Picnic at Hanging Dork

'''The remaining eight contestants travel to Australia, where tension really flares after a past incident. Two people's strategy to weaken an opponent proves to work well, while the other team is divided into two alliances. In the end, due to someone's error, courtesy of a bully, another person takes the Drop of Shame after losing a tie-breaker challenge.'''

Plot
During the ride to their next destination, more tension grows amongst the members of Team Amazon. Courtney and Gwen are both trying to secure alliances with their teammates in order to vote the other off the game. With Courtney guaranteed Sierra's vote and Cody's total allegiance guaranteed towards Gwen, Heather becomes the potential swing vote on the team. Meanwhile, the remaining boys on Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot make plans on how to take down Team Amazon. Owen suggests that Alejandro uses his flirtatious charm, since it got Bridgette and Leshawna booted out, which makes Alejandro nervous because his teammates know about his evil ways. Duncan suggests that if he flirts with Courtney, it will distract her and upset Heather at the same time, which will effectively bring down Team Amazon's strongest players. Alejandro agrees with Duncan, who later explains in a confessional that if the plan succeeds, Courtney will be eliminated, getting rid of his ex-girlfriend, or if it fails, he has a good reason to vote Alejandro off.

{C In the cockpit, Chef Hatchet announces that for some reason, the landing gear isn't working properly, much to Chris's disbelief. It is then revealed that a sleeping Ezekiel, sucking his thumb, had nested underneath the Total Drama Jumbo Jet's wheels, preventing the landing gear from deploying properly. As landing is now impossible, the contestants are forced to jump off the plane into the Australian outback. They will then compete in a challenge in catching one of several emus provided, and then ride them to Hanging Rock. Unfortunately, this journey will take almost two days. Courtney gives a half-hearted effort at throwing the challenge by pretending to be unable to catch an emu, but is foiled as Alejandro brings her an emu himself. While she doesn't like the help in the challenge, she doesn't mind Alejandro's attention. Heather then starts to flirt with Duncan, as her own private revenge. As Duncan finally mounts his emu but is almost thrown off as Cody knocks him over as he passes by, Duncan yells at Cody angrily, but Cody only blows a raspberry in response.

The next day, Duncan charges at Cody and tries to punch him but misses his swing and gets knocked flat by a kangaroo's kick. Chef has carved himself a didgeridoo while he and Chris wait for the contestants. Alejandro arrives first, followed shortly by Heather, Courtney and Cody. Duncan arrives via the kangaroo's pouch. Gwen and Sierra finally arrive and Team Amazon wins the advantage in the next challenge: battery-powered sheep shearers instead of rusty garden shears. Chris doesn't let the boys go back for Owen, forced to wait for his arrival.

The teams are tasked to bungee jump off the cliff to grab a sheep and shear it. Only six sheep have a brand on them, three for each team. The team has to uncover their own brand to win. While Courtney is preparing to jump, Gwen approaches Heather about voting off Courtney. Heather agrees to it quickly. While shearing the first sheep, Team Amazon ie forced to sing Shear the Sheep.

Duncan offers to help Alejandro with winning Courtney's trust, and they fake a spat over his flirtations. Owen arrives, just as the first sheep is shown bare: no mark. Sierra offers to go next, but jumps off the cliff without a bungee cord. She is incapacitated for the rest of the competition. Owen grabs a dingo from the pile. Alejandro continues to flirt with Courtney, and Duncan pretends to cry, which also distracts Gwen. Alejandro tries to help Courtney win, but she admits that she wants to lose this competition, which pleases Alejandro. As Cody is about to jump, Duncan finally gets his revenge by throwing Owen's dingo at him, knocking both of them off the cliff. Cody panics as he falls, which results in him thrashing around and getting himself and the dingo tangled up in the line, spinning him around wildly and making him extremely dizzy.

Duncan jumps and easily grabs a sheep. Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot shaves it, and their team logo is shown, meaning they won the challenge and immunity. Team Amazon, due to losing, is forced to go to the Barf Bag Ceremony. Courtney asks Heather if she is clear on the plan, and gets Heather to assure her she'd vote with her, to which Heather was lying about. Chris goes on to state what the contestants did that episode, and a reason why they could be eliminated. He calls Cody up to vote, who is still delirious due to his dingo-attack. The others proceed to vote after him.

At the voting, the vote is divided 2-2-1 for Courtney, Gwen, and Sierra respectively. Since Courtney and Gwen tied for the most votes, they will have to compete in a tie-breaker competition: feed a starving koala cub eucalyptus leaves, without their hands. Due to Gwen's eucalyptus allergy and Courtney's babysitting experience, Gwen loses by a hair and takes the Drop of Shame. Moments before she falls, she insults Courtney by telling her to "suck it," then takes the fall while Courtney listens on with much joy.

