Back at Square One

Season 2, Episode 1a

"**Back at Square One**" is the first episode of *Recommended Rumble Reboote*d and the 12th episode in the series overall. It was released on June 11th, 2020.

## Plot

### **Opening**

The episode starts off with Honeycomb saying that she couldn't believe Recommended Rumble ended the way it did in "A Real Rumble". The episode then zooms out and "plays cricket sounds", signaling that nobody is around her. Honeycomb then explains that everyone was dead. She also states that Credit Card mysteriously disappeared. She says she misses Seven as well after what he did in the previous episode.

Candle then appears and asks Honeycomb if she wants a new friend as suppose to her old ones. Honeycomb tells him that she misses her old friends and tells Candle she doesn't know him very much. She points out that Candle wasn't one of the recommended characters from last season.

Plastic Cup then appears, overhearing the conversation. She asked if Honeycomb wanted a new friend. Wheel overhears this, too, and sarcastically tells Honeycomb that he would be a good friend. Screwdriver is the last to appear, saying that she wants to be friends with Honeycomb more harshly than the other two.

The episode then zooms out and shows all the never-seen-before characters talking about being Honeycomb's friend. Honeycomb is shown, looking under pressure. An unknown voice interrupts the chatter, excitedly pointing out that there is a conflict.

### **Debit Card appears**

Honeycomb asks the new person if he is Credit Card. He denies and tells her that his name is actually Debit Card. He explains that he's Credit Card's brother, which is why they may look alike. He also explains that Credit Card asked him off-screen to host a second season of Recommended Rumble and says there's already a prize.

The screen zooms out and shows the new characters again. Blanket asks what the prize is, referencing one of Eraser's gags from a show called Battle for BFB. Debit Card tells him and the others that the prize is Honeycomb's friendship, which gets the newbies into excited chatter.

Honeycomb complains about this prize and says it's unfair to automatically make one of the newbies friends with her. However, she is cut off by Debit Card explaining that these new characters will compete in the show. He says that they also need to figure out which recommended characters from last season and which veterans will compete. Honeycomb asks if Debit Card can recover everyone, which he agrees to. A red force appears from his hand and the dead characters from "A Real Rumble" appear from another red force.

Debit Card announces that they are about to find out who is competing and who isn't.

### **Who competes?**

Debit Card tells TV to show the viewers the results on which veterans will be joining. TV's screen loads up the results. Coincidentally, all eliminated contestants that were eliminated via viewer voting from last season were not chosen to compete. Neither was Ringy, Watermelon, Cartridgey, and Honeycomb. Watermelon appears on screen disappointed that he didn't get to join Season 2. He says that he's rooting for Sponge Cake to win, as he was accepted into the season.

Debit Card asks TV to show the failed debuters from Season 1 that are also competing. Purple Paint Pellet, Windmill, Purple Bouncy Ball, Seafoam, Magnifying Glass, Baseball, Chunk of Grass, and Soup were not chosen to compete for either being one of their creator's major OCs, hard to develop in a powerpoint-style show, or being too similar to a character from another show. Magnifying Glass appears disappointed about not getting into the season like Watermelon did, but he said he wouldn't be mad about it.

Debit Card introduces the contents of the show: 32 contestants and 1 prize. However, he also states that they are too low-budget (more like the creator's too lazy) to make an intro and they were to get straight to making 4 teams of 8.

### **Creating the teams**

We first see Candle saying that he wanted to make as many new friends as possible. Cereal Box appears, saying that he would be Candle's friend. Plastic Cup appears as well in attempt to become Candle's friend. She suggests that they should make a team together. Candle says he'll be friends with them and join their team, too.

Kinda Flat Ball is shown next, appearing super excited for the upcoming episode of BFB at the time, BFB 21. Tokeny comes in and says he's excited as well and wonders what the challenge will be. Calculator appears asking if Tokeny and Kinda Flat Ball were making a team. He asks if he can join. Tokeny says Fez needs to join the team that he didn't know they were making. Blanket appears, too, and asks if he can join them. Tokeny agrees and Blanket weirdly says the word "yay".

