Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island

'''With the competition over, and someone winning the money, the campers are ready to head home... but will they get the opportunity to? Chris has one final challenge for all of the contestants, forcing them to form their own respective teams and participate in an all-out, no-rules hunt for one... million... dollars! However, after a series of unpredictable and out-of-control events, there is only one way this challenge can end.'''

Plot
The episode opens with all the campers having one final party at Playa Des Losers before they have to go back home and return to their normal routines. Suddenly, Chris arrives with a briefcase and offers the campers one final challenge: a race to find a suitcase that contains one million dollars. Their challenge is to locate the million dollars and bring it back to the Dock of Shame. For a chance for everyone to compete, Owen has to forfeit the $100,000 he just won. After a moment of consideration, Owen happily agrees to give it up in order to compete and the game is on, with Owen immediately and enthusiastically running out to find the case first. However, none of the other campers want to go after the case because they are all sick and tired of Chris messing with their heads, and insist that there is no way that they will be, as Heather puts it, "running around the island like idiots all over again."

When Chris tells them that Owen is about to win the easiest $1,000,000 in television history and after hearing Owen's nonstop laughing and cheering for himself in the background, they finally give in. A vast majority of them immediately stampede towards the woods, crashing into those who are still refusing, resulting in everyone ending up in a massive pile-up. As everyone struggles to escape the pile, Beth suggests that they simply split the money twenty-two ways and share it, but her suggestion is quickly ignored, and the bickering continues.

All twenty-two teens team up: Leshawna teams up with Gwen and Trent; Justin temporarily teams up with Katie and Sadie; Bridgette and Geoff pair up (making out with each other many times during the episode); Owen teams up with Cody, Tyler, and DJ; Lindsay and Beth joins up with Ezekiel (as long as he doesn't act sexist toward them); Duncan pairs up with Courtney, and Izzy, who later unofficially renames herself Kaleidoscope (nicknamed E-Scope), joins forces with Noah and Eva. Heather is left without a partner since nobody trusts her, but she eventually teams up with Harold (who could not get a partner himself), albeit reluctantly.

Two hours pass by without anyone finding the suitcase. Thus, Chris gives the first clue to its location over the loudspeakers: "It's just hanging around." The case is then seen hanging from a tree branch, attached to it by a rope. Lindsay and Beth walk right under it, gossiping and looking at merchandise on Lindsay's cell phone. Ezekiel then looks up and sees the case. But when he tries to tell him about it, they say that he is interrupting their "girl time." Just as they walk away, Bridgette and Geoff walk right under it and start making out. Chris, watching from a helicopter above, is visibly annoyed at their incompetence. Justin eventually gets tired of Katie and Sadie's nonstop chattering and ditches them in a cave, using the excuse that he needed to go to the bathroom and wanted some privacy. Owen, Cody, DJ, and Tyler almost miss it as well, before DJ looks up and sees it. After Tyler retrieves it (after two unsuccessful attempts that resulted in him falling out of the tree), they start to lose trust in each other, saying that whoever has to hold the case could easily ditch them and make off with the money. Cody then uses the rope that tied the case to the tree branch to tie the four of them together so that they won't be separated, but then Owen has to use the bathroom. While Owen is doing his business, the smell causes Tyler to drop the case, and it falls on the other side of the bush that Owen is going to the bathroom next to. Harold, having overheard that they found the case, swipes the case for himself and Heather. Harold makes a hang-glider out of an old tent and many large branches, but Heather turns on him by smacking him in the groin with the case, and then takes the glider and the case for herself, only to have the whole glider fall apart in her hands just after she jumps off the cliff. She falls, head first, into a beaver dam and gets slapped repeatedly by the beavers. Leshawna, Gwen and Trent run by and see her, but when Trent suggests helping her, they all simply laugh and run away. The case, having fallen out of her hands, bounces into the river and floats downstream.

After Chris announces over the intercom that "the case is wet," Lindsay figures out the clue and she and her team race into the lake at the mouth of the river. Moments later, it floats right up to them, only to be snatched out of Lindsay's grip by Duncan with a fishing pole. As Courtney encourages him, he reels the case up to them, only for it to be eaten by an alligator, with Duncan questioning why there are alligators in Muskoka. The camera zooms out to show the image on a television screen with Chef and Chris watching from Playa Des Losers, where it is revealed that Chef was the one who put alligators in the lake. At Courtney's further encouragement, Duncan jumps in to attack the alligator for the case, in the process of chasing Ezekiel, Lindsay, and Beth out of the water. He wrestles with the alligator and manages to retrieve the case. But just as they start off towards the Dock of Shame, Duncan makes a bad step and sprains his ankle, thus rendering him unable to continue on without help. Despite his pleas, Courtney simply leaves him behind, saying that she can't have him slowing her down. Duncan is flabbergasted at her betrayal, but she says that "opportunities like this don't just fall out of trees." However, at that moment, Izzy falls out of a tree and lands on top of Courtney as she is running off, causing the case to fly out of Courtney's hands and into Izzy's. After Eva races by, Noah also walks by Duncan and starts to taunt him because Courtney left him behind, thus making him "less of a man," resulting in Duncan attacking Noah and snatching his pants.

