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"**Like Game**" is the non-canon eighteenth episode of *TPOT* by Jacknjellify. It was released on 22 December 1978. This episode is only headcanon to me, that is, until the real TPOT 17 (or even TPOT 2) comes out. Some alternative titles of this are "**The First Game Show Episode**" and "**Two-ety Two**".

Author's note: I never got around to finishing the *P2O* episode "The Biggest Hidden Club That This Uni's (N)ever Seen" from 2019 (two years ago!), so consider some parts of *this* episode as closure for the unfinished plot points of TBHCTTUNS. As for which parts? You'll find out when you get there.

Author's note #2 (*Edited 30 May 2022 in light of a newly-resurfaced video)*:

* One part of this episode talks about **misgendering**. For those who don't know, that's when you refer to someone as a gender that does not match how they identify. Nobody is being actively misgendered on purpose (it's just a serious discussion), but I thought I should give you a heads up.
* More specifically, this scene discusses that one infamous scene from BFDI 11 where Pen says that it's wrong for Golf Ball to sound like a boy even though she's a girl, the scene that earned the "Lofty" page on The Other Wiki the inglorious honour of being labelled *controversial* and *transphobic*, even by Cary himself. (Meanwhile, the "No More Snow" article can go on without warning despite the fact that there are over eight gruesome deaths in it—I swear most editors are Americans 🤦‍♂️)
	+ I have to grumble a bit and say that the line was ***genderist***, which I think is a much more inclusive word than *transphobic* insofar as it includes people who do not adhere to stereotypical gender rôles—I hear s\*\*t like this all the time from the narrow-minded ("Short men are not really men!"), but since I am not transgender it is not transphobia.
* TL;DR: **Pen said something genderist/transphobic in 1962. There's a reason he said it (it's not what some of you expect) and he'll explain it below.**

Next episode: "Laisser Tomber Les Balles"

## Out-of-contest scenes

### **AYO and DPA's hotel room**

**Scene**First view of the combined hotel rooms of Are You Okay and Death PACT Again since the old room was brought up to their floor. **Pen**, still in a suit, is sitting on the bed by himself. Next to him is an acrylic block of Pencil's BFB voting icon, the one with the heart.
* **P****e****n**: [*nemini loquens*] Let's bring her on and hear what she says, eh? *Ding!* Hi, Pencil! [*imitating Pencil*] Wotcher, Pen! [*as himself*] If your guy was away for exactly nine years without explanation, what would be the first thing you'd do when he came back? Yell at him, tell him you had another, or— [*as Pencil*] It's rather obvious, innit? Of course I'd give him what for, and then I'd give him the biggest hug in the world! [*as himself*] That's what he said, Pencil! Take him and he'll never ever let you go!

[*Pen starts kissing the fake Pencil. It looks kind of embarrassing.*]

* **P****e****n**: Oh, baby... not in front of the chilli section!

[*Enter* **Clock**, *unannounced.*]

* **C****l****o****c****k**: D'um, Pen? I'm afraid this is a bad time.
* **P****e****n**: Oh, no. Come in! [*he lays "Pencil" on the bed*]
* **C****l****o****c****k**: I'd rather not. Listen, you are a... [*is about to scold him, but holds back*] You have a date tonight.
* **P****e****n**: I do?
* **C****l****o****c****k**: Yep, on the roof of the hotel.
* **P****e****n**: Well, isn't that nice! How'd you know someone wanted to look at me?
* **C****l****o****c****k**: I don't have time for questions.
* **P****e****n**: But—
* **C****l****o****c****k**: I command you to come!
* **P****e****n**: Okay! [*to the acrylic Pencil*] Later, my dear.

### **Roof of the hotel**

**Scene**Outside, at night. The moon is shining brightly, casting a shadow on anyone who dares to enter this rarely-before-seen space. **Winner** is pacing around the building as they watch *Two's Special Seventeenth Skirmish Show* go on very faintly in the building next to them.
* **Winner**: You got this, fellow winner Firey. Even though you seem kind of weird from above.

[*Suddenly, Clock's voice can be heard.*]

* **C****l****o****c****k**: Psst, he's here.

