2008: A Space Owen

'''It's time for Total Drama Action to lift off as the cast competes in space-themed challenges in order to win immunity. Two cast members start to feel a strain on their recently made alliance, and another still can't shake off his guilt. After a number of calculations, someone believes that there is a traitor among the cast, but he is unable to warn the other remaining contestants before being eliminated.'''

Plot
The episode opens during the middle of the night, with Chris abruptly waking the contestants up. He greets them and tells them that they have all been sent something from the outside world, and then gives a package to each contestant. Owen receives a trophy that he won for being a good citizen, which makes him feel guilty, due to his new role of saboteur on the show. Courtney receives a photo of her winning a debate all by herself because her partner on the debating team didn't want to work with her, Harold receives his nun-chucks from the previous season, Beth receives a "promise" candy ring from Brady, and Duncan receives his pet tarantula, Scruffy.

Next, Chris tells everyone to meet him at a different location for the next challenge. Once they get there, he tells them that they must spend the rest of the night riding in a space simulation roller coaster. The group enter the "space ship," and they sleep in zero-gravity until they are woken up by an alarm. The alarm tells them that they need to fix the ship's navigation system. To do so they must reach a joystick. Unable to reach it himself, Duncan decides to throw Harold at it instead, and Harold is able to repair the system. Meanwhile, as the castmates compliment Harold's quick work, Owen floats near a window, trying to find a way to fulfill his duties as secret mole. He then notices Harold's nun-chucks floating by him and quickly grabs them, using them to break one of the spaceship's windows. The uncontrolled decompression starts sucking everything out of the spaceship, including their oxygen supply. Chris tells them that they have several minutes to fix or plug up the broken window or else they will run out of oxygen, so they use Owen to fill the hole. When they safely depart the spaceship, Chef declares that their idea of filling the hole with two pillows was smart, then pats the "two pillows" happily. Chris informs him that the "pillows" are actually Owen's butt, and Chef is then seen in the confessional shaking in terror.

Since Beth and Courtney, the "Girls' Alliance," are the ones to use Owen as the solution, they get to choose the order for the next part of the challenge. Without consulting Beth on possible options, Courtney decides on the order: Harold, Owen, Duncan, Beth, and then herself. After they find out that the next challenge is to ride the "Vomit Comet," Courtney tries to take take back her decision, but it is too late.

Harold rides first, but accidentally ends up entering the ride with Scruffy attached to his shirt. Harold then asks to leave the ride after only riding a few seconds and loses the challenge. Duncan asks Harold where Scruffy is, whereupon Harold then turns around and Duncan sees Scruffy crushed to death on his back. Heartbroken, Duncan mourns his beloved pet's death, while Courtney comforts him. Owen rides next and ends up leaving early as well, but not before farting inside the ride due to Chef Hatchet's chili. Duncan does not vomit, but is still disgusted as he enters the ride because of the horrible smell. He ends up being the first one to vomit, and manages to stay in the longest so far (but gets ten seconds off his time for vomiting). Beth goes next, still upset that she is going so late and that the ride has already been soiled. She refuses to stick with Courtney and not participate at all. Beth manages to stay in longest with thirty-six seconds. Beth exits the ride and kisses Harold, due to the fact that she assumes that he has feelings for her, when he does not. Harold is disgusted when she then dumps Brady and tells Harold that she wishes to date him. Meanwhile, Courtney is upset that Beth did not go along with her plan, and ends up forfeiting herself in the challenge. Beth then earns invincibility.

The scene then cuts to Duncan and Harold sitting outside the girls' trailer as Beth and Courtney argue. Inside the trailer, Beth and Courtney argue about Beth's choice in the immunity challenge, which leads them to break up their alliance and each decide to fight alone for the rest of the game. Meanwhile, Harold finds Owen in the film lot. Harold then explains to Owen that he is suspicious of him, as Owen was the only castmate not accounted for when the window broke on the spaceship. Harold tells Owen that he knows he is a traitor, but Owen denies the accusation and repels him with his excessive farting.

At the Gilded Chris Ceremony, the castmates are seen voting. It is revealed Harold voted for Owen, Beth voted for Courtney, and Owen and Duncan voted for Harold. Courtney is the only one who does not imply to the camera whom she is voting for, saying that she should have the right of privacy. The first Gilded Chris went to Beth, then Owen and Duncan. Courtney and Harold are the bottom two, with Harold being sent home. As he leaves, he pulls down Duncan's pants, which Duncan admits he had coming. Harold then shouts to the other castmates that Owen is a traitor and that they should watch him like a hawk. He quickly changes his mind and says that they need to watch him like a falcon, as they have better eyesight than a hawk. Beth mentions that she will "wait for Harold," much to his dismay. Chris then signs off the show and Harold is driven away by the Lame-o-sine.

