MATTHEW PATTHEW, how have you forgotten the word ANAGRAM??? "Word Unscrambler"? this is what happens when you retire.

"I wonder if this makes more sense in context" words of a wise man

Frank’s bio has been updated in the present tense! Wally used to be the only one who’s bio was the present tense.

The character W. is intriguing but I think we have the necesary clues to solve who he is: 1. We know his name is W and whose name is also W? Wally 2. If we take the second letter on Wally’s name we get the A 3. W. A. We know of a character who also likes to watch people through cameras By putting together all the clues I think we can surely say, W. is W. A. Or in other words William Afton

Matpat solving the scrambled words is insane and amazing

35:00 I love how Matt's insistence on using technology failed him so miserably.. and then he figured it out for himself 😆

Poor Wally, everyone dissing his singing when he says he's practicing 😂😂

Makes sense for Home to be coming after Eddie, as the post office guy, he connects everyone to the world outside of Home.

I would have NEVER figured out the "away from prying eyes" thing.

The face on the decoder is the face on the clock. That means that the prying eyes could be the watchtower, making sure that bugs and glitches dont appear, while keeping the people under surveilance. House warming is quiet and lonely because thats what was happening in the red scene. Eddie was experiencing homewarming. I guess he housewarmed home into his mind?

I love how even the transcript even calls out Wally's poor singing. Love the character, but it's so funny to me. But to add onto the singing part, did anyone else notice how at first while Wally was almost struggling to get words out before he started to talk in proper sentences? I believe the voice with the pausing in his words is when someone else is talking, but without the pauses in his voice it is really Wally.

Matpat. You gotta watch the whole video they give you. It gives context the single pea on a plate and it shows parts of Eddie's day leading up to the ending you saw as well as more lore.

The song Toyland is from the Disney movie Babes in Toyland. Its an old Christmas movie. And odly enough, the bad guy is named Barnaby.

31:41 Matpat's mistake was looking up "word unscrambler" instead of "Anagram finder"

The way Wally sang the song in the phone call made me think of the first song sung by a computer “Daisy Daisy”. I thought I’d put it out there, it may not be of use, but it sounded similar in the way it was sung.

42:30 When Wally starts singing the song goes as it is shown in the transcript however, however instead of saying "When you've grown up, my dears and are as old as I" as shown in the transcript he instead says "When you set off, my dears and come in just as I" I just thought that that was interesting and worth pointing out.

Watching Ash and Mat manually unscramble that url was incredibly thrilling. Probably the most impressive thing ever done on GTLive. 💚

I know it's just the name of the arg, but coming back to yt after a really tough day alone in a new place and being "welcomed home" by a familiar face was really needed, thanks Mat.

I love how the rack with Matpats jacket is still in the background

18:11 love seeing Ash be straightforward and point out the parallels between Home and the tower thing. Sometimes Mat can get too lost in the weeds, so this was very appreciated.

Wait the idea of a watch tower, and Banarby having the same colors of the tower. Clown is a natural artists so I def believe they use character design/colors intelligently to tell story beats. What if Barnaby is representative of a “guard” dog? And Eddie being a mailman in this context has some interesting implications Edit: people are pointing out it’s a clock tower and while it could be that, the point MatPat is bringing up is how it’s relating back to IMAGERY of a watchtower as well. It doesn’t have to literally be a watchtower for the subtext’s symbolism to still be there.

After scouring the Welcome Home website more, I found a lot more apple symbolism (mostly on the merchandise page). All I can think about is the apple from the video in the Halloween update and how it started moving on the plate before a bite was taken out of it. This may also be important to think about considering it is rumored that Wally eats with his eyes. Edit: Another thing that people don’t really seem to notice about Wally’s eyes is that when he is calm or his normal self, his eyes are tilted downward, whereas whenever we get a Wally jumpscare, his eyes are pointed upward. Not really sure if it means anything though.

18:45 i NEED merch that features the iconic "ReMnaNt?!" one of my favorite ongoing gags

I think it's important to remember that Clown said a couple years ago that Welcome Home will have themes of ableism and homophobia. Assuming that Clown is still going to focus on those themes, the update and website refresh seems to be directly playing into them. Getting rid of the glitches and bugs to make the website "normal", or at least trying to make it appear "normal". Plus, that "I still like Homewarming. Everyone likes Homewarming." hits way too close to home for me, having to keep masked every Christmas and not show everyone how horrifically stressed and overstimulated it makes me every year. Then the few times I've tried to let it show, I've always just gotten the response "Come on, everybody loves Christmas."

