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"Reveal Novum" (Latin for "New Reveal") is the 18th episode of Battle for Dream Island. It was released on Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 1:11:12 AM PST (GMT-8), A recommended character debuted.
Characters[]
Main[]
Contestants[]
Minor[]
- Blocky
- Eraser
- Pen
- Pin
- Woody
- Golf Ball
- Flower
- Needle
- Coiny
- Match
- Snowball
- Roboty
- Naily
- Tree
- Barf Bag
- Saw
- Cloudy
- Bell
- Basketball
- Balloony
- Eggy
- Pillow
- Remote
- Grassy
- Pie
- 8-Ball
- Book
- Taco
- Marker
- Dora
- Fanny
- Robot Flower
- Nonexisty
- TV
- Fries
- Ruby
- Evil Leafy
- Nickel
- Bomby
Cameo[]
Recommended[]
Plot[]
Before the intro[]
The episode begins with the eliminated contestants in the TLC chatting. Blocky states that it's imperative to exit the TLC, while Golf Ball complains this is the result of his recent re-elimination. Flower complains to the others that she's been in it for 16 months. Flower then freaks out and tries to open the lid, only to find it's sealed shut. Match then thinks that there's no way out of the TLC. Pin suggests escaping when the TLC opens its lid for the standard five minutes a day. Announcer jumps in and asks the eliminated contestants to stop planning to escape the TLC. Pen then asks the Announcer that they can hear everything we say. Coiny then gets worried since he called the Announcer something many times in the TLC. As he is about to say the name he chose for Announcer, he is cut off by the intro.
Cake at Stake[]
The contestants are chatting among themselves with Rocky barfing when the Announcer announces Cake at Stake. Tennis Ball is scared while Leafy reassures him everything is fine. The Announcer spoke of the extreme budget cuts and says only one recommended character per person was allowed. Instead of a cake, a cracker is used, which Pencil thinks is funny. Bubble panics about elimination despite being safe. Firey, Spongy, Pencil, Rocky, and Bubble get a cracker piece. The voting begins. Firey votes for Ice Cube for being his opposite. Bubble votes Tennis Ball since Leafy was nice to her and Ice Cube is in her alliance. Pencil votes for TB as well despite liking him. Spongy and Rocky vote for Leafy, since she is the only one that has arms. Since Leafy and Tennis Ball are tied in votes, a tiebreaker of jumping across a ledge occurs. Tennis Ball jumps, but falls into the ledge, hitting a ladder on a fulcrum, causing scissors to fly up, cutting a string attached to a hammer, which hits Leafy across a ledge, keeping her in the game. A cracker on a string appears, but she chokes on it (and possibly spits it out of her mouth). Tennis Ball falls right into the TLC, eliminated.
| Icon | Contestant | Votes | % of Votes | Total Votes |
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Ice Cube | 1 | 20% | 50 |
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Leafy | 2 | 40% | 35 |
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Tennis Ball | 2 | 40% | 124 |
Debuting[]
Pencil is excited that Tennis Ball left, but is cut off shortly after by the Announcer reminding them someone is joining. The Announcer announces another Cake at Stake. The 30 potential joiners gather, and The Announcer reveals 450 votes were cast. The person who joins also gets a yellow tomato, which the possible joining contestants seem angry about. Roboty only got 2 votes and is subsequently eliminated. Naily, Tree, Barf Bag, and Saw only got 3 votes (they begin to pummel the announcer before being hurled out). Cloudy and Bell only got 4 and are then blown away by Fanny. Clock and Basketball got 5, Balloony, Eggy, and Pillow got 6. Remote, Grassy, and Pie got 7. At the halfway mark, Nickel emphasizes that he will win. 8-Ball ironically got 8 votes along with Dictionary who speaks that her definition says she will win BFDI. Taco and Marker got 9 votes along with Dora. Fanny got 10 votes, Robot Flower and Nonexisty got 11 (Ruby states that The Announcer might've misaimed because Nonexisty is non-existent). TV shows a program about winning Dream Island in episode 1 of his new show, to be cut off by The Announcer with 13 votes. TV shows something (possibly Flower's announcer crusher) squashing The Announcer on his screen, to the enjoyment of Flower within the TLC, TV is eliminated. Fries, despite being the only cannibal on the show, got 17 votes and is eliminated. Ruby got 22 votes, but had multiple voting been allowed, she would've joined with 206 votes, but The Announcer says it doesn't, and Ruby is eliminated. Evil Leafy got only 34 votes from people who appreciated her evilness. Nickel is told he may be the new Coiny, but that he isn't the new contestant with 43 votes. By a vote of 73 to 102, Bomby is evicted and explodes in the sky, and David joins the game. The other recommended characters are sent to the Locker of Losers.
