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25 to 27 minutes: No More Show![]

  • Firey (says he) deserves the BFDI because he won the first season, so he needs something else by which to be remembered. Okay, then.
  • Taco wasn't even in RLBFDI as anything other than an extra and a potential contestant who was rejected in favour of Aww Seriously, but she wants to rewatch the contest that was in honour of her most emotionally stable friend, Barf Bag.[1]
  • Leafy wants it because of something that has to do with Firey.
  • Woody takes the BFDI to the stop the fighting and make his wish for world peace come true. Omg, he sounds like somebody from Yo Gabba Gabba! I don't know who it is, but that's, that's where Woody, like, belongs, now, oh my gosh!
  • Spongy crushes Woody with his size and calls for the BFDI to be his because he's already been eliminated four times (three times, successfully). Wait, all this time I thought these two were distant friends because they were considered lesser; now they aren't?
  • Blocky: BFDI = his own show. Literally.

Just like episode 16 has its own climax, this episode has its tension peak with all the contestants struggling to pull something out of somebody else's crushing grip; in this case, it's the BFDI. There's even a special "pulling" sound effect from the cast that I've never heard in an episode before. It sounds like someone taking do-do.

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Vibing to the early 2010s: I think I have a cheap version of the supervan's interior that includes pictures of parts of limousines (as of early 2013).

Meanwhile, Ruby drives the FreeSmart Supervan through the Evil Forest. BFDIA vibes! Even the van's interior design hasn't strayed from its BFDIA aesthetic, my favourite and the one that has inspired me the most when creating my own BFDI-related assets. Oops, shouldn't be making such commentary; this ain't the Oscars. It's a little jarring to see the temporary inhabitants of the van with modified 2017-era assets, but it still brings me back.

Thérèse spots Four in the form of a blue Christmas tree, and she uses her magic index finger[2] to accidentally catch his attention (Four: GOG! JUST LEAVE ME ALONE ALREADY!)—he leaves the woods and heads towards the Evil Canyon. I'm starting to get a hang of the canonical geography of the series, and what, only in the last episode?[3] I shall headcanon the desert to be the Kalahari of Botswana (in BFDI/A the Bechuanaland Protectorate) and the Evil Locations to be in some far-off place in Kenya, not exactly Nairobi, but close.

On the bus, the pseudo-constipated noises continue, but then the bus falls and everyone basically stops fighting because of the sudden catastrophe. You know, the same thing happened in that ’80s kids movie with the racist metaphors—no, that was different. Never mind. Anyway, Firey tells Flower that the world went sideways and Announcer says that the bus is actually dangling off a cliff. Then Purple Face says that the bus drives itself, so that clears up the armless-driving bit. I am so relieved to have heard such delightful information.

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Elementary school kids' dream: No more school!

After Spongy has another monologue in which he says he can get the BFDI, Taco tells him (and presumably everyone who isn't robotic) to shut the heck up because they're all acting like humans, and then she tells them to get off the bus. That's what happens when you don't have the MONEY. As is customary in times of danger, everyone obeys except Flower—the winner—and the Announcer and P.F. And the BFDI, at which everyone makes crowd noises. They're so stubborn. I can't imagine that this plot would have taken place if Gelatin won instead of Flower.

On the bus, Flower, Announcer and Purple Face are still fighting over the BFDI, as they individually believe they are the sole owners of a device with de jure unknown functions. We all know it's just a box replaying the first season, but we (another spoiler) never see it in action. The fight goes on for about thirty seconds and then the Announcer reveals that there are no more copies of BFDI. Huh?

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"Chahar" the Courthouse: For a few minutes in 1973, this was the kingdom's most popular tourist attraction.

Everyone in the Supervan notices Four covering the abandoned Afghanistanesian courthouse rather awkwardly (Balloony: Not a great disguise, buddy): you can probably see his big head from kilometres away. That's when Four sinks into the ground once more, but this time we can see his cartoonish eyes cover the ground. Someone should jump up and down on them and tell us how it feels. X is upset that his Four is getting carried away and tells his fellow travellers that BFDI is something that seriously means a lot to him. Like, a lot. Even more than Numberjacks.

