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| “ | Well, everybody, they are building the island of luxury. It's called Dream Island. | ” |
"Take the Plunge: Part 1" is the 1st part of the 1st episode of Battle for Dream Island, uploaded on Friday, January 1, 2010 at 8:11:19 AM PST (GMT-8).
Twenty animated objects are told by an Announcer that they can win Dream Island, a 1-square-mile island of paradise that includes luxurious facilities, a casino, robot servants, a 5-star hotel, and 6 restaurants. The objects are told that they will have to compete in a challenge and they believe that the winner would win the island and will be able to choose who can and can't go with them.
Pin and Leafy won the first contest only to be told that they had to pick the teams for upcoming challenges, thus beginning the official battle for Dream Island.
Characters[]
Main[]
- Announcer (debut)
- Blocky (debut)
- Bubble (debut)
- Coiny (debut)
- Eraser (debut)
- Firey (debut)
- Flower (debut)
- Golf Ball (debut)
- Ice Cube (debut)
- Leafy (debut)
- Match (debut)
- Needle (debut)
- Pen (debut)
- Pencil (debut)
- Pin (debut)
- Rocky (debut)
- Snowball (debut)
- Spongy (debut)
- Teardrop (debut)
- Tennis Ball (debut)
- Woody (debut)
Mentioned[]
- Bugs
- Robot Servants (shown in mention)
Plot[]
Match and Pencil talking
Cold open[]
The first scene shows a typical No. 2 pencil named Pencil and a matchstick Match discussing how a charming centaury flower named Flower is scared of bugs even though the bug she encountered was little. After that, Match changes the subject and talks about Flower's ego. A flashback then starts playing, which shows Flower asking a frozen block of tap water named Ice Cube if she is beautiful. Ice Cube responds with no, allowing her to kick her off screen in anger. This catches Ice Cube's attention, letting her join in the conversation. Ice Cube states that she is going to take revenge on Flower after getting kicked and is proud that both are her friends, but Pencil and Match show no interest. Ice Cube wanted to give a soap bubble named Bubble a hug for being her friend. Pencil and Match tried to warn her to stop, but Ice Cube accidentally pops Bubble in the process. Bubble is recovered by the Bubble Recovery Center, only to be nearly popped by a plastic pushpin named Pin.
Bubble got mad at her for trying to pop her, but it was revealed a wooden building block named Blocky was holding her, and says so in response. After she breaks free by kicking him, he throws a sewing needle named Needle at Bubble. Bubble dodges the attack and annoyingly asks him why he performed the act. Blocky says that he was just "in the mood" to hurt someone. Blocky follows this up by kicking a balsa plywood named Woody, who almost fell on a silent drop of lacrimal fluid named Teardrop. A lemon leaf named Leafy picks him up from the ground and tells him to enjoy life. Woody then looks over to Teardrop, and suddenly lusts over her; hearts come out of Woody in pure romance. Upon utter annoyance, Teardrop kicks Woody into the air.
A fuzzy tennis ball named Tennis Ball tells Teardrop to calm down and warns her that Woody is made of balsa and can be damaged easily. While Woody is in the air, a white ball of hard-packed, wet snow named Snowball, riding his hand glider, notices him "flying". Woody then falls onto a quartzite mountain rock named Rocky, hitting and chipping himself in the process. Woody screams in pain, while a bored rubber school eraser named Eraser comments to a ballpoint pen named Pen about Woody's cowardice and how he wasn't cool. Eraser, however, says Pen is cool, and Pen says that Eraser is cool too. Snowball, still on his hand glider, accidentally hits a mountaintop and loses his grip on the hand glider, which flies off. On his way down, he finds Rocky. Snowball gets concerned about him and wakes him up, only for Rocky to greet him. Tired of Rocky's ignorance, he throws him away, causing Rocky to suddenly hit Tennis Ball, who frowns at Rocky in disappointment. Rocky says hi to Tennis Ball, calling him his "good ol' friend".
Meanwhile, a copper coin named Coiny and a flame named Firey are seen arguing and fighting on top of a large rectangular washing sponge named Spongy, who is leaking water. A bossy golf ball named Golf Ball tells them to stop fighting and for Spongy to take a bath because he's stinky, to which he apologizes. Eraser and Blocky discuss Golf Ball's bossiness, making Eraser call her a "bossy-bot". Blocky, Snowball, and Pen begin staring at him due to his embarrassment. Eraser then calls a bossy robot, but they still stare at him. Eraser then finally calls her a robot, who is built to be its bossiest. Eraser says that he'd do anything to get away from Golf Ball, Flower, Woody, and Spongy.
The Announcer, a speaker box, then falls from the sky and tells Eraser he is in luck, which piques Eraser's interest. He then tells Eraser about Dream Island. Eraser says that he wants it due to it costing free of charge, but the Announcer says that everyone else wants it too. However, Eraser would never want to give to anyone else, but the others wouldn't do so as well, to which Announcer replies that the objects will settle this with a contest.
