Picnic at Hanging Dork

'''The remaining eight contestants travel to Australia, where tension really flares after a past incident. Two people's strategy to weaken an opponent proves to work well, while the other team is divided into two alliances. In the end, due to someone's error, courtesy of a bully, another person takes the Drop of Shame after losing a tiebreaker challenge.'''

Recap
On the plane ride to the next destination, Courtney and Gwen are both trying to secure alliances with their teammates to vote each other off of the game. With Courtney guaranteed Sierra's vote and Cody soundly in Gwen's camp, Heather becomes the swing vote on the team. Meanwhile, the boys on Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot plot how to take down Team Amazon and end up in First Class after the next challenge. Owen suggests Alejandro uses his flirtatious charm, since that got Bridgette and LeShawna booted out, which makes Alejandro nervous that his teamates know that he is evil. Duncan adds that if he flirts with Courtney, it will distract her and upset Heather at the same time. Duncan really likes his plan as it either gets Courtney eliminated, ridding him of his ex, or it fails and it's a reason to vote him off.

In the cockpit, Chef announces that the landing gear isn't working properly, much to Chris' disbelief. It is then revealed that a sleeping Ezekiel had nested underneath the plane's wheels, preventing the landing gear from deploying properly. As landing is now impossible, the contestants have to jump off the plane onto the Australian outback. They will have to catch one of the emus provided, then ride it to Hanging Rock. Unfortunately, this journey will take almost two days. Courtney gives a half-hearted effort at throwing the challenge by pretending to be unable to catch an emu, but is foiled as Alejandro brings her an emu himself. While she doesn't like the help in the challenge, she doesn't mind Alejandro's attention. Heather then starts to flirt with Duncan, as her own private revenge. As Duncan finally mounts his emu but is is almost thrown off as Cody knocks him over as he passes by, Duncan yells at Cody angrily, but Cody only blows a raspberry in response.

The next day, Duncan charges at Cody and tries to punch him but misses his swing and gets knocked flat by a kangaroo's kick. Chef has carved himself a didgeridoo while he and Chris wait for the contestants. Alejandro arrives first, followed shortly by Heather, Courtney and Cody. Duncan arrives via a kangaroo's pouch. Gwen and Sierra finally arrive, and Team Amazon wins the advantage in the next challenge: battery-powered sheep shearers instead of rusty garden shears. Chris doesn't let the boys go back for Owen, forced to wait for his arrival.

The teams have to bungee jump off the cliff to grab a sheep and shear it. Only six sheep have a brand on them, three for each team. The team has to uncover their own brand to win. While Courtney is preparing to jump, Gwen approaches Heather about voting off Courtney. Heather agrees to it quickly. While shearing the first sheep, Team Amazon are forced to sing Shear the Sheep.

Duncan offers to help Alejandro with winning Courtney's trust, and they fake a spat over his flirtations. Owen arrives, just as the first sheep is shown bare: no mark. Sierra offers to go next, but jumps off the cliff without a bungee cord. She is incapacitated for the rest of the competition. Owen grabs a dingo from the pile. Alejandro continues to flirt with Courtney, and Duncan pretends to cry, which also distracts Gwen. Alejandro tries to help Courtney win, but she admits that she wants to lose this competition, which pleases Alejandro. As Cody is about to jump, Duncan finally gets his revenge by throwing Owen's dingo at him, knocking both of them off the cliff. Cody panics as he falls, which results in him thrashing around and getting himself and the dingo tangled up in the line, spinning him around wildly and making him extremely dizzy.

Duncan jumps and easily grabs a sheep. Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot shaves it, and their team logo is shown, meaning they won the challenge and immunity. Team Amazon ended up having to go to the Barf Bag Ceremony. Courtney asks Heather if she is clear on the plan, and gets Heather to assure her she'd vote with her, to which Heather was lying about. Chris goes on to state what the contestants did that episode, and a reason why they could be eliminated. He calls Cody up to vote, who was delirious due to his dingo-attack. The others proceed to vote after him.

At the voting, the vote is split 2-2-1 for Courtney, Gwen and Sierra respectively. Since Courtney and Gwen tied for the most votes, they have to have a tie-breaker competition; feed a starving koala cub, without their hands. Due to Gwen's eucalyptus allergy and Courtney's babysitting experience, Gwen loses by a hair and takes the Drop of Shame. Moments before she falls, she taunts Courtney about how, in the end, she still has Duncan.

