Barriers and pitfalls

(SPOILER ALERT!!!!!)

"Wow! Needle, She's such a fast runner." -Ice cube to Leafy

Barriers and pitfalls is the second episode of Battle for Dream Island. It was released on February 1st, 2010. It is 10 minutes long.

The challenge is an obstacle course.

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## Plot

### Beginning of the episode

It starts with Announcer telling Pin that she's won a Win token. Pin gets disappointed and asks what a win token is. The Announcer explains that, in the last challenge, She was the only one to wreck the ribbon, meaning she did better than everybody else. He also says that she can use it to make half of her votes disappear. She catches the win token he gives her. The Announcer says it's time for Cake at stake.

### Cake at stake

The Announcer gets the contestants that have been stuck at sea and gathers them for the first Cake at stake. He explains that the people who get cake are safe and if someone doesn't, they will leave but get treated with "TLC." The Announcer says that they got 7 votes and now it is time to pass out the cake.

### Voting

Leafy- zero votes

Needle- zero votes

Ice cube- zero votes

Rocky- zero votes

Teardrop- zero votes

Coiny- zero votes

Snowball- zero votes

Tennis ball- one vote

"Sam"- one vote

Golf ball- one vote

Flower- four votes (ELIMINATED)

Flower gets angry at this and tries to crush the Announcer with her "Announcer crusher." He almost gets crushed but Golf ball's head prevents it from doing so. The crusher cracks and explodes, sending Flower away to an unknown place. Bubble comments to Pencil how that morning she was afraid of getting popped but then she felt better and thought she wasn't gonna get popped. But then, pieces from the Announcer crusher fly by, and pop Bubble. Golf ball exclaims how her chances of winning "went from 5% to 5.263%." Leafy is amazed how she did that with out a calculator. But Golf ball is confused, as she said she didn't use a calculator.

### Challenge

The Announcer explains the 2nd challenge is an Obstacle course, and that the teams have 1 hour to complete it and that whoever finishes it first gets a Win token. Announcer says he has one more thing to tell them before the challenge starts. Eraser gets bored at this and says "Boooooring." Announcer says that the Squishy cherries are missing a team member. Eraser and Pen quickly realize that they are missing Blocky, as he fell into a fish's mouth last episode. The challenge starts, and Pin gets Eraser, Pen, Pencil and Spongy to go get Blocky. Match says that they have to stick together, as they are an alliance. Pin ignores this, and sends the former to go. Snowball quickly gets in first, but that does not last long as Needle rushes through and pushes Snowball off the pitfall and into the failers' waiting room. The cherries try to get Blocky. Meanwhile, the Squashy grapes are quickly running through the course. Ice cube comments how fast of a runner Needle is, and Leafy says that's good. Needle steps on a button, which slowly makes a wall rise up. Needle, Icy, and Leafy easily pass through. Coiny sticks his tongue out at Firey. That makes him mad, so he punches him away. Match wonders what is taking Pencil so long, and Bubble says that it's only been five minutes. Meanwhile, Pencil tries to get Blocky out of the fish by singing. Blocky asks Pen and Eraser what Pencil is doing. They are surprised, as they thought he got eaten. Blocky tells them that it only looked like he got eaten, but he just fell behind the fish. Pencil doesn't realize that, and is still telling the fish to open it's mouth. It does so, and captures Pencil with it's tongue. Meanwhile, Needle comes to a stop and sees a rock climbing wall. The other team swiftly jumps over the rising wall, but Pin gets stuck on her head. Woody tries to reach over the wall, but Pin punches him away. Tennis ball and Golf ball jump over the sliding Woody, but Tennis ball kicks Rocky away from Woody. Golf ball asks why he did that and TB responds with "It was to prevent a Rocky and Woody collision." Golf ball isn't able to get over the rising wall. Tennis ball kicks her over, but is not able to get over himself. Needle, Leafy, Icy, Teardrop, and Firey are climbing the rock climb. A hole opens up in the wall, and a springy punching fist punches Needle off the wall. Leafy, holding Ice cube, gets punched too, which causes Ice cube to fall too. Pen and Blocky try to save Pencil from the fish, while Eraser just stands there. The fish stops, looks up and notices Flower, still flying in the air. She passes the monsters from the previous episode. Currently in first is Firey, who steps on a button causing another wall, this time rising down. He, Coiny and Teardrop make it over. Leafy and Ice cube make it over the rock climb again and go down the dropping seat. Leafy puts a bowling ball on Ice cube's head and shows her how the ball and her are at the same rate while they are falling. The seat reaches the ground, and Ice cube gets crushed by the bowling ball.

