Super Happy Crazy Fun Time Japan

'''The contestants travel to Japan for a dangerous challenge. The teams must survive a Japanese game show, and then shoot a commercial. Three teammates clash, leaving two others to finish the challenge. Meanwhile, one contestant is upset because he keeps hurting animals. One team's winning streak continues, while another has to lose another member. One contestant is technically voted off, but somebody sacrifices themselves instead.'''

Recap
The episode opens with Owen still terrified as ever to fly in a plane, but as Noah is trying to reassure him that the plane is safe, a hole opens up in the side of the plane. LeShawna is almost sucked out, but Alejandro grabs her hand and saves her. Harold says that he could have done the same but "he wants to leave the ladies wanting more." Soon after, Owen gets sucked into the hole and clogs it, preventing any more air from escaping. Owen complains and LeShawna fawns over Alejandro, while Harold is in denial that she's falling for him. Meanwhile, in the winner's section, Courtney is trying to convince her team to make her leader, to which Heather argues while Sierra shifts through Cody's belongings, even sniffing his shoe.

Chris then calls them all down to the commons to discuss the challenge, which will be in Japan. Chef enters in a Chinese costume, to which Harold complains about their cultural insensitivity. Growing annoyed, Chris signals to Chef, who then slices open the door, forcing the contestants from the plane. As they scream and fall the bell chimes, indicating the start of a song, Noah is incredulous about the idea but Chris insists that they comply. The contestants then sing Before We Die.

After finishing the song, the contestants land in a giant bowl of rice and are taken to a game show studio for their first challenge. The challenge is human pinball, where the contestants must be placed inside a pinball with an animal and try to get the highest score for their team. Alejandro volunteers to do the challenge for his team when no one else wants to. DJ is volunteered by his team mates but doesn't like it because he is convinced that he is cursed by the mummified dog that he broke in Walk Like An Egyptian - Part 1. Cody volunteers to do the challenge for his team when Courtney, Heather, and Gwen won't stop arguing. Alejandro and DJ are paired up with pandas for their teams, and Cody and Sierra are teamed up for Team Amazon. Alejandro wins the challenge for his team, after charming his panda, Ting Ting. DJ finishes in second place, but is devastated when he accidentally harms the his panda, T'sing T'sing in the process. Cody finishes in third with kisses all over him from Sierra, he is then shown in the confessional, removing Sierra's gum from his ear and expressing disgust.

The next challenge is introduced after seeing a dubbed version of the Total Drama Action trailer. It is dubbed in English because the Japanese "don't like the cast's voices." The cast are told they must create commercial's for Chef's new candy, and Chef himself will judge each of the commercials. The teams get to pick props for their commercials. For winning the first challenge, Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot chooses first. Alejandro finds an alien suit that everyone agrees to have Owen wear during the commercial. Team Victory then picks, and last is Team Amazon. While Team Amazon is in the cargo hold, Ezekiel's sillhouette is briefly shown, with red eyes. Before Cody can ask who it is, the shape vanishes, hiding behind some crates. After this Heather, Gwen, and Courtney argue over how they want to do the challenge. They cannot reach an agreement so they each storm off. This prompts Cody and Sierra to handle the commercial themselves.

Chris begins to play the commercials, Team Chris is Really Really Really Really Hot does a Godzilla parody. Owen dresses up as an alien and stomps on the small city as the rest of the team dresses up as soldiers worry about what the monster will do to their city. To get the monster to stop, Alejandro gives the monster candy and it makes him stop crushing the buildings. The team then sings the slogan that they made up for the commercial. Team Victory films their commercial in a black and white slow sequence. Harold intends for the film to be a metaphor but most of the contestants, Chris, and Chef view it as total nonsense. Team Amazon doesn't seem to have a commercial prepared and Courtney begins to tell Chef and Chris that they didn't make one, but Cody interrupts saying that they have a great commercial, just not a title yet. He plays the commercial, which incorporates the ideas of Heather, Gwen, and Courtney with a colorful background and jingle that Sierra sings. Cody did all the filming and said one line.

