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You guys have to take the lemons from your tree, and put them in your team's respective baskets.

MePhone4
"A Lemony Lesson"
Season 1, Episode 2
Challenge Put the most Lemons in the team baskets
Winner(s) Team Chickenleg
Eliminated Paper (3 votes; tie-breaker)
Original airdate May 1, 2011
Transcript
Episode chronology
Previous
"The Crappy Cliff"
Next
"The Arena of Death"

"A Lemony Lesson" is the second episode of Inanimate Insanity, and the 2nd episode overall, released on May 1, 2011. The episode was removed and promptly re-uploaded on September 14, 2011.

Description[]

So Balloon and Lightbulb establish their teams, well sort of. They also compete in their first challenges as a team. Is this a good thing? Who knows...

Plot[]

OJ stands listening to Salt as she talks about her best friend, Pepper, even though OJ is growing visibly annoyed by her excessive talking. After a while, Salt says that she misses Pepper, and states it has been one hour, 27 minutes, and 34 seconds since she last saw her. Salt spots Pepper just then, who starts running in slow motion towards her. Just as the two are about to reach each other, Salt collides with OJ.

Balloon impatiently demands that MePhone4 give him a prize, since he won the last challenge. Taken aback by Balloon's attitude, MePhone4 announces to everyone that since Lightbulb and Balloon were the first two to land in the pool in the previous episode, they get to pick the teams. Because Lightbulb jumped first, she gets to choose first.

Ep2 Lightbulb and Nickel

Lightbulb decides instantly to choose Nickel, and Nickel praises her choice. Balloon chooses Pickle, expressing that he thought Pickle was brave because of his courageous cliff dive. Lightbulb then chooses Knife, citing his strength. Pickle suggests that Balloon choose Taco, but Balloon disagrees. Regardless, Pickle calls Taco over. Knife recommends Paintbrush, stating that he's tall, to which Nickel asks "Paintbrush is a guy?" Balloon calls OJ over, leaving both teams with four people.

Nickel invites Baseball onto Lightbulb's team, and Pepper appears on the other team. Lightbulb chooses Marshmallow, but Knife unhappily calls her a "tiny weak object." Pepper suggests Salt to her team, but Balloon rejects the suggestion and chooses Bomb. The remaining two contestants are Paper and Salt. Lightbulb chooses Paper, and Salt, by default, goes to Balloon's team.

MePhone4 begins by stating that each team needs to choose a name. Lightbulb comes up with the name Team Epic, "since we're so epic." On Balloon's Team, Taco blurts out the word "chickenleg", which MePhone4 mistakes for a name suggestion, despite Balloon's protests. The two teams are officially named Team Epic and Team Chickenleg, respectively.

MePhone4 announces the challenge, which is to retrieve lemons off from their respective trees and put them in the team's buckets within three minutes. On Team Epic, Nickel climbs up a tree and drops three lemons down onto Baseball below, followed by some melted chocolate. On Team Chickenleg, Balloon kicks Taco into one of the lemon trees, calling her "useless." Bomb comments that it was quite harsh of Balloon to do that, but OJ replies that it works in their favor. OJ calls out to Taco to retrieve lemons, but Bomb informs OJ that Taco only speaks French.

Ep2 Taco Lemons 2

Paintbrush and Marshmallow continue to drop lemons into Team Epic's bucket, earning points for their team. Balloon starts to complain about Taco, but Pickle replies that Balloon should be nicer to her. Balloon replies angrily, and in reaction, Pickle kicks Balloon for his mean comment. Knife approaches Paper and explains that they don't need to do the challenge, because he brought his portable DVD player and "Desperate Housewives". The two watch as Balloon lands in the same tree as Taco, and realizes that there are no lemons there. Balloon starts to blame Taco for all of his team's problems and kicks her, causing Taco to abruptly vomit 31 lemons into Team Chickenleg's basket, only one lemon less than Team Epic has. Taco promptly coughs two more lemons in the basket, raising their score to 33. MePhone4 announces that time is up, and that Team Chickenleg has won with 33 lemons, one more than Team Epic's 32. As a result, Team Epic is up for elimination.

Ep2 Elimination 1

At elimination, MePhone4 explains the rules of elimination and proceeds to call out the safe contestants. Nickel, Lightbulb, Baseball, and Paintbrush receive no votes, Marshmallow receives one, and Knife and Paper receive three each, causing a tiebreaker to see which of the two will be eliminated.

Knife and Paper then appear on a platform suspended over a lake. MePhone4 explains that whoever falls off of the platform first will be eliminated. Knife threatens Paper and punches him off of the platform, but Paper quickly grabs the pole suspending it, hanging on just above the water. Angry that Paper is still safe, Knife starts to drop various objects on Paper. Finally, Knife pushes off a piano, which causes Paper to fall from the pole and into the lake. MePhone4 announces that Paper is eliminated, and concludes the episode.

Still in the running[]

Paper
14th
PaperOutS1
OJS1

Cast[]

Voice actor Role(s)
Mark Katz MePhone4
Nate Groth Balloon
Adam Katz Baseball/Nickel/Tree #2
Max Weissmann Bomb
Justin Chapman Knife/Paper
Michael Bruzzone Lightbulb
Taylor Grodin OJ
TotalDramaFantasy Paintbrush
Rochelle Garciano Pepper
Derek Napolitano Pickle
Crasi4tunes Salt
Sam Katz Taco/Tree #1

Elimination Votes[]

Contestant Votes Percent of Votes
Paper 3 42.8571429%
Knife 3 42.8571429%
Marshmallow 1 14.2857143%
Baseball 0 0%
Paintbrush 0 0%
Lightbulb 0 0%
Nickel 0 0%

Items[]

Locations[]

Music[]

Production Notes[]

Continuity[]

Cultural References[]

  • MePhone4 uses Chris McLean's catchphrase from the Total Drama series: "If you're eliminated, you can't come back. EVER".
  • The use of the word "Lemony" in the episode's title is a reference to Lemony Snicket, the author of children's novel series "A Series of Unfortunate Events".
  • When Balloon says Salt is really **** at the game , his mouth is obscured by a Justin Bieber face.
  • When Salt and Pepper run in slow motion, the "Chariots of Fire" theme plays.
    • This was changed to avoid copyright issues.

Trivia[]

  • This episode has the most profanity out of any in the series.
    • There are three swear words used, the most out of any episode so far.
  • This episode's thumbnail was remade to use the newer animation style seen in episode 15 and onward.
    • This is the case for every episode in season one, with the exception of The Crappy Cliff.
  • Mark Katz's voice for MePhone4 is deeper and more gravelly in this episode than in subsequent ones. Paintbrush Asset Changed to EP 3-14.

Errors[]

  • Lightbulb is referred to with masculine pronouns by MePhone4, though this is considered a mistake, as she is later changed to be female.
    • This change was made to better balance the genders of the contestants.
  • At the elimination, Marshmallow has no arms.
  • When Balloon kicks Taco, Balloon's leg moves to the opposite side of his body.
  • MePhone4's voice changed when Balloon want his prize

Deaths[]

  • Balloon is popped by the lemons Taco barfs out.
    • This is the first death to occur in the series.
  • Paper is crushed by a piano dropped by Knife.

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Episode[]

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Inanimate Insanity - Episode 2 "A Lemony Lesson"


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