TDI Rundown

As each and every camper got eliminated, there has not been a episode to review what has happened throughout the series, there has not been an episode with a music video and there has not been an episode exclusive like this, TDI Rundown!

Recap
The episode focuses on Chris McLean, who covers the whole Total Drama Series up until the previous episode. The campers only appear in flashbacks, because it's not an ordinary episode - it's a reminisce of the past episodes, clips of the campers, notes the order in which everyone is eliminated, airs a music video and a sneak peek trailer of the finale. It is, simply put, a summary of the entire series thus far, and has no effect on the plot of the series.

Audition Tapes
This episode shows several of the Total Drama Island contestants' auditions:
 * Beth: Beth sings a song, off key, into a microphone.
 * Courtney: Courtney speaks then realizes that she had mixed up her audition and Student Body President speeches.
 * Duncan: Duncan trying to escape his prison, complete with the howl of killer guard dogs as he descends the wall and runs off.
 * Harold: Harold is seen bragging about his many scouting abilities, then playing his keyboard.
 * LeShawna: LeShawna waits for a call that she was accepted to be on Total Drama Island.
 * Lindsay: Lindsay talks about her many abilities and talents while the camera pans over many pictures of her in bikinis.
 * Trent: Trent sings a song with his guitar, but then breaks a string and mutters "Aw, crap".
 * Tyler: Tyler utterly failing to succeed at numerous sports.

Not Featured

 * Bridgette
 * Chef Hatchet
 * Cody
 * DJ
 * Eva
 * Ezekiel
 * Heather
 * Geoff
 * Izzy (she had two)
 * Justin
 * Katie
 * Mr. Coconut
 * Noah
 * Sadie

The above were probably not aired due to lack of time width, but fans question why Tyler's was picked over someone who made it further in the game like Geoff. It's rumored Heather's was too mature for Cartoon Network, due to her being in nothing but a towel, as she has just exited the shower.

Owen and Gwen never had audition tapes made, as they are never eliminated.

Order of Elimination
The order of elimination is said by Chris McLean. As they go down the line, each camper's name is called, the reason for their elimination is usually stated, they feature a clip from their elimination episode and a red circle with a line dashed through it appears over the camper's face and their elimination telling is over, except for in the telling of Noah's elimination- the red circle with the dash through it is featured over Noah and the clip is paused when he's saying "Knock 'em out, throw 'em out, rah, rah-" The red symbol then disappears and Noah is featured getting hit with the dodge ball and saying "Ow!" Another exception was Courtney, because after the circle disappeared, it showed Harold rigging the votes; then, it went to Harold's elimination story.

Music Video
There is a music video featured in this episode. The music is the theme song and it shows various clips of the campers from past episodes, however, there are special effects-such as the screen changing colors and hues.

Quotes
(the shot stops with the sounds of a record scratching, Chris appears) Chris: Whoa, whoa, whoa. What!? Hold on a minute, bro, I think you're introducing a completely different reality show. The one I know does have twenty-two teens, although, normal and brave aren't the first two words that come to mind.
 * Announcer: Canada. The great white north. Elements too harsh for any normal human to withstand. But we found twenty-two teenagers willing to take the challenge and brave the frozen elements for a chance to...


 * Chris: For their auditions there were only two requirements we were looking for. One: you had to be a teen, and two: you either had to be kooky, obnoxious, stuck-up, dense, loud, annoying, filthy, or anywhere remotely in between.


 * Chris: You know, I still get the tiniest bit of satisfaction when I see those sad faces trudging down the dock. Sick, isn't it? What did you expect? I'm a TV producer.

Trivia

 * "TDI Rundown" is a Cartoon Network exclusive episode for Americans.
 * Cartoon Network aired this episode uncut giving it TV-PG D as the rating.
 * Lindsay's dog looks similar to the Spardel from the real-life website Neopets.
 * Chris makes a note of the similarity of Owen and Gwen's names when he mentions them as the two finalists for the $100,000 prize. He says that this is unlikely to be a coincidence.
 * Besides Trent's and Beth's, all the audition tapes shown were those of Total Drama Island couples: Tyler and Lindsay's were aired, LeShawna and Harold's were aired, and Duncan and Courtney's were aired.
 * Four Screaming Gopher teammates had their auditions aired, and four Killer Bass also had their auditions aired.
 * As for gender, the tapes were evened out. Four girls had their tapes aired and so did four boys.
 * This is the only episode in which Chef nor any of the twenty-two campers have new scenes or new lines, since the scenes they were in were only recap scenes.
 * This is the first episode to have non-animated scenes, since the opening featured a live-action reality Canadian show, to which Chris says is the wrong show. Also, there were multiple transitions in the video which were of a real marshmallow being melted over a fire.
 * Besides The Big Sleep, in which they read up on Canada's history, and Haute Camp-ture in which Katie and Sadie give a shout out to their Canadian friends, and the few brief instances in which Chris mentions they're somewhere in Ontario, this is one of the few episodes to make a reference that they are in Canada.
 * Cartoon Network kept some things that were in the original version, one when Owen burping the alphabet was shown, he says Z in the end, not Zed and when Trent's audition tape was shown, the word "crap" is not censored.
 * Since Cartoon Network could not get the animations of Chris for this episode they reused animations from previous episodes. One example is in the first episode where Chris first appears and says "Yo" is seen in this episode. It is a recycled animation from the first episode, which causes some lip-syncing problems.
 * Beth's audition was the only one Cartoon Network cut short seeing as the video ends with her Father yelling, not even including her famous line "They'll see... they'll all see..."
 * The first recap of the Total Drama series.

Goofs

 * While Chris was saying the names of the campers in the beginning, the spelling of Ezekiel's name is shown to be spelled as "Ezekial".
 * Before cutting to a commercial, Chris says that more audition tapes are coming up and shows Katie and Sadie's tape. But their tape is never shown on the actual show.
 * Chris says Justin was voted off by the campers because they thought beauty wasn't a talent, though it was because Heather convinced others to vote him off.