Exclusive Clip
{C Gwen is seen taking the Drop of Shame, saying it's unfair that she was eliminated because of her allergy. She then states that Courtney is going to pay the next time she sees her. After that, she lands in a forest in Australia, where she sees a kangaroo which attacks her badly.

Cast

 * Ezekiel makes a cameo appearance underneath the plane's wheel, but does not speak.

Quotes
Cody: That only happened once! (faint laughter is heard outside from Duncan, Courtney, Heather, and Alejandro) Chris: "Uh-oh funny?" Or "Uh-oh we're all gonna die?"''' Chef: Landing gear won't come down. Chris:''' How does that happen!? (Ezekiel is then shown sleeping while sucking his thumb and keeping the landing gear from coming down) Duncan: (under attack by an emu) What? (emu runs away) Hey! Come back here! Alejandro: (in confessional) Heather's a masterful adversary, indeed! She's never used flirtation before. But, that could not have been true passion in her eyes. (eyes widen) Could it? Duncan: Who knows? She's probably just plotting to kill me. Chris: Another two hours. (Chef unfolds map) Oh, make that two days! (Chef and Chris begin laughing hysterically) Alejandro: How long until he realizes it's a dingo? Duncan: Three, two... (Owen gets attacked by the dingo) Alejandro: (laughs hysterically in the confessional) Hahahahaha... Ohhh. Classic (wipes tear from his eye).
 * Chris: (in the recap) Last time on Total Drama World Tour: Area 51: blocked from space to zap your face! Here, Tyler got into a prickly situation and he wasn't the only one. (laughs) You call those laser? And that's no dentist chair. You didn't think Owen would actually go to a dentist, did you? In the end, Tyler got the show and Courtney warn Duncan and Gwen to sleep with both eyes open. Woah-o-woah! Who's going to pumble in the land down under? Find out right here, right now on... Total Drama World Tour!
 * Cody: (munching on a chocolate chip cookie) The chocolate chips are still gooey! First class rocks!
 * Sierra: Cody! Are you okay in there? (gasps) Did you fall in again?
 * Heather: (in confessional) Of course my fingers were crossed. It's one of the advantages in the dark.
 * Chef: Uh-oh.
 * Duncan: Bridgette and Leshawna? And here I thought I was the only dude to score double-gold in the Babe-Olympics.
 * Owen: Please don't let me land on my kiwis (jumps out of plane)...Ow, my kiwis...
 * Courtney: (weakly) Oh, no. This is tricky. I'll never catch one.
 * Heather: Lookin' good, D!
 * Courtney: Did Duncan see that?
 * Heather: He's the only one who didn't, let's go already.
 * Gwen: What's with Heather? She's acting like she's just realized you're alive.
 * Chef: How much longer do we have to wait?
 * Chris: Find out when we boomerang back on Total Drama World Tour!
 * Owen: Come back here, emus!
 * Cody: The Code-man delivers! You can call me "The Wool!"
 * Owen: (returns with a dingo instead of a sheep) Hey, check it out! I caught one that's already sheared. Wooo! Hehehehe!
 * Duncan: (in confessional) Fake sadness has been a gift of mine since I was a kid. Watch and learn. (in a pitiful voice) Oh, mom, was that your grandmother's vase? (fakes crying, stops, and grins)
 * Gwen: Suck it Courtney! In your- (falls out the plane screaming) faaaaaaaaace!

