Web Animation / Inanimate Insanity Invitational

Third time's the charm!^note From Top to Bottom and Left to Right: Tea Kettle, Box, Blueberry, Balloon, Nickel, OJ, Paintbrush, Clover, Yin-Yang, Bot, Goo, Fan, Test Tube, Candle, Silver Spoon, Lifering, The Floor and Cabby | Not Pictured: MePhone4

"Yeah, the Very Indecent Promise. And sure! It may be a doctored ticket, but it was for a great cause."

— MePhone4 in reply to Paintbrush's request to stop interfering in their "VIP tour", Episode 1: "Stranded in Paradise"

Inanimate Insanity Invitational is the Lighter and Softer third season of Inanimate Insanity as part of the many web-animated Object Shows. It was announced in the I.I. direct on 1st April 2021 and the first episode was released two days later on 3rd April 2021.

While on a cruise ship to a Spoiled Lemons concert, nine veterans^note Picked using the voting polls from this video had the misfortune of the boat going haywire and crashing into a tropical island where they encounter MePhone, who staged the entire incident for his competition. Together with nine newbies, the contestants are dragged into the third iteration of the game that is Inanimate Insanity.

View the Season 3 official playlist.

This show provides the following examples:

• Accidental Misnaming: When Bot reveals to Goo that they're a robot in "Title TBD" and tells him that their new name is TBD, as in to be determined, he thinks that they mean that "TBD" actually is their new name and refers to them as this throughout the episode.
• Actor Allusion: In the finale, Zoetrope (voiced by Saberspark) complains about a "scathing video essay" being made about him. Saberspark is a critic YouTuber who mostly posts video essays. The video is shown on screen and its thumbnail is very similar to Saber's thumbnail style, and it's title, "What RUINED Zoetrope?" is a reference to his "What RUINED [work or creator]" series.
• Actually Pretty Funny: Nickel cracks a joke about Immunity Milk by asking if it's immunity from MePhone4's lactose intolerance and everybody surprisingly finds it funny.
• And Here He Comes Now: In "Spring on the Breakfast!", the Floor complains to MePhone4 that he doesn't trust Springy, citing his tendency to sneak up on people and saying that the contestants are probably being tortured in the puzzle rooms he set up. Cue Springy bouncing down from nowhere, much to the Floor's displeasure, to approach MePhone4 about using Bot's likeness as a mascot for Springtastic.
• And the Rest:
  • When MePhone4 reveals his, Paintbrush's, and Candle's presence to the contestants on Indefinite Island in "I Am Chocolate!", he enthusiastically declares that "It's me!", then points to Paintbrush and Candle and continues, with far less enthusiasm, "And others." Candle still appreciates being acknowledged in the first place.
  • "Spring on the Breakfast!" has a two-person variant. When Bot and Cabby enter the fourth puzzle room, Springy addresses them as "Bot and the other one", as he wants to use Bot's likeness as a new mascot for Springtastic but has no interest in Cabby.
• Animation Bump: The fight scene between Candle and the Unvitational Committee is noticeably animated more fluidly than the other scenes.
• Audience Participation: The viewers can vote for the first time since "Mine Your Own Business", this time for whichever contestant they want to receive immunity for the next episode's elimination. Like in the second season, it's eventually done away with, this time in "Home Is Where the Heart Is", when MePhone4 gets bored with Yin-Yang constantly getting the immunity vote.
• Artifact Name: The alliance that calls itself the Looney Balloonies still keep their name even after Balloon himself jumps ship to Yin-Yang and Cabby's alliance instead, as he angrily points out during the elimination in "Spring on the Breakfast!"
  Nickel: We Looney Balloonies will not be changing our votes.
  Balloon: Hey, you're not— I'm the Balloonie!
• Bait-and-Switch: After Silver Spoon reads Cabby's file about him in "Best Served Cold", he is insulted by her claim that he never lifts a finger and says that he has a finger for her. He moves his hand as if he's about to flip her off... and then makes a thumbs down gesture.
• Batman Gambit: The events of "Blue Buried" are a massive one on Blueberry's part to get into the game while putting in the minimum effort. Knowing that MePhone would immediately turn any personal problem into a challenge, he set up a number of red herrings, then played dead. Everything falls exactly as he plans, with MePhone turning his seeming death into a challenge to find the murderer, with nobody able to find the non-existent killer's identity. Ultimately, he wins the challenge and rejoins the game because nobody else could think anywhere near his plan. He also plays one to get Yin-Yang eliminated, telling Nickel in the former's earshot that he plans on eliminating Cabby since she was the one who suggested the teams be randomized, leading him to be on the blue team, the "color of defeat" that supposedly lead to his downfall. In response, Yin-Yang gave Cabby the immunity milk, opening himself up to be eliminated with four votes.
• Banana Peel: In "Snapshot Showdown", Nickel tries and fails to make Clover slip on a peel made by the Pic-Nix table. The next day, though, Silver Spoon falls for it instead. The Sinkers use it to take a humiliating picture of him... but he likes the photo.
• Bears Are Bad News: The first puzzle room in the challenge for "Spring on the Breakfast!" simply consists of not pressing a Big Red Button. Unfortunately, Yang is unable to resist the temptation, and the next time we see him and his puzzle partner Silver Spoon, they're both exhausted and covered in scratches.
  Yang: How was I supposed to know I'd let out the bear?!
• Be Careful What You Wish For:
  • In "Pesty Besties", Silver Spoon is blatantly disdainful of the Inani-Mate he was assigned, naming it Utter Filth and trying to trade it away at every opportunity. However, when it competes in the Inani-Mate Smackdown tournament and is unceremoniously beaten, exploding into confetti, he looks horrified. When Candle points out that Utter Filth is now gone like he wanted, he just coos mournfully and wipes away a tear in response.
  • In "Friend or Froze", Nickel is frustrated with how the luck Clover granted him keeps making everything go his way with no effort on his part, feeling that it's not a real success. Then, at the episode's elimination ceremony, Balloon betrays their alliance, frustrated with Nickel prioritising keeping Silver Spoon and Candle happy over their friendship and accusing him of said friendship not being real either. As Candle points out, Nickel got what he wanted: something he didn't want.
• Big "NO!":
  • "Stranded in Paradise"
    • In the initial confusion after the favourites come face-to-face MePhone4, OJ attempts to excuse himself by mentioning his duties at Hotel OJ and that "it wouldn't survive a vacation" without him. MePhone4 directs him out, to a now wrecked Boaty and a well-wish on his swimming skills.
  • "Snapshot Showdown":
    • Nickel screams "NOOOOOOO" after seeing that his embarrassing picture of Clover is ruined. It ends on hour ten, and he admits he took no breaks during that.
    • Goo screams one when Candle takes an embarrassing picture of him dancing with pinecones.
  • Balloon screams this in "Tragedy at 60 Feet" when Box is hit by Test Tube's hammer.
  • Balloon does another one in "Best Served Cold" when MePhone4 stomps on the sandcastle Balloon and Nickel built.
  • "Pesty Besties":
    • Yin does one in when he sees that while he was away getting food for Sprinkles, she ripped the Riggity Rex plushie Yang gifted him in "Title TBD" to shreds.
    • Sprinkles' successor Sprinkles 2 causes another one later in the episode when the Floor's Inani-Mate Tootsie Wootsie thinks that it has the same disdain for and refusal to battle in the Inani-Mate Smackdown tournament as him, only to realise that it was actually just moving away from him so it could take a "running" start and throw itself at him.
  • A Rapid-Fire "No!" ending with this ends up being Springy's final words in "Spring on the Breakfast!", as he falls straight into the Floor's mouth to get eaten.
• Big Red Button: One of these makes up the first puzzle room in "Spring on the Breakfast!"; the "puzzle" simply consists of proceeding to the next room without pushing the button. Everyone is able to do so without a problem... except for Yang, who is unable to restrain himself and pushes the button, setting off an ominous alarm. The next time we see him and Silver Spoon, we find out that the button released a bear.
• Big "WHAT?!": Yin gives Yang the angry variant in "Title TBD" when the latter reveals that he burned Yin's beloved stuffed dinosaur Riggity Rex, which Yin thought that he had just lost.
• Blank White Eyes:
  • This, along with its frequent companion Blue with Shock, happens to Paintbrush in "Try Not To Laugh Challenge" when Silver Spoon appoints himself their "royal advisor" without their permission and the rest of the team approves of the idea.
  • "Best Served Cold":
    • The New Thinkers all get this in shock when Clover suggests to MePhone4 that the thing he's hungry for is Mile High Pie.
    • Silver Spoon briefly gets these when Cabby points out that since he's the tallest person on the team, he should be the one doing the messy ice cream stacking instead of Paintbrush.
    • Goo gets the stunned rather than shocked version of this trope after he saves Clover from falling and she darkly speculates that her Plague of Good Fortune compelled him to do so and that he doesn't actually have free will.
• Bond One-Liner:
  • "Spring on the Breakfast!"
    • The Floor of all people gives one after he brings about Springy's well-deserved demise by eating him.
  The Floor: Ya know how they say there's no ethical consumption under capitalism? I think I might be the exception.
  • "You Can't Do This Forever"
    • Just as Walkie-Talkie takes MePhone4 to the Volcano, against the collective will of the assembled Unvitational Committee, the finalists, in pursuit, are confronted by a shoddy toy of Silver Spoon. The real Silver Spoon knocks him flat; pose included.
  Silver Spoon: Hm, Sorry, handsome.

