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There's only so many problems that have simple equations, but there's so many more that have impossible, unspeakable solutions. But... I want to solve them anyway. |
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| —"Best Served Cold" | ||
Test Tube, labeled The Nerd, is a female contestant on Inanimate Insanity II. She was placed with The Bright Lights, and placed 5th overall.
She returned to compete in Inanimate Insanity Invitational on The Pinkers before the merge. After the merge and Cabby's return to the game, Test Tube struggled to gather enough numbers to vote out the aforementioned returnee, and was voted out by Cabby's new alliance, The New Old Thinkers, placing 11th. She is voiced by Adam Katz.
Appearance[]
Test Tube is a tall glass beaker in the shape of a thin cylinder with an opening at the top, surrounded by a wider glass ring. Inside Test Tube is an unknown neon green liquid substance.
Changes[]
Pre-Debut
- Her glass is light grey.
- She has a blocky shine on her bottom corner.
Debut
- Her glass is light blue.
- She loses her blocky shine, and now has smooth shading.
- She is more rounded.
II2 9-11
- Her glass is more transparent.
- She has a smooth shine on her side.
II2 12-14
- Her rim is larger and no longer has a shine.
- Her liquid no longer has a shadow.
- Her shape is more consistent.
II2 15+ (Current) (Image needed)
- Her colors are darker.
III
- She is no longer isometric.
- Her outline is dark green (darker where her liquid is)
- Her rim has a shine again.
- Her liquid is paler.
Personality[]
As a proud prospective and self-proclaimed scientist, Test Tube devotes her life to the education of science. Since her debut in "Breaking The Ice", Test Tube has displayed an incredible amount of knowledge and intelligence in all areas of science and can be assumed as the most intelligent and creative contestant on Inanimate Insanity II, only coming before Cabby in Invitational. She talks with a strong vocabulary and enjoys making scientific calculations at any moment she wishes.
Test Tube enjoys explaining scientific terms and facts, regardless of the other contestants willingness to hear them. Because of her constant clamor, other contestants may find her irritating or annoying. Consequently, Test Tube may become socially awkward around many contestants who don't share the same interests, even regarding her inept social ability as her "specialty". She can occasionally mutter to herself or make unnerved noises when in uncomfortable situations, and even confesses to her strange behavior after Fan does the same.[1]
Along with her great intelligence, Test Tube is an impressive and masterful engineer. She was able to construct the rocket within seconds,[2] and built another one with the help of the other contestants in "Hatching the Plan". She also designed her own secret laboratory full of many inventions and gadgets.[3] However, Test Tube is quite possessive and secretive of her creations and harbors them away from the public, hidden underneath a Dr. Fizz Machine.
When encountering others' lack of intelligence or sensibility, Test Tube can become incredibly frustrated. Throughout "Alternate Reality Show", Test Tube angrily deals with Lightbulb's mishaps in constant rage or aggravation as they become stuck in an alternate timeline. Test Tube will also put her dedication to goals ahead of her friendships, as seen in "Mine Your Own Business", she does not trust Fan with the egg and refuses to give it back to him.
Occasionally, Test Tube can also be very witless or somewhat silly. In "Theft and Battery", she foolishly tosses handfuls of rice on MePhone4 after he shuts down, not only doing the technique wrong but for the wrong reason as well.
Test Tube has also proven to have an extreme form of atychiphobia, or the fear of being wrong.[1] If Test Tube makes a miscalculation or is proven wrong, the result can cause her to undergo a massive amount of stress, enough to literally make her shatter.
Inventions[]
- Bot
- Experiment 626
- Temporary Paralyzer
- Time Machine Calculator
- InvisiBow
- Tranquilizing Tracking Dart Blaster
- Bow-in-nator
- Pen Signal
- Vilo-Defibrillator (semi-canonical; short)
- Grow-o-tron Ray (non-canonical; IRL)
- Super Energy Stepper (non-canonical; IRL)
Official Site Bio[]
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Test Tube is a science fanatic and devotes her life to science and education. She is the most intelligent person in the game, but very bad at physical challenges. Her knowledge can come off as obnoxious and can irritate the people around her. |
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| —Inanimate Insanity Site, 2013 | ||
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Test Tube… golly… we wonder where her passions lie! SPOILER ALERT: Science! Test Tube is a knowledge-driven scientist that has a slew of kooky inventions at her disposal. Her initial weakness, her social ability, has improved as a result of building friendships with some of the other contestants. Although she is generally understanding and kind, she becomes easily frazzled by the “unexplainable.” Over time, Test Tube questions if everything in life really needs to be explained. But as for right now, Test Tube strives to do what’s right… in the name of science! Science rules!! |
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| —Inanimate Insanity Site, 2018 | ||
Coverage[]
Vote Status[]
Season 2 Votes[]
| Episode | EP # | Votes | Total Votes | Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Marsh on Mars" | 2 | 150 | 2498 | 6.00% |
| "Tri Your Best" | 3 | 119 | 3021 | 3.93% |
| "Let Er' R.I.P." | 6 | 203 | 4211 | 4.82% |
| "Everything's A-OJ" | 7 | 209 | 4300 | 4.86% |
| "Hatching the Plan" | 14 | 3 | 5 | 60% |
| Total: | 684 votes | |||
Popularity Poll[]
| Votes | Total Votes | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| 1314 (to join) | 22513 | 5.83% |
Season 3 Immunity Votes[]
| Episode | EP # | Votes | Total Votes | Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "The Shame of the Name" | 3 | 2220 | 7136 | 14.63% |
| "Best Served Cold" | 7 | 1624 | 10041 | 16.17% |
| "I Am Chocolate!" | 10 | Part of 15417 | 36413 | Part of 42.3% |
| Total Number of Season 3 Votes: | 21000 | |||
Season 3 Elimination Votes[]
| Episode | EP # | Votes | Total Votes | Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "I Am Chocolate!" | 10 | 5 | 10 | 50% |
| Total Number of Season 3 Votes: | 5 | |||
Trivia[]
- Test Tube is the highest ranking new Season 2 character on the Bright Lights.
