The Princess Pride

'''Fairy tales come to the set of Total Drama Action as the princess is crowned, causing two people to form a fierce rivalry of love. Upon fighting his way through dragons, ogres and many other creatures, a long running enemy finally meets his ultimate end in the game.'''

Plot
The episode opens up with Duncan hosting a burrito making contest. Courtney doesn't participate, as she is busy "strategizing." Beth and Lindsay combine their burritos (giving the name of Burritos Friends Forever), while Harold makes one based off of LeShawna. Justin makes a burrito modeled after his muscles, but Beth and Lindsay feel nothing when he starts flexing. Duncan picks Harold's burrito to be the winner, as it is the biggest, which was the objective. Justin demands a second opinion, Courtney then says that all of them have become obsessed with challenges. Justin goes over to Courtney, compliments her strategy, then says that she has lots of deformities, when she says she doesn't have any, he states that she is in denial.

Chef and Chris walk in and announce the challenge. Beth, however, correctly guesses the challenge based on the glass slipper Chris is carrying, which results in Chris threatening to personally kick Beth off the show. Chris says that whoever fits into the glass slipper will be the challenge's princess, but he immediately rules Beth out, saying that only the winners from the last challenge can participate. Lindsay takes off her boot, and turns out to have huge feet (Which are never actually seen, but the boot can just fit over her big toe). Courtney tries to put on the slipper, and barely succeeds. Chef then dubs Courtney, "Princess Courtney." Courtney's slipper then shoots off her foot, hitting Justin in the eye.

It then cuts to Chris telling a story, and the first challenge: Crossing a bridge with an angry Ogre (Chef). Everybody is given a fairy tale role, complete with sight-obscuring headgear for their costumes, and it becomes apparent that they'll be crossing the bridge blindfolded. Beth and Lindsay fail, but Harold, Justin, and Duncan (even though Duncan cheated by moving his blindfold so that he can see through it) manage to get across to safety. Beth and Lindsay get injured after they failed to get across the bridge.

The next part begins as Courtney is leveled down dressed as a princess. She starts singing, which enchants both Duncan and Justin (while Chris makes the song into CD's. She then throws her glass slipper at Justin (which hits him in the face), explaining that she has chosen him to receive an advantage in the second challenge. Chef "kidnaps" Courtney and takes her up the radio tower (designed to look like a medieval tower). The the three boys are given wooden swords (Justin gets the biggest one for his advantage), and are told to use them to slay a dragon (the mechanical monster with wings taped on), and then climb the tower to rescue Princess Courtney. Justin calls a truce with Harold to get Duncan to lose, but Justin betrays Harold and leaves him and Duncan crushed as makes his way up. Right before Justin and Courtney kiss, Chris informs them that the challenge isn't over; the two must now duel with their swords, with the winnner gaining invincibility. Out of chivalry, Justin refuses to battle, but Courtney, however, doesn't want to risk losing invincibility and knocks him off the tower and crashing into the ground (putting him in a full body cast). Chris then ends the challenge by advertising Courtney dolls. They are much easier than playing with the real Courtney.

At the award ceremony, Chris gives Courtney her Gilded Chris, before announcing that her lawyers want 80% of the profits from the merchandise, but in an attempt to avoid it, he has changed all the dolls to Beth dolls (and gives her a contract that she gets no profits off the merchandise, along with her Gilded Chris). Lindsay and Harold get Gilded Chirs's too, meaning it comes down to Justin and Duncan. Chris announces that the final Gilded Chris goes to Justin, and Duncan is out. Courtney is taken aback, and loudly voices her protest, but Chris interrupts, saying he was only joking; Duncan is in fact safe, whilst Justin has been voted off. Justin bids everyone farewell, but to his surprise, none of them are sad to see him go, not even Courtney who barely acknowledges him. Courtney explains in the confessional that she had the whole thing set up to work out in her favor; she never had any feelings for Justin, and only flirted with him so that he'd give up his immunity in the late stages of the game. Justin then carefully makes his way to the Lame-o-sine with his injured body. Chris and Chef then end the episode playing with dolls as Chef has a war with the princess Beth dolls. Then Chris mentions that the target audience might be too old to play with dolls, but then demonstrates to Chef how to 'properly' play with dolls.

Quotes
Courtney: Excuse me, I'm strategizing. Duncan: (in mock fear) Oooo!
 * Duncan: Ten more seconds! Biggest burrito wins! (to Courtney) Think I'd make a good reality show host?