[*Winner turns around. View of Clock outside the lift with Pen, who is no longer wearing a suit because of cartoon physics.*]

* **C****l****o****c****k**: If you go so far as to be mean to them, I will tell everyone your secret.
* **P****en**: What secret?
* **C****l****o****c****k**: You know damn well. [*Pen gets worried*] Now go. Nobody messes with my friend.

[**Clock** *nudges him to go to the roof and then marches down the stairs, leaving Pen outside. He doesn't see anyone else.*]

* **P****en**: Hello there!

[*Winner emerges from the shadows. They look at him, meekly.*]

* **P****en**: Winner? You're my date? Cool!
* **Winner**: No, Pen, stop... I'm not your date. Actually, there is no date.
* **P****en**: Then why did Clock tell me to go to the roof?
* **Winner**: He just wanted to get you out so you could talk to me.
* **P****en**: Um... sure. We can talk about anything out here, right, buddy?

[*Winner looks away for a second.*]

* **Winner**: How can you call me that after what you said earlier?
* **P****en**: What'd I say?
* **Winner**: You know, back in BFDI. I've had it in my head for a few months and only now did I get the courage to watch it again. You said, exactly—

[*The scene from BFDI 11 plays right behind them, replacing the sky (as in BFB 14).*]

**P****en**: Because Golf Ball sounds like a boy! Even though she's a girl! And that's just *wrong!*
[*The sky returns to its usual night.*]

* **Winner**: At the time I was just learning English, and I still knew how messed up that was. You sounded like the people in my old country.

[*Pen looks away in shame for a second. He then turns to Winner and holds their arm.*]

* **P****en**: I'm... I'm terribly sorry. I didn't realize how much of a jerk I sounded like when I said that. Gosh, of all people in the world, I should have known better.
* **Winner**: Well, I'm happy you apologized; that's all I wanted to hear. I was scared you still think that way, but it's clear that you don't. Good talk! [*They get up.*]
* **P****en**: No, you don't get it. *I* should have known better! Oh, I feel like such a dodo brain. [*He puts his hands over his eyes out of shame.*]
* **Winner**: What?
* **P****en**: Do you want to know *why* I made that comment?
* **Winner**: Why?

[*Winner sits down on the bench next to him.*]

* **P****en**: I just said that stuff 'cause I was afraid of my past.
* **Winner**: Afraid of your past? You... you don't mean to say that you're—
* **P****en**: Yes. As confident as people say I am, I'll admit I'm a bit self-conscious about my cap. [*smiles a bit*]
* **Winner**: Yeah. [*realizing*] No, wait! Pen... are you... transgender?
* **P****en**: I don't know. What's that?
* **Winner**: It's when your, you know, gender doesn't match what they give you when you're born.
* **P****en**: They? Who are they?

[*Winner shrugs—nobody knows the answer to this question in this universe.*]

* **P****en**: Well, it's just... When I was younger, people used to treat me like a girl. They even used words like *she, daughter, bambina*, all that stuff to call me by.
* **Winner**: My friend calls that *misgendering*. It's not a nice thing to do.
* **P****en**: Made me feel kind of weird because I'm not a girl, as a matter of fact. So I told everyone I knew. It took a few years, but eventually they understood and they were accepting, too. Still makes me feel happy when people call me by who I really am, y'know, *a guy*... *He, him, that boy...* [*He begins to notice his reflection in the window.*] Okay, Winner, who is that handsome devil standing next to you, eh? Grrowr, *ciao, bello!*

[*Winner tries not to laugh.*]

* **Winner**: Ah, you young people are so lucky. I was talking to Taggy earlier and they can't even remember when the textbooks said there were only two genders. You've grown up in a world where people's judging you for who you are is as dead as anti-armlessness. I've no clue how you do it.
* **P****en**: Hmm.
* **Winner**: But... I just feel sorry for the older ones, those that still have to live with the memories of the world before it changed. I've learnt to be rather resilient, but some of the others aren't so well-off.
* **P****en**: That's really a terrible thing.
* **Winner**: I agree. Say, how about we make a pact? If we get a contestant who is just like us, and they're not feeling so good about themselves, we can support them.
* **P****en**: You and me?
* **Winner**: Why not?
* **P****en**: Awesome! High five!

