TAIOS 1 - San Diego

**\*\*WARNING: OBVIOUS SPOILERS\*\***

**"San Diego"** is the first ever episode of The Amazing Iceberg Object Show. It released on September 1,2023. You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o9cRIdBHQo

## TAIOS 1 - San Diego

### Loser(s)

* Fishstick
* Melman
* Polygon Donut
* Sock Friend

### Deaths

Fishstick, Sock Friend, Melman and a fish

## Plot

### Beginning

Fourple transports 5 random people through a portal, and they all introduce themselves. After that, Polygon Donut and Cookie Milkshake become friends and form an alliance.

### Challenge (first half)

The challenge was to make any food and give it to Fourple, and the person with the best food wins. Then, Cookie and Polygon get the idea to go to the moon, get some moon cheese and make a moon pizza, so they steal Sock Friend's rocket to get there. After they burn Sock Friend to death with his own rocket, and after a montage of Fishstick trying and failing multiple times to make something and burning it each time (even ending with him exploding out of nowhere), Cookie and Polygon try to look for moon cheese, but fail as well.

After Cookie gets tired of looking, they ask some aliens where the cheese is, and very unlucky for them, Gnarp Gnarp, one of the aliens, just insults Cookie in another language. Geeble, the other alien, assumes she didnt understand him, so he tells her that the cheese is in a big hole, which is conveniently very close. And then they put all the cheese in the rocket, and Cookie accidentally leaves without Polygon, and then she starts eating the cheeeeeeeeese.

### Challenge (second half)

Right after Fourple gets up from a funny nap and tells everyone the challenge is over, the rocketship crashes into the mountain. And Fourple goes over there and asks Cookie what she made, just to find out she ate all the ingredients. After he gets mad, he just decides to use his powers to find out what she was *going* to make, and makes it himself, and loves it, giving her a 10/10 score.

Then Fourple realizes he and Cookie are the only people there, and Cookie says to recover them, so he does. After recovering 3 of the 5 (the other 3 died, cookie is there and polygon donut is still alive on the moon), Melman is the next one up, and he gives Fourple a strawberry cake shaped like San Diego. Fourple says he likes it at first, and then afterwards gives it a 4/10 because funny.

Fishstick is next up, and after being interrupted while trying to flirt with Cookie, he realizes he has nothing to give Fourple, so he just grabs a random food-related person (Wendys Chicken Nuggets) and tries to pass that off as his food, but Fourple refuses because he doesnt want to eat a living person. After that, Fishstick throws WCN Box off a cliff and gives birth to THE NUGGIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (the nuggets in box spilled out and came to life and theyre adorable pettable creatures)

Next is Sock Friend, who doesnt appear to have *anything* to give Fourple. So he gives him a flashback scene of what happened, where he made The Perfect Burger, but it was eaten by Reginald Skullinski from Monster House, and then he was finally burnt by his own rocketship, after it was stolen from Cookie. This makes Fourple mad because he has nothing to eat from Sock Friend, so he gives him a 0/10.

Then they finally realize that someone isnt there, and Cookie screams letting everyone know its Polygon Donut, who's still on the moon. Fourple gets Polygon Donut down, and Polygon obviously doesn't have anything because he was stuck on the moon and even forgot about the challenge, so he just gives him one of his sprinkles, which is quickly taken by Fishstick to add to his funny random things collection.

### Ending

And finally after all that shit, it's pretty obvious that Cookie Milkshake won. Although, after Fourple reveals that she won, she gets very excited and asks for prize money, and gets EXTREMELY angry when she learns there is none, and explodes. It also ends with a jumpscare from Cr1tiKal himself.

## Characters featured (in order of first appearence)

### Contestants

* Sock Friend (Debut)
* Fishstick (Debut)
* Cookie Milkshake (Debut)
* Polygon Donut (Debut)
* Melman (Debut)

### Others

* Recommended characters
	+ The Fork
	+ Gnarp Gnarp
	+ Geeble
	+ Wendy's Chicken Nuggets

* Shocked Black Guy (Cameo)
* The Nuggies
	+ Chi
	+ Ken
	+ Nugget
	+ Wendy
* Reginald Skullinski (Cameo)
* Cr1tiKal (Cameo)
* Billy Puppet (Cameo)

## Credits

* owly - creating, directing, writing, drawing, and everything else the other 3 didnt do
* cromme - editing and uploading it to youtube
* Kirb08 Mrls - writing (slightly), drawing the thumbnail, and making the voting poll
* Everyone that made the background music

## Deaths

1. Sock Friend - Burned to ashes by Cookie and Polygon stealing his own rocket
2. Fishstick - Spontaneously combusted
3. Melman - Died somehow offscreen
4. Random fish on the moon - Dried up after all the cheese was stolen

