Total Drama World Tour

Total Drama World Tour (originally titled Total Drama The Musical) is the third season of Total Drama.

Overview
Fifteen previous contestants and three newcomers compete in challenges all around the world. However, this season, when Chris rings a bell, the contestants must break into song. If they don't, they are automatically eliminated. By the rules, contestants must sing once in each episode and Chris may call a "reprise" of the song. Contestants safe from elimination are awarded barf bags full of airline-issued peanuts, continuing the tradition of edible safety items. When a contestant is eliminated, they must take the Drop of Shame voluntarily or someone will have to force them off of the plane.

Summary
During the events of Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Action Reunion Special, all of the contestants from the first two seasons went to great lengths to prevent being labeled as "has-beens," and being replaced by Chris' new reality concept: Total Drama Dirtbags. Ultimately, after proving themselves through nearly catastrophic means, Chris rescues a group of fifteen (as well as two new faces) to join him on a journey around the world in the third season. Traveling around on the Total Drama Jumbo Jet, the cast participates in new challenges in various countries on six continents with all new drama and challenges awaiting them. Split into three separate teams after the first challenge, the teams work to achieve immunity, as well as first-class to their next destination. The losing team is then forced to attend a ceremony, where one member is forced to take the Drop of Shame from the plane to wherever they land. The lucky contestant who outlasts the rest of the contestants wins $1,000,000.

Elimination
This is the process in Total Drama World Tour in which a contestant is eliminated; initially, the team that lost the most recent challenge, unless the last challenge happened to be a reward challenge, would vote for a contestant and the one with the most votes against them would be voted off. Since the teams eventually merged, all the contestants began to vote for each other and only the challenge winner received immunity. In the case of a tiebreaker, the two contestants would have to face off until one was eliminated. However, in a special case, both contestants were eliminated due to budget cuts.

Characters
Eighteen contestants, plus the host, Chris, and Chef Hatchet, the camp's cook and the co-host of the show.


 * Beth, Geoff, Justin, Katie, Sadie, Trent, and Eva all made appearances in six episodes.

Episodes
There is a total of twenty-six episodes of Total Drama World Tour. But there is no special for this season.

DVD
There is not a DVD release of Total Drama World Tour for Region 1, but Australia released Volume 1 of the season onto DVD on April 3, 2013.

Netflix
Total Drama World Tour has been released onto Netflix. This season has unedited dialog and full screen, 16:9 aspect ratio. It also includes all the episodes of the season.

Trivia

 * The original name of the season was "Total Drama, the Musical." This was brought up in Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Action Reunion Special, where Chris and Chef start singing "Total Drama Musical." This was also brought up in Aftermath: Revenge of the Telethon; the screen displayed font which read "TDM Telethon," but this was quickly changed back to "TDWT Telethon."
 * This makes Total Drama World Tour the second of three seasons to have had it's name changed, the first being Camp TV being changed to Total Drama Island, and the third being Total Drama Reloaded being changed to Total Drama: Revenge of the Island.
 * Eva, Katie, Sadie, Justin, Beth, Trent, and Geoff are the seven contestants who did not qualify for this season.
 * Unlike Total Drama Action, none of them debuted later into the competition, although Beth almost did.
 * Noah, Tyler, Cody, Courtney, and Heather all made it farther than they did in Total Drama Island.
 * However, Ezekiel, Izzy, Leshawna, Lindsay, Harold, Bridgette, DJ, Gwen, Duncan, and Owen did not.
 * Owen and Gwen were the finalists of Total Drama Island, so it was impossible for them to get farther.
 * Bridgette, Gwen, DJ, and Heather all made it farther than they did in Total Drama Action.
 * However, Izzy, Courtney, Leshawna, Lindsay, Harold, Duncan, and Owen did not.
 * Duncan was a finalist on Total Drama Action, so it was impossible for him to get farther.
 * All of the males who competed on Total Drama Island, but not Total Drama Action, were eliminated in the same order as before. Ezekiel was eliminated first, followed by Noah, then Tyler, and finally Cody.
 * This is the only season to have an adult competing in the competition.
 * This is the only season to feature three teams instead of two.
 * Unlike the previous two seasons, the team names do not have "Screaming" and "Killer" in them.
 * This is the first time that the teams have an uneven amount of players at the start of the season. Team Amazon and Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot had five, and Team Victory had six.
 * This is the only season in which a female contestant wins in the United States.
 * This is also the first season where the winner is not the same in both Canada and the United States.
 * This is the only season to feature two confessionals. The first, and more commonly-used one, is in the Jet's lavatory (reminiscent of the original confessional in Total Drama Island). The second one is in the Jet's Cockpit, with Chef or Chris always in the background due to being the co-pilots.
 * Leshawna is the first contestant to use the lavatory confessional, as well as the very first confessional overall, and Heather is the first contestant to use the Jet's cockpit confessional and both confessionals.
 * Izzy is the only contestant to never be seen in the confessional this season.
 * This is the only season not to feature the main confessional in the end credits.
 * This is the only season to feature another way of elimination, aside from being voted off, quitting, or being automatically eliminated by a challenge. Chris states that if the contestants do not sing, they will be eliminated.
 * However, no one is actually eliminated by this rule, and many people get away with not singing throughout the season.
 * This is the first season to take place outside of Canada, although they have returned to Canada four times in Anything Yukon Do, I Can Do Better, Newf Kids on the Rock, Niagara Brawls, and Awwwwww, Drumheller.
 * This makes Canada the most-visited country throughout the season, tying with the United States.
 * This is the first season in which only one contestant returns after being previously eliminated.
 * In addition, this is the first season in which Izzy does not return after being eliminated.
 * This is the first season in which there is a tie between the votes at an elimination ceremony. In this case, it was in Picnic at Hanging Dork and Chinese Fake-Out.
 * Coincidentally, both instances involved Courtney.
 * This is the first season to feature "fake eliminations," in which Chris has all members of the losing team vote like they regularly would, then reveal the result, but not actually count that person as eliminated.
 * This is the first season to feature an odd amount of contestants competing from the start, as Total Drama Island had twenty two contestants, and Total Drama Action started with fourteen contestants.
 * This is the first season in which someone had to leave because of medical problems.
 * This is the first season in which neither Owen nor Duncan makes it to the final four.
 * This is the first season in which DJ actually appears in the bottom two of an elimination ceremony.
 * This is the first season in which a previously eliminated contestant is brought back into the game without being an actual contestant. In this case, Ezekiel was brought back to aid in challenges in I See London... and African Lying Safari.
 * This season features the highest amount of irregular eliminations. Only seven contestants were voted off in the normal process.
 * Team Amazon was the only team to never have a single member be regularly voted out.
 * This season features the latest merge of a season, with the merge happening in the nineteenth episode.
 * Events in this season are very similar to those of Survivor: All-Stars.
 * Both shows begin with three teams.
 * There are eighteen contestants competing in both shows though, Total Drama World Tour started out with seventeen contestants.
 * A former winner is eliminated first, though in Total Drama World Tour, Duncan returns.
 * The yellow team is very weak and wins very few challenges.
 * The yellow team is nonexistent before the teams merge. In Survivor, they got absorbed, while in World Tour, they were completely taken out.
 * The final two is comprised of two members of a relationship.
 * This is one of only two seasons to have its main promotional image be a moment from an actual episode, the other being Total Drama Island.
 * This is the only season directed by Jennifer Pertsch and Tom McGillis.
 * This season marks the second time where the winner didn't get their money, the first being Total Drama Island.
 * Heather sings in the most songs this season, singing in twenty songs.