Thoughts of Season 4, Episode 3 of Inanimate Insanity
This was a fantastic episode! Perhaps I'm, biased because or easily amused But still a fun episode nonetheless! I made a bingo card for this, but unfortunately no bingo I'll show it at the end! [Spoilers ahead!]
I'm impressed with how Fan reacted to Jack and the trial I was expected a snap, a vehement defense of his show But no! Instead he sent to Jack to trial (very reasonable) And even accepted his reboot being cancelled Meanwhile Test Tube supports his show Even defends Jack, her almost murderer?! She really wants Fan to be happy but girl... Maybe Fan is right this time round and the show should be cancelled? Kind of funny to see that Fan and Test Tube don't even need to talk to agree on not telling the OSC the truth These two are ill for each other and make each other worse Ah and Suitcase's line about cancelling the competition and crushing everyone's hopes and dreams before they've fallen asleep is fire! And Fan and Test Tube's reaction to it is golden!
Perfection Good matching pfp material
Why is Taco kind of concerned...? Fan is just going over potential team picking Was this foreshadowing on her needing to be on Mic's team? "Will be divided evenly" Girl, you had a team down a member My favorite line in this episode by far is Soap's line on Taco's codependency!
To be fair, I only rank Taco 2nd in the most codependent! Pepper is 3rd While Fan and Test Tube are tied for 1st because codependent Fantube is a fun thing to think about Oh! And I love how Metag gestures that they'd quit if they weren't on Poppy's team! I found that cute! (Hopefully Metag isn't brainwashing Poppy like some of you theorize...)
AMAZING REACTION I LOVE IT! IT'S SO SILLY!
I'm noticing Poppy's reaction is all It's kind of a mix of concerned and slight irritation Because hey, Poppy did nothing wrong and so has Metag So they're frustrated with all these assumptions... At least Paper is trying! "Hey hope this works out." "And by work out, you mean us not being on the same team, don't you?" "No, I was just being nice." "Oh, sorry." That's an interesting interaction between Taco and Soap I didn't really understand it until I typed it out Actually, I don't really understand it still... Why did Taco assume that Soap didn't want her on the same team? Did Taco assume that Soap wanted Microphone for herself? Or because Soap wanted to be competitive with Taco? It's kind of confusing to me Or maybe, as someone on an OSC server I'm in (it's Tacomic lol) said, Taco assumes the worse in everyone who isn't **extremely** close with her? I can't say, but at least Taco apologized on her assumptions quickly
This image reminds me of the "INANIMATE INSANITAY!!!" GIF lol
ALSO YO FAN AND TACO INTERACTION!
I LOVE HOW FAN HYPED UP TACO BEING ON THE RED TEAM HOW TACO LOOKED SO SMUG WHEN SHE KNEW AND WAS GOING TO RED TEAM AND HOW HAPPY MIC WAS TO SEE TACO ON HER TEAM Also lol, Taco being indignant
Nah, these two (Mic and Taco) are also unwell for each other And I just love the reaction from Soap, like she's had to deal with this so many times even before the show Like, based on the fan art I've seen, Soap would be waiting tables in the restaurant and when she goes back to reception She sees Microphone and Taco, who's supposed to be getting reservations, laughing with each other Ah, the idea makes me laugh so much aha Also, I do like how the Cherries are split in what role they do! One does the talking The other does the gestures! I love it!!!
THESE TWO ARE SO MENTALLY ILL FOR EACH OTHER HOLY MOLY THESE LESBIANS- "How important it is that you all look out for each other. When one of you wins, all of you wins." With those two lines, Fan reminded me of my science class Because that class went through safety and it was similar... Like "Keep one of us safe, you keep all of safe. Keep an eye out on each other and you'll protect each other and yourself." Something like that I wish Test Tube was disorientated by the blu-ray The fandom made me wish for it *Sigh* No her being disorientated But at least we get to see her handwriting! Also, I swear, there's nothing going on inside her head most of the time Seriously, and it's mostly when she's with Fan Anyways I love Cheesy's yippie eyes when he heard Pepper's word! Very nice, he was cute I like his punning honestly 21 and 17 characters in two of the team names? Experiment 21? Hall 17? I headcanon that Fan and Test Tube were mentally having vietnam war flashbacks to those fics when they saw the numbers lol "I can't tell how attractive they are!" Cammy, I LOVE YOU THAT IS SUCH A HILARIOUS LINE Also oh no The outside world suspect foul play in Steve Cob's death... And are not happy with having no voting in there! (Hey sounds like Fan in the past ehe) Oh Fan... You really should reflect on what you're saying "We're doing this for ourselves, not the fans! Wait, am I hearing myself? Oh gosh, what have I become?" Fan... oh Fan You do realize the contradiction in your statement That you, are quite frankly, doing it for you, a fan! You couldn't live without the show, having it deeply ingrained in your programming, so you rebooted it You've, in a sense, become Mephone for he didn't want season 3 to end And now, you don't want the show to end at all Anyways I love how Fan, Test Tube, and Suitcase all saw through Jack's false morality Very fun "The only way to learn safety is if there's danger." I do agree with this statement (and does remind me of my most recent fic since it is similar to what I made Fan think) You don't really know the stakes until you're confronted with them You can hear about it, but never truly know it Once you know what's at stake, then you know to be safe You can't helicopter them "I'm like an expert at following blindly." PEPPER NO, BREAK OUT OF THE CYCLE It took a bit to understand Box's rambling about spacial relations But I get it She doesn't know her directions Left, right; forward, back; north, south; east, west Because in the void in Mephone, there was no directions They all lead to nowhere THE MOMENT MICROPHONE TALKED ABOUT SOAP GOING TO THE END AND GIVING HER DIRECTIONS OUT OF THE MAZE I IMMEDIATELY THOUGHT OF TACO LEADING MIC OUT OF THE MAZE IN "MAZED AND CONFUSED" And what do you know! Mic said that idea because of said experience! She even admitted it to Soap! How fun :3 And I love how it instantly doesn't work and Mic calls for Soap back lol LMAO TACO IS GETTING FRUSTRATED BY THE THE WAIT And then she's just incredibly pliant when Mic picks her up (Obviously Fan set it up so the poly lesbians could interact with each other in a chain! He probably set up the challenge so that the people with relationships with each other get to interact with each other because that's what he wants!)
