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Everything's A-OJ is the seventh episode in the second season of Inanimate Insanity, and the 25th episode overall. It was uploaded on September 20, 2014.

Plot
The episode starts with Salt and Pepper sitting in the hot tub of Hotel OJ, talking as usual, along with a snorkeling Bomb, who splashes into their conversation. The other residents of Hotel OJ, OJ, Pickle and Paper are all relaxing on chase lounges, when Pickle begins to ask OJ a question. Salt interrupts, asking OJ to bring the pair some towels. On his way to retrieve towels, OJ, with Pickle by his side, spots an unusual treacherous door, labeled "Do Not Enter, Or You Will Die." Pepper, oblivious to the menacing door, opens it in search of towels, but is tackled by an infuriated snot-covered Trophy. The other eliminated contestants, Tissues, Cherries, Spongebob and Yin-Yang, all fall out of the closet, covered in snot, courtesy of Tissues. Trophy begins to start a fight with Pepper, but OJ breaks it up, asking the newly discovered residents why they were on his property. Cherries explains that the portal teleported the eliminated contestants into OJ's closet, OJ is utterly shocked to hear this, but in comes MePhone5c, who scorns OJ for opening the closet. OJ backfires, and scorns MePhone5c for locking innocent people in his closet against their will. MePhone5c claims he wouldn't hurt a fly, though disproving this seconds later after killing a fly, and taunts the OJ. In return, the Season 1 winner sues MePhone, and takes him to court.

In the courtroom, Judge Gavel announces the commencement case of The People of Hotel OJ vs. MePhone5c. Paper begins the trial by convicting MePhone5c with the crime of unlawful detention, misinterpreted and followed by Toilet's outrage claiming MePhone5c was never a teacher, but is silenced by Judge Gavel's calls for order to the court. Paper opens to Judge Gavel about MePhone5c's past-doings, such as imprisonment for losing on his reality show, using his own elimination as an example. MePad then interjects, stating that Paper is bias against MePhone5c, though his is yet again interrupted by a sputtering Toilet. Judge Gavel chooses one of the witnesses, Spongebob, to tell him what he had been through in the closet. Through his silence, Spongebob is able to move everyone in the audience to tears, including Judge Gavel, who states he has never heard such a moving testimony. As a result, for his crimes of unlawful detention, imprisonment, and owning a portal, MePhone5c is sentenced to one hour in jail. Toilet becomes outraged, and spits water on Judge Gavel, lengthening MePhone's sentence to 1 day. As MePhone is escorted away, Judge Gavel announces that in MePhone5c's absence, OJ will take over the show as host for the whole episode.

After the trial, OJ officially announces his hostsmanship, receiving sarcastic remarks from Knife. Suitcase suggests to Knife to drop his sarcastic behavior, and instead, try an act of kindness, but was only further scolded by Knife. OJ then asks which team had won in the previous episode, as he needed to start the elimination. Baseball proudly states that his team had won last episode, but this was denied by Paintbrush, who lies and states his/her team won, explaining to the team that this was to cover up one of their eminent eliminations. Soap sparks a disagreement, defending her team and claiming they won. OJ has enough of this, and decides to randomly choose one contestant to be eliminated, eventually decided upon Suitcase. She is forced to slowly walk of screen and sit with the remaining elimination contestants, who are supervised by Toilet and MePad. Baseball, upset, exclaims his shock in Suitcase's sudden elimination, but OJ re-informs him to not complain, as his property was used as a crime. He then invites everyone to clean his hotel.

Soap, astounded, shows her absolute joy in cleaning the hotel. OJ entices her more, telling her it was a mess. Soap exclaims she is in love with the mess of a hotel, though Salt misinterprets this as love for OJ, and threatens her. Pepper pulls her, along with Bomb and Paper, together, warning them that Balloon was near. The latter then revert into "background mode", not interacting at all with Balloon, who attempts to speak to the group nicely. Knife confronts Balloon and explains that people don't appreciate his presence, though Balloon rejects this and suggests that they have changed. Despite this, Pickle scorns Balloon, who snaps back at him for not knowing about Taco's true identiy, sending Pickle off in shame. Knife takes this as evidence that Balloon, indeed, hasn't changed, who deflates in sadness.

