Get to the Top in 500 Steps

Get to the Top in 500 Steps is the 11th episode of Battle for BFDI, and the 42nd episode overall of the Battle for Dream Island series.

Cold Open
The first scene shows Liy talking to Pencil about them never opening a door that had been in the EXIT for months. Stapy starts teasing Liy for being "too scared" to see what's beyond. Liy hits Stapy and informs him it's locked, then Pencil says She's never seen Four with a key for the door, to which Liy agrees. Stapy continues teasing Liy, which then she gets one of Stapy's staples from hitting him, and then turns it into a lockpick. Just when Liy is about to unlock the door, Four comes in, yelling for the contestants in EXIT to get back to their seats for Cake at Stake.

Cake at Stake
The intro plays on the class' screen. Four announces that 32543 votes were cast, and recaps that the eliminated contestant will compete in BFB again, as well as getting the entire cake. Roboty, 8-Ball, David, Stapy and Liy are consecutively declared not rejoining. Bracelety also loses the voting, and asks Four to pass to Ice Cube her drawing of the latter, which he refuses to do. Four then calls out Pencil, who is happy at first, but is told that she does not rejoin, and she needs to stop drawing on her desk. Leafy says to Loser that she'll be happy if either of them joins, which Loser, obviously, does not hear. Four says that Leafy rejoins, and Leafy starts crying tears of joy. Bracelety tries to get Leafy to pass the drawing to Ice Cube, but Leafy uses it as a tissue.

Post-Cake-at-Stake
8-Ball asks Liy whether she is sad she didn't rejoin, but she denies it, and claims that she found her "next adventure" in what lies beyond the EXIT door.

Meanwhile, in the outer world, Balloony is listening to the sounds inside Four. X comes in, claiming what Balloony does is unsafe, and dragging him out. Four announces to everyone that an eliminated contestant is about to rejoin, and after some speculating from the contestants (Match and Foldy) he emits Leafy. slowly backs away, not wanting her back. Leafy is saddened this, but she is actually placed on, in exchange for Pin's Gratitude Token. Leafy socializes with her new teammates, and gives Needle her cake, which she eats, horrifying Cake. Firey still doesn't remember Leafy.

Challenge
Eraser asks what the contest is. The eleventh contest is to pick one of your teammates to climb up stairs and press a button. The last team to do so loses. Four also remarks that flying isn't allowed in this challenge.

Flower volunteers for, and Snowball is upset that he wasn't picked. Fanny tries to confront him, and gets killed.

Coiny on The Losers! picks Needle to be their representative, with Firey being upset over not being chosen.

Book tells Lollipop that Taco will surely not be chosen, but the way she says it causes confusion. Gaty then intervenes and chooses Dora, since Book wants to learn more about her from the first episode.

When all the contestants start, Flower is pushed down by accident by Tennis Ball. Needle is the fastest and completes the challenge in around 5 seconds. Dora, however, stays still. Flower meanwhile tries to get past Tennis Ball, but he refuses to let her.

Match and Bubble
Bubble finally confronts Match about her being a hypocrite and not knowing the answers from two episodes ago.

Stinger
Teardrop, Needle, and Pin are sitting on some grass at night, when Needle gets some strange condition that causes Teardrop and Pin to look at her, and look concerned.

Votes (to rejoin)
32,543 votes were cast.

Credits

 * Written by:
 * Satomi Hinatsu
 * Kenzie Bryant
 * Animation:
 * Satomi Hinatsu
 * Kenzie Bryant
 * Caedmon Johnson
 * CGI Animation: Maroue Reus
 * Video Editing: Satomi Hinatsu
 * Sound Design and Editing:
 * Amor Boretto
 * Maroue Reus
 * Music: Michael Huang

