Opening sequence

The Opening Sequences play before every episode of Total Drama. Chris will usually recap the previous episode, and then the theme song will begin. This is played to the tune of "I Wanna Be Famous!" by Graeme Cornies and Dawna Toews.

Lyrics
''Dear Mom and Dad I'm doin' fine, You guys are on my mind. You asked me what I wanted to be And now I think the answer is plain to see, I wanna be famous.''

''I wanna live close to the sun, Go pack your bags, 'cause I've already won, Everything to prove, nothing in my way I'll get there one day. 'Cause, I wanna be famous! ''

Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na! ''I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous (Whistling I wanna be, I wanna be famous'')

Total Drama Island
thumb|300px|The Total Drama Island Opening Sequence video. In the Total Drama Island theme song, the song begins with a total of four spotlights and cameras coming out of random places, such as out of the grass or from a tree, the last two knocking down a beaver and a squirrel. The scene then goes through Camp Wawanakwa and past the host of the show, Chris McLean, who is drinking coffee and commanding the camera crew. The scene then goes to the top of a cliff and then down the cliff, where Owen is seen in the water, farting and disgusting a fish with the smell. The scene pans over to Bridgette and Geoff, in the lake, sitting on Bridgette's surfboard, flirting. However, the smell reaches them and they look disgusted. As the knocked out fish reaches the top of the water, an eagle comes around and picks it up, dropping it somewhere in the forest. DJ is now seen sitting in the forest with two birds, a chipmunk, a skunk, a frog, two squirrels, a turtle and a bunny. DJ seems to get along with them until the dead fish is dropped nearby (by the eagle from earlier) and the animals attack him, so DJ begins to scream and run. Duncan is now seen laughing, until he notices Courtney staring at him disapprovingly. The camera now goes through the forest where Heather and Leshawna are seen slap-fighting in a rubber raft that falls off a waterfall since they were not paying attention. Harold is now seen practicing some Kung-Fu moves on a broken log in the middle of the waterfall, while Leshawna and Heather fall behind him. Harold continues to practice until Izzy, who is swinging on a vine, bumps into Harold. The two continue to swing on the vine, and bump into the confessional stall and knock Lindsay out from it, revealing her pink panties. Chef Hatchet is now seen in the kitchen, stirring a pot of food with his hands. He then looks at Noah and Ezekiel, who are tied up at a table. They briefly glance at each other nervously. The camera then pans over to Tyler and Eva, who are arm-wrestling. Tyler is struggling, until Eva defeats him and grins evilly. The camera pans over to Katie and Sadie, who are sitting near the beach on some stairs, fawning over Justin, who is too busy looking at himself in a mirror to care. A seagull, with a soda pop wrapper caught around its neck, is now seen. A shark then jumps over it, and eats a trout in the air. The seagull appears to be safe until a mysterious tentacle grabs it and pulls it under water. Beth is now seen, twirling fire batons in her hand on the Dock of Shame. Beth then tosses the fire baton in the air and it goes to night. Gwen and Trent are now seen, sharing a romantic moment at the campfire pit, until Cody appears and puts his arms over their shoulders. The camera then zooms out, with Gwen and Trent looking awkwardly at Cody while the rest of the contestants are seen whistling the tune of "I Wanna Be Famous!". As the screen fades out and a "Total Drama Island" wooden sign is seen above the campers sitting around a fire.