Flower confronts the Announcer about how the BFDI is really the BFDI—there's not much else to do when you're on a bus dangling off a cliff. He tells her that there are some clips on the Internet, and for some reason I know that those clips are only what we (the human audience members of this dimension) get to see, i.e. there is a lot more BFDI than what has been animated. And if that is true, then what the hell are we missing? Part of me hopes that it's just filled with evidence that Pencil and Pen were in a committed relationship throughout the series and we unenlightened ones had no idea.

26 to 30 minutes: Choo Choo![]

I was originally going to headcanon Shampoo (the recommended character from TPOT) as being from one of the outlying provinces of Afghanistan. But then I thought, Senegal is a wonderful country and it would be great to get some more representation from French-speaking Africa.[4]

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We like your presence: Being there, the BFDI, all of that.

Back to the episode: Flower makes the first grand speech in the finale, singing the praises of a self-loathing Purple Face and telling him that she has been treated like crap too, so she sympathizes with his problems. She actually cares about him because he wasn't an extremely violent being like Four. I suppose there are worse people on this planet.

Gelatin and Lollipop say they all have to get on the the high-speed express train with much rapidity, as long as they can arrive in Afghanistan before Four does. Four takes note and rushes onto the train with him as the locomotive, ejaculating "choo choo" in the process. That's something Little Eva never sang about.[5]

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Frick yeah!: And you wonder why these two are my favourites of the final umpteen.

After Lollipop says that this plan was a slight bummer, Balloony begins one of the most iconic dialogue sequences in this finale:

  • Balloony: Ah feel conflicted. Oan th' one hawn, ah fin' Four's presence gye scary 'n' alarmin', b't then he gaes 'n' says "Choo choo!", which mist be, like, th' least threatenin' phreese ever. Ya ken whit ah mean?[6]
  • Ruby: Choo choo! [slaps an unreactive Balloony to the ground] Think again, balloon buddy!

This is comedy gold.

With the express train gone thanks to a certain digit, they decide to take the steam train… and look behind a bush in the background for a certain recommended character who appears in, like, all the new episodes. Her name is Steamy—in RLBFB, she was an aristocratic Danish woman from Copenhagen called Christine "Stine" Dam.[7] For a finale, it's pretty devoid of extra characters, innit?

Purple Face confesses that he has been quite selfish, and he says that Flora, since she has changed so much, deserves the BFDI. Announcer parrots his words, but Flower, probably drenched in the pressure of literally being too gifted, says that the BFDI isn't worth getting if it means forgetting that she was called honourable—in other words, she's giving it to her new friend, the Announcer. Woah![8]

The bus also falls down the cliff, but nobody cares because it's empty.

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The finale's not over yet: "Thank goodness there's not some other even bigger confhlict going on. That would be hlame."

Firey says, hey, this problem is solved and we can all join hands and teach the world to sing in perfect harmony. A moment of what TV Tropes calls "Fridge Horror" is underway here, and they all notice that the desert is no longer blue. Something is wrong. Really wrong.

Gelatin and Lollipop corner X—literally; he's on the edge of the train—and get him to say why it is that Four is so in love with BFDI. He explains a bit of the events that occurred before BFB existed. Flashback time!

31 to 33 minutes: The Four Is Pursuit[]

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Your own private cinema: Once upon a time, X was the more mature one.

Not for the first time in the series—that was last episode, mind you—we get a glimpse of the world after "X Finds Out His Value" and before RLBFB. This scene has to have taken place between 1963 and early 1965 (I'm leaning towards the earlier year). This is because Four is sitting on the floor and staring at the screen with wonder, like an excited child who has switched off Disney Junior for HBO Max. He's watching the seventeenth episode of BFDI, presumably right after it first aired then.

I guess Four and X have inherited a mansion together just because it looks like they're in a house wealthy enough to have a screen projector and smushy lounge chairs. You can't go wrong with lounge chairs. Ah, the sixties. Anyway, Four gets all happy because BFDI is one of the coolest shows in Number World. He's even memorized some of the lines, as some of us have.[9] He tells X that one day, he shall be worshipped as the greatest host who has ever lived. And then his face gets all evil.

The flashback jumps forward a bit to when "the second season finished", when Four goes on the bewitched electronic box and turns his compiled episodes into a floating white block called the BFDI. Wait, so RLBFDIA did get a chance to finish? This is exactly the kind of deleted scenes we as fans crave. The BFDI belonged to Four the entire time, and the fact that it's the only one of its kind in existence makes it even sadder. So why would he put it up for adoption in BFB 1 in the first place, then?

