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| “ | I side with Robot Flower. Mechanical minds stick together. | ” |
— TV, "The Liar Ball You Don't Want"
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TV is a male contestant in Battle for BFDI and Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two. He is also a host in Battle for Dream Island Again and Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two.
In Battle for Dream Island, TV was one of the 30 recommended characters that had a chance to join the show in "The Reveal". The votes for the debut were revealed in "Reveal Novum" and he only got 13 votes which was not enough to join, placing him 7th to join the season.
In Battle for Dream Island Again, TV had the chance to join at the start of the season but he only received 287 votes which wasn't enough, placing 24th to join the season. However, Firey picked TV to be the host due to being similar to Announcer. TV was the host until "Insectophobe's Nightmare 3" where Puffball Speaker Box, and then later Firey Speaker Box, became the host causing TV to instead be the co-host. TV was sent to the Tiny Loser Chamber in "Intruder Alert" due to failing to create a good Cake at Stake theme, however took the key to assure no more contestants would be sent there.
In IDFB, TV is currently in the Tiny Loser Chamber due to being sent during "Intruder Alert". He had a chance to join the season but only received 318 votes[2], which was not enough to rejoin and placed him 11th to join the season.
In Battle for BFDI, TV competed on A Better Name Than That until the split in "The Escape from Four" where he left the show to compete on Two's show due to being a mechanical mind.
In Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two, TV competed on Are You Okay until the team swap in "What's Up Bell's String?" where he was instead put on 
by One. During "Seasonal Shift", he was temporally a co-host when announcing this episode's challenge and assisting the contestants on restoring the timeline. However, TV took over as host in "Last One Standing", before revealing his elimination with 15,479 votes, placing 17th[3] overall. However, he is currently not in the elimination area due to getting killed by Pencil.
Appearance[]
TV appears to be a flat-screen plasma (also widescreen) television. He has the ability to hide his feet and rest on the ground from the stand. He also can project images and videos on his display instead of his normal face.
Changes[]
BFDI 14
- TV is named "Tele".
- Tele has a brushed-metal design.
- Tele has dark outlines on his border.
- Tele's face is black.
BFDI 16
- Tele is renamed to "TV".
- TV's screen border is thicker.
- TV is brighter.
- TV's legs are far away.
- TV's face is white.
BFDI 17 (recommended character)
- TV's legs are closer.
- TV's face is poorly drawn.
BFDI 17 (debut)
- TV is darker.
- TV's screen border is thinner.
BFDIA
- TV gradient becomes completely black and white.
- TV becomes a lot larger in width and height.
- TV's outline is slightly thicker.
- TV loses his legs and face (although sometimes his face appears, it is crudely drawn).
BFDIA 7-13
- TV's screen border width becomes more symmetrical.
- TV loses his brushed-metal design.
- TV's screen border becomes the same color as its stand.
- TV's screen has a lighter and shorter gradient.
- TV gets his legs and face back.
- TV's face is normal again and made of BFDI/A assets again.
BFDIA 13+
- TV is a lot smaller.
- TV loses his gradient in his screen.
- TV's screen became more detailed.
- TV now has two light streaks on his screen.
- TV's monitor is less detailed.
- TV now has a shadow.
TPOT 6+
- TV has wheels that can be used interchangeably with his legs.
TPOT 13
- TV gets a metal base with lights and wheels from Tennis Ball.
Designs[]
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Personality[]
While TV rarely speaks, he displays pictures and words on his screen to show how he's feeling and to communicate to the contestants. TV himself is often used by the other contestants to display information, stats, and Cake at Stake results. TV seems to believe his role as a mechanical mind is to lend a helping hand and apparently not speak, (as shown in BFB 4) which is why he displays results for Cake at Stake when he needs to, and he generally obeys when he is told to do something, especially by most of the hosts.
BFDI[]
TV dreams to win Dream Island. However, after realizing he only got 13 votes, which isn't enough to join, he shows an Announcer being crushed on his screen, indicating that TV is angry at him. Afterward, he is sent to the LOL.