Total Drama Action
thumb|300px|The Total Drama Action Opening Sequence video. In the Total Drama Action theme song, the song once again begins with spotlights and cameras popping up out of nowhere, bringing up a rat from the sewers and knocking a raccoon out of its tree. The camera then goes through the Abandoned Film Lot, where Chris McLean is seen driving a golf cart. The camera goes through some fake prop sets and then a rack of clothes. The camera then goes up a cliff, and then down to a special effects pool. Owen is seen swimming it, with a shark approaching him from behind. However, Owen farts in the shark's mouth, disgusting it and making it cough. The camera then goes up to the beach movie set, where Harold is evading the seagulls Duncan shoots at him. However, one hits him in the face and he falls off into the special effects pool. Duncan is then seen laughing at Harold's misfortune, with Courtney glaring at him from behind. Duncan then turns around and Courtney and Duncan share a kiss, then grin evilly. The camera passes through them and through a Sasquatchanakwa wearing a bra and a pink wig to a big flash of light. Beth and two more sharks are now seen relaxing on beach chairs, wearing sunglasses. The camera zooms on Beth, who displays that she no longer wears braces. Justin is now seen in the confessional, getting his make-up done. He turns around, only to get sprayed in the eyes. Heather and Leshawna are now seen on top of two platforms, fighting with giant Q-tips. Heather and Leshawna fight back and forth, until Leshawna gains the upper hand and knocks Heather's wig off her head. The wig falls in Chef's pot, who shrugs and hands it to DJ. DJ then puts some Momma's Spice on the stew, tastes it, and smiles in delight. The camera pans over to Lindsay, who is in Chris' private room. Lindsay then presses a button, which makes a building explode. Izzy is now seen, waving to Lindsay, with a bear behind her. The bear roars at Izzy. However, Izzy roars back at the bear, making it run away. Izzy chases the bear throughout the film lot, and Gwen is now seen inside the Lame-o-sine. Trent then opens the door for her while she smiles at him. Then camera flashes are shown, and Chris now appears at the Gilded Chris Award podium in a blue tuxedo. Chris opens an envelope, and Chef, in a disturbing bright pink dress, hands him some shiny Gilded Chris Awards. Bridgette and Geoff are now seen in the aftermath studio, about to kiss. But they realize that everyone is looking at them and stop, as the camera pulls out to reveal all of the twenty-two contestants from the first season, sitting in the peanut gallery. The screen behind them then changes from Chris and Chef to the logo of Total Drama Action.

Total Drama World Tour
Just like the other theme songs, several spotlights and cameras pop up out of nowhere, including kicking a thumb|right|300px|The Total Drama World Tour Opening Sequence videoraccoon from the jet's engines and a suitcase, finishing with a clapperboard clamping down. The camera then rushes through the Total Drama Jumbo Jet's first class and through the cockpit, while Chris McLean jumps out of the way. After flying over the CN Tower, the camera passes by an island briefly and into a lake, in which Owen is smiling at a fish. The smile turns into an embarrassed look, as he realized that he lost his swimming trunks. Above the water, Harold is practicing karate moves on a hut, but gets knocked off by an oar thrown at him by Duncan, who is in a canoe with Courtney. Alligators eat Duncan's oar, and the boat crashes into an orange inflatable raft, which Gwen is standing on. Duncan gives a flirty smile at Gwen, then her raft starts to sink, and Duncan is about to help her up, until Courtney glares at him and he turns around and sheepishly grins at her. The camera goes all the way to New York, where Alejandro is helping Heather up the Statue of Liberty, smirking. Behind him, Tyler is running with Cody in a baby carriage, until he is table-topped by Ezekiel. This causes Cody to fly out of the carriage, off the statue, and land in the Yukon, where he falls into Sierra's arms, who seems very pleased by the action. A couple of feet behind Cody and Sierra is Lindsay holding a picture of Tyler, trying to remember his name. However, she then notices a polar bear behind her, and runs off in fear. The polar bear removes its mask to reveal Izzy, who is attacked by an angry baby seal, who bites and clamps onto her and she runs off. Somewhere else, in the ocean, DJ and Bridgette are surfing until they collide and are knocked off their boards into the water. Leshawna and Noah are then shown crossing Abbey Road, only to barely avoid getting swished by the airplane. We get a cut to the top of the plane, where all the contestants are in a human pyramid. Then, the plane is shown flying through several locations, such as Paris, London and Australia. The camera cuts back to the top of the plane, where contestants (still in a human pyramid) are singing the lyrics of the theme song and dancing, with the camera cutting to Owen at the top with Izzy on his shoulder, then Courtney and Heather glaring at each other, then DJ at the bottom corner, who gets hit in the face by a seagull. Then, in the cockpit, an annoyed Chef Hatchet turns the plane sharply, causing all of the contestants to fall off. While most of them use parachutes (except Cody who is seen being held by Sierra) and land safely on the ground, Tyler falls flat to the ground, while Courtney and DJ are sitting on the ground as well. The plane pulls up behind the group, with the season's logo on a piece of metal on the side. As it stops, the piece of metal shifts and slightly falls out of place. Ezekiel then falls flat on his face in front of the group, visibly shocking Noah among the other contestants, and the theme song ends.

