Total Drama World Tour

Total Drama World Tour (formerly Total Drama, the Musical) is the third season of Total Drama.

Overview
Fifteen previous contestants and three new ones compete in challenges all around the world. Also new this season, when Chris rings a bell, the contestants must break into song. If they don't, they are automatically eliminated. By the rules, contestants must sing once in each episode and Chris may call a "reprise" of the song, although this has only happened on one occasion. Contestants subject for elimination are awarded barf bags full of airline issue peanuts, continuing the tradition of edible safety items. When a contestant is eliminated, they must take the Drop of Shame voluntarily or someone will have to force them off of the plane.

Summary
During the events of Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Action Reunion Special, all of the contestants from the first two seasons went to great lengths to prevent being labeled as has-beens and being replaced by Chris' new reality concept: Total Drama Dirtbags. Ultimately, after proving themselves through nearly catastrophic means, Chris rescues a group of fifteen (as well as two new faces) to join him on a journey around the world in the third season. Traveling around on the Total Drama Jumbo Jet, the cast participates in new challenges in various countries on six continents with all new drama and challenges awaiting them. Split into three separate teams after the first challenge, the teams work to achieve immunity as well as first-class to their next destination. The losing team is now forced to attend a ceremony where one member is forced to take the Drop of Shame from the plane to wherever they land. The lucky contestant who outlasts the rest of the contestants wins the $1,000,000 at the end of the journey.

Contestants

 * See also: Total Drama World Tour Elimination Table

Episodes
See: List of Total Drama World Tour Episodes

There is a total of twenty-six episodes of Total Drama World Tour, but there's no special for this season.

DVD
There is not a DVD release of Total Drama World Tour for Region 1, but Australia is releasing the season on DVD in late 2012.

