List of minor objects

The following is a list of minor objects on Total Drama that are either recurring or play a significant role in the episode(s) in which they appear.

Chainsaw
The chainsaw is a recurring object in the series, being used by different characters in every episode it appears. Its most notable user is an escaped killer who also wields a hook on his left arm.

It first appears in No Pain, No Game as part of Lindsay's challenge from The Wheel of Misfortune, in which she has to get her hair shaved by Chef Hatchet with a chainsaw. Frightened, Lindsay immediately runs away, failing the challenge. In Hook, Line, and Screamer, the contestants are one-by-one being hunted Chef Hatchet, dressed up as the killer, leaving only Duncan and Gwen. Even the sound of the chainsaw has them trembling in fear before seeing him face-to-face. Duncan decides to face Chef himself, trying to take him down by throwing several objects at him. The latter easily cuts them leaving only a fish to throw in his face. In the end, Duncan manages to break the rod the chainsaw is tied to and uses it to cut off Chef's hook, defeating him. Meanwhile, Gwen encounters the actual killer in the kitchen. She repeatedly kicks him in the face before he has the opportunity to attack her, thus winning the challenge.

In Wawanakwa Gone Wild, Duncan chooses to use a chainsaw to hunt a raccoon. When he realizes that the raccoon's friends are ganging up on him, Duncan revs up the chainsaw to fight back, but the raccoons get together to form a giant mecha.

In The Sand Witch Project, Chef uses a chainsaw in order to make Duncan, Heather and DJ scream loud enough for the scream-o-meter to fill up.

In Aftermath: Bridgette Over Troubled Water, an exclusive clip shows a bear, wielding a chainsaw, about to attack Harold alongside several campers and Chef, after he is telling them a very complicated mathematical equation. In Can't Help Falling In Louvre, the bear wields a chainsaw and begins chasing the contestants alongside Sasquatchanakwa and the baby seal. However, they are mainly targeting DJ as revenge for injuring them.

Chicken hat
The chicken hat is a hat that was designed to resemble a chicken.

The chicken hats are first used in Not So Happy Campers - Part 2, where they are given to the campers that refuse to jump off the cliff into shark-infested waters. Out of the twenty-two campers, only three have to wear it in this episode. DJ and Beth are simply afraid of heights, while Courtney refuses to jump, claiming to have a condition preventing her from performing the task. Beth is not seen wearing it later in the episode while Courtney and DJ are. It is possible that as a reward for her team winning, she was permitted off-screen to remove it.

A chicken hat is also used in I Triple Dog Dare You!, but this time, Heather has to wear it when she is dared to act like a chicken. In The Very Last Episode, Really!, Chris makes Gwen wear a chicken hat before she can compete in the Rejected Olympics. Unlike last time, it has no symbolic meaning.

In a exclusive clip of Newf Kids on the Rock, Owen is seen pulling objects out of a pot, and one of them is a chicken hat. After finding the hat, Owen places the hat on his head and wears it for the rest of the clip.

A chicken hat makes a brief cameo appearance in Eat, Puke and Be Wary, when Zoey falls into the bottom of a gulch after being hit by Chef.

Chris dummy
The Chris dummy is a rubber duplicate of Chris used in Get a Clue and Grand Chef Auto. It is made to look exactly like him with slight gray coloring and his eyes closed and tongue hanging out, in order to appear deceased. The contestants view it as being very realistic, as evidenced by the fact that several people have been fooled into thinking it is actually him.

In Get a Clue, Chris fakes his own death and replaces himself with the dummy. The contestants, with the exception of Courtney, believe he has really been killed. And so, they begin investigating his "murder." The dummy disappears halfway through the challenge, much to everyone's panic. Chris later drags it behind him as he reveals the hoax after the "murderer" has been figured out. At the end of the episode, he takes it to the movies with him and flirts with it. In Grand Chef Auto, Chef Hatchet exacts revenge on Chris for allowing the competitors in the kitchen and to make use of his go-karts. He holds the dummy and a recording of the latter's voice to a camera, informing the teens the three landmarks have been extended to four - the last of which is Chris's beloved Mt. Chrismore. Lightning sees this and complies, as do the other contestants. Chef blames the prank on Duncan.

Freebies
Freebies are empty purple soda pop bottles with a green caps and labels, which were used by the remaining three Total Drama Island contestants in I Triple Dog Dare You! in order to get out of doing a dare.

So far, the freebies have only been seen exclusively in I Triple Dog Dare You!, when the campers are forced to do disgusting dares, created by the other campers who were previously eliminated. Each contestant has to spin a wheel and complete the dare created by the camper in which the wheel lands on. If they complete the dare by themselves, they get a freebie that they can use to get out of another dare and dare someone else. If they are dared by another camper to do a dare, then they do not receive a freebie. The first freebie is won by Owen after he chews a wad of Harold's chewed gum.

After many dares, Owen wins twenty freebies, enough to make music with. Then, executing a plot with Gwen to eliminate Heather, he gives half to her. Chris allows it despite Heather's protests. The final freebie of the episode is used by Gwen to get out of performing Lindsay's dare. This dare leads to Heather's comeuppance, which includes her elimination from the competition.

