User blog comment:Cody Kins TD Fan/Is Ed McDonald REALLY That Bad of a Writer?/@comment-17749720-20140808054254

Well I have heard he is fired now, so I don't think it matters much anymore if he really is/was a bad writer. But at least he didn't make any episode go all "One Coarse Meal" or anything. That would be terrible. Possibly ruin the show forever if something like that happened. Let's be happy Total Drama has never had an episode like that.

Though to be honest I'd also get on Ganetakos' case along with his. She co-wrote the last two episodes of TDAS and I swear that woman has some bias against Cody (Writing "Walk Like an Egyptian Part 2" where he got little screen time and nothing but camel farting/pooping on him and "Hawaiian Punch" where his overly sadistic elimination took place and once again he got limited screen time.). Only she has apparently wrote more good episodes than he has.

But yeah. I would say he wrote mostly duds, yes. Some of the worst episodes. He got rid of Duncan in a bad way right when he was almost turning nicer for a change, and also, I'm not so upset about Courtney's elimination as much I am the fact that we never even see Mal take the chart from her and only that he just magically has it and nobody even questions the possibility that he is framing Courtney.

Though the episodes that Alex and Terry wrote together after Courtney left were by far the worst of the season. Namely the Final Wreck-ening.

In my opinion, he isn't the worst writer in the history of television shows, some spongebob episode's writers nowadays should probably take that cake or at least slices of it. MacDonald might get the crumbs of that cake. He's not the best TD writer ever