Battle For Dream Island (Season 1)

***Battle for Dream Island***, abbreviated as **BFDI**, is the first season of the *Battle for Dream Island* series, first premiering on January 1, 2010, on the YouTube channel jacknjellify. The show takes place in Goiky. The first season has 25 episodes.

BFDI was succeeded by *Battle for Dream Island Again*, released on June 29th, 2012, with the release of "Yeah, Who? I Wanna Know".

## Overview

This season involves 20 anthropomorphic inanimate objects (and later, one human[BFDI18]) who have known each other all their lives and are casually living together. But when the host, the Announcer, falls from the sky and tells everyone about the luxurious island known as Dream Island, competition sparks, and everyone begins battling each other for the island.

In episode 1b, the 2nd part of the first episode, the Announcer divided the 20 contestants into two teams of 10: the Squishy Cherries and the Squashy Grapes. The two teams competed in contests at the beginning of every month, and the Announcer put the losing team up for elimination—the elimination ceremony is known as "Cake at Stake". The viewers then decided to eliminate someone between the 1st and 10th of every month. At the beginning of the next episode, the Announcer eliminates the most-voted contestant and sends them to the Tiny Loser Chamber.

In episode 9, the teams reformed, and half of the Squashy Grapes formed a 3rd team (called "Another Name") in the process. During Cake at Stake, the two most-voted contestants would leave the losing team. The winning team would then choose one of them onto their team and eliminate the other.

In episode 12, the teams dissolved, and the contestants competed as individuals. The Announcer then introduced a new point system. The contestants kept their scores throughout the season, and they could earn or lose points, depending on how they did in a contest. At the end of an episode, the three or four contestants with the lowest scores would be up for elimination. The Announcer would then send the most-voted contestant to the Tiny Loser Chamber.

In episode 19, the point system ended, and competitors competed for immunity. One or two people won immunity each episode. The Announcer put the rest of the contestants up for elimination and sent the most-voted competitor to the Tiny Loser Chamber the following episode. This process continued until the final 3. The viewers then decided which of the three would win Dream Island.

## Production

In 2008, Michael and Cary Huang created a catalog which featured a comic strip of Firey, Woody, Teardrop, Spongy, and Match. They later decided to do comics, comic strips, and even some series like Total Firey Island, Total Firey Points, and others.

In 2009, they decided to make a Flash animation series of a contest to win an island called "Dream Island" like Total Firey Island. They decided to release it on YouTube on jacknjellify's channel instead of carykh's channel.

## Mechanics

### Cake at Stake

*Main article: Cake at Stake*
This is the elimination process for *Battle for Dream Island*; initially, the team that lost last contest is usually put up for elimination. The viewers then vote who they want to be eliminated on the losing Team between the 1st and 10th of each month. At the beginning of the next episode, the elimination ceremony, known as Cake at Stake, commences.

If a contestant is safe, then they will receive a slice of cake or something else. The competitor with the most votes will not get the cake, and will be eliminated from the battle, and thus, sent to the Tiny Loser Chamber. Since the eventual merge of the teams, the contestants that did not receive immunity (or got the lowest scores during the point system stage of the game) are put up for elimination. Typically, 3-4 contestants were put up for elimination during the merge. Occasionally, the contestants themselves got to choose who was eliminated instead.

### Rewards

Many contests reward the winners. Usually, the prize is immunity for the winning team/contestant(s), but sometimes the reward is an eliminated competitor/rival teammate being added/moved to the winning team. Before the merge, contestants could also win a Win Token. If a contestant is up for elimination, they could use their Win Token to erase half of their votes, helping them stay usually safe (except for Needle and Golf Ball) during eliminations. Other rewards (BFDI posters, BFDI DDSs, teddy bears, houses) were also given out prior to reaching a new stage in the competition.

## Characters

*Main article: List of Battle for Dream Island characters#Season 1: Battle for Dream Island (BFDI)*
### Contestants

*See also: Battle for Dream Island/Elimination table*

#### Team status

1. ↑ This episode had teams split into teams of 3 for the contest. The names below refer to the contestant's teammates in the episode."

#### Team progression

* BFDI 1b
* BFDI 2
* BFDI 3
* BFDI 4
* BFDI 5
* BFDI 6
* BFDI 7
* BFDI 9
* BFDI 10
* BFDI 11
* BFDI 12
* BFDI 13
* BFDI 14
* BFDI 15
* BFDI 16
* BFDI 17
* BFDI 18
* BFDI 19
* BFDI 20
* BFDI 21
* BFDI 22
* BFDI 23
* BFDI 24
* BFDI 25

Firey wins. Leafy places second and Bubble places third.

