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Elimination Time is an elimination ceremony featured in all seasons of Inanimate Insanity.
Description[]
The Elimination Time ceremony takes place in almost every episode of the series, varying from the beginning of an episode to the very end. A contestant is removed from the competition, often occurring after they are voted for by the other members of their team, merged contestants, or viewers of the series.
Before the ceremony takes place, the losing team or each individual will be placed up for elimination by the host. Votes will then be collected either through contestant voting or viewer voting. The contestant who receives the most votes will leave the show and be sent to a holding area. These range from Idiotic Island in Inanimate Insanity, Hotel OJ in Inanimate Insanity II, inside Black Hole in Inanimate Insanity Infinity, or Indefinite Island in Inanimate Insanity Invitational.
While the event would normally begin with a song, also called "Elimination Time!", the song was discontinued, occasionally returning as a joke.
Contestant Voting[]
Bomb casts a vote for Balloon in "Sugar Rush".
First used in "A Lemony Lesson", contestant voting is when the members of the team or remaining individual contestants vote which contestant of the team they want to leave, mostly due to causing failure of a challenge, or strained relationships. Characters will be voted out based on the other members themselves. Votes cast by contestants are often read in a random order.
In Inanimate Insanity, contestants may cast their votes in private, later counted aloud by MePhone4, or by unceremoniously announcing who they want to be eliminated. Occasionally, a screen counts the votes by displaying the respective character icons. In "Inanimate Smackdown", a voting box was introduced where the contestants recorded their votes inside a tiny booth, but the booth proved to be too small in "The Penultimate Poll" for certain contestants to fit in.
Contestant voting was temporarily discontinued following the introduction of viewer voting in "One-Shot Wonder", but was brought back on occasion in later episodes of Inanimate Insanity.
Knife votes for Balloon in "Kick the Bucket".
In Inanimate Insanity II, contestant voting was permanently brought back and established since "Kick the Bucket", revamped with an official electronic system for contestants to cast their vote in private. Instead of a screen displaying the votes, MePad does instead.
In Inanimate Insanity Invitational, contestant voting is the staple elimination method amongst players, whilst the viewers vote who is immune initially until Viewer Voting was removed later into the season, due to Yin-Yang always getting immunity.
Viewer Voting[]
Taco receives 125 viewer votes.
Introduced at the end of "One-Shot Wonder", and continued in further episodes, viewer voting is based on votes from the viewers of Inanimate Insanity. Fans must type in a comment for which character they want to be eliminated. Votes casted by viewers are collected and then read in ascending order, leading up to the highest voted contestant who is eliminated.
Viewer elimination is the most unpredictable, while contestant elimination can be predicted based upon whom each character seems to dislike. Yet, viewer elimination can be predicted if a fan counts an unofficial count of the votes in the comment section, though it will not necessarily be right. Very often, in fact, inaccurate tallies will be posted, some of which were close but incorrect, and others that are far off and seemingly completely made up to fool other viewers. Fake voters have previously been identified, resulting in their votes being removed from the tally, although this is never mentioned in the actual series itself. Misspelled votes also at one point were not counted, but now are.
In Inanimate Insanity II, as of "Breaking the Ice", viewer voting was no longer regulated by the comment section, but instead by polls on InanimateInsanity.com and later by Google polls. The polls made it so no viewers could see the votes until the next episode's release. Viewer voting was altered at the end of "Mazed and Confused" by no longer allowing viewers to vote for contestants, but rather, choose the contest for the next episode. As of "Mine Your Own Business", viewer voting is discontinued for the season.
Yin-Yang is immune, his elimination vote does not count.
In Inanimate Insanity Invitational, viewer voting makes a return but is altered to instead allow viewers to vote for which contestant they would like to grant immunity, while contestants vote for who is eliminated. Viewers are allowed to vote for one contestant on each team, allowing them to vote two or three times depending on how many teams there are. The contestant who receives the most votes is then immune from being eliminated, even if contestants cast votes against them. During the beginning of the merge, a contestant could win immunity while another could be voted by viewers to win immunity. However, the voting was announced to be removed after Home Is Where the Heart Is, Meaning only contestants could now vote and that viewers could no longer vote who to receive immunity on the Inanimate Insanity website.
