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Alright, now I know some people don't live in Canada, and thus can't watch TDA on TV, or on Teletoon.com, so here I am, ready and willing to provide spoilers to those who want to read them.

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Highlight for Episode 1 Spoilers:

Title: Monster Cash.

The fourteen ex-campers are dropped off at a dilapidated film lot. They include Gwen, Duncan, Trent, Owen, Leshawna, Heather, Izzy (Who now goes by Kaleidoscope), DJ, Beth, Justin, Lindsay, Harold, Bridgette, and Geoff.

Heather and Gwen still don't get along. Harold is still pining for Leshawna. Bridgette and Geoff are still making out constantly. Trent and Gwen are dating. Owen is still gassy. Izzy's still insane. Justin speaks. Beth got her braces off.

This season's challenges will be based on movie genres. This episode's genre? The Monster Movie. The contestants are instructed to make their way to the cast trailers, while being pursued by an animatronic godzilla-esque monster, operated by Chef Hatchet.

And so the challenge begins, and is quickly over. All the contestants get captured but one: Owen. He's too heavy for the monster to pick up. xd
He makes his way to the cast trailers, but it takes him all night to walk there. The monster also squashes one of the trailers.

And so, the next morning, the contestants are presented with another challenge. A huge buffet of delicious-looking food is laid out before them, but before Chris can explain the challenge, Owen has scarfed it all down.

As it turns out, it wasn't an eating contest. In fact, the food wasn't even real. It was made of foam, silicone, wax, etc. The real challenge was to find a key hidden in the food. Owen burps, and out comes the key. Owen has won yet another challenge.

And as the winner, Owen and the boys get first pick of the trailers. Oddly enough, Owen picks the squashed one. The girls are thrilled, until the monster comes back and squashes theirs too.



Highlight for Episode 2 Spoilers:

Title: Alien Resurr-Eggtion

The next episode begins with breakfast. Pancakes, eggs, and burnt toast. But none of it for Owen. His 'plumbing' is still 'backed-up' from eating the fake food.

Today's movie genre? Aliens. Chris enters the Kraft Services tent to tell everyone about the challenge: They must find and bring back an alien egg before the Mama Alien (Chef) catches them.

Gwen and Duncan bond over their love and knowledge of alien movies. Something that Gwen and Trent do not share.

Gwen even has a necklace from one of her favourite alien movies. She calls it her lucky charm.

The challenge begins, and the contestants aren't doing so great. Everyone's completely lost. So apparently, the thing to do when you're lost is split up. rolleyes They separate into three groups. Geoff and Bridgette make to join Duncan's team, but he leaves them behind because all they do is make out. So they join Owen's team instead.

Group 1 (Izzy, Owen, Harold, Geoff, Bridgette, and Heather) is doing fairly well, but Chef sneaks up behind them with a paintbull gun, and Harold becomes his first victim. Owen, whose 'plumbing' has suddenly become 'unclogged' begs to be shot next. Chef complies, and Owen runs to the bathroom. Izzy makes a stand against Chef, only to be tagged out, as Heather runs away. Bridgette and Geoff, too busy making out to notice what's going on, are shot out next.

Chef eventually finds Heather and tags her, and she loses her wig through a grate in the floor.

Group 2 (Lindsay, Justin, Leshawna, and Beth) are completely lost. They walk straight into a trap room, where they get slimed. But even covered in slime, Justin's still hot.

Group 3 (Duncan, DJ, Gwen, and Trent) manage to find the Boiler Room, and find the alien eggs without getting caught. Or so they think. Chef catches them and DJ is tagged out.

The three remaining contestants, Gwen, Duncan, and Trent, make for home base with their eggs, only to be stopped by Chris, who, apparently feeling the challenge is not difficult enough, says he can't let them take the eggs. He proceeds to drop a slime bomb on them. Duncan is tagged out. Gwen and Trent still remain. But their eggs are missing.

Trent sees one egg, balanced on the end of a board, about to fall. At the same time, Gwen's precious necklace, is slowly slipping through a grate. Trent is torn. He eventually makes his decision, and grabs Gwen's necklace, letting the egg fall and break. Gwen is touched, so she gives her necklace to Trent.

His new lucky charm in hand, Trent spots the other two uncracked eggs, and he and Gwen run off to home base, and win the challenge.

Their reward: Now they get to pick the teams in this challenge, which means they'll be playing against each other this season.

And Chris, deciding he likes the number two, says that two people will be voted out tonight.

First contestants voted out: Geoff and Bridgette.


Highlight for Episode 3 Spoilers:

Title: Riot on Set

Yet again, Chris wakes the contestants in the middle of the night, and tells them that today, he is going to teach them how tough on-set production can be.
To begin, Gwen and Trent must choose their teams, but they promise each other not to get all competitive and nasty.

Gwen's first choice is Duncan, much to Trent's horror. So, as retaliation he chooses "The BEAUTIFUL Lindsay". Yes. he actually says that, and this time, Gwen is shocked.

The teams:

Gwen: Duncan, DJ, Leshawna, Harold, and Heather (Yes, Heather. 'Keep your enemies closer', and all that jazz.)

Trent: Lindsay, Justin, Beth, Owen, and Escope.

The team names:
Gwen's: The Screaming Gaffers.
Trent's: The Killer Grips

The Challenge: Each team must set up a film set. On top of a giant (Fake) hill.

The teams haul lights, cords, and everything else up the hills, and are neck and neck. Now all they both need to do is haul up the trailers.

Trent tells Owen that there's catering at the top of the hill, so he grabs the trailer, using his belt, and starts running. Unfortunately, his pants fall down.