Votes[]
450 votes were cast for the debut.
| Icon | Contestant | Votes | % |
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Roboty | 2 | 0.44% |
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Naily | 3 | 0.67% |
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Tree | 3 | 0.67% |
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Barf Bag | 3 | 0.67% |
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Saw | 3 | 0.67% |
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Cloudy | 4 | 0.89% |
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Bell | 4 | 0.89% |
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Clock | 5 | 1.11% |
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Basketball | 5 | 1.11% |
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Balloony | 6 | 1.33% |
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Eggy | 6 | 1.33% |
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Pillow | 6 | 1.33% |
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Remote | 7 | 1.56% |
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Grassy | 7 | 1.56% |
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Pie | 7 | 1.56% |
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8-Ball | 8 | 1.78% |
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Book | 8 | 1.78% |
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Taco | 9 | 2% |
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Marker | 9 | 2% |
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Dora | 9 | 2% |
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Fanny | 10 | 2.22% |
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Robot Flower | 11 | 2.44% |
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Nonexisty | 11 | 2.44% |
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TV | 13 | 2.89% |
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Fries | 17 | 3.78% |
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Ruby | 22 | 4.89% |
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Evil Leafy | 34 | 7.56% |
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Nickel | 43 | 9.56% |
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Bomby | 73 | 16.22% |
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David | 102 | 22.67% |
New point system[]
David joins with 0 points, but it is still more than average. However, the point system is updated with only 2-digit numbers being allowed due to budget cuts. Bubble says "Oh no!" as the 2 from her 200 points fall off, resulting in her being last place with 0 points, though David is below her on the scoreboard because of alphabetical order rules.
| Results | Score | 2-digit s. board | Earn | Changes | Pos. |
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| 245 | 45 (-200) (2nd↓) | 60 | 5 | 8th↓ | |
| Bubble | 200 | 0 (-200) (7th↓) | 15 | 15 | 4th↑ |
| Rocky | 143 | 43 (-100) (3rd) | 15 | 58 | 2nd↑ |
| Spongy | 103 | 3 (-100) (5th↓) | 5 | 8 | 6th↓ |
| Firey | 101 | 1 (-100) (6th↓) | 5 | 6 | 7th↓ |
| David | 0 | 0 (7th) | 30 | 30 | 3rd↑ |
| Ice Cube | -873 | 73 (+946) (1st↑) | 5 | 78 | 1st↑ |
| Leafy | -1008 | 8 (+1016) (4th↑) | 5 | 13 | 5th↓ |
Bold name means the contestant was first place in the challenge.
Italic name means the contestant is currently in the danger zone.
Strikeout name means the contestant will be eliminated in the next episode.
Contest[]
The next challenge is a staring contest (recommended by CPFAN2000).
Round 1[]
- Ice Cube vs. Rocky: Rocky barfed on Ice Cube's face (making her blink obviously), which led him to win the round (losers discuss getting out once more).
- Pencil vs. Spongy: While the losers discuss how to get out, Spongy can't stand anymore and blinks, giving Pencil the win.
- Firey vs. David: David uses his angry face to scare Firey into blinking, so David wins.
- Leafy vs. Bubble: Bubble was talking about her springy shoes. Leafy assumed she liked them, but she said they were making it harder for her to stare, so she threw them over her back Leafy blinked with surprise, and Bubble wins, making Leafy angry. Coiny and Blocky discuss escaping and falling into the water.
Round 2[]
- Rocky vs. Pencil: Rocky attempted to barf on Pencil, but Pencil dodged all of the barf and threw it back in his face. Pencil wins (It then cuts to the losers begin pushing TLC down the hill).
- David vs. Bubble: David wins again, using his angry face to scare Bubble into blinking.
Final round[]
- Pencil vs. David: Pencil isn't scared by David's yelling. Pencil taunts David by chanting that she can win if he closes his eyes. The round skips to the 11th-hour mark, as the losers almost drown, only to be saved by the sun pushing up the TLC. Due to being allergic to sunrises, David blinks, and Pencil wins the tournament. However, due to the scoreboard only holding 2-digit numbers, ironically, Pencil's points for winning cause her to be in the bottom 3.
Stinger[]
In the end, the LOL gets crushed by the sun when it set with the TLC on it, continuing from the last episode (from the sunrise). Everyone in the LOL screams in pain.