Contest[]
Everyone is placed on a wooden balance beam standing above water, and the Announcer informs them that whoever stays on the beam the longest wins. Leafy and Pin promise to help each other. Blocky sits still in a pose, which Coiny notices and wonders what he's doing, telling him to wake up. Spongy falls first after slipping out of place. Flower gets mad as she "needed her space", so she aggressively pushes Woody, Eraser, Tennis Ball, Firey, Golf Ball, Needle, and Leafy off the balance beam. Leafy yells out for Pin's help, and Pin grabs her right before reaching the water and pulls Leafy up.
Bubble decides to form an alliance with Pencil and Match that will last throughout the entire series. Ice Cube, eager to secure her friendship with them, asks if she could join. As she runs toward them, she accidentally knocks Pen off the beam, then bumps into Snowball and the rest of Pencil's alliance, also knocking them out. Before sinking into the water, Pencil rejects Ice Cube's request.
Coiny, having noticed that Blocky still isn't moving, tells him to wake up again. He shakes Blocky, accidentally causing him to fall off the bridge, but Blocky swings around the beam and makes Coiny fall. Blocky starts to tell him not to shake him up again but only realizes Coiny already fell off last minute.
With six contestants still on the beam, Leafy and Pin try to push off Flower while Blocky watches them fearfully. However, Flower notices them on time and kicks them into the air. Leafy and Pin, distracted by their "flying", end up crashing into Teardrop and fall off. Leafy grabs onto the bridge and Pin's leg, and Teardrop grabs on as well. Leafy is about to lose her grip on the bridge and calls Blocky and Rocky for help. Luckily, Blocky comes, only to step on her feet. He realizes his mistake and pulls Leafy's arm. Blocky almost falls but hangs on the bridge with his feet, struggling to pull the others up.
Leafy tells Teardrop to reach onto her other arm to conserve their weight so that Blocky can pull them up easier. Flower comes and shows off her Non-Slip Shoes So Ha, but Blocky uses one of his feet to kick her off the bridge. Flower grabs onto Pin in time, so Pin responds by licking Flower. Flower, disgusted by Pin licking her, gradually loses grip on Pin and finally falls into the water. Leafy says that dropping Flower was a job well done, and Pin and Teardrop swing back onto the bridge. Leafy reminds Pin that they're in an alliance, so she helped Leafy swing back onto the bridge. Blocky says that Leafy is stepping on him, but just like how Blocky accidentally pushed Coiny off, Leafy realizes it at the last minute, and Blocky falls off the bridge. Later, Teardrop tries to push off Rocky, but she slips and falls, along with Rocky.
Leafy and Pin are the final two, so they do a rock-paper-scissors tie-breaker. Pin's scissors beat Leafy's paper, so Pin gets to push Leafy off, but Leafy says they didn't agree to that. Pin reassures Leafy that when she wins, she will let her into the island, but Leafy thinks it's unfair; in which Pin states only one of them can win (but she uses the wrong finger). However, the Announcer turns up to them and says that they both win, but it wasn't the island like Pin hoped; they were going to pick out their team members of their future teams for a longer competition to win the island. Pin seems to be bored, but Leafy says it doesn't seem so bad.
Still In The Running[]
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Final Placements[]
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Cast[]
| Voice actor | Roles |
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| Cary Huang | Match/Ice Cube/Pin/Rocky/Spongy/Needle |
| Michael Huang | Pencil/Flower/Bubble/Blocky/Woody/Leafy/Coiny/Tennis Ball/Eraser/Pen/Snowball/Firey/Golf Ball |
| AT&T/NaturalReader Mike | Announcer |
Trivia[]
- This episode has the most views on the channel (68+ million views as of April 27, 2024) and has the highest dislike/like ratio (with 165K+ likes and 25K+ dislikes as of April 2024).
- However, this ratio is going down. In August 2013, the video had 4K likes and 2.4K dislikes.[2]
- This episode is the first object show video on YouTube to reach 100K likes.
- In January 2019, this episode was reanimated in BFDI 1a+1b Reanimated! Fan-made MAP (Multi Animator Project) as part of BFDI's ninth anniversary.
- This is the first episode to have subtitles. It was followed by "Lofty", all parts of BFDIA 5 (which was added some time after release), "The Long-lost Yoyle City", "Welcome Back", the first nineteen Battle for BFDI episodes (the rest of the post-split BFB episodes would later receive subtitles some time after release), and all episodes of The Power of Two.
- This is one of the 3 BFDI episodes with no voting, the other two being "Puzzling Mysteries" and "Return of the Hang Glider".
- During the beginning of the episode, Pencil was originally supposed to say, "Really, Match?".
- Before Flower pushed everyone around her away, there were 2 words that both said "HELP" between Pin and Leafy. One of them was red, and the other was green. Both word colors represent Pin and Leafy, respectively.
- This is the first 2-part episode in all of BFDI.
- While Pin and Leafy were flying in the air, Eraser is seen flying in the distance for a very brief moment even though he got pushed off the balance beam by Flower.
- This could be a Background Layout error
- Needle, Pen, Snowball, and Tennis Ball all only have a single line.
