The Princess Pride

'''Fairy tales come to the set of Total Drama Action as the princess is crowned, causing two people to form a fierce rivalry of love. Upon fighting his way through dragons, ogres and many other creatures, a long running enemy finally meets his ultimate end in the game.'''

Plot
The episode opens up with Duncan hosting a burrito making contest. Courtney doesn't participate, as she is busy "strategizing." Beth and Lindsay combine their burritos, while Harold makes one based off of LeShawna. Justin makes a burrito modeled after his muscle, but Beth and Lindsay feel nothing when he starts flexing. Duncan pick Harold's burrito to be the winner, as it is the biggest. Justin demands a second opinion, but Courtney says that all of them have become obsessed with challenges. Justin goes over to Courtney, compliments her strategy, then says that she has lots of deformities and she's in denial.

Chef and Chris walk in and announce the challenge. Beth, however, guesses the challenge based on the glass slipper Chris is caring, which results in Chris threatening to personally kick Beth off the show. Chris says that whoever fits into the glass slipper will be the challenge's princess, but he immediately rules Beth out. Lindsay takes off her boot, and turns out to have huge feet (Which are never actually seen). Courtney tries to put on the slipper, and barely succeeds. Chef then dubs Courtney, "Princess Courtney." Courtney's slipper then shoots off her foot, hitting Justin in the eye.

It then cuts to goes to Chris telling a story, and the first challenge: Crossing a bridge with an angry Ogre (Chef). Everybody is given a fairy tale role to play and must cross the bridge... blindfolded. Beth and Lindsay failed, but Harold, Justin, and Duncan (even though he can slightly see through his blindfold) manages to get across to safety. Beth and Lindsay got injured after they failed to get across the bridge. The next part begins as Courtney is leveled down dressed as a princess. She starts singing, which enchants both Duncan and Justin (while Chris makes the song into CD's to auction). The next challenge begins as Chef takes Courtney up the radio tower (dressed as a tower). The next challenge starts as the three boys are supposed to save Courtney from a dragon (the mechanical monster). Justin calls a truce with Harold to get Duncan to lose, but Justin betrays Harold and leaves him and Duncan crushed as makes his way up. Chris then tells Justin he has to sword battle Courtney for invincibility, but Justin refuses to do so. Courtney however doesn't want to risk losing invincibility and knocks him off the tower and crashing into the ground (putting him in a full body cast). Chris then ends the challenge by advertising Courtney dolls.

At the award ceremony, Chris announces that Courtney's lawyers want 80% of the profits from the merchandise, but in an attempt to avoid it, he changes all the dolls to Beth dolls (and gives her a contract that she gets no profits off the merchandise). During elimination, it comes down to Justin and Duncan. Chris announces that Duncan is eliminated. But Courtney argues and Chris says he was kidding and Justin was really eliminated. Justin carefully makes his way to the Lame-o-sine with his injured body. Chris and Chef then at the of the episode playing with dolls as Chef has a war with the princess Beth dolls. Then Chris mention then that the audience is old enough to not play with doll, but then tells Chef how to play with dolls.

Quotes
Courtney: Excuse me, I'm strategizing. Duncan: (mockingly) Oooo!
 * Duncan: Ten more seconds! Biggest burrito wins! (to Courtney) Think I'd make a good reality show host?

Lindsay: Look! Beth and I are BFFs. Lindsay & Beth: Burrito Friends Forever! Duncan: Did you belt your burritos? Beth: It's a custom friendship bracelet I made. To join our two burritos for always and ever. Duncan: Weird, creepy, but big-ish. It qualifies. (to Harold) Geekwad. You manage to make yours any bigger? Harold: I give you...(brings up his burrito that resembles LeShawna on the table) The luscious LeShawna. Lindsay & Beth: Aw, that's so sweet. Justin: Sweet? (brings up his burrito that resembles a flexing arm) Check out the guns on these beans. (Lindsay and Beth doesn't react to Justin's charm) Justin: Nothing? You feel nothing? Beth: Not a tingle. Lindsay: Not even an ingle. Justin: Man! This scratch shnozz destroyed my looks and my life, why? Duncan: Harold, your pathetic portray of puppy love makes me want to hurl. But you did make the biggest burrito, so you win.
 * Duncan: Hey Linds, what do you got?

