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I ain't giving up! I ain't giving up! There's cake at stake, Lewis!
 
— Clip on TV, "Intruder Alert"
I side with Robot Flower. Mechanical minds stick together.
 

TV is a male contestant on Battle for BFDI and Battle for Dream Island: The Power of Two, and one of the 30 recommended characters that could have been voted into the competition in "The Reveal". He only got 13 votes, placing him 7th in the voting meaning he could not enter the game.

In BFDIA, he only received 287 votes to join placing him 24th (21st after the contestants who weren't present were disqualified) which was extremely close but was not enough to join. Despite being eliminated, he was not sent to the Tiny Loser Chamber and ended up being the host for a few episodes because Firey said he was the closest to the Announcer. He became co-host in "Insectophobe's Nightmare 3", after Puffball Speaker Box (and later Firey Speaker Box) took over the position of host. His hosting period came to an end in "Intruder Alert", he was finally sent to the TLC by Fries and Golf Ball’s demand as a result of TV continuing to making bad Cake at Stake songs and him using a video game clip for a Cake at Stake song.

He was still inside the TLC by the following season. He had another chance at joining the game in IDFB along with the other TLC prisoners until it was postponed. He got 318 votes, which was not enough to join.[2]

In BFB, TV finally got to compete and was on A Better Name Than That. However, he later quit in "The Escape from Four" in order to compete on TPOT and is a member of Are You Okay.

Appearance[]

TV appears to be a flat-screen plasma (also widescreen) television. He has the ability to hide his feet and rest on the ground from the stand. He also can project images and videos on his display instead of his normal face.

Changes[]

BFDI 14[]

  • TV is named "Tele".
  • Tele has dark outlines on his border.
  • Tele's face is black.

BFDI 16[]

  • Tele is renamed to "TV".
  • TV is brighter.
  • TV's legs are far away.
  • TV's face is white.

BFDI 17 (recommended character)[]

  • TV's legs are closer.
  • TV's face is badly drawn.

BFDI 17 (debut)[]

  • TV is darker.
  • TV's outline is thinner.

BFDIA[]

  • TV gradient becomes completely black and white.
  • TV becomes a lot larger in width and height.
  • TV's outline is slightly bigger.
  • TV loses his legs and face, but not in BFDIA 7: Intruder Alert (although sometimes his face appears, it is crudely drawn).

IDFB-TPOT[]

  • TV is a lot smaller.
  • TV loses his gradient in his screen.
  • TV gets his legs and face back.
  • TV's screen became more detailed.
  • TV now has a shadow.

TPOT 6+[]

  • TV has wheels that can be used interchangeably with his legs.

Personality[]

While TV rarely speaks, he uses pictures and words to show how he's feeling and when he is talking to contestants. TV himself is often used by the other contestants to display information, stats, and Cake at Stake results. TV seems to believe his role as a mechanical mind is to lend a helping hand and apparently not speak, (as shown in BFB 4) which is why he displays results for Cake at Stake when he needs to, and he generally obeys when he is told to do something.

In BFDI, TV dreams to win Dream Island. However, after realizing he only got 13 votes, which isn't enough to join, he shows an Announcer being crushed on his screen, indicating that TV is angry at him. Afterward, he is sent to the LOL.

In BFDIA, TV expresses major excitement when he becomes the host. He displays the voting results in every Cake at Stake. He'll purposefully play bad variations of the Cake at Stake song and make loud noises to annoy Fries. In later episodes, he can be random and talks about things that just happened using words.

In BFB, TV is again mostly silent, though displays his emotions and feelings through visual aid on his screen. While TV has been rude before, such as when he told Robot Flower not to talk, he also sided with Robot Flower when she closed the signal in "The Liar Ball You Don't Want". TV, despite being mostly silent, is expressive and emotional, and maybe also snarky and has a sense of humor, as his voting icon is him displaying the word "don't", so that his voting message would be read as "don't type [E] to eliminate TV".

Starting in "Return of the Rocket Ship", he uses clips from previous episodes of BFDI-BFB to articulate full phrases instead of speaking.

