Pay or Die

"**Pay or Die**" is the **reboot** of the second episode of CFMOT and **its current canon version.**

## Synopsis

Objects are recovering from a devastating test on the planes and are performing a new test from Kratcy. Its task is to put any 5 metal objects into the metal receiver, the main thing is that they fit inside. Everyone passed the test, except Socka.

## Coverage

### Before The Intro

Putty and Rubbery woke up after falling from a tree to the ground they landed on after failing in the previous episode. Putty thought that all the events of the last episode were just his dream. But Rubbery convinced him of the reality of what had happened. When both objects decided to go to the place, they were stopped by Charmy, who began to resent in a rude manner. She considered that Putty deliberately crashed into their plane. Yigroish Bottle pulled his friend aside, apologizing to Putty. To fly away from this place, the objects called Nansensu. Holding hands, they began to fly quickly. Charmy at first did not want to accept help "from people like them", but Yigroish Bottle grabbed her by the carbine. Charmy unexpectedly called him a nit and asked to be released, but immediately realized that it was her friend. So in that case, she asked not to let go.

After that, we are shown all the dead objects and the crashed plane of Picture and Clewy. Knify walked along with LightBolb, complaining about what had happened. When LightBolb spoke about the luck that would land in their hands, Charmy fell into Knify's hands from the sky, which, like a real cat, hissed at the knife, which immediately threw her aside, sending such luck to hell. After that, Putty fell on Knify, apologizing for this. Rubbery approached the object, thinking that the planes were out of order due to the fault of Kratcy. He immediately appeared, announcing that he heard more than Rubbery thought. Next, we see Putty, who starts calling all his friends, walking across an empty clearing. Kratcy appears before him, covering the object's mouth. Declaring his intention to change his voice, so that he was "as required", Kratcy cut one of Putty's vocal cords. The procedure turned out to be very painful, but Putty now had a new voice. After that, Putty asked the letter where the rest of the objects were. The answer plunged everyone into shock: they "died". The objects, in complete shock and incomprehension, began to sob and say that they did not deserve to die. Kratcy watched their reaction for a while, after which he resurrected all the dead. Kurasan realized that since objects can be resurrected, their life has no value. And Cuppy responded to death as if it were a coma from terrible nightmares. Chargery complained to Socka that Kurasan had gone too far. Socka just sighed in response. Picture and Clewy were greatly shocked by the fact that they had died: the glomerulus experienced a strong shock from the fact that his body was on fire, and Picture remembered his last seconds. Suddenly, Kratcy asks Picture to stay. Simbolar throws Picture on the bench and announces that 21371 votes were received in the voting for the gift. Of these, laudable ode scored the fewest votes. Kratcy has no doubts, because no one needs papers with empty words. Cookie came in second in the votes, causing Kratcy to imply that the audience had somehow found out that Picture didn't like cookies. Picture is surprised by the fact that the host is aware of his preferences. As a result, Picture got an orange. After presenting the gift, Kratcy left the rest of the prizes near the bush, after which the cookie was taken by someone's hand (presumably it was the hand of Sukex(?)). Picture at this time ate an orange with pleasure and praised its taste, but seconds later he came across a stone, resembling a peach stone in size. He spat it out on the ground and a fast-growing pine tree began to grow from it.

The action is transferred to a clearing not far from the forest. We see Yigroish Bottle, who is drawing a large spruce in front of him. Picture comes up to him with his canvas and asks to evaluate the work, saying that he tried to take into account all his advice. Clewy suddenly appears and asks Picture for "a few words". The object said that Picture offended him, because he showed the picture to Yigroish Bottle first, and not to his closest object. Clewy also said that Picture should always address him first. Picture could not say anything in his defense and only apologized. And later he agreed that this conversation did not happen. After that, we are shown Kratcy, who saw on his watch that it was time to start the second test. He took out a kratcy speaker, turned it on to the "UwU flyer" mode and began to announce the beginning of the second test, asked everyone to go to him, to a bench in the forest. During this, Yigroish Bottle, LightBolb, Picture and Cuppy were broken by too strong sound waves from the kratcy speaker. All objects fell helplessly to their destination, and Nansensu, as if with sarcasm, asked to repeat, because she did not hear. Kratcy decides that this is an unsuccessful method of convening and throws the device into the wastebasket. Opening starts.

