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As the episode opens, Chris is standing in the runway of an airport, introducing the new season and the concept of the show, which features the competing contestants participating in culturally themed challenges all over the world and breaking into spontaneous musicals in every episode. He then introduces the contestants by announcing the return of eleven contestants from the second season consisting of Courtney, Duncan, Heather, Gwen, Leshawna, Lindsay, a reluctant Owen (who is afraid of flying), DJ, Harold, Izzy, and Bridgette and four returning characters from the first seasonNoah, Cody, Tyler, and Ezekiel (who is much more confident than before), and mixes things up by introducing two new competitors, honor roll student Alejandro and superfan Sierra. Chris and Chef then bring forth the Total Drama Jumbo Jet, which will take the contestants around the world. He initially receives complaints from Courtney and Owen about how unsafe the plane looks, but after smacking Owen on the head with a frying pan for his multiple complaints about flying, the contestants quiet down and show "excitement" about the plane, and Chris decides he'll give them a tour of the plane.
Inside the plane, he tells the contestants that they must sing whenever he tells them in order to avoid instant elimination, something that is met with a barrage of complaints by every contestant, in particular from Duncan and Gwen, who both hate singing. The only exception to the complaining was Courtney, who doesn't have a problem with it and states how she has always wanted to sing on television. Leshawna asks Chris where the ladies' room is because she has to make a deposit, but she finds out it's actually a confessional, too.
There's a camera in the potty? Again?! Ugh, can't a sister get a little privacy on this program?
”
Chris then shows them the loser lounge, which is a seat-less compartment in which the losers of each week's challenge will stay and where the only way to sleep is to strap yourself to the wall in order to avoid feeling the jet's rumbles on the floor. He also shows them the swanky and luxurious winner's section, where the winners will stay. Ezekiel talks during the entire tour, greatly annoying Chris.
In the winner's class compartment, Alejandro displays his charm in front of Lindsay, saying that the first class accommodations are what a lady deserves. This immediately makes Lindsay fall for him, and makes Tyler very jealous that Lindsay is paying so much more attention to another guy instead of him. As a result, Tyler attempts to impress Lindsay by trying, and ultimately failing, to do a handspring. Lindsay, however, is unable to remember Tyler's name and instead remembers Alejandro's name, to which Heather is listening attentively. In the cockpit confessional, while Heather appreciates not having to talk in the toilet, she mentions she can see right through Alejandro, but Chef Hatchet interrupts him saying he believes Alejandro is seductive, angering Heather.
Chris then takes everyone to his quarters, where Cody notices there's a grand piano, a wood-burning pizza oven, a four-person hot tub with LED light show and dancing waters. Harold asks how to win those as a reward, but Chris reveals them to be off limits for the contestants, and Sierra continues to compliment Chris by saying, "I heart your limits!"
Anyway, with Beth gone, Linds-iot, and Ale-whatever looking like a real threat, my only strategic option is to make friends with the new girl, but pretending to like that, is gonna be hard. I do not "heart" the new girl.
”
Later, Chris explains the process of the new elimination ceremony, where those who are safe receive a barf bag full of airline-issued peanuts and those who are eliminated must jump off the plane. When Ezekiel says he has a peanut allergy, an annoyed Chris, even more than he was before, throws him out the door and declares him eliminated. However, Ezekiel, off screen, manages to climb back into the plane before it takes off by grabbing onto the landing gear and then he stows away.
While the contestants are talking over things in the lunch cabin, Chris shows up and rings a bell. He tells them that whenever they hear the bell, they must all break into song. Courtney asks Chris what they're supposed to sing, and Chris says they must make up the lyrics and melody as they go along, or else they will be eliminated. The cast are confused as to what to do, but then Courtney starts off a song, which leads everyone to sing the first song of the season, "Come Fly With Us."
After some traveling, the contestants arrive in Egypt where Chris announces the first challenge: "Pyramid Over/Under," where contestants must climb over or go under the Pyramid and reach the finish line. The contestants split into groups. One team is Courtney, Duncan, and Gwen; another is Izzy, Owen, and Noah; another is Alejandro, Bridgette, and Lindsay; another is Leshawna, Harold, and DJ; then Heather, Sierra, and Cody; and Ezekiel and Tyler go off by themselves.
