Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon

'''It's down to the final five, as the host places the campers in an aerial-based challenge, where three threats try to outfox each other. However, after an old contestant shows up and steals what almost was her's, the original challenge is changed in order to catch her. In the end, the goal is reclaimed, and a traitorous jock is betrayed by a former alliance member, and finally takes the Hurl of Shame.'''

Plot
The episode opens with Scott seen running from Fang once again, but he is soon caught. Scott initially surrenders himself and tell Fang to quickly finish him off, but an unidentified flying object appears above them and distracts Fang. This gives Scott a window of opportunity to have the upperhand on Fang, by kicking him in the groin and running back to camp where the object is revealed to be a blimp which drops an anchor on Scott. While Cameron states that it's not a blimp, but a zeppelin, the board leading on to the aircraft crushes him. Chris then appears and calls the aircraft his "McLean Air Mobile Command Center," and also says that this challenge will be an aerial obstacle course. He brings out Heather to demonstrate the challenge and the contestants complains at the sight of her. Chef puts a jetpack on her as she flies through an obstacle of hoops of fire, and afterwards faceplants into the ground, while her parachute opens late. Zoey thinks that this challenge isn't exactly safe, and Chris snaps back saying it's totally unsafe when he also brings up the mutant Mountain goats. Zoey says that she is out, but Chris changes her mind by bringing out the million. Chris continues with the challenge and says that they all have to build an aircraft to use. Despite Cameron seeming worried, Jo tries to make an alliance with him since Lightning and her are done after last episode's incident.

The contestants then head over to a junkyard and pick the type of machine they will have to build. Jo got a hot air balloon, Lightning got a helicopter, Zoey got an airplane, Cameron got a rocket, and Scott, who was last to choose, got a bird. Chris also brings out the reward for whoever builds their aircraft first, a smoke machine. Jo uses Cameron to her advantage to know what to do to get her hot air balloon working, while Lightning also asks him, he told him he needed a fan and an internal combustion engine. Jo then disconnects them when Jo grabbed him. Scott tries to figure out how to build a bird when he sees the mutant gulls. He chuckles as he rips off feathers from their chest. The gulls retaliated back by attacking him. Zoey tries to act helpless because of her machine being an airplane, until she finds all her parts laying in the same location, and finally agrees to build it. While Lightning was trying to start his project, he finds items Jo needed for her air balloon. He hides them behind a giant fan and a motorcycle, which were things that could help him build a helicopter. He walks away thinking that Jo will never find them and laughs, but then he realizes he needed those two machines. After Cameron finished Jo's air balloon, she tells him before he goes off doing his machine to sabotage Lightning, and gives him a shovel to knock junk on his machine. Cameron tries to do so, but fails and is flung by the shovel to a rocket engine. Jo tries to see what was taking Cameron so long and finds him completing his rocket. Chris announces that Cameron wins the first challenge.

After everyone has built their aircrafts, Chris announces the challenge from up above in his zeppelin. Heather is also seen in the blimp hitting Chris and Chef with Chris' Gemmie award. They are both shoved off while Heather is left onboard with the million dollar prize. Chris doesn't seem to care about what Heather does until Zoey brings up Chris' award is still up there, and changes the challenge from its original plan and to capture Heather instead. Heather uses all of Chris' awards as a weapon to keep the others away. Chef is seen with the ammo everyone needs to use, mutant Goat eggs. Chris says whoever takes down Heather wins immunity, and tells them also be careful of the goats who are "super ticked." A flashback is then seen of Chef blowing an airhorn to the Goats to get them to leave their eggs needed for the challenge. Scott is seen talking to himself about how Zoey tried to vote him off, and targets her. Fang is then shown caught up with Scott and chases him. Jo is the first to get off the ground with Cameron's smoke machine when she told him it would be better off with her, he then releases her rope, which Fang got caught on while trying to get Scott. Lightning, Scott, and Zoey are all seen then leaving the grounds. Scott tries to get back at Zoey by jumping on her plane, while Lightning tries to hit the zeppelin, but fails. Heather then laughs at his weak attempt. Lightning tries to make his second attempt when Cameron flies uncontrollable on his machine and passes Lightning and starts to hurl wildly.

