After Cookie woke up from his NIGHTMARE, he decided, “I need to humble that woman! But first, I need a plan.” And so he gets up and heads over to his thousands of drawers (I like to think that your version of him has a drawer for every bit of office supplies out there) and he opens the pencil drawer, and is like, “Oops, wrong drawer”, and then he closes it, and opens the pen drawer, and grabs a pen, so that he can write down his plan.
(Kinda based on the moment in ETS in which Cookie tried to find his favorite pen so that when he gets reset, he can remember to stop Binjpipe)
Also, I’d like to know if it was Sam, Cookie, or someone else who saved the other Re-Riders from Binjpipe.
My Cookie definitely has an endless filing cabinet like the ones from Soul (the Pixar movie). They remind him of the 90s and he’s stuck in the 90s, dammit! /s
However, I do think he’s lazy enough to just turn the pencil into a pen so he wouldn’t have to put it back and open another drawer. He can do that sorta thing, y’know.
To answer your other question, it was actually Jackbox, the floating head guy! He went on a reconnaissance mission to Binjpipe HQ one time, between the creations of Pack 8 and Pack 9, and spotted two things.
First, BJP working on a Fibbage game hosted by an AI Cookie to try and terminate their contract with the real one. (Jack secretly destroyed the AI and reclaimed the concept, turning it into Fibbage 4 and placing it in Pack 9. However BJP rebuilt their AI and created a “special episode” that is the source of the famous “Binjpipe still hungers” reveal.)
Second, a couple witty people working for the company that didn’t seem like they belonged there. This discovery, he immediately reported to Schmitty, who used her Quips as leverage to sneak in and sneak the Re-Riders out!