Picnic at Hanging Dork

'''The remaining eight contestants travel to Australia, where tension really flares. Two people's strategy on another proves to work well, while the other team is divided into two alliances. In the end, due to someone's error, another person takes the Drop of Shame after losing a tiebreaker challenge.'''

Recap
On the plane ride to the next destination, Courtney and Gwen both try to secure alliances against each other. With Courtney guaranteed Sierra's vote and Cody soundly in Gwen's camp, Heather becomes the swing vote on the team. Meanwhile, the boys on Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot plot how to take down Team Amazon and end up in First Class this week. Owen suggests Alejandro uses his flirtatious charm, since that got Bridgette and LeShawna booted out. Duncan adds that if he flirts with Courtney, it will distract her and upset Heather at the same time. Duncan really likes this plan as it either gets Courtney eliminated, ridding him of his ex, or it fails and it's a reason to vote him off.

Due to the landing gear malfunctioning (with Ezekiel sleeping under one of the wheels), the contestants have to jump off the plane into the Australian outback. They will have to catch one of the emus provided, then ride it to Hanging Rock. Unfortunately, this journey will take two days. Courtney gives a half-hearted effort at the challenge, but is foiled as Alejandro brings her an emu. While she doesn't like the help in the challenge, she doesn't mind Alejandro or his attention. Heather seemlessly starts to flirt with Duncan, her own private revenge. As Duncan finally mounts his emu, he is almost thrown off as Cody passes by.

The next day, Duncan charges up on Cody, but misses his swing and gets knocked flat by a kangaroo kick. Chef has carved himself a didgeridoo while he and Chris wait for the contestants. Alejandro arrives first, followed shortly by Heather, Courtney and Cody. Duncan arrives via a kangaroo's pouch. Gwen and Sierra finally arrive, and Team Amazon wins the advantage in the next challenge: battery-powered sheep shearers instead of rusty garden shears. Chris doesn't let the boys go back for Owen, forced to wait for his arrival.

The teams have to bungee jump off the cliff to grab a sheep and shear it. Only 6 sheep have a brand on them, three for each team. The team has to uncover their own brand to win. While Courtney is preparing to jump, Gwen approaches Heather about voting off Courtney. Heather agrees to it quickly. While shearing the first sheep, Team Amazon are forced to sing "We Are Shearing Sheep".

Duncan offers to help Alejandro with winning Courtney's trust, and they fake a spat over his flirtations. Owen arrives, just as the first sheep is shorn bear: no mark. Sierra offers to go next, but jumps off the cliff without a bungee cord. She is incapacitated for the rest of this competition. Owen grabs a dingo from the pile. Alejandro continues to flirt with Courtney, and Duncan pretends to cry, which also distracts Gwen. Alejandro tries to help Courtney win, but she admits that she wants to lose this competition, which pleases Alejandro. Cody, about to jump, gets sent Owen's dingo, which keeps him tied up on the line and disorientates him greatly.

At the voting, the vote is split 2-2-1 for Courtney, Gwen and Sierra respectively. Since Courtney and Gwen tied for the most votes, they have to have a tie-breaker competition: feed a starving koala cub, without their hands. Due to Gwen's eucalyptus allergy and Courtney's babysitting experience, Gwen takes the Drop of Shame this week.

Cast

 * Ezekiel makes a cameo appearance underneath the plane's wheel, but does not speak.

Quotes
Cody: That only happened once! (faint laughter is heard outside from Duncan, Courtney, Heather and Alejandro) Chris: Another two hours. (Chef unfolds map) Oh, make that two days! (Chef and Chris began laughing hysterically)
 * Sierra: Cody! Are you Okay in there? (gasp) Did you fall in?
 * Duncan: Bridgette and LeShawna? And here I thought I was the only dude to score double-gold in the Babe-olympics.
 * Courtney: (weakly) Oh, no. This is tricky. I'll never catch one.
 * Chef: How much longer do we have to wait?

Alejandro: How long until he realizes it's a dingo? Duncan: Three, two... (Owen gets attacked by the dingo) Alejandro: (laughs hysterically in the confessional) Hahahahaha... Ohhh. Classic. Chris: "Uh-oh funny"? Or "Uh-oh we're all gonna die"?''' Chef: Landing gear won't come down. Chris:''' How does that even happen!? (Ezekiel is then shown sleeping and keeping the landing gear from coming down) Duncan: (under attack by an emu) What? (emu runs away) Hey! Come back here! Alejandro: (in confessional) Heather's a masterful adervsary, indeed! She's never used flirtation before. But that could not have have been true passion in her eyes. (eyes widen) Could it?
 * Owen: (returns with a dingo instead of a sheep) Hey, check it out! I caught one that's already sheared. Wooo! hehehehe!
 * Duncan: Fake sadness has been a gift of mine since I was a kid. Watch and learn. Oh mom, was that your grandmother's vase? (fakes crying)
 * Chef: Uh-oh.
 * Heather: Lookin' good, D!
 * Gwen: Suck it Courtney! In your (falls out the plane screaming) faaaaaaaaace!
 * Chris: Blocked from space, to zap you face!

Trivia

 * This episode features the fifth Barf Bag Ceremony in a row where Chris does not pass out Barf Bags Full of Airline Issued Peanuts.
 * This is the first episode written by Michael Gelbart.
 * Ezekiel makes a cameo appearance underneath the plane's wheel, preventing the landing gear from coming down, but does not speak.
 * This is the first time that Team Amazon actually has an elimination.
 * This is the third time Team Amazon loses a challenge in Total Drama World Tour.
 * Gwen is the first member of Team Amazon to be eliminated. Coincidentally, she was the first member voted off on her team last season as well.
 * This is the first time that an elimination vote has ended in a tie, resulting in a tiebreaker.
 * It's also the second tie-breaker for an elimination. The first one being for Team Victory in Can't Help Falling in Louvre.
 * A tie breaker challenge is a reference to Survivor, where there is a tie in the votes, and the two must compete in a challenge and the loser is eliminated.
 * They make another Survivor reference, when Chris reads the votes, "One for Gwen, one for Courtney..." and so on.
 * This marks the third appearance of Chef's autopilot, seen at the very end of the episode.
 * This is the first time in a Total Drama season that Cody has lasted longer than Gwen.
 * This episode marks Sierra's first major injury. It also marks the first time a contestant has fought with a kangaroo.
 * In this episode, Gwen reveals that she is allergic to eucalyptus.
 * This marks the first episode someone has been in a cast at an elimination ceremony and has not been voted out.
 * This marks the end of Team Chris is Really Really Really Really Hot's 3 challenge losing streak to Team Amazon.
 * This is the second episode where a contestant accidently votes for someone they didn't mean to.
 * The first was when Lindsay accidently voted herself off in Rock n' Rule.
 * This is the third episode in a row where Duncan is hurt by someone.

Goofs

 * When the interns brought in the emus, there appeared to only be five. But when he let them go, there was one for everyone and two for Owen.
 * When the landing gear was failing to deploy because Ezekiel was underneath it, the doors for the landing gear should have opened beforehand.
 * When Cody tries to apologize to Gwen during the Barf Bag Ceremony, Sierra's braid vanishes.
 * Both of the interns who were thrown off the plane in a previous episode are shown to be perfectly safe in this episode


 * When Team Chris is Really Really Really Really Hot reaches the top of Hanging Rock, Alejandro's hair appears to be wet.