Picnic at Hanging Dork

'''The remaining eight contestants travel to Australia, where tension really flares after a past incident. Two people's strategy to weaken an opponent proves to work well, while the other team is divided into two alliances. In the end, due to someone's error, courtesy of a bully, another person takes the Drop of Shame after losing a tie-breaker challenge.'''

Plot
During the ride to their next destination, more tension grows amongst the members of Team Amazon. Courtney and Gwen are both trying to secure alliances with their teammates in order to vote the other off the game. With Courtney guaranteed Sierra's vote and Cody's total allegiance guaranteed towards Gwen, Heather becomes the potential swing vote on the team. Meanwhile, the remaining boys on Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot make plans on how to take down Team Amazon. Owen suggests that Alejandro uses his flirtatious charm, since it got Bridgette and Leshawna booted out, which makes Alejandro nervous because his teammates know about his evil ways. Duncan suggests that if he flirts with Courtney, it will distract her and upset Heather at the same time, which will effectively bring down Team Amazon's strongest players. Alejandro agrees with Duncan, who later explains in a confessional that if the plan succeeds, Courtney will be eliminated, getting rid of his ex-girlfriend, or if it fails, he has a good reason to vote Alejandro off.

In the cockpit, Chef Hatchet announces that for some reason, the landing gear isn't working properly, much to Chris' disbelief. It is then revealed that a sleeping Ezekiel, sucking his thumb, had nested underneath the Total Drama Jumbo Jet's wheels, preventing the landing gear from deploying normally. As landing is now impossible, the contestants are forced to jump off the plane into the Australian outback. They will then compete in a challenge in catching one of several emus provided, and then ride them to Hanging Rock. Unfortunately, this journey will take almost two days. Courtney gives a half-hearted effort at throwing the challenge by pretending to be unable to catch an emu, but is foiled as Alejandro brings her an emu himself. While she doesn't like the help in the challenge, she doesn't mind Alejandro's attention. Heather then starts to flirt with Duncan, as her own private revenge. As Duncan finally mounts his emu, but is almost thrown off as Cody knocks him over as he passes by, Duncan yells at Cody angrily, but Cody only blows a raspberry in response.

The next day, Duncan charges at Cody and tries to punch him, but misses his swing and gets knocked flat by a kangaroo's kick. Chef has carved himself a didgeridoo while he and Chris wait for the contestants. Alejandro arrives first, followed shortly by Heather, Courtney and Cody. Duncan arrives via the kangaroo's pouch. Gwen and Sierra finally arrive and Team Amazon wins the advantage in the next challenge: battery-powered sheep shearers instead of rusty garden shears. Chris doesn't let the boys go back for Owen, forced to wait for his arrival.

The teams are tasked to bungee jump off the cliff to grab a sheep and shear it. Only six sheep have a brand on them, three for each team. The team has to uncover their own brand to win. While Courtney is preparing to jump, Gwen approaches Heather about voting off Courtney. Heather agrees to it quickly. While shearing the first sheep, Team Amazon is forced to sing Shear the Sheep.

Duncan offers to help Alejandro with winning Courtney's trust, and they fake a spat over his flirtations. Owen arrives, just as the first sheep is shown bare: no mark. Sierra offers to go next, but jumps off the cliff without a bungee cord. She is incapacitated for the rest of the competition. Owen grabs a dingo from the pile. Alejandro continues to flirt with Courtney, and Duncan pretends to cry, which also distracts Gwen. Alejandro tries to help Courtney win, but she admits that she wants to lose this competition, which pleases Alejandro. As Cody is about to jump, Duncan finally gets his revenge by throwing Owen's dingo at him, knocking both of them off the cliff. Cody panics as he falls, which results in him thrashing around and getting himself and the dingo tangled up in the line, spinning him around wildly and making him extremely dizzy.

Duncan jumps and easily grabs a sheep. Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot shaves it, and their team logo is shown, meaning they won the challenge and immunity. Team Amazon, due to losing, is forced to go to the Barf Bag Ceremony. Courtney asks Heather if she is clear on the plan, and gets Heather to assure her she'd vote with her, to which Heather was lying about. Chris goes on to state what the contestants did that episode, and a reason why they could be eliminated. He calls Cody up to vote, who is still delirious due to his dingo-attack. The others proceed to vote after him.

At the voting, the vote is divided 2-2-1 for Courtney, Gwen, and Sierra respectively. Since Courtney and Gwen tied for the most votes, they will have to compete in a tie-breaker competition: feed a starving koala cub eucalyptus leaves, without their hands. Due to Gwen's eucalyptus allergy and Courtney's babysitting experience, Gwen loses by a hair and takes the Drop of Shame. Moments before she falls, she insults Courtney by telling her to "suck it," then takes the fall while Courtney listens on with much joy.

Exclusive clip
Gwen is seen taking the Drop of Shame, saying it's unfair that she was eliminated because of her allergy. She then states that Courtney is going to pay the next time she sees her. After that, she lands in a forest in Australia, where she sees a kangaroo which attacks her badly.

Cast

 * Ezekiel made a cameo appearance underneath the plane's wheel, but he did not speak.

