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| “ | Okay everybody, sprint down the Yoyle Needy and catch Pencil before she hits the ground! | ” |
— Book
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"Welcome Back" is the 1st episode of dnalsI maerD roF elttaB, the 3rd season of Battle for Dream Island. It is the 46th episode in-universe and the 31st episode overall.
The episode was released on Thursday, September 1, 2016 at 8:00:20 AM PST (GMT-8), exactly 3 years after BFDIA 6's original intended release date. This is the longest wait between episodes (not counting the hiatus of BFDIA) in BFDI history, with a length of 3 years and 1 month, or 1,127 days.
The episode takes place 3 years after the events of BFDIA 6, looking into the new life of the objects living in Yoyle City.
The main reasons why it was not released on time was Michael and Cary being occupied with school, and jacknjellify's AdSense account (a system that is the main source of revenue for most YouTubers, which works by displaying advertisements on their videos) being banned on Thursday, March 6, 2014, without explanation. However, as of Tuesday, June 14, 2016, it was unbanned. On Saturday, July 23, 2016, it was announced that BFDI would be coming back on September 1. On Thursday, September 1, 2016, it was finally released as "IDFB 1", instead of "BFDIA 6" as expected by most people.
In 2017, Battle for BFDI aired as a brand new 4th season. Despite this, there has been no official statement or implication that IDFB is cancelled.
In The 22 Best Questions You Asked Us — BFDI + II Meetup, someone asked about Seasons 2 and 3 (BFDIA and IDFB), and Jacknjellify confirmed that there is still a lot in store for IDFB, which could hint at a return.
Contestants[]
Main[]
FreeSmart[]
Minor[]
- Leafy
- Woody (not named; does not speak coherently)
- Unknown Shadow (debut)
Cameo[]
Voting screen[]
- 8-Ball
- Black Hole
- Bottle
- Cloudy
- Eraser
- Fanny
- Flower
- Firey Jr.
- Grassy
- Lollipop
- Puffball
- Remote
- Spongy
- Teardrop
Jail or Prison (Locker of Losers)[]
- 8-Ball
- Balloony
- Barf Bag
- Basketball
- Bell
- Black Hole
- Blocky
- Bottle
- Bracelety
- Cake
- Clock
- Cloudy
- David
- Donut
- Dora
- Eggy
- Eraser
- Fanny
- Firey Jr.
- Gaty
- Grassy
- Lightning
- Lollipop
- Marker
- Match
- Naily
- Nonexisty
- Pen
- Pie
- Pillow
- Puffball
- Remote
- Robot Flower
- Roboty
- Saw
- Snowball
- Taco
- Teardrop
- Tree
- TV
Summary[]
FreeSmart realizes they haven't actually recorded any vlogs properly, and leave the Yoyle Needy in a less than safe manner. Nearby, Fries tries to grow some Grotatoes. Elsewhere, Golf Ball and Tennis Ball find a wall teleporter in a foreboding museum.
Fries has one fry left due to the rest being rotten away, being burned by Firey, or eaten by Gelatin.
The cast resolves to pull someone out of the TLC in a few weeks, but leave it to the viewers to decide. Later, in the stinger, Coiny performs deep-fried breaths in front of a horrified Leafy.
Plot[]
Cold open[]
On the Yoyle Needy, while recording the 1127th day of their video diary, which presumably is about eating gumdrops, FreeSmart realizes that they've been recording every single episode with the lens cap on Camera, which cuts out the film, due to Ruby's ineptitude. Bubble, who is used to dying in a blink of an eye from popping, is not affected by this.
Main episode[]
Fries is seen with many plants in a fenced-off block of Yoyle City, telling a white-colored Pin that most of his fries had been burnt to ashes by Firey, grown mold and rotten away, or eaten by Gelatin. Fries tries to use the handle of a hoe to loosen the soil, which doesn't work. He asks Bomby to help him.