Order of Elimination[]
Below is a table of information that shows each character's elimination in the Inanimate Insanity series.
Key[]
| Section | Shortcut | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| Winners/Finalists | 1st | This contestant won the season. |
| 2nd | This contestant was the runner up of the season. | |
| 3rd | This contestant got third place in a finale of a season. | |
| Genders | Name | This contestant is male. |
| Name | This contestant is female. | |
| Name | This contestant is non-binary. | |
| Challenge | Win | This contestant won for their team. |
| Win | This contestant was on the winning team. | |
| Immune | This contestant won immunity for themself. | |
| In | This contestant didn't win or lose. | |
| Teams | 
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This contestant was on Team Epic. |
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This contestant was on Team Chickenleg. | |
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This contestant was on both teams (II 1). | |
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This contestant was on The Bright Lights. | |
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This contestant was on The Grand Slams. | |
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This contestant was on The Thinkers. | |
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This contestant was on The Sinkers. | |
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This contestant was on The Pinkers. | |
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This contestant was on Thematic Cats. | |
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This contestant was on Go Big or Be Last. | |
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This contestant was on Heavy Metal Pop Stars. | |
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This contestant was on Circumspect. | |
| Elimination | Out | This contestant was eliminated by viewer votes or by losing the challenge. |
| ELM | This contestant was eliminated by contestants votes. | |
| Acc | This contestant was eliminated by mistake. | |
| Dsq | This contestant was disqualified. | |
| Quit | This contestant quit the show. | |
| DEL | This contestant was deleted after Toilet unplugged Me. | |
| Statuses | Safe | This contestant was up for elimination but was declared safe. |
| Low | This contestant received the second-most votes for elimination but was still declared safe. | |
| Tie | This contestant tied with other contestant, so no team won or lost. | |
| Returns | This contestant used to be eliminated but rejoined in a future episode. | |
| Debuts | This contestant wasn't in the cast since Episode 1 but debuted in a future episode. | |
| Rejoin Scoreboard | 0 | This contestant got 0 rejoin points, meaning they were recently added to the scoreboard. |
| 1 | This contestant got 1 rejoin point. | |
| 2 | This contestant got 2 rejoin points. | |
| 3 | This contestant got 3 rejoin points. | |
| 4 | This contestant got 4 rejoin points. | |
| 5 | This contestant got 5 rejoin points, therefore they rejoin the game. |
Season 1[]
| Place | Contestant | Team | 11 | 2 | 3 | 43 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 103 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 173 | 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st |  |
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In | Win | Win | Win | Immune | Safe | Immune | Immune | Win | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Immune | Low | In | Winner (1st) |
| 2nd |  |
Win | Win | Win | Safe | Safe | Safe | Immune | Win | Safe | Safe | Safe | Immune | Immune | Safe | Safe | In | Runner-up (2nd) | ||
| 3rd |  |
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Out2 | Returns in "Double Digit Desert" | Low | Immune | Safe | Safe | Low | Low | ELM | PE | ||||||||
| 4th |  |
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Win | Win | Win | Immune | Safe | Safe | Low | Win | Safe | Safe | Immune | Low | Immune | Safe | Out | PE | ||
| 5th |  |
Debuts in "Double Digit Desert" | Win | Safe | Safe | Safe | Low | Out | PE | |||||||||||
| 6th |  |
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Debuts in "War De Guacamole" | Win | Win | Immune | In | Safe | Low | Low | Safe | Out | PE | |||||||
| 7th |  |
In | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Win | Win | Immune | In | Safe | Safe | Safe | Out6 | Permanently Eliminated | |||||
| 8th |  |
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Win | Win | Win | Immune | Safe | Immune | Low | Win | Win | Safe | Out | Permanently Eliminated | ||||||
| 9th |  |
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Safe | Safe | Safe | Immune | Win | Win | Immune | In | Safe | Out | Permanently Eliminated | |||||||
| 10th |  |
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Win | Win | Win | Immune | Safe | Low | Immune | Win | Safe | Out | Permanently Eliminated | |||||||
| 11th |  |
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Win | Safe | Safe | Safe | Acc4 | Win | Win | Low | Out | Permanently Eliminated | ||||||||
| 12th |  |
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In | Win | Win | Win | Safe | Safe | Low | Out | Permanently Eliminated | |||||||||
| 13th |  |
Win | Win | Win | Win | Immune | Safe | ELM | Permanently Eliminated | |||||||||||
| 14th |  |
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In | Safe | Safe | Safe | Immune | Dsq5 | Permanently Eliminated | |||||||||||
| 15th |  |
Low | Low | Safe | Safe | Out | Permanently Eliminated | |||||||||||||
| 16th |  |
Safe | ELM | Permanently Eliminated | ||||||||||||||||
Notes[]
1: The challenge was carried out in order to select the team captains.
