Objects in Mirror

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“	Here's your chance to prove your allegiance, 4! Nothing else to do, anyway. Everything you love... Is gone.	”
—Steve Cobs

Objects in Mirror
Season 2, Episode 18
Watch on YouTube
Duration	47:17
Challenge	Defeat Steve Cobs.
Winner(s)	Suitcase
Eliminated	Knife (Runner-Up)
Airdate	November 24, 2024 (Rich Mix Theatre, London) November 25, 2024 (Laemmle NoHo 7 Theater, Los Angeles) November 26, 2024 (Laemmle Glendale, Glendale, Los Angeles) November 29, 2024 (YouTube Release)
Episode chronology
Previous episode	"Through No Choice of Your Own" (Act 2)

Objects in Mirror is the 18th and final episode of Inanimate Insanity II, and the third and final act of Inanimate Insanity II: The Movie. It is the 55th episode overall. It was released on November 29, 2024, at 3:00 p.m. EST on YouTube.

The episode and release window was officially announced through the Inanimate Insanity II ARG, which started and ended on October 18, 2024. It was then confirmed to release on November 25-26, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. PST for a theatrical release in Los Angeles with all three parts, with the separate third part releasing on YouTube on November 29, 2024. It was later announced that the movie would have an early screening at the Rich Mix theater in London on November 24, 2024 at 11:30 a.m. GMT.

Synopsis

It was only a matter of time before MePhone had to face the consequences. He once thought he could escape his fate, but Cobs insists the reality of the situation is that MePhone never had a choice of his own.

Plot

This is a work in progress.

The episode begins with MePhone4 having a flashback sequence of different scenes throughout Inanimate Insanity, ending with the contestants allowing him to fall off a cliff. MePhone4 then snaps back to reality and finds himself looking off the cliff, but Steve Cobs drags ushers him away, the two of them presumably heading to Meeple. Cobs has a conversation with MePhone4 about how they're going to reboot the show and make it "more professional, immediately". He warns him to go through with what's he's about to do next, or they'll have a BIG problem.

The episode then cuts to the inside of MeAfterlife, where we see OJ wake up in front of the hotel, surrounded by inanimate objects generated by MeLife. Paper bumps into Knife, who decides to find a way to escape. Springy suddenly appears in front them, panicking and glitches out of existence, making Knife go a different way. Outside, the Shimmers come and Cobs wants MePhone4 to prove his allegiance. Back inside MeAfterlife, we then get to see Suitcase meet Box with all of their limbs, who has presumably been there since the auditions. Box doesn't know any of the people on the show due to them being dead for the entirety of it running. We cut back to the outer world with MePhone4 and Steve Cobs. The shimmers emerge out of their ship and Steve tricks them. Just then however, MePhone4 warns them of Steve Cobs tricking them and tells them to run, and Cobs gets a Meeple Knife© and stabs the Prime Shimmer. They run away and Cobs gets furious at MePhone4 with a speech over the fact that he disobeyed him one last time when he told MePhone4 not to say anything. Cobs then decides that he now wants to kill MePhone4 and tries to with the Meeple Knife©, cracking the latter's screen in the process.

We cut to MeAfterlife once again, where Knife is still trying to find an exit. After he lashes out on Starfruit, who is looking for Guava, for not understanding that he and his band is fake, Knife finds MePhone4S in MeAfterlife. Eventually everybody is re-generated together in MePhone4, and plan to take the Shimmer Egg out of MePhone4. They call him to "make sure he approves" and Cobs tries to kill 4, but MePad is killed instead. The contestants find out they can get out of him by doing a race where if you touch the red beam you (presumably) turn into a ghost. Knife saves Marshmallow from the red beam, and Knife turns into a ghost while everybody else appears back in the real world. Suitcase blows up Cobs with a fake egg, making Suitcase win Inanimate Insanity 2 right after the Shimmers take back their lost egg. They all mourn MePad with a song. Afterwards, Suitcase sits with Knife on the roof of the newly renamed MePad Mansion, where she reads a poem written by Balloon to him. Afterwards, they both get up to leave, with Suitcase entering the mansion, and the credits roll.

