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 cast-mate and the remaining seven, revealing a foreshadow. But, 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. All of the competitors emerge from their trailers to find that they are eating pasta for breakfast, and that they will be competing in a sport-themed challenge.

Their first part of the challenge is conditioning, where Chris decides who to put them up against in the challenges that really count. Harold and Lindsay end up coming in last in the conditioning, and they are pinned against each other in boxing. Lindsay knocks Harold out, in the end, but Harold wins despite, due to his use of slow-motion.

The next challenge put Beth against Heather in badminton. Before the challenge, Chris felt the need to mention his role in a badminton movie. In that competition, Heather lost to Beth, as Beth was motivated by her anger at the Gaffer's insults that were aimed towards her. Then, after the competition, Beth, while angry at LeShawna, reveals that she earlier saw a video of LeShawna saying bad things about all of the other competitors on her way to the spa. 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's "a-game" was easily swayed by his feeling for Courtney, thus ruining his ability to play well. Duncan lost to Courtney due to this, despite his attempts to play normally. Courtney was very proud of her victory.

LeShawna was put up against Justin in a "Slam-dunk" challenge. They tied in the competition as their slam-dunks were equally creative. Both of their teams earned one point, which 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. Instead of the entire Gaffer team cheering, LeShawna cheered by herself, as a way of apologizing to the other competitors. 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, 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.

Quotes

 * Justin: That's it, I'm moving to Canada. 'Cept I'm already there...
 * Chris: Today's competition is gonna require sweat, guts, heart, and sweat. Heather: You said sweat twice.
 * Chris: Today, you're all going to give two-hundered percent in out exciting sports movie challenge. Harold: You are aware that two-hundered percent is a mathmatical impossibility.
 * Justin: We've got to push spiced-up Chef like he's a football dummy? 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?!
 * 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... Harold: (to Duncan) Sound's like you're up! Chris: Harold!
 * Courtney: (to Lindsay) Play dirtier! Duncan: (giggles) Courtney: What?! Duncan: I like when you talk like that.
 * Justin: (holding a Badmiton racket) Hey, it's a miniature tennis racket. Where are the miniture tennis ball and why is the net so stupidly high? 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.
 * 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 those Olympic commities we deserve a chance. She them, it's not bad minton, it's goodminton. Heck, it's greatminton! Now get out there and win one for the Flipper!
 * Heather: LeShawna just told it like it is. I don't see what the big deal it. I do it all the time. Lindsay: She called you mean and nasty! Heather: I can live with that.
 * 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? Ugly.
 * Duncan: (to himself) Just compete. Just compete, just compete.
 * Courtney: How long since these things have been washed?
 * Duncan: (in confessional) I dunno, the kid called me "mama" and it threw off my A-Game. (off-screen laughter) Duncan: What?! Am I funny to you?! Well come over here and you can laugh to my face!
 * Courtney: Pom-poms?! Harold: Where there are Pom-poms, there are Pom-pom girls.
 * Harold: Oh, oh! I got it! Let's cheer for Norbert Swindlow! Heather: Who? Harold: The inventor of the pom-pom. Duh.

Trivia

 * Title Reference: This episode's title is a reference to the 2004 film, Million Dollar Baby.
 * This episode marks the first time that Heather was voted out of the Total Drama Series.
 * As of Heather's elimination, none of the final three from last season are still in the competition.
 * Harold, Duncan and LeShawna all voted for Heather to be eliminated. Heather voted for LeShawna. (Ironically, this is the first 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 bothPaintball 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!, for Geoff in Trial by Tri-Armed Triathlon. In Total Drama Action she voted for 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" 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.

Goofs

 * LeShawna comes in first for the Gaffers in the challenge preparation, but she is seen struggling the most.
 * Oddly, LeShawna mentioned bad things about Heather, Lindsay, Justin, Duncan, Beth, and Harold. However, she did not mention anything bad about Owen and Izzy. It is very unlikely that she had nothing bad to say about them, and she probably did not know they would be eliminated, either. This is obviously an error.