Phobia Factor

'''Each of the campers face their worse fears...some conquer their fear, as a few others don't fare as well. Another person is voted off for being too chicken.'''

Recap
Picking up from the last episode where Katie was voted off, Sadie is still crying at the Dock of Shame with only Bridgette to keep her company. Bridgette insists that they come back to the group, and pulls Sadie away, who breaks away a plank of wood in the process, not wanting to leave. When Bridgette, and Sadie return to the Killer Bass by the campfire, they are joined by the Screaming Gophers who brought some leftovers from their tuck shop party; and then admit that they can't go back to their cabin since Owen farted in it, and they need to let it air out. Beth brings a green gelatin with a gummy worm inside to Courtney, who freaks out before rejecting the desert. Beth then brings it to DJ. DJ looks at the jelly, sees the gummy worm in it and panics, thinking it is a snake. After being shown that it is a gummy worm and not a snake, DJ apologizes for causing a scene, explaining that he's scared to death of snakes.

Tyler sympathizes, telling him that he's scared of chickens. Everyone starts talking about their greatest fears: Beth is scared of being covered in bugs, Harold is afraid of ninjas, and Heather is scared of sumo wrestlers. Courtney claims she isn't really afraid of anything, a claim that everyone meets with skepticism. Duncan gives the most off-the-wall fear of all: Celine Dion music store standees. After Trent admits to his fear of mimes, he insists that Courtney share her phobia, but Courtney firmly asserts that she has none. Duncan reminds her of how scared she was when he told his ghost story, causing her to get snippy.

At next morning's breakfast, Chris announces the next part of the challenge is a game he calls "Phobia Factor", where the campers will face their worst fears. LeShawna questions if it could be worse than breakfast. Chris calls Heather to the theater for sumo, causing Heather to spit out her drink in Trent's face; Chris then tells Gwen she's got a date with a few tons of sand. Lindsay asks how they could possibly know what their fears were, and Gwen tries in vain to explain the nature of a "reality show" to the ditzy blond. Chris calls out to Chef Hatchet asking about a special order for Tyler, and Chef passes Tyler a deep fried chicken; nervously, Tyler bites the head off the chicken shaped food item, only to have the head of a real live chicken pop out, scaring him.

The campers convene outside near a swimming pool full of worms, and it's up to Beth to take the plunge. Shrugging, Beth hops into the pool, submerging herself in the worms (even eating some of them). Gophers lead 1-0. Lindsay and Sadie, having revealed their worst fear being bad haircuts, are brought to the mess hall, while Chris brings two wigs for them to wear. Owen snatches one and tries it on, doing a little ballet dance before tripping and falling over; Chris takes the wig back, and plants them on the girls' heads. Izzy and Owen are taken to a yellow airplane that looks like it's on the verge of falling apart, piloted by flight attendant Hatchet. In the washrooms, Harold opens the stall door to see that he is surrounded by three ninjas; showing no fear, he whips out a Nunchaku and starts to spin it around, and while he looks like an expert, Harold hits himself on the head, and falls unconscious into the toilet (this is counted as a failure). Back outside, LeShawna encounters her worst fear, a spider, or more specifically, Chef in a large spider outfit, and she runs away screaming.At the theater, Heather faces off against a sumo wrestler. Too scared to even look at her opponent, Heather crouches into a ball; but the sumo wrestler trips over Heather and bounces into the distance. Gophers lead 2-0.

Bridgette starts a six hour-long seclusion in the woods around the camp, and while she acts like she can take it, she panics at the sight of a chipmunk at her feet, and kicks it all the way to the lake. At the beach, Gwen is in a Plexiglass box, being buried in sand; she only needs to stay there for 5 minutes, and Trent promises he'll stay right there with a walkie-talkie. Back at the theater, DJ is confronted with one of the smallest snakes in the world and he's terrified of it, especially when it blinks. The other Bass try to egg him on, especially Courtney, whose bossy demeanor has her demanding that DJ just pick up the snake; eventually, DJ reaches down and picks up the snake, conquering his fear. Bass are down 1-2.

