The episode opens with Cody waking up in first class. Surprised, but very relieved that for the first time this season, he managed to spend the entire night without Sierrabothering him. Alejandro explains that she did try to enter first class seven times, but he sleeps with one eye open, which helped keep her away from Cody. Cody responds by hopping onto his lap and hugging him tightly, much to Alejandro's disdain and embarrassment.
[yawns] Win African challenge, invite pathetically grateful nerdling to first class; win today's challenge, get nerdling to vote for Heather. Done, done and, oh, so close that I can taste it.
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Alejandro then brings out his reward from the last challenge, a whole cart of candy. After Alejandro explains that he doesn't eat sweets because they will ruin his body, he gives them to Cody in exchange for a favor. Cody excitedly agrees.
Meanwhile, in economy class, Sierra asks Heather for advice about how to deal with her relationship with Cody.
'Marry somebody you don't have to trick into it, move out of Crazytown and join the rest of us in the real world, and leave Heather alone!' is what I would have said. [sighs] But with Alejandro in first undoing all my hard work on Cody, Mrs. Crazytown could be my only chance! So… do not judge me!
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Heather advises her that boys come and go, but girls stay together forever, in an effort to balance Alejandro's attempted alliance with Cody. Heather tries to convince Sierra to vote out Alejandro by warning her that he is trying to destroy her marriage, but this only manages to make Sierra laugh, not believing Heather would want Alejandro out.
Between me and Cody-Wody and the Heather-Alejandro love fest, this plane is starting to feel like one huge double date in a can. Well, 'cept for Chris and Chef. Chef isn't really Chris's type.
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When they are about to land, Chris and Chef fight over who should fly the plane, resulting in the jet crashing into an Easter Island rock head. Once on Rapa Nui, Alejandro nods to the rock head, saying it is another piece of world heritage destroyed. Heather, says that isn't the only chiseled rock getting destroyed today in an attempt taunt Alejandro, who takes it as a compliment, but corrects herself to saying "grizzled" instead. Cody, with his face dirty of candy, comes up to "Al," telling him to taste some taffy, but Alejandro asks him to not call him by that nickname and refuses to taste it. Meanwhile, Sierra gets off the plane and rushes to hug Cody, believing he has changed so much since she last saw her. Heather mocks them by saying they're too cute.
Heather always manages to stay in this game way longer than you'd expect, and I've studied Total Drama long enough to know — alliances never last! So I'm open to all offers, but I'll never make the mistake of staying loyal to anyone long term, except my sugar-frosted Cody-O!
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Afterwards, Chris explains the challenge for the contestants: The contestants need to get three eggs of their specifically colored egg, based on the color of the feathered headset they are given, and go through the underground cave to reach the highest point of the mountain. When the challenge starts, Alejandro and Sierra realize that the rocks in which the eggs have been concealed among are designed to resemble the heads of previous contestants who have been eliminated. Alejandro climbs onto Lindsay's carved head, finding nothing, while Sierra finds a blue-colored egg in Ezekiel's head that would belong to Alejandro, which she throws in purpose for ruining her marriage, annoying Alejandro. Heather manages to find a red-colored egg for herself in Courtney's head, saying she "is useful for something." Cody kicks Duncan's carved head, calling him a "Gwen stealer," making a purple-colored egg fall from the rock's carved nose. On the other hand, Sierra finds a green-colored egg for her own, so she weaves a basket from grass to carry her eggs in. Sierra finds more and even helps Cody collect his, putting a purple-colored egg on his basket. Cody is surprised and thankful, and Sierra pinches his cheek saying she'd do anything for him.
Sierra totally saved my bacon in the Serengeti. I owe it to her to at least be nice, and if she insists on handing me a million dollars, heh, who am I to stop her?
It's not just me and Cody-Wody anymore. We're parents to six little chicks. Finally, we're a family!
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Heather reaches into the rock shaped as Leshawna, managing to get an egg, but she struggles to hold her egg, dropping it and complaining. Sierra walks up also weaves her a basket, stating that girls stick together.
Sierra? Trying desperately and transparently to work me? Awesome! I am so going to make it to the final three, and Alejandro is gone…
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Cody uses his basket full of candy to carry his eggs, and Alejandro asks to share it since there is plenty of room. When Sierra sees this, she gets angry and claims this isn't healthy for their new family of eggs. Alejandro, however, counters this by offering more candy.
While walking through the cave, CodyandAlejandro see a giant boulder coming towards them. Cody flees into a corner, leaving Alejandro with the eggs, who promptly gets squashed by it, along with his egg. They lose one egg each thanks to this hazard and they are forced to go back. While there, they realize they are carrying condor eggs and the father is chasing them. While the girls are in the cave they agree at the next elimination to vote for Alejandro since the worst case would be a tie, and best case scenario being Alejandro voted off. One of Sierra's eggs hatches and shows a bird chick with a striking resemblance to Cody, hence it being named Cody Jr., which shows a fondness of Heather and keeps nesting on top of her head. When the boys are seen running through the cave, they realize that a giant bird is chasing them. The contestants make it out in the order of Alejandro, Cody, Sierra, and Heather. Luckily, the bird's path is blocked by a giant Chef rock.