In TPOT, he has slowly started to begin using a text-to-speech voice (Scottish male voice at Text2Speech) and expressing a bit more emotion. He's also shown to be a bit antagonistic, as he convinced Robot Flower to self destruct her team's ship in Fishes and Dishes, because of their insensitivity to robots and as revenge for kidnapping him. He's quite friendly to other robotic beings, saying that they need to stick together. He also helps his team, as he lets them use him as transportation when Puffball ditched them in The Seven Wonders of Goiky, and when he told his team to jump over a rolling Donut in Balancing P.AC.T.. He does care about his friends as he sacrificed himself in Outbreak At Stake.

Official Character Guide biography[]

TV is a flat-screen who rarely speaks. He uses videos to communicate his thoughts, memories, and provide teammates with information. In fact, TV is so good at providing information that he served as the host for a short time in BFDIA!

Fries... wasn't a fan.

While televisions will often dominate a room, TV is happy staying in the background and doing what he thinks needs to be done. When someone needs him to display information, TV is happy to oblige.

Did You Know?: TV has had a long history of counting votes, so he's learned how to estimate votes with a 100-vote margin of error.

Abilities[]

  • Advanced Locator: In "The Great Goikian Bake-Off", TV helps his team by using "an advanced locator installed within [him]" to locate a Dream Berry.
  • Speed: In "The Seven Wonders of Goiky", TV is shown to use his wheels to attain great speeds, fast enough to make a round-trip between the volcano in southern Goiky and the hotel in a short-enough timeframe to complete the challenge.

Weaknesses[]

Coverage[]

Instances of TV speaking are rare. As a result, TV's nonspeaking roles are not listed, but instances of him speaking are.

Appearances[]

Battle for Dream Island[]

In "Half a Loaf Is Better Than None", TV walks into a vat of hydrochloric acid to retrieve the Announcer's marbles.

In "Bowling, Now with Explosions!", TV is in a crowd of Recommended Characters during Cake at Stake. They are all trapped in a metal box which sets on fire in the stinger.

TV is one of the 30 recommended characters eligible to join BFDI in "The Reveal".

In "Reveal Novum", TV plays a scene in which he wins BFDI, but then Announcer tells him he has 13 votes, which isn't enough to join. He then plays a scene where the Announcer is crushed before being flung to the LOL.

In "Return of the Hang Glider", TV is in the massive crowd of Recommended Characters on the bleachers who are watching the final Cake at Stake.

Battle for Dream Island Again[]

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In "Yeah, Who? I Wanna Know", TV only gets 287 votes, which ends up being 1 position short of the competition in BFDIA. However, Firey decides that TV should be the host. For the tug-of-war challenge, TV sets the timer for when to start and then displays "GO" on his screen.

In "Get Digging", he plays two Cake at Stake songs, both of which are hated by Gelatin and Fries. At Cake at Stake, TV reveals that Coiny won the prize and Donut is eliminated. TV ends up choosing W.O.A.H. Bunch as the winning team as he found their Yoylestew sweet and simple.

In "Insectophobe's Nightmare 3", he plays another Cake at Stake song which Fries calls a bit of an improvement from his last attempt. He co-hosts with Puffball Speaker Box after Puffball receives her as a prize, and reveals that Dora is eliminated.

In "Zeeky Boogy Doog", TV reveals that Teardrop got the most likes and dislikes, though when he displays the latter he emits a loud dinging noise that irritates everyone.

In "Get in the Van", TV acts a lot more interactive as he has several background texts in response to what's happening. With Puffball Speaker Box killed, TV now co-hosts with Firey Speaker Box. During Cake at Stake, he displays some images of Donut as Firey Speaker Box explains that his corpse is being used as the cake. He reveals that Puffball won the prize again and Match is eliminated.

TV makes a brief appearance in "Well Rested", where he counts the votes for Cake at Stake.