### The Challenge

Kratcy resurrected dead objects. After that, he presented the objects with a metal receiver, in which everyone needs to put 5 metal objects that will fit into the receiver. The last participant who did not score 5 points will lose. Kratcy also showed the objects a report card from a non-existent company "UKROPЙ", which shows the rating of all participants. To Picture's question: "Where will we get the metal?" Kratcy was a little embarrassed, after which he took out a book on objectology from somewhere, on the cover of which he pasted the inscription "gishiki". Simbolar announced that he added an element of luck: everyone must draw a wand from the book. Only at the end of three of them will there be a lollipop. The one who pulled out the lollipop receives 5 white coins from Kratcy. The lollipops went to Picture, Clewy and Socka. Kratcy began the test, flying into the distance.

Objects begin to decide how to get items for the metal receiver. LightBolb offered to help Knify by calling him "Knifyy-darling", which Knify disagreed with, saying he could do it without her. LightBolb goes to the tree and begins to actively chop it. At the same time, Kurasan asks the guys (Putty, Rubbery, Nansensu, Cuppy) about how they will act. Putty responds to Kurasan's question and is going to show something to his friends. The guys leave, and at this time Clewy inserts 5 coins into the metal receiver, handed to him by Kratcy, then they leave with Picture. Socka and Chargery appear in the frame, where Chargery is happy for Socka and says that she needs to think about where to get the necessary material, in parting she tells Socka not to go anywhere. As a result, only Yigroish Bottle and Charmy remain. Yigroish Bottle asks Charmy if everything is fine, to which Charmy asks him how anything can be "OK" and where you can find metal coins in the middle of the forest, to which Yigroish Bottle reassures Charmy with the words that they will come up with something, Charmy needs just try to control herself. Charmy agrees with Yigroish Bottle.

Then the action moves on to Putty, showing his minibus to other objects. Kurasan jokes about hitting someone with it, but Cuppy doesn't like the idea and tells Kurasan that it's bad to think about it, to which Kurasan apologizes to Cuppy. Then, Putty says that there is probably something in the minibus that will help friends win the test. Immediately after these words, Rubbery finds a screwdriver and says that she has already seen such a screwdriver somewhere, describing it as sticky and smelling of flower juice. Putty is in a stupor and takes the screwdriver from Rubbery, saying that it definitely won't fit. At this time, Cuppy finds the box, asking what is in it. Putty tells her that he used to collect caps with the inscription "Nettle" ("Крапиво" in original on Russian) that he found on the ground and eventually collected 26 pieces. Kurasan instantly takes the box from Putty and runs away with the words: "Let's run to win!"

At this time, Charmy was sitting on the scoreboard and thinking about how she and Yigroish Bottle could win the test. In the end, she decided to try to hack the report card, but as soon as she tried to open the back of the device, she was electrocuted and fell down. Charmy because of this was seriously furious and began to scream at the device, threatening to gnaw through each of its wires. However, then she and Yigroish Bottle noticed how Chargery stuck her tail into the metal receiver, and the report card counted as many as 13 items for her. Charmy had an idea, and she decided to use the same tactics. Having knocked Putty and his friends out of the way, she stuck her tail in and allowed Yigroish Bottle to do the same. Putty told Kurasan about his quarrel with Charmy, in which he and Rubbery were not even guilty. After that, Charmy and Yigroish Bottle left with a proudly raised face.

Then the action suddenly shifts to a dark barn in which Kratcy is sitting. He greets the viewers and tells them that the reboots of the first two episodes were created with the aim of changing some events in order to avoid innuendo in subsequent episodes and logical inconsistencies. And also the gap in the quality of the animation was smoothed out. He then said that the next few episodes would look worse.

### The Ending

At this time, Knify is still thinking about how he can pass the test. He even thought for a second that he had refused Lightbulb's help in vain, but when he saw how she puts a log into the metal receiver, he immediately discarded this thought. Then the knife decided to squeeze money from Socka, but almost immediately discarded this idea, not wanting to get cuffs from Chargery. Then Knify decided to forge money from a stone, but rejected this idea as well, not wanting to be judged and beaten by Kratcy. Almost in despair, Knify went up to the metal receiver and leaned his elbow on it, noticing that it, apparently, was made of paper and glue. Then the knife decided to simply cut or pierce the device. After a good run and knocking down Socka twice, Knify cut the metal receiver in half, after which a series of glitches began on the report card. In the end, the report card credited Knify with 9999999999+ metal objects, after which Kratcy announced that Socka had lost. Rubbery at that time approached Knify and praised him for literally "working his head". Then a cookie flies into Rubbery, causing her to fall. Putty approached his friends and wanted to tell them something, but when he saw Rubbery lying down, he misunderstood everything and attacked Knify, thinking that he hit his friend.

