The next day, Tattletail was put in the washer by the player's mother. Then later the player puts Tattletail back in his box and wraps it back up so that no one notices. Tattletail starts out with no battery power, his fur all messy and very hungry until he tells the player to brush him, give him a treat and charge him up. Tattletail is one of the presents of a little kid who checks his presents 5 days before Christmas. They saw Mama presumably savagely and evilly bite a Waygetter worker's eyes and another one and they wanted to banish Mama for her crimes. He and his buddies were playing hide and seek with Mama.
Tattletail and his buddies were on a toy commercial by Waygetter Toys. Peterson from Hello Neighbor to jump scare Little Apple, who all revealed to be Orange, Pear, Grapefruit, and Marshmallow teaching him to lay off the horror video games he had been playing. Mama Tattletail makes her first appearance in the series as she appears with the same dialogue from the game, and ends up killing Egg as the scene cuts to black ending with Mama Tattletail saying, “I’ll always love you.” Tattletail made a brief appearance in the episode “Trick or Treat on Horror Street” as Orange and the gang go trick-or-treating on “Horror Street,” Tattletail appeared as Halloween treats each wrapped and placed in a bowl at the house from the game where Mama Tattletail jump scares Orange, Pear, and Little Apple (erroneously called Midget Apple), and captures Pears as she shouts “Don’t leave me!” Mama is later joined by Freddy Fazbear, Ink Bendy from Bendy and the Ink Machine, and Mr. Tattletail” when Orange meets Tattletail who both disrupt and annoy an egg during quiet time in the kitchen from the game. The second appearance was made in the episode “Annoying Orange vs. Tattletail made appearances on three episodes in the Annoying OrangeYouTube series for “Shocktober 2017.” Following the Let’s Play videos of the game on the Annoying Orange Gaming channel, Tattletail first made his debut on the episode, “Ask Orange #35: Shocktober Surprise!” when a fan made a comment about Pear looking like a Tattletail. The player is then offered the choice to either go back to bed or enter the dangerous Kaleidoscope going to the Kaleidoscope results in the 'good' ending in which the player will retrieve their memories going to bed results in the 'bad' ending in which Tattletail will stay boring forever. Each night 'ends' with a letter explaining that something went wrong, and the final letter explains that a place called the Kaleidoscope, where all memories are stored, is what's causing the changes. The player then gradually remembers one night back and has to play through each night again in reverse order with the events and circumstances of the nights being similar, except Mama is now a friendly and caring character. At the front door, the player finds a package and an anonymous letter claiming that Tattletail 'wasn't like this' and 'this isn't how it happened at all'. However, it looks slightly different, talks in a boring monotonous voice and then glitches out. In the free KaleidoscopeDLC, the player awakens on Christmas Day to find their present, a purple Baby Talking Tattletail. This ending will result in returning to the main menu with no progress. Although technically this ending was a glitch, it was awarded soon by the Waygetter Company with its own Tattletail dialogue.
The player will then need to open the door of their mother's room and wake her up, triggering a white screen. Tattletail will then proceed to give the player a series of gifts - its birth tag and a golden flashlight.