Basketball's Aboveground Factory is a room located in the hotel's fourth floor. As the name implies, It is owned by Basketball and appears to be her personal laboratory where she runs experiments, aboveground. It has a completely green tone like the hallways of the fourth floor.
Coverage[]
The room first appears in "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life" and is shown to be the room where Basketball is diagnosing Robot Flower's out of sync call and response function. As a result of Basketball leaving the window open, Marker's paperclip gets flung through the window and presses Robot Flower's reset button and pushing her over, leading Basketball to mistakenly assume that the main reason why Robot Flower was not functioning properly was because of the paperclip. Afterwards, Basketball notices that only two minutes are present on the challenge timer and Robot Flower hurries with Basketball back to their team, breaking through the door to their stack (the door gets fixed offscreen).
In "Getting Puffball To Think About Rollercoasters", the hotel room isn't seen, but Robot Flower briefly visited it in order to collect string for her team's attraction.
The room appears again in "The Great Goikian Bake-Off", after Basketball commands her team to go to her Aboveground Factory, due to thinking that she had one of the Yoyleland teleportation bracelets from "Gardening Zero". Robot Flower takes them to the room, and Four chases them there. Before he can get inside however, Basketball instructs Snowball to put on the teleportation bracelet, eat a Yoyleberry, and immedietly come back. This is due to her team wanting to steal food from Four and X for the challenge, and their kitchen being protected by lazers, requiring a strong metal to go through the lazers and get the food, i.e. Yoyle Metal. Before Snowball goes to Yoyleland though, Four is heard outside the door asking what the team is planning. In a hurry, Basketball instructs Snowball to go, and he does, eating a Yoyleberry and turning into Yoyle Metal before coming back. Four threatens to blast the team if they don't leave the room, right before barging in. Since Snowball is made of Yoyle Metal, Basketball instructs the rest of her team to go behind him, and tells Four to try and get them. He tries, but Snowball isn't affected by his attack, due to being made of Yoyle Metal at the time. Four then keeps trying to get Snowball and his team as they walk outside of the room, and the room is no longer seen or referenced this episode.
In "The Seven Wonders of Goiky", Basketball takes Robot Flower to her factory due to Teardrop (as a cloud) raining on her unintentionally, causing her to short circuit. After drying off in the factory, Robot Flower questions why Basketball is the only one that cares if she's okay, and how she wishes she was the original Flower. With a new idea, Robot Flower tells Basketball to download information from the original Flower into her, to which Basketball denies, but eventually agrees after being persuaded by Robot Flower. During the downloading process, however, a short power outage is caused by Grassy ripping some wires out of the Hotel roof, causing the computers to get fried. They only managed to download season 1 Flower's information before getting fried, and they accidently overrode her entire personality, causing Robot Flower to act just like Flower from BFDI and storm out of the room. Eraser then decides to go upstairs to the factory and ask for some glue from Basketball, who is trying to fix the fried computers. After Eraser asks for some, Basketball tells him that she's in a crisis and that if she doesn't fix the computers, they could have lost Robot Flower forever. Eraser doesn't care and just insists on the glue, so Basketball gives a bottle of it to him and angerly tells him to take it and get out. Later, Basketball leaves the factory offscreen, and presumably doesn't end up fixing the fried computers.
In "Outbreak At Stake", Are You Okay goes inside the factory with Two and Teardrop to escape from the zombies (continue)
Things inside the "factory"[]
- An Earth
- Several papers scattered across the floor
- A computer setup with two monitors attached to the wall
- A radar dish attached to the ceiling
- A mini fridge
- A spare computer monitor
- String (formely)
- A microwave
- A shovel
- A lava lamp
- A toolbox
- A "black box" metal vault safe
- An easel
- A rug with a pattern that divides it into 9 squares
- Several diagrams depicting TV and Robot Flower
- A poster depicting two gears interlocked
- A stool
- A sign above the door reading, "Basketball's Aboveground FACTORY"
Trivia[]
- Basketball's Aboveground Factory is a reference to Golf Ball's Underground Factory.
- There are two diagrams depicting TV and Robot Flower to the left of Basketball's station, with info points on parts of their bodies. The TV diagram has two drawings of TV, one of which has a dotted outline of his legs. This diagram depicts a large question mark pointing at that outline, suggesting that Basketball was trying to figure out how TV's legs worked.
- The "Above" in Aboveground is plastered over another word, presumably "Under". This may imply that the factory has existed underground prior to Two elevating the hotel in "The Escape from Four".
- The room is located on the fourth floor at the back of the Hotel, on the side of the hallway with the elevator. Due to background continuity issues, the factory seems to move rooms every few TPOT episodes.