Song List

 * See: List of Total Drama World Tour Songs

Rewards

 * See: List of Rewards

Trivia

 * The original name of the season was "Total Drama, the Musical." This was brought up in Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Action Reunion Special, where Chris and Chef start singing "Total Drama Musical." This was also brought up in Aftermath: Revenge of the Telethon; the screen displayed font which read "TDM Telethon," but this was quickly changed back to "TDWT Telethon."
 * This makes Total Drama World Tour the second of three seasons to have had it's name changed, the first being Camp TV being changed to Total Drama Island, and the third being Total Drama Reloaded being changed to Total Drama: Revenge of the Island.
 * However, of these three, Total Drama World Tour is the only one to not have any known design changes.
 * Alejandro, Blaineley, Bridgette, Cody, Courtney, DJ, Duncan, Ezekiel, Gwen, Harold, Heather, Izzy, Leshawna, Lindsay, Noah, Owen, Sierra, and Tyler were the eighteen contestants who competed.
 * Blaineley did not originally qualify for this season. However, she makes her debut in Niagara Brawls.
 * Noah, Tyler, Cody, Courtney, and Heather all made it farther than they did in Total Drama Island.
 * However, Ezekiel, Izzy, Leshawna, Lindsay, Harold, Bridgette, DJ, Gwen, Duncan, and Owen did not.
 * Owen won Total Drama Island, so he couldn't have done better than that.
 * Bridgette, Gwen, DJ, and Heather all made it farther than they did in Total Drama Action.
 * However, Izzy, Courtney, Leshawna, Lindsay, Harold, Duncan, and Owen did not.
 * Duncan won Total Drama Action, so he couldn't have done better than that.
 * All of the males who competed on Total Drama Island, but not Total Drama Action, were eliminated in the same order as before. Ezekiel was eliminated first, followed by Noah, then Tyler, and finally Cody.
 * There are three new competitors on Total Drama World Tour that have never competed in any previous season: Alejandro, Blaineley, and Sierra.
 * Coincidentally, all of the newcomers ended up with serious injuries by the end of the competition.
 * Alejandro was completely burned by lava and trampled in Hawaiian Punch, causing him to be put into the Drama Machine.
 * Sierra was rendered bald and placed in a wheelchair because of the plane's explosion in Awwwwww, Drumheller.
 * Blaineley was placed in a full body cast after landing on a small Chinese hut after taking the Drop of Shame in Chinese Fake-Out.
 * Blaineley is the only newcomer that remains with her hair after the season concluded.
 * None of the newcomers have full use of their bodies at the end of the season, though Sierra recovers by the next season.
 * DJ, Tyler, Izzy, Sierra, Blaineley, and Alejandro all left this season with injuries.
 * Beth, Eva, Geoff, Justin, Katie, Sadie, and Trent were the contestants from previous seasons who did not compete.
 * A majority of these contestants, however, competed on Total Drama Action.
 * This season featured four females and three males not competing. This is the reverse of Total Drama Action.
 * This marks the second season that Eva, Katie, and Sadie did not compete on, thus making Total Drama Island the only season in which these three did compete.
 * This is the first season in which a female contestant wins in the United States.
 * This is also the first (and currently the only) season where the winner is not the same in both Canada and the United States.
 * If the specials are counted as episodes, then this season currently features the least amount of episodes of the first three seasons, as Total Drama Island had two recap episodes and a special, thus making 29 episodes, and Total Drama Action had a special, thus making 27 episodes. Thus, this season has only 26 episodes.
 * This is the first season to take place outside of Canada, although they have returned to Canada four times in Anything Yukon Do, I Can Do Better, Newf Kids on the Rock, Niagara Brawls, and Awwwwww, Drumheller.
 * This is also the first, and currently only, season to not have at least one episode feature Camp Wawanakwa in it.
 * This makes Canada the most-visited country throughout the series.
 * This is the first season to feature "fake eliminations," in which Chris has all members of the losing team vote like they regularly would, then reveal the result, but not actually count that person as eliminated.
 * This is also the first season in which Chris himself deliberately bends the rules to basically eliminate whoever he wants to, as he does this in Greece's Pieces and Awwwwww, Drumheller.
 * This is the first season to feature an odd amount of contestants competing from the start, as Total Drama Island had 22 contestants and Total Drama Action started with 14 contestants.
 * Similarly to how Total Drama Action started out with an even number of contestants and ended with an odd amount, this season started out with an odd number of contestants and ended with an even amount.
 * This is the first season to not feature a Guys' Alliance.
 * One team, however, does consist of all male contestants for a period of time.
 * This is the first (and currently the only) season in which only one contestant returns after being previously eliminated.
 * In addition, this is the first season in which Izzy does not return after being eliminated.
 * This is also the first season where the person who is eliminated in the second elimination does not return, as Eva returned in Total Drama Island and Izzy returned in Total Drama Action.
 * This is the first (and currently the only) season in which the sleeping arrangements are co-ed, and have no noticeable male/female barriers. This is also the first time that the different living quarters don't have any actual beds, as first class simply has the luxurious seats, and the economy class has wooden slats.
 * This season is the first (and currently the only) season to feature three teams instead of two. They are Team Victory, Team Amazon, and Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot. These teams have many differences from the previous teams seen in the series.
 * These team names were chosen by the contestants who were put on the team.
 * Unlike the other two seasons, the team names do not have "Screaming" and "Killer" in them.
 * This is the first time that the teams have an uneven amount of players at the start of the season. Team Amazon and Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot had five, and Team Victory had six.
 * Also, this is the first time that the lowest-ranking members of all the teams aren't of the same gender. The lowest-ranking members of Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot and Team Amazon were females, while the lowest-ranking member of Team Victory was a male.
 * In Total Drama Island, both members were males.
 * In Total Drama Action and Total Drama: Revenge of the Island, both members were females.
 * This is the first (and currently the only) season to feature two confessionals. The first, and more commonly-used one, is in the Jet's lavatory (reminiscent of the original Confession Cam in Total Drama Island). The second one is in the Jet's Cockpit, with Chef or Chris always in the background due to being the pilots.
 * Leshawna is the first contestant to use the lavatory confessional, as well as the very first confessional overall, and Heather is the first contestant to use the Jet's cockpit confessional and both confessionals.
 * Izzy is the only contestant to never use the confessional this season.
 * This is the first (and currently the only) season to feature another way of elimination, aside from being voted off, quitting, or being automatically eliminated by a challenge. Chris states that if the contestants do not sing, they will be eliminated. Despite this, only Rowin' Time, Before We Die, Condor, I'm Gonna Make It, and Versus feature all remaining contestants singing.
