Object shows

Object shows are the common name for cartoons on the Internet featuring anthromorphic objects, usually connected by the art style. The earliest object shows, Battle for Dream Island and Inanimate Insanity, among others, were influenced by cartoons such as Total Drama Island and Homestar Runner.

Much of object show history has been lost to time. For example, the comic books predating Battle for Dream Island, the Total Firey series (2008–2009), were lost until they were found by the BFDI co-creator Cary Huang in June 2021.

2011
On April 1, 2011, the first show influenced by BFDI, named Inanimate Insanity, was released. The show had a similar premise to BFDI; fourteen contestants compete in an elimination-based competition to win one million dollars.

In September 2011, all AnimationEpic videos up to that point were deleted by Nate Groth, the voice of Inanimate Insanity 's Balloon, who hacked the channel. Most videos, including the first 5 II episodes, episode 5.5 of the series, and one of two episodes of the II spinoff, The Taco Show were reuploaded alongside an alert video on September 14, 2011.

2012
On the first day of this year, episode 25 of Battle for Dream Island, "Return of the Hang Glider," was released. At the end of the episode, it was announced that there wouldn't be a second season on the jacknjellify channel. However, this would be proven wrong, as on June 29, 2012, Battle for Dream Island Again began as the second season of BFDI on jacknjellify. Ten BFDI veterans and eleven new contestants compete for Dream Island again, despite it being stolen by Leafy.

2016
2016 was a big year for BFDI. In the middle of this year, following the reinstatement of jacknjellify's AdSense account, BFDI was announced to return with a new season. This new season was named IDFB, and was the first season of BFDI to not be competition-based. Taking place years after BFDIA 5e, this season is set in Yoyle City. However, the season had exactly one episode, and the second episode was scheduled to release on October 1, 2016, but was delayed again indefinitely and in the October slot's place was a silent short named Paper Towel, which follows Blocky's pursuit of tissues and running from Eraser.

Legend

 * - This object show has all of its original uploads up.
 * - This object show has some of its original uploads up, but all episodes exist on the Internet.
 * - This object show has none of its original uploads up, but all episodes exist on the Internet.
 * - This object show has none of its original uploads up, but some episodes exist on the Internet.
 * - This object show has no uploads, but there is evidence of its existence.
 * - This object show has no evidence of its existence.
 * If a date is italic, that is the earliest upload date for an episode.