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The first season, ''Total Drama Island'', takes place at Camp Wawanakwa, a campsite located on an island in an unspecified area in Muskoka, Ontario.<ref>Muskoka is "cottage country" - the place to go to get away from the big city - for people who live in [[Toronto]].</ref>
Since the show incorporates [[New Season, New Name]], the second season was called ''Total Drama Action'' and lowers the contestant count to 14 (that is until Courtney joined in as a late entry, for legal reasons, increasing the number to 15) and takes place on an abandoned film lot somewhere in Toronto.
The third season, ''Total Drama World Tour'', has 15 old contestants and 3 new ones travelling to different locations all around the world and bursting into impromptu musical numbers when prompted.
The fourth season, ''Total Drama Revenge of the Island'', features an all new cast of 13 contestants and takes place at a now radioactive Camp Wawanakwa.
Part one of the fifth season, ''Total Drama All-Stars'', not only contains 14 returning contestants from previous seasons, but also has a Heroes vs. Villains setup. Also, like the previous season it takes place at Camp Wawanakwa, the only difference is that the island's been cleaned up since the end of ''Revenge of the Island'' and is toxic waste free once more.
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Part two of the fifth season, ''Total Drama Pahkitew Island'',features 14 new contestants, and {{spoiler|(following the sinking of Camp Wawanakwa at the end of ''All Stars'')}} also takes place in a new island located somewhere in Western Canada (British Columbia).
A spinoff series set in the same universe called ''[[Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race]]'',
In 2018, a [[Spinoff Babies]] series, ''Total DramaRama'', made its debut, airing for three seasons until 2022.
In 2023, a reboot of ''Total Drama Island'' made its debut in Italy before premiering on Max in the USA.
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** These same guns return two seasons later in "Backstabbers, Ahoy!", except the seagulls [[It Makes Sense in Context|are part rattlesnake now.]]
** Chef Hatchet's "spaghetti cannon" in "Eat, Puke, and Be Wary".
** As of "Saving Private Leechball", Chris is no longer allowed around paintballs, so he has the contestants use leeches instead.
* [[Aborted Arc]]:
** According to [[Word of God]], Justin's role as a villain in season two.
** Alejandro is basically an [[Expy]] of Justin with side order of [[Magnificent Bastard]] like Heather. He's essentially a rectification of the failure of Justin and Courtney in ''Action''.
** In ''"Total Drama Drama Drama Drama Island"'', Courtney found out
* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]: Used in the World Tour episode where they go to New York. They ride speed boats through it.
* [[Acquired Situational Narcissism]]: Geoff, after he becomes a co-host of the Aftermaths in the second season, though Bridgette would break him of it.
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** Justin and Courtney in "The Princess Pride", the moment is spoiled when Chris announces that Justin has to fight Courtney for immunity.
** Mike and Zoey in "Grand Chef Auto", the moment is spoiled when {{spoiler|Mike}} gets catapulted off the island.
** Dave and Sky in "I Love You, I Love You Knots", the moment is spoiled when Sky gets nervous, causing her to release a large burp in Dave's face.
** Dave and Sky again in "This Is the Pits!", Sugar deliberately spoils multiple moments.
* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Heather and Courtney.
* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: Several characters, though many have [[Word of God]] explanations: Noah is [[Bollywood Nerd|Indian]], Justin is Polynesian, and Courtney is Hispanic.
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* [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy]]: Several people actually ''are'' very strong or good at the game, yet clearly have ''no'' interests of playing a social game.
** Lightning and Jo can be like this.
* [[Art Shift]]: Occurs in the songs ''What's Not to Love?'', ''Oh, My Izzy Mix'', and in the finale song. The first turning into all simple colors so they would look like a Broadway musical poster, and the second into a crayon-drawn segment in Owen's head. In the finale song the two finalists and their helpers once again revert to simple colors: blue for one finalist, red for the other. The simple crayon-drawn style happens whenever Owen has a thought sequence.
