2008: A Space Owen

'''It's time for Total Drama Action to lift off as the cast competes in space-themed challenges in order to win immunity. Two cast members start to feel a strain on their recently made alliance, and another still can't shake off his guilt. After a number of calculations, someone believes that there is a traitor among the cast, but he is unable to warn the other remaining contestants before being eliminated.'''

Plot
The episode opens during the middle of the night, with Chris abruptly waking the contestants up. He greets them and tells them that they have all been sent something from the outside world, and then gives a package to each contestant. Owen receives a trophy that he won for being a good citizen, which makes him feel guilty, due to his new role of saboteur on the show. Courtney receives a photo of her winning a debate all by herself because her partner on the debating team didn't want to work with her, Harold receives his nun-chucks from the previous season, Beth receives a "promise" candy ring from Brady, and Duncan receives his pet tarantula, Scruffy.

Next, Chris tells everyone to meet him at a different location for the next challenge. Once they get there, he tells them that they must spend the rest of the night riding in a space simulation roller coaster. The group enter the "space ship," and they sleep in zero-gravity until they are woken up by an alarm. The alarm tells them that they need to fix the ship's navigation system, and to do so they must reach a joystick. Unable to reach it himself, Duncan decides to throw Harold at it instead, and Harold is able to repair the system. Meanwhile, as the castmates compliment Harold's quick work, Owen floats near a window, trying to find a way to fulfill his duties as secret mole. He then notices Harold's nun-chucks floating by him and quickly grabs them, using them to break one of the spaceship's windows. The uncontrolled decompression starts sucking everything out of the spaceship, including their oxygen supply. Chris tells them that they have several minutes to fix or plug up the broken window or else they will run out of oxygen, so Beth and Courtney come up with the idea to use Owen to fill the hole. When they safely depart the spaceship, Chef declares that their idea of filling the hole with two pillows was smart, then pats the "two pillows" happily. Chris informs him that the "pillows" are actually Owen's butt, and Chef is then seen in the confessional shaking in terror.

Since Beth and Courtney, the "Girls' Alliance," are the ones to use Owen as the solution, they get to choose the order for the next part of the challenge. Without consulting Beth on possible options, Courtney decides on the order: Harold, Owen, Duncan, Beth, and then herself. After they find out that the next challenge is to ride the "Vomit Comet," Courtney tries to take take back her decision, but it is too late.

Harold rides first, but accidentally ends up entering the ride with Scruffy attached to his shirt. Harold then asks to leave the ride after only riding a few seconds and loses the challenge. Duncan asks Harold where Scruffy is, whereupon Harold then turns around and Duncan sees Scruffy crushed to death on his back. Heartbroken, Duncan mourns his beloved pet's death, while Courtney comforts him. Owen rides next and ends up leaving early as well, but not before farting inside the ride due to Chef Hatchet's chili. Duncan is disgusted as he enters the ride because of the horrible smell. He ends up being the first one to vomit, and manages to stay in the longest so far (but gets ten seconds off his time for vomiting). Beth goes next, still upset that she is going so late and that the ride has already been soiled. She refuses to stick with Courtney and not participate at all. Beth manages to stay in longest with thirty-six seconds. Beth exits the ride and kisses Harold, due to the fact that she assumes that he has feelings for her, when he does not. Harold is disgusted when she then dumps Brady and tells Harold that she wishes to date him. Meanwhile, Courtney is upset that Beth did not go along with her plan, and ends up forfeiting, allowing Beth to earn invincibility.

The scene then cuts to Duncan and Harold sitting outside the girls' trailer as Beth and Courtney argue. Inside the trailer, Beth and Courtney fight about Beth's choice in the immunity challenge, which leads them to break up their alliance and each decide to fight alone for the rest of the game. Meanwhile, Harold finds Owen in the film lot. Harold then explains to Owen that he is suspicious of him, as Owen was the only castmate not accounted for when the window broke on the spaceship. Harold tells Owen that he knows he is a traitor, but Owen denies the accusation and repels him with his excessive farting.

