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The two teams begin their first challenge: jumping off a 1,000-foot cliff into a small safe zone surrounded by shark-infested waters, and building a hot tub out of wood. One team bonds quickly, while the other struggles to cooperate. After the two-part challenge, one contestant's comments anger the female contestants on his team, and therefore leading to his early elimination.

Plot[]

The episode continues where the last episode left off, with all of the campers gathered at the top of the cliff. Chris reveals the first challenge of the series: The campers must jump off the one thousand foot high cliff into a safe zone in the lake, which is represented by a small ring of buoys. For each camper who completes the challenge, their team receives a point. After each contestant has had a chance to jump, the points are tallied and the winning team gets an advantage in the next part of the challenge: building a hot tub. The team with the best hot tub gets to have a hot tub party that night, while the losing team has to vote out a camper for the first time. Bridgette thinks the challenge is pretty straightforward, but Chris reveals that the rest of the lake is filled with rare, freshwater, man-eating sharks.

HaroldOuch

Harold painfully lands in the water, but still in the safe zone.

The Killer Bass are up, but no one wants to go first. Bridgette nervously volunteers and successfully lands in the safe zone. Inspired by her victory, Tyler enthusiastically jumps in next. Although he crashes painfully into one of the buoys in the lake, he still lands in the safe zone. Geoff, Eva, and Duncan then successfully complete their jumps with no problem. However, DJ is afraid of heights and does not jump, and he is forced to wear a chicken hat and take the escalator down the cliff. Ezekiel and Harold complete their jumps, but they both are injured; Ezekiel hits a rock protruding from the cliff and Harold lands on his crotch. Courtney refuses to jump, citing a medical condition. Chris warns her that not completing the challenge could cost her team the win, with the possibility of her being eliminated. However, Courtney accepts the risk, believing that the majority of the opposing team will not jump. Sadie and Izzy are left for the Killer Bass, but Sadie refuses to jump without Katie, as the two girls are best friends and do everything together. Both girls beg Chris to allow one of them to switch teams. Izzy offers to switch, and Chris allows it, putting Katie on the Killer Bass and Izzy on the Screaming Gophers. Katie and Sadie squeal with delight and excitedly jump off the cliff together.

The Screaming Gophers are up next, and Chris offers them an incentive: if they can beat the Killer Bass' score, he'll give them pushcarts to haul the boxes of hot tub parts. But like the Bass, no one is motivated to go first. Heather refuses to jump, saying she does not want to get her hair wet on national television. Lindsay joins in, supporting Heather's decision and refusing to jump as well. Leshawna intervenes, arguing with Heather about not jumping and refusing to lose the first challenge because of her. The two trade insults until Leshawna throws Heather off the cliff, and she falls into the safe zone. Leshawna jumps after her, followed by Lindsay, Gwen, Cody, Izzy, and Justin. Justin lands outside of the safe area, much to the concern of the other campers, but his appearance charms the sharks and they carry him to shore. Beth does not jump because she is afraid, but Trent and Noah (unseen) jump successfully.

After most of the team has jumped, Owen is the only one left, but Trent gives him words of encouragement.

TDI Owen
Owen
I was pretty darn nervous. See, the thing is I'm not that strong a swimmer.
TDI Geoff
Geoff
I'm looking at this guy and thinking, There's no way he's gonna make it.
TDI Gwen
Gwen
I actually thought, If he jumps this… he's gonna die.
Owencliffdive

An extremely nervous Owen conquers his fear and jumps off the cliff to win the challenge for his team.

The Gophers are nervous, but Owen overcomes his fear and jumps off the cliff. As he falls, he makes a huge splash, knocking Trent and Noah, who are still in the water, to the beach. While winning the pull-cart advantage for his team to carry the crates, he loses his bathing suit in the water, much to everyone's disgust.

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The Screaming Gophers happily sing on their way back to the cabins.

The Gophers, with their pull-carts, sing happily on their way back to the campsite, while the Bass have trouble moving the boxes. While the Gophers were still singing, Lindsay stopped when she found a seashell. She picked it up and held it close to her right ear. After listening to the sound of the shell for three seconds, she walked quickly to catch up with her team. Katie and Sadie take a bathroom break and Courtney gets a bug bite on her eye, causing it to swell. When Katie and Sadie return from relieving themselves, they begin to feel itchy, which Bridgette suspects is from the poison ivy they were squatting in. The itching becomes so unbearable that Katie and Sadie can't do anything about it. Meanwhile, the Gophers' hot tub is coming along, having already made it back to camp. Heather approaches Leshawna and apologizes for her rudeness earlier. Leshawna is moved by the apology, and agrees to call a truce with her. In private, Heather admits to Lindsay that her apology wasn't the least bit sincere. When Lindsay asks why she pretended to be nice to Leshawna, Heather reminds her of the old adage "keep your friends close and your enemies closer." Lindsay asks if Heather considers her a friend, and Heather assures her that she does, for now.