Still in the cave, Katie and Sadie eventually get into an argument over which one of them Justin likes more (even though he hates them both), and finally leave the cave. Courtney quickly chases after the trio with the case, although they manage to fool her by hiding behind a bush as she races by, then doubling back. She continues running, and eventually slams right into a wall that simply has a forest background painted onto it. She notices a camera at the top of the wall, and knows that something is wrong. When seeing Courtney, Chris and Chef ignore her yelling into the camera, even muting her and continuing to enjoy their food.

Meanwhile, Izzy, Eva, and Noah encounter Justin. At first, they are determined to hold their ground in an attempt to not give up the case, knowing that it's a trap and that Justin has "powers." After an exchange of heated words, Justin overpowers the willpower of Eva and Izzy by taking off his shirt. Both girls succumb to his gorgeous looks, and Izzy gives him the case. When Noah attempts to take it back, Eva trips him and allows a satisfied Justin to leave. Both girls break out of their trance almost instantly, and Noah scolds both of them for what they have just done. After Chris announces over the intercom that "the case is somewhere beautiful, and heading towards camp," Izzy and Eva vow to get revenge on Justin, with the latter saying that she will crush Justin's skull, but Noah tells her that she would be going "a little too far" if she did that.

Meanwhile, Geoff and Bridgette are trying to find the case, but are too distracted by each other and are constantly making out. At one point, Bridgette accidentally knocks Geoff off a cliff. Meanwhile, Courtney starts to climb up the wall with the aid of a vine. Chris panics and takes action, dispatching Chef on an ATV to intercept her. However, she successfully scales the wall before he reaches her, and instantly discovers that the island was close to civilization all along, seeing a drive-thru restaurant not thirty feet away. When she attempts to make contact with the outside world, a nearby cameraman in a hot-air balloon attempts to stop her, dropping a boom onto her head. However, the plan instantly backfires, as Courtney is able to use the boom wire to drag the balloon down to her. She climbs up into it, chasing the cameraman out, and hijacks the balloon. She then starts to head off towards the campgrounds. Elsewhere, a very beaten-up Heather, having finally escaped the angry beavers, encounters Harold yet again, as he pulls up alongside her by the river in a canoe. She at first doesn't want to be with him, as she is angry at "being pushed off a cliff," "being attacked by beavers," "being left to die" courtesy of Gwen, Trent, and Leshawna, and "losing a million dollars." But Harold is determined to help her, and has a heart-to-heart talk with her, in which she reveals that she doesn't like being mean, but it's like a habit. Harold understands, and once again offers to let her re-join their alliance, for a 60/40 split, threatening to let her take the alternative of walking five kilometers back to camp, and with the beavers probably still out to get her. She commends his extortion skills, then agrees.

Justin then runs into Owen, DJ, Tyler, and Cody. Although Tyler and Owen initially fail to intimidate Justin into giving them the case, Cody manages to distract Justin by claiming that the paparazzi is behind him and wants to take pictures. When Justin turns and poses, they manage to get the case back, trampling Justin in the process. They eventually run right up to the top of the thousand foot cliff, and are chased off the edge by the bear. Cody manages the group for a few seconds by grabbing onto the edge, until the portion of the cliff that he is holding onto breaks away under the weight of the group. As they are falling, they are somewhat saved when Courtney's balloon rises up beneath them (scaring the bear away) and Owen's ankle becomes entangled in the boom wire, still dangling from the basket. But the four boys now find themselves at Courtney's mercy. Courtney demands the case, admitting that she would be willing to let all four of them fall to their deaths if it meant getting the case back. Cody tries to convince his team to do as she says, but they refuse, and Owen heroically manages to reach up and grab the wire, then pull his team up to the relative safety of near the balloon basket. He then untangles his ankle. Just when they thought they've outsmarted Courtney, she attempts to brush them off by flying right through a tree, but only succeeds in getting the bear's ankle entangled in the boom wire, just as Owen's was. The angry bear starts climbing up the wire towards the basket.

Meanwhile, Geoff and Bridgette (after the former's painful experience with the cliff) are walking through the woods and encounter a baby moose, attempting to reach a branch that is too high up for it. Geoff decides to help it by lowering the branch, but Bridgette's natural clumsiness causes her to trip right into Geoff, knocking him on top of the moose. The baby's mother then appears, and, seeing Geoff on top of its baby, is enraged, and starts to chase Geoff and Bridgette.

Meanwhile, Chef, on his ATV, drives up to Gwen, Trent, and Leshawna, who have had no luck in the competition so far, and asks if they've seen the balloon. He explains the situation, including how Courtney has the case and is on her way to finish line. Both he and Gwen then believe that Courtney will definitely win. While Chef is talking, Leshawna picks up a small log nearby and knocks Chef out with it, hijacks the ATV, and takes Gwen and Trent with her. Elsewhere, Katie and Sadie are walking through the woods, still mad at each other and attempting to ignore each other. Geoff and Bridgette then race by, still being pursued by the angry moose. They tell Katie and Sadie to run as they race by, and they comply, joining in the dangerous chase.

Courtney's balloon starts to float into the campgrounds. Owen, Cody, DJ, and Tyler manage to climb into the basket with Courtney just before the bear can reach them. However, this only puts them in more danger, as Courtney puts Cody into a headlock and demands the case from them, saying that she brought them into the campgrounds and deserves the case. When his teammates refuse, Cody once again attempts to suggest a compromise, only for the others to refuse fiercely. Harold and Heather arrive in the campgrounds shortly after, and see the hot-air balloon with Owen, Cody, DJ, Tyler, Courtney, the bear, and the case all inside. They quickly abandon the canoe and race into the campgrounds, only for Gwen, Trent, and Leshawna to emerge from the woods on their ATV. Leshawna, seeing Heather, decides to get back at her for insulting her earlier that day, and revs up the ATV. Trent suggests to Gwen that they get off, and both of them do so just before Leshawna starts to race off towards Heather and Harold. She eventually chases them right off the Dock of Shame and into the lake, ATV and all.

