. But at the same time, FF manages to be genuinely terrifying and gives off such a *malicious* aura that no other animatronic matches, at least in how they speak to you. Funtime Freddy wants to go absolutely ballistic on someone, and he makes that no secret; the opposite of how Baby pretends and tries to be harmless to fit in. And I think that’s honestly super cool; hes such a neat Freddy he deserves all he got!

[pilloeglade]

Ive always seen og freddy as...i dont know. A murder dad. Like the leader of a mafia. So yeah, its why he waits to act.

[ultmateragnarok]

Funtime Freddy is so great. The slight stutters in his voice add a lot to it, too - it makes him feel more unstable, like he's deteriorating beneath that shiny shell of solid steel armor, somewhere in that complex cable endoskeleton. Like no matter how many times they put his body back together, his mind, AI, whatever's running this thing will never be wholly there. It's equally possible that his immense enthusiasm strains his voice box, causing the skips as it gets overused - throughout the game he's more likely to speak than anyone else in the facility, after all.
Another thing is that he's, like you mentioned, the everyman of the group. This massive animatronic, who feels a lot bigger than Baby (although Baby is proportioned like her namesake, perhaps adding to that - and the trailers and the like also place her on a lower stage than the others), has everything needed to lure and snatch away kids. One detail most people ignore, since Bon-Bon is normally portrayed as a separate animatronic, is that Bon-Bon being designed like a hand puppet prop means he'll be looking _at_ Freddy a lot of the time, which is why he has a '360 degree tracking' label on his blueprint. Bon-Bon allows him to see all around him without turning his head unnaturally, giving him the ability to covertly monitor the room. Bon-Bon only ever moves when Freddy doesn't, too - so it's hard to say if they're separate. Sure, he goes off on his own when Freddy's seemingly offline in Parts And Service... but Freddy is offline there. He could easily be focusing on maneuvering Bon-Bon, either as a spirit trapped in these machines bent on malicious activity after years of torture, or as a machine who knows no other purpose other than entertaining as a ploy to get close enough to the children to enact his true intent. Bonnet is another outlier, but it's hard to say if she's really meant to work alongside Freddy at all. Her colors match Funtime Foxy better, arguably, and she seems to be her own thing anyways. Never alongside Freddy, other than loosely when _everyone_ is gunning for the Private Room in Custom Night, or I guess if you count her easter egg appearing in place of Bon-Bon - which easily could be her simply enjoying the game Bon-Bon was already playing.
Also, Freddy's design makes him look just... so creepy. He can be the funny, clown-like bear who tells jokes and gets the kids laughing, but he also has that lidless stare in the cameras from the Private Room, and a generally off-putting appearance with a gaping mouth and a permanent smile whether it's open or closed. The bright colors are a lot more off-putting in that environment, too - while the original Freddy may have masked himself in darkness, this one has no qualms about being spotted making his way closer.. or getting ready for his big surprise, or however you may put it. His use in Help Wanted's 'Night Terrors' segment is perfect for this, both in the voice lines and his appearance and actions. For what you said on it... we all know Security Breach was rushed. But Help Wanted seemingly was too, even if not to the same degree. Some of the models show it (Springtrap and Ennard, mainly, but some others _including_ Funtime Freddy's, which has some weird shading and bad polygons), and the fact that certain characters were cut entirely from gameplay (the Bidibabs and Minireenas were planned and have some easter eggs but nothing else, and the gameplay style is linearly expandable endlessly so who _knows_ how many extra games were cut. I'd absolutely love to see HW get expanded with some extra updates once SB is done, but I doubt it will happen. Anyways, I suspect they just didn't have time to test and develop a new gameplay loop for him, but given the whole thing where those rooms are already in Circus Baby's E&R to begin with, it makes sense - only the Funtimes and Nightmares ever appear there, after all. Had there been a Private Room section of games, it likely would've also included the Nightmares making their way into there to some degree. Or at least I'd hope it would.

I, ah, wasn't going to mention The Fourth Closet's take on the character, but you did so I'll have a go at him. Firstly, while he's on the cover of the book, that wasn't exactly Funtime Freddy - it was a character known as 'Blacktime Freddy', who I think you've caught some of my thoughts on the naming scheme of at times elsewhere. His face appeared in place of Ennard's mask (only the front of the plates forward, similarly to Ennard's mask) in SL as another easter egg, but he was neglected in the Custom Night unlike other recolors like, uhh.. Minireenas 2. In any case, he doesn't have a hand puppet nor anything much about him, and I'd say he retains a _little_ of his charm - the mirror maze is sort of a fun concept in the novel, although the graphic adaptations do fuck all for any of the characters so.. y'know. Not the best additions in _those._ He also gets one of the most brutal and effective animatronic deaths in the franchise, I must say. Particularly since I think he actually had to experience all of it. Sure, not as much pain as the kids went through (or I guess maybe some of the Glamrocks, now), but still.
On the flipside, Funtime Freddy in Fazbear Frights's 'Count The Ways' is great! Love that guy. Wouldn't want to get near him, but he's a great guy! Good character design, with elaboration on what made him a bit more special (although it never does mention if he's missing that hand or not, which I'd figure it should had he been but we don't really get a good description of him from the outside to begin with). He's loud, over the top in a sort of clown-like way, and quite malicious and morally dark given everything. It's a good story, not much else to say about it, other than that he's seemingly put on the pounds if he can hold a young adult.