Back to the Bright Lights, Paintbrush encourages the team to work hard for the next challenge, as Soap appears as a major threat. Fan, on the other hand, disregards this, and presents his theory that the Bright Lights will undoubtedly win, as each team wins twice in a row. Although Paintbrush rejects his theory, Fan insists that the Bright Lights do nothing, and is even backed up by Test Tube. Paintbrush calls to Marshmallow for help, though she refuses to comply or work with OJ, who also states she won't clean, simply because Marshmallow won't. Marshmallow, now furious, snaps at OJ for using her, yet acting like nothing happened, and storms off. Lightbulb steps in to help Paintbrush, but immediately trips over a broom and breaks her head open, which Fan excitedly remarks as the sixth time in Inanimate Insanity history.

Pepper then happily exclaims to Salt a sudden idea, forcing the contestants to sing while they clean. OJ approves of this idea, despite the contestant's anger, and begins a song.

Soap starts singing "Keep on Cleaning", motivating her team to start cleaning with her. This proves to be successful, as the Grand Slams begin to clean. On the opposite Bright Lights team, the characters refuse to clean, despite Paintbrush's urges. Marshmallow violently hits OJ with a broom, while Fan and Test Tube spend their own leisurely time. The song ends, resulting in the entire Grand Slam team cleaning, and only Paintbrush on the Bright Lights attempting to keep his/her team in the game.

We are transitioned into prison, following MePhone5c, who is acquainted with a group of jail objects. One of them, Rusty Jo, introduces himself, and questions why MePhone5c was in jail. MePhone5c explains that he locked some people in a room for several months, taking everyone by utter surprise. Rusty Jo is shocked, shaming MePhone5c for his excuse of a using reality show, and gives him words of encouragement to change his ways for the better, given he is only in jail for one day. MePhone5c, however, brushes this off, though notably taking concern.

Back at the hotel, Baseball complains about Suitcase's elimination, noting that OJ is usually a nice guy. Soap tells him to try not to let the setbacks get to him, explaining that their team is only smaller and weaker, but still a team, also giving confidence in herself for this challenge. Microphone cheers for Soap, happily saying she should be team captain. The real team captain, Baseball, is right next to her, who angerly rebukes Microphone. Striking back, Microphone gets mad at Baseball and notes how he always yells at her at the time.

The shot changes to Pickle, distressed about the hotel cleaning, looking through a spongebob of trash for his belongings. He then finds an old picture of him and Taco together, further saddening him. He enters the hotel, puts the picture down, and starts playing a video game. Knife appears, and asks to join the game. Reluctantly, Pickle agrees, and lets Knife play as well. Throughout playing the game, Knife notes Pickle's picture, only recieving sarcastic remarks from Pickle, who ends up losing to Knife, and rage quitting the game. Knife then briefly gives some words of encouragement to Pickle, explaining that one bad experience shouldn't ruin you, or else you "never reach the next stage". Pickle considers this, and thanks Knife for his help, though Knife insists he was only talking about the video game, and walks away, only to quickly smile afterwards.

Cheesy, rather than cleaning, begins cracking more jokes at Microphone, who only gives him angry stares back. Eventually, Microphone tells Cheesy off, who begins speaking serious to Microphone, but only as a build up to yet another joke. In return, Microphone throws both a speng and a bucket at Cheesy. Meanwhile, Paintbrush exclaims his/her relief about finishing about half of his/her team's cleaning, but proceeds to get angry, losing his/her patience. Fan, who sits nearby eating popcorn, calls to Paintbrush, telling him/her to calm down. As he says this, Cheesy walks by with a bag of ice on his head, tossing it away unknowingly in the direction of Paintbrush, who is hit and falls off the ladder, and is crushed by it. Fan expectedly counts as Paintbrush's fury builds. Once the countdown is finished, Paintbrush bursts, setting his/her hair ablaze, destroying the ladder, screaming at Fan that he/she is the only person who does anything for the team. In response, Fan happily laughs, choking on his popcorn. This further angers Paintbrush, who then steals Fan's egg, and threatens to smash it. Fan tries to stop Paintbrush, who stands ready to break the egg, but has a moment of revelation, and proceeds to stop, only to trip and drop the egg. As the egg seems to be headed on a path to breaking, Test Tube slides in at the last second and catches the egg. Fan expresses his gratitude to Test Tube and becomes angry at Paintbrush, even after Paintbrush tries to apologize for his/her actions.

