Mutiny on the Soundstage

'''Total Drama Action comes to a close as the final two compete in a pirate-themed challenge. However total chaos breaks lose as two hosts start a fight threatening their friendship. The final two are pushed through a treasure hunt of knowledge and endure all of the elimination challenges and one just for fun. As the two finalists race to the end, the final result was a real shocker.'''

Plot
The episode starts with Beth and Duncan alone in their separate trailers. The two are soon knocked out by knock-out gas cans that were thrown into the trailers and then they are kidnapped. They awaken to find themselves tied "tightly, but not painfully" to the mast of a boat, and they decide to help each other get out of the bind. Chef arrives, and brings the finalists a good breakfast, much to their surprise.

While they are eating, Chris comes in and announces the challenge. He tells them that they will have to do pirate challenges, then be shot through a cannon back to the first set of the season. They are then told that for their first pirate-themed challenge, they will have to clean the restrooms that were used by Sasquatchanakwa and the Bear using only cotton swabs. Duncan completes the challenge first, but then must re-clean as the Sasquatchanakwa has to go again, while Beth gets ahead. However, Duncan still completes the second and third parts of the challenge first, which are to tie a flag to the top of a lubed up mast, and fire oneself from an air cannon to the monster movie set, respectively. Chef, who is finally fed up with Chris and reveals that he intends to leave the show, has taken Chris' role as host to prove that Chris has the easier job of the two. Chef follows Duncan through the challenges, asking him trivia questions pertaining to all the eliminated Total Drama Action competitors. If he answers the questions correctly, he will skip the physical portion of the challenge and move on to the next challenge. However, Duncan doesn't know the answers to any of the questions.

Beth eventually makes it to the Monster Cash set as well, after speaking with an emotionally hurt Chris, who is upset about Chef leaving the show. Beth is asked questions by Chef, although unlike Duncan, she is able to answer the trivia questions rather easily. She answers all of the questions correctly, and skips over the challenges. Since Chef has to act as host to both Duncan and Beth, he runs back and forth repeatedly between the two, exhausting him. After stalling Beth in order to rest, Chris shows up and offers to follow Beth, while Chef follows Duncan. Beth ends up catching up to Duncan, who initially had a massive lead. Eventually the final two both end up at the set of Top Dog, and are each asked a different trivia question about Courtney. However, both of them are unable to answer their respective questions correctly. Chris then sends them to the set of Masters of Disasters to repeat the earthquake simulator challenge again.

At this point, Duncan and Beth suddenly start to work together, which is what Beth wanted from the beginning. Eventually they end up sprinting to their final objective. The camera shows the Aftermath studio, with all the former contestants watching excitedly. Geoff and Bridgette attempt to announce the winner, but both Beth and Duncan cross the finish line simultaneously. This causes the entire room's audience to be shocked by the turn of events.

This episode ends with "To Be Continued."