Meanwhile, on the screaming gaffers, DJ is reluctant to haul the trailer up, lest it slip off the back and hurt someone.

So the Grips get to the top of the hill first, and start cheering about their win. Of course, it turns out, they haven't won yet. Now they have to make a movie. A tearjerker, in fact. About an elderly lady.

And since the gaffers didn't get their trailer up the hill, they have to make theirs without makeup, etc. Their movie is about a thug, trying to avoid the allure of the streets.

Escope insists on being the old lady, because apparently she's the reincarnation of her granny Mavis.

The Gaffers insist that Duncan play the tough guy in their movie, since Harold is 'as tough as butter'. And Chef pokes fun at DJ for being sensitive, which makes him cry.

The goal of the challenge is to get Chef to show any kind of emotion.

And so it begins, but the teams are off to a rocky start. Maybe filmmaking's not as easy as they thought. rolleyes Izzy's legs fall asleep because she's been standing for so long, Lindsay doesn't know what colour tape to use for the marks, Gwen calls Duncan hot to remedy Leshawna calling him a pretty boy, and Heather gets tangled in a spotlight. Harold helps her down. "Anything for milady", he says. eek

Time for the final hair and makeup. DJ rushes in with a makeup bag, and states that the light is just appalling, and asks Duncan to 'tilt his pretty chin up'. Apparently his mom always told him he was always good at applying her church makeup. And Chef has had enough. He drags DJ off the set and states that he has to toughen DJ up. He states in the confessional cam that he sees a bit of himself in DJ (Which is funny, considering they're voiced by the same person. xd ). He makes a deal with DJ: He'll help him man up and win this thing, and DJ splits the prize money with him. It's an offer he can't refuse.....because Chef won't let him.

So the filming begins....but as it turns out, the scripts got switched. Duncan, the slick gangster, starts reminiscing about his days as a young school girl in Poland, and Granny Escope tells someone that they'll be sleeping with the fishes...and then proceeds to talk about how fish have no eyelids, but she can flip hers. "Wanna see?"

Surprisingly, Duncan evokes some tears in Chef, Chris, and the rest of the cast, when talking about how much he misses his pet goat. And the Screaming Gaffers win the challenge!

The challenge over, Gwen and Trent make up, and Trent and the rest of the Killer Grips go to vote someone off.

Next person voted off :Izzy. Kaleidoscope.

As she's driving away in the Lame-O-Sine, she claims that "This was just a dress rehearsal", and that we'll see her again.

And perhaps we will. Who knows?

Highlight for episode 4 Spoilers:

Episode 4: Beach Blanket Bogus

The morning begins with Lindsay and Beth fawning over Justin, bringing him Bacon and "Fakon" (Fake bacon) for breakfast.

Duncan plays a prank on Trent involving the salt and pepper shakers, and Gwen is not amused.

Chris jives into the Kraft Services tent and announces that the cast members are going back to the beach. A 1950's teen beach movie-inspired challenge. Chef gives DJ a tip on the sandcastle challenge.

So the cast members grab their bathing suits and head to the 'beach', which is inside. Where the AC is cranked up. So it's freezing.

The first challenge: Stay on the surfboard the longest.

The team to win the challenge gets a half-hour start on the next one. Lindsay is not paying attention, as she's trying to squeeze out some tanner, which shoots into the air, freezes, and stabs Harold in the butt. Chris assumes Harold is volunteering to be first, and drags him up to the board.

And who should return but our favourite fish? The man-eating freshwater sharks. biggrin Harold, being terrified for his buttocks, quits immediately.

Trent, apparently feeling jinxed, is offered a friendship bracelet from Beth, which he proceeds to tap on his head nine times. At this point, his teammates are starting to realize just how weird he is.

And so the rest of the contestants try to show off their skills on the board. And most of them don't last ten seconds.

Justin, however, like in season 1, shows off his killer abs, and the sharks fawn over him. But Chris shoots seagulls at him, and he falls off the board, into the water.
One of the sharks proceeds to give him mouth-to-mouth.

Duncan is up next, and he manages to get past everything Chris (literally) throws at him, winning the challenge for the Screaming Gaffers.

For the next challenge, Chris actually takes the cast members back to Total Drama Island, where they are presented with a sandcastle building contest.

So Harold is pretty much owning in the sandcastle competition, and Gwen and Duncan have snuck off to dismantle the bus, because they prefer TDI's cabins to the cast trailers, apparently.

The Killer Grips begin on the challenge, and Trent takes the lead. Unfortunately, his obsession with making nine of everything (Buttresses, moats, flags, etc.) ends up knocking down their castle.

Beth makes an observation about the challenge: It's not a sandcastle building contest; it's a PROP sandcastle building contest, so anything goes. They end up making a castle out of magazine-hairspray paper maché, and friendship bracelets, which ends up winning the challenge after a flock of seagulls knock down the Screaming Gaffers'.

So now they need a tiebreaker. First, they need to gather wood.

When Gwen sees Trent carrying exactly nine pieces of wood, she decides this whole nines thing is just way too weird, and she runs off.

And now for the tiebreaker: A dance-off. The teams pick their best dancers, so it's Leshawna vs Trent.

Despite her apparent nickname back home (Le-Shakin' It), Leshawna's moves suck.

Trent is doing well, but he knows how much Gwen likes to win, so he purposely moonwalks over a twig and hurts himself.

Gwen thinks that Trent has injured himself because he's lost the will to go on in a world where his girlfriend thinks he's weird.

Due to Trent's injury, the Screaming Gaffers win by default. Their reward? A beach party.

Gwen and Trent sneak away for a bit of alone-time, and Gwen comes to terms with Trent's occasional weirdness.

