Million Dollar Babies

'''The final eight compete in sports-themed challenges. One's infatuation with a mysterious love, combined with another's "new rules and conditions", causes a small problem to come about between one castmate and the other seven, revealing a foreshadow. However, after an accepted apology, an unexpected person gets sent home instead.'''

Plot
The episode opens by showing Harold, Duncan, and Justin waking up to Chris' french horn alert, being dazed and confused. Beth walks out of the girls' trailer 'sleep-twirling' Courtney's PDA. Courtney is horrified, and dives to get it after it falls. The competitors find that they are eating pasta for breakfast, and that they will be competing in a sport-themed challenge.

Chris brings them to a football field, and puts them through a variety of training exercises. First, the Screaming Gaffers must push Chef like a football dummy. Heather refuses to help, but LeShawna forcefully tells her to put a little effort forth. Duncan sides with LeShawna, which she interprets as progress towards the damage done by the about the spa incident. When Chef badmouths the Gaffers one too many times, LeShawna gets so mad that she charges at Chef and knocks him down all by herself. Next, the Grips have to run through tires, made more difficult by the tires being too small for their feet, and mousetraps planted inside. For the final exercise, both teams have to crawl through mud under barbed wire. Courtney thinks this is somewhat over-the-top, but Chris explains that he wanted to reuse some props from the war-themed challenge. With the obstacle course completed, the teams are wondering who won, but Chris tells them that that wasn't their challenge, simply a test to determine their rankings. He explains that the real challenge will be four sporting events, with members of each team facing off based on their seedings.

Harold and Lindsay are seeded fourth, so they are pinned against each other in boxing, using marshmallow gloves. Chris then tells them that in true boxing style, they will have to fight in slow-motion. Despite that, Lindsay fights in a normal speed, but Harold fights in slow-motion, awing LeShawna. Lindsay easily blocks Harold's slow-motion jab, and takes a bite of his glove, since the marshmallows are real. Courtney begins yelling at Lindsay, and doesn't notice that her PDA has fallen out of her pocket. Beth notices though, and decides to borrow it so she can write an e-mail to Brady, but while browsing the internet, she finds something that shocks her. Lindsay knocks Harold out after he was distracted by LeShawna's support. But Harold wins despite, due to his use of slow-motion. Chris also docked Lindsay for biting Harold's glove, angering her.

The next challenge puts Beth against Heather in badminton. Before the challenge, Chris mentions his role in a badminton movie after Justin refuses to believe that any badminton movies exist. Heather begins pummeling Beth, and it looks as though all hope is lost for the Grips. The Gaffers start trash-talking Beth, and LeShawna tells her that her "chances of winning are about as real as your boyfriend." Her comment sparks fury in Beth, and she transfers her anger to the game, easily defeating Heather. LeShawna again tells Beth that her boyfriend doesn't exist, and Beth retaliates by revealing that she saw a video on Courtney's PDA of LeShawna saying bad things about all of the other competitors on her way to the spa to her cousin, LeShaniqua. They then play the tape, and everyone else is angered by LeShawna's mean comments, save Heather, who says she does the same thing, and wonders why everyone is so angry.

In the next challenge, Duncan was put up against Courtney in wrestling. Duncan revealed in a confessional that he was trying his hardest to play fairly against her, trying not to duplicate Trent and Gwen's relationship. Duncan's "a-game" was easily swayed by his feeling for Courtney, thus ruining his ability to play well. After a lost toddler called him "Momma," Duncan lost to Courtney due to the distraction, despite his attempts to play normally. Courtney was very proud of her victory.

LeShawna was put up against Justin in a "Slam-dunk" challenge, much to LeShawna's dismay. She didn't want to play for her teammates, much less the camera. Justin's slam-dunk included humiliating the Gaffers, by butt-bumping LeShawna, dribbling under Duncan's legs (hitting Harold in the chest), and stealing Heather's wig and putting on the basketball. LeShawna returned the wig to its rightful place, on Heather's head. LeShawna's slam-dunk was much more simple. She threw the ball at Justin's chest, tossing him into the trampoline. He bounced and landed in the basket, bruised and scarred. Chris gave the point to Leshawna, and with each team now having scored 2 points, Chris lead them to a tie-breaker.

The tie-breaker was a cheerleading competition, which each team coming up with someone to cheer for. The Killer Grips began planning immediately, but the Gaffers had more trouble. When Chris announced time, and that the gaffers were up, LeShawna improvised a cheer about the other competitors, as a way of apologizing. The apology was well-accepted, and she was liked once again. The Grips won the challenge, however, as they cheered for Chris, and he was the judge of the challenge.

