Inanimate Insanity

Inanimate Insanity, also abbreviated as II, is an American animated fantasy-comedy reality web series, directly inspired from Battle for Dream Island as the third object show in existence. It was created by Adam Katz and directed by mostly Brian Koch and Justin Chapman, including former Taylor Grodin.
It follows the original competition-based format. The series' seasons mostly follows two to three teams of anthrophomorphic animated object contestants competiting for 1 million dollars as a prize, hosted by MePhone4, over several contests to win it.
II has since been the catalyst for the start of the early Object Show Community with the releases of several object shows based on both BFDI and Inanimate Insanity, like Object Overload, Object Universe and many others.
== Development and production ==
It was the second object show to be released after the series premiere of Battle for Dream Island, "Take the Plunge". The origins of II originate in a school project from March 2011 called "The Coin Bros. - Korean Memorial", which was about the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., and was the very first animation Adam Katz has ever made.Adamationz: The Coin Bros. - Korean Memorial "The Stupid Trailer" was only uploaded on Katz's personal YouTube channel, DuncanEpic and would later upload a sneak peek.
The earliest Inanimate Insanity uploads were made on his animation-dedicated channel, named AnimationEpic, rather than his personal one, DuncanEpic. The animation for the first episodes were really lazy, with premade assets and weird mouth movements before slowly improving overtime. Anime Studio was the primary animation software Katz used until "The Penultimate Poll", where he switched to Adobe Animate.AnimationEpic: Behind The Scenes Animation Of Inanimate Insanity - Episode 9!
Between September 13 to 14, 2011, AnimationEpic was however hacked by Nate Groth, the first voice actor for Balloon, and ended up being fired.AnimationEpic: Inanimate Insanity Experienced Some Trouble... The consequence of this was that all episodes of the object show released at the time were deleted but were later recovered.
The second part of "Journey Through Memory Lane" had to be delayed to December 8, 2012 and was the first time this ever happened.AnimationEpic: Sorry Later episodes of the later seasons experienced the same thing.
== Characters ==
=== Contestants ===
==== Newcomers in II ====
# Orange Juice
# Taco
# Paper
# Pickle
# Bow
# Apple
# Marshmallow
# Bomb
# Paintbrush
# Salt
# Lightbulb
# Pepper
# Balloon
# Nickel
# Knife
# Baseball
==== Newcomers in II2 ====
* Suitcase
* Test Tube
* Microphone
* Fan
* Soap
* Cheesy
* Yin-Yang
* Dough
* Box
* Trophy
* Cherries
* Tissues
==== Newcomers in Invitational ====
* Cabby
* Silver Spoon
* Blueberry
* Bot
* Candle
* The Floor
* Goo
* Clover
* Tea Kettle
* Lifering
==== Contestants from Infinity ====
* Bandana
* Barrel
* Chieves
* Frank
* Hay Bale
* Kumquat
* Shell
* Thermos
* Traffic Light
=== Hosts ===
* MePhone4
* MePhone4S
* Toilet
* MePad
* The Floor
=== Meeple ===
* Steve Cobs
* MePhone5
* MePhone5S
* MePhone5C
* MePhone6
* MePhone6+
* MePhone7
* MePhoneX
* Mecintosh
* MeBook
* MePhone3GS
* MePhone1
* MePhone3S
=== Other major characters ===
* Nick Le
* Santa Claus
* A.D.A.M.
* Tyler Bungard
* Pizza Cutter
* Milk
* Judge Gavel
* Rusty Jo
* Dagger
* Razor Blade
* Swiss Army Knife
* Hammer
* Baton
* Poker Chip
* Ballpoint Pen
==== Spoiled Lemon ====
* Starfruit
* Pineapple
* Lemon
* Tomato
* Guava
* Mangosteen
==== Light Shimmers ====
* The Prime Shimmer
* Baby Shimmer
==== Unvitational Committee ====
* Walkie-Talkie
* Boaty
* Cameras 1 and 2
* Sprinkles
* Dr. Fizz
* Zoetrope
* Groscer
* Tyler Bombard
* Springy
=== Crossover characters ===
* Orange
* "Apple"
* Announcer
* Pencil
* Nonexisty
* Coiny
* Cloudy
* Rocky
* Firey
== Episodes ==
=== Season one (II) ===
=== Season two (II2) ===
=== Season three (III) ===
=== Episode order and release schedule ===
== Voice cast ==
== Production crew ==
== Typeface ==
== Spinoffs ==
=== The Taco Show! ===
When the AnimationEpic YouTube channel was hacked, The Taco Show! was a spinoff that was also part of the deletion but was later recovered. Only 1 episode exists.
It was hosted by Taco and there was only 1 participant, Orange Juice.
=== Inanimate Battle ===
As a parody for Wuggolo's BFDI Battle video, Adam and a friend named Derek made a series of videos called Inanimate Battle, where random contestants would battle in real life still as inanimate objects. The spinoff was still hosted by MePhone4 and only had 3 non-canonical newcomers (Big Orange Spoon, Twinkie and Matza). Knife was the winner of every single episode of the spinoff.
=== Fan's Fantastic Features ===
=== Exit Interviews ===
== Merchandise ==
== Comics ==
== Crossing with BFDI ==
=== Through episodes ===
=== Through crossing promotions ===
=== Through meet-ups and events ===
== Reception ==
=== Critical reception ===
=== Ratings ===
== Gallery ==
== See also ==
* List of object shows
* List of Inanimate Insanity characters
== References ==
Category:Object shows
Category:Ongoing object shows
Category:Competition-based object shows
Category:2011 object shows