One Flu Over the Cuckoos

'''The contestants take part in a medically themed challenge. LeShawna attempts to call an alliance with Harold and Duncan, to counter Heather (to no avail). Then when a deadly virus breaks out, things go critical on set.'''

Plot
The castmates are returning from their previous challenge, with Izzy saying what parts of the set she remembers. They soon discover that their doors to their trailers are locked, Chris then pulls up and hands them textbooks on medical care. After giving them twenty orders of pizza, he says memorize everything in them by morning. The cast mates then start studying (though Justin is too distracted by his skin care and Izzy and Owen are too distracted by each other). Meanwhile DJ and Chef Hatchet are working on making more pizza (with DJ adding his mother's ingredient).



Later Duncan and LeShawna give up studying and walk out. LeShawna (who just lost her major ally Gwen) then tells Duncan they should form an alliance with Harold to counter Heather, to which Duncan snickers. The next morning, the challenge begins, which is to have a castmate answer a medical question. If they are correct, they will retrieve pieces of dead body parts in a pool and bring them back to life with lighting (similar to Frankenstein). Chris asks a question and Beth gets it right and goes first, only to discover there are electric eels in the pool (which Chris forgot to warn about). Beth is still able to retrieve a leg for her team. Heather answers the next one and goes next and successfully gets an arm. The teams continue to build their bodies (which turn out to be Chris replicas), but the Gaffers face troubles as Duncan continues to bully Harold (which LeShawna breaks up). LeShawna attempts to call an alliance with the two, but Harold refuses. The two teams finish their bodies and are racing to get it up to the lighting, when Izzy notices a red sore on Owen. The challenge is soon halted as Chris dashes out and the cast mates believe Owen has a contagious and fatal disease.

The cast mates quickly contain Owen in a plastic bubble when they notice DJ has a sore too. After containing him too, everyone but Duncan and LeShawna (who were the only ones who didn't study) show signs of the illness. The two quickly race to get textbooks, only to discover the books are fake. They soon discover that Chef had drugged the pizza they ate with itching powder and laxitants and the sores were only pepperoni slices. Izzy then says that all the other symptoms were just from exhaustion and fatigue. Upon learning the truth, Chris arrives and congratulates the cast mates for completing another challenge. He then reveals the winner gets a spa night with away from the set with their best friend. The Gaffers vote for LeShawna, who is crying saying she though she was going to lose everyone. She then reveals to her cousin, LeShaniqua that it was only an act to get her team to vote her away from the set for one night.

Quotes

 * Chris: (rises up from under a sheet on a gurnrey) Calm yourselves. Nobody's dead... yet!


 * Duncan: (in confessional) I hate doctors! They just get off on telling people what they don't wanna hear... like don't pick at that scab... or if you eat nothing but pickled eggs, you'll die! Don't tell me what I can't eat! Now playing doctor...playing doctor I can handle.


 * Harold: (in confessional) I could be a doctor if I wanted to! I have plenty of hands on experience, because I've contracted nearly 300 known diseases. And I've been cured of nearly all of them. But there is no known vaccine for loving LeShawna!


 * Justin: Hey, Beth! Do I squint when I read? Beth: Uh...I dunno! You're shirt's distracting me unless you.... (Justin's shirt goes flying past Beth and he's now shirtless) Beth: Uh.... I'll just read the book to you. Spare your beautiful eyes!


 * Owen: Hey! You know what my brothers and me did once? We had a no hands pizza off! (laughs) You should've been there! Izzy: Let's pretend I was here! (Izzy jumps off her chair, gets on her hands and knees, and begans tearing into one of the pizzas, no hands, like a rabid dog tearing up a steak) Owen: You're magnificent!


 * Izzy: (in confessional) I am so glad to be back! I was top of my pre-med class before the RCMP started chasing me, so this should be a snap! And Owen is just the sweetest thing ever! If he were a candy bar, he'd taste just like caramel covered marshmallows.


 * Harold: (in confessional) How could LeShawna even talk to Duncan? He's a worthless punk or my name isn't Harold Norbert Cheever Doris McGrady the Fifth! Please don't tell Duncan about the "Doris" part!


