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Due to its success and popularity, the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise gained a colossal number of cameos, references, parodies, and other sources of popular culture.

Media Culture[]

Video Games[]

  • In Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion, there is a room based on the Office, with a chair, table, fan, and a phone. There is a direct reference to Phone Guy, when a person's voice heard from the phone will say "Hello" in different tones, and occasionally telling the player not to look directly at the fan.
    • The Unknown Specimen 2, alternatively named as "Otto the Otter", is also a reference to the Five Nights at Freddy's animatronics.
  • HenryStickmin-Freddy

    Freddy Fazbear in Henry Stickmin's Fleeing the Complex.

    In Fleeing the Complex, one of the Henry Stickmin games, Freddy Fazbear makes a cameo in the Presumed Dead ending. After Henry flees from the alerted human guards to a murky building, Freddy appeared in the darkness with glowing eyes and mouth, playing the Toreador March music.
    • The Game Over screen message shown is "That wasn't scary...". In addition, if the player stays on the Game Over screen for a couple of moments, the player will be jumpscared with a poorly drawn Freddy Fazbear, and get the Medal: "Spooked".
  • In Emily is Away, if inserting "Freddy" in the search name box, Freddy Fazbear's profile picture is enabled.
    • When using Freddy's profile picture, Emily will say in the following:
"Come on down to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza! We've got food and entertainment for the whole family! And you've never seen anything quite like our animatronics. :)"
  • In Creepy Castle, Chica appeared as one of the playable characters. She was added when Scott donated to the game's Kickstarter page.
  • In Team Fortress 2, in the release of the "End of the Line" update, the unused texture for the Duck Journal has a "LET'S EAT!!!" text, a bib phrase from Chica.
  • In Pixel Gun 3D, the enemies in Terrifying Resort, Scary Pizzeria, and Area (Wave 5), are a reference to the Five Nights at Freddy's animatronics; Terrifying Bear (Freddy), Terrifying Fox (Foxy), Walking Duck (Chica), Terrifying Rabbit (Bonnie), Balloon Boy, and other animatronic enemies not being based on the Five Nights at Freddy's characters.
    • The Scary Pizzeria area contains textures and decoration props to bear references to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza.
  • In The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, one of the Afterbirth † DLC achievements, titled "5 Nights at Mom's", is a reference to the Five Nights at Freddy's series.
  • In Bulb Boy, some animatronics made their cameo appearance:
    • Chica as a duck toy is seen in the bathroom area at the bottom left.
    • Balloon Boy's head briefly appears in the cutscene when Bulb Boy swims to the glasshouse.
    • Freddy Fazbear's head with a pizza on it can also be seen in a box after the Greenhouse boss.
  • In Goosebumps: The Game, there is a note left behind a security guard in the mall and can be picked up. The note is worded eerily similar to Phone Guy's phone messages from the first Five Nights at Freddy's game:
"Hello. I wanted to jot down a quick message to help you get settled on your first night. I actually worked at the mall before you--it's my last week now."
  • In Mortal Kombat X, Tremor's "It's Me Tremor" brutality to turn the other fighter into a statue of gold is likely a reference to Golden Freddy and the "It's Me" phrase.
  • In Troll Face Quest Video Games, there is a level where Freddy, Bonnie, and Chica pops up whenever the player shines their flashlight, resulting in failure. To beat this level, the player must change their face to a trollface in order to scare the animatronics.
  • In the mobile app game I Love You to Bits, Freddy Fazbear appears in the attic location within the house level.
  • From the indie RPG horror game No Delivery, a lot of Five Nights at Freddy's Easter Eggs and references can be found:
    • The attack method for the endoskeleton enemy is called "Springlock", which references the animatronics' springlock suits.
    • There is a mascot animatronic who bears some resemblance to Circus Baby.
    • Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy appeared in four "EAT!!" posters.
  • During Twitch streaming on 2018, one of the Dead by Daylight developers, Sarah, expresses her interest in a Five Nights at Freddy's-based killer for the game's future update.[1] As of now, no further details regarding Dead by Daylight's future killer based on the Five Nights at Freddy's series are given.
  • In the mobile game Good Pizza, Great Pizza, a "CELEBRATE!" poster of the Freddy Fazbear's Pizza gang, titled "Scary Bear Poster", can be purchased.
  • In the Resident Evil 2 remake, from The Ghost Survivors DLC, there is an office where one of the golden Mr. Raccoon bobblehead toys is found. The office consists of a phone, fan, a load of security televisions, and a pizza box. The office's decoration heavily implies to reference Five Nights at Freddy's, while this golden Mr. Raccoon bobblehead in the same location references Golden Freddy.
  • In Mr. Hopp's Playhouse, when unlocking the safe by inputting 1-9-8-7, Golden Freddy's head in his withered appearance will be revealed.
  • PlayWithMe-FreddyFazbearPizzaBox