The Killer Bass are behind in building their hot tub and two players short as Katie and Sadie are still nursing their rashes. Geoff and Courtney try to rally their team to win the challenge, but are ultimately unsuccessful. Duncan criticizes Courtney's high-handedness, claiming that her bossiness and assumption of others' weaknesses make her an ineffective leader, which Courtney takes offense to. The Gophers build a fully functional hot tub, while the Bass build a poorly constructed one that leaks and collapses in on itself, costing them the first challenge.

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Eva and Bridgette do not respond well to Ezekiel's comments.

At dinner, the Bass try to decide who they are going to vote out. Duncan says that it should be Courtney or DJ, the two who did not jump. His vote leans toward Courtney, as he sees DJ's strength as a possible advantage in the future. Courtney is shocked by Duncan's choice, arguing that her experience as a C.I.T. (Counselor-in-Training) makes her valuable, and tries to draw attention to Tyler instead of herself, which Lindsay blatantly objects to. Duncan and Geoff, however, aren't interested in voting Tyler out, since he jumped. Ezekiel wonders why their team lost, since the Gophers had more girls on their team. When Eva and Bridgette ask what he means, Ezekiel explains that boys are stronger and better at sports than girls, which especially angers the two of them, the most athletic girls on both team. Geoff tries to calm everyone down, but Ezekiel continues his sexist comments about intelligence, which angers every girl on the Killer Bass.

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The Killer Bass at the very first elimination ceremony of Total Drama.

At the campfire ceremony, Chris, holding a plate of marshmallows in hand, explains that they will be given out to all campers who are safe. The one camper who does not receive a marshmallow is eliminated and must leave. Chris gives marshmallows to Geoff, Tyler, Katie, Bridgette, DJ, Harold, Sadie, Duncan, and Eva (not shown). The bottom two comes down to Courtney and Ezekiel, who start to panic. Chris finally gives Courtney the remaining marshmallow, leaving Ezekiel as the first camper to be voted out of the competition. Chris suspects that Ezekiel was eliminated for picking his nose, which was caught on camera, rather than for making derogatory comments about the female campers.

TDI Gwen
Gwen
Yep, this camp pretty much still sucks. But now that I'm here I guess I might as well actually try to win.
2Unhappy36

"I am gonna win this competition! And no one is gonna stop me!"

—Courtney

Back at camp, the Gophers are seen enjoying their hot tub party as the Bass walk by, with Cody toasting to the Screaming Gophers. Courtney signals for the cameraman to come closer, and declares that the Gophers can enjoy their first victory, but she will ultimately win the competition and the $100,000 prize, and no one will stand in her way.

Cast[]

Voice actor Role(s)
Christian Potenza Chris
Sarah Gadon Beth
Kristin Fairlie Bridgette
Clé Bennett Chef/DJ
Emilie-Claire Barlow Courtney
Peter Oldring Cody/Ezekiel/Tyler
Drew Nelson Duncan
Julia Chantrey Eva
Dan Petronijevic Geoff
Megan Fahlenbock Gwen
Brian Froud Harold
Rachel Wilson Heather
Katie Crown Izzy
Stephanie Anne Mills Katie/Lindsay
Novie Edwards Leshawna
Scott McCord Owen/Trent
Lauren Lipson Sadie
  • Justin and Noah appear, but have no lines other than singing with the rest of their team while pulling their carts, and, in Noah's case, singing a cheer song for the Gophers.

