Monster Cash

Monster Cash is the premiere episode of the second season of Total Drama Island, entitled Total Drama Action.

Summary
The castmates, Owen, Gwen, Duncan, Heather, Leshawna, Geoff, Izzy, DJ, Justin, Trent, Bridgette, Lindsay, Beth, and Harold are dropped off by a bus to the set of Total Drama Action. Chris picks them up in a cart and gives them a tour of their new temporary home. It is revealed the losin castmates will walk the "Walk of Shame" (a ratty red carpet) into the "Lameozine". As they are driving around the set, Chris begins to talk about how this was once a set for a monster movie, until the star had some "problems". As it turns out, the star is not an actress, as Lindsay imagines, but a mechanical monster resembling a dinosaur. Chef, wearing a motion-sensitive suit, controls the monster. Chris explains how the first challenge is to race to a set of trailers before the monster can catch them. Everyone races off the cart and hurries toward the trailers with the monster in hot pursuit. One by one, each castmate is deposited into a moon bounce when the monster catches them. Soon, only Owen is left. When Chef finally locates him, the monster attempts to pick him up to put him in the moonbounce. However, Owen is too fat, and the monster breaks down, leaving Owen to find the trailers. Ten hours later, Owen finds the other castmates and releases them from the moonbounce by pricking it with a needle. Then they go to the second part of the challenge. Each castmate enters the new mess hall as Chris explains how the teams will be divided into boys versus girls to find a delicous-looking feast set upon the tables. Owen erupts into a feeding frenzy and eats everything on the table. Chris, annoyed, explains how the food was plastic and the challenge was to find the key hidden inside the :food". Then Owen burps up the key, and wins the challenge for his team. For winning the reward, Owen gets to choose from two trailers where the boys will bunk and where the girls will bunk. As it turns out, one of the trailers had been crushed under the monster's feet during the first challenge, and the guys assume that Owen will choose the unharmed trailer. Instead, Owen chooses the crushed one. The guys start yelling at him until Chef makes the monster (repaired) crushes the other cabin as well. Later, the cabins are fixed and the castmates figure out where they'll be sleeping. No one wants to share a bunk bed with Heather, so the girls draw makeup brushes (there wasn't any straws) to see who will bunk where. Lindsay and Beth share a bunk, Gwen and Bridgette share, and Leshawna and Izzy share a bunk, leaving Heather with a bunk of her own. Later, early in the morning, Chris yells into a megaphone to wake the campers up, and asks what will happen on the next episode. As the closing line, he says, "McClean out!"he other campers "Action", and when none of them respond, he tells them that means go, which at once they start running to get off the car.

Trivia

 * Katie, Sadie, Tyler, Noah, Cody, Eva, and Ezekiel were not mentioned at all in this episode, despite the fact that they were going to be "watching from the sidelines".
 * Courtney appears in the theme song (where she is making out with Duncan) but is also not mentioned in this episode.