- This is the first official appearance of the Non-Slip Shoes So Ha shoes (worn by Flower). They make their second BFDI appearance in Insectophobe's Nightmare 2 during an advertisement.
- They make their third appearance in the BFB episode "Get to the Top in 500 Steps".
- This is the first episode to use the "snatch" sound effect.
- The sound effect originating in this episode was re-used in many future episodes, such as "Today's Very Special Episode", "The Four is Lava", and "Intruder Alert".
- Innuendo: When Pin says "only one of us can win", it is implied that she accidentally flips Leafy off with the middle finger; as Leafy responds she pointed the "wrong finger".
- Although, according to a video uploaded by Cary on the Humany channel, she actually pulls up the ring finger. However, he put a "/j" at the end of the video's title, which means the video is most likely a joke.
- There was an alternate ending to the contest where Pin won; Leafy was out and ended up in third place, then Pin knocked off Teardrop and won. Apparently, the voices were done, but it was deleted, most likely due to timing.
- Bubble is the first character to die in the series.
- Match is the first person to talk in this episode, making her the first-ever character to talk (in animation) in the history of BFDI.
- This episode is mostly based on the first book of Total Firey Points.
- The first scene of BFDI that Cary ever animated was "Scene 3", after the intro and credits when the contestants are put on the balance beam.
- According to BFDI's Road to Half a Billion Views, this episode got 7,301 views in its first month after release. It has been the most viewed video on the channel since it beat The Marble Race! on November 1, 2012. Part 1 has been the most viewed episode since it passed Part 2 in mid-January 2010. a few weeks after they were released. The episode reached 1,000 views on March 31, 2010, 10,000 views on February 9, 2011, 100,000 views on September 24, 2011, 1 million views on September 12, 2012, 10 million views on September 30, 2013, and 50 million views on May 24, 2017.
- Cary and Michael thought about turning BFDI into a YouTube series on August 18, 2009, on a plane ride back from their vacation in Hawaii. This was mentioned in We Discovered Our Forgotten "Firey" Comics — BFB 23 on Friday, August 21.
- By September 2009, the voices and the animation were being developed for both two parts.
- All of Michael's scenes for this episode have not been recovered due to his hard drive crashing on May 2010, according to Michael himself, during a stream in which he and Cary explore the source files for the episode.
Cultural references[]
- The robot servant claws resemble the claws from The Demented Cartoon Movie.
Goofs[]
- At frame 232, for a split second, Match's arm detaches from her body. 0:09
- For a near split second, when Match mentions the time Flower asked Ice Cube if she was beautiful, her mouth disappears. 0:20
- When Ice Cube gets kicked by Flower, her legs disappear. 0:27
- There was a shadow under Blocky, then disappeared when he turned around. 1:12
- When Pin was getting up, her arm wasn't attached to her body. 4:08
- When Flower held on to Pin, her arm wasn't attached to her body. 5:43
- When the scene changed to Spongy, Firey and Coiny were armless and faceless. However, when it moved up to them, their arms and face appeared. 2:22
- After Eraser explains to Blocky about Golf Ball being a "bossy-bot", Pen and Snowball appeared out of nowhere. It is possible that they joined Blocky immediately. 2:49
- At 3:08, everyone is armless.
- At 3:45, Eraser is armless.
- At 4:28, a random arm appears for a split second beside Blocky. Little do we all know, this could be Nonexisty's secret arm. Also, the characters' sizes were incorrect. Pen and Ice Cube were both too close together, as if this wasn't a goof, Pen would already be out.
- At 4:56, Flower's eye is bigger than usual.
- Leafy's voice changed throughout the episode. (Examples: 1:20, 4:09, 4:22)
- Bubble's voice also is deeper from the Balance Beam challenge onwards, along with Ice Cube, Pencil, and Match. (0:00, 4:27)
- While Coiny was slapping Firey, one of Firey's poses, when being slapped, had his legs not being attached to his body.
- When Pencil was falling with Ice Cube there are two errors:
- Pencil's right arm was not touching her body.
- Ice Cube is behind the cloud.
Pencil's detached arm
Deaths[]
- Bubble popped when Ice Cube squeezed her too hard.
- Firey died in the water when he was pushed off the balance beam by Flower.
- Rocky and Golf Ball sink and drown, as rocks and golf balls sink in real life.
- Ice Cube dissolves in the water off-screen.
Music[]
| Time | Title | Composer |
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| 0:00 - 3:53 | "New Friendly" | Kevin MacLeod |
| 3:54 - 4:00 | bassline 8ths sample | freesound.org |
| 4:09 - 6:33 | "Rocket" | Kevin MacLeod |
References[]
| 2010 episodes |
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| "Take the Plunge: Part 1" • "Take the Plunge: Part 2" • "Barriers and Pitfalls" • "Are You Smarter Than a Snowball?" • "Sweet Tooth" • "Bridge Crossing" • "Power of Three" • "Puzzling Mysteries" • "Cycle of Life" • "Insectophobe's Nightmare" • "Crybaby!" • "Lofty" • "A Leg Up in the Race" |