Lindsay: Look! Beth and I are BFFs. Lindsay & Beth: Burrito Friends Forever! Duncan: Did you belt your burritos? Beth: It's a custom friendship bracelet I made. To join our two burritos for always and ever. Duncan: Weird, creepy, but big-ish. It qualifies. (to Harold) Geekwad. You manage to make yours any bigger? Harold: I give you...(brings up his burrito that resembles LeShawna on the table) The luscious LeShawna. Lindsay & Beth: Aw, that's so sweet. Justin: Sweet? (brings up his burrito that resembles a flexing arm) Check out the guns on these beans. (Lindsay and Beth doesn't react to Justin's charm) Justin: Nothing? You feel nothing? Beth: Not a tingle. Lindsay: Not even an ingle. Justin: Man! This scratch shnozz destroyed my looks and my life, why? Duncan: Harold, your pathetic portray of puppy love makes me want to hurl. But you did make the biggest burrito, so you win.
 * Duncan: Hey Linds, what do you got?

Justin: Who's infected?! Is it a rash?! I can't afford a rash! Courtney: You all have reality-show-itis, a disease which causes people to turn everyday tasks in to crazy challenges. Thus losing focus on the real competition, which I refuse to do!
 * Courtney: Please. I'm not coming anywhere near the infected.


 * Justin: (in confessional) When my good looks went, so did my winning edge. But Courtney is still managing to kick butt and she's not nearly good looking as I am...okay as I was.

Courtney: What?! I don't have any deformities! Justin: So your answer is...denial? Okay.
 * Justin: You could help more if you'd tell me your secrets...like, how do you even get through life with all your deformities?

Harold: Sir? Someone needs an ego check. (Chris enters in costume, holding a glass combat boot) Beth: Oooh! That's a glass slipper! Which means today's challenge is a fairy tale movie. My favorite! Chris: (irritated) Beth, dude, if you ever steal my intro again, I'll have to personally boot you off the show. Lindsay You can't boot Beth, oh wait, he can, because it's a boot!
 * Chef Hatchet: ( in a different voice using a trumpet) Hear ye! Hear ye! And, rise, for Sir Chris!


 * Beth: (in confessional) They're totally type-casting me as the ugly step-sister! But now that my braces are off, I'm absolutely princess material.

(Courtney takes the glass boot and tries to force it on her foot) Harold: I hope that's safety glass. Courtney (putting on boot) Come on, come on, come on. Chris Courtney, we can do another method of selection if- Courtney Got it!(boot begins to crack) Chris Okay, let's get this over with before she loses a foot and I lose another lawsuit. Chef ''(In fairy costume) I dub thee, Princess Courtney. Courtney Eat my pixie dust! (boot flies off and hits Justin)''
 * Chris (To Courtney) I don't know... it doesn't look like it's gonna fit.


 * Justin: (in confessional) I've become the beast, instead of the beauty. A prince turned into a frog. Did Courtney do that on purpose? No, no, she's not evil, she's just feisty. I like feisty. I like it a lot.

Beth: (wearing the big wig) But I can't see. Chris: Oh, yeah. For this challenge each knight is blind. (everyone complains) Chris: Nowhere in this story does it say the cowardly knights complains. So get it together steppy and start crossing.
 * Chris: And so the ugly stepsister approach the terrible troll.


 * Beth: (in confessional) Hey, how to you know if you have a concussion? Is seeing double a bad sign?


 * Justin: (in confessional) There I was, down, dirty, and deafened. And I thought, 'W.W.C.D,' What would Courtney do? And then it came to me! Courtney would use her head.


 * Duncan: (to himself) Seeing, good. Seeing Chef as a transgender troll? - priceless!

Justin: She's the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. Duncan: Yeah... Justin: I've been so busy seeing her as a master strategist, that I didn't see her outer beauty. Wow, we'll be the best looking couple in the kingdom. Duncan: Pardon?! Justin: I saw 'ya cheat, Duncan. You don't deserve to be Courtney's prince. Duncan: Who died and made you the decider about me and Courtney?!
 * Courtney: (singing) When I was a little girl, I dreamed of my first kiss. It would come from my perfect prince. and in my dream, it would go like this...

Lindsay: She is so lucky, she gets to wear that sparkly head thingy. Beth: If you smell burnt toast and everything looks like it's underwater, does that mean you have a concussion? Courtney: (singing) When we kiss, my prince will be you.
 * Courtney: (singing) My prince will be tall and handsome. (Justin puffs out his chest) My prince will be tough as nails. (Duncan breaks Harold's back over his knee) My prince will have lots of money. My prince will tame wild whales. (Duncan breaks a whale's back over his knee)

Harold: I'll take one! I'm going to listen to the beautiful love song and think of LeShawna...
 * Chris: Wasn't that song brilliant? It was so brilliant, I bet everyone wishes they could hear it over and over and over again, and now they can. (snaps) Get the magic of Courtney for only $12.99. Call 555-SELLOUT to get your authentic Princess Courtney CD now, before everyone else downloads it illegally!