    Freddy Fazbear as seen on the pizza boxes from Play With Me.

    From the indie horror game Play With Me, in the kitchen, pizza boxes printed with Freddy Fazbear's head can be found on the kitchen counter.
  • In Goosebumps HorrorTown, there is a large neon sign with a robot on top, whose design appearance is heavily based on Freddy himself, albeit the red cheeks, lacking his hat and bowtie, and much sharper teeth.
  • In Pizza Tower, there is a pizzeria-themed level called Don't Make A Sound wherein Peppino can gain an animatronic transformation when jumpscared by a Toppin Monster.
  • Several Friday Night Funkin' mods based on the franchise were made.
  • In the mobile game Monster Legends, the character TeddieVR is based on Freddy Fazbear, while also being a reference to the YouTuber EddieVR.
  • In the game Super Phantom Cat, there is a character named Bear Fear. Which may be a reference to Freddy Fazbear.
  • In SCP: Secret Laboratory, the Operation Guide for the MTF-E11-SR is written by security guard, Agent Jeremy Fritz, which was confirmed as a Five Nights at Freddy's reference.[citation needed]
  • In Bendy and The Dark Revival, There is a puzzle segment between Alice Angel and solving a riddle. The Lost Ones captured and tied up mention animals such as a Bear, Rabbit, Bird, and Fox and when put in order matches The Show Stage with Bonnie on the left, Freddy Fazbear in The Middle, Chica on The Right, and Foxy in his own Area.
  • In My Singing Monsters, there's a monster called "Nitebear", which references the FNaF franchise.
    • In the biography of the monster, there are various references to the phone calls in FNaF 1, and at the end of the bio, it says "...but it always comes back" which makes reference to the catchphrase "I always come back" from William Afton in Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator.

Television[]

  • RalphieBear

    Ralphie Bear, who vaguely resembles Freddy Fazbear, in Glitch Techs.

    In Nickelodeon's animated Netflix show Glitch Techs, the 3rd Season 2 episode "Ralphie Bear Is Back" is remarkably a parody of Five Nights at Freddy's. The episode sets in a family pizza restaurant with the animatronic band, which includes Ralphie Bear (a Freddy Fazbear-lookalike cowboy animatronic) and Cakey Von Smasher (another animatronic who look like a beefed-up Puppet in a dress). The animatronics in this episode become hostile to anyone in the pizzeria at nighttime due to the glitch. There is also a scene where Hector Nieves (High Five) used the pizzeria's security cameras in a strong fashionable way to one of the Five Nights at Freddy's series' recurring gameplay subjects.
  • Screenshot 20210522-020030

    FNaF reference in Kral Şakir.

    In an episode of a Turkish TV show called Kral Şakir, two of the characters are seemingly playing a Five Nights at Freddy's like game and one of them gets jumpscared by a blue animatronic bear.
  • In Disney XD's Gravity Falls, from the Season 2 episode "Soos and the Real Girl", the Hoo-Ha Owl's Pizzamatronic Jamboree animatronics, their creep-factor, and corruptible aggression (controlled by .GIFfany) appear to look like a reminiscent or spoof to the actual Five Nights at Freddy's animatronics. However, this is apparently a whole misconception as according to the commentary track for the episode on the Complete Series DVD, creator Alex Hirsch states that the "Soos and the Real Girl" episode was written and in development long before the release of the first game. Several crew members of the show have also denied the connection, mentioning the Rock-afire Explosion from the ShowBiz Pizza restaurant chain as the inspiration.
  • In the episode of Be Cool Scooby-Doo! called "Pizza O'Possum's", the monster of the day is similar to the animatronics, however it turns out to be controlled by a girl named Lydia.
  • FreddyPlush GhostofMollyMcGee

