I Triple Dog Dare You!

'''The three remaining campers participate in a series of dares that were made up by the eliminated campers. Two campers make a temporary alliance, which causes another camper to leave the island without her hair and earn her long-waited comeuppance. Now, there are two campers left in the competition, but only one will win...'''

Plot
The episode opens to Chris waking up the remaining three campers, Gwen, Heather, and Owen, with an All-You-Can-Eat pancakes breakfast, "made with genuine food by-products served with fresh ingredients that are relatively close to their expiration dates" instead of the disgusting meals Chef normally serves. Chef is seen preparing the almost real food when one of the pancakes sticks to the ceiling after he flips it. He then scrapes it off with a dirty shovel, and goes back to cooking.

Before the challenge, the campers make several video journals in the confessional, with Gwen and Heather generally bad-mouthing each other, while Owen rambles endlessly about pancakes, finishing it off by saying that all the pancakes in the world are nothing without friends to share them with. He then notices how the toilet seat looks like a pancake, and bites a chunk off it, before falling asleep. Inside the main lodge, Heather and Gwen collect their pancakes. Gwen notices that hers are covered with dirt. When Owen reaches Chef, he receives a ration of pancakes, but unsatisfied with the amount he reminds Chef that the breakfast is "All You Can Eat." An enraged Chef, not only gives him a larger stack of pancakes, but dumps the entire tray of pancakes on him, burying him. Owen sticks his head out of the pile, declaring his satisfaction with Chef's outburst.

After breakfast, the campers meet up with Chris at the outdoor auditorium and are seated in a game show-like contestants row. Chris serves as host, while Chef, who's wearing a sheer pink dress and matching pink chef's hat, is his lovely assistant. Chris tells them that the producers have run out of ideas for challenges, so they asked the voted off campers for suggestions and they had a lot. Chris moves back to show a giant bottle attached to a wheel with pictures of all the other campers, except Katie and Sadie, who are together in one big picture on the bottom, for a high stakes game of "I Triple Dog Dare You". Each of the campers will get up and spin the bottle. The picture it points to determines the dare; the camper can do the dare themselves and win a "get out of dare freebie" in the form of an empty soda bottle, or they can pass the dare to someone else. If a camper chickens out of a dare, they are automatically eliminated from Total Drama Island. In the confessional, Chris explains that he and Chef have a minor side-bet for the challenge: the first one to puke has to give the other one $100.

Gwen is up first and the wheel lands on Duncan. Duncan's dare for her is to lick Owen's armpit. Chris asks if Gwen will take it or pass, and she passes it to Heather. Heather nervously moves towards Owen's armpit, and he tries to calm her down by suggesting that she imagine that she's licking an ice cream cone, minus the bad odor. This doesn't help much, nor does mentioning the pit hair while in mid-lick, which sends Heather into convulsions. Heather gets her turn at the wheel and spins Ezekiel, who dares them to chew their own toenail, slowly. She doesn't hesitate to challenge Gwen with the dare. Gwen sits in a small chair in the center of the stage, takes off her boot and lifts up her foot so that Chef can clip a piece of her toenail off. He then hands her the clipping and she puts it in her mouth.

While chewing, Heather reminds Gwen that she has to do it slowly and Gwen's chewing changes to a slow, forced motion. After she completes this dare, Owen spins the bottle and gets Beth, who dares him to re-chew a piece of Harold's old gum. Owen emphatically accepts the dare, grossing out everyone else. Owen figures the gum must be pretty special if he was saving it, and starts chewing, describing the flavor as "full bodied, a delicate fruity aroma with a hint of citrus, robust yet balanced, summery, and a crunchy center." The camera zooms in on Harold's picture, which shows him picking his nose, which disgusts everyone present. While Chris and Chef almost throw up, Owen blows a large bubble that bursts and covers himself with bubble residue. Chris awards Owen the game's first freebie, and an optional tetanus shot, which Owen declines. Gwen retakes the stage and spins Cody, whose dare is to stuff a tray of ice cubes in your underwear, and let them melt. Gwen doesn't think the dare is too bad and takes it herself. Chef brings out a bucket of ice cubes, and Gwen takes and stuffs large handfuls of the ice into her skirt.

Heather declares that she will take the next dare, whatever it is, as she won't let Gwen get ahead of her. She spins the bottle and gets Tyler. Tyler's dare is to eat grape jelly out of Owen's belly button. Chef pours nine spoonfuls of jelly into Owen's navel, while Owen comments on how getting two dares like this must suck. Heather gathers her strength, and while it's not shown on camera, she slurps the grape jelly from Owen's bare stomach, returning to frame covered in grape jelly, with a disturbed look on her face. Chris puts her on life support for a few minutes while Chris hands out snacks: peanut butter and jelly sandwiches; hearing of which causes Heather to throw up in the oxygen mask. Owen takes his next spin and gets Izzy, to which Owen is ecstatic. Izzy's dare is to give a purple nurple to a sleeping bear. Owen gladly takes the dare, but loses some enthusiasm when he asks "What's a purple nurple?". Owen goes to the nearby bear cave to perform the dare, which naturally wakes the bear up.

