The Princess Pride

'''Fairytales come to the set of Total Drama Action as a princess is crowned, causing two people to form a fierce rivalry of love. Despite fighting their way through dragons and ogres, one cast member finally meets his ultimate end in the game.'''

Plot
The episode begins with Duncan hosting a burrito making contest. Courtney was sitting by the other table, saying she is "too busy 'strategizing' to win the contest," than participate in the contest. Beth and Lindsay combine their burritos using a friendship bracelet and giving it the name of BFF; "Burrito Friends Forever," while Harold makes one called the Luscious Leshawna, which is crudely modeled after Leshawna. Justin makes a burrito modeled after his muscles to impress Beth and Lindsay, but they feel no sense of attraction, which worries him about his control over them. Duncan picks Harold's burrito to be the winner, as it is the biggest, which was the original objective. Courtney then says that all of them have a "Reality show-itis," which apparently causes them to turn everyday tasks into challenges. Justin goes over to Courtney, compliments her strategy, then asks her how she gets through life with all of her "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 boot Chris is carrying before they announce it, which results in Chris threatening to personally kick Beth off the show. Chris says that the first female castmate who fits into the glass boot will be the challenge's princess, but he immediately rules Beth out, saying that only the winners from the last challenge can participate, which makes Beth become bitter. Lindsay takes off her boot and reveals that she has huge feet (which are never actually seen, but the boot can only just fit over her big toe). Courtney tries to put on the boot and barely succeeds. Chef then dubs Courtney as "Princess Courtney." Courtney's glass boot then suddenly shoots off her foot, hitting Justin in his eye.

As Chris tells a story, the first challenge begins: Crossing a bridge with an "angry Ogre." Everybody is given a fairytale role, complete with sight-obscuring headgear for their costumes. It becomes apparent that they'll be crossing the bridge blindfolded. Beth and Lindsay fail, but Harold is able to run past Chef. Justin is reminded of "W.W.C.D." (standing for "What would Courtney do?") and uses his head gear to headbutt Chef and get past the bridge. Duncan is able to use Chef's wig as a rope swing to get across, even though he cheats by moving the blindfold around to see. Even though Justin notices that Duncan can see, Chris doesn't seem to think that's true. Beth and Lindsay get injured from falling off of the bridge after they fail to get across it.

The next part of the challenge begins as Courtney is leveled down dressed as a princess. She begins singing a song called "My Prince Will Be," which enchants both Duncan and Justin. Justin realizes that he finds Courtney attractive and points out that he and Courtney would be "the best looking couple in the kingdom." Duncan hears this and the two get into an argument about who should be with Courtney. During Courtney's song the boys try to prove to her that they are the best for her and at the same time, Chris advertises a CD of Courtney's song. After the song, Justin compliments Courtney's brain and beauty. Duncan just thinks he is sucking up, but Courtney points out that it is nice to get compliments. 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 water tower (designed to look like a medieval castle tower). 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 later betrays Harold and leaves Duncan crushed by the dragon as he 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 winner 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, resulting in him to crash into the ground (placing him in a full body cast). Chris also advertises Princess Courtney dolls which are, "More fun and less dangerous 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, so in an attempt to avoid this, he has changed all the dolls to Princess Beth dolls (and gives her a contract that she gets no profits off the merchandise), then gives Beth her Gilded Chris. Lindsay and Harold receive Gilded Chris awards too, meaning it comes down to Justin and Duncan. Chris announces that the final Gilded Chris goes to Justin, and Duncan is out of the competition. Courtney is taken aback, and loudly voices her protest, but Chris confesses the truth, saying he was only joking; Duncan is in fact safe, while 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.