With three minutes to go, Gwen is managing her challenge well enough, especially with Trent talking to her. To pass the time, she asks why he's so scared of mimes. Trent explains that when he was four years old, he went to the circus with his mom to see the elephants, and he was so busy watching them that he lost his mom in the crowd. Suddenly, a pale-faced mime appeared and started imitating him. He ran, but the mime followed and wouldn't stop doing his routine. All of a sudden, it's Trent's turn to face his fear; a mime sneaks up from behind and taps him on the shoulder. Frightened and freaked out, Trent screams and runs away, dropping his walkie talkie; Gwen has no idea what happened, but is now faced with enduring her greatest fear alone. Chris then takes Cody to his challenge, defusing a time bomb, which in this case is made out of a garbage can; Chris tells him he has 10 minutes to defuse it, and hands him a set of blueprints before running away. Back at camp, Duncan is faced with a life-sized cardboard cut-out of Celine Dion; Courtney tries to gently reassure him, which inspires Duncan to run towards the standee and hug it. Bass tie it up at 2-2. Courtney give Duncan a congratulatory hug, but quickly recoils when the heat of the moment wears off.

Trent is still being chased by the mime, who continues to do his mime bit, like being trapped in a box. Trent makes a run for the Dock of Shame and jumps in the water; when the mime tries to follow, Trent tells him that his makeup will run, so he gives up and leaves. Gophers lead 3-2.

Back on the beach, Geoff is lying in a chair for a nap when a small dark cloud appears overhead and starts pelting him with his worst fear: hail, which Geoff described as small but deadly. When the hail starts falling, Geoff runs away screaming, and the miniature hail cloud follows him around; Lindsay sees the cloud and thinks it's cute. Trent is watching Chris control the cloud by remote, and asks if it can go lower and pelt him harder; Chris calls Trent sick, but he gladly agrees. Chris then says he's going to bury Geoff in hail, which reminds Trent that he forgot about Gwen. Out in the woods, Bridgette is holding her own, but still has over 4 hours to go, and then she hears an explosion. While Chris and Trent are digging up Gwen, they hear the explosion, and Chris figures that the explosion was Cody blowing himself up, therefore failing his challenge. A seriously-injured and garbage-covered Cody wanders through the woods looking for help, eventually stumbling upon Bridgette, who is scared away (making her fail her challenge). At the beach, Gwen is alright, and throws the walkie talkie at Trent out of anger for abandoning her. Gophers lead 4-2. Elsewhere, the plane lands, and Izzy and Owen get out, just before the wings fall off; while they conquered their fear, they are glad to be back on land. Gophers lead 6-2. Lindsay and Sadie are in the washroom after wearing the wigs all day, and take them off; then compliment each other on how cute they both look. Gophers lead 7-3.

Outside, Tyler is given another chance by being placed in a chicken pen for three minutes. Tyler gets in, but quickly ends up in a corner in a fetal position. Courtney shouts at him to stop acting like a girl, but Cody points out that the Bass are too far behind to win anyway. Chris then sweetens the pot, saying that the Bass still have one challenge left, and he'll make it worth triple their current score. The last challenge is Courtney's and even though she didn't say what her fear was, the tape clearly shows her aversion to green gelatin, which she later says looks like snot. Courtney is brought to a swimming pool full of green jelly, and a diving board; her challenge is to dive in for the tripled points.

Courtney climbs up to the unusually-high diving board, and the Killer Bass try to coax her into jumping, while the Screaming Gophers try to freak her out; while looking down, Courtney decides can't go through with it and chickens out, costing the Bass the challenge. While Courtney (literally) beats herself up over losing the challenge, Owen sits in the green jelly, enjoying it.

At the campfire ceremony, Chris is down to the last three marshmallows, between Bridgette, Courtney, and Tyler; Chris is chewing them out for failing their challenges. Chris gives the next marshmallow to Bridgette and after a few seconds of drama, the last goes to Courtney. Tyler is sent to the Dock of Shame, while his former teammates (and Chris) taunt him with various bird related puns. While crying on the Boat of Losers, a humiliated Tyler finds himself surrounded by several chickens. He screams. Lastly, Lindsay is in the confessional, who seems to be okay with Tyler leaving, says that she'll never forget their time together, and accidentally refers to him as Taylor, but quickly corrects herself, then blows a kiss and says good bye to him.

Fear Results

 * Challenge 1: Campers were to participate in facing their worst fears. Each team member that faces their worst fear gains a point for their team. The winning team receives invincibility from the campfire ceremony.