[*Winner slaps Pen's face with their arm.*]

* **P****en**: So, d'you want to go down and watch the show?
* **Winner**: Sure thing! I've got one panelist that I'm a fan of.

[*They walk together to the stairs, where* **Clock** *is waiting for them.*]

* **P****en**: I've got two!
* **Winner**: You're a sweet guy, Pen.
* **P****en**: I know.
* **Winner**: Guess I had nothing to worry about after all.

[*As the three of them go down the stairs, Winner turns around and mouths "He's all good" to Clock.*]

## Contest (cont'd.)

### **S-Two-Dios**

**Scene**
* **Two**: Okay, Firey, it's the last round, and you might win about three cents. What do you want?
* **Fi****r****ey**: Neck!
* **Two**: No, you have to choose a letter.
* **Fi****r****ey**: Oh. Then A, please. For *a*-men!
* **Lol****l****ipop**: Firey, you can be *a*-nnoying. [*Laughter.*]
* **Two**: [*to the camera*] That was uncalled for! But A it is. [*Two takes the card and reads it.*] "Just Not are having a party!"
* **Everyone**: ***HOW PARTY IS IT?***
* **Two**: No, I mean, "Just Not are having a party" and that's pretty much it.

[*Individual whoops from the audience.*]

* **Lig****htni****ng**: That so happens now!
* **Two**: But wait, there's more! "I thought they made a mistake, because they put blank Ball on their guest list." [*Laughter.*]

[*The music goes on and everyone starts to write.*]

* **Bo****ok**: There's something about those Just Not parties that I...
* **S****aw**: Totally enjoy, Book?
* **Bo****ok**: Yeah. Sure. They are really enjoyable.
* **S****aw**: But didn't you ditch, like, most—
* **Two**: Oi, write an answer, people. "Just Not are having a party! I thought they made a mistake, because they put blank Ball on their guest list." Firey?
* **Fi****r****ey**: ***Oony**!*

[*Silence. Then laughter after the realization comes in. Two looks at the camera.*]

* **Two**: Oony Ball. [*Beat.*] Are you from Goikyan Australia? 'Cause that word is clearly backwards.
* **T****r****e****e**: Oh, that's nice. /s
* **Bo****ok**: *Oony Ball*? Good gravy, Fir-ey!
* **Two**: [*Aside.*] I hope we don't get reported for this. [*Aloud.*] What'd you say, Eraser?
* **Eraser**: The only answer I can think of is **Golf** Ball.

[*Bzzt! Laughter. Golf Ball gasps in the audience.*]

* **Cloudy**: It's okay, GB, we all have to laugh at ourselves sometimes.
* **Golf Ball**: That's right! [*gets up*] We all have to laugh at ourselves occasionally!

[*She sees that Two is looking directly at her.*]

* **Two**: Get your own show, Golf Ball! [*Laughter.*] What about you, Book?
* **Bo****ok**: I'm surprised nobody said **Basket**ball; she's the last person our team would invite! [*Bzzt!*]
* **Baske****t****ball**: It means I'm doing my job right.
* **T****e****nnis Ba****l****l**: Hmm, not that I personally believe this, but I said **Golf** Ball. [*Bzzt!*]
* **Golf Ball**: Ha, ha!
* **S****aw**: Well, I had a hunch Firey was going to say something related to his old show, so I said Balloony, I mean, **Oony** Ball. [*Ding! Applause.*]
* **Two**: That's good. Tricky?
* **T****r****e****e**: Did you just call me Tricky?
* **Two**: What have you put down?
* **T****r****e****e**: I've been noticing a pattern with this one. You remember the last round when he said *Leafy* for something that had nothing to do with her; therefore, I had a go and said **Oony** Ball. [*Ding! Applause.*]
* **P****i****n**: Alright, you're not going to like what I said, Firey... 'cause I also put **Oony** Ball! [*Ding! Loud applause as Firey celebrates.*]
* **Two**: Really, nobody put *Snowball*? Anyway, this means Cold Woe Bunch have won first place in this very special *T-Quadruple-S* game! [*The music plays as the dinging is heard again.*] Congratulations, Pin!
* **P****i****n**: First place, yes! [*Applause.*]

[*Coiny and Needle applaud Pin from the audience.*]

* **Need****le**: Whoo-hoo!
* **Co****i****ny**: Doing great up there!
* **Fi****r****ey**: So what do I do?
* **Lol****l****ipop**: Nothing, because I won!
* **Fi****r****ey**: You did? But the game was tied!
* **Lol****l****ipop**: Well, you already did win BFDI, and you can't win again. [*deadpan*] I won't let you. [*Laughter.*]
* **Fi****r****ey**: That makes more sense than ever. Good job, *Hl*o*hl*ipop!

