Total Drama Action

Total Drama Action is the second season of Total Drama.

Overview
This season's challenges are based off of movie genres, and the site where each challenge takes place is at an abandoned film lot. The grand prize this season is one million dollars. Fifteen castmates compete for forty-two days for one grand prize. When eliminated, the loser has to take the Walk of Shame and enter the Lame-o-sine, which takes them to an unspecified location.

Summary
After the events of Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island, in which all of season one's contestants attempted and failed to win the million dollars in a final challenge at Camp Wawanakwa, Chris McLean recruits the closest lucky fourteen who all tied in that challenge to continue on to the second season that takes place in an abandoned film lot in Toronto. For forty-two days, the cast is forced to compete in movie genre themed challenges for the one million dollar grand prize, faced with new challenges, surprises, and drama. Split into two new teams, the Killer Grips and the Screaming Gaffers, the contestants take part in various movie-genre-based challenges, where the winning teams gain immunity or rewards for their successes. The losing team is forced to attend an award ceremony, where they vote on who will receive the Gilded Chris Award of immunity and who will be forced to take the Walk of Shame to the Lame-o-sine and be eliminated from the competition. The lucky cast member who outlasts their other castmates wins the highly anticipated $1,000,000.

Contestants

 * See also: Total Drama Action Elimination Table



Episodes

 * See: List of Total Drama Action Episodes

There is a total of twenty-six episodes of Total Drama Action, and a special that led up to Total Drama World Tour.

Movies Genres

 * 1) Monster in episode one: Monster Cash.
 * 2) Alien in episode two: Alien Resurr-eggtion.
 * 3) Movie Drama in episode three: Riot On Set.
 * 4) Beach in episode four: Beach Blanket Bogus.
 * 5) Western in episode five: 3:10 to Crazytown.
 * 6) Prison in episode seven: The Chefshank Redemption.
 * 7) Hospital Drama in episode eight: One Flu Over the Cuckoos.
 * 8) Horror in episode nine: The Sand Witch Project.
 * 9) Disaster in episode ten: Masters of Disasters.
 * 10) War in episode eleven: Full Metal Drama.
 * 11) Bank Heist in episode thirteen: Ocean's Eight - Or Nine.
 * 12) Prehistoric in episode fourteen: One Million Bucks, B.C..
 * 13) Sports in episode fifteen: Million Dollar Babies.
 * 14) Spy in episode sixteen: Dial M for Merger.
 * 15) Superhero in episode seventeen: Super Hero-ld.
 * 16) Fairytale in episode nineteen: The Princess Pride.
 * 17) Mystery in episode twenty: Get a Clue.
 * 18) Rock'n Roll in episode twenty-one: Rock n' Rule.
 * 19) Kung-Fu in episode twenty-two: Crouching Courtney, Hidden Owen.
 * 20) Sci-Fi in episode twenty-three: 2008: A Space Owen.
 * 21) Animal Buddy in episode twenty-four: Top Dog.
 * 22) Pirate and Miscellaneous (a combination of almost all of the past movie genres) in episode twenty-five: Mutiny on the Soundstage.

Elimination

 * see: Elimination

Elimination is a common practice carried out throughout the entire Total Drama series. In Total Drama Action, the elimination ceremony happens after every other challenge. The team or players that haven't received immunity will vote off another contestant via electronic devices. The participant who receives the most votes leaves the competition.

Best. Game. Ever.

 * see: Best. Game. Ever.

An online game seen on Cartoon Network's official Total Drama Action site. It consists of RPG gameplay, where the player creates their own avatar and receives missions from Chris, which will change weekly, so it will relate to the last challenge done on the show. The player will be forming alliances, fighting beasts and obtaining money to buy more accessories for their avatar throughout the game.

The Big Picture

 * see: The Big Picture

Another Cartoon Network game made on Total Drama Action. The main goal is to take high-quality pictures of the contestants, with as many castmates in them as possible while they run across film studios.

Total Drama Action EXTRA

 * see: Total Drama Action EXTRA

The official Cartoon Network Total Drama Action site. It features videos, information about the contestants, games (see above), headlines, and exclusives, all on Total Drama Action recent stuff. Also, the Best. Game. Ever. challenge announcement changes weekly according to the previous episode of the season.

Censorship in United States

 * see: Cartoon Network Edits for full list of censors

Similar to the first season, Total Drama Action is rated TV-PG or TV-PG D in the United States for mild, flirtatious dialogue. There are not as many censorship as there was in Total Drama Island. Things are censored because the United States and Canada have different meanings of TV-PG.

Prizes

 * see: Episode Prizes

There are much more challenge prizes in Total Drama Action than in the previous season. Since this season has less contestants and the same number of episodes, a large number of challenges are reward and non-elimination ones.

DVD
Since there are not any Region 1 and Region 2 DVD release of this season, Australia released Total Drama Action: Collection 1, in a Region 4 DVD on November 2, 2011.

