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The puppets are a hivemind.
  • And their "mother brain" are the giant versions of themselves, as shown in one of the out of bounds easter eggs.
  • Jossed, the puppets were simply insane from isolation and seeing disturbing reality on TV with the worse off ones having to be quarantined in “Unfriendly Neighborhood” with Ricky being the only one with semblance of sanity.

Ricky caused the other puppets to go wild.
  • Out of all the known puppets, Ricky is the only one capable of holding a conversation with Gordon. He also wants the handyman to stay away from the roof. Possibly because he wants to prevent anyone from undoing his work.
  • Jossed. Ricky simply hadn't gone as crazy as the others. He does want Gordon to stay away from the roof but not for any malicious reasons. According to Ricky, the city has gone so dark and unfriendly that he thought they needed the old show for a little light.

Gordon fought in the war.
  • When Ricky bring up topic from the war, he tried to brush it off and tried to shoot him back in frustration. This along with his emotional issues (PTSD?), him being at least 18 years old during the war based on his presumably old age in present time (1993, two decades after the war), and knowledge of weapon use implied that he may have fought in the war.
    • At the start of the game, if you look around the inside of the truck, you can see a purple heart dangling from the rearview mirror.

The entire game is just a weird dream Gordon had when he fell asleep watching late night TV.
  • Seems like the most rational explanation for this game's events.

Everything that happened at the studio is the result of some weird psychic child's stream of consciousness
  • A child with powerful psychic abilities missed the show so much they partially brought it into reality.
    • Why are you so desperate for the game to not exist because of reasons that make no sense in the setting

If Arlo reviews the game
It will include a cameo of Ricky.

All the puppets have the ability to duplicate themselves.
Just like the Norman encountered in the sewers, all the puppets could create copies of themselves, which is why so many of them are strewn across the studio; the puppets having duplicated themselves in an attempt to cure their loneliness. The reason we only see the one Norman do it onscreen is because, in their troubled mental states, the other puppets have forgotten they could do that.

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