Cartoon Network

Cartoon Network is the only television channel that airs Total Drama Island, Total Drama Action, and Total Drama World Tour in the United States. Its programing mostly consists of cartoons, as the name implies, but the channel has recently aired occasional live-action shows. Total Drama Island has been one of the first Cartoon Network shows that have been rated TV-PG, even though it was created by Teletoon.

Total Drama Island was formerly aired on the network's Har Har Tharsdays before June 11, 2009, once it was replaced by the second season of Total Drama, Total Drama Action. Total Drama World Tour ran as part of Cartoon Network's Monday night comedy block in 2010.

Edits and Changes

 * see: Cartoon Network Edits

During Cartoon Network's broadcast of Total Drama Island, there were many edits to the show. While the animation was completely untouched, there were a numerous edits made to the dialogue. This has resulted in dubbing errors throughout the entire first season. The dialogue edits were made because of the words in the show that were considered too offensive by Cartoon Network. Examples of these words include "suck" (often replaced by "stink"), "crap" (often replaced by "shoot" and "crud"), and "boobies" (edited out altogether or replaced with "chest"). On an original trailer for Total Drama Island on Cartoon Network, on the top left-hand screen, its rating is "TV-PG-DLS." They kept the D (which stands for "mild suggestive dialogue"), but edited out most of the content that could have been rated L ("infrequent language") and the S ("some sexual situations"). However, starting with Total Drama Action, many episodes were barely edited. In Total Drama World Tour, only censored lines were cut out, with the bleeps being replaced with other words. Also, for the first time, an entire scene was cut from an episode. In Broadway, Baby!, an entire scene was cut from the episode due to it degrading one of the country's most important symbols (The Statue of Liberty), and its overall inappropriateness.

Other Information
Almost every single episode of Total Drama Island was censored in some way by Cartoon Network, despite putting up a TV-PG rating warning at the beginning of the show and the end of each commercial break. The series is only designed to have one commercial break; this is seen by the episode fading in and fading out at the middle of each episode, while Chris says a line like "See ya right back!" right before the screen fades. Originally Teletoon has a commercial break on this fade, but as for Cartoon Network, they have two or sometimes three commercial breaks on each episode, resulting in an edit-out and interrupting the plot of that episode. One example is when a contestant wins a certain challenge and then all of a sudden the screen fades and a commercial pops out. Usually Chris is supposed to warn you that a commercial break is coming, and says so before the fade in, but this scene is only shown on the middle of each episode, which is a perfect place for a commercial break for Teletoon, but not for Cartoon Network.

Surprisingly, 6teen, a show made by the creators of Total Drama Island which has similar dialog content, is completely unedited except for one phrase that included the word "scorniest" (it was later changed to "scoring-est"), and the pilot episode, where Jonesy said "Getting to second base with Jill Anderson." Even the theme song, which contains "Thank God" in the lyrics, is left untouched. Many children's networks go out of their way to eliminate any mention of a particular religion or deity. Some episodes of Total Drama Action have shown that Cartoon Network's edits are getting lighter and lighter, possibly because their viewers are getting older.

Chris hosted a special on Cartoon Network called "Spring Break '09." It featured sneak peeks of Total Drama Action, along with other shows that were new to Cartoon Network in 2009.

Total Drama Island and every season following it has been aired in a widescreen 16x9 aspect ratio on Teletoon (in Canada) and at least Total Drama World Tour has been broadcast the same way on ABC3 in Australia. However, in the United States, every Total Drama series has been cropped to a 4x3 aspect ratio, which was the normal for all TV shows before the era of HDTV. However, by now Cartoon Network has been gradually airing several other shows in their proper 16x9 ratio; why they continue to crop the Total Drama series is unknown. Though most of the time the cropping has not affected the viewing experience of the show, there are certain scenes that will look completely off-focus due to the cropping, such as a certain scene in Beach Blanket Bogus where Chris is about to use his automated machine gun to fire seagulls at Gwen. However, on modern HDTVs when trying to fill the whole screen, Total Drama must be stretched so it can fill the whole screen, and may be the same for the DVD.