Inside the pyramid, the contestants have three paths that they may enter, each with a different symbol depicted on the top of the door. Leshawna, Harold, and DJ go one way. Along the way through, DJ sees a mummified dog. He feels bad for it and pets it, causing it to disintegrate. This sets off a trap, dropping hundreds of scarabs on top of them. Because of this, they escape the pyramid and are the first to cross. However, this begins the Curse of the Mummified Dog. All three are placed in Team One. Owen, Izzy, and Noah go through the mummy path of the pyramid. Izzy asked to be dressed up as a mummy and eventually gets separated from Noah and Owen. They look around for her and instead find Ezekiel wrapped in mummy bandages as well.
They think it's Izzy, but when Owen tries to kiss him, Noah realizes that it isn't and, mistaking him for an actual mummy, they both run away in terror. Meanwhile, outside the pyramid, Lindsay, Alejandro and Bridgette reach the top of the pyramid, and wonder how to get down. Bridgette reminds Lindsay and Alejandro that she is a surfer, and that they can surf down, taking a post that is already there. Tyler reaches the top, trying to get Lindsay to notice him, and says that he can surf too, before Bridgette accidentally hits him with the post, knocking him back down. Meanwhile Leshawna, Harold, and DJ are the first ones to cross the finish line and the three of them are placed on team one. Back in the pyramid, Noah finds Ezekiel in Mummy form thinking it was Izzy, Owen tried to kiss Ezekiel. Noah noticed that it wasn’t Izzy and mistakenly believed that it was a real Mummy insted of Ezekiel a which caused him and Owen to run. Meanwhile outside the pyramid, Alejandro, Bridgette and Lindsay surf to the bottom of the pyramid. Alejandro lets the girls go first and they are both placed on Team One. Alejandro and Tyler then cross the finish line and are placed on Team Two. Noah and Owen cross soon after. When Alejandro sees who's in his team, he pretends to be happy with it, but bursts into a Spanish rant in the bathroom confessional.
In the pyramid, Sierra accidentally sets off a trap and nearly kills Heather, who pretends to be okay with it in order to make Sierra like her. Then, Sierra, Heather and Cody exit the pyramid. Sierra is put as the last member for Team Two, while Cody and Heather become the first of Team Three.
Meanwhile, on the top of the pyramid Gwen and Courtney argue over how to go down the side while Duncan becomes aggravated. When Chris rings the song bell and tells Duncan he has to sing a reprise about his feelings, an enraged Duncan runs down the side of the pyramid, dragging Courtney and Gwen with him. He tells Chris that he refuses to sing and Chris reminds him that if he doesn't sing he will be disqualified. Furious, Duncan quits the show and walks away, being the first one eliminated. Much to the surprise and shock of both Courtney and Gwen. Cody gives Gwen a hand and welcomes her as a teammate.
Girls on the rebound are the best! They cry and then you get to buy them a pop and listen and then, well, they still won't go out with you, but you get to buy them a pop!
”
After Izzy and Ezekiel arrive, Chris puts Izzy on Team Three and after non-stop begging from Ezekiel to return to the competition, Chris puts him on Team One, due to being one contestant short due to Duncan's quitting. Chris gets annoyed by Harold because he insists upon saying the team numbers in Egyptian. Chris then tells the chosen teams to pick a team name for their respective teams and they have three minutes to do so, while he finishes an ice-cream cone.
Then, Chris gives Team Amazon a camel, Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot a goat, and Team Victory a stick. Leshawna questions why the team that made it past the finish line last got the better reward and the team that made it past the finish line first got the worst reward, but Chris tells her that he will explain it in the next episode, but only if he feels like it. After this, he signs off the episode.
Since the episode Phobia Factor in Total Drama Island, Owen and Izzy shared the fear of flying (in a plane specifically), aerophobia. This episode proves that since then, Owen has not gotten over that fear, but Izzy has, seeing as she was actually eager to fly in a plane again.
The various groups that were formed in this episode, as well as whether or not they chose to go over or under the pyramid, what order they arrived in, and what teams they were placed on are:
Tyler (Over, Team Two), who was trying to be with Alejandro, Bridgette and Lindsay, but due to several mishaps, he fell too far behind to be with them, but still arrived shortly after them.