Frank and Eddie, husbands of all time 😭 Terrified for that "Homophobia" warning to come into play where external posts from Clown have confirmed Frank and Eddie as a couple but the website keeps trying to push Julie and Frank into more of a partnership

33:39 i think the multiword scrambler relies on the proper spacing/character counts and just unscrambles each word individually

I’m wondering if ‘w’ is the version of Wally that isn’t being controlled by Home, like the other message from W a L L y in the guest book.

40:07 “March of 2014” I think you went back a decade.

I really think Welcome Home is one of the best ongoing ARGs.

Right next to the sign for Howdy's Place you see a sign that says "Welcome Pillar Family" I think. Why does Howdy Pillar have a sign welcoming his family to town? The sign is new and is made of a similar material as the "Happy Homewarming" sign on the other side.

The "A dress" thing took me way too long to realize what it meant bc I pronounce "address" with an a such as in apple.

I wonder if Homewarming could be something like Home hibernating? And because of Wally's link to it, maybe that's why he seems particularly sleepy in the audio. Maybe it's even making him slightly snap out of its control

Warning: new bendy game is confirmed, the name is Bendy: the secrets of the machine, launch in 14 april and is a free game

34:51 Not me fully yelling "IT'S AWAY FROM" at the computer and my husband asking if I was okay 😅

Ash makes these videos even more of a delight. They are the colorful sprinkles on top of an amazing cake!

after mat said there was expected to be 100,000 people at PAX(?), is that how it's spelt? i was expecting ash to say "Holly cow, that place was PAX'd"

Wasn't the tower confirmed to be a clocktower? I think there was something like this. Something else interests me though. Why would a clocktower be on the outskirts of a town? Unless, this is not the outskirts... but the actual centre of the town. Everything is obscured by trees, yes, but in the Halloween update Sally mentioned something that either drove out or ate other neighbours (there used to be "more people living in the Neighbourhood" after all). Something is consuming the town and at this point, the only part that's left is the part around Home. Maybe we have Home read all wrong, maybe they are trying to keep whatever infected this world at bay. Wally seems desperate to connect with us. If we treat recordings, stuff from the merchandise and commercials as the Neighbourhood's "past"... maybe at this point, he's the only one left, protected from oblivion by Home, but terribly alone with only the memories of his friends to keep him company.

From how excited they got . . . . They were working on that word unscramble for a long time

This is a great example of humans being better at pattern recognition than machines. We don't understand how we do it properly yet, so we can't model it properly in machines yet either.

He better make another follow up video, he just spent most of his time looking over stuff he already did and glossed over the the secret video. I want him see everything so bad.

I was so distracted by the magnificence of MatPat's sweater that I didn't hear a thing he said in the first two minutes of the video. Man had no business starting the episode looking so fly 😂

BRO HIS RED JACKET IS STILL ON THE PEG IN THE BACKGROUND 😭😭😭

If Wally probably wasn’t a malicious entity he’d be like a Mr. Rogers who micro doses lol

39:48, ah yes, 2014, the good ol days

Don’t know if it’s important but frank is the only character besides home to have an e sound at the end of their first name(sally ,Wally ,poppy Eddie ect) and his name is basically being repeated twice . Like he couldn’t make up a name for himself? Thought it was interesting having all the characters sound similar with the ending sound besides home and frank ….

50:52 - not the burning of the Sun, but the single pea on the plate again

Here is what I think. "WAVE HIGH" May be the Face Tower that is new, that we need to wave to?? Also during the phone audio. What was up with the double BEEP noise before he said Goodbye?

