Balloon Bash

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"**Balloon Bash**" is the tenth episode of *Recommended Rumble* and the tenth episode of the overall series. It was released on May 16th, 2020.

## Plot

### **Opening**

We first see Uranium talking with Soup about who they think will debut. After Soup prompts Uranium with the question, Uranium says that he doesn't really care who it is. Soup feels put down by this, saying that it probably won't be him or Uranium either way. Uranium agrees.

Downvote interrupts the conversation, saying that he thinks Orange Block will join, as (according to Downvote) he seems to be the funny candidate viewers would vote for. Uranium points out that no one asked him.

Credit Card then comes in, announcing the start of the debut.

### **Debut**

Credit Card tells all the recommended characters to come as they were about to find out who got the most votes out of the 30 they received. He then announces the first two characters who will not join, which are Oceany and Purple Bouncy Ball, who both got 0 votes. Oceany seems okay with this, but Purple Bouncy Ball claims that not voting her is like saying yellow is a better color than purple.

Credit Card mentions that everyone else got at least 1 vote. He says that Orange Block and Baseball got exactly that number, which isn't enough to join. Orange Block seems impressed by the fact that he got only a single vote due to his mental issues, but Baseball knows that he's not joining and says he had fun trying.

Credit Card tells the four characters that they get to vote for their favorite contestant to get an advantage in the challenge. Oceany votes Brownie because she says that rectangles with squiggly lines must stick together, referencing their poorly drawn assets. Purple Bouncy Ball votes for Rainbow Blocky for being the closest thing to a purple contestant. Baseball votes for Watermelon because he thinks Watermelon is a cool guy. Finally, Orange Block says he likes Ringy, so he casts a vote for her.

The next two contestants not joining are announced by Credit Card: they are Purple Paint Pellet and Uranium, who got 1 vote each, just like Baseball and Orange Block. Uranium says that he didn't care and when he's prompted to vote for his favorite like the others, he chooses Sponge Cake because he says he thinks Sponge Cake is cool. Purple Paint Pellet doesn't vote due to not being able to talk.

It is revealed that Spray Paint and Chunk of Grass also won't join, as they only got 2 votes. Spray Paint votes for Watermelon and Chunk of Grass votes for Downvote.

Night Light and Windmill are also revealed to get just 2 votes, so they choose their favorites. Night Light chooses Bunk Bed and Windmill chooses Cereal Box, which confuses Brownie.

Credit Card says that the trio of Magnifying Glass, Soup, and Kinda Flat Ball all got 3 votes each, which is not enough. Magnifying Glass votes for Watermelon, Kinda Flat Ball for Rainbow Blocky, and Soup as well votes for Watermelon.

Out of Seafoam and Tokeny, Tokeny ends up joining with 5 votes, which is 1 more than Seafoam, who only got 4. This pleases Tokeny very much. They are prompted to vote for their favorite like the rest, so Seafoam votes for Rainbow Blocky and Tokeny votes for Fez, mentioning that Fez will be his new teammate either way. Credit Card says that he is correct and Tokeny will be going on The Winners, as it was Winner's old team and the debuter needed to replace him.

### **The challenge**

Credit Card counts up the debuters' votes for their favorite contestant. He mentions that the one with the most votes will win an advantage in the contest, and the one with the most votes ended up being Watermelon, so he won an advantage for his team.

Credit Card explains the contest. The teams are put in baskets held by balloons. The goal is to pop all the other team's balloons; Watermelon's advantage is announced to be the fact that their team has two balloons instead of one, like every other team. Watermelon is excited by this. Credit Card explains that the challenge is over when all the balloons have been popped. He also says the last team to survive without their balloon getting popped gets a prize and the first team whose balloon(s) get popped is up for elimination, completely contradicting what he said previously.

The teams are then shown in their balloons. Legless Bros. is shown first; Watermelon asks what their plan is. Brownie says that they should relax in the challenge due to having the advantage, much to Sponge Cake's dismay. Cactusy says that she likes the idea and a relaxing challenge is what she needs.

The episode then transitions to The Dislikers. Downvote claims that if they stay down low, they will not be noticed. Ringy calls this downvoting the sky, asking what Downvote's obsession is with downvoting things. Downvote answers that it's because he likes sharing his opinion and it makes him cool. Ringy then seems confused on why Downvote thinks he's cool, prompting Downvote to say that he's always been cool. Ringy and Downvote then start arguing.

Honeycomb yells at the team to stop. This confuses Ringy and Downvote, as they thought Honeycomb preferred to stay silent. Honeycomb says that this is not true when her two best friends, Ringy and Downvote, argue with each other so much. She says that they need to set aside their differences and be friends, or at least accept their presence. Downvote and Ringy agree, making a truce between the two.

However, Seven jumps on the team's balloon, catching them off-guard. Bunk Bed urges Seven to pop their balloon, which he does and makes a victory pose as he and The Dislikers fall to the ground. Credit Card says that they're up for elimination, but the contest is still going as they need to see which team wins the prize.

Bunk Bed congratulates Seven and Rainbow Blocky mentions that sacrifices must be made to seal their victory. The Winners are then seen, with Tokeny complaining that a team is doing better than his. He announces that they are going to do Plan B, which is ramming their hot air balloon into Stacked's. However, this seems to pop both of their balloons, causing both of their teams to get out of the challenge. The Legless Bros. are announced to win, much to Sponge Cake's dismay.

Credit Card announces that the viewers will vote for one of the Legless Bros. to get a prize in the next episode and one of The Dislikers to be eliminated. He says that Watermelon is unable to win the prize again, as he already did in this episode.

## Votes

**30** votes were cast, but viewers could vote twice, so it was really only about **15.**

## Credits

* jacknjellify for BFB, TPOT, and some of the assets.
* OwlLover12345678910 and Cat\_games for their characters' assets.
* Characters by their respective recommenders for BFB (original cast only), epizero, B204CRises, turtlegunner95, YOYLECAKE12, YOYLECAKE222223, lpj2007, Cat\_games, YeeDavid, OwlLover12345678910, Mitocomic, and moose1679\_XD.

## Trivia

* The creator voted for Tokeny and Magnifying Glass.
* This is the first episode of Recommended Rumble to have a debut.
* This is also the first episode of RR to have viewer voting for a prize as well as being eliminated.

## Continuity References

* Again, the episode references Downvote attempting to predict things.