Truth or Laser Shark

'''As the competition narrows dB|own to twelve, the campers must compete in the first part of their challenge; a tell-all trivia game which ends up embarrassing B|several contestants. Due to the problems in round one, the host makes the second round miserable for both teams. Ironically, a nonathletic camper ends up winning the physical-oriented challenge for his team, sending the other team to the elimination ceremony. In the end, someone becomes too focused on her image and is quickly voted off.'''

Plot
The episode begins with all the campers' morning routines; Dawn is seen hanging upside-down talking to a bluebird while Dakota moans that she needs more beauty sleep. Zoey asks Anne Maria on how she was able to smuggle in so many hair products, to which she reveals they're all stored in her pouffe. Mike talks to Chester in his sleep, while Cameron turns his sleeping bag into his protective bubble to help him sleep.

Brick and Jo both go for a morning run and then get competitive of who ran more or harder after crashing into each other. Scott, however, spent the morning looking for the immunity idol, in order to force his team to lose and eliminate them one by one, which he does to give the Maggots a false sense of security. Sam and Lightning catch him coming back in the cabin, but he lies to them by saying that he was making out with one of the girls.

Chris gathers everyone to start the day's competition, and both Sam's video game console and Dakota's cell phone are confiscated from them. The competition takes place out in the lake in the form of a quiz show. Chris reads out an embarrassing fact of one of the teammates, and the victim had to buzz in and confess; doing so earned a point. Failure to own up had the whole team dunked in the lake, where a four-legged shark, named Fang, now dwells. If a team was dunked, the opposite team could guess whose fact it was; they get a point if right, or dunked if wrong. It is revealed that Sam farted on his first and only date, Brick wet his pants on the first and last day of school, and B's real name is Beverly. The contestants begin to bicker, and some even quit the challenge. Due to the time wasted by their arguing, Chris cancels the challenge, and tells the campers that a new one will await. However, this one will be even worse than the first.

Throughout the day, Sam tries to bond with Dakota. Dakota, however, rejects all of his advances. The second competition is an elaborate relay obstacle course in a mud pit. By way of batons, the teams were given their team mascots: a mutant maggot and rat.

During the relay, another of Mike's personalities is revealed: a gymnast named Svetlana, the "Olympic queen". Scott, despite being in the lead, intentionally slowed down their team by not immediately handing off the rat to B. Despite everything, though, the challenge came down to Dakota and Cameron trying to land in a giant baseball mitt surrounded by bats. Dakota gets distracted when a group of photographers floats in on a hot-air balloon, allowing Cameron, tangled up in the rope, to get dropped right into the mitt and win for his team.

Before the elimination, Scott and Dawn both suggest eliminating Dakota, with Scott pointing out how easily-distracted she is, and Dawn saying that a great disaster will befall her if she stays on the island any longer. Sam tries to plead with his team to keep Dakota, to no avail. Lightning comments that everyone besides him should be eliminated due to their performance in the challenge.

At the bonfire, the bottom two are B and Dakota, with B receiving the final marshmallow. Sam bemoans her loss in the confessional, saying that he was looking forward to being able to make awkward passes at her all season and get rejected every time. Before Dakota is hurled off the island, Chris asks if she has any final words. She says that she does, but before Dakota can say anything else, she gets hurled, and Chris signs off the show.

Cast

 * B and Chef Hatchet appear, but they do not speak.
 * One of the men in the paparazzi speaks, but it's unknown who voices him.