The Gaffers party it up, and the Grips are forced to wait on the beach until the bus is fixed. Justin thanks Beth for winning the sandcastle contest, and remarks that she's given friendship bracelets to everyone on the team but him, so she forks over her own bracelet.

And it's such a sweet moment. Too bad Justin reveals in the confessional cam that it's all just a ploy to get Beth in an alliance with him, and help him win.

No one voted out this time. biggrin

Highlight for episode 5 Spoilers:

Title: 3:10 to Crazytown.

It's a blazingly hot day on set, and everyone's feeling the heat (Except Gwen, who oddly enough, has a cold.).

This challenge's theme: Western.

Chris instructs the cast members to be on-set at high noon, where he instructs them to 'Saddle Up', on a VERY gassy horse.

But, naturally, it's not as easy as swinging a leg over a horse. They have to climb a HUGE ladder (Think Season 1 cliff dive), and jump onto the horse.

Gwen and her gaffers are selected to go first. Gwen chickens out and goes to climb back down, but a HUGE SNEEZE blows her off the platform, and right onto the horse. Unfortunately, she ends up hurting her arm.

So everyone takes their turn (Except Justin, who has a clause in his 'Gluteus Maximus Modelling' contract that prevents him from it), and the score ends up being 3 to 3, and the team heads for a tie-breaker.

Tie Breaker Challenge: A Quick-Draw Showdown. Trent tries to help Gwen out by selecting Owen as their target, but he drinks all the water for the challenge.

So they move onto the alternate showdown: Cattle-Roping. Grips are the cowboys, Gaffers the cows.

Beth, who applies her baton-twirling skills to roping, is the first to snag a calf: Heather. Justin follows soon after, capturing DJ.

Trent bumps into Gwen during the challenge, and of course, pretends to drop his rope. In the confessional cam, Gwen reveals that she is getting REALLY pissed off by him always throwing challenges like this.

During the challenge, the 'cows' manage to find some ropes of their own, and chase the cowboys, trying to rope them instead. xd Justin wusses out, not wanting to risk injury to any of his gorgeous body parts. And the gaffers, having roped all the grips, win the challenge.

And so, being the losers, the grips need to vote someone off.

In the confessional cam, it is revealed that Duncan, who has been picking on Harold all day, (which, surprisingly angers Leshawna), has been doing so because he is still bitter about Courtney getting kicked off last season.

Gwen meets up with Trent and tells him it isn't working, and that she wants to win the challenge fair and square. She says that it's not right for him to throw the challenges like this. And who should overhear that last bit but Trent's teammate, Justin. He reveals the truth to the rest of his team, and Gwen admits that it's true, and tells them to vote Trent off to prove it.

Person voted off this week: Trent.


Highlight for Episode 6 Spoilers:

Title: The Aftermath: 1

Bridgette and Geoff are hosting a talk show: Total Drama Action Aftermath Show. And it is revealed that Bridgette is a little bitter about being voted off for making out, but agrees with Geoff that having their own show is way more fun. Too bad the losers from TDDDDI aren't having as much fun, apparently. Cody, Noah, Ezekiel, Eva, Katie, Sadie, Courtney and Tyler.

They begin with talking about how sad what happened to Trent is, and then welcome their first guest, Kaleidoscope, who's glad to be here, but ends up turning the questions on Geoff and embarrassing him. xd

And now it's time to play "Truth or Hammer". If Izzy lies, the hammer will whack her. Izzy reveals that Chef tried to get a secret alliance with Izzy, much like he did with DJ, but she refused.

Bridgette and Geoff don't agree with what happened to Trent was unfair, and Geoff ends up accidentally revealing that his team turned on him (Apparently Trent didn't know. xp ). Geoff thinks Gwen was justified in her actions, but Bridgette doesn't, and they end up fighting.

Now Escope is hosting the show while Bridgette and Geoff are feuding, and Trent is in the green room crying his eyes out and playing guitar. The other losers give out their opinions on the Trent-Gwen matter, and they're split right down the middle as far as opinions go too.

Trent finally comes out of the green room to talk about the matter, and remarks how Duncan split them up a little (And Courtney is pissed), and Trent admits that somewhere Trent started to feel like Gwen was more important to him than the money.

And we finally learn where Trent got his lucky number nine from. When he was a kid, his grandfather gave him a toy train. Before he died, one of the wheels fell off, so there was only nine wheels left. His mom told him that nine was now his lucky number. And so now every TDDDDI loser is on his side. xd

Now it's time for "THAT's gonna leave a mark", where they show us the painful moments that got left behind on the cutting room floor. (And it is FUNNY.)

Trent asks if he can sing a song he wrote after he and Gwen broke up. The song reunites Geoff and Bridgette, who immediately start making out. Between kisses, they tell us to stay tuned for more TDA: Aftermath.

Highlight for Episode 7 Spoilers:


Title: The Chefshank Redemption

Another morning on set, and the cast members wake to find they've all been locked in their trailers. The boys desperately need to get out due to Owen's 'Morning Beast' (I.E. the beans from last night) having awoken, and Gwen is freaking out because apparently, she's claustrophobic.
Both teams realize they can get out through the vent on top of the trailer, but it won't be easy.

Gwen reveals in the confession cam that she's been waiting for karma to bite her in the butt after the Trent incident, and it is revealed that Chef is again helping DJ in the challenges. Today's challenge will apparently involve some cooking, and luckily, DJ packed a bottle of his mother's secret flavour blend: "Mama Spice".

So eventually the teams manage to escape their trailers, and Chris tells them that today's theme is Prison Flicks.

