Fake TPOT: Episode summaries

Warning! This page contains spoilers.
No one likes a spoiler. So when I was looking at random episode pages on the Other Wiki like this one, I was surprised at how much terrible stuff there was, at least for the viewer who hasn't seen the episode (but wants to). Granted, I think every episode page on the wiki has a spoiler warning at the top so first-time fans aren't overwhelmed with the feeling of missing out. But wouldn't it be cool if there was a page full of episode data that you could go to for easy reference?

That's exactly what this page is for, except it won't be about BFDI, but exclusively about the episodes of *Fake TPOT*.

## What to expect on this page

The read-only aspect of the series doesn't allow for things like end credits and giant Google Docs with the names of everyone involved in the process (here's to you, TPOT 1), but I do want people have access to what goes on in and behind the scenes of the episodes without, you know, having to read them. It's like SparkNotes, only trashier.

The episode "summaries" are not really summaries (yet). They work the same way as the infoboxes on the Other Wiki, which welcome readers to the most important facts of an episode, such as who was eliminated, who died, when an episode was released and things like that. If I didn't know that the episode template was literally called just that, *i.e.* "Template:Episode", it would have been very difficult for me to compile all the important aspects of each episode without checking the entire canon for new headings in each episode's infobox.

* ***Episode number** and **title***: Always given. Also found on the navbox and the main page.
* ***Team name change(s)***: Only use if a team's name was changed in this episode.
* ***Challenge***: Challenge for the episode (indicated by **Contest**).
	+ **Challenge winner(s)**: The team, or later the individual, that won the contest (**MVP**: Who contributed the most to leading the team to victory). In pre-merge episodes, the teams are listed in order of safety.
	+ **Challenge loser(s)**: The team, or later the individual(s), that lost the contest.
* ***Contestants***
	+ **Deaths**: The contestant(s) who died in this episode.
	+ **Recoveries**: The contestant(s) recovered in this episode.
	+ **Eliminated**: The contestant(s) eliminated in this episode. *(Same as "Entered TLC" on the Other Wiki)*
		- **Elimination finalized**: The contestant(s) finally eliminated (if they were eliminated previously but still were able to compete).
		- **Sent to Two's hotel**: The contestant(s) eliminated (if they were not an official competitor before).
	+ **Rejoined**: The contestant(s) who rejoined in this episode. *(Same as "Rejoined TLC" on the Other Wiki)*
	+ **Debuted**: The contestant(s) who made their debut in this episode.
	+ **Sorted into** or **switched teams**: The contestant(s) who were sorted into or switched teams in this episode. Make sure to indicate the team's name in bold.
* ***Things***
	+ **Prize**: The "cake" used in this episode's Cake at Stake. *(Same as "Cake" on the Other Wiki)*
* ***Dates***
	+ **Filmed**: The day(s) the episode was filmed.
	+ **Int. release date**: The earliest date in which one could find the episode. You can interpret this as meaning when the episode was released on YouTube, but note that the year has been subtracted by forty-eight. (The abbreviation *Int.* is ambiguous; it can stand for either *international* or *Internet*.)
	+ **U.S. release date**: The date the episode first aired on U.S. cable television. The date listed in this row may be even a year after the episode first aired on the "int". I suspect that, if BFDI/BFB were a cable TV series, the episodes would have to air the episodes weekly instead of several months-ly, since that's how most TV series ran before streaming services.
	+ **Date and time finished**: The date and time an episode ended (specifically when the last part of the episode was released to this wiki). This is important for one of the credits sections.

Here is an example of an "episode infobox" for the first episode of the real *The Power of Two*, "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?"

## Notes

1. ↑ As opposed to the watch-and-then-read aspect of the real episodes.
2. ↑ Now, if I knew how to animate, that would be another story. But I don't, and that's fine.
3. ↑ There isn't really an MVP for this episode, but Remote is the closest. She is the one who revealed the truth.
4. ↑ Although Balloony was seen with The S! for virtually all of the episode, he declared himself to be a member of Death P.A.C.T. Again to Two (who still didn't take him in as an official contestant).
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 The date and date that the page was split.
6. ↑ A "Fruituit" is a fruit alien from the planet Phala.
7. ↑ "Aresko" is his new calling name, not a legal name. Many contestants continue to call him "Rubber Spatula".
8. ↑ "'Exix" is her new calling name by Two and a shrinking group of contestants who were not her closest friends in BFB. They call her by her true name, "Liy".
9. ↑ She is still known as "Exix" in official senses, *i.e.* by the hosts, but by now, all the contestants understand that this character is actually called "Liy". Think of this as being similar to the *Ivory Coast/Côte d'Ivoire* naming issue: Many people still call this country the "Ivory Coast" (at least in English), but in international media, it is called "Côte d'Ivoire".
10. ↑ Starting in TPOT 37, the MVP system is no longer relevant, just as Win Tokens were after BFDI 12.
11. ↑ There were no ties in the contest of this episode because each contestant's initial number of points very much depended on placement. Remote and Black Hole landed in exactly the same place, but Remote was the winner of this contest because her legs actually touched the top of the building, unlike Black Hole, who has no legs (but exerted a strong gravitational force on the edifice nonetheless).
12. ↑ Arrows indicate a change of points at the beginning of the episode, as announced by Two. (The points were not publicly announced in TPOT 37.)
13. ↑ While Snowball's elimination was finalized in this episode, the exact circumstances of his elimination would not be discussed until "Entrance Fee: 1 Point".
14. ↑ Contestants are listed with their Indus-Gram usernames, which were chosen in this episode.
15. ↑ Listed in alphabetical order based on surname.

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