Friends Are Overrated

**"Friends Are Overrated"** is the fifth episode in the first season of Object Extraordinary. It was written and animated by TropicalT.

## Plot

Strawberry, continuing her manager persona from last episode, asks Oreo if she's ready to gain Emerald's affection. Oreo reluctantly accepts her help. When she asks about Torch, Strawberry cuts her off saying it's a sensitive topic. Getting back on track, Strawberry utters the word "love", which catches Heart's attention: she runs up to the two girls and bombards them with questions and thoughts. Oreo asks her not to tell anyone. When Emerald shows up, having overheard that someone has a crush, Heart tells him what's going on, but Oreo launches her into the sky with a punch. This punch distracts Emerald enough that he doesn't process what Heart said. Oreo quickly skidaddles. Emerald grows suspicious.

The next scene, Fan asks Football to spin his blades to get them to work again. Football refuses to lend a hand. Fan notices the Lights, whom he would ask for help, but Red Light begins a fight between the three lights. Fan slowly backs away as the trio starts arguing yet again. Yellow Light has had enough and tells Green Light off.

After the intro, we jump straight into the elimination. Computer Screen is in an irritated mood for getting 131 less votes than last time. TV Screen volunteers to handle the elimination so his boss can relax. The prize, a remote that teleports its user to a random contestant, goes to the Lights. The two contestants at risk of being out are Football and the Lights. Football is shut down by all three lights when he disagrees with a voter's opinion saying that the Lights overpower him. After that, the votes are revealed and the Lights are out with 85 dislikes. No one is upset about this outcome.

After the elimination, Volleyball notes how Flower Pot has been avoiding the alliance lately. Water Bucket finds it weird as well. Computer Screen explains the challenge with an uninspired attitude: each team member will be teleported to a random location on the island, and they must find another person on their team to pair up with and win. A contestant cannot meet up with multiple people. The first team to have all contestants paired up with someone wins. Since the teams are uneven, two people from the Milky Ways and one from the Shamrockers sit out: Bally, Volleyball, and Fan.

Emerald finds himself in a forest and wonders about Oreo's secret. He is disrupted by the cookie herself and they pair up. Book gets sent to a mountain top and is now freezing. Apple Juice and Apple meet up at a small lake, the usual spot, according to Apple Juice. Apple expresses her philosophy: she's in it for the friends, not to win. Apple Juice seems to disagree with this but doesn't outright say it.

As for Sun, she takes off to the sky to get a better view, only to spot Book instead, frozen in a block of ice. Although they are on different teams, she agrees to get her down safely. Strawberry's plan is to share her location with everyone through phone. Heart soon greets her after "some strange guy told [her] [Strawberry's] location". She refuses to elaborate on that but pairs up with Strawberry anyway.

Next we see Wand find Flower Pot, but she appears to be angry when she hears his voice. She puts on a friendly smile and recommends they pair up. Wand asks her about her reserved attitude, but Flower Pot only wants to answer later. Then, as Sun and Book are walking and talking about Book's unfortunate teleportation, they are greeted by Water Bucket. He pairs up with Book, leaving Sun alone and her team to lose.

Computer Screen, though "still having a breakdown", unenthusiastically reads out the voting options. After the credits, Wand quickly invites Flower Pot to an alliance meeting scheduled for next morning, emphasizing that it's vital she join them. Flower Pot says she'll reveal why she's been avoiding them, and that "it's time to expose some jerks". Wand closes his eyes as if he knows exactly what Flower Pot means.

## Voting results

*The characters are sorted from least dislikes to most dislikes.*

 Dislikes
 Total: 400

## Characters featured

* Computer Screen
* TV Screen
* The Milky Ways
	+ Oreo
	+ Emerald
	+ Volleyball
	+ Water Bucket
	+ Bally
	+ Book
	+ Wand
	+ Flower Pot
* The Shamrockers
	+ Strawberry
	+ Heart
	+ Fan
	+ Football
	+ The Lights
	+ Apple Juice
	+ Apple
	+ Sun
* Torch (mentioned by Oreo and Strawberry)
* Moon (mentioned by Sun and TV Screen)
* Recommended characters

## Transcript

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## Trivia

* This is so far TV Screen's biggest role in an episode.

* The prize in this episode caused some confusion: why didn't the Lights just use it to get out from the place with no background? TropicalT gave an update in a YouTube comment. He said that contestants don't get to keep their prize unless they survive elimination.
	+ This is also why we see Torch and Moon without their respective prizes in the previous episode.
* TropicalT mentioned in the discussion live stream for this episode that he's spending this much time on the love stories of Object Extraordinary, because he wants to get them out of the way to leave space for more exciting things.
* There was originally going to be a scene showing Computer Screen crying into a bowl of ice cream near the end of the episode.

## Errors

* When Book was frozen in an ice cube seen from Sun's perspective, her cover is wrapped around her pages, making it seem like it's impossible to open.