In "Intruder Alert", Fries asks TV to create a Cake at Stake song due to budgets increasing, he attempts to make a better Cake at Stake intro through using a piano but failed. Gelatin requests Fries to give TV a second chance and the second attempt TV does is using a video game clip, he failed so horribly at it, Golf Ball demanded he was sent to the TLC as punishment for not making a great song. Before entering the TLC, he manages to steal the key to the Locker of Losers, resulting in the Locker of Losers locking the TLC for the time being until some point between "Welcome Back" and "Getting Teardrop to Talk", as the key to the box is now inside itself.

In "Meaty", TV makes a reappearance for the Cake at Stake song, wearing an bandana and doing karate kicks while the video game clip from last episode is paused and continued.

IDFB[]

In "Welcome Back", TV is somehow in the Tiny Loser Chamber despite hosting for the previous season, a plot hole that would later be explained in "Intruder Alert" of the previous season. He is given a chance to join the show. Had the season continued, he wouldn't have had enough votes to join as he got 598 votes placing him 9th to join IDFB.

Battle for BFDI[]

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In "Getting Teardrop to Talk", TV is initially seen cheering on Loser, displaying text saying "I Loser", with a rotating Loser after the word "I". Later on, when the teams are forming, Golf Ball chooses TV and Robot Flower to join A Better Name Than That, reasoning that if their team has two mechanical minds, then they will outmatch the other teams. In response, TV displays a real-life time-lapse of a flower blooming. When A Better Name Than That is named, TV displays the team's logo on his screen. During the challenge, TV is assigned the task of relaying coordinates of the position of the basket. He also flings 8-Ball and Basketball with the trebuchet to weigh the baskets down. He can be seen frowning at Golf Ball and Tennis Ball's corpses as 8-Ball explains that they should use the trebuchet to get the basket to X, which makes their team safe.

In "Lick Your Way to Freedom", TV simultaneously shows two clips from the previous episode of Blocky killing Tennis Ball and Golf Ball when 8-Ball reminds Blocky of why they're absent. He is also part of the crowd yelling at Four to revive contestants, though his back was turned to the camera, obstructing his face. He does not actively participate in the challenge. He reappears in the stinger, where he can be partially seen in the group of contestants running around while Taco is stuck inside a jawbreaker.

In "Why Would You Do This on a Swingset", TV is first seen during the challenge, where he, along with the rest of A Better Name Than That, follows 8-Ball's orders and ignores Golf Ball's. He also turns purple alongside Robot Flower when 8-Ball tells them to.

In "Today's Very Special Episode", TV displays the timer of ABNTT wasting time. He also shows his ability to retract his legs into his body, explaining the assumed inconsistency of his design in earlier episodes. TV, along with the rest of his team, reprimands Golf Ball for disobeying 8-Ball's orders, calling her actions "treason". TV also interrupts and scolds Robot Flower for talking, saying that she is a machine. Ironically, this was the first time TV spoke, excluding his Cake at Stake jingles in BFDIA.

In "Fortunate Ben", TV is first seen boarding his team plane, sporting a big smile. While in flight, TV showcases his alarm at the plane's lack of control by displaying an exclamation point.

In "Four Goes Too Far", TV rides in a sled with the rest of A Better Name Than That in an effort to finally get rid of Four. After their victory, TV flashes the word "EPIC" on his screen. During the challenge, TV boards the top floor of Golf Ball's Rocket in an attempt to escape the Twinkle of Contagion. While on the Moon, TV calculates that the odds of the Twinkle returning to Earth at 0.0017%. Once Saw announces that the Twinkle has left the Moon, TV shows his joy by showing a picture of a man in a suit giving a thumbs-up. However, when Golf Ball's Rocket breaks, he shows that image upside-down, giving the appearance of the man giving a thumbs-down. In the stinger, TV is shown displaying a light-blue, reflective screen.

In "The Liar Ball You Don't Want", TV is shown still stranded on the Moon, along with the rest of A Better Name Than That and a Taco-less Bleh. During Robot Flower's control of Remote, TV displays a live-feed of the challenge back on Earth. When Basketball inquires TV about whether he knew about Robot Flower closing the connection, TV responds that he sides with Robot Flower, saying that "mechanical minds stick together".