 * Screaming Gophers
 * Owen and Izzy: Fly in a plane. (Both conquered)
 * LeShawna: Face Chef in a spider costume. (Failed)
 * Heather: Face a sumo wrestler. (Technically conquered)
 * Lindsay: Wear an ugly wig for the whole day. (Conquered)
 * Beth: Swim in a pool full of worms. (Conquered)
 * Trent: Try to get rid of a mime. (Technically conquered)
 * Gwen: Lay in a glass coffin buried in sand for five minutes. (Conquered)
 * Cody: Disarm a bomb that is connected to a bunch of garbage cans. (Failed)
 * Killer Bass
 * Geoff: Have a hail cloud follow him. (Failed)
 * Bridgette: Spend six hours in the woods. (Failed)
 * DJ: Touch a small snake. (Conquered)
 * Duncan: Hug a Celine Dion standee. (Conquered)
 * Courtney: Jump into a pool full of green jello. (Failed)
 * Harold: Face a group of ninjas. (Technically Conquered)
 * Sadie: Wear an ugly wig for the whole day. (Conquered)
 * Tyler: Spend three minutes in a pen with a group of chickens. (Failed)

Cast
Harold, Chef, and Beth appear, but do not have any lines. Heather doesn't speak either; only gasps.

Quotes

 * Chris: (while doing the recap) Last time on Total Drama Island, the campers had their survival skills put through the test when they spent the entire night in the woods. Katie and Sadie's friendship restrained when Katie sends a direction got them totally lost. Duncan's mad ghost story telling skills freaked out the Killer Bass, and Izzy played a prank on the Gophers by dressing up as a bear. Unfortunately, a real bear showed up and the Gophers spent the night up in the tree, which really stunk for them. Cody peed in his pants, and then it rained. Basically, nobody got any sleep last night. Ultimately, the Killer Bass were the ones on the chopping block, leaving Katie without a marshmallow.
 *  (Sadie is still crying on the dock, continuing from the previous episode) Bridgette: Katie would want you to keep going! Come on, let's go back and join the others. (pulls Sadie, but Sadie resists) Sadie: No! Katie, I miss you...! (she ends up pulling a chunk of wood with her when she is finally detached from the Dock of Shame. She walks with Bridgette to rejoin the Killer Bass, still crying about Katie and carrying the lumber) Bridgette: ... It was a long goodbye. (the Screaming Gophers arrive to meet the opposing team) Courtney: What do you guys want? Come by to rub it in? Trent: We got some extra dessert after our Tuck Shop party... thought you might want some. Courtney: So, what? You're just being "nice"? Gwen: Okay, Owen stank up our cabin and we need some time to air out. Owen: (farts) Trent: Eww! Dude!


 * (Beth offers Courtney a plate of green jelly with a gummy worm inside it) Courtney: No!! - I mean... no thanks; I'm good. Duncan: What, are you on a diet or something? Courtney: No! I just don't like green jelly, okay?!


 * Gwen: (in confessional) So suddenly everyone's having this big share-fest around the fire. Like Beth went on and on that her mortal fear is being covered by bugs. Harold's afraid of ninjas, even Heather admitted that she's afraid of sumo wrestlers!


 * Gwen: What's my worst fear? I guess being buried alive. Lindsay: Walking through a minefield. In heels. Owen: Flying, man! That is some crazy stuff. Izzy: Oh, I would never get into plane. Never! Geoff: I'm scared of hail. It's small but deadly, dude. Bridgette: Being left alone in the woods. Sadie: (sniffs) Bad haircuts. Lindsay: Okay, I change mine! That's so much scarier than a minefield. Cody: ... Having to defuse a time bomb under pressure. Courtney: I'm not really afraid of anything. Duncan: (coughs) Baloney. Courtney: Oh really? Well, what exactly is your phobia, Mr. Know-It-All? (All of the other campers look at Duncan expectantly) Duncan: (quietly) ...C-Celine Dion music store standees. Cody: Uh, exsqueeze me? I didn't quite catch that! Trent: (laughs) Dude, did you say Celine Dion music store standees? (Duncan cowers in fear) Lindsay: Ooh, I love Celine Dion! ... What's a standee? Trent: You know, that cardboard cutout thing that stands in the music store. Duncan: Don't say it, dude! Trent: Kind of like a life-sized but flat Celine. Courtney: (looking slyly to Duncan) So if we had a cardboard standee right now... Duncan: Shut up! (points to the others) Wh-what about you guys? Trent: Okay, well, I hate mimes. Like, a lot. (Courtney rolls her eyes) Okay, Courtney, you're afraid of something. Spit it out. Courtney: Nope! Nothing. Duncan: (chuckles to the other guys, inferring to the previous episode) That's not what she said last night.


