User blog comment:ThomasVeggieDramaFan/Pahkitew Island: One Year Later/@comment-5221692-20150629033452

True, TDPI was more cartoony... but who ever said that was a bad thing? TDROTI was a terrible mix between reality and fiction since it had an unbelievably cartoony setting (a radioactive island) and a very real, serious mental disorder that they treated equally unbeliavably cartoony. TDROTI was MORE wacky and irrationally "goofy" than TDPI.

Most of TDROTI's cast was just expys anyway.

Cameron was Steve Irkel.

Dawn was Luna Lovegood. (Duh)

Dakota was Paris Hilton. (Dakota Milton. Really?)

Sam was Seth Rogan. (They compared him to him on their official website)

Jo was Sue Sylvester (Same)

Anne Maria was Snooki (Same)

Mike was a clod of dirt (Resemblance is uncanny)

Zoey was (the website said this word for word) supposed to be like Zoey Deeschanel. (Said it on the website same as the others)

That means Staci, B, Brick, Lightning, and Scott were the only "original"eqsue characters.

In Pahkitew there was only...

Beardo was Reggie Watts.

Ella was a Disney Princess

Sugar was Honey Boo Boo

Jasmine was a Steve Irwing (except they look NOTHING and act nothing like one another so give her a pass)

That makes the rest of the cast completely original characters, which fits since TDPI's season generally had LOADS more creativity intertwined into it. The writing was better. The jokes were funnier. The characters were more likeable and none of them, other than Beardo (Leonard's back for TDRR so I don't count him) felt expendable and used just for fodder. I can look back and say for 100% surity that TDPI was DEFINITELY better than TDROTI in my opinion. :)