The final three face off in a forest full of toxic carnivorous plants. An alliance between two contestants is severely strained by the challenge. When one is in danger, the other finally gives up the challenge in order to save her friendship, allowing someone else to win the challenge and the choice of who to eliminate. Surprisingly, the winner picks the bigger threat to be eliminated, so that he can settle his rivalry with the other for good in the final two.
Plot
In the beginning of the episode, Lightning is beating up a dummy that looks like Cameron. He then mocks his voice in the confessional and calls him a "sneaky challenge stealer" and keeps punching him. Cameron goes to Zoey for help, who seems to not be her usual self anymore. She gives Cameron advice to help him man up to Lightning, who is seen salting and eating the Cameron dummy, causing Cameron to freak out. Zoey tries to team up with Cameron to get him out.
Chris welcomes the finalists to the "Mutant Forest of Terror." Cameron backs away slowly in fear, and almost lands in a bio-hazardous sinkhole. Chris also says that this is where Chef gets all his Marshmallows of Toxic Loserdom. The challenge is to race through the forest in order to find a mutant Venus Fly Trap that holds a rare flower needed in order to win the challenge. Cameron is excited to know whoever wins the challenge also gets to decide who they take to the finale. Zoey asks how they were going to find the flower. Chris proceeds to give them a piece of a map and says they can either share, or run off. Lightning chooses to go off on his own, while Cameron and Zoey stay together and follow the start of the map, until the trail ends.
In the forest, Lightning is seen running while cheering, until he finds himself lost. While walking in a random direction, he comes across a mutant fly and a mutant flower. He mocks them, until they chase him. The camera then goes over to Cameron and Zoey. Cameron asks Zoey if she's feeling okay, due to her new personality. She doesn't seem to care and continues to use her "instincts" when Lightning and the giant fly crash into a tree nearby. Lightning drops his piece of the map, and Zoey grabs it saying she needs it. Cameron tries to correct her by saying "we" trying to reassure himself that he's not alone on this. Zoey says in the confessional that she loves Cameron, but he's a "word nerd," stating that "we" and "I" doesn't matter as long as they're on the same team. Cameron walks to find Zoey, he discovers ,after trying to make peace with a giant fly, that it quickly falls in love with him. Nearby, Zoey is walking with all of the map, when she steps on a sinkhole and manages to grab on the ledge. Lightning steals the map, leaving her behind. The giant fly is seen flirting with Cameron, but it is then eaten by a mutant squirrel, when Zoey comes over saying that he's been playing with a house fly while Lightning has the whole map now. But up ahead, Lightning doesn't know how to read the map because he has the parts mixed up.
Chris remembering his times with Larry.
Back with Cameron and Zoey, they figure out that Venus fly traps are found in places like bogs. Zoey says that she remembers seeing a bog on the map. Then she makes a confessional saying that she's doing all the work, while Cameron is "mutant bait." Lightning is seen running uphill saying he's almost there, but then finds out that he is falling of the cliff. Back in the forest, Cameron and Zoey find the bog and Larry with the flower inside it's mouth. Chris is seen remembering all the good times he had with Larry before he left him behind while the toxic waste company took over. Back at the camps mine, Ezekiel makes his third cameo in the season, trying to get out from the mine since its destruction, until Lightning trips over him and he falls back down, creating a long screech followed by a loud thump. Zoey is seen asking herself how she was going to get the flower, but Cameron corrects her again saying "we" could get across by the stepping stones. Zoey attempts to follow Cameron's plan, but halfway across, she encounters a mutant turtle which pushes her back to Cameron. She thinks that Cameron is out to get rid of her, but Cameron tries to reassure her that they're together on this challenge. Lightning finally catches up to them, and jumps right on and over the mutant turtle to the flower. But right as he goes to grab it, the fly trap shuts Lightning inside, but then spits him out after he tried to fight it. Zoey tells Cameron to stop cowering in fear and go get the flower for her, but Cameron once again corrects her. He finds out that the flower is Larry's bite censor, but there is no way to grab it fast enough. Zoey states she has a plan. Later, Cam
Larry is angered when Lightning gets the flower.
