B.F.B. = Back From Beginning

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"B.F.B. = Back From Beginning" (BFB 28)
Season 4, Episode 28
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Duration	19:43
Challenge	Complete all of the previous BFB challenges
Winner(s)	Flower
Loser(s)	Gelatin Teardrop
Death(s)	Purple Face Gelatin Flower Teardrop Taco
Eliminated	Leafy (12,113 votes)
Contestants remaining	3/15
Left elimination place	Balloony Spongy Ruby Loser Bubble Blocky Firey Woody Profily Lollipop
Cake for Cake at Stake	A gold medal
Release date	January 15, 2021
Subtitles available in	English
Picture format	1080p (HD)
Written by	Sam Thornbury
Directed by	Cary Huang Michael Huang
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Previous	"Uprooting Everything"
Next	"SOS (Save Our Show)"
Previous	"You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?" (Season 5)
Next	"SOS (Save Our Show)" (Season 4)

“	The only one around here who is allowed to make a grand entrance is me!	”
	— Flower

"B.F.B. = Back From Beginning" is the 28^th episode of Battle for BFB, the 73^rd episode in-universe and the 60^th episode overall. It was released on Friday, January 15, 2021.

Characters

Main

• Announcer
• Four
• X
• Purple Face

Newbie Alliance

• Flower
• Gelatin
• Leafy (eliminated)
• Teardrop

Eliminated contestants

• Balloony
• Blocky
• Bubble
• Firey
• Lollipop
• Loser
• Profily
• Ruby
• Spongy
• Taco
• Woody

Cameo

• Example Contestants
• GO Guys
• Weird Speaker Box (Flower's party)

Mentioned

• Dora
• Saw

Recommended

• Football Player
• Frog
• Gramophone (debut)
• One
• Popcorn
• Popsicle
• Puppet
• Slingshot
• Steamy
• Ten
• Three
• USB
• Water Bottle

Plot

Cold open

The episode begins with X attempting to recover Purple Face. He manages to bring him back but leaves him in a glitchy state. X quickly despawns him with a snap of his fingers. Four encourages X, noting that recovery is challenging to master. Meanwhile, as Gelatin and Flower discuss the state of the show, a note falls through the bus roof with the message, "COME OUTSIDE." Flower steps out of the bus, calling out to whoever left the letter. The Announcer suddenly appears in front of her and triggers the episode's intro. Everyone is excited to see the Announcer return, but he announces his intention to reclaim the show from Four and X. Four and X argue that they managed the show well, but the Announcer swiftly lists their mistakes in Battle for BFB and Battle for B.F.D.I. Despite attempts to dismiss him with challenges like a rap battle with Purple Face or X calling the Announcer a "dork," nothing works. In frustration, Four decides that if he can't get rid of the Announcer, the Announcer can't get rid of him. He melts into the ground, transforming the Desert into himself. Gelatin tries eating some of the blue dirt and is immediately harmed, but X is too preoccupied to care.

Cake at Stake

The Announcer kicks off Cake at Stake, announcing gold medals as the prize. Teardrop, who is immune, receives a medal. Gelatin is also safe and gets a gold medal, though it's only half because the Announcer split the second one. This leaves Flower and Leafy at risk. Leafy looks worried, while Flower threatens to bite the Announcer if she gets eliminated in 4th place again. The Announcer initially shows fear but then reassures Flower that she is safe, awarding her the other half of the medal.

Before the challenge

Leafy is scared to head to the BRB, finding it terrifying, but the Announcer comforts her by promising to bring back all the eliminated contestants. He instructs X to bring them back, and X obliges. Loser inquires about the gray box and Four's whereabouts. Firey explains the gray box is the Announcer, but Loser remains indifferent, noting that X and Four's budget-saving allowed the purchase of props for the challenge.

Challenge

The challenge involves completing all the previous 27 episodes' challenges in sequence, similarly to "Hurtful!":