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In "Questions Answered", TV shows Donut through the screen for Cake at Stake. After Donut announces this, TV shows a checkmark and plays a triumphant sound. Golf Ball then tells him (while he's offscreen) not to "fudge" the results, to which TV plays a less triumphant sound and also shows something red, possibly a cross. After getting angry at Lollipop laughing, Donut shuts her mouth with his hands coming out of TV's screen. When asked how he is able to do this, Donut says it's due to the camera being to transmit matter, and when asked to take them back to Earth that way, he says it can only send things one way. Eventually, Donut sends the entire Earth through the camera and out of TV. After getting back onto Earth, Cake at Stake continues, and the members of A Better Name Than That are all far away from Donut. He says they don't have to sit so far, which is followed by them all going inside his hole. TV is safe with 2,578 votes and is hit with a piece of Firey Speaker Box.

In "What Do You Think of Roleplay?", TV is shown displaying a chart of whose minds are swapped into which body. He also shows a flashback of Lightning flying around erratically, which leads to Fanny discovering that he is the impostor.

In "Return of the Rocket Ship", TV begins to talk using words previously said by characters from earlier seasons to form sentences rather than text to speech. After Tennis Ball discovers the coordinates for X's emeralds, TV tells his team that they must keep the coordinates a secret so they have an advantage over the other teams, only for Grassy to yell them out anyway. Later, when Basketball tells Grassy she doesn't understand why Golf Ball won't trust her, TV reminds her that she was the impostor in the previous episode. TV sits blank-faced after his team finds where to dig, and is last seen smiling in Golf Ball's rocket.

In "Don't Dig Straight Down", TV continues to talk using words previously said by characters from earlier seasons. When his team finds the emerald, he suggests bringing the emerald back to Four, which is accepted by Golf Ball. TV then wall-jumps with the rest of his team.

In "The Four is Lava", TV is recovered.

In "The Escape from Four", TV is first seen walking towards Four to watch him struggle to suck up Spongy. He then quits BFB and joins TPOT. He later replies "It appears so" to Two when he asks if Four and his contestants are gone, again using clips from previous episodes.

Battle for BFB[]

In "SOS (Save Our Show)", Announcer reveals that he got in contact with TV to put together the voting for BFDIA.

Battle For Dream Island: The Power of Two[]

In "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?", TV shows footage of Four adding the BFDI back to their prize to the TPOT contestants. He shows Rubber Spatula all the names of users who voted them to join. He also displays all the votes during the final three and when Two checks to see who got the second most number of votes. TV joins Golf Ball's team when she has one last spot left. When Golf Ball nearly names her team to "Our Team Name Will Have To Be", the corresponding text shows up on TV, and this happens again once the team is called "Are You Okay". During the challenge, he suggests using Tennis Ball's trebuchet. This results in them getting swung back and forward until Puffball stops them. When his team is safe, he celebrates with an applause, which is just a clip of Coiny and Firey slapping each other rapidly.

In "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life", TV is seen agreeing with Fries about changing the regular Cake at Stake song. TV also displays the votes for the Death P.A.C.T. Again members. During the challenge, Golf Ball tells TV to calculate a sufficiently stable stacking structure. TV answers by stacking them by five and subtracting less upwards, TV finishes with the word "99% Stable". Golf Ball wants TV to make it more stable. After going through countless structures that Golf Ball doesn't consider stable enough, TV interrupts saying "Hey, stability isn't the only thing that matters, y'know". Puffball suggests gluing the blocks together, but TV says that would be cheating. TV is surprised to see Black Hole sucking up their blocks, but Pen manages to stop him. Later, TV is shown displaying more structures that Golf Ball isn't satisfied with when their stack is suddenly knocked over by Bell, leaving only one block. Golf Ball considers this to be the perfect formation as a single block can't be knocked over. Golf Ball asks TV what he thinks and he replies "I hate you". With only one block, TV's team is safe.