General

 * The final four are almost the same as they were in the last season, in the sense that three are from one team, while only one is left from the other team.
 * Also, Owen and Duncan made it to the final four once again.
 * With Harold's elimination, Duncan is the last Gaffer in the season.
 * The cast members all get packages from home in this episode:
 * Owen: A Student-Of-The-Year Trophy.
 * Courtney: A photo of herself winning a debate.
 * Beth: A candy "promise" ring from Brady.
 * Duncan: His pet tarantula, Scruffy.
 * Harold: His nun-chucks.
 * Interestingly, by the end of the episode, four of the presents could no longer be accounted for:
 * Owen threw Harold's nun-chucks out the window of the spaceship.
 * Scruffy was killed by Harold.
 * Owen's trophy was broken by Harold's karate chop.
 * Beth finished eating her candy ring, before returning it to Brady.
 * Courtney's debate winning picture is the only present that is left intact throughout the episode.
 * It is fairly evident who voted for who at the Gilded Chris Ceremony:
 * Duncan voted off Harold for killing Scruffy.
 * Owen voted off Harold out of fear that Harold found out the truth about Owen's return.
 * Harold voted off Owen because he was suspicious of Owen's behavior.
 * Beth voted off Courtney due to her being annoyed by Courtney's personality.
 * Courtney's vote was not revealed in the episode. However, she most likely voted for Harold since Beth had immunity, and voting for anybody else might result her elimination, cause a tie, or be useless.
 * Harold pulls two pranks on Duncan:


 * 1) putting rocks in his mattress.
 * 2) pulling his pants off.


 * Beth develops a crush on Harold in this episode, and breaks up with Brady because of this. However, in The Aftermath: IV, when Brady was revealed to actually "exist," she got back to him.
 * Every remaining castmate used the confessional in this episode.
 * Despite breaking up in this episode, the Girls' Alliance manage to fulfill their goal, to eliminate a male contestant.
 * Тhis is the only merged elimination episode in which Duncan is not in the bottom two.
 * With Harold's elimination, Courtney becomes the second Killer Bass (and the first and only female Killer Bass) to make the final four of any season.

Continuity

 * Contrary to the title, this episode originally aired on November 26, 2009.
 * This is the second episode in a row to feature Owen's name. The first is Crouching Courtney, Hidden Owen.
 * This is the first time in Total Drama Action that Harold has ever been in the bottom two. With this, Beth is now the only castmate thus far to never come in the bottom two at all.
 * This is the first time since The Sand Witch Project that the contestant eliminated was on the Killer Bass.
 * This is the second time that Harold has been hit in the head by his own nun-chucks, the first time is in Phobia Factor and the third time is in Walk Like An Egyptian - Part 1.
 * Harold is the second contestant and first male in Total Drama Action to win a reward challenge, then get eliminated in the next episode. The first is Lindsay.
 * Interestingly, both were eliminated back-to-back.
 * This is the third time Duncan called Harold by his middle name, Doris.
 * The others are in One Flu Over the Cuckoos and Rock n' Rule.
 * This is the first episode of Total Drama Action in which Courtney did not win solo-invincibility in, making Beth the only other contestant to do so.
 * This the second time Chef had to escort Harold out of the competition.
 * This episode marks the last time in Total Drama Action in which a male contestant is voted off.
 * This is the last time in Total Drama that Harold is voted off, as he quits the competition in Total Drama World Tour.
 * This is the first episode in Total Drama Action since Courtney's return to not mention her personal digital assistant or her lawyers.
 * The castle set from the episode The Princess Pride is seen in the background scene with the roller coaster.

Goofs

 * When the cast opens their packages from home, Beth isn't wearing her night guard, but when she turns around to open her package from Brady, you can see a glimpse of her wearing it.
 * When Chris shows the packages from home, there are six boxes, but there are only five contestants.
 * Each time Beth sees her gift, she screams in excitement. However, she claims that in The Sand Witch Project that she can not scream.
 * When Duncan, Courtney, Harold, and Scruffy escape the spaceship rollercoaster, Duncan's shirt is colored gray instead of black.