    Freddy seen as a plush in Molly's room

    In the episode of The Ghost and Molly McGee called "Scare Tactics", one of Molly's plushies is Freddy Fazbear. This was confirmed to be a reference by Tarakeet, one of the prop designers for the show, on Twitter. [2]
  • The Polish translation of Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes appears in the background of an episode of the Polish TV show Szkoła (eng. School).
  • FNAFReference TheOwlHouse

    Two characters resembling Freddy and Chica as seen in The Owl House

    In the episode "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door" of Disney's The Owl House, there are three robots that look very much like certain animatronics we know. One of them being a purple rabbit sporting a pinkish bowtie as a reference to Bonnie, a weird humanoid robot with a broken bear head resembling Freddy, and a bird wearing a bib with the words "Chow Time!" that is a clear reference to Chica and her iconic "Let's Eat!" bib.
  • Bibsy from Amphibia bears a striking resemblance to Bonnie.
  • In LEGO Jurassic World: Legend of Isla Nublar, when the robotic dinosaurs are built and done, Vic Hoskins asks if they will go up as performers in the restaurants, and after Owen says no, Vic is disappointed that he can't use his useless "LET'S EAT!" giant bibs.
  • In the segment of The Vampire Dies in No Time called "Good Mother, Goodbye Summer", Draluc mentions a video game called FNAF Quest.
  • From The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, in a segment of "Thank You Notes", Jimmy mentioned Chica and said ""Thank you, Chica from Five Nights at Freddy's, for also being next year's hot Halloween costume, Meth Tweety Bird."[3]
  • From Rick and Morty Season 7, in episode "Reckfending Your Mort", the "IRL FNaF Simulation" was seen written on Rick's list of adventures. This is a possible reference to Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted.

Comics[]

  • OParqueAssombrado

    The animatronic antagonists with familiar designs from Turma da Mônica Jovem #99's front cover.

    In the Brazilian comic Turma da Mônica Jovem (Monica Teen in English translation), the 99th edition named O Parque Assombrado (The Haunted Park in English translation) contains many references of Five Nights at Freddy's.
    • The leader group is a bear animatronic.
    • A duck animatronic also bears a precise resemblance to Chica.
    • A dog animatronic's design is faintly similar to Bonnie, with green colors resembling that of Springtrap's.
    • A cat animatronic's design is also similar to Foxy.
    • The park has an office room like the Office from the first Five Nights at Freddy's game.
  • In the Steven Universe comic, on issue #05, the plush toys of Freddy, Bonnie, and Chica appeared briefly in one picture.
  • theMeatly, a comic artist and the creator of the Bendy and The Ink Machine franchise, posted a comic of his mascot character "playing" Five Nights at Freddy's while giving it a review score. This comic was made in August 2014 since the first game's release.
  • In the MAD comic of 2017, there is a paper-plate face of Golden Freddy as a part of the Halloween decorations seen in the Peanuts Halloween TV special parody comic.
  • In the French comic Les Légendaires Parodia (The Legendaries: Parodia in English translation), from Page 14 "L'amour est dans le prêt", Freddy Fazbear's doll is seen as a cameo.
  • In IDW's Marvel Super Hero Adventures: Captain Marvel - Halloween Spooktacular #1, some animatronics who scare the heroes Miles Morales, Spider-Gwen, and Ms. Marvel, bear resemblance to the original animatronics from Five Nights at Freddy's.

Films[]

  • In the horror/comedy film Blood Fest, the "CELEBRATE!" poster is briefly seen in the background of this one scene.
  • The 2018 short Hulu horror film The Hug, besides having ShowBiz Pizza references, seems to be a homage to the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise as the movie took place in the pizzeria with a bear animatronic (named Pandory) appearing "normal" on the outside but has a much rather sinister side. The mention of Pandory devouring child victims to keep them inside itself is mildly similar to the first Five Nights at Freddy's game where the Freddy Fazbear's Pizza animatronics seek to stuff the security guard into an animatronic suit, although the victims in The Hug were kept imprisoned for eternity instead of dying.
  • Warner Bros., who were originally going to make the Five Night's at Freddy's film, lost the license to Blumhouse, and made The Banana Splits Movie in 2019 with roughly the same premise of child-friendly animatronics becoming homicidal.

