User blog comment:Gogogadget831/Every Episode of Total Drama Reviewed: Episode 99 - No One Eggspects The Spanish Opposition/@comment-1037137-20150816203135/@comment-1037137-20150816215612

Then perhaps theirs is an example that applies to the majority of their respective runs in this season. I'm not surprised, it's All-Stars, nobody was good in this. Which is one of its, if not its worst, offenses.

Yeah the first episode of TDPI is not a relevant example of "dumbing down" at the hands of this particular writer or the others, we are all agreed on that. Simply because it was not there in that episode. A better example is the first episode of TDAS where Lindsay misunderstanding how to push or pull a carriage has been cited by quite a few other people as pressing their luck in playing up how dumb she can be. It's arguable, but it's a better example than the aforementioned episode.

You could make the argument that Yukon is guilty though too of the same offense, not just from Bridgette, but the rest of her team for not retrieving her if they had any intent on winning. That's definitely stupid, regardless of that team's notorious status in the season. (And also yes, the pole thing was simply crass and unfunny)