At the Gilded Chris Ceremony, Chris reviews everyone's reason for possibly going home. He then says that Harold is the only one with possible guaranteed invincibility, and gives him the first Gilded Chris to shut him up. Chris then tosses an award to Duncan, calling him Diaper Shark. Heather was voted off in place of LeShawna because Duncan and Harold liked LeShawna's apology. At the end of the episode, LeShawna walks Heather to the Lame-o-sine, telling her she can consider them friends. Heather then gives LeShawna her wig from the past episode as a farewell gift so LeShawna can use it (according to Heather) when her hair looked bad as it did in the episode.

Quotes
Duncan: Harold, if you added trumpets to your snoring, then it's definitely time for you to die. Justin: That's it, I'm moving to Canada. 'Cept I'm already there... Heather: You said sweat twice. Harold: You are aware that two-hundered percent is a mathmatical impossibility. Chef Hatchet: Don't call me a dummy. Heather: Uh, I am not swapping sweat with an over-sized jalepeno. LeShawna: You're takin' it for the team. Now get your skinny behind over there and push that dummy. Chef Hatchet: What did I say about the dummy thing?! Harold: (to Duncan) Sounds like you're up! Chris: Harold! (Courtney's PDA falls out of her pocket) (Beth picks it up) Beth: Courtney, your- Courtney: (not paying attention to her) Play dirtier! Duncan: (giggles) Courtney: What?! Duncan: I like when you talk like that. Beth: (shrugs) My boyfriend is going to be so surprised to hear from me! (presses a button) What the...oh my lordy! Duncan: 'Ew-ew-ew ''is more like it! Chef: Ah, y'all are just jealous! Chris: Yeah, but he scored major points for his awesome slow-motion effects. And, I had to dock you for biting. Very unsportsmanlike, Miss Tyson! Lindsay: This was fixed! Ref's going down! (The Grips restrain Lindsay from punching Chris) Chris: This is a badminton court, Justin. Justin: But there was never a movie about badminton, 'cause that'd be seriously lame. Chris: There was a movie about badminton and it was very un-lame. And it starred the very talented, me. Chef: (in confessional, and crying) Why couldn't the Olympic Committee just give the Flipper a break? It was his big dream. (continues to cry) LeShaniqua: Oooh, girl! (Duncan, Lindsay, Harold, Courtney, Beth, and Justin all turn and glare at LeShawna) Lindsay: But she called you mean and nasty! Heather: I can live with that. LeShawna: You can? Thanks, girl. Heather: Don't push it. It's not like we're new BFF's, or anything. Chris: (riding in on a chariot, and in a bad Greek accent) Silence! The score is 1 to 1! And now, second-seat Courtney, will attempt to brrrrrrrrreak the tie, in Grrrrrrrrreco Rrrrrrrrrrroman Wrrrrrrrrrrestling against...Duncan! Duncan: He shoots, he scores! Courtney: (In confessional) My heart can't be swayed by just any tattooed bad boy oozing danger out of every pore. I'm a fit and well-coiffed little package of pure competition! Duncan: Oh, she's a fit an well-coiffed little package, alright. But I'm not going there, even though I could. Remember what happened to Trent and Gwen? Hee hee hee...ugly. (off-screen laughter) Duncan: What?! Am I funny to you?! Well come over here and you can laugh to my face! Harold: Where there are Pom-poms, there are Pom-pom girls. Heather: Who? Harold: The inventor of the pom-pom. Duh. LeShawna: Hey, I got enough problems without you mixin' things up! Chris: And Heather, you gotta feel awful over your humiliating loss to Beth on the badminton court. (Heather rolls her eyes, thinking) Chris: (impatiently) Heather... Heather: Sorry, i'm trying to remember what feeling awful is like! Chris: Duncan might remember seeing as he lost to a girl...in wrestling! Duncan: She's not a girl, she's Courtney. It's a whole 'notha thing. Chris: Harold, I'd say you're the only one here who might be safe! Harold: Well