Ice Dancers and Police Cadets

This article focuses on the interactions between The Ice Dancers and The Police Cadets.

Overview
Very early on in the game, the two naturally competitive teams develop a rivalry with each other. MacArthur in particular shows immense hostility to the Ice Dancers, also having a habit of trash talking them. For several episodes, both fiercely compete with each other and are determined to come out on top. The conflict escalates over the course of the season when the Ice Dancers begin to play dirty, causing MacArthur to hate them with a passion. For some time, Sanders is undecided on the Ice Dancers, but after being betrayed by them in Shawshank Ridonc-tion, she finally makes up her mind. Similarly, Josee's hatred for the Police Cadets escalates to the point where it exceeds her desire to win. She declares she won't be satisfied until getting revenge on them. From this point on, both teams take every opportunity to sabotage one another, plot each others' eliminations, trash talk each other, and on occasion physically fight. Even a forced alliance between them and the Daters in Ca-Noodling, as well as MacArthur's code of honor, forcing her to save Josee's life in Bahamarama, doesn't do anything to extinguish the feud. If at all, it leads to Josee continuing to break their brief alliance with the Cadets and heats up their rivalry more. The conflict between the two teams continues to the finale, with both teams trying to keep up with one another. Despite several setbacks as well as Sanders' injuries, the Cadets finally triumph over the Ice Dancers by making it to the midpoint Chill Zone first, eliminating the Ice Dancers once and for all, much to their anger.

None Down, Eighteen to Go - Part 1
The two teams race each other up the high staircase during the first challenge, with MacArthur yelling "Coming through! Cadets for the win!", to which Jacques, coming right behind and replies, "Not for long!"

None Down, Eighteen to Go - Part 2
The Cadets and Dancers race neck-and-neck for second place. The Dancers initially have the lead after overtaking the Cadets but crash into a tree, allowing the Cadets to regain the lead. However, the Ice Dancers quickly recover, and the two teams fiercely race to the Chill Zone. In the final moments MacArthur, while carrying Sanders, takes a huge leap and reaches the Chill Zone before the Ice Dancers do. Josee is very upset about this and throws her first tantrum of the season.

French is an Eiffel Language
This episode marks the true beginning of the conflict between the two teams. As the teams are driving to the airport, the Ice Dancers overtake the Cadets while incessantly smiling at the camera. Seeing this, MacArthur ponders over whether the Ice Dancers smile all the time. Fixated with curiosity, MacArthur vows to find out, with her lack of knowledge frustrating her. Upon reaching Paris, the Police Cadets and Ice Dancers continue their rivalry, with MacArthur crashing her cab into the Ice Dancers' cab to slow them down. After exiting the catacombs, the Cadets are the first to reach the giant cheese, with the Ice Dancers right on their tail. The latter team immediately grabs their cheese and rides it down the river. Josee mockingly bids farewell to the Cadets, but MacArthur counters by announcing they had forgotten their oars. The Police Cadets take the chance to paddle ahead, only to see the Ice Dancers using their feet in place of oars to propel forward. Despite that The Ice Dancers were first to reach the Louvre, they lose some time waving to their fans, causing The Cadets to overstep them. In the end, it's a race between the two teams for first place, with the Cadets emerging victorious, much to the anger of Josee.

Mediterranean Homesick Blues
Despite the results of the previous leg, the Ice Dancers attempt to take the lead but are stopped by the Cadets at the last minute. In an interview, MacArthur vows to keep a close eye on the Ice Dancers, stating she does not trust them and if they're not careful enough, the Dancers might end up winning the race.

Bjorken Telephone
While waiting for the bus, the Ice Dancers see that the Cadets (and some other teams) have caught up to them at the bus stop. The two of them and MacArthur get into an argument, which is on the verge of becoming physical. Noah then steps in and points out that the bus has arrived.

A Tisket, a Casket, I'm Gonna Blow a Gasket
While the teams are walking up a hill, Josee pushes Sanders down. This leads an angered MacArthur to tackle the Ice Dancers, sending all of them tumbling to the bottom. MacArthur and Josee engage in a struggle, with both holding on tightly and refusing to budge.

