Gotta Sweep

*For the location, see Gotta Sweep's closet.*

## Office bio

What do you do when the school opens in 7 hours and you haven't hired a janitor? Hire a broom! It sweeps **everything!**

**Gotta Sweep** is a large broom that resides in his closet of the Schoolhouse or Super Schoolhouse.

## Description

Gotta Sweep is a giant green angle broom with choppy-edged, dark-colored bristles and a white cap. He has a brown strip (yellow due to the dithering effect) of tape that covers half of the broom, with two stickers (white and red) on the top.

While Gotta Sweep is based on a real-life broom with a cropped-out background, he appears photoshopped with his handle top shortened a little, brightened and contrasted for supposed clarity, and the bristle areas stretched in width resulting in a distorted edit.

## Personality

While Gotta Sweep obviously loves his work, Gotta Sweep is also a troublesome and chaotic neutral character. While he can accidentally help or hinder students, he is often more of a hindrance to his co-workers (Baldi and Principal of the Thing). He sweeps, not because he is supposed to, but because he wants to, and does not care if he helps or bothers others. In short, he is not mindful.

As implied in his description in the Principal's Office, Gotta Sweep was hired as a last-minute idea, since the school was going to open in 7 hours and they didin't have any janitors for it.

Gotta Sweep's voice lines are all loud and distorted, largely due to the voice actor yelling into the microphone.

## Artificial intelligence

### Main gameplay

After Baldi starts chasing the player, Gotta Sweep will spawn in his closet. Then, 120–180 seconds later, Gotta Sweep can then start moving and yell: "*Looks like it's sweepin' time!*", before moving out of his closet, dashing around the halls and sweeping almost anything in his path.

If any character comes in contact with Gotta Sweep, he will yell: "*Gotta, sweep sweep sweep!*".

As he sweeps the Schoolhouse or Super Schoolhouse, he will move very fast until he finishes, at which point he will return to his closet. Sweeping the school takes about thirty seconds. Once he returns to his closet, he will wait for 2 to 3 minutes before sweeping the school again.

Gotta Sweep will push characters and even possibly take them along his path if they get in his way, excluding a few others like It's a Bully and Chalkles. This can either be helpful or harmful, as Gotta Sweep may push the player either away or closer to Baldi and other characters. He mainly focuses on sweeping all of the hallways but can go into any location except for the mystery room.

By using the Big Ol' Boots, the player can walk through Gotta Sweep quicker than usual, but it does not work when he is not moving in *Baldi's Basics Plus* and *Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered*.

### Field trips

In the farm field trip prior to *Baldi's Basics Plus* V0.3, if 150–350 seconds have passed, a colossal-sized version of Gotta Sweep, with pencil-like razors for bristles, the "***I LIKE CORN***" text attached to it, and a short handle, would spawn as he yelled "*GOTTA REAP, REAP, REAP!!!*". He began to cut down all the corn across his path and would cause a hostile Baldi to spawn after he passed by the player.

### Challenges

* Gotta Sweep exclusively appears in the Grapple Challenge.

### Other appearances

* In *Baldi's Basics Classic*, Gotta Sweep can only wander in hallways, faculty rooms, and his closet.
* In *Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash*, Gotta Sweep has the same appearance in *Classic*. Additionally, he has bristles covered in red, tan, green, and white confetti. After reaching the last exit door in the cafeteria, he appears in the same place with the original cast for a birthday surprise.
* In *Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered*, Gotta Sweep's behavior is similar to *Classic*/*Birthday Bash*, but it is easier to escape from him unless Hard Mode Fun Setting is enabled.
* In *Baldi's Basics Full Game Early Demo*, due to his closet being unimplemented, Gotta Sweep spawns in one of the faculty rooms.

