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“	I wonder where the new stairs lead.	”
	— Leafy

Lofty (BFDI 11)
Season 1, Episode 11
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Challenge	To pop opponents' balloons while protecting your own
Winner(s)	Squashy Grapes Squishy Cherries
Loser(s)	Another Name
Death(s)	Bubble Ice Cube Bomby Pen Pencil Match Tennis Ball Firey Coiny
Eliminated	Golf Ball (12 votes, became 6 with Win Token)
Cake for Cake at Stake	Imaginary Cake
Release date	November 1, 2010
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Battle for Dream Island - Episode 11 "Lofty"-1

Lofty

"Lofty" is the eleventh episode of Battle for Dream Island, and the last episode before the merge occurs. It was released on November 1, 2010.

Plot

Cold open

Golf Ball and Tennis Ball are seen arguing which one of them a certain cloud looks like, while Firey is barfed on by Rocky. When Coiny laughs at the incident, Firey proceeds to fight with Coiny. Golf Ball mentions that their fighting is pointless, but the two defend themselves by saying the other is a jerk.

After the intro

Golf Ball then notices the Announcer and wonders what he's doing. The Announcer then tells them that Another Name lost last episode, and Cake at Stake starts.

Cake at Stake

While Another Name walks to the Cake at Stake area, many objects from the other teams laugh at them. During Cake at Stake, Announcer asked if Golf Ball or Firey wanted to use their Win Token. Firey didn't, but Golf Ball did, having only half of her votes being counted.

There were 37 votes, 8 more than last time. Tennis Ball is safe with 2 votes. Firey gets 3 votes and Coiny gets 5. Golf Ball and Rocky get 12 and 15 votes, respectively. When Tennis Ball is told he is safe, the Announcer says that the cake was too expensive, so he gives them an imaginary cake. Even with her Win Token, Golf Ball and Rocky are the two with the highest votes. The Squishy Cherries have to pick one of the two to go onto their team. By unanimous decision, Rocky is chosen, and Golf Ball is sent to the Tiny Loser Chamber.

Icon	Contestant	Votes	%	WT	Total votes	Vote changes
	Tennis Ball	2	5.41%	No	3	1 more than last time
	Firey	3	8.11%	No	5	2 more than last time
	Coiny	5	13.51%	No	10	No change
	Golf Ball	12(6)	32.43%	Yes	13	11 more than last time
	Rocky	15	40.54%	No	15	15 more than last time

Contest

For the first part of the challenge, the Announcer tells the contestants to climb up a flight of stairs, which Tennis Ball falls off. The Announcer then makes the contestants tie a balloon around their waists. Then he makes the platform they are standing on disappear. Firey screams due to his fear of heights which causes Coiny to tease him. After Announcer explains the rules, the game starts.

The Squashy Grapes plan to attack the Cherries first because they have seven people, thus being a bigger threat. Blocky then picks up three nails and throws them at the rival team. Pencil does the same, and they collide in midair before falling. Pen accidentally pops Bubble's balloon. Firey gets slapped by Coiny, thus guiding his balloon to a nail held by Blocky, and Coiny shatters Ice Cube with a nail, commenting that he's an "ice cold killer". Snowball ends up popping Pencil's balloon because his team's balloon color is pink, not red. Eraser then explains that pink is manly. The Announcer then says that red balloons were too expensive.

When Firey hits the ground, he accidentally lights Bomby's fuse. Coiny attempts to use the basket of nails as a source of protection from the nail that Blocky throws at him. Unfortunately, both his and the basket's balloons get popped by a nail, resulting in Another Name losing again. Coiny falls, and Bomby explodes. The remaining Grapes (Leafy and Blocky) then improvise in popping balloons, whether it's biting Snowball's balloon (by Blocky), squeezing Eraser's balloon (by Leafy), and making Rocky's balloon disappear by saying "poof" (by Blocky). The Grapes win the challenge, and Another Name goes to Cake at Stake again.

Challenge progression

Contestant	Team	Rank	Popped:	Popped by:
	Another Name	13th	None	Fell off the stairs before the challenge started
	Squishy Cherries	12th	None	(By accident)
	Squishy Cherries	11th	None
	Squishy Cherries	10th	(By accident)
	Another Name	9th	None
	Squishy Cherries	8th	None
	Squashy Grapes	7th	None
	Another Name	6th
	Squishy Cherries	5th
	Squishy Cherries	4th	None
	Squishy Cherries	3rd	None
	Squashy Grapes	2nd/1st		None
	Squashy Grapes	2nd/1st		None

Stinger

At night, Leafy says she wants to get back onto the ground. Blocky disagrees.

