Confessional (Total Drama)

The Confessional Cam is a location in the Total Drama series where contestants on the show can go to describe their personal thoughts on the game, explain their plans, say hi to friends back home and cast votes for their fellow campers. For the most part these sessions are kept in complete secrecy, only being revealed upon the airing of the show or at Chris's discretion.

Total Drama Island


For Total Drama Island, the confessional cam takes on the appearance of an old fashioned outhouse. On the side facing the campers is a camera taped to the wall, where the campers dish their personal feelings. Also inside the bathroom are typical outhouse sights - a toilet, toilet paper and a window. Despite these amenities however, the confessional cam doesn't seem to be the campers main lavatory, as there are bathroom stalls in the communal bathrooms. Still, campers have used the confessional cam as an outhouse at times. It's clear that the outhouse isn't exactly the most hygienic place, as with most confessions there can be seen a group of flies constantly buzzing around the campers head.

Normally, a confession consists of only one camper, however on occasions two enter the stall to talk together. Even though Chris mentions that these confessions are completely secret, some of the campers at times worriedly ask if the person they are talking about will ever hear their confessions. There was only one time that the confessional videos were shown to the campers in Total Drama Island, in the episode "No Pain, No Game" where Eva was eliminated.

Aside from speaking their mind, campers also go to the stall to cast their votes. It's unclear if all is needed to cast a vote is the camper saying their name into the camera or if a written ballot is also needed, as Harold is seen rigging paper ballots in "Basic Straining", whereas in the episode mentioned above, Chris only shows their vocal votes.

In the final episode, The Very Last Episode, Really!, the confessional cam is left unusable by Owen after using it as a bathroom after eating Heather's laxative cupcakes. However, in Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island it appears to be back up and running.

Total Drama Action
With the confessional outhouse cam unusable because of their change of location, Chris announces to the campers in "Monster Cash" that for Total Drama Action the contestants will now dish their secrets in a confessional make-up trailer (which Lindsay is overjoyed about). The trailer itself is filled to the brim with various cosmetics for the contestants to use if they choose (although none have used any thus far and Lindsay once refused a lipstick when she said she didn't use that brand). Unlike the outhouse cam where they talked into a camera, the contestants talk this time into a mirror instead (possibly a two way mirror). Unlike last season, confessionals with two contestants seemed more common, and they seem to be more cautious of what they say to the confessional.

Also inside the confessional appear to be make-up artists, who at times try to apply make up to the contestants. These artists have so far only been seen as arms reaching out from the boarder of the mirror to apply the make-up to the contestant or spraying perfume once they leave.

However, the biggest change to the use of the confessional is that now the contestants cast votes right before the elimination ceremony and no longer in their private confessionals, probably because of what Harold did to Courtney in TDI.

Trivia

 * The only campers to never use the confessional cam are Ezekiel and Tyler. Noah and Justin never used it during their time on the show, however, they did use it once in the final episode.
 * Located behind the campers in the confessional outhouse is an image of Kilroy, a popular doodle part of the "Kilroy was here" fad. Other graffiti includes a skull and crossbones, a love struck heart and either an ankh or the sign of Venus.
 * The only campers to ever seem to use the confessional outhouse as a bathroom are Owen and Lindsay. However Harold did have his pants down when he opened the door in X-Treme Torture meaning he was going to the bathroom also.
 * The roof of the confessional make-up trailer seems to have been ripped off by the huge robot monster.
 * Gwen was the first camper to use the confessional cam in TDI.
 * Lindsay was the first castmate to use the confessional cam in TDA.
 * Cody is the only camper that is voiced by Oldring to use the confessional cam. Ezekiel, and Tyler (Also voiced by Oldring) never use the stall.
 * In One Flu Over the Cuckoos, Harold claims "Duncan is a worthless punk or his name isn't Harold Norbert Cheever Doris McGrady V" and told them not to tell Duncan about the "Doris" part. Duncan, however, found out about Harold's secret despite them being trapped inside a room. This means the confessionals are in either real-time, or that Harold recorded the first confessional, in which he proclaimed that Duncan was a worthless punk, before the challenge and Duncan found out about it before the challenge also.