Chris, I- Chris: Oh, no one wants to hear it! Just take the statue. (throws a Gilded Chris to Duncan) Chris: Diaper Shark, you're safe too. (Chris looks at Chef, who is holding one Gilded Chris left) Chris: LeShawna... LeShawna: (nervously) Yes? Chris: I'm sorry, but...heads up! (LeShawna catches the award and stands up in delight) LeShawna: Yes! Heather: What? You voted me off? Me? Duncan: (in the confessional) I know LeShawna dissed us... Harold: (in the confessional next to Duncan) Sure LeShawna called me deluded. Duncan: But that cheer, well, we counted her out, but she showed us that she had heart, guts, grit, and a bounce that won't stop! Harold: Sounds like a sports movie. The thing is, she didn't totally shoot me down. (sadly) Alright, I'll admit it, she's still got a hold on me. I can't help it! I'm a slave to looove... (Harold puts his head on Duncan) (Duncan frowns. Cut to the Lame-O-Sine)''' LeShawna: '''Heather, if it's worth anything, you can count me as a friend. (Heather smiles) Just don't tell anyone that I said so, and if this ends up on the TDA Website, I'll pretend it was all CGI.''' Heather: 'Hey, something to remember me by, (takes off her wig, and hands it to LeShawna)'' and to wear next time your hair looks as bad as it does today. (Heather steps into the Lame-O-Sine, and LeShawna scowls as it drives away)
 * Harold:(after waking up from a dream) I can't take the shelling anymore sarge! I just can't! (sobs)
 * Chris: Today's competition is gonna require sweat, guts, heart, and sweat.
 * Chris: Today, you're all going to give two-hundered percent in out exciting sports movie challenge.
 * Justin: We've got to push spiced-up Chef like he's a football dummy?
 * Chris: And in the left corner-ner-ner-ner-ner, from the Screaming Gaffers-ers-ers-ers: The deluded dork, the light-weight loser, the knock-kneed numbskull...
 * Courtney: (to Lindsay) Don't eat it! Block it!
 * Chris: Round Two-ooh-ooh-ooh! (Chef walks by in a bikini, holding a two card; the others are disgusted) '''
 * Lindsay: What? But I knocked him out!
 * Justin: (holding a Badminton racket) Hey, it's a miniature tennis racket. Where are the miniture tennis ball and why is the net so stupidly high?
 * Chris: (acting) I just wanted to let you know...you guys are the best darn badminton players I've had the pleasure of coaching. You're beacons of freedom. Show the Olympic Commtitee we deserve a chance. Show them, it's not bad minton, it's goodminton. Heck, it's greatminton! Now get out there and win one for the Flipper!
 * LeShawna: (to Beth) Your chances of winning are just about as real as your boyfriend!
 * LeShawna: (to LeShaniqua) Heather? Mean just for the sake of being mean. And Lindsay, half a brain cell. (Lindsay gasps) Max. And it's usually gone out shopping! (LeShawna and LeShaniqua laugh) Just like Justin's giant ego! (Justin's eyes widen) Hoo hoo! Oh, and Duncan likes to think he's a bad boy. (Duncan frowns) But when Courtney's around, (Courtney gasps) she basically drags him around by his eyebrow ring. Beth, actually wears a side ponytail! A side pony! (Beth frowns in anger while looking at her ponytail) And Harold, (Harold gasps) darn fool's sweet on me. But he's getting about as much play as an old cassette tape in a world of MP3's! (Harold frowns in sorrow and resent)
 * Heather: LeShawna just told it like it is. I don't see what the big deal is. I do it all the time.
 * Duncan: (to himself) Just compete. Just compete, just compete.
 * Courtney: Eww...How long since these things have been washed?
 * Courtney: Ooooo! The big bad Diaper Shark!
 * Duncan: (in confessional) I dunno, the kid called me "mama" and it threw off my A-Game.
 * Courtney: Pom-poms?!
 * Harold: Oh, oh! I got it! Let's cheer for Norbert Swindlow!
 * Chris: So, the Gaffers lose it again! Must be tough, especially with your own teammate dissing you all over the world wide web!