• Borrowed Catchphrase: While trying to cheer Clover up in "Try Not To Laugh Challenge", Bot yells Taco's old catchphrase from Season 1, "Sour cream!" Paintbrush promptly boos them for it, pointing out that it's in poor taste after Taco's manipulative true nature has been revealed.
• Brain Bleach: The photo of MePhone4 taken by Camera #2 in "Snapshot Showdown" is so embarrassing and disgusting that characters who see it are shocked, with Balloon screaming that he can't unsee it and Clover fainting.
• Breather Episode: Season 3 was designed to be a whole season of such as described by the creators, Lighter and Softer as to return to the series's more humorous past and offer a reprieve from the increasingly-bleak concurrent second season. While there are still some dramatic moments and interpersonal conflict, like for example Test Tube's rivalry with Cabby, overall it's less dour and depressing in execution.
• Brief Accent Imitation: After Paintbrush shoves Silver Spoon's typewriter to the ground in "Title TBD", they imitate the latter's Noblewoman's Laugh and posh British accent when mockingly asking how he's supposed to continue writing the team's script without any equipment. They briefly do so again later while quoting Silver when complaining about how the latter just responds "out of office" whenever Paintbrush tries to send in a script suggestions.
• Buffy Speak: In "I Am Chocolate!", MePhone4 refers to Paintbrush's tendency to literally burn with anger as their "head fire thing".
• Change the Uncomfortable Subject: While Nickel and Balloon are discussing Box's allegiances in "Tragedy at 60 Feet", Nickel mentions that Box is "the only reason [he and Balloon] are—" before cutting himself off, realising that he was about to say "tolerating each other" (or something of the sort). He then tries to switch direction back to the photos he was showing Balloon earlier.
• Cheated Angle: Averted in "Snapshot Showdown", as the Pinkers take a picture of Tea Kettle from the front, which MePhone4 finds extremely cursed, granting them the victory.
• Cheaters Never Prosper: Subverted in "Best Served Cold". When MePhone4 examines the Mile High Pie the New Thinkers made, he notices an inconsistency in the pattern and asks if they just put two Half Mile High Pies on top of each other (which is exactly what they did). Nickel says no... and MePhone4 decides that he'll trust him and gives the team the win.
• Cheer Up Episode: "Try Not To Laugh Challenge" has a subplot where Bot and Goo try to cheer Clover up after Box's accident in the previous episode has convinced her that her good luck, and the bad luck it causes to people around her, makes her a danger to everyone she cares about. She eventually gently tells Bot that what would make her happiest is if they focused on winning the challenge instead, and later reveals that their efforts did give her the distraction that she needed to start coming to terms with things.
• Clingy Aquatic Life: In "Stranded in Paradise", Paintbrush gets splashed by a wave caused by the fishing Yin-Yang reeling in his catch, leaving a clam stuck in their bristles.
• Comically Small Demand: In "The Overthinkers", Yang takes the Elimination Button hostage by covering it with Dr. Fizz cans, climbing the pile, and naming himself the "King of Mount Fizz". In order to grant them access, he demands they give him dinosaurs, explosions, and respect, "preferably together". Yin then adds to this list... some warm milk. Yang promptly amends it to exploding warm milk.
• Comically Wordy Contract: Springy produces one of these in "Spring on the Breakfast!" when asking MePhone4 if he may use Bot's image for promotional purposes as a new mascot. Despite him holding the contract near eye level, it still reaches all the way down to the ground, on top of him still having a sizeable part rolled up in his hand. Blinded by his idolisation of Springy, MePhone4 signs the contract without even reading it or consulting Bot about the decision.
• Confession Cam: Characters use a confessional in the Calm Down Cabana. The Floor's dream was to use one, but he initially can't be seen due to the camera angle.
• Curse Cut Short: In "Best Served Cold", Paintbrush complains in a confessional that Silver Spoon seemed for a while like he was becoming a better teammate, but now "he's just a royal pain in [their]—" Cut back to the challenge.
• Curse Escape Clause: An accidental example, given that it wasn't even supposed to be a curse in the first place. After Clover realises that it's possible for her to help others by sharing her luck with them, she does so with Nickel by wishing him luck for the rest of his life. Unfortunately, this does nothing to change his opinion that her luck is a curse, as he feels that the success it brings him is hollow since he didn't earn it himself. This lasts until "Friend or Froze", where he's killed by a falling chunk of rock and later revived by MePhone4. During the elimination, Balloon chews him out over prioritising keeping Silver Spoon and Candle sweet over their friendship and leaves their alliance, a decidedly unlucky thing to happen. Nickel then realises that Clover wished him luck "for the rest of [his] life", and since he died earlier, that means his life ended, and the luck with it.
• A Day in the Limelight: "The Overthinkers" is this for the Thinkers as a whole. The other two teams only appear in the first scene (with the exception of a brief cameo by Tea Kettle later), while the rest of the episode centres around the members of the Thinkers bouncing off each other while trying to decide whom to vote off (plus a subplot about Silver Spoon wanting to find out where Candle gets all of her answers from).
• Deliberate VHS Quality: The in-universe commercial for Springtastic in "Spring on the Breakfast!" has this to evoke a 90s commercial.
• Description Cut: Two happen in "I Am Chocolate!":
  • When Tea Kettle complains about how the other contestants get to just sit around while she and the other eliminated contestants have to do a challenge, MePhone4 retorts that he "left them with some incredibly intense work to do." Cut to Yin-Yang chugging chocolate sauce at the merge party while the other contestants are cheering him on.
  • After Cabby wins the challenge to rejoin the competition, Walkie Talkie congratulates her and says that the other contestants will be so excited to see her. Cut to the other contestants looking at her in stunned disbelief rather than excitement.
• Diaries Are Girly: Implied in "The Overthinkers". Yang reveals that Yin keeps a "brain diary" and mocks him for it, calling him "[s]ome sort of loser who writes", but reluctantly agrees to take one up himself on Candle's suggestion. Later in the episode, when Yin reveals Yang's intentions to make a "boys' club", Yang tells him to "[s]tay out of [his] brain journal".
