The Sand Witch Project

'''The cast-mates compete in a horror themed trilogy challenge. Someone's conscience begins to bother them about their actions, and they end up removing themselves from the competition.'''

Plot
This episode starts with the castmates relaxing, playing some cards, and eating some sandwiches. Duncan and Justin are kicking a soccer back and forth around DJ, who is sleeping. Harold talks in the confessional booth that Izzy thinks she's so cool for dealing the cards like a card shark, before pulling out to show the camera what he thinks is an ace of spades, but is actually a card photo size of himself covering himself with a pillow (from the prank that the guys pulled on him from Total Drama Island). Each cast member is surprised that the sandwiches are delicious, as they all steal them, mostly from Beth. Everyone was eating them except for DJ.

While DJ was dreaming, he dreamed from the night before where he was preparing the sandwiches for the team. Chef comes from behind reminding him that they both were still in the alliance to make DJ the winner and Chef to take half of the million. Back with the cast members, they are called to the fake mountain by Chris, so he can reveal the next challenge. Once there, Chris falls and is impaled on a spotlight below. He appears to be dead but then it is revealed that it is a stunt prop and that the theme is horror films. While everyone was screaming about Chris's stunt, Lindsay notes that Beth didn't scream like the others. Beth tells her that she cannot scream due to a faulty tonsillectomy from one of the doctor's earrings got stuck on the tonsils. Back to the challenge, each team is to select a 'scarer' to scare the other team's members of their team which is being shown on the scream-o-meter. The Screaming Gaffers all agree to choose Duncan for it because he did great in the acting challenges before and he would make a great scarer, but Chef forces them and Duncan to go with DJ. In the confessional booth, Duncan says that he'd like to keep his arms after Chef threatened him and said that the one thing he learn from home cooking class is to listen to the guys with knives.

The Killer Grips are arguing who to choose. Justin wants something to protect his face, to put on the mask, and be the leader. Izzy claims that her 'scary faces' creep her dog out. While Lindsay was trying to get everyone to go with Beth because she can't scream, Beth was distracted by Justin and the mask while Owen goes on and on how about how Izzy is cute and never scary, prompting Izzy to glare at Owen. While no one was answering to Lindsay, she shouts that Beth would be the scarer and that's it. The challenge begins with both Harold and Justin standing in the forest setting, and both DJ and Beth set to scare them. Beth tries to scare Justin, but as he doesn't want his pipes to be strained, he does not scream. DJ is pushed by Chef, bumps into Harold and puts on his mask, making Harold scream. Harold screams the loudest which makes the Screaming Gaffers win the first round.

The next round is scaring one of the teammates in the outhouse. The victims are LeShawna and Lindsay. LeShawna thinks that being scared in the outhouse was the stupidest thing ever, and Lindsay tells them that she is not going to pee her pants like she did last time. When DJ went in to scare LeShawna, he felt embarrassed for going in where there is someone on the toilet, and does a wimpy "Rawr" and claws with his hand. LeShawna begins laughing. When Beth ran in, she scared Lindsay so much that she DID pee herself and scream twice; Beth and Lindsay score a point for their team.

The tie-breaking round is the couple round where both "killers" go after the couple making out, the couples are Owen and Izzy and Duncan and Heather. Owen and Izzy were excited about the scene and started to make-out in front of Chris, but Duncan and Heather were horridly disgusted. Once Chris mentions the prize of a million dollars, they hesitantly kiss and back off quickly, both visibly shaken. When both "killers" try to scare the two couples, both couples were not scared, until Chef comes out with a mask and chainsaw and scares Duncan, Heather, and DJ, scaring DJ so much he passes out. Then they went to a break. Once back on the air, everyone was surrounding the shocked DJ and see if he is still alive.

In DJ's dream/unconscious state, he is in the clouds and sees his mother. He runs to his mama, but she gives him a upset look and tells him she didn't raise a cheater. Then she slaps him which brings him back to the set, where he is slapped by Heather, who was trying to bring him out of the shock. He asks to talk to Chef, but Chef is talking with the producers, getting disciplined for messing with the challenge. Chris then sets them up for another challenge, where the Killer Grips' challenge was to stand in the craft serving tent and try not to get scared by it; after Chris tells them about the old movie lot guard who mysteriously disappeared. They are given devices to detect where the ghost of the guard is at.