I might have theory or two here. I don’t know how much of this is stuff people already figured out, but this is too much to keep to myself. Sorry this will be long but if you read it all, feel free to add more or correct any of my mistakes. This is mainly based on the theory from one of the last times MatPat analyzed Welcome Home on Film Theory. He suggested that Home is the evil one that has trapped Wally and everyone else inside the world of Welcome Home, forming this strange cult. Perhaps it’s an entity (ghost? Demon? Something else?) stuck possessing a literal house, causing it to react, and animate, etc (hilariously, just like the movie Monster House). Maybe Home, or the entity trapped within, is using Wally and the neighbors as vessels so that it can see and hear what everyone else is doing. Take into consideration that Home is a pretty stationary being. Houses and other buildings don’t just up and move around, so maybe Home is feeling a little left out. Or maybe it’s a very controlling entity that doesn’t appreciate being ignored or left alone. Home doesn’t actually speak but only makes various noises like squeaks and bangs. So perhaps in the phone call from Wally where he repeatedly says that it’s “so quiet during Homewarming because everyone is busy”, it isn’t ACTUALLY Wally speaking. Maybe it’s Home using him as a vessel to talk to someone “on the other side”. I thought of this after reading a comment here from @-jessiegraie- They suggested that when Wally takes long and awkward pauses between words in the phone call (around 43:22), it sounds like he’s struggling to get his words out and that it might even be someone else speaking. Especially considering how different that part of the call sounds compared to the very end. It reminds me a little bit of a book I read recently. TLDR, an entity that usually can’t talk possesses a human and uses them to speak. The entity uses very broken and/or simplified words, while speaking very slowly and hesitantly. Similar to how Wally talks in the phone call and has talked before on occasion. It’s hard to catch I think because his voice is always so slow and monotone, but the difference is definitely a little clearer now. I’m thinking Home is desperate to connect with someone in “our world” based on how ‘Wally’ says he “doesn’t want to end the call” or in some past recordings when he says “i know you’re there”. He’s talking to the listeners as if he’s aware of their presence, but is angry that they won’t answer. I think that has something to do with the fact that the TV program Welcome Home is lost (or well hidden). Perhaps back in the day while Welcome Home was airing on television, Home felt loved and appreciated through the engagement and interaction from characters on the show and real life audiences. But now that the show is gone and shrouded in mystery, Home is desperate for a scrap of connection with someone. I have a feeling Home’s intentions aren’t exactly good either. Perhaps it’s seeking a new vessel, or puppet, to control. Building on this are the clips we get where we see the world through Wally’s (and now Eddie’s) eyes. It’s already been mentioned a number of times before by MatPat and others that this could be Home using them as “surveillance” sort of; seeing the world through their eyes because Home can’t do it itself. The clip where Eddie is seemingly being “possessed” by Home made me think of that image of Wally that was hidden behind Home on the neighborhood page of the original website. The image where Wally is kneeling in front of it looking rather spooky and cult-like. Perhaps that image was a glimpse at Wally’s original “possession” where Home first began to use him as a vessel (or puppet, of course) to see, hear, speak, and interact with everyone else. Now we’re seeing it again with Eddie, but this time it’s a video rather than an image.

I feel like mat missed a detail of a easter egg, March 9th? doesnt that sound like the day we dreaded, The day mat would have retired. The mistake post was on the exact day we dreaded

HE DID IT! I’ve been waiting for this episode for A WHILE NOW, nice to see Mat react to it!

WALLY WAS PRECIOUS SINGING THE SONG

DID THEY TAKE EDDIE TO PUNISH FRANK BC I'LL CRY

There’s a channel called Doctor Nowhere, I really think you should react to him because his analog horror videos (especially the Boiled One Phenomenon), are unnerving and tense.

Eddie has been connected to purple (his color of the toy phone, letters in the character bio, ect.) And there was a recording from the last big update (i dont remeber which) in which the recording warped every time purple was mentioned. Idk maybe that's a stretch just smth i noticed

If I know anything about the Watchtower that the subtitles are implying, it might also be a place of creating propaganda (which would be on brand if this ARG is about a Wally/Home cult)

Nah bc I was genuinely surprised yall got that URL 😭

I think the tower is meant to be a clock tower with "clock faces", just taken to a more literal level. Could be a surveillance thing, but I think the main design is just supposed to present as a clock tower

I've been thinking about Welcome Home all week, and I'm so excited Mat's finally gotten back to it.

17:30 I haven't heard of that thing in a long dang time

the adrenaline that you get whenever they discover something in real time >>>>

YAY! Jekyll and Hyde: The Gothic Musical Thriller reference!

I tried finding lore myself once and failed by getting distracted a lot so ima leave it to matpat to find the lore

18:29 "It does feel like some sort of surveillance tower" Panopticon theory (it is "a circular prison with cells arranged around a central well, from which prisoners could at all times be observed")?

36:55 I would like it to be known that as soon as I heard "this is the moment" I started singing the song. please stop reading my mind.

I noticed that “a single pea” is seemingly very important, and I thought long and hard about it, and realized, “That seems like something you would eat in the Great Depression” because food was scarce back then. However the first known release of the first episode was about 20 years after that, so I’m not sure if this means anything, but use it as you will.