• Dramatic Drop: In "Pesty Besties", Yin drops the bowl of soup he was bringing Sprinkles when he sees that the latter has ripped apart the Riggity Rex plushie Yang replaced for him in "Title TBD".
• Driven to Suicide: Played (mostly) for laughs in "Pesty Besties". When the Looney Balloonies find out that Nickel's Inani-Mate Nickel Jr. killed the other two's, Nickel yells at him for it. Nickel Jr. reveals that he just wanted to make Nickel proud and explodes himself into confetti all over Nickel in despair, to which the stunned Nickel can just say that he didn't like that.
• Dude, Not Funny!: In "Try Not to Laugh Challenge", Yin-Yang humiliates Nickel in front of everybody with a short "The Reason You Suck" Speech. To save his humiliation, Nickel retorts by saying "At least I'm not the one sad over my entire team voting for me!". ^note This is a reference to "The Overthinkers" where Silver Spoon makes almost all The Thinkers vote for them. Everyone shows that they weren't approved with what Nickel said. Tea Kettle even lampshades this.
  Tea Kettle: Ugh! We had a plan, and now he just ruined the whole mood! How's he supposed to make anyone laugh now?! He just doesn't think.
• Eat the Camera: Goo's Big "NO!" in "Snapshot Showdown" after getting caught dancing around and with pinecones.
• Electronic Speech Impediment: Springy starts stuttering and glitching in "Spring on the Breakfast!" when he gets really upset over Bot refusing to let him use their programming and image to make toy copies of them. It only gets more severe when MePhone4 finally sees him for the bad guy that he is and breaks off their partnership.
• "Eureka!" Moment: When Cabby starts calling herself a failure over her inability to figure out MePhone4's secret word in in "I Am Chocolate!", Goo attempts to comfort her by saying that "[n]ot even a super-duper computer is always perfect." This, along with Walkie Talkie saying earlier that she followed MePhone4's instructions exactly, makes Cabby realise that it's possible that the secret word has a typo.
• Evil Laugh Turned Coughing Fit: Yang does one of his customary Evil Laughs in "Friend or Froze" after he, Yin, and Cabby put their plan to force their opponents to guess which of them will get immunity into action. Cabby tries to join him, but is clearly not as accustomed to it, given that it sends her into a coughing fit.
• Exact Words: In "Title TBD", the Floor offers to take the role of caterer for his team. When his teammates get suspicious given his Big Eater tendencies, he promises to have more self control. Later, when Goo is given a half-eaten sandwich, the Floor points out in the confessional that he promised more self control.
  The Floor: 50% isn't so bad.
• Expy: The Sinkers seem to be one of Team Victory from Total Drama World Tour. Both teams are from the third season of their respective shows where there are three teams rather than two like in previous seasons, they are both named after how they performed in the first challenge of the season, and end up suffering a severe case of Dwindling Party during the earlier parts of the season to the point of no longer existing before the teams even merge, with the difference being that the Sinkers are dissolved while they still have two members left, who are then placed on the two remaining opposing teams, whereas Team Victory stay intact even when they only have one member left and end up getting completely wiped out before the merge as a result. Additionally, both teams have a member who believes themself to be cursed.
• Facepalm: In "Best Served Cold", Cabby slaps her forehead when she finds out that Balloon used flowers instead of flour for the crust of the team's Mile High Pie.
• Failure Montage: "Home Is Where the Heart Is" has one after MePhone4 declares the Floor "invisible" and not to be interacted with, only for the latter to half-inadvertently ruin all of MePhone4's challenge ideas anyway, such as by getting the ball in his mouth during a basketball game.
• Finger Muzzle: A non-romantic example occurs in "I Am Chocolate!", in which Silver Spoon does this on Cabby while telling her to hold it after getting offended that she reunited the original Thinkers and joined up with them without his approval.
• Finishing Each Other's Sentences:
  • Happens multiple times in "Friend or Froze":
    • Silver Spoon and Candle do this when they read Cabby's file on Baseball in order to find a way to break up Nickel and Balloon's friendship.
      Silver Spoon: And it seems the two were separated, because...
      Candle: ...Balloon went rogue on them.
    • Candle takes part in another one not long afterwards before she, Nickel, and Silver Spoon team up to take out Bot in the second stage of the episode's challenge.
      Candle: I think it's time to follow Bot's own advice. After all, teamwork...
      Nickel: ...makes the dream work!
    • After Silver Spoon and Candle make Nickel doubt Balloon's intentions by bringing up the incident in the first example:
      Silver Spoon: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...
      Nickel: ...shame on me...
  • Cabby and Bot do this in the fourth puzzle room in "Spring on the Breakfast!" when an off-hand remark by Cabby makes them realise that the "electric fence" that is supposedly in the room is actually a mental one, as the room is centered about digging up the characters' old regrets and other emotional turmoil.
    Cabby: Sticks and stones may break my bones...
    Bot: ...but words will never hurt me.
• Flashback-Montage Realization: Nickel has one in "Title TBD", where he realises to his horror that all of the good things that happened to him and by extension his team throughout the episode were caused by Clover wishing him luck in the previous episode.
• Foreshadowing: In "Snapshot Showdown", Goo is found dancing with pinecones and gets his picture taken by Candle. Earlier in the episode, Goo asks Cabby if he can borrow her file on pinecones.
• Fourth-Wall Mail Slot: The Exit Interviews. Viewers at a certain Patreon tier could send in questions to the character eliminated in the last episode, which are then answered in character in a video. After the show's Patreon was retired, the question box was relocated to a pinned comment in each episode.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus:
  • When Silver Spoon reveals that he got the team's immunity vote statistics from Cabby earlier in "The Overthinkers", the viewer gets a brief look at the stats before he spots Candle and Yin-Yang coming and hides them. The highest-scoring character for both of the previous episodes is Yin-Yang, serving as an early tip-off for Silver Spoon's voting gambit later on, which hinges on him correctly making the assumption that Yin-Yang will win it once again.
  • When MePhone4 opens his message to Walkie Talkie to see in what way he misspelled "transformation" in "I Am Chocolate!", the whole, rather lengthy, message can be read if the video is paused.
    "Good afternoon, mysterious gal with a big idea:
    