Izzy (Team Three), who originally was with Owen and Noah, but ended up with Ezekiel (who was eventually allowed by Chris to join Team One, due to Duncan quitting), both going Under.
The majority of these groups, as well as most of the contestants overall, went "Under" the pyramid.
Izzy was the only contestant who started with one group and left with another.
Duncan quits the show in this episode making him the second to do so overall in the overall series, although he returns in "I See London..."
This is the first time in the Total Drama series that a contestant is eliminated in the very first episode of the season, as the other two were either an introductory episode or a reward challenge.
This is the only time it happens in a 26-episode season.
In the scene with Harold, Leshawna, and DJ in front of the mummified animals, the animals' eyes can be seen following the contestants to whoever is talking.
When the contestants get off the bus, the boys have blue backpacks while the girls have red.
This is the first episode of the series where Bridgette shows off her surfing skills.
This marks the first time in the series where Owen, Lindsay, and Gwen do not use the confessional during the first episode of the season.
Owen is the only contestant who doesn't sing during the musical number, but Chris does not eliminate him regardless.
This is possibly because he was knocked out with a frying pan, thus making him unable to sing during the song.
Continuity
This episode, along with its successor, is the second two-part episode in the franchise.
The first is "Not So Happy Campers," parts 1 and 2 (Island)
This is the second time a contestant is eliminated without ever having been placed on a team in a season, although Duncan is later placed on a team after his return.
Not counting Leshawna, the only other contestants who use the confessional in this episode are Alejandro, Cody, and Heather. They would later make up the final three of this season.
All the confessionals were made before any teams were formed; therefore, there is no team emblem shown.
When the contestants are in the pyramid, Noah says, "Our friendly neighborhood host dude forgot to mention there were different paths," which is possibly a reference to the Marvel's superhero Spider-Man.
The booby trap that Sierra accidentally set off could be considered a reference to a similar booby trap seen in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
This is the third episode to reference an Indiana Jones film. The others are:
When Izzy is all bandaged up and chasing the girls, she mentions she's "Frankenstein's bride" which may be a reference to the horror film Bride of Frankenstein.
Goofs
On lower definition television, Courtney's legs seem to leave her body for a hundredth of a second during her solo in the musical number.
When the contestants are finishing the pyramid challenge and Harold is saying the numbers of the teams, he says he is speaking Ancient Egyptian, when he is actually speaking in Arabic.
On the human pyramid in the theme song, the wind is shown blowing two ways.
Twice, Ezekiel is seen with the other contestants when he was supposed to still be in the cargo hold.
The first time was before they all begin to sing and right after he was thrown out, when all of the contestants are sitting in the cafeteria; he was clearly seen at one of the tables with them.
He was also seen before the pyramid challenge, as Chris is carried up to the cast outside the Jet. Among the contestants seen in the shot, Ezekiel is one of them. But when he runs up to Chris at the starting line, Chris asks how he caught up with them.
When Izzy jumps on Ezekiel's shoulders, he is missing his goatee.
When Chris grabs Ezekiel to throw him out of the Total Drama Jumbo Jet, Ezekiel's jacket is a lighter shade of green than usual.
After Izzy carries Ezekiel out of the pyramid, he is able to jump from her arms, pull his arm out, and pull the bandages off. However, when Owen mistakes him for Izzy inside the pyramid, Ezekiel can't move at all despite trying hard to do so.
When Ezekiel first discovers the "intercom," it is more prominent and clearly visible with its noticeably dark color against the lighter, sand-color type wall behind it. However, after Ezekiel presses it, and the next shot shows him covered in gauze, the button is gone.
Although it looks like it was only covered up by a slide, to block any voices.
When Izzy gets off the bus, she doesn't have a backpack. But when she is standing in a group with all of the other contestants, she does.
Ezekiel's hair goes through his neck when he said he'll never sit in the losers' compartment.
In the dining area, when Chris shows it to the contestants, at first there is only one table, but later on, another table seems to appear.
In the shot where Tyler is hit in the face by the pole Bridgette lifts up, he is wearing a backpack. However, he is not seen wearing a backpack either before or after this moment during the challenge.