Elimination Ceremony[]

Elimination Ceremony 1:
Killer Bass
Status Contestant
Safe TDI GeoffTDI TylerTDI KatieTDI Bridgette
TDI DJTDI HaroldTDI SadieTDI DuncanTDI Eva
Geoff, Tyler, Katie, Bridgette, DJ, Harold, Sadie, Duncan, Eva
Low TDI Courtney
Courtney
Out TDI Ezekiel
Ezekiel

Still in the running[]

 Ezekiel
22nd
TDI Ezekiel bw
TDI Beth
TDI Cody
 DJ
TDI Killer Bass
TDI DJ
TDI Duncan
 Eva
TDI Killer Bass
TDI Eva
TDI Geoff
TDI Gwen
TDI Harold
TDI Izzy
TDI Justin
TDI Katie
TDI Noah
TDI Owen
TDI Sadie
TDI Trent
TDI Tyler

Trivia[]

General[]

  • Of those who jumped off the cliff, Justin is the only one who is seen landing outside of the safe zone.
  • The first person to jump off the cliff for both teams was a female: Bridgette jumped for the Killer Bass, and Heather "jumped" for the Screaming Gophers.
  • This episode, along with its predecessor, is the only competition-related episode in the entire series in which all of the original twenty-two contestants compete.
  • On Netflix, this episode is called "The Not So Great Outdoors: Part 2".
  • Despite the fact that Killer Bass have five girls (Bridgette, Courtney, Eva, Katie, and Sadie) and six boys (DJ, Duncan, Ezekiel, Geoff, Harold, and Tyler), Ezekiel is voted off. However, all the boys seemed to be on board with Duncan's suggestion to vote Courtney off for losing the challenge, although this was before Ezekiel made his sexist remark that got all the female Bass angry at him. When asked in an interview about how Ezekiel was voted off when the Bass boys outnumbered the girls, Mark Thornton refused to reveal who voted for whom, instead expressing that such speculation was "the beauty of a secret ballot."

Continuity[]

References[]

  • Heather's line of "Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer" could be a reference to a similar line spoken by Al Pacino in The Godfather Part II.
  • Before jumping, Lindsay states that she thought the show was supposed to be a talent contest. This mirrors what her Camp TV version said during the promo.
  • The swimsuit that Beth wears is a reference to the uniforms worn in the Star Trek franchise.
  • Owen's situation of jumping off a cliff despite his fear of heights is similar to Rodger Bingham from Survivor: The Australian Outback.
  • Courtney's bee sting allergy is a reference to the movie Election, in which Tracy Flick — the character Courtney is based on — had a school teacher named Jim McAllister who unfortunately suffered the same injury.
    • In addition, his right eye was unnaturally swollen, and he too denied that it was a serious problem to anyone who showed concern for him.

Goofs[]

