 SCP-2030 Object Class Keter Special Containment Procedures Foundation-operated web analysis bot Delta-09, LAPSTOP, is to be kept in constant operation and checked for defects twice a week by a Level 2 staff member familiar with its operation. When functional, the bot will search a wide range of files sharing and video streaming websites for SCP-2030 and remove any manifestations discovered. Being an isolating SCP-2030's point of origin is considered a Delta-level priority, efforts to locate the studio where SCP-2030 is filmed as ongoing. Description- SCP-2030's anomalous phenomenon that manifests as a television series. The medium through which SCP-2030 manifests changes depending on the most popular format currently in use. As of 2014, SCP-2030 most commonly inserts itself in automated DVD rental kiosks, file sharing websites, and paid-on-demand video streaming services. Prior to 2012, SCP-2030 commonly manifested as a DVD set in video rental stores, and as VHS takes prior to 2003. Thus far, no reliable evidence that SCP-2030's manifestations took place prior to the year 1993 have been discovered. However, 38 seasons of programming are known to exist, implying that SCP-2030 has been active to some degree since 1976. The series title typically appears as Laugh Is Fun, although variations on this name, such as Laugh Is Life, or Laugh Is Laugh, are not uncommon. The series has no corresponding box art, it mimics art from other television series, often causing viewers to select and mistaking it for another program. The show is a hidden camera comedy series, showcasing the candid responses of various people to bizarre, disturbing, and often anomalous situations. Videos usually run between 10 and 12 minutes, and feature introductory and closing segments that book in the hidden camera footage. No episodes of date has had an end credit role. SCP-2030-1 is a presumably human adult male that serves the show's host, providing introductory and closing commentary, as well as appearing to victims to reveal that they are being filmed for a television series. SCP-2030-1 is invariably shown wearing a royal blue three-piece suit with black and white winged-tip shoes. Due to the way in which scenes are filmed, SCP-2030-1 is only seen from the neck down, making identification difficult. He refers to himself as Laughy Maclapperson. Individuals appearing on the show often react to the events as they witness with panic or distress, but appear immediately calm upon the appearance of SCP-2030-1. This is true even when the individual in question is sustained as if he can bodily harm or witness a particularly traumatic event. Additionally, most recorded individuals seem to express some degree of familiarity with SCP-2030-1 with some claiming to be fans of the show. Research into whether SCP-2030 uses its viewership as its victim selection pool is ongoing. Episodes follow a particular theme that each prank segment alludes to. SCP-2030-1 introduces these themes at the beginning of each episode in an as-of-yet unidentified film studio, while standing atop a bright yellow stage decorated oversized geometric shapes of various colors. Other themes vary from the mundane, such as the beach, pets, and candy, to the strange and violent, such as male fraud, arson, and terrorism. SCP-2030-1 delivers a similar speech at the end of each program to close out the show. At the end of each episode, the camera pulls back and around from SCP-2030-1 stage, the show to studio audience, which is usually comprised of the individuals featured in the episode. During this time, the words filmed in front of a studio audience created in partnership with Y-W-T-G-T-H-F-T are superimposed over the footage in white text. Research into the identities of the people featured in the show's prank segments has revealed that they were all persons who were officially documented as having died or gone missing in the year they appeared on the program. Thorough investigations into the deaths of SCP-2030 participants have revealed a number of inconsistencies and contradictions in matters concerning the circumstances of the deaths. Additionally, exhumations of the individuals remaining to have revealed an all-recorded participant's bodies are currently missing. The general consensus among researchers assigned to SCP-2030 is that victims are likely abducted after they are used in the show, which their disappearance is covered up when possible. However, no concrete evidence connecting the individual's death with SCP-2030 besides the show's footage has yet been found. Addendum, the following are examples of pranks featured on the program. Season 24, Year 2000, episode-themed swelling. Examples involved Macy Gersham and Kyle Parker, killed by a hit-and-run driver on September 18, 2000. Scene Description An elderly woman sits on a park bench feeding nearby pigeons with seeds from a bag. Gersham and Parker, a couple, walk down a park path and approach the woman. Once the two come within approximately 1.5 meters of the elderly woman, a swarm of pigeons fly into the elderly woman's mouth, causing her stomach to become severely engorged and quickly rupture. The couple express great distress at the event until SCP-2030-1 emerges from the elderly woman's open stomach cavity, at which point Gersham and Parker appear relieved. Season 21, 1997, episode-themed Margaret Thatcher. Individuals involved