Today's first challenge (Or rather "Chow-Lenge smile involves Lindsay and Gwen being locked in a cage and fed disgusting 'food' by the other team. The Grips are assured victory as Gwen has secretly agreed to throw the challenge, but it's going to be tough, considering the last person to puke wins, and Lindsay is apparently VERY vomit-prone.

Gwen's dish is a dish of dead hair, Owen's dandruff, and Beth's retainer, and Lindsay's contains (Among other things) roaches, slimy anchovy paste, and horselips, but DJ adds his own secret ingredient (Mama Spice).

It seems things are going well, as the Mama Spice in Lindsay's dish makes it positively DELICIOUS, but Gwen gags on Beth's retainer, and spits it out, only to have it land in front of Beth, who immediately puts it back in her mouth, prompting Lindsay to hurl, and the Grips to lose the first challenge, and the coveted 'Golden Shovel' to the Gaffers, which will apparently be very useful in the elimination challenge.

The final challenge is 'Escape from Total Drama Penitentiary'. All the team members but one must hop into the laundry carts, while the remaining teammate pushes their team through the obstacle course to freedom. When they reach the wall, they must dig a hole under it, and to the outside world.

Gwen volunteers herself to push the cart, which makes Heather suspicious, but given her history, everyone tells her to shut it.

Justin manages to seduce Lindsay into pushing the cart (And OWEN, keep in mind), and it takes her forever to get even an inch past the starting line. Gwen sees this, and fakes a cramp in her leg to give them an edge. The Grips finally get ahead, and start digging with the spoons they brought, and the Gaffers use the Golden Shovel.

(Also, there is a hilariously awkward scene between Chris and Chef in here. I won't spoil it, but it's pretty funny. xd )

The Grips ease their way through the tunnel, sure that Gwen is going to throw the challenge, and she does. She fakes a claustrophobia attack, freaks out, and breaks the Golden Shovel over Harold's head.

The Gaffers, fully prepared to dig with their bare hands, and surprised to see a fellow castmember return. It's Kaleidoscope (Izzy), who has apparently been living underground amongst the prairie dogs. And she decides to help the Gaffers, by showing them a shortcut. Unfortunately, the Grips have already beaten them to the finish line, and Izzy promptly rushes over and celebrates with them.

As it turns out, when Chris changed the voting result to read 'Kaleidoscope', it made it null and void, so Izzy is still in the game!

But unfortunately, the Gaffers, having lost the challenge, must now vote someone off.

Next person voted off: Gwen, who hopes karma will finally get off her back.

Highlight for Episode 8 Spoilers:


Title: One Flu Over the Cuckoos

Izzy's thrilled to be back on the set, and the Gaffers are upset that Gwen betrayed them. Everybody's upset when it turns out they're all locked out of their trailers, though.

So Chris shows up on a gurney loaded with textbooks. Medical Textbooks. That contain the sum total of knowledge of 8 years of med school. And everyone gets one, because tomorrow morning, apparently they will be playing Doctor. To win this challenge, they will need to memorize the entire contents of their books by morning.

The Grips get started on studying, but they end up doing little more than staring at Justin's pecs, giggling at the word 'anatomy' and snarfing down pizza with no hands.

The Gaffers don't do much better, and some of them even quit before the night is through. They figure that, since it's only a reward challenge, they don't have anything to lose anyway. DJ, meanwhile, has been helping Chef to prepare a special bunch of pizzas for the teams, unaware of what secret ingredients Chef is using.

Leshawna approaches Duncan with an alliance with her and Harold, and he scoffs at the idea.

So it's challenge time. The challenge is called "Visiting Hours", and apparently, only one member of the winning team will get to enjoy the reward.

The challenge is to strap on a bungee cord, dive into a vat of unidentified liquid, pull out a body part, and assemble a giant cadaver, then reanimate it with a bolt of lightning. There are also electric eels in the vat. Three zaps and you're out.

First, of course, the cast members must answer medical-based questions to see who will dive in. The competition goes along quite well, despite the occasional electric eel shock, and the Gaffers manage to pull ahead. Duncan, of course, the ever-dependable a*****e, pantses Harold. Leshawna tells him to lay off, and maybe he'll be the one to get the reward. She tells Harold of her plans to form a three-way alliance, and he is appalled by the idea. (By the way, for those curious viewers, apparently Harold's full name is Harold Norbert Cheever Doris McGrady the fifth).

The Gaffers get the last piece of their cadaver, and start hauling him up to the ceiling, but the Grips aren't far behind. Izzy notices at this moment that Owen has a blotch on his arm, is running a fever, and has lemony burps. Apparently, these are all symptoms of a fatal and highly contagious disease.

The cast members throw Owen in a quarantine bubble, but notice quickly that DJ too has a sore, and quarantine him as well. It soon turns out that everyone has symptoms of the disease, except for Leshawna and Duncan (the only ones that didn't study all night, and the ones who ate no pizza, and the most pizza, respectively).

Being the only ones not incapacitated, Leshawna and Duncan try to raise themselves up onto the roof, using the cadaver board, as a means of escape, Chris having sealed off all the other exits. They believe there must be something in the medical textbooks that their teammates have missed. Duncan runs off to find a book, and Leshawna runs off to the kitchen. She was suspicious of that pizza from the start, and decides to investigate it.

Duncan and Leshawna burst back onto the set, and reveal that the textbooks were fake, but the symptoms were real, including Duncan's new found explosive diarrhea. Leshawna found that the cheese Chef put on the pizza was, in fact, a mix of laxatives and itching powder. The sores on Owen and DJ turned out to be nothing more than pepperoni. xd
The hot flashes, temporary blindness, and speaking in tongues turned out to be 'first-year med school syndrome', in which students spend so much time studying that they eventually believe that they have EVERYTHING.

