TDI Rundown

TDI Rundown is a Cartoon Network exclusive episode.

In this episode only Chris Mclean is in it (though the campers appear in flashbacks), because it's not an ordinary episode- It's a reminisce of the past episodes, clips of the campers, notes the order in which everyone is eliminated, airs a music video and it's a sneak peek trailer of the finale. It is, basically, a summary of the entire series thus far.

Audition Tapes
This episode shows several of the Total Drama Island contestants' auditions.
 * Lindsay
 * Harold
 * Tyler: Shows him utterly failing to succeed at numerous sports.
 * Beth: Features her singing a song, off key, into a microphone and then the voice of her Father yelling at her is heard, it is similar to Cody's audition, which was not aired on this episode. It is amusing to note that Beth's audition was the only one Cartoon Network cut short seeing as the video ends with her Father yelling, not even including her famous line "They'll see... they'll all see..."
 * LeShawna: Shows her with her cell phone, waiting for a call that she is on TDI. This video is comical, since no one even received her audition yet- because, they're filming it.
 * Trent: Shows him singing a song then breaking a string then saying: "Aw Crap!"
 * Courtney: Shows her giving out buttons to be Student Body President, then introduces Herself and then beings to speak about how she will conduct herself with honor, integrity and get two new soda machines until she realizes that she had mixed up her audition and Student Body President speeches. She attempts to have the cameraman, Tom, re-tape the audition, but he argues that he has to go to gym class, forcing her to fight him for the camera. After a short black-out, the tape comes back on and shows her saying 'vote for Courtney' before the tape ends.
 * Duncan: features him escaping his cell, complete with the howl of killer guard wolves as he descends the wall and runs off.

Auditions not featured were those of:
 * Noah
 * Izzy (She had two)
 * Justin
 * Katie
 * Sadie
 * Ezekiel
 * Eva
 * Heather
 * Cody
 * Bridgette
 * Geoff
 * DJ

The above were probably not aired due to lack of time width, but fans question why Tyler's was picked over someone who made it further in the game like Geoff. Though, it's rumored Heather's was too mature for Cartoon Network.

Owen and Gwen never had audition tapes made, as they are never eliminated.

Order of Elimination
The order of elimination is said by Chris. As they go down the line, each camper's name is said, the reason for their elimination is usually stated, they feature a clip from their elimination episode and a red circle with a line dashed through it appears over the camper's face and their elimination telling is over, except for in the telling of Noah's elimination- the red circle with the dash through it is featured over Noah and the clip is paused when he's saying "Knock 'em out, throw 'em out, rah, rah-" The red symbol then disappears and Noah is featured getting hit with the dodge ball and saying "Ow!"

Music Video
There is a music video featured in this episode. The music is the theme song and it shows various clips of the campers from past episodes, however, there are special effects- such as the screen changing colors and hues.

Trivia

 * Cartoon Network aired this episode uncut giving it TV-PG D as the rating.
 * Lindsay's dog looks similar to the Spardel from the real-life website Neopets.
 * Chris makes a note of the similarity of Owen and Gwen's names when he mentions them as the two finalists for the $100,000 prize. He says that this is unlikely to be a coincidence.
 * Besides Trent's and Beth's, all the audition tapes shown were those of TDI couples: Tyler and Lindsay's were aired,  Leshawna and Harold's were aired and  Duncan and Courtney's were aired.
 * 5 Screaming Gopher team mates had their auditions aired, but only 3 Killer Bass had theirs.
 * As for gender, the tapes were evened out. 4 girls had their tapes aired and so did 4 boys.
 * This is the only episode in which Chef nor any of the 22 campers have new scenes or new lines, since the scenes they were in were only recap scenes.
 * This is the first episode to have non-animated scenes, since the opening featured a live-action reality Canadian show, to which Chris says is the wrong show. Also, there were multiple transitions in the video which were of a real marshmallow being melted over a fire.
 * Besides The Big Sleep, in which they read up on Canada's history, and Haut Camp-ture in which Katie and Sadie give a shout out to their Canadian friends, and the few brief instances in which Chris mentions they're somewhere in Ontario, this is one of the few episodes to make a reference that they are in Canada.
 * Before cutting to a commercial, Chris says that more audition tapes are coming up and shows Katie and Sadie's tape. But their tape is never shown on the actual show.
 * Cartoon Network kept some things that were in the original version, one when Owen burping the ABC's was shown, he says Z in the end, not Zed and when Trent's audtion tape was shown, the word "crap" is not censored.
 * Goofs:
 * While Chris was saying the names of the campers in the beginning, the spelling of Ezekiel's name is wrong, as it was spelled as "Ezekial".