In "Getting Puffball To Think About Rollercoasters", TV is first seen displaying Eggy's votes at Cake at Stake. During the challenge, TV carries some blocks into Golf Ball's underground factory where his team gets ready to build a rollercoaster for the amusement park. Golf Ball tells TV to play a tutorial for modifying the blocks into chairs for the ride. His tutorial ends up being so impressive that his team praises him for going above and beyond and not being mediocre and basic, to Puffball's jealousy. Are You Okay's rollercoaster ends up being very dangerous, but it still gets them a 5/10, so TV's team is safe from elimination. TV is last shown getting obliterated by a laser fired by Eraser.

In "Gardening Zero", TV is first seen being alerted by Golf Ball addressing the entire team. When Tennis Ball tells the team to go to Davidland, he obediently puts on the bracelet. Later, when he's in Davidland, TV is shown wearing the bracelet as a headband. TV then calculates the reverberation rate of a large sized David saying "Aw, Seriously?", which is 2,763 reverberation units. TV is also shown in Tennis Ball's visual explanation of what happens if the David does say "Aw, Seriously?". In the stinger, TV screams when discovered by the David. He then shows "panic" in all capital letters on his screen as the ground below him shakes violently, snapping his team's funny plant. Are You Okay places fourth, and TV is safe.

In "Fishes and Dishes", TV is unintentionally kidnapped by The Strongest Team on Earth. as he was already inside Golf Ball's Robotic Fish Monster when they stole it. He begs to be let go, but Snowball says he's going to remain as their hostage. Later, TV tries to talk Robot Flower into self-destructing the robot but she doesn't listen since she wants to stick by her team. However, after Robot Flower sees how little her team cares about using robots to deceive others, she decides to go through with TV's plan and hits his self-destruct button. The robotic fish monster then fills up with water, killing both TV and Robot Flower. The Strongest Team on Earth loses as a result of TV's sabotage. TV's team also loses however, since they didn't return any plates to Two in time.

In "The Great Goikian Bake-Off", TV is first shown at the Cake at Stake ceremony, and is the 3rd contestant safe with 5,233 votes, receiving a plan to "Just go nuts", with TV, Puffball and Eraser charging to Four using TV's wheels, resulting in TV cracking his screen. Later on in the episode, TV is instructed by Golf Ball to search for the yummiest beloved foods in the Goiky region. TV states that apparently, the Yoyleberry comes in several different varieties, with one of which being the "Dream Berry", the tastiest berries found only in the grasslands. TV then states that due to the lava flood they had many moons ago, most of the sources and have been wiped out. TV then tells Are You Okay that they can use an advanced locator installed within him to find them. TV then gains wheels and tells Pen to move him to find the dream berries. Pen goes the wrong way before TV tells him that he is getting colder, to which Pen responds to turning around and going the other way getting warmer.

Later on, eventually TV and the rest of Are You Okay reach Golf Ball's Underground Factory, when several bugs suddenly ascend from a crack. TV mentions that the crack is also where a Dream Berry is located from the lava infestation. The team is shortly after shortened by Golf Ball's Shrink-a-Tron. The team locks arms and legs with each other and try to reach the dream berry, before being knocked into the crack by a chocolate ball. Shortly after, a bug would emerge down to the team and would begin running up into the crack. The team runs out of the crack and into Tree's head to escape the bug. Later, near the end of the episode, Tree would shake him and the team out of his head as Two would return them back to normal size. TV's team is safe when Golf Ball gives Two the Dream Berry and eats it, they are awarded a 8/10 and are safe from elimination. In the stinger, TV is zapped by X when he attempts to steal their food.

In "The Seven Wonders of Goiky", TV's team is assigned with fixing The Volcano. Before they get started, TV tells Golf Ball that she's off duty for this episode. The whole team agrees that both she and Puffball should sit this challenge out for this episode. When they both leave, Eraser asks if TV has any ideas. TV is unable to think of anything and turns his screen off. After Tennis Ball explains that they should glue the volcano shut, TV turns his screen back on and tells the others that he has access to Robot Flower's shop. He suggests that they might be able to find glue there to help. Everyone gets on TV and he drives everyone to the hotel. There is no glue to be found among Robot Flower's stash of products, so Eraser grabs some from Basketball. TV drives everyone back to the volcano just in time to meet up with Golf Ball and Puffball, who have Dream Island's arches that they got in a trade with Just Not. The team breaks the arches into pieces and glue them to the volcano, making their team safe.

