#46. The Counting Chronicles. - (Various episodes)
This is another classic moment from the series.
Now to give some background, Bubble approached the rest of her alliance and said something. Something so terrible, something so awful that it required her immediate execution. What did she do? She called Match a Guy. Match immediately retaliates and and slaps Bubble so hard she pops.
Golf Ball is very happy about this.
Match becomes the executioner.
"What? An execution you say?"
Pencil was obviously not happy about this and calls her out. "Match! How could you kill your own friend!"
Bubble then comes crawling back with some form of Stockholm Syndrome and goes to defend Match for literally killing her. Claiming "Don't blame her, killing me is as easy" Bubble immediately goes to demonstrate.
---The Three step process to Killing a Bubble---
"One"
"Two"
"Thr-"
Now instead of some kind of shock, all Pencil says is "I just learned two things about Bubble, she is suicidal and two, she can't even count to three"
No truer words have ever been said. And although this is false, she immediately blabs this to Match, who further spreads the gossip to everyone. They both really enjoy this and continue to babble this to anyone who will listen. Bubble runs off after being killed dozens of times during the test, while Match and Pencil accidentally set theirs on fire. Then they go over to Bubble's abandoned test and decide to destroy it too as a proper insult to her intelligence.
RIP. (Literally)
Now if the story ended there, it wouldn't have been on this list in the first place. But the fact is, Match and Pencil continue to bring this up lost past its due. One episode later and Bubble has a permanent nickname as "Dumb Bubble"
Hallucinogenic Pencil turns into Dumb Bubble.
Bubble is as thick in the mind as Pencil is thick in the shape
Later in that episode, Pencil reminds Match how dumb Bubble is. Finally Bubble stands up for herself and explains why she didn't get to three. Bubble prepares to count to three until she is killed once again. Leaving Match and Pencil to laugh for just a bit longer.
Where did that strawberry come from?
Finally after enduring months of badgering from her alliance mates, Bubble manages to count to three. They are shocked, their minds have been blown across the earth. Being blown away farther than Pencil when she got hit by the ice cake. But what makes this awesome is Bubble never even passes eight. Does she know what comes after eight? Or is she just so dumb, but not as dumb as Match and Pencil speculated.
Who only counts to eight?
Match and Pencil finally learn the true meaning of death; death stops you from counting.
Now in any story, this would be the end. That is, if they never brought it up time and time again. The first time its brought up is later in the same episode, Match has this to say.
"Good luck, not-dumb friend"
I have no idea if Match was trying to psyche Bubble out, but nonetheless its something so strange to hear.
The second time something like this happens is when Bubble and the Alliance start reading the book 'How to be dumb' we know it works as Pencil thinks a growing distant Ice Cube is shrinking. But now Bubble has accepted her fate and is now reading a book on how to be more like her true alter ego; Dumb Bubble.
Bubble reads an important book.
The third time comes in episode 23 where Bubble's worst nightmares come true, she failed the test THREE TIMES. Although the test was rigged by TB so I guess it doesn't count. But this means that Match and Pencil were right to rip up Bubble's test.
That's pathetic.
Later in BFDIA Ruby uses Bubble's idiocy as a weapon so she can stay in the alliance. Since if Bubble can't count to three, then she is not a valuable asset for the team. Ruby fails and Bubble is brought back to life. What is also hilarious is that Ruby is completely satisfied leaving someone dead just so she can stay around her new friends. I Never knew how heartless Ruby could be.
Ruby delivers some bad news.
I know I'm cheating by including BFB, but in BFB as the teams are preparing for the quiz. Match lets this little remark slip.
"You can't even count to three"
This even gives Bubble a flashback later in the challenge causing her to crumble and almost lose.
The fact that this little tiff is occasionally and randomly brought up time and time again is one of the best running jokes of the show.
P.S. Pencil never actually came back, she kept flying off the horizon.
P.P.S. Match and Pencil still think Bubble is dumb since she can't count to ten.
P.P.P.S. I would also like to extend a proper welcome to Match, Bubble and Pencil, these three are going to appear a lot on this list so be prepared.