Cast

 * Ezekiel makes a cameo appearance underneath the plane's wheel, but does not speak.

Quotes
Cody: That only happened once! (faint laughter is heard outside from Duncan, Courtney, Heather and Alejandro) Chris: "Uh-oh funny"? Or "Uh-oh we're all gonna die"?''' Chef: Landing gear won't come down. Chris:''' How does that even happen!? (Ezekiel is then shown sleeping and keeping the landing gear from coming down) Duncan: (under attack by an emu) What? (emu runs away) Hey! Come back here! Alejandro: (in confessional) Heather's a masterful adversary, indeed! She's never used flirtation before. But, that could not have have been true passion in her eyes. (eyes widen) Could it? Chris: Another two hours. (Chef unfolds map) Oh, make that two days! (Chef and Chris began laughing hysterically) Alejandro: How long until he realizes it's a dingo? Duncan: Three, two... (Owen gets attacked by the dingo) Alejandro: (laughs hysterically in the confessional) Hahahahaha... Ohhh. Classic.
 * Chris: (during the recap) And that's no dentist chair. You didn't think Owen would actually go to a dentist, did you?
 * Cody: (munching on a chocolate chip cookie) The chocolate chips are still gooey! First class rocks!
 * Sierra: Cody! Are you okay in there? (gasps) Did you fall in?
 * Chef: Uh-oh.
 * Duncan: Bridgette and LeShawna? And here I thought I was the only dude to score double-gold in the Babe-Olympics.
 * Courtney: (weakly) Oh, no. This is tricky. I'll never catch one.
 * Heather: Lookin' good, D!
 * Chef: How much longer do we have to wait?
 * Chris: Find out when we boomerang on Total! Drama! World Tour!
 * Owen: Come back here, emu's!
 * Cody: The Code-man delivers! You can call me "The Wool"!
 * Owen: (returns with a dingo instead of a sheep) Hey, check it out! I caught one that's already sheared. Wooo! Hehehehe!
 * Duncan: Fake sadness has been a gift of mine since I was a kid. Watch and learn. (in a pitiful voice) Oh, mom, was that your grandmother's vase? (fakes crying, stops, and grins)
 * Gwen: Suck it Courtney! In your- (falls out the plane screaming) faaaaaaaaace!
 * Chris: Blocked from space to zap your face!