The second part of the challenge is to climb up a huge rock pillar and return the eggs to the nest on top. To make it worse, the female condor is there now, being twice the size of the male one before. Chris mentions it is twelve-foot wingspan, and Alejandro compares it to being "two Alejandros wide."
One Alejandro is quite enough. Although, with two, maybe one would be nice and not try to defeat me all the time.
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Since Alejandro made it out of the cave first, he gets a catcher's mask, protecting his eyes from the condor's talons. As they sing "Condor," Alejandro manages to put two of his three eggs into the nest, but the last one cracks on the ground. Cody is next and doesn't manage to put any of his eggs into the nest, but thanks to his basket, none of his breaks, allowing him another shot at it when the girls are done. Sierra puts one of her eggs in the nest before being distracted by Cody Jr. going to see "Auntie Heather". When Heather's turn comes up the female condor flies away with Cody Jr., allowing Heather to put all her eggs in the nest and win the challenge. But Cody Jr. flies back to Heather and the condor grabs Heather and flings her to the ground, which causes a domino effect on the eliminated contestants' rock-formed heads, resulting in them crashing into each other and collapsing.
During the Barf Bag Ceremony, Chris reveals that Alejandro received one vote while Sierra gets three votes against her, making her the eliminated contestant.
Sure, Sierra and I are both girls, but all that we have in common is that we both wear bras and mascara. Some of us better than others. Ultimately, Cody's a much better ally. Reason number one, he's sane!
It was nice of Sierra to help me. I owe her my life. But I just caught her basket weaving a bird's nest out of my spare undies. It has to end!
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As Sierra says goodbye, Chris reveals that it was a reward challenge, meaning Sierra is safe for the night, which angers Heather. Chris then tells her that she is able to bring someone to first class. Heather invites Alejandro, saying she will let Sierra and Cody be with each other for the night, but Heather blushes whenAlejandro thanks her. Chris then signs off the episode.
Lindsay and Izzy's carvings are the only ones to feature more than just the head. Lindsay's contains part of her torso and one of her arms. Izzy's also contains part of her torso.
This episode reveals that Alejandro's height is about six feet tall.
This is the first and only reward challenge since the merge this season.
Due to the events of this episode, South America is the only continent visited this season in which no one is eliminated, despite two episodes taking place here.
The last post-merge challenge she won was during "Are We There Yeti?"; however, she was paired up with Gwen.
References
The title of the episode is a play on words of "Rapa Nui", the original name of Easter Island.
Sierra's line about her and Heather's alliance being a "Sisterhood of the Traveling Eggs" is a reference to the book series, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
The boulders that roll down the tunnel and nearly crush the contestants are a reference to the iconic boulder scene from The Raiders of the Lost Ark from the Indiana Jones franchise.
This is the sixth reference to Indiana Jones in the franchise. The others are:
Alejandro said he was part of Cirque du Monet, a reference to world-renowned and Canadian-based circus troupe, Cirque du Soleil.
Goofs
While Cody was cuddling him, Alejandro's shirt is buttoned up.
When Sierra hides in the hole, to avoid the boulders thrown by Chris and Chef, she only has two eggs: one in her basket and the one Heather is shown holding. However, she should have had three eggs at that point.
Sierra only ends up bringing two eggs to Chris later, due to the fact one of them hatched into a chick.
When the moai of the eliminated contestants are first shown, they aren't lined up in a row, but when they are knocked over, they are.
After Heather accidentally crashes into the first moai that Chef put upright several times, the moai creates a domino effect with the moai resembling the formercontestants. However, excluding the original moai, fifteen crashing sounds are heard when there were only fourteen former contestants.
When Cody is about to hug Alejandro, for one frame, he has two heads instead of one, and one floats in the air.
When coming out of the underground path, Cody only has two eggs in his basket, but when he is climbing the rock tower, he has three eggs.
When Lindsay's moai is shown, her ear is a solid piece, but when Alejandro checks her ear, there's an opening on it.
When Heather complains to Sierra about Cody Jr. getting into her hair, Sierra's hat is missing. But when she runs out of the cave, it's back.
Alejandro's eggs disappear as he climbs the cliff while singing "Condor."
When Sierra realizes that the moai are of everyone who has been voted out, Harold's moai is shown to have empty ears, yet when Sierra is climbing the statue, you can clearly see an egg in his ear.
When Cody Jr. flies back to Heather, her hair is messed up, yet moments before when she claimed her victory, her hair was normal.
When Chris is explaining the second challenge, Cody Jr.'s top hair is black instead of pink.
If one looks closely at any scenes with Heather and Sierra with their eggs, Heather has one egg with spots.
When Heather "shoots daggers" at Alejandro, Cody Jr.'s face is darker than usual.
After the mother condor attacks Heather after Cody Jr. perches himself on her head, she flies past her nest when knocking off Heather, but seconds later, after Sierra says that she will miss Cody Jr., the mother condor is already perched on her nest feeding the baby condor.
When Alejandro and Cody are running away from the condor, they pass the statues of Owen, DJ, Noah, and Izzy, which are placed after Lindsay's statue. However, when the moai knock each other over, Lindsay's statue falls down before Owen, DJ, Noah, and Izzy's statues.
Chris says that female condors are bigger than male ones, but in reality, male condors are bigger than females.
Gallery
Alejandro tries to get Cody off of him.
Cody begins to drool as Alejandro talks more about his candy and hints towards not wanting it.