The Screaming Gaffers' challenge was to scare the Grips out of the tent with any items available to them. Harold tries to scare them with a floating object trick, but it didn't work. Duncan has his turn by making some fake blood and letting it seep from the windows of the kitchen, and fall. Lindsay shows everyone that she does have a brain by exposing both Harold's and Duncan's tricks.

During that time, everyone in the Killer Grips notes that Lindsay was being a bit bossy. Meanwhile the Gaffers try to think of something else to scare the Grips, and everyone turns to DJ for he hasn't been helping out with the other tricks. DJ's plan was to scare them with the ghost of the guard.Heather dresses up as the guard, and added with some spooky voices (Provided by LeShawna), complete darkness (Duncan turns off the power) and Harold suspending Heather above the Grips, scares everyone out of the tent. Lindsay tries to tell everyone it was not real until DJ threw a fork that set off the device and sent Lindsay screaming into the night. Once everyone was gone, DJ walks toward the hanging Heather and sees the 'conscience mama' telling him that he did a bad thing and she would never forgive him.

At the Gilded Chris Awards Ceremony, it was between Justin and Lindsay who were left without a reward. Justin didn't do well on the challenges and Lindsay was too bossy for the team. As Chris is about to name the winner of the last reward, DJ comes out clean and votes himself off the show for having had an illegal alliance with Chef. Chef tries to talk to DJ, but he sets Chef out. He also confesses that he was the one who made all the delicious food that everyone was eating. All the cast mates want DJ to stay and have Chef voted off, but DJ wants to make it clear and by getting voted off it will fix everything that he did with Chef. Once DJ was in the Lame-O-Sine, Owen tries to stop it but he couldn't. Chris signed off while holding Owen's face and telling him that in the next episode they will face the most horrible thing ever... Chef's cooking. Owen then drops to the ground and pukes on Chris's shoes as the episode ends.

Quotes
(Izzy looks annoyed.) Owen: I'll also take a five.
 * Owen: Izzy, do you have a BLT?

Chef: This is not about right or wrong, son. It's about you and me winning that cool mil!
 * DJ: Maybe it's time to stop cheating. Being in this alliance with you, it makes me feel all kinds of wrong inside!

Izzy:(laughs) Oh my gosh, you guys. Did you see that one with the possessed rug that learned to walk and smothered cats? Or did I make that up?
 * Chris: Think of every great horror movie you've ever seen.


 * Duncan: (in confessional) Arms are goods. They throw things, feed you things, they're something to put in your sleeves. And if there's one thing I learned in Home Ec. class, always listen to the dude with the knives.

Justin: (very unenthusiastically) Ahh...! I'm so scared! (The Scream-O-Meter rates 3 bars) Justin: I'm sorry, I just can't risk my pipes any futher. What good is a face like this, without my warm yet, manly tones to back it up?
 * Beth: Boo!

DJ: Oh! I'm sorry, I busted in on your private moment! Boy, is my face red! LeShawna: You wanna win? Do the scene, DJ! DJ: (with an extremely wimpy tone) Rawr.
 * (DJ opens the door to see LeShawna on the toilet)

Beth: You were doing so good, I'm not even being scary anymore.
 * Lindsay: (screams in hysterical fear; sees herself peeing and stops screaming, then continues screaming)

Owen: Oh, boy. I'm not the world's greatest actor. Izzy: Oooh! How horror movie is this! We have to make out! Owen: I love this business! Hubba-hubba! (Owen and Izzy start making out very passionately.) Chris: Awkward....
 * Chris: All right, guys. This is the tie breaker scene. You're gonna have to act your faces off!