### Recommended characters

*Main article: Recommended Characters*
Starting in episode 10 ("Crybaby!"), the viewers got to create their own characters in the comments section of a video that would make cameos in the next episode. Originally, there were no restrictions on creating characters, however, starting in episode 18 ("Reveal Novum"), only one recommended character was allowed per recommender, and as of episode 23 ("Hurtful!"), no copyrighted characters were allowed to avoid lawsuits.

In "The Reveal", 30 handpicked recommended characters were chosen to be part of a special voting period, with the most voted character joining the competition. The winner of the voting was David, who joined as the 21st contestant of *Battle for Dream Island*.

## Credits

* Created by Michael and Cary Huang
* Written by Cary Huang
* Voice actors:
	+ Cary Huang
		- 8-Ball
		- Balloony
		- Coiny (BFDI 14 - BFDIA 3)
		- Needle (BFDI - BFDIA 4)
		- Nickel (BFDI 17)
		- Pin
		- Rocky
		- Spongy
		- Tennis Ball (BFDI 4 - Present)
		- Triangle Speaker Box
	+ Michael Huang
		- Basketball (BFDI 17)
		- Blocky
		- Bomby (BFDI 8 - BFDIA 5e)
		- Book
		- Bubble
		- Clock (BFDI 17)
		- Coiny
		- David
		- Eraser
		- Fanny (BFDI 17)
		- Firey
		- Flower
		- Golf Ball
		- Leafy
		- Marker (BFDI 17)
		- Pencil
		- Pen
		- Remote (BFDI 13)
		- Robot Flower
		- Ruby (BFDI 17 - IDFB 1)
		- Spongy (Sometimes)
		- Tennis Ball (BFDI 1 - 3)
		- Tree
		- Woody
		- Yellow Face
		- Cheese Orb
		- Firey Speaker Box
		- Firey Speaker Box's Clone
		- Flower Speaker Box
		- Spikeball Speaker Box
	+ NaturalReader Mike - Announcer
	+ Adam Katz - Nickel
	+ Justin Chapman
		- Yellow Face (BFDI 24)
		- Purple Face
* Animators:
	+ Cary Huang
	+ Michael Huang
* Audio by Michael Huang
* Music by:
	+ Kevin MacLeod
	+ losmmorpg - BFDI 25 credits

## Episodes

*Main article: List of Battle for Dream Island episodes*
There is a total of 25 episodes. The first episode was a double length episode, while the rest of the episodes ranged at around 7-15 minutes each.

### Re-uploaded episodes

There were 2 episodes of the season that had to be re-uploaded due to fatal errors in the originals. The first was Episode 12 ("A Leg Up in the Race"). In the original, Golf Ball and Rocky were shown on the Another Name team, despite the fact that in the previous episode ("Lofty"), Golf Ball got eliminated and Rocky got moved to the Squishy Cherries, and neither of them should have been there. As a result, the episode was taken down, and a new version was uploaded, with the error fixed.

The second was episode 20 ("Gardening Hero"). This episode was originally missing a 30-second portion that contained elimination/rejoin details and the recommended characters for that episode. The episode was later re-uploaded with that part of the episode included.

### Battle for Dream Island - Season 1 (All Episodes)

On July 21, 2018, between the releases of "What Do You Think of Roleplay?" and "Return of the Rocket Ship", the jacknjellify channel uploaded an official, three-hour-and-50-minute video compiling every episode of the first season, with black title cards marking the start of a new episode. Unlike the original videos, due to changes in YouTube's software, there are no annotations. It is the most viewed video on the channel to not be a BFDI episode, the channel's most viewed video since BFB started, and the channel's most viewed video from 2018.

#### Description

"*Want to watch the Full Season of Battle for Dream Island? Look no further! This cartoon compilation has All Episodes of the first season of BFDI! Watch as twenty characters battle for a luxurious island in an elimination-centric monthly animated series!*"