Gelatin and Lollipop realize that they were assholes to the number that they chose to compete under, and in truth everyone was a butthat in their behaviour. No one is right. It's like everyone is losing here. This is why everyone leaves the locomotive depressed. Gelatin is quick to turn things around, though, as he convinces the others to make it their mission to save their favourite number from their ultimate sadness (X: Hey, hey, hey, it's Faaaaat Albert! / Gelatin: [sweats a tear that looks suspiciously like Teardrop] Won…).[10]

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The end of Flower's rage: DID YOU SOMEHOW THINK WE WERE ASKING YOU WHAT HAPPENED TO US!!!?!?!?!!

Meanwhile, Flower approaches Profily and everyone asks what has happened to make the desert un-blue, and they give a funny answer: "You left, and then you came back." Well, then! Profily decides to be the opposite of lazy and arrange something secret with half of the ex-contestants, while the other half find themselves by the old temple of what's-it-called. I know there's supposed to be a specific name for it; I don't know. Maybe it's in Indo-Bacterian.

Balloony realizes that Four can only be in a place he knows all too well. No, not Scotland—it's the B-R-motherhecking-B! Indeed, as we get a glimpse of Four transformed into the building, with a series of empty cages revolving around him. When we first saw the BFB in its entirety, it was already scary (how can they sleep in there?), but now that the top has been replaced with Four's bigger, angrier, it's pretty darn unsettling.

But most people don't find this a problem, and Teardrop even offers to climb onto the BRB with the others in tow. That's a Team Ouasimsaimsaoidamśdsajda moment right there; she's certainly used to carrying the rest of her drama-filled team to the moon on her back (or was that Saw)[11], so carrying a bunch of drama-resolved people up a tower-turned-algebralien must be a breeze in comparison.

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Super fast!: I remember now! It was the episode with the three little pigs.

Things take a turn for the worse—as is usual for Four in times of his rage—and Four says that he has reached the damn limit. He ceases his tower diabolepsy and catapults himself up into space.[12][13] Ruby is excited because Four going into space at breakneck speed is much more entertaining than any amusement park ride that is forced to stay on Earth (Ruby: WE'RE FLYING!).

And then Four possesses the Sun. Oh my Lord, global warming is fixed.

34 to 36 minutes: Star of Wonder[]

Well, maybe not global warming, but it does have an effect on the entire Solar System. Now inhabitants of all nine eight planets are forced to gaze upon the hideous mug of what was once a Four-shaped being.[14] You shouldn't look directly at the sun in the first place, and that's an order.

As Flower and Firey walk towards an unspecified place while carrying a bunch of things as if they're going out for a night on the virtual town, the sun turns blue and everything gains an unattractive blue hue. That reminds me of a movie I saw about a hundred years ago, where they changed the colour of the film to match the mood, as film in colour wasn't so popular back then. Thank you, Four, for bringing us back to the silent age of cinema. Flower doesn't seem very shocked about this, because as soon as she sees the sun turn to Four, she judges the others' efforts to save him as about as good as she expected so far. Ha!

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Ô! Soleil soleil: The more screen time he gets (even outside TPOT), the less likely he'll be eliminated. That's usually how it works.

The camera then pans extremely quickly from the Botswana desert to "somewhere in Kenya", the former filming spot of RLBFB, and that's where we see… it can't be! It's Two! The one who stole Four's contestants! They haven't shown their face since episode 17.[15] Even better is that we get to see one of the Four-abandoners run over to them! Yep, it's Clock, who at this point is a representative of TPOT contestantry.[16] He runs over to Two with great concern and asks them to fix the Sun because he doesn't like sudden changes that happen for no logical reason and will go great lengths (though not great enough to be innovative) to get things back in order. Oh, those ISTJ's.[17] Anyway, Two says they don't want to get involved in Four-related drama, so they continue to play with miniature Blocky clones[18] and assert that they are green, not blue. It is the early seventies (Music: What's happened to the water, our water's going bad.)

Back to BFB: Everyone has got Four cornered and trying to get him to talk, and it's vaguely serious, but then I watch Loser jump up and down saying, "Here, Four, Four, Four! Heeeeeere, Four, Four, Four, Four, Fourrrrr!" like a cow-wrangler or whatever the fuck they're called. A line to remember, that's what this is!

