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Greetings and Salutations! I am your Host, MePhone4!

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MePhone4, labeled The Host, is the main host and the main protagonist of the Inanimate Insanity series. He is voiced by Mark Katz.

Personality[]

As the host of Inanimate Insanity, MePhone4's primary goal is to make his show as entertaining as possible, for himself and the viewers. He is dedicated to good showmanship and raising the stakes of the game, often in favor of producing the most exciting competition possible. This often means the contestants get the short end of the stick, as MePhone4 comes up with challenges that range from mundane to relatively normal to disgusting to extremely dangerous. It is also implied he enjoys this job from his anxiety when Ballpoint Pen reminds him the show can't go on forever and The Floor comments on how fast the game is going by. (In the newest episode of III, it is revealed that he never got the funding for a cash prize.)

MePhone4 was invented by Steve Cobs, though he differs from any other Meeple products in key ways. According to Cobs, he has a "highly-advanced emotion emulator," meaning that he is able to feel emotions strongly like any other object might. When in good spirits, MePhone4 is very childlike and becomes excited by the drama of the competition. He enjoys sugary junk food, most notably cookies, and has such a fondness for eating food that he describes himself as a "fat slob." He enjoys celebrating various holidays and anniversaries within the show (for example, by starting Season 2 exactly two years after the first episode of Season 1 aired). His love of competition and showmanship stems from watching reality TV back at Meeple Headquarters, which he enjoyed, instead of doing tasks assigned to him by Cobs, which caused a rift in their relationship.

Although he does seem to enjoy celebrating contestants' victories in challenge and offering them rewards at elimination, MePhone4 generally shows little regard for the contestants' well-being. This is exemplified by the fact that he locks the eliminated contestants in a cage in Season 1, causing several contestants severe duress) and in a closet in OJ's hotel in Season 2. Though his negligence plays a role in the various problems on the show, it is worth mentioning that he is bias and appears to like certain contestants less than others. He generally judges contests fairly, but tends to make shrewd comments belying this bias during eliminations. The most material effect this has on the show was when he locked Bow in a box in part because she personally annoyed him. This caused her to go insane, which among other things led to Taco losing and Bow's death. It is also evident in the way he negatively treats Toilet, his assistant, whom he looks at as an unhelpful menace with little regard to his emotional well-being.

MePhone4 has a very "out of sight, out of mind" mentality and sweeps his problems under the rug, whether it pertains to the competition or to his past, as he would much rather forget his problems instead of dealing with them head-on. This mentality also affects how MePhone4 deals with his past endeavors. He goes to great lengths to avoid confrontation with his past memories of Cobs and Meeple by physically removing them from his system within a flashback in "Mine Your Own Business", and considers removing them a second time in "Hatching the Plan" shortly after he regains his memories.

Appearance[]

MePhone4 is a black rectangular phone with a silver casing surrounding his sides. On one side, he has two volume buttons and a ringer switch, and on his top is a power button. He has a large screen on his front which has a glowing blue wallpaper. He has two cameras, one on his front and back, as well as a receiver above his screen, and a home button below it. On his back is a large Meeple logo.

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Coverage[]

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Voices[]

In "The Crappy Cliff", MePhone4 is played by Christian Potenza, who is best known for his role as Chris McLean in Total Drama Island. However, after a change in voice actors, MePhone4's is voiced by Mark Katz in "A Lemony Lesson" and onward.

The voice change was given an official canon explanation in "Crappy Anniversary", it's revealed that a MeTunes update changed his voice after the first episode. MePhone can sometimes, with difficulty or major updates, switch back to his original voice.

Trivia[]

  • MePhone4 is based on the real life iPhone 4.
    IPhone 4

    The iPhone 4

  • MePhone4 looks identical to MePhone4S, except the slight difference on the antanna bands on the phone.
  • MePhone4 is the first character to speak in the series, not including "The Stupid Trailer".
  • MePhone4 is the only character to be revived in the body of another MePhone.
    • However, over time MePhone4's design has changed slightly from an iPhone4, with the latest and most significant change within Inanimate Insanity Invitational.
  • MePhone4 has hosted every episode of the series, except:
  • MePhone4 and his original voice actor's other character, Chris McLean, are sometimes noted for their similarity, because they are both blue-colored hosts who care more about their reality shows than about their contestants' well-being.
  • MePhone4 is in the thumbnail of the first episode of every season. He additionally will hold up fingers depending on what season it is.
  • According to a Behind The Scenes video with Justin Chapman, an early unused idea was for MePhone4 to have a different voice in every episode, but this was dropped.
  • The only character other than himself who has eaten his cookies is OJ, who has said they taste awful.
  • Besides his enthusiasm for reality TV, MePhone4 has been shown to be very excited about holidays.
    • MePhone4 has occasionally celebrated holidays on the incorrect date, such as when he celebrates Halloween several months late in "Let Er' R.I.P.". Taylor Grodin has justified this by stating "his internal clock might be a bit off."[1]
    • He hates Paintbrush's tree in The Snowdown because it shows "commercialism" instead of what he deems to be the Christmas spirit.
    • It is possible that he hates commercialism because of Meeple's business practices, his reason being that they put out new products as much as possible so more people buy their merchandise; this leads to inventions such as MePhone4 being rendered obsolete.
  • MePhone4 is revealed to be one year old in "4Seeing The Future", though it is not clear how old he was before removing his memories, nor how much time has passed since then.
  • MePhone4 was assembled in New York, and was designed by Meeple on Inanimate Planet, with his ID codes being Model:AK418 JDJ 6969 FCC ID: INA-NIMATE IC: INSA-NITYOO. All of this is on the back of him below the meeple logo.
  • MePhone4 and MePhone4S are so far the only Meeple devices confirmed to be familially related outside of the fact that they were built by the same person.
    • This was confirmed in a tweet by Brian Koch in a response to a fan question about whether or not the two were related.
  • In "Spring on the Breakfast!" during the tie-breaker, MePhone4 explicitly admitted that he is unable to sleep without the shining lights he generated. Yang commented calling him a Nightlight-baby.
  • MePhone4 misspelt the word "Sunday" in a tweet on the official Inanimate Insanity Twitter account, and he also has misspelled his own name on Springy's contract in "Spring on the Breakfast!". This has lead some fans to assume he is dyslexic.
  • In "A Jury of Your Fears", MePhone4 expresses remorse over a loss in the first two seasons, implying he still remembers his past co-hosts.
  • MePhone4 has a 30-pin charging port, which is shown in "Theft and Battery". However, in "A Jury of Your Fears", he was connected to a USB-C or lightning stick.
  • The wallpaper used on MePhone4's assets in Seasons 1 and 2 comes from a beta version of Windows 7.

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