In the Boathouse, Izzy suits up Noah and Eva with paintball equipment and buckets of fish water (with one actually having a dead fish in it) so they can bring down Justin. The three of them hide behind the Communal Washrooms, waiting for Justin. They see Geoff, Bridgette, Katie, Sadie and the moose race by, and quickly retreat. Meanwhile, the four who are being chased by the moose see the massive diving board platform over the pool of green jelly which had been previously set up for Courtney in Phobia Factor, and decide to use it to escape the moose. As they climb up to the safety of the incredibly high diving board, Duncan finally returns. He sees them on the diving board, and asks what they're doing up there. They all point at the moose, which quickly turns to attack him. It chases him into the main lodge, and after a brief moment, he ends up fooling the moose and chasing it away, by taking a stuffed moose head from the mantle of the fireplace in the main lodge, holding it in front of him, and making sounds like an actual moose. As he chases it into the woods, Courtney, up in the hot-air balloon, cheers him on, only for him to threaten her by saying that he's coming for her next.

Shortly after this, Bridgette sees the hot-air balloon heading straight for the diving board. Since Courtney was too busy strangling Cody, she wasn't paying attention to where the balloon was going. Only when it's too late do the five inside the balloon realize what is about to happen. That, combined with the fact that the bear has finally reached the basket and is starting to climb in, leaves the guys' group with no choice except to jump for it. However, as they jump, Courtney finally manages to snatch the case from Owen's hands as they fall, and they land on the diving board below, causing it to wobble dangerously. Courtney at first seems to have finally won, but then notices the bear in the basket right behind her. She quickly abandons ship, also jumping out and landing on the diving board, only for the eight other campers on the board with her to try to reach for the case in her hands. As they fight over it, Leshawna appears from nowhere, and attempts to get the case herself. When she climbs up to the board, Geoff holds her up and lifts her over so that she can briefly touch the case. However, it instantly flies out of her hands, falling towards the ground. It hits the edge of the pool below at an angle, and bounces straight towards the communal washrooms, where Ezekiel, Lindsay, and Beth are just walking out of.

Lindsay picks up the case, but Justin swoops in from above after jumping out of Chef's plane (which he borrowed from Chef after he bribed him with an autographed photo of himself) and jumps down to them. His now pilot-less plane spirals out of control, eventually flying straight through the support beams for the diving board before crashing. The diving board, with Geoff, Bridgette, Katie, Sadie, Leshawna, Courtney, Cody, DJ, Tyler, and Owen still on it, starts to teeter dangerously. As Justin lands next to Lindsay, his parachute falls behind him and covers Ezekiel and Beth, preventing them from stopping Justin, who easily manages to convince Lindsay to give him the case. However, Izzy appears from behind the Washrooms, and yells up to Eva and Noah, on the roof of the building, to "fire." They dump their buckets on Justin, covering him in disgusting fish water, and landing a dead fish in his hair. As he panics over the well-being of his hair, Izzy runs up with an empty bucket, shoves it on his head, then snatches the case from him and races towards the Dock. However, she inexplicably trips and falls, with the case falling out of her hands and bouncing off towards the Dock of Shame on its own.

It is in this moment where everything starts to fall apart. Izzy quickly gets back to her feet and chases after the case. Gwen and Trent race by Lindsay, Justin (still with a bucket on his head and starting to walk away aimlessly), Beth (now outside Justin's parachute), and Ezekiel (still under Justin's parachute), and also chase after the case. Lindsay and Beth quickly follow them. Meanwhile, the diving board finally falls off of its support beams. While Katie, Courtney, Sadie, Cody, and Tyler all fall into the pool of green jelly below, Owen, DJ, Leshawna, Geoff and Bridgette remain on the diving board, which then slides off of the edge of the pool at an angle and continues sliding along the ground, towards the Dock, at super speed. Meanwhile, the moose (after having presumably defeated Duncan) rides in, with Duncan on its back, and also races towards the Dock. The diving board with the five campers on it slides past Justin, but snags his parachute, which is still dragging behind him, and drags him off towards the Dock as well. As the moose rides onto the Dock and bucks Duncan off its back and into the water, the diving board group slides by, heading straight for Izzy, Gwen, Trent, Lindsay, Beth, and the case just as they are all right on the end of the Dock. These eleven campers instantly collide at once, along with Heather and Harold (while the latter was helping the former out of the water after the previous attack by Leshawna), and all thirteen of them end up in the lake along with Duncan, who was already in the water.

