Cake at Stake

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For the contestant, see Cake.

Cake at Stake (also called Brake at Flake by Four in "Why Would You Do This on a Swingset" and "Today's Very Special Episode") is a closed ceremony for the losers who are up for elimination in BFDI, BFDIA, and BFB. The ceremony was introduced in "Barriers and Pitfalls".

At the ceremony, the safe contestants get a prize and the most voted contestant is eliminated. The prizes in Cake at Stake are not always cake and are not always used to grant safety, with the prizes ranging from crackers to shovels.

In BFDIA, instead of commenting to vote, voters must rate separate videos (either with a like or dislike) tied to the contestants, the contestant with the most likes will be able to spin a wheel to get a prize, and the contestant with the most dislikes will get eliminated.

In BFB, the Cake at Stake system changed again. At the voting screen, there is a letter in a bracket that stands for another character. The letter in the bracket must be commented to vote between the 48 hours after the release date of each episode. In BFB, when a contestant is eliminated, they enter the EXIT.

However, in BFB 17, the viewers vote who they want to save from getting eliminated, and the person who gets the least votes goes to the BRB.

The intro has been changed a lot of times, varying from the simple saying of "Cake at Stake", to a "mini song" devoted to it.

Order of elimination

Season 1

1. Episode 2: Flower - Regular cake used: All players except one were thrown cake straight to their faces, and everyone except Tennis Ball, Golf Ball, and Flower received 0 votes.
2. Episode 3: Spongy - Key Lime Pie used: Most of the contestants criticized the choice of cake. Match requested a chocolate cake, and Firey said he loved chocolate. Pencil agreed with him and said she also likes ice cream cake. Bubble said ice cream cake was so delish.
3. Episode 4: Blocky - Ice Chunks used. Most of the contestants got hit by the ice. Match got hit by her cake, Pen and Eraser got sent away after getting hit by their cakes, Firey melted his cake into a puddle which caused the grass to grow when the puddle touched the ground, and supposedly Pencil got sent away like Pen and Eraser, although it was revealed that Match was just hallucinating.
4. Episode 5: Woody - Ice Cream Cake used. The Announcer said he had a chunk of ice like last time, causing Pencil to overreact, but then Announcer said he was kidding and said the cake was an ice cream cake.
5. Episode 6: Pin - Cupcakes used. According to Pen and Bubble, the cupcakes have the contestants' names on them. The Announcer then claims that wasn't supposed to be there.
6. Episode 7: Needle - Key Lime Pie used.
7. Episode 9: Blocky returns - Regular cake used.
8. Episode 10: Teardrop - Modeling clay used.
9. Episode 11: Golf Ball - Imaginary cake used due to costs of cake.
10. Episode 12: Coiny - No cake used.
11. Episode 13: Snowball - Dead fish used.
12. Episode 14: 1st: Match - Fruitcake used. 2nd: Spongy returns - No cake but Bonus points equal to the loaves of bread that the contestants put in their individual basket.
13. Episode 15: Eraser - Nickels used.
14. Episode 16: Pen - Explosive blueberry pie used.
15. Episode 17: Blocky - Knives used.
16. Episode 18: 1st: Tennis Ball - Cracker used. 2nd: David joins - Yellow Tomato used.
17. Episode 19: Pencil - Shovels caked with mud used.
18. Episode 20: David - Ice Cream Cake was used again.
19. Episode 21: 1st: Ice Cube - no cake. 2nd: Flower returns - Pizza used.
20. Episode 22: Rocky - Yoylecake used.
21. Episode 23: Spongy - Cheesecake used.
22. Episode 24: Flower - Red Velvet Cake used.
23. Episode 25: Bubble and Leafy - Grand Cake (all the previous cakes mashed together) and cashew used.

Season 2

1. Episode 2: Donut - Regular cake
2. Episode 3: Dora - Regular cake.
3. Episode 4: Teardrop - Regular cake used 3 times in a row.
4. Episode 5a: Match - Donut's corpse used.
5. Episode 6: Puffball - Not told, but confirmed by Ruby in IDFB.

