Confessional (Total Drama)


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The confessional is a location in Total Drama where contestants on the show can reveal their personal thoughts on the game, get something off their chests, explain their plans, and cast votes for their fellow contestants. For the most part, these sessions are carried out in complete secrecy, only being revealed upon the airing of the show or at Chris's discretion.

Total Drama Island
In Total Drama Island, the confession cam takes on the appearance of an old-fashioned outhouse. On the side facing the campers is a camera taped to the wall, where the campers dish their personal feelings. Also inside the bathroom are typical outhouse sights - a toilet, toilet paper, a window, several carvings in the wooden walls (such as a skull), and a roll of fly paper with several dead flies stuck to it. Despite these amenities, however, the confession cam doesn't seem to be the campers' main lavatory, as there are bathroom stalls in the communal bathrooms. Still, a few campers have used the confession cam as an outhouse at times, but mostly by accident on Lindsay's part. It's clear that the outhouse is not a hygienic place, as during most confessions, a large swarm of flies are constantly buzzing around the campers' heads and chest.

Normally, a confession consists of only one camper speaking into the camera. However, on occasions, two enter the stall to talk together, such as Katie and Sadie, due to their habit of staying together at all times. Even though Chris mentions that these confessions are completely secret, some of the campers at times worriedly ask if the person they are talking about will ever hear their confessions or another camper is heard, waiting outside. There is only one time that the confessional videos were shown to the campers in Total Drama Island, during No Pain, No Game, where Eva is eliminated for the second time.

Aside from speaking their mind, campers also go in the stall to cast their votes. It's unclear if all that is needed to cast a vote is the camper saying their name into the camera or if a written ballot is also needed, as Harold is seen rigging paper ballots in Basic Straining; whereas in No Pain, No Game, Chris only shows their vocal votes.

In The Very Last Episode, Really!, the confessional is left nearly unusable by Owen when he uses it as a bathroom after eating Heather's laxative cupcakes. However, in Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island it appears to be fully operational again. In the special, Katie and Sadie made the last confessional of Total Drama Island.

Total Drama Action
With the confessional outhouse camera unusable because of their change of location, Chris announces to the castmates in Monster Cash that for Total Drama Action, the contestants will now dish their secrets in a confessional make-up trailer (which Lindsay immediately takes a liking to). Despite its identification as a make-up trailer, there are various shirts and other props seen in the background. The trailer itself is filled to the brim with various cosmetics for the castmates to use if they choose. Possibly due to additional space, confessionals with two contestants are more common this season than the previous one, including a few confessionals with Geoff and Bridgette, Duncan and Harold, and Lindsay and Beth.

Also, inside the confessional appear to be make-up artists, who at times try to apply make-up to the castmates. These artists are only been seen with arms reaching out from beyond the border of the mirror to apply the make-up to the castmate. Occasionally, an object is thrown at a castmate when they're using the confessional. It is unknown if objects are thrown by the make-up artists or the interns or producers of the show.

However, the biggest change to the use of the confessional is that now the contestants cast their votes right before the elimination ceremony and no longer in their private confessionals, probably because of Courtney's elimination in Basic Straining.

In order to vote for a winner in the season finale, Chris and Chef present a portable bathroom for the eliminated contestants to cast their vote for a winner in. A pen is provided to write with, while toilet paper is used to write on. Despite this, some of the contestants still cast their votes vocally.

Total Drama World Tour
After asking where the restrooms on the Total Drama Jumbo Jet were, Leshawna is directed to the main Total Drama World Tour confessional, which is, to her dismay, yet another bathroom. At elimination ceremonies the contestants must vote while inside this confessional.

There is also a second additional confessional in the cockpit of the plane, which is usually interrupted with Chef's side-commentary since he is also there listening to them. Only Alejandro, Heather and Cody have used the Cockpit Confessional.

