African Lying Safari

'''The final five arrive in Tanzania for their next challenge: Hunting down what used to be a former contestant. Someone's obsession with another peaks, and two others continue to doubt their attraction towards each other. In the end, one person wins the challenge, and another is sent home for the second time after a close vote.'''

Recap
The episode starts with Alejandro, Heather and Duncan in economy class. Alejandro comments that he has never seen Duncan so happy. Duncan says that he is elated with Courtney's departure, then comments on Alejandro and Heather's mutual crush, revealed by Blaineley in China. Both try to deny it, but end up speaking in unison, making them seem like a couple all the more. Meanwhile in the first class compartment of the Jumbo Jet, Sierra has started feeding Cody her love-me tea, which causes him to go into a comatose state, and gives him hallucinations.

Once the plane lands, Chris welcomes them to Tanzania, home to the Serengeti. Sierra arrives late, carrying Cody in her backpack. She declares that she will be playing for herself and her "husband." Chris introduces the first challenge, which he named "Sock-et To Me." He also points out the punishment he gave Chef for making an illegal alliance with Blaineley: wearing a parka and pants in balmy African heat, which he dubbed: the "Penalty Parka" by Chris. Contestants have to run to a pile of plums and return while avoiding the soccer balls kicked by the competitors. Only Alejandro makes it through unharmed. The plums are then used to smash gourds, which Heather wins. As a reward, she gets six tranquilizer balls for the hunt. Alejandro, smashing his gourd after Heather, gets three balls. Duncan only gets two balls, since he flung his cricket bat at the gourds to smash them instead of using plums. Sierra and Cody, failing to smash their gourds, only get one ball each and no slingshot to hurl them with.

Chris then announces that the tranquilizing balls will be used to knock out Ezekiel, who was found in the hold after Blaineley ratted him out. Ezekiel is now in a completely feral state. He is now bald with the exception of a few lone strands of hair, and he is missing his hat as well. He now also goes barefoot, like a wild animal, revealing feet that also seem to resemble that of a wild animal, having three talon-like toes. He even attacks an intern upon release. The contestant who catches him wins invincibility. Sierra manages to build her own slingshot from a stray stick and Cody's spare underpants. Duncan suggests to Alejandro and Heather they team up to hunt, but Heather decides to go alone. This is a mistake, as Alejandro steals all her ammo. This becomes a problem, as she soon comes across a lion.

Alejandro and Duncan walk into a quicksand bog, slowly sinking into it until they manage to use Ezekiel to escape. However, they were unable to catch him because he runs away before either of them could get a clear shot at him with their slingshot. Sierra shoots some rocks to lure Ezekiel out, but angers a rhino, causing her to flee. She trips, launching Cody into a tree. Heather bumps into Sierra, offering to team up and help Cody down from the tree. However, a baboon grabs him and runs off which greatly angers Sierra.

The girls and boys start charging at each other, accidentally knocking each other out with tranquilizing balls. Chris chooses this time to make the contestants sing, but they are still a bit stunned. This doesn't stop them from singing Wake Up. At the end, Chris warns that they have just one hour to catch Ezekiel, or the plane is leaving without them.

Duncan tries to make an alliance with Sierra, but she only wants to ally with Cody. Meanwhile, Heather and Alejandro plan on how to get rid of Duncan and win the competition at the same time. Sierra runs off on her own, finding Cody held by a baboon. Cody has recovered from the drugging, warning Sierra that the primate really likes him. Ignoring this, Sierra tries to save Cody, causing the baboon to call for more baboons to stop her. Even though she is outnumbered, Sierra easily beats up the baboons and rescues Cody.