So Leshawna and Duncan's diagnostic skills win the Screaming Gaffers the challenge, and the reward: a spa night away from the Studio with their very best friend.
Leshawna turns on the fake waterworks, and her teammates nominate her to take the reward with her cousin, Shaniqua.

No one voted off this episode.

Highlight for Episode 9 spoilers:


Title:The Sand Witch Project

The cast members have some downtime, and everybody's using it to play soccer, cards, and just hang out. Beth managed to steal some sandwiches from lunch, and the rest of the cast steals them from her.

DJ, meanwhile is having a flashback to when he made those sandwiches, and it turns out, he's having second thoughts about this whole cheating thing.

The day continues on, and the cast members are beginning to think there won't even be a challenge today. Chris interrupts this happy thought by blaring in over the loudspeaker, telling everyone to meet him on the lot.

They walk over, and it turns out Chris isn't even there. While the cast is bitching about him not even showing up, Chris falls from the sky, and is impaled on a light, covering the cast in blood. Fake blood, of course. Chris is fine. xd

Lindsay commends Beth on not screaming when this happened, but as it turns out, Beth CAN'T scream. A doctor dropped her earring in Beth's throat when they were doing her tonsillectomy several years ago, and now she can't scream at all.

So, the horror movie challenge begins. To decide which team gets which challenge, they will begin with a scream-off. Each team has to pick a 'Serial Killer', and the rest will be the 'Screamers'. If each team's serial killer can make them scream the loudest, they win.

The Gaffers decide on Duncan for their killer, but Chef steps in and insists that DJ do it instead, which makes Leshawna suspicious.

The Grips team is having a little trouble deciding on the killer. Izzy thinks she's the scariest, but Owen thinks she's adorable. Justin wants to be the killer, because the hockey mask will protect his gorgeous face. Lindsay finally steps forward and demands that Beth be the killer, since she can't scream.

So the challenge begins, and first, it's Justin versus Harold. Beth jumps out of the bushes and yells 'Boo' in an attempt to scare Justin, who can't scream loud, because he doesn't want to damage his beautiful voice.

DJ at first doesn't feel he can do this, but Chef gives him a nudge, and Harold's loud scream wins the first round for the Gaffers.

Second is Leshawna and Lindsay, and their challenge takes place in an outhouse. Beth manages to scare a pretty big scream out of Lindsay, and some urine to boot, but DJ bursts in on Leshawna, and is embarassed, considering she's in an outhouse. Leshawna doesn't scream. In fact, she laughs. Chef sees that if DJ won't step up, the other half of the alliance will have to (I.E. Chef).

Third is Owen/Izzy versus Heather/Duncan.
Their part involves doing an actual scene...well, not a very difficult one. They have to make out.
Owen and Izzy have no problem with that, but Heather and Duncan are disgusted by it, but do it anyway, and the sight of each other pressed against their own lips disgusts them so much that they scream before DJ even has a chance to try and scare them. Chef comes in with a chainsaw, as well, and scares Heather, Duncan, AND DJ into screaming (And DJ into fainting).
Beth tries her best to frighten the lovers on her own team, but they're too distracted to scream with any enthusiasm.
So the third round, and the first challenge goes to the Gaffers.

DJ is still passed out when we come back from the commercial break, and he has a dream where he's talking to his mother, who says that her son would NEVER lie or cheat. She slaps him across the face, while Heather is slapping him in the conscious world, waking him up.
He states that he needs to see Chef, and, as it turns out, Chef is at the time being punished by the producers for messing with the challenge. So DJ holds his tongue for the time being.

Being the losers, the Grips must tonight sleep in the Dining Hall, while the Gaffers get to stay in the comfy trailers. Chris keeps the Grips company by telling them the story of why the film lot was abandoned. Apparently a security guard mysteriously died right in the Dining Area, and no one has ever been able to spend a whole night in the Kraft Services tent since. Apparently, it's haunted.

So, they Grips' challenge is to spend the entire night in the tent. If they do, their team wins invincibility. They're also allowed some flashlight and ghost-monitoring equipment.

Chris makes his way over to the Gaffers, and explains their part of the challenge: to scare the crap out of the Grips and make them leave the tent. Do it, and they win invincibility.

Harold is the first to try, with a sheet on a fishing pole (I.E. a 'ghost'). The campers are terrified (I know. WTF?), and they nearly run out of the tent, but Lindsay points out that the ghost meters aren't reading a thing, and reveals that the 'ghost' was fake.

So Duncan decides to take charge, and begins by mixing up some fake blood, and they pour it down one of the walls, terrifying the Grips yet again. Lindsay stops them, and points out that she smells ketchup, and the blood is revealed to be fake.

DJ is pressured into coming up with the next part, and he begins by simply shutting off the lights. Leshawna initiates the next part by moaning ghostily through a megaphone, while Harold lowers Heather, dressed in a security guard costume, from the rafters of the tent.

The Grips bolt out of the tent, except for Lindsay, who yells after them that the meters still aren't going off. DJ flings a fork at the meter, and it begins to beep, which makes Lindsay high-tail it out of there too. So the Gaffers win yet another challenge, and the Grips have to vote someone off.

It all comes down to Lindsay and Justin, but just before Chris announces the loser, DJ barges in, and votes himself off, and reveals that he and Chef had a secret alliance, which shocks everybody. They don't want DJ to leave, but he insists that he make things right.

Sixth Person voted off: DJ.

