Rock n' Rule

'''After a well-loved contestant returns to the game, the final six compete in rock and roll themed challenges. One of the girls wins invincibility again, so another one plots for somebody's downfall to weaken their chances. In the end, the plotter eliminates herself due to an accident, leaving another contestant sad.'''

Plot
The episode opens with Lindsay singing happily (albeit terribly off-key and messing up some of the lyrics) as she leaves the communal bathrooms, which causes several animals to run away due to her horrible singing voice. Her bad singing greatly irritates Courtney, who is still upset from the events of the previous night. This also irritates Duncan, who is annoyed from having to sit through the movie last night with Lindsay. Chef then begins to play the drums, prompting the contestants to emerge from their respective trailers. Chris then announces the challenge and explains that it will be the "Rock and Roll" genre. Lindsay then questions why Owen is next to her, eating her popcorn. The camera moves to Owen, as Chris yells at him to leave and wait for his cue. Chris then announces that Owen will be returning to the competition due to a lawsuit. Owen later reveals in the confessional that he never filed a lawsuit and that he only returned because Chris had actually paid him to come back onto the show to cause more drama. He said that he needed the money to pay off his mom's cheese cellar.

They then move on to the first challenge, which is guitar playing. The castmates are told that they need to play the notes that correspond with the screen and that they will be electrified if they miss a note. Harold plays too fast and his guitar starts burning, so Chef throws water on it and electrocutes him. Owen falls off the stage and is eliminated. Lindsay gets electrocuted because of not playing at all, but asking Chris if he has a red guitar that went with her outfit. Beth's guitar simply explodes, leaving Duncan and Courtney the only two left in the challenge. Duncan plays the guitar very basically while Courtney does a tremendous amount of tricks. Duncan then smashes his guitar, and Chris says that he won, as Courtney "tried too hard." Duncan teases her about his victory, to which Courtney responds by smashing her guitar against Duncan's groin, knocking him to the ground.

They then move on to the next challenge, where they must maneuver through a red carpet. Courtney goes first, maneuvering around the photographers and fans while rushing through the obstacles. Duncan goes next, being rude to the photographers and all of the fans, save for the groupie, to whom he gives his phone number. Owen then goes, tripping and rolling down the red carpet, causing Chef to have to duct-tape the door back together. Beth loses her glasses on her turn and ends up tripping and falling, much like Owen, making Chef duct-tape the photographer back together too. Harold goes next and starts out okay, but when Duncan tells Doris to hurry up, Harold becomes extremely upset, breaking all the cardboard cutouts and breaking down to the point where he falls into Chris' arms, crying, leaving Chef to duct-tape all of the cardboard cutouts. Lindsay is the last to go and she walks slowly down the red carpet, greeting and posing for the fans and the photographers. Due to this, Lindsay had the best photo and also did the least amount of damage and thus won the challenge. Courtney was angry about this, saying that she clearly did the best job of dodging the paparazzi. Chris then says that their task wasn't necessarily to dodge the paparazzi, but rather, to properly expose yourself to them, adding "and Lindsay exposed."

The third challenge for the castmates is to trash a hotel room. They all go at the same time, but Lindsay earns extra time at the end for winning the previous challenge. Duncan and Courtney are, once again, the best contestants in the challenge. However, Courtney ends up losing her mind and destroys the entire set, including the lights, a microphone, and the set walls. Courtney ends up smashing so much that Lindsay has nothing left to break when she got her extra time. Because she destroyed almost everything, Courtney wins invincibility.

Later, Harold and Owen are seen being called over to a set bridge by Lindsay and Beth. They begin to talk of a plan to vote off Duncan, as Courtney has immunity. They wish to vote him off for his bad attitude and knowing Courtney would go crazy if he left. Owen seems to disagree, saying he wants to vote for Courtney, even if that would be a waste of his vote, but says it is for getting him voted off in the first place. Harold, however, agrees with Lindsay and Beth and agrees to vote off Duncan. At the Gilded Chris Ceremony, the contestants are seen voting, with Owen notably voting for Courtney, and Harold for Duncan. Lindsay is seen looking at Beth, smiling, and closing her eyes while she voted. Chris then distributes the awards to Courtney, Beth, Harold, and Owen, leaving Lindsay and Duncan in the bottom two. Duncan begins to look nervous, and Lindsay believes that, with three votes against him, she is safe. The last Gilded Chris, however, goes to Duncan, meaning that Lindsay has been eliminated. Lindsay and Beth are both confused since three people were supposed to vote off Duncan. Chris announces that, while Harold and Beth did indeed vote for Duncan, Lindsay had accidentally voted for herself when she looked at Beth and didn't look at who she was voting for. This, along with Duncan's and Courtney's votes, eliminated her. The castmates are shocked, and Duncan begins to laugh.

Lindsay and Beth say goodbye to one another, each of them saddened at having to be separated. Lindsay then leaves in the Lame-o-sine, and Chris says goodbye to the competition's "foxiest player," and signs off the episode.

Cast

 * Chef Hatchet appeared, but he had no lines.

