What is Up, My Seahorses?

**"What is Up, My Seahorses?"** is the first episode of Battle of Radical Inanimate Stuff. It was released on July 10th, 2022.

## Synopsis

### Prologue

The episode begins with Frame asking "what is up, my seahorses?" before introducing himself, the show, and the prize, a Castle Wars. He also reveals that eleven contestants will be competing for the Castle Wars.

Three of the contestants, Marker, Jarry, and Crow, question their involvement in the show. Jarry tells Frame that she didn't sign up for the show, Marker calls him an idiot, and Crow asks who Frame is and why he speaks in the third person. In response to these questions, Frame desperately calls for the intro to be played, and the intro does play.

### Before the challenge

After the intro, the episode cuts to Irish Bread and Moyai. Irish Bread asks Moyai if it thinks it will win, before realizing after a few seconds of no response that Moyai can't talk. Picture of lovelylia585 From Discord then interjects, saying that Moyai is hot and asking it to go out with her. She then disappears from existence mid-sentence.

It is shown that this was caused by Tesseract, who presumably teleported POLL585FD elsewhere. Irish Bread thanks Tesseract for getting rid of the "annoying stereotype," and Tesseract responds by saying that he thinks POLL585FD needs some help. Their conversation is then interrupted by Frame, yelling that he wants a cookie.

### Challenge

16-Ball rolls up to Frame, asking what's up. Frame then declares that the first challenge is to get him a cookie, and the last one to get him a cookie will get eliminated. Marker asks Frame what will happen if she doesn't want to get him a cookie, to which Frame responds by saying that she will be sent to the underworld. He then starts the challenge.

Tesseract is then shown, summoning a cookie easily because he can go anywhere in time and space, and presumably summon anything from anywhere. Rainbow Gradient walks up to Tesseract and asks if he can summon a cookie for her as well. Tesseract agrees, summoning a cookie for her, and they turn in their cookies together, being the first two declared safe.

Square then tells Frame that he found a cookie as well, but he dropped it. Frame, however, sees the cookie next to Moyai, who is standing by Square, and declares it safe. Square realizes that the cookie Moyai turned in is the cookie that he originally found, and he asks Frame if he can turn in that cookie too. Frame agrees, and Square is declared safe as well. 16-Ball arrives around the same time with a cookie in his mouth, and Frame declares him safe after showing disgust that 16-Ball would carry the cookie in his mouth, thinking that 16-Ball would eat it.

The episode cuts to Skull and Crow. Skull asks Crow if he can fly, to which Crow says yes and wonders why Skull asked that question. Skull says that he needs Crow's help to get to his treasure shack quickly, and if Crow helps him, he can have a cookie from there as well. Crow agrees, and the pair fly off.

Back with Frame, Jarry and Irish Bread bring cookies and are declared safe. Frame says that only four contestants have yet to bring him a cookie, but he is interrupted by Marker, who has also arrived with a cookie. Frame restates his sentence, saying that only three contestants remain, but he thinks he sees two of them coming towards him. Sure enough, Crow and Skull fly in, both holding cookies, and they are the last two declared safe as a result.

### Elimination

Since she didn't bring him a cookie, Frame declares that Picture of lovelylia585 From Discord is the first contestant eliminated. He teleports her back to him, where she asks if she got on *The Bachelor*. Frame, confused, explains what happened. POLL585FD, now more scared, asks what will happen to her, and Frame tells her that she will be teleported to another dimension until the end of the show. POLL585FD protests, saying that she wanted to get to know all of her "attractive castmates", but she is cut off by Frame teleporting her to the other dimension.

Frame says that the other contestants were right about POLL585FD being annoying. He then says that there are 10 contestants left, and tells the viewers to stay tuned for Episode 2 before the credits play.

## Trivia

* This is the first episode of Battle of Radical Inanimate Stuff.
* This episode marks the first appearances of every character except for Crow, Frame, Jarry, and Marker.
	+ However, this episode is the first appearance of the aforementioned four characters where they speak.
* This is the first episode finished by BorisCrafter to be animated in Adobe Animate.
	+ This is also the first episode finished by BorisCrafter to have voice acting.
* The title of this episode is based on the very first line of this episode, spoken by Frame: "What is up, my seahorses?"
	+ Frame previously said this line in the second episode of one of Boris' previous shows, Castle Wars.

## Cultural references

* Picture of lovelylia585 From Discord expresses a desire to compete on the reality dating show, *The Bachelor*, as shown when she asks Frame if she got on the show.