One Flu Over the Cuckoos

In this episode, the contestants take part in a medically themed challenge.

Plot
The campers are returning from their previous challenge, with Izzy saying what parts of the set she remembers. They soon discover that their doors to their trailers are locked, Chris then pulls up and hands them textbooks on medical care. After giving them twenty orders of pizza, he says memorize everything in them by morning. The cast mates then start studying (though Justin is too distracted by his skin care and Izzy and Owen are too distracted by each other). Meanwhile DJ and Chef are working on making more pizza (with DJ adding his mother's ingredient).

Later Duncan and LeShawna give up studying and walk out. LeShawna then tells Duncan they should form an alliance with Harold to counter Heather (to which Duncan snickers). The next morning, the challenge begins, which is to have a castmate retrieve pieces of dead body parts in a pool and bring them back to life with lighting (similar to Frankenstein). Chris asks a medical question and Beth gets it right and goes first, only to discover there are electric eels in the pool (which Chris forgot to warn about). Beth is still able to retrieve a leg for her team. Heather answers the next one and goes next and successfully gets an arm. The teams continue to build their bodies (which turn out to be Chris replicas), but the Gaffers face troubles as Duncan continues to bully Harold (which LeShawna breaks up). LeShawna attempts to call an alliance with the two, but Harold refuses. The two teams finish their bodies and are racing to get it up to the lighting, when Izzy notices a red sore on Owen. The challenge is soon halted as Chris dashes out and the cast mates believe Owen has a contagious and fatal disease.

The cast mates quickly contain Owen in a plastic bubble when they notice DJ has a sore too. After containing him too, everyone but Duncan and LeShawna (who were the only one who didn't study) show signs of the illness. The two quickly race to get textbooks, only to discover the books are fake. They soon discover that Chef had drugged the pizza they ate with itching powder and the sores were only pepperoni slices. Upon learning the truth, Chris congratulates the cast mates for completing another challenge. He then reveals the winner gets a spa night with away from the set with their best friend. The Gaffers vote for LeShawna, who is crying saying she though she was going to lose everyone. She then reveals to her friend that it was only an act to get her team to vote he away from the set.

Quotes

 * Chris: (rises up from under a sheet on a gurnrey) Calm yourselves. Nobody's dead... yet!


 * Duncan: (in confessional) I hate doctors! They just get off on telling people what they don't wanna hear... like don't pick at that scab... or if you eat nothing but pickled eggs, you'll die! Don't tell me what I can't eat! Now playing doctor...playing doctor I can handle.


 * Harold: (in confessional) I could be a doctor if I wanted to! I have plenty of hands on experience, because I've contracted nearly 300 known diseases. And I've been cured of nearly all of them. But there is no known vaccine for loving LeShawna!


 * Justin: Hey, Beth! Do I squint when I read? Beth: Uh...I dunno! You're shirt's distracting me unless you.... (Justin's shirt goes flying past Beth and he's now shirtless) Beth: Uh.... I'll just read the book to you. Spare your beautiful eyes!


 * Owen: Hey! You know what my brothers and me did once? We had a no hands pizza off! (laughs) You should've been there! Izzy: Let's pretend I was here! (Izzy jumps off her chair, gets on her hands and knees, and begans tearing into one of the pizzas, no hands, like a rabid dog tearing up a steak) Owen: You're magnificent!


 * Izzy: (in confessional) I am so glad to be back! I was top of my pre-med class before the RCMP started chasing me, so this should be a snap! And Owen is just the sweetest thing ever! If he were a candy bar, he'd taste just like caramel covered marshmallows.


 * Harold: (in confessional) How could LeShawna even talk to Duncan? He's a worthless punk or my name isn't Harold Norbert Cheever Doris McGrady the Fifth! Please don't tell Duncan about the "Doris" part!


 * Izzy: (while watching Beth, Justin and Lindsay lift up the FrankenChris) Ah! It's so exciting I can't take it! (Izzy bites Owen on the arm Owen: Owwhh! (Smiles and laughs) Hubba hubba! Izzy: Ewwwh! What's this icky sore?.... (feels his forehead) and you're burning up! Just like my passionate soul!


 * Heather: (While Owen is inside a quarrantine bubble and has farted and Izzy has begun walking towards the bubble with a pin to pop it)Wait, stop! You can't! (Izzy pops the bubble and a noxious green gas cloud comes out of the bubble) Owen: Oh, fresh air! Sweet, sweet air! Justin: (is trying to waft the fart cloud away) Oh, stale air! Smelly, smelly air! Harold: (is trying to waft the fart cloud away) I think I'm still dying!


 * (LeShawna walks into the Lame-O-Sine, fake crying) LeShawana: LeShaniqua! Girl, I won! Whooo!!! Girl!!! LeShaniqua: Girl! I cannot believe you've been crying. You never cry! Not even at Mr. Bunny Rabbit's Funeral! LeShawana: You nuts? I was just making sure they'd vote me the heck outta here for the night. LeShaniqua: I knew it was too fool to be true. LeShawana: Aaahhh, A night away from Total Drama.... pain in my behind!


 * LeShawna: (in confessional) I know it's meant to be dangerous and all but it's still a TV show. Now way they's let anyone up and die in here, am I right? Chris: (camera cuts to Chris alone in studio) You'd think we wouldn't but just imagine the ratings!


 * LeShawna: (in confessional) I take a practical approach to life and to this game. Namely, if someone is too nice to you, there has to got to be a reason and you know it ain't gonna be pretty.

Trivia

 * Pictures of everyone whom the Screaming Gaffers are close to are shown:
 * One of Duncan's policeman relatives (who is patterned after the original Tyler from Camp TV)
 * DJ's mom
 * Heather's mother
 * A younger version of Harold in a wizard's hat.
 * LeShawna's best cousin, LaSheniqua appears. (Her design is the same as LeShawna's orignial design for Camp TV)
 * It is revealed in this episode that LeShawna is lactose intolerant.
 * Unlike previous episodes where a challenge involves a movie genere, this challenge seems to be more based around school subject than a doctor movie (as Chris had the team read up on medical stuff).
 * For the first time, a character other than Chris or Chef has had their last name revealed: Harold's last name is officially McGrady.
 * It is revealed that Heather has a sister in addition to her little brother, Damien (who was known about since the Interactive pages were established for last season). Like her brother, Heather also detests her sister.
 * Harold is again seen in the red thong underwear, last seen in If You Can't Take The Heat....
 * This is the fourth episode of Total Drama Action where no one is eliminated (previous episodes being Monster Cash, Beach Blanket Bogus, and TDA Aftermath).
 * Throughout this episode, LeShawna tries to form an alliance with Duncan and Harold.
 * The campers not seen in the confessional in this episode were Beth, Justin, DJ and Lindsay.