At the Gilded Chris Ceremony, the castmates are seen voting. It is revealed Harold voted for Owen, Beth voted for Courtney, and Owen and Duncan voted for Harold. Courtney is the only one who does not imply to the camera whom she is voting for, saying that she should have the right of privacy. The first Gilded Chris goes to Beth, then Owen and Duncan. Courtney and Harold are the bottom two, with Harold being sent home. As he leaves, he pulls down Duncan's pants, which Duncan admits he had coming. Harold then shouts to the other castmates that Owen is a traitor and that they should watch him like a hawk. He quickly changes his mind and says that they need to watch him like a falcon, as they have better eyesight than a hawk. Beth mentions that she will "wait for Harold," much to his dismay. Chris then signs off the show and Harold is driven away by the Lame-o-sine.

Exclusive clip
Harold is still angry that Owen still remains in the competition despite being a traitor. He then mentions about the time when he accidentally shot his principal with an arrow, resulting in a few years worth of detention. He believes that he is the "leader" of the bad students there as they let him finish their homework. He wonders how they will they react when they find out that he almost got a girlfriend but then wonders whether or not he should tell them that it was Beth.

General

 * This is the first episode written by Ken Cuperus.
 * Contrary to the title, this episode originally aired on November 26, 2009.
 * The final four at the end of the episode are almost the same as they were in the last season, in the sense that three are from one team, while only one is left from the other team. There are also two boys and two girls, once again.
 * Also, Owen and Duncan make it to the final four once again, and are the remaining two boys again.
 * With Harold's elimination, Duncan is the last Gaffer in the season.
 * This is the second occasion where Duncan is the last member of his team left on the show.
 * The cast members all get packages from home in this episode:
 * Owen: A Student-Of-The-Year Trophy.
 * Courtney: A photo of herself winning a debate.
 * Beth: A candy "promise" ring from Brady.
 * Duncan: His pet tarantula, Scruffy.
 * Harold: His nun-chucks.
 * Interestingly, by the end of the episode, four of the five gifts given to the cast could no longer be accounted for.
 * Owen threw Harold's nun-chucks out the window of the spaceship.
 * Scruffy was killed by Harold.
 * Owen's trophy was broken by Harold's karate chop.
 * Beth finished eating her candy ring, before returning it to Brady.
 * Despite breaking up in this episode, the Girls' Alliance manage to fulfill their goal, to eliminate a male contestant.
 * Тhis is the first merged elimination episode in which Duncan is not in the bottom two.
 * With Harold's elimination, Courtney becomes the second Killer Bass, and the only female Killer Bass, to make the final four of any season.

Continuity

 * This is the second episode in a row to feature Owen's name. The first is Crouching Courtney, Hidden Owen.
 * This is the first time in Total Drama Action that Harold has ever been in the bottom two. With this, Beth is the only castmate to never reach the bottom two at all in Total Drama Action.
 * This is the first time since The Sand Witch Project that the contestant eliminated was on the Killer Bass.
 * Harold is the second contestant and first male in Total Drama Action to win a reward challenge, then get eliminated in the next episode. The first contestant being Lindsay.
 * Interestingly, both were eliminated back-to-back.
 * This is the first episode of Total Drama Action in which Courtney did not win solo-invincibility in, making Beth the only other contestant to do so.
 * This is the second time Chef had to escort Harold out of the competition.
 * This is the last time in Total Drama that Harold is voted off, as he quits the competition in Total Drama World Tour.
 * This episode refers back to One Million Bucks, B.C., as Chris introduces the challenge in a loincloth, and Harold also mentions that he thought they did a cavemen challenge before.
 * This is the first episode in Total Drama Action since Courtney's return to not mention her personal digital assistant or her lawyers.
 * The castle set from the episode The Princess Pride can be seen in the background scene with the roller coaster.

Goofs

 * When the cast opens their packages from home, Beth isn't wearing her night guard, but when she turns around to open her package from Brady, you can see a glimpse of her wearing it.
 * When Chris shows the packages from home, there are six boxes, but there are only five contestants.
 * When Beth got off the zero gravity simulator, her ring is missing. It finally reappears when she's in the confessional, talking about how her alliance with Courtney wasn't starting well.
 * Each time Beth sees her gift, she screams in excitement. However, she claims that in The Sand Witch Project that she can not scream.
 * When Duncan, Courtney, Harold, and Scruffy escape the spaceship roller coaster, Duncan's shirt is colored gray instead of black.