The Mutant goats with bat wings and fire breathing mouths are seen attacking Jo's aircraft, and she tells them to go after Heather. Heather sees the goats and comes out to the door with the Gemmie awards, she is enraged by Jo and starts throwing them at her. Lightning and Cameron finally gained control of their machines while Lightning tells Cameron about Jo being an user. Jo then uses Cameron's smoke machine to slow down Scott. Cameron finally figured out Jo and used a bomb he implanted on the smoke machine in case and blew it up on Jo. This caused her balloon to catch on fire as she plummets to Earth. Zoey tries to use her gears, but break, causing her machine to flip on her and she slides off the zeppelin and on one of the Mutant Goats, she flies with the Goat until she grabs its horns to control. She then flies back towards Heather. Along the way she uses the goats to fire Scott. His feathers are burned, causing him to fall down too, but lands on Fang in the process. Lightning crashes into the front windows of the zeppelin to get Heather. Lightning sees Heather crying because she said she just needed the money. Lightning almost got the money when Heather smashed the case on him multiple times, and continues flying. Lightning then gets up as the fight over the case. Heather's elbow hits the wheel causing the zeppelin to fly towards the ground. Heather then pushes Lightning away and gets her money. Cameron then flies into the ship as well, causing Heather to drop the case out the window. Lightning catches it as he plummets, but Chris takes it. Cameron is then hanging on the ledge of the window, when Zoey comes to save him. The contestants land safely in the water while the zeppelin crashes forcefully into the lake with Heather still inside it.

At elimination, Chris says it was because of Cameron's machine that took out Heather, so he wins immunity. Zoey and Scott were also safe, leaving Jo and Lightning at the bottom two. Jo is seen confident while Lightning is worried, but Jo ends up getting the Marshmallow of Toxic Loserdom. Jo then goes over to Cameron and calls him a backstabber, but also compliments him from learning from the best, her. She tells Lightning he's an idiot for not being able to tell that she was a girl. Lightning was shocked at what she said about her being a girl, and finally Jo is hurled, while Chris signs off the show.