Pencil shows concern over the video diary followers being in the dark for three years, stating that no one knew who was eliminated in BFDIA 6, to which Ice Cube asks what happened. Ice Cube's question prompts Ruby to reveal the voting results for Well Rested, stating that Puffball was eliminated with 1,445 dislikes. When Pencil questions how Ruby got that, the latter keeps the source of these results secret. Ruby runs away to the edge of the Yoyle Needy, and Pencil runs after her. Pencil falls off the side of the Yoyle Needy, seeing Firey being kept in a cage dangling from the top of the Yoyle Needy. In an attempt to save Pencil, Bubble pops.
Book and Ice Cube sprint down the stairs to catch Pencil, but Ruby dies when trying to get to the bottom by jumping. When Book catches Pencil, a nearby explosion, most likely from Bomby at the Grotato Farm, sets Woody on fire, but Ice Cube sacrifices herself by jumping on Woody, putting out the fire, and melting her; it's unclear if Woody died.
Fries is growing Tennis Ball's new strain of potatoes, Grotatoes, because regular potatoes cannot grow in Yoyleland due to the lack of sufficient sunlight. Nickel shows up, asking about Pin's coloration. Pin reveals that Golf Ball extracted her red pigment to reform new limbs.
On the street, Tennis Ball is walking with Golf Ball, who is excited to learn from the scientific endeavors of others by visiting the Science Museum. Needle runs up, warning that they can't enter the Science Museum for a secret reason that has to do with FreeSmart.
Tennis Ball and Golf Ball enter the Science Museum. Golf Ball remarks that Needle has been acting loopy lately and then makes a weird face when saying that the museum has "got treasure just waiting to be stolen." Tennis Ball gets excited over the discovery of a Wall Teleporter. Evil Leafy is visible for a frame.
When attempting to examine the next room over, Golf Ball is triggered by a broken vase and starts having flashback-like visions. In the flashback, a small white ball referred to as "Bozo" (which was possibly a past version of Golf Ball before she got dimples) is chased by an unknown figure. As Bozo hides behind a vase, the figure smashes it with a large spiked club, citing a need for punishment.
Golf Ball advises that they exit the science museum, which is the first time Tennis Ball has ever seen her make a decision irrationally.
Coiny shows up at the Grotato farm, stating that Tennis Ball said the Grotatoes were going to be delicious, with his comment reverberating around the city from the volume, and then makes a pun about deep-fried breaths.
Pencil walks with Book, who suggests that they should focus their efforts on getting Match out of the Tiny Loser Chamber. However, Pencil expresses her contentment with the present situation, stating that Match was a little too needy ("hnng") anyway. They recover Bubble, Ruby, and Ice Cube, using the Hand-powered Recovery Center. FreeSmart then dances.
Coiny reveals that Pin got her limbs made six months ago and asks her how they're feeling. Pin replies they're still feeling a little tingly, but they are getting better. Golf Ball and Tennis Ball walk up, and they figure out that the Wall Teleporter can teleport one person out of the TLC each month.
Coiny, Golf Ball, Tennis Ball, and Pin bring the Wall Teleporter over to the TLC and run into Rocky and Yellow Face on the way. When deciding who to free from the TLC, everyone argues. Yellow Face proposes that the viewers can vote on who should be set free.
Stinger[]
Coiny brings boiling frying oil to Fries and tries to make deep-fried breaths. Leafy in metal form shows up and is about to throw her knife at the two (similar to Pin in "Get in the Van"), but she is too horrified at the sight of Coiny dunking himself in the oil, and at the start of Coiny's third deep-fried breath, Leafy calls it quits and sinks back into her hiding spot. It ends with a disclaimer saying: "See you in IDFB 2! :)" with a pitched-down version of Blue Ska playing in the background.
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BFDIA 6[]
- Main article: Well Rested
- See also: Well Rested#Voting results
Despite BFDIA 6 happening, the episode was not released online until exactly 7 years after this episode, so Pencil did not get the chance to find out who was eliminated. Ruby then shows that Puffball was eliminated with 1,455 dislikes in BFDIA 6. No one was eliminated in IDFB 1. Here are the votes for BFDIA 6.