Pre-release Information

Go to: Inanimate Insanity II: The Movie#Pre-release_Information
Go to: Inanimate Insanity II ARG

Release date announced on inanimateinsanity.com webpage at the end of the Inanimate Insanity II ARG

Final Results

Tissues 20th	Cherries 19th	Trophy 18th	Box 17th	Dough 16th
Yin-Yang 15th	Apple 14th	Cheesy 13th	Soap 12th	Balloon 11th
Nickel 10th	Marshmallow 9th	Paintbrush 8th	Fan 7th	Microphone 6th
Test Tube 5th	Lightbulb 4th	Baseball 3rd	Knife 2nd	Suitcase 1st

Features

Characters

Contestants

• Knife (Death and Revived as a ghost)
• Suitcase

Meeple

• MePhone4
• Steve Cobs (Death)
• MePad (Death and Dedication)
• MePhone4S
• MePhone3GS

Supporting

• Box (speaking debut)
• Taco
• Lightbulb
• Baseball
• OJ
• Paper
• Test Tube
• Fan
• Microphone
• Paintbrush
• Marshmallow
• Nickel
• Balloon
• Soap
• Cheesy
• Apple
• Yin-Yang
• Trophy
• Cherries
• Tissues
• Bow
• Dough
• Pickle
• Salt
• Pepper
• Bomb
• Starfruit
• Guava
• Cabby
• Silver Spoon
• Blueberry
• Candle
• The Floor
• Goo
• Clover
• Tea Kettle
• Lifering
• Bot
• Toilet
• Springy
• Walkie-Talkie
• Ballpoint Pen
• The Prime Shimmer
• The Baby Shimmer
• Light Shimmers
• Baxter
• Judge Gavel (non-speaking)
• Pizza Cutter (non-speaking)
• Rusty Jo (non-speaking)
• Banana (non-speaking)
• Poptart (non-speaking)
• Dictionary (non-speaking)
• Teddy Bear (non-speaking)

Locations

• MeAfterlife
• Inanimate Island
  • Hotel OJ
  • Purgatory Mansion
  • Gladstonian Glacier (visualization)
  • 60 Foot Cliff (visualization)
  • Gemory Cave (flashback)
  • Elimination Area (flashback)
• Paradise (visualization and flashback)
  • Volcano (flashback)
• MeCloud (visualization)
• Egg Spaceship

Items

• InvisiBow
• Pic-Nix Tables
• MeLife

Credits

TBA

Song Credits

1) Karma Waits

Anthony Kos, Inanimate Insanity

2) I, I

TBA

3) Make Your Own Reality

TBA

Production Notes

Behind the Scenes

• Brian also did title guessing game for this one, while saying "no confirmation".
  • Meaning of title word-by-word, as told by Brian, are:
    • "It’s all that they are. And the act of denying it."
    • "It's how #InanimateInsanity begins. Simple as that."
    • "How do you see yourself for exactly who you are?"

TBA

Trivia

General

• This is the third season finale in Inanimate Insanity, as Season 3 ended before it.
• Due to this episode being the final episode of the season, Inanimate Insanity II is the first season to end with the same number of episodes as the original season.
• This is one of the few Inanimate Insanity episodes not to have a normal intro before the continuation of an episode.
• The password "redlinegame" in the Inanimate Insanity II ARG referred to the red line that the contestants had to outrun in order to be brought back to life by MePhone4.
• The first two letters in the episode were revealed early by Brian Koch to be "I" and "C".
  • This is not counting the lyrics to the song "Karma Waits" that plays at the beginning of the episode.
• Two random words spoken in the episode were revealed early by Justin Chapman to be "single" and "desperately".
• In a Q&A hosted by Justin Chapman, they said the episode would reveal what happened to Toilet.
• This is the fourth episode to have early screening and the fifth episode of the series to be shown live following "Tri Your Best", "Mine Your Own Business", “Spring on the Breakfast!”, and “Truth or Flare".
• This episode is the longest in the series at 47 minutes and 16 seconds.
• The poster for Inanimate Insanity II: The Movie revealed this episode had Aisha Rae and Angela Giarratana in its cast.
• With no announcement that a 4th season will happen yet, it is currently unknown if this is the last episode of the Inanimate Insanity series.
  • Series creator Adam Katz confirmed that this will not be "the last you'll see of these characters" at the Laemmle Glendale showing's Q&A panel.
• The scene near the end with the Shimmers with a glowing egg object and saying "Yes. They're going to need it." was not present in the theatre screenings of the whole movie, and was instead specifically added in for the YouTube release.
• This episode has the most songs out of any episode, at three, those being Karma Waits, I, I, and Make Your Own Reality.
  • If the entire Inanimate Insanity II Movie is counted as one episode, then The Future Is So Yesterday can also be added to this count, giving a total of four songs.