Quotes
Scott: Ha! Look at you wusses! It's just a stupid blimp. (the zeppelin's anchor lands on his foot) Owww! Cameron: Actually, I believe it is a zeppelin. Named for Count Fredinand von Zeppelin, who... (the zeppelin's loading ramp falls on him) Ohhh! Chris: (to Scott and Cameron) You're both wrong. It's the McLean Mobile Air Command Center. Chris: Uh-huh. And here to demonstrate, put your hands together for a Total Drama classic contender, Heather! (Heather gives an evil glare and everyone reacts negatively to her presence) Heather: (moaning) Chris: (laughing) Best challenge ever! Zoey: (poking Heather) Uh, this challenge seems kind of unsafe. Chris: No! It's totally unsafe! (laughs) Did I mention you'll also be attacked by flying, mutant fire-breathing goats? Lightning: (gasps) Cameron: What?! Zoey: (angrily) That's it! I'm out! Chris: Okay, but before you go, you should say good-bye to this! (pulls out the briefcase containing the prize money and opens it) The ultimate Total Drama prize: One! Million! Dollars! (the wind causes a few bills to fly out of the case) Give or take. Zoey: (upon seeing the million dollars) Money! Removing all common sense and fear of danger. Scott: Too bad you'll never win it. (Zoey pushes him down) Ow! Zoey: (to Scott) Just watch me! (to everyone else) If that's okay with you. Jo: Cam's a good kid. I'll carry him a few rounds, then I'll dump him! But first, Jockstrap's getting a ticket to the Hurl of Shame! He's got this silly "grudge" against me. Lightning: Yeah! Because that Jo guy kicked me right into that shark's mouth! It was tenderizing me like a T-bone! Jo's gonna pay! Hmm. Man! I could really go for a T-bone right now. Anyway, I'm... Scott: ...gonna whup... Zoey: ...everybody else and... Cameron: ...take home that million... Jo: ...dollars for myself! Lightning: Sha-licious! Jo: A hot air balloon? Ugh! Can you get more frou-frou, la-di-da? Lightning: A helicopter?! Sweet! Didn't think I'd get one 'til I hit the majors! Zoey: A plane. Cool! And also, totally impossible to build. Cameron: A rocket! Hooray! My rocketeering knowledge is both sophisticated and formidable! Scott: Huh? A bird?! How I am supposed to build a bird?! (throws card away) I want a new card! (reaches back into Chris' garbage bag and finds a mouse trap) Ahhh! Oh! Ahhh! A bird. Yep! That's works. Cameron: Thanks. Well, better find the parts to make my rocket. Jo: Or, you could be a real competitor and sabotage the others. Cameron: That's not very sportsperson like. Jo: Listen Turbo-Dork, winning is all that matters! And you can't win unless everybody else loses! Right? (hands Cameron a shovel) Now go over there, and "accidentally" tip a mountain of crud onto Captain Muscle. Cameron: (walks to the top of a pile of junk, sticks the spade end of the shovel in, and tries to push, The shovel bends, and then launches Cameron across the sky, until he lands on a plane turbine, in pain) Ohhhh. (realizing what he landed on) A 747 engine! Eureka Squared!! Zoey: Hope you can flap your wings as fast as your jaw! Scott: Just watch. It'll be flying high while you take a swan dive into the lake! (chuckles) Zoey: (starts her plane) Scott: Hey! Hey! Watch the feathers! (walks off to retrieve a metal pipe and sticks it in Zoey's propeller) Zoey: (as her plane is spinning) Whoa-ah!!! Heather: (Hits Chris and Chef Hatchet on the head and throws both of them out of the zeppelin) Chris: (as he's falling) Whoa-ah!!! Chef Hatchet: (as he's falling) Ahhhh!!! Heather: (holding up the Gemmie statuette) One Gemmie for you. (holding up the prize money case) And one million for me! (closes zeppelin door) Chris: (after he and Chef Hatchet land on the ground) Ugh! I think I sprained my stubble. Chris: (nonchalantly) Whatever, got it at the Air Force garage sale. Jo: (knocks Cameron out of the way) And my million dollars! Chris: Whatever, not my million bucks. Zoey: And all your Gemmie Awards. Chris: (now sounding worried) My Gemmies? (gets up) (assertively) Cancel the Obstacle Course of Doom! Your new challenge is to stop that zeppelin!! Heather: (at the zeppelin's door, holding up Gemmie statuettes) Don't try to stop me! I've got gold statuettes, and I'm not afraid to use them!! (throws the statues) Chris: (chasing after his awards) I've got you my precious-es! (gets hit by the statuettes) Heather: (cackling at Lightning's attack) Lightning: Just a warm-up! This time, for real! Heather: (fakes crying) Oh, I'm sorry. All I wanted was the money. But this is just gone too far. Here, just take it. ''(Smashes Lightning with the case). Lightning: (after being smashed by Heather) ''What is wrong with you? (Gets smashed for the second time) You crazy! ''(Gets smashed for the third time) Heather: (screaming to Lightning) ''I was robbed!! I deserve that money!!
 * Everyone: (as a zeppelin flies over the camp) Whoa!
 * Lightning:  Lightning, taking to the sky! Sha-bam! ( punching Scott )
 * Zoey: Wow! You're the Heather? Heather: (to Zoey) Sorry, I have this policy of not talking to losers. Zoey: Oh, I'm not a loser, you know, unless everyone else thinks I am.
 * Chris: (as Heather is about to crash after her jetpack runs out of fuel) Everyone, just be cool; there's a parachute built-in to it. (Heather crashes into the ground with the parachute deploying afterwards)
 * Zoey: (in the Confessional) Scott really brings out the jerk in me, which is kinda liberating. Besides, he voted Mike off. He needs to PAY!
 * Cameron: (in the Confessional) I am a 90 pound weakling. Okay, 89 and a half. With all of the Scotts and Lightnings out there, sometimes, I need to stay as invisible as possible. So, I'll hide behind Jo, then when it comes time to vote people off, everyone will target the serious competition, like Scott, or Lightning or, heh-heh, Jo!
 * Chris: (after explaining the challenge) Pick them like your nose, losers! (as each camper draws his/her card one-by-one)
 * Jo: Wow! Good work, Wonder-Nerd. (referring to Cameron's finished Hot Air Balloon that he made for Jo)
 * Cameron: (in the Confessional Cam) No, I don't think Jo is pushing me around at all. I'll be nowhere without her. I owe all my success to her and I'll ride my way of victory with her assured advice. (The camera zooms off to Jo in the confessional with Cameron, patting him on his head)
 * Scott: I'm gonna ace this puppy!
 * Chris: (referring to Scott and Zoey's rivalry) Man, they really hate each other now, huh? (laughs while Heather walks up behind him, smiling evilly with a Gemmie statuette in her hand) I feel another Gemmie coming on!
 * Cameron: Um, Chris?! Heather's stealing your Mobile Air Command Center.
 * Jo: (in the Confessional) Heather's conniving, mean, deceitful...my kind of competitor, except for those girly short-shorts. (gags) Ee-yuck!
 * Scott: (after disorienting Zoey) Man! I'm good. (sees Fang and screams)
 * Lightning: Lightning, going long! (throws an egg at the zeppelin and it bounces off)
 * Heather: (to the contestants) You want a piece of me?! Huh?! You want a piece?!
 * Lightning: (after crashing into the Zeppelin) Yes, that cool mil, it's mine! (To Heather) Alright girl, hand it over.
 * Jo:(Just after being eliminated) I deserve to win this! (to Cameron) You traitor! You backstabber! (Jo is about to punch Cameron, but Chef grabs her arm and drags her away) Cameron: I learned from the best! Jo: You-! You know, you're right! Good technique kid! (to Lightning) But you! You're an idiot! You couldn't even tell I was a girl! Lightning: You're what!?
 * Jo: In your face, Lightniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing...!!! (gets catapulted) 