* [[Artistic License: Biology]]:
** In the "Phobia Factor" episode, DJ had to face his fear of snakes by picking up the "smallest snake ever." After a dramatic pause, DJ freaks out because the snake blinked. Snakes don't have eyelids.
*** Snakes shouldn't blink. [[Invoked Trope|That's why it's creepy.]]
* [[Ascended Fangirl]]: Sierra in ''World Tour'' and Zoey in ''Revenge of the Island''.
* [[Ass Pull]]: Lots of these from Chris in-universe.
*[[Asshole Victim]]: Duncan (particularly in later seasons) and Jacques.
* [[Attention Whore]]: Being the host, Chris is this in spades. However, since ''Total Drama'' is a parody of reality shows, every contestant is one in ''some'' capacity, especially during "Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Action Reunion Special". Among the contestants, major examples include:.
** Heather, for being a [[Alpha Bitch|queen bee]].
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** Dakota, for her aspirations to be an [[American Dream|award-winning film actress, fashion model, and pop music star]].
* [[Auto-Tune]]:
**
** Ezekiel in "Come Fly With Us."
**
** Harold when he raps about Cody in "Who You Gonna Root For?".
* [[Award Bait Song]]: "I'm Sorry."
* [[Award Snub]]: An in-universe example occurs during the ''Action'' special
* [[Back for the Finale]]: The first three seasons bring back all of the contestants that competed to watch the final two compete. ''Revenge of the Island'' only showed those from that season returning, although there were cameos throughout the season of "classic" competitors.
* [[The Bad Guy Wins]]: Depending on where you live, the ''World Tour'' finale either has {{spoiler|Heather}} (former antagonist) or {{spoiler|Alejandro}} (worse antagonist) winning in some countries.
* [[Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work]]: In season three, {{spoiler|Duncan wasted no time trying to get rid of Courtney after she found out about the kiss.}}
* [[Bandage Mummy]]: At different points, Cody, Trent, Justin,
* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Nearly all the girls except Leshawna, Beth, Eva, Jo, Dawn, and Staci.
** Courtney and Dakota's normal outfits don't show midriff; however, Courtney's swimsuit and sleepwear does reveal it, and Dakota shows it on her intern outfit {{spoiler|and when she mutates}}.
* [[Batman Gambit]]: Heather and Alejandro are quite fond of these. In a less-evil sense, Jo is also fond of these.
* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]:
**
** The "give-Cody-a-love-interest-that-is-just-like-his-fangirls" thing didn't really work out as planned either.
** Die hard Duncan/Courtney fans were upset that Duncan left on the first episode of ''World Tour'', hoping he would come back. He does, and [[Ship Sinking|THEN. . . .]]
** In-Universe: A Blaineley fan requests a song about her. Geoff complies...with an insulting one.
** In {{Spoiler|Alejandro}}'s ending to ''World Tour'', he exclaims he wants what he deserves. Care to guess what happens next?
** After receiving a large bribe from Dakota's dad, Chris lets her back on the show...as an intern.
* [[The Bechdel Test]]: Passes magnificently.
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** Courtney and Duncan first season.
** Heather and Alejandro third.
* [[Berserk Button]]: Dave when he discovers {{Spoiler|that Sky already had a boyfriend}}.
*[[Beta Couple]]: Geoff and Bridgette, compared to everyone else.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Lindsay, Beth and Owen. The latter is a 296 pound [[Gentle Giant]], but when angered, you're in for it! In ''Revenge of the Island'', {{spoiler|Zoey}} is this trope personified.
* [[Bi the Way]]: Owen makes constant gay remarks, despite having a romantic interest with Izzy.
{{quote|'''Justin''': I'm back to being just another pretty face.
'''Katie''': And pecs.
'''Sadie''': And abs.
'''Owen''': And butt. }}
* [[Big Bad]]: [[Word of God]] says that Chris McLean will always be the true villain of the series.