    Sorry about any typos that might come up during this message. I'm typing this quickly as I and two of my contestants are hopping into this rocking, shoddily-made boat. As per our agreement, I will be arriving shortly to greet the eliminated contestants. (Were they there this whole time?). I would appreciate it if you gave me a big, exciting countdown as I neared the shoreline. I'm sure they'd get a real kick out of that. I will also be bringing along two of my contestants to both bear witness to today's event and to help me prepare a new element of the game, now that we have entered the merge. It's all flying by. Exciting. I guess.
    
    When I arrive, please have my challenge constructed for me so we don't waste any time (I hope you're well-equipped to do some construction on your own!). It should be fairly simple. We need some ziggidy-zaggedy balance beams of different colors for the contestants to traverse. At the end of these we need bags of rocks. Preferably gray ones, but I'm not too picky. They'll be tossing them at these bag tied up on big poles. (Absolutely have them match in color with the balance beams! That's stage two. That's what professionals do!!!)
    
    So what's that so far? We need the balance beams, the rock bag, the big poles, and uhhhh. RIGHT yes okay the bags for the poles. Those need to be filled with letter blocks. (THE BLOCKS ALSO MUST BE COLOR-COORDINATED!!!!!!!!!!) They should be able to walk forward to their final station, drop these letter blocks in front of them, and stack them to make a secret word. And it's a good one. Huh. I'm quite impressed with myself. I don't think I've had a single typo in this message yet. Anyway, onto the secret word. I think we should have the blocks spell out: T-R-A-N-S-F-E-R-M-A-S-H-O-N"
• Gagging on Your Words:
  • In "Stranded in Paradise", OJ is so worried about how his hotel is doing without him while he's away on a resort that he can barely even say the word "vacation". When Balloon finishes the word for him after his first attempt, he notes that it even sounds weird coming from other people.
  • When Nickel tries to apologise for his behaviour to Tea Kettle in "Tragedy at 60 Feet", he goes into a coughing fit whenever he tries to do so louder than a mumble. When he finally manages to speak it out loud, he says afterwards that his mouth feels numb.
  • "Home Is Where the Heart Is" has another apology example when Yang tries to apologise for provoking the Floor to the point of the latter nearly causing a volcanic eruption. He gets stuck trying and failing to finish the word "apologise" until Yin finishes the sentence for him.
• Gasp!: Bot reacts with one of these when Candle is eliminated in "Friend or Froze", knowing that the only way that could happen is if one of their number betrayed their alliance.
• Giving Someone the Pointer Finger: In "Try Not to Laugh Challenge", Yang shows his hamminess by pointing dramatically at Bow as he declares that "[her] spaggers affect [him] little."
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: Played for laughs in "Try Not To Laugh Challenge". When Bow and The Floor decide to team up against Balloon after Bow decides that she isn't having any luck trying to make Yin-Yang laugh, the screen darkens and their eyes gleam white anime style as they prepare to go in for the "kill".
• Got Me Doing It: No attention is brought to it, but in "Best Served Cold", Nickel briefly catches Tea Kettle's tendency to pepper her speech with Yiddish when he complains about the "meshuggener" Pic-Nix Table being broken.
• HA HA HA—No:
  • Subverted in "Home Is Where the Heart Is". When the Floor offers to be MePhone4's new assistant, MePhone4 laughs followed by a Blunt "No", pointing out that the former is "a well-intentioned complete train wreck who wants to help but can barely seem to do anything right". He then realises that's a perfect description of his last assistant and relents.
  • After Candle uses one of her crystals to calm Silver Spoon down in "Friend or Froze", he asks if he can have it. Candle giggles, then tells him, semi-playfully, "Over my dead body." After she's eliminated at the end of the episode, she does give it to him after all to thank him for his loyalty.
• Hey, That's My Line!: He's more playful than annoyed about it, but Balloon says this in "Friend or Froze" after Nickel borrows his "Oh, c'mon!" catchphrase after the latter finds out that the luck Clover gifted him won't let him lose a challenge even when he deliberately tries to throw it.
• Hand Gagging:
  • After Silver Spoon realises that getting a bad picture taken isn't as bad as he thought in "Snapshot Showdown", he starts happily going on about how incredibly embarrassing it is, with Yin pointing out that he probably shouldn't do that given that the point of the challenge is to take embarrassing photos of your opponents. When Silver Spoon doesn't get the hint, Yin-Yang resorts to covering his mouth to shut him up.
  • Yin does this again, this time to himself, in "Title TBD", to prevent Yang from committing fraud by auctioning off their old bike as a brand new one.
• Hesitation Equals Dishonesty: "Pesty Besties":
  • Yin does this when he thinks that Yang is catching on to the fact that he accidentally made their Inani-Mate run away while he was in control and replaced her with another one. However, it turns out that Yang is oblivious and that his priorities lie elsewhere.
    Yang: Wait... Sprinkles?
    Yin: Uh... Yes! She looks different because of the, um... magical transformation! I leveled her up!
    Yang: Well, duh, that is obvious! I mean, why did you name her Sprinkles?!
  • After Silver Spoon leaves the New Old Thinkers to join the Looney Balloonies, Candle confronts him and accuses him of trying to vote her out like in "The Overthinkers". Silver Spoon denies this, pausing before claiming that he was just gathering intel. Unlike Yang, she doesn't buy it.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: In "Try Not To Laugh Challenge", MePhone4 gets so angry about the contestants laughing at a note instead of listening to him that he bans laughter on the island and locks anyone who laughs during the episode's challenge in a jail cell. After the challenge, he wonders out loud how it was possible that the least distracted team lost. When Candle suggests that it was the power of love, he bursts out laughing at the notion. Cut to a very annoyed MePhone4 in the jail cell with the contestants, declaring the law cancelled.
• How We Got Here: Parodied in "Best Served Cold". When a fiery outburst from Paintbrush burns the scissor lift platform Silver Spoon was using to stack ice cream for the challenge, making him lose his balance, the episode suddenly freezes as Silver Spoon addresses the viewer, starting to say that they're probably wondering how he got into that situation. Only since the scene is more than halfway into the episode, the viewer has already seen how he got into that situation. The episode unfreezes and he falls into the ice cream before he can finish the sentence.
• Hypocritical Humor:
  • When MePhone4 calls Yin-Yang his "second favorite contestant" in "Home Is Where the Heart Is", Balloon asks who exactly he thought he'd make happy with that comment. Nickel agrees that his "second best friend" has a point.
  • In "Spring on the Breakfast!", the Floor complains about how Springy keeps sneaking up on people, even though he himself has obliviously startled and listened in on characters several times throughout the season by teleporting in behind them.
• Idea Bulb: Test Tube gets one, accompanied by an Idea Ding, in "Title TBD" when Bot complains about their short stature and Test Tube gets the idea to give them stretching legs. As usual, it uses Lightbulb's character model.
• Immediate Self-Contradiction:
  • When the New Pinkers are confronting Cabby about the content of her files in "Best Served Cold", Paintbrush angrily claims that they do not obsess over their hair... and then gasps in horror upon realising that they still have ice cream stuck in their bristles from the challenge earlier.
  • When Yang accuses MePhone4 of making up the "Immunity Milk" from "Friend or Froze" by just taking something out of his fridge and giving it a silly name, MePhone4 yells at him to take that back, then turns to ask the Floor if there's any Apology Asparagus in the fridge.
• I Resemble That Remark!: When Fan is complaining about what Cabby has written in her file about him in "The Shame of the Name", he brings up him supposedly being "not one to keep his composure" as an example. He proceeds to scoff at the idea while, as the closed captions put it, laughing uncomposurely.
• Ironic Echo:
  • At the start of "I Am Chocolate!", the Floor, Test Tube, and Yin gleefully say "It... It can't be!", "I thought it'd never come back!", and "This is the greatest surprise of my life!" respectively, when they find out that the Chocolate and Other Very Yummy Treat Tasting Challenge from "Try Not To Laugh Challenge" has been reinstated. A little over halfway through the episode, they say the same lines (or a very similar one in Test Tube's case and Yang instead of Yin) in a stunned tone upon finding out that Cabby is rejoining the game.
  • Whenever the various contestant pairs tackling Springy's puzzle room challenge in "Spring on the Breakfast!" discover the various trap doors sprinkled around the rooms, invariably by nearly falling down one, he playfully tells them, "Try not to fall!" over the rooms' speaker system. Later in the episode, when Springy is enraged by Bot refusing to let him make toy copies of them and MePhone4 telling him off for treating the contestants like toys and advances on the two, Cabby pushes him off the platform they're on and repeats the line back at him.
• Ironic Echo Cut: In "Home is Where the Heart Is", Silver Spoon brings up the possibility of killing the Floor to get rid of him under the guise of an extreme none of the contestants should go to, hoping to tempt Yin-Yang into doing it and losing their viewer favour.
  Silver Spoon: Yes, I would certainly hope no one is even considering such an obscene option. [cut to confessional] I would certainly hope someone is considering such an obscene option.
• Leaning on the Furniture: When Nickel spots Test Tube and Bot coming while he's trying to get the Pic-Nix Tables to work for him in "Best Served Cold", he quickly moves to lean against the table in an attempt to look casual.
• Lighter and Softer: While the last few episodes of Season 2 are depressing and almost cinematic, this season returns to the upbeat and ridiculous tone of the earlier episodes. While there is still some drama on occasion, it's not dwelt on as heavily as in Season 2.
• Literal Cliffhanger: In "The Overthinkers", Silver Spoon demands to know where Candle gets all of her answers. She takes him to the island's volcano and tells him to look deep into the lava. When she startles him by revealing that she knows that he wants to eliminate her, he loses his balance and falls over the edge. She manages to catch him, but falls in herself in the process and is left holding onto the edge with one hand. They're saved when Silver Spoon blows out Candle's flame, causing her Inner-Flame to take control and levitate them both to safety.
• Loud Gulp: "Spring on the Breakfast!" has a rare non-fear example, as the Floor, who has just eaten Springy, gulps loudly while swallowing his meal down.
• Match Cut: When Silver Spoon gets the idea to leave the island (and the Floor with it) with a hot air balloon in "Home Is Where the Heart Is", a shot of Balloon cuts to a shot of the non-sentient hot air balloon the characters use to leave the island.
• Meaningful Echo: In "Home Is Where the Heart Is", the Looney Balloonies manage to trap the Floor on a picnic basket as part of one of their attempts to force him off the island, and Bot, who recently had a makeover and is still getting used to being their own person instead of a Replacement Goldfish for Bow, remarks that having an entirely new outside must be confusing. The Floor replies that all surfaces take getting used to before managing to free himself from the basket with a bit of extra effort. He then tells them, "No matter what, I'm still me." and gives them a cheeky wink and tongue click before teleporting away.
  