Heather: (gasps after reading script) No. No, no, no! I would rather die! Duncan: That makes two of us, lady! (Chris jumps out from behind the couch) Chris: Don't forget, kiddies! It's a million bucks! (Chris pops back behind the couch) (Duncan and Heather both make ugly faces... close their eyes, slowly come together and their lips barely touch for almost 1 second. Their eyes open and they are clearly revolted) Heather: Ewwwhh! Ugh!! Yuck!! Duncan: Blech! Yuck! Ughh!! Heather: You taste like street! (DJ pops up from behind the couch and makes a really wimpy growl. Heather and Duncan do not even notice him.) Heather: My lips may never recover!
 * (Heather and Duncan have to do a makeout scene)

Beth: (growls) I'm gonna chop you into little teriyaki bits! (Izzy and Owen are still making out, oblivious to her presence) Ummm... guys? Owen: (along with Izzy, realizes they're in the middle of a horror scene) Hmmm? Oh! (Izzy and Owen give out a very unenthusiastic scream that rates very low on the Scream-o-meter before resuming their makeout session)
 * (Izzy and Owen are making out on the couch when Beth, dressed as the serial killer, appears from behind)

DJ: Momma! I'm here! Momma! It's me, Momma! It's Poopydoo! Your little Devon Joseph Poopydoo! (DJ's Mom turns around and gives him a stern look) DJ's Mom: The son I raised would never lie or cheat! (DJ's Mom whacks him with her purse and he comes to)
 * (DJ is having an hallucination where he sees his Mom in the clouds)

DJ: I need to see Chef! (Heather slaps him again) LeShawna: Heather! Heather: What? He's still talking crazy!
 * (Heather slaps DJ)

DJ: I'll get you some. (DJ leaves to do so) LeShawna: Respect, Duncan. It really looks like blood! Duncan: Devil's Night, my brothers and I used to wait outside kindergarten with this goop dripping off us. Ha! One year I gave a dozen five year olds seizures. LeShawna: Aaaand... Respect deleted.
 * Duncan: (taste tests his fake blood concoction) Hm. Needs more corn syrup. It's not quite scabby, enough.

LeShawna: Well momma ain't here, was she? Duncan: And Papa Duncan wants to win and go to bed! So?
 * DJ: Guys, I don't know if I should do this. I don't like scaring people. My momma says it's not gentlemanly.

Beth: You were a little bossy. Lindsay: Hello, it's called leadership?
 * Lindsay: What! Why me? Beth!


 * DJ: Stop! I'm gonna do what I should've done long ago; Make Momma proud. I'm voting myself off.

Duncan: Dude, you can't leave! Justin: Yeah! Can't we just vote Chef off instead? (Chef glares at Justin) DJ: Sorry, but I gotta make it right, for Momma. Girls: Awwwww...
 * Owen: Wait, wait, wait! You've been cooking all of the delicious food? The pizza? The Cheesecake? The sandwiches?

Owen: Can you still send food? Pretty please with delicious sandwiches on top? Chris: Well, folks, looks like Owen's gravy-train just hightailed it outta town! Now that he has survived this week's fright-fest, will he be able to bear the most horrific, stomach churning, gut wrenching challenge ever? Owen: What is it? Chris: Chef's cooking! Owen: Aaahhh! (Owen falls on the ground) Chris: (Laughs) I love this game! (Owen pukes loudly) Chris: Dude! Not the shoes!
 * (DJ has gone into the Lame-O-sine and is leaving. Owen chases after him and grabs onto the Lame-O-sine.)

Trivia

 * This episode features numerous spoofs on various ghost and horror movies.


 * Title Reference - The Blair Witch Project: The episodes' title is a reference to this movie.


 * Halloween: Music similar to the original theme plays at the end of the first challenge; the "killers" also wielded giant butcher knifes similar to Micheal Myers.


 * The Amityville Horror: The blood tactic that Duncan used to make the wall look like they were oozing blood.


 * Ghostbusters: The ghost readers that Chris gave the Grips.


 * Friday the 13th: The hockey mask.
 * With DJ's elimination, the Killer Grips now have more members than the Screaming Gaffers for the first time in the series.


 * Based on owning a picture of himself naked on the dock, Harold appears to be over the events of If You Can't Take The Heat....