In the end, it is revealed that Team Amazon won the challenge, with Chef saying that he picked theirs purely because their commercial featured exploding doughnuts. Team Amazon tells Cody how great he is to which Sierra agrees. She asks for a group hug, and tells everyone but Cody to back off. Team Victory lost, and Alejandro consoles Harold, telling him he still has his honor. Alejandro then tells Harold that LeShawna likes guys with honor, which causes Harold to think. At the elimination ceremony, the entire team and T'sing T'sing the panda (except Lindsay who doesn't vote for any one) vote out DJ. But before he is eliminated, Harold quits the game, saying that the team's loss was his fault. He leaves the plane with "honor," by stabbing himself with a fake lightsaber and then falling out without a parachute. Chris throws him one and the episode ends.

Cast

 * Ezekiel makes a cameo appearance in the cargo hold as a shadow with red eyes, but does not speak. Trent, Duncan and Beth make a cameo appearance in the TDA commercial.

Quotes
DJ: Oh, she wants more, all right. More Alejandro. Gwen: If we needed one, which we don't because we're winning! Chris: Thank you, Harold. Now anyone who refuses to sing- Harold: You just think you'd work harder to get it right. Chris: Good question... like I'm gonna tell ya! Tyler: (whispers to Lindsay) Two of us got booted out last time, so today has reward written all of it! Lindsay: I could use a reward, I hope it's candy. Or a whole bunch of shoes. Or shoes made of candy! Chef: Nah... too boring. Noah: (furious) Seriously?! I mean, seriously?! Tyler: (points at Noah) What he said! Harold: My favorite is "Human Ichi My Car Go-go." Where you have to throw a banana into a car window using- Tyler: A giant shrimp fork! Awesome! Gwen: Nice, I hate to tell you, but we're on the same team! So you might wanna flip the witch switch back to off!. (Pinball machine dings) DJ: Ahh! Sorry Panda! Ahh! Sorry Again! Sorry Panda! Sorry Panda! Sorry Panda! Cody: Ahh! (Pinball machine dings) Cody and Sierra: Ahh!! Sierra: Hold me! Alejandro: Thanks Ting-Ting! That's a great idea! Noah: Um...what?! Chris: That was the japanese promo for the show! Total Drama is huge here! Courtney: That was in english. Why did they dub our voices? Chris: Oh yeah. Turns out the locals here don't like the sound of you all. Sorry... Courtney: No you're not! Chris: True, but still. Noah: Hold on there, chubby-buddy. Let us finish the tiny city first.
 * Noah: Stop sweating, lunch box. Air travel is like the 15th safest mode of transportation. Unless you're in a deathtrap. (A gaping hole forms on the side of the plane, pulling the contestants towards it) This one, for example.
 * LeShawna: Oh, no! This is not the way LeShawna is leaving this world!
 * Harold: I could have done that, I just prefer to leave the ladies wanting more!
 * Courtney: I happen to like winning and being in first class, which happens to make me an ideal leader.
 * Harold: Gosh, you guys! That's totally a Chinese outfit!
 * Harold: Is it a reward or an elimination challenge?
 * Chris: (After Chef slices a hole in the plane and the entire cast falls out) We could've just landed the plane!
 * (The entire cast is falling off the plane and the music bell rings)
 * Harold: Japan! Yes! I know everything about this place!
 * Noah: (on why he can't go in the pinball game) Oh, I'm allergic to Panda's dander. I get hives...
 * Tyler: I love Japanese game shows!
 * Heather: Gwen's face could use some remodeling.
 * DJ: No!
 * DJ: (sobbing) I want to go home!
 * Cody: (pulling Sierra's gum out of his ear) Is this her gum? Eeeeewww!!!
 * (Chris shows the cast the japanese TDA trailer where their voices are dubbed over in english)
 * Courtney: Um... we can't all storm off together! It defeats the purpose!
 * Harold: It's "Sensei." Call me Sensei.
 * Sierra: O.M.G. I N.O.
 * Owen: Rawr! Monster noises!
 * Sierra: (to Team Amazon) Group hug! (Sierra hugs Cody; Heather, Gwen, and Courtney attempt to join, but Sierra pushes them away) Back off!
 * Owen: (stomping and causing the model city to shake) Owen stomp! Owen stomp good!


