Phobia Factor

'''After the previous episode's elimination, a discussion of fears evolves into a fear-facing challenge thanks to some eavesdroppers. Most of the campers conquer their fear, but a few others don't fare as well. Another person is voted off for being too chicken to face his fear.'''

Recap
The episode picks up right where the previous episode ended with Katie's elimination. Sadie is still crying at the Dock of Shame with only Bridgette to give her sympathy and support. Bridgette insists that they come back to the group, and pulls Sadie away, who breaks away a plank of wood off of the dock in the process, not wanting to leave. When Bridgette and Sadie return to the Killer Bass by the campfire, they are joined by the Screaming Gophers, who brought some leftovers from their tuck shop party. Gwen admits they are there because they can't go back to their cabin since Owen farted in it, and they need to let it air out. Beth brings a green gelatin with a gummy worm inside to Courtney, who freaks out before rejecting the dessert. Beth then brings it to DJ. DJ looks at the jelly, sees the gummy worm in it and panics, thinking it is a snake. After Cody shows him that it is just a gummy worm and tells him to relax, DJ apologizes for causing a scene, explaining that he's scared to death of snakes.

Tyler sympathizes, telling him that he's scared of chickens. Everyone then starts talking about their greatest fears: Beth is scared of being covered in bugs, Harold is afraid of ninjas, and Heather is scared of sumo wrestlers. Gwen tells that her fear was being buried alive, while Lindsay says that her fear is walking through a mine field in high heels. Owen mentions his fear of flying, and Izzy admits that she has a similar fear of being in a plane. Geoff then explains his fear of hail. After Geoff tells his fear, Bridgette says that she is afraid of being alone in the woods. As Sadie is holding on to the plank of wood, she mentions that she is afraid of bad haircuts. Lindsay agrees and changes her mind. Cody then mentions his fear of defusing a time bomb. Courtney claims she isn't really afraid of anything, a claim that everyone meets with skepticism. Duncan gives the most off-the-wall fear of all: Céline Dion music store standees. After Trent admits to his fear of mimes, he insists that Courtney share her phobia, but Courtney firmly asserts that she has none. Duncan reminds her of how scared she was when he told his scary story in the last episode, causing her to get snippy with him. At next morning's breakfast, Chris announces the next challenge is a game he calls "Phobia Factor", where the campers will face their worst fears. LeShawna questions if it could be worse than the breakfast they were eating. Chris calls Heather to the theater for sumo, causing Heather to spit out her drink in Trent's face; Chris then tells Gwen she's got a date with a few tons of sand. Lindsay asks how they could possibly know what their fears were, and Gwen tries in vain to explain the nature of a "reality show" to the ditsy blond. Chris calls out to Chef Hatchet, asking about a special order for Tyler, and Chef passes Tyler a deep fried chicken; nervously, Tyler bites the head off the chicken shaped food item, only to have the head of a real live chicken pop out, scaring him.

The campers convene outside near a swimming pool full of worms, and it's up to Beth to take the plunge. Shrugging, Beth hops into the pool, submerging herself in the worms (even eating some of them). Gophers lead one-zero. Lindsay and Sadie, having revealed their worst fear being bad haircuts, are brought to the mess hall, while Chris brings two wigs for them to wear. Owen snatches one and tries it on, doing a little ballet dance before tripping and falling over; Chris takes the wig back, and plants them on the girls' heads. Izzy and Owen are taken to a yellow airplane that looks like it's on the verge of falling apart, piloted by flight attendant Hatchet. Both scream while in the plane. In the washrooms, Harold opens the stall door to see that he is surrounded by three ninjas; showing no fear, he whips out a pair of nunchucks and starts to spin it around, and while he looks like an expert, Harold hits himself on the head, and falls unconscious into the toilet (this is counted as a failure). Back outside, LeShawna encounters her worst fear, a spider, or more specifically, Chef in a large spider outfit, and she runs away screaming. At the theater, Heather faces off against a sumo wrestler. Too scared to even look at her opponent, Heather crouches into a ball; but the sumo wrestler trips over Heather and bounces into the distance, hitting a tree in the process. Gophers lead 2-0. Bridgette starts her six hour-long seclusion in the woods around the camp, and while she acts like she can take it, she panics at the sight of a chipmunk at her feet looking up to her, and kicks it all the way to the lake. The camera pans up to the beach, where Gwen is in a Plexiglas box, being buried in sand; she only needs to stay there for 5 minutes, and Trent promises he'll stay right there with her, talking to her with a walkie-talkie. The cover of the box closes, and she starts getting buried, starting by blocking out her face with sand. Back at the theater, DJ is confronted with a small snake and he's terrified of it, especially when it blinks. The other Bass try to egg him on, especially Courtney, whose bossy demeanor has her demanding that DJ just pick up the snake; eventually, DJ reaches down and picks up the snake, conquering his fear. Bass are down 1-2.

