Cartoon Network



Cartoon Network is the television channel that airs Total Drama Island and Total Drama Action in the United States. Its programing consists exclusively on cartoons, mainly comedies, and sometimes live-action movies. Total Drama Island has been one of the first Cartoon Network shows that have been rated PG, even if it was created by Teletoon.

Total Drama Island used to air on the network's Har Har Tharsdays before June 11, 2009, once it got replaced by the second season of Total Drama, Total Drama Action. Total Drama World Tour now runs as part of Cartoon Network's Monday comedy block.

Edits and Changes

 * See also: Cartoon Network Edits

During Cartoon Network's broadcast of Total Drama Island, there were many edits to the show. Mainly because of the swear words in the show. The animation was completely untouched, but there were a number of edits to the dialog. This has caused some problems in acting, as it usually sounds like the voice actors went back to change the words (leading to two different sounding tones in a sentence). On an original trailer for Total Drama Island on Cartoon Network, on the top left-hand screen, its rating is "TV-PG-DLS". They kept the D (which stands for "mild suggestive dialogue"), but edited out most of the content that could have gotten it the L ("infrequent language") and the S ("some sexual situations"). However, Total Drama Action was hardly edited.

Other Info
Almost every single episode of Total Drama Island was censored in some way by Cartoon Network, despite putting up a PG rating warning at the beginning of the show and the end of each commercial break.

Surprisingly, 6teen, a show made by the creators of Total Drama Island and having similar dialog content, is completely unedited except for one dialogue that included the word "scorniest" (it was later changed to "scoring-est"), and the pilot episode, where Jonesy said "Getting the second base with Jill Anderson." Even the theme song, which contains "Thank God" in the lyrics, is left untouched. Many children's networks go out of their way to eliminate any mention of a particular religion or deity. Recent episodes of Total Drama Action have shown that Cartoon Network's edits are getting lighter.

Chris hosted a special on on Cartoon Network called "Spring Break '09." It featured sneak peeks of Total Drama Action, along with other shows that were new to Cartoon Network in 2009.

DVD
Total Drama Island's first season was released on DVD on August 18th. Despite claiming that the DVD features all twenty seven episodes and cast interviews, Total Drama Drama Drama Island was not included (instead being replaced by the TDI Rundown), and the cast interviews are really the character auditions. Many people weren't happy at this. Some of the edits were removed and some original dialogue was retained, but most edits were left in. Despite this, an advertisement from Amazon.com, along with the summary on the back of the box saying "crappy," a word that was replaced in most episodes, had suggested that the DVD would be uncut. For more information on the DVD, please go to Total Drama Island The Complete First Season.

Nood Era
Cartoon Network used to feature Noods, human-like creatures that were Cartoon Network's advertising staples, that have been made into various Total Drama Island characters. Heather, Gwen, DJ, Chris, Harold, Cody, Trent, Chef and the Bear have all been created as Noods. If balls of color hits a Nood, they turn into whatever color that ball of color was, or they change into a camper who wears that color. For example, a Nood that gets hit with a ball the color of Heather's shirt will turn into Heather, or a Nood that touches something blue will turn into the color blue. The look changed a bit in early 2010, not using the animation bumpers as much, but using live action. The Noods got retired as well with the logo in May 2010.

Check It! Era
After the noods got retired and the old Cartoon Network logo, the next (and current) era was called the Check It! era. "Check It!" appeared after the Cartoon Network logo in bumpers or advertisments involved Cartoon Network. There are blocks/squares in the background and it has more of a retro feel. The Total Drama series had bumpers for primetime, new episodes and if they were next.

Games and Website
The Cartoon Network website has games and a show page for Total Drama Island, Total Drama Action and Total Drama World Tour. Many games caught on a ton of people like: The Big Picture, Best Game Ever, Drop of Shame, Total Pandamonium and Total Drama Island: Totally Interactive.


 * For the second season, the show page featured Total Drama Action EXTRA, a website in a blog/newspaper format.
 * For the third season, the show featured a Total Drama World Tour page with subpages including games, videos and the map.

When Total Drama Island was pushed off Har Har Tharsdays, oddly the show airing time was the same and wasn't changed.

Also, a game called TKO on the website features Chef and Duncan as playable, fighting robot characters. There is a chance that the game was foreshadowing Duncan's win of Total Drama Action, or Cartoon Network thought that Duncan was one of the strongest characters as well. Also available on Fusionfall following the premiere of Total Drama World Tour were shirts of the three teams in the season.

Below, are images of the showpickers that are seen in the Cartoon Network navigational bar on the top of most Cartoon Network in-site pages. The showpickers have Chris McLean's face while the season is occurring, but when the winner is announced, the winner will be in the showpicker instead of Chris.

Goofs

 * On Cartoon Network Video, the logo for Total Drama Island has Trent's Camp TV design.
 * On the the Total Drama Action EXTRA website, they said that Courtney had a 15 page contract listing all of Duncan's faults, when, in Top Dog, Duncan mentioned on a number of occasions that it was actually a 32 page contract.