Justin: Who's infected?! Is it a rash?! I can't afford a rash! Courtney: You all have reality-show-itis, a disease which causes people to turn everyday tasks in to crazy challenges. Thus losing focus on the real competition, which I refuse to do!
 * Courtney: Please. I'm not coming anywhere near the infected.


 * Justin: (in confessional) When my good looks went, so did my winning edge. But Courtney is still managing to kick butt and she's not nearly good looking as I am...okay as I was.

Courtney: What?! I don't have any deformities! Justin: So your answer is...denial? Okay.
 * Justin: You could help more if you'd tell me your secrets...like, how do you even get through life with all your deformities?

Harold: Sir? Someone needs an ego check. (Chris enters in costume, holding a glass combat boot) Beth: Oooh! That's a glass slipper! Which means today's challenge is a fairy tale movie. My favorite! Chris: (irritated) Beth, dude, if you ever steal my intro again, I'll have to personally boot you off the show.
 * Chef Hatchet in a different voice using a trumpet:Hear ye Hear ye! And, rise, for Sir Chris!


 * Beth: (in confessional) They're totally type-casting me as the ugly step-sister! But now that my braces are off, I'm absolutely princess material.

(Courtney takes the glass boot and tries to force it on her foot) Harold: I hope that's safety glass. Courtney (putting on boot) Come on, come on, come on. Chris Courtney, we can do another method of selection if- Courtney Got it!(boot begins to crack) Chris Okay, let's get this over with before she loses a foot and I lose another lawsuit. Chef ''(In fairy costume) I dub thee, Princess Courtney. Courtney Eat my pixie dust! (boot flies off and hits Justin)''
 * Chris (To Courtney) I don't know... it doesn't look like it's gonna fit.


 * Justin: (in confessional) I've become the beast, instead of the beauty. A prince turned into a frog. Did Courtney do that on purpose? No, no, she's not evil, she's just feisty. I like feisty. I like it a lot.

Beth: (wearing the big wig) But I can't see. Chris: Oh, yeah. For this challenge each knight is blind. (everyone complains) Chris: Nowhere in this story does it say the cowardly knights complains. So get it together steppy and start crossing.
 * Chris: And so the ugly stepsister approach the terrible troll.


 * Beth: (in confessional) Hey, how to you know if you have a concussion? Is seeing double a bad sign?


 * Justin: (in confessional) There I was, down, dirty, and deafened. And I thought, 'W.W.C.D,' What would Courtney do? And then it came to me! Courtney would use her head.


 * Duncan: (to himself) Seeing, good. Seeing Chef as a transgendered troll- priceless!

Justin: She's the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. Duncan: Yeah... Justin: I've been so busy seeing her as a master strategist, that I didn't see her outer beauty. Wow, we'll be the best looking couple in the kingdom. Duncan: Pardon?! Justin: I saw 'ya cheat, Duncan. You don't deserve to be Courtney's prince. Duncan: Who died and made you the decider about me and Courtney?!
 * Courtney: (singing) When I was a little girl, I dreamed of my first kiss. It would come from my perfect prince. and in my dream, it would go like this...

Lindsay: She is so lucky, she gets to wear that dress and that sparkly head thingy. Beth: If you smell burnt toast and everything looks like it's underwater, does that mean you have a concussion? Courtney: (singing) When we kiss, my prince will be you.
 * Courtney: (singing) My prince will be tall and handsome. (Justin puffs out his chest) My prince will be tough as nails. (Duncan breaks Harold's back over his knee) My prince will have lots of money. My prince will tame wild whales. (Duncan breaks a whale's back over his knee)

Harold: I'll take one! I'm going to listen to the beautiful love song and think of LeShawna...
 * Chris: Wasn't that song brilliant? It was so brilliant, I bet everyone wishes they could hear it over and over and over again, and now they can. (snaps) Get the magic of Courtney for only $12.99. Call 555-SELLOUT to get your authentic Princess Courtney CD now, before everyone else downloads it illegally!


 * Harold: (in confessional, reading a note from LeShawna) " Yo, Harold. If you play that skinny rich girl song and think of me, I'll have to kill you."


 * Duncan: (to Courtney) Come on, I was just kidding about the compliment. You're cute, okay?! I like your face; it's nice!


 * Justin: (in confessional) Falling for Courtney has been hard on the face. I think we'll have a 'no shoes' policy once we're dating.

