TOON THEORY: Team LHHAFBBHQ was turned into the Supervisors
Insane ramblings under the cut.
As I was wistfully recalling my time at Toonfest at Momocon 2023 and the cherished memories I made there, I wondered to myself;
“Huh. We haven’t heard about the Executive Office Tower in a hot minute, I kinda expected it to come up during one of the panels. Ah well, it's nice to see the Cog Facilities revamped, and those new Supervisor Cogs are really cool-”
That’s when the first of many thoughts struck my optimism-addled brain.
“Huh. Team LHAAFBBHQ was made up of two guys and two girls. The new Supervisors are made up of two guys… and two girls.”
I, like many of you, rolled my eyes at this thought at first. Two guys and two girls in a team of four is just balanced character design. But that inconsequential little detail opened the floodgates to more tiny details that quickly added up in a big-and uncomfortable- way.
Who’s Who?
I found the character summaries for Team LHAAFBBHQ and the new Supervisors, and started comparing. Some details fit together more cleanly than others, and there weren't any massive smoking guns, but there were frequent enough small details that led me to believe that what I was seeing was more than coincidence.
I collected my resources and made highlights that I thought were of interest, with some notes to explain my thought process. Maybe you can see something that I couldn’t.
Captain Rollie Dandysnooker - The Factory Foreman
Similar carelessness. Rollie has a history of getting the rest of the team into slapstick scenarios, which is hinted to be reflected in the Foreman’s behavior
Unfortunately (or fortunately), there don’t appear to be any other parallels at this time, or at least none I could see.
Prof. Von Fumblesplat - The Mint Auditor
Both Auditor and Fumblesplat are described as intelligent and analytical
Both summaries make a point that they plan ahead for multiple possibilities
Silly Lilly Gigglesnout - The Office Clerk
Lilly is known to be quiet; possible connection to Clerk’s abhorrence to Sound?
Lilly is the intelligence gatherer of the team, and The Clerk’s control of her witnesses gives her control of the information in the court
Lilly is described to be knowledgeable of everything and everyone in Toontown. Where better to store that knowledge than the library?
The Office Clerk’s face is very long, almost stretched out, kind of like a horse Toon’s (“Why the long face?”)
Colonel Violet Supergrooven - The Club President
Violet is the strongest in combat in the team. As the Bossbot Supervisor, The Club President is the strongest of her peers.
How could this have happened?
The back of the President’s hair strongly resembles the “hair” of a cat Toon. This detail is in almost all of her progress sketches.
Edit: a detail noticed by @surleetonin:
As anyone who has been keeping track of Team LHAAFBBHQ’s last known whereabouts knows, it’s all but confirmed that the team is (or was) being held prisoner in the Executive Office Tower on Bossbot HQ property.
The first hint we got to the Supervisor’s existence we got was an Email from The Chairman himself, in a memo to the entire company. However, when it came to the debut, who made the big announcement?
So… What now?
The CEO. Why is HE the one who “hired” the Supervisors, when the idea was The Chairman’s?
To link the Supervisors to the Bossbots, and maybe, just maybe, Team LHAAFBBHQ, who were taken by the very Bossbots they had set out to find.
Maybe I’m wrong. Heck, It’s very likely I’m wrong. Mayeb the Supervisors were hires from outside the company, robbing a poor Flunky of his hard-earned promotion. Maybe Team LHAAFBBHQ got distracted playing the world’s longest game of Toono. Or Maybe Joey and the gang just forgot about the Executive Office Tower entirely.
…But I don’t think they did. The Rewritten team forgetting, I mean, the other two things are very likely to happen.
Just after Team LHAAFBBHQ went missing and BBHQ was hunted around and found, Sir Max, AKA Joey, teased the possibility of a new playground. At an earlier Toonfest, the team announced they were going to redo all the textures in the game. Both promises remained dormant and unfulfilled… until this year’s Toonfest, which confirmed both.
In Conclusion:
I have full faith that the dedicated team behind Rewritten hasn’t forgotten the Tower, or Team LHAAFBBHQ. And I know that they’re going to come back, in some way, shape, or form.
I am mentally ill :)
Hey! Guess what's making the rounds again!