As these fourteen emerge on the surface, the briefcase is floating by itself in the water, until a shark rises up beneath it and swallows it. The seagull with the fragment of net wrapped around its neck points and laughs at the campers' misfortune, until the same shark eats it. Chris then arrives in a helicopter, and is disappointed that the campers lost the case. He then tells the fourteen of them the bad news: they all tied. So, in order to break this tie, they will all have to return for another shot at the million dollars in season two. While some campers (such as Harold, Lindsay, and Izzy) are excited, most of the campers (including Heather, Duncan, and Gwen) object, but Chris tells them that the fine print in their contracts forces them to compete in the next season anyway. He then tells Ezekiel, Courtney, Katie, Sadie, Noah, Eva, Cody, and Tyler that they have now lost all hope for winning, but they will be watching the cast from the sidelines. Courtney then angrily argues with Chris, saying that she wants to be in season two, but Chris ignores her. Chris then tells the returning fourteen campers to report to a brand new location in two days, where they will compete in a whole new set of challenges, and the last one standing will receive one million dollars. He then tells viewers to tune in for the second season, Total Drama Action.

Alternate Opening
There is an alternate opening for the special if Gwen is the winner of Total Drama Island. Most is the same, though Owen isn't seen dancing with the big check, up until Chris walks in with the million dollar case. He explains the challenge and the prize, but Gwen immediately refuses, as she just wants to go home with her original prize. However, Chris reveals that, due to the fine print in the contracts that all of them signed, if at any time a higher prize is offered for them to compete for, they have to partake. Gwen is upset about this, scaring Chris into jumping into Chef's arms. Nevertheless, he has Chef destroy the check and force Gwen to take the challenge anyway. Upon firing the starting gun, Owen, being the only one who is actually interested in the challenge, immediately takes off on a head start, and everything else is the same from there.