 * Harold: (in confessional, reading a note from LeShawna) " Yo, Harold. If you play that skinny rich girl song and think of me, I'll have to kill you."


 * Duncan: (to Courtney) Come on, I was just kidding about the compliment. You're cute, okay?! I like your face; it's nice!


 * Justin: (in confessional) Falling for Courtney has been hard on the face. I think we'll have a 'no shoes' policy once we're dating.

(Duncan tackles Justin; the "dragon" causes them to fall in opposite directions) Justin: (to Harold) You want Duncan to win? Harold: You're kidding, right? Justin: Help me take him down, and I'll let you win. I don't care, I just don't want to let Duncan have Courtney!
 * Duncan: (to Justin) You princess-stealing slimeball!


 * Duncan: (hitting the dragon with his wooden sword) Dork! Nerdling! Harold-type loser!


 * Chris: Want to rescue Princess Courtney too? Well, now you can for only $79.95! Order your very own princess Courtney limited edition glass boot doll. Playing with the princess Courtney doll is more fun and less dangerous than playing with the real Courtney, guaranteed.

Harold: Although a guy who's working with you is apparently fair game. Justin: I said I was sorry, Harold. I refuse to raise a sword to Courtney. I give up any chance I had at immunity to spare you. Now... (puckers his lips) Courtney: Sorry, Justin. I just can't let immunity go. You understand. (pushes Justin off the tower with sword)
 * Justin: No, I am a noble gentleman, a brave knight, a handsome prince. I would never hurt a lady.

Courtney: What?! This is an outrage! Justin should be going home. Chris: Yeah, you're right. I was just kidding. Justin's actually the one who's been eliminated! Duncan: (to Courtney) An outrage, huh? Courtney: (in confessional) All I meant was that Justin deserved to go home. I worked really hard at getting him to fall for me. It's called 'strategy.' My feelings had nothing to do with Duncan getting voted off. As if I care about that. (pauses) I don't!
 * Chris: And the last gilded Chris goes to...Justin! Duncan? You're out.

Lindsay: Princess Beth is so cute! Justin: Is no one going to miss me? Duncan: Ciao. Harold: (to Justin) See you in the funny papers. Farewell. Auf Wiedersein. Don't let the door hit you in the- Justin: Okay, stop already! I'm going! But you'll regret it. With me gone, this competition just got eighty percent less handsome. (bumps into Lame-O-Sine) Alright, seventy-nine!
 * Justin: Courtney? Beth? Lindsay?

Chef: "(playing with the Beth dolls in camoe and with a cannon.)" Princesses attack! (cannon fires and two of the Beth dolls are blown away)
 * Chris: (To Chef) Marketing says our target audience is too old for dolls, they just aren't selling.

