Aftermath: Revenge of the Telethon

'''The second installment of the aftermath includes a fundraiser in order to pay for the plane's fuel. The four eliminated contestants are interviewed, while trying to convince the viewers to donate five hundred thousand dollars. After a rampage thanks to a desperate person, the goal is increased to one million dollars. Will they reach the enormous goal in a mere thirty minutes or will Total Drama be gone for good?'''

Plot
With the plane still out of fuel from the last episode, the Total Drama World Tour Aftermath show is turned into a telethon to raise money so that the plane can be refueled and the cast can make it to their next destination. $500,000 is needed to refuel the plane, as explained in Bridgette and Geoff's duet, Save This Show. Despite their moving duet, no money was raised at first. A few incentives were then offered, including a box of Chef's Total Drama Yum Yum Happy Go Time Candy Fish Tails for donating $25, a T-shirt with Chris's face on it that shrinks and bleeds if wet for donating $50 and one of Lindsay's unused lip gloss tubes for donating $100. Despite this, only $203 was raised, $200 of which was from Harold's mother, if he promised to clean out their garage.

This inspires the hosts to start offering rewards if certain monetary goals are reached. Their first attempt is showing another "Total Drama Fugitives" segment when they reach $10,000. As shown in the segment's footage, Ezekiel was again spotted in the cargo hold of the plane, while there were two possible sightings of Duncan. Only an extra $100 was raised during this segment, though. They then bring out DJ and show various clips of him accidentally hurting almost all of the animals he met in the episodes of Total Drama World Tour (in the style of That's Gonna Leave a Mark). Afterwards, all the various animals DJ had hurt were brought out on stage in cages, and Geoff announces that DJ will pet an animal if a certain goal is reached. Blaineley, in an effort to raise even more money, releases all the animals into the studio. DJ safely gets away, but the animals go on a vicious rampage and attacks the entire studio and everyone in it.

After the commercial break, the studio is in ruins because of the animal attack and Bridgette is bandaging an injured Geoff. However, over $300,000 dollars was raised from the chaos. Unfortunately, due to the studio being wrecked because of Blaineley's stunt, the new goal is $1,000,000 to cover damage expenses as well as the fuel money. Leshawna was brought out to inspire more donations and she was asked to sing about her cruel betrayal by Alejandro. She asks to dance, but Bridgette, Geoff and Blaineley all insist that she should stick to just singing. Leshawna then sings Sisters, but does dance a little, with Harold and Bridgette as back-up dancers. A phone call offers money if Leshawna stops dancing, but Bridgette insists that Leshawna will keep dancing until another $100,000 is raised; this goal is reached quite quickly. While on the topic of Alejandro, Blaineley shows various clips of him on a beach without a shirt and his hair in a ponytail in order to amp up the drama between Bridgette and Geoff. Despite Bridgette putting a bag over her head, she still yearns to look, which inspires many calls. All of this is "ruined," according to Blaineley, however, when Bridgette thanks Geoff for being so understanding and they kiss through the bag. However, this still raises a lot of money, bringing them to a total of $721,000 dollars.

In the final attempt to try and get donations, Izzy is brought out, although she will only respond to the name "Brainzilla" due to her newly-awakened intelligence. Izzy refers to herself in the third person and speaks pedantically. The peanut gallery mysteriously disappears after her entrance, though Geoff says that he has it all under control. Izzy is strapped to a large trivia wheel and will be asked questions based on the amount of money donated; the more money donated, the harder the questions. If Izzy gets a question wrong, she will fall into a pool of sharks. Despite the questions becoming increasingly difficult, Izzy answers them all easily. After the third spin, though, the wheel breaks off and spins offstage, where Izzy suffers another blow to the head. Back to her old wild and crazy self, she has to defuse a bomb blindfolded to save the peanut gallery, who are slowly being lowered into a large tank filled with starving sharks. Izzy feels the bomb in an attempt to defuse it, deducing it is boxy. Sh then hits the bomb with a hammer, making it explode and scattering the crew and sharks all over the studio, with Izzy completely blown through the television. By the end of the night, the grand total raised was $1,000,000.01. The show is saved, and Total Drama will be back for another episode.