Quotes
Owen: WHOA! That was AWESOME! (falls to knees and starts bowing) You are a marshmallow goddess! (Eva's stomach growls) Izzy: Thirty-seven's not bad, Eva. Besides, with a little practice... you'll be burping like: (does an enormous burp that sounds like a roar, and reverberates, which creates a tidal wave that pushes Lindsay and Beth all the way to the other side of the pool and blows Geoff's hat off) Owen: (marshmallows fall out of his mouth) I think I'm in love with you! (kisses Izzy's hand) (Izzy then gets nauseous and barfs all over Chef's steak) Izzy: Wow, that was gross. Hehe, okay, who wants hot dogs? Owen: (in confessional, referring to Izzy) How can you not love a woman who can barf like a guy and come back for more? Duncan: Wow, hello, downer. C'mon, it's almost over. I thought you'd be happy. Courtney: (angry) I am happy! Duncan: Looks like someone got their mojo back! Courtney: Shut up and follow me. We've got a suitcase to find! Duncan: Sir! Yes, sir! Harold: (to Courtney and Duncan) Can I come too?''' Courtney': (turns around; angrily)'' No! You'll slow us down! Duncan: (in confessional, referring to Harold) What a doofus! That million is about to be in my pocket! Or in my duffel bag. I'm not really sure how much space a million dollars takes up. Izzy: (laughs) That was funny! You stupid guy! (laughs again as she runs off) Lindsay: Uh huh! Leshawna: (snorts) You frontin' me? I'd rather stick a tire iron up my butt than team up with you. Eva: Just keep looking. You wanna win or not? Lindsay: Oh, I just saw this pretty dress online. Beth: Can I get one? Lindsay: Oh gosh, no. (Ezekiel sees the case) Ezekiel: But isn't that...? Beth: Give us a little girl time here. (They walk away. Next, Bridgette and Geoff arrive, make out under the case and walk away) Chris McLean: (From helicopter) Okay, this is ridiculous! Sadie: Of course not! Leshawna and Gwen: Uh-huh... Trent: Just checking. (in confessional) What is it with that guy? DJ: So turn around and take a whizz! We're all dudes here. Owen: No, not number one. (farts) Number poo. Cody, Tyler and DJ: Oh! DJ: Head for the woods, dude! Just be sure you put some serious distance between you and us! Tyler: Yeah. We'll wait here. (Owen begins walking towards the woods, dragging Tyler, DJ and Cody with him since they're tied together) DJ: You've got to untie yourself first! (Owen fiddles with the rope but can't untie the knots) Owen: I can't! DJ: (looks at Cody) Where'd you learn how to tie these knots? The army? Cody: Actually, it was a special after school program- DJ: (looks at Owen) And you! Why didn't you go before we tied ourselves together? Owen: I didn't have to go then! Guys, this is serious!!! DJ: (Looks down with resignation) I guess you're just gonna have to... go... (They all back up until Owen's behind a bush, he squats down so all that is seen is his head and the sound of him sliding down his pants) Owen: What do I wipe with, bark?! Duncan: What are alligators doing in Muskoka?! (cuts to Chris McLean watching on a monitor with Chef Hatchet) Chris McLean: (to Chef) Hmmm, alligators your idea? (Chef nods and Chris laughs) Good one! Duncan: (grabs Noah's pants) Enough of a man to take your head off, geek! (tears Noah's pants off, causing him to run away screaming) Courtney: Oh, which way did they go? Duncan: (sarcastically) Oh, I'm not sure, honey. Let me think about it. Eva: (shouting) Noah! Hurry up!! Courtney: Hey! Get back here! No one is stealing the money that I stole! Duncan: (throws Noah's pants aside) I love that woman. Trent: (to Gwen and Leshawna) Should we help her? (a brief pause and all three laugh) Leshawna: (as they run off) That's a good one. Noah: Forgot my 'roids back at the gym. Izzy: I'm thinking of changing my name, yeah, to "Kaleidoscope." Isn't that pretty? You can call me "E-Scope" for short. (Izzy, Eva, and Noah run into Justin) Eva: (regarding Justin) Watch it; it's a trap! Noah: Justin, the anti-me! So we meet again. Izzy: Whatever you guys do, don't look him in his eyes. He has powers... Justin: Give me the case. Izzy: Back off, really hot guy! Justin: I didn't want to have to do this... but you give me no choice. (takes off shirt) Noah: Izzy, don't fall for it! Look away! Izzy: (struggles to shield her eyes) I can't! He's too... beautiful! (gives the case to Justin; Noah tries to grab it, but is tripped by Eva) Eva: He's so pretty... He deserves it... Justin: Thank you! (flashes a grin)
 * Chris McLean: Welcome back to Total Drama Island. It's been a long time since you last saw our campers slugging it out for the One Hundred Thousand Dollar grand prize. Since the competition came to a shocking and dramatic conclusion, our campers had some time to snack on some real food (Chef Hatchet, cooking on a grill nearby, glares at him) - no offense, Chef - take a hot shower, get their stuff back, and even browse their e-mails from home. There were losers... (someone throws a toaster at him from off-screen, which he narrowly avoids by ducking under it) Okay, lots of losers. (laughs). But there was only one winner: Owen, the youngest of three brothers, and a hardcore underachiever, turned out to be the surprise champ. Without much knowledge, ambition, fitness, and even charm. He ended up with one massive prize. He's planing a wicked tropical party for all his fellow campers this winter. But first, they're going to move their booties for one more poolside wrap party. And tomorrow, everyone is heading for home...or are they? (winks). Find out here on Total...Drama...Island!
 * Izzy: (eats another marshmallow) Ninety-five! (burp) (crushes can on forehead)
 * Harold: (while flexing his virtually non-existent muscles) Hi Leshawna. Leshawna: Hey there, sugar baby. Mmm, you got game, baby! You been working out? Harold: (jumps into Leshawna's arms) You noticed. (pulls out a bouquet of flowers) These are for you. Leshawna: Listen, Harold. I gotta talk to you 'bout all that. See, you and me... Harold: Uh-huh? Leshawna: On the dock, I just got all emotional back there. You know, with the elimination and all? I think we moved waaaay too fast. Harold: (frowns) Oh, okay. So can I still talk to you and stuff? Leshawna: Harold, you are the funkiest, baddest, strangest white boy I have ever met. You and me, are like this. Harold: Alright! So you wanna go behind the bushes and make out?
 * Harold: (in confessional with a soda in his hand) Yeah, Leshawna and I are pretty tight. We'll probably move in together when we're thirty... I'd have to ask my mom first. She'll probably give us the basement. (drinks his soda) That'd be cool.
 * Harold: And that's why beavers shouldn't be considered members of the vermin family. Their skeletal structures are like totally different from rats. (Noah makes various suicidal motions without Harold noticing) Harold: I mean, just look at their teeth. I can loan you my journal where I've made a bunch of drawings about beavers and rats, if you promise to not get food on it and stuff. Noah: No thanks. I'm good.
 * Courtney: I am so done with this game. I lost the competition, my pathetic lawyer lost my lawsuit. Now I just want to go home, study for my LSATs and run my student president campaign.
 * Leshawna: (in confessional, referring to drawing a happy face on the back of Heather's bald head) Okay, you know you'd done the same thing if you were me. After all that girl did to the rest of us over the last eight weeks, she's lucky I didn't tattoo it on her head!
 * Courtney: (in confessional, referring to a million dollar prize just announced) Okay, this just got interesting again.
 * Heather: Let me get this straight. After messing with our heads for an entire summer, you expect us to start running around the island like idiots all over again?
 * Courtney: (yells) Let's go get that million dollars! (kisses Duncan)
 * Eva: (Referring to Tyler) Get over yourself. (Eva pushes Tyler over)
 * Heather: (referring to Lindsay and Beth teaming up with Ezekiel) You're bringing home-school with you but not me?!
 * Heather: (in confessional, while using mirrors to see happy face drawn on the back of her head) I am so glad this whole thing is over. I haven't wanted to get away from a group of people this badly since my Calculus teacher made me join the Mathletes for extra credit.
 * Heather: (nicely to Gwen, Trent and Leshawna) Hey guys, I realize that we've had our minor differences, but what do you say we team up? We're the four strongest players. Together we'd be unstoppable.
 * Noah: How many square hectares is this island again? It's hopeless.
 * Noah: (in confessional) Okay, is it me or is Izzy just one crazy bird?
 * (Lindsay, Beth and Ezekiel walk under a tree with the million dollar suitcase tied to it)
 * Katie: (to Sadie) You don't think Justin goes number two, do you?
 * Justin: (in confessional, about Katie and Sadie) I... Am going... To lose it! Seriously, If I have to hang around these two for much longer, I'll throw myself off a cliff!
 * Trent: Did you just give away all of our secret information to Justin?
 * Owen: (to Cody, Tyler and DJ) Uhhh, guys, I kinda have to go.
 * Heather: (stuck head first in beaver dam) Noooo! No! That was a million dollars, you stupid beavers! (The beavers start beating on Heather's head)
 * Chris: (over the intercom) Attention, campers! The case is wet! Repeat, the case...is wet! Lindsay: The case is wet? Quick! Everyone in the water! (As she, Ezekiel and Beth run into the lake) We're totally going to find it first! Ezekiel: (Giving Lindsay a thumbs-up) Wicked strategizing, Lindsay! Beth: So if we win, what would you guys do with your $333,333.33? Lindsay: Is that enough to buy a country? Ezekiel: Yeah, but just a small one, eh. Lindsay: Oh! France is small, right? Ezekiel: (Pointing at the case, which is floating up to them) Hey! Isn't that the case?! Lindsay: That's it! Beth: We found it! Lindsay: (Picking up the case from the water) Oh my gosh! I'm so going to be the queen of France! Eee, hee-hee-hee-hee! (A fishing line flies up, snags the case by the handle, and yanks it out of Lindsay's hands and off-screen. Beth and Ezekiel are shocked, but Lindsay smiles.) Oh! It's a flying case!
 * Courtney: What?! That alligator just stole our briefcase!
 * Duncan: (referring to alligator he just wrestled for suitcase) Ha! I've had tougher girlfriends than him...and uglier.
 * Noah: So... your girlfriend turned on you, huh? Hate to see that happen. Bet you feel like a loser about now, huh? Less of a man.
 * Heather: (stuck in beaver dam) Help, guys!! Get me out of here!
 * Eva: (To Noah) You run... like a girl.
 * Justin: (in confessional) Do I think that I ride on my good looks, that I use them to my advantage? Do I think being really, really ridiculously good looking has given me the upper hand in life? (laughs) Duh!

