Cartoon Network

Cartoon Network is the only television channel that airs Total Drama Island, Total Drama Action, and Total Drama World Tour in the United States. Its programing mostly consists of cartoons, as the name implies, but has recently aired occasional live-action shows. Total Drama Island has been one of the first Cartoon Network shows that have been rated TV-PG, even though it was created by Teletoon.

Total Drama Island used to air on the network's Har Har Tharsdays before June 11, 2009, once it was replaced by the second season of Total Drama, which was Total Drama Action. Total Drama World Tour now runs as part of Cartoon Network's Monday night 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. While the animation was completely untouched, there were a numerous edits made to the dialogue. This has resulted in dubbing errors throughout the entire first season. The dialogue edits were made because of the words in the show that were considered too offensive by Cartoon Network. Examples of these words include "suck" (often replaced by "stink"), "crap" (often replaced by "shoot" and "crud"), and "boobies" (edited out altogether or replaced with "chest"). 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 been rated L ("infrequent language") and the S ("some sexual situations"). However, starting with Total Drama Action, many episodes were barely edited. In Total Drama World Tour, only censored lines were cut out, with the bleeps being replaced with other words. Also, for the first time, an entire scene was cut from an episode. In Broadway, Baby!, a scene was removed from the episode due to it degrading one of the country's most important symbols (The Statue of Liberty), and/or its overall inappropriateness.

Other Info
Almost every single episode of Total Drama Island was censored in some way by Cartoon Network, despite putting up a TV-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 which has the same similar dialog content, is completely unedited except for one phrase that included the word "scorniest" (it was later changed to "scoring-est"), and the pilot episode, where Jonesy said "Getting to 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. Some episodes of Total Drama Action have shown that Cartoon Network's edits are getting lighter and lighter, possibly because their viewers are getting older.

Chris hosted a special 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.

Total Drama Island and every season following it has been aired in a widescreen 16x9 aspect ratio on Teletoon (in Canada) and at least Total Drama World Tour has been broadcast the same way on ABC3 in Australia. However, in the United States, every Total Drama series has been cropped to a 3x4 aspect ratio, which was the norm for all TV shows before the era of HDTV. However, by now Cartoon Network has been gradually airing several other shows in their proper 16x9 ratio; why they continue to crop the Total Drama series is unknown. Though most of the time the cropping has not affected the viewing experience of the show, there are certain scenes that will look completely off-focus due to the cropping, such as a certain scene in Beach Blanket Bogus where Chris is about to use his automated machine gun to fire seagulls at Gwen.

Cartoon Network allows for viewing Total Drama episodes via their website, however their video player is built for widescreen ratio presentation. To get around this with their cropped editions of the episodes, all of the footage is stretched out, enlarged, and cropped even more to create the illusion that the episodes are in widescreen format. Sometimes, it can look fairly convincing if the scenes are simple and focused on the center. However, in other scenes like Chris and Chef at the airport in The Aftermath: IV blatantly show the consequences of stretching the episode's footage to give a faux widescreen effect.

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 has 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 a ball 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 an object 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 were retired as well with the logo in May of 2010.

CHECK it Era
After the noods were 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 advertisements 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, H-Bomb's Killah Beatz, Flight Simmerator, Chomp Sewey, Total Pandamonium, Splat! Oberfest, Oh No U Di'n't!!!, and Total Drama Island: Totally Interactive.

Applications
Starting on August 2nd, 2010, Total Drama applications by Cartoon Network became available on iTunes for download. The first one was an iPod touch version of the Total Pandamonium game. It is also available for iPad/iPhone, you can get it from the Apps Store.

FusionFall
FusionFall is an online game created by Cartoon Network. The game features Cartoon Network characters and lets you customize your avatar.

The game also features codes which allow you to obtain clothes and weapons for your avatar. Such items based on Total Drama World Tour include:


 * The shirts of the three teams of Total Drama World Tour.
 * DJ's shirt.
 * Duncan's shirt.
 * Leshawna's shirt.
 * Owen's shirt.
 * Trent's shirt.

The Total Drama World Tour Facebook Page's Fart Blaster
In this Fart Blaster, you can send different kinds of farts to your Facebook friends. Some of the farts available to send are:
 * Northern Explosion
 * Grand Central Gasser
 * El Farto Supremo
 * Crumpet Trumpet
 * Parisian Poot
 * Stinky Sphinxy
 * Tokyo Toot
 * Deep Sea Doody

After you pick the kind of fart you want to send, you will have to pick the friend you will want to send it to. They will then get a notification that you have blasted them.

Goofs

 * On Cartoon Network Video, the logo for Total Drama Island has Trent's Camp TV design. It is also seen in the Cartoon Network Valentine's day game.
 * Also, when you view the Total Drama Island video for The Very Last Episode, Really!, it's incorrectly entitled, "The Very Last, Really!"
 * Also, Awwwwww, Drumheller has fifteen w's instead of just six.
 * The summary for Haute Camp-ture on the Total Drama Island website has nothing to do with the episode; instead, it summarizes the original episode plot, which was a modeling contest.