1. Episode 1: Contestants hand a basket to X, who is seated beside a pile.
2. Episode 2: Flower licks a jawbreaker while Gelatin smashes his head against one and dies. Teardrop breaks a jawbreaker with a basket to free Leafy. Gelatin revives and frees Bubble, while Flower eventually frees Firey after prolonged licking.
3. Episode 3: Teardrop completes a swing rotation and backflips off. Flower and Gelatin push each other on swings.
4. Episode 4: Teardrop finds a Four plush, while Flower and Gelatin submit it for the challenge.
5. Episode 5: Teardrop throws a paper airplane over marked ground.
6. Episode 6: Ruby gives Teardrop the Twinkle of Contagion, which she quickly returns.
7. Episode 7: Teardrop throws Loser, inside the Liar Ball, into a pit.
8. Episode 8: The Announcer asks Teardrop his favorite way to experience nature. Her silence matches the Announcer's preference. He then asks Flower for his favorite number, to which she answers 5. Gelatin, guessing incorrectly, eventually answers the Announcer's current favorite number, 362, correctly after several attempts.
9. Episode 9: Teardrop scores a basketball hoop.
10. Episode 10: Teardrop presents her Four plushie.
11. Episode 11: Teardrop climbs stairs and presses a button but pushes Flower off, causing her death.
12. Episode 12: Teardrop identifies Balloony over Blocky, disguised in a poor-fitting outfit.
13. Episode 13-14: Teardrop pulls an emerald from the ground.
14. Episode 15: Teardrop jumps over a lava pit.
15. Episode 16: Teardrop shakes her head at the idea of quitting BFDI: The Power of Two, but her actions cause X to believe otherwise and eliminate her. Flower agrees not to quit.
16. Episode 17: Flower drags X from the previous challenge.
17. Episode 18: Flower throws a ball at blocks.
18. Episode 19: Flower plants aloe vera seeds.
19. Episode 20: Flower pours water on X to stop his burning, leaving disturbed as X reignites himself.
20. Episode 21: Flower gives Woody a Bomby plushie.
21. Episode 22: Flower correctly identifies Lollipop as the thief of a bag, earning the title "Detective Flower."
22. Episode 23: Gelatin breaks cardboard tubes to free Purple Face from a cage.
23. Episode 24: Flower prepares a party for the Announcer, while Gelatin and Teardrop mess up the party room.
24. Episode 25: Gelatin and Teardrop retrieve totems; Flower places a rock at the sign.
25. Episode 26: Flower eliminates Profily with a simple declaration, while Teardrop throws them away.
26. Episode 27 (final challenge): Contestants race to climb ladders to escape the oven. Gelatin tells Teardrop to sabotage Flower, but the plan backfires, resulting in Flower's victory and immunity.

Stinger

Taco finds the Announcer spending money recklessly and warns him to be more frugal. She threatens to inform X, leading to the Announcer vaporizing her with a laser. X calls out for Four, hoping for his return, but receives no answer, leaving him despondent as a piano version of the BFB intro plays.

Still In The Running

Balloony 14th	Spongy 13th	Ruby 12th	Loser 11th	Taco 10th
Bubble 9th	Blocky 8th	Firey 7th	Woody 6th	Profily 6th
Lollipop 5th	Leafy 4th	Flower Merge	Gelatin Merge	Teardrop Merge

Votes

45,868 votes have been cast.

Icon	Name	Votes	% of Votes	% Swing	Rank	Voting Letter
	Gelatin	19,293	42.06%	+17.23%	1st	[B]
	Flower	14,463	31.52%	+5.43%	2nd	[A]
	Leafy	12,113	26.40%	-1.25%	3rd	[C]

Cast

• Cary Huang as Ruby, Spongy and X
• Ian Woodside as Gelatin
• Justin Chapman as Purple Face
• Kenzie Bryant as Taco
• Michael Huang as Bubble, Firey, Flower, Four, Leafy, Loser and Woody
• Niall Burns as Profily
• Sam Lee as Lollipop
• Satomi Hinatsu as Balloony