 Noah: You just handed it to a male model. (to Eva) And a lot of good you were! Eva: I'm so ashamed... Noah: You should be, Iron Woman, that was seriously pathetic. Eva: (in confessional) What am I gonna do!? I'll never be able to show my face at the gym again! I'll be an outcast! A leper! I let a guy talk me into giving away one million dollars...! Izzy: E-Scope is not going to let him get away with this, no matter how hot he is! Come on! Eva: Yeah! We'll crush his skull!! Noah: A little too far. Eva: Sorry... Cameraman: (into walkie-talkie) Uh...Chris? W-we have a situation here! Chris McLean: (into walkie-talkie) BAIL! BAIL! Heather: Definitely. (looks at the camera and shakes her head with an awkward expression on her face) Justin: No. (long pause) Tyler: What do we do now? Cody: Look, the paparazzi! (Justin turns away and poses as the guys ambush him and take back the case) Courtney: Oh, yes I would! I don't even like you very much! Geoff: (with a giant bump on his head) No worries! It was a pretty soft rock... Duncan: (to himself) What the heck...? (to the four on the ladder) What are you guys doing up there?! (All four point at the moose, which snorts) Oh, no! (Screams, then runs to the main lodge with the moose chasing him; Duncan somehow flips things around by grabbing a moose trophy, running at the moose, having the moose run out of the lodge, and mimicking moose noises) Courtney: (fighting off DJ, Cody, Tyler and Owen on a hot air balloon from getting the million dollar suitcase while Duncan is chasing a moose) Whoo-hoo! Go honey, go! Duncan: I'm coming for you next, sweetheart! Beth: It's the case! (Lindsay picks it up and hears an engine sound) Chris McLean: (notices Justin about to jump out of the airplane) Now how the heck did he get the keys to the plane? (Camera points to Chef Hatchet holding an autographed head shot of Justin, hides picture behind his back) Chef Hatchet: I don't know. Justin: (In confessional, smiles, and shoots a pointing gesture to the audience, a rock guitar note is heard) Chris McLean: Actually, you did. It's called the fine print. Read it, live it, love it. Gwen: I hate the fine print!
 * Izzy: (After Justin leaves with the case) What happened? Where's the case?
 * (Courtney pulls down the hot air balloon with a cameraman in it)
 * Heather: (to Harold) You know what? So far today, I've been thrown off a cliff by you, attacked by beavers, left to die, and I lost one million dollars which I'm really hoping to get back, so I really don't have time for your Harold-ness right now!
 * Heather: I don't like being mean all the time. It's sort of a habit of mine. (crying) Do you know how it feels to be someone everyone hates? I mean, look at me! I don't even have any hair.
 * Harold: Do you think we'll be friends when this is all over?
 * Tyler: Now give us that case or we'll mess you up!
 * Owen: (seeing a bear walk up to him and his team) Oh, I bet it's Izzy in there. (opens bear's mouth) Izzy, can you hear me? (bear roars) It's not Izzy!
 * DJ: (hanging from the hot air balloon, tied to Tyler, Cody, and Owen) You wouldn't let us fall to our deaths...!
 * Bridgette: I'm so sorry I knocked you off the cliff...
 * Geoff: (sigh) Bridgette is really amazing! She's so sweet and pretty and down to earth! I'm afraid she's gonna accidentally kill me by the end of the day.
 * Geoff: (climbing up a ladder with Bridgette, Katie, and Sadie) (to Katie and Sadie) Guys, that moose will be coming back for another run at us very soon!
 * Courtney: (to the other competitors on the diving board from her hot air balloon after grabbing the case) Suckers! I'll call you from my hot tub phone at my new mansion in- (the bear pokes her from behind; she turns and faces him) What?! (screams, then jumps off the balloon onto the diving board)
 * Lindsay: (walking out of restroom with Beth and Ezekiel)... And I was like "Yes, you can wear pink with red." And she was like "No you can't." (spots the case on ground) Wow, that's a pretty case. (resumes her story) Anyways, so I...
 * Duncan: Ha, forget this. I didn't agree to season two.
 * Harold: (in confessional) Another season? Sweet. Another chance to showcase my mad skills. Hyahh! (hits the side of the stall) OW! Ho-ho! Aw! Funny bone! Ha-ha! Ah, that is funny! Ha-ha! Oh!
 * Chris McLean: In exactly two days, you will all report to a brand new location for a whole new challenge and the last one standing will receive one million dollars! So don't forget to tune in to "Total Drama Action!"