Still In The Running[]
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Cast[]
| Voice actor | Roles |
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| Cary Huang | Match/Pin/Tennis Ball/Ice Cube/Needle/Rocky/Barf Bag |
| Michael Huang | Blocky/Golf Ball/Flower/Pen/Pencil/Coiny/Leafy/Bubble/Firey/Fanny/David/Ruby/Clock/Book/Robot Flower/Tree/Snowball/Eraser/Spongy |
| Adam Katz | Nickel |
| AT&T/NaturalReader Mike | Announcer |
| Google Translate | Dora |
- Woody, Naily, Tree, Saw, Cloudy, Bell, Balloony, Basketball, Eggy, Pillow, Remote, Grassy, Pie, 8-Ball, Taco, Marker, Fries, and Bomby appear; however, they do not speak.
Trivia[]
- The Cake at Stake theme is played twice.
- According to Cary, the episode was difficult to make and he and Michael were unsure if the episode was to be completed in time.
- It is approximately 10:10 AM when the 2nd Cake At Stake is commencing, as seen on Clock's time.
- The TLC somehow has a TV in it, seeing as Flower commented on viewing TV's program of squashing the Announcer. This also means TV's screen is broadcast within the BFDI universe, or Flower could have looked through the little window shown in "Get in the Van".
- Fries and Dora both have bizarre eating addictions: Fries is a cannibal who eats fries himself, while Dora eats islands.
- Coincidentally, both would eventually debut in Battle for Dream Island Again.
- Also coincidentally, both were the bottom 2 in "Insectophobe's Nightmare 3".
- Because the Announcer is voiced by a text-to-speech program, when he tells Ruby that she didn't get enough votes, he says: "Despite you're pleads to join please please," wrongly saying "you're" instead of "your". This can be heard because the TTS program makes it sound like "You are".
- This episode reveals that David is allergic to sunrises.
- Starting this episode, viewers could only recommend only one character per episode.
- This is the 2nd episode with the word "reveal" in the title. The 1st is "The Reveal", which is the previous episode.
- The 2017 thumbnail gives away that David debuted.
- When the scoreboard was downgraded, Ice Cube caused the largest change in points ever in BFDI, with -873 becoming 73 (+900), causing Icy to be in the lead.
- This is the last episode to use points.
- Tennis Ball was wrongly eliminated. The Announcer said, "whoever jumps the ledge first is safe, and the other one is eliminated". Tennis Ball jumped and it was never specified that they had to make it to the other side. And even if they did have to touch the other side, Leafy didn't jump.
- Roboty was the only character to have gotten under 3 votes, with 2, Saw, Tree, Naily, and Barf Bag only got 3 votes. The top three votes for joining character were 3rd Nickel with 42 votes, 2nd Bomby with 73, and David debuted with 103 votes.
- The LOL makes its first appearance.
- The music that plays when Robot Flower screams is the same music that plays during the end credits (Smaller Cap = Less Plastic).
- The TLC seems to be heat-resistant because when the sun carried the TLC on, it didn't melt or warp.
- Dictionary held an assortment of entries:
- Clock: used to tell the time. Clocks like to think that watches are wannabes, but how do they know it's not the other way around?
- Cloudy: is white when happy, a rain cloud when sad, and a thundercloud when angry. This guy has serious mood swings!
- Coiny: likes to slap Firey. But what I don't get is how to slap fire. Won't your hand just go right through? Whatever.
- David: a dumb stick figure who supposedly is "pure evil".
- Dictionary: the one who will win Dream Island. (highlighted in red)
- Dora: a weird squeaking blob of flesh. They say she speaks "perfect Spanish"... but seriously, who can understand that hideous thing?
- Eggy: Cracks to easily. Notice Eggy has no whites or yolks within her.
- Eraser: thinks that pink is manly. Also experiences extreme pain when he rubs against anything, because bits of him come right off.
- Evil Leafy: Leafy wannabe. What a loser.
- Fanny: Uses blades that chop the air to create an uneven air flow. Not very comfortable.
- Firey: Firey is fiery. Note that they are spelled differently.
- Flower: the only contestant to be in the Tiny Loser Chamber for sixteen months... so far.
- Fries: Eats fries. See fries.
- Golf Ball: is a girl, but sounds like a boy. Also has 336 dimples. In short, an ugly menace.
- Grassy: is very good at camouflaging. Also contains many chlorophyll molecules (C₅₅H₇₂O₅N₄Mg).
- Ice Cube: can shatter.
- Dictionary saying GB being a girl who sounds like a boy is a reason for her being an ugly menace is odd, because she is also a female character voiced by a male actor.
