Our First Delayed Episode!

Our First Delayed Episode! is the third episode of Average Objects and the 26th episode overall. It, as the title says, was the first delayed episode. It has know been the second most delayed episode, as it has been 4 years since then.

## Plot

### Before the Challenge.

The episode starts with Piano convincing Napkin to do something important. Napkin tries to speak but gets cut off by Buzz Lightyear revealing that he delayed the episode's release date. Muggy expresses her anger but is stopped by Quarter trying to give good vibes to all the contestants. Piano mistakenly calls for elimination but forgets the elimination's at the end of the episode. Greg jumps into the conversation by mentioning that his family is going to come to visit, which Piano doesn't approve of. Various contestants try to get a bit of screen time before Piano says it's time for the challenge. Before Piano could announce the challenge, Greg's family shows up and starts disrupting everything. Piano gets upset by this and makes the challenge to catch them.

### Challenge Part 1

Muggy gives one of her classic team speeches to try to motivate her team into wanting to do the challenge. None of them seem to really care, however. Lilac tries to get Water Balloon to go get Greg since he's on their team but unintentionally called Muggy over. After telling Muggy to leave, Water Balloon gets Greg. That would give ITILTS immunity. Dad Hat tells Napkin to get someone, and he gets Steven after he and Napkin have a conversation. COOL People would gain immunity after that. Matchbox mentions how they are probably going to lose, hurting Quarter's goals of trying to get everyone to be positive. Strawberry gets Amethyst, and Team Snap loses the first part of the challenge.

### Challenge Part 2

Piano reveals that there is a second part to the challenge. The next part is a rap battle against Team Snap and COOL People. Before any of them go up, Thermostat tells Matchbox that she loves him, much to Matchbox's disgust. The two going against each other in the battle would be Napkin and Thermostat. Thermostat would choose to make the rap about Matchbox and fail miserably. Napkin would go up and give a slightly better rap, causing Team Snap to be put up for elimination.

### Elimination

The elimination starts with Sticky announcing that they had done some drugs beforehand. Spoon votes for Matchbox, Quarter votes for Matchbox, Cheez-It votes for a weird picture she found, and also Thermostat. Those were the only votes shown being cast, however, since it is revealed that Thermostat is absent. Sticky announced that if she wasn't back by the next episode, she would be eliminated, but if he did come back, he would be safe and Matchbox would be eliminated.

### The Reveal

After everyone is done getting their prizes, it is shown that Fraction Circle, Poster, and Toast are all outside of the COCE. This is most likely because of Thermostat taking freeing them and escaping. This conflict has yet to be resolved, leaving us on a 4-year long cliff-hanger.

## Votes

3 votes have been cast. Below is a table for how many votes were cast for each contestant.

 Matchbox

## Trivia

* This is the only episode with a multiple part challenge
* This marks the first time a character had disappeared
* This is the second time in a row that a contestant disobeys the rules
* As the title implies, this was the first ever delayed episode.
	+ The record for most delayed episode is now taken by Episode 5, which is still yet to come out.

* This episode shows us Greg's kids for the first time

## Continuity References

* It is acknowledged at the very beginning of the episode that the recording date was pushed back slightly.
* Sticky continues the theme of him being drunk or high during the eliminations

## Cultural References

* Buzz Lightyear is the one who delayed the episode's release.
	+ In addition to this, he is trapped inside a Cagney Carnation Funko POP Figure box.

* Lilac brings up that she is a ripoff of Flower from BFDI.
* Steven and Amethyst from Steven Universe appear.

## Goofs

* You can see Austin's dad watching sports in the background of a few frames
* Cheez-It shows a really bad drawing Austin once made during the elimination
* Napkin's rap was completely improvised by Austin
* The whole elimination was not taken seriously at all