[*They shake hands as Firey's contestant seat spins around. The six panelists wave goodbye.*]

* **Two**: And now, Lollipop, if you would, please stand on the green circle right here.
* **Lol****l****ipop**: Oh, I'll do more than just stand on it.

[*Lollipop starts to dance on the circle as the audience cheer her on.*]

* **Bo****ok**: Disco dancing!
* **S****aw**: Nice moves, LP!
* **T****r****e****e**: I reckon that's the kind of whimsy one would find on *Spirit Bandwagon*.
* **Two**: Let's break for a commercial, shall we? Yellow Face, you're up.
* **Yellow Face**: [*floating onto the stage*] ***YAAAAAAAY!***

[*Two lets Yellow Face on stage to advertise one of his new products. Fade to black.*]

### **EXIT**

**Scene**A barren landscape representing the remains of a classroom, like after a natural disaster or something. In reality, it resembles the stinger of TPOT 1. The **EXITers** stand in the corner of the room and marvel at what they had done. **Four** is not present.
* **R****o****b****oty**: Why did we do this again?
* **8****-****Ball**: This is what happens when you have no discipline.
* **Li****y**: No, that's not quite true. Who needs rules, anyway?
* **Ma****tch**: I hate to say this, but maybe it's, like, us.
* **Bracel****ety**: Huh?
* **Ma****tch**: Like, we got eliminated because we got the most votes out of all of, like, our team.
* **Bracel****ety**: What if Four put us in here because we're the worst of the worst? Is that our true purpose in life?
* **P****e****nci****l**: Do not start an "EXIT Pencil's crisis". I'm too tired to fight again.
* **St****a****py**: Well, you're boxed!
* **Ma****tch**: [*confused*] What?
* **Li****y**: He was trying to think of a good comeback fifteen minutes ago.
* **Ma****tch**: Oh. [*Beat.*] Hey, that's mean!
* **Li****y**: Save your whinging for later, Match, because I'm going to do what I've wanted to do for a long time.
* **P****e****nci****l**: What now, Liy?
* **Li****y**: I'm going to climb!

[*Liy points to the chair by the door under the vent system.*]

* **St****a****py**: You don't mean...
* **Li****y**: Oh, yes, I do. With the classroom in ruins—not to mention the fact I don't feel like cleaning up—the time for me to travel outside this algebra class has come. I'm going through the vent.
* **David**: Aw, seriously?
* **Li****y**: Warn me all you want, but this is my duty.
* **St****a****py**: Ha*ha!*
* **Fir****ey** **Jr****.**: She said *duty*!
* **Li****y**: What are you, twelve?

[*Firey Jr. immediately turns to Stapy and shakes his head at him.*]

* **Fir****ey** **Jr****.**: Be more mature, Stapy.
* **St****a****py**: What?

[*A dramatic sting plays as Liy climbs the chair and hangs on to the vent system.*]

* **8****-****Ball**: Don't fall.
* **Li****y**: I won't!

[*She does a backflip through the air and lands in the vent thing above the door.*]

* **Li****y**: Done!
* **St****a****py**: You're a handsome woman, Liy.
* **Li****y**: No *skit*, Sherlock.
* **Bracel****ety**: Now you make your next move!

[*She crawls through the vent as David had done.*]

* **David**: Aw, seriously?
* **Li****y**: No worries, Dave. When I know I'm going to disappear, I'll know it. Nothing you or anyone else can say is going to make me stop.
* **P****e****nci****l**: Liy, stop.
* **Li****y**: No. [*She still crawls.*]
* **P****e****nci****l**: I, I just wanted to say sorry for earlier, for starting that whole war with you. The answer to question three was *four*, and you were right.
* **Li****y**: I am. Of course I am. I am always right.

