Fortunate Ben

Fortunate Ben is the fifth episode of Battle for BFDI. It was most likely to be released on January 5, 2018, but since the script took two weeks to write, Thomas Chick announced on HTwins Central that he just got the script, meaning the episode was delayed. The episode was finally released on January 12, 2018.

Team Beep lost again!

Liy was eliminated with 7553 votes and Pie was the runner up with 3995 votes.

Trivia

 * This is the first episode to be aired in 2018.
 * This is the first BFB episode to air in the month of January.
 * Pie has the second-highest number of votes. This is possibly due to her lack of appearances and contributions in the past few episodes. The majority voted Pie because she didn't show up in Today's Very Special Episode, but showed up only in the intro.
 * This will be the first time in BFB that a contestant whose name doesn't start with "B" gets the least votes (Bubble, Balloony, Bomby).
 * This was pointed out in the episode, although Pen had an excuse that this fact was incorrect
 * Pen revealed that his legal name is "🅱️en."
 * The scene referenced the popular joke within the usage of the emoji.
 * It is likely that a team that hasn't lost yet will lose, based on the past episodes.
 * That could mean the teams who have been up for elimination before (iance, Beep, Team Ice Cube! and Death P.A.C.T.) may be safe from suffering elimination.
 * However, this was not the case and Beep is up for elimination again.
 * This is the fourth time in a row that the record of votes has increased and the votes entirely of the episode.
 * This is first time somebody that is not a team captain is eliminated.
 * If BFB 3 wasn't delayed, then the episode would be released on December 29th, 2017.
 * In Cary's reaction to Today's Very Special Episode, he said that this episode and future episodes of BFB would have more locations.
 * That was indeed the case for the challenge's setting took place in an area with a cliff and multiple plants around.
 * This is the first episode where all contestants have received at least 1000 votes each in the previous episode.
 * The current vote count is 134 more votes than in Today's Very Special Episode.
 * Despite the episode being a week late, the voting period still ends in 48 hours.
 * Cake was promised to have more spotlight, but this was not the case in the official episode.
 * Beep were the first team to be up for elimination twice
 * This is the second time a BFB episode came out without a thumbnail.
 * Nobody from The Losers! had any lines.
 * Everyone from Death P.A.C.T. had lines.
 * Ruby has developed and has mixed feelings on Flower's beauty, in her view, it depends on the position.
 * Flower appears to be on the first thumbnail, although it was not official.
 * Liy's previous design (how she looked like in real life (from BFDI APPISIOTE 225555555!!!!!)) was shown to be inside Liy.
 * Liy has shown that she has the ability to switch between levers.
 * David has shown that he has the ability to open his outline.
 * David uses the advantage to steer his team to victory, although failing due to Free Food's unintentional sabotage.
 * Nickel shows a passion in art.