Four is annoyed by the harassment from his ex-contestants. In an animation style not unlike that of a modern kids' show on, say, Cartoon Network, he tells them to leave him alone and asks why they won't do that, and then Gelatin suddenly yells that everyone is mad at him. Oh, this just got real.

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Hybrid-y: So this is what it looks like when you're 6/7 letter and 1/7 HOMO SAPIENS

Gelatin gives the second large speech in the show, and probably the most emotional one at that—he goes on a full rant, telling Four about all his character flaws, all the terrible things he's done to the contestants, and that they have only tolerated it for so long, and how you can't expect people to support you if you don't even try to treat others in a humane way. I think that really tickles the emotional bones, but then at the end of Gelatin's rant I see X stood behind him, making a face more realistic and human-like than I've ever seen on him before.

Gelatin realizes that he shouldn't have said those horrible things, but Four realizes that it takes the words of someone else and not just figments of his imagination for him to realize that he did wrong. As always with this guy, he turns the negative into a positive and reminds him that there have always been people who have stuck with him for thirty episodes. The others help him on that by confirming that their competition experience wasn't as shitty as it seemed to the outside world. This is not a case of Stockholm syndrome; they're genuinely nice people!

Loser wonders if there's a way to show Four all the good times that they had, and not the bad. Yeah, ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive, everyone! This is the moment Chekhov's gun (not a literal one) comes into play and Gelatin pulls out the BFB. Wait, if he was holding on to Lollipop and Loser in the big chain that sent them into space, how'd he get the BFB up there?

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A number of people have this as their wallpaper: Oh yeah, I didn't do a review for this episode, so I haven't taken this screenshot before!

All my questions were quashed like an uprising in a dictatorship as soon as the BFB takes its true form. Gelatin presses the button and a familiar melody begins to play. Oh my gosh, is that the instrumental break from the recap song? I know my shit! Anyway, we get to see a very quick recap of all the wholesome moments in the series—note that this has been done before, like when Teardrop had her young life flash before her eyes when she was forced to join W.O.A.H. Bunch.[19] But this is so much happier. It's got Four and X being mates, the contestants (including a number of Four-abandoners) playing with those bouncy toys, Fireafy, Yellow Face bellowing "yaaaaaaaa", Four singing mothafuckin' BIG CHUNGUS to the instrumental stylings of the recap song and his dancing. Wow. Actually a touching scene here.

It's just a little thank-you gift from Gelatin and the contestants for Four's unique approach to hosting a season, and they couldn't be prouder. In fact, out of pure delight, Four turns the sun back to what it was before and tells Gelatin that he really deserved to win. He's even placed a bet on it with who knows. Hey, hosts can play favourites! Legally, they have to treat everyone fairly, but Four is above all social constructs like laws and stuff.

37 to 38 minutes: Four Is Not Over Party[]

I am not as much of a morning person as I thought. My words become wordier throughout the day.

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Du bist ein wahler gelber Freund: "Four-eyes" is another word for someone who wears glasses. Or a number with their eyes closed.

X comes into the scene and they don't even hug like they did before.[20] Why should they at this moment; he's been standing on the Four-turned sun all this time! At least Four gets his colour right by calling him yellow.

Now, with the force of goodness fully in his anatomy, Four teleports the contestants from the Sun to the desert and the other half of the contestants start cheering. The last time I heard that sound in a finale, they were cheering for Leafy's imminent death. Pretty gruesome! Gelatin tells Flower that they actually made it (counteracting her previous claims), and they couldn't have done it without the BFB. Aw, that's downright biblically sentimental!

Announcer calls Four cool and worthy of being his successor, and then Four thanks Purple Face for saving the show. Omg, it's just like that episode where they were supposed to throw parties for Four but instead spent it apologizing to each other. This time, though, it's been made right, as Profily has hosted a big "welcome home" party for Four. Wow. These non-original-final-fourteen do it hard.

That party set is so topical and radiates positive energy, plus it's full of references to past episodes!

  • One of Teardrop's drawings of Four from episode 10.
  • Four chairs arranged around a table.
  • A cake in the shape of Four.
  • Various images and paraphernalia depicting Four's time in the series, most of which show him with X.
  • A mould of Yellow Face, Foldy, Fries, Puffball and Stapy—not the actual contestants—arranged in 1969's hottest look, the one Four shot love hearts at.[21]
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Everyone: Let us rejoice in a celebratory fashion with Four!