2: Paper lost the tiebreaker with Knife.
3: It's a non-elimination episode.
4: Lightbulb was mistakenly eliminated, but rejoined in Episode 6.
5: In previous episode, Nickel was supposed to eliminated, but he was still in the game so he was eliminated/disqualified from the show in this episode without any vote.
6: Marshmallow lost the tiebreaker to Apple.
Season 2[]
| Place | Contestant | Team | Episode | |||||||||||||||||
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| 11,2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 101 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | The Movie | |||||
| 161,10 | 171,10,11 | 18 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1st |  |
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In | Win | Win | Safe | Safe | Win | Win 4 | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Immune | Low | Safe | Immune | In | DEL | Winner (1st) |
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In | Win | Win | Safe | Safe | Win | Win | Tie | Low | Immune | Low | Low | Runner-Up (2nd) | |||||
| 3rd |  |
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Win | Win | Win | Safe | Safe | Win | Win | Safe | Safe | ELM | P.E. | P.E. | ||||||
| 4th |  |
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Win | Safe | Safe | Win | Win | Safe | Safe | Win | Win | Safe | Win | Safe | Out | |||||
| 5th |  |
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In | Safe | Safe | Win | Win | Safe | Safe | Win | Win | Tie | Win | ELM | P.E. | |||||
| 6th |  |
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In | Win | Win | Safe | Safe | Win | Win | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Quit9 | ||||||
| 7th |  |
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In | Safe | Safe | Win | Win | Safe | Safe | Win | Win | Win | Out8 | Permanently eliminated | ||||||
| 8th |  |
In | Win | Low | Low | Win | ELM | Permanently eliminated | ||||||||||||
| 9th |  |
In | Win | Safe | Safe | Win | Win | Dsq7 | ||||||||||||
| 10th |  |
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In | Win | Win | Safe | Safe | Win | Win | Safe | Low | ELM6 | Permanently eliminated | |||||||
| 11th |  |
In | Low | Safe | ELM5 | |||||||||||||||
| 12th |  |
In | Win | Low | Win | Safe | Out | Permanently eliminated | ||||||||||||
| 13th |  |
In | Safe | Win | Out | Permanently eliminated | ||||||||||||||
| 14th |  |
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In | Low | Safe | Win | Win | Safe | Out | Permanently eliminated | ||||||||||
| 15th |  |
In | Safe | Low | Win | Win | Out | Permanently eliminated | ||||||||||||
| 16th |  |
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Debuts in "A Kick in the Right Direction" | Acc3 | Permanently eliminated | |||||||||||||||
| 17th |  |
In | Win | Win | Low | Out | ||||||||||||||
| 18th |  |
Out | Permanently eliminated | |||||||||||||||||
| 19th |  |
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Safe | Out | Permanently eliminated | |||||||||||||||
| 20th |  |
Out | Permanently eliminated | |||||||||||||||||
Notes[]
1: Non-elimination episode.
2: Episode 1 had two challenges: the first was to decide the team captains and the second was to decide which team was up for elimination.
3: Dough was eaten by Yin-Yang 17 seconds after he joined the Grand Slams.
4: Suitcase was chosen to be eliminated by OJ while he was a temporary host, however was allowed to come back after MePhone4 came back from jail.
