Cameron and Jo

This article focuses on the interactions between Cameron and Jo.

Overview
Jo thinks of herself as the strongest contestant and thinks of everyone else, especially the weaker-looking Cameron, as weaklings. Throughout the season, Jo picks on Cameron, and thinks of him as the most expendable member of their team due to his weak body structure. Cameron, on the other hand, doesn't like Jo's treatment of him, but learns much from her. However, as the season progresses, Cameron learns how to stand up for himself and eventually, leads Jo to her own downfall in Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon. Although Jo was angry of Cameron's betrayal, the two of them parted on friendly terms, but the conflict has yet to end, as Jo did not support Cameron in the finale.

Opening sequence
Cameron is caught by Jo after being sent flying in the air, but Jo drops him to race Brick.

Bigger! Badder! Brutal-er!
Jo swims past Cameron and refuses to help him despite the fact that he was drowning. During the challenge, Cameron supports Jo in the challenge by attempting to calculate where exactly on the trampoline Jo should jump in order to grab the axe.

Truth or Laser Shark
While the contestants are walking towards the lake for the next challenge, Cameron says he hopes the challenge isn't too physical, however Jo simply mocks his short stature. Cameron replies by saying he has strengths that lie in mental areas, but Jo uses his own words against him and says that he would be "mental" if he thought he could make it through Total Drama without handling anything physical. After the first challenge, Jo taunts Cameron by rhetorically asking him if he still wore a diaper, but Cameron angrily replies he hadn't worn one since he was eleven. This leads Jo and the rest of the Mutant Maggots to laugh at him, she then asks him whether he still drank from a bottle. By this point Cameron is fed up with Jo and tells her that he has as much right to be on this show as she does, and that would prove it in the next challenge, in which he does.

Ice Ice Baby
Cameron accepts Jo being the team captain and follows her orders and the two seem to cooperate well in the challenge. The two of them work well together in making Mike transform into his Svetlana personality, with Cameron making a grand introduction and Jo allowing him to fly outside their fort, leading to him ultimately capturing the flag for the win.

Finders Creepers
Jo refers to Cameron as the team's most expendable player and throws him into a hole in a tree. When Anne Maria and Mike went missing and Cameron wants to find them, Jo prefers to continue with the challenge, upsetting Cameron that she has little concern for her team mates. As the two of them arrive at the cave, Cameron is hesitant and suggests getting Mike and Anne Maria first. However Jo snatches one of the flashlights he's holding, causing him to drop the rest, and continues on into the cave herself. When Jo went missing, Cameron looks for Jo after he finds Anne Maria and Mike and is worried when he is unable to find her. After Cameron is caught in the web and Jo asks who it was (as the web obscured her vision) Cameron addresses himself as "string bean", which is a name Jo often called him by. Jo states that she was impressed that Cameron lasted far longer in the challenge than she had anticipated, to which Cameron thought was the nicest thing Jo had ever said to him.

Backstabbers Ahoy!
When Anne Maria objected to Jo being the diver, Jo shoved the dive helmet onto Cameron's head, its weight causing him to tip over. This action made Cameron support Jo in the challenge out of intimidation. During the water-skiing challenge, when Jo's seagull gun was jammed, she tells Cameron to "take one for the team." She then threw him to the bell they needed to ring to win the challenge, but he crashes into Lightning, who was also flying across the air. This severely injured Cameron. After Cameron won the challenge for the team, Jo appreciated him doing so and complimented him.

Runaway Model
When Cameron came up with an idea to win the challenge, Jo respected it and went along with it.

A Mine Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
When Cameron was faced with the dilemma of waking up an unconscious Mike after a mine cart crash, he asked himself "What would Jo do?" He then proceeded to yell at Mike and hits him on the head with the flashlight, waking him up. This subtly implies that, despite their conflict, Cameron has gained respect for Jo as a leader.

Grand Chef Auto
After Chris announced the merge, Cameron approached Jo and asked if she would like to form an alliance with him, offering his intellect to complement her athleticism. Jo initially laughs and declines, saying she already had a better alliance with the physically superior Lightning. However when she sees Lightning struggling to count past 10, she looks back at Cameron and begins to reconsider. During the challenge when Cameron is spray painting his graffiti, Jo laughs at him for making an excessively detailed tag, and tells him it isn't art school.

Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon
The conflict between the two of them reaches a breaking point in this episode. Jo forces Cameron to form an alliance with her earlier in the episode. Jo forces Cameron to make her flying machine to be the best so she can get first place and focus less on his own. Despite Cameron winning the first part of the challenge, Jo takes his prize, a smoke machine.

Brain vs. Brawn: The Ultimate Showdown
Despite leaving on a seemingly-positive note with Cameron and a negative note with Lightning, Jo was the only member of the whole cast who rooted for Lightning to win instead of Cameron. She cheered for Lightning as he attacked Cameron and was noticeably upset when Cameron was declared the winner. Despite this, Jo was excited to hear that Cameron would split the prize money with everyone else. She declared that she would use her share to open up her own gym. In Lightning's ending, Jo complains that she should have won the million, since she lead both Cameron and Lightning to the finale.

Trivia

 * This is one of the first major conflicts of Total Drama: Revenge of the Island along with Brick and Jo.
 * This conflict is very similar to that of Duncan and Harold's, as they both involve a physically strong competitor bullying a weak, intellectual competitor.
 * Later on it also mirrors Beth's conflicts with Heather and Courtney, as they all feature a short, intellectual competitor being forced into an alliance and doing the bidding of a bossy female competitor. Also both times the nerd finally learns to stand up for themselves and back-stabs their cruel leader.
 * Both have been mistaken for the opposite gender by Lightning:
 * In Bigger! Badder! Brutal-er!, Cameron was called a "little girl" after Lightning had saved him from drowning.
 * Jo is referred to as a "male" by Lightning throughout season four until at the end of Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon.
 * Jo often refers to Cameron as "Stringbean", a name which Harold and Noah have been referred to as before.
 * They are the first two members of the new cast to share a confessional.