Shawshank Ridonc-tion
The conflict between both teams reaches a new level in this episode. Upon hearing about the Boomerang, MacArthur is determined to use it on the Ice Dancers, even though Sanders wants to give it some thought. As the teams are locked in Geelong maximum security, the Ice Dancers and Cadets are coincidentally placed in neighboring cells. The Cadets annoy Josee with their constant bickering, and she asks them to keep it down because they are trying to think, to which MacArthur replies with a pun to her. After the Dancers successfully escape from their cells, Sanders begs them to let them out. Josee agrees under the condition that MacArthur compliments them with saying ice dancing is the best sport in the world and that she's the best at it. MacArthur initially refuses, but after some urging from Sanders, reluctantly obliges. However, the Ice Dancers break their promise and leave them in their cells. This enrages MacArthur, while Sanders concedes that MacArthur has been right in not trusting the Ice Dancers. MacArthur's rage towards the Ice Dancers is strong enough to help her tear the mattresses to two halves, break the toilet and a piece of the wall.

After breaking out, the two police-in-training catch up with the former Olympians at the next Don Box. After a small mud fight, Josee and Sanders draw out their respective Boomerangs at each other. Seeing that neither off them would benefit from this Mexican Standoff, Sanders proposes that they tear up the Boomerangs at the count of three, to which Josee agrees to. However, neither of them eventually do so and both end up using their Boomerangs on each other, forcing both teams to repeat the previous challenge. The two teams form a temporary truce in order to escape their cell and once they are done, they compete fiercely with each other, with the Ice Dancers reaching the Chill Zone first after Josee whacks the Cadets off their raft. Fortunately for the two cops, it is a non-elimination round, giving them the chance to exact their revenge on the former Olympians.

Down and Outback
Josee is still bitter at the Police Cadets for daring to use the Boomerang on them in the previous episode. No longer satisfied with simply winning, she vows to exact revenge on them. During the challenge, Josee applies makeup on a rabbit, disguising it as the rare albino rabbit that allows teams to skip to the next challenge. Upon seeing the rabbit, MacArthur gives chase and drops the sack of rabbits she already has. After chasing the rabbit for a prolonged period, MacArthur finally acquires the rabbit after it falls into a lake. However the makeup washes off, revealing the rabbit to be a fake. MacArthur realizes she has been duped and immediately suspects it to be the Ice Dancers' doing.

Maori or Less
The Ice Dancers tease the Cadets and some other teams that they have reached the Chill Zone in first a long ago. Frustrated that the Ice Dancers beat them again, the Police Cadets vow to bring them down, with Sanders adding they would be having the Ice Dancers for breakfast.

Little Bull on the Prairie
While driving to their destination, the Ice Dancers ram their truck into the Police Cadets' truck, causing the Cadets to run over a rock and burst a tire. This allows the Ice Dancers to overtake them, where Josee proceeds to taunt them by calling them "wannabe copers." A furious MacArthur retaliates by speeding up her truck and slamming into the Ice Dancers, causing both trucks to go off road and sending them over a cliff edge. Later, the Ice Dancers were annoyed when MacArthur completed the bull challenge.

El Bunny Supremo
During the burro riding challenge, the Ice Dancers pass the Police Cadets, due to MacArthur experiencing difficulty with her burro, which collapsed. However, the Ice Dancers end up losing their burros due to having trouble with Loki, the Goths' rabbit which the Ice Dancers have kidnapped. As a result, the Ice Dancers arrive at the Chill Zone without their burros and are given a 10 minute penalty by Don. In the end, MacArthur manages to carry her burro to the Chill Zone before the penalty is over, allowing the Police Cadets to claim first place. MacArthur proceeds to taunt the Ice Dancers, calling them "ice skating freaks." In an interview, Sanders adds that the best part of winning is that the Ice Dancers lose.