OJ brings together the two teams, thanking them for fixing up the hotel, despite not being completely finished. After Soap happily notes that her team cleaned the most, and should win, but OJ reveals them that it was not a challenge to begin with, but instead, just wanted help. The Grand Slams express their complaints, causing OJ to quickly make up a challenge: a coin toss. He flips a coin, which lands on tails, rendering the Bright Lights as the winners. Fan then reassures Paintbrush about his theory, noting that he/she doesn't have the power of the game. A van then pulls into the area, promptly throws MePhone5c out from the back, and drives away. MePhone5c greets the group, including an overly-excited Toilet. Balloon proceeds to tell MePhone5c about Suitcase's wrong elimination. At first, MePhone5c doesn't care, but after some consideration, decides that Suitcase can return. Finally, MePhone5c instructs MePad to load the votes, displaying the record breaking highest votes, 2045, belonging to OJ. As prizes for the safe competitors, MePhone5c gives them pieces of broken glass, directly thrown in their faces. Marshmallow mocks OJ's so-called "strategy", and expresses her happiness with her elimination.

MePhone5c was then released from the prison out of a truck. Toilet gets excited about MePhone's return and starts going ballistic, yelling at MePhone. Then MePhone5c asks what's going on. Balloon replies to this by informing him about Suitcase's elimination. MePhone deems this unfair, and as a result, Suitcase is allowed to come back. Then, with little hesitation, it is revealed that OJ was eliminated, with a record of 2045 votes. Everybody gets shards of glass thrown at them. After OJ is thrown into the rejection portal, Marshmallow becomes happy because she hated OJ as of what she did in the last episode. Tissues then talks to MePhone5c, complaining that he and the other eliminated contestants don't want to be sent back to that closet, and sneezes on MePhone afterwards, causing MePhone to short-circuit. MePhone soon reveals that, because of the prison, the Rejection Portal no longer leads to the closet, but instead to an unspecified location inside Hotel OJ. All the eliminated contestants are then sent into the Rejection Portal. After the credits, everybody crashes into OJ who was sent early. After landing on the wall, Tissue sneezes on OJ. OJ then welcomes them and offers to show them to their rooms. Salt and Pepper are seen saying "like" a bunch of times. Then, a few moments later, Bomb spins for a few second, eventually saying, "Yeah". Paper, standing right next to Bomb, then welcomes everyone to the hotel. Everybody looks on with what could be interpreted as fear. In the next scene, Microphone walks onscreen, yawning, happy that there's finally some peace and quiet. However, she then hears something from within a bush, and tries to go near it, turning the gain knob on her side all the way up...but before she can see what it is, Cheesy pops up and cracks yet another joke. She becomes mad at Cheesy, stating that the joke isn't even funny. Then Cheesy notes that maybe it wasn't, but he presumably got a kick out of Mic's reaction. Microphone was twitching. Until she sighed and then said she was trying harder than everyone else, but always fails. Suitcase comes near her and tries to explain how to handle the situation, but before she can really start off, Microphone kicks the bush and both of them walk away in different directions. Then one of the bushes actually opens, with a mysterious voice from within saying "Hmm..."