Trivia

 * Coincidently, the final five castmates in Total Drama Action, are the first five to appear in the season's theme song. Likewise, the first five eliminated are the last five to appear in the theme song (not counting the contestants that didn't compete).
 * In all three theme songs, Harold is seen doing karate stances until he gets hit by something.
 * Also, he is over water each time.
 * Two of the three times, it's Duncan who hits him with something.
 * His animation sequence in the third opening also matches his sequence in the first one, save for when he gets hit in which the sequence matches the second opening.
 * Owen is the first contestant seen in all three theme songs.
 * In the Total Drama Island and Total Drama Action theme songs, Trent and Gwen, Duncan and Courtney, and Bridgette and Geoff are always seen together.
 * In addition, Leshawna and Harold and Lindsay and Tyler are never seen together in any of the openings, if you don't count Lindsay trying to figure out who Tyler is in the third opening.
 * In the Total Drama Island and Total Drama Action theme songs, there is a romantic moment that is interrupted right before the theme song ends.
 * In the Total Drama World Tour theme song, there is no romantic moment, unless you count Duncan being embarrassed after wanting to help Gwen in front of Courtney or Sierra clinging onto Cody.
 * In the Total Drama Island and Total Drama Action theme songs, Duncan is seen laughing at someone's injury, until Courtney ends up stopping him by glaring.
 * In the Total Drama Island theme song, he laughs at DJ getting attacked by animals and then Courtney stops him by glaring.
 * In the Total Drama Action theme song, he shoots Harold with a seagull making him fall into the water. Duncan laughs at Harold until Courtney stops him by glaring at him, and then making out with him.
 * In the Total Drama World Tour theme song, he hits Harold with a paddle, making him fall into water again. Duncan laughs at Harold next to Courtney until he crashes into Gwen's boat, where he looks down at her with a worried look on his face. He is about to help her up, but notices Courtney glaring at him from behind.
 * Leshawna and Heather are seen physically fighting in the Total Drama Island and Total Drama Action theme songs.
 * Justin is seen with a mirror in both the Total Drama Island and Total Drama Action theme songs.
 * In the Total Drama Island theme song, the neon Total Drama Island sign is seen at the end of the song near the campfire pit; in the actual competition, the sign remains by the campfire pit, and was proven to actually be part of the camp, and not simply part of the theme song.
 * Izzy is the first person to be seen with a costume in a theme song.
 * She was a polar bear in the Total Drama World Tour theme.
 * Izzy is seen interacting directly or indirectly with Lindsay in every opening.
 * In Total Drama Island, Izzy swings on a vine, accidentally hitting Harold and knocking Lindsay out of the confessional stall.
 * In Total Drama Action, Izzy runs up to the remains of a hangar that Lindsay blew up and waves at the camera.
 * In Total Drama World Tour, Izzy dresses like a polar bear and scares Lindsay away.
 * If one pays attention to the shot of the human pyramid in the Total Drama World Tour theme song, the contestants are singing the theme song.
 * In the human pyramid in the Total Drama World Tour theme song, the contestants are initially lined up based on what teams they're on: Team Victory is on the bottom row. The middle row features all members of Team Amazon, except that Sierra is switched with Duncan (who, arguably, would've been on Team Amazon had he not quit), and all members of Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot are on the top row, along with Sierra (who was originally on that team), with Owen and Izzy on the very top.
 * Owen can somehow stand on top of people in the human pyramid without them showing any form of weakness. This is strange since Owen has shown on multiple occasions to be very heavy.
 * In the Total Drama World Tour theme song, Tyler, Ezekiel and Cody (all voiced by Peter Oldring) are all seen next to each other for the first time.
 * The final five of Total Drama Action, excluding Beth, are the first four seen in the Total Drama World Tour theme song.
 * Alejandro and Sierra are the only characters to appear in only one theme song.
 * In the Total Drama World Tour theme song, Leshawna's bra that was seen in Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Action Reunion Special makes an appearance, after a camera pops out of a suitcase.
 * This may mean that the suitcase itself belongs to Leshawna.
 * The blue fish and the seagull are the only animals seen in every theme song.