Cast

 * Trent, Katie, Sadie, Beth, Justin, and Eva appear but do not speak in this episode. Though, Katie, Sadie, and Beth are seen squealing.
 * Duncan, Ezekiel, Courtney, Alejandro, Gwen, Heather, Owen, Noah, Tyler, Cody, and Sierra appear in videos, but don't speak.

Quotes
Bridgette: And we're coming to you live, because we need your help to raise money for a seriously worthy cause. Geoff: I know what you're thinking. "Huh?" Or maybe you're thinking, "What?" Either way, think back to last episode when the Total Drama plane crash-landed in Jamaica. (shakes head) A tragedy. Beth, Katie, and Sadie: (squeal excitedly, Save This Show starts) Bridgette: I'm sorry, I thought you were the roving reporter? (Audience gasps as Blaineley glares at Bridgette) Blaineley: I'm thrilled to be here tonight, co-hosting with Geoff and Bridgette. Bridgette: (whispers to Geoff) I thought she was going back to her old job at Celebrity Manhunt. Geoff: (whispers to Bridgette) She tried. They said "No." Bridgette: For a donation of just $25, you'll get a commemorative box of delicious and nutritious Yummy Happy Go Time Fish Tails! (Strictly decorative, do not eat, may not be legal in all provinces, keep out of reach of children.) Geoff: (Total Drama Opening Sequence starts playing) And for fifty bucks, you'll get a special commemorative Total Drama t-shirt. Sure, it looks like a plain tee, but when you get it wet, (laughs) it's a we-T! Blaineley: If you get a busy signal, keep trying. You'll get through eventually! (Peanut gallery is seen. No phones are ringing, guys and Eva look bored, Beth's eating a cookie) (audience gasps) Geoff: Aw, COME ON! (slaps forehead) Bridgette: (waving) Hi, Lindsay. Tell us about the gifts you brought for those who donate in your name. Lindsay: I was supposed to bring presents? (an intern wheels in a box full of lip gloss) Lindsay: Oooh, lip gloss! Geoff: That's right! For a donation of one hundred dollars, you receive one of the remaining four hundred tubes of lip gloss Lindsay brought to wear this season! Harold: "Alien Bonsai Three" is playing around the corner! DJ: A dinner which I will personally make and enjoy with you. (only two phones ring) Geoff: Maybe we need to sweeten the deal. Bridgette: Um, DJ makes you fudge for dinner! And... cookies? Leshawna: (walks on-stage) Hey, Harold-baby! (Harold excitedly hops out of his seat and begins clapping) Leshawna: Girl, you are welcome! Geoff: How did that first slap feel? Leshawna: Listen, taking Heather out was fun, don't get me wrong. But she's still in the game and I'm here. I wish I'd smacked Alejandro! Bridgette: I know, he's the worst. With that evil mind and silky hair and...ugh! Evil! Geoff, Bridgette, and Blaineley: No! Bridgette: Well, Leshawna's gonna keep dancing 'till you donate another one hundred grand! Leshawna: What!? Geoff and Blaineley: No, no! Bridgette: It's the only way. (camera zooms in on Bridgette) Please, hurry! Leshawna: You know it, ginger-baby-cakes. (audience claps, but slowly stops after Izzy doesn't come out) Bridgette: Oh, okay. Uhh, please welcome, um - Brainzilla? Izzy: (as Brainzilla) Greetings, carbon based life form commonly referred to as Geoffrey. Your grammar is appalling. Geoff: Thanks, man! I try. Bridgette: Hey, where'd the Peanut Gallery go? (shows that everyone left the bleachers except for Blaineley, who shrugs her shoulders) Izzy: (as Brainzilla) Please! Tashkent.