  Later in the episode, he finally loses his patience with the contestants' continued aforementioned attempts and takes control of the island's volcano, threatening to make it erupt. Bot makes it to the crater's edge and tells him that they were worried that they wouldn't be themself anymore if they started going by a different name or looked different, then shows him a picture they made of the different forms he's taken throughout the episode and says that he helped them realise that "No matter what you put out there, you're still you.", followed by a wink and a tongue click. Placated, he responds with the same gesture and calms down.
• Medium-Shift Gag: "Spring on the Breakfast!" shows a commercial for the in-universe cereal brand Springtastic, which is filmed in live action with Deliberate VHS Quality instead of the show's usual crisp, animated style.
• Mistaken for Servant: The introduction to "Best Served Cold" has MePhone4 disapproving of "small businesses growing on (his) otherwise free land".
  The Floor: What did he call me?
• Monochrome Past: Most of the time when a character has a flashback, such as Nickel's multiple flashbacks related to Clover's luck or Test Tube remembering what Fan whispered to her before his departure from the show, it's shown in black and white.
• Mundane Utility:
  • In "Title TBD", Candle uses her Inner-Flame and the telekinetic and telepathic abilities it has to make money for her team's cartoon by levitating things for her watchers' amusement and advertising a way for them to unlock an Inner-Flame of their own.
  • In "I Am Chocolate!", MePhone4 brings Paintbrush and Candle to Indefinite Island with him just so he can use Paintbrush's literally fiery temper to warm up the Immunity Cookie for the contestant who gets to return to the competition. The offended Paintbrush manages to keep their composure and instead hands the Cookie to Candle to warm up using her flame.
• Murder the Hypotenuse: "Pesty Besties" has a non-romantic example. Nickel, Balloon, and Bot decide to focus on training Balloon's Inani-Mate Quacky for the tournament in favour of the others'. However, Quacky and Bot's Inani-Mate N/A are missing when it's time for the tournament to begin, with only some confetti left behind, forcing the team to use Nickel's Nickel Jr. After finding out during the tournament that Inani-Mates burst into confetti when killed, the alliance realise that Nickel Jr. killed Quacky, which turns out to be because he wanted his "dad" to be proud of him.
• My Friends... and Zoidberg: During her Exit Interview, Test Tube muses about Paintbrush feeling at home with "their original Thinker team... plus Cabby", given that 1) the latter was not part of the original Thinkers and 2) Test Tube is not fond of her.
• Noodle Incident: When Yang tries to sell his and Yin's old bike as brand new in "Title TBD", Yin stops him, protesting that he's not helping Yang commit fraud again.
• Not So Above It All: While Yin is usually exasperated by Yang's antics, he actually joins in when the latter declares himself the "King of Mount Fizz" and takes the Elimination Button hostage in "The Overthinkers", adding some warm milk to Yang's list of demands.
• No, You: When Candle notes that Balloon and Bot may be projecting onto the butterfly representing Clover's luck that they're defending from Nickel's criticisms in "Home Is Where the Heart Is", Balloon defensively retorts that she's a butterfly.
• Oblivious Guilt Slinging: "Friend or Froze" has this coming from two people. After Candle and Silver Spoon complete the anniversary challenge the same way they did in the first episode, Balloon complains about them prioritising themselves. This is overheard by Cabby, causing her to feel guilty about having earlier made a deal with Silver Spoon for his alliance to target her alliance-mate Yin-Yang in exchange for her giving him information. This isn't helped by Yin-Yang choosing that moment to beg her to help them get immunity, and telling her that they're glad they can still trust her after Candle's betrayal when she lies that she's going to do so later. And then saying it again after she offers to let them "take the Cab" by riding in her drawers.
  Yin: Thanks, Cabby! Have I mentioned how much I trust you?!

