Oh, boy. Nothing like a game of charades!
The ninth episode of Battle for Dream Island Again and the 74th episode of the overall series. Yellow Face is eliminated, Gelatin goes back to Team No-Name, and the featured challenge is a game of charades in a trash compactor.
"Catch These Hands" contains examples of:
- Answer Cut: During the credits, Ruby questions where Pencil is. It cuts to Pencil back in the hellish dimension, complaining about the lack of help while she is combusting.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: In the "Happy Fourteenth Birthday, BFDI" screen at the beginning, Fourteen comes out of the cake in the center of the anniversary wheel, grabs the sides of the camera and lunges towards the screen.
- Call-Forward: Before getting eliminated, Yellow Face manages to seal Purple Face in an all-too-familiar metal crate resistant to acid and writes the words "Don't Open Purple Inside" on it. Although how it was recovered and taken to the Pillary Ruins warehouse remains to be seen.
- Cheaters Never Prosper: Yellow Face uses a win token printer to attempt to escape elimination, but he only has a chance to play one before Purple Face steals the rest of them and he still has enough votes to be eliminated.
- Deface of the Moon: Tennis Ball uses a makeshift laser to get the attention of Golf Ball (who is still glued to a tree) from far away by drawing the skeletal formula of acetylsalicylic acidnote on the moon.
- Didn't Think This Through: Tennis Ball's plan of getting Golf Ball to free him becomes this when he realizes that Golf Ball is now in the compactor with no idea of what the challenge is due to not being there when it was announced and no one can tell her what it is due to the compactor being soundproof.
- The Dog Bites Back: Spongy does this to Pencil in the hellish world. When Pencil calls him ugly, Spongy roasts her back by telling her to look at herself. Later when Pencil spontaneously combusts, Spongy refuses to help her because of her earlier statement.
- Eat the Camera: Fourteen does it in the "Happy Fourteenth Birthday, BFDI" screen at the beginning.
- Expospeak Gag:
- The CGI dead contestants in what seems to be hell talk in an incredibly verbose way... except Fries, who gets punished for it by getting flattened by Pencil.
- In a similar vein, one of Tennis Ball's prompts is acetylsalicylic acid. Though, he probably could've spared himself a headache had he not tried to act out its chemical formula and instead act out its brand name of aspirin.
- Facepalm: Book does it when Ruby guesses that Pencil is pretending to unclog a Yoyle toilet.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: In the scene of Pencil squishing Fries in Hell, there is seemingly an exit in the background, implying that they have been transported to a palace of some sort.
- Fun with Acronyms:
- Bomby and Needle take turns acting out the following, in this order: bandaging your leg, frying an egg, delivering a pizza, and inhaling helium.
- There's also Yellow Face's Beryllium Fortress, Destruction Impossible
- Hand Wave: The episode provides an explanation as to how Bubble was back on FreeSmart by the time of IDFB. After Firey Speaker Box flung her to the TLC, she was somehow Killed Offscreen (likely due to being popped after the yoyleberries' metal effect wore off), and by performing the bubble-blowing technique, Pencil brings her back to life. Granted, she's still popped, but this places Bubble outside of the TLC after TV had locked it from the inside.
- I Ate WHAT?!: Ruby bites into a pink Ice Cube, who she thought was strawberry milk. Nickel informs her that it was actually lead paint.
- Impossible Task: At one point Nickel has to do charades of Nonexisty, whose mere concept goes against the idea of charades. Unsurprisingly, his teammates have no idea what he is trying to be, and he dies.
- It's the Best Whatever, Ever!: Tennis Ball thinks he should be given the title of "Best Inventor Ever".
- Jumping Out of a Cake: Fourteen does it in the "Happy Fourteenth Birthday, BFDI" screen, although they come out the side of the cake instead of popping out the top.
- Karmic Death: After the unlikeable things he had done, including trying to escape elimination, Yellow Face gets locked in the Clubhouse of Awesomeness on the Eiffel Tower, which all melts in Ruby's lead paint barf, killing him.
- Literal Metaphor: Ruby tries to eat Ice Cube, who's covered in pink lead-based paint. After barfing all over the ground, Ruby feels much better. Book then says that she's glad Ruby "got the lead out of [her] system".