eron is seen going down from a rope to the fly trap, but when he gets down, he sways from sneezing from the pollen of the plant, which makes the plant bite him. The branch holding the rope then starts to break as he attempts to go down for the second time, but Lightning knocks him away as he grabs the flower while riding on a vine. Larry gets up and uses its roots as hands and legs to chase after Lightning. Cameron asks Zoey if they're still a team, and she agrees. As Lightning tries to get to the finish line, Larry grabs him while Zoey grabs the flower from his hands. Larry throws Lightning and goes after Zoey. Cameron and Zoey exchange the flower to distract Larry, but Cameron drops the flower when Zoey passes it. After Cameron grabs it, he runs away from Larry and Zoey tells him to pass it so she can win this. Cameron then says that she'd vote him off and Larry snatches him, leaving the flower on the ground. As Zoey heads for the finish line with the flower, she hears Cameron scream for her. She has a montage of her old personality and how she was nice to him. She then says no amount of money is better than a friend and drops her bandanna and flower. As Lightning approaches the flower, he runs off with it, while Zoey is in Larry's mouth with Cameron. Chris is seen screaming for Larry to grab Lighting before he gets to the finish, but he makes one big leap pass the finish. Chris grabs the flower, only to give it back to Larry. Larry spits out Zoey and Cameron and eats the flower, while Chris cuddles with him. Zoey then offers a
Zoey is seen back to herself after saving Cameron.
hand to Cameron while he accepts thanking her.
Back at the cabins, Zoey and Cameron are talking about their friendship. Zoey says whatever happens that they'd still have their friendship. Lightning then taunts them by threatening either one of them could go.
At the elimination ceremony, Lightning gets to pick which one he wants to send home. Cameron then offers himself to leave, knowing he would probably be Lightning's choice anyways. Lightning interrupts Cameron's speech and says he's hurling Zoey instead. They both are shocked of what they heard about Lightning's choice. Cameron says she's a more worthy opponent, and Lightning responds by that being the reason why she needs to go. Chris then hurls Zoey and signs off by saying that if Zoey and Cameron were the final 2, it would be a "snooze-fest." Later that night though, Chef is seen with the Marshmallow of Loserdom Chris forgot to give Zoey. He throws it in the bonfire pit, while a giant explosion goes off as the episode ends.
Cast
| Actor | Role(s) |
|---|---|
| Christian Potenza | Chris McLean |
| Cle Bennett | Chef Hatchet |
| Kevin Duhaney | Cameron |
| Tyrone Savage | Lightning |
| Barbara Mamabolo | Zoey |
- An intern named Josh was heard screaming. However, it is unknown who voiced him.
- Ezekiel appeared, but he did not speak. However, he was heard grunting, sighing, and screaming.
- Dawn, Mike, and Staci appeared in Zoey's flashback, but they did not speak. Though Mike laughed at one point along with Zoey and Cameron.
Quotes
- Lightning: (in confessional with a Cameron dummy, mocking him) Hello, my name is Cameron, and I'm a sneaky challenge stealer! (in his normal voice)I made this Cameron-looking punching bag to give me extra motivation! What's that, you want me to punch you again? SHA-BAM! (Punches the dummy)
- Cameron: Lightning is furious at me for winning the last immunity. He's focused all his energy on pumping iron and psyching me out, me! The guy who gets phsyched out by feathers and big drinking cups. (Chef puts two large drinking cups in front of Cameron as he falls) Are you even listening to me?
- Zoey: You got to grab your fear at the throat and throttle it into courage! The thing that can turn a passive, small town teen who sews her own clothes into a hardened, extermination machine! (Uses a slingshot to shoot at Chef, dropping all his dishes) Besides, whatever Lightning's thinking can't be that bad.
- Cameron: (in confessional, placing an ice pack on his hand) What happened to Zoey? Eh, no big deal, as long she protects me from Lightning. (screams as Lightning punches through the outhouse)
Lightning: End game is near. Bottom of the ninth, bases are loaded! Entering the storm corridor now, and it is time for the LIGHTNING TO STRIKE!! (lifts the outhouse) SHA-BAM!! (his pants drop down, and he drops the outhouse upon realization) - Chris: (after Cameron nearly falls into a toxic sinkhole) Oh, yeah. Watch your step! Biohazardous sinkholes, they put the "mutant" in Mutant Forest of Terror!