Quotes
Dakota: (to Dawn) Will you keep it down? If I don't get my beauty sleep, I'll lose it! Dawn: Yes. Because your need for fame is really a depressed cry for love. Dakota: Who told you that? My therapist?! Dawn: I can read people's auras, and it looks like someone threw up on yours. Dakota: (covers face with pillow) Oh, go eat a worm! Dawn: (after the bird offers its worm to her) Ahh, no thanks! Sam: (Woken up by Scott's entrance) Hey, man, what's with all the dirt?! Scott: (fibbing) Oh uh... Just had an early morning make out session with one of the honeys. Lightning: (slides next to Scott) Shadizzy! Which one? Scott: Um... (flashback to Scott being chased by giant mutated beaver) A gentleman doesn't kiss and tell. Sam: (walks up to Scott and Lightning) You kissed a gentleman? Anne Maria: (referring to her hairdryer) Easy! I stuck it in my pouffe. (takes out a can of hairspray and starts spraying her pouffe) Brick: 8K. Jo: I mean, I did an 8K warm-up, then 5K at a full sprint. Brick: My entire run was uphill. Jo: Yeah, uphill with my eyes shut! Brick: I ran backwards with earplugs! Jo: Why earplugs? Brick: (foolishly) I don't know! Lightning: (horrified) What? But Lightning hasn't had his DPA! Sam: Huh? Lightning: Daily protein allotment. Duh. Dakota: And I haven't had enough beauty sleep. Sam: Come on, you look - Dakota: (takes off sunglasses) Sam: Great sons of Orion! Chris: You can catch up after the challenge. Right this way to the bay of dismay! Sam: (confessional) Nostrils? ''Nostrils?! (shrugs)'' Dakota: (to Sam) Thanks! I like your... Uh... (trying to think of something she likes about Sam) Can I... get back to you on that? Sam: (depressed) Ah... Jo: I bet you do toothpick. I'm surprised that scrawny neck can even support that giant head! Cameron: My greatest strengths are mental. Jo: Well, you're mental if you think you can win Total Drama without getting physical. Just stay out of my way! B: (stays silent) Anne Maria: You don't talk much, do ya? B: (in confessional; shrugs silently) Scott: Too snug, it's cutting into my shoulder.  Chris: Yeah, child safety harnesses will do that to you. Hehe, I'll be asking our players embarrassing personal questions, and I mean major humiliating. If the player who I'm talking about gets the poorly wired buzzer, owns their humiliation before the time runs out, their team gets a point. First team to five wins part one, and a distinct advantage in part two. But, if no one owns up, this happens. (presses button that drops the Mutant Maggots into the shark infested waters) Dakota: Chris is such a jerk! (holds up damaged phone) I could've sent, like, 600 texts by now! Sam: Wow... We got a lot in common! Dakota: (disgusted) Why would you say something like that to me?! Sam: No! No! I meant about the tech withdrawal! Trust me, you're nothing like me otherwise. Dakota: (pauses for a second) Aww, thanks! Sam: Aww, come on, winning isn't everything. Lightning: (charges towards Sam angrily) YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Sam: Aww, hang on guys. I mean, sure, she seems easily distracted, but she's also a 10th-level hottie; uh not that that's important or anything. Let's give her a chance. Dawn: A great darkness is surrounding Dakota. If she stays on the island, disaster will befall her. Lightning: Sh-please! I think you should all take the boot after today's performance. Dakota: Yeah. First of all...(gets catapulted) WOAAAAAAAAAH!!! Chris: It was a rhetorical question.
 * Dawn: (talking to a bird) Really? Oh, no!
 * (Scott slips into the cabin covered with dirt, panicked)
 * Scott: (confessional) Alright... I was looking for the hidden immunity idol. Not that they need to know. All part of my strategy. Let my team lose so the Maggots develop a false sense of security before I pick them off! (knocking is heard from outside the confessional) Occupied! (Giant beaver destroys confessional wall with head, scaring Scott)
 * Zoey: (to Anne Maria) Hey. How'd you sneak that in?
 * Mike: (talking in his sleep) (Switches to "Chester") These young whippersnappers, with all their yammering and tomfoolery! (switches back to "Mike") Ah, C'mon Chester, keep it down! (as "Chester") Fine! For now....
 * Cameron: (confessional) I had a hard time falling asleep. It was my first night outside my bubble. But finally, I recreated it with my sleeping bag, and I was out like that! What an adventure.
 * Brick: (in confessional) As the only soldier here with any military training, I've definitely got a winning edge. My biggest competition is probably Jo; yeah, good thing we're on the same team. Like my drill sergeant always said: "Keep your enemies close and your rivals closer"...uhuhuh wait, I did that wrong, "Keep your family close and your enemy at arm's length"...uh, no, no no, hold on...
 * Jo: Just did my morning 5K run. You?
 * Chris: It's time for today's challenge!
 * Mike: (to Zoey) If you're into ultimate kickboxing, I may have to marry you.
 * Sam: Hey, Dakota, sorry about before! I was just so taken by your beautiful...nostrils.
 * Cameron: (to Jo) I hope this isn't another physical challenge. I prefer something a little more...academic.
 * Anne Maria: (to B) So, what do you think the challenge is gonna be?
 * Chris: Welcome to the "getting to Know You Trivia Game" challenge. Everyone strapped in all nice and snug?
 * Dakota: (On backup phone while everyone else fights) Hey, it's me! Yeah, I'm on my backup phone!
 * Sam: (to Dakota) This is the longest I've gone without playing a video game... My hands feel so... empty.
 * Mike: Okay Mike. It's some jumps over an area you can barely see. You can do this come on. (gasps as he undergoes a change in personality) Wrong! Only one person can do this! Svetlana! The Olympic queen of gymnastics!
 * Cameron: Svetlana!? Mike how did you do that?
 * Scott: (To the mutant rat) Awww, who's my good freak? Who's my good little freak? There, there little guy. Uncle Scotty kept ya safe and sound. (To B) Oh, do you want this? Why didn't you say so, Beverly!?
 * Cameron: Yes! I've never felt so alive! (stops running) I'm a dead man.
 * Lightning: Lightning's on a team of losers! (walks away)
 * Scott: Alright, guys, Dakota's gotta go. She's only in it for the photo-op.
 * Dakota: (after she is eliminated) No! This has to be a mistake! I didn't get my spin-off series yet! (running away, screaming) NOOOOO!!!
 * Sam: (in confessional) Man, I can't believe Dakota's gone. I was ready to repeatedly ask her out and get turned down all season. Ugh.
 * Chris: Any last words before you ride the Hurl of Shame, Dakota?