Even though the jet exploded as of Awwwwww, Drumheller, the confessional booth is still somewhat intact, although the roof is missing. Despite the damage, the remaining contestants and Sierra continue to use it in Planes, Trains, and Hot Air Mobiles.

In Hawaiian Punch, a new confessional is used to replace the lavatory confessional. Located in Hawaii, it resembles the original outhouse confessional. It has wooden walls surrounding it, which resemble planks, and a single roll of toilet paper on the wall; there are several vines dropping into it as it has no roof. The final three are the only contestants to use this confessional, as they are the only contestants that are still actively competing in the season.

Total Drama: Revenge of the Island
The outhouse confessional from Total Drama Island returns in this season, and is the only one that is used this season. Generally, the confessionals have the same purpose as before and show no major differences from their function in Total Drama Island.

The confessional had significance in Dawn's elimination. She knew Scott had bad intentions for the team and planned to tell the others in order to have her voted off. However, Scott overheard and framed her for stealing everyone's items, causing her elimination.

Total Drama All-Stars
The outhouse confessional returns in this season as well, remaining the same as previous seasons. However, Chris now has a habit of intruding in on the contestants' confessionals using the intercom.

In Saving Private Leechball, during Jo's confessional, Chris brings down a tablet which has a recording of Lightning as a message to Jo. In this message, Lightning is telling Jo that he told her he was right, thus proving her wrong.

Total Drama: Pahkitew Island
The outhouse confessional is revealed by Chris to be the only thing that remains intact after the destruction of Camp Wawanakwa in The Final Wreck-ening, and is brought to Pahkitew Island to be used by the new contestants. It maintains the same function as it did during the previous seasons in which it is used.

In Lies, Cries and One Big Prize, Chris uses Shawn's confessionals to cause drama between him and Jasmine, to which Sky responds by saying that is why she is careful about what she says. This is the only time Chris has done this.

Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race
In the spin-off series, interviews share the same function with the confessionals where teams are interviewed regarding their current feelings about the race. These take place in front of a wall, showing a green and blue world map in the background.