Products[]

FrighteningFreddy

Freddy Fazbear in the Garbage Pail Kids card.

  • In the humor/parody trading card series Wacky Packages, from the 2017 line, there is a card of the "Freddy's Glow-in-the-Dark Spinning Bowtie" product, with Freddy himself and the "Guaranteed for five nights!" text quoted by Foxy. What real-life product this parody card was based on is unknown.
  • From the 2023 line of the trading card series Garbage Pail Kids, Freddy Fazbear appear in the card as "Frightening Freddy" (alternatively "Arnie-Matronic").
  • Freddy Fazbear, titled "5 Nights at Farts", appeared as a "slime-pooped" toy part of Series 1 line of The Hangrees, a parody product brand of toys based on characters from popular media.


Social Media[]

Steam[]

  • The series has few known cameos in official images from the Steam website.
    • The sticker of Freddy, Bonnie, and Chica is used as one of the many collectible Summer stickers for the Steam Summer Sale Sticker Book on Summer 2017.
    • Freddy's head is seen on top of the refrigerator inside the garage from the Spring Cleaning Event wallpaper on Summer 2019.

Twitter[]

  • FNaFxFairOddParents-by-ButchHartman

    The Five Nights at Freddy's/The Fairly OddParents crossover by Butch Hartman.

    Butch Hartman, the creator of Nickelodeon series like The Fairly OddParents and Danny Phantom, tweeted a Five Nights at Freddy's x The Fairly OddParents crossover art of Denzel Crocker being spooked by the animatronics. [4]
  • The fast-food sandwich restaurant chain Arby's tweeted an image of a Freddy Fazbear Mask made out of cardboard on November 13, 2016.
    • On October 29, 2019, Arby's tweeted a video, showing the inside of the restaurant with the surveillance monitor in a style to the Five Nights at Freddy's games. Freddy Fazbear then jumpscares at the end of the video.
  • Airdorf, the creator of the horror game trilogy FAITH, tweeted an image of William Afton's SAVETHEM minigame sprite edited to look like FAITH's protagonist John Ward for the "Man Behind the Slaughter" meme.[5]
  • FNAFxGarfieldArt byGaryBarker

    Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach x Garfield crossover art by Gary Barker.

    Gary Barker, an official artist for the Garfield comic strips, tweeted some crossover art of Nermal hitching a ride in Glamrock Freddy's chest cavity while taunting Garfield who exclaims "Nermal is the malfunction!". Gary stated that this art was a student request by one of his students named Daniel.[6]
  • The horror movie franchise SAW's official Twitter account, in response to the announcement of the Five Nights at Freddy's movie and SAW X releasing in theaters on the same date (October 27, 2023), quote tweeted a photoshopped image of Freddy Fazbear wearing the reverse bear trap.[7]
  • MOB Games, the development team of the indie horror game Poppy Playtime, uploaded a poster parodying the Five Nights at Freddy's movie's animatronic posters around the same day after the aforementioned movie's teaser trailer premiered, featuring their game's rejected toy Sir Poops-A-Lot.[8]
  • Adult Swim tweeted an image parodying the Five Nights at Freddy's Steam header, featuring Smarf from their short film, Too Many Cooks.[9]

YouTube[]

  • YouTubeRewind2015

    The blue Freddy Fazbear as seen in the thumbnail for YouTube Rewind: Now Watch Me 2015.