Trivia

 * Title Reference: This episode's title is a parody of the 1963 comedy film, "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World!."
 * Running Gag: Geoff and Bridgette making out in various situations.
 * This is currently one out of only two specials in the series, the other being the Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Action Reunion Special.
 * The content of the episode is partially relative to the comedy movie, "Rat Race," where a group of strangers go on pursuit to retrieve a large amount of hidden money. Specifically, the scene in which Courtney steals a hot air balloon by its microphone wire, which later wraps around and lifts a bear by its foot, mirrors a scene from the film.
 * It may also be a reference to "Deal or No Deal."
 * Lindsay is revealed to own a cell phone in this episode.
 * This marks the first time since Not So Happy Campers - Part 1 that all of the characters in season one have dialogue.
 * This is the second episode to feature all of the characters having some sort of dialogue at one point or another, the first being Not So Happy Campers - Part 1, and the third (and last) being Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Action Reunion Special.
 * This is also the first time since Not So Happy Campers - Part 1 that Justin has dialogue.
 * When talking to Heather, Harold begins to mention "this one time at computer camp" which is a possible parody of the quote "This one time at band camp" from "American Pie."
 * It is unknown if this is a "Steve" camp, as Harold mentions being in many camps run by a man named Steve in Total Drama Action.
 * Chris is now using a gun with a cork bullet to start the race, which is most likely due to an earlier shooting in Up the Creek where he shot an eagle and said it would provoke some angry e-mails (although he would end up shooting a seagull in this episode anyway).
 * The interesting thing about Cody, Owen, DJ, and Tyler's group is that all them have had a hallucination or dream shown sometime in the series.
 * Cody's dream was shown in The Big Sleep.
 * Tyler's hallucination was shown in The Big Sleep.
 * Owen's dream was shown Trial by Tri-Armed Triathlon (and another later on in Niagara Brawls in Total Drama World Tour).
 * Although it was after this episode, DJ's hallucinations of his Momma were shown in The Sand Witch Project.
 * Izzy unofficially renames herself "E-Scope" (short for "Kaleidoscope"), at the end of Total Drama Island and continued obsessively persuading her team in Total Drama Action to call her E-Scope as well.
 * This nickname later created a technicality that allowed her to return to the competition.
 * Chris says at the beginning of the episode that everyone will get the things they brought to the island back, thus explaining what happened to all the luggage that a number of campers did not bring to the Dock of Shame.
 * Heather opens up to Harold after pointing out that her meanness is the cause to her lack of friends.
 * Harold assumes Heather was either "fat and pimply" when she was younger, or that her parents were divorced as a means of explaining why Heather is who she is today. However, it is shown that Heather's parents are still together in the video they made out to her (though they could have been divorced in the past and remarried since, or merely came together briefly to make the video). Coincidentally, on the Total Drama Island Interactive website, Heather's profile claims that her brother told the producers that she was fat and pimply.
 * It's revealed in this episode that the island is actually not a deserted island (Chris and Chef just used mirrors to keep the campers away from civilization); this contradicts other episodes, where maps of the island are shown and the campers actually cycle around the entire island. Another contradiction is that the civil side has cars and highways, yet Trent and DJ didn't see any of the cars moving on the island below when they were in the plane (and saw the whole island). Even at such a high elevation, they should have at least seen objects moving around on the ground.
 * The truck driver's design was DJ's prototype design.
 * Harold, Izzy, Owen, DJ, Lindsay, and Beth are the only ones who seem happy to be moving on to the second season.
 * In this episode, Gwen's friends from home are shown in photographs.
 * Gwen's friends bear some resemblance to a group of Goths who were seen in the 6teen episode "Lights Out." Also, she said one of her friends' name was "Marilyn," which was the name of a character in that episode.
 * In this episode, Owen is revealed to be the youngest of three brothers.
 * Owen's assumption that the bear is just Izzy in a suit is a reference to The Sucky Outdoors.
 * The prototype character model of Cody appears as a character for the third time in this episode. His first appearance was in The Sucky Outdoors as the pizza guy, the second time in Who Can You Trust? as a stunt double, and now this time as a cameraman.
 * This episode showcases some of Chris's upgraded facial expressions at the end of the episode while he is telling the losers the bad news.
 * Chris's clues for finding the suitcase were:
 * It's just hanging around (tied to a tree branch).
 * It is wet (in the water).
 * It is somewhere beautiful (with Justin).