- Lightning: Yeah, victory, whoo! Hmm, no X? Where am I? Lousy nature, it all looks the same. (Notices giant fly getting burned by a mutant flower) Haha, stupid freaks! Ooh, Like I'm really scared of a weird flower and his fly buddy! (Flower tries to burn him while Fly attacks him) Gah!
- Cameron: I entered this competition as a boy in a bubble, but I will return as a man in a bubble!
- Lightning: I'm taking you to the finals, so I can eat you alive!
Trivia
General
- This episode marks the first time that a generic intern has been given a name.
- In this case, his name is Josh.
- Coincidentally, there is a character whose name is also Josh, one of the hosts of Celebrity Manhunt.
- With the elimination of Zoey, this episode marks the first time the final two of the season has been made up of the same gender (male).
- This episode reveals on-screen how Marshmallow of Toxic Loserdom made from.
- Chris says that it has been three years since Total Drama Island as he left Larry on the island after the first season. This means that the original contestants should be nineteen years old this season.
- Ezekiel shows signs of returning to his normal human state in this episode as he yells, sighs, and grunts in his human voice instead of animal growls.
- When the mutant fly becomes attracted to Cameron, music when Duncan kisses Gwen in The EX-Files is played.
- This is the only episode of the season in which Scott does not appear in.
- On Cartoon Network, this episode, along with the next episode, were aired together to make an hour long finale special. Thus becoming the first two episodes to be aired as such.
Continuity
- During Zoey's audition tape, she states that she would hate to be eliminated from Total Drama by a jock. Ironically, Lightning is the one who eliminates her, causing her fear to come true.
- In this episode, she also reveals the name of her hamster that appeared in the audition tape. In this case, Miss Puffycheeks.
- This is the second episode in which the prize for winning is deciding who is eliminated next. The first being Grand Chef Auto.
- Coincidentally, both of the contestants who won this prize were males who were on the Toxic Rats, and went on to be the top two highest-ranking members of the Rats.
- Additionally, the two contestants who were eliminated this way are in a relationship.
- Also the two that were eliminated were on the Mutant Maggots.
- Ezekiel cameos for a second time in this episode. This makes him the first and only contestant to have more than one individual cameo appearance. The first time being A Mine Is a Terrible Thing to Waste.
- This also makes him the only member of the original cast to have more than two appearances overall (counting the entire cast's appearance on the yacht in Bigger! Badder! Brutal-er!).
- There wasn't a Marshmallow of Toxic Loserdom given out in this episode, as Chef forgot to do so.
- The cat that Miss Puffycheeks punched resembles Heather's pet cat Brusier.
- Cameron, thinking that he will be the one who will be eliminated is similiar to what Gwen thinks in Trial by Tri-Arm Triathlon.
- When Cameron uses a doll on a scale, it is the same doll Lindsay had in That's Off the Chain!.
References
- This episode's title parodies a 1945 family film, The Enchanted Forest.
- Part of the title also references the famous novel, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
- Zoey making an improvised slingshot from a dinner fork is a reference to 1980's TV show, MacGyver, where the eponymous protagonist builds useful gadgets out of any available materials.
- When Larry growls, the sound he gives out resembles the T-Rex growls from Jurassic Park.
- Larry is an homage to Audrey II, the giant man-eating plant from the 1960 B-movie, The Little Shop of Horrors; it's revelation that it can walk on it's roots towards the end, though, is more like Audrey from the 1986 musical film version.
Goofs
- When Zoey high-fives Cameron in the mess hall, her top is no longer ripped.
- When Zoey jumps on one of Larry's roots, her tracking collar from the previous episode briefly appears.
Gallery
| Total Drama: Revenge of the Island Episodes | |
|---|---|
| Team Phase | "Bigger! Badder! Brutal-er!" | "Truth or Laser Shark" | "Ice Ice Baby" | "Finders Creepers" | "Backstabbers Ahoy!" | "Runaway Model" | "A Mine Is a Terrible Thing to Waste" | "The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean" |
| Individual Phase | "Grand Chef Auto" | "Up, Up and Away in My Pitiful Balloon" | "Eat, Puke, and Be Wary" | "The Enchanted Franken-Forest" | "Brain vs. Brawn: The Ultimate Showdown" |