Is Fred sick? If you think about a writer like Stephen King, and you subscribe to the theory that he is sick, then you would say Fred is also. Stephen King has to think of morbid cinereous, and consider lots of death. Fred plays a laughing sound at some pretty sick times. So you have to consider the situation bad enough to be sad, but have it be funny in your head to play that sound. I don’t think Fred is a good or evil person. He’s just kind of stagnant. But I also think Howard could blow up a baby in front of him and he’d still come into work.