User blog comment:Smartbook/Random thoughts about Total Drama/@comment-25282541-20140827015707/@comment-24152851-20140827035428

If they just kicked Mike out in episode 2, then Cam and Zoey wouldn't have anywhere near that many problems. Making Zoey an over-effeminate girl with no dependency, and Cameron treating Mike like a specimen.

He should've been a one-shot gag character like Beardo, and to counter the offensiveness here's an alternative origin I came up with that still allowed his "personalities". Mike is a victim of hypnosis gone wrong, so every time he comes into contact with a trigger, he will revert into his hypnotic trance state.