Opening sequence

The Opening Sequences play before every episode of Total Drama. Chris usually recaps the previous episode over what happened first and then the theme song begins. It is played to the tune of I Wanna Be Famous by Graeme Cornies and Dawna Toews.

Lyrics
''Dear Mom and Dad I'm doin' fine, You guys are on my mind. You asked me what I wanted to be And now I think the answer is plain to see, I wanna be famous.''

''I wanna live close to the sun, Go pack your bags, 'cause I've already won, Everything to prove, nothing in my way I'll get there one day. 'Cause, I wanna be famous!''

Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na! ''I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous (Whistling: I wanna be, I wanna be famous'')

Total Drama Island
thumb|300px|The Total Drama Island Opening Sequence video. In the Total Drama Island theme song, the song begins with a total of four spotlights and cameras coming out of random places, such as out of the grass or from a tree, the last two knocking down a beaver and a squirrel. The scene then goes through Camp Wawanakwa and past the host of the show, Chris McLean, who is drinking coffee and commanding the camera crew. It then goes to the top of a cliff and then down the cliff, where Owen is seen in the water, farting and knocking out a fish with the smell. The scene pans over to Bridgette and Geoff, in the lake on Bridgette's surfboard, flirting. However, the smell reaches them and they look disgusted. As the knocked out fish reaches the top of the water, an eagle flies by and and picks it up, dropping it somewhere in the forest where DJ is seen sitting in the forest with two birds, a chipmunk, a skunk, a frog, two squirrels, a turtle and a bunny. DJ seems to get along with them until the dead fish is dropped nearby (from the eagle, as stated previously) and the animals attack him, so DJ begins to scream and run. Duncan is now seen laughing, until he notices Courtney staring at him disapprovingly. The camera then goes through the forest where Heather and Leshawna are seen slap-fighting in a rubber raft that falls off a waterfall since they were not paying attention. Once they fall by, Harold is seen practicing Kung-Fu moves on a broken log in the middle of the waterfall, up until Izzy, who is swinging on a vine, crashes into him, sending them both flying back into camp, where they crash into the confessional stall and knock a half-dressed Lindsay out of it, revealing her pink panties.

Chef Hatchet is now seen in the kitchen, stirring a pot of food. He then looks at Noah and Ezekiel, who are tied up together at the counter. They briefly glance at each other nervously before the camera pans over to Tyler and Eva, who are arm-wrestling at a nearby Tyler. Tyler is struggling to win, until Eva defeats him and grins evilly. The camera goes over to Katie and Sadie, who are sitting near the beach on some stairs, fawning over Justin, who is too busy looking at himself in a mirror to care. A seagull, with a soda pop wrapper caught around its neck, is now seen. A shark then jumps over it, and eats a trout in the air. The seagull appears to be safe until a mysterious tentacle grabs it and pulls it under water. Beth is now seen, twirling fire batons in her hand on the Dock of Shame. Beth then tosses the fire baton in the air and it switches to night. Gwen and Trent are now seen, sharing a romantic moment at the campfire pit, until Cody appears and puts his arms over their shoulders. The camera then zooms out, with Gwen and Trent looking awkwardly at Cody while the rest of the contestants are seen gathered in a circle around the fire while whistling the tune of "I Wanna Be Famous!" As the screen fades out and a wooden sign with "Total Drama Island" painted onto it is seen.

Total Drama Action
thumb|300px|The Total Drama Action Opening Sequence video. In the Total Drama Action theme song, the song once again begins with spotlights and cameras popping up out of nowhere, bringing up a rat from the sewers and knocking a raccoon out of a tree. The camera then makes its way through the Abandoned Film Lot, where Chris McLean is seen driving a golf cart. The camera goes through some fake prop sets and then a rack of clothing. It then goes up a cliff, and then down to a special effects pool. Owen is seen swimming in it, with a shark approaching him from behind. However, Owen farts in the shark's mouth, disgusting it and making it cough. The camera then goes up to the beach movie set, where Harold is evading the seagulls Duncan shoots at him. However, one hits him in the face and he falls off into the special effects pool. Duncan is then seen laughing at Harold's misfortune, with Courtney glaring at him from behind. Duncan then turns around and Courtney and Duncan share a kiss, then grin evilly. The camera passes through them and through a Sasquatchanakwa wearing a bra and a pink wig to a big flash of light. Beth and two more sharks are now seen relaxing on beach chairs, wearing sunglasses. The camera zooms on Beth, who displays that she no longer wears braces.

