| Battle for BFDI | Battle for BFB |
| “ | Don't you want to battle to win a prize? | ” |
Battle for BFB,[note 1], also known as BFB Post-Split, is the second part of the fourth season of the Battle for Dream Island series. It premiered on Friday, April 17, 2020, with the release of "X Marks the Spot", and concluded on April 9, 2021, with the release of "Chapter Complete".
A fifth season, known as Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two, was meant to air simultaneously, but would only end up airing one episode before this season ended. It premiered on January 10, 2021.
The prize used to be just a BFB, but in "X Marks the Spot", Four added the original prize (a BFDI) back to the prize pool, making BFB the first season to have two prizes.
Overview[]
BFB 27-28- INTRO
The official intro to the season's second half.
Unlike IDFB, Battle for BFDI goes back to the traditional format of challenges and eliminations, similar to the first and second seasons. While the season starts with viewers voting to eliminate a character as per usual, the elimination style changed to a choice of saving rather than eliminating in "X Marks the Spot".
This season utilizes a hand-drawn art style that uses drawn limbs and faces rather than reusable assets like every previous season. For the first few episodes, the animation was very simplistic which allowed for longer episodes to be made in a shorter time, but by the time "Return of the Rocket Ship" was released, the style became way more polished which became the staple art style the show would use for all future in-universe seasons thus far.
Many unexplained plot changes have happened that allowed for new characters to join the cast and for old characters to return. Additionally, Profily debuted as a contestant in "The Hidden Contestant".
The first episode, "Getting Teardrop to Talk", was released on November 3, 2017. It introduces the fourth season's cast as well as the new hosts, Four and X who originally come from a 2008 jacknjellify video called "X Finds Out His Value".
Although the release of IDFB confirmed BFDIA was cancelled for the time being, the release of BFB did not confirm IDFB's cancellation. Since all of the characters are present (except for Evil Leafy and Nonexisty), including the ones that were originally trapped in the Locker of Losers, presumably due to currently unexplained events that happened between IDFB and BFB, which is highly possible, as stated by Cary Huang in his BFB 1 reaction video.
This season is currently the first and only to have characters that are recommended through Patreon, with multiple tiers that fans could pay for to have different types of recommended characters they make to appear in the show. Some fans could pay 100$ or more to have special recommended characters that contribute to the show in some way.
On March 24, 2020, the decision was made to cut the cast of the season from 54 contestants down to fourteen in "The Escape from Four" with the introduction of Two who starts a new season called Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two. In a miscellaneous video on the jacknjellify channel called "The Secret Behind BFB's Split", Cary and Michael Huang explain that they made the decision as the quality of episodes they made for BFB at the time kept rising, to the point where they couldn't keep consistently making episodes within a short time, so they decided to cut down on the number of contestants and make episodes light-hearted again while episodes of BFDI:TPOT would focus on character-driven storylines.
Shortly before the announcement of the split, jacknjellify started to hire more crew members to make working on the show easier. Some crew members would later animate on BFDI:TPOT and the BFDIA revival.
The season ended on April 9, 2021 with the release of "Chapter Complete", announcing a hiatus that would last over a year, with no new episodes released, until "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life", an episode from BFDI:TPOT, was released.
Episodes[]
| # | Title | Airdate | Upload Time (PST) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | 1 | "X Marks the Spot" | April 17, 2020 | 12:00:24 PM |
| 18 | 2 | "Take the Tower" | May 4, 2020 | 2:37:35 PM |
| 19 | 3 | "How Loe Can You Grow?" | May 22, 2020 | 12:00:00 PM |
| 20 | 4 | "A Taste of Space" | June 10, 2020 | 12:00:10 PM |
| 21 | 5 | "Let's Raid The Warehouse" | July 3, 2020 | 12:00:19 PM |
| 22 | 6 | "Who Stole Donut's Diary?" | July 24, 2020 | 12:03:14 PM |
| 23 | 7 | "Fashion For Your Face!" | August 21, 2020 | 12:00:11 PM |
| 24 | 8 | "The Game Has Changed" | September 18, 2020 | 11:00:09 AM |
| 25 | 9 | "The Tweested Temple" | October 13, 2020 | 8:00:11 AM |
| 26 | 10 | "The Hidden Contestant" | November 6, 2020 | 8:00:02 AM |
| 27 | 11 | "Uprooting Everything" | December 11, 2020 | 8:30:07 AM |
| 28 | 12 | "B.F.B. = Back From Beginning" | January 15, 2021 | 8:43:58 AM |
| 29 | 13 | "SOS (Save Our Show)" | February 12, 2021 | 8:30:04 AM |
| 30 | 14 | "Chapter Complete" | April 9, 2021 | 1:59:12 PM |
Characters[]
Click on a contestant to read more!
