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The two teams are put to the ultimate tests in trust, pitting together mortal enemies and potential relationships. One camper relies on a close friend to take care of his pet, but the friend fails to complete his duties. However, thanks to an unexpected favor from an unexpected camper, the pet is fine — as far as they know. The losing team eliminates its weakest link after a convincing argument, though the eliminated contestant finds the "sweet" in bittersweet.

Plot[]

The episode begins with the campers having breakfast in the main lodge, where Chef serves them leftovers from the last challenge. Heather is still showing the effects of being locked in the freezer during the previous challenge, and she blames Gwen for what happened to her. Duncan steals one of the cups in the main lodge, prompting Courtney to lecture him, leading Duncan to believe that she likes him, which Courtney denies. Later, the teams gather at the dock and Chris tells the campers that this week's challenge is about building trust.

TDI Gwen
Gwen
I trusted Trent once. He left me buried alive on the beach.

Chris claims that there will be three challenges, with duos from each team chosen by him to participate. The first challenge is a freehand climb up a cliff face, with DJ and Duncan for the Bass and Heather and Gwen for the Gophers.

Chris outfits them with climbing gear and explains that one person climbs while the other manages the slack. The climbers would have to deal with rusted nails, oil slicks, mild bombs, and whatever surprises they might encounter. Gwen and DJ wear their climbing gear, with Gwen concerned about the presence of a second rope attached to her, which Heather tells her is a backup line. During the challenge, DJ takes his bunny out of his pocket and hands it to Geoff. Gwen openly expresses her contempt for Heather.

TDI Heather
Heather
It's all her fault for messing with me. I have got a doctorate in revenge and humiliation.


GwenSkirtLoss

Gwen wins the first part of the challenge, but Heather takes off her skirt.

During the climb, Gwen falls back after an explosion, but quickly gets back up and continues climbing. Moments later, Chris sprays Heather with hot sauce and she lets go of the rope to rub it out of her eyes, causing Gwen to fall to the ground. Duncan is also sprayed by Chris, but to no avail, as Duncan is wearing sunglasses — to cover his eyes — and opens his mouth to swallow the hot sauce. As Gwen rejoins the climb, Heather pulls on the second rope attached to Gwen and the skirt covering her rear is ripped off as she passes in front of DJ, much to her shock and embarrassment. As DJ removes the torn skirt from his face, he notices Gwen's panties and is embarrassed. Despite the embarrassment, Gwen continues, but DJ slips and manages to pull Duncan up by acting as a counterweight, leaving DJ and Duncan suspended in mid-air. Gwen hits the top and wins the challenge for the Gophers moments later, before remembering that she's already overexposed on TV and covering herself with her torn skirt in embarrassment.

The next challenge, which Chris describes as an "Extreme Cooking Challenge", takes place in the dining hall. Bridgette and Lindsay are assigned to their respective teams as cooks.

TDI Trent
Trent
Okay, she's no Stephen Hawking, but hey, it's cooking. How bad could she screw it up?


TrentFreakOut

Trent is poisoned by the dish due to Lindsay's lack of attention to detail.

Geoff and Trent will be eating a meal of fugu blowfish, a poisonous Japanese blowfish, prepared by the cooks. Trent is concerned when he learns this and asks Lindsay if she has taken biology. She later clarifies that she was asked if she had taken biology, not if she had passed it. Geoff takes a bite and is fine. Trent bites into Lindsay's plate, hits himself in the face, screams, laughs, then turns pale, collapses to the floor and vomits. According to Chris, Trent will be fine in twenty-four hours, and Chef administers C.P.R. as a precaution.

Geoff and Bridgette plan to go swimming in the lake a short time later. Before jumping into the water, Geoff takes a moment to secure Bunny in a "safe" place. Meanwhile, in the first aid tent, Chef gives Trent a shot for his food poisoning. Back at the dock, Geoff and Bridgette are drying off after their swim when they see Bunny being swallowed by a giant snake, which is then caught by an eagle, which is then swallowed by a freshwater shark.

Sadietell

Sadie about to shoot during the blind William Tell challenge.