In "Balancing P.A.C.T.", TV warns his team and The Strongest Team on Earth. to jump when Donut rolls towards them. He remarks on how it's fortunate Are You Okay has a numbers advantage despite Puffball's disqualification. When Eraser suggests that he, Tennis Ball and Pen ride around on TV, he seems elated by the idea, showing his reaction to when Firey suggested that he be the host of BFDIA in "Yeah, Who? I Wanna Know". Tennis Ball also mentions that they could modify TV's casing to make him less prone to slipping, but Robot Flower intrudes, saying the same line her fleshy counterpart did on the original balance beam challenge, and knocks TV into the water below. TV reacts by displaying Announcer crying acid in "Rescission" before making fatal contact with the water. Because his team is the first to have all its members either die or fall off the balance beam, he is up for elimination.

In "Outbreak At Stake", TV runs away from the zombies along with the rest of Are You Okay and Team8s into the hotel. TV is the second person safe after Eraser and gets nails and planks as cake that he nails shortly after with Eraser. After the ceremony, he goes upstairs with his team to run away from the zombies. After Two gets infected, TV, with the rest of Are You Okay and Teardrop runs away out of the room while stepping over Gaty on the way. Zombies were climbing up the stairs too, so Golf Ball tells everyone to split up. While she and Tennis Ball went to Basketball's Aboveground Factory, TV along with Eraser and Teardrop is stuck with the zombies slowly approaching them. Eraser panics and says that they need to think of something fast. TV tells them that they can try to divert the zombies elswhere while displaying a visual representation. Then he tells Eraser and Teardrop to get on his head so that they can access the vents and escape. TV displays a warning sign on his screen while telling them the zombies are coming. When Eraser asks TV to grab his legs, TV plays fallen soldier sirens as he says his last goodbyes before getting hit with Snare Drum by Pen.

In “Oneirophobe’s Nightmare”, TV and his team are in Pen’s nightmare and find out his nightmare is being two hundred vigintillion dollars in debt and possibly being in jail for three trevevigintillion years if he doesn’t pay back his debt. TV suggests to his team that to help escape the nightmare, they all must help Pen make enough money to pay back his debt. When Tennis Ball tells TV that his plan would take too long to do, TV simply says that they needed to get started with it. TV is shown in a montage along with his other team members helping Pen earn money to pay back his debt, including advertising a car dealership with Pen, dancing with Pen and Tennis Ball at a nightclub, and fishing with Pen at a lake. When Golfball asks TV how much money they’ve made after they finished working, TV displays a sign saying “$800,00” on his screen, agitating Golfball. Golfball then tells TV about her nightmares, saying whenever she dies, she wakes up from her nightmare. Tennis Ball then decides to change TV’s initial plan to help Pen by saying they should try killing him instead. TV immediately agrees, saying that the plan sounded easier. In the montage of Are You Okay? trying to kill Pen, TV and Tennis Ball are shown with knives around Pen while he dances. The two try to throw the knives at Pen but they end up stabbing each other on accident. Before Pen finally wakes up from his nightmare, TV along with his team members are happily circling around Pen before Pen screams, shocking all of them. When Two announces that Are You Okay? are safe from elimination, TV declared that was good news. TV sees an upset Pen on the ground and asks him what was wrong. Pen tells him that he’s upset that all the work done in his nightmare was not a reality and that he’s actually two hundred vigintillion dollars in debt in reality. TV expresses an extremely worried and concerned manner when Pen says this.