## References to other stuff

* A pretty big majority of the characters, especially recommended, are direct references to many things.
	+ Fourple is probably the biggest example. He is very clearly just a purple recolor of Four from BFB. He's also based on the "and why he ourple" meme.
	+ Melman is very obviously just a png of the character of the same name from the movie Madagascar.
	+ Polygon Donut is a reference to the YouTuber of the same name.
	+ Cat Spider and Cat Spider Plushie are both references to the creator owly's other and probably most popular show, Cat Spider. Joe is also a Cat Spider character.
	+ Dave Spud is a reference to the cartoon The Rubbish World of Dave Spud.
	+ Demoflower is a reference to a Team Fortress 2 meme.
	+ Dexter Sandwich is a png from a scene in Dexter's Laboratory.
	+ Fistroman is based on the YouTuber of the same name.
	+ Fortnite Ball. You can probably guess.
	+ Gnarp Gnarp and Geeble are based on two really funny images of animals (a cat and a pug) edited to look like aliens.
	+ Larry-y is based on a character named Larry made by the recommender, who is a random character he came up with based around a random stock image.
	+ Mario Koala is a png of a koala statue painted to look like Mario. It could also be another Polygon Donut reference, as he made a video about the Mario Koala.
	+ Obscure Cartoon Cat is a png of the character Mr. Mittens from Johnny Test.
	+ Open Season 2 DVD. Another very obvious one.
	+ Robot Puffball is a robot version of Puffball from BFDI, obviously.
	+ Super Cat Tales Icon is based on a game (i think?) of the same name.
	+ Reginald Skullinski from Monster House appears to eat Sock Friend's burger because its funny.
	+ The ending scene thing is very obviously a clip of the youtuber Cr1tiKal/penguinz0 "jumpscaring" you.
	+ Billy Puppet is a really funny image from The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.

* Fishstick asking "but what IS the prize" is a direct reference to the very similar scene from BFB, where Eraser does the same thing.
* Adding onto that, the scene where Fourple reveals the prize is also direct reference to both BFB and The Minutely Object Show's very similar scenes.
	+ And adding onto that, Sock Friend's reaction is a Peter Griffin face.

* The parts where Fourple gets dark and spooky are references to scenes in Greeny's Grand Game where the host Greeny does similar things.
* The Sock Friend flashback scene is also a reference to a scene from Greeny's Grand Game.
* The one weird scene after PD proposes the idea to steal SF's rocket to CM is a reference to Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and Cookie is Master Shake while Polygon Donut is Meatwad.
	+ There's also a Catscratch meme in the corner.

* The thing Gnarp Gnarp says in the "alien language" is a reference to this video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8mVe63txTbw
* Fourple's bed is Lighting McQueen from the movie Cars, and his clock has JFK from the show Clone High on it.
* The moon pizza Fourple creates out of thin air is a png of the character Pizza Steve from Uncle Grandpa.
* The scene where Fourple screams "**I FUCKING LOVE MOON PIZZA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!**" is a reference to a SpongeBob meme.
* The scene where they realize Polygon Donut is missing is based on a scene from the show YooHoo & Friends.
	+ The part where theres an outline of PD and then Fishstick says "It's someone who fits that shape we just imagined next to me" is a line directly taken from the first episode of YooHoo & Friends.

* The scene where Fourple makes his hand big to bring Polygon Donut back to earth from the moon is a reference to a similar scene from BFB, where Four grabs Loser from space to eliminate him.
* The scene where Fishstick screams I FUCKING LOVE might just look like another reference to the SpongeBob meme, but it's also visually a reference to an OneyPlays thumbnail.

## Trivia

* The show was originally made to be the first ever series to be entirely published on the website icebergcharts.com, which the creator owly uses alot (his name is shakezula there). Although, things were ruined by the fact that the worst person ever had to post illegal imagery to the site, forcing image uploads to be temporarily suspended. It was also originally going to be in comic form, but due to the lockdown, it was changed to just a regular show. Future episodes will probably be more animated.
* The episode was actually finished on August 24,2023, but the creator wanted to wait until September 1st to release it just because he likes september more than august.
* The "recommended character" Dexter Sandwich was *almost* a real character, but owly couldn't think of anything good enough for him, so he was just disguised as a RC created by a nonexistent person named "mrepikman57".
	+ Dave Spud was also a disguised mrepikman57 "rc", though he's only there because the character was thought up in the middle of production and it was too late to make him a real character.
	+ A little similarly, most of the RC's were recommended when no one really knew what the show was, and it was just a thing that was announced, and "a literal donut made of polygons" was recommended. He's not counted as an RC tho because he was literally the first character i came up with before i even thought of the idea to make this show.

* The scene where Cookie explains her plan to go to the moon to Polygon Donut took **4 hours** to finish. And it was only 2 frames.
* There was a wholesome deleted scene at the end where Cookie says sorry to Polygon for leaving him on the moon, but it was deleted because some of owly's friends told him it was unnecessary.