Total Drama Island

Total Drama Island is the first season of Total Drama. Total Drama Island premiered on the Canadian television channel, Teletoon on July 8, 2007. It is rated TV-PG or TV-PG-D for Cartoon Network. The show is similar to Survivor, taking place at Camp Wawanakwa in Muskoka, Ontario.

Overview
This season involves twenty-two 16-year-old contestants who signed up for a reality show on an island known as Camp Wawanakwa or "Total Drama Island." The teens were originally under the impression that they were going to be on a show where they live in a luxurious mansion and "play guitars and have a great time." According to Chris, to be on the show, one had to be at least sixteen years old and be either "kooky, obnoxious, stuck-up, dense, loud, annoying, filthy, or anywhere remotely in between." The twenty-two teens chosen are divided into two separate teams: the Screaming Gophers and the Killer Bass. The two teams are given challenges every three days which they had to compete in. The losing team will vote one of their members off and the losing contestant would have to walk the Dock of Shame and board the Boat of Losers, which will then take them away. This process continues until only two people are left to compete in a final challenge where the last contestant standing won $100,000 in prize money.

Elimination

 * See: Elimination

This is the process in Total Drama Island in which a camper is eliminated; Initially, the team that lost the last challenge, unless the last challenge happened to be a reward challenge, would vote for a camper and the one with the most votes against them would be voted off the island. Since the teams eventually merged, all the campers began to vote for each other and only the challenge winner received immunity. In certain challenges, a camper would be automatically eliminated if they lost a challenge after the merge.

Characters
Twenty-two teenagers, plus Chris McLean, the host, and Chef Hatchet, the camp's cook. The twenty-two teenagers are competing, while the host and cook aren't competing.

Episodes

 * See: Episodes

There are twenty-six episodes, twenty-seven counting the exclusives, plus a special. TDI Rundown was a special recap episode aired only on Cartoon Network, and Total Drama Island Recap was a special recap episode aired only on Teletoon.

Total Drama Island: Totally Interactive!

 * See: Total Drama Island: Totally Interactive!

The official website for this season, Total Drama Island: Totally Interactive! features, along with information about the series, an interactive campsite with information about the characters, games themed on the episodes, earnable wallpapers, and screen savers, and a camper creator where the player is able to create their own character. On Cartoon Network's website, it was replaced by Total Drama Action EXTRA, though it is still accessible.

Camp TV

 * See: Camp TV

Camp TV is the original prototype for Total Drama Island. In it, there were only seventeen of the current contestants which all had different prototype designs, though some of the designs resemble those of the current competitors.

Censorship in United States

 * See: Cartoon Network Edits for full list of censors

Total Drama Island episodes were usually rated TV-PG in the United States, for suggestive dialogue and aggressive language. On occasion an episode would be rated TV-PG D for mild flirtatious dialogue, such as in X-Treme Torture.

Prizes

 * See: Episode Prizes

Many challenges award prizes to the winner. The usual prize is invincibility for the winning team or contestant, but, on other occasions, rewards were given out as well.

DVD

 * See: Total Drama Island: The Complete First Season

Cartoon Network's DVD features the entire season and is in fact edited with the censoring of some dialogue whilst the Australian DVDs (released by Madman Entertainment) are split into two collections and are unedited, retaining the original dialogue as the unedited seasons of Total Drama broadcast there.

Trivia

 * This was the first season of the entire Total Drama series.
 * This was the first season to take place entirely in Camp Wawanakwa. The second is Total Drama: Revenge of the Island.
 * This was the first season in which Ezekiel is the first person voted off. The second is Total Drama World Tour.
 * This was the first season in which Courtney and Harold are eliminated back-to-back. The second is Total Drama Action.
 * This was also the only season in which Courtney was not eliminated in a double elimination.
 * This was the only season to not feature aftermath episodes.
 * This was the only season to not feature a double elimination.
 * This was the only season in which a contestant does not quit.
 * This was the only season to not feature a prize of one million dollars, as the prize was exactly 1/10 of that, at $100,000.
 * This was the only season to not feature a two-part finale.
 * This was the only season in which the two finalists are from the same team.
 * This was the only season to be released on DVD.
 * This was the only season in which Heather had her regular hair.
 * This was the only season in which Eva, Katie, and Sadie are actually in the competition.
 * This was the only season in which someone didn't vote themselves off.
 * This was the only season in which Owen, Duncan, and Heather (the only three contestants to reach the final five more than once) are all in the final five together.
 * This was the only season to feature more than 26 episodes; on Cartoon Network and Teletoon, special recap episodes were aired beteen I Triple Dog Dare You! and The Very Last Episode, Really!: TDI Rundown and Total Drama Island Recap, respectively.
 * This season features the least amount of non-elimination episodes of any other season so far, with only two, unless one counts the episode Mr. Coconut was eliminated in.
 * Thus, this season also featured the most amount of eliminations of any other season (including the two returning contestants and Gwen's loss to Owen in the finale), with 23.
 * This season featured the most amount of challenges of any season so far, with 25 (the other two seasons featured only 23).
 * This season featured the most amount of contestants of any season so far, with twenty-two.
 * This is also the only season to not exclude any of the original 22 contestants from the competition. Thus, this is also the only season to date in which a contestant who did not originally qualify didn't debut into the game at some point.