so plippy and plonky are johnny’s shoulder angel/devil pair and like how those generally tend to work in cartoons, nobody except for johnny himself and the audience can see/hear them. where it goes a step deeper though is that both of them are completely incomprehensible to the audience and only johnny himself seems to be able to perceive them as actually saying anything coherent. plippy is completely mute (he just flaps his arms up and down) and plonky just shouts out random phrases like he’s the announcer in an arcade game or something. “NICE!” “FREESTYLE!” “SHUFFLE!” “YOU ROCK!” “OH, BABY!” “OUCH!” the way johnny responds to both of them makes it sound like they’re providing him with super profound insight though. it’s like lassie speak i guess