All the Taco fans collectively agreed SHE IS A SOPPING WET CAT AND NOW IT'S CONFIRMED IN CANON OMGA, I CAN'T BELIEVE IT THE MOMENT I SAW HER LIKE THIS I ALSO IMMEDIATELY THOUGHT SOPPING WET CAT I love how she looks so pathetic when she goes splat on the boards And how she grimaces from being dunked in water
NAH I LOVE HOW THE CHERRIES JUST PUT AN ENTIRE LEG ONTO THE TOP OF THE CLIFF AND TACO WAS JUST FLABBERGASTED
I LOVE HER SO MUCH
I love how Poppy is just sitting there politely! Just relaxing, just waiting "Nobody talks to me like that except Pepper!" Hm... new codependency could be forming... Speaking of codependency I don't think Teddy Bear and Spikey Ball's relationship is codependent? We haven't seen enough yet for me to classify it as such
Fan looks so stupid As Test Tube animatedly talks about who's immune Oh no, Test Tube got Fan's love of hosting WE NEED TO RUN "MeTag, I need you to direct me here but I can't see any of your cute little visual cues!" WAS SUCH AN ADORABLE LINE! I LOVED IT! IT WAS SO CUTE HOW POPPY DESCRIBED METAG'S GESTURES! ADORABLE! (I really REALLY don't hope MeTag isn't brainwashing Poppy or going to betray them or anyone else...) AND THEN A CAR CRASH WITH POPPY ENDING UP DAZED
Originally, I interpreted this as Poppy knowing they're going to be eliminated at the ceremony But seeing the episode now It's probably more worried about BOTH themselves and MeTag! TEST TUBE IS FLAPPING HER ARMS IN JOY! "FUNCTIONAL!!!" OMGA SHE REALLY WANTS TO HAVE THIS FOR FAN While also fixing up society as well ^^ Ain't she so adorable! Also by goodness, her panicking and saying that the car crash happened into a padded rail when Suitcase brought the crash up was funny because I just look at it under the guise of wanting to keep Fan's dream of the reboot alive "Well, yes, it nearly did, but then it didn't! So, nothing to report!" Someone on the Tacomic server said that this was literally Test Tube's line Which yeah, it is! ("Well I could've, but I didn't!") I love the knowing look that Test Tube has to Fan when he said the line Either knowing that was her line that he's now saying Or just that she's amused and knows that is what Fan would do AND BOT FEELS GUILTY I'm so glad that Bot didn't lift Test Tube up into the air again (I know some of y'all were talking about how Bot should've dealt with the scoreboard on their lonesome in the first place, so I bet y'all are glad that this time Bot is doing it themselves!) Gosh... the way Bot forces a smile and says that they know that it wasn't their fault dropping Test Tube But the moment Fan and Test Tube leave Bot's face falls into a frown So the Lightbulb votes are from MeTag and Poppy I wonder which is which! I think the print looking one is MeTag's While the more natural and one is Poppy's! "These suspicions are never going to end, are they?" Unfortunately, there is some truth to these words Balloon basically took a season and then some to get forgiven fully by everyone else And it took Cabby a season to get to a place where everyone understood her and no longer hated her Suitcase was blamed for just getting immunity in the painting challenge And it was Paintbrush who was voted off said challenge due to their temper Yep... the II community (the show, not the actual fandom) is overly cautious and wary As the saying goes: "Once bitten, twice shy" The contestants do not want a repeat of betrayal So they will avoid it if they think it's coming Though honestly, the voting out of MeTag is a bit reasonable "You told us you yelled out to MeTag to break, so why didn't MeTag hit their break?" Indeed, quite suspicious They understand that MeTag was at a disadvantage with not being able to talk But they could still hear (right?) so they should've broke! Though honestly, maybe MeTag was banking on Poppy to get their gesture and turn left... There's always that possibility and they didn't think they would crash straight into the wall! "You're all so sure that you know someone that you can't see them for who they really are." An unfortunate trend for these objects It happened with Balloon And it happened with Cabby Who's next to fully fall prey into this mindset of these objects? AND THEN METAG TAKES POPPY'S ARM AND FLEES? AND THAT'S THAT? FAN CHASING AFTER THE TWO? AND BOOM, CLIFF HANGER? GOSH, DANG Anyways, that's the full episode and my thoughts! And here's my bingo card!
As you can see, I was very pessimistic and wanted angst Not much angst happened this time... Hopefully more angst soon but next time, my bingo card will be slightly more fluffy?