Trivia

 * Title Reference: This episode's title is a reference to the 2004 film, Million Dollar Baby.
 * This is the third episode to air the in USA before Canada. The first two episodes were TDI Rundown, but that was in the USA only, and One Million Bucks, B.C.. This episode apparently had an "unofficial" air date on September 13th. It was shortened as it was used only as a mini cartoon to catch the schedule up (as it aired after Scooby-Doo the Mystery Begins).
 * The castmates in the confessional for this episode were LeShawna, Lindsay, Courtney, Duncan and Harold.
 * This episode marks the first time that Heather was voted out of the Total Drama Series.
 * This also marks the first real time a Screaming Gaffer is voted off (as Gwen sabotaged her team in The Chefshank Redemption, and DJ quit the game in The Sand Witch Project)
 * As of Heather's elimination, none of the final three from last season are still in the competition.
 * This means Duncan has outlasted all the competitors ever to compete at least once.
 * This is the first episode Owen is not seen, or even mentioned.
 * Heather is the final contestant eliminated before the teams merge. Ironically, Harold whose name also begins with an H was the last camper eliminated before the teams merged in the first season.
 * Harold, Duncan and LeShawna all voted for Heather to be eliminated. Heather voted for LeShawna.
 * Ironically, this is the first known time Heather voted for LeShawna in all Total Drama Series). Because she voted for Noah in Dodgebrawl, for Justin in Not Quite Famous, for Izzy in Up The Creek (presumably, since she threw the challenge and Heather thinks she's crazy), for Beth in both Paintball Deer Hunter and If You Can't Take The Heat, for Eva in No Pain, No Game, for Trent in Search and Do Not Destroy, for Owen in Hide and Be Sneaky, for Izzy in Wawanakwa Gone Wild!, and for Geoff in Trial by Tri-Armed Triathlon. In Total Drama Action, she voted for both Bridgette and Geoff in Alien Resurr-eggtion, and for Gwen in The Chefshank Redemption.
 * This is the second challenge in a row were the competitors were paired up for part of the challenge.
 * This is also the second challenge in a row where Duncan and Courtney and Heather and Beth were paired together.
 * In this episode, Chris is revealed to have starred in a movie about badminton, in which he played a character named "Flipper."
 * LeShawna was revealed to have insulted all of the other competitors on the show while she was riding to the spa.
 * Heather: "Just mean for the sake of being mean"
 * Lindsay: "Has half a brain cell, max" that's "usually gone out shopping"
 * Justin: Has a "giant ego"
 * Duncan: "Likes to think he's a bad boy" but "when Courtney's around" she "drags him around by his eyebrow ring"
 * Beth: "Actually wears a side pony tail".
 * Harold: Is "sweet on" LeShawna, but "is getting as much play as an old school cassette tape in a world of MP3s."
 * This is the first episode in which Courtney is seen in her pajamas.
 * This episode marks the first appearance of Courtney's PDA, although it was mentioned in the previous episode.
 * A big piece of evidence is shown in this episode about Beth's boyfriend, as Beth was ready to e-mail him and privately away from everyone. This puts up some more evidence that her boyfriend may in fact be real.
 * This is the second episode (and in row) were part of Chris's chest is seen, it's also the same amount seen in One Million Bucks B.C.
 * Duncan and Harold are the third pair to use the confessional together. The first pair was Geoff and Bridgette and the second pair was Lindsay and Beth.
 * Courtney states that her "heart can't be swayed by just any tattooed bad boy," implying that Duncan may have a tattoo. If this is the case, it may be down around his thighs, as his upper body is shown not to have one anywhere.
 * Duncan and Harold show more signs of a potential friendship by sharing a confessional together. In the previous episode, Harold said that they could put their difference aside for the sake of the team, although Duncan did not.
 * Based on the challenge pairings, this is how Chris thought of the cast's athletic skills.
 * Harold and Lindsay were the worst.
 * Heather and Beth were the second worst.
 * Duncan and Courtney were the second best.
 * LeShawna and Justin were the best.
 * This is strange, because LeShawna was seen struggling the most while running. She may have made up for this by being the only one pushing Chef.
 * The little kid that comes out in the ball pit also is seen in Wawanakwa Gone Wild!.
 * Chris calls Lindsay " Miss Tyson". This could be a reference to what she called Tyler in the previous episode, or her last name, however, it is far more likely that it was a reference to Mike Tyson, the boxer.
 * Duncan quotes Courtney's confession, meaning he may have heard it, or may have been told it afterwards.
 * LeShawna and Heather are now possibly friends since this episode.
 * LeShawna has Heather's new wig in this episode but it is unknown what she will do with it, as it was not seen in the following episode.

Goofs

 * Oddly, LeShawna mentioned bad things about Heather, Lindsay, Justin, Duncan, Beth, and Harold. However, she did not mention anything bad about Owen, Izzy, and DJ (All eliminated in between the seven episodes). There is a possibilaty that Courtney just stopped the tape after LeShawna was done talking about the compettors.
 * In the begining of the episode the cast is hit with spaghetti and sauce gets on their pajamas but seconds later the stains disappear.
 * At the end of the episode, Harold mentions LeShawna calling him "deluded" when, it was actually Chris who called him "deluded" during the boxing challenge. LeShawna has never called him deluded on-screen.
 * In the boxing challenge, when Chris is announcing the names, Harold thought that Chris was talking about Duncan, but it was himself instead, showing that he didn't know who would be participating in the challenge. But when Chris is announcing Lindsay's name, she was already in the ring, signifying that she already knew it was her. It is very unlikely that Chris would inform one team and not the other.
 * When Duncan says to the person who laughed at him if it is funny to him his piercings around his eyes are missing.