Mr. King Oscar Jester is a character in Smiling Friends. He first appears in "The Magical Red Jewel (aka Tyler Gets Fired)," serving as the episode's main antagonist. He is the king of Spamtopia.
Appearance[]
Oscar is a humanoid Spamtopian with a gigantic eyeball for a head, giant hands ending in four fingers, and a small torso which is adorned in a vibrant rainbow gradient. The iris of his eye is hot pink, and he wears a red cape and shoes, usually with a jester hat.
Over the course of the episode, he wears four different hats: his iconic red and blue jester hat with gold bells, an executioner's hood, a crown, and a baseball cap. He evidently possesses a mouth on the lower part of his eyeball, as he used it to kiss Mr. Boss.
Biography[]
At some point in the past, presumably during their youth, Pim and Oscar became penpals and would communicate with one another via letters. During this time, Pim would learn enough of the Spamish language to become somewhat proficient in it, while Oscar possibly learned English from Pim in return. The two eventually fell out of touch, but Pim would retain his ability to interpret the language. Oscar was self-conscious about his eye/head at the time, but Pim's support and positivity helped him through the worst of it, possibly emboldening him to become Spamtopia's leader, although this apparently did not rid him of his self-consciousness, as he makes eye contact illegal and punishable by execution.
Despite being the leader of his country, Oscar lived amongst his people relatively humbly, donning a jester hat for his alias instead of flaunting his status. By some means, he comes into contact with Mr Boss, who wanted to buy his red jewel from him. They met for the transaction in a Spamtopian diner, where unbeknownst to him, his conversation with Mr Boss is interpreted by his former pen pal. When a giant mosquito biting his eye/head causes Pim to look at it, Oscar sentences both him and Mr Boss to death, where he performs the executions himself. After killing several Spamtopian prisoners, he reveals his status as the country's leader after Pim attempts to stall for time by requesting an audience with the ruler. As he prepares to kill the critter, Oscar is surprised when Pim frantically utters a "Spamtopian prayer", which was something that he made up and taught only to his former pen pal.
Realizing that Pim is that former pen pal, Oscar gladly embraces him, happy to finally meet the person that got him through a tough part of his life. When Pim attempts to convince him that there is nothing wrong with his eye, claiming to understand the feeling of self consciousness resulting from his own eye shape, Oscar then demonstrates a lack of understanding and compassion by mocking Pim's "funny eye". Despite this, he thanks Pim for showing him the error of his ways, and grants Mr Boss the jewel that he was still owed. Oscar then nullifies not only the eye rule, but all rules all together and shouts no more rules to everyone, causing Spamtopia to devolve into anarchy, the fabric of reality itself collapsing around them. As his countrymen continue their lawless rampage, seemingly destroying the country in the process, Oscar's fate is never seen.
Personality[]
Initially, Oscar is a rather insecure person, using his position as king to ensure other people don't make fun of him for his giant eye. When he became king, he instilled a new tradition to prevent anyone from looking him directly in the eye and went so far as to kill anyone who broke his new rule. Under the surface, he's relatively kind and happy, making friends with Pim after recognizing him as his former penpal. Despite this, he still mocks him for his weird eyes, not realizing that Pim might feel the same way Oscar felt when others did that to him.
Notably, Oscar possesses paranormal amounts of physical strength, as he is able to grab and lift fellow Spamtopians over his head before tearing them in half with his bare hands.
Quotes[]
- "blebleblibliblibloblef?"
- "bloibishijerbishibishlb."
- "broberkljibleshojishb."
- "Did you just look into my eyE?"
Trivia[]
- Despite him lacking a mouth and not being a client of Smiling Friends Inc., Pim manages to make him smile, complete with the smiling cue playing when he does so.
- However, he is briefly shown to have something resembling a mouth when he kisses Mr. Boss.
- He somewhat has a similar design with The Fun Twins without the gloves. People have begun to theorize that they are related because of this.
- He speaks in TruVoice Peter Adult Male #1, the settings used are: Pitch 100, Speed 150. Instead of "eye," the Text-To-Speech software says "Iye."
- This is possibly a reference to Atop the Fourth Wall as one of their characters (Pollo) used the same voice
- Alternatively, this could be a reference to the Newgrounds group "Clock Crew": a group of users known to author a variety of low-effort "spam" cartoons who frequently made use of TrueVoice in their animations. Strengthening this connection, Jester's role as the "King of Spamtopia" parallels an in-joke wherein users referred to StrawberryClock, the founder of the crew, as the "King of the Portal" after he successfully published a flash animation which consisted solely of an off-centered red capital letter B.
- However, his first line of dialogue noticeably uses a different voice than the one he uses for the rest of the episode (specifically, Wanda Adult Female #1, at Pitch 304, Speed 174).