| Icon | Contestant | Likes | Dislikes | 👍/👎 | Like % | Dislike % |
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Tennis Ball | 938 | 242 | 3.876 | 16.03% | 6.11% |
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Gelatin | 908 | 298 | 3.046 | 15.51% | 7.52% |
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Firey | 1,023 | 361 | 2.883 | 17.48% | 9.10% |
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Fries | 692 | 459 | 1.507 | 11.82% | 11.59% |
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Rocky | 931 | 469 | 1.985 | 15.91% | 11.84% |
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Golf Ball | 665 | 675 | 0.985 | 11.36% | 17.04% |
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Puffball | 694 | 1,455 | 0.476 | 11.86% | 36.75% |
| Total: | 9,810 | 100% | ||||
Cast[]
- Adam Katz as Nickel
- Cary Huang as Ice Cube, Pin, Rocky, Tennis Ball, Ruby (partially) & Unknown Shadow
- Keiko Eng as Bomby & Needle
- Michael Huang as Book, Bubble, Coiny, Firey, Fries, Golf Ball, Pencil, Ruby, Woody & Yellow Face
Gelatin, Leafy, Basketball, Barf Bag, Match, Blocky, Eraser, Pen, Snowball, Tree, Dora, Eggy, Clock, Donut, Flower, Bell, David, and all the other future BFB contestants appear; however, they do not speak.
Trivia[]
- This episode was edited with an increased contrast.
- This is the only episode where the credits after the intro say "by Cary and Michael Huang" rather than "by Jacknjellify".
- This is one of the four episodes that released on September 1, the others being Insectophobe's Nightmare, The Glistening and Well Rested.
- The reason why this episode suffered a delayed-release was originally due to Cary and Michael focusing on school, and then it was delayed even more due to issues of AdSense and Google's lack of communication of what the original issue was.
- In between that time, many future hints, trailers, and updates for the episode in particular and the creators, in general, have been announced. See Welcome Back/Pre-release for more information.
- This episode was re-animated in IDFB 1 Re-Animated By 108 People! (Fan-Made), uploaded on September 11, 2020. There is no visual changes in the first 15 seconds of "Welcome Back" (as there was no animation to begin with), and it was not included in the re-animated video.
- On March 26, 2024, 2763 days have passed since IDFB 1 released on YouTube.
- Cary Huang did almost all of the animation (beginning from 0:27), but Michael did all of the audio, the new intro, and had lots more schoolwork. Animation started on August 17, 2016. (Source: Cary chatting on HTwins Central Discord Server)
- This is the first episode in release date order where Firey has no lines.
- This is the first episode chronologically to feature its own custom thumbnail.
- This is also the 1st episode to feature a number in the thumbnail, with the others being Start the Shift, Getting Teardrop to Talk, and Today's Very Special Episode.
- All of the characters had been redesigned except Bubble, Black Hole, David, Dora, Firey, Donut, Puffball, Yellow Face, Grassy, Ruby, and Nonexisty.
- Based on the number of votes received, Match would have joined the game in IDFB 2.
- This is the last full episode (chronologically) to use the original static assets for limbs and faces. Some drawn limbs and faces are shown in a few scenes.
- In the new intro, Needle, Pencil, Pin, and Yellow Face's poses stay the same from the BFDIA intro.
- Inside the Science Museum, there can be seen a dodecahedron with a spike, a motorcycle helmet, a cookie (revealed in BFDIA 13 to be a replacement for the gadget broken by Firey), a wall teleporter, a neuron, a sign written in what seems to be blood (possibly making this the first episode overall to feature such an element) saying "stop her", and a companion cube with skulls and crossbones on it.
- Most of them are allusions to Michael and Cary's game, Tidepool, which can be played here: http://htwins.net/tidepool/
- In this episode, Bomby's facial expressions are always hand drawn rather than using the BFDI assets.
- Bubble, Ruby, Ice Cube, and Bomby died in the episode. Out of the four characters, Bomby is the only one who isn't recovered.
- It's possible that Woody died too, but it's not confirmed.
- A viewer voting will take place to determine one contestant to come out of the LOL.
- This is the eighth episode (sixth in release date order) to not have a Cake At Stake, the others are "Take the Plunge" (both parts 1 and 2), "Cycle of Life", "Yeah, Who? I Wanna Know", the last four episodes of BFDIA 5, "Well, Look Who It Is!" and "Launch Party".
- The TLC and LOL are revealed to have 5-inch-thick walls, which combined are 10 inches.