Relationships[]

Main article: TV/Relationships

Votes[]

Season 1
Episode Votes
18 13 (to join)
Season 2
Episode Votes
1 287 (to join)
Season 4
Episode Votes
8 2,578
Season 5
Episode Votes
6 5,233
9 6,365
Total votes
Elimination Save votes Total
2,578 11,598 14,476

Deaths[]

  1. "Half a Loaf Is Better Than None": Runs into a vat of hydrochloric acid.
  2. "Bowling, Now with Explosions!": Burns to death while trapped in a large metal box.
  3. "Reveal Novum": Gets crushed by the sun while in the Locker of Losers.
  4. "Don't Dig Straight Down": He was among those who perished in the lava (offscreen).
  5. "Getting Puffball To Think About Rollercoasters: Gets zapped by Eraser.
  6. "Fishes and Dishes": Short-circuits when the robotic fish monster fills with water.
  7. "The Great Goikian Bake-Off":
    1. Damaged after charging into Four.
    2. Zapped by X (debatable).
  8. "Balancing P.A.C.T.": Short-circuits after Robot Flower knocks him into the water.
  9. "Outbreak at Stake": Gets destroyed by the zombies

Non-canon deaths:

  1. "If Among Us Was a BFDI Challenge": Sucked into Black Hole.
  2. "UNREAL BFDI": Sucked into Black Hole.

Kills[]

Number of kills: 6

Character Number of times killed Episodes
Four 1 "Four Goes Too Far" (along with A Better Name Than That and Donut)
Basketball 1 "Fishes and Dishes" (along with Robot Flower, Marker, and Tree)
Bell 1 "Fishes and Dishes" (along with Robot Flower, Marker, and Tree)
Eggy 1 "Fishes and Dishes" (along with Robot Flower, Marker, and Tree)
Grassy 1 "Fishes and Dishes" (along with Robot Flower, Marker, and Tree)
Snowball 1 "Fishes and Dishes" (along with Robot Flower, Marker, and Tree)

Trivia[]

Comparisons[]

  • He, Tree, Portable Music Player, Winner, Purple Face, Profily, Rubber Spatula, and Two are the only characters to not have American accents.
  • TV is one of two contestants who has been a host. The other is Donut.
  • TV is one of the four "mechanical minds" in BFB alongside Remote, Robot Flower, and Roboty.
  • He is one of the few contestants to have white facial features rather than the usual black. This also applies to 8-Ball, Cake, Remote, Profily, and Price Tag.
  • TV is one of the four characters to be voiced by a text-to-speech at least once, the others are Remote, Announcer, and Dora (prior to BFB).
  • TV is one of the few contestants who aren't included in TPOT's credits, along with Rocky, Remote, and Teardrop.
  • TV is one of the two contestants who can retract their limbs, the other is Winner.
  • TV is one of the four contestants with a TPOT pose that references the season's name, along with Winner, Price Tag, and Clock.
  • TV and Gelatin are the only contestants to make cameo appearances in BFDI Mini Delicious.
  • TV and Roboty have a few similarities:
    • Both TV and Roboty are considered mechanical minds.
    • Both TV and Roboty are male.
    • Both TV and Roboty do not have arms.
    • Both TV and Roboty use a text to speech to talk.
  • He and X are the only characters whose names have no vowels, and are pronounced as individual letters.
    • They are also the only characters whose abbreviation is the same as their real name.
    • They are also the only characters whose names have names less than three letters long.

Competition[]

  • In BFDIA, TV got the most votes out of the contestants who failed to join.
  • TV was the last ever contestant to enter the TLC.
    • Coincidentally, TV was sent to the LOL in the first and last instances of it ever being used. He was sent there with the other failed debuters in "Reveal Novum" and then was sent inside before it was locked forever in "Intruder Alert".
  • TV is one of the two contestants who have told the viewers not to vote for them to be eliminated (albeit indirectly), the other is Flower.
  • TV is the only BFB newbie on Are You Okay.
  • As of "The Great Goikian Bake-Off", TV has gone the longest out of the Are You Okay members without ever being voted off for their first time.
  • TV is the highest ranking recommended character on Are You Okay.
  • So far, TV has been one of the first three contestants safe in every Cake at Stake he's in.