 * Ironically, no contestant is ever actually eliminated due to not singing.
 * However, one did quit due to his hatred of singing
 * This was the first season to feature most of its episodes being broadcast from another country besides Canada and America, as this season aired first in Australia.
 * The second was Total Drama: Revenge of the Island, which aired all its episodes in France prior to Canada or America.
 * This is the first season in which someone had to leave because of medical problems.
 * This is the first season in which, on several instances, Chris begins the recap by saying "Last time on Total Drama" rather than saying the full name of the season.
 * Also, this is the first season where more than three people have closed an episode with the season name. In this season, Geoff, Chris, Bridgette, and Eva have all closed it.
 * This is the first season in which a previously eliminated contestant is brought back into the game without being an actual competitor. In this case, when Ezekiel was brought back to aid in challenges in I See London... and African Lying Safari.
 * This is the first season to have an adult competing in the competition.
 * This is the first season to feature three double eliminations.
 * This makes it the second season in a row to feature double eliminations, the first being Total Drama Action.
 * This is the first season where Leshawna and Lindsay don't make it to the merge.
 * This is the first (and currently the only) season where the final two interact with each other in the opening.
 * This is the first season in which neither Owen nor Duncan makes it to the final four.
 * This is also the first season in which Owen doesn't make it to the final three.
 * This is the first season in which there is a tie between the votes at an elimination ceremony. In this case, it was in Picnic at Hanging Dork and Chinese Fake-Out.
 * This is the first season to have ended in November in the United States, instead of December like Total Drama Island and Total Drama Action did. This is due to the Aftermath episodes airing online, as opposed to television, like they did in Total Drama Action.
 * Therefore, only twenty-two episodes aired on television in the United States, making this the first (and only) season of Total Drama where not every episode aired on television in the United States.
 * This is one of the two seasons so far with the number of days not confirmed. This is due to the fact that the intervals of time to travel between locations would obviously vary, as they went from Canada to the United States at one point and Australia to Sweden at another.
 * The contestants, however, never mention or show any signs of this.
 * This is the only season so far where the team names don't go along with the theme of the season.
 * In Total Drama Island, the Screaming Gophers and Killer Bass names went along with the summer camp theme because both bass and gophers could be associated with Camp Wawanakwa's forest setting.
 * In Total Drama Action, the Screaming Gaffers and Killer Grips went along with the movie theme because gaffers and grips are crew members who work in movie production.
 * In Total Drama: Revenge of the Island, the Toxic Rats and Mutant Maggots went along with the radioactive theme that was happening because of how Camp Wawanakwa had turned into a toxic waste dump.
 * Team Amazon may be an exception to this; although the Amazons were a legendary race of female warriors in Greek mythology, the team may also have been named after the Amazon Rainforest and the Amazon River, which was visited in The Am-AH-Zon Race.
 * This is the only season where both of the final two are/were main antagonists of the series, and both have a conflict with everyone else.
 * This season has the most one-on-one physical violence, with multiple characters being punched, slapped, choked, or otherwise harmed by other contestants.
 * This season features the highest amount of irregular eliminations. Only seven contestants were voted off in the normal process.
 * Thus, Team Amazon was the only team to never have a single member be regularly voted out.
 * The Walk of Shame is now the Drop of Shame, in which the eliminated contestants must jump with a parachute out of the plane.
 * This is the first time where, instead of a vehicle taking the contestant away from the contest, the contestant leaves the vehicle that technically is the contest.
 * This is the second season in a row that a contestant has quit the competition. In this case, two contestants have quit the show.
 * Due to Harold quitting, this season marks the first time that there has been more than one contestant quitting, as Total Drama Action only had one contestant quitting.
 * This is the second time Ezekiel was voted off a Total Drama season first. He was originally eliminated by Chris, but came back. Since Duncan quit the show, he was not voted off, and Ezekiel was voted off the following episode, making Ezekiel the first contestant voted off of Total Drama World Tour. Ezekiel was voted off Total Drama Island first as well.
 * The first four contestants eliminated were on the Killer Bass in the first season.
 * After Duncan quit, the next five contestants eliminated are from Team Victory. This is the first time so far that a team loses five of their members in a row.
 * This is also the first season in the Total Drama series to have two people remaining on a team before the merge.
 * This is also the first season to feature only one person left on a team before the merge.
 * This is also the first season to have a team completely eliminated before the merge.
 * As of this season, Duncan is the only contestant to have made it to the final five during every season he has competed on.
 * It is, however, the first season in which he hasn't appeared in some way throughout the whole season up until his elimination, as he quit in Walk Like an Egyptian - Part 1, left in Walk Like An Egyptian - Part 2, was referenced in Super Happy Crazy Fun Time Japan, had no appearances at all from Anything Yukon Do, I Can Do Better to Jamaica Me Sweat, and also didn't appear in Awwwwww, Drumheller.
 * This season shares several similarities with the show, The Amazing Race, as both shows involve teams competing around the world in culturally themed challenges for one million dollars.
 * Total Drama World Tour won "Best Animated Series," "Best Voice Talent," (Clé Bennett) and "Best Tweens/Teens Program" in the Tweens/Teens, Creative Talent, and Viewers Choice categories for the 2011 KidScreen Awards.
 * Total Drama World Tour is currently the last season where the original cast is actively competing in the game.
 * The three newcomers only wear their swimsuits for only one episode..
 * This is the only season in which none of the contestants switch to their nightwear.
 * As so, the three newcomers are yet to be seen in their nightwear.
 * This is currently the first and only season to end in a cliffhanger.
 * None of the three contestants introduced in this season made an additional cameo appearance in Total Drama: Revenge of the Island.
 * This is the only season whose time difference after Total Drama Island is unknown.
 * Total Drama Action takes place two days after Total Drama Island.
 * Total Drama: Revenge of the Island takes place three years after Total Drama Island.
 * However, as confirmed by Chris in Niagara Brawls, the contestants are all still underaged (under 18) during this season, with the sole exception of Blaineley.
 * This and Total Drama Revenge of the Island both have not had a rating of TV-PG-D