Hosts[]
Contestants[]
Elimination[]
- See also: Battle for BFB/Elimination table
| Contestant | Team(s) | Placement | Status | Votes | Stage | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balloony | 14th | 1st Eliminated "Take the Tower" |
3,516 | Pre-Merge | ||
| Spongy | 13th | 2nd Eliminated "How Loe Can You Grow?" |
3,283 | |||
| Ruby | 12th | 3rd Eliminated "A Taste of Space" |
7,573 | |||
| Loser | 11th | 4th Eliminated "Let's Raid the Warehouse" |
5,600 | |||
| Taco | 10th | 5th Eliminated "Who Stole Donut's Diary?" |
10,565 | |||
| Bubble | 9th | 6th Eliminated "Fashion For Your Face!" |
6,374 | |||
| Blocky | 8th | 7th Eliminated "The Game Has Changed" |
11,229 | |||
| Firey | 7th | 8th Eliminated "The Tweested Temple" |
12,705 | Merge | ||
| Woody | 6th | 9th Eliminated "The Hidden Contestant" |
9,843 | |||
| Profily | No team | Debuted "The Hidden Contestant" |
N/A | |||
| 10th Eliminated "The Hidden Contestant" | ||||||
| Lollipop | 5th | 11th Eliminated "Uprooting Everything" |
9,684 | |||
| Leafy | 4th | 12th Eliminated "B.F.B. = Back From Beginning" |
12,113 | |||
| Teardrop | 3rd | 13th Eliminated "SOS (Save Our Show)" |
28,906 | |||
| Gelatin | 2nd | Runner-Up "Chapter Complete" |
28,240 | |||
| Flower | 1st | Winner "Chapter Complete" |
48,891 | |||
Credits[]
- Created, Directed and Produced by
- Animation by:
- Satomi Hinatsu
- Michael Huang
- Caedmon
- Kenzie Bryant
- Maroue Reus
- Niall Burns
- Lazlo T.
- Joseph Pak
- Allen Lee
- ChromaTheAnimator
- Broomski
- Bok Bok Choy
- cartman7
- Christopher Yeh
- WoopDoo
- DhunHERO
- WhoTheHeckIsStan
- EndaTheStar
- AStoneWeeg
- Florence Chapell
- Griffin Weber
- Highvan
- John Dubuc
- Diamondcup67
- MS
- Afri
- P.O.A
- RickToons
- Saka
- Sicle
- STanimator
- YellowAngiru
- T.A.D
- ThattsCherry
- The Bird Gang
- Polysided
- GuyGoon
- WavesOfRed
- I.S.L
- Joseph S.
- Bryan N.
- Sam Redden
- AidenGomez
- FusionAnimations
- p0tatomango
- CaptainCoolAG
- BrannFlakes
- Written by:
- Michael Huang
- Cary Huang
- Satomi Hinatsu
- Kenzie Bryant
- Sam Thornbury
- Supervised by:
- HTwins.net
- Audio by:
- Michael Huang
- Amor Boretto
- Maroue Reus
- Satomi Hinatsu
- Alex Utz
- Braden Whiteside
- Daniel Booth
- COOLBEANS
- Cepukka
- Kacpir Simon
- Whimscyber
- Music by:
- Michael Huang
- Kevin MacLeod
- Tchaikovsky
- DemiPixel
- Rickvanman
- AShamaluevMusic
- Kuro
- 111robloxdude
- Cepukka
- coal bones
Teams[]
The contestants are split into two teams depending on whether their color is similar to Four or X.
| Team | Members | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balloony | Bubble | Gelatin | Leafy | Lollipop | Ruby | Teardrop | ||
| Blocky | Firey | Flower | Loser | Spongy | Taco | Woody | ||
Balloony is eliminated.
| Team | Members | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bubble | Gelatin | Leafy | Lollipop | Ruby | Teardrop | |||
| Blocky | Firey | Flower | Loser | Spongy | Taco | Woody | ||
Spongy is eliminated again.
| Team | Members | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bubble | Gelatin | Leafy | Lollipop | Ruby | Teardrop | |||
| Blocky | Firey | Flower | Loser | Taco | Woody | |||
Ruby is eliminated.
| Team | Members | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bubble | Gelatin | Leafy | Lollipop | Teardrop | ||||
| Blocky | Firey | Flower | Loser | Taco | Woody | |||
Loser is eliminated again.
| Team | Members | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bubble | Gelatin | Leafy | Lollipop | Teardrop | ||||
| Blocky | Firey | Flower | Taco | Woody | ||||
Woody is eliminated; Profily claims that they were in the game all along, but is eliminated later in the same episode.
| Flower | Gelatin | Leafy | Lollipop | Teardrop |
Battle for B.F.B. - Season 4b (All Episodes)[]
- Main article: Battle for B.F.B. - Season 4b (All Episodes)
On July 29, 2023, the jacknjellify channel uploaded an official, four-hour-and-21-minute video compiling every episode of the second part of the fourth season. Like the first part of season 4, each episode has black title cards marked after the intro.