  Yang eventually realizes that she was sabotaging them and reluctantly accepts it, with Cabby acknowledging it as selfish but necessary... at least until a comment by the Floor makes her realise that there's a chance to save them both by leaving it ambiguous to the Looney Balloonies whether she or Yin-Yang gets the aforementioned immunity, forcing them to guess whom to vote for.

• "Oh, Crap!" Smile: Tea Kettle pulls two of these in quick succession in "Tragedy at 60 Feet". The first is when Balloon points out that the meal she "prepared" for them was just conjured up by the Pic-Nix table, and the second is when she realises that Box has appeared behind her when she was criticising him earlier.
• Outside-the-Box Tactic: In "Home Is Where the Heart Is", the Looney Balloonies are able to temporarily capture the Floor despite his ability to teleport anywhere by exploiting the fact that he specifically teleports into any spot of the ground. When they trick him into teleporting onto a picnic basket that they lift off the ground, he's immobilised. As Balloon puts it:
  Balloon: He must be so used to flat surfaces that a rectangular prism is like some sort of maze to him!

  However, in a subversion, the tactic doesn't work in the long run. After he calms down and gets used to the basket, he still manages to teleport off it and back onto the ground.

• Overcomplicated Menu Order: While the challenge is being explained in "Title TBD", Silver Spoon notes that he "[does enjoy] an unnecessarily complicated coffee order". This comes back as a Brick Joke later in the episode when the characters suddenly become weak from hunger due to a lack of food, and he still finds enough strength to long for "a non-fat oat-milk latte with six pumps of artificially flavored syrup".
• Performance Anxiety: In "Try Not To Laugh Challenge", the Floor finds himself unable to tell jokes and make the other teams laugh because of this. It gets so bad that he hides in the Calm-Down Cabana for at least twenty minutes. He manages to overcome it eventually thanks to a half-unintentional pep talk from Silver Spoon.
• Phonýmon: "Pesty Besties" is about a bunch of cute little monsters dubbed Inani-Mates showing up on the island and eating MePhone4's treats. As revenge, he orders the contestants to each adopt one to train and then have them battle each other in a tournament. These Inani-Mates all, as the Floor puts it, "have their own special powers", and after Yin accidentally scares his off and is given Cabby's instead, he explains away its different appearance to Yang by claiming that he leveled it up and it had a "magical transformation".
• Pie in the Face: Nickel tries to make the other teams laugh in "Try Not To Laugh Challenge" by doing this to himself as a nicer alternative after his usual scathing remarks just brought down the mood. It backfires when MePhone4 finds out that Nickel got the pie from the Pic-Nix tables, which he's been banned from using, and disqualifies him from the challenge.
• Pit Trap: The puzzle rooms in "Spring on the Breakfast!" have several of these hidden by Trap Doors and triggered whenever someone walks near them. Besides some near misses, Silver Spoon deliberately drops the crystal Candle gifted him at her elimination down one (or at least pretends to) as part of convincing Yang that her guidance has made him soft, then later uses said crystal to make Yang himself fall down one after he decides that Yang has outlived his usefulness; and Nickel falls down one and is initially caught by Balloon, but then let go after he reveals that he doesn't actually trust the latter.
• Punctuated! For! Emphasis!:
  • In "Best Served Cold", MePhone4 declares to the contestants that the day's challenge is to make him "a Mile! High! Pie!", accompanied by a Staggered Zoom.
  • Blueberry does this in "I Am Chocolate!" when he starts putting an effort into the episode's challenge just to prove Goo's positivity wrong.
    Blueberry: I came here to prove that when you said I can do anything, you. Were. Wrong.
  • When Bot calls N/A "[their] little guy" in "Pesty Besties", it echoes the statement back at them. Bot, offended, replies "Not. Little." and uses their extendable legs to make themself taller than N/A.
  • "Home Is Where the Heart Is":
    • MePhone4 does it when he declares the Floor invisible in response to him refusing to leave the island after his elimination.
      MePhone4: From this moment on, we won't talk to you, we won't even look at you. It'll be like you don't. Even. Exist.
    • The episode also has a dramatic example when the Floor finally loses his patience with the contestants trying to force him off the island following his elimination, and Yang resorts to trying to punch him to death while telling him that he's "going home".
      The Floor: For the last time... I! Am! Home!
  • In "Friend or Froze", the Floor calls his new job as MePhone4's assistant the "best! Job! Ever!", since it gives him the opportunity to raid MePhone4's fridge.
  • "Spring on the Breakfast!":
    • Yang does this in after Silver Spoon manipulates him into giving in to his impulsivity and later betrays him.
      Yang: The spoon! Is! Evil!
    • During the elimination not long afterwards, Balloon chooses to let either him, Bot, or Nickel get eliminated at random rather than choose either Silver Spoon or Yin-Yang to get eliminated following a tie.
      Balloon: It. Ends. Now!
• Rage Breaking Point: Paintbrush spends most of "Best Served Cold" annoyed over how they have to do the messy ice cream stacking for the challenge while also dealing with Silver Spoon's laziness and criticisms, retaining their foul mood even after Cabby tricks Silver Spoon into swapping places with them. It's Balloon awkwardly trying to offer them a tissue to wipe off the ice cream that causes them to finally snap and have one of their fiery outbursts, causing Silver Spoon to lose his balance and fall face first into the ice cream. Fortunately for everyone but Silver, the sight of this immediately cheers Paintbrush back up.
• Rapid-Fire "No!":
  • Nickel does this in "Title TBD" when he realises that the reason his team kept going along with his suggestions throughout the episode is because Clover gave him some of her luck in the previous episode and not because his teammates actually valued his leadership like he thought.
  • In "Spring on the Breakfast!", Springy does this, ending with a Big "NO!", as he's falling through the air towards the Floor waiting to eat him.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: After Cabby is eliminated in "Best Served Cold", Test Tube gives her one for constantly cataloguing about her teammates' weaknesses in her files, which Test Tube showed to her teammates.
  Cabby: You did this...
  Test Tube: Look, b-b-before you...
  Cabby: We could've gone so far... Why?
  Test Tube: Why? We know what you've been writing, Cabby! About all of our flaws, just so you could take us down!
• Record Needle Scratch: During the elimination in "Title TBD", the revelation that the Fist Thingy didn't actually punch Goo away due to how sticky he is gets accompanied by one of these.
• Retraux: The third season has a simpler art style that is reminiscent of the first.
• Reverse Psychology: In "Home Is Where the Heart Is", Silver Spoon tries to trick Yin-Yang into killing the Floor and losing their favour with the viewers (and with it their consistent immunity vote) by pointing out that they know how to do so, but that doing so to get rid of him would be too extreme and off limits, counting on Yang trying to do so anyway due to his impulsiveness and aggressiveness. It works, but ends up being a moot point as the immunity vote is removed following that same episode.
• Revisiting the Roots: Near the end of the intense second season, the third season was created with a simpler art style like the first season so episodes could be released more regularly.
• Rhetorical Question Blunder: When Candle thanks Silver Spoon for his pep talks helping the Floor and Yin-Yang through the challenge in "Try Not To Laugh Challenge", he asks if he'd ever let a teammate down. He then tells Paintbrush not to answer that, in reference to his history of uncooperative and unsportsmanlike behaviour, which Paintbrush is always quick to call him out on.
• Rimshot: One can be faintly heard in the background in "Friend or Froze" after Nickel jokes that the Immunity Milk is immunity against MePhone4's lactose intolerance, right before the other contestants laugh so hard at the joke that it makes him uncomfortable.
• Robotic Reveal: Bow at the end of "Best Served Cold", when she pulls a mechanical component out of her head, revealing more mechanics underneath.
• Rousing Speech:
  • Subverted in "Stranded in Paradise". When Blueberry decides that his team is doomed and refuses to even participate in the challenge, Lifering gives him a stirring speech about how he believes that Blueberry is secretly a fighter and that he needs to channel that into passion, as inspirational music swells in the background. Unfortunately, not even this trope is enough to break through Blueberry's pessimism, and he stays where he is until the team loses.
  • Silver Spoon has better luck in "Try Not To Laugh Challenge". He gives two speeches (though the first one is half unintentional, being a sarcastic example of something "childish" that he could say), one that helps the Floor overcome his stage fright and one that inspires Yin-Yang to put Candle's advice about mindful positioning into practice. His teammates are so impressed with his pep talk skills that they (with the exception of Paintbrush themself) happily accept his decision to appoint himself Paintbrush's "royal advisor".