  • When the episode begins and the teams are seen at the top of the cliff, Courtney and Geoff are missing from their team.
    • Also, Cody and Katie are missing from the Gophers when they are reluctant to jump off the cliff and when Heather explains why she doesn't want to jump, while Sadie is missing from the Bass.
  • When Tyler saw Bridgette in the target he only had one wristband, but when he started jumping off the cliff, he had two wristbands.
  • It can be seen at the beginning of the episode that Owen is missing both of his ears.
  • For a few frames as Bridgette is about to land in the target area, she is seen falling behind the ring as she actually lands in the ring.
  • Chris says that eight of the Killer Bass members have jumped off the cliff, while only seven of them have jumped off.
  • Noah was never seen jumping off the cliff, but he is shown to have jumped because he is later seen in the water with Trent in the safe zone just before Owen jumps. However, he is not seen in the water when Trent jumps, even though he supposedly dived before Trent did.
  • During the diving challenge, when the campers are in the confessional and Owen is about to dive, he and Geoff appear in their usual outfits instead of their swimsuits, while Gwen is in her swimsuit.
  • In the scene right after Owen's climactic jump, there are several goofs:
    • Duncan is wearing two wristbands.
    • The resulting tidal wave washes up on the nearby beach, and the camera pans over the destruction caused by it. All of the other campers are seen washed up on the beach, along with the overturned Boat of Losers, Chef Hatchet, and a shark. Despite the fact that almost everyone is in this shot, Tyler is nowhere to be seen.
    • As it shows the destruction caused by Owen's jump, Trent, and the overturned boat are also washed up on the beach. However, when Trent asks Owen what's wrong, Trent is seen on the boat, which appears to still be in the water.
    • As the camera pans over the various campers washed up on the beach, Beth and DJ both have their chicken hats on, but Courtney does not have hers on, although she is seen wearing it later.
    • Everyone is seen to be knocked away from the shore when the wave passes, but when they are all shown, they are back on the shore.
    • When Leshawna shouts "Yes!" it comes out in Heather's voice.
    • Eva's mole briefly switches to the other side of her face.
    • When Leshawna washed up on shore with everyone else, her hair is wet but when she shouts "Yes!" her hair is seen dry
  • When Chris counts the jumpers for the Killer Bass after Courtney refuses to jump, he counts eight jumpers and two chickens. Chris says that the Bass are missing one camper, but they are actually missing two. At that point, only seven had jumped (Bridgette, Tyler, Geoff, Eva, Duncan, Ezekiel, and Harold), two had chickened out (DJ and Courtney), and two were left (Sadie and Izzy). After Katie and Sadie both jump, he correctly counts it as eleven.
  • Leshawna apologizes to Heather for pushing her off the cliff though she actually thrown her.
  • When Katie and Sadie realize they have been squatting in poison ivy, the hair curl under Katie's ear is missing.
  • When the Gophers are building their hot tub, they are at the campsite. But when they are put the water in the hot tub, it is at the beach. Then, when Chris is judging the hot tub, it is back at the campsite.
  • When Duncan claims that DJ should stay instead of Courtney, his nose piercing is missing.
    • Also, after Courtney suggest that they vote Tyler out, Courtney and Duncan have switched positions on where they're sitting at the table.
  • Chris says that whichever team wins the hot tub challenge would get to use it all summer, but the only time the hot tub is ever seen again is in "The Sucky Outdoors," though it is possible it could have been used off-screen.
  • There are also some goofs in the final scene at the Campfire Ceremony:
    • Except for the very first shot of the scene, Eva completely disappears from the ceremony. Despite surviving the vote, her name is never called and she is never shown receiving a marshmallow. She is also missing from the final group shot with the rest of her teammates after Ezekiel walks down the Dock of Shame.
    • Courtney is also not seen during in group shot, and Tyler is initially not present at all until Chris calls his name.
    • As Chris explains the elimination process, he directs the Bass' attention to the Boat of Losers, already parked at the Dock of Shame, ready to pick up the first eliminated camper. But when Ezekiel reaches the end of the dock after his elimination, the Boat of Losers pulls up next to the dock as if it had only just arrived.
    • Courtney does not have her marshmallow stick in her hand when her name is called, but when she accepts the marshmallow, the stick suddenly appears in her hand. The stick is also bent when she is sitting, but is perfectly straight when she holds it the second time.
  • When Chris announces that the Gophers have won the challenge, Beth is seen without her chicken hat.
  • When Leshawna and Cody tell Justin to swim away from the sharks, Gwen's hair is wet. However, when Leshawna and Cody mock Beth for refusing to jump, Gwen's hair is dry.
  • Noah is seen helping Izzy and Trent rebuild one of the crates, but when the Killer Bass arrive, he disappears.
    • Also in this scene, his chest is out of proportion.
  • The rock that Ezekiel hits when he jumps becomes smaller after his turn ends.
  • When the Gophers encourage Owen to jump, Lindsay says, "Do it, Owen," but it sounds like Leshawna is saying it instead.
  • When Tyler says he needs to take a whiz, he is holding the same crate that contains the chicken hats, though it was never seen being taken down the cliff.
  • While in her swimsuit, Izzy's bracelet is either on both of her hands or is missing.
  • At the end of the episode, Beth and Izzy are missing when the Screaming Gophers celebrate.
  • When Katie and Sadie return from their bathroom break, Eva is shown in her swimsuit instead of her regular outfit.
  • At one point, when Chef lands in the water, his tattoo disappears.
  • After Noah turns to pass a bucket of water to Cody, his legs are still backwards.
  • There are a few height errors in the group shot of the teams after the challenge is over, including Cody being the same height as Heather, Noah being the same height as Trent, and Bridgette being the same height as Harold.
  • While the sky was yellow throughout the entire cliff-jumping portion of the challenge, it is blue in the shot of the shark in the tree.

Gallery[]

See also[]

Total Drama Island Episodes
Team Phase "Not So Happy Campers—Part 1" | "Not So Happy Campers—Part 2" | "The Big Sleep" | "Dodgebrawl" | "Not Quite Famous" | "The Sucky Outdoors" | "Phobia Factor" | "Up the Creek" | "Paintball Deer Hunter" | "If You Can't Take the Heat..." | "Who Can You Trust?" | "Basic Straining" | "X-Treme Torture" | "Brunch of Disgustingness"
Individual Phase "No Pain, No Game" | "Search and Do Not Destroy" | "Hide and Be Sneaky" | "That's Off the Chain!" | "Hook, Line, and Screamer" | "Wawanakwa Gone Wild!" | "Trial by Tri-Armed Triathlon" | "Haute Camp-ture" | "Camp Castaways" | "Are We There Yeti?" | "I Triple Dog Dare You!" | "The Very Last Episode, Really!"
Recaps "Total Drama Island Recap" | "TDI Rundown"
Special "Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island"
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