With three minutes to go, Gwen is managing her challenge well enough, especially with Trent talking to her. To pass the time, she asks why he's so scared of mimes. Trent explains that when he was four years old, he went to the circus with his mom to see the elephants, and he was so busy watching them that he lost his mom in the crowd. Suddenly, a pale-faced mime appeared and started imitating him. He ran, but the mime followed and wouldn't stop doing his routine. All of a sudden, it's Trent's turn to face his fear; a mime sneaks up from behind and taps him on the shoulder. Frightened, Trent screams and runs away, dropping his walkie-talkie; Gwen has no idea what happened, but is now faced with enduring her greatest fear alone. Chris then takes Cody to his challenge, defusing a time bomb, which in this case is made out of several garbage cans; Chris tells him he has 10 minutes to defuse it, and hands him a set of blueprints before running away. Trent continues to face his own fear of mimes. As the mime chases him, they both stop for a moment. Trent tries to explain to the mime that there is no wall he is touching, and he spots the dock. Back at camp, Duncan is faced with a life-sized cardboard cut-out of Céline Dion; Courtney tries to gently reassure him, which inspires Duncan to run towards the standee and hug it. Bass tie it up at 2-2. Courtney gives Duncan a congratulatory hug, but quickly recoils when the heat of the moment wears off. Trent is still being chased by the mime, who continues to do his mime bit, like being trapped in a box. Trent makes a run for the Dock of Shame and jumps in the water; when the mime tries to follow, Trent tells him that his makeup will run, so he gives up and leaves. Gophers lead 3-2.

Back on the beach, Geoff is lying in a chair for a nap when a small dark cloud appears overhead and starts pelting him with his worst fear: hail, which Geoff described as small but deadly. When the hail starts falling, Geoff runs away screaming, and the miniature hail cloud follows him around; Lindsay sees the cloud and thinks it's cute. Trent is watching Chris control the cloud by remote, and asks if it can go lower and pelt him harder; Chris calls Trent sick, but he gladly agrees. Chris then says he's going to bury Geoff in hail, which reminds Trent that he forgot about Gwen. Out in the woods, Bridgette is holding her own, but still has over four hours to go, and then she hears an explosion. While Chris and Trent are digging up Gwen, they hear the explosion, and Chris figures that the explosion was Cody blowing himself up, therefore failing his challenge. A seriously-injured and garbage-covered Cody wanders through the woods looking for help, eventually stumbling upon Bridgette, who is scared away (making her fail her challenge). At the beach, Gwen is alright, and throws the walkie-talkie at Trent out of anger for abandoning her. Gophers lead 4-2. Elsewhere, the plane lands, and Izzy and Owen get out, just before the wings fall right off; while they conquered their fear, they are glad to be back on land. Gophers lead 6-2. Lindsay and Sadie are in the washroom after wearing the wigs all day, and take them off; then complement each other on how cute they both look. Gophers lead 7-3.

Outside, Tyler is given another chance by being placed in a chicken pen for three minutes. Tyler gets in, but quickly ends up in a corner in a fetal position. Courtney shouts at him to stop acting like a girl, but Cody points out that the Bass are too far behind to win anyway. Chris then sweetens the pot, saying that the Bass still have one challenge left, and he'll make it worth triple their current score. The last challenge is Courtney's and even though she didn't say what her fear was, the tape clearly shows her aversion to green gelatin, which she later says looks like snot. Courtney is brought to a swimming pool full of green jelly, and a diving board; her challenge is to dive in for the tripled points. Courtney climbs up to the unusually high diving board, and the Killer Bass try to coax her into jumping, while the Screaming Gophers try to freak her out; while looking down, Courtney decides that she can't go through with it and chickens out, costing the Bass the challenge. While Courtney (literally) beats herself up over losing the challenge, Owen sits in the green jelly, enjoying it.