Trivia

 * Title Reference: The Australian novel and film Picnic at Hanging Rock.
 * Interestingly, this episode was named "Picnic at Hanging Rock" in Australia.
 * This is the first episode written by Michael Gelbart.
 * Ezekiel makes a cameo appearance underneath the plane's wheel, preventing the landing gear from coming down, but does not speak, merely sucking his thumb in his sleep.
 * This is the third time Team Amazon loses a challenge in Total Drama World Tour, the first two being in The Am-AH-Zon Race and Newf Kids on the Rock.
 * This is the first time Team Amazon lost when Team Victory wasn't in the game.
 * This is the first time that Team Amazon have actually had an elimination, since, in The Am-AH-Zon Race, it was a fake elimination.
 * Gwen is the first member of Team Amazon to be eliminated. Coincidentally, she was the first member voted off on her team last season, too.
 * As of this episode, each of the three teams has lost at least one player.
 * With Gwen's elimination, the two models used for Team Victory's Walk-Off challenge have been eliminated back-to-back.
 * This is the first time that an elimination vote has ended in a tie, resulting in a tiebreaker.
 * It's also the second tie-breaker for an elimination. The first one being for Team Victory in Can't Help Falling in Louvre.
 * This tie goes agaiunst what Chris said in Anything Yukon Do, I Can Do Better, where-in he said that, in the event of a tie, they go alphabetically. By this, Courtney should have been eliminated.
 * A tie breaker challenge is a reference to Survivor, where there is a tie in the votes, and the two must compete in a challenge, where the winner is safe from elimination and the loser is eliminated.
 * Another Survivor reference is when Chris reads the votes, "One for Gwen, one for Courtney..." and so on. This also happened in The Aftermath: IV, when Chris was reading Beth's and Duncan's respective votes.
 * This marks the third appearance of Chef's autopilot, seen at the very end of the episode.
 * With Gwen's elimination, all Screaming Gaffers (excluding Heather) have been eliminated from Total Drama World Tour before the merge.
 * However, Duncan did return, and ended up making it to the merge.
 * This is the first time in the series that Cody (and technically Alejandro and Sierra) have lasted longer than Gwen, the second time in a row that Courtney (technically she wasn't in the second season until six episodes after Gwen's elimination), Duncan, and Heather have outranked Gwen, and the third time in a row that Owen has outranked Gwen.
 * This episode marks Sierra's first major injury when she fell off the cliff without a bungee cord.
 * This is also the first time where a contestant had received a major injury and was not eliminated in the same episode.
 * The previous contestants who were eliminated in the same episode as when they got severely injured and the type of injuries they had are as followed: Cody in Paintball Deer Hunter after being mauled by a bear, Justin in The Princess Pride after taking a lot of physical abuse, Izzy in Jamaica Me Sweat after a plane fell on her head, and Tyler in The Ex-Files after stepping on a landmine.
 * Coincidentally, the ones that were actually voted off are all male and had on some sort of body cast when eliminated. Izzy, although had a cast on her head, was technically not voted off for she was removed from the competition to receive medical attention.
 * Gwen reveals that she is allergic to eucalyptus, making her the sixth person to have allergies to something.
 * Noah asks Chris if he got his memo about his life threatening allergies in Not So Happy Campers - Part 1, and states he gets hives when in contact to panda dander in Super Happy Crazy Fun Time Japan.
 * LeShawna states, and shows due to Heather, that she's allergic to pineapples in If You Can't Take The Heat... and mentions to be lactose intolerant in One Flu Over the Cuckoos.
 * Harold states being "violently allergic to crab apples" in Who Can You Trust?, but in Basic Straining, he is seen drinking what he thought was apple juice when it was kitchen grease, courtesy of Duncan.
 * Ezekiel reveals to have a peanut allergy in Walk Like An Egyptian - Part 1.
 * Cody, as revealed by Sierra, goes into anaphylactic shock when he comes in contact with various bug bites and goat saliva in The Am-AH-Zon Race.
 * This episode marks the end of Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot's three challenge losing streak to Team Amazon.
 * This is the second episode where a contestant accidentally votes for someone they didn't mean to.
 * The first was when Lindsay accidentally voted herself off in Rock n' Rule.
 * Ironically, Duncan caused the elimination of his love interest by making Cody get dizzy, causing Cody to inadvertently vote off Sierra, causing the tiebreaker, in which Courtney won.
 * This is the third episode in a row where Duncan is hurt by someone or something. In this case, a kangaroo.
 * In Greece's Pieces, he was mauled by a bear and punched and knocked out by Cody.
 * In The Ex-Files, he was kicked in the groin by Courtney when she broke up with him, zapped by a laser in Area 51, and electrocuted by an alien.
 * This is the first even numbered episode to have a contestant eliminated since Anything Yukon Do, I Can Do Better.
 * The is the first sixteenth episode of a season to have a contestant eliminated since Total Drama Island, as the sixteenth episode of Total Drama Action was a reward challenge.
 * This is the first episode of Total Drama World Tour in which each voice actor only had to be the voice of one character.
 * When the plane flips over, you can see a bag of Chef's Total Drama Yum Yum Happy Go Time Candy Fish Tails fall.
 * As of this episode, Total Drama World Tour has been to every permanently inhabited continent.
 * This marks the first episode of Total Drama World Tour in which a member of season 1's final three is eliminated. Like in season two, the first one to go is Gwen.

Goofs

 * When Cody tries to apologize to Gwen during the Barf Bag Ceremony, Sierra's ponytail vanishes.
 * When Sierra checks on Cody while he's in the confessional and says, "Cody? Are you okay in there?" the captions say that Gwen says it.
 * Both of the interns who were thrown off the plane in a previous episode are shown to be perfectly safe in this episode.
 * After Cody grabs the first sheep for Team Amazon, Courtney's eyebrows are missing.
 * Duncan's nose piercing switches sides twice.
 * When Chris calls Cody to cast his vote, Cody, after falling off the benches, was seen walking past Chris from his right instead of from his left.
 * When Cody was voting, some of the passports were shown with the print and picture backwards.