General

 * Every person that voted for Lindsay won part of the challenge.
 * It is clear who everyone voted for in this episode:
 * Courtney: Lindsay
 * Duncan: Lindsay
 * Lindsay: Lindsay
 * Owen: Courtney
 * Beth: Duncan
 * Harold: Duncan
 * Most of the times that Owen is in the confessional, he has something with him:
 * First time: Popcorn
 * Second time: Six pennies and a peanut
 * Third time: A pair of boxers
 * The cardboard girl that Duncan flips off is the original design of Sadie. Also, the girl photographer that is seen when Lindsay passes the red carpet is the original design of Katie.
 * When Lindsay posed for the camera, she has her Camp TV pose.
 * Duncan uses one of Harold's middle names, "Doris," for the second time, which he found out in One Flu Over the Cuckoos.
 * In this episode, a blonde enters the competition and a blonde leaves the competition.
 * Like last season, there were six contestants in episode 21, with two blonde contestants each season. Also, in the 21st episode of both seasons one blonde contestant is leaving, with another one left.
 * Courtney calls Lindsay, "Lindsiot," which is a nickname that Heather gave her back in Total Drama Island.
 * With Lindsay gone, all five remaining contestants are the first five to appear in the Total Drama Action introduction.
 * The guitars the contestants had were different from each other:
 * Beth had a banjo.
 * Courtney had an acoustic guitar.
 * Lindsay had a Flying V guitar.
 * Duncan had a Skull-like Guitar.
 * Owen had an electric guitar with Britain's Flag on it, similar to Noel Gallagher's Supernova guitar.
 * Harold had a normal, solid-colored guitar with Canadian leaves on it.
 * This is the first and currently only time Lindsay was eliminated from being voted out (Lindsay was eliminated in That's Off the Chain!, because she was the last person to cross the finish line in the Motocross Challenge and lost the tie-breaker challenge in Can't Help Falling in Louvre).

Continuity

 * This is the first episode in the season that Harold doesn't have a confessional.
 * Courtney wins solo invincibility in an elimination challenge for the third time in a row.
 * Owen returns to the competition in this episode, making him the first male in the entire series to return to the competition.
 * This marks the first time a contestant has accidentally voted themselves off the show for the entire series, and the third to just vote themselves off.
 * This episode marks the first time that Chris and a contestant have been seen in the confessional simultaneously (in this case, Duncan).
 * This is the third episode were someone gives the finger with the others being That's Off the Chain! and The Aftermath: III.
 * This is the second episode someone attempted to eliminate Courtney even though she had invincibility with the first time being in Ocean's Eight - Or Nine.
 * This is the second time Lindsay, Beth, and another contestant try to vote off Duncan to upset Courtney but one of those three players gets eliminated instead with the first time being in Super Hero-ld.
 * This is the third elimination ceremony in a row where Duncan receives the final Gilded Chris Award with the other episodes being Super Hero-ld and The Princess Pride.
 * Duncan is also the first person to ever do so in the entire series.
 * After the merge, Duncan is the only person to do so.
 * This is the second episode of Total Drama Action to feature singing with the first being The Princess Pride.
 * This is the second time Beth is seen without her glasses in Total Drama Action with the first being in Dial M for Merger.

Goofs

 * On the groupie cutout, Duncan wrote his phone number on the stomach, yet when the other contestants walk past it, the writing is missing, except for when Lindsay passes by.
 * During the third part of the challenge, Chris says that Lindsay won the first challenge, when in fact Duncan won it.
 * In the captions, when Beth called Harold and Owen, it said that Lindsay had said it.
 * When Courtney hit Duncan with the guitar, Duncan's shorts were longer than usual.
 * When it shows Lindsay's voting device, Beth is shown and the top of her neck shows her in her swimsuit.
 * Strangely, Harold and Owen are not shown on the voting devices.
 * It is possible that the castmates had to scroll to see them.
 * When Lindsay is singing, the mirror does not show her hand.
 * When Courtney grabs her swag-bag, it is light blue, but when she runs past the bouncer, it is black. However, in the next scene, it is blue once again.
 * When Owen is counting his first five pennies, they disappear when he finds the sixth penny and the peanut, yet re-appear once he picks it up.
 * When Chris shows everyone their best shots, Lindsay is shown posing, but she was never seen posing in that formation.
 * The same occurred with Harold, as he is seen in the picture with his hands up, yet when he ran, he had his hands over his eyes.
 * There were two closed captioning goofs:
 * When Courtney refers to Lindsay as "Lindsiot" in the confessional, the closed captioning states that Courtney said "Lindsay," instead.
 * When Duncan calls Harold "Doris," the closed captioning said that Chris said it.
 * When Harold was trying to destroy the phone, it had no cord. But when Lindsay was jumping on the bed, it had one.
 * Owen was eliminated from the guitar challenge but he actually never was electrocuted. It is possible that Chris considered him falling off of the stage as a reason to remove him from the challenge.
 * When Chris is talking about his autobiography, he seems to be floating in mid-air.
 * When Harold was knocking the heads off of all of the standees, he never knocked off the sandwiches, even though they were at the same level as where his hand had been.
 * The cheese cellar was 50,000 dollars, but when Owen finds 6 pennies, he says he needs 5,000,584 more. 50,000 dollars is actually equal to 5 million pennies, so he really needed 4,999,994 more.
 * When Duncan turns to look at Courtney complaining, his eyebrow piercing is on the right side of his face, but when he blinks, it visibly moves to the left side.
 * The cutouts' positions changes as the contestant changes.
 * After Courtney hits Duncan in his groin, his legs get longer.
 * When Courtney scolds Lindsay for singing the song off-key, Lindsay is holding her make-up kit in her right hand and her brush on her left. But when the scene changes, through her reflection, her right hand is holding the brush while her left hand is holding the kit instead.
 * In the end of the recap, Chris knocks down his dummy by accident from the previous episode. However, when the camera is zooming out as he said the title of the show, the dummy is nowhere to be seen.