* [[Big Creepy-Crawlies]]: A giant cockroach in ''Revenge of the Island''.
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''[Collective gasp from everyone else in the room]'' }}
* [[Big No]]:
** Several. Heather
** Also, Geoff when he found out he wouldn't be competing in Total Drama World Tour, and Heather
** Also, Mike when he got sealed in his mind while Mal roams free, and Heather after she got eliminated.
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]:
** Alejandro's last name, ''Burromuerto,'' is Spanish for ''dead donkey.'' In the ''Action'' special, after Beth damages the Mona Lisa, a security guard says, "Omelette du fromage?", which means ''cheese omelette'' in French.
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** And ''cheese omelette'' would be ''omelette au fromage''. The fact that the phrase is mistranslated in the same way as in [[Dexter's Laboratory|Dexters Laboratory]] is unlikely to be coincidental.
** The names of ''both'' new contestants are Spanish names. Alejandro means "Alexander" and "Sierra" means "mountain range".
**Played with in ''Pahkitew Island''. As a result of Chef using a free online translator, the teams are named ''Pimâpotew Kinosewak'' and ''Wâneyihtam Maskwak'', which are Cree for "Floating Salmon" and "Confused Bears" respectively.
** One of the challenges in the spin-off episode "Bjorken Telephone" requires the teams to properly say "Vinsamlegast gefðu mér mina travel ábending" ("Please give me my next Travel Tip" in Icelandic) to a local, which Dwayne constantly gets wrong. One of his attempts comes out as "...mina travel '''ásdenting'''" ("Please give me my travel, a** Hole"<ref>Bjorken Telephone | Total Drama Wiki | Fandom</ref>) which results in the local smacking him.
{{quote|'''Junior''': What did you SAY?!
'''Dwayne''': I have no idea! None! }}
* [[Birds of a Feather]]: Gwen and Duncan.
*[[Bits of Me Keep Passing Out]]:
**Happens to all the remaining contestants {{Spoiler|(except Cody)}} during the Africa episode of ''Total Drama World Tour'' as a result of the tranquilizer balls they are using in an attempt to subdue Zeke. And then they have to sing about it.
**Alejandro's legs in "Heroes vs. Villains". The following episodes then have him faking it until {{Spoiler|Heather}} is eliminated.
* [[Black and Gray Morality]]: During ''Action'' and ''World Tour.''
* [[Black and White Morality]]: During ''Island.''
* [[Black Best Friend]]: DJ to Duncan, Geoff, and Tyler; Leshawna to Bridgette and Gwen; Mike and Cameron to Zoey; Jasmine to Shawn.
* [[Blofeld Ploy]]: "The Drop of Shame will be taken by... ''This intern!''"
* [[Boke and Tsukkomi Routine]]:
** [[The Ditz|Tyler]]/Owen and [[Deadpan Snarker|Noah]], respectively.
** [[Dumb Blonde|Lindsay]] and [[Only Sane Man|Gwen]] had a few moments like this in ''Island''.
* [[Boot Camp Episode]]: ''Basic Straining''
* [[Bowdlerise]]: [[Cartoon Network]] ''loaded'' the Season One episodes with censors for words like "crap", "suck", "freak", and even ''censor bleeps''. Even worse, CN got to the point where [[They Just Didn't Care]], and began using a word that was censored for "lame-o" early on, "stupid", as a censor for "fricking." Geez. The removal of most of these censors may have been one of the few good things that ''Action'' contained.
* [[Boxing Kangaroo]]: In
* [[Brainless Beauty]]: Lindsay and Dakota.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Being a [[Sadist Show]], it happens regularly, especially as the series gets more cynical. Cody, Lindsay, Bridgette, Dawn, Dakota, Zoey, Samey and
* [[Break the Haughty]]: As much as the show likes to break its innocent characters, it ''loves'' to break its [[jerkass]]es as well, usually in an epic fashion towards the conclusion of the season.