Justin is now seen in the confessional, getting his make-up done. He turns around, only to get sprayed in the eyes. Heather and Leshawna are now seen on top of two platforms, fighting with giant Q-tips. Heather and Leshawna fight back and forth, until Leshawna gains the upper hand and knocks Heather's wig off her head. The wig falls in Chef's pot, who shrugs and hands it to DJ. DJ then puts some Momma's Spice on the stew, tastes it, and smiles in delight. The camera pans over to Lindsay, who is in Chris' private room. Lindsay presses a button, which makes a building explode. Izzy is now seen, waving to Lindsay, with a bear behind her. The bear roars at Izzy. However, Izzy roars back at the bear, making it run away. Izzy chases the bear throughout the film lot, and Gwen is now seen inside the Lame-o-sine. Trentthen opens the door for her while she smiles at him. Then camera flashes are shown, and Chris now appears at the Gilded Chris Award podium in a blue tuxedo. Chris opens an envelope, and Chef, in a disturbing bright pink dress, hands him a tray with some shiny Gilded Chris Awards. Bridgette and Geoff are now seen in the aftermath studio, about to kiss. But they realize that everyone is looking at them and stop, as the camera pulls out to reveal all of the twenty-two contestants from the first season, sitting in the peanut gallery. The screen behind them then changes from Chris and Chef to the logo of Total Drama Action.

Total Drama World Tour
Just like the other theme songs, several spotlights and cameras pop up out of nowhere, kicking a thumb|right|300px|The Total Drama World Tour Opening Sequence videoraccoon from the jet's engine and a suitcase, finishing with a clapperboard clamping down. The camera then rushes through the Total Drama Jumbo Jet's first class and through the cockpit, while Chris McLean jumps out of the way. After flying over the CN Tower, the camera passes by an island briefly and into a lake, in which Owen is smiling at a fish. The smile turns into an embarrassed look, as he realized that he had lost his swimming trunks. Above the water, Harold is practicing karate moves on a hut, but gets knocked off by an oar thrown at him by Duncan, who is in a canoe with Courtney. Alligators eat Duncan's oar, and the boat crashes into an orange inflatable raft on which Gwen is standing on. Duncan gives Gwen a flirty smile before her raft starts to sink. Duncan appears to want to help her, until Courtney glares at him and he turns around and sheepishly grins at her. The camera goes all the way to, where Alejandro is helping Heather up the Statue of Liberty, smirking while doing so. Tyler then runs past with Cody in a baby carriage, until he is table-topped by Ezekiel. This causes Cody to fly out of the carriage, off the statue, and land in the Yukon, where he falls into Sierra's arms, who seems very pleased by the action. A couple of feet behind Cody and Sierra is Lindsay holding a picture of Tyler, trying to remember his name. However, she then notices a polar bear behind her, and runs off in fear. The polar bear removes its mask to reveal Izzy, who is attacked by an angry baby seal, who bites her, causing her to run off in a panic.

Elsewhere, in the ocean, DJ and Bridgette are surfing until they collide and are knocked off their boards into the water. Leshawna and Noah are then shown crossing Abbey Road, and then ducking to avoid getting hit by the Total Drama Jumbo Jet. The camera then cuts to the top of the plane, where all the contestants are arranged in a human pyramid. Then, the plane is shown flying through several locations, such as Paris, London, and Australia. The camera cuts back to the top of the plane, where contestants (still in a human pyramid) are singing the lyrics of the theme song and dancing, with the camera cutting to Owen at the top with Izzy on his shoulder, then Courtney and Heather glaring at each other, then DJ at the bottom corner, who gets hit in the face by a seagull. Then, in the cockpit, an annoyed Chef Hatchet turns the plane sharply, causing all of the contestants to fall off. While most of them use parachutes (except Cody, who is being held by Sierra) and land safely, Tyler falls flat on the ground, while Courtney and DJ land on their rears, with the former looking slightly upset and the latter scared and holding his head. The plane pulls up behind the group, with the season's logo on a piece of metal on the side. As it stops, the piece of metal shifts and slightly falls out of place. Ezekiel then falls flat on his face in front of the group, visibly shocking Noah and Lindsay, and then the theme song ends.