At the campfire ceremony, Chris is down to the last two marshmallows and the campers between Bridgette, Courtney and Tyler; Chris is chewing them out for failing their challenges. Chris gives the next marshmallow to Bridgette and after a few seconds of drama, the last goes to Courtney. Tyler is sent to the Dock of Shame, while his former teammates (and Chris) taunt him with various bird related puns. While crying on the Boat of Losers, a humiliated Tyler finds himself surrounded by several chickens, which makes him scream. Lastly, Lindsay is in the confessional, who seems to be okay with Tyler leaving. She says that she'll never forget their time together. Right after that, she accidentally refers to him as "Taylor", but quickly corrects herself, blowing a kiss and saying good-bye to him.

Cast
Harold, Heather, Chef and Beth appear, but do not speak in this episode. Heather only gasps and spits out her drink.

Quotes
Bridgette: Katie would want you to keep going! Come on, let's go back and join the others. (pulls Sadie, but Sadie resists) Sadie: No! Katie, I miss you...! (she ends up pulling a chunk of wood with her when she is finally detached from the Dock of Shame. She walks with Bridgette to rejoin the Killer Bass, still crying about Katie and carrying the lumber) Bridgette: ... It was a long goodbye. (the Screaming Gophers arrive to meet the opposing team) Courtney: What do you guys want? Come by to rub it in? Trent: We got some extra dessert after our Tuck Shop party... thought you might want some. Courtney: So, what? You're just being "nice"? Gwen: Okay, Owen stank up our cabin and we need some time to air out. Owen: (farts) Trent: Eww! Dude! Courtney: No!! - I mean... no thanks; I'm good. Duncan: What, are you on a diet or something? Courtney: No!! I just don't like green jelly, okay?! Lindsay: Walking through a minefield. In heels. Owen: Flying, man! That's some crazy stuff. Izzy: Oh, I would never go up in a plane. Never! Geoff: I'm scared of hail. It's small but deadly, dude. Bridgette: Being left alone in the woods. Sadie: (sniffs) Bad haircuts. Lindsay: Okay, I change mine! That's so much scarier than a minefield. Cody: ...Having to defuse a time bomb under pressure. Courtney: I'm not really afraid of anything. Duncan: (coughs) Baloney. Courtney: Oh really? Well, what exactly is your phobia, Mr. Know-It-All? (All of the other campers look at Duncan expectantly) Duncan: (quietly) ...Cé-Céline Dion music store standees. Cody: Uh, exsqueeze me? I didn't quite catch that! Trent: Dude, did you say Céline Dion music store standees? (Duncan cowers in fear) Lindsay: Ooh, I love Céline Dion! ... What's a standee? Trent: You know, that cardboard cutout thing that stands in the music store. Duncan: Don't say it, dude! Trent: Kind of like a life-sized, but flat Celine. Courtney: (looking slyly at Duncan) So if we had a cardboard standee right now... Duncan: Shut up! (points to the others) Wh-what about you guys? Trent: Okay, well, I hate mimes. Like, a lot. (Courtney rolls her eyes) Alright, Courtney, you're afraid of something. Spit it out. Courtney: Nope! Nothing. Duncan: (chuckles to Geoff and DJ) That's not what she said last night. Courtney: Duncan, did you ever consider that maybe I was just humoring you and your stupid story? Duncan: Sure, sure, princess. Whatever floats your boat. Courtney: Shut up! LeShawna: Worse than this? (points at the food they're eating) Gwen: We're in trouble. Trent: There's enough air in there for an hour. You only have to do five minutes. Chris: As long as we decide to dig you up... Gwen: Not funny, Chris! Chris: Sheesh, take a pill. Sadie: It means she likes you. (Duncan, Harold, Geoff and Tyler shake their heads) Courtney: What? We're heading back to Loserville, people. Gwen: And then you'll dig me up right? Trent: Don't worry. I'm not going anywhere. I promise. Gwen: I need some kind of distraction. Tell me a story. Why do you hate mimes so much? Trent: (sighs) My mom took me to this carnival once when I was four so I could see the elephants. I was stoked. Gwen: Yeah? Trent: I was so busy watching them that I lost her for a minute. I called out, but when I turned, all I could see was this horrible white face with black lips pretending to be me. I screamed and tried to run, but every time I turned around, he was there doing this creepy fake running and screaming routine. Tyler: Dude, she's made of cardboard! Get in the game!! Chris: You are one sick dude! But yeah. (triggers the remote, causing the hail cloud to pelt Geoff harder) Trent: Ah, that's awesome. Hey, do you ever feel like you've forgotten something? Chris: Sometimes. I usually ignore it and the feeling goes away. Haha, watch this, I'm gonna bury him in hail! Trent: Bury?! Oh, crap! Gwen! Trent: (while digging up Gwen) What was that?! Chris: If I had to guess, I'd say Cody just blew himself up. Cody: (covered in garbage, walking like a zombie) Oops. Is anyone out there? (laughs) Girls...? Ladies...? Anyone?! Courtney: Shut up! Only the green kind. It's like sugary, jiggly snot! Duncan: It's not like he can cry fowl. Geoff: Time for Tyler to fly the coop! Bridgette: He won't be flying high tonight! Courtney: Okay, that's enough!
 * Chris: (while doing the recap) Last time on Total Drama Island, the campers had their survival skills put through the test when they spent the entire night in the woods. Katie and Sadie's friendship restrained when Katie sence of direction got them totally lost. Duncan's mad ghost story telling skills freaked out the Killer Bass, and Izzy played a prank on the Gophers by dressing up as a bear. Unfortunately, a real bear showed up and the Gophers spent the night up in the tree, which really stunk for them. Cody peed in his pants, and then it rained. Basically, nobody got any sleep last night. Ultimately, the Killer Bass were the ones on the chopping block, leaving Katie without a marshmallow.
 * (Sadie is still crying on the dock, continuing from the previous episode)
 * (Beth offers Courtney a plate of green jelly with a gummy worm inside it)
 * Gwen: (in confessional) So suddenly everyone's having this big share-fest around the fire. Like Beth went on and on that her mortal fear is being covered by bugs. Harold's afraid of ninjas, even Heather admitted that she's afraid of sumo wrestlers!
 * Gwen: What's my worst fear? I guess being buried alive.
 * Chris: Campers, your next challenge is a little game I like to call "Phobia Factor". Prepare to face your worst fears.
 * (Gwen is getting buried)
 * DJ: (about the snake) Aaah! It blinked!
 * Courtney: We need this point, DJ! Suck it up!!
 * Trent: (through a walkie-talkie) You still alive in there? Only three more minutes.
 * (Duncan has to hug a Céline Dion music store standee)
 * Lindsay: (after seeing Geoff being chased by a hail cloud) Look, that cloud is following him. Awww, it's like his own baby cloud. I want one, too! Here, cloudy-cloud!
 * Trent: Can you make the cloud go lower and pelt him harder?
 * Bridgette: Oh, don't even bother trying to freak me out, producer-people! (Explosion, Bridgette looks with a surprised expression with her mouth open)
 * Duncan: (scoffs) You're afraid of jelly?
 * Courtney: (in confessional) I am so embarrassed. How can I be so weak?! I deserve to go home... Okay, stop it! You're pathetic! Show some confidence, Courtney... (she starts crying and then slaps herself in the face)
 * Chris: (as Tyler leaves) Looks like a new pecking order has been established here.
 * Lindsay: (in confessional) Aww, I'll never forget our time together, Taylor- uh, Tyler. (blows Tyler a good-bye kiss) Bye!