General

 * Scott's disadvantage in this episode is similar to Heather's in Wawanakwa Gone Wild! in which both antagonists are required to build or capture something that is harder to do than the other contestants.
 * Coincidentally, Heather makes a cameo in this episode.
 * Several of the flying machines resemble vehicles that the veteran contestants used in Total Drama World Tour:
 * Scott's wings resembles the wings used by Tyler and Cody in Greece's Pieces.
 * Zoey's swan plane resemble the swan boats that were used in Niagara Brawls. The wings she uses also resemble the ones from Gwen's bike in That's Off the Chain!.
 * Jo's hot air balloon resembles Cody's in Planes, Trains, and Hot Air Mobiles.
 * When the female intern screams at the beginning of the episode, her screaming is similar to Lindsay's.
 * Cameron betraying Jo instead of helping her is similar to how Beth finally stood up for herself and defected from Heather's Alliance.
 * When the contestants were in the confessional saying that they were gonna take the money, it is similar to when Leshawna, Duncan, Heather, and Gwen talked about how bad Camp Wawanakwa was at the end of Wawanakwa Gone Wild!.
 * The Australian title for this episode was shortened to "Up, Up And Away."
 * When Heather is seen in this episode, her gold tooth is never seen. It is possible that her gold tooth was removed and replaced with a new tooth after Total Drama World Tour.

Continuity

 * This is the third episode in a row where a member of Total Drama Island's final four makes a guest appearance.
 * As of this episode, all members of the final four of the first season have made a cameo appearance.
 * Coincidentally, the final four of this season is formed in this episode.
 * This is the fourth episode of the season that one of the originals who cameoed is the same gender as the loser. The others being Backstabbers Ahoy!, The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean, and Grand Chef Auto.
 * This is the third episode in the series that references the Gemmie awards.
 * The first being in Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Action Reunion Special, and the second being in Niagara Brawls, during Blainerific.
 * The Gemmie statues resemble the statue that was introduced before Truth or _ segments in the Aftermath shows.
 * Lightning finally learns that Jo is a female in this episode.
 * This is the third time Heather has acted weak to gain an advantage on a male contestant. The first being with Trent in Search and Do Not Destroy, and the second being with Duncan in Are We There, Yeti?.
 * This is also the first time she did to somebody other than one of Gwen's boyfriends.
 * This is the first episode since Runaway Model where there is no irregularity of elimination.
 * Unless Brick's double elimination with Anne Maria in A Mine Is a Terrible Thing to Waste is counted as regular.
 * This is the fourth time a cameo was a part of/involved in a challenge. In this case, Heather. The other four being Izzy in Finders Creepers, Lindsay in Runaway Model, Gwen in The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean, and DJ in Eat, Puke, and Be Wary.
 * The intern being thrown off the Hurl of Shame in the beginning of the episode marks the third time that an intern has been put through the device of elimination. The first being the intern in Greece's Pieces and Dakota, who was an intern at the time, in Finders Creepers.
 * Heather claims to have been "robbed of the million" in this episode, possibly referring to last season, where she complains after she accidentally threw Alejandro's dummy into the volcano instead of hers, or when she won, but her money was stolen and then burnt by Ezekiel.
 * This is the first episode where Zoey and Cameron receive marshmallows.

Goofs

 * There are two capitalization errors in the title. The title should read, "Up, Up and Away in My Pitiful Balloon."
 * In the recap, Chris said that they're down to final four, but there are actually five finalists in this episode.
 * When Zoey picks her card, the back of the card is seen perfectly fine, but the front of the card is ripped from the top left part. The back is then still seen fine, but when she turns it over and walks away, the front is seen ripped again.
 * When Chris says "Revenge of the Island" in the beginning of the episode, part of his hair is missing.
 * Scott says that Zoey tried to vote him off last episode, when he was the only one who got to vote.
 * When Heather is holding the million dollar case, the ring on her shirt is lower then normal.