The music gets all joyous again and Four commands everyone to party like there's no tomorrow. Leafy pulls him aside and says that most of this happened because of Profily's enthusiasm, and maybe they should be accepted as a real contestant, a conversation just about waiting to happen. Well, that's part of the unfinished business. I can relate to those kinds of chats, all the time actually.

39 to 40 minutes: And Then We All Lived Happily[]

Gelatin shows pictures of the following[22] party and then narrates it (Joaquin: So we all had a fantastic party to finish the season. We played games and ate food, and just got to hang out without the stress of the competition holding us down.) And then it gets all chaotic in terms of who speaks to whom, which is good because it's the finale and a lot of things do get sorted out. Right here, the loose ends are tied together and what's left of iance invite Flower to eat the Grand Cake together. Hey, that's really nice! I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think, maybe, there's just a chance… that Flower is a better person for Bubble than Match was. Hell yeah!

Leafy laments to Firey about how well Flower and Gelatin have been getting along together with their prizes, but Firey doesn't really want to think about that bad past. And the bad news turns to good again as Leafy suggests that she and Firey should go away for a while to search for a new Dream Island. You mean to say that Fireafy is in the honeymoon phase now? Sque-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e! I'm not even a big shipper of those two—I've just accepted it as canon in P2O, for example—but this and the next scene with them just tugs at the heartstrings. We've done it; there is finally some closure to the first finale.

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Breaking ground: What would you like to try first? Steak or PANTS

But aside from Firey and Leafy, everyone has fun together as a group, even Spongy. And as an epilogue, we see most of the final fifteen just hanging out, just as they'd done in the first episode.[23] Gelatin even tells us that he and Flower, the two big business moguls even early on in the series, have teamed up to open a "steakhouse + fashion store". How would that work? I was in Vegas a long time ago and there was this restaurant that was so famous that you could get souvenirs of it, including clothes. People really love their Forrest Gump.

It is then revealed that Gelatin has been telling his comic story to his closest friends, Flower, Lollipop, Bubble, Ruby and Spongy, probably several time periods in the future after the finale. You can tell because the sky has turned orange. You know, the same thing happened in the RLBFB finale, except the sky was orange because it was on fire. It was meant as as an appeal to all the people of the world to stop contributing to the environmental crisis, but a burning sky is so normal for our generation that it's just fitting to use it for the final scene. Anyway, Gelatin has put his contest experiences in a comic called "BFB" (and he's not just narrating a fictional story), so that rules out any ideas that this entire series was just a dream. Gott sei Dank.

Before we get our final scene, there are few things that are pretty much teased to be mentioned in a future episode. Not just the stuff about Evil Leafy, Golf Ball being beaten with a spiked club or things like that, but brand new information that we desperately need answers to!

  • In Gelatin's—uh—flashback, we see Four, X, the Announcer and Purple Face chattering amongst each other behind a whiteboard with a few indistinguishable words on it and "NEXT SEASON!?" in big letters. Ooh, there's something in the air. Actually, right after this episode came out, there were already a bunch of discussions on the Reddit about what might happen in season six. Yep, we're already thinking about it.
  • In the penultimate scene before the credits, Ruby mentions that Teardrop has been missing for a day. That's when Lollipop says that we (what does she mean by we?) shall see her sooner than we think. I hope she either starts her own adventurous mini-series or runs off to TPOT. Not to be a contestant in it or anything, but to be a recurring extra. Tearpot.
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Never have I ever: … seen Total Drama Island, but I feel like this is what their backgrounds look like. You know, because it's a totally dramatic island.

Ah, finally, the last scene! Firey and Leafy end up together in a boat shaped like a carrot cake and sail off to who knows where. It's good that they're in a boat, because you can't sail airplanes.[24] Flower asks them from the shore if they're going to be okay in the great beyond, and Frederic says that maybe she should consider recovering one of them now and then, and they head off with much farewell.

  • Flower: [seeing two old enemies-turned-friends in one direction and a number of new ones in the other] I really did win, didn't I…

Day turns to night and the last thing we see is Firey and Leafy disappearing into the horizon… and then, in that old BFB font, "the end". Fade to black.

