User blog comment:Gogogadget831/Every Episode of Total Drama Reviewed: Episode 62 - The Am-Ah-Zon Race/@comment-4742462-20150729040008

Another overra-I mean overvalued episode if you ask me. My apologizes to people who don't like that word being thrown about as much lately.

Just like with Get a Clue, this episode seems to be well-liked for only one reason: The only time Team Victory actually has a win (Newf Kids on the Rock doesn't count since DJ was a team of one by then and his victory was shared with Team Chris). Outside of that, this is your typical run of the mill Terry McGurrin episode in terms of how it's biased against one specific character, being very mean spirited, and making characters hold the Idiot Ball in order to justify the plot. The only difference between this and say The Bold and the Sh**ty-ful is said Idiot Ball not causing a poorly written elimination (since there wasn't one).

The ending is my biggest problem with the episode because with how it went down it felt like a "F**k you!" for how it felt like a normal episode up until the very last second making one go "There's a half-hour of my life I can't have back...". And for them to repeat this formula for three other episodes (the first two of the three being by the same writer) just resulted in those episodes being met with a similar response. Everybody gripes on the filler episodes of Action and how many there were and how they would mostly amount to nothing, but at least you always knew those would be filler episodes and not think it was a normal episode until the very last second making it feel like an even bigger waste of time.

Speaking of Action, this is pretty much like the filler episodes from that season since everything about this episode (outside of Team Victory in first class and Cody spending the next episode trying to fix Sierra's hurt feelings) is instantly dropped and never brought up again. you could take out this entire episode and not miss a thing (outside of the two aforementioned points).

Overall, this is not as great of an episode as everyone says it is. I couldn't stand it when it originally aired 5 years ago, and I hate it even more today. For me, this ranks with the likes of Eggspects and Sundae Muddy Sundae 2 as one of the worst episodes Terry has written.