[*Liy suddenly disappears. Everyone sits in silence.*]

### **S-Two-Dios**

**Scene**Fade in from black. Lollipop is now standing in the middle of the set with Two to the side.
* **Two**: And we're back!
* **Eraser**: *Siam tornado.*
* **S****aw**: But I was in the middle of adjusting my handle!
* **Two**: Well, we're on air and all of the Equation Playground is looking at us right now. (Hi, Dr. One!) Lollipop is our non-participating champion, and now she's got the right answers from most teams, so they are immune from elimination for the next episode.
* **Lol****l****ipop**: That's right.
* **Two**: Now, is there anything you'd like to say?
* **Lol****l****ipop**: Oh, sure. If there are any ladies out there interested in pseudo-maternal instincts and/or adopting gemstones, you can ring me at 00-254—
* **Two**: *O*-kay, this is not a dating service. But she *is* single.
* **Lol****l****ipop**: Unfortunately. [*Laughter.*]
* **Two**: Anyway, we polled a studio audience and had them write down their best answer to this...

[*Ding! The word appears on the screen.*]

* **Two**: Two blank. [*Laughter.*] Remember, if you have the same answer as Saw or Tree, that person wins immunity! If you've got the same answer as the one they wrote down most often, you get three cents. For the second most common answer, you get two cents. And for the third, one cent!
* **Nic****k****el**: [*in the audience*] I'm worth so much more than that.
* **Co****i****ny**: I'm worth the third answer, what the heck?
* **Two**: And if they haven't got what you're thinking about, the person with the most expensive answer wins immunity. Got it?
* **Lol****l****ipop**: It's gone in one side of my membrane and out the other, but sure.
* **Two**: Let's see what they say! Saw?
* **S****aw**: "Two **Lovers**".
* **Two**: "Two Lovers", okay. Getting a little old school, or new school, depending on how old you are. What about you, Tree?
* **T****r****e****e**: *Two **for the Show***.
* **Two**: I think that's even older, goodness me. [*Beat.*] Oh, it's an album? Sorry, I choose not to be very well-acquainted with objects' media. Now, how say you, Lollipop?
* **Lol****l****ipop**: Two... [*Pause.*] **is the greatest host in the history of BFDI and no other host can beat their outstanding service**.

[*Two pogs.*]

* **Two**: I'm so flattered you think that way about me!
* **Lol****l****ipop**: I don't. I figured that you must have bribed the audience to say nice things about you for money.
* **Two**: Well, that's nice to assume 'cause it's totally true! These objects will take anything, oh, I think the Equation Playground is laughing so loud you can hear them from here!

[*Two laughs. Silence in the audience.*]

* **Two**: So let's see which is the one-cent number!

[*The thing on the board disappears to the sound of a ding, revealing the third-place phrase.*]

* **Two**: "Two **much**"!
* **Bo****ok**: I think that's more of a typo.
* **T****e****nnis Ba****l****l**: Don't you know how to spell, Two?
* **Two**: Not when my name's involved! And what have we under the two-cent number?

[*Ding!*]

* **Two**: "Two **Lovers**"! [*Applause.*]
* **S****aw**: Hey, my team's safe!
* **Two**: Now, wait a minute, Saw, you don't know that for sure. There's still the three-cent number that needs to be revealed and that is...

[*Ding!*]

* **Two**: "Two **is the greatest host in the history of BFDI and no other host can beat their outstanding service**".

## Post-contest

### **S-Two-Dios**

**Scene**The audience cheers. Two screams as this quote of praise is the most frequent response.
* **Two**: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! I feel so loved! Thank you, thank you, objects!
* **T****r****e****e**: Darn, we're up for elimination. [*Aside, to Pin.*] *Family Food* be better.
* **Two**: [*tears form in their eyes*] Thank you, thank you, thank you all for finally accepting me as your host! I think I'm going to... I think I'm going to—
* **Lol****l****ipop**: If I can't show my friendship gesture, you don't get to sneeze out dead people.
* **Two**: *Noooo*, I'm going to... I'm going to give you all a prize. [*Applause.*] You too, contestants!