Cast

 * All the other 17 contestants appear, but don`t speak

Quotes
Duncan: (hears Beth's teeth) Ugh! It's Beth chattering again! With a face like that, I'd be scared too, right guys? (no answer) Right... nobody left to laugh at my excellent zingers. The good news is there's also no one left to reek up the trailer with jungle breath, nobody to wake me up with screaming night terrors - "Mommy! Mommy!" - and nobody with any chance of taking my guaranteed million away. (hears Beth) Put a blindfold on, loser! Chris: Going out? What do you mean? Chef: That's the last meal I'm ever gonna serve on this two-bit show. Got me a gig chefin' on a swanky cruise ship. So you can kiss my behind goodbye. Chris: Yeah yeah. And I got a job hosting the Oscars. Very funny. Chef: (smacks a paintbrush dripping with oil against Chris' head) Who's laughing? Duncan: Hope you're ready then, Beth, 'cause the gloves are comin' off. Chef: I fly solo. I'm a maverick. Duncan: Can we get on with this so I can collect my million? Chef: Work with me here, kid. Chris: Ah, privacy. Time to catch some sweet artificial rays. (opens up the Tan-O-Matic 3000, to find Bridgette and Geoff making out) My TAN-O-MATIC 3000! It's been tainted! Bridgette: Uh, it sure... smells nice in here. Geoff: L-l-l-like coconuts. (flashback ends) Chef: (makes a buzzer sound) (Pan over obstacle course). Duncan: Let me guess: Release the hounds? Chef: And they can smell blood. Chef: Drop me, and you're dead meat. Beth: Who cares?! She shouldn't have been here in the first place! Launching a lawsuit against the show? That's poor sportsmanship, and totally cheating, and it proves Courtney is barely a human being! Chris: Wow, Beth. Interesting. But that wasn't the question. Duncan: Courtney's band was the Type-A Psychotic Crazies! Later, losers! Chris: Hold on, bro. That was Beth's question. Your question: What color is Courtney thinking of? Duncan: Right now?! Are you SERIOUS?! I dunno, uh... blue? (Cut to Courtney watching from the Aftermath studio) Courtney: Burnt sienna! Ugh, he doesn't know anything about me! Beth: A five-year-old girl! Chris: (to Chef) The way you torture the kids... you're a natural, you know that? Knockin' 'em down, bruisin' 'em up, killing their spirits! Nobody can do it quite like you, pal. Chef: You really mean that? Chris: If you really want to leave the show, it's cool. Good luck. Chef: Nah, I couldn't leave you all alone like that. You'd be terrible on your own. You're not that good. Chris: So, you'll stay? Chef: After I get a raise, and a vacation! Chris: Deal! Chef: Then let's finish these suckers off! (they launch the safe) Beth: That's okay, I have a boyfriend. Bridgette: It's a... tie? Geoff: So, um, what exactly are we gonna do about the million dollars? (The others are shocked or upset about the results)
 * Chris: Who were to guess?
 * Beth: I never thought I'd be the last girl left on Total Drama Action! Yep, now it's just me...all alone...in the scary trailer...I miss all my girls, even Heather! (teeth chatter)
 * Duncan: Hmmm, something's missing... (starts to imitate Chef) You pump like my grandma, maggot!
 * Beth: We can work together, like teamsies!
 * Duncan: (confessional) When I was a kid, Ma insisted on sending me to Muskrat Boys. We had to wear dorky vests and sell apples, but all the knot tying lessons meant I'm pretty much a Houdini at tying and untying stuff. Came in handy a bunch a' ways I don't think Ma had in mind.
 * Chris: (in a pirate dialect) Yar, Mateys! Me parrot Chris Junior Junior Junior and I wanted to congratulate ye landlubbers fer makin' it to the final two. And, as ye can probably tell, today be... space zombies movie day! (Beth and Duncan stare at him, puzzled) It's actually pirate movie day!
 * Chef: Nope, just goin' out in style!
 * Beth: I'm sorry, teamsies works both ways. It's one of the rules of niceness.
 * Chris: You can't bail! We're a team!
 * Chris: Have you even ever read a cue card?!
 * Chef: (to the audience) Who will win the million bucks? Who will not? Do not touch that clicker, we will find out right after this. I said get ya' hands off that clicker!
 * Chef: I'm comin', keep your panties on. (reading from cue card) Sweet landing, dude. I'm your righteous new host, uh, Chef.
 * Duncan: (after kissing the monster) Ugh, I'd rather kiss Heather again!
 * Beth: (to Chris) Thank you, Mr. Obvious.
 * Beth: --made out? Oh my gumdrops. Bridgey used to tell this crazy story. (flashback begins in Chris's private quarters)
 * Beth: (in confessional, referring to refusing to help Duncan) So, maybe that wasn't super nice of me. Looks like I might have one cutthroat bone in my body. Just one of those teensy weensy ones in your ear. Let's call it my cutthroat cochlea.
 * Duncan: I know that Gwen's favorite band is the Gottlieb Mind Explosion, she wants a '67 Mustang, her brother has a Gibson Les Paul guitar, but I'm supposed to remember her lizards' names?! WHO CARES?!
 * Beth: Gwen's lizards are named Angus and Vampira. Now what?
 * Duncan: (while running as mines explode around him) The mines are buried, the blindfold is redundant! (mine explodes) Redundant!
 * Beth: ... But that wasn't even the biggest thing Owen pulled out of his nose that Christmas. Is that enough of an answer?
 * Beth: Owen actually has 139 favorite foods. In alphabetical order there's: Alaskan king crab, American cheese, apples, apple cobbler, apple crisps, apple pie...
 * Duncan: I don't know whose wedding Justin cried at! What kind of girly man cries at a wedding anyway?! (nearly falls while carrying Chef across a bridge)
 * Beth: His own aunt, Lady Mimi Cici Didi Laduda!
 * Duncan: (in confessional) Finally! I may not file away everybody's stupid details all the time, but I do know a thing or two about Courtney... (smirks) because she insisted.
 * Chris: What was Courtney's band's name?
 * Duncan: McLean! You throw like a girl!
 * (Chris and Chef are pulling a safe in giant slingshot)
 * Duncan: (to Beth) If your retainer wasn't so vile, I'd kiss you.
 * Bridgette, Geoff: And the winner is... (everyone looks on in admiration, until both Duncan and Beth come in at the same time)

