This article lists the interactions between Spongy and the duo of Pencil and Match.
Since the beginning of BFDI, Match and Pencil have shown nothing but hatred towards Spongy at every opportunity because of how fat, smelly, and gross he is. They even have a game dedicated to their hate for him. This would at least change with Match in BFB. Spongy himself has never acknowledged their dislike of them, with their closest direct interaction is playing Spongy Cake with Match, which he seems to enjoy.
Episodes suggesting a conflict[]
In "Take the Plunge: Part 2", Match is angry at Blocky for choosing Spongy onto their team.
In "Barriers and Pitfalls", Match says that Spongy just makes her want to hurl. Later on when Match, Pencil, and Spongy ride on the ski lifts, Match and Pencil get startled when Spongy weighs down his seat, and causes the rope to tangle.
In "Are You Smarter Than a Snowball?", Match and Pencil play Spongy Cake with mini versions of themselves. Pencil also wrote "Spongy is fat" in her doodle.
In "Crybaby!", they try to play Spongy Cake with a mini Snowball.
When Spongy rejoins the game in "Half a Loaf Is Better Than None", Pencil, Bubble, and Ice Cube walk away from him, disgusted.
In "Return of the Hang Glider", Match tries to play Spongy Cake with Snowball, Tennis Ball, or Woody.
In "Get Digging", Match and Pencil are happy to hear that Evil Leafy captured Spongy. When Golf Ball calls Match out for this, Match says she's had to deal with Spongy for over 17 million years and that it's a relief to finally see him gone.
In "Zeeky Boogy Doog", Pencil and Match cheer when Fries tells them that he ate Spongy.
In "Get in the Van", when one of Spongy's tears land on Match, she says that was disgusting. Pencil says Spongy better be eliminated because she can't stand him anymore.
In "It's a Monster" and "Fortunate Ben", Match and Ruby play Spongy Cake. In the former episode, when Yellow Face says he'll bring Spongy back, Match stops him so she can bring back Pencil.
In "Well Rested", Spongy charges to attack Pencil when Needle says she needs backup.
In “Catch These Hands”, Pencil mistakes Spongy for Bubble and later calls him ugly who tells her to look at herself. Later Spongy refuses to help Pencil for calling him ugly.
In "Getting Teardrop to Talk", Pencil tells Lightning to electrocute Spongy to test his usefulness to the alliance. Pencil and Match cheer when he does so, all while Spongy moans in pain.
In "Enter the Exit", Pencil says "What the Spongy is going on?" to Four, suggesting that Spongy is something horrible to Pencil.
In "The Escape from Four", Pencil and Match are disgusted at the sight of Spongy's body trying to be squeezed into Four. They both decide coming in contact with his body to escape isn't worth it and bail.
Neutral interactions[]
In "Take the Plunge: Part 2", Match notices the Squashy Grapes floating on Spongy. She would later join them as seen in the stinger ending.
In "Puzzling Mysteries", Pencil tells the Announcer that the carrying capacity of the TLC is six. She then says there are six people but Spongy is kinda big.
In "Reveal Novum", Pencil and Spongy are matched up in the staring contest. Spongy loses.
In "Rescission", Spongy randomly/possibly accidentally falls onto Pencil, although she is more horrified at Rocky's presence than Spongy's.
In "Get Digging", Pencil warns the Puffball riders, which includes Spongy, to watch out for a wild Leafy.
Episodes suggesting a friendship[]
In "First BFDI Drawing EVER!", when Firey tells Match that he used one of her matches to put up towards Spongy, Match says that was mean of him to do that.
In "Barriers and Pitfalls", Pencil, Match, and Bubble allow Spongy to tag along with them and they even throw him over the wall in the obstacle course, since he's on their team.
In "Taste the Sweetness", Spongy, alongside Coiny, are among the first to deflect to FreeSmart, later renamed The Beautiful Face Devotion Institute, after being allured by Ice Cube's beautiful face. Despite her usual disdain for Spongy, Pencil doesn't seem to mind, and instead is glad that her team is gaining more alternates.
In "Bowling, Now with Explosions!", Pencil didn't seem to have any problem with doing an April Fools prank with Spongy.
In "Fortunate Ben", Match claims she analyzed her mean-spirited Spongy Cake game and started playing it with him, which Spongy seems happy with.
Trivia[]
- All three were on the Squishy Cherries in BFDI.
- All three received the least likes in at least one BFDIA episode.
- Out of the original 20 contestants, they were the only ones who were eliminated before Two arrived in "The Escape from Four".
- Ignoring rejoins, their elimination order is reversed between season 1 and 4.
- Spongy, Match, Pencil in BFDI.
- Pencil, Match, Spongy in BFB.
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