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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
“

Inanimate Insanity was my way to rebel against Cobs... But that just meant... I was still kind of doing it FOR him. I know this won't ever make it better, but I am sorry...

”
—MePhone4

"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.[1][2] 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.[3]

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

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The episode begins with devastated MePhone4 having a flashback sequence of different scenes throughout Inanimate Insanity, ending with the contestants allowing him to fall off a cliff (specifically the 60 Foot Cliff). MePhone4 then snaps back to reality and sadly 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 her limbs, who has presumably been there since the auditions. Box doesn't know any of the people on the show due to her 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 and angrily yells at him 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 stab him with the Meeple Knife©, cracking the latter's screen in the process. But then MePad, Bow and Dough come to his aid and help him.

We cut to MeAfterlife once again, where Knife is being angry and 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 are 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". Cutting to the real world, Cobs tries to kill 4 again, 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. Toilet comes and apologizes for not helping more, and MePhone4 leaves along with MePhone3GS.

Time passes off-screen,[4] and we cut to the middle of a ceremony, where they all mourn MePad with a song sung by the entire cast and Spoiled Lemon. 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, marking the end of Inanimate Insanity II.

Pre-release Information

Go to: Inanimate Insanity II: The Movie#Pre-release_Information
Go to: Inanimate Insanity II ARG
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Release date announced on inanimateinsanity.com webpage at the end of the Inanimate Insanity II ARG

Final Results

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Cherries2024IconOUT
Trophy
18th
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Box
17th
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Dough
16th
Dough2024IconOUT
YinYang2024Icon
Apple
14th
Apple2024IconOUT
Cheesy
13th
Cheesy2024IconOUT
Soap
12th
Soap2024IconOUT
Balloon2024IconOUT
Nickel
10th
Nickel2024IconOUT
Fan
7th
Fan2024IconOUT
Knife2024IconOUT

Features

Characters

Contestants

Meeple

Supporting

Locations

Items

Credits

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Series Creator & Producer

Written By

Directed By

Story By

Executive Producers

  • Kaiden Hunter
  • Don and Gail Mitzner
  • Jacob Goldstein
  • Lennard and Joan Katz

Cast

Rest of Credits TBA

Song Credits

1) Karma Waits

Anthony Kos, Inanimate Insanity

2) I, I

TBA

3) Make Your Own Reality

TBA

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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."[5]
      • "It's how #InanimateInsanity begins. Simple as that."[6]
      • "How do you see yourself for exactly who you are?"[7]

TBA

Trivia

Continuity References

  • One reference that does count as continuity is that this episode still continues a running trope where MePhone4 falls down from a high place, showing how much danger it puts him into. And since it also counts as a final episode of the season, this happened before few times from now. The first time it happened to him was in "Journey Through Memory Lane (Part 2)", as he fell to his death in a body of water along with MePhone5 and Bow. It also happened the second time in "You Can't Do This Forever", where the Springbot almost burn him in lava. In this episode however, the first time was imaginary, then in the second time, he almost fell only to recover the remaining contestants that escaped inside him.
  • When The Prime Shimmer asks Steve Cobs where "Fan on the reality show" is, he says "You just missed him!" which is exactly what Fan said in "Let Er' R.I.P." when MePhone5C and MePhone5S asked where MePhone4 was.
  • 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.
  • 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:
  • The message seen at the end of the credits, "All of the stunts in this movie were performed by animated objects. Do not try any of what you saw here at home. Seriously, you could get really messed up.", is a reference to the intro of "The Crappy Cliff" where a similar message is seen.

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, Hector Jötunheim from The Amazing World of Gumball, 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.
  • The season ending with the characters losing the ability to be recovered is more than likely a reference to the original Battle for Dream Island Season 1 finale.
    • This is especially likely as AnimationEpic has previously produced a fan animation based on said finale titled "Battle For Dream Island - After The Finale" where the contestants mention building a community for each other after this happens. Suitcase says something very similar in this episode as well.