 * Chris: Campers, your next challenge is a little game I like to call "Phobia Factor". Prepare to face your worst fears. LeShawna: Worse than this? (points at the food they're eating) Gwen: We're in trouble.


 * (Gwen is getting buried) Trent: There's enough air in there for an hour. You only have to do five minutes. Chris: As long as we decide to dig you up... Gwen: Not funny, Chris! Chris: Sheesh, take a pill.


 * DJ: (about the snake) Aaah! It blinked! Sadie: It means she likes you.


 * Courtney: We need this point, DJ! Suck it up!! (Duncan, Harold, Geoff, and Tyler shake their heads) Courtney: What? We're heading back to Loserville, people.


 * Trent: (through a walkie-talkie) You still alive in there? Only three more minutes. Gwen: And then you'll dig me up right? Trent: Don't worry. I'm not going anywhere. I promise. Gwen: I need some kind of distraction. Tell me a story. Why do you hate mimes so much? Trent: (sighs) My mom took me to this carnival once when I was four so I could see the elephants. I was stoked. Gwen: Yeah? Trent: I was so busy watching them that I lost her for a minute. I called out, but when I turned, all I could see was this horrible white face with black lips pretending to be me. I screamed and tried to run, but every time I turned around, he was there doing this creepy fake running and screaming routine.


 * (Duncan has to hug a Celine Dion music store standee) Tyler: Dude, she's made of cardboard! Get in the game!!


 * Lindsay: (after seeing Geoff being chased by a hail cloud) Look, that cloud is following him. Awww, it's like his own baby cloud. I want one, too! Here, cloudy-cloud!


 * Trent: Can you make the cloud go lower and pelt him harder? Chris: You are one sick dude! But yeah. (triggers the remote, causing the hail cloud to pelt Geoff harder) Trent: Ah, that's awesome. Hey, do you ever feel like you've forgotten something? Chris: Sometimes. I usually ignore it and the feeling goes away. Haha, watch this, I'm gonna bury him in hail! Trent: Bury?! Oh, crap! Gwen!
 * Bridgette: Oh, don't even bother trying to freak me out producer-people! ''(Explosion, Bridgette looks with a surprised expression with her mouth open)
 * Trent: (a loud explosion is heard) What was that?! Chris: If I had to guess, I'd say Cody just blew himself up. Cody: (covered in garbage, walking like a zombie) Oops. Anyone here? Girls...? Ladies...? Anyone?!


 * Duncan: You're afraid of jelly? Courtney: Shut up! Only the green kind. It's like sugary, jiggly snot!


 * Courtney: (in confessional) I am so embarrassed. How can I be so weak?! I deserve to go home... Okay, stop it! You're pathetic! Show some confidence, Courtney... (she starts crying and then slaps herself in the face)


 * Chris: (as Tyler leaves) Looks like a new pecking order has been established. Duncan: It's not like he can cry fowl. Geoff: Time for Tyler to fly the coop! Bridgette: He won't be flying high tonight! Courtney: Okay, that's enough!


 * (In the Confessional stall) Lindsay: Aww, I'll never forget our time together, Taylor- uh, Tyler. (blows Tyler a good-bye kiss) Bye!