Season 3

1. Episode 2: ??? - Unknown.

Season 4

1. Episode 2: Pencil - Regular cake used.
2. Episode 3: Leafy - Earths used.
3. Episode 4: Bracelety - Regular cake used (Most is covered in Barf Bag's barf).
4. Episode 5: Liy - Fortune Cookies used (Bracelety Quotes, except for Pie's).
5. Episode 6: Roboty - Tangerine Juice used.
6. Episode 7: Loser - Poppers topped with a grain of sugar used.
7. Episode 8: 8-Ball - Pieces of the Firey Speaker Box's corpse used.
8. Episode 9: Stapy - Regular cake used.
9. Episode 10: David - Embroidered Strawberry Cake used.
10. Episode 11: Leafy returns - Photo Cake used.
11. Episode 12: Match - Burger used (called Yarnburger in .fla files).
12. Episode 13: Firey Jr. - Soup used.
13. Episode 15: Dora - Happy thoughts used.
14. Episode 16: Spongy - Specks of dust used.
15. Episode 18: Balloony - Duct tape used (only for Leafy).
16. Episode 19: Spongy - Salt Lamps used.
17. Episode 20: Ruby - Air was used.
18. Episode 21: Loser - No cake used.
19. Episode 22: Taco - Broken flower pot pieces and pieces of Donut's diary used.
20. Episode 23: Bubble - No cake used.
21. Episode 24: Blocky - Have Cots used.

Intros

Title	Photo	First episode	Final episode	Lyrics
Cake at Stake		"Barriers and Pitfalls" (Season 1, Episode 2)	"Insectophobe's Nightmare" (Season 1, Episode 9)	Da, da, da, da, da, da, Cake at Stake!
*cake eating sounds*		"Crybaby!" (Season 1, Episode 10)	"A Leg Up in the Race" (Season 1, Episode 12)	Hork hork hork, glorp glorp, gloop, gloop, gloop, doot doot, Cake at Stake.
There's Points Now		"Don't Lose Your Marbles" (Season 1, Episode 13)	"Rescission" (Season 1, Episode 19)	OMG, there's points now! Who'll go home, we'll just see. It's Cake at Staaaaaaaaaaaaaaake...
The Points Are Gone		"Gardening Hero" (Season 1, Episode 20)	"Insectophobe's Nightmare 2" (Season 1, Episode 24)	The points are gone, we are free of them now, but we look on. To the moment that we see, the next slice of cake. A step closer to the prize brought on by Cake at Stake.
Cake at Stake Mashup		"Return of the Hang Glider" (Season 1, Episode 25)		Da, da, da, da, da, da, Hork hork hork, glorp glorp, gloop, gloop, gloop, doot doot, OMG, there's points now! Who'll go home, we'll just see... The points are gone, we are free of them now, but we look on. To the moment that we see, the next slice of cake. A step closer to the prize brought on by CAKE AT STAKE! Aw, seriously?
Cake at Stake Remix		"Lick Your Way to Freedom" (Season 4, Episode 2)	"How Loe Can You Grow?"(Season 4, Episode 19)	Da, da, da, da, da, da, Cake, Cake, Cake, Cake, Cake, Cake... at Stake!
Cake at Stake Remix #2		"Today's Very Special Episode" (Season 4, Episode 4)		Cake, -short pause- Cake, Cake, Cake, Cake, Cake, Cake, Cake, Cake, Cake, Cake, Cake, Cake, Cake, Cake, -long pause- Cake, Cake, Cake, Cake, Cake, Cake, Cake, Cake, Cake, Cake, at Stake!

Notes

• In episode 2, the "at" in the Cake at Stake intro is pink and the intro fades out. However, from episode 3 onward, the "at" is green and there is no fade. This was probably the result of having to remake the Cake at Stake intro in its own separate flash (.FLA) file. The original cake at stake intro was found in the FLA source files for BFDI episode 2 scene 1.
• In episode 8, there was no Cake at Stake as the Tiny Loser Chamber was too small to fit any more contestants at that time.
• In episode 9, the Cake at Stake was for the returning contestant. Blocky rejoined/returned.
• In episode 10, the Cake at Stake intro changed to the cake eating version.
• In episode 13, the Cake at Stake intro changed to "There's Points Now" version.
• In episode 15, it was revealed David had 39 votes, and Announcer asked viewers to not vote him.
• In episode 17, Pencil got her first vote by a YouTuber named englishcreamcakes. Since then she has been receiving votes.
• In episode 18, two Cake at Stakes were done: one for the regular players, and one for the recommended characters.
• In episode 19, Pencil became the player eliminated with the highest number of votes up to that point: 259. Also, for the first time in the background, dramatic music was played during the Cake at Stake.
• In episode 20, the Cake at Stake intro changed to "The Points are Gone" (paper) version. David also had the most votes for elimination: 331.
• In episode 21, the Cake at Stake place changed once again, and also had 2 sessions done. One for the returning contestant (who is Flower), and also one for an elimination. Over 400 people voted for Icy. 9 eliminated contestants, and all recommended characters ever on this month.
• In episode 25, the final Cake at Stake in Season 1 was done to determine the winner of BFDI. This also featured the first double elimination, with Bubble and Leafy losing and Firey winning Dream Island. However, Bubble and Leafy did not go to the TLC, since Announcer released all the other 18 contestants, and BFDI Season 1 was over.
• In "Welcome Back", there was no Cake at Stake. However, Puffball is revealed to be eliminated from the show, implying that a Cake at Stake for the elimination happened offscreen before the event of IDFB. There was no prize for the object with the most likes, which is Firey, though.
• In "Lick Your Way to Freedom", the first Cake at Stake intro got remixed, although the "at" is still pink and still fades out. This is used for the subsequent Battle for BFDI episodes.
• In "Why Would You Do This on a Swingset", the intro was omitted.
• In "What Do You Think of Roleplay?", "Return of the Rocket Ship", "The Four is Lava", and "The Escape from Four", the intro uses soundbites from Patrons who donated one dollar under the "Sing Cake at Stake" reward.
• So far, 12 variations of the Cake at Stake intro have been used.