Trivia

 * Beth, Bridgette, Courtney, DJ, Duncan, Geoff, Gwen, Harold, Heather, Izzy, Justin, Leshawna, Lindsay, Owen, and Trent are the fifteen cast members who competed.
 * Courtney was originally not a contestant, but files a lawsuit to get on, thus making her debut in Ocean's Eight - Or Nine.
 * None of the contestants who have been in only one season competed in this season.
 * Cody, Courtney, Eva, Ezekiel, Katie, Noah, Sadie, and Tyler are the contestants who did not qualify for this season.
 * However, Courtney would later debut in Ocean's Eight - Or Nine.
 * Coincidentally, all three of the characters voiced by Peter Oldring did not compete. This is the only season in which none of the three compete.
 * Counting Courtney's debut, this season featured four males not competing and three females not competing. This is the reverse of Total Drama World Tour, which featured four females and three males not competing.
 * Beth, Duncan, Harold, Courtney, Lindsay, and Justin all made it farther than they did in Total Drama Island. However, Owen, Leshawna, Heather, Izzy, DJ, Gwen, Trent, Geoff, and Bridgette did not.
 * Owen won Total Drama Island, so it's impossible for him to do better than that.
 * Coincidentally, all of the contestants who made it to this season, and were eliminated before the merge in Total Drama Island (Justin, Beth, Harold, and Courtney), all made it past the merge in Total Drama Action. This was most likely to give them more character development and screen time that they did not get last season.
 * Despite Duncan winning, the special implies that Beth is the official winner.
 * This was the first season to ever feature a double elimination, and features two in total: Alien Resurr-eggtion and Top Dog.
 * This is the only season to feature more than one double elimination in which both eliminations happened at the very end of the episode.
 * Coincidentally, in both double eliminations, the two people eliminated were of the opposite gender: Bridgette and Geoff, and Courtney and Owen.
 * Due to the two double eliminations, this season never has an actual final 13 or final three.
 * The two characters who returned after being previously eliminated in this season were Owen and Izzy.
 * This marks the first (and currently only) time in the series that the two returning contestants were members of a couple.
 * This also marks the first time that the two returning contestants are of the opposite gender; one male and one female.
 * This is the only season in which something or someone that was technically not a competitor was not eliminated.
 * This is the only season in which there is no team swap between two contestants.
 * This is the first season with an odd number of competitors.
 * This season started out with an even amount of contestants and ended with an odd amount. This is the reverse of Total Drama World Tour, which started out with an odd amount and ended with an even amount.
 * This is the only season in which Leshawna and Lindsay are on different teams.
 * This is the only season that didn't have its original name changed in any way, as Total Drama Island was originally Camp TV, Total Drama World Tour was originally Total Drama, the Musical, and Total Drama: Revenge of the Island was originally Total Drama Reloaded.
 * This is the only season that does not feature a two-part episode at the very beginning of the season.
 * This season is currently the only season where team captains were chosen by a challenge, and the captains got to choose the teams, rather than the producers making the decisions or by rankings in a challenge.
 * This is also the only season in which the teams weren't formed in the first episode.
 * This is the only season in which the main promotional picture was not a moment from an actual episode.
 * This season features the least amount of irregular eliminations, as four contestants were eliminated in a manner other than voting, or were eliminated irregularly.
 * Coincidentally, two were from the Screaming Gaffers, while the other two were from the Killer Grips.
 * In both of Owen's eliminations, his elimination was irregular, thus making him the only contestant to return to a season and yet be irregularly eliminated both times.
 * Every contestant (with the exception of Eva) who made it to the merge in Total Drama Island made it into this season.
 * Unlike last season, the show had Total Drama Action Aftermath episodes, where the eliminated contestants talk about their time on the show, and what they have been up to since.
 * This season, the competitors are referred to as cast members rather than campers.
 * While a major part of the previous season was getting a romantic relationship started for most campers, this season focuses on keeping a relationship going, surviving hardships, and several major relationships breaking up.
 * The Screaming Gaffers and the Killer Grips teams are the Total Drama Action equivalent to the Screaming Gophers and Killer Bass from the previous season.
 * Noticeably, when a person in a couple is eliminated, the other person in the couple is eliminated next. Examples: Geoff and Bridgette (eliminated together), Trent and then Gwen, Izzy and then Owen.
 * This pattern ended in The Princess Pride when Justin was eliminated as opposed to Harold (as Leshawna was eliminated in Super Hero-ld).
 * Instead of venting their feelings in a bathroom stall, the confessional is a makeup trailer instead.
 * Instead of marshmallows, the campers are given a golden statue of Chris, known as the Gilded Chris Award. This is a spoof of many awards given out at ceremonies, like the Oscars, Gemini or Grammies.
 * Courtney's debut in Ocean's Eight - Or Nine is one of the major turning points in the season. However, there is actually some speculation as to the truth behind Courtney's debut. Obviously, the story that is most commonly used and referred to is that Courtney sued the show because she was mad about not qualifying for Total Drama Action. This, along with another lawsuit for her unfair Total Drama Island elimination at the hands of Harold, cost the show too much money, and Chris decided to let her have her way. However, there have been several hints over the course of the show that directly contradict this:
 * In Dial M for Merger, when Courtney forces everyone to agree to giving her half of the million should any of them win, Chris pauses the episode and says "There was a reason we chose Courtney; she's nasty!" The word "chose," obviously, implies that they had already planned to bring back one of the eight non-contestants, and that one happened to be Courtney. However, he may have meant that was why be picked her for Total Drama Island.
 * While Heather was the antagonist last season, this season's antagonist is Justin. Although by Ocean's Eight - Or Nine, Courtney has completely taken on the role as main antagonist, especially after Justin's elimination in The Princess Pride.
 * Thus, this is also the first, currently the only, season to feature more than one main antagonist.
 * In this season, two couples are forced to compete against each other, one from the Screaming Gophers (Gwen and Trent) and one from the Killer Bass (Courtney and Duncan). Coincidentally, both relationships were ended in the same episode that the competitor on the Killer Grips were eliminated in.
 * The first five contestants shown in the opening are the final five of Total Drama Action; Duncan, Harold, Courtney, Owen, and Beth.
 * Again, the final two consists of a boy and a girl. Also, one character is tough and one character is goofy, just like last season's finalists.
 * This is the first time that the final two features competitors from two different teams.
 * This is the first, and currently the only, season in which a former Killer Bass member was in the final two.
 * This is the only season that has no new couples established.