## Trivia

### General

* Just like all NPCs, Gotta Sweep is not in his closet because he will only spawn when Baldi finishes his countdown in *Baldi's Basics Plus* or the player gets an answer wrong from 1-2 notebooks in *Classic*/*Birthday Bash*.
* Gotta Sweep may yell "*Gotta, sweep sweep sweep!*" multiple times in quick succession. mystman12 has said that he did not expect that to happen, but he thinks that it makes the game a lot of fun.
* According to mystman12, during his livestream, he mentioned that the reason that Gotta Sweep sounds similar to Joe from his on-hold project *Joe's Ultimate Bus Ride* was because he felt he could not do any more original voices, so he ultimately decided to use his Joe voice from said game.
* Gotta Sweep is actually based on mystman12's broom seen in his Twitter post.
* Gotta Sweep was supposed to be a human but was made a broom because of the time limit to enter the game into the Meta Game Jam. mystman12 used Colors! 3D to paint an actual janitor with a PilotRedSun-like style as a concept of Gotta Sweep, however, he did not like the art because it looked different than what he expected. Gotta Sweep's early art was later reused for `0th Prize` in *Birthday Bash*.
* Gotta Sweep and Baldi are mystman12's favorite characters.
* During mystman12's livestream, Gotta Sweep's line, "*GOTTA GO FAST, FAST, FAST!*", is likely a reference to the theme song of the *Sonic X* English dub called "Gotta Go Fast".
* mystman12 said that Gotta Sweep's greatest life achievement was cleaning the whole cafeteria floor until it was spotless in three minutes and eight seconds, one day after a food fight.

### *Baldi's Basics Plus*

* If any character goes behind Gotta Sweep in his closet while he is inactive, they can actually be slowed or stopped so the player can have time to walk past NPCs.
* Gotta Sweep's appearance in the farm field trip prior to V0.3 vaguely resembles a combine harvester.
* If Gotta Sweep is pushed by a BSODA, he can slightly clip through the wall in other locations, slowing down characters that pass by him.
* Prior to V0.3.5, there was a grammatical error in his description in the Principal's office. (open instead of opens)

### *Baldi's Basics Classic*

* Gotta Sweep's gender is stated to be male in a quote in the tape recorder in the earliest version.
	+ However, it is confirmed that Gotta Sweep has a gender according to the V0.1.2 update log of *Baldi's Basics Plus*. Though, there is no in-game description about his gender like Chalkles.
* Before V1.4, Gotta Sweep's sprite was slightly different, with his bristles colored green and lighter-gray. Despite his redesign for the said update, his profile image in the Principal's office was left unchanged before V1.4.1.
	+ When asked about Gotta Sweep's redesigned sprite, mystman12 replied that it was tweaked in order to avoid considering Gotta Sweep a carbon copy of the Libman Precision Angle Broom, hence the colors do not match the real-life broom's bristles.
* An unrecorded playtesting session by NintendoNaut exists, in which Gotta Sweep swept the majority of the characters, leading to NintendoNaut getting cornered by almost every character at once.

## Glitches

### *Baldi's Basics Plus*

* While sweeping, Gotta Sweep often stops in place for an unknown reason.
* In the Grapple Challenge in V0.3.3, Gotta Sweep spawned in a hallway far away from his closet.

### *Baldi's Basics Classic*/*Birthday Bash*

* A glitch can occur where 1st Prize and Gotta Sweep will both push the player, causing Gotta Sweep to get stuck inside 1st Prize. As of now, the only known way to fix this glitch is to exit the game or get caught by Baldi.
* Gotta Sweep's hitbox is so large that he can sweep the player even if there is a thin wall in between them. This can most easily be seen in the back of the Principal's office.
* Gotta Sweep can occasionally get stuck in corners if he is sweeping other characters.

### *Baldi's Basics Full Game Early Demo*

* In V1.0, reaching the third elevator while swept by Gotta Sweep would drastically slow the player down, making them vulnerable to Baldi. It happened because Gotta Sweep gave the player the slowdown effect while sweeping, but even after Gotta Sweep disappeared, the effect wasn't gone.

## Audio

* In-game
* Livestream

*Baldi's Basics Plus*/*Classic Remastered*

*Baldi's Basics Classic*/*Birthday Bash*

*Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash*

*Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered*

Prior to *Plus* V0.3

## Gallery

* Image files
* Achievements
* Screenshots
* Merchandise
* Others

Sprites
Gotta Sweep's design in *Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash* and Party Style of *Classic Remastered*.Gotta Sweep as the "Reaper" from the farm field trip prior to *Baldi's Basics Plus* V0.3.
Other textures
Gotta Sweep's poster layout in the Principal's office.Ditto, but prior to *Baldi's Basics Plus* V0.3.5.Ditto, but in *Classic*/*Birthday Bash*.Gotta Sweep in the normal ending screen from *Birthday Bash*.
Prototype
Gotta Sweep's older sprite design.Gotta Sweep's old poster in the Principal's office.