[*The panelists look at one another, excited. Two regains their composure.*]

* **Two**: But first! But first... Ooh, that was a lot. Anyway, Lollipop, let me tell you what you've won!
* **Lol****l****ipop**: Oh? What's that?
* **Two**: You leave here today with three cents!
* **Lol****l****ipop**: How wonderful. Now I only need 20,000 more and I can pay for my flight home.
* **Two**: Yes, it is wonderful, innit? If I sell this series to my people on the Equation Playground, I can make a million times as much! I think I'll call it *Two-ety Two* or something...
* **Lol****l****ipop**: All hail the wonders of venture capitalism. /s
* **Two**: And as for you, contestants...
* **P****i****n**: Ooh, this is so thrilling.
* **T****e****nnis Ba****l****l**: This is more exciting than receiving a new copy of Diophantus's *Arithmetica*. [*to the audience*] You should read it sometime; it's a good piece of literature! [*Laughter.*]
* **Bo****ok**: What will you throw at us this time, Two?
* **Two**: I'm feeling a little generous today. Tomorrow, I shall go into town and buy you all plane tickets.
* **Eraser**: Bruh, you kicking us out?
* **Two**: Well... how would you like it if, at the end of every act from now on, you all returned to your home countries?

[*Everyone gasps. Great applause from the audience.*]

* **T****r****e****e**: For most shows, this is the norm.
* **T****e****nnis Ba****l****l**: [*excited*] We haven't lived out of the competition area in thousands of weeks!
* **Bo****ok**: You're seriously proposing this now, Two?
* **P****i****n**: I get to see my kids again! Thanks, Two!
* **Eraser**: Yeah, thanks for that!
* **Two**: You're all so, so welcome.
* **S****aw**: Oh, yes, please, thank you, Two, *alhamdulillah!*
* **Two**: I feel a celebration coming on!

[*Balloons fall from the ceiling. Applause as the music comes back.*]

* **P****i****n**: Oh, gosh, it's raining "oony balls".
* **Two**: Which means it's time for this episode to come to an end! But first...

[*For this episode's voting screen, Two speaks directly to the viewers as balloons continue to fall.*]

* **Two**: Vote in the comments using the letter and square brackets for who you don't want to be eliminated! I realize that they're not directly behind me, but vote *[A]* if you want to save Tree, vote *[B]* for Remote, vote *[C]* for Black Hole, and vote *[D]* for Yellow Face! The person with the most votes will leave Death PACT Again, and the show! Alright, I'm Two, and I hope you join us next time for *The Power of Two!*

[*Two stares at the camera for a few seconds as this information pops on the screen before getting hit with a balloon.*]

## Post-voting screen scenes

* **Two**: And will you stop throwing those balloons?
* **Eraser**: Ha, you wish.
* **S****aw**: It's fun, as long as they land on my good si— [*a balloon pops on her saw's teeth*] Oop!
* **Two**: I'm curious; who even brought the balloons, anyway? [*looks up*] Was it you?
* **B****l****a****ck H****o****l****e**: It's for the holiday special, Two.
* **Two**: There's a holiday special?
* **Eraser**: Aw, man, I'm out of here.
* **Bo****ok**: Are you sure? You're going to miss the International Day of the Nacho.
* **Eraser**: What the hell, I'll stay.
* **T****r****e****e**: You mean *heck*.
* **Two**: Heck if it is! I know a song that will really get you moving!

[*All of a sudden, an electric guitar appears out of nowhere. It lands in Two's hands. Two fumbles with the keys because they don't know how to play. Eventually, a few familiar-sounding notes come out. Applause from the audience.*]

* **P****en**: I love this song!
* **Cloudy**: Hey, me too.

[*Two suddenly breaks into song, and I think you might know which one it is.*]

**Song: "Jingle Bell Rock"**

**Vocalist(s)**: Two and the audience

[*Two starts the song and nearly everyone else gradually sings along with them. Even Snowball.*]

**Two**: ♫ Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock,

Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring,

Snowing and blowing up bushels of fun,

Now the jingle hop has begun.

Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock,

Jingle bells chime in jingle bell time,

Dancing and prancing in Jingle Bell Square

In the frosty air.

What a bright time, it's the right time

To rock the night away.