Gemmie Award
The Gemmie Award is a statuette awarded for excellence in reality television. It is the in-universe version of the Emmy Award and its Canadian counterpart, the Gemini Award. Chris is known to have won several in the past, while Blaineley was nominated for one.

They are first introduced in Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Action Reunion Special, in which the cast of Total Drama is nominated for "Best Reality Ensemble." The ceremony is where they meet up for the first time since the conclusion of Total Drama Action. It is also where they come across soon-to-be newcomers Alejandro and Sierra; the former is a presenter while the latter acts as a reporter for gossip show Celebrity Manhunt. After Chris shocks the teens with the news of their replacement, they remain locked outside the entire time, waiting for validation of their fame by winning the Gemmie Award. They unfortunately end up losing to another series.

The Gemmie Award is mentioned again briefly in Niagara Brawls. While singing Blainerific, Blaineley reveals she was once nominated.

In Up, Up, and Away in My Pitiful Balloon, Chris obsesses over his Gemmie Awards and wonders how many he would win for that episode alone. Heather takes advantage of the statues by knocking Chris and Chef over their heads and tossing them out of the zeppelin. She later uses the Gemmies as projectiles to throw at the contestants chasing her.

Green jelly pool
The green jelly pool is a large wooden tub filled with green jelly that has a very high up diving board attached to it.

In Phobia Factor, in order to conquer her deepest fear of green jelly and win the challenge for her team, Courtney has to jump into a pool full of it from a massive diving board. She is disgusted by it because she believes the green jelly resembles snot. Gwen describes the pool of jelly with many unpleasant adjectives, intentionally scaring Courtney and psyching her out. Even though her team encourages her, when Courtney looks down at the jelly, her fear gets the better of her and she is unable to jump. She finally refuses to do the challenge, causing her team to lose the challenge to the Screaming Gophers. Owen is later seen dunking himself into the jelly, enjoying its warmth.

The green jelly pool makes another appearance in Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island. It serves as a key factor in what will ultimately be a very important tie. Through a series of events, many campers end up positioned on the diving board. An airplane flies into the support beams, sending everyone to the ground. Some fall into the jelly while others remain on the board as it slides. The rest of the contestants are pushed by it into Lake Wawanakwa. The fourteen who finish the challenge in the water advance to Total Drama Action. On the other hand, (most of) those who fall into the jelly do not compete.

Love-Me Tea
Love-Me Tea is a special type of tea given to Sierra by an elderly Chinese woman, seen exclusively in Chinese Fake-Out. The character on the tea bag is "心" ("xìn"), which translates to "heart" in Chinese.

After being kicked off the Great Wall of China by Cody's donkey, Ace in the first challenge, Sierra accidentally crashes from the sky through the roof of a hut. She lands on top of a table with an elderly Chinese woman sitting at it, surprising the woman. Sierra explains to the old woman about her unrequited love for Cody. The woman gives her a teabag, telling her the more tea she drinks, the more Cody will love her. Sierra consumes her tea throughout the episode, including between meals during the eating challenge. She also does it when Blaineley points out in anger that Cody has repeatedly tried to vote Sierra off.

In African Lying Safari, Sierra starts using the tea differently, though with the same intentions. She gives up drinking the Love-Me Tea herself and instead forces it to Cody. She is oblivious to the fact that the "compliments" he gives her are simply unintelligible moans. Sierra realizes that the scent of her tea is affecting him negatively and injects him with his EpiPen to save him. As Sierra continues to feed Cody the Love-Me Tea, he suffers hallucinations, one of which is Sierra as an angry polar bear, and goes into a comatose state. However, after being "kidnapped" by a baboon, Cody feels better, due to having been away from Sierra long enough for the effects of the tea to start wearing off.

Pole
The Pole is an ordinary pole with a flag on top of it that serves as a checkpoint in Anything Yukon Do, I Can Do Better, at which the contestants are required to pick up their team mates. At one of the poles, Bridgette and Alejandro are about to kiss when he moves at the last minute. The action causes her to get her tongue stuck on it. Chris refuses to help when he arrives, and Team Amazon proves to not be of assistance either. They all leave after a song, during which Bridgette is forced to sing regardless of her situation. She remains this way even after she is eliminated and thrown out of the plane. The pole prevents Team Victory from understanding her warning of Alejandro's true nature.

This incident is shown in later episodes to greatly embarrass Bridgette. It is mentioned many times during the Aftermath shows, especially by Blaineley in order to spite her. One of the Aftermath guests also asks Bridgette to kiss a pole for him in Aftermath: Bridgette Over Troubled Water. At the end of the episode, Beth is seen flirting with the pole.

In the exclusive clip of No One Eggspects The Spanish Opposition, Heather suffers the same situation after she takes the Flush of Shame and ends up in the Yukon. As she attempts to free herself, a polar bear shows up behind her and attacks her.

Princess Dolls
The Princess Dolls are dolls modeled after Courtney and Beth, making their only appearance in The Princess Pride. As a running gag, Chris advertises these dolls as well as other Courtney-related products.