BFDIA[]
TV expresses major excitement when he becomes the host. He displays the voting results in every Cake at Stake. He'll purposefully play bad variations of the Cake at Stake song and make loud noises to annoy Fries. In later episodes, he can be random and talks about things that just happened using words. He is also shown to be a quitter as he stopped doing the Martial Arts in the New Cake at Stake intro. TV acts as a co-host for Puffball and Firey Speaker Box by counting the votes.
BFB[]
TV is again mostly silent, though displays his emotions and feelings through visual aid on his screen. While TV has been rude before, such as when he told Robot Flower not to talk, he also sided with Robot Flower when she closed the signal in "The Liar Ball You Don't Want". Despite being mostly silent, TV is expressive and emotional, and maybe also snarky and has a sense of humor, as his voting icon is him displaying the word "don't", so that his voting message would be read as "don't type [E] to eliminate TV".
Starting in "Return of the Rocket Ship", he uses clips from previous episodes of BFDI-BFB to articulate full phrases instead of speaking.
TPOT[]
TV has adopted a text-to-speech voice (Scottish male voice at Text2Speech) and expresses a bit more emotion. He has shown a bit of antagonism, as he convinced Robot Flower to self-destruct her team's ship in "Fishes and Dishes", and attempted to sabotage Tree in "Bottle For Dream Island", both due to their insensitivity to robots; the former was also as revenge for kidnapping him. Despite this, he is friendly to other robotic beings, emphasizing the need for them to stick together.
He also helps his team, as he lets them use him as transportation when Puffball ditched them in "The Seven Wonders of Goiky", and when he told his team to jump over a rolling Donut in "Balancing P.AC.T.". Additionally, TV shows his dedication to his friends by sacrificing himself to ensure their survival in "Outbreak At Stake". His willingness to put their needs above his own highlights his deep sense of loyalty and care.
Official Character Guide biography[]
TV is a flat-screen who rarely speaks. He uses videos to communicate his thoughts, memories, and to provide his teammates with information. In fact, TV is so good at providing information that he served as the host for a short time in BFDIA!
Fries... wasn't a fan.
While televisions will often dominate a room, TV is happy staying in the background and doing what he thinks needs to be done. When someone needs him to display some information, TV is happy to oblige.
Did You Know?: TV has a long history of counting votes, so he's learned how to estimate voting results within a 100-vote margin of error.
Abilities[]
- Advanced Locator: In "The Great Goikian Bake-Off", TV helps his team by using "an advanced locator installed within [him]" to locate a Dream Berry.
- Speed: In "The Seven Wonders of Goiky", TV is shown to use his wheels to attain great speeds, fast enough to make a round-trip between the volcano in southern Goiky and the hotel in a short-enough timeframe to complete the challenge.
- Power Saving: In "The Seven Wonders of Goiky", TV turns himself off, which ceases all functions of the TV. He can turn himself back on whenever he wants to.
- Martial Arts Combatant: TV may be proficient in Martial Arts on some level as he was practicing them with Lewis in the New Cake at Stake Intro for BFDIA.
- Retractable Legs: TV has retractable legs that can be pulled in and out, and can also be switched out for wheels in order to travel faster.
- BFDI Recall: On multiple occasions, TV plays clips from earlier episodes of BFDI. This is also used in "Seasonal Shift" to see which failed debuters are where.
Weaknesses[]
- Water: TV can't survive water since he's an electronic device and will short-circuit upon contact, as shown in "Fishes and Dishes" and "Balancing P.A.C.T".
- Screen fragility: If anything with enough power, speed or force comes into contact with TV's screen, it can break the screen, causing TV to die.
Coverage[]
- Main article: TV/Coverage
Relationships[]
- Main article: TV/Relationships
Votes[]
| Voting Icon | Episode | Votes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
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18 | 13 (to join) | Failed to Join |
| Voting Icon | Episode | Votes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
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1 | 287 (to join) | Failed to Join |
| Voting Icon | Episode | Votes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
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8 | 2,578 | Safe (3rd) |
| Voting Icon | Episode | Votes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
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6 | 5,233 | Safe (3rd) |
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9 | 6,365 | Safe (2nd) |
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13 | 19,155 | Safe (4th) |
| 15 | 16,146 | Safe (5th, Risk) | |
| 19 | 15,479 | Eliminated |
| Elimination | Save votes | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2,578 | 62,378 | 65,256 |
Deaths[]
- "Half a Loaf Is Better Than None": Runs into a vat of hydrochloric acid.