Trivia

 * Title Reference: This episode title and content parodies the TV Show, Fear Factor ("Phobia" is simply a synonym word for "fear").
 * The final marshmallow went to Courtney in this episode.
 * The people who used the confessional stall in this epsiode was Gwen, Bridgette and Courtney.
 * This episode marks the first time in the Total Drama series where the episode picks up immediately after the previous one.
 * Two of Chef's costumes reappear in future episodes. He is seen in the flight attendant uniform again at the end of Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Action Reunion Special and the body of the spider outfit he uses to scare Leshawna reappears in Super Happy Crazy Fun Time Japan as part of Owen's Godzilla costume.
 * The wigs Sadie and Lindsay wear look like a brown version of the wig Heather wears after shaving her hair.
 * The wigs also look like the wig that Owen wore during the Ex-Files.
 * This episode marks the first time that Courtney seems to return Duncan's feeling for her since when Duncan has to face his fear she is sweet to him and tells him that it doesn't matter if he can't do it (in contrast to her anger towards losing and telling Duncan that she hated him in The Sucky Outdoors). When Duncan does face his fear Courtney runs to him and hugs him tight, then she begins to cuddle with him until she realizes there's people around, causing her to let go of him and blush. This may be the episode that Courtney starts to form a crush on Duncan, but at this point he had a crush on her already.
 * This episode is one of the three episodes of Total Drama Island to reference a real life person, in this episode, it was Céline Dion.
 * The Killer Bass actually have an unfair disadvantage during this challenge. The scores were counted on how many people could conquer their fear, but the Killer Bass have only eight people while the Screaming Gophers have nine. The only possible way for the Bass to win is if two or more Gophers backed out than Bass.
 * Chris offers Courtney triple points if she completes her challenge. Many people thought this meant he would give them three points instead of one, but he actually meant he would triple their current points. If Courtney had completed her challenge, the Bass would have won 9 to 7. If she would have gotten three points, then the Killer Bass would have lost 6-7 even if she completed her fear.
 * LeShawna is the only camper who never mentioned what her worst fear was at the campfire, but it was revealed the next day that she is afraid of spiders.
 * On the Boat of Losers, Tyler is surrounded by chickens as he leaves the island. This is the first time something or someone awaits the eliminated camper on the boat.
 * The second time was when Sadie got voted off and Katie was there.
 * The third time was when Duncan got eliminated and Sasquatchanakwa/Chef was there.
 * This is the only episode in which Heather does not speak (though she does gasp when Gwen tries to scare Courtney during her green jelly challenge).
 * It is possible that Beth was able to complete her challenge so easily because she knows that worms are not bugs and thus is not afraid of them.
 * There were a few technicalities in this episode.
 * Heather technically does not conquer her fear because she tries to avoid the wrestler.
 * Trent also avoids his fear and merely states the mime can't get wet, thus driving it away.
 * This is the first episode that shows Gwen's claustrophobia.
 * With Tyler's elimination, Cody is the only remaining contestant voiced by Peter Oldring.
 * Cody's challenge where he has to deactivate the garbage bomb is exactly what the cast mates of Total Drama Action have to do in the season two episode, Dial M for Merger.
 * However, instead of a garbage bomb, it was a stink bomb in that episode.
 * This is the first episode that ends with someone in the Confessional. In this case, it was Lindsay saying farewell to Tyler.
 * This episode marks first and only appearance of the chicken in the Total Drama series.
 * Owen's aviophobia appears again in Total Drama World Tour, even though he conquered it in this episode.
 * Though DJ appears to have gotten over his snake fear, he does have further problems with the serpents later in the season.
 * This is the first episode written by Shelley Scarow.

Goofs

 * Lindsay's Name Goof(s): She calls Tyler "Taylor" at the end of the marshmallow ceremony, but quickly corrects herself.
 * LeShawna faces off against Chef in a spider costume, but at the same time, Izzy and Owen are up in a plane, which is also piloted by Chef.
 * Owen can be seen when Heather takes on the sumo wrestler, even though he is still in the plane. It is possible that she wasn't facing her fear at the same time when Owen was facing his.
 * When Gwen is first being buried, Lindsay is watching her with the "bad haircut" on, but when Chris says "As long as we decide to dig you up", the wig disappears from Lindsay's head.
 * Harold was not seen at the campfire ceremony.
 * Originally, Gwen said in the confessional "Beth went on and on how about how her mortal fear's being covered by bugs." Later in the flashback, her line is "Beth went on about..." with only one "on".
 * DJ claims that the snake he is supposed to touch blinked. This is impossible in real life, since snakes do not have eyelids. [[Image:Snake_Blink.png|thumb|The goof where the snake blinked.]]
 * At the marshmallow ceremony, Chris points out to Bridgette, Courtney, and Tyler that they did not complete their challenges. Harold and Geoff also did not complete their challenges, but Chris did not point them out.
 * Around the time all the campers are at the bonfire, Duncan's nose piercing is missing.
 * Beth's phobia is getting covering by bugs, but for her challenge, she had to enter in a bath with earthworms. Earthworms are not bugs. They are from the family of the Oligochaeta.
 * When Owen is in the Airplane, two pieces on his hair are the same color as his skin.