 * Owen: Rawr! Monster noises!

Tyler: (also awkwardly) We must ru-u-u-un! Noah: (lifelessly) Think of the childre-e-en. Izzy: (cheerfully) He's so ho-o-ot! Owen: I got really sweaty and now it won't come off... Lindsay: I know. I get it. (in the porta-potty confessional, voting someone off) This is a really good picture of me! (picks up her passport and hugs it, before leaving the confessional)  Harold: Wait! It was I who brought disorder to our team. Only one thing can restore the balance! (pulls out a green toy lightsaber and "stabs" himself with it) LeShawna! I think I will miss you... most of all. LeShawna: Harold, that's a toy lightsaber.
 * Alejandro: (awkwardly) Oh no! The large out of shape monste-e-er!
 * Tyler: We're done shooting, Owen. You can take the suit off.
 * Chris: It's vote time. Up in the loser class bathroom, you'll find five passports. Stamp the passports of the team member you wish to send home. Got it? Lindsay?
 * Chris: And the final bag goes to.... Har-
 * Chris: Wait! I think he's trying to say something. No, he's just screaming for his life.

Trivia

 * Running Gag(s): DJ hurting an animal, Lindsay not understanding the elimination despite telling Chris she does.


 * Lindsay doesn't vote for anyone in this episode.
 * This could be a running gag, as in the previous episode she said she understood the rules about eliminations, but she simply stamped all of the passports multiple times.
 * The scoreboard, during the challenge has only five places, but after Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot scores 462,000 points it has six places.
 * This is the first episode where Alejandro throws up.
 * This is the second time in Total Drama World Tour where someone quits.
 * This is also the third time in the series overall.
 * Ironically, everyone who quit is a male Killer Bass and a male Screaming Gaffer.
 * Due to Harold quitting, this season marks the first time that there has been more than one contestant quitting, as Total Drama Action only had one contestant quitting.
 * Harold was eliminated while wearing a samurai costume, making this the first time in the series in which a contestant is eliminated while wearing different clothes.
 * This is the first time someone has voted themselves off in Total Drama World Tour, and third time overall.
 * This is the fourth time someone voted themselves off, if DJ's quitting from Total Drama Action is counted.
 * This is the first time a contestant refers to the format of the challenge being either a reward or an elimination.
 * DJ was originally supposed to be voted off, but Harold decided to quit.
 * Ezekiel makes a brief cameo hiding with the cargo when Team Amazon is looking for props for their commercial.
 * Duncan is implied to have landed safely in this episode, as he is seen to have opened his parachute.
 * Harold mentions Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazaki during the filming of his team's commercial, making this the sixth mention of a real person.
 * The monster costume that Owen wears for the second challenge is a cross between the alien costume Chef wears in Alien Resurr-eggtion and the spider costume Chef wore in Phobia Factor to scare LeShawna with. Owen wears the alien costume's head and the spider costume's torso.
 * This is the third time in a row that someone is interrupted with a gong or cymbals in the middle of a conversation. In this case, Tyler and Harold. In Walk Like An Egyptian - Part 1, it was Harold and LeShawna, and in Walk Like An Egyptian - Part 2, it was Sierra and Noah.
 * No one uses the second confessional in this episode.
 * This is the first time the contestants have not used the second confessional.
 * In the same scene where Team Amazon was looking for props, Gwen mentioned Dr. Seuss.
 * This episode marks the first (and currently only) time in the season, and second time in the series overall, that three contestants of the same gender are eliminated consecutively. In this case, Duncan, Ezekiel, and Harold. The first time was with the respective eliminations of Beth, Sadie, and Courtney in Total Drama Island.
 * This is the first episode since The Aftermath: III that Duncan and Courtney's relationship was not brought up at all.
 * Ironically, while DJ quits the game to save someone else in Total Drama Action, someone quits to save him in this episode.
 * The captions on the Total Drama Action! promo transliterate to "Tante tsupa chishiino!", "poku, poku", "Kawaii!!" and "Sugoi!"
 * "Poku" is the Japanese onomotopeia for chewing.
 * "Kawaii" means cute, which is shown when Izzy is flirting with the alien.
 * "Sugoi" means cool, shown with the Gilded Chris Awards.
 * The lightsaber that Harold stabs himself with is a reference to Star Wars.
 * Due to Harold quitting, DJ is the last male on Team Victory. Ironically, DJ was the first male to leave on his team last season.
 * Duncan, Beth and Trent appear in the Total Drama Action Japanese commercial.
 * This is the second episode in the series, and the second episode in a row, where DJ is featured in the bottom two.
 * The horse that appeared in 3:10 to Crazytown, The Princess Pride, and Mutiny on the Soundstage appears once again in this episode, as a part of Team Victory's commercial.
 * Ironically, in the last challenge with Oriental theme, Harold was the winner; now he was the eliminated.