### Gumballs commercial

The episode gets interrupted by a commercial for gumballs with (presumably)an early version of Yellow face. The commercial asks "if you need a break from all the stress, then eat our gumball, it's 70,000 payments of 70,000 (49,000,000,000) each (34,300,000,000) so call the number on your screen now (2)."

### Blocky's funny doings international

The commercial gets interrupted with a Blocky's funny doings international where you can drill a hole in the Bubble Recovery center, put tacks in it, and watch Bubble pop infinitely. It ends with "This program was brought to you by "Blocky's funny doings international" which spells BFDI.

### Back to the challenge

It returns to Leafy seeing seeing that she accidently killed Ice cube, and then brushing it off. Leafy then falls in the hole and into the waiting room. Meanwhile, the people who were saving Pencil and, of course, Pencil return to the obstacle course and quickly run. Blocky and Eraser immediately fall into the waiting room. Needle makes it over the rock climb. Firey climbs onto one of the zip line seats but burns through and lands on someone else's seat. Bubble, Match and Pencil throw Tennis ball over the wall where Pin is stuck. TB lands on Pin, causing the wall to snap in half and Pin to land in the waiting room. The seat Firey grabbed onto reveals to be Coiny and Teardrop's seat. Coiny steps on Firey's hand but he punches Coiny away. Meanwhile, Golf ball tells Pencil to throw her over but she says she'll only help her own team (Which is strange, considering she helped Tennis ball over the rising wall) so she throws Spongy over. Needle reaches the end of the zipline seats and has to find a needle in a haystack, which Firey and Teardrop are doing. Needle gets an idea and scans herself, being a needle. She gets a win token and "finishes" the course. Firey has trouble finding the needle, but gets an idea and burns the haystack. Meanwhile, Golf ball and Tennis ball still can't climb the rock wall. Tennis ball gets an idea and sees the path around the wall which supposedly was always there. Teardrop finally finds the needle and scans it. Needle tries to get Tennis ball to help her fill up the water bucket to win. Firey says he can't do it, because water is "too dangerous to handle." Bubble gets stuck in the middle of the dropping wall. Tennis ball and Golf ball try to jump over, but they bump into Bubble and fall in while Bubble makes it out. Match and Pencil quickly jump and slide under the dropping wall. They get on the zipline seats, but move slower because of Spongy being on a seat. Rocky is still falling from Tennis ball kicking him. He slices the line and Pencil, Match and Bubble drop down while on the seat. Teardrop and Needle quickly fill the bucket of water while Firey does nothing. The time is finally up, and the Squashy grapes win, meaning the Cherries are up for elimination.

### Stinger

The contestants who fell are still in the failer's waiting room. Golf ball asks if they are going to pick them up.

## Trivia

* Despite "Sam" not being a contestant, their vote is still counted.

* This is the only episode with the original Cake at stake intro.

### Cast

Cary Huang as Pin/Match/Ice Cube/Rocky/Needle

Michael Huang as Flower/Bubble/Golf Ball/Leafy/Eraser/Pen/Snowball/Pencil/Firey/Blocky/Woody/Tennis Ball/Coiny

AT&T/NaturalReader Mike as Announcer

### Music

* New Friendly ["Guess what Pin, you've won a win token."]
* Gnarled Situation [During Cake at Stake]
* Shiny Tech [During the challenge]