** Just ''keeps'' happening to Heather.
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** Alejandro and Blaineley in ''World Tour''.
** Scott in ''Revenge of the Island''.
** Even [[Big Bad|Chris]] is not immune. He gets this when
* [[Bridal Carry]]:
** In "Aww, Drumheller" when Alejandro pulls {{spoiler|Heather}} from beneath a rock. She immediately asks to be put down, but [[Ship Tease|her tone says otherwise]].
** Invoked during the wedding-themed Niagara Falls episode. The characters are expected to do this as part of a challenge, though not all couples play it straight.
* [[Briefcase Full of Money]]: This is how the prize money is delivered from "Total Drama Drama Drama Drama Island" on. However, most of the time, the case either gets stolen by a rogue former contestant {{spoiler|(Ezekiel in TDWT and Heather in TDRI)}} or comically destroyed {{spoiler|whether it's eaten by a shark or burned in a volcano}}.
* [[Buried Alive]]: Gwen's phobia. Also invokes a bit of [[Fridge Horror]] if one considers what would have happened if Trent hadn't remembered to dig her up exactly 59 minutes later.
* [[Burping Contest]]: In the episode where the teams change to Guys vs Girls, the guys' team bonds over one of these.
* [[But Thou Must!]]: In the alternate version of ''Island'' where {{spoiler|Gwen}} wins, the follow-up in the special was that the game couldn't be stopped and the $100,000 taken; all 22 campers were forced to search for the million-dollar case. This isn't the case in the "canon" version where {{spoiler|Owen}} wins, however.
* [[Butt Monkey]]:
** All the campers could be considered Butt Monkeys since they usually have at least one moment of extreme torment physically, emotionally and/or mentally. But Ezekiel, Tyler, Cody, Owen, Duncan, Trent, Harold, DJ, Brick, Scott, Dave, Dwayne Sr. and
** And then we have the poor interns. So far they've been: tossed to crocodiles, thrown off cliffs, shoved off planes, eaten alive by scarabs, mutated by toxic waste, used as footstools for Chris and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|chased around a studio by Beth]].
* [[Call Back]]: In ''One Million Bucks, B.C.,'' Chris uses the top half of Mr. Coconut for a cup while ending the episode.
** Gwen still hasn't gotten over her phobia of being buried alive as of "The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean".
* [[Camp Gay]]: The escaped serial killer. No, really.
* [[Canada, Eh?]]:
** Ezekiel, whose accent is more a parody of what Americans think Canadians all sound like. Seeing as the show is produced in Canada and every voice actor is Canadian, it's otherwise averted.
** Izzy also references being wanted by the RCMP, and Owen wears a lawyer-friendly version of the Toronto Maple Leafs jersey. Additionally, Katie and Sadie mention being from Toronto.
* [[Canon Discontinuity]]: Most of the characterizations and plot points of ''[[Sophomore Slump|Action]]'' are not referenced in ''World Tour''.
** However. The ''FIRST WORDS'' that Chris says at the start of Revenge acknowledges that Action did take place.
* [[Can't Get in Trouble For Nuthin'|Can't Get Eliminated for Nuthin']]: DJ tries really hard to get kicked off in the third season, but it never seems to work for him. {{spoiler|And of course, the moment he does try winning again, Alejandro gets him eliminated.}}
* [[Casanova Wannabe]]: Cody, Rodney, and to a lesser extent, Harold.
* [[Cast of Snowflakes]]
* [[The Cast Showoff]]:
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** Gwen and Trent have only shared one on-screen kiss during their relationship.
** Same goes for Harold and Leshawna.
* [[The Cheerleader]]: Lindsay and (according to her [[All There in the Manual|bio]]) Heather.