Heather and Alejandro put their plan into action. Heather asks Duncan about Gwen, which distracts him enough for Alejandro to trip him. Duncan smashes into Serengeti Blood Berries, and goes to a watering hole to wash up. Ezekiel leaps out of the water and beats on Duncan. Alejandro, being the only one left with ammo, easily knocks out both Ezekiel and Duncan, winning the challenge, the invincibility and the reward. Trying to leave Ezekiel behind, Chris rushes the contestants inside the Jumbo Jet, but Ezekiel manages to break his way back into the plane before it leaves.

At the Barf Bag Ceremony, Duncan gets voted off with two votes, which he expected. He gets tossed out of the plane by Chris. Alejandro, considering who to bring up to first class with him, chooses Cody, surprising everyone. This angers Heather, who begins ranting about Alejandro in the confessional. Chris then barges in on Heather's confession and signs off the episode.

Cast

 * Chef Hatchet and Ezekiel both appear, but do not speak, although Ezekiel makes animal noises and Chef grunts.
 * An intern appears but does not speak.

Quotes
Duncan: What can I say? It's like all my problems were shoved out of a plane. Speaking of failed romance, you want me to hit the common area so you two love birds can start building your nest together? Heather and Alejandro: (in unison) Yeah, right. As if! Stop that! Sierra: Oh, I didn't have time to finish the "Just Married!" banner. (giggles) You like? Chris: Very "walking-dinner-bell-for-lions." You okay in there, Cody? Cody: (still drugged from Sierra's Love-me tea) Bloom jom bing mong. Chris: Pure poetry guy. I can see married life is treating you well. Chris: You were saying? Chris: Unlike the D-man, Alejandro's girlfriend is a batting fiend! (Heather, on the word "girlfriend," gets distracted and hits a plum onto Alejandro's head) Alejandro: Ah. Chris: Oh, yeah. They're meant for each other. Alejandro and Heather: (in unison) Shut up, Chris! Alejandro: Ok, this is ridiculous! (Heather hits a plum and it breaks her gourd) Chris: And the winner of the first challenge is... Heather! Heather: Yes! Battah, battah, swing battah! Chris: Broken... but not a gourd! Heather: But it sure smells like him. Chris: Iiiiit's song time! (notices the contestants are asleep) Hello? (looming over Duncan) Hey! (opens Duncan's eye) Anyone in there? Did you, or did you not, steal the car? Duncan: (panicking) I was framed! Chris: Half an hour of you guys sleeping?! (sarcastically) Oh, yeah! That's gonna be great for ratings! I want a song, pronto! No matter where the trank balls hit you and how "groggy" you might be! Now, sing! Alejandro: And I yours. But for now, I suggest we work together, temporarily, to ensure we're kicking each other's butt in the finale. Heather: I'm listening. Alejandro: We simply continue to act awkward around each other in front of the others, while we secretly combine (Heather joins in) our powers and knock everyone else out of the ring! Heather: That has to stop, but I am in on the alliance. Alejandro: Excellent. I have the perfect plan to keep Duncan busy and capture Ezekiel. (whispers to Heather's ear) Cause you see, we just need to- Heather: (in confessional; flabbergasted from Alejandro's plan) Even I'm not that ruthless! Duncan: (sighs) Kinda expected that. I've gotten out of bigger jams than this, but- (gets shoved off the plane) Ahhhhhhh! Chris: I'm gonna miss that delinquent. Now, Alejandro. Who you bringing to the big leagues? Alejandro: It's a tough call, but... Cody. Heather, Cody, and Sierra: What?! Alejandro: (in confessional) Now that I know Heather can be persuaded, it's time to focus on breaking the bonds of Sierra's and Cody's matrimony. Heather: (in confessional) That rat! I fake-agreed to an alliance, and this is how he repays me? He is so going down! Chris: (barging in on Heather's confessional) Things are getting crazy! Fourteen down and only four remain! Who will almost die next? Find out right here on Total... Drama... World Tour! (notices Heather staring at him) What?
 * Chris: We're down to the final five. Who won't make the final four? And how will I punish Chef for helping someone cheat, again?
 * Alejandro: Smiling? Whistling? This is the happiest I've ever seen you.
 * Chris: What's with the cans?
 * Sierra: Due to the temporarily weakened condition of my husband... (giggles) I just love saying that. I'll play for the both of us.
 * Chris: Looking hot Chef!
 * Duncan: (taunting) Ooo, pummeled by a soccer ball. How painful! (gets hit in the head by a soccer ball thrown by Chris) Ah!
 * Duncan: I told you soccer's a wimpy sp- (gets hit in the face by two soccer balls by Heather and Alejandro) Ah-ow!!
 * Duncan: (after cracking a gourd with a plum) Hey, I'm use to smashing things with the bat. No middle man.
 * (Sierra hits a plum into Chef's groin)
 * Sierra: (about Ezekiel) It doesn't look like him.
 * Sierra: (building a slingshot) Mom always said I was good in arts and crafts... and relentlessly tracking down prey. Now I just need something stretchy. (gasps) Of course! (checks her backpack and pulls out a pair of briefs) Cody’s emergency gitch! (squeals as she stretches briefs) He always keeps a pair handy just in case. Do I know my hubby or what?
 * Chris: (after Heather runs from a lion) Who will survive, king of the jungle, or queen of the fumble?
 * Sierra: (to Heather, after a baboon kidnaps Cody) Follow that homewrecker!
 * (the music bell goes off after Duncan, Alejandro, Heather, and Sierra tranquilized each other to sleep)
 * Chris: (after Chef drives off without him) Hey! Get back here! And stay away from my hoot tuuub!!
 * Heather: I fully intend to kick your butt.
 * Sierra: Who cares about votes and alliances and the million-dollar statue of Cody made of prize money right now? Monkeys stole my husband! Waaah!
 * Sierra: (to baboon giving Cody a foot massage) Take your stinking hands off him, you darn, dirty ape!
 * Chris: (about Heather and Alejandro) Aww. You guys are so cute! Now quick! Grab Duncan and let's get the heck out of Africa before Zeke wakes up!
 * Chris: Hhhhmmm, tension-y. Alrighty then. One vote for Heather, one for Alejandro, one for Duncan, one for Sierra (Cody whistles innocently as Sierra glares at him), and the lucky loser is... Duncan!