5: Balloon voted for himself.
6: First, Nickel was safe, but MePhone decided to eliminate him as well in a surprise double elimination.
7: Marshmallow left the show's parameters.
8: Fan was the only player who did not find the gem which resulted in his automatic elimination.
9: Though she won immunity, Microphone voluntarily quit the game because she did not want Taco to rule her constantly and take away her ability to make independent decisions.
10: This episode is part of the finale, and the challenge was not completed yet.
11: After Toilet unplugged Me, everyone created by MePhone was deleted. No winner was announced, and even Knife said to Steve Cobs that "there would be no winner."
Season 3[]
| Place | Contestant | First Team | Second Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 52 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 |
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| 1st |  |
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Win | Low | Win | In | Win | ELM | Returns in "I Am Chocolate!" | Low | Safe | Low | Immune | Safe | Low | In | Winner (1st) | |||||
| 2nd |  |
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Safe | Win | Immune | Win | In | Immune | Win | Safe | Low | Safe | Low | Safe | Immune | Safe | In | Runner-Up (2nd) | |||
| 3rd |  |
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Win | Safe | In | Win | Low | Win | Immune | Safe | Immune | Safe | Low | In | Third Place (3rd) | |||||||
| 4th |  |
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Safe | Win | Low | Win | In | Low | Win | Safe | Immune | Safe | Low | Low | Low | ELM | P.E | ||||
| 5th |  |
N/A | ELM 1 | Returns in "Blue Buried" | Immune | ELM | P.E | |||||||||||||||
| 6th |  |
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Win | Immune | In | Win | Immune | Low | Safe | ELM | Permanently Eliminated | |||||||||||
| 7th |  |
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Win | Immune | Win | In | Win | Safe | Win | Win | Safe | Safe | Immune | Safe | ELM | Permanently Eliminated | ||||||
| 8th |  |
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Win | Safe | In | Win | Win | Safe | Low | Safe | Safe | Low | ELM | Permanently Eliminated | |||||||
| 9th |  |
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Win | Win | Win | Low | In | Win | Safe | Win | Win | Safe | Safe | ELM | Permanently Eliminated | |||||||
| 10th |  |
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Win | Win | Win | Safe | In | Win | Win | Safe | Safe | Safe | ELM | Permanently Eliminated | ||||||||
| 11th |  |
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Win | Safe | Win | Win | In | Win | Safe | Win | Win | ELM | Permanently Eliminated | ||||||||
| 12th |  |
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Win | Safe | Win | Win | In | Win | Win | Safe | ELM | Permanently Eliminated | ||||||||||
| 13th |  |
Win | Safe | Win | In | Win | ELM | Permanently Eliminated | ||||||||||||||
| 14th |  |
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N/A | Safe | Win | Safe | Win | In | ELM | Permanently Eliminated | ||||||||||||
| 15th |  |
N/A | Safe | Win | Safe | Win | Acc | Permanently Eliminated | ||||||||||||||
| 16th |  |
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N/A | Win | ELM | Permanently Eliminated | ||||||||||||||||
| 17th |  |
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N/A | Low | Win | ELM | Permanently Eliminated | |||||||||||||||
| 18th |  |
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N/A | Win | ELM | Permanently Eliminated | ||||||||||||||||
Notes[]
1: Blueberry is the first contestant to be eliminated in the first episode.
2: The episode was initially supposed to be non-elimination episode.
3: Box was medically evacuated due to her injuries during the challenge.
Season 4[]
| Place | Contestant | Team | 11 | 22 | 3 | 4 |
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| 22nd |  |
Low | Eliminated | |||
| 23rd |  |
Eliminated | Eliminated | |||
| 24th |  |
N/A | Eliminated | Eliminated | ||
Notes[]
1: Non-elimination episode.
2: Non-team episode.
Season 4 Rejoin Scoreboard[]
| Contestant | 2 | 3 | 4 |
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0 | ||
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N/A | 0 | |
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N/A | 0 | |
Trivia[]
- As revealed in "Kick the Bucket", contestants may vote for themselves in contestant voting.