* [[Chekhov's Boomerang]]:
** Ezekiel gets voted off first in both ''Island'' and ''World Tour''. Similarly, Lindsay gets voted off on a technicality in both ''Island''.(She was, technically, the last to cross the finish line: Everyone else's bike crashed, or in the case of Izzy and Leshawna, they didn't even race.) and ''World Tour'' (Since she and DJ were the last two Team Victory members and DJ ''wanted'' to go home, this should be easy, no? No, they instead had a fashion show, and DJ somehow won.)
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** Heather made it to the Final Three in both ''Island'' and ''World Tour''.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]:
**
** The candy, on the other hand, was played straight several episodes later.
* [[Chekhov's Volcano]]: You know the one.
* [[Chew Toy]]:
* [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe]]: The Curse of the Mummified Dog only takes effect when DJ believes he's under it.
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Courtney, Sierra and Heather. Bridgette in the ''Action'' special.
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''[Everyone else laughs]''
'''Chris:''' Fine. We'll skip the good memories montage. }}
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Izzy, Owen, Lindsay, and Sierra.
* [[Cluster Bleep Bomb]]:
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* [[Continuity Nod]]:
** The first episode of ''World Tour'' has Owen terrified of getting on the Jet, a reference to his fear of heights in season one.
** Chris asks Lindsay if she understands the voting process this time around, referencing her
** In ''"Haute Camp-ture"'' Noah mentions that he owns a golden Labrador, two seasons later, in, ''"Can't Help Falling In Louvre"'' Noah uses a quick distraction tactic to get rid of Sasquatchanakwa, explaining that the trick always worked on his dog back home.
** In "Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Action Reunion Special", Justin mentions that despite being a Drama Brother, he can't play any instruments. For every Drama Brothers song from then on, Justin is only seen shaking a tambourine to the beat of the song.
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* [[Crocodile Tears]]:
** Heather used them to [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit|deceive]] Trent in ''Island'', Alejandro in ''World Tour'' and Lightning in ''Revenge of the Island''.
** Leshawna uses them to convince her team to let her have the reward in "One Flu Over the Cuckoos".
** Scott uses them to deceive Zoey.
** Dakota also gives them as a benign example, namely to [[Attention Whore|bring attention to herself]].
** Amy uses them to put a target on Samey's back.
* [[Crossdresser]]: Chef Hatchet in a few of the "Gilded Chris" ceremonies, though not by choice. It's happened a few times since, under varying degrees of convincing.
* [[Cross-Dressing Voices]]: Clé Bennett as DJ's mama
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]:
** Harold, Lindsay when she realizes the truth about Heather.
** Cody can qualify as this too in ''Dodgebrawl.''
* [[Crying Wolf]]: After Izzy dresses as a bear to scare the others,
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]:
** In ''Action'', the Screaming Gaffers won eight challenges to the Killer Grips three. Chris lampshades the lopsided nature of the contest:
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** The Toxic Rats vs. the Mutant Maggots in ''Revenge'' as well, though this is less because the Rats are a weak team and more because Scott keeps [[Team Killer|screwing them over from within.]]
** In ''Hook, Line, and Screamer:'' Gwen vs. the Psycho Killer. [[Action Girl|Gwen]] wins.
** Not the show per se, but in the Brazilian online vote to determine the winner of Action,
** The Pimâpotew Kinosewak vs. the Wâneyihtam Maskwak in ''Pahkitew Island''. The former won the first two challenges but then suffered a losing streak that lasted until the merge.
* [[Curse Cut Short]]:
{{quote|'''Courtney:''' Look, I am a very experienced swimmer. I was a synchro captain. I coach minnows! I am a CIT!
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'''Gwen:''' Guys, let's get going. }}
** Same thing occurs to Heather when the horn, from the Guys' victory in the Brunch episode, concealed her swearing.
** In the spin-off, a train whistle concealed Emma's swearing when she {{spoiler|revealed to Devin that Carrie was in love with him the whole time.}}
* [[Cursed with Awesome]]: DJ wants to go home because he keeps killing/hurting animals (accidentally), but [[Springtime for Hitler|he can't lose!]] {{spoiler|And right when he decides he wants to stay in the game, he loses.}}
* [[Cute Bruiser]]: Courtney and Sierra.