Cartoon Network allows the viewing of Total Drama episodes via their website, however their video player is built for widescreen presentation. To get around this with their cropped editions of the episodes, all of the footage is stretched out, enlarged, and cropped even more to create the illusion that the episodes are in widescreen format. Sometimes, it can look fairly convincing if the scenes are simple and focused on the center. However, in other scenes like when Chris and Chef are at the airport in The Aftermath: IV, the consequences of stretching the episode's footage to give a faux widescreen effect is blatantly obvious.

DVD
Total Drama's first season was released on DVD on August 18th by Cartoon Network, making it the only DVD release of the show to date. Despite claiming that the DVD features all twenty seven episodes and cast interviews, Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island was not included (instead being replaced by the TDI Rundown), and the cast interviews are really the character auditions. Many people weren't happy at this. Some of the edits were removed and some original dialogue was retained, but most edits were left in. Despite this, an advertisement from Amazon.com, along with the summary on the back of the box saying "crappy," a word that was replaced in most episodes, had suggested that the DVD would be uncut. For more information on the DVD, please go to Total Drama Island: The Complete First Season.

Nood Era
Cartoon Network used to feature Noods, human-like creatures that were Cartoon Network's advertising staples, that has been made into various Total Drama Island characters. Heather, Gwen, DJ, Chris, Harold, Cody, Trent, Chef, and the Bear have all been created as Noods. If a ball of color hits a Nood, they turn into whatever color that ball of color was, or they change into a camper who wears that color. For example, a Nood that gets hit with a ball the color of Heather's shirt will turn into Heather, or a Nood that touches an object blue will turn into the color blue. The look changed a bit in early 2010, not using the animation bumpers as much, but using live action. The Noods were retired as well with the logo in May of 2010.

YEEEEAUHHHH! Era
After the noods were retired and the old Cartoon Network logo, the next (and current) era was called the CHECK it era. "CHECK it" appeared after the Cartoon Network logo in bumpers or advertisements involved Cartoon Network. There are blocks/squares in the background and it has more of a retro feel. The Total Drama series had bumpers for primetime, new episodes, and if they were on next or later. The "CHECK it" bumpers were later renamed to the "YEEEEAUHHHH!" bumpers.

Games and Website
The Cartoon Network website has games and a show page for Total Drama Island, Total Drama Action, and Total Drama World Tour. The games include: The Big Picture, Best Game Ever, Drop of Shame, H-Bomb's Killah Beatz, Flight Simmerator, Chomp Sewey, Total Pandamonium, Splat! Oberfest, Oh No U Di'n't!!!, and Total Drama Island: Totally Interactive!.

Applications
Starting on August 2nd, 2010, Total Drama applications by Cartoon Network became available on iTunes for download. The first one was an iPod touch version of the Total Pandamonium game. It is also available for iPad/iPhone, and players can get it from the Apps Store.

FusionFall
FusionFall is an online game created by Cartoon Network. The game features Cartoon Network characters and allows avatars to be customized.

The game also features codes which allow players to obtain clothes and weapons for their avatar. Such items based on Total Drama World Tour include:


 * The shirts of the three teams as well as other characters of Total Drama World Tour.
 * DJ's shirt.
 * Duncan's shirt.
 * Leshawna's shirt.
 * Owen's shirt.
 * Trent's shirt.

The Total Drama World Tour Facebook Page's Fart Blaster
In this Fart Blaster, one can send different kinds of farts to their Facebook friends. Some of the farts available to send are:
 * Northern Explosion
 * Grand Central Gasser
 * El Farto Supremo
 * Crumpet Trumpet
 * Parisian Poot
 * Stinky Sphinxy
 * Tokyo Toot
 * Deep Sea Doody

After one picks the kind of fart they want to send, they have to pick the friend that they want to send it to. They will get a notification that they have been blasted.

Goofs

 * On Cartoon Network Video, the logo for Total Drama Island has Trent's Camp TV design. It's also seen on the Cartoon Network Valentine's Day game.
 * When the Total Drama Island video for The Very Last Episode, Really! is viewed, it is incorrectly entitled "The Very Last, Really!." The second time something like this has happened is when Awwwwww, Drumheller had fifteen w's instead of six.
 * The summary for Haute Camp-ture on the Total Drama Island website has nothing to do with the episode. Instead, it summarizes the original episode plot, which was a modeling contest.