 * The blue fish interacts with Owen every time.
 * The fish is seen when Owen farts and kills it in the Total Drama Island theme.
 * It is again seen when Owen is swimming with it while a shark chases them in the Total Drama Action theme.
 * And again when Owen is looking at it until he realizes that his trunks have come off in the Total Drama World Tour theme.
 * The seagull is seen first when the octopus grabs it from under the water in the Total Drama Island theme.
 * Multiple seagulls are seen when Duncan is shooting Harold with them in the Total Drama Action theme.
 * It is seen again when DJ is hit in the face with one while standing on the plane in a human pyramid in the Total Drama World Tour theme.
 * In both the Total Drama Action and Total Drama World Tour theme songs, Owen, Harold, Duncan, and Courtney are the first 4 people seen.
 * The boat that Courtney, Duncan and at one point, Harold, are on is the same boat that Sierra weaved in Walk Like An Egyptian - Part 2 for Team Amazon.
 * In the Total Drama World Tour theme song, none of the characters voiced by Peter Oldring had their feet on the ground at the end. Cody was in Sierra's arms, and Tyler and Ezekiel were lying flat on the ground.
 * In the Total Drama World Tour theme song, when Leshawna and Noah are crossing the street, they seem to be reenacting The Beatles' cover for "Abbey Road."
 * Noah is the only character who reacts to Ezekiel after he plummets to the ground at the end of the Total Drama World Tour theme song. Before Ezekiel falls, Noah's head is looking forward and he is smiling at the camera, but as soon as Ezekiel hits the ground, Noah's head tilts upright, and he looks at Ezekiel in shock.
 * In the Total Drama World Tour theme song, the baby carriage that Cody is in is the same on that the mother had her baby inside in Broadway, Baby!.
 * The Total Drama World Tour theme song is the first to feature locations from all around the world, as the previous theme songs featured one area.
 * The Total Drama World Tour theme song is the first and only theme song to not have all twenty-two of the original campers appear.
 * In the Total Drama World Tour theme song, the balcony in Paris that a mime is standing on is the same balcony that Beth was hanging upside-down from in the Total Drama Action special.
 * In the Total Drama World Tour theme song, the mime seen in Paris is the same one seen in Phobia Factor.
 * The Total Drama Action theme song hints at various pieces of potential foreshadows for the whole season, including Courtney's eventual debut, DJ's alliance with Chef Hatchet, a "technical misfire" tied to Lindsay, and Geoff and Bridgette hosting the Total Drama Action Aftermath show after their elimination.
 * The Total Drama World Tour theme song also foreshadows several significant events that are to occur in the season, including: The Courtney-Duncan-Gwen Love Triangle; Lindsay trying to remember who Tyler is; the Alejandro and Heather's attraction to each other; the Sierra and Cody attraction; and DJ's curse.
 * The Total Drama World Tour theme song is the only one to not feature all the competitors competing in the season, as Blaineley doesn't appear at all, if you do not count Mr. Coconut.
 * In the Total Drama World Tour theme song, Alejandro and Heather appear together, making it the first time that the final two appear together in the theme song.
 * All four crucial players in the finale appear on the Statue of Liberty in the opening.
 * The Total Drama World Tour theme song is the first not to feature Geoff and Bridgette together.
 * In the Total Drama Island theme song, the two tied up by Chef, Ezekiel and Noah, are the first contestants eliminated from their respective teams.
 * In the Total Drama Island theme song, six of the seven non-competing contestants in Total Drama Action are all seen consecutively; Ezekiel and Noah, then Eva and Tyler, and then Katie and Sadie.
 * The Total Drama Action theme song is the only theme song to show non-competing players in it.
 * The Total Drama World Tour theme song is the only theme song not to feature something bad happening to someone in the confessional.

Goofs

 * In The Sand Witch Project, the closed captions say "The moment that I'm doing fine," instead of "Dear mom and dad, I'm doing fine."
 * In the third season's opening, when the contestants appear in front of the plane, Noah's cargo bag is missing even though his parachute is still visible behind him.
 * If one pauses the third theme song when Ezekiel is still falling at the end, he is not wearing a parachute, but is seen with one after he lands.
 * Also, Bridgette overlaps his left hand, even though he falls in front of her.