You Regatta Be Kidding Me

'''A sadistic host messes with the teams dynamics and pits the campers in a boat race around Camp Wawankawa. An unlikely foursome work together and someone questions another of their villainous attitude when they make someone shark bait. A prisoner frees himself and meets one of his 'friends', only to be stopped by their enemy. A manipulative contestant wins immunity as a former villain goes to far reaches. This results into their forced elimination and a smart guy avoids elimination due to someone tampering the votes.'''

Plot
The episode starts off with Gwen and Courtney talking about the spa hotel and exclaim that they hope that the win the season. Scott, who is trying to listen to their conversation, threatens that Cameron will be going home next. Duncan is then seen trying to prove he is still bad by spray a skull and crossbones graffiti on the loser cabin. Zoey compliments the painting, thinking it's a "cute bunny", which annoys Duncan. He then tries to drive Chef's jeep into the ocean, but ends up fixing it instead. Chef thanks Duncan and drives off, annoying Duncan again. Chris then explains that the challenge is a "regatta" race around the island, which confuses Duncan. Chris tell them that the boats are either really good or really lame and they're first come first serve. Alejandro gets there first and drives off, with Gwen and Courtney teaming up and racing together. Mike (as Mal) then comes and destroys the remaining boats excluding the raft and drives off in the Boat of Losers. Zoey, Cameron, Duncan, and Scott jump on the raft and row away. Cameron comes up with a plan to use Scott and Fang as a motor, which impresses Duncan. When Cameron pushes Scott into the water it attracts Fang, who hurdles at Scott. So Zoey uses Scott as bait while Fang pushes them to the end. Alejandro's engines stop and after many attempts he shoot off into 2nd place.

Continuity

 * This is the first time since Total Drama Island that Gwen has made it to the merge.
 * As of this episode, all final four of Total Drama Island has made it to the merge more than once.
 * This is also the first time since Total Drama Island that Gwen has outranked Duncan, as well as being the first time overall that Courtney outranks him.
 * This is the first episode since Evil Dread to feature any of Mike's Alternate Personalities that isn't Mal, as Chester made an appearance.
 * This is the earliest merge episode in the entire series, as it is the eighth episode of the season. The closest is Total Drama: Revenge of the Island, which merged in the ninth episode.
 * This episode marks the second time a contestant has been disqualified from the competition with it being Duncan, and the first one being Sierra.
 * Both were disqualified by destroying property of Chris's.
 * Coincidentally both were eliminated back to back in Total Drama World Tour and Total Drama All Stars.
 * The same bear whose hair was pulled off by Owen in The Sucky Outdoors appears. This can be noted by the spot on his head with extra hair, showing he is still simply wearing the hair he lost over a bald spot.
 * This marks the first time that Duncan is not the final former Killer Bass member. In this case, Courtney is the last Killer Bass member.
 * This episode marks the fourth time that Duncan has made it to the merge although he had to return in Total Drama World Tour to make it to the merge.
 * This episode marks the second time that Alejandro, Cameron, Mike, Scott and Zoey made it to the merge, meaning that they are the only contestants so far to make the merge in all their participating seasons, without having to return after their initial elimination as Owen and Duncan did.
 * This is the second time the votes have been tampered with. However, this time it was unsuccessful.

Goofs

 * One of Chef's dynamite sticks was only strong enough to destroy roughly 1/3 of a boat motor. While the one Duncan caught from Chef, which is roughly the same size, was able to obliterate Chris' cottage/mansion.
 * Cameron states in the beginning that he has to keep one eye open and now he "can't blink it," showing how he can't close his eye, yet immediately before this confessional he closes both of his eyes.
 * When Chris recaps what happened in Suckers Punched, Sierra's black eye is missing.
 * When Scott was in the confessional the first time, he seemed to have 5 fingers on his right hand.