- Soon after Tennis Ball attempts to use the Wall Teleporter, Yellow Face announces the viewer voting while halfway through a "BUY NOW" commercial.
- This is the first episode since "Insectophobe's Nightmare 2" where the voting takes place in the comment section of the video, nearly five years before.
- Flower and Spongy are the only contestants to never appear in the episode outside of the intro and voting screen.
- Coincidentally, they were the first and last contestants eliminated before the Season 1 finale.
- Both of them also rejoined in BFDI.
- Coincidentally, they were the first and last contestants eliminated before the Season 1 finale.
- Of the characters stuck inside the TLC, 8-Ball, Black Hole, Bottle, Cloudy, Eraser, Fanny, Firey Jr., Grassy, Lollipop, Puffball, Remote, and Teardrop never appear in the episode outside of the intro and the voting screen.
- According to the fan-made YouTube subtitles, the distorted voice in Golf Ball's flashback is calling her a "bozo."
- "Bozo" is not a new insult in the BFDI series; it's appeared as early as "Are You Smarter Than a Snowball?" where it appears inside of Pencil's doodle, under the context of referring to Blocky. It's also a common insult towards Golf Ball.
- Gelatin, Leafy, and Evil Leafy are the only free characters who appear without speaking roles.
- This is the first episode in release date order where Leafy has no lines when she appears. In chronological order, this is the second episode where she has no lines when she appears with the first being "Airplanes in the Night Sky".
- Coincidentally, both episodes have Leafy appear only in the ending.
- Gelatin is the only character who appears with no speaking roles that isn't a Leafy variation.
- This is the first episode in release date order where Leafy has no lines when she appears. In chronological order, this is the second episode where she has no lines when she appears with the first being "Airplanes in the Night Sky".
- This is the fourth episode to be delayed. The previous ones were "Zeeky Boogy Doog", "Get in the Van", and "It's a Monster".
- Although potatoes are generally grown from other potatoes, it should be noted that potatoes actually have seeds.
- During the dialogue in the voting screen scene, the character who is speaking has a white outline around them. (For example, when Ruby spoke, she had a white outline.) This is to show whose voice belongs to their character and prevent confusion.
- Golf Ball's foot is a "Y" when she asks Needle why they can't enter the Science Museum.
- "It's Deep Fried Breaths", as said by Coiny, is IDFB for short. (According to Cary Huang)
- This is the first glimpse of the Yoylese.
- Snowball and Bell are the only TLC prisoners with hand drawn expressions in their voting icons.
- This is the only episode to be released in 2016.
- Because of this, this is jacknjellify's most viewed video from 2016, and the channel's most viewed video between BFDIA 5e and BFB 1.
- 2016 and 2022 ("The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life") are so far the only full years to only have one episode release.
- This is the first episode in 4K (2160p) quality. The series went back to 1080p quality starting with the next episode, "Getting Teardrop to Talk", which was the first time the quality was decreased.
- At one frame at 5:51, you can see Evil Leafy.
- This episode took ~160 hours of work.[2]
- This episode has the most subtitles, with a total of 26 languages (19 without counting dialects).
- When Rocky runs to the TLC, he makes a barfing noise in the Spanish dub, unlike the English dub, where it is silenced by the music.
- 96% of this episode was animated by Cary, and the other 4% was animated by Micheal.
- The episode's .fla files were leaked in a Google Drive folder on March 31st, 2024 and were taken down a few hours later on the same day.
- Apparently, a crew member needed the files in order to create some shorts for JnJ. However, someone also leaked them (presumably shortly after). [citation needed]
Continuity references[]
- The events of this episode take place on September 1, 2016, 3 years after "Well Rested".
- The camera shown at the beginning is a re-used asset of a recommended character from "The Reveal".
- Ruby reveals the voting results from BFDIA 6, which show that Puffball was eliminated and Firey won the prize yet again.
- Firey's scream in his cage was the one from Crybaby! while the mouth is from "Take the Plunge: Part 2".
- When Pencil falls off the Yoyle Needy, her falling animation was reused when she got zapped in "No More Snow!".
- Book asks Pencil if they should get Match out of the TLC, who has been there since "The Long-lost Yoyle City".