Trivia

 * The episode's title is a reference to Mutiny on the Bounty.
 * This episode actually ends in a tie, and the audience is asked to vote for the winner.
 * Towards the beginning of the episode, Chef and Chris switch positions, due to each thinking the others' job is easy.
 * In this episode, Geoff and Bridgette are revealed to have been in Chris' private space, kissing in his tanning bed.
 * Bridgette would allegedly mention it "non-stop", though it is never discussed by her onscreen.
 * This marks the first time that all twenty two contestants were in the Aftermath studio.
 * This marks the first time that a Total Drama episode was going to be "continued." However, the first episode of Total Drama Island was a two part episode, but still didn't have a "to be continued."
 * Chris' chest is fully seen in this episode.
 * Monster Cash, Masters of Disasters, and Crouching Courtney, Hidden Owen are the only non-elimination challenges in this episode.
 * Due to the ending, the next Aftermath episode is the only Aftermath episode to play a major role to move the competition onward.
 * This is the first episode of the entire series where Owen appears, but has no lines.
 * This is also the second episode of the series where Heather appears, but doesn't say anything, the first time being Phobia Factor.
 * This is the second episode in which DJ has no lines in Total Drama Action that he appears.
 * Beth admits her feelings about Courtney in this episode, saying that she really dislikes her.
 * Chris wears the same outfit in this episode as he did in Search and Do Not Destroy.
 * Both Chris and Chef technically cheat in this episode.
 * Chris asks Duncan the question, "What color is Courtney thinking of right now?" That question is impossible to answer unless she always thinks of the same color. Considering how much Duncan knows about Courtney, this was probably an intentional move on Chris' part to have both competitors run the final challenge.
 * Chef stalls Beth while she is answering his question. This may technically not be cheating though, as Chef was shown to be very tired from running around and may have simply wanted to buy time to rest.
 * Duncan says horror movies don't scare him, so Chef plays the movie entitled, "The Miracle of Childbirth." It was probably an informative movie on childbirth, due to its name, and Duncan couldn't stand it and cried.
 * Duncan wears a similar blindfold while running in the "Full Metal Drama" challenge that he wore in "The Princess Pride." The only difference is that Duncan does not peek.
 * Duncan also questions why he needs to wear a blindfold when the mines are buried.
 * Beth reveals that Courtney once had an overbite, and bit off part of her tongue. She also comments, "I'm not supposed to know that."
 * Gwen's lizards are mentioned again in this episode, the first time being in The Aftermath: II. They are named Angus and Vampyra.
 * Beth says the line, "and that wasn't even the biggest thing Owen pulled out of his nose that Christmas," implying that he picks or picked his nose.
 * Beth knows that Owen has 139 favorite foods, and she knows them in alphabetic order (except it cuts her off before she can get to the B's).
 * One of the questions asked by Chef was what wedding did Justin cry at, although it wasn't said, Duncan's answer implied the question.
 * Duncan instead calls Justin a girly man for crying.
 * For some reason, Beth's answer for the "Million Dollar Babies" challenge was "Baaaahhhh, Baaaahhh" (like a sheep) and Chris let her pass.
 * Since the question took place in the sports movie studio, it was probably about Heather, and the question may have been about Heather's sheep impression in Hide And Be Sneaky after she called Lindsay a sheep.
 * Heather was also seen crying after Duncan said "baaaahhhh, baaaahhhh" during his acting challenge in Riot On Set, so it may have been a question about what has made her cry before.
 * Also, another answer Beth gave was "Loco for Boom Boom!", which Chris approved, the question was probably "What was Explosivo loco for?".
 * The Monster that appeared in "Monster Cash" and "The Princess Pride" appears again in this episode.
 * This time, however, it's controlled by the blond haired intern, and not Chef.
 * Beth refers to Harold as "sweet Harold" in this episode.
 * For some reason, Duncan couldn't answer the simple question about who was voted off after the space movie challenge, which he should know since he voted Harold off for killing Scruffy that episode.
 * The only explanation is that Chef gave Beth and Duncan different questions. Chef may have also chosen to skip asking Beth the follow-up question he gave to Duncan to avoid getting puked on again (Duncan vomited on Chef's feet following the challenge).
 * Chris makes a reference to the kids' game "Chutes and Latters" when he wonders who will climb the golden ladder to Glorytown and who will slide down the stinky slide to Loserville.
 * LeShawna and Lindsay were the only eliminated castmates whose questions weren't seen being asked or answered.
 * This is the first episode where Duncan's mother was actually mentioned in the series. Look at Character Families for more information.
 * Duncan showed his soft side to Beth when he helped her out in the last challenge. This is the third time he has ever done so in the series.
 * When Chef asks the question, "What was the weirdest place Geoff and Bridgette made out in?" he is referencing The Newlywed Game.
 * This is the second episode in which the real-life audience votes to win, the other was prior to The Very Last Episode, Really! (in the U.S.).
 * The challenges from previous episodes were all modified, but kept the same theme. They included:
 * 1) Alien Resurr-eggtion: Instead of Avoiding "Mama Alien,", Duncan had to avid a monster acting as a alien.
 * 2) Riot On Set: Instead of carrying the film set up the mountain, Duncan had to carry the mountain up the mountain.
 * 3:10 To Crazytown: Instead of jumping off the platform onto a horse, the horse had to land on Duncan.
 * 1) The Chefshank Redemption: Duncan had to run through the obstacle course while being chased by bloodthirsty hounds.
 * 2) The Sand Witch Project: Instead of competing in a horror themed challenge, Duncan had to watch "The Miracle Of Childbirth".
 * 3) Full Metal Drama: Duncan had to run through a minefield wearing a blindfold.
 * 4) Million Dollar Babies: Facing off in all of the sports challenges against a bear.
 * 5) The Princess Pride: Instead of running across a rickety old bridge, Duncan had to get across the bridge carrying Chef, who was wearing a dress.
 * 6) Crouching Courtney, Hidden Owen: Not shown, but involved the mountain Duncan and Harold climbed.
 * 7) 2008: A Space Owen: Ride in the Vomit Comet.
 * 8) Top Dog: Replaced with running through the earthquake simulator from Masters of Disasters.
 * Challenges from Ocean's Eight - Or Nine and Super Hero-ld weren't seen.
 * Geoff, Bridgette, and Courtney are the only non-competing contestants who have lines in this episode.
 * It is revealed that Total Drama Action is live since Courtney is watching it when they have to answer questions.
 * Heather is mentioned twice by Duncan and Beth.
 * Chris mentions the Award Show, The Oscars in the episode, when Chef says that he is getting a new job.
 * This is the second episode to have another relay race, the other is The Very Last Episode, Really!. Coincidentally, both episodes had the Final Two race in them.
 * If you listen closely, you can hear fart noises in the background every few minutes.