41 to 42 minutes: Journey's Conclusion Not Found[]

But wait, there's more! As usual for these newer RegularBFB episodes, we get a view of the real world that never existed back in the RLBFB days.[25] Even though Jnj make videos on other channels for anyone to watch, I'll miss seeing the third dimension and the slew of recommended characters that pop up at the end of each episode. That didn't happen in old BFB, and I can't imagine Saah-saah-kumba-kumba and Toki Pona doing that for TPOT.[26]

So yeah, Cary and Michael give one last hurrah for BFB as it comes to a close, and it's, as you might expect, rather profound. They thank us for watching, they thank the crew for crewing and they make the word algebralien canon. In addition to that, they're also figuratively passing the torch of object showity to AnimationEpic's Adam Katz, the voice of one of the Four-abandoners. (At the time of writing, the new Inanimate Insanity is out with its second episode. Hooray!)[27] It's pretty cool to give out a shout-out to I.I. I mean, Michael did lend his voice to the Puffball Speaker Box there, but... I digress. It's pretty cool that the creators of BFDI are referencing Inanimate Insanity because, like, for the most part they've been very laissez-faire about which object shows people like to watch. I don't know, I thought it was a nice touch.

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Another pog: What would happen if Pen saw 😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲 on the streets? For once, he wouldn't fall in love with his face.

Oh yeah, and there's a recommended character whose name and appearance are just a number of "Pen mouth open" poses from the beginning of episode 14.[28] There recs are wild these days. Like, we as the fans have gone all out in whom we want Jnj to draw: Long Pencil, Singapore (with five eyes), Em (the "—" symbol), Pride Cat Firey, BFB 1-29 Thumbnail Fusion. There can never be a finite number of objects in this universe.

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Four & X will be back: Better than their being front uck-uck-uck-uck-uck WOAH

So yeah again, Cary and Michael tell us they're taking a break from BFDI, which is fine as all hell. They need one, damn it! And so begins their hiatus and my own presumed creative peak, because those always happen when episodes aren't in the works. But we still have TPOT 2 to look forward to as well. No rush there! [looks at unfinished yearbook] Ha ha.

43 to 44 minutes: Hej![]

Ah, the post-credits scene.

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Say it one more time: Damn it, should have put that Fat Albert quote here.

Night. Fireafy are still in their little boat and Leafy makes a comment that the first word spoken in the season was "hey", and it would be cool if the last word was also "hey". It's not like the last finale when Match and Pencil were talking about the same thing, because the guy who said the first word in BFB is sadly no longer with us. So Leafy tells Firey that they just need to find the right moment to say it. And so begins a series of funny utterances not unlike the classic "Who's on First?" sequence.

Omg, what if they're going to Sweden? People say "hey" there all the time! Sometimes they even do it in really formal situations where many Americans would respond with "Hay is for horses."[29]

But then this happens.

  • X: Hey, I need to borrow this! [takes the motor] Thanks!
  • [ Firey · Leafy ]: Hey!

And with a grand orchestral stab, the episode, and thus the fourth season of BFDI, ends.

A quote I found funny: "BLOCKY'S VOTE IS NOW LOCKED IN FOR FLOWER" – Announcer.

Awesome moments: The whole thing, especially the ending.

This episode's MVPs: Flower and Gelatin (of course), but Ruby and Balloony also have their moments.

Final thoughts[]

It is currently 1:00 in the afternoon, which means I have been working on this finale review for… 28 days. Well, it's finished, and considering that this is the longest episode of any object show I've ever seen, let alone reviewed, I'm inclined to say once more that it's finished! Of course, I'm not talking about my episode reviews in general, because we've also got TPOT and other things to come, but I feel so relieved that I think I should like to have a tiny break.

Oh yeah, and congrats to Jacknjellify for ending a prolific series on such a great note! Watching the last episode of BFB really proved that my object show-related slump is a thing of the past, and I'm really looking forward to the new things that object show fans and creators in general will do in the future. This episode really cleared up some of the nagging questions we've had, like what the hell happened to Four as the ground? Who's going to get the prizes, and what will they do with them? Will Loser get more lines? But at the same time, it raised a few more questions, like where are the EXIT-ers right now? Was Four the only one exposed to BFDI when it first aired? Will Teardrop get a well-deserved spin-off?

Every character had a chance to improve, and they did. And not improve in the sense of getting rid of their old character flaws, because Flower has turned into a slightly sarcastic person with tiny traces of her ancient personality (which I enjoyed), Blocky and Woody are still in the prank business together, even Profily got a redemption arc by being all matey with Four… Four… Four… oh, that number's characterization was phenomenal and, in a way, explains so much.

