Throughout the course of “Inanimate Insanity”, the cohost of the series, Toilet, is constantly told by the host, MePhone, that he needs him to get him “some wires”
Toilet goes to great lengths to achieve these wires every single time he is told to. We can see scuffs and scratches all over him almost every time we see him giving the wires to MePhone. Toilet truly believes that every single time he’s been sent off to get a wire, it’s been for something absolutely necessary. He truly believes they are truly loved and valued by MePhone and even brags about this to others. In truth, however, Toilet is only sent out to find these wires so he doesn’t have to be around as much. And these wires are thrown away as soon as they are given to MePhone.
These wires, in a way, represent Toilet perfectly.
When Toilet is first introduced, he’s always the butt of the joke no matter what, simply because he’s a toilet. He’s treated as lesser because…well would you want a high-strung toilet around you? We sympathize with MePhone at first, but the longer this goes on the more we understand he’s in the wrong, and exactly why.
Toilet is the only one who willingly volunteered to assist MePhone. He was genuinely excited for the job. Despite his lacking intelligence, Toilet is insanely loyal to MePhone. His word is law and Toilet willingly gives everything he has to MePhone, including, unfortunately, his self esteem. Everything Toilet has or does needs approval from MePhone. This is the biggest mistake Toilet could ever make, because MePhone barely sees Toilet as a person. Everything he does is a mistake that needs to be corrected in his eyes. MePhone even attempts to sneakily replace Toilet at one point by introducing MePad and asking him to do everything one would normally ask an assistant to do. This leads to Toilet absolutely despising MePad for a little bit, not because he’s done anything wrong, MePad himself respects Toilet a great deal, but simply because MePhone has made it known without saying anything at all that Toilet’s presence is not needed. And despite MePhone being the one to tell him this, Toilet takes it out on the peaceful soul MePad. Why? Because MePhone can do no wrong. Toilet constantly clings to his task of collecting wires during this time and tries to rub it in his face as he hasn’t seen MePhone ask him to do anything of the sort! Toilet’s constant insistence he’s better than MePad and constant rebuking from MePhone leads him to do things I do not think he would normally do.
This all comes together in the episode Theft and Battery, in which MePhone needs repairing. It is made very clear in this episode that not even the contestants respect Toilet. When MePad suggests he assist one team and Toilet assist another, the team Toilet is told to assist ask if they can have MePad instead…while Toilet is standing right next to them. While Toilet is with them, they make it known with how they treat him. When Toilet’s team is journeying up to Meeple, the company that can help them fix MePhone, Toilet is treated as nothing more than a tool. They just wish to slow down the other team, so the team simply throw Toilet at them without asking if it’s ok at all. He isn’t even being treated with basic human kindness in this instance, he is simply something they can throw without worrying about at all. And this episode lets us know Toilet knows this. And he is not taking it well. When he runs back to his team, he shouts “You thought you could get rid of me, eh?” in an angry tone. Toilet has been stuck under MePhone’s abuse for months now, whether he wants to believe it truly is abuse or not. And now he’s in a new environment, no longer hovering around MePhone, he’s being shown the world of the contestants now. And they treat him only a tiny bit better than MePhone ever did. This leads him to overreact and do things I do not think Toilet would normally do. At the end of the episode, it seems MePad’s team has everything they need to repair MePhone and Toilet gets mad and reacts violently against them, screaming that it’s “not fair” MePad always gets to be, in his own words “the good assistant”, while Toilet is shoved to the side. Toilet is at the end of his rope here, and MePad responds in the best possible way.
While this analysis is not on MePad, he is one of the most positive characters on the show. He not only cares about the people around him and how they are treated, he is also extremely logical. And seeing somebody like him reach out and tell Toilet he respects him and never thought of himself as any better than him. This leaves Toilet with one person, and from then on we can see what Toilet is like when he has even just one person supporting him.
Toilet is still BEGGING for MePhone’s attention after this episode, but with one friend, Toilet has somebody on his side. MePad will almost never speak up for him, but we can see signs of his annoyance whenever MePhone dismisses Toilet. Toilet seems a lot happier after making friends with him. We can see a few of the contestants seem to start to respect Toilet more and more. MePhone breaks a second time, in the episode “Mine Your Own Business”, and this time Toilet no longer seems angry and overwhelmed, as he was in Theft and Battery. I would say it’s because MePad is there for Toilet this time. And as a result instead of panicking and shouting like he did last time, Toilet comes up with reasonably logical solutions. And when MePad comes up with a plan, Toilet executes it brilliantly. He gets what he needs to fix MePhone from each contestant while still making it seem like usual Toilet hijinks. MePad and Toilet are a formidable force when combined! But unfortunately for both of them, this friendship doesn’t last forever.
At the end of the episode “Mine Your Own Business”, after he’s been fixed, MePhone fires Toilet in a snap judgment guided by the hands of childhood trauma. The man Toilet gave everything he had to is now telling him with his mouth Toilet isn’t needed. This is the one time MePad seems to speak up for Toilet, as he doesn’t wish to lose his best friend. He, as well as Toilet, bring up many good reasons as to why MePhone’s theory of Toilet working for the man who traumatized him makes no sense at all. But MePhone is so irrational he doesn’t give any of these a second thought. And this is when we can see Toilet is really, finally, truly done with trying to work on the show Inanimate Insanity. He doesn’t look upset at all when he accepts he’s fired. Instead, Toilet looks angry as he walks away from MePhone and MePad. He’s finally realized exactly the kind of person he’s been working for this entire time and has finally just decided it’s not worth it.
Toilet is assumedly killed soon after being fired. This leaves us with the story of an example of a sweet but well-meaning idiot who is pushed to his limits. Pushed beyond them, in fact. Toilet is constantly verbally abused by both his boss and the contestants, though a few of them ease up on it, and his story is a tragic one as just when Toilet escapes the verbal abuse he’s been under for years, he’s killed before he can even finish mourning. Toilet really is more than just a loud, goofy buffoon, and I hope I helped you to see that.
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