Gwen spins and gets Harold's dare: lick Owen's toe jam; she passes it to Heather who uses her freebie to skip it. Heather spins and gets Geoff: drink powdered fruit punch from the communal toilet. Gwen considers whether she should use her freebie, but instead, holds her breath and goes for it. Chris mixes the fruit punch into the toilet with a plunger, comments on how gross it is, then hands Gwen a straw. Gwen pokes the straw into the water and takes a long slurp before getting sick and throwing up. While Owen goes up to get the next dare, Heather taunts Gwen, saying Trent will need a fumigation squad to kiss her with her bad breath, to which Gwen replies by belching foul gas in her face.

Owen spins Cody, whose next dare is to eat dog food, another dare that Owen is glad to take himself. Chris questions why Owen would do it when he has two freebies he can use, or better yet, challenge an opponent, preferably one with no freebies (referring to Heather). Owen says that his dog eats it, and he wants to know what he's been missing; he then takes the plate of dog food, which is still in a can shape, and voraciously eats it. When Owen describes it as "meaty tasting", it proves too much for Chris, and he throws up. After Chris pays $100 to Chef, Chef throws up, followed by Gwen, then Heather. In the confessional, Chris says it was so gross, then throws up again, and asks if there's nothing the campers won't do.

The game continues on with dare after dare, including dressing up as a baby, kissing a dead fish, and wrestling an alligator; after over sixty rounds, no one has dropped out, Owen has twenty freebies, Gwen still has one and Heather has none. Frustrated at how long this could continue, Gwen strikes a deal with Owen: help her take Heather down, and she'll give Owen half the prize money; and if she doesn't win the $100,000, she'll swing for a box of doughnuts. Owen agrees and shares his freebies with Gwen. Heather protests, but Chris says there are no rules. Heather's torture starts when Gwen spins and lands Courtney, who dares them to drink a blended puree of Chef's mystery meat. This leads to a montage showing Heather swimming in leeches, wearing a chicken hat and pretending to be a chicken, slapping herself, eating a live cockroach, kissing one of Chef's socks in the guise of a sock puppet play of the Princess and the Frog, and getting a bucket of feces dumped on her head before being fired out of a cannon into a feces pile.

Heather thinks she's finally going to get a break when the bottle lands on Lindsay, thinking that she couldn't possibly come up with a bad dare. However, she is extremely wrong when Chris reads the card aloud which states, "have your head shaved by Chef". Heather is put in a barber's chair while Chef menaces her with an electric razor; Chris tells her exactly what's at stake, have her head shaved to stay in the game, or keep her hair and leave. As Chef approaches, Heather panics and kicks the razor out of his hands, it flies in the air, and lands on her head; the chair falls backwards as bits of hair fly away. When the chair returns upright, Heather is in shock, with only a few clumps of hair left; although she has been shaved, Chris tells her she's now out as she didn't accept the dare. When asked about the lack of rules by an enraged Heather, Chris says that it's "complicated", but she still loses; her screams can be heard all the way from Playa Des Losers. Heather is taken to the Boat of Losers and leaves the island, all the while threatening to sue Chris for everything he has, and promises to ruin his reputation everywhere. This leaves Total Drama Island's two finalists being Owen and Gwen, who celebrate their long-awaited triumph over Heather.

Cast

 * Chef Hatchet appears, but he has no lines. However, he grunts several times when he almost throws up.
 * All of the nineteen previously eliminated campers have a cameo appearance at the end of the episode, but they do not speak.