Trivia

• Cake at Stake sometimes uses character corpses as prizes. For example, Pie's corpse was used in "Bowling, Now with Explosions!", Donut's corpse was used in "Get in the Van" and the Firey Speaker Box was used in "Questions Answered".
• Get in the Van is the first and only episode in BFDIA which does not use regular cake.
• In total, there is 10 cake at stake intros, including both versions of the first intro, AnimationEpic's intro in "The Glistening" and the one in the final episode.
• In BFB, there seem to be three versions of the Cake at Stake intro, the second one being a version after Donut pointed out there wasn't one last time, and the third one being nothing but the first intro used since BFDI (season 1) and the rest just being a black screen.
• In BFB, every even-numbered episode has had a proper Cake at Stake intro, and every odd-numbered episode has had either no Cake at Stake intro or a broken one. This was later broken in the 7th episode.
• In BFB 8 and 9, it is revealed that Clock rings every time Cake at Stake is about to start.
• Pin's cake-baking skills, which were congratulated in "Enter the Exit", is an allusion to her first-place victory on the cake-baking challenge of "Sweet Tooth".

Gallery

Cakes

Regular (strawberry) cake (BFDI 2, BFDI 9, BFDIA 2-4, BFB 2, BFB 4, and BFB 9)

One slice of strawberry cake

Key lime pie (Used in BFDI 3 and BFDI 7)

One slice of Key lime pie

Ice chunk (BFDI 4)

One chunk of Ice

Ice Cream cake (BFDI 5 and BFDI 20)

One slice of Ice Cream Cake

Cupcakes (BFDI 6)

One Cupcake

Modeling Clay (BFDI 10)

Imaginary Cake (BFDI 11)

Fish "flavored" cake (BFDI 13)

Fruitcake (BFDI 14)

One piece of Fruitcake

Nickels (BFDI 15)

One Nickel

Explosive blueberry pie (BFDI 16)

One slice of pie

Knives (BFDI 17)

One knife

Cracker (BFDI 18 (elimination))

One piece of Cracker

Yellow tomato (BFDI 18 (recommended character debut))

Shovels caked with mud (BFDI 19)

One Shovel cake with mud

Pizza (BFDI 21)

Yoylecake (BFDI 22)

One slice of Yoylecake

Cheese Orb (BFDI 23)

One slice of the Cheese Orb

Red Velvet Cake (BFDI 24)

One slice of Red Velvet Cake

Cashew (BFDI 25 (3rd place consolation prize))

Grand Cake (BFDI 25 (1st place prize))

Donut's corpse (BFDIA 5a)

Earth (BFB 3)

Vomit Cake (BFB 4)

Fortune Cookie (BFB 5)

Tangerine Juice (BFB 6)

Popper topped with a grain of sugar (BFB 7)

Firey Speaker Box (BFB 8)

Pin's Cake (BFB 10)

One slice of Pin's Cake

Photo Cake (BFB 11)

Burger (BFB 12)

half of a Burger

Soup (BFB 13)

Happy Thoughts (BFB 15)

Specks of dust (BFB 16)

Duct Tape (BFB 18)

Salt Lamps (BFB 19)

Air to Breathe (BFB 20)

Flower's pot (BFB 22)

A piece of Donut's diary (BFB 22)

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Other

The first ever Cake at Stake

Empty Cake at Stake

The first Cake at Stake place

An updated version of the Cake at Stake place

Elimination Podium

Cake Pedestal

Vote Counter

Cake puller

Cake tosser

Person tosser

Cake At Stake logo in BFDIA 5a

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