Trivia

 * Coincidentally, the final five castmates in Total Drama Action are the first five to appear in the season's theme song. Likewise, the first five eliminated are the last five to appear in it (not counting the contestants that didn't compete in the season).
 * In the first three theme songs, Harold is seen doing karate stances until he gets hit by something.
 * Also, he is over water each time.
 * Two of the three times, it's Duncan who hits him with something.
 * His animation sequence in the third opening also matches his sequence in the first one, save for when he gets hit, in which the sequence matches the second opening.
 * Owen is the first contestant seen in the first three theme songs. He is also seen swimming in every one.
 * In the Total Drama Island and Total Drama Action theme songs, Trent and Gwen, Duncan and Courtney, and Bridgette and Geoff are always seen together.
 * In addition, Leshawna and Harold and Lindsay and Tyler are never seen together in any of the openings, if one doesn't count Lindsay trying to figure out who Tyler is in the third opening.
 * In the Total Drama Island and Total Drama Action theme songs, there is a romantic moment that is interrupted right before the theme song ends.
 * In the Total Drama World Tour theme song, there is no romantic moment, unless one counts Duncan being embarrassed after wanting to help Gwen in front of Courtney or Sierra clinging onto Cody.
 * In the first three theme songs, Duncan is seen laughing at someone's injury, until Courtney ends up stopping him by glaring.
 * In the Total Drama Island theme song, he laughs at DJ getting attacked by animals and then Courtney stops him by glaring.
 * In the Total Drama Action theme song, he shoots Harold with a seagull, making him fall into the water. Duncan laughs at Harold until Courtney stops him by glaring at him, and then starts making out with him.
 * In the Total Drama World Tour theme song, he hits Harold with a paddle, making him fall into water again. Duncan laughs at Harold next to Courtney until he crashes into Gwen's boat, where he looks down at her with a worried look on his face. He is about to help her up, but notices Courtney glaring at him from behind.
 * Leshawna and Heather are seen physically fighting in the Total Drama Island and Total Drama Action theme songs.
 * Justin is seen with a mirror in both the Total Drama Island and Total Drama Action theme songs.
 * In the Total Drama Island theme song, the neon Total Drama Island sign is seen at the end of the song near the campfire pit. In the actual competition, the sign remains by the campfire pit, and was proven to actually be part of the camp, and not simply part of the theme song.
 * Izzy is the first person to be seen in a costume in a theme song.
 * She was dressed as a polar bear in the Total Drama World Tour theme.
 * Izzy is seen interacting directly or indirectly with Lindsay in every opening.
 * In Total Drama Island, Izzy swings on a vine, accidentally hitting Harold and knocking Lindsay out of the confessional stall.
 * In Total Drama Action, Izzy runs up to the remains of a hangar that Lindsay blew up and waves at the camera.
 * In Total Drama World Tour, Izzy scared Lindsay by dressing up as a Polar Bear.
 * In the human pyramid in the Total Drama World Tour theme song, the contestants are initially lined up based on what teams they're on: Team Victory is on the bottom row. The middle row features all members of Team Amazon, except that Sierra is switched with Duncan (who, arguably, would've been on Team Amazon had he not quit), and all members of Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot are on the top row, along with Sierra (who was originally on that team), with Owen and Izzy on the very top.
 * In the Total Drama World Tour theme song, Tyler, Ezekiel and Cody (all voiced by Peter Oldring) are all seen next to each other for the first time.
 * The final five of Total Drama Action, excluding Beth, are the first four seen in the Total Drama World Tour theme song.
 * In the final frame of the Total Drama Action opening sequence, Tyler is the only non-contestant sitting on the left side of the stage.
 * Alejandro and Sierra are the only characters to appear in only one theme song.
 * In the Total Drama World Tour theme song, a bra that is identical Leshawna's bra that was seen in Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Action Reunion Special makes an appearance after a camera pops out of a suitcase.
 * This may mean that the suitcase itself belongs to Leshawna.
 * The blue fish and the seagull are the only animals seen in every theme song.
 * The blue fish interacts with Owen every time.
 * The fish is seen when Owen farts and kills it in the Total Drama Island theme.
 * It is again seen when Owen is swimming with it while a shark chases them in the Total Drama Action theme.
 * It is seen again when Owen is looking at it until he realizes that his trunks have come off in the Total Drama World Tour theme.