(Duncan tackles Justin; the "dragon" causes them to fall in opposite directions) Justin: (to Harold) You want Duncan to win? Harold: You're kidding, right? Justin: Help me take him down, and I'll let you win. I don't care, I just don't want to let Duncan have Courtney!
 * Duncan: (to Justin) You princess-stealing slimeball!


 * Duncan: (hitting the dragon with his wooden sword) Dork! Nerdling! Harold-type loser!


 * Chris: Want to rescue Princess Courtney too? Well, now you can for only $79.95! Order your very own princess Courtney limited edition glass boot doll. Playing with the princess Courtney doll is more fun and less dangerous than playing with the real Courtney, guaranteed.

Harold: Although a guy who's working with you is apparently fair game. Justin: I said I was sorry, Harold. I refuse to raise a sword to Courtney. I give up any chance I had at immunity to spare you. Now... (puckers his lips) Courtney: Sorry, Justin. I just can't let immunity go. You understand. (pushes Justin off the tower with sword)
 * Justin: No, I am a noble gentleman, a brave knight, a handsome prince. I would never hurt a lady.

Courtney: What?! This is an outrage! Justin should be going home. Chris: Yeah, you're right. I was just kidding. Justin's actually the one who's been eliminated! Duncan: (to Courtney) An outrage, huh? Courtney: (in confessional) All I meant was that Justin deserved to go home. I worked really hard at getting him to fall for me. It's called 'strategy.' My feelings had nothing to do with Duncan getting voted off. As if I care about that. (pauses) I don't!
 * Chris: And the last gilded Chris goes to...Justin! Duncan? You're out.

Justin: Okay, stop already! I'm going! With me gone, this competition just got eighty percent less handsome. (bumps into Lame-O-Sine) Alright, seventy-nine!
 * Harold: (to Justin) See you in the funny papers. Farewell. Don't let the door hit you in the-

Trivia

 * Title Reference: This episode's title is a reference to The Princess Bride.
 * The same horse used in 3:10 to Crazytown re-appears in this episode.
 * The same monster used in Monster Cash re-appears in this episode.
 * Courtney sings for the first time in the series, notably Courtney's voice actress Emilie-Claire Barlow is actually a famed Canadian singer.
 * There were some hints for a relationship between Courtney and Justin, which ended up being a conflict.
 * Running Gag: Justin gets hurt.
 * Running Gag: Beth asking "Does this mean I have a concussion?"
 * Running Gag: Chris attempted to sell three products during this episode.
 * The "Princess Courtney CD" (Which Harold buys)
 * The "Princess Courtney Limited-Edition Glass Boot Doll" (which Lindsay and Beth buy) (However, Courtney's lawyers demanded 80% of sales, so they decided to market Beth dolls instead.)
 * Beth Doll
 * With Justin's elimination, all three guys that were on the Killer Grips have left the studio.
 * With Justin's elimination, the pattern of canon couples being eliminated consecutively ends. (LeShawna was the previous contestant eliminated but Harold still remains)
 * This is the first time the cast is contacted outside of the competition.
 * This marks the first time in the whole series, that Chris ever lied about someone's elimination.
 * The disguises that the competitors wore:
 * Justin as the Frog Prince
 * Beth as the Ugly Stepsister
 * Lindsay as Sleeping Beauty
 * Harold as the Eighth Dwarf of the Seven Dwarfs
 * Duncan as Little Red Riding Hood
 * With the exception of Courtney, Duncan and Harold are the only competitors who did not get injured in this episode.
 * This is the first episode where Chris means to hurt a competitor but doesn't care about it.
 * This is the first episode where Justin falls for Courtney. However, this was only part of her strategy and later votes him off.
 * Chris may have own dolls when younger as he tells Chef how to play with dolls.

Goofs

 * While Lindsay was shown to have very large feet in this episode, in past episodes she was shown to have normal-sized feet. (though they may have been swollen or have grown from last season.)
 * Again like in, Dial M for Merger, Justin's swollen eye disappears and reappears throughout the episode.
 * In the first challenge Lindsay broke the bridge,but its still there for Duncan and Justin.
 * For some reason, after the bridge was broken and Chef had fallen, he appeared on the bridge in the next scene
 * from The Sand Witch Project Beth said that she couldn't scream, but she screamed when she found out that they were going sell Beth dolls.
 * In the caption when Duncan says "My granny can run better than you", It says that Justin said it.
 * When Beth falls over after grabbing a Beth doll, she appears back in her seat when Lindsay gets a Gilded Chris.