Trivia

 * Title Reference: This episode's title is a reference to The Princess Bride.
 * The same horse used in 3:10 to Crazytown re-appears in this episode.
 * The same monster used in Monster Cash re-appears in this episode.
 * Similar to Heather, Justin had a major downfall before elimination.
 * He took much physical abuse, similar to Heather taking so many dares.
 * His entire body was put in a full body cast, similar to how Heather's hair was shaved off.
 * He thought he was safe from elimination only to learn it wasn't true, similar to how Heather thought she was safe because Chef shaved her head.
 * Courtney sings for the first time in the series (most likely a parody to Disney fairy tale movies), notably Courtney's voice actress Emilie-Claire Barlow is actually a famed Canadian singer.
 * Courtney's princess outfit looks just like the dress worn by Cinderella in the the Disney movie | Cinderella. The only difference is the color.
 * There were some hints for a relationship between Courtney and Justin, which ended up being a conflict.
 * Running Gags:
 * Justin gets hurt repeatably.
 * He gets hit in the eye by the glass boot (twice).
 * Betsy, the horse, kicked him in the face.
 * He fell off the tower, and hit his chin several times on the way down (courtesy of Courtney).
 * Beth asking "Does this mean I have a concussion?"
 * Chris attempted to sell three products during this episode.
 * The "Princess Courtney CD" (Which Harold buys)
 * The "Princess Courtney Limited-Edition Glass Boot Doll" (which Lindsay and Beth buy) (However, Courtney's lawyers demanded 80% of sales, so they decided to market Beth dolls instead.)
 * Beth Dolls
 * This is the first time ever, that Chris has given false information about who is eliminated.
 * With Justin's elimination, all three males that were on the Killer Grips have left the studio. Although Owen returns later.
 * With Justin's elimination, the pattern of canon couples being eliminated consecutively ends. (LeShawna was the previous contestant eliminated but Harold still remains)
 * This is the first time the cast is contacted outside of the competition.
 * All of the cast gets hurt in this episode
 * Duncan was crushed by the Monster
 * Justin pushed Harold off the monster and Duncan broke his back
 * Beth and Lindsay both fell off the bridge in the first challenge
 * Justin fell off the tower,got a black eye from the glass boot twice,and the Horse kicked him in the face
 * Courtney hurt her back at the Awards Ceremony.
 * In this episode Courtney starts becoming the antagonist of Total Drama Action.
 * The disguises that the competitors wore:
 * Justin as the Frog Prince
 * Beth as the Ugly Stepsister
 * Lindsay as Sleeping Beauty
 * Harold as the Eighth Dwarf of the Seven Dwarfs
 * Duncan as Little Red Riding Hood (changed to "Little Red Riding Hoodlum" by request of Duncan.) He was also called Captain Hood.
 * This episode contains more injuries than any other episodes (not counting TDA Aftermath episodes in which injuries are highlighted). With the exception of Courtney, Duncan and Harold, all the castmates got seriously injured in this episode.
 * Beth, Lindsay, and Justin all got seriously injured from falling from high places and crashing to the ground.
 * Although Harold got his back kneed and crushed by Duncan when Courtney sang, it wasn't serious.
 * Also, Duncan got hurt when he was crushed by the monster but it also wasn't a serious injury.
 * It can be noted that all Screaming Gophers got seriously hurt (Justin, Lindsay, Beth) Whilst all Killer bass (Duncan, Harold, Courtney) were not.
 * This is the first episode where Chris means to hurt a competitor but doesn't care about it.
 * This is the first episode where Justin falls for Courtney. However, this was only part of her strategy and later votes him off.
 * Chris may have owned dolls when he was younger as he tells Chef how to play with dolls.
 * This is the second episode in the series, where a contestant gets eliminated while being severely injured, the first time this happened was all the way back to Total Drama Island, in Paintball Deer Hunt where Cody was eliminated while (and due to) being severely injured.
 * Since the Beth and Courtney dolls were Voodoo dolls, when Chris made two Beth dolls kiss, it is unknown who Beth might of kissed. (However it may of been coincidence that Courtney got hurt.)
 * Coincidentally, with Justin's elimination, only female Killer Grips and male Screaming Gaffers remain.
 * This is the first episode in the series in which more than one contestant is wearing a cast.
 * The frog in this episode is similar to the one LeShawna had to catch in Wawanakwa Gone Wild!.
 * This is the first time Justin talks at his elimination.
 * WWCD (What would Courtney do) is probably a reference to the Twilight fan's saying WWED (What would Edward do?), but maybe not because it is a common saying with different names.
 * We hear Harold sing for the first time in this episode.

Goofs

 * While Lindsay was shown to have very large feet in this episode, in past episodes she was shown to have normal-sized feet (though they may have been swollen). In fact, out of all the characters, she is shown to have one of the smallest feet.
 * Again like in, Dial M for Merger, Justin's swollen eye disappears and reappears throughout the episode.
 * In the first challenge Lindsay broke the bridge, but its still there for Duncan and Justin.
 * For some reason, after the bridge was broken and Chef had fallen, he appeared on the bridge in the next scene
 * Beth said she couldn't scream in The Sand Witch Project, but she screamed when she found out that they were going sell Beth dolls. (Though she may of faked it or caused by inconsistencies on Total Drama Island/Total Drama Action.)


 * In the caption when Duncan says "My granny can run better than you", it says that Justin said the line.
 * When Beth falls over after grabbing a Beth doll, she appears back in her seat when Lindsay gets a Gilded Chris.
 * The Princess Courtney dolls have their hair in a ponytail wearing Courtney's original outfit, but Courtney only wears her hair in a ponytail with her bathing suit and her pajamas. It is possible that it was set up like this as an advertisement to those who bought the dolls to show they could make it into a ponytail.
 * The episode is TV-PG but after commercial break the rating was TV-PG D. Many believe it was a glitch in the rating system.
 * While Courtney was singing Duncan pulled out a whale and broke its back, although there was no way he could have gotten a whale in the time.
 * Chris' plate of cookies kept refilling itself, but an intern may have have just replaced the cookies Chris had used up.
 * TDA is supposed to be a reality show, but Courtney's kisses were seen to float down to Harold, Justin, and Duncan
 * When Chef is acting like a troll and puts marker on his teeth to look like he lost them, there are certain times when Chef's teeth are actually missing and you can see the back of his mouth.
 * Harold states that 12 kilometers is equal to 3.3 meters. 12 kilometers is actually 12,000 meters; most likely he meant to say "miles".
 * At the awards ceremony, Chris says Golden Chris insted of Gilded Chris.
 * Harold gets a note from Leshawna saying that she heard Courtney's song and didn't want Harold to listen to it, but that would mean she would have already seen the episode.