* [[Cute but Cacophonic]]: The [[Killer Rabbit]] guarding Bridgette's key in ''Search and Do Not Destroy,'' Season 1.
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* [[Darker and Edgier]]: While as not as bad as the other examples on that page, ''Revenge of the Island'' is this when compared to the first season; due to radioactive waste, the island is now filled with assorted mutants and monsters, not to mention some of the new contestants' personalities seem a lot "darker" than the previous ones' (take for example Mike's multiple personality disorder, Staci's constant lying to get [[Attention Whore|attention]], Scott being a bigger [[Manipulative Bastard]] than Alejandro and Heather combined, {{spoiler|Dakota being turned into a monster thanks to radiation}}, ...).
** The 3rd season also becomes this after {{spoiler|Ezekiel becomes a zombie from an unknown cause about halfway through the season. Is it not a coincidence that this was after everyone on Team Victory(the team he was on) was eliminated?}}
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Chris, Gwen, Duncan, Leshawna, Dave, and especially Noah.
* [[Death Glare]]:
** Being easily aggravated or disgusted by almost anything or anyone, Heather often gives this look.
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** Happens ''somewhat'' with Heather in Total Drama Action. Though most people prefer to think of it as [[Villain Decay]].
** It's more legit in season 3, where she does show that she has a heart at times.
*[[Delayed Reaction]]: Spud's defining trait, even to pain.
* [[Depending on the Writer]]: ''Sooo'' much. Depending on the episode and/or the circumstances, you get a lot of moments where the nice, goodwilled characters suddenly belt out snarky comments, or the local [[Badass]] and/or [[Jerkass]] suddenly says something polite. It gets even worse when it comes to friendships and/or relationships, where two contestants will be laughing and hugging one day, and trying to slit each others throats the next.
* [[Development Gag]]: Several character designs from ''Camp TV'', ''Total Drama's'' prototype series, are often used as minor characters in the finished product.
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** One of Leshawna's early designs was retooled as her cousin Leshaniqua in "One Flu Over the Cuckoos".
** B in ''Revenge of the Island'' resembles DJ's early design.
** Cameron's early design was used for the Adversity Twins in the spin-off.
* [[Devil in Plain Sight]]: Chris, Alejandro in ''World Tour'', Scott in ''Revenge of the Island'', and {{spoiler|Scarlett}} in ''Pahkitew Island''.
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: In ''Broadway, Baby!'' at one part during the sewer challenge, when you see Team Victory moving before the sewer comes up, the Twin World Trade Centers in the background. They were destroyed in 2001, and the single World Trade Center, its replacement, would not be finished until 2012/2013, and this episode takes place in 2009/2010.
* [[Digging Yourself Deeper]]: Combined with [[Ho Yay]] in Owen's case. In the second episode:
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'''[[Straw Misogynist|Ezekiel]]:''' But they are! }}
* [[Disney Acid Sequence]]: Several of the songs from ''World Tour,'' most prominently ''What's Not To Love?''
* [[Disney Death]]:
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]:
** When Noah made fun of Chris' age, Chris responded by throwing him off a cliff.
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** Duncan gets one in ''Island'' during the cabin selection:
{{quote|"I'd like to ''bunk'' under her."}}
** A corgi bites Owen's "wiener" in "I See London..."
** Cameron is attacked by several Laser Squirrels in "Grand Chef Auto", one of which bites at his "nuts".
* [[Double Knockout]]: [[Determinator|Courtney and Sierra]] do this to each other in ''Greece's Pieces'', as do DJ and Gwen in ''Dodgebrawl''.
* [[Double Standard]]: Happens in-universe on several occasions, such as when Gwen rejected Cody's advances the other contestants didn't really care, but many of the females seem to support Sierra/Cody and feel sorry for her when Cody tries to vote her out in the Amazon episode.
