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Sorry? You want a sorry? Might as well, that's all anyone ever wants from me! I've said sorry for having files that help keep things straight. For trying at anything! And for being me. But despite everything thrown my way, when I felt like everyone hated me, I still tried to listen to others and connect with them...! I tried... |
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| —You Can't Do This Forever | ||
Cabby, labeled The Collector, is the winner of Inanimate Insanity Invitational and a supporting character in Inanimate Insanity IV. She is voiced by Casey Landman.
Putting her trust in Test Tube, she was originally eliminated in "Best Served Cold" after a unanimous blindside vote against her, but she was able rejoin the game in "I Am Chocolate!", after staying on Indefinite Island. She competed for herself in the merge before the finals, where her showcase of strategy, loyalty, and redemption within the game won her said game in a 7-6-2 vote by the jury, beating out fellow finalists Balloon and Silver Spoon.
As of "The Future Is Today!", she is a co-leader of Inanimate Island, alongside the other winners, OJ and Suitcase.
Appearance[]
Cabby is a periwinkle file cabinet. Her body is a large vertical rectangle with two drawers on her front. Her face appears on the upper drawer and her arms at her side. Cabby's bottom drawer can open, containing files that she can remove. It is unknown if her top drawer can also open. Rather than having legs, Cabby has four small wheels at the bottom of her body, which she uses to roll.
In Season 2 and Season 4, she is colored slightly darker and she is shown as isometric. Her handles also more detailed having lighting and outlines.
Personality[]
Cabby is someone who puts an incredible amount of effort into everything she does. Her very first lines on the show indicate to the audience and the rest of the cast her intelligence, meticulousness, and desire to leave a strong first impression.
Cabby is a very diligent and observant person; the majority of the data she keeps in her files on the other contestants comes from her observations. In "Stranded in Paradise", she accurately guesses MePhone4 planned to choose teams through randomisation based on documentation she has on his past behaviour. In the same episode, she is the first person to notice Clover's luck.
Cabby's files are very important to her, both as something she needs to remember things, and as her passion for documenting information, which she works very hard on and is confident about. For this reason, though she is generally kind to the others, it upsets her and she tends to retaliate when others take her files without asking or downplay the veracity of her research, as Fan did in "The Shame of the Name" when he admitted to taking her file on him without permission— resulting in their argument and Cabby's decision to convince the rest of The Pinkers to vote him out, and as Test Tube did in "Tragedy at 60 Feet" when she sarcastically rejected Cabby's assertion that based on her research, Clover's luck would be advantageous to them in the challenge. Despite her attachment to her files, however, she will happily allow others to borrow her files if they ask her. She also loves to share her insight if she deems it relevant to the conversation. In "Snapshot Showdown", for example, she is very excited to share the intel she has on The Thinkers to help her team win the challenge, to the point where she doesn't even notice Test Tube's apprehension about asking. In "Home Is Where the Heart Is" it is revealed that Cabby has a form of long-term memory loss for which she uses her files as an aid due to struggling to remember things herself. This is severe enough that in "Spring on the Breakfast!", she admits she is unable to remember whether she has parents and it causes her pain when she tries.
It is possible that Cabby is more confident in her work than she is in herself; when speaking about her work, she tends to separate herself from it and is far more critical of herself than she is of her research. While fretting over the final part of the rejoin challenge in "I Am Chocolate!", she says her "beautiful files" are "wasted on her".
Trust is something that matters a lot to Cabby, and she spends the majority of the competition trying to build trust with others on the show. In her exit interview, she mentions that she decided to vote Fan out because taking her file without asking made him untrustworthy in her eyes. On the other hand, because she wants to "make things right" with Test Tube, she readily shares her contestant files with her, even going so far as to allow Test Tube to "hold onto them" for her. Consequently, she is shocked and devastated when Test Tube breaks that trust, and when reflecting on this in her exit interview, she supposes that if she could do it all again, she "should have just... not trusted". Despite this, however, she continues trying to connect with the other contestants after she rejoins.