- A flashback of the TLC entering the LOL is shown from "Get Digging".
- Coiny wants to free Snowball since they have been shown to be friends in past episodes. Golf Ball wants him to stay, however, as they have been shown to hate each other since BFDI 1.
- When Blocky is shown in the TLC, he can be seen hooking his feet over his head, much like he did in "Take the Plunge: Part 1" on the balance beam. This means he has done it in the first episode of two different seasons.
- Teardrop's voting icon is her pose from her rating video for "Insectophobe's Nightmare 3".
- Before Leafy attempts to throw the knife, she is making the same face and pose as Pin from "Get in the Van", before she throws the knife at Leafy.
- As everyone is running to the LOL, Coiny is seen rolling, which is most likely a reference to BFDIA 2.
- This video was most likely released on September 1, 2016 because BFDIA 6 was planned to be released on September 1, 2013.
- When Pencil and Book say that Match was too needy, they put their hands before themselves when saying the word needy, most likely to avoid getting slapped by Needle for saying her hated nickname.
Cultural references[]
- A companion cube from the video game Portal can be seen in the Science Museum.
Goofs[]
- At 7:12, Book’s walking animation is still playing, even though the background wasn’t moving.
- At 7:12, Pencil’s walking animation is still playing, even though the background wasn’t moving.
- When Pencil took the lens cap off the camera, she was holding it. However, when the scene changed, it was in Ice Cube's mouth.
- When Pencil or Bubble put down the lens cap on the table in the next scene, the cap is gone.
- When Pencil and Book were walking to the Hand-powered Recovery Center, the Freesmart Supervan had dried glue leaking out of the exhaust, implying that it hadn't moved since The Long-lost Yoyle City. However in Well Rested, the van is seen driving off.
- The Hand-powered Recovery Center did not have any glue that stuck it to the ground when Bubble, Ice Cube, and Ruby were being recovered.
- When Pin was apologizing to Fries, she was at normal height. Seconds later, Pin appears shorter than Fries. In the scene after that, Pin is shown at the same height as Fries again.
- When Pencil takes the camera lens off, part of the lens is missing at the leftmost and bottom screens.
- When the second scene with FreeSmart on the Yoyle Needy is shown, the Camera and the table with the gumdrops on it disappear, although they were present in the first scene.
The top picture is the part shown around the 0:58 mark, and the second is around the 2-minute mark. Note the table and Camera vanish.
- At 6:21[3], Tennis Ball's walk cycle resets twice.
- As Golf Ball and Tennis Ball were entering the Science Museum, they were opening the right door, but when they're inside, the left door was seen opened and the right door isn't.
- Some sprinkles on the gumdrops extend out of the gumdrops and appear to be floating.
- In one frame at 3:09, the door is miscolored.
- Pin and Nickel's shadows are off.
- During the zoom-in to the Yoyle Needy, the background moves toward the left, near the sea, rather than toward the center.
- In one of the Fries and Pin scenes, Fries' dirt seems to be going behind a single plant.
- The gumdrops do not disappear when Bubble and Ruby are eating them.
- At 7:38, the mouth assets go from BFDI 24-BFDIA 5c mouth assets, to BFDIA 5d-19 mouth assets.
- At 6:50, while Coiny is talking to Fries, his animation resets to frame 1, due to his body animation being in a looping graphic symbol.
- Coiny's asset downgrades to his pre-hiatus BFDIA asset in the middle of the episode.
The blue area circled is where the scene zoomed in, and the red circle is where it should've zoomed in.
Deaths[]
- Bubble popped while trying to lift Pencil.
- Ruby fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.
- Bomby exploded so Fries could "loosen up the soil a little bit."
- Ice Cube sacrificed herself trying to stop Woody from burning to death, melting in the process.
- It is unclear if Woody died.
References[]
- ↑ The episode starts off with Ruby saying "Welcome to day 1,127 of our video diary," and since they started making the video diaries in BFDIA 6 on September 1st 2013, day 1,127 would be October 1st 2016.
- ↑ https://twitter.com/realCarykh/status/805159504388071425
- ↑ https://youtu.be/2Jw0dhwmi3o?si=pclIKGI5PSg1Ss30&t=381
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