Trivia

 * Title Reference: The Australian novel and film Picnic at Hanging Rock.
 * Interestingly, this episode was named "Picnic at Hanging Rock" in Australia.
 * Ezekiel makes a cameo appearance underneath the plane's wheel, preventing the landing gear from coming down, but does not speak, merely sucking his thumb in his sleep.
 * This is the third time Team Amazon loses a challenge in Total Drama World Tour, the first two being in The Am-AH-Zon Race and Newf Kids on the Rock.
 * This is the first time Team Amazon lost when Team Victory wasn't in the game.
 * This is the first time that Team Amazon have actually had an elimination, since, in The Am-AH-Zon Race, it was a fake elimination.
 * Gwen is the first member of Team Amazon to be eliminated. Coincidentally, she was the first member voted off on her team last season, too.
 * As of this episode, each of the three teams has lost at least one player.
 * With Gwen's elimination, the two models used for Team Victory's Walk-Off challenge have been eliminated back-to-back.
 * This is the first time that an elimination vote has ended in a tie, resulting in a tiebreaker.
 * It's also the second tie-breaker for an elimination. The first one being for Team Victory in Can't Help Falling in Louvre.
 * A tie breaker challenge is a reference to Survivor, where there is a tie in the votes, and the two must compete in a challenge, where the winner is safe from elimination and the loser is eliminated.
 * Another Survivor reference is when Chris reads the votes, "One for Gwen, one for Courtney..." and so on. This also happened in The Aftermath: IV, when Chris was reading Beth's and Duncan's respective votes.
 * This marks the third appearance of Chef's autopilot, seen at the very end of the episode.
 * With Gwen's elimination, all Screaming Gaffer members (excluding Heather) have been eliminated from Total Drama World Tour before the merge.
 * However, Duncan did return and ended up making it to the merge.
 * This is the first time in the series that Cody (and technically Alejandro and Sierra) have lasted longer than Gwen, the second time in a row that Courtney (technically she wasn't in the second season until six episodes after Gwen's elimination), Duncan, and Heather have outranked Gwen, and the third time in a row that Owen has outranked Gwen.
 * This episode marks Sierra's first major injury when she fell off the cliff without a bungee cord.
 * This is also the first time where a contestant received a major injury and was not eliminated in the same episode.
 * In this episode, Gwen reveals that she is allergic to eucalyptus, making her the sixth person to have allergies to something.
 * Noah asks Chris if he got his memo about his life threatening allergies in Not So Happy Campers - Part 1, and states he gets hives when in contact with panda dander in Super Happy Crazy Fun Time Japan.
 * Although Noah could have lied about the panda dander to get out of the challenge
 * Leshawna states, and shows due to Heather, that she's allergic to pineapples in If You Can't Take The Heat... and mentions to be lactose intolerant in One Flu Over the Cuckoos.
 * Harold states being "violently allergic to crab apples" in Who Can You Trust?, but in Basic Straining, he is seen drinking what he thought was apple juice when it was kitchen grease, courtesy of Duncan.
 * Ezekiel reveals to have a peanut allergy in Walk Like An Egyptian - Part 1.
 * Cody, as revealed by Sierra, goes into anaphylactic shock when he comes in contact with various bug bites and goat saliva in The Am-AH-Zon Race.
 * This episode marks the end of Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot's three challenge losing streak to Team Amazon.
 * This is the second episode where a contestant accidentally votes for someone they didn't mean to.
 * The first was when Lindsay accidentally voted herself off in Rock n' Rule.
 * Ironically, Duncan indirectly caused the elimination of his girlfriend by making Cody get dizzy; this resulted in Cody inadvertently voting off Sierra, causing a tiebreaker, in which Courtney won.
 * Additionally, Cody also plays a role in her elimination as he started the fight between him and Duncan.
 * This is the third episode in a row where Duncan is hurt by someone or something. In this case, a kangaroo.
 * In Greece's Pieces, he was mauled by a bear and punched and knocked out by Cody.
 * In The EX-Files, he was kicked in the groin by Courtney when she broke up with him, zapped by a laser and electrocuted by an alien in Area 51.
 * This is the first even numbered episode to have a contestant eliminated since Anything Yukon Do, I Can Do Better.
 * This is the first sixteenth episode of a season to have a contestant eliminated since Total Drama Island, as the sixteenth episode of Total Drama Action was a reward challenge.
 * When the plane flips over, you can see a bag of Chef Hatchet's Total Drama Yum Yum Happy Go Time Candy Fish Tails falling out.
 * As of this episode, Total Drama World Tour has been to every permanently inhabited continent.
 * This marks the first episode of Total Drama World Tour in which a member of season one's final three is eliminated. Like in season two, the first one to go is Gwen.
 * This is the first episode since Are We There Yeti? in which Heather flirts with Duncan.
 * The scene where Sierra jumps off the cliff "for Cody" is a reference to the scene from "The Omen" in which Damien's nanny jumps off the building doing it for Damien.
 * This is the only Episode 16 that Leshawna does not form an alliance in due to her getting eliminated in Slap Slap Revolution.
 * Gwen suffers her worst injuries of the series in this episode. She hugs a cactus, got scratch by a koala and later, a kangaroo kicks her in the face.
 * In this episode, Gwen's behaviour was out of character, oppose of her usual kinder self.

Goofs

 * During the Barf Bag Ceremony, once Chef opens the plane door, Sierra's ponytail vanishes for the remainder of the episode.
 * When Sierra checks on Cody while he's in the confessional and says, "Cody? Are you okay in there?" the captions say that Gwen says it.
 * Both of the interns who were thrown off the plane in a previous episode are shown to be perfectly safe in this episode.
 * After Cody grabs the first sheep for Team Amazon, Courtney's eyebrows are missing.
 * Duncan's nose piercing switches sides twice.
 * Also, when he is about to start fake crying he has two piercings on his right ear where he usually has one. A moment later, one of them disappears.
 * When Chris calls Cody to cast his vote, Cody, after falling off the benches, is seen walking past Chris from his right instead of from his left.
 * When Cody was voting, some of the passports are shown with the print and picture backwards.
 * Chris states that Hanging Rock is in the Blue Mountains of Australia, but Hanging Rock is located in the Australian state of Victoria, while the Blue Mountains are in New South Wales, near Sydney.
 * When Courtney grabs a sheep while hanging upside down, her hair does not hang down.
 * The landing gear should have crushed Ezekiel.