- Locked Out of the Loop:
- Golf Ball is subjected to this (see Didn't Think This Through above).
- Puffball Speaker Box has no idea who Lewis is due to being in a catatonic state when he was first introduced, and therefore is confused by the Cake at Stake jingle.
- Coiny has no idea why he suddenly sounds like Needle, due to not seeing Bomby redeeming the prize of switching the vocal cords of two team members.
- Losing Horns: When Ruby mimes eating sugar, every time Ice Cube makes an incorrect guess, a sad trombone riff plays as the crusher is lowered towards Ruby. This also happens as the crusher is lowered towards Tennis Ball when Gelatin can't guess his phrase.
- MacGyvering: Tennis Ball builds a ray gun out of random materials from inside the trash compactor so he can reach out to Golf Ball.
- Man on Fire: Pencil doesn't know what "combustion" means until she catches fire. She manages to stay in character even as that happens.
- Medium-Shift Gag: The CGI scenes of the dead contestants against a hellish background who talk in text-to-speech Expospeak.
- Not Quite Dead: Ruby and Pencil (who died in the car crash in BFDIA 8) manage to recover themselves, and Ruby explains that the Yoyleite gave them the ability to do so.
- Shout-Out:
- Bomby's line "I volunteer as tribute!" is one to The Hunger Games.
- To the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Bubblestand" when Pencil does "the technique" and brings Bubble back to life.
- The dance montage contains a lot of references to early-2010s humor, due to this episode chronologically taking place in January 2014.
- Fries does Gangnam Style. He still dies, however.
- Ruby spins knives like Sam from "Salmon Fiveyears
". - Book stretches her legs and rotates her mouth like Edd while Ice Cube spins like Tom in "Just a Bit Crazy".
- Tennis Ball does the "It Burns! Burns! Burns!" dance.
- Gelatin does the Jellygroove.
- Bomby does the Flop.
- Needle does Pen's pose from "Thanks for 4 years!".
- When Book is blindfolded and Ruby's prompt is changed, Ruby snaps her fingers and goes, "Oh, man!", like Swiper the Fox from Dora the Explorer.
- Sudden Soundtrack Stop: When Gelatin makes Tennis Ball go into the trash compactor right after recovering him and Fries:Gelatin: Hooray! No Name friends, I'm back on your team.
Tennis Ball: For realsies? Yay! I'm so happy we're together again! I hope nothing separates us—
(music stops)
Gelatin: Tennis Ball, go into the chamber of death and do whatever the machine says.
Tennis Ball: Awww, okay... - Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Coiny being trapped inside a cash register floating adrift in space for 2 months causes him to die of asphyxiation.
- Surreal Humor: Every scene of the dead contestants against a hellish background is animated in an extremely deranged CGI style that would give Xavier: Renegade Angel a run for its money, complete with text-to-speech voices talking in Expospeak.
- Tempting Fate:Pencil: Ooh, I love the Clubhouse of Awesomeness! I'd be so sad if it were endangered.
Book: Good thing that will never happen.
(the Eiffel Tower sinks into Ruby's barf, Clubhouse of Awesomeness and all) - Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Any female contestant sent to the hellish world has eyelashes, while the males do not.
- Title Drop: Done by Fries as he becomes increasingly annoyed by Gelatin's jokes.
- Too Dumb to Live: Ruby tries to eat a pink paint-covered Ice Cube thinking she's made of strawberry milk, but then remarks that she doesn't taste like strawberries. Nickel tells her that that's because it's actually lead-based paint. Cue I Ate WHAT?! reaction from Ruby, who barfs all over the ground.
- Vocal Dissonance: Bomby's prize is to swap the voices of two of his teammates. He chooses Coiny and Needle, causing Needle to have a husky voice, and Coiny to have a high-pitched voice.
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot: After biting Ice Cube, Ruby throws up some corrosive lead paint vomit.
- Watch Out for That Tree!: A blindfolded Book can't see the tree in front of her as she rolls downhill in her team's trash compactor, which has been tipped over on its side.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Firey Speaker Box was last seen in the clubhouse during the previous episode where he became an emotional wreck over Firey's elimination, but he isn't in there in this episode, leaving his current whereabouts unknown.
- Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Ruby reveals to Book that her moments of crying over Pencil berating her were falsified just so she could garner sympathy out of Pencil.