Ca-Noodling
At the start of the episode, the Cadets taunt the Ice Dancers for their previous placement. Upon reaching the Mekong River, the Ice Dancers are initially in the lead but MacArthur tackles them, allowing Sanders to reach the Don Box first. Much to their surprise, both teams have to work together for the first Superteam challenge of the race much to their reluctance, with the Haters filling the third position. Though Josee reluctantly agrees, Sanders has to pep talk MacArthur into working with their sworn enemies. However, Josee and MacArthur continue to clash with each other throughout the challenge. Eventually, Sanders loses her patience and points out that one of them will be eliminated if they continue to fight. Josee and MacArthur finally call a temporary truce and decide to sabotage the other teams by tricking Devin, who suffers from blurry vision since the previous episode, into catching a crocodile. After Jacques catches the fish with the Zip-It ticket, the three teams reach the Chill Zone first. Sanders then proposes keeping their alliance, dubbed the "the Axis of Evil" until the final three to which everyone agree. However, all three teams are simply lulling the other into a false sense of security before striking them when the moment is right.

How Deep is Your Love
At the start of the leg, both the Cadets and Ice Dancers emphasize that their alliance is only temporary during their respective interviews at the beginning of the episode. Throughout the episode, both teams admit that they are going to target the other team in order to get them eliminated. At Siberia, the two teams continue to clash again with Josee throwing the first punch by "accidentally" pushing MacArthur to the ground, causing MacArthur's tongue to stick onto a trash can. Shortly after, Josee proceeds to sabotage the Cadets' ice yacht by unscrewing the breaking mechanism. As the Ice Dancers take off in their ice yacht, Sanders calls to them for help, only for her request to fall on deaf ears.

Darjeel With It
During the tea leave picking challenge, the Ice Dancers approach the Police Cadets and feign sympathy at their mishap in the previous episode. Josee then suggests they join forces to take down the Sisters, which at first MacArthur is on board with. However, MacArthur had made an agreement to listen to Sanders, who decides against this, not wanting to risk a penalty. Josee is angered and warns them that once they have dispatched the Sisters, they would come for the Cadets next.

When the Ice Dancers are waiting out their one hour penalty for sabotaging the other teams, the Police Cadets claim second place to which MacArthur blows a raspberry at them. MacArthur then states that despite not getting first place, she is happy to place higher than the Ice Dancers.

Last Tango in Buenos Aires
While being on the taxi, Sanders states that she really wants to get rid of "those annoyed ice dancers", to which MacArthur agrees and states and Sanders should leave them to her, since she knows "how to make people hurt". The Police Cadets, along with the other contestants, are very annoyed that the Ice Dancers complete the tango challenge with ease. Later on, after both the Ice Dancers and Police Cadets acquire their emus, both teams fiercely race to the finish line. After The Ice Dancers narrowly come in first, Josee mocks the cadets, much to their annoyance.

Bahamarama
When the Ice Dancers arrive at the airport, Josee intimidates the clerk and demands he puts the other three teams on a later flight. However, MacArthur approaches revealing she and the other teams had already arrived, before mocking the Ice Dancers. Josee then throws a tantrum while Jacques expresses his frustration over the Cadets. The Police Cadets then laugh at Josee's reaction in an interview. During the map finding challenge, after Kitty insults the Ice Dancers by calling them "Ice Dunces", MacArthur proceeds to laugh at them. After taking too long to find the right map, a frustrated MacArthur picks up a crate of maps and throws them at Jacques, making him fall to the ground. About to pick up and throw another one, the right map drops out, only for Josee to snatch it. MacArthur then takes the crate and smashes it on top of Josee, making her drop the map. Jacques then makes a grab for the map and begins a tug of war with the Police Cadets before Josee joins in. The Cadets demand the Ice Dancers to drop the map, with MacArthur calling them "freezer breaths". Sanders then cleverly tells MacArthur to let go, which at first she refuses. However, her grip slips, and the momentum sends the Ice Dancers tumbling backwards into a heap on the ground. The Police Cadets take their map and rush off victorious.