General

 * The same monster, used in Monster Cash, and horse, last seen in 3:10 to Crazytown, both return in this episode.
 * Justin's elimination is, in several ways, similar to Heather's elimination in Total Drama Island.
 * They are both antagonists.
 * He took much physical abuse, similar to Heather being forced to take so many dares.
 * He thought he was safe from elimination only to learn it wasn't true, similar to how Heather thought she was safe because Chef Hatchet shaved her head.
 * In this episode, Courtney displaces Justin as the antagonist of Total Drama Action. The antagonist for the first half of the season, Justin, essentially "passed the torch" to Courtney in this episode as she beat him at his own game.
 * There were some hints for a relationship between Courtney and Justin, which ended up being a conflict.
 * With Justin's elimination, all three males that were on the Killer Grips have been eliminated at one point in this season, though Owen returns two episodes 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 episode contains more injuries than any other episode (not counting Total Drama Action Aftermath episodes in which injuries are highlighted). With the exception of Courtney, Duncan, and Harold, all the castmates were shown to be seriously injured by the end of this episode. However, all of the cast got physically hurt at least mildly in this episode.
 * Duncan was crushed by the "dragon."
 * Justin pushed Harold off the "dragon" and Duncan broke Harold's 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 kicked in the face by the horse.
 * Courtney hurt her back at the Awards Ceremony, apparently due to Lindsay and Beth using the Princess Courtney dolls as voodoo dolls.
 * It can be noted that all the competing Screaming Gophers members got seriously hurt (Justin, Lindsay, and Beth) while all the Killer Bass members (Duncan, Harold, and Courtney) did not.
 * The disguises that the contestants wore:
 * Courtney as a Princess.
 * 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."
 * The frog seen in this episode is similar to the one Leshawna had to catch in Wawanakwa Gone Wild!.
 * Justin falling off the tower and hitting many objects on the way down is a possible reference to Hook, Line, and Screamer, where Owen fell off the cliff and hit many objects on the way down.
 * Coincidentally, both episodes are the 19th episode of their respective season.
 * The bunny that appears in Courtney's song resembles DJ's Bunny.
 * The tiara that Courtney uses in this episode is similar to the one that Izzy uses in her second audition tape.
 * This is the only time Duncan has cheated in a competition while not getting caught by Chris or disqualified from the challenge.

Continuity

 * This is currently the last episode that features Justin as a contestant.
 * This is the second episode in which Chris attempts to sell things to the audience. The first is Search and Do Not Destroy in which he attempted to sell "Cleaver" cologne and in this episode he attempted to sell Princess Courtney dolls and a Princess Courtney CD.
 * This is the first episode after an aftermath where someone does not return.
 * This elimination marks the first person to be voted off that did not make it to the merge in Total Drama Island.
 * Courtney sings for the first time in the series. Notably, Courtney's voice actress Emilie-Claire Barlow is actually a famed Canadian singer.
 * Like Courtney, Harold sings for the first time in the series as well.
 * The singing in this episode appears to foreshadow a major factor for next season.
 * This is the first time ever that Chris has given false information about who is eliminated.
 * This is the first time the cast is contacted outside of the competition.
 * This is the second episode in the series where a contestant gets eliminated while severely injured. The first time this happened was in Total Drama Island, in Paintball Deer Hunter, where another contestant was eliminated due to being severely injured and his teammates thinking he was no longer useful in challenges.
 * This is the first episode in the series in which more than one contestant is wearing a cast.
 * This is the second time a contestant has sung in Total Drama Action. The first is Trent in The Aftermath: I.

Goofs

 * Justin's swollen eye disappears and reappears throughout the episode, which is similar to what happened in Dial M for Merger.
 * In the first challenge, Lindsay broke the bridge, but it's still there for when Duncan and Justin are up for the challenge.
 * 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 to sell Beth dolls.
 * In the caption when Duncan says "My granny can run better than you," the closed captioning says that Justin said the line.
 * The Princess Courtney dolls have their hair in a ponytail wearing Courtney's original outfit, but Courtney only wears her hair in a ponytail when she is wearing her bathing suit or 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.
 * Chris' plate of cookies kept refilling itself, but an intern may have just replaced the cookies Chris had used up.
 * 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.
 * At the awards ceremony, Chris says "Golden Chris," instead of Gilded Chris.
 * When Justin falls from the tower and lands, his left hand only has three fingers.
 * Chef's unibrow splits when Justin headbutt him.
 * Lindsay reveals that her right foot is big. However, she was seen barefoot many times throughout the series and her foot is normal.