 * Geoff: Good evening! I'm Geoff, and this is my most excellent co-host, Bridgette!
 * Bridgette: Please welcome our first special guest, The Drama Brothers!
 * Blaineley: (walks on stage) That's right, you need to give us five hundred thousand dollars in the next half-hour. Hi, I'm Blaineley Stacey Andrews O'Halloran and I'm your co-host.
 * Blaineley: I'll keep you posted on the total as your calls and your cash (winks as number appears on screen) pour in. This is the number. Call now. We have gifts.
 * Blaineley: Our goal tonight is $500,000, and thanks to your donations, so far we've raised a grand total of... nothing!?
 * Geoff: She didn't recognize her own boyfriend for six episodes and she loves to be called "her hotness." It's Lindsay!
 * Blaineley: Uh, yeah. Katie and Sadie are talking to each other, and Harold is checking on movie times.
 * Blaineley: And two hundred that came from Harold's mom. (rolls eyes) In exchange for his promise to clean the garage.
 * Geoff: Come on, you guys! I need this show! Without it, I'm just an open-shirted chillaxer in a suit-and-tie world.
 * Bridgette: Our next guest is bound to bring in some cash. He loves kissing cod, and uses the word "mama" sixty percent more than the average teen! It's DJ! DJ's here to auction off a special prize. Every donation tonight earns you a raffle ticket toward...
 * Bridgette: But, It's DJ! Everyone loves DJ!
 * Lindsay: (with monkey on head, who is punching her) Have you guys seen Tyler? Tyler! They're stealing my lip gloss...!
 * Bridgette: What!? We're on!? (gasps) Oh, and we're back, live!
 * Geoff: We have to reach a mill now!? One million dollars in ten minutes!?
 * Bridgette: Please welcome "The Queen of the Knuckle Sandwich," Leshawna!
 * Bridgette: Leshawna, on behalf of every competitor who's ever been hurt by Heather. Thank you.
 * Leshawna: I sang enough on the show. Can I just dance this time?
 * Beth: (covers face with hands while Leshawna dances)
 * Blaineley: (answers phone) Total Drama - you'll donate if she stops!?
 * Harold: You nailed it, LeGoddess.
 * Blaineley: No, no kissing! (phones stop ringing) Ugh! You ruined all the drama! Well... we tried, let's see our new tally.
 * Bridgette: Our final guest is the only competitor in the history of Total Drama to get sidelined by injury! Ouch! Rushed from intensive care, please welcome everybody's favorite maniac - Izzy!
 * Izzy: (as Brainzilla) Greetings, carbon based life form commonly referred to as Bridgette.
 * Geoff: Yo, Izzy! Long time, no part-ay!
 * Izzy: (as Brainzilla) I say! Seventy-eight rotations per minute? Marvelous.
 * Geoff: (reads the question) What's the capital of Uzbekistan?
 * Izzy: (back to her regular self) I heart marshmallow sauce!
 * Izzy: (defusing the time bomb) Hmm, it's boxy. Ha! Better hit it with a hammer just to be sure.

