User blog comment:Broodje Kroket/Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race, 6 months later./@comment-24952355-20160506210158/@comment-25086035-20160507200914

@DipDap: Completely forgot about that. But to be fair, between the troubles of rushed 13-episode seasons and the drag of the 26-episode one, I'd pick the latter.

You're still right though, the Stepbrothers plot was stagnant for their entire run except for the episode before they were eliminated, and even then it all happened in the course of give-and-take 2 minutes.

I think they had to make choices though, after all, try cramming plots for 32 characters in a 20-minute episode.