- When Bubble said "Oh no" when she fell into the danger zone, it was her old voice before the "oi" sound was introduced.
- For some reason, the .fla for this episode was released some time after all of the other season 1 .fla files were released.
- This is one of the stingers that take place in the day. This time, it's evening.
- Teardrop is the only eliminated contestant who didn't appear in this episode.
- 8-Ball, Balloony, Cloudy, Dora, and Saw die for the first time.
- In this episode, Dora reveals that one of her allergy symptoms is vomiting, as she says fastly "Los tomates son muy desagradables, voy a vomitar si como uno, prefiero las islas, ¿Entender?"/"Tomatoes are disgusting, I'm gonna barf if I eat one, I prefer the islands, Understand? "
- This is the first episode where no currently competing contestant has died in.
- Furthermore, the only deaths in this episode were recommended characters.
Continuity references[]
- A lot of the episode is spent on the previously eliminated contestants trying to escape the Tiny Loser Chamber.
- Golf Ball points out that Blocky left the TLC in BFDI 9.
- Flower says she's been in the TLC for 16 months (approx. February 1, 2010, when she actually got eliminated in BFDI 2).
- The TLC lid opening for 5 minutes a day is mentioned for the first and only time since "Bridge Crossing".
- The Announcer mentions budget cuts for the first time, which will happen more in the following episodes. They were first mentioned by an unknown voice in "Bowling, Now With Explosions!"
- Dictionary's definition of Clock is a reference to his line in "The Reveal".
- Dictionary's definition of Golf Ball is a reference to "Lofty", as is her definition of Eraser.
- Dictionary's definition of Cloudy mentioning him being a thundercloud when angry is a reference to "The Reveal", where his audition showed him becoming a thundercloud and summoning Lightning.
- Firey votes Ice Cube for being his opposite, just like how he took off 100 points from her in "Bowling, Now with Explosions!" for the same reason.
- Bubble decides not to vote for Leafy because of the gift she gave her in the last episode. Later, she throws away the gift because it makes it hard to stare.
- Nickel still wants to join to replace Coiny.
- Fries still eats fries.
- The Announcer mentions how Ruby said "Please, please" in her audition.
- Clock's line is later used in "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?"
- Spongy's lines at the end of the episode during the voting scene are reused in "What Do You Think of Roleplay?".
Cultural references[]
- When Bubble threw her shoes into the trees and landed on the ground, the Minecraft grass sound can be heard.
- Versus, a sports channel whose logo is seen in this episode, rebranded as NBC Sports Network in 2012.
Goofs[]
- At 0:59, when everyone is talking, Firey suddenly shifts upward.
- When Ice Cube is declared safe, The announcer throws a cracker piece and Ice Cube suddenly appears next to Bubble and Pencil.
- In the next scene, Ice Cube is shown back next to Leafy and Tennis Ball at Cake at Stake.
- When Fries is shown eating, the same fry reappears and keeps being eaten.
- Also, when Fries is shown eating, he grabbed nothing and fries continuously and alternately appear on his hand.
- Pencil technically blinks when her eyebrow is seen flipping from up to down. She does this again right before David blinks.
- When Bubble is screaming even though she's safe, one of the straps on her springy shoes appears on Firey's shoulder.
- Also, in some scenes, Bubble has an extra pair of arms.
- At 10:00-10:12, the water is higher on Eraser than it is on Coiny and Coiny is smaller.
- Eraser didn't have arms at 10:11.
- One of the recommended characters, Jessalyn, has an uncolored leg.
- There are no holes in the bottom of the TLC, so there is no way the water could've drained.
- Golf Ball didn't die when the water leaked, because since golf balls sink, she would've drowned.
- In round 1 (Firey vs. David), Bubble and Leafy were behind them, when Firey blinks his eyes, Bubble and Leafy disappear.
- When David, Dora, Fanny, and Ruby complain about the yellow tomato that they will receive if they win, one of David and Dora's legs are in the air.
- Every time the camera zooms in and out from the joining ceremony, Fanny's propeller and Clock's needle doesn't move.
- Book's definition of Eggy says "Cracks to easily". It should say "Cracks too easily". This is most likely a grammatical error.
- Even though Dora said she speaks "Perfect Spanish", She says at the end of her tomato complaint "¿Entender?" instead of "¿Entiendes?"
Deaths[]
- Ropey is cut by Scissors.
- Bomby explodes after being thrown in the air.
- All recommended characters that failed (except Bomby and likely Nonexisty) to join got crushed by the Sun in the Locker of Losers in the epilogue.