Songs

 * Keep On Cleaning

Background Music

 * (0:00-0:36)
 * (1:09-1:21)
 * (1:22-1:43)
 * Aces High by Jellysnatcher Leader MacLeod (1:52-2:01)
 * (3:45-4:08)
 * (4:08-4:46)
 * (4:59-5:07)

Continuity

 * This episode marks the return of all eliminated contestents, and marks their first voice role since the episode they were eliminated.
 * Yin-Yang, however, did not speak, but was heard screaming when punched into the Rejection Portal.
 * The Rejection Portal is revealed to go to OJ's hotel.
 * OJ's record of 2045 votes broke Trophy's previous record, 1945, with an increase of exactly 100.
 * The Fist Thingy marks it's first return since The Penultimate Poll in this episode, but is labeled as "Fist Thingy II".
 * This episode marks the return of OJ, Paper, Salt, Pepper, Bomb, and Pickle, who last appeared in Episode 1 (though OJ briefly appears on a drawing in the Calm Down Corner in Episode 2).
 * Pizza Cutter, a minor character who appeared in Episode 4, makes a cameo in the jail cell MePhone5c was sent to, presumably for impersonating other cultures or running a false pizza company.
 * Teddy Bear, a recommended character from Season 1 makes a cameo in the courtroom, on the MePhone5c vs. Hotel Orange Juice case. Her last appearance was, coincidentally, Episode 5 of Season 1, where she can similarly be found seated amongst other characters.
 * Knife and Pickle are seen playing video games on an orange couch in Hotel OJ, very similarly to how they did in the season premiere.

Cultural References

 * Toilet's "Banana Bonkers" may be a reference to a drink of the same name.
 * The police van from benjibuddy3's "Inanimate Insanity Fan Animation: A Man's Gotta Do" appears and throws MePhone5c out of the back.
 * The numbers "11037", a reference to Danganronpa, appears twice this episode, once carved into the jail wall, and on the roomkey OJ holds at the end.

Trivia

 * This is the first episode where the intro was updated, including new character poses, the addition of Dough, and a new background.
 * Technically, Suitcase is the first returning character of the season, even though it was an unfair elimination, and she was eliminated only about ten minutes in runtime before her rejoin.
 * Mountain ranges are seen for the first time in the background. They are mostly seen when Hotel OJ is in sight.
 * The initials of the crew-members of Inanimate Insanity are carved into the gray jail wall.
 * The initials of Adam Katz (A.K.) and Taylor Grodin (T.G.) appear formed in Tissues' snot inside the closet.
 * This is the second episode of Inanimate Insanity ever to contain a musical number. In the credit roll on The Snowdown, The_Island_Of_Misfit_Objects_Song was shown.
 * This is the first time that Taco has been mentioned since A Kick In The Right Direction, and the first time she's been seen since the end of Season 1.
 * Pickle's picture shows a moment involving him and Taco from The Great Escape.
 * This is the first episode of Inanimate Insanity II to have eliminated an old contestant.
 * Fan's remark about Lightbulb shattering, a nod to the List of Deaths, is incorrect. As of the time of this episode, Lightbulb has now shattered exactly 7 times. This fact was lampshaded in Fan's Blog.
 * The episode number on the thumbnail changed from blue to orange.
 * MePhone5c is holding a fly swat to swat a fly near the beginning of the episode. The fly swat is actually the idle of Fly Swat, a character from Object Overload and it's reboot.
 * Bomb's stuttering at the beginning is reused, it was last heard in Episode 9.

Goofs

 * At the beginning of Keep On Cleaning, Lightbulb and Soap are nowhere to be seen, with the latter coming out of nowhere to sing to her teammates.
 * Nickel and Knife disappear after Baseball starts singing.
 * At the end of Soap's song, the characters at the bottom have an incorrect distance between OJ's hotel and them.
 * The buttons on the video game controller are flipped throughout Pickle and Knife's conversation.
 * When Pepper tells Salt, Paper, and Bomb that Balloon's coming, Paper's body changes back to the old one.
 * Though it was already shown at the end of Breaking The Ice that Paper had finished cleaning/repairing the hotel windows, when OJ has the contestants clean the hotel this episode, the windows are shattered again.
 * At 6:49, a 3/4ths of a tree is missing in the background.
 * At 11:18 when Knife and Pickle play the video game, the table beside the couch is nowhere to be seen. However at 11:22 it reappears.