Orange Block appears talking to Egg, saying that he liked eggs. Egg says that's a good thing because he is an egg himself. Orange Block asks if they can be on a team and Egg agrees. Orange Block invites Ballpoint Pen, Bricky, and Cactusy onto the team. The three agree, making it Egg's turn to invite three people. He decides to invite Fossil, Flasky, and Octagon to the team as well. Orange Block appears excited that the team is full.

However, the other three teams appear to be formed as well, off-screen. Screwdriver tells Orange Block this. Debit Card says that the last thing they will do in the episode is create the team names, prompting the contestants.

### **Picking the team names**

We first see Egg's team. Orange Block asks what their name should be, and Egg simply says "EGGS!", accidentally naming the team that. Their logo shows up and Bricky seems unimpressed.

Coconut appears asking his team what they should name themselves. Uranium tells him he couldn't care less. Sponge Cake said that he was fine with almost anything as long as it wasn't a dumb team name, prompting Screwdriver to name the team "A Dumb Team Name". Their logo is shown. Screwdriver seems very proud of herself.

Tokeny appears, explaining that the team mostly formed because of their excitement on the upcoming BFB episode. He is cut off when attempting to suggest a team name by Kinda Flat Ball, who suggests the name "Hype Squad". Tokeny says that it wasn't what he was going for but it works. The team is shown along with their logo.

Candle proposes that his team should be called "Team Best Friends". Rainbow Blocky says it's a nice gesture of friendship, agreeing to the team name. The logo is shown along with the team's members.

### **Next episode...**

Debit Card then appears, saying that the challenge will be in the next episode, suggesting the reason the first episode was split up into two parts. He tells the viewers to stay tuned and then the voting screen appears, informing the viewers that there is a Google Form in the instructions of the project and they should use it to vote on their favorite contestant.

## Credits

* @animationwithbfts created Orange Block.
* @YeeDavid created Uranium.
* @B204CRises created Tokeny.
* @moose1679\_XD created Oceany.
* @lpj2007 created Kinda Flat Ball.
* @-ScaleZ- created Egg.
* @dude\_png created Calculator.
* @Mitocomic created Spray Paint.
* @Penguin3806 created Sea Sponge.
* @Kyramoonray (referred to as the creator's sister) created Candle.
* @YOYLECAKE12 created Oceany.
* @Hikermen3 created Flasky.
* @epizero created Octagon.
* @Cat\_games created Lemon, Coconut, and Wheel.
* @turtlegunner95 (referred to as "me") created Screwdriver, Plastic Cup, Bricky, Teaspoon, Ballpoint Pen, Fossil, Dicey, and Blanket.
* It is mentioned that the other characters are created by their recommenders on BFB, the show mentioned a lot in this episode. It is stated that the original purpose of the show was to be a viewer voting on its recommended characters.
* It is also mentioned that the recommended characters who failed to get into the season aren't credited.

## Trivia

* Originally, Cactusy and Brownie were not meant to compete. This was decided late in production.
	+ Spray Paint was not meant to compete, either, due to the creators' negative relationship. This was changed late in production due to desperation for characters.
* Cereal Box wasn't confirmed to die in the previous episode but is still shown to be recovered with the veterans.
	+ The eliminated contestants aren't shown to recover, either, suggesting that they may not have died.
		- Downvote was not sent to the elimination area last episode and was forgotten entirely. The consequences of this are unknown.

## Continuity references

* The episode picks up right after the previous episode left off.
	+ Honeycomb mentions the dead characters, which are recovered in the episode.
		- Honeycomb also mentions when Seven saved her in the previous episode.
* It is suggested that Watermelon and Sponge Cake are best friends. There has been no sign of this in any other episode.

## Goofs/Errors

* On slide 19, Ballpoint Pen has no mouth.
	+ On slide 21, despite being in a similar pose, Ballpoint Pen's mouth is back.
* On slides 41, 42, and 43, Candle is not looking at Cereal Box and Plastic Cup, who are talking to him, unlike the other contestants did when they were talked to.
	+ In slide 48-50, Fez is also not looking at who is talking. This could be because they were not talking directly to him.
* Tokeny's shade touches his outline and the creator is too lazy to fix it.