General

 * This episode is similar to No Pain, No Game, as far as having a spinning wheel that tells the contestants to do a horrific challenge at random.
 * The order in which Chris introduces the eliminated campers is: Izzy, Trent, Cody, Justin, Noah, Leshawna, Lindsay, Beth, Tyler, Harold, DJ, Geoff, Bridgette, Duncan, Courtney, Eva, Katie and Sadie, and Ezekiel.
 * All Screaming Gophers were introduced first and the Killer Bass were introduced afterwards.
 * The dares the eliminated campers made up for the final three are:
 * Ezekiel: Chew your own toenail slowly (Gwen does it).
 * Eva: Wear a beard made out of bees (Owen does it).
 * Noah: Wrestle an alligator (Heather does it).
 * Katie and Sadie: Kiss a dead fish (Gwen does it).
 * Tyler: Slurp grape jelly out of Owen's belly button (Heather does it).
 * Cody: Drop a tray of ice into your undies and let them melt (Gwen does it), eat dog food (Owen does it).
 * Beth: Chew a wad of Harold's gum (Owen does it).
 * Courtney: Drink a blended puree of Chef Hatchet's mystery meat (Heather does it).
 * Harold: Lick Owen's toe jam (Heather uses her freebie to skip it).
 * Trent: Eat hard boiled eggs while lying down (Heather does it).
 * Bridgette: Dress like a baby with a pink lace bonnet, light blue pacifier, and diaper. (Owen does it).
 * Lindsay: Have your head shaved by Chef Hatchet (Heather refuses to do it, but ends up having it done to her anyway).
 * Izzy: Give a purple nurple to a sleeping bear (Owen does it).
 * Geoff: Drink powdered fruit punch out of the communal toilet (Gwen does it).
 * Leshawna: Walk on a tight rope while carrying steaks above shark infested waters (Gwen does it).
 * Duncan: Lick Owen's armpit (Heather does it).
 * None of the dares that Justin or DJ made are revealed, and Cody is the only one that has more than one known dare.
 * There are also some dares that are seen, but it isn't known who came up with them. It is possible some of these may be Justin or DJ's.
 * These dares are all done by Heather:
 * Lie in a pool full of leeches.
 * Act like a chicken in front of a chicken (while wearing a chicken hat).
 * Hit yourself.
 * Eat a live cockroach.
 * In a puppet show, kiss a puppet made out of Chef's sock.
 * Be shot out of a cannon into a pile of pig poop.
 * When Heather screams after having her head shaved, it can be heard at Playa Des Losers, where the losing campers are standing around the pool in the same positions they were in when they vote Leshawna out, except for the following differences:
 * Eva is standing directly behind Cody instead of off to one side.
 * Justin is leaning forward as opposed to sitting straight up.
 * Duncan and Leshawna have joined the losers and are standing behind Trent and Courtney.
 * When Owen shares his freebies with Gwen, Heather says: "Ix-nay on the onspiracy-cay," which is Pig Latin for: "nix on the conspiracy."
 * Of the three dares that involve Owen's body (Duncan, Tyler, Harold), two of them are done by Heather, and had she not used her freebie, she would've had to do all three.
 * All three dares regarding Owen's body were made by previous Killer Bass members.
 * The only campers whose photos on the wheel seem to stand out or have any differences are Katie and Sadie (both in the same picture, hugging), Izzy (making a gruesome face), Harold (picking his nose), Lindsay (hers has XOXOXOXO written on it, while appearing to be laying down), and Leshawna (she is looking sideways angrily).

Continuity

 * This challenge marks the eighth time Gwen wins a challenge for herself or for her team. Even if her ending for the finale doesn't count, this is still the record for any season.
 * Heather's fate is foreshadowed in many previous episodes, usually by Lindsay.
 * In If You Can't Take The Heat..., Heather threatens Lindsay that she would cut her hair if she ever sided with Leshawna against her again.
 * It's also interesting to note that one of Lindsay's challenges in No Pain, No Game was to have her hair cut off with a chainsaw, which she failed to do.
 * In That's Off the Chain!, Lindsay shows Heather an "ugly doll with pretty hair" that she feels resembles Heather as they built their bikes. During Lindsay's elimination, she states that she hopes Heather gets everything her karma owes her.
 * Two of the challenges Heather performed are Beth and Tyler's fears from Phobia Factor (enter a tub filled with bugs and chickens respectively).
 * Leshawna and Geoff's dares are similar to the challenges that they needed to do in Search and Do Not Destroy in order to obtain their keys.
 * The scene in the beginning, switching between the three finalists in the confessional, is currently the longest uninterrupted confessional scene in the entire series.
 * This marks the third time someone leaves the island without a campfire ceremony.
 * In addition, this is the second time that someone is not eliminated at night.
 * Heather will not get her original hair length back until Total Drama: Revenge of the Island's episode, Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon.

Goofs

 * Chris's pants and sneakers change to shorts and sandals twice in this episode.
 * Only thirteen of Owen's twenty freebies are shown on screen, however, some shots show only nine.
 * When Chris, Chef, and Gwen are in the bathroom, Chef is seen wearing his normal clothes instead of the pink dress. He is shown wearing it again when Gwen goes off to puke.
 * Owen is shown with armpit hair in this episode when Heather licks his armpit, yet it never was or is seen ever in previous or future episodes.
 * When Heather is forced to eat hard-boiled eggs lying down, the wheel is shown pointing at Leshawna, even though it was Trent who gave her the dare.
 * Right before Chef vomits, the gap in his teeth is missing.
 * After Heather sucks the jelly out of Owen's navel, Owen exclaims that she didn't puke this time, but when she licked his armpit, she did not vomit either.
 * When Chris says Owen has twenty freebies and Gwen and Heather have none, Gwen is shown to still have one freebie.
 * When Gwen and Owen were walking to see Heather get eliminated, the tips of Gwen's shirt were missing.
 * After Gwen takes off her shoe to chew her own toenail, the camera pans over to Heather, who is shown to have two pairs of eyebrows.
 * Chef's tattoo disappears multiple times in this episode.