I didn't realize this until I watched it later, but according to the episode credits, the writing was done by exactly one person: a Sam Thornbury (i.e. TeenChampion). At first I thought that was a mistake, because it's impossible for somebody to write an entire 43-minute episode of a show that they didn't even create. But then I remembered Object Universe and how it was still pretty well-structured, even in 2012, and I have to say, this dude deserves a lot of credit. I kind of feel bad expressing how horrified I was when I imagined what his old characters sound like now. And sure, he probably consulted with the crew on, like, pointers for dialogue and stuff, but it doesn't erase the fact an episode the length of a TV movie was written by one person. If that's not motivation for all of you to think of ways to be creative, then I don't know what will be.

So, this episode review might be done now, but… I'll be back. With pictures and stuff.

Line analysis[]

For the latest line analysis encompassing all of BFB (which includes episode 30), see this page.

Notes[]

  1. BFDI 15: All of it.
  2. What does that mean?
  3. In hindsight, these things were probably already known at the time. Again will I blame my slump.
  4. I mean, there's Bomby who's from Burkina Faso (then "Upper Volta"). But I saw a documentary about life in Senegal from a Black American perspective and it really opened my eyes.
  5. "Come on, baby, do the Four-o-motion!" It was a big hit during the earlier RLBFDI episodes.
  6. Translated not by websites who have yet to realize that Scots is a distinct language, but by Scotranslate. Pencil (in P2O) speaks in an accent that doesn't suggest a particular place in Great Britain, but Jamie Blaine does 100%.
  7. Her surname was originally Damp (Danish for "steam"), but as she puts it, »P« er for ubehøvlede væsner, som ikke er mig ("P" is for uncouth creatures that I am not").
  8. Bunch.
  9. "That was the easiest thing I've ever done!"
  10. I don't know where that came from. I was on a roll for a second there!
  11. BFB 6: 5:47–49.
  12. Hey, another Disney Junior reference! Remember the Little Einsteins episode where, I forgot the plot, but the Little Einsteins had to go to three places, one was Machu Picchu, the other was China (I think) and the last was outer space. And, and, and the soundtrack was Rossini's Guillaume Tell; that I absolutely remember!
  13. Final Disney Junior reference: it's Firey Jr.'s favourite channel. He might know how to read and write, but he's still a kid.
  14. That sounded mean. Four isn't ugly.
  15. Chronologically speaking, that's not true.
  16. I mean, we did see Pin, Gaty and Saw in the previous episode, albeit as silent, sitting cameos.
  17. [Sees unofficial MBTI results.] Shit.
  18. I was so excited at my man Khaled's presence that I didn't even notice Two somehow moving in front of the blocks without actually moving (33:11).
  19. BFDIA 2: 3:04–12.
  20. BFB 10: 4:18. When I did that episode review, I referred to it as "motorboating" that's what they call it in dictionaries. I didn't even know it was sexual because that's what Alan the balloon did in an episode of Gumball.
  21. BFB 4: 7:30–39.
  22. What's the opposite of previous? Never mind, found it.
  23. Y todo' no' relakhamos y no' divertimo' durante un tiempo. Shaunque alguna' cosa' siguieron igual, también se abrieron nuevas oportunidade' muy interesantes. Y mientras algunos querían toma'se un tiempo libre, otro' nos animamos a pensá'n el futuro. Pero, de verdad, cualquier camino me parece el correcto mientras ehté con mi' mekhores amigos.
  24. BFB 12: 11:00–02 – poor Freddy. I'm listening to Enya again: "Whoooooo caaaaan saaaaaay where the SPOOOOONGE goes…"
  25. Mostly due to the fact that the Jacknjellify of the 1970s wanted to keep themselves on the down-low, if you know what I mean.
  26. Nothing against them, of course, but I didn't even know what they looked like until, like, the end of 2020 when I was on the Other Wiki. I should imagine that some viewers, especially the young, elderly and plushies, would also be very confused if they saw anyone but the Huang brothers say something on the Jacknjellify channel.
  27. I'm going to watch it right after this.
  28. BFDI 14: 00:01.
  29. I may have mentioned this on this very wiki before, but I knew someone in middle school who, when she heard that phrase, would whisper, "And grass is for cows."
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