 * The seagull is seen first when the octopus grabs it from under the water in the Total Drama Island theme.
 * Multiple seagulls are seen when Duncan is shooting Harold with them in the Total Drama Action theme.
 * It is seen again when DJ is hit in the face with one while standing on the plane in a human pyramid in the Total Drama World Tour theme.
 * In both the Total Drama Action and Total Drama World Tour theme songs, Owen, Harold, Duncan, and Courtney are the first four people seen.
 * The boat that Courtney, Duncan and at one point, Harold, are on is the same boat that Sierra weaved in Walk Like An Egyptian - Part 2 for Team Amazon.
 * In the Total Drama World Tour theme song, none of the characters voiced by Peter Oldring had their feet on the ground at the end. Cody was in Sierra's arms, and Tyler and Ezekiel were lying flat on the ground.
 * In the Total Drama World Tour theme song, when Leshawna and Noah are crossing the street, they seem to be reenacting The Beatles' cover for "Abbey Road."
 * This is the second time in the series that "Abbey Road" has been parodied. The first was by The Drama Brothers in Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Action Reunion Special.
 * Noah is the only character who reacts to Ezekiel after he plummets to the ground at the end of the Total Drama World Tour theme song. Before Ezekiel falls, Noah's head is looking forward and he is smiling at the camera, but as soon as Ezekiel hits the ground, Noah's head tilts upright, and he looks at Ezekiel in shock.
 * In the Total Drama World Tour theme song, the baby carriage that Cody is in is the same one that the mother had her baby inside in Broadway, Baby!.
 * The Total Drama World Tour theme song is the first to feature locations from all around the world, as the previous theme songs featured one area.
 * The Total Drama World Tour theme song is the first and only theme song so far to not have all twenty-two of the original campers appear at the very end.
 * In the Total Drama World Tour theme song, the mime seen in Paris is the same one seen in Phobia Factor.
 * Also, the balcony that he is standing on is the same one that Beth was hanging upside-down from, with Lindsay holding onto her, in a photograph shown in Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Action Reunion Special.
 * The Total Drama Action theme song gave hints at various pieces of potential foreshadows for the whole season, including Courtney's eventual debut, DJ's alliance with Chef Hatchet, a "technical misfire" tied to Lindsay, and Geoff and Bridgette hosting the Total Drama Action Aftermath show after their elimination.
 * The Total Drama World Tour opening also foreshadows several significant events that occur in the season, including the main love triangle, Lindsay trying to remember who Tyler is, Alejandro and Heather's attraction to each other, the Cody and Sierra relationship, Heather and Courtney's conflict, and DJ's curse.
 * The Total Drama World Tour theme song is the only one to not feature all the competitors competing in the season, as Blaineley doesn't appear at all.
 * In the Total Drama World Tour theme song, Alejandro and Heather appear together, making it the first time that the final two appear together in a theme song.
 * All four crucial players in the Total Drama World Tour finale appear on the Statue of Liberty in that season's opening.
 * The Total Drama World Tour theme song is the first not to feature Geoff and Bridgette together, as Geoff did not compete in the season.
 * In the Total Drama Island theme song, the two campers that were tied up by Chef, Ezekiel and Noah, are the first campers eliminated from their respective teams.
 * In the Total Drama Island theme song, six of the seven non-competing contestants in Total Drama Action are all seen consecutively, whereas Ezekiel and Noah were shown, then Eva and Tyler, and finally Katie and Sadie.
 * The Total Drama Action theme song is the only theme song to show non-competing contestants in it, making the Total Drama World Tour theme song the only opening theme to not feature all of the contestants.

Goofs

 * In The Sand Witch Project, the closed captions say "The moment that I'm doing fine," instead of "Dear mom and dad, I'm doing fine."
 * In the third season's opening, when the contestants appear in front of the plane, Noah's cargo bag is missing, even though his parachute is still visible behind him.
 * When Ezekiel is shown falling at the end of the third theme song, he is not wearing a parachute, but is seen with one after he lands.
 * Also, Bridgette overlaps his left hand, even though he's seen falling in front of her.
 * Owen can somehow stand on top of people in the human pyramid without them showing any form of weakness. This is strange since Owen has shown on multiple occasions to be very heavy.

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