Goofs

 * For the closed captions, many of the lines are mislabeled during the off-screen argument between Gwen, Heather, and Courtney after they storm off.
 * When DJ is voting, Courtney's passport is seen on the sink, even though she is part of Team Amazon.
 * During DJ's Flashback, he was seen wearing an aluminum hat, however in the real episode, he wasn't.
 * Though DJ's memory was obviously exaggerated because he thought the mummy dog exploded and destroyed the entire the pyramid (even though LeShawna said that's not how it happened).
 * During Before We Die, Alejandro grabs Bridgette's hand but then he appears between Izzy and Lindsay.
 * Both Alejandro and Lindsay appear twice in the end circle. Though, LeShawna notices that Lindsay suddenly appeared on the other side of her, so it could've been that Lindsay was purposely put in the circle twice.
 * Even though they are in Japan, Chris has pandas, which are native to China.
 * However, Chris has been known to mix up Asian cultures, as seen in Crouching Courtney, Hidden Owen.
 * Also, Harold agknowledges Chris's mixing up Chinese and Japenese cultures earlier in the episode, meaning this may or may not have been intentional.
 * When LeShawna is holding DJ's passport in her hand, he is frowning in the picture, however when DJ is holding up his own passport, he is smiling in the picture.
 * In Team Victory's commercial, DJ's "D" symbol on his chest seems to disappear. Later in the commercial, however, it is visible.
 * When Owen is saying we wants to be a new food namer, he is moving upward. Though, this is impossible because he would be falling down.
 * Also, when DJ says he wants to make it home to see his mama, he moves upwards, but everyone else goes downwards.
 * Similar to the goof below, Owen and DJ were probably falling slower than the camera was so it would look like they were going upwards, when they were really just going downwards slower than the audience could see them.
 * Harold moves across the screen when he says he wants to be a ninja with throwing stars. Though, it is unknown how he could do that, since he would be falling.
 * The most scientific reason for this is that the camera and Harold are falling at the same rate, so Harold is still falling, but at the time as the camera.
 * When Alejandro says he wants to be a lion tamer and when he sings his lines at the beginning of the song, his hair seems to blow as if the wind was moving from the right to the left, even though everyone else's hair is blowing as if the wind was going upward. When he is in the circle, both times his hair is blowing as if the wind were blowing from left to right.
 * When Chris rings the bell, DJ, Izzy, Courtney, Heather and Alejandro are absent. Though, they could've been falling below the group, as they are seen below them once Courtney starts singing.
 * DJ is present during the song with the cast that was in the group shot once they start falling.
 * When stating what they want to do before they die, Alejandro and Courtney are seen falling from the top of the screen, though everyone who sang before them were above them. (Meaning LeShawna, Cody, DJ, Sierra, Bridgette, Lindsay and Gwen were all above them before everyone started stating what they wanted to do before they die)
 * Cody is mysteriously gone when Team Amazon is in first class.
 * When Alejandro, Harold and LeShawna appear out of the rice, no one is behind them. Yet, once it goes to the three of them in the same shot, Owen, Cody and DJ are sticking out of the bowl.
 * Twice in this episode, Chris leaves off a Really in Team Chris is Really Really Really Really Hot.
 * Ironically, in Walk Like An Egyptian - Part 2 he added two Really's to it.
 * When Harold is telling LeShawna what their commercial was a metaphor for, the bridge of his glasses disappears.
 * When Izzy says her line during her team's commercial her left arm disappears.