Highlight for Episode 10 Spoilers:
Title: Masters of Disasters

Another morning on set, and everyone misses DJ, especially his cooking. Beth wishes her boyfriend was here, since he's such a good cook. Everyone is shocked to learn that Beth met a boy between seasons (Those whole two days) at the orthodontist, and she whips out a picture of him. He's a real cutie, which means nobody believes her.

Since everybody's sharing, Harold decides to jump in with a story about his rare kidney disease.

Chris interrupts the discussion with today's theme: Disaster movies. Volcanoes, Tornadoes, Tidal Waves, etc.

Their first challenge is 'The Earthquake of Inevitable Pain'. Each team has to run the course, and the first to the top wins. So the teams are off, running through the tires, pylons, etc. and Chris makes the platform shake, while Chef throws everything (AND the kitchen sink) at the contestants.

And to top it off, the cast members have to deal with lava, hail-sized golfballs (No, that is not backwards), and aftershock after aftershock.

The Gaffers pull ahead, and Owen gets hurt when Chef hits him in the face with his unpublished manifesto (A really REALLY big book).

Apparently, Owen's serious injury allows the Grips to win the challenge, despite the Gaffers being the first to the finish line. He's taken away in an ambulance and has his jaw wired shut.

Well, time for the second (And Owen-less) challenge. Because of Owen's win, the Grips get a piece of paper to help with this one. All it has is a bunch of numbers on it.
The cast members are crammed inside a submarine, and the alarms start blaring. The aim of this challenge: Get out before it's too late.
Water starts pouring in, and it's too dark to see anything. Duncan finds some flashlights for his team, and Beth spots two possible exits, at the same time the Gaffers do.

Both teams try for the floor exit first, and it turns out that it's a combination lock. The Grips have their paper, but they fight over who gets to open it, and drop it in the water, smudging the numbers.

Meanwhile, on the Gaffers side, Harold is using his mad lock-picking skills to open the door, but he can't do it under water.
So the Gaffers try a new strategy: Waiting for water to fill the room so they can float up to the other door, and on the other side, is a wall of fire. Awesome.

The Grips try a similar strategy, only to find a shark on the other side of theirs.

Chris decides that it's time to end the challenge, as the contestants aren't very good swimmers. Chef is sick of the kids, and breaks the water control handle. And then Chris FREAKS out. (It's funny, by the way).

Leshawna does the same, but says that she would never cry, which reveals to her team that she fake-cried to win the reward before. Harold stops Heather from pummeling her with Bendy Straws. He's come up with a plan to make a snorkel. he uses this snorkel to get to the bottom of the room, open the door, and drain the water out of both team's rooms. Winning the Gaffers yet another challenge, and an all-expenses paid trip to a charming lodge on a volcano's edge in British Columbia. Not such a great prize, so the Gaffers opt for some pop and chips instead.

Chris brings Owen back, and says that he can eat with the Gaffers, if he promises not to sue. (And, by eat, I mean suck up chip and pop paste with a straw).

No one voted off this episode.

Highlight for Episode 11 spoilers:

Title: Full Metal Drama

Leshawna's trying to make up for her lying by being extra nice to her teammates. But there's no room for niceness in war, which is the theme of today's challenge.

Both Harold and Duncan are excited about the challenge, but despite this common interest, the two of them are still at odds with one another.


The first challenge involves jumping out of an airplane. Justin bats his eyes at Beth and Lindsay and asks them to jump first, providing him a soft place to land, should the need arise, but they're not buying into it anymore.

Apparently there were no parachutes in World War I, so the contestants are jumping without em.
Izzy jumps without hesitation, and Owen jumps after Chris throws some food out the door. This makes the weight of the plane shift and all the contestants go flying out the door.

As it turns out, the plane was only a few feet off the ground, and everyone landed on a giant mattress.

The second part involves paint bombs. The team to come up with the most creative and controlled paint splatter wins.

Duncan, the vandal he is, knows lots about these kinds of things, and Harold, the chem nerd, has his own knowledge of explosions. Unfortunately, Leshawna and Heather decide that Duncan is the better person to head this challenge.

Meanwhile, on the Grips, Lindsay has taken over as Admiral (Don't ask), and Beth acts as a plan-maker. Owen is too weak from the lack of unblended food, and Justin tries to finagle his way out of work by showing off his body. He's shocked and dismayed when Lindsay and Beth are unfazed, yet again.
Izzy, meanwhile, has set up an enormous, elaborate, and quite explosive fortification.

The Gaffers set off their bombs, and Duncan has made a skull-shape out of paint. Quite creative, and even Harold is willing to admit it.

The Grips set theirs off as well, and end up with a huge explosion of paint, not impressing Chris. The Gaffers win this part of the challenge, and a prize: The big trunk of mind-blowing secrets, which they will need to soon defend with their lives.

We come back from commercial break to find Owen still feeling nauseous and 'backed-up'. Chef brings him a bran smoothie, but Owen lets Leshawna have it instead. This might not end well.

And so the last part of the challenge begins: A giant game of Capture The Flag. Only, instead of a flag, it's a giant trunk. Winners of the challenge win immunity, and get to open the trunk.

Harold thinks what they need is a group plan to defend the trunk, but Duncan has other ideas, and sets off on his own to set some booby traps. (hehe. Booby.)

So the Gaffers dig a foxhole.

The Grips plan their attack. Izzy suggests a 5 km-wide, exploding, "Trojan Taco". Admiral Lindsay decides against this, and they go for a straight-forward 'Charge and Attack' strategy. They get to the Gaffer's spot, but don't see them anywhere.

All the Gaffers need to do is stay quiet, but that bran smoothie is not sitting well with Leshawna. She lets one rip, the Grips notice the foxhole, and they rush toward it.

