Television

* Current
* 2018
* Debut

**Television** is a male character in the *Object Overload* franchise. He appeared as a contestant in the 2013 and 2015 series and one of the four latecomers of the 2013 series alongside Fly Swat, Locky, and Tiki (as they were all introduced in "Set in Stone"). However, he made his first public appearance in the *Object Overload* short "Television's Day Out."

## Appearance

Television appears to be a vintage television, a television that was seen through the 60's to the 90's. His body is brown, his screen is multiple shades of gray, his antennae and side buttons are reddish-gray, and his knobs are maroon.

## Personality

Out of all the newbies that first appeared in Set in Stone, Television is the most spiteful out of them all. He is somewhat extremely short-tempered: he is normally calm, but when he gets aggravated, he can lose temper. He is renown for screaming and having tantrums, according to Niall. He is also known to impersonate other contestants, literally mimicking their personalities. Examples of this are when he impersonated Cherry in the unreleased episode, or when he mimics Candy for being complain-ish in Set in Stone. Despite this nature, he is scared a little easily. Television speaks with a British accent.

## Abilities

* **Voice Mimicking**: He is capable to mimic the other characters voices.

## Coverage

### Backstory

It is unknown how Television got into the island where the tikis lived in the first place, regardless if he was born there or otherwise. However, regardless of how much time he spent on that island, he lets the tikis, who call him a "big glowy box," watch *Object Overload* on him. Its unknown what scares him, but it often made him flee, so the tikis devised traps, possibly in case the skids ending up hurting someone. Television was running away from something that apparently scared him while the tikis were making a Christmas present to send to Gamey one day (after Tiki fell into the box) and tripped into the box. Not noticing him and Tiki were inside, the tikis sent the box, and the two with it, off to Animania.

### Episodes

In Television's debut episode, Gamey decides to open his Christmas presents, prompting Top Hat was scared that he was in the bottom two when Gamey decides too open his presents. Television pops out and lands on the ground quickly, having both his antennae bent. Television indirectly earns the other latecomers a spot on the show, when he asks for clarification of the type of show Object Overload is. Television, along with other latecomers agree to be in the show, he is shown to be happy when he is told that he can join.

After the elimination, he walks to where the other team are with Tissue, who is delighted by Lighter's recent elimination. Kite sees the newbies and asks who they are, with Gamey then introducing them.

The next time he is seen is when he interrupts Gamey and voices his question which asks which team he and the other's will be on. He (along with Locky) is assigned to Clock's team. Gamey announces that the newbies have immunity, to which Television states the obvious, in reply Gamey calls him TV, he is happy at the fact that he cannot be voted for and corrects Gamey calmly, saying that he prefers Television.

During the challenge, Television imitates Candy, that provokes her and she slaps him. He defends himself by saying that he was only joking.

When being told that his team has lost, he is seen with a sad expression harnessing his face, along with the rest of his team also looking sad.

In "Branching Out", he quickly makes an enemy of Crayon, by saying that she shouldn't be so sure about being safe and he then tells her that nobody likes her. Crayon quickly smacks him and he tells her that he voted for her, and he tells her that he thinks everyone else has too. A few mere moments later because of all of what has happened, he is squashed by Crayon's executioner.

Snow Globe and Popcorn discuss the newbies, Popcorn and Snow Globe both agree that Television is okay, though the same can't be said for Locky.

Later, he is seen at elimination and is one of the first to be declared safe due to his immunity given to him last episode. He is later seen in the crowd which Crayon wants to exact revenge on as all in the crowd voted for Crayon.

Finally, he is seen cheering at his team's win.

In "In Deeper Waters", Clock demands Television to crank up the motor towards the end of the episode, when Television does the motor flies off and Television comments about how bad it is before his team's boat sink.

In "Lost and Found", Television is referred to as the "big glowy box" by the Tiki clan many times, Kite figures out that Television and Tiki are from this part of the island when a Tiki says he prefers to be called Television as opposed to TV. A flashback is shown where Kite greets Television but calls him TV, Television snaps at her and corrects her.

He comes up with the idea to steal Tiki's boat, though this fails but Clock had organized a back up plan in case it failed.

Television makes his way down the vine later in the episode, he talks to Dusty saying that they need to win, he kills Dusty because of him ascending slowly down the vine, he cheers at being at the bottom and on land, though Globe quickly squashes him. He is revived and mumbles under his breath while Dusty is seen waving at him.

One Tiki reveals to Kite that Television tried to run away but got trapped in Gamey's Christmas present box and was sent away.

Television presumably was unhappy that his team lost, though his reaction was not seen, much like most of Team Time.

## Trivia

* **RUNNING GAG:** Due to his preference of being called "Television" over "TV," Television is shown to despise being called TV various times. This is similar to Needle from *Battle for Dream Island* since she hates being called "Needy."
	+ Niall had told a now deactivated DeviantArt user named BFDIArtist some backstory behind this running gag. As a child, Niall hated it when televisions were called "Tvs" for an unknown reason and had thought of a character that was a television before watching episode 3 of *Battle for Dream Island*.
* In Lost and Found, it is revealed that Tiki and Television lived on an island before being trapped in a box.
* Television can change channels if one of his antennae is hit or moved by an object (as seen in Rostrum Rampage), or if his remote is pressed (as seen in reboot's intro)
	+ However, in Set in Stone, Television's antennae is bent, but he doesn't change channel.
* There is a silent movie-like short called "Television's Day Out" that features Television.
	+ It was "written and programmed" by Television.