• Saying Sound Effects Out Loud:
  • Goo does this twice in "Best Served Cold":
    • After he and Bow are placed on different teams, he says "Sigh" out loud in his confessional bemoaning this fact.
    • He says "Squish" when he cushions the falling Clover's landing by inflating himself and letting her land on him.
  • Cabby imitates a fanfare by saying "Da da da daaaa" when inviting Yin-Yang to "take the Cab" AKA ride in one of her drawers in "Friend or Froze".
• Say My Name:
  • After Yin loses his temper at Sparkles for ruining his and Yang's Riggity Rex toy in "Pesty Besties" and yells at her to leave, which she does, he's horrified by what he just did and drops to his knees, screaming Sprinkles's name.
  • When the Floor is complaining to MePhone4 about Springy in "Spring on the Breakfast!", the latter chooses that moment to join the two.
    The Floor: [darkly] Springy...
    Springy: [cheerfully] Ground-face.
• Security Cling: Invoked in "I Am Chocolate!". When the contestants on Indefinite Island think that Walkie-Talkie is counting down to an explosion, Lifering tells Tea Kettle to "initiate familiar holds". She proceeds to pull him and Blueberry into a hug. Goo offers Cabby to do the same thing, but she flatly rejects him.
• Shy Finger-Twiddling: Cabby does the reluctant, embarrassed version in "Spring on the Breakfast!" when greeting a robotic version of Test Tube, due to how their last two partings were both on bad terms, with Test Tube getting Cabby eliminated and Cabby returning the favour after rejoining the game.
• Silent Treatment: MePhone4 attempts to do this to the Floor after he refuses to leave the island following his elimination, declaring him "invisible" and that he and the other contestants won't talk to or even look at him. It doesn't go as well as he hopes, given that it turns out to be rather difficult to completely ignore a face in the ground who can appear literally anywhere at any time.
• Similar Item Confusion: In a Call-Back to Season 2's "Cooking for the Grater Good", when Silver Spoon tasks Balloon with making the crust for the New Thinkers' Mile High Pie, the latter mistakes the word "flour" in the recipe for "flower" (or rather "flowers", since he thought one felt like too few), which does not do them any favours during the judging. Somehow, he makes this mistake despite the recipe being in written form.
• Slow-Motion Fall: When Silver Spoon and Candle are left dangling over the edge of a volcano in "The Overthinkers", Silver Spoon blows out Candle's flame in an attempt to get her to use her "magic" to save them. This just causes Candle to fall unconscious and let go of the edge, resulting in two slow-motion shots of each of them falling towards the lava before Candle's Inner-Flame takes hold and saves them.
• Split-Screen Reaction:
  • This is done in "Best Served Cold" to show the New Pinkers' reactions to what Cabby wrote about them in her files.
  • "Pesty Besties" has one of Nickel, the Floor, and MePhone4 looking shocked right before Nickel's Inani-Mate Nickel Jr. defeats the Floor's Tootsy Wootsy by attacking him with his horns.
• Springtime for Hitler: In "Snapshot Showdown", where the point of the challenge is to take embarrassing pictures of the other contestants, Candle manages to take a picture of Goo dancing with pinecones. Despite this, MePhone4 finds it weird enough to find it endearing.
  MePhone4: This is so bizarre and... silly... that I honestly find it kind of endearing. Goo is just doing his thing, who am I to judge?
  Paintbrush: You literally judge us all the time.
  MePhone4: Hmm, I don't like that you said that, Paintbrush. And I'll remember that you said that for a long, long time.
• Squee: The Floor does this off screen when MePhone4 gives him permission to take some milk from the fridge as a reward for getting rid of Springy for them by eating him.
• Staggered Zoom:
  • "Best Served Cold" has one on MePhone4's face to accompany his use of Punctuated! For! Emphasis! as he's announcing the episode's challenge.
  • "Home Is Where the Heart Is" has two examples, both accompanying the episode's Punctuated! For! Emphasis! moments:
    • MePhone4 does it when he declares the Floor invisible, saying that it'll be like he "[Doesn't]. Even. Exist."
    • The second example is more subtle, but when Yang tries to get the Floor off the island by repeatedly punching him in the face, the latter finally loses his temper and yells that he is home, with the screen getting slightly closer to his face and darker with each word.
• Stalker without a Crush: Nickel temporarily becomes one for Clover in "Snapshot Showdown", following her around and setting traps for her in an attempt to end her lucky streak. It's eventually revealed that she actually knew that he was following her, but thought that he was the romantic variant and found it cute.
• Suddenly Shouting: After Nickel grabs Balloon and deliberately tries to throw the challenge in "Friend or Froze", only for it to fail due to the luck Clover gave him, he borrows Balloon's "Oh, c'mon!" catchphrase. Balloon playfully tells him that's his line, and then shoutingly asks him why he did that.
• Sudden Soundtrack Stop: When Silver Spoon tries to convince Candle to switch Inani-Mates with him in "Pesty Besties", the peppy, commercial-esque music cuts out when he introduces his monster as "Utter Filth" and it just groans unimpressively.
• Take My Hand!:
  • When Candle inadvertently startles Silver Spoon into falling off the edge of a volcano in "The Overthinkers", she grabs his hand to keep him from falling into the lava. Unfortunately, she ends up falling over the edge as well, leaving her holding on with one hand and unable to pull herself up. They're saved when Silver Spoon blows out her flame in an attempt to get her to use her "magic", causing her Inner-Flame to take control and levitate them both to safety with its telekinetic powers.
  • Balloon pulls an Armless Biped variation on this trope in "Spring on the Breakfast!" when Nickel falls down a Pit Trap and Balloon grabs not his non-existent hands but his foot. However, he lets go again and lets him fall after Nickel reveals that he still doesn't trust him due to his manipulative behaviour in Season 1.
• Take That!: "Title TBD" and "The Show Must Go On" takes various jabs at A.I (Artificial Intelligence) with crappy animation and poorly written scripts.
• Tantrum Throwing: Played for laughs in "Spring on the Breakfast!". When Balloon is angrily calling Nickel out over acting like they'd always gotten along and his abrasive behaviour towards Balloon and Suitcase in Season 2 never happened, he throws a nearby object to the ground for emphasis. Unfortunately for him, said object happens to be a feather, which slowly floats to the ground in a very undramatic fashion.
• Tea Is Classy: Silver Spoon likes to present himself as sophisticated royalty (even if the latter isn't actually true), and he serves tea at the meeting he arranges for his team to decide whom to vote out in "The Overthinkers". At one point he interrupts himself to thank Tea Kettle for refilling his cup.
• Tempting Fate: Near the end of MePhone4's lengthy blink-and-you-miss-it message to Walkie Talkie in "I Am Chocolate!", he congratulates himself on making it through the entire message without typos despite writing it in a hurry. He then proceeds to misspell the most important word in the entire message, the secret word for the episode's challenge.
• Trivial Title: The title of "I Am Chocolate!" comes from what Yin-Yang says while chugging chocolate sauce during a Description Cut gag. The actual challenge and elimination of the episode have nothing to do with chocolate.
• Uncatty Resemblance: Invoked in "Pesty Besties". MePhone4 decides which contestant will train which of the Inani-Mates that have shown up on the island based on which contestant each Inani-Mate reminds him of. This leads to, for example, Cabby getting one that's blue and square shaped like her and Yin-Yang getting a black one with a white spot that resembles a yin-yang symbol. The notable exception is Silver Spoon, who gets a goofy-looking one, much to his displeasure.
• Universal Group Reaction:
  • When Yin-Yang accuses Nickel of making fun of people because he's sad in "Try Not to Laugh Challenge", managing to catch him off guard, the other characters respond with an impressed "Oooooh!" When Nickel retorts by pointing out that Yin-Yang's entire team wanted them eliminated, which visibly touches a nerve, the crowd is a lot less impressed, with only Test Tube starting to repeat the "Oooooh!" before realising that "we're not doing that now".
  • When MePhone4 has the contestants guess what he's in the mood to eat in "Best Served Cold" and Clover guesses mile-high pie, the other contestants all get Blank White Eyes and scream in shock. This being Clover, her guess is correct.
  • "I Am Chocolate!":
    • When it's revealed that the thing Walkie-Talkie was counting down to was MePhone4's appearance and not an explosion, the contestants on Indefinite Island all simultaneously sigh in relief.
    • The still competing contestants all gasp in unison upon finding out that Cabby won the challenge to rejoin the game and that there will eventually be another challenge with the same prize.
• Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Subverted in "Friend or Froze" when Cabby gets an idea how to save both herself and her only ally Yin-Yang from being voted out by the other contestants. After she calls for MePhone4, the episode cuts to the other contestants, and when it cuts back to her and Yin-Yang, she's already explained her plan to them, with them confident it'll work.
  