When given a chance, Cabby is shown to be very caring towards other people, especially those who are her friends. She wants to understand people, as she says in her exit interview, citing this as her primary reason for keeping files on other people, Cabby spends most of "Pesty Besties" overcompensating for her lack of bonds on the show in an effort to prove Test Tube wrong and win people over. She goes as far as to give her own inani-mate to Yin-Yang, forfeiting any chance to win the challenge herself in an effort to encourage Yin after they lost Sprinkles. Her efforts continue into future episodes— she spends a lot of "Home Is Where the Heart Is" trying to support Paintbrush, finds a way to save both herself and Yin-Yang from being eliminated in "Friend or Froze", and in "Spring on the Breakfast!", she tries to learn more about Bot. In the finale, she fiercely defends Bot upon seeing the Bot clone Springy made of them because she understands and wants to support her friend.
Official site bio[]
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Cabby is a massive database on wheels! She's a fastidious author of countless files, which seem to contain information about everyone and everything. If it's at all interesting, or even just a plain and simple fact, Cabby wants to know it. She's happy to share her knowledge, as long as you ask her for permission. Or, better yet, if you can tell her something she doesn't already know! But trust us, that's easier said than done! |
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| —Inanimate Insanity Site, 2021 | ||
Coverage[]
Vote status[]
Season 3 viewer immunity votes[]
| Episode | EP # | Votes | Total votes | Percentage |
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| "The Shame of the Name" | 2 | 2500 | 15170 | 16.47% |
| "Best Served Cold" | 7 | 516 | 10041 | 5.14% |
| "Pesty Besties" | 11 | 1461 | 16250 | 8.99% |
| "Home Is Where the Heart Is" | 12 | Part of 2842 | 14986 | Part of 18.9% |
| Total number of votes: | 5100 | |||
Season 3 elimination votes[]
| Episode | EP # | Votes | Total votes | Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "The Shame of the Name" | 2 | 2 | 6 | 33.33% |
| "Best Served Cold" | 7 | 5 | 6 | 83.33% |
| "I Am Chocolate!" | 10 | 4 | 10 | 40% |
| "Friend or Froze" | 13 | 2 | 7 | 28.5% |
| "The Show Must Go On" | 17 | 1 | 4 | 25% |
| "You Can't Do This Forever" | 19 | 7 (to win) | 15 | 46.6% |
| Total number of votes: | 14 | |||
Trivia[]
- Cabby's asset in Inanimate Insanity Invitational is uniquely in orthographic view, since the back of her side is as tall as her front side.
- This was not carried over to her Inanimate Insanity II asset.
- That might the similar to Cheesy since both of them have share a top view from an angle above in Season 2, but they are adjusted in the front, with their top view in a flat position in Season 3.
- Cabby is the first (and so far, only) contestant with arms but no legs, this is if Bow and Dough's ghost forms aren't counted.
- She is additionally the only contestant so far who has wheels in replacement of legs.
- Cabby is the second contestant to end with a "-y" suffix when their object's name doesn't have one, the first being Cheesy.
- Coincidentally, both their names start with a "C".
- They are also both debuters in their respective seasons.
- This means she is the only Inanimate Insanity Invitational character to have this trait.
- Cabby was the first Inanimate Insanity Invitational contestant to rejoin the game, with Blueberry being the 2nd.
- She is also the fourth contestant to rejoin a season, counting "Everything's A-OJ", where OJ "eliminates" Suitcase.
- Cabby is the first contestant to turn golden via the Immunity Cookie.
- Cabby has a 0 star review by Bot (1 star formerly).
- Cabby can open her lower cabinet without physically using her arms, as seen in various episodes.
- Candle's elimination in Friend or Froze made Cabby the highest-ranking female contestant in Inanimate Insanity Invitational.
- Cabby is the final remaining The Pinkers contestant remaining in the game. (However, every contestant on The Pinkers has been eliminated due to Cabby's rejoin.)
- In the episode "Home Is Where the Heart Is", Cabby admits to The Floor that she has memory issues. This is brought back up in "Spring On The Breakfast!", when Cabby tries to remember her parents and when she feared forgetting what Bot told her, they said they'd happily tell her again.