Trivia

 * According to Tom McGillis, the confessional was not an original idea of the creators, and was a last-minute addendum to the show, due to the first episode needing more footage.
 * Total Drama Island, Total Drama: Revenge of the Island, Total Drama All-Stars, and Total Drama: Pahkitew Island all feature the same outhouse confessional.
 * Located behind the campers in the confessional outhouse is an image of Kilroy, a popular doodle that is part of the "Kilroy was here" fad. Other graffiti includes: a skull and crossbones, a love-struck heart, and either an ankh or the sign of Venus.
 * Haute Camp-ture is the only episode in the whole Total Drama franchise not to feature any confessional's scene.
 * The only campers to ever seem to use the confessional outhouse as a bathroom are Owen and Lindsay. Owen in The Very Last Episode, Really! and Camp Castaways, and Lindsay in the opening sequence and Search and Do Not Destroy.
 * Chris is the first person to use the confessional in Total Drama Island.
 * Gwen is the first camper to use the confessional in Total Drama Island.
 * She is also the first female to use the confessional in Total Drama Island, and the first female to ever use the confessional. Owen is also the first male contestant to use the confessional in Total Drama Island, but the second person to ever use the confessional.
 * Coincidentally, they are both the two finalists of Total Drama Island.
 * Lindsay is the first cast member to use the confessional in Total Drama Action.
 * Leshawna is (inadvertently) the first to use the confessional in Total Drama World Tour.
 * Zoey and Mike are the first two members of their gender to use the confessional in Total Drama: Revenge of the Island. Interestingly enough, they are in a relationship and both are the finalists of the following season.
 * Courtney is the first to use the confessional in Total Drama All-Stars.
 * Samey is the first to use the confessional in Total Drama: Pahkitew Island.
 * Gwen, DJ, Scott, and Zoey are the only contestants to use the confessional wearing their swimwear.
 * Courtney and Scott are the only contestants to use the confessional wearing their pajamas.
 * Heather is the only character to be seen using every confessional on the show.
 * Cody and Justin are the only contestants to use the confessional and foreshadow something happening later in the episode. As Cody becomes covered in bandages and is in a wheelchair after being mauled by a bear, and Justin is covered in tar from falling into the tar pit.
 * Alejandro, Cameron, Chris, Cody, Gwen, Lightning, and Trent are the only characters to throw up in the confessional.
 * Total Drama Island and Total Drama: Revenge of the Island are the only seasons where not every competing contestant uses the confessional at least once.
 * The confessional in Total Drama Action and the cockpit confessional in Total Drama World Tour are the only confessionals in the series that are not in the form of some sort of lavatory.
 * Over the course of the series, more than one character are often seen using the confessional together:
 * Katie and Sadie (in Total Drama Island)
 * Heather and Owen (in Total Drama Island)
 * Chris and Chef (in Total Drama Island)
 * Beth and Lindsay (in Total Drama Action)
 * Geoff and Bridgette (in Total Drama Action)
 * DJ and Chef (in Total Drama Action)
 * Duncan and Harold (in Total Drama Action)
 * Beth and Harold (in Total Drama Action)
 * Duncan and Chris (in Total Drama Action)
 * Beth and her raccoon buddy (in Total Drama Action)
 * Leshawna and Harold (in Total Drama Action)
 * Heather and Chef (in Total Drama World Tour)
 * Alejandro and Chef (in Total Drama World Tour)
 * Tyler and Lindsay (in Total Drama World Tour)
 * Tyler and Chris (in Total Drama World Tour)
 * Cody and Chef (in Total Drama World Tour)
 * Harold and Chef (in Total Drama World Tour)
 * Alejandro and Cody (in Total Drama World Tour)
 * Izzy and Chef (in Total Drama World Tour)
 * Heather and DJ (in Total Drama World Tour)
 * DJ and Irene (in Total Drama World Tour)
 * Gwen, Duncan and Tyler (in Total Drama World Tour)
 * Chef and Courtney (in Total Drama World Tour)
 * Heather and Chris (in Total Drama World Tour)
 * Heather and Sierra (in Total Drama World Tour)
 * Scott and a mutated beaver (in Total Drama Revenge of the Island)
 * Cameron and Jo (in Total Drama Revenge of the Island)
 * Sierra and Cody 1 and 2 (in Total Drama All-Stars)
 * Cameron and Cody 1 and 2 (in Total Drama All-Stars)
 * Heather and Alejandro (in Total Drama All Stars)
 * A majority of the double confessionals in Total Drama World Tour are due to one person barging in on the other.
 * Chris has to come into the confessional to tell DJ to hurry up and make his choice when he is taking too long to vote in Walk Like An Egyptian - Part 2.
 * Both Lindsay and Chris interrupt Tyler's last confessional towards the end of Anything Yukon Do, I Can Do Better.
 * Heather interrupts DJ's confessional to get him to join Team Amazon in an alliance in Newf Kids on the Rock by opening up a vent above the bathroom and lowering her head down.
 * Duncan walks in on Gwen's confessional in I See London... Tyler also pokes his head in as they kiss.
 * Chef interrupts Courtney by pulling her out of the confessional because she stamps Gwen's passport too many times in Picnic at Hanging Dork.