Trivia

 * Title Reference: This episode's title is most likely a reference to the Canadian safari park "African Lion Safari."
 * In Australia, this episode is named "African Lion Society."
 * This episode was written by Laurie Elliot.
 * Sierra style of running while fleeing a rhino is reminiscent of the Road Runner.
 * Sierra's line "Take your stinking hands off him, you darn, dirty ape!" which she says to a baboon massaging Cody's feet is a reference to the line said by Charlton Heston in the movie | Planet of the Apes, only that Heston says "damn" instead of "darn." This change was obviously due to censorship.
 * The idea of Cody being kidnapped by monkeys could be a loose reference to the original Johnny Quest episode, "Attack of the Tree People."
 * Duncan's carving of a skull taking the drop of shame could be a refference to the fact he is eliminated in this episode.
 * This episode marks the first time that Duncan is eliminated by ordinary vote off.
 * This makes DJ, Alejandro, and Sierra the only contestants to never be voted off.
 * However, had Harold not sacrificed himself in Super Happy Crazy Fun Time Japan, DJ would have been eliminated then.
 * It's very clear who voted for who:
 * Alejandro: Duncan
 * Heather: Duncan
 * Duncan: Alejandro
 * Cody: Sierra
 * Sierra: Heather
 * Ezekiel's physical appearance from this episode resembles Gollum from The Lord of the Rings, the only difference is that Ezekiel is still with his hoodie and jeans while Gollum only wears a loincloth.
 * This is the second time Ezekiel has been used in the challenge while not being a contestant; the first was in I See London... when he was pretending to be Jack the Ripper.
 * This is the first time in the Total Drama series that neither Owen nor Duncan are in the final four.
 * The final four has a few similarities to the past final fours.
 * The first three seasons had two girls and two boys.
 * They also have three contestants from one team and one contestant from another.
 * This is the third time that Chris has interrupted someone's confessional. The first two times were in Walk Like An Egyptian - Part 2 and Anything Yukon Do, I Can Do Better.
 * This is the second episode in a row where someone has voted for someone else who has immunity. In Chinese Fake-Out, Cody voted for Sierra, despite her being immune.
 * The tune of Wake Up is played when Chris introduces the challenge. This is the second time the tune of a song is heard in an episode and the tune is played before the song is played. The first episode is Chinese Fake-Out and the song is Condor.
 * This is coincidentally the second time Duncan is eliminated in Africa.
 * With Duncan's elimination, Heather is the only contestant left that has competed in Total Drama Action.