 * The order that the campers had the case was:
 * Owen, Tyler, DJ, and Cody found the case in a tree and caught it.
 * Harold stole it from Owen, Tyler, DJ, and Cody for Heather, but Heather ditches Harold.
 * Lindsay, Beth, and Ezekiel found the case in the water, but Duncan manages to snag it with a fishing pole.
 * Duncan snatches the case from Lindsay's hands and stole it for Courtney.
 * Izzy fell on Courtney and stole the case along with Eva and Noah.
 * Justin used "his powers" on Eva and Izzy and stole the case.
 * Cody tricks Justin and stole the case for his team.
 * Courtney stole the case when Owen, DJ, Tyler, and Cody forgot it in the balloon.
 * Bridgette, Geoff, Katie, Sadie, Owen, Cody, DJ and Tyler all tried to reach for the case Courtney had.
 * Leshawna goes up the diving board, grabs the case, but drops it.
 * Beth found the case that slipped out of Leshawna's hands.
 * Justin used "his powers" again on Lindsay and stole the case.
 * Izzy stole it with the help of Eva and Noah.
 * Izzy fell down and lost the case, which ends up bouncing down the Dock of Shame and eaten by a shark.
 * The non-returning contestants for Total Drama Action were kept from the case in one of three ways.
 * Courtney, Cody, Tyler, Katie, and Sadie all fell into the pool of green jell-o.
 * Eva and Noah were on the roof of the communal washrooms when the case started bouncing off towards the docks.
 * Ezekiel was covered by Justin's parachute.
 * Overall, the six campers who never had the case at all were Katie, Sadie, Geoff, Bridgette, Gwen, and Trent. Despite this, four of them still qualified for Total Drama Action.
 * Overall, Tyler, Owen, DJ, and Cody's team had the case for the longest amount of time (even though only DJ and Owen made it to the next season).
 * It is revealed that Courtney loses her lawsuit for "wrongful termination of competition." However, she returns to Total Drama Action in Ocean's Eight - Or Nine due to a similar lawsuit.
 * Courtney, long after the events of Phobia Factor, ended up falling into the very green jelly pool that she was afraid of, only twenty episodes later. Whether she's still afraid of green jelly or not is unknown.
 * Justin is much more devious and underhanded in this episode; this may be due to the fact he was voted off so early in Not Quite Famous. It also foreshadows his role as an antagonist in Total Drama Action.
 * Many props used are similar or the same of past episodes:
 * When Izzy, Eva and Noah are getting dressed up in the boathouse, the outfits they are wearing resemble the ones from Paintball Deer Hunter.
 * When Harold and Heather were in the canoe riding up the creek, it is the same canoe from Up the Creek, and Basic Straining.
 * When many characters were fighting for the case, they were above the jell-o pool from Phobia Factor.
 * This is the first and only episode in which Noah and Justin have used the confessional in Total Drama Island.
 * This episode reveals that Harold has a sister who owns psychology books.
 * This is the fourth episode in the first season to feature all twenty-two contestants; the other three were Not So Happy Campers - Part 1, Not So Happy Campers - Part 2, and The Very Last Episode, Really!.
 * This is the first episode (and last) to feature the hot air balloon.

Goofs

 * Chris tells the eight rejected campers that this is the last chance any of them have of winning any money off of the show. However, one of the campers did manage to compete in the second season, regardless. In addition, five of the eight rejected campers all returned for Total Drama World Tour.
 * Lindsay refers to Heather as "Hannah" in this episode, despite always getting her name right throughout the season.
 * There are several rather unusual goofs in the climax of the special, in the scene where it is decided which campers do not qualify for the next season. These goofs, despite their peculiarity, ultimately resulted in three campers not qualifying for Total Drama Action.
 * Justin's parachute falls and covers Ezekiel, but in the next scene he is walking away and it is still attached to him, with Ezekiel nowhere to be seen.
 * Right before the diving board falls, Owen, DJ, Cody and Tyler are seen still tied together, but after it falls, the rope is suddenly gone, and the four are separated. Seeing as the rope had held all four up when hanging over the cliff edge and when they fell down it, it seems unlikely that the rope would have broken then.
 * Leshawna chases Harold and Heather into the water by driving the ATV off the dock and landing in the water. But when she runs back to get the case, she shows no signs of ever being wet.
 * The large million dollar check noticeably changes size; when it first appears, it blocks out the sun and the top of it seems a couple hundred feet above the ground. The second time Chris says "One... Million... Dollars!," the top of it only seems to hit about fifty feet, judging by Courtney, Duncan, Lindsay, Beth and a palm tree's close proximity to it.
 * When the campers run into each other, several of them are wearing swimsuits. When they get out of the pile, all of their swimsuits are gone and they are back in their regular clothes.
 * Courtney's hair is in a ponytail when she's wearing a swimsuit, but when they get out of the pile, her hair is back to normal.
 * Heather still has a bald head during this episode, but her head is round as opposed to the flat dome she had in the previous episode. Due to the time gap between the season finale and this special, the change is likely an upgrade in design to make her head look more realistic, as there are upgraded expressions for most characters in Total Drama Action.
 * In the previous episode also Heather had her wig, but in this episode she has no wig.
 * When Justin, Katie, and Sadie are dancing in the pool in front of the Juice Bar, the water only reaches to their ankles, but in Haute Camp-ture, the water is deep enough that Izzy and Sadie can be completely submerged underwater.
 * When the contestants are in a pile-up and Chef whistles to get their attention, Noah's eyebrows disappear.
 * When Chris brings in the check, Noah is taller than Owen.
 * As Chris announces that it took a lot of cardboard to make the giant check, Justin, Noah, and Harold are the same height.
 * Although Chris declares it to be a 14-way tie, it could be clearly seen that Duncan was in the water before anyone else, when he was bucked off of the moose's back and into the lake. Thus, he technically should have been considered the winner.
 * Coincidentally, he ends up winning Total Drama Action.

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