Kratcy then announced that on the next episode, viewers would be able to find out if Socka remained on the show.

In the scene after the credits, Putty took his caps with the inscription "Nettle" from the cut metal receiver.

## Voting results

At the end of the reboot of the first episode, there was a vote for the prize for Picture, during the voting 21371 votes were collected.

## Music

Playlist with music from CFMOT 2 available here

* OMORI OST - 008 Trouble Blewing
* С приветом по планетам OST - Корабль-череп: Взгляд изнутри
* Yuppie Psycho OST - Blush
* OMORI OST - 004 Space in-between
* Besame Mucho
* Mario Forever - Lost Level 2
* A Hat in Time OST - You Are Now Legally a Bird
* Песня про Айсберг из "Ну, погоди!"
* OMORI OST - 020 See in Your Fantasy
* Yuppie Psycho OST - Something's Not Right
* Lollipop (Candyman) (instrumental)
* Dizzy // Suomalainen kaupunki
* Maf // Nocilis
* OMORI OST - 045 Bargain Bin Boys
* The Birdhouse Peak
* Turn on the Pyrotechnics
* Thryy Wird Tyyns
* Durkillesburg
* Roly-Polys no Nanakorobi Yaoki - Cho
* OMORI OST - 006 Let's Get Together Now!
* A Hat in Time OST [Seal the Deal] - Peace and Tranquillity

## Deaths

LightBolb - crashed from the sound waves of the short speaker.

Piccher - crashed from the sound waves of the short speaker.

Cuppy - crashed from the sound waves of the short speaker

Yigroish Bottle - crashed from the sound waves of the short speaker.

## Trivia

* During this series, it became known where the fast-growing png-pine from the beginning of the C.F.M.O.T. 3. It sprouted from an orange seed.
* There are a huge number of Easter eggs and ciphers in the series (even more than in C.F.M.O.T. 7):
* The appearance of Nansensu is a reference to the appearance of the Toodles from the children's series Mickey Mouse Clubhouse;
* 25th frame with the face of Kratcy;
* Kratcy's phrase "And I'll ask you to stay!" addressed to Picture may be a reference to the phrase "And you, Stirlitz, I'll ask you to stay.";
* The description of the flying minilar is written on the sheets with votes;
* There are two possible references to Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's raised eyebrow: when Kratcy says that the audience somehow predicted that Picture doesn't like cookies, and when Clewy asks Picture if he's really ready. exchange it for some bottle;
* When Kratcy is holding an orange, his pose is a reference to a photograph of Willem Dafoe holding oranges;
* When Kratcy calls objects with a shortspeaker, the poses and faces of Knify, Putty, Rubbery, Kurasan, and Cuppy are a reference to the character Iyami from Uncle Osomatsu;
* Yigroish Bottle's face in the same moment is probably a reference to Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream";
* During the resurrection, Lightbulb had the face from the "BALLER" meme, which in turn is taken from the online game "Roblox";
* The position in which Knify, Chargery, and Socka were lying is a reference to Peter Griffin's lying position;
* 25th frame with daffodils;
* The moment in which Bryalok and Butylich walk with their faces held high is probably a reference to the moment from the cartoon "Treasure Island" in which Jim, Dr. Livesey and Squire Trelawney go to sit at a free table in the Spyglass bar (Doctor Livesey's gait from that moment became a meme in 2022);
* A series of inscriptions written in the Vigenère cipher, which, when deciphered, yield the following phrases: Repression of specific individuals will not fix the system, hater of the system; You have ruined more lives than the system you hate so much; You keep them in fear and ignorance for the sake of your worldview.
* Among the hindrances, you can notice the letters, by combining which the word "система" is obtained (it is the key to the Vigenère cipher).

* At the moment, this episode has more violent moments than others.
* The opening of this episode hasn't changed much since C.F.M.O.T. 1.
* The only difference is the pose of Kratcy.
* You can notice that in some moments of the episode, the faces of the characters are drawn in the style of the Uncle Osomatsu series.

* It is interesting that in the Russian title of the series there is a comma before "or", although, according to the rules of the Russian language, it should not be there.