General[]

  • TV is also called Telly in his joining audition.
  • As seen in "Today's Very Special Episode", TV can retract his legs into his body at will.
  • Apparently, TV's tongue has a static effect when his tongue is off his body as shown on his favorite screen in "Yeah, Who? I Wanna Know".
    • This shot is also the only time TV's face was shown in the entirety of BFDIA.
  • In "Four Goes Too Far" and "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life", TV shows the elimination votes, as well as the debut votes in "You Know Those Buttons Don't Do Anything, Right?", just like in BFDIA.
  • Despite being a television, TV acts more like a computer, as he has the ability to calculate votes and other properties of physics such as acoustic reverberation, none of which are the type of characteristics a real-life television could do.
    • Though, this might suggest that TV is a smart TV, it would not only vastly outpace the technology from the year which he was properly integrated into the BFDI canon, 2012, but would also contradict his own species, being a flatscreen plasma television.
    • TV can also chain video clips together on his own to imitate speech, something that is also impossible to do on a real-life television without laboriously altering it.
  • "Today's Very Special Episode" marks the first time TV has spoken. (Most other noises made by TV were from either random noises or someone screaming, or the mechanic voices used for announcing Cake at Stake, but now he has a proper voice.)
  • In "Today's Very Special Episode", The Liar Ball You Don't Want, "Fishes and Dishes", "The Great Goikian Bake-Off", and "Balancing P.A.C.T.", he was voiced by a text-to-speech voice.
    • "Fishes and Dishes" was the first time he spoke more than one line in text-to-speech in a single episode.
  • TV gained a Scottish accent in "The Liar Ball You Don't Want".
  • In "Return of the Rocket Ship" to "The Worst Day of Black Hole's Life", TV spoke using clips from previous episodes to talk, though Kenzie Bryant was credited as the one who "voiced" him.
    • This is because she was the one responsible for assembling the clips into TV.[3]
    • However, she is no longer listed under Kenzie in TPOT's credits following being laid off as a TPOT showrunner by Jacknjellify during July 2022.
  • TV has had several instances of "talking" without text-to speech or lines via clips:
    • He sings three Cake at Stake songs in BFDIA.
    • He says "horgly worgly" with Robot Flower in BFB 3.
  • He is the only mechanical mind whose name doesn't begin with an "R".
  • He is the contestant with the shortest name, having only two letters.
  • TV named Team No-Name in "Get Digging" as he displayed their name on his screen when judging the yoylestews.
  • As shown in the stinger of "Four Goes Too Far", TV has the ability to act as a mirror.
  • TV is the first character to appear in TPOT.
  • At the end of the TPOT intro, TV shows the Utah teapot in reference to the show's acronym. The Utah teapot is a common 3D test model that is an in-joke among the computer graphics community.
  • Based on the Announcer's story, TV is the only character who was aware of the Announcer's presence back on Earth before he revealed himself in "B.F.B. = Back From Beginning".
  • "Fishes and Dishes" reveals that TV is a touchscreen television.
  • "The Great Goikian Bake-Off", marks the first time where TV showed no clips from previous episodes in order to communicate.
  • "The Great Goikian Bake-Off" is the first time his screen is shown to crack.
  • A prototype version of TV's body is seen in "Are You Smarter Than a Snowball?".
  • TV makes a cameo appearance during the Screaming Contest in BFDI Mini Delicious.
  • "Fishes and Dishes" marks the first time TV speaks with his face on-screen, albeit a pixelated version.
  • It was previously unknown why TV was in the TLC in IDFB, but it was later revealed in "Intruder Alert" that he was sent because of his poorly made Cake at Stake theme despite having a high budget.


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References[]

  1. Despite being eliminated, he was promoted to host for a few episodes until he was sent to the TLC in Intruder Alert, he has remained there ever since, until at some point in IDFB.
  2. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13dUHjWwflvXt2cuW-oGNV29z6XK3KunzWfHPonZoX0M/edit#gid=1397548773
  3. Screenshot 2020-04-08-07-54-07-99-02

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