    In YouTube Rewind: Now Watch Me 2015, there is a Five Nights at Freddy's scene starring Markiplier. The scene includes the Toreador March music playing from the scene's start, Freddy and Chica's appearance, and taking place inside a pizzeria-like building. The scene begins at 2:47 and ends at 3:15.
  • In the GlorpDieBlorp plays "Ten Tuesdays at Tinkles" video from Adult Swim's animated sitcom TV series Rick and Morty, the horror game Ten Tuesdays at Tinkles GlorpDieBlorp plays is a direct parody of the Five Nights at Freddy's game. Both with similar title and gameplay, and capable of looking through security cameras with a monitor map in nearly identical design.
  • In Chuck E. Cheese's Halloween Special video Halloween at the Pizza Time Theatre, the video contains a few of elements appearing to reference Five Nights at Freddy's: the night-shift security guard who works there five nights a week; the office with security monitors and vertically-closing door; and a small group of living, hostile animatronics (with few similar features such as wide-eye sockets and decaying exteriors).
  • The animatronics appear in Yo Mama.
  • There many fights involving the animatronics in Cartoon Fight Club.
  • In an episode of Fan War!!!, Freddy appears where he fights Akakabuto and lost.
  • The animatronics appear a few times in Annoying Orange.
  • In a music video for Bulletproof by the rock band From Ashes to New, a Nightmare Foxy plush can be seen in the background of the little girl's bedroom in multiple parts of the video.
  • In a video posted by Minecraft to thank the community, a Freddy Fazbear skin appears standing on a balcony at 0:23.
    • A Circus Baby skin also appears in the same scene below the balcony.
  • The official SpongeBob SquarePants YouTube channel uploaded a video called "FIVE Nights at Squidward's" featuring a title screen with "5 Nights at Squidward's" text and monitors with static, and a camera system with a office to simulate FNaF's gameplay.

Game Jolt[]

  • The Game Jolt store has a category dedicated to Five Nights at Freddy's content.
  • There are several stickers based on characters from the Five Nights at Freddy's series.
  • There are several stickers based on characters from the POPGOES series.

DeviantArt[]

FNaFellas-Promo

The official promotion image of DeviantArt's "Four Evenings at Fella's", depicting DeviantArt's mascots as Five Nights at Freddy's characters.

  • The official staff team of DeviantArt launched the "Four Evenings at Fella's" event for the site's 22nd birthday. It depicts the site's main mascot, Fella, along with a pink llama, a unicorn-like horse with a mustache, a monstrous pear, and a grotesque birthday cake monster as the main band of Fella's Pizza Palace. It is a parody of Five Nights at Freddy's down to the mention of mechanical mascots seemingly coming alive on stage, the use of a glitchy camera filter on the post's main art, and even a template designed like a children's restaurant placemat where site users can draw their characters in the middle with Fella and the band.[10]

Other[]

  • FNAF Guinness World Record

    Five Nights at Freddy's mentioned in the Guinness Book of Records: Gamer's Edition 2017

    The Five Nights at Freddy's franchise appeared in the Guinness Book of Records: Gamer's Edition 2017, breaking the record for the largest amount of sequels released in a year.[11]
  • The Five Nights at Freddy's franchise once appeared on the frontpage of Wikipedia's "Did You Know..." section.[12]
  • The first Five Nights at Freddy's game was the featured article on Wikipedia on October 31, 2023.[13]


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References[]

  1. "Developer Steam #84 - "Oh boy! Here we go killing again!" - r/deadbydeadlight
  2. "aww nice catch! yep, im a huge fnaf fan so i had to reference the legendary bear himself~" - tarakeet. March 15, 2022. Twitter
  3. https://youtu.be/GOLmg8r_4nw?si=L-PwwJR_IUu7jAm2&t=174
  4. "Crocker spends Five Nights at Freddie's" - Butch Hartman. March 28, 2020. Twitter
  5. "goodnight" - Airdorf. March 28, 2020. Twitter.
  6. "This is a student request for my student, Daniel" - Gary Barker. April 5, 2022. Twitter
  7. SAW. April 6, 2023. Twitter.
  8. "bro i think grandma bought me the wrong FNAF movie 💀" - Mob Entertainment. May 18, 2023. Twitter
  9. "You couldn't handle it #adultswim" - adult swim. Jul 27, 2023. Twitter
  10. "Let's Party: Celebrate DeviantArt's 22nd Birthday!" - DeviantArt Staff Team. August 5, 2022. DeviantArt
  11. "Fnaf Record guinness" - Carlosparty19. September 28, 2016. DeviantArt
  12. "FNaF appeared in the "Did you know" section of Wikipedia's main page!" - u/fnafwikipedia. May 17, 2017. r/fivenightsatfreddys
  13. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Five_Nights_at_Freddy%27s_(video_game)

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