Trivia[]
- This is the second season of BFDI to be completed, with Battle for Dream Island being the first.
- This is the second season where the first eliminated contestant originated from Season 1.
- Discounting Pre-Split, this season features the second least amount contestants out of BFDI, with 15 of them.
- BFB's unabbreviated name after BFB 17 is Battle for Battle for Battle for Dream Island.
- There is an equal ratio of male to female contestants with 7 of each gender.
- In "The Hidden Contestant", the show moved to a new location, which was revealed in "Uprooting Everything" to be the Northern Desert.
- Post-Split BFB is one of two seasons to have the competition switch to a new permanent location in the middle of the season. The other is BFDIA.
- TPOT contestants can only make cameo appearances during this competition.
- This season features 5 members of the Squishy Cherries and only 3 original Squashy Grapes.
- Spongy is the only armless contestant this season.
- Gelatin and Ruby are the only BFDIA newbies this season.
- The intro is always started by a character using their limb to resemble Four's pose.
- "SOS (Save Our Show)" and "Chapter Complete" are unique in this regard as this doesn't happen.
- The intro's song is called "MUSIC OF FOUR'S 3D HAND".
- The hosts, Four and X, previously appeared in a 2008 jacknjellify animation called "X Finds Out His Value".
- The logo's font is Albertus Nova Black.
- Counting BFB Pre-Split and BFB Post-Split as separate seasons
- This is the second season not to have release dates at the end of the episodes.
- However, episode release dates are announced from non-canon videos directly preceding the main episodes.
- This is the first season with multiple prizes, as it has both the new A BFB, on top of the A BFDI from Pre-Split.
- This is the second season with a prize that isn't some variation Dream Island.
- This is the third season (second by release-date order) in which previously eliminated contestants aren't held in the TLC. Instead, the contestants are held in cages attached to the BRB. The first (third by release date order) was BFDIA: The first five contestants were held in the TLC/LOL, while the rest were in the WTF, and the second (first by release date order) was BFB Pre-Split, where the eliminated contestants were held inside the EXIT.
- This is the second season not have a member of the original Squashy Grapes be the first season 1 contestant eliminated.
- This season marks the first time where Bubble was eliminated and the second time where Leafy was eliminated.
- This season also marks the first time Bubble was ever in the bottom two.
- This season is also the first time (second chronologically) in which Firey was eliminated. The second (first chronologically) was in BFDIA.
- This is the third season to have a co-host after Battle for Dream Island Again and Battle for BFDI, and it's also the first season to have a co-co-host.
- This is the shortest completed season to be produced, running from April 17, 2020 to April 9, 2021.
- This is the second season not to have release dates at the end of the episodes.
- The show is animated with Animate CC and saved on this folder.
- Blocky and Teardrop have now been eliminated three times.
- Because of Spongy's eliminations in "How Loe Can You Grow?" and "Lots of Mud", Spongy has become the first contestant to be eliminated five times.
- Blocky, Flower, Teardrop, and Woody all made it farther than they did in BFDI.
- Just like the previous seasons, BFB Post-Split stingers always take place at night.
- However, this isn't true for BFB 26.
- The average number of limbs of a BFB Post-Split contestant is 3.86666666667
- This is the first season to have contestants join without viewer votes or a contest.
- The logo with X and Four spell out "bfb", X's feet being the b's and Four in the middle being an f, all in lowercase.
- However, in the "Battle for Nothing" intro shown in "Enter the Exit", X appears to be frowning. His other foot now forms an "n", and Four is just an outline. The logo spells out "bfn".
- BFB Post-Split episodes were expected to be released 3-4 weeks after the previously released episode on Friday.
- This is the first and only season to have teams selected by the host, as seen in "X Marks the Spot".
- The contestants not in the final 14 of BFB were originally going to be killed off, and The Power of Two was not considered early on.[1]
- This is the second season (third chronologically) to reach the merge phase, with the first being BFDI, and the third (second chronologically) being BFDIA.
- This is also the second time where Leafy, Firey, and Flower merged.
- This is the first season to have a team form after the merge.
- This is the second season with three females and one male making up the final four.
- This is also the second time Flower and Leafy reached the final four.
- All the original contestants that were sent to the BRB were original members of the Squishy Cherries.
- By bracketed letter, the number of times a contestant was eliminated under each are:
- This is the second season to have a Squashy Grapes winner.
- This is the second season to end with the winner not keeping their prize(s), with Battle for Dream Island being the first.
- Gelatin received the most save votes ever during the season, with 42,922 votes.
Gallery[]
Episode thumbnails[]
Notes[]
- ↑ Also known as Battle for B.F.B., BFBFB, or BFBFBFDI













































