TDI Rundown

As each and every camper was eliminated, there has not been an episode to review what has happened throughout the series, an episode with a music video and a sneak peek, and an episode as exclusive as this; this is the Total Drama Island Rundown!

Recap
The episode focuses on Chris McLean, who covers the whole season of Total Drama Island up to the previous episode. The campers only appears in flashbacks and brief clips, as this episode does not take place on the island and ultimately had no effect on the plot of the series. The main purpose of the episode, as mentioned in the title, is to give a basic rundown of the entire season up to this point, mainly the eliminations, in which order they happened, and how each elimination happened. He would briefly show a clip of the eliminated camper as he talked about them, with a large red circle with a line through it appearing over their head at the end of the clip, accompanied by a loud buzzing sound.

In addition, there were intervals between narrations where Chris would talk a little bit more about the show itself. He also took some time describing a few of the more "interesting" campers this season, such as Heather and Izzy. Also as a special feature in this episode was the airing of some of the campers' audition tapes. The two major events in the episode that were the most-mentioned throughout, and saved for the very end, were: a music video featuring clips of all of the contestants, and a sneak peek clip from the finale.

Just before Chris signs off the episode, he mentions the final two: Owen and Gwen. At that moment, he stops briefly to point out the uncanny similarity between their names, as they both have four letters, and the last three letters are "wen." He then says, "Winky-dink? I'm not so sure."

Audition Tapes
This episode shows several of the Total Drama Island contestants' auditions:
 * Beth: Beth sings a song, off key, into a microphone. (Note: The one in the rundown cuts off earlier than her actual audition tape.)
 * Courtney: Courtney, trying to get votes outside her school, speaks about her best qualities, then realizes that she has mixed up her audition and Student Body President speeches.
 * Duncan: Duncan trying to escape his prison, complete with the howling of killer guard dogs and the blaring of alarms as he descends the wall and runs off.
 * Harold: Harold is seen bragging about his many scouting badges and abilities, then playing his keyboard (which soon falls over).
 * Leshawna: Leshawna lists her best qualities waits for a call that she was accepted to be on Total Drama Island.
 * Lindsay: Lindsay talks about her many abilities and talents while the camera pans over many different pictures of her in bikinis.
 * Trent: Trent sings a song with his guitar in a recording studio, but then breaks a string and mutters "Aw, crap."
 * Tyler: Tyler utterly failing to succeed at numerous sports.

Not Featured

 * Bridgette
 * Chef Hatchet
 * Cody
 * DJ
 * Eva
 * Ezekiel
 * Heather
 * Geoff
 * Izzy (she had two, and neither were shown)
 * Justin
 * Katie
 * Mr. Coconut
 * Noah
 * Sadie

The above were probably not aired due to lack of time. Also, Owen and Gwen never had their audition tapes aired, as they were never voted off of Total Drama Island.

Order of Elimination
The order of elimination is said by Chris McLean. As they go down the line, each camper's name is called, with the reason for their elimination usually stated. They feature a clip from their elimination episode and a red circle with a line dashed through it appears over the camper's face and their elimination telling is over, except for in the telling of Noah's elimination. The red circle with the dash through it is featured over Noah and the clip is paused when he's saying "Knock 'em out, throw 'em out, rah, rah-." The red symbol then disappears and it shows Noah getting hit with the dodgeball and falling behind the bleachers. Another exception was Courtney, because after the circle disappeared, it showed Harold rigging the votes; then, it went to Harold's elimination story.

Music Video
There is a music video featured in this episode. The music is the theme song and it shows various clips of the campers from past episodes, however, there are special effects-such as the screen changing colors and hues, as well as extensions of the instrumental bridges to make the video longer than the actual theme song.

Quotes
(the shot stops with the sounds of a record scratching, Chris appears) Chris: Whoa, whoa, whoa. What!? Hold on a minute, bra, I think you're introducing a completely different reality show. The one I know does have twenty-two teens, although, normal and brave aren't the first two words that come to mind.
 * Announcer: Canada. The great white north. Elements too harsh for any normal human to withstand. But we found twenty-two teenagers willing to take the challenge and brave the frozen elements for a chance to...
 * Chris: Eight weeks of high-flying, adrenaline-pumping, puke-inducing hilarity in the ultimate battle of skill and strategy for the grand prize. One hundred thousand dollars!


 * Chris: For their auditions there were only two requirements we were looking for. One: you had to be a teen, and two: you either had to be kooky, obnoxious, stuck-up, dense, loud mouthed, annoying, filthy, or anywhere remotely in between.
 * Chris: Now that one, oh, don't get me started on that one. (brief pause) Okay, I'll start on that one. Heather quickly made an impression on everyone, and was the first to form an alliance. (a clip of Heather forming her alliance with Beth and Lindsay in The Big Sleep is shown) Then, the train to "Drama-town" left the station. But, love her or hate her, I gotta give it up to the girl. She really put the 'Drama' in 'Total Drama Island'. All the way up to the end of the Dock of Shame, and she did that kicking and screaming.


 * Chris: You know, I still get the tiniest bit of satisfaction when I see those sad faces trudging down the dock. (Tyler walks past him after being eliminated) Sick, isn't it? I know. But what do you expect? I'm a TV producer.

Trivia

 * This is one of the episodes to mention the outside world, as it mentions Cartoon Network.
 * Besides Trent's and Beth's, all the audition tapes shown were those of Total Drama Island couples: Lindsay and Tyler's were aired, Leshawna and Harold's were aired, and Courtney and Duncan's were aired.
 * Four Screaming Gopher teammates had their auditions aired, and four Killer Bass also had their auditions aired.
 * As for gender, the tapes were also evened out. Four girls had their tapes aired and so did four boys.
 * This is the only episode in which Chef or any of the twenty-two campers have no new scenes or new lines, since the episode was a recap.
 * This is the first episode to have non-animated scenes, since the opening featured a live-action reality Canadian show, to which Chris says is the wrong show. Also, there were multiple transitions in the video which were of a real marshmallow being melted over a fire.
 * Since Cartoon Network could not get the animations of Chris for this episode they reused animations from previous episodes. An example is when Chris says the line, "Sick, isn't it? I know. But what do you expect? I'm a TV producer." For this line, they reused the clip where Chris mocks Tyler as he walks away shortly following his elimination. This, and many other instances of recycled clips, led to some minor lip-synching problems.
 * Beth's audition was the only one Cartoon Network cut short seeing as the video ends with her Father yelling, not even including her line "They'll see... they'll all see..."
 * Harold's audition tape was also similarly cut short by a few seconds.
 * Nothing on Camp Castaways was recapped, unlike the other twenty four episodes. This is most likely because it wasn't an elimination episode.
 * Chris refers to the bike race in That's Off the Chain! as "Tour de Wawanakwa," which is a parody of Le Tour de France.

Goofs

 * While Chris was saying the names of the campers in the beginning, the spelling of Ezekiel's name was shown to be spelled as "Ezekial."
 * Before cutting to a commercial, Chris says that more audition tapes are coming up and shows one of Katie and Sadie's tapes. But their tape is never shown on the actual show.
 * Chris says Justin was voted off by the campers because they thought beauty wasn't a talent, though it was because Heather convinced others to vote him off.
 * The original announcer in the beginning of the episode declares that they have twenty-two teenagers willing to brave the icy north. Chris then pops up and interrupts him, saying that the show he knows does involve twenty-two teens, but "normal" and "brave" aren't the first two words that come to his mind. However, the original announcer never said the word "normal." Also, he uses "brave" as a verb, not an adjective.