- "Bowling, Now with Explosions!": Burns to death while trapped in a large metal box.
- "Reveal Novum": Gets crushed by the sun while in the Locker of Losers.
- "Don't Dig Straight Down": He was among those who perished in the lava (offscreen).
- "Getting Puffball To Think About Rollercoasters": Gets zapped by Eraser.
- "Fishes and Dishes": Short-circuits when the robotic fish monster fills with water.
- "The Great Goikian Bake-Off":
- "The Seven Wonders of Goiky": TV turns himself off when Eraser asks him what to do (debatable, as he later turns himself on).
- "Balancing P.A.C.T.": Short-circuits after Robot Flower knocks him into the water.
- "Outbreak at Stake": Shattered after Pen slams Snare Drum to him.
- "What's Up Bell's String?":
- Killed by Basketball who accidentally crashes into him from a domino effect caused by Fanny and Marker.
- Killed by Snowball when he was glued on to him along with Basketball, Eraser, and Tennis Ball.
- "Category One": Gets crushed by a Giant David after it falls on him.
- "I SAID CAREFUL!!!": Gets his screen broken by Pen's cap.
- "Bottle For Dream Island": Gets crushed and snapped in half whilst in the Robotic Spider by the Fourse.
- "Last One Standing": Mutilated by Pencil using Two's power.
Non-canon deaths:
- "Battle for Dream Island: Official Character Guide/Instagram Promotion": Turned off by Remote (debatable)
- "If Among Us Was a BFDI Challenge": Sucked into Black Hole.
- "UNREAL BFDI": Sucked into Black Hole.
Kills[]
Number of kills: 12
| Character | Number of times killed | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Basketball | 2 | "Fishes and Dishes" (along with Robot Flower, Marker, and Tree) "What's Up Bell's String?" (along with Bomby, Fanny, Marker, Needle and Tree) |
| Bell | 1 | "Fishes and Dishes" (along with Robot Flower, Marker, and Tree) |
| Bomby | "What's Up Bell's String?" (along with Basketball, Fanny, Marker, Needle, and Tree) | |
| Eggy | "Fishes and Dishes" (along with Robot Flower, Marker, and Tree) | |
| Four | "Four Goes Too Far" (along with A Better Name Than That and Donut) | |
| Golf Ball | "What's Up Bell's String?" (along with Basketball, Bomby, Fanny, Marker, Needle and Tree) | |
| Grassy | 2 | "Fishes and Dishes" (along with Robot Flower, Marker, and Tree) "Bottle For Dream Island" |
| Needle | 1 | "What's Up Bell's String?" (along with Basketball, Bomby, Fanny, Marker and Tree) |
| Snowball | "Fishes and Dishes" (along with Robot Flower, Marker, and Tree) | |
| Tree | "I SAID CAREFUL!!!" |
Trivia[]
Comparisons[]
- He, Tree, Portable Music Player, Winner, Purple Face, Profily, Rubber Spatula, and Two are the only characters to not have American accents.
- In TV's case, he spoke with a Scottish accent in "The Liar Ball You Don't Want", but from "Return of the Rocket Ship" to "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life", TV spoke only by using sentences remixed from past episodes of BFDI, which were assembled by Kenzie Bryant. Following her and Satomi Hinatsu's termination from Jacknjellify in July 2022, TV regained his Scottish accented voice in "Fishes and Dishes", but does occasionally use past episodes to speak.
- TV is one of the four "mechanical minds" in BFB alongside Remote, Robot Flower, and Roboty.
- He is one of the few contestants to have white facial features rather than the usual black. This also applies to 8-Ball, Cake, Remote, Profily, and Price Tag.
- TV is one of the five characters to be voiced by a text-to-speech at least once, the others are Remote, Roboty, Announcer, and Dora (prior to BFB).
- TV is one of the few contestants who aren't included in TPOT's credits, along with Rocky, Remote, and Teardrop.