General

 * The Australian title for this episode is "Truth or Mutant Shark".
 * Another of Mike's personalities makes its debut : a Russian gymnast named Svetlana.
 * This episode reveals that B's real name is Beverly.
 * As of Finders Creepers, all the people embarrased are on the Toxic Rats.
 * Dawn's aura reading of Dakota in this episode ultimately comes to pass due to events later in the season.
 * The B|three players that get embarassed this episode eventually become the first three male contestants eliminated this season.

Continuity

 * The symbol for Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot appears on the prize basket.
 * Fang uses the confessional in this episode, thus making him the first non-human and mutated animal to use it in this season.
 * None of the original contestants make a guest appearance in this episode.
 * This marks the first episode of the series where none of the original contestants appear. The second being Ice Ice Baby.
 * This is the second episode to include audio from a contestant's audition tape.
 * Audio from Lightning's audition tape was used in the confessional for the second time.
 * This episode marks the second time in a row the Toxic Rats vote off a female member.
 * As of this episode, Dawn is the only female member on the Toxic Rats until Jo's switches teams with Scott in Runaway Model.
 * The second challenge was called "The Mad Skills Obstacle Course", which is a reference to one of the past contestants, Harold, who often displayed his own "mad skills".
 * The glasses everyone is required to wear resembles the glasses that Harold wears.
 * If the lens on the glasses uses the same power with Harold's, then it could assume that Harold's optical power is very high.
 * Additionally, the large mudpit the course was set over may be the same one that Duncan, Lindsay, Heather, and Harold were jet-skiing across in X-Treme Torture.

Goofs

 * Teletoon incorrectly lists the Toxic Rats as the "Radioactive Rats" on its video page.
 * During the first challenge, Chris only uses one buzzer, but it seems to be able to dunk only one team, the other, or both whenever he chooses despite it only having one button.
 * During the second challenge where the contestants have to wear special glasses, Sam falls and hits the ground and is seen with normal glasses on.
 * When Scott escaped from Fang, his harness was gone, but when he got back up the harness was on him again.
 * During the challenge, the maggot vomits on Mike's face but when the challenge has ended, he is clean.
 * Mike had unstrapped himself so when Chris sunk both teams he should've floated, unless he reharnessed himself.