Cast

Voice actor	Roles
Cary Huang	Match/Tennis Ball/Rocky
Michael Huang	Blocky/Leafy/Bomby/Snowball/Bubble/Eraser/Pen/Pencil/Firey/Coiny/Golf Ball
AT&T/NaturalReader Mike	Announcer

• Ice Cube appears; however, she does not speak.

Trivia

• Bomby is the first recommended character, recommended by jaysillyboy.
• This is the shortest episode of BFDI ever, since it lasts only 5 minutes and 55 seconds.
  • This is also the episode with the shortest title ever, with only 5 characters.
• This is the only episode where Pencil, Match, and Bubble appear, but do not interact with each other.
  • This is also the case for Pen and Eraser.
  • This is the second time Bomby appeared.
• Snowball and Golf Ball have an indirect quarrel during the Golf Ball and Rocky's choice of being picked.
• Ice Cube appears in this episode, but has no lines. However, she can be seen laughing with other contestants when Another Name walks through the elimination area.
• After this episode, the Squishy Cherries were larger than the other two teams combined.
• When Eraser and Snowball are arguing, Eraser's arms are below the rope. When he waves his arms in the air and puts them by his sides, they are above.
• After Coiny slaps Firey to Blocky's nail, the camera cuts out to see that Firey is pretty close to Blocky's nail. When the camera cuts in, he's far away and drifts over. When the camera cuts out, Firey is far away again.
• Nails randomly appear in Blocky's and Coiny's hands before they pop Coiny (Blocky) and Ice Cube (Coiny).
• This is the second episode to have subtitles, the first being Take the Plunge: Part 1 and the third being The Long-lost Yoyle City.
• This episode marks Pen's first and only kill on another character.
• Firey is now known to have acrophobia (fear of heights).
• The balloons in the episode are later used in the asset for Balloony.
• Golf Ball is the second person to be eliminated using a Win Token with 12 votes, the first being Needle.
  • Coincidentally, Coiny having 5 votes prevented both from being safe.
• This is the first episode where it contains a scene where Leafy dodges the nails, the second one becoming Gardening Hero, but this time, it is Spongy.
• Throughout the episode, there are motion blurs.
• This is the first episode to have a scene take place at night (other than the stingers), when the contestants climb the stairs.
• This is the last episode before the merge.
• This episode is the only episode that features the Cherries finishing in something other than first ever since 3 teams were formed.
• This episode is the only episode where it unintentionally attacks trans people, due to Pen saying a transphobic line at 2:05.
  • Even Cary has stated that the line is transphobic.

Continuity references

• Firey chooses not to use the Win Token that he won in BFDI 6, while Golf Ball uses hers from BFDI 3.
• Eraser calls Golf Ball a bossy bot for the first time since BFDI 1.
• Snowball votes for Rocky over Golf Ball because she said his brain was small in BFDI 1.
• Golf Ball calculates her chances of winning after learning that she is eliminated.

Cultural references

• The contest is very similar to the old Nintendo game Balloon Fight.

Goofs

• While everyone is climbing up the stairs, Rocky is nowhere to be seen. He then reappears when everyone is done climbing.
• When Tennis Ball received a splat, Firey and Coiny are never shown that they felt a splat by the imaginary cake from the Announcer.
• When Snowball popped Pencil's balloon, the nail disappeared.
• When Bomby explodes, Pen, Pencil, Tennis Ball, Firey and Match disappear.
  • This is likely they are thrown away, just like what happened to Flower in "Barriers and Pitfalls".
• Firey wasn't flaming when he fell to the ground after his balloon was popped along with him slapping Coiny.
• All objects were moving up and down and so were the basket of nails tied to the balloon, however Ice Cube wasn't moving up and down.
• There are a lot of time when the contestants were not moving up and down.
• In 3:31, Firey's flames wasn't burning.
• When Announcer tells Golf Ball and Rocky that the Squishy Cherries will either vote one onto their team or to be eliminated, Snowball has no arms.
  • However, they are back when he says "I'd say Rocky, because GB said my brain is small!"
• Rocky turns around too quickly when Firey and Coiny slap each other.
• When Leafy grabs some nails, her strap disappears.
• When everyone is climbing up the stairs, Firey and Coiny look smaller in this scene.

Deaths

• Bubble is unintentionally popped by Pen with balloon string.
• Ice Cube is shattered by a nail, thrown by Coiny.
• Bomby is lit by Firey thanks to Coiny and Blocky.
• Pen, Pencil, Match, Tennis Ball, and Firey are killed in Bomby's explosion.