- TV is one of the two contestants who can retract their limbs, the other is Winner.
- TV is one of the four contestants with a TPOT pose that references the season's name, along with Winner, Price Tag, and Clock.
- TV and Gelatin are the only contestants to make cameo appearances in BFDI Mini Delicious.
- TV and Roboty have a few similarities:
- Both TV and Roboty are considered mechanical minds.
- Both TV and Roboty are male.
- Both TV and Roboty do not have arms.
- Both TV and Roboty use a text to speech to talk.
- Not counting the Integer abbreviations, he and X are the only characters whose names have no vowels, and are pronounced as individual letters.
- They are also the only characters whose abbreviation is the same as their real name.
- They are also the only characters whose names have names less than three letters long.
- TV is one of the five contestants who have been voiced by both of the Huang Twins at one point. The others are Ruby, Marker, Tennis Ball, Spongy and Woody.
Competition[]
- In BFDIA, TV would've been next in line to join the season if another person was not present, as he received the most votes out of everyone present who did not get enough votes to join.
- TV was the last ever contestant to enter the TLC.
- Coincidentally, TV was sent to the LOL in the first and last instances of it ever being used. He was sent there with the other failed debuters in "Reveal Novum" and then was sent inside before it was locked forever in "Intruder Alert".
- TV is one of the two contestants who have told the viewers not to vote for them to be eliminated (albeit indirectly), the other is Flower.
- TV is the only BFB newbie on Are You Okay.
- As of "The Great Goikian Bake-Off", TV has gone the longest out of the Are You Okay members without ever being voted off for their first time.
- TV is the highest ranking recommended character on Are You Okay.
- TV has never been on a team without Tennis Ball.
- TV is always in the bottom 3 when
is up for voting. - TV is the highest ranking mechanical mind in TPOT.
- As of "Last One Standing", TV has gone the longest out of any mechanical mind without getting voted out.
- TV is the highest ranking male in TPOT who has never received the most votes to stay.
- Once he was eliminated in TPOT 19, there was only one contestant with 2 limbs on each team still competing.
General[]
- He is the contestant with the shortest name, having only two letters.
- TV is the first of many contestants to host a season.
- In BFDIA, TV is the only one who hosted from both outside and inside the TLC.
- It was previously unknown why TV was in the TLC in IDFB, but it was later revealed in "Intruder Alert" that he was sent because of his poorly made Cake at Stake theme despite having a high budget.
- In BFDIA, TV is the only one who hosted from both outside and inside the TLC.
- As seen in "Today's Very Special Episode", TV can retract his legs into his body at will.
- In "The Great Goikian Bake-Off", TV can also have wheels in place of his legs.
- A diagram of TV in Basketball's Aboveground Factory shows that Basketball is confused as to how he does this.
- Apparently, TV's tongue has a static effect when his tongue is off his body as shown on his favorite screen in "Yeah, Who? I Wanna Know".
- This shot is also the only time TV's face was shown in the entirety of BFDIA before BFDIA 6, where his face is shown in "Intruder Alert" in the TLC after he got flung and took the key.
- "Fishes and Dishes" reveals that TV is a touchscreen television.
- Despite being a television, TV acts more like a computer, as he has the ability to calculate votes and other properties of physics such as acoustic reverberation, none of which are the type of characteristics a real-life television could do.
- Though, this might suggest that TV is a smart TV, it would not only vastly outpace the technology from the year which he was properly integrated into the BFDI canon, 2012, but would also contradict his own species, being a flatscreen plasma television.
- TV can also chain video clips together on his own to imitate speech, something that is also impossible to do on a real-life television without laboriously altering it.
- Despite being a television, TV acts more like a computer, as he has the ability to calculate votes and other properties of physics such as acoustic reverberation, none of which are the type of characteristics a real-life television could do.
- "Today's Very Special Episode" marks the first time TV has spoken. (Most other noises made by TV were from either random noises or someone screaming, or the mechanic voices used for announcing Cake at Stake, but now he has a proper voice.)
- In "Return of the Rocket Ship" to "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life", TV spoke using clips from previous episodes to talk, though Kenzie Bryant was credited as the one who "voiced" him.