 * Leshawna: (pulling Harold and Duncan closer) Okay, jokers, all I want is an iron-clad alliance to get Heather out of my face! Can we not agree on this? Duncan: I don't know if I can handle being in an alliance with you and Doris here. Harold: (in confessional) How could you?! That's the lowest, meanest, dirtiest...GAWSH! That's the last secret you're gonna get from this guy! Now you'll never know about my teapot collection, or the fact that I wear a wizard's cape when I play Solitare...


 * Izzy: (while watching Beth, Justin and Lindsay lift up the FrankenChris) Ah! It's so exciting I can't take it! (Izzy bites Owen on the arm Owen: Owwhh! (Smiles and laughs) Hubba hubba! Izzy: Ewwwh! What's this icky sore?.... (feels his forehead) and you're burning up! Just like my passionate soul!


 * LeShawna: (in confessional) I know it's meant to be dangerous and all but it's still a TV show. Now way they's let anyone up and die in here, am I right? Chris: (camera cuts to Chris alone in studio) You'd think we wouldn't but just imagine the ratings!


 * Heather: (While Owen is inside a quarrantine bubble and has farted and Izzy has begun walking towards the bubble with a pin to pop it)Wait, stop! You can't! (Izzy pops the bubble and a noxious green gas cloud comes out of the bubble) Owen: Oh, fresh air! Sweet, sweet air! Justin: (is trying to waft the fart cloud away) Oh, stale air! Smelly, smelly air! Harold: (is trying to waft the fart cloud away) I think I'm still dying!


 * (LeShawna walks into the Lame-O-Sine, fake crying) LeShawna: LeShaniqua! Girl, I won! Whooo!!! Girl!!! LeShaniqua: Girl! I cannot believe you've been crying. You never cry! Not even at Mr. Bunny Rabbit's Funeral! LeShawna: You nuts? I was just making sure they'd vote me the heck outta here for the night. LeShaniqua: I knew it was too fool to be true. LeShawna: Aaahhh, A night away from Total Drama.... pain in my behind!

Trivia

 * Pictures of everyone whom the Screaming Gaffers are close to are shown:
 * Duncan's parole officer (who is patterned after the original Tyler from Camp TV)
 * DJ's mom
 * Heather's mother
 * A younger version of Harold in a wizard's hat. (Possibly a younger brother)
 * LeShawna's best cousin, LaSheniqua appears. (Her design is the same as LeShawna's orignial design for Camp TV but with a slightly different wardrobe color)
 * It is revealed in this episode that LeShawna is lactose intolerant.
 * Unlike previous episodes where a challenge involves a movie genre, this challenge seems to be more based around school subject than a doctor movie (as Chris had the team read up on medical stuff).
 * LeShawna's refusal to eat the pizza isn't out of character. In Brunch of Disgustingness she refused to eat the pizza with live toppings. Although, in that instance there was no mention of being lactose intolerant.
 * Heather seems to show signs of change from the previous season, as she voted LeShawna to have the spa trip over herself. She also seemed compassionate when she saw LeShawna cry.
 * Harold's symptom naming is a parody of the movie Airplane.
 * For the first time, a character other than Chris or Chef has had their last name revealed: Harold's last name is officially McGrady.
 * It is revealed that Heather has a sister in addition to her little brother, Damien (who was known about since the Interactive pages were established for last season). Like her brother, Heather also detests her sister.
 * Harold is again seen in the red thong underwear, last seen in If You Can't Take The Heat....
 * This is the fourth episode of Total Drama Action where no one is eliminated (previous episodes being Monster Cash, Beach Blanket Bogus, and TDA Aftermath).
 * Throughout this episode, LeShawna tries to form an alliance with Duncan and Harold. They both turn it down for obvious tensions.
 * The campers not seen in the confessional in this episode were Beth, Justin, DJ and Lindsay.
 * The episode title is based on both the 1967 book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and the 1975 Academy Award-winning film of the same name.