Trivia

 * The scene where Duncan trips the nerd is similar to Duncan and Harold's conflict.
 * This episode confirms that Blaineley lost her Celebrity Manhunt job and they wouldn't take her back. She was also supposed to be the Aftermath's roving reporter.
 * This is the final episode of the season in which DJ and Izzy speak.
 * This episode features the greatest amount of guests of any Aftermath episode in the series so far, with four. The previous amount of guests was three.
 * This is the first time that Lindsay has been interviewed in an aftermath episode.
 * During Save This Show, Super Happy Crazy Fun Time Japan is the only episode not to have a clip featured in the montage as the song is sung.
 * This is the fourth time Izzy creates an alter-ego, and the first time in this season; this persona is Brainzilla. The first three alter-egos were Kaleidoscope, Explosivo, and Esquire.
 * Harold was the only member of the Peanut Gallery to speak in this episode.
 * Interestingly, Harold was the only member of the Peanut Gallery that competed in this season.
 * The segment "That's Gonna Leave a Mark" is instead replaced with "DJ's World of Animals." Similarly, "Truth or ___" is replaced with "Brain Blast," where Izzy had to get the right answer to various questions lest harm come to her, culminating in (unsuccessfully) defusing a bomb to save the rest of the Peanut Gallery.
 * This is due to it being a special fundraising episode.
 * This is the second time that Geoff has sung in the series and the first time he has done so in Total Drama World Tour. The first time was in That's Off the Chain!.
 * This episode reveals Alejandro as the first and currently only male to wear his hair in a ponytail.
 * This is the second Aftermath episode of Total Drama to not feature a video guest, and the first Aftermath episode of Total Drama World Tour to not feature a video guest.
 * The first was The Aftermath: IV.
 * The outfit Duncan is wearing in his first sighting in Texas is a spoof of popular Elvis Presley outfits, complete with the jumpsuit, sunglasses, and toupee. His appearance also reverses the typical "Elvis sightings."
 * This is the fourth Elvis reference in the series. The first three were in The Very Last Episode, Really!, Rock n' Rule, and Can't Help Falling in Louvre.
 * Also, the guy that Duncan bumps into is one of the interns who is a pallet swap of his prototype design.
 * This is the first episode where one or more characters spends the entire episode not wearing their usual attire, in this case Geoff and Bridgette wore a tuxedo and dress in this episode.
 * Geoff is also shown wearing a pink bow tie, the same color as his shirt. Also, this is the first (and currently only) time that he has gone a full episode without his hat, as he has only before taken it off for a few seconds, and in Hawaiian Style, he only took his hat off for Who You Gonna Root For?.
 * The dress Bridgette wore in this episode is similar to the color of her hoodie.
 * This in the second episode in which Bridgette has worn a dress, the first was Aftermath: Bridgette Over Troubled Water.
 * The only animal that didn't show up in DJ's Wild World of Animals was the killer whale, probably because it was too big for the aftermath studio.
 * When Lindsay appears after getting attacked, she looks like she did in her mugshot in Celebrity Manhunt's.
 * According to Izzy, it is implied that Geoff's name could be a nickname for Geoffrey. However, she could have just addressed him formally.
 * Geoff and Bridgette break the fourth wall by putting their hands on the numbers displayed on the screen. The only people to have broken the fourth wall so far are Harold and Bridgette in Aftermath: Bridgette Over Troubled Water, and Tyler in The Am-AH-Zon Race.
 * This is the second Aftermath in a row where Bridgette is seen with something covering her head, a paper bag. In Aftermath: Bridgette Over Troubled Water, she had a pillowcase.
 * Apparently, nobody in the aftermath likes to see Leshawna dance, as they were repulsed by her dancing and a caller said they would donate money if she stops dancing.
 * In the Cartoon Network website, the episode is called "Aftermath: DJ's World of Animals."
 * This marks the third time Izzy has put her hair up, the first being in Riot On Set and the second in Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Action Reunion Special when she was playing the part of Maria in the "Sound of Music".

Goofs

 * When Bridgette and Geoff announce the Total Drama World Tour Telethon, the logo for it says "TDM Telethon." TDM (Total Drama, the Musical) used to be the season three name before it was changed to Total Drama World Tour. Later, in the middle of the song, it changes to TDWT Telethon.
 * Bridgette refers to Chef's Total Drama Yum Yum Happy Go Time Candy Fish Tails as just "Yummy Happy Go Time Fish Tails."
 * Blaineley was suddenly seen holding a clipboard before revealing that they raised nothing so far.
 * When the revenge-seeking animals are brought on stage, and crocodile and snake are shown despite the fact that DJ has never hurt either of the animals in the course of the show.
 * In one of the cages is the turtle from Broadway, Baby!, but this would be impossible since it was eaten by a larger turtle.
 * The design on Leshawna's shirt constantly flips as Leshawna changes directions.
 * Right before Leshawna sings, Geoff and Bridgette are suddenly seen holding microphones. They didn't have them before Leshawna glares at them.
 * Leshawna starts singing into a microphone, but when the portrait of Alejandro comes down, the microphone disappears. Likewise, after the Alejandro portrait's strings are cut by Leshawna, it falls to the floor, but when Leshawna, Bridgette and Harold start dancing, it is absent.
 * Bridgette asks if Alejandro had his hair in a ponytail as if she had seen him like that, but Alejandro never worn his hair in a ponytail during Bridgette's stay on the show. In fact, he didn't wear it like that at all until that clip that was shown in the Aftermath. Although he might have worn it off-screen.
 * When Bridgette goes to sit next to Geoff with the paper bag on her head, she appears to be stretched wider.
 * When Blaineley answers all the phones when the peanut gallery is missing, her lips moved but no sound came out.
 * The Izzy-shaped hole on the TV that was made due to her hitting the bomb with a hammer has no neck.
 * Lindsay and Leshawna have vanished by the end of the Aftermath. It is unknown where Lindsay went and Leshawna fell after her song finished but was never seen getting back up.
 * DJ disappeared as well, but he probably ran away when the animals he hurt were let loose.