Goofs

 * When Sierra's force feeding the Love-me tea to Cody in first class, the spoon in the cup doesn't fall out despite the angle of the cup and her not holding it.
 * Duncan was shown to dislike soccer, but in The Sand Witch Project, Duncan was shown to take interest in soccer and was mad at Harold for making a hole in his soccer ball.
 * Cody is shown with a full row of teeth several times in this episode when he normally has a gap between them.
 * When Alejandro hits Sierra with soccer balls, her ponytail is missing.
 * After hitting the gourds open, Heather grabs the items from within the pumpkin, when it was Alejandro who had cracked it.
 * An intern is tranquilized by Chris when he is explaining the challenge, though seconds later, he is seen fine when Ezekiel is attacking him.
 * When Sierra pulls out Cody's emergency underwear, she says that he always keeps a pair handy just in case, but in The Am-AH-Zon Race, Cody wasn't wearing any underwear and Gwen didn't find any backup underwear when she was digging through his pockets at the time.
 * When Sierra runs away after hitting a rhinoceros with rocks, her goggles disappear. They reappear again after she launches Cody into a tree.
 * When Alejandro and Duncan realize they are on quicksand, Alejandro is on the left while Duncan's on the right. The next time they are seen, they switched places.
 * The footprints that Cody finds left by Ezekiel are different from the footprints that Duncan finds. The ones found by Duncan were humanoid, had three claw-like toes and cover in drool. The ones Cody finds were bearlike, had four normal human toes, and no drool.
 * Also, there are no handprints on the ground, despite Ezekiel running on all fours.
 * Even though Alejandro stole all of Heather's tranquilizer balls, she has one when everybody (except Cody) shot one at each other.
 * When Duncan, Alejandro, Sierra, and Heather fired tranquilizer balls at each other, four balls were fired, but five puffs of smoke appeared after they were all hit.
 * The pond of water that Ezekiel was hiding in before attacking Duncan was too shallow for him to be completely submerged.
 * When Ezekiel is attacking Duncan, Duncan is covered in berry juice. However, when Alejandro hits them with the tranquilizer ball, Duncan is clean.
 * Duncan is scratched by Ezekiel in the chest, but at the elimination ceremony, the scratches are gone.
 * When Ezekiel tackles Duncan after scratching his chest, his feet are shaped normally instead of being claw-like.
 * When Duncan and Ezekiel are shown sleeping, Ezekiel's sunken cheek disappears from the left side of his face.
 * On the Time Warner Cable "On Demand" channel, the episode is titled "African Lyin Safari" instead of African Lying Safari. However, the On Demand version seems to be alluding to "African Lion Safari," as "Lyin" and "Lion" both rhyme.
 * Ezekiel's teeth are shown in many different states throughout the episode.
 * While pacing in his cage in anger, he has his normal teeth.
 * While pummeling Duncan, he has full rows of teeth, but they are green.
 * When roaring at the contestants, he has sharp, animal-like teeth.
 * While chewing on the cage, and panting like a dog, he is shown with jagged teeth with many of them missing.