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Chapter 3: Black Tape: Sunrise Curiosity bites you, and you choose the weird black tape. It’s mysterious, but the crayon flower on it calls to you. You put it in, and after the tape sets up, it starts with the tail end of another show that you’ve never seen before. The credits zip by quickly and then are gone, followed by the production company logos and then a cut to black. When the screen comes back, it’s an animated bumper for the Smiling Critters show, showing off scenes from other episodes; Bobby Bearhug giving a flower to Bubba Bubbaphant, Catnap napping in a tree and then falling out (catching himself at the last second), Craftycorn painting a portrait with a paint splattered beret atop her head, and finally a shot of all the critters laughing while on a picnic. The announcer says, “These critters know a smile a day keeps the frowns away! Smiling Critters, coming up next!” The bumper ends, and the normal introduction plays. This one has Dogday in the intro still, which

Chapter 2: Sunset Tape continued: My Only Sunshine When the screen comes back, it shows just outside the window the sun is rising over the hills. As it does, that soft flute music plays to elevate the mood of morning. Soon the sun began to peak over the hills, its rays turning the sky soft purple-pink and the edges of the trees in a soft yellow glow. The sun shone in through the window and upon the two sleeping critters. They hadn’t moved since the night before, with Dogday still resting in Catnap’s lap, and the purple feline embracing him lovingly from behind. Some light fell upon the sleeping feline’s eyes and he stirred, blinking an eye open. He looked to see the sun rising and gave a smile. Today looked like it would be a good day after all. He smiled and stroked one of Dogday’s floppy orange ears. “Okay, sunshine…. it’s morning,” he said softly. However, instead of a sleepy grunt or a snore, Dogday remained silent and asleep. Catnap smirked, it seemed he was sleeping a little

Chapter 1: Tapes It’s strange, really. But here you are. You’ve found yourself a mysterious box sent to your house. Inside are three VHS tapes, one black, one orange, and one purple. The orange one’s sticker is mostly ripped off, but most of it is there. It reads “Smiling Critters” with the rest of the label being torn off to where the episode title would be. You remember that show from long ago; it was another one of those cartoons based around the new toy to act as a semi-commercial for the toys themselves. These being from Playtime Co, you remember the toys and don’t have much of a fondness for them, as they looked nothing like the cartoon show. The show, despite being a clear creation of corporate greed, was a nice one. And you decide you’ve got nothing better to do. Why not indulge in a little nostalgia? You pull out the old VHS player, hook it to your TV and insert the orange tape. After a moment, the show starts with its classic theme song. “S-M-I-L-E, EVERY DAY! When you are