Continuity References

• When the contestants and Spoiled Lemon are running at the running lane in MeAfterlife, Microphone yells out in order to bring Fan and Lightbulb closer to the finish, this was possibly meant as a call back to "Tri Your Best", specifically in the last part of the challenge where the contestants are racing to the finish and Fan tricks Microphone into yelling so he can open up and glide to the finish.
• When Box asked Suitcase how she died, the possible death that Box suggested was a "bridge collapse", possibly referring to the incident in "Out of Body Experience" where everyone got crushed by a falling bridge.
  • Ballpoint Pen's claim that "you can't keep the show going forever" is also a reference to the review he wrote to MePhone4 in that episode, as well as the title of the Inanimate Insanity Invitational finale, "You Can't Do This Forever".
• Box's flashback has multiple references referring to her appearances in previous episodes.
  • The part where Box tripped over a rock and fell down the cliff was likely foreshadowed by "Tragedy at 60 Feet".
  • When Box drowned in the lake, narrating that she never learned to swim, it referenced "Stranded in Paradise", in which Test Tube asked Box who taught her to swim.
    • MePhone4 fishing Box's dead body was another reference to the same episode, when Yin-Yang fishes her out of the water and onto the boat.
  • MePhone4 proceeding to write "Box" in Box's dead body refers to "A Kick in the Right Direction", when the contestants open Box to see what is inside of her, seeing the words written in marker.
• The song "I, I" has multiple direct references to nearly all of the previous songs in the series:
  • Keep On Cleaning
  • Afterlife in The Limelight
  • A Party
  • Just Like Me!
  • Taco's Tirade
  • The Future Is So Yesterday
  • It's a Ball
  • She Forgot
  • Springtastic (commercial jingle)

Cultural References

• The episode title is potentially a reference to the warning text seen on automobile side mirrors, which states "Objects in mirror are closer than they appear". This phrase could serve as a double-meaning, referring to the contestants and their relationships in the context of the episode.
• MePhone4S brings up that he was based off of "old movies" Cobs used to watch, referring to the Terminator franchise.
  • He also says he wouldn't be surprised if Cobs himself stole his style from someone else, alluding to Steve Jobs, the former CEO of Apple Inc.
• Bot's hidden appearance as a spoiler is a direct TV trope of cartoon characters having their entire appearance hidden throughout their screen time. There are few examples, such as Miss Bellum in the Powerpuff Girls, Mom and Dad from Cow and Chicken, Tall Tail from Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years, The adults from the Peanuts franchise, and a lot of characters from the Tom and Jerry franchise including Mammy Two Shoes.
• Apple brings up that all good endings should be like those animated movies that end with a dance party after brutally killing the villain (which is indeed what happens later), which is actually a common trope with some animation studios such as DreamWorks Animation.
• MeAfterlife's sky resembles some of the default wallpaper backgrounds found on older versions of macOS.

Goofs

• When the other boxes are sizing Box up, one of the dark brown cases is seen with a white face but for some reason has a black mouth at 10:32.

Deaths

• Box drowns to death after tripping into a lake. (Flashback)
• Poptart was deleted by the line inside of MePhone4.
• Dictionary was deleted by the line inside of MePhone4.
• Banana was deleted by the line inside of MePhone4.
• MePad was stabbed in the chest by Steve Cobs with a knife.
• Knife was deleted by the line inside of MePhone4, became a ghost.
• Steve Cobs was blown into popcorn by a high-energy grenade given by Suitcase.

References

Inanimate Insanity Episodes

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