But they get caught in one of Duncan's booby traps, and get catapulted back to their starting point.
Justin gets a scratch on his face and starts freaking out, but does anyone feel sorry for him? No. They tell him to get a grip, and they walk off. Izzy tells him she never really found him all that cute to begin with. She thinks Owen is super cute, though.

Back on the Gaffers' side, the team is choking on Leshawna's 'Toxic emissions', and Duncan and Harold start to argue. Harold states that, while he's not doing the best of jobs, ast least he's there and TRYING to help, unlike Duncan. Duncan admits that Harold is not a complete loser and is a valuable teammate. They run out of the foxhole, to find the Grips charging another attack on them.

Harold whips out his Num-Yo (Numchuck+Yo-yo), ready to fight. Duncan aims Leshawna's behind at the other team, creating a cloud of toxic smoke, which allows for Harold to whip them with the Num-Yo, without them even realizing what's happened.

So the Grips will be sending someone home tonight, and the Gaffers get to see what's in the trunk. As it turns out, it's empty.

Lindsay admits that her lousy admiraling cost the team the challenge, but Izzy and Justin's heads are on the chopping block too.
Beth, Lindsay, and Owen all get Gilded Chris's.

It all comes down to Justin and Izzy. And Justin gets the final Gilded Chris.
As it turns out, he managed to invent a new, and attractive hair flip, and worm the girls over to his side of the vote.

Seventh Person Voted Off: Izzy. Again.

Highlight for Episode 12 Spoilers:

Title: The Aftermath: For 2?

Another segment of TDA: Aftermath. We've got Gwen and DJ as the guests for this show. Since Izzy was already in the hot seat, this time around, she'll be sitting with the contestants from season 1, along with Trent.

First segment up is "That's gonna leave a mark". Lots of Harold abuse in this one, at the hands of a vicious yo-yo. xd
And again, Bridgette and Geoff are having a little bit of a tiff. Geoff is a little too preoccupied with his appearance, and Bridgette is jealous. Trent snaps them out of their argument, and we move on to peek in the green room to check on Gwen and DJ.
The audience booes at Gwen, and DJ's mom comes onto the stage and site with the former contestants.
Speaking of DJ, he's our first guest. Bridgette asks him how he's feeling after all of this, and he's actually happy to have his integrity back. Geoff thinks that's a load of bull, so he decides it's time for "Truth or Anvil". (And yes, it used to be Hammer. Producers thought an anvil would provide more drama.)

Geoff is rather vicious with his questions, and even shows some never-before-seen footage of DJ getting fresh laundry, vitamins and healthy food, beef jerky, packages from home, and even therapeutic massages, while his teammates suffer in filth, on a diet of disgusting food. And there is even a clip of him on the confession cam, saying he doesn't feel bad about any of it.

GASP.

DJ's mom doesn't believe a word of it, so she chucks a tomato at Geoff'd head, and makes him run another clip: One of DJ rehearsing the above clip, script and all, and Chef forcing him to say those things.

Meanwhile, Geoff is trying to convince DJ to lie, because an anvil to the head will make the producers happy. Bridgette interrupts this by setting up a webcam question from Gordon from London (Ontario), an aspiring chef, who's trying to recreate DJ's sandwiches, but there's one ******* ingredient that he can't ******* figure out. (And yes, censor bleep and all)

DJ lies, and says he doesn't use a secret ingredient. The anvil falls, and he jumps out of the way. He jumps up and tells us that the secret is two pinches of Hungarian paprika in the mayo.
Dj's mom comes out with some sandwiches, and Bridgette starts wolfing them down. Geoff refuses the sandwiches and says Bridgette should too, since they'll go right to her hips.

ANOTHER GASP.

Bridgette tackles him and forces the sandwich down his throat.

Commercial break.

And now it's Gwen's turn to come out. And the audience (And some of the former cast members) boo her once again.
And Geoff is, again, very brutal with his questions. Gwen says that she though they were friends, but apparently, Geoff now thinks that ratings are more important than relationships.

Gwen admits that she still likes Trent, and that she still has a lot of love for everyone. Geoff implies that she means Duncan, but Gwen changes the subject and starts talking about the people she likes: Leshawna, DJ, Beth, Lindsay, etc., but Geoff reminds her how ticked they were after the whole incident, and that Gwen didn't leave many friends behind.

She defends herself by stating that Duncan didn't vote her off, and Courtney yells that it was because she had her 'goth girl hooks' into him. Gwen says that they were just friends, and Geoff shows a clip of Duncan thinking about nothing but Courtney, like Gwen says he always has done. Geoff tells them to keep rolling the clip, and Duncan ends up playfighting with Gwen, and knocking her to the ground with him on top of her, their faces only centimetres apart.
Courtney is livid and runs off to call her lawyer. Bridgette is mad at Geoff for letting the fame go to his head. He scoffs at this, and decides to bring out the next surprise for Gwen: a piranha dunk tank. Bridgette protests, and even Trent says that this is enough (YET ANOTHER GASP). He defends Gwen and reminds everyone that HE threw the game; that it wasn't her fault.
Bridgette sets up another webcam bit: Kelsey from Kamloops, who has made a giant stuffed doll of her 'boyfriend', Trent. (GASP AGAIN).As it turns out, Trent's been getting a LOT of fan mail. There's far too much to sort through, so they decided to take a question instead. The question is from a girl whose boyfriend has become obsessed with ratings, and has let the fame go to his head. Gee. Wonder who sent that. rolleyes
Gwen, and DJ both agree that honesty is the best policy in relationships, and that ends the show. Bridgette drags Geoff off by his ear, and reminds everyone to stay tuned for the next thrilling episode of Total Drama Action!