General

 * Ezekiel makes a cameo appearance underneath the plane's wheel, preventing the landing gear from coming down, but does not speak, merely sucking his thumb in his sleep.
 * As of this episode, each of the three teams has lost at least one player.
 * With Gwen's elimination, the two models used for Team Victory's Walk-Off challenge have been eliminated back-to-back.
 * With Gwen's elimination, all Screaming Gaffer members (except Heather) have been eliminated from Total Drama World Tour before the merge.
 * However, Duncan did return and ended up making it to the merge.
 * In this episode, Gwen reveals that she is allergic to eucalyptus, making her the sixth contestant to have an allergy to something.
 * Leshawna states, and shows due to Heather, that she's allergic to pineapples in If You Can't Take The Heat... and mentions to be lactose intolerant in One Flu Over the Cuckoos.
 * Harold states being "violently allergic to crab apples" in Who Can You Trust?, but in Basic Straining, he is seen drinking what he thought was apple juice when it was kitchen grease, courtesy of Duncan.
 * Ezekiel reveals to have a peanut allergy in Walk Like An Egyptian - Part 1.
 * Cody, as revealed by Sierra, goes into anaphylactic shock when he comes in contact with various bug bites and goat saliva in The Am-AH-Zon Race.
 * Ironically, Duncan indirectly caused the elimination of his girlfriend by making Cody get dizzy; this resulted in Cody inadvertently voting off Sierra, causing a tiebreaker, in which Courtney won.
 * Additionally, Cody also plays a role in her elimination as he started the fight between him and Duncan.
 * When the plane flips over, you can see a bag of Chef Hatchet's Total Drama Yum Yum Happy Go Time Candy Fish Tails falling out.
 * As of this episode, Total Drama World Tour has been to every permanently inhabited continent.
 * Gwen suffers her worst injuries of the series in this episode. She hugs a cactus, receives allergic reaction from eucalyptus, got scratched by a koala and later, a kangaroo kicks her in the face.
 * In this episode, Gwen's behavior was out of character, oppose of her usual kinder self. This include her:
 * Using Cody's feelings for her in order to get his support by pretending to be hurt.
 * Insulting Courtney once last time before taking the Drop of Shame.
 * Complaining about her elimination, saying its unfair in the exclusive clip.
 * This is most probably due to her being hurt by Duncan's fake crying, causing her to behave so.
 * This is the only episode sixteen of the series that Leshawna does not form an alliance in due to her getting eliminated before episode sixteen.
 * Heather and Alejandro are the only contestants in this episode not to be injured in some way:
 * Duncan was beaten up by a kangaroo and swallowed by an emu.
 * Gwen hugged a cactus, received an allergic reaction and was attacked by a koala bear.
 * Sierra jumped off of the cliff without a harness, and had to be pulled from the challenge.
 * Owen was attacked by a dingo.
 * Cody was also attacked by a dingo.
 * Courtney was attacked by a koala bear during the tie-breaker challenge.

Continuity

 * This is the third episode Team Amazon loses a challenge in Total Drama World Tour. The others are The Am-AH-Zon Race and Newf Kids on the Rock.
 * This is the first time Team Amazon lost when Team Victory wasn't in the game.
 * This is the first time that Team Amazon have actually faced a legitimate elimination; they were psyched out with a fake elimination earlier in the season, in The Am-AH-Zon Race.
 * Gwen is the first member of Team Amazon to be eliminated. Coincidentally, she was the first member voted off on her team last season, too.
 * This is the first time that an elimination vote has ended in a tie, resulting in a tiebreaker.
 * It's also the second tie-breaker for an elimination. The first one is for Team Victory in Can't Help Falling in Louvre.
 * This marks the third appearance of Chef's autopilot, seen at the very end of the episode.
 * This is the first time in the series that Cody (and technically Alejandro, Courtney and Sierra) have lasted longer than Gwen, the second time for Duncan and Heather, and the third time for Owen (if he beats Gwen in his ending of Total Drama Island).
 * This episode marks Sierra's first major injury when she fell off the cliff without a bungee cord.
 * This is also the first time where a contestant received a major injury and was not eliminated in the same episode.
 * This episode marks the end of Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot's three challenge losing streak to Team Amazon.
 * This is the second episode where a contestant accidentally votes for someone they didn't mean to.
 * The first is when Lindsay accidentally voted herself off in Rock n' Rule.
 * This is the third episode in a row where Duncan is hurt by someone or something. In this case, a kangaroo.
 * In Greece's Pieces, he was mauled by a bear and punched and knocked out by Cody.
 * In The EX-Files, he was kicked in the groin by Courtney when she broke up with him, zapped by a laser and electrocuted by an alien in Area 51.
 * This is the first even numbered episode to have a contestant eliminated since Anything Yukon Do, I Can Do Better.
 * This is the first sixteenth episode of a season to have a contestant eliminated since Total Drama Island, as the sixteenth episode of Total Drama Action was a reward challenge.
 * This marks the first episode of Total Drama World Tour in which a member of season one's final three is eliminated.
 * Like in season two, the first one to go is Gwen.
 * This is the first episode since Are We There Yeti? in which Heather flirts with Duncan.
 * This is the fourth episode the eliminated contestant was not pushed or thrown by somebody else while taking the Drop of Shame.

Goofs

 * At the Barf Bag Ceremony, once Chef opens the plane door, Sierra's ponytail vanishes for the remainder of the episode.
 * When Sierra checks on Cody while he's in the confessional and says, "Cody? Are you okay in there?" the captions say that Gwen says it.
 * Both of the interns who were thrown off the plane in a previous episode are shown to be perfectly safe in this episode.
 * After Cody grabs the first sheep for Team Amazon, Courtney's eyebrows are missing.
 * Duncan's nose piercing switches sides twice.
 * Also, when he is about to start fake crying he has two piercings on his right ear where he usually has one. A moment later, one of them disappears.
 * When Chris calls Cody to cast his vote, Cody, after falling off the benches, is seen walking past Chris from his right instead of from his left.
 * When Cody was voting, some of the passports are shown with the print and picture backwards.
 * Chris states that Hanging Rock is in the Blue Mountains of Australia, but Hanging Rock is located in the Australian state of Victoria, while the Blue Mountains are in New South Wales, near Sydney.
 * When Courtney grabs a sheep while hanging upside down, her hair does not hang down.