The Princess Courtney doll appears to be a voodoo doll. At the Awards Ceremony at the end of the episode, Beth and Lindsay are seen poking their dolls with needles, which has an effect on the real Courtney.

However, Chris states that since Courtney's lawyers requested eighty percent of the profit made on the dolls, and since Beth was the only remaining brunette on the show, they decided to make Princess Beth dolls instead. Beth screams with excitement about the news. She then receives her Princess Beth doll from Chris, as well as a Gilded Chris Award. Chris makes her sign a contract declaring that they do not have to give her any money that they make from selling the dolls. Beth and Lindsay can be seen playing with them and ignoring Justin as he is walking down the Walk of Shame towards the Lame-o-sine after his elimination.

Right before the credits of the episode, the Princess Beth dolls are seen again. Chris states that Chef's war-like way of playing with the dolls isn't the "right" way to play with them. Chris then makes the dolls kiss, adding his own kissing noises, stating that's the right way to play with dolls. Chris later admits that the Princess Dolls were not selling since the viewing audience was too old to enjoy dolls.

Tranquilizer
 Tranquilizers are normally darts filled with a form of sedative and is used to put wild animals or contestants to sleep. These darts are normally fired from either a gun or a blow pipe. One first appears in Search and Do Not Destroy to put the bear that devoured Owen to sleep, though it also hits Owen himself, causing him to be drowsy during the elimination ceremony. In Wawanakwa Gone Wild!, Izzy chooses a tranquilizer gun to hunt a deer. However, she ends up using the gun to shoot Chef Hatchet, a horse and a plane. Near the end of the challenge, Izzy accidentally shoots Heather in the butt after mistaking her for a deer.

In Dial M for Merger, Duncan is shot by a dart while inspecting the hole Lindsay falls into. In Top Dog, a deranged Duncan uses a blow pipe to shoot Beth with a dart after the challenge has ended.

In African Lying Safari, the tranquilizers are now in the form of pellets and are fired from slingshots. The contestants are tasked to use these pellets to put the newly feral Ezekiel to sleep. However, at one point, Duncan, Heather, Alejandro and Sierra end up hitting each other, putting all of them out of commission for a while. In the end, Alejandro manages to put Ezekiel to sleep while he is busy attacking Duncan.

Trunk of Mind-Blowing Secrets
The Trunk of Mind-Blowing Secrets is a prop used in Total Drama Action, exclusively in the episode Full Metal Drama, in which castmates compete in a "capture the flag" challenge to receive or protect this treasured reward.

During the first military themed challenge, Duncan uses his "punk-rock" skills to create a fantastic explosion from a paint bomb and win for the Screaming Gaffers. Chris then gives them the reward of having the Trunk of Mind-Blowing Secrets, and tells them they need to protect it from the Killer Grips, who must take the trunk from them in a crazy game of Capture the Flag.

As time runs out in Capture the Flag, Chris declares the winners of invincibility are the Gaffers. Along with immunity, he also gives them a sneak peek inside the trunk. As Harold and Duncan only look in the trunk, they find that it is empty and that the challenge was only through the cold pursuit of war. The empty trunk brings the boys to tears.

In Best. Game. Ever., it is revealed that the trunk was originally called the "Trunk of Prizes." It is held in a fortress that gets destroyed with the paint bomb testing, turning the contents to ash with it. Chris tells the intern not to let the contestants know that there was something originally in the trunk.

Vomit Comet
The Vomit Comet is a centrifugal ride that is used in 2008: A Space Owen as part of the challenge for the five remaining castmates.

The goal of the Vomit Comet challenge is to last as long as possible without stopping the ride. The cast member who rides the Vomit Comet the longest wins the challenge and invincibility. Harold is the first one to ride it. During his run, he accidentally squishes Duncan's pet spider, Scruffy. He desperately asks to leave as a result. Only lasting for five seconds, he loses the challenge and fails to impress Chris.

Owen rides next and ends up leaving early too, due to eating too much of Chef's chili, only lasting ten seconds. Owen does not vomit from the ride. Duncan is disgusted as he enters the Comet, because of the smell from Owen being in there. Duncan ends up being the first one to vomit, but manages to stay in the longest so far with twenty-three seconds. However, he gets ten seconds deducted on his final time by Chris for vomiting.

Beth goes next, still upset that she is going so late and that the ride has already been soiled; yet, she refuses to stick with an alliance with Courtney and not participate at all. Beth manages to stay in the ride the longest with thirty-six seconds. Courtney is upset that Beth did not go along with her plan, and ends up forfeiting herself in the challenge. Beth then earns invincibility. Chef is later seen cutting a carrot into the Vomit Comet, which he says will be the cast's dinner with the vomit, much to their disgust.

The Vomit Comet is seen again in Mutiny on the Soundstage. Duncan rides it because he does not answer a question correctly, but it is unknown how long he rides it for. As he exits the ride, Duncan vomits on Chef's shoes. Beth does not ride the Vomit Comet again because she answers a question about who was eliminated in the space challenge correctly.