Mutiny on the Soundstage

'''Total Drama Action comes to a close as the final two competes in a pirate-themed challenge. However, total chaos breaks loose as two hosts start a fight that threatens their friendship. The final two are pushed through a treasure hunt of knowledge and endure all of the elimination challenges in addition to one more, due to a choice. As the two finalists race to the end, something unexpected happens.'''

Plot
The episode opens with Beth and Duncan alone in their separate trailers. At first, Beth is excited about being the last remaining girl left on the show, however, she soon becomes scared when she realizes that she is all alone in the trailer, wishing anyone, even Heather, was there with her to keep her company. She starts to chatter her teeth, which annoys Duncan. He then also realizes that no one is in his cabin after making a joke about Beth's face. The two are soon knocked out by knock-out gas cans that were thrown into their trailers and are then kidnapped. They awaken to find themselves tied "tightly, but not painfully" to the mast of a boat and they decide to help each other get out of the bind. Chef arrives and brings the finalists a good breakfast, rather than his normal food, much to their surprise.

While they are eating, Chris comes in and announces the challenge. He tells them that they will have to do pirate challenges, then be shot through a cannon back to the first set of the season. They are then told that for their first pirate-themed challenge, they will have to clean the restrooms that were used by Sasquatchanakwa and the Bear, using only little cotton swabs. Duncan completes the challenge first, but then must re-clean as the Sasquatchanakwa has to go again, while Beth gets ahead. He asks her for help, but she refuses. However, Duncan still completes the second and third parts of the challenge first, which are to tie a flag to the top of a lubed up mast and fire oneself from an air cannon to the monster movie set, respectively. Chef, who is finally fed up with Chris and reveals that he intends to leave the show, has taken Chris' role as host to prove that Chris has the easier job of the two. Chef follows Duncan through the challenges, asking him trivia questions pertaining to all the eliminated Total Drama Action contestants. If he answers the questions correctly, he will skip the physical portion of the challenge and move on to the next challenge. However, Duncan doesn't know the answers to any to the questions in the entire challenge.

An emotional Chris, who is upset about Chef leaving the show, tells everything to Beth while she is pumping the air cannon. Despite not pumping the cannon enough the first time and getting criticized by Chris after cheering him up, she manages to succeed and make it to the monster movie set. Beth is then asked questions by Chef, although unlike Duncan, she is able to answer the them easily. She answers all of the questions correctly and skips over the challenges. Since Chef has to act as host to both Duncan and Beth, he runs back and forth repeatedly between the two, exhausting himself. After stalling Beth in order to rest, Chris shows up and offers to follow Beth, while Chef follows Duncan. Beth ends up catching up to Duncan, who initially had a massive lead. Eventually, the final two both end up at the set of Top Dog, and are each asked a different trivia question about Courtney. However, both of them are unable to answer their respective questions correctly. Chris then sends them to the set of Masters of Disasters to repeat the earthquake simulator challenge again.

At this point, Duncan and Beth suddenly start to work together, which is what Beth wanted from the beginning. Eventually, they end up sprinting to their final objective. The camera shows the Aftermath studio, with all the former contestants watching excitedly. Geoff and Bridgette attempt to announce the winner, but both Beth and Duncan cross the finish line simultaneously. This causes everyone in the room to be shocked or angry about the turn of events. The episode then ends with a black screen that states, "To Be Continued...."

Cast

 * The other seventeen contestants appeared at the end of this episode, but they had no lines.