Goofs

 * Chef has already hosted the show before (although he did a lot more slacking than Chris usually does), but it was not mentioned by him or anyone.
 * When Duncan and Beth were tied up with the rope in the beginning, Duncan's shirt was gray instead of black.
 * Beth apparently broke up with Brady two episodes ago, but she mentions him on two occasions and calls him her boyfriend as if it never happened.
 * Although, when Beth says she has a boyfriend, she might have been referring to Harold as she thought he was crushing on her. So she thought of Harold as her boyfriend since he never clarified to her that he was not her boyfriend.
 * When Duncan and Beth go through the door, they come out on the left side of the Aftermath studio. However in past episodes guests come out of the waiting room and enter on the left side without going through the set. It is possible that the waiting room can disconnect from the aftermath studio, and it even seems to have appeared separately from the studio in Rock 'n' Rule.
 * This also leads questions to why the Lame-o-sine is shown driving off into the distance after someone is eliminated.
 * When Beth and Duncan are finally at the same challenge together, Duncan's spikes on his collar disappear, then reappear in the next scene.
 * Duncan and Beth both get hit with a cinder block to the head (which of course would hurt them extremely to begin with) but when hit, a metal sound is heard with the impacts.
 * When Beth saves Duncan from falling into the pit, her ponytail isn't shown.
 * Chef says in this episode that the monster from Monster Cash and The Princess Pride was the "alien" from Alien Resurr-eggtion, but he should have seen that that wasn't true since he was the alien. It is likely that he merged the two challenges together.
 * When Beth and Duncan were both knocked out due to the gas can being thrown into their trailers, they were in their pajamas, but when they wake up, they're in their normal clothes.
 * When Duncan kisses the monster, its face seems much smaller than it was in Monster Cash.
 * Duncan stated that he beat the monster the last two times it appeared, but it was the monster that beat Duncan in the two challenges it was involved in, in fact, it was Owen's weight and Harold's math skills that stopped the monster in Monster Cash and The Princess Pride respectively.
 * Chef said in a previous episode that the bear had only one more day on it's contract. However, this was towards the beginning of TDA.
 * When Beth and Duncan are running into the bathrooms for the first challenge, they are on opposite sides than they were standing on.