General

  • This is the third season finale in Inanimate Insanity, as Season 3 ended before it.
  • This episode is the longest in the series at 47 minutes and 16 seconds.
    • In total, that makes the movie about nearly an hour and a half long.
  • 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".[8]
    • This is not counting the lyrics to the song "Karma Waits" that plays at the beginning of the episode.
    • These letters ended up being in the words "I called", spoken by Steve Cobs.
  • Two random words spoken in the episode were revealed early by Justin Chapman to be "single"[9] and "desperately".[10]
    • These words ended up being in the line "Ridiculous! In your last moments. I just want you to think. You so DESPERATELY wanted my approval for SO long! But I BARELY cared if you LIVED or DIED. Your life was about as pointless as they've come! After all you've done, not a single. Soul. Is here to defend you.", spoken by Steve Cobs.
      • While the word "single" was spoken two other times in the episode, it can be inferred that this was the specific instance Justin was referring to, since the other revealed word also appeared in this line.
  • In a Q&A hosted by Justin Chapman, they said the episode would reveal what happened to Toilet.[11]
  • 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".
  • The poster for Inanimate Insanity II: The Movie revealed this episode had Aisha Rae and Angela Giarratana in its cast.
    • They ended up playing Box and Guava, respectively.
  • Although a 4th season of Inanimate Insanity has not been announced yet, 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.[12] A tweet posted by the Inanimate Insanity account on December 31, 2024 added to this, with further content confirmed for 2025.[13]
  • 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.
    • Fans have theorized it is possibly a recovery center or machine, but that is unconfirmed.
  • Brian Koch has confirmed that both Springy and MePhone4S exist inside the void, and are still alive.[14][15]
    • Brian says that Springy could escape if he wanted to, once having their bearings.
    • MePhone4S is not generated or created by MePhone4, as his body was given to him by downgrading previously. Therefore, 4S escaping would result in him being back to his normal self, and he has no interest in this.
  • 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.
  • Vibha Melkote, the singing voice for Soap in "Keep On Cleaning", reprises her role as the character 10 years later, singing in "I, I".
  • Baxter is credited as playing himself in the credits. This is a joke, however, which is why it is not included in the credits section of this page.
  • With Suitcase winning the season, every season's winner is a contestant who debuted in the said season (OJ first appearing in and winning Season 1, Cabby first appearing in and winning Season 3, and finally Suitcase first appearing in and winning Season 2)

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.
  • At 0:04, Baxter walks across the screen and overlaps the grass which is supposedly in the foreground.
  • At 8:22, the MeLife icons of all of the contestants can be seen. However, at 20:16, 20:30 and 20:41, the icons of Test Tube, Lightbulb, Paintbrush, Pepper, Baseball, Fan, Suitcase, OJ and Paper appear to be in the wrong spot.

Deaths

References

  1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrRyWfOH3jc
  2. ↑ https://x.com/AnimationEpic/status/1857233190588420506
  3. ↑ https://x.com/AnimationEpic/status/1858929328408715289
  4. ↑ https://x.com/Thisisntflying/status/1862764755611451757
  5. ↑ https://x.com/Thisisntflying/status/1861811614837538923
  6. ↑ https://x.com/Thisisntflying/status/1862007045496381633
  7. ↑ https://x.com/Thisisntflying/status/1862226074186256800
  8. ↑ https://youtu.be/7D1x-U4s2Tc?t=5600
  9. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/live/aWtNej7FNOk?t=260
  10. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/live/aWtNej7FNOk?t=5084
  11. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w--niVhR_3Y
  12. ↑ Timestamp 2:29 at Inanimate Insanity II: The Movie Laemmle Glendale Q&A panel. "Will there be a Season 4? So I will say this will not be the last you'll see of these characters. So there will be more, I think we're definitely, you know, getting that all situated right now, I don't think we're ready to drop an announcement, but definitely stay tuned, this will not be the end of all these guys. But yeah, thank you." - Adam Katz
  13. ↑ A new year, a new era. #inanimateinsanity
  14. ↑ https://x.com/Thisisntflying/status/1862764748250476573
  15. ↑ https://x.com/Thisisntflying/status/1862764749504577970
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