Beth and Courtney

This article focuses on the interactions between Beth and Courtney.

Overview
In Total Drama Island, there isn't any on-screen interaction between the two, due to the fact that they are both eliminated before the merge and are on different teams. However, since Courtney debuted in Total Drama Action, there is a lot of confrontation between the two, as Courtney is placed on the same team as Beth. Beth quickly grows to dislike Courtney's bossy, ruthless, and domineering attitude, and how Courtney often mistreats her best friend, Lindsay. Courtney ends up disliking Beth because of her naivety and niceness. This confrontation grows even bigger once they form an alliance, where their true tensions began. Their contrasting personalities and inability to get along leads to the end of their alliance an episode after it was form. The conflict has since faded into obscurity due to Beth not advancing to the third or fifth seasons, while Courtney does.

Ocean's Eight - Or Nine
Courtney immediately clashes with Beth after assuming leadership of the Killer Grips. Beth is offended when Courtney orders her to mush, and protests that her teammates are not sled-dogs. Courtney called Beth a "complete dud" due to the Grips' poor performance in the challenge, so Beth, along with all the other teammates, vote Courtney off even though they knew that she had immunity in the Awards Ceremony.

One Million Bucks, B.C.
Beth complains about having Courtney on their team, especially after Chris reveals all the unfair advantages that Courtney would have thanks to a contract from her lawsuit. Beth calls her bossy and is very unhappy after learning that Courtney can use her personal digital assistant during the competition, as Beth is "the one with a boyfriend".

Million Dollar Babies
During this episode, Beth "sleep twirls" Courtney's PDA, nearly breaking it when she tosses it in the air. Courtney barely catches it and warns Beth that if she ever touches it again, she would pay. Later in the episode, Courtney, along with Lindsay and Justin, celebrate Beth's victory against Heather during the badminton match. While Beth is telling everybody about the video she saw on Courtney's PDA, Courtney accuses Beth of stealing it from her again.

Dial M for Merger
Courtney gets angry at Beth again after she finds her PDA on the ground. The former claims that the latter is trying to steal it, though Beth claims she is trying to return it to Courtney. Later on, Beth is forced to comply with Courtney's blackmail in sharing the million dollars in exchange for their safety.

Super Hero-ld
Beth tries to convince Harold to work with her to vote off Duncan, in the hopes that Courtney would become despondent over Duncan's elimination and be the next one voted off.

The Princess Pride
Beth, along with Lindsay, is jealous that Courtney is chosen to be the princess. Chris creates and sells Princess Courtney Dolls, one of which Beth uses as a voodoo doll, which Courtney apparently feels the effects of. Later on, at the Awards Ceremony, Chris changes the Princess Courtney Dolls to Princess Beth Dolls, because Courtney's lawyers wanted a large cut of the profits. Beth responds to this by excitedly jumping up and down and screaming with joy, but eventually starts to feel pain due to the pins in the doll.

Get a Clue
When Beth asks to have some of Courtney's reward, she angrily refuses. After Chris is thought to be dead, Beth listens to Courtney's speech and follows her instructions  instead of Lindsay's. In the end, after Lindsay ends up winning and taking Duncan to the movies as her reward, Beth states that she can't stay mad at Lindsay for choosing Duncan over her, due to the fact that she really enjoyed watching Courtney become jealous over Lindsay's decision.

Rock n' Rule
Beth and Lindsay once again tried to vote off Duncan in order to make Courtney mad and upset, but fail as Lindsay accidentally votes herself off.

Crouching Courtney, Hidden Owen
Courtney states in the confessional that she is being "forced" into forming an all-girls alliance with Beth since Lindsay was voted off in the previous episode. Although Courtney is trying to form an alliance with Beth, they still get on each other's nerves throughout the episode, and even nearly get into a knife fight in the kitchen. Although Beth initially denies Courtney's pleas to form an alliance, she eventually agrees after Courtney allows her the use of her PDA. They complete the remaining part of the challenge (which involved cooking the "seven deadliest fish known to man", which they serve to the winner of the challenge).

2008: A Space Owen
At the beginning of the episode, when Beth gets they will be doing outer space movies, Courtney sarcastically calls her a "genius". Beth, being unaware of the sarcasm is happy to be called like that. When Courtney wins the first challenge, she and Beth are allowed to decide the order in the second challenge. Beth tries to tell Courtney to let both go first, but Courtney covers her mouth with her hand out of annoyance. Courtney decides her and Beth are to go last, but once Chris explains the next challenge is The Vomit Comet, Courtney tries to take back her decision, but it is too late. Beth then becomes angry at her, explaining in the confessional that this is what she tried to tell her. Later, after Beth decides to do the Vomit Comet challenge instead of forfeiting as told by Courtney, she is seen glaring at her. They later get into a major argument in their trailer, where Beth tells Courtney that she is always mean and bossy. The fight continues prior to the Awards Ceremony and officially end their short-lived alliance.

Top Dog
Courtney is seen actually being relaxed and nice with Beth at the breakfast table, despite their argument and alliance break-up in the previous episode. Courtney also expresses concern over whether she and Duncan kept her awake with their relationship talk. In the confessional however, Beth reveals that she has been listening Courtney and Duncan's interactions in the previous night and pities Duncan for needing to memorize a forty-two page letter in order for him to have a serious relationship with Courtney. Once the challenge began, Courtney pushed Beth over as they got to choose their animal buddy, prompting Beth to angrily comment on the similarity between Courtney and her animal buddy. After the challenge ended, Beth is worried about Courtney's health after she gets in to a fight with her shark in the first challenge and again after Courtney is seen shivering once she returns from the forest. Later, Courtney is shown belittling Beth even after her animal buddy found Courtney's PDA for her, which had been lost earlier in the episode. Beth does not seem the least bit upset when Courtney is finally eliminated at the end of the episode, as she voted her off due to being a threat.

Mutiny on the Soundstage
Even though Beth was able to make it through most of the second half of the challenge by answering questions about the cast, the only one she was unable to answer the question for was Courtney. When Chris asks Courtney's question, instead of giving an answer, Beth rants about how she thinks it was unfair for Courtney to sue the show, concluding by saying that "Courtney is barely a human being".

The Aftermath: IV
Courtney clearly supports Duncan over Beth during the finale. When Courtney suggests a "completely unbiased" quiz show to solve the tie, she winks at Duncan, implying that the quiz was actually going to be completely biased towards him, but her idea is rejected by the others. Courtney later votes for Duncan. When Beth wins in her ending, Courtney once again tries to sue the show for "election fraud".

Trivia

 * This conflict shares several similarities to the conflict between Beth and Heather.
 * Both involve Beth and the main antagonist of a season.
 * Both involve the antagonist forming an alliance with Beth, and bossing her around.
 * Both involve Beth becoming fed up with the way she's treated and finally standing up for herself.
 * There is a direct connection to the conflict of Courtney and Lindsay and to the friendship of Beth and Lindsay.