 * Chris again barges in on Heather's confession at the end of African Lying Safari.
 * Sierra walks in on Heather's confessional in Awwwwww, Drumheller.
 * Total Drama World Tour features the most amount of double confessionals in the series so far.
 * There is only one instance in which the confessional has been seen with three people in it: Gwen, Duncan, and Tyler in I See London...
 * Blaineley is the last contestant of the original cast to use the confessional. She first uses it in Niagara Brawls, the episode in which she debuts as a contestant.
 * Blaineley, Ezekiel, Staci, and Tyler are the only contestants to never use the outhouse confessional.
 * Tyler is the contestant who goes the longest before using any confessional. Despite being introduced in Not So Happy Campers - Part 1, he doesn't use the confessional until Anything Yukon Do, I Can Do Better.
 * Alejandro, Ezekiel, and Sierra are currently the only contestants to use the confessional in a season they did not participate in.
 * Ezekiel, Tyler, Izzy, and Staci are the only four contestants to never have used the confessional in a season that they competed in; Ezekiel and Tyler never use the confessional in Total Drama Island, Izzy never uses the confessional in Total Drama World Tour, and Staci never uses the confessional in Total Drama: Revenge of the Island.
 * Ezekiel, Justin, Noah, Alejandro, and Sierra all have their very first confessional in one of the one-hour specials:
 * Justin and Noah in Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island.
 * Ezekiel, Alejandro, and Sierra in Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Action Reunion Special.
 * Owen is the first male contestant in the first two seasons to use the confessional.
 * Alejandro is the first male to use both the lavatory confessional and the cockpit confessional.
 * The amount of confessional booths in the first three seasons matches the number of the season: Total Drama Island had only one confessional (the outhouse stall), Total Drama Action had two (the make-up booth and the outhouse stall in the finale), and Total Drama World Tour had three (one in the lavatory, one in the plane's cockpit, and an outhouse in the finale).
 * Total Drama staff are allowed to use the confessional, as both Chris and Chef have used the confessionals on several occasions.
 * Minor characters such as the killer, José and Leshaniqua had used the confessional at least once.
 * Animals have periodically been seen using the confessional, specifically a bear, loon, panda bear, Sasquatchanakwa, and Fang.
 * The outhouse confessional is the most featured confessional in the series, being in all but two seasons.
 * Total Drama World Tour's Cockpit Confessional is the least-used recurring confessional in the series, as most contestants apparently favor the Lavatory Confessional. The last time it is used is in Chinese Fake-Out by Blaineley.
 * Coincidentally, the final three of Total Drama World Tour are three of the only five contestants (along with Blaineley, Harold and Izzy) who have ever used the Cockpit Confessional.
 * Geoff and Bridgette, Duncan and Gwen, and Alejandro and Heather are the only couples who are caught kissing in the confessional.
 * A running gag in the series is that the contestants are able to use the confessional no matter how far they are from it.
 * Staci is the only contestant in Total Drama to never use the confessional.
 * Dakota (after her first elimination) is the first intern to use the confessional.
 * In Total Drama: Revenge of the Island, Scott is often seen getting hurt while using the confessional.
 * Starting from Total Drama All-Stars, Chris appears to always be listening in on the confessional and will sometimes butt in over the intercom, often to taunt or laugh at them at their expense.
 * When Jo regrets her decision to dump Lightning so early, immediately Chris makes a monitor showing a recording that Lightning left taunting her. Chris explains this to a confused Jo, before she tears the monitor off (Saving Private Leechball).
 * When Alejandro states Chris will pay for laughing at him, Chris expresses his doubt, before calling him "Al" (Food Fright).
 * After Alejandro reveals his surname is "Burromuerto", Chris mockingly asks him to explain what his surname meant in English (The Obsta-Kill Kourse).
 * When Alejandro and Heather are making out in the confessional, Chris pounds on the door and tells them that was the "most disgusting thing that has ever happened in there." (The Final Wreck-ening)
 * While Dave pretends that he will be fine touching the grease, Chris announces where the grease for the challenge originated from. (I Love You, Grease Pig!)
 * Dave is in the confessional worried that he's allergic to itching powder (after getting covered with it), Chris tells him everyone was allergic to itching powder (Twinning Isn't Everything).
 * Sierra and Mal are the only characters who have something happen to the camera while they are using the confessional.
 * Sierra talks so much the battery runs out in Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Action Reunion Special.
 * Mal punches it, shattering the screen in The Obsta-Kill Kourse. However, it is intact during subsequent confessionals.

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