When traveling to the next challenge on jet-ski, the Cadets progress at a slow pace, due to Sanders driving with one hand (since her left arm is injured). The Ice Dancers then catch up, where Josee calls out "Hey Cadets! Eat seaweed!", before splashing them with a huge wave that knocks them off the jet-ski. Later when Josee freaks out after discovering the challenge involves underwater cave diving, Jacques tells her to channel her anger, which she decides to channel into sabotaging the Cadets. However, Jacques finally tells her he does not wish to sabotage anymore as it frequently gets them almost eliminated. Once in the water, a claustrophobic Josee is unable to enter the cave. MacArthur swims past in satisfaction and radios to Sanders that they are in third place, which leads Josee to scream in rage and follow after, not willing to come last. In an interview, Sanders comments on Josee 's claustrophobia, but MacArthur scoffs and states the places only felt small to her because she had such a big head. As all the contestants listens to Josee's freak outs, MacArthur requests Josee's microphone be disconnected. When Sanders asks Jacques if he would do something about it, Jacques promptly replies that he has taken this for 14 years and it was time Josee got a taste. When MacArthur sees Josee taking refuge in an air pocket, after expending all her air, she enter the air pocket to taunt Josee. However when she is about to swim off, she cannot bring herself to leave Josee behind. Returning to the air pocket, Josee assumes MacArthur is there to rub her defeat in, but MacArthur angrily tells her she is helping Josee, much to her confusion. MacArthur explains that despite hating Josee, she is still a cop and this is the right thing to do, and tells her "If anything is going to take you out of this race, it's going to be me." She shares her oxygen with Josee, but not before warning her not to hog her oxygen otherwise she would leave Josee behind. After emerging, Sanders asks if MacArthur hit her head, surprised that she saved her mortal enemy without being told.

As the Ice Dancers and Police Cadets take off in their jet-skis, they collide with one another while driving, with Josee and MacArthur once again glaring intently at each other. Shortly after in the foot race to the finish line, the Police Cadets overtake the Ice Dancers, only for Josee to pick up a coconut and throw it at MacArthur and knock her down. Josee states in an interview that just because MacArthur got soft doesn't mean she has to, while MacArthur states in her interview that this is the sort of thing that makes her want to turn to the dark side. MacArthur then adds that she intentionally peed in the water as Josee swam past. After Sanders carries MacArthur to the finish line, a furious MacArthur demands to know how Josee could do this after she saved her life, though Josee feels no remorse over her actions.

A Million Ways to Lose a Million Dollars
During the cab race to the Empire State Building, the Ice Dancers overtake the Police Cadets, where Josee proceeds to blow a raspberry and gets drool on the window. Shortly after, both teams get stuck in a traffic jam, though the Police Cadets come up with the solution of impersonating a police siren to clear the traffic. The Ice Dancers are at first delighted to hear the police, but are shocked when they realize it's the Cadets who overtake them.

The Police Cadets arrive at the Empire State Building first, but lose their lead over the Ice Dancers due to Sanders insisting they park properly. After the Ice Dancers retrieve their travel tip, they discover the Surfer Dudes had taken their taxi, so they steal the Police Cadets one instead. The Police Cadets arrive just in time to see the Ice Dancers take off in their taxi and give chase. To keep them from falling behind, MacArthur uses her police badge to hijack a hot dog van, where they continue pursuing the Ice Dancers. Upon catching up, MacArthur rams the hot dog van into the taxi, causing the Ice Dancers to flip upside down and the Police Cadets to take the lead.

As the Police Cadets reach the Chill Zone, the wind blows their travel tip out of MacArthur's hand and down a drain, forcing them to go back for it. By this stage the Ice Dancers have almost caught up and see they still have a chance. Sanders manages to retrieve the tip, using her broken arm. Just in time as the two teams race to the Chill Zone, the Police Cadets narrowly take second place, with the Ice Dancers taking third.

During the final leg of the race between the Police Cadets and Surfer Dudes, the Ice Dancers voice their opinions on the finalists in an interview. They end up giving both teams a score of double 0.

Trivia

 * This is one of the first conflicts to be formed in Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race, and one of the main focuses in the season.
 * Both MacArthur and Josee have a very short temper, which might be the main reason for this conflict.
 * Counting the Cadets' ending, these two teams reach first place more than any other teams;
 * The Ice Dancers had finish first the most, with eight times.
 * The Cadets reached first five times.
 * Because they both finish first in Ca-Noodling, they have a total of thirteen times, which is the exact half of all episodes.