When Duncan harmonizes "This sucks," his nose ring disappears.
In the scene where Leshawna is talking to DJ about the mummy dog, Harold's face changes for a split second
Chris mentioned that Sierra had 16 Total Drama blogs, but in the "Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Action Reunion Special," Sierra says that she has blogs for every single contestant, which would make the number of blogs 22. Sierra also has multiple blogs for Cody, and possibly some other contestants.
In this episode, Chef is heard complaining about Chris being an idiot because of coming up with the idea of musical numbers for the season. However, in the previous episode, it was seen that Chef was the one that brought up the musical idea.
On several instances, it appears that the events of the previous episode never happened, as the contestants' reactions and interactions with the new contestants seem to imply this.
When Sierra first approaches Cody, she says that it's her first time meeting Cody. However, she already met him and even directly spoke to him on several occasions in the special.
Several of thegirls' reactions to Alejandro directly contradict their rather bitter feelings towards him in the special due to him attempting to replace them.
In the scene where everyone finds out that they have to sing in each episode and are in the plane, when Duncan threatens Harold about beatboxing, Izzy and Noah suddenly disappear, then reappear in the next scene.
When Team Amazon creates their team name, Courtney accidentally kicks Cody in the groin, causing him to fall to his knees in pain. In a later shot of Team Amazon staring in shock at the camel they won, Cody is standing up again. However, in the final shot of the episode of the entire cast (except for Duncan), Cody is on the ground once again.
In the first shot of the Total Drama Jumbo Jet pulling up next to the cast, the row of windows is seen to be below the wing where the multiple engines are. However, during the musical number, Noah is looking out a window while singing, and one of the engines is level with the window he is looking out of.
When Courtney first asks Chris what they're supposed to sing, Izzy is sitting on her right. However, when the musical number actually starts, she is sitting on Courtney's left. Similarly, Tyler was sitting on DJ's right before the number started, but was on his left when the number started.
The first time Duncan, Courtney, and Gwen are shown on the pyramid's peak, Gwen is tied between Duncan and Courtney. However, as Duncan runs down the pyramid, he is the one in the middle.
Also, when the camera goes in closer on the trio, Duncan is lacking one of his earrings, despite having both in the wide shots.
When Leshawna is complaining about the prize that her team won, Harold is missing his tinfoil hat.
If one pauses just right during the shot of Bridgette, Lindsay, and Alejandro surfing down the pyramid, it can be seen that Bridgette has a scared look on her face as they are sliding. However, she can clearly be heard cheering as if she was having fun.
When Chris ends his tour of the plane, and the contestants are listening, Courtney's eyeballs are strangely looking two different ways.
When Alejandro reaches his hands down to Bridgette and Lindsay from the pyramid, his bracelets disappear.
While watching Tyler fall down the pyramid, Alejandro's bracelets switched wrists.
While talking to Lindsay for the first time, both of Alejandro's bracelets have black stripes.
As he was swearing in the confessional, Alejandro's bracelets briefly switched wrists.
Heather and Duncan are missing in the group shot before the challenge, as Chris is carried up to the cast outside the Jet.
When Chris is showing everyone the elimination ceremony room, Duncan is not present.
After Duncan tells Chris he quits and walks away, his nose ring and one of his earrings are missing.
Heather is missing when Ezekiel tells everyone that he's stronger than before.
When Tyler gets hit by the goat when Chris presents the rewards, Sierra is missing from the group, despite reappearing right next to Owen when Chris signs off.
Gallery
Chris explains the new season's rules to the audience before the cast arrives.
Duncan and Courtney arrive at the airport.
Gwen bumps into Heather upon arriving, continuing their conflict.
Gwen then says that she does not want to sit near Heather's pony hair ponytail.
Chris introduces Leshawna.
Lindsay blows a kiss, as she gets out of the bus.
DJ attempts to help Owen with his aerophobia by preventing him from moving.
Harold arrives and explains aerophobia to the others.
Noah arrives, having been forced to listen to Harold's speech.
Cody arrives with a smile.
Ezekiel is back and proclaims that he will be this season's winner.
Izzy randomly jumps on top of Ezekiel's shoulders which causes them to fall.