Later, Chris tells the teams that the final challenge will have three blind challenges: the blind William Tell, the blind trapeze, and the blind toboggan race. For the blind William Tell portion, Chris explains that one team member will be blindfolded and will shoot crab apples at an arrow on another team member's head, with the first team member to hit the arrow, and causes the least amount of damage on their partner, wins. After "demonstrating" on DJ, he picks Leshawna and Owen, and Courtney and Sadie to compete (the latter substituting for Harold who is allergic to apples). While Courtney and Owen wear arrows on their heads and Sadie and Leshawna fire apples at them, Geoff goes off to find DJ's bunny, presumably. Both shooters continuously fail at first, but Leshawna finally prevails by knocking Owen's arrow off his head. Sadie, on the other hand, is stubborn and continues to shoot wildly even though Chris tells her the challenge is over. Sadie hits Courtney, the bear, the seagull, and somehow hits the Sasquatchanakwa. It takes Chris to shake her for Sadie to end her random shooting. Courtney vows to make Sadie pay for her irresponsibility before collapsing unconscious on the ground.

Chris explains that for the trapeze portion, the trapeze is set up over a pond full of electric jellyfish. One team member must jump into the arms of another team member who is spinning on the trapeze while blindfolded. They could end up in the pond if they miss. DJ asks Geoff where his bunny is before the challenge begins, and Geoff tells him that the bunny has ran away, which makes DJ depressed. Duncan is then seen walking off somewhere. For the Killer Bass, Bridgette is reluctant to jump while Harold is on the trapeze, but he convinces her to do it, and she makes it to the other side. Heather then prepares to jump blindfolded to Lindsay, who is on the trapeze, but Lindsay misjudges where Heather can jump, and Heather lands in the pond. Chris declares the Killer Bass the winners of the segment.

TDI Gwen
Gwen
(Sigh) Sometimes the universe just gives you a freebie! (thumbs up)

In the infirmary, Heather enters with a jellyfish still on her head, grumbling about the previous challenge, when Courtney wakes up and wonders where she is, to which Heather replies, "You're in the infirmary". Heather then asks Chef if he has anything for extracting jellyfish when they sting her, to which Chef nods and Heather gives him a thumbs up. Courtney then sees Duncan luring a bunny with a carrot and reveals where he went after hearing about Bunny.

Djandgeoff

DJ and a frightened Geoff at the toboggan race.

Chris explains that each team will have a blindfolded driver and navigator who will yell instructions during the blind toboggan race. DJ and Geoff will compete for the Bass, although DJ is still depressed; Gwen and Leshawna for the Gophers. The teams begin their descent down a steep hill. Gwen gives Leshawna an excellent lead, but Geoff does not do the same for DJ. Leshawna and Gwen, on the other hand, hit water about halfway down. At one point, Geoff points out that Duncan has found Bunny (the one he was luring earlier), so DJ briefly removes his blindfold to see Bunny. Back to normal, DJ steers his team past explosions to win the race, but Chris points out that DJ removed his blindfold, which is against the main rule, and the Gophers win the overall challenge as a result. Later, Courtney asks Duncan about his good deed. He denies it at first, but later confesses. She promises not to tell anyone.

TDI Duncan
Duncan
I'm not nice, okay? Just to set the record straight.
TDI Courtney
Courtney
When I say someone's going down, they go down!
Boat of loseeeeeeers

Katie and Sadie reunited after Sadie's elimination.

At the elimination ceremony, the Killer Bass wait for the marshmallows, which are given to Duncan, Bridgette, Courtney, DJ, and Geoff. After a long beat, with some impatience from Courtney, Harold gets the last marshmallow, leaving Sadie as the eliminated camper, just as Courtney predicted. Sadie accuses the other campers of being a bunch of "marshmallow-eating freaks" and tears her way to the Boat of Losers. She's upset because not only did she want to win for herself, but also because Katie told her to. Sadie's sadness disappears as she walks and sees her best friend waiting for her on the Boat of Losers. Sadie jumps on the boat, hugs Katie, and squeals as the Boat of Losers takes them both away.

Cast[]

Voice actor Role(s)
Christian Potenza Chris
Kristin Fairlie Bridgette
Clé Bennett Chef Hatchet/DJ
Emilie-Claire Barlow Courtney
Drew Nelson Duncan
Dan Petronijevic Geoff
Megan Fahlenbock Gwen
Brian Froud Harold
Rachel Wilson Heather
Stephanie Anne Mills Katie/Lindsay
Novie Edwards Leshawna
Lauren Lipson Sadie
Scott McCord Owen/Trent

Elimination Ceremony[]

Elimination Ceremony 10:
Killer Bass
Status Contestant
Safe TDI DuncanTDI Bridgette
TDI CourtneyTDI DJTDI Geoff
Duncan, Bridgette, Courtney, DJ, Geoff
Low TDI Harold
Harold
Out TDI Sadie
Sadie

Still in the running[]