- This is because she was the one responsible for assembling the clips into TV.[4]
- However, she is no longer listed under Kenzie in TPOT's credits following being laid off as a TPOT showrunner by Jacknjellify during July 2022.
- "The Great Goikian Bake-Off", marks the first time where TV showed no clips from previous episodes in order to communicate.
- TV named Team No-Name in "Get Digging" as he displayed their name on his screen when judging the yoylestews.
- As shown in the stinger of "Four Goes Too Far", TV has the ability to act as a mirror.
- TV is the first character to appear in TPOT.
- At the end of the TPOT intro, TV shows the Utah teapot in reference to the show's acronym. The Utah teapot is a common 3D test model that is an in-joke among the computer graphics community.
- Based on the Announcer's story, TV is the only character who was aware of the Announcer's presence back on Earth before he revealed himself in "B.F.B. = Back From Beginning".
- "The Great Goikian Bake-Off" is the first time his screen is shown to crack.
- A prototype version of TV's body is seen in "Are You Smarter Than a Snowball?".
- TV makes a cameo appearance during the Screaming Contest in BFDI Mini Delicious.
- TV is featured on the annual Trans Day of Visibility posts alongside Book, Bottle, Bracelety, Cake, Cloudy, Donut, Eggy, Firey, Flower, Fries, Gaty, Golf Ball, Lightning, Marker, Needle, Pen, Pie, Pin, Price Tag, Profily, Remote, Saw, Teardrop, and Winner.[5]
- The font used on his BFB team icon is Arial.
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See also[]
References[]
- ↑ [BFDIA1]
- ↑ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13dUHjWwflvXt2cuW-oGNV29z6XK3KunzWfHPonZoX0M/edit#gid=1397548773
- ↑ Despite Snowball being eliminated before TV, Bagged placed lowest in TPOT 17's challenge, so therefore Snowball places higher.
- ↑
- ↑ https://x.com/jacknjellify/status/1906919939472273547
| The Power of Two contestants |
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| Competing: Black Hole • Fanny • Marker • Tree • Book • Price Tag • Grassy • Bottle • Liy • Pen • Tennis Ball • Donut • Golf Ball • Pencil • Winner Eliminated: Pie • Foldy • Saw • Cloudy • Naily • Remote • Eggy • Fries • Clock • Lightning • Cake • Rocky • Puffball • Coiny • Teardrop • Nickel • Bomby • Bell • Barf Bag • Needle • Eraser • Gaty • Basketball • Robot Flower • Pin • Ice Cube • Yellow Face • Pillow • TV • Snowball |
| BFDI possible debutants |
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| 8-Ball • Balloony • Barf Bag • Basketball • Bell • Bomby • Book • Clock • Cloudy • Dora • Eggy • Evil Leafy • Fanny • Fries • Grassy • Marker • Naily • Nickel • Nonexisty • Pie • Pillow • Remote • Robot Flower • Roboty • Ruby • Saw • Taco • Tree • TV |
| Hosts |
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| Announcer • Firey Speaker Box (Firey Speaker Box's Clone) • Flower Speaker Box • TV • Puffball Speaker Box • Flower • Host Bug • Fish Monster • Leafy • Four • X • Two • Purple Face
WTF members: Firey • Gelatin • Ice Cube • Golf Ball • Yellow Face • Pencil • Ruby • Bomby TPOT 15 only: Six • Seven • Nine • Ten • Profily • Evil Leafy • Pan Flute • Pineapple • Glue • Jack Frew • Carrot Cake • VR Headset • Cheese Orb Other: HelloKevin • Text • Cary Huang |
| IDFB TLC/LOL |
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| BFDI contestants that are permanently eliminated BFDIA contestants that are permanently eliminated BFDI contestants who failed to join BFDIA Recommended characters who failed to join both BFDI and BFDIA |
| A Better Name Than That |
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 Stayed after the split: Blocky |
| Are You Okay |
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 TPOT 12: Eraser • Golf Ball • Pen • Tennis Ball • TV |
| Bagged |
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 Eliminated: Needle • Basketball • TV |