- According to her site biography, Test Tube is the most intelligent competitor.
- Test Tube is one of two contestants to make it to the merge in a season twice, the other being Paintbrush.
- Test Tube is the third overall new object to speak in season 2.
- Test Tube and Apple have the same voice actor (Adam Katz), and their voices have been regarded as sounding very similar, aside from Test Tube's accent.
- She is the second new contestant to die in Inanimate Insanity II, the first being Microphone.
- Test Tube was the only contestant to not talk in "Rain On Your Charade".
- A beta version of Test Tube was revealed as the character Goggles.
- Test Tube is one of the only objects seen wearing clothes, as she puts on a lab coat when inside her laboratory. The only other objects to wear clothes are...
- Bot, who can be seen in a hat throughout Out of Body Experience.
- Clover, who can be seen in a detective hat throughout Blue Buried.
- Lifering, who wore a hat in Blue Buried.
- Lightbulb, who can been first in a cap with her team logo in Let Er' R.I.P. and secondly in a pirate's outfit consisting a kerchief and an eyepatch in Mine Your Own Business.
- Fan, who can be seen in a bowtie a few times throughout the series, most notably in Mine Your Own Business.
- Baton and Ballpoint Pen, who each wear sunglasses (also to mention one of the Spoiled Lemon members who wore sunglasses), and regular glasses respectively.
- Steve Cobs, who wears glasses.
- The four finalists and The Floor from Inanimate Insanity Invitational all seen wearing hard hats in the episode "The Show Must Go On".
- "Experiment 626", one of her inventions is a reference to Lilo and Stitch.
- According to the official website, nobody on the show knows what green substance Test Tube is filled with. During the credits of "I Am Chocolate", Justin Chapman says that Test Tube's green substance is Mouthwash, even though its non-canon
- Although one of its functions is seen in Alternate Reality Show, showing that one drop can give any object or living being a neon green glow, as it happened with Baxter.
- "Kick the Bucket" is the first episode to showcase Test Tube with no green solution inside her, first replaced with water, and then completely empty.
- Some theories suggest that Test Tube's liquid is ethylene glycol, more commonly known as antifreeze.
- Interestingly, the earliest signs of ethylene glycol poisoning are similar to that of being drunk. While Test Tube is filled with ethylene glycol, she appears sober. While when she's empty, she appears inebriated.
- These symptoms are similar to that of hypothermia which suggests the ethylene glycol helps regulate her temperature. This is further supported by LorenTzel, the show's designer, who proposed that when empty, Test Tube gets cold and hot flashes.
- Test Tube is the only female contestant in season 3 to be voiced by a male.
- She is the last female character to canonically be voiced by a male since season 2.
- Blueberry does not mind Test Tube.
- According to her Exit Interview, she was the first returning contestant in Inanimate Insanity Invitational to stay at Indefinite Island.
- Test Tube canonically reads fanfictions, as said in her Exit Interview.
- She mentioned in her Exit Interview that if Cabby didn’t rejoin, she’d want the rejoiner to be Lifering.
- Out of the 8 returning contestants in season 3, Test Tube is the only female.
- She is only somehow the first contestant to be sent to Indefinite Island off-screen as seen from her Exit Interview, where she explains she will rejoin the game to support Bot where they competed until "Spring on the Breakfast!" Followed by Candle three episodes later.
- In the BFDI x II Experience it has been confirmed that Fan, Bot and Test Tube are a family, also shown in the most recent short.
- It is not specified what type of family they are, or how Fan and Test Tube see each other outside of "family".
- In the 13 years of Inanimate Insanity celebration stream, Test Tube's favourite color was stated to be blue.
- In terms of design, she is very similar to OJ, as they're both glass objects with colorful liquids inside of them.
- According to the Truth or Flare Q&A, she would listen to Mitski.
Gallery
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| The Bright Lights |
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 Members: Lightbulb • Test Tube • Fan • Paintbrush • Marshmallow • Apple • Yin-Yang • Cherries • Tissues |
| The Pinkers |
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Members: Fan • Test Tube • Paintbrush • Bot • Silver Spoon • Balloon • Cabby |
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Revealed in Let Er' R.I.P.
- ↑ Revealed in Marsh on Mars.
- ↑ Revealed in Tri Your Best.