Cast

 * Cary Huang as X, Spongy, Tennis Ball, 8-Ball, Grassy, Bracelety, Ruby, Pin, Match, and Marker
 * Michael Huang as Four, Robot Flower, Woody, Snowball, Donut, Eraser, Firey, Yellow Face, Coiny, Cloudy, Blocky, Book, Flower, Pencil, Pen, Bubble, Fries, Golf Ball, Loser, Puffball, and Leafy
 * Satomi Hinatsu as Black Hole, Basketball, Fanny, Saw, Bottle, Bomby, Balloony, Firey Jr., Gaty, and Clock
 * Kenzie Bryant as Taco, Barf Bag, Bell, Ice Cube, Cake, and Needle
 * Sam Lee as Pie, Lollipop, and Stapy
 * Cindy Jiang as Foldy and Pillow
 * Sabrina Barba as Lightning and Liy
 * Katherine Sun as Eggy and Naily (no line)
 * Thomas Chick as Tree
 * Graham Taylor as Gelatin (no line)
 * Adam Katz as Nickel (no line)

Trivia

 * Leafy is the 3rd contestant to get over 10,000 votes.
 * In addition, she is the first contestant to rejoin with over 10,000 votes.
 * Leafy is also the first female contestant to receive over 10,000 votes.
 * Leafy has gotten the most votes ever, surpassing Loser's elimination with 12,062 votes in BFB 7.
 * This is the first rejoin in BFB.
 * It is also the first rejoin since "The Glistening" (and technically IDFB 2).
 * Liy triggers the intro in this episode, making her the second eliminated contestant to do so. The first was Stapy.
 * Lollipop realizes what actually happened with Taco.
 * This is the third time Four mistakes  with Another Name Than That, the other two being BFB 2 and BFB 4.
 * The title of the episode is based off the HTwins.net game "Get to the top although there is no top" (aka GTTTATINT) and possibly "Goime 500".
 * However, there are no elements of Goime 500 present in the challenge.
 * Due to Leafy joining, they are back to 8 members again.
 * This is the second time  is in the bottom two.
 * This is the first BFB episode where Donut has no lines.
 * That means none of the contestants have lines in every episode of BFB.
 * On the seat that Loser was on, there was "Gruphetee" which were written on the recovery centers in BFDI.
 * Balloony's body was a straight line for 2 scenes, probably a knock-off to BFDI 18.
 * Recommended characters were supposed to appear in this episodeundefined, however, they didn't.
 * Despite all of being important in the plot to welcome Leafy, Clock isn't present throughout the entire episode.
 * This could be a reference to Enter the Exit, where Four wrote down to kill him on his checklist.
 * If this is true, then Clock is most likely dead.

Continuity references

 * Four holds his remote and says No flyers allowed., which references Fortunate Ben.
 * Liy says "I found my next adventure!" just like in BFB 4.
 * Flower says "Out of my way, I need my space!" just like in BFDI 1a and BFDI 23.
 * X floats up before Four announces the contest just like he did in BFB 1.
 * Flower using Non-Slip Shoes So Ha is a reference to BFDI 1a.
 * Yellow Face saying "You don't know anything" is a reference to what he said to Purple Face when he called Non-Slip Shoes So Ha! out of fashion.
 * Lollipop saying that the shoes are so 8 years ago, is a reference to Purple Face saying, that was 2 years ago, coincidentally, they are both purples.
 * When Eraser and Golf Ball asked what the next challenge is, it could be a reference to Getting Teardrop to Talk, when Eraser and Golf Ball ask what the first challenge is.
 * Leafy saying "Pin. Alliance remember?" is a reference to BFDI 1a, which means she still remembers their alliance.
 * Bottle saying hee hee as in Fortunate Ben and This Episode Is About Basketball.
 * Tennis Ball falling off the stairs is a reference to BFDI 11 when he failed to climb the stairs.
 * Needle's CGI effect after eating the cake is a possible reference to the Yoyle Metal effect after eating Yoyleberries.
 * Firey mentions how Coiny said he was slow, which was said in Cycle of Life.
 * X floats up to a platform, just like in Getting Teardrop To Talk
 * Snowball saying “why her, why not me” is a reference to Insectophobia Nightmare

Goofs

 * When Foldy and Flower are fighting, one of Flower's arms are un-attached to her.
 * When Needle gets teleported back to her team, Leafy's asset is overlayed with Eggy's