Highlight for Episode 13 Spoilers:
Title: Ocean's Eight- Or Nine

It's finally time for another new episode, and it seems that the Gaffers still aren't getting along (What else is new? rolleyes ). Leshawna tells her team that they need to stick together, but Harold's not buying it anymore. He sees that she's only in this game for herself. But also that she's hot.

The other members of the team don't see the latter part, though, and Leshawna becomes an outcast. She leaves the Kraft Services tent, and starts to tell the camera how her team is going to pay, but a bag is thrown over her head and she disappears.

Meanwhile, the Grips are getting along just fine, especially Owen, whose jaws have been unwired, and has just as fierce an appetite as before. And his sense of smell has not diminished, either. He smells something delicious in the kitchen, and dashes off to grab it, only to have a bag thrown over his head, too, and he disappears like Leshawna.

Chris cuts a hole in the tent and slides down a rope. "What an entrance!" exclaims Beth, and Chris tells her that it's a hint for this week's movie genre: The Action-Packed Bank Heist Gangster Caper Film.

Justin points out that they can't start, because they're missing a player, as is the other team. Chris assures them that the disappearance of their teammates is no accident. The first part of the challenge is to rescue their teammates. They've both been locked up in high-security safes, along with all the tools the team will need to pull off a great bank heist.

So the challenge begins. Even with Leshawna locked up, the Gaffers still can't get along. While Harold and Heather duke it out over who gets to pick the lock, Duncan laughs at them, and is offended that they have forgotten what a born criminal he is.

Owen, meanwhile, is screaming through the vent how hungry he is. Which gives Justin an idea. If they pipe the scent of food through the vent, Owen will likely break down the door of the safe just to get to it. But they don't have any food. Beth, however, has a special perfume that smells like roast chicken. (I don't wanna know...) She sprays it through the vent, and Owen goes all Hulk on us and rips open the door.

Duncan suggests that, since the other team is already ahead, and since he's already an expert at criminal activities, that they just leave the equipment and Leshawna in the vault. And so, they do.

They make some makeshift robber equipment (Sock masks, and a gun made out of deodorant and foot spray bottles), and manage to beat the Grips to the 'Bank', and the teller, Chris, tells them (because that's what tellers do. xd ) that they get first crack at the teller.

(Oh, yeah. The Grips are late because Owen desperately needs food, and keeps imagining his teammates as tasty treats. Hallucinations. Yay! smile So they feed him all they have: Breathmints, Pineapple and Cherry lipgloss, and Beth's Chicken Cologne. And they lost the equipment. Great day for the Grips, eh?)

So the Gaffers get first crack at the teller, who has some very familiar (and very hot) legs, as Duncan comments (the hot part, not the familiar part). As it turns out, the teller is none other than Courtney. She is back for the duration of the game (All you Courtney fans can now rejoice.). Seems she won her wrongful termination lawsuit.

And since she's the teller for this challenge, she gets to decide who wins her bag of loot, the First Prize. She (obviously) picks Duncan/The Gaffers, since they were the only ones to actually make it there.

So that means the Killer Grips win the Second Prize. And what IS the second prize? Why, it's Courtney, herself! She's their new teammate. (And yes, she IS pissed about being the Second Place Prize. xd )

The last part of the challenge is to get to the getaway cars and, well, get away. The teams are all hoping for Mini Coopers, or a Porsche, but are surprised to find nothing but go-carts that they have to assemble themselves.

Meanwhile, Leshawna is still in the vault, and spills her soul to the camera, and pleads with her teammates (who aren't even there anymore) to forgive her.

So the assembly is coming along nicely on the Gaffers' side, but Duncan keeps getting distracted by Courtney, and actually ends up slamming his hand in the axle. Ouch.
Courtney's not having such a great time, though. Owen still thinks his teammates are food, and chases Beth and Lindsay off. Justin refuses to get grease on his hands, so Courtney's left to sit and b***h over her unassembled go-cart.

Duncan and the rest of his team get their cart together, and speed off down the hill. Lindsay and Beth return, and have rewired Owen's jaw with a hair elastic. Bad news, they destroyed their wheels during the chase. But Courtney's not giving up. They pick up the car and run it down the hill.

The Gaffers are nearing the finish line, but, wouldn't you know it? They're running out of gas. The cart starts to cough out on them, and the Grips start to catch up.

It comes down to the wire, and the Grips are inches from the finish line, when their cart falls apart. The Gaffers cross the finish line first, and win the challenge.

The time has come for another elimination ceremony. This week is special, though, as the show's lawyers have said that this week, and ONLY this week, they cannot vote off Courtney. So the ballots are in. And there are four votes for Courtney. xd Guess they couldn't help themselves. So that leaves us with one vote that counts:

Eighth Person Voted off: Owen.

(Oh, and for those curious few, yes, they left Leshawna in the vault.)


Stay tuned for more spoilers.

Okay you have to trust me on this... I kinda already predicted the first person let go would be one of those two. Not both of them, but one of them.

Nooo!
Not Izzy! D:

Hopefully... TwT

So far I've been catching them on veoh, It feels like they just keep getting funnier. In episode 6(TDA aftermath) I couldn't stop laughing. I only hate how they didn't make Heather mean this season, because just like Geoff said, she was the hottest when she was mean (and not bald)

i watched all the episodes and i cant wait till ocean's eight-or nine when courtney comes back.

also i like the relationship between gwen and Duncan

Update! Episode Seven spoilers are up! biggrin

Looks like fans of Courtney are going to be disappointed yet again.