Trivia

• This episode marks the return of the Announcer in the present time since BFDI 25, which was 32 episodes ago (by release date) or 29 if one doesn't count BFDIA 5c, BFDIA 5d and BFDIA 5e as separate episodes. Because BFB 28 was made in 2021 and BFDI 25 was made in 2012, this is the first time the Announcer has appeared in 9 years.
  • By chronological order, this is excluding BFDIA 6, which took place in 2013, but was released in 2023.
• This is the first BFB episode to release in 2021.
• This is the second episode to take place in The Desert. In fact, Nobody in the finals other than Teardrop has ever been there before.
• This is the second episode where Gelatin is the first one safe, the first episode being "Get in the Van".
• A new plush was teased at the credits of the episode. They were hidden by a large coming soon image.
  • The identity of the plush was soon revealed in "Hello Woody! (Orders open on Monday)", where the plush was revealed to be Woody.
• This episode formerly featured the shortest gap between episodes of BFDI as TPOT 1 was released five days prior.
  • This record would soon be broken with the timeframe between TPOT 12 and BFDIA 13 being three days.
• For the first time since BFB 11, a BFDI episode comes out directly after another with no other video in-between.
• It's revealed that BFB will end with 30 episodes.
• This is the 3rd episode that shows the contestant(s) who gets eliminated in the thumbnail, the first being "The Tweested Temple" and the second being "The Hidden Contestant".
• For the first time since BFB 24, a Cake at Stake song is performed.
• Besides Loser, the other 3 contestants, Firey, Leafy & Bubble, that were the finalists in Season 1 were put inside a jawbreaker.
• With Leafy eliminated:
  • There are no more BFDI finalists left in BFB.
  • There are no more rejoiners left in BFB.
  • There are no more contestants that end with the letter "y" in their names.
    • Additionally, this is also the second season where a rejoiner gets 4th place.
  • There are no more members of either Beep or The Losers! left in BFB.
  • Leafy is the first and last contestant to be in 2 different teams in pre-split BFB to be eliminated.
  • This is the first time Leafy didn't get to the final 3.
  • Gelatin and Teardrop are the only Have Cots members remaining.
  • This is the third time Leafy hasn't been the first one safe with the first and second times being in "A Taste of Space" and "The Hidden Contestant".
  • Leafy has become the third BFB contestant to be eliminated again after rejoining, the first being Loser, who was eliminated again in "Let's Raid The Warehouse", and the second being Spongy, who was eliminated again in "How Loe Can You Grow?".
  • This the first time a contestant gets eliminated in the same episode where they get in a new team.
  • Flower finally made it farther than she did in BFDI.
• This is the last BFB episode where viewers vote for who they want to save, as no one else will be up for elimination after this episode.
• In the end of the episode, a piano version of Four's 3D Hand is played.
• This is the second episode where Leafy is eliminated; the first one is BFB 3.
  • Coincidentally, she was eliminated in BFB 3 and 3 episodes before the finale.
• Similar to the second last challenge of BFDI, this episode's challenge was a mix of all the previous challenges.
• This is the first episode of the series to have both a team form during the merge and only two contestants up for elimination.
• Loser is the only eliminated contestant who played a part in two challenges.
• The cave backgrounds Gelatin and Teardrop enter to collect a totem are reused from The Last Balloon, a non-BFDI related video made by Jacknjellify.
• Gelatin and Teardrop grab the exact same totems that they turned in in "The Tweested Temple".
• When Teardrop jumped over the lava pit, her pose was very similar to her jumping sprite from GTTTATINT.
• This is the second episode where Leafy and Flower were in the bottom 2, the first being "Insectophobe's Nightmare 2".
• This marks X's first despawn in this episode.

Continuity references

• Gelatin says "It's a message", just like Bubble in "Hurtful!".
• When Purple Face is flung away, and Gelatin asks where he was flung, Announcer replies with IDK. Gelatin then says if that was a box somewhere named after an acronym. This references the TLC, LOL, EXIT, and BRB.
• When the Announcer says he's bringing teams back the contestants have the pre-made BFDI assets.
• The Announcer is flung with a Slingshot after getting pushed, similar to what happened in "Don't Lose Your Marbles", when revealed Snowball was eliminated with 47 votes.
• When the Announcer asks Flower what his favorite number is for the first time, Flower responds by saying it's 5. This is a callback to "Insectophobe's Nightmare", where the Announcer states that he likes the number 5.
• When Leafy and Teardrop wave to each other in the 2nd challenge, their arms are that of the older BFDI assets.
• Like "Hurtful!", the final challenge of BFB is a combination of all previous challenges.
• Bubble says her classic catchphrase Yoylecake when she is freed from the jawbreaker.
• Gelatin and Teardrop using a wad of dirt is similar to Flower's strategy in "Hurtful!" of using a wad of dirt as a cake.
  • Flower, Leafy, and Bubble's strategy of using a dirt cake in BFDI 23 is in turn a reference to BFDI 4, where Coiny makes his dirt cake.
• The three people freed from the Jawbreakers were all the three finalists of BFDI, which were Firey, Leafy, and Bubble.
• Flower mentions the time she bit a chunk off the Announcer in "Return of the Hang Glider".
• X saying "Help! I'm burning! The audience didn't really like this last time!" is a reference to BFB 20, and the overall negative reaction the episode received.
• When Teardrop runs to throw dirt on the floor, the same animation from when she was running in the desert in BFB 1 is reused.
• The Announcer says déjà vu when Leafy and Flower are in the bottom two in the final four, just like in BFDI.
  • Coincidentally, Flower is eliminated in the final four while Leafy who was the finalist in BFDI, it is reversed in this episode.
• Teardrop and Leafy's high-five at the elimination is a reference to "Puzzling Mysteries".

Cultural references

• Purple Face rapping "and I'm here to say" is considered a cliché line in rap music.
• Four throwing Announcer to a slingshot, then launching him, is a reference to the Finnish game Angry Birds.
• X says that they can buy a hotel but for food, possibly referring to Hotel OJ from Inanimate Insanity or the Hotel/Bathrooms in TPOT.

Deaths

• Purple Face is snapped out of existence by X after a failed recovery.
• Gelatin bashes his head against a jawbreaker repeatedly and dies.
• Flower is pushed off the stairs by Teardrop and falls to her death.
• Teardrop is despawned by X (on-screen).
• Taco is shot with the Emergency Button from the Announcer.