- In the later episode when Bot asks Cabby what her parents were like, Cabby states that she doesn't really know. She tries to remember their faces but says "it hurts a lot".
- This means objects can have parents. Why Cabby can't remember hers, she's unsure if it's a memory issue or not.
- Due to this line, some fans have speculated that her memory loss is caused by some sort of repressed childhood trauma.
- In the episode "The Reality of the Situation", it was shown that this scene is a reference to the fact that all the contestants of Inanimate Insanity were created by MePhone4 and as such do not have parents.
- In the later episode when Bot asks Cabby what her parents were like, Cabby states that she doesn't really know. She tries to remember their faces but says "it hurts a lot".
- Her concept design showed her being colored "white" rather then periwinkle.
- Both Cabby and Blueberry's voice actors are people with an expansive professional history outside of object shows.
- Coincidentally, they're both the two rejoiners of Inanimate Insanity Invitational.
- As the winner of Inanimate Insanity Invitational, she is:
- The first female contestant to win a season chronologically.
- The first contestant to win a season after being previously eliminated and rejoining in a season.
- The very first new contestant to win a season.
- The first contestant with less than four limbs to win a season, and the first and only contestant without legs to win a season.
- The second winner in history after OJ to have a grand prize in the form of another building, this time, is a library.
- The first winner in Inanimate Insanity to receive a plush.
- Cabby shares similarities (and contrasts) to Flower from Battle for Dream Island.
- In how they're similar, they debuted as an antagonistic character with notable feminine colors, rejoined at some point, and they ultimately won the third (competitive) seasons of their respective series redeemed while becoming the first female winners (known in Flower's case, as BFDIA's winner is currently unknown).
- In contrast, Flower is a physical threat who is not afraid to use violent force to win while Cabby is a mental and emotional threat who prefers playing mind and social games. Flower is an original series contestant while Cabby is a newbie in a later season. Flower's redemption comes in a later season while Cabby's happened in the same season she debuted in. Flower lost in the season she rejoined in (Battle for Dream Island) but won later (Battle for BFB) while Cabby won rejoining in the same season. Flower has a complete set of limbs while Cabby has wheels in place of legs. And finally, Flower is an organic object while Cabby is an artificial object.
- Cabby also share similarities with Suitcase and Box, as all three of them are female and have the gimmick where they are meant for storage, storing items inside of them to be exact.
- If Suitcase is excluded, Cabby and Box would both be the ones with arms. But if Box is excluded, Cabby and Suitcase would be the ones half-limbless, plus they both win a season of the show.
- Something about their characters is that they also share different traumatic experiences. Cabby doesn't know about her parents and it continues to hurt her, Suitcase has experienced hallucinations where voices in her heard start talking to her, and Box didn't want to compete for Inanimate Insanity since there are multiple substitutes taking her place. Cabby only experiences memory loss issues, while Suitcase and Box both have shared a traumatic experience of being underwater.
- Cabby was made into an actual moving cabinet file by Adam Katz in May 2024, as shown in the YouTube short "I Built a REAL Cabby!?"
- The cabinet itself was from Amazon, and the additional parts were from Lowe's. The paint uses was called "Paradise Found", which is a direct reference to the setting of Inanimate Insanity Invitational, which is also coincidentally the season where Cabby won.
- To create the replica, Adam had to disassemble every single piece and paint each part 3 times, which was longer that what was originally thought.
- After painting the face on the specified drawer, the cabinet was assembled, but there were some mistakes when putting the pieces together.
- As of May 18, 2025, the short has since become the most viewed AnimationEpic video since Inanimate Insanity II ended and the first AnimationEpic video to hit 1 million views since Inanimate Insanity II ended, beating "The Crappy Cliff (Remastered)".[1]
- Cabby and Lightbulb would get along.[2]
- Cabby enjoys cataloguing TV shows.[3]
- Cabby has been trying to learn slang terms.[4]
- Cabby's name is closely similar to Cammy, due to their names almost sounding the same, same amount of letters, but the spelling is different. A similar case with Bot, Bow, and Box.
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References[]
| The Pinkers |
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Members: Fan • Test Tube • Paintbrush • Bot • Silver Spoon • Balloon • Cabby |