#### Timestamps

* 0:00:00 Episode 1: Take the Plunge
* 0:16:53 Episode 2: Barriers and Pitfalls
* 0:27:17 Episode 3: Are You Smarter Than a Snowball?
* 0:35:21 Episode 4: Sweet Tooth
* 0:45:29 Episode 5: Bridge Crossing
* 0:52:53 Episode 6: Power of Three
* 1:03:48 Episode 7: Puzzling Mysteries
* 1:10:19 Episode 8: Cycle of Life
* 1:20:15 Episode 9: Insectophobe's Nightmare
* 1:28:57 Episode 10: Crybaby!
* 1:35:15 Episode 11: Lofty
* 1:42:10 Episode 12: A Leg Up in the Race
* 1:49:17 Episode 13: Don't Lose Your Marbles
* 1:57:47 Episode 14: Half a Loaf is Better Than None
* 2:07:22 Episode 15: Vomitaco
* 2:16:04 Episode 16: Bowling, Now with Explosions!
* 2:23:59 Episode 17: The Reveal
* 2:33:55 Episode 18: Reveal Novum
* 2:46:33 Episode 19: Rescission
* 2:52:56 Episode 20: Gardening Hero
* 3:00:31 Episode 21: The Glistening
* 3:08:46 Episode 22: Don't Pierce My Flesh
* 3:15:18 Episode 23: Hurtful!
* 3:24:23 Episode 24: Insectophobe's Nightmare 2
* 3:36:05 Episode 25: Return of the Hang Glider

## Trivia

* Battle for Dream Island premiered on New Year's Day of 2010.
* This is the first season to be completed. BFDIA was heavily delayed and is still ongoing, IDFB was put on hiatus after BFB started, and TPOT is also currently ongoing. BFB is now the second season to finish.
* On the intro of the 25th episode of BFDI, Eraser said that there might be a cool coincidence if you put the 1st spoken word of the first episode, the second word of the second episode, and so on all the way to the 25th spoken word of the 25th episode and made a message. The message says: "Yeah, what is it? Now I see you are taking the word with the place of the episode number. This is the message, no coincidence."
* As of January 1, 2023, BFDI Season 1, along with the series, is 13 years old.
* *Battle for Dream Island* is well known for being the first object show ever created, it was followed by *Inanimate Insanity* and the genre has since grown rapidly from there.
* "Battle for Dream Island - Season 1 (All Episodes)" is the second longest video on the jacknjellify channel, being 3 hours and 50 minutes long. It is behind "Battle for B.F.B. - Season 4b (All Episodes)", which is 4 hours and 21 minutes long.
* This is the only season that has a two-parter as the first episode.
* This is the first season with no delayed episodes.
	+ In addition, each episode was always one month after the other, making it the only season with a consistent release schedule.
* This is the only season to have aired all by itself in its entire run, without any other season to run concurrently with it at any point.
* Before BFDI, jacknjellify had only 11 subscribers, but after, their number of subscribers grew by more than a factor of 1000.
* BFDI raised jacknjellify up to the 4,988th most viewed channel in the world at the time.
* BFDI has the least contestants with 21, one less than BFDIA and IDFB's 22.
* Out of the 21 contestants, 16 had arms and legs while five were armless.
* All of the finalists in this season had both arms and legs.
	+ All the finalists in this season also weighed less than 0.1 oz (3.78 g), according to Golf Ball: Firey (~0 oz(0 g)), Leafy (~0.02 oz (0.76 g)), and Bubble (~0.0009 oz (0.03 g)).
	+ They were also all voiced by Michael.
* Firey and Rocky competed on all three teams.
	+ Because Firey became a finalist, every team has someone to represent them in the finale.
* There are a total of six episodes in this season in which the voters did not vote someone to be eliminated.
* The first three eliminated contestants all rejoined the game.
* Flower is the first and last to be eliminated in BFDI.
	+ Additionally, Spongy is the second and second last contestant eliminated.
* BFDI was edited with Vegas Pro.
* This is the only season with no limbless or food contestants.
* This is the only season with teams picked out by a team captain.
* BFDI has no female voice actors, although future seasons do for some characters.
* BFDI currently has the most hosts out of any season, excluding IDFB, having 9.

## Contestants

Coiny

Bubble

Eraser

David

Blocky

Firey

Flower

Golf Ball

Ice Cube

Leafy

Match

Needle

Pen

Pencil

Pin

Profily (claimed)

Rocky

Snowball

Spongy

Teardrop

Tennis Ball

Woody

## Episode thumbnails

Take the Plunge: Part 1

Take the Plunge: Part 2

Barriers and Pitfalls

Are You Smarter Than A Snowball?

Sweet Tooth

Bridge Crossing

Power of Three

Puzzling Mysteries

Cycle of Life

Insectophobe's Nightmare

Crybaby!

Lofty

A Leg Up in the Race

Don't Lose Your Marbles

Half A Loaf Is Better Than None

Vomitaco

Bowling, Now with Explosions!

The Reveal

Reveal Novum

Rescission

Gardening Hero

The Glistening

Don't Pierce My Flesh

Hurtful!

Insectophobe's Nightmare 2

Return of the Hang Glider

Battle for Dream Island - Season 1 (All Episodes)

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/fernozzle/status/1290146205335343104