 * The challenge consisted of three different horror movie scenes that each team had to complete.


 * This is the second time Lindsay is saved from almost being eliminated. The first was in Up The Creek, when the RCMP came just before the final marshmallow was distributed.


 * The "killers" for the challenge in this episode were DJ for the Gaffers and Beth for the Grips.


 * This marks the first time in the series where one team won the challenge, but ended up losing one of its own members anyway.


 * DJ becomes the second person to vote themselves off and confesses to having had an illegal alliance with Chef. Gwen was the first to do so. Strangely, they do this consecutively.


 * Once again, DJ is eliminated during a horror themed challenge (the first was the Psycho Killer challenge in Hook, Line, and Screamer). This is also the second time that DJ has left the competition without actually being voted off (Again, the first was in in Hook, Line, and Screamer, where the loser was chosen based on poorest performance instead of votes.)


 * It is finally revealed that DJ's initials stand for Devon Joseph; his mother also calls him "Poopydoo".


 * Lindsay was most likely the one who was supposed to be eliminated, as both Izzy and Beth seemed to give off the impression that they voted against her. Justin may have also joined in the vote since he cares nothing for her.


 * Izzy reveals she has a dog, making her the fifth person to own a dog. There other four are Lindsay, Noah, Owen and Duncan (though Duncan's had long since run away).


 * Izzy and Owen make out for the first time each season in episodes based on horror movies. They first made out in Hook, Line, and Screamer (where they first became a couple, incidentally) and now in this episode. The difference is that they are seen out in the open making out in this episode, while in Hook, Line, and Screamer, Izzy dragged Owen behind a bush to make out with him.


 * Chris forced Duncan and Heather to kiss in this episode during the third part of the challenge.


 * The Scream-O-Meter is very similar the Chef-O-Meter in Not Quite Famous. Ironically, Harold won that challenge when it was his turn as well (though he did not achieve the highest overall score this time).


 * Lindsay seemed to take the role of team captain for this episode when Heather referred to her as a "follower", but was too bossy, causing her to become unpopular with her teammates and almost got voted off as a result. Due to this, it is unlikely that Lindsay's status as team captain will last beyond this episode. She even uses the "it's called leadership" excuse that Heather used before.


 * The cast members seen in the confessional in this episode were Harold, Lindsay and Duncan.


 * Beth reveals that she cannot scream due to a botched tonsillectomy.


 * Owen states in this episode that he hates Chef's cooking. However, in many episodes previous, he has stated that he loves it.


 * Lindsay says that Owen must have S 'n' P. This may be a reference to Amanda Seyfried's character, Karen Smith, in Mean Girls noting that she has ESPN (instead of ESP).


 * This is the second time Justin and Lindsay got the final Gilded Chris Award due to DJ eliminating himself; the first time was during Riot On Set.


 * DJ kept having dreams featuring his mother sitting on a cloud and telling him that "nobody likes a cheater" due to his overwhelming guilt of being in an illegal alliance with Chef.


 * This episode bears many similarities to the Total Drama Island episode Hook, Line, and Screamer, Ironically, DJ was also eliminated in that episode.


 * The music from Cody's dream in The Big Sleep is heard during DJ's dream.


 * When Lindsay begins to wet herself in the screaming part of the challenge you can hear it go down the toliet suggesting she either pulled her underwear down or doesn't were any at all.

Goofs

 * Beth states she can't scream due to a faulty tonsillectomy, but in various episodes before this one, Beth can be heard screaming. One example is in 3:10 to Crazytown, in which Chris shot his gun and Beth screamed with fear and annoyance, and in Monster Cash, she is heard screaming while running from the monster with DJ, Gwen, and Trent. It is unknown whether she was lying or not though, (she has been known to lie about certain things) about the failed surgery.


 * When Lindsay is inside the confessional, the Gaffers logo comes up, but Lindsay is a Grip.


 * Continuity Error: DJ is able to quit Total Drama Action, but all the contestants weren't allowed to leave before the series ended (due to signing contracts).