  However, after she reveals to their opponents that she and Yin-Yang are going to make them guess which of the two gets immunity, meaning that they can't know for sure whom to vote for, said opponents come up with the counter-plan of using their numerical advantage to split their votes, at best successfully voting someone out and at worst causing a tie. In the end, Cabby and Yin-Yang's plan does succeed, but only because Balloon renegades on his alliance and votes with them instead of following the split vote plan.
• Vacuum Mouth: In "Pesty Besties", Yin-Yang's Inani-Mate Sprinkles eats a chocolate sundae by inhaling it, glass and all, and then soon afterwards does the same to two sundaes at once. Yin finds it concerning.
  Yin: I don't know if it's... the best idea to eat all of that at once.
• Wham Line:
  • From "Best Served Cold":
  Candle: When I attempted to read your friend's aura, I faced... a complication. Something was... wrong.
  Goo: What do you mean?
  Candle: [as Bow yanks electronic parts out of her head] Goo... she has no aura.
  • The reveal of the murderer in "Blue Buried" as MePhone is about to revive Blueberry:
  Blueberry: '[Grabbing MePhone's arm]' That won't be necessary, because I was never dead to begin with.
• Wham Shot:
  • Bow flying out of the boat in "Stranded in Paradise".
  • "Bow" pulling out wires from her head in "Best Served Cold".
• What the Hell, Hero?: During the elimination in "Snapshot Showdown", during which it falls to Box to make the tiebreaker vote that will determine if Nickel or Lifering gets eliminated, Lifering, in a fit of desperation, tries to emotionally blackmail Box by pointing out the time he saved him from drowning in "Tri Your Best". The normally meaner-than-Lifering Nickel points out that you're supposed to save lives because it's the right thing to do, not for your own gain. Of course, it then takes a turn for the comedic when he tries to use this to convince Box not to vote him out, since "[he'll] never claim to have any morals." Despite his dislike of him, Lifering later admits in his exit interview that Nickel was right and that playing with Box's life went against his code of honour.
• What Would X Do?: When Yang is stumped by the second puzzle room in "Spring on the Breakfast!", to the point of not even being able to figure out what the puzzle is, he asks himself what Candle, as his and Yin's mentor figure, would do. Silver Spoon encourages him to simply "let chaos be [his] guide" instead of trying to think, leading to Yang disregarding this trope and instead brute forcing his way through the puzzle.
• Wingding Eyes:
  • When Bot reveals their new voice at the end of "I Am Chocolate!", Test Tube finds it so adorable that she gets sparkles in her eyes.
  • The Floor says some mock-dramatic last words and "dies", getting X-shaped eyes and sticking his tongue out, after getting punched by the Fist Thingy doesn't send him to Indefinite Island due to his nature in "Pesty Besties".
• With Due Respect: "Friend or Froze" has a rare positive example. When Bot asks Balloon and Nickel what they think of their new look, Nickel says, "With all due respect, screw us!" and that the only thing that matters is what Bot thinks of it.
• Worth It: "Title TBD" has a second-hand example. When Yang gets so tired of his team's tedious cartoon that he smashes the TV screen with his and Yin's bike, Zoetrope says that he's sorry that MePhone4 lost his safety deposit. MePhone4 responds with this trope.
• You Fool!: Directed to MePhone4 by Tootsy-Wootsy in "Pesty Besties" after he refused his demand to end the Smackdown on the already-declared-irrelevant grounds that the Inani-Mates "like exploding".
• You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!:
  • In "Best Served Cold", this is Cabby's reaction when MePhone4 says that the teams getting rearranged (the idea for which he got from the file she showed him to cheer him up) was all her idea and to judge her accordingly.
    Cabby: Are you kidding me?
  • Balloon has a moment in "Friend or Froze" when Nickel suggests giving Candle or Silver Spoon the Immunity Cookie Balloon won in order to secure their loyalty. Balloon replies with a disbelieving "...You're kidding," pointing out that those same characters immediately tried to get Balloon eliminated from the very same challenge he won the Cookie in.
  • Bot gives an exasperated "You're kidding!" in "Spring on the Breakfast!" when they and Cabby realise that the challenge's fourth puzzle room never actually had a physical electric fence in it, and all they had to do was ignore the robot bringing up the their painful memories and move on.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: "Spring on the Breakfast!" has a non-lethal example. After Silver Spoon has reached the second-to-last puzzle room, he decides that he no longer needs his partner for the challenge, Yang, and dings the crystal Candle gifted him after her elimination, which makes Yang lose consciousness and fall down one of the Trap Doors scattered around the rooms.
  Silver Spoon: It appears my need for you has expired. Be free, my beast. [ding]

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