User blog comment:Gogogadget831/Every Episode of Total Drama Reviewed: Episode 104 - Sundae Muddy Sundae/@comment-1037137-20150818174930

Okay, simply put, there IS NO DEFENSE of an episode like this, I don't care what anybody tries to say in contrary to this because seriously, LOOK AT THIS MESS.

You do not build up an entire plot stretching across a whole season and then abandon it out of the blue when there was genuine development had and seemed to promise a resolution to something that has dragged on at the center stage for FAR, FAR too long. It would've been nice to see these two thoroughly derailed characters finally get some positive development, something they've repeatedly lost as someone up top keeps chucking that out the window or at the hands of writers who simply don't know how to keep simple consistency and development an ongoing thing as all else is unfolding. That's extremely bad business in a show with an expanding continuity.

This episode was clearly geared as something to completely dismantle and destroy Courtney's character, and no episode that does this to any character has any business being written. But this is especially appalling because they're doing it to a character who was getting back on track and one who's already endured enough damage from her highly inconsistent handling. There's nothing funny or entertaining about a spectacle like this, every trick in the book to force you to hate a character was employed in bringing down Courtney, entirely regardless of everything prior. TDI Courtney was by far the best balanced and most enjoyable, she could still be highly dramatic but also watchable and enjoyable. Bringing her back into this mode out of nowhere was cheap and uncalled for, and it threw away an entire season of progress in the span of a few minutes. Look, even if you don't like how their reconciliation was handled or how it progressed, you don't just do this and not expect trouble, because you're invalidating your own work and rendering it all a major waste of time. Absolutely nothing to take pride in about a lowbrow move like that. And the lengths it goes to to villify her and humiliate her is galling. As is Gwen's handling of the entire scandal and the stupidity of everyone else in this.

This is an episode that embodies almost everything wrong with TDAS, its lack of focus, its lack of consistency, its refusal to allow for any meaningful development on any front, its eagerness to dump its own plots just for this kind of cheap drama which takes away from everything else, and it's just straight up unpleasant to sit through. Personally I feel bad that any character has to endure this, and Courtney is no exception since she's had it so bad as a character. This crap has gone on long enough, and positive development is overdue for a lot of these guys, and I see no sense in any argument that says otherwise. I hate SMS for betraying its own plots and the progress that was made, and for going out of its way to bring down an entire character to such a loathsome point, and because everything about it was vulgar, mean-spirited, unprofessional, and idiotic, and because the challenge is outrageously lame, and because the continuity is a nightmarish mess, and because everyone in this was miserable to watch, and because they apparently were not wise enough to anticipate what kind of backlash this was promised to invite. SMS is an absolutely repulsive episode because it was designed with the intent of destroying a character, in this case Courtney. And any episode that does that is absolutely unacceptable in any series. I'm appalled that they did this yet again to a character who just can't get a break because they insisted on keeping up something that has gotten old and has occupied the central stage for way too long. This Gwen/Courtney drama has got to stop, it's bringing both down and there simply is no acceptable defense for how either have been handled.

Got nothing nice to say about Ed MacDonald, after all the episodes he gave us in TDAS, I absolutely do not miss his work and I do not wish to see more of it. And I am very much put off that the rest of the crew let any of them by. After this point, who gave a f*** who won? I sure as hell did not.