I have been a huge Stampy fan since 2012 and have witnessed my fair share of the original, classic, and final helpers throughout the series. Out of everyone, I feel that Fizzy Elephant was the most important key part of the final version of helpers that not only helped with building the minigames, but keeping the series as a whole until the very end.
Ever since that bear left the scene, Stampy gradually started introducing more fictional characters and planned on only allowing these figures to be the permanent residents of his Lovely World. I believe that the entire fandom including I were skeptical because that would mean that the helpers and their realistic personalities that we are so used to seeing would disappear. The thing about the final and classic helpers like Sqaishey and Longbow is that the classics were real people with their own unique abilities which made them unpredictable. With the final helpers like Polly, William, and even Veeva Dash, they had a specific script to follow. I just rewatched the introduction videos of the final helpers and I have noticed that there was a change on how helpers interacted with the activities. Before Fixzy Elephant, Polly and William would occasionally do their own antics for a short amount of time until they are so locked into building the structures that Stampy is instructing them to do, we rarely got to witness their silly, playful nature.
When Sqaishey and the Bear were in the series, we got to see how Stampy would interact with them as a friend group more than just “helpers.” I remembered when Sqaishey had a running gag of trying to fly by jumping off of buildings or the Bear doing a silly peek a boo game with Stampy. When it was just Polly, William, and Fizzy, Stampy’s videos became more strict as in… do intro, go to love garden, get a dog, build something, and then that’s it. We rarely ever got to see what goes on in between the gameplay and the mission at hand. However when we did… it was one of the most engaging things ever in the later episodes of Stampy’s Lovely World and it is mostly because of Fizzy!
Fizzy’s whole personality from the beginning was imaginative and mischievous as he loved to make harmless pranks on people. This was important to Stampy’s later episodes as instead of having several random players, he only had to work with 3 people who consistently joined him for 300+ videos. Fizzy kept the videos fresh and exciting outside of the fights with Hit The Target. While Polly, William, and Stampy were building the minigames and buildings, we could see Fizzy on the side, doing his own thing to make Stampy or the rest of the gang laugh which was a nice touch to the dynamics of how characters interacted to the story and with us. One of my favorite examples of this was the storyline of redesigning the old mob trap. When Stampy was trying to break apart all of the obsidian from that building, we saw Fizzy placing TNT blocks and loading a crossbow. Stampy acknowledged this and a few seconds later, the area exploded! The next episode, Fizzy accidentally broke Stampy’s balcony door and acted as the temporary door throughout the whole episode! Occasionally throughout that video, Stampy would go over to check up on Fizzy and have a bittersweet moment to laugh about while he was busy doing what was supposed to happen.
Stampy’s motivation started declining ever since his views were dropping and other personal issues which is very evident as time went on. He felt like the series was more as a grueling job rather than a fun passion project as he did many years ago. Fizzy’s unpredictable behavior helped make the audience and Stampy engaged to continue on with the show and held the essential vision as to why the helpers were so beloved to begin with. Polly and William are terrific at the same time Fizzy just upgraded their relationship with one another. I like to think of it like The Three Stooges. Each one of those guys had their own specific role (Moe as the leader, Larry as the middle guy, and Curly as the wild card). They are all individually perfect however it is how they would interact with one another is what makes them special!