General

 * In this episode, Geoff and Bridgette are revealed to have been in Chris' private space: kissing in his tanning bed.
 * Chris wore the same pirate outfit in this episode as he did in Search and Do Not Destroy.
 * Beth reveals that Courtney once had an overbite, and bit off part of her tongue. She also comments, "I'm not supposed to know that."
 * Gwen's pet lizards are mentioned again in this episode. The first time is in The Aftermath: II. They are named Angus and Vampyra.
 * Beth knows that Owen has one hundred-thirty-nine favorite foods, and she knows them in alphabetical order (except it cuts her off before she can get to the B's).
 * The Monster that appeared in Monster Cash and The Princess Pride appears again in this episode.
 * This time, however, it's controlled by the blond haired intern, and not Chef.
 * Duncan showed his soft side to Beth when he helped her out in the last challenge.
 * The challenges from previous episodes were all modified, but kept the same theme. They included:
 * Alien Resurr-eggtion: Instead of Avoiding "Mama Alien," Duncan had to kiss the Monster acting as an alien.
 * Riot On Set: Instead of carrying the film set up the mountain, Duncan had to carry the mountain up the mountain.
 * 3:10 to Crazytown: Instead of jumping off the platform onto a horse, the horse had to land on Duncan.
 * The Chefshank Redemption: Duncan had to run through the obstacle course while being chased by bloodthirsty hounds.
 * The Sand Witch Project: Instead of competing in a horror themed challenge, Duncan had to watch "The Miracle Of Childbirth."
 * Full Metal Drama: Duncan had to run through a minefield wearing a blindfold.
 * Million Dollar Babies: Facing off in all of the sports challenges against a bear.
 * The Princess Pride: Instead of running across a rickety old bridge, Duncan had to get across the bridge carrying Chef, who was wearing a dress.
 * 2008: A Space Owen: Ride in the Vomit Comet.
 * Top Dog: Replaced with running through the earthquake simulator from Masters of Disasters.
 * The challenges from Ocean's Eight - Or Nine, Super Hero-ld and Rock n' Rule weren't seen.
 * The known follow-up questions asked by Chef and Chris are:
 * Where is the weirdest place Bridgette and Geoff make out?
 * Answer: Inside Chris' Tan-o-Matic 3000.
 * What is Izzy reincarnated from?
 * Answer: Her great-grandmother, Mavis.
 * How did Trent gets his fear of mimes?
 * Answer: At a circus when he was little.
 * What are the names of Gwen's pet lizards.
 * Answer: Angus and Vampyra.
 * What animal does DJ like?
 * Answer: N/A
 * What are Owen's favorite foods?
 * Answer: He has 139 favorite foods.
 * At whose wedding did Justin cry at?
 * Answer: His aunt's, Lady Mimi Cici Didi Laduda.
 * What is the name of Courtney's band?
 * Answer: The Type-A Psychotic Crazies.
 * What colour is Courtney thinking of right now?
 * Answer: Burnt sienna.
 * Although Beth is shown to be slightly overweight and as a consequence, unlikely to be a fit person, she manages to keep up with Duncan, who is shown to be physically strong many times, and at some points even passes him.
 * This is the only episode of season two to have more than one movie genre. It had pirate and miscellaneous.
 * Leshawna and Lindsay were the only eliminated cast members whose questions weren't seen being asked or answered.
 * Heather and Izzy's second question are unknown although the answer given is seen.

Continuity

 * This marks the first time that all twenty-two contestants were in the Aftermath studio at one time.
 * This marks the first time that a Total Drama episode ends with "To be continued."
 * This episode marks the first two-part season finale in the series. The second is Planes, Trains, and Hot Air Mobiles and Hawaiian Punch in Total Drama World Tour.
 * The challenge from Masters of Disasters is the only non-elimination challenge used in this episode.
 * This is the second episode in which the real-life audience votes to win. The other is in The Very Last Episode, Really! (in the U.S.).
 * This is the last official challenge of Total Drama Action as the challenges in The Aftermath: IV weren't meant to happen.
 * This is the first episode since Phobia Factor that Trent's fear of mimes and how he receives it is mentioned.

Goofs

 * When Duncan and Beth are knocked out by the gas cans, they are wearing pajamas, but when they wake up, they are wearing their normal clothes.
 * Chef has already hosted the show before (although he did a lot more slacking than Chris usually does), but it was not mentioned by him or anyone else.
 * When Duncan and Beth were tied up with the rope in the beginning, Duncan's shirt was gray instead of black.
 * Beth apparently broke up with Brady two episodes ago, but in this episode, she mentions him on two occasions and calls him her boyfriend as if it never happened.
 * Although, when Beth says she has a boyfriend, she might have been referring to Harold as she thought he was crushing on her. So she thought of Harold as her boyfriend since he never clarified to her that he was not her boyfriend.
 * When Duncan and Beth go through the door, they come out on the left side of the Aftermath studio. However in past episodes, guests come out of the waiting room and enter on the left side without going through the set. It is possible that the waiting room can disconnect from the aftermath studio, and it even seemed to appear separately from the studio in Rock n' Rule.
 * This also leads questions to why the Lame-o-sine is shown driving off into the distance after someone is eliminated.
 * When Beth and Duncan are finally at the same challenge together, Duncan's spikes on his collar disappear, then reappear in the next scene.
 * Duncan's unibrow splits during the Riot On Set challenge.
 * Duncan and Beth both get hit with a cinder block to the head (which of course would hurt them extremely to begin with), but when hit, a metal sound is heard with the impacts.
 * Chef says in this episode that the monster from Monster Cash and The Princess Pride was the "alien" from Alien Resurr-eggtion, but he should have known that that wasn't true since he was the alien. It is likely that he merged the two challenges together.
 * When Duncan kisses the monster, its face seems much smaller than it was in Monster Cash. Also, its eyes are black instead of red.
 * Duncan stated that he beat the monster the last two times it appeared, but it was the monster that beat Duncan in the two challenges it was involved in. In fact, it was Owen's weight and Harold's math skills that stopped the monster in Monster Cash and The Princess Pride respectively.
 * Beth refers to the tiny bones in her ears as the cochlea. This is incorrect, as the cochlea isn't a bone.