Trivia

 * Title Reference: This episode title and content parodies the TV Show, Fear Factor. (Note that "phobia" is simply another word for "fear".)
 * Unedited, the episode is rated TV-PG S.
 * All dialog edits can be seen on the Edits page.
 * The final marshmallow went to Courtney in this episode.
 * The campers in the Confessional stall for this episode were Gwen, Bridgette, Courtney, and Lindsay.
 * This marks the fourth loss for the Killer Bass.
 * This episode marks the first time where the episode picks up immediately after the previous one.
 * Lindsay and Sadie's fears were the same, took off their wigs together, and Lindsay tells Sadie how pretty she is. This is similar to her friendship with Katie. Coincidentally, both Katie and Lindsay are tall and thin and share the same actress.
 * The wigs Sadie and Lindsay wore looked like the wig Heather wears after shaving her hair.
 * This episode marks the first time that Courtney seems to return Duncan's feeling for her since when Duncan has to face his fear she is sweet to him and tells him that it doesn't matter if he can't do it (in contrast to her anger towards losing and telling Duncan that she hated him in The Sucky Outdoors). When Duncan does face his fear Courtney runs to him and hugs him tight, then she begins to cuddle with him until she realizes there's people around, causing her to let go of him and blush. This may be the episode that Courtney starts to form a crush on Duncan, but he at this point had a crush on her already.
 * This episode is one of the three episodes to reference a real life person, in this episode, it was Celine Dion.
 * More hints of Duncan's sensitive nature are revealed in this episode: Duncan positively encourages DJ to face his fear, while Courtney yells at him to do it, as they need the win. After Courtney finishes yelling at DJ, Duncan shakes his head disapprovingly with the other Killer Bass.
 * The Killer Bass actually have an unfair disadvantage during this challenge. The scores were counted on how many people could conquer their fear, but the Killer Bass have only eight people while the Screaming Gophers have nine. The only possible way for the Bass to win (had Chris not offered triple points) is if two or more Gophers backed out than Bass.
 * Chris offers Courtney triple points if she completes her challenge, many people thought this meant he would give them 3 points instead of 1. But he actually meant he would triple their current points. If Courtney had completed her challenge, the Bass would have won 9 to 7.
 * LeShawna is the only camper who never mentioned what her worst fear was at the campfire, but it was revealed the next day that she is afraid of spiders.
 * On the Boat of Losers, Tyler is surrounded by chickens as he leaves the island. This is the first time something or someone awaits the eliminated camper on the boat.
 * This is the only episode in which Heather does not speak (though she does gasp when Gwen tries to scare Courtney during her green jelly challenge).
 * It is possible that Beth was able to complete her challenge so easily because she knows that worms are not bugs and thus is not afraid of them.
 * The characters whom screamed in this episode were: Tyler (chickens), LeShawna (spiders), Owen and Izzy (flying in a plane), DJ (snakes), Trent (mimes), Geoff (hailstorm) Bridgette (Cody as monster), and Heather (sumo wrestler).
 * Heather teachnically does not conquer her fear because she tries to avoid the wrestler.
 * Trent also avoids his fear and merely states the mime can't get wet, thus driving it away, but Trent is clearly still scared of the mime.
 * This is the first episode that shows Gwen's claustrophobia.
 * With Tyler's elimination, Cody is the only remaining contestant voiced by Peter Oldring.
 * Cody's challenge where he has to deactivate the garbage bomb is exactly what the castmates of Total Drama Action have to do in the season two episode, Dial M For Merger.
 * Though, It was a stink bomb in that episode.
 * This is the first of three episodes in the series to feature fear. The next two were Hook, Line, and Screamer and The Sand Witch Project.
 * Gwen, Cody, and Lindsay all had fears that they would probably never encounter.
 * Gwen's fear (being buried alive) could go either ways depending on how you see it
 * Cody's fear (deactivating a time bomb) will probably never happen to him, but his real fear could have been pressure altogether, he was just giving a specific example
 * Lindsay's first fear (walking through a mine field in high heels) will realistically never come true. Her fear could have been fearing unexpected explosions, if you interpret it that way.

Goofs

 * Lindsay's Name Goof(s): She calls Tyler "Taylor" at the end of the marshmallow ceremony, but quickly corrects herself.
 * LeShawna faces off against Chef in a spider costume, but at the same time, Izzy and Owen are up in a plane, which is also piloted by Chef.
 * Owen can be seen when Heather takes on the sumo wrestler, even though he is still in the plane. It is possible that she wasn't facing her fear at the same time when Owen was facing his.
 * When Gwen is first being buried, Lindsay is watching her with the "bad haircut" on, but when Chris says "As long as we decide to dig you up", the wig disappears.
 * Lindsay is talking to Harold about Courtney lying about her fear, then smiles with him and other Bass members when Chris says something. Lindsay is a Gopher, and therefore would not be happy if Courtney won or talk to Harold unless she forgot her team, or is friends with Harold and Courtney.
 * The above goofs happen during a montage sequence however, meaning that they are not necessarily happening concurrently.
 * Harold was not seen at the campfire ceremony.
 * Originally, Gwen said in the confessional "Beth went on and on how about how her mortal fear's being covered by bugs." Later in the flashback, her line is "Beth went on about..." with only one "on".
 * Trent says that he saw a horrible white face with black lips. But when we see the mime, he has dark red lips. However, he may be just be afraid of mimes mimicking him.
 * DJ claims that the snake he is supposed to touch blinked. This is impossible in real life, since snakes do not have eyelids.
 * At the marshmallow ceremony, Chris points out to Bridgette, Courtney, and Tyler that they did not complete their challenges. Harold and Geoff also did not complete their challenges, but Chris did not point them out (they may have already gotten their marshmallows).
 * Although Beth's fear was being covered in bugs, she ended up getting covered in worms, which are technically not bugs.