Sweepin' Time!

*Baldi's Basics Plus*
Gotta Sweep from the alpha screenshot.Gotta Sweep from the old early access screenshot.
*Baldi's Basics Classic*
Gotta Sweep from the V1.4 screenshot.Gotta Sweep from the V1.3 screenshot.Gotta Sweep from the App Store iPhone screenshot.Gotta Sweep from the App Store iPad screenshot.
*Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered*
Gotta Sweep in the current screenshot.Gotta Sweep in the old screenshot.
Others
Gotta Sweep from the *Development Build* screenshot.

T-shirts
Gotta Sweep's "**GOTTA SWEEP! SWEEP! SWEEP!**" T-shirt.Gotta Sweep in the "Restart, Refresh" classic T-shirt. Note that it uses his prototype appearance.Ditto, but premium version.Gotta Sweep in the "Sweepin' Time" classic T-shirt.Ditto, but premium version.
Hoodies
Gotta Sweep in the "Restart, Refresh" pullover hoodie."Sweepin' Time" pullover hoodie.
Toys
Gotta Sweep's figurine. Note that the figurine has Gotta Sweep's original design.Gotta Sweep's clip hanger.
Prototype
Gotta Sweep's prototype "**GOTTA SWEEP! SWEEP! SWEEP!**" T-shirt.

Gotta Sweep's old version, along with half of the cast, in the "Thank you!" image after the game's Kickstarter was funded.Gotta Sweep's original human look.Gotta Sweep behind Baldi and Principal of the Thing in the *Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered* teaser.The figure of the old Gotta Sweep design in front of the It's a Bully figure on the Blurry Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered teaser.The Old Gotta Sweep figure with the It's a Bully figure at Basically, Games!' office.The Gotta Sweep figure and the other character figures at Basically, Games!' office.His old design figure with It's a Bully in mystman12's desktop.It's a Bully grabbing Gotta Sweep
## References

1. ↑ `this.waitTime = UnityEngine.Random.Range(120f, 180f);` - Coding scripts
2. ↑ "*Man, the first time I-I heard Gotta Sweep goin', cause I had no idea what it was gonna sound like that I-I-I-I lost it, eh-makin' this game was so much fun, just like, lots of stuff I wasn't expecting to happen, but I just... loved the moment it happened.*" - Livestream archive 42:00-42:16
3. ↑ "*When I was making Gotta Sweep, I was just like I can't do any more voices, so I'll just do the Joe voice.*" - Livestream archive 15:03-15:10
4. ↑ "*When time is running out and you have no idea what art style to make the janitor. "I'll just make it a broom." #MetaGameJam*" - mystman12. March 30, 2018. Twitter
5. ↑ "*Gotta Sweep could have ended up being a very different character if I hadn't been so low on time! Before just going with the broom, I tried painting an actual janitor in Colors! 3D. I was trying to go for a PilotRedSun sort of style, but I ended up not liking what I came up with.*" - mystman12. March 30, 2019. Twitter
6. ↑ "*I think Baldi would have to be my favorite, since that’s a character I made up years ago, but I think besides that I would have to go with Gotta Sweep.*" - mystman12. August 3, 2018. INTERVIEWS You call hamburgers steamed hams — Baldi’s Basics in Education and Learning creator on development, burgers by Elisha Deogracias
7. ↑ "*One day after a food fight, Gotta Sweep cleaned entire the cafeteria floor in three minutes and eight seconds. It was spotless.*" - Gmail
8. ↑ "*I didn't want it to be a carbon copy of the Libman Precision Angle Broom, so I tweaked Gotta Sweep a bit.*" - mystman12. November 20, 2018. Twitter
9. ↑ *"My brother was playing it earlier, and, he... it was the craziest thing, like, I've ever seen Gotta Sweep do. I'm pretty sure he had, like, every single character at once. And like, sadly I wasn't able to record it, but... it was incredible.*" - mystman12, Livestream archive 8:48-9:01
10. ↑ "*All the NPCs except Baldi disappear when you reach the third exit, and I realized that if Gotta Sweep despawned while you were being swept it wouldn't get rid of the slowdown effect. I thought I had fixed this issue, but I guess not. I'm so sorry your run was ruined. I'll fix this though, thanks for reporting it.*" - Basically Games' comment on Report bugs here! post