 Ezekiel
22nd
TDI Ezekiel bw
 Eva
21st
TDI Eva bw
 Noah
20th
TDI Noah bw
 Justin
19th
TDI Justin bw
 Katie
18th
TDI Katie bw
 Tyler
17th
TDI Tyler bw
 Izzy
16th
TDI Izzy bw
 Cody
15th
TDI Cody bw
 Beth
14th
TDI Beth bw
 Sadie
13th
TDI Sadie bw
 DJ
TDI Killer Bass
TDI DJ
TDI Duncan
TDI Geoff
TDI Gwen
TDI Harold
TDI Owen
TDI Trent

Trivia[]

General[]

  • In the scene where Sasquatchanakwa is watching TV, the show's theme song can be heard coming from it.
  • Everyone who participated in the first challenge (DJ, Gwen, Heather, and Duncan) was placed on the Screaming Gaffers during the Total Drama Action.
  • With Sadie's elimination, all of the remaining contestants (not counting the return of Izzy and Eva) compete in Total Drama Action.
  • Bridgette, Gwen, and Leshawna are the only campers to have participated in two challenges and won both.
  • Lindsay and DJ are the only campers to have participated in two challenges and lost both times.
  • This is the only episode of the entire season in which the Killer Bass have more members than the Screaming Gophers.
  • This episode breaks the male/female elimination pattern that started with Justin and ended with Beth.

Continuity[]

  • At the beginning of this episode, Heather has a cold from the events of last episode when she was locked in the freezer.
  • Gwen mentions that she is still upset about Trent leaving her buried alive in Phobia Factor.
  • Katie is the first person voted off to appear in a subsequent episode, as she was on the boat when Sadie was voted off.
  • This episode continues the previous episode's running gag in which Trent is incapacitated during the challenge, putting him out of action for most of the episode.
  • Duncan's sweet side is shown for the first time in this episode.
  • Chris' stunt double in this episode is the same intern who played the pizza guy in an earlier episode.

References[]

  • The title may be a reference to a line spoken by Jack Nicholson as the Joker in the 1989 film adaptation of Batman when he said, "Who do you trust?"
  • This is the second time a real person has been referenced in the show, the person being theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, who is mentioned by Trent while describing Lindsay's lack of intelligence.
    • The first time a real person is mentioned is in Phobia Factor, where Céline Dion is mentioned throughout the episode as Duncan's fear.
  • The three blind challenges are a parody of the story The Three Blind Mice.
  • Geoff's line "Watch out for the tree!" could be a reference to the famous line "Watch out for that tree!" from George of the Jungle.
  • When the climbing equipment is thrown, Gwen says to Heather, "What's your damage?" This is a reference to the 1989 movie Heathers, in which Veronica repeatedly says, "What's your damage, Heather?"

Goofs[]

  • At the beginning of the episode, Heather has a cold from being locked in the freezer. However, after this scene, as well as the final moments of the previous episode, she was fine.
  • Duncan is seen getting coffee from a coffee maker in the mess hall; however, the coffee maker never appears again in the show, even when the campers on screen are where it would be.
  • Heather accuses Gwen of giving her a cold despite the fact that she was trapped in the freezer by Leshawna, Beth and Lindsay.
    • However, Leshawna was sitting right next to Gwen in that scene.
  • Courtney argues that her team is down a player when, in fact, they are up a player.
  • Courtney, Heather, and Trent are all seen in the medical tent. However, in Paintball Deer Hunter, Chris said that the tent could only hold one person at a time.
  • Harold was not originally seen during the Killer Bass' elimination ceremony, but he is later seen getting the last marshmallow.
    • This shot appears to have been altered in the DVD and iTunes releases, as Harold is at the campfire for the entire ceremony.
  • Chris explains that there is no antidote to the poison during the Fugu Sashimi challenge. When Trent is poisoned, Chef administers a shot, and Chris claims that the poison will wear off in 24 hours.
  • For the "Blind William Tell" challenge, Chris chooses Courtney and Sadie to represent the Killer Bass, but Harold immediately brings up his allergy to apples as if he were the one chosen instead of Sadie.
  • Chris says that the winner of the "Blind William Tell" challenge is the person who knocks the arrow off with the least amount of "facial damage" to their teammate. However, the challenge seems to be won by whoever knocks the arrow off first.
  • Bridgette's nose is missing just before she jumps for the Blind Trapeze challenge.
  • At the elimination ceremony, Courtney is seen taking a small bite of her marshmallow. After Sadie is eliminated and gets up, Courtney is seen without a marshmallow. However, she is seen eating the rest of it right after.
  • Bridgette is not present when Chris explains the rules for the "The Blind Toboggan Race" challenge.
  • When Heather is shown walking to the medical tent, her hair appears to be in a ponytail.

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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