“IT IS SPOOKY MONTH!”
― Skid and Pump, It's spooky month
Skid and Pump are the primary antagonists of Week 2. Their tracks include Spookeez and South. They've been confirmed to also become playable in the future.[6]
They are the first guest characters introduced to Friday Night Funkin', the second being Pico and the third being Tankman.
Appearance
Skid and Pump are a duo of small children in Halloween costumes. Skid wears a skeleton costume consisting of a black outfit with white lines and circles representing bones and a skull head mask with black markings around the mouth. Pump wears a pumpkin costume consisting of a black suit with a white shirt underneath, white gloves and a pumpkin head mask. He also has a little cape behind his back.[7]
The pair work in tandem with Skid resting atop Pump's head. The two share a microphone, though Pump holds it in his left hand by default. They do the Spooky Dance whenever they are not singing.
Skid and Pump without their costumes.
Skid's appearance without his costume depicts him with long, straight black hair and a circular head with black eyes. Pump, on the other hand, has curly brown hair and a long head with black eyes.
Origin
Skid and Pump from their original series, Spooky Month.
Skid and Pump originate from the Spooky Month web series created by Sr Pelo, a series of annual Halloween-themed videos that started in October 2018. They are known for their love for the Spooky Month (regardless of what month it is) and their adventures in their hometown that lead to unintentional trouble and good-natured chaos, along with their famous dance move known as the "Spooky Dance."
Personalities
Skid and Pump are rather childish and gullible, although Pump is more cautious. They love Halloween (which they call “Spooky Month”) so much that they wear their costumes year-round and constantly spread the word of it around. Their fun-having attitudes have risked them being kidnapped a couple of times and led to them encountering many shady people around town without a thought to their safety. Their highly accepting behavior persists in Friday Night Funkin' when a certain lemon-headed being tricks them for his gain.
History
Skid and Pump are celebrating Spooky Month as they usually do when they come across Girlfriend's parents' house and a mysterious creature who requests that they bring him a special "treat." Once there, the duo asks Girlfriend to be their "treat," and challenge Boyfriend to win her over. It's later revealed that the figure that tricked Skid and Pump into attempting to capture Girlfriend was Monster. He wanted to devour Girlfriend as his "treat" and personally steps up to challenge Boyfriend after Skid and Pump are defeated.
Relationships
Boyfriend
Despite their battle over Girlfriend, Skid and Pump are portrayed as being friendly with Boyfriend. When the children arrive at Girlfriend's house while out trick-or-treating, he gladly lets them play by singing with them.
Girlfriend
Skid and Pump are tricked into believing that Girlfriend is made of candy by Monster. The spooky kids challenge Boyfriend to a rap battle for her, but they just want to play[8] and don't really follow through with the task given to them. Girlfriend doesn't seem concerned as Skid and Pump sing with Boyfriend, happily spectating the battle.
Monster
Monster tasks Skid and Pump with getting Girlfriend for him so that he can eat her. They fail to do this, however, as Boyfriend beats them twice during their sing-off, leading Monster to take matters into his own hands.
Trivia
- In addition to having them included in Friday Night Funkin', Skid and Pump's vocals were also provided by Sr Pelo.
- They are the first characters to not be voiced by Kawai Sprite, the second being Monster, the third being Mommy Mearest, the fourth being Tankman and the fifth being Darnell.
- Skid and Pump’s names are nods to what they dress as. Skid's name has the first two letters of the word skeleton, while Pump’s name is a reference to pumpkins.
- Skid and Pump both have slightly different details compared to their appearance in their series:
- Skid's mouth markings depict 2 pairs of lines located near both ends of his mouth rather than one line near both ends and 2 pairs around the center. His eyes are shaped differently as well. His bones in his torso and arms are also different.
- Pump lacks the square tooth outline on his pumpkin head mask and is instead depicted with fang outlines around the upper ends of his mouth. The mask is also lumpier and has a more realistic stem shape.
- Concept art of Skid and Pump with their costumes depicted them with a blob-like shape and different looks without their costumes on.[9]
- Skid and Pump are the youngest characters in Friday Night Funkin' with confirmed ages. Skid is 8 years old while Pump is 7.
- They are also visibly the smallest characters in Friday Night Funkin', as they only surpass Boyfriend’s size when Skid sits on Pump.
- Skid and Pump are the first characters in Friday Night Funkin' to sing together as a duo, the second being Mommy Mearest and Daddy Dearest in Week 5 and Boyfriend and Girlfriend during the last track of Week 7, Stress although only the former sings.
- In a Tweet made by PhantomArcade, he confirmed that Spookeez is sung by Pump while South is sung by Skid,[10] despite both of them appearing to be singing together.
- Skid and Pump's week used to be the shortest in Friday Night Funkin' with only 2 tracks. This was due to the week's third track Monster being cut from the game due to charting issues. This left Skid and Pump's week a track short up until version 0.2.8, which properly added the unused track into the game.
- Skid and Pump have an unused sprite where they would have exclaimed "yeah!", which would have possibly served a similar purpose to Boyfriend's peace sign pose used during Tutorial and Bopeebo. According to a Tweet by PhantomArcade, it would have been used for one of the songs in Week 2, although he forgot which one, and it wasn't included because "Kawaisprite be doin his thang, so we don't force it."[11]
- According to PhantomArcade during a Twitch stream, Week 2 happens after the defeat of Mommy Mearest in Week 4.
- Boyfriend has appeared in Skid and Pump's series. In "Spooky Month 3 - Unwanted Guest," he makes a brief cameo as a plushie inside a store.[12] In "Spooky Month - Tender Treats," a trick-or-treater is dressed as him.[13]
- The two characters were originally named Skidd and Pumpy,[14] but their names were later changed/simplified to Skid and Pump when "Spooky Month 2 - The Stars" was released.
- In "Spooky Month 4 - Deadly Smiles," when Skid and Pump appear in front of Susie's camera when she's livestreaming, someone says in the chat "ARE THOSE THE KIDS FROM MONDAY NOON MOVING?",[15] referencing Friday Night Funkin' and the appearance of Skid and Pump in the game, as some younger fans think Skid and Pump are originally from FNF and not Spooky Month.
- Additionally, in "Deadly Smiles," there is a drawing of Skid and Pump on a fridge that references their appearance in FNF.[16]
- Sr Pelo has revealed some Pump-specific facts through Twitter:
- It is implied that "Pump" is not Pump's real name. According to "Spooky Month 4 - Deadly Smiles" at the 13:14 mark, the Mother's Day art[17] and a Tweet by Sr Pelo,[18] his real name begins with "Wil."
- Pump's parents are rarely around, since they both work out of town.[19]
- Pump and his sister, Susie, are currently living with their grandfather, as seen in "Spooky Month 4 - Deadly Smiles."
- Skid doesn’t like cats.[20]
- Skid has never had cavities, but Pump has due to his stubbornness.[21]
- Skid & Pump would survive Five Nights at Freddy's with the power of friendship.[22]
Gallery
View Skid and Pump's full gallery here.
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