Jingle bell time is a swell time—

**Cloudy**: *Partout mon bonheur à cœur perdu.*

**Everyone**: Giddy up, jingle horse, pick up your feet,

Jingle around the clock,

Mix and mingle in a jingling beat,

That's the jingle bell,

That's the jingle bell,

That's the jingle bell rock! ♫

[*As this happens, roll credits to the same intro format as before: A view of all the contestants and their teammates (who have joined them on stage), one by one, to a green screen of bright, blinking lights and round squares.*]

* **Whoever-They-Are**: This is Whoever-They-Are speaking for *The Power of Two*, a Jacknjellify production!

**THE END
of TPOT: ACT III**
## Deleted scenes

* Robot Flower was to be eliminated instead of Eggy. This was changed because I found it too unrealistic for Robot Flower to get too few votes, especially after she begged the commenters to vote for her.
* Before the contest is announced:

**R****e****m****ot****e**: Tree's right. Is that our contest?
**Puffball**: Yeah, what? I want to know!
**Two**: Fine, I'll tell you. But you'd better thank me!
[*Crickets chirping.*]
**Two**: Oh, well!
**P****en**: Aww, now I'm feeling guilty. Thanks, Two!

* Leafy was supposed to be competing with Firey, not Lollipop. I "replaced" her because she probably wouldn't be as funny.
* Pen's line about the chili section was originally "Tastes like glass. Penc, are you feeling okay?" I haven't a clue what acrylic blocks taste like, and Ruby just wasn't specific enough in the finale.
* After Winner somehow plays the footage from BFDI, Pen was going to make a comment about his hair being shorter. Of course I had to drop it; this was a line inherited from the "real-life" version (with all the objects as people). It would have made no sense in this context. Hardly anyone here has hair besides Dora and Match, in episode 21.
* Winner was originally going to tell Pen that what he said is what they call *херовый*, rather than "messed up" (which is just a nicer translation).
* After the first *T-Quadruple-S* segment, I would have added an EXIT scene (involving Four exiting the EXIT, heh). With how long the episode had turned out, nope! The episode is long enough; I just merged the intended EXIT scene with the next one to make a longer cliffhanger (if you could call it that).
* The ending was meant to be everyone singing ABBA's "Happy New Year" or "Auld Lang Syne" to ring in 1979 (just like here), but I thought that would add another hill to the emotional rollercoaster that is this episode. Instead, it ended with an explosion of holiday happiness.

## Notes

1. ↑ I guess everyone we'd like to think is lovable has their own dark moments: Ted Baxter of *The Mary Tyler Moore Show* is the worst offender.
2. ↑ While we're at it, why is no one talking about Snowball's statement that pink is not a masculine colour *in the same episode?* Surely that's also rooted in stereotypes, is it not?
3. ↑ Then again, I'm not a queer studies major like many on the Internet. I've also never lived in the early sixties.
4. ↑ They've got the same voice actor (for now), so it's not that bizarre.
5. ↑ Clock is talking about Pen making out with an acrylic block. Pen thinks he's talking about something else.
6. ↑ Characterization clarification: Since his breakthrough in episode 4, Pen has apparently viewed any kind of "date" as a platonic meeting between buddies. It gets a bit confusing because of how passionate he is compared to the other characters.
7. ↑ *Ecco qui.* This leads to a paradox of apologies: Should Pen apologize for saying that (as Cary said), or should Jacknjellify apologize for writing that line in the first place? I'm not one to, like, "cancel" people 'cos they were young and it was 2010—basically the 2000s part two—and they've become very pro-LGBTQ since then.
8. ↑ Damn, I forgot the link, but there was a semi-official post on either Reddit or The Other Wiki that confirmed how genders are given to objects in-universe. I can't remember if they chose their genders based on their self-perceptions, or if they were assigned by an outside power or something. Whichever of the two extremes are considered canon can drastically change the course of this scene.
9. ↑ *i.e.* It still exists; it's just very frowned upon. (Have you noticed how everyone reacted to Snowball?) I don't think I can write a universe where there's absolutely no sign of bigotry, especially in a universe where days like this are possible.
10. ↑ I was going to have Two say that Firey and Lollipop were neck and neck. The line was not changed.
11. ↑ The perfect opportunity to put that pun into an episode, gosh.
12. ↑ I take back all the negative stuff I wrote in that review, lol. It's totally different watching it in August.

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