42:20 He tried to sing and He failed, but He tried 🥺😂

When he announced his retirement, this was the first series i was so sad about potentially losing content on but i'm so glad mahpah is still here to theorize on it!

35:50 I just love when he becomes so excited 😭

Matt you can never leave this channel😢 I’d miss you too much

This is great. We miss you matpat but you still enlighten our hearts.

It took me forever to decipher this one and I now feel like an idiot. Thanks Wally for sharing your story because now I want Frank to come back and give me something to decipher. I decode things like this and I struggled.

An odd thought just came to me at the end... Are we "Home"? Meaning, are we the character? When they say welcome Home, should it be "welcome, Home"? Or I think I remember in previous streams it says "you are Home". Also, whenever "Home" takes over Wally, we see through Wally's eyes and it stops as soon as he's roused. Could we be Home figuring out all the secrets the others are trying to hide? Every time there is an update, it seems to be because home figured out what was going on. I don't know, just a thought.

I watched the last part and where I was concerned about Eddie’s mental health, Mat was thinking about his eyes.

I'm so glad I got my visual snow syndrom diagnosis figured out before i watches this. I can't imagine if this is how I figured it out- Matpat says the sides of the screen have a fuzzy, tv screen whitenoise look. I realise matpat does too. I realize my hand does, too. Something is very wrong.... At least now i know it's just my brain behaving badly.

Everyone with the “Jekyll and Hyde” references 😮. It’s my favorite musical!

It's nice being able to see MatPat is still on GTLive!

it took me a second for the address joke but I cackled when I got it

(On phone) When you open the link and go into the neighborhood and scroll down to Wally’s house it’s not there (kinda it’s hard to explain) but before the update you could click under Wally’s house but his house is technically not there

This year is PAX's 20th year. I remember my first PAX was so small that it didnt even take over the full convention center. I think there was less than 10k people that year. And this was also years before they introduced a PAX anywhere other than Seattle. Just wild.

I love that MatPat is still on GTlive

Ok I literally stopped working to look around after that Jekyll and Hyde reference. I just thought in my head like lol that sounds like this thing and then YOU SAID IT!!! Very happy😂❤️

its actually funny you mentioned skinamarink bc i was watching that right before this

Thank you so much for live-streaming the vid-con GTLive, I want to go SOOO badly but I’m going on a REALLY expensive trip for school and won’t be able to go. Hopefully I’ll be able to meet yall at PaxWest someday!!

Jekyll and Hyde the Musical is SO underrated! Just ignore the Hasselhoff version, if you value your sanity.

I have a theory the hole will get bigger and bigger

0:26 That red jacket hung up in the background hits me hard (I hope that's not a message related to this channel in any way). GTLive has always felt like home to me, so I love that "Welcome home" intro 🏠

welcome home is by far one of my favourite things on this channel, there is always a massive jump in story, and the reward of finding it is always well executed, please get part 2 up quick XD

Retired, but still doing theories behind the scene

Im so glad I got to be there for both the storytime panel and the jackbox panel, They were great, hopefully him and more of team theorist come to pax east again in the future

36:33 Eeey! Jekyll and Hyde reference! :D Nice to hear about more people who know and have heard the musical. 😊 That is so awesome.

This has absolutely nothing to do with this video but…. I really like Matt’s jacket, very nice pattern. :)

Sure is great to see you Mat❤

Me being like: Hmmm, new stuff on Welcome Home... FRANK'S STILL HERE!?!?!??! YEAHHHH! OUR FAVORITE BOI STILL ALIVE!!!!!

35:50 when they cracked the website??? actually one of the greatest moments ever, that was so satisfying to witness

On a side note, that toyland song sounds like a bicycle built for two, especially the version sang by HAL in 2001 a space odyssey - I feel the cadence is inspired too.

This is going to be interesting to see how this goes

Day 3 of asking Matpat to play Pineapple on Pizza

Its good to see you back on KZfaq been watching the other channels as the new videos come out also great video

35:48 Great job! It's unfortunate that most word unscramblers have a limit of 20 letters, and the multiple word unscrambler did basically nothing with that input (it seems to assume the words are already separated, which was not our case). This was partially a keyword problem, since I could find multiple word anagram solvers (though to be fair they have the opposite issue, which is giving you too many results).

Hey Mattpatt I'm wondering if you could cover the analog horror series called welcome to dreamworld. PS that's actually a clock tower not a watch tower.