Doris Carter, died of ovarian cancer, February 24, 1997. Scene Description Mrs. Carter walks into her kitchen and opens the cabinet door, out of which follows a large mass of flesh. Mrs. Carter screams, the mass grows and shapes itself into a severely disproportional facsimile at former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher, with its head twice as large as his torso. Carter rushes to leave the room, but the Thatcher creature leaps onto her before she can escape. It extends its tongue into the woman's open mouth, and Thatcher faces the various sides of it that begin appearing across Carter's skin. The faces proceed to recite Thatcher's April 1986 speech on the bombing of Libya in perfect unison. SCP-23-1 climbs out of a nearby cupboard and points to the hidden cameras. Mrs. Carter smiles, the creature's tongue still extended down her throat. Season 13, 1989, episode-themed Squirrels. Individuals involved Melissa and Travis Englund disappeared last seen May 12, 1989. Scene Description Mrs. Englund lies in bed next to a male figure, presumably Mr. Englund. A series of high-pitched squeaking noises are heard, and Mrs. Englund is awakened. She tells her husband to wake up, but he does not respond. She places her hand on his shoulder, but quickly draws it back with a shriek. His skin begins to undulate as though something is moving underneath. A multitude of squirrels then burst from various places on his body, quickly filling the bed and crawling onto the woman. She rises to leave the room, but SCP-23-1 walks in and turns on the light. He is accompanied by Mr. Englund, who has been skinned from head to foot, but it gives no indication of feeling any discomfort. All three share a laugh, and the segment ends. Episode 13, 1989 Episode theme, Tracheostomies Individuals involved Gary Turman, Lindsey Turman, and their children died in a vehicular accident on April 28, 1989. Scene Description The four sit around a dinner table eating a meal. Mr. Turman begins coughing and gasping for air as they have choken. As the others at the table begin to panic, a pair of slits appear in Turman's throat, allowing him to breathe. These slits quickly become nostrils, which rapidly grow into a full nose, which in turn becomes an entire second head, identical to Turman's original. This second head then sprouts a neck of its own, and the entire process repeats. This continues until 18 necks and heads are sprouted from the original, at which point SCP-2030-1 steps out from underneath the table. Everyone present erupts into raucous laughter, including all 19 of Mr. Turman's heads. Season 37, 2013 Episode theme, Cephalopods Individuals involved, Rebecca Nash, Surgeons Unidentified, Diet of Complications and Child Delivery on November 2, 2013. Hospital records show no evidence of anomalous activity during birth. Scene Description A team of obstetricians perform a cesarean section procedure on Ms. Nash, who is in labor. The team comment on the size of the child's cranium and the amount of hair present on it. Several minutes in the procedure, a doctor makes an escalation of surprise and drops the instrument on the floor. Muffled vocalizations can be heard in the background. The rest of the staff begin to panic as the head emerges unassisted from Nash, causing her a great deal of pain. The child's head can be seen to resemble that of American television presenter Ryan Seacrest. The child sings, row, row, row your boat in a female voice as it continues to exit the mother. As more of its form emerges, the child can be seen to have the body of a fully grown octopus. Once the child fully exits Nash's body, it continues to sing as another head begins to emerge. Three more children are produced in total with the heads of celebrities Jack Nicholson, American film actor, Johnny Cash, American singer-songwriter, and Martin Freeman, British film actor, respectively, all with similar octopus bodies. Together the four sing, row, row, row your boat in four-part harmony. SCP-2030-1 walks into the room and the show's jingle plays. SCP-2030-1 points to the hidden cameras in the room, prompting the obstetricians and Nash to begin laughing. The creatures on Nash's torso continue to sing. Nash then loses consciousness, presumably from blood loss. The following is a transcription of a typical speech delivered by SCP-2030-1 during one of the show's closing segments. Season 32, 2008, Episode theme, Printers. Transcription. Ha! What a ride, eh, folks? We've seen printers that eat, eaters that print, and everything in between. Makes you appreciate the old clunker you have back in office, doesn't it? No, printers may not always work what you want or need them to, but they sure make for some excellent comedy, and that's what we're all about here. Comedy. We're here to make you laugh, we hope you laughed, thank you for laughing with us. That's what we're here about, doesn't it, folks? Come laugh with us again next time, remember, laugh is fun. Good night, and laugh, and laugh, just laugh. We love to make laugh. Make more for laughter so as to laugh. Laugh with us, laugh with us, studio audience joins in unison. Laugh with us, laugh with us, laugh with us, laugh with us, laugh, laugh, laugh, and let us in. Note, video cuts off abruptly on a black screen as displayed for 30 seconds. Laughter and soft wet noises can be heard in the background before the program ends.