* [[Downer Ending]]:
** A few individual episodes like "Search and Do Not Destroy", "3:10 to Crazytown". Also the
**
* [[The Dragon]]: Chef to Chris in many ways.
* [[Dramedy]]: Hence the title.
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''[Several pounds of snow, followed by a toboggan, followed by an Eskimo, fall on Courtney.]'' }}
* [[Dumb Blonde]]: Lindsay is a classic [[Dumb Blonde]] (although her hair is dyed), Owen and Geoff are also fair haired and not overly endowed with brains. [[Hair of Gold|Bridgette]] was an early exception, but it was also averted with [[Blondes Are Evil|Blaineley]]. Within the new cast, Dakota plays it straight while Dawn and Jo are aversions.
* [[Easily Forgiven]]: Sierra towards Cody.
* [[Easy Come, Easy Go]]: Most of the contestants fail to hang on to their money long enough for it to matter, such as [[spoiler:Owen giving up his money for 1o times more money, but it gets eaten by a shark soon after, and {{spoiler|Heather's money getting stolen by Ezekiel and getting burnt in the volcano}}. {{spoiler|Duncan after ''Action'' is an aversion; what he did with with his money is never explicitly referenced. Oddly, in the alternate ending where she wins, Beth is not.}} Izzy's {{spoiler|brief time as a super-genius.}}
* [[Eat That]]: This happens often. "Brunch of Disgustingness" is centered around this.
* [[Efficient Displacement]]: In "Hook, Line, and Screamer", DJ does this with the bathroom door after seeing Heather in a face mask.
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** With the introduction of the Hurl of Shame in ''Revenge of the Island'', Chris teases this, but he usually catapults the eliminated contestant before they can say anything.
* [[Embarrassing Middle Name|Embarrassing Last Name]]:
** One of Harold's middle names is Doris.
** Apparently, Alejandro's last name means * Snicker* "dead donkey". Surprisingly, he doesn't seem to mind.
** And in an [[Embarrassing First Name]] example, Geoff would like to inform you all her real name isn't Blaineley. {{spoiler|It's Mildred!}} And in Season 4, B's real name is revealed to be {{spoiler|Beverly.}}
* [[Enemy Mine]]: Happens often due to ever-shifting alliances.
* [[Epic Fail]]:
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** Tyler is full of them, but the worst of the lot would be the time he tried to eat a banana in ''World Tour'' and it ended up in his eye.
** Geoff and DJ in "Hook, Line, and Screamer". The former walks around mindlessly looking for an ice cream truck while Chef, dressed as a serial killer, simply walks behind him (Chris even called it "The worst mistake yet".) The latter because he ran away screaming like a little girl from Heather and her facial.
**
* [[Et Tu, Brute?]]: {{spoiler|Duncan votes off Courtney in season two after spending the entire season fawning over her and shortly after hooking back up with her.}}
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]:
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{{quote|'''Alejandro:''' You are pure ''evil!''}}
** Chris was genuinely disgusted when Heather read Gwen's diary aloud on National TV.
* [[Everyone Can See It]]: As of Chinese Fake Out, everyone knows Alejandro and Heather have a thing for each other, with Blaineley flat-out telling them to make out
* [[Everyone Meets Everyone]]: The first episode has the campers meet each other for the first time, with the exception of Katie and Sadie who were friends beforehand.
* [[Everything's Even Worse with Sharks]]:
** Just ask Chef, Courtney, or Scott.
** Averted in situations involving Justin, who is so [[Informed Attractiveness|gorgeous]] that when he falls into a shark infested pool in ''Action'', a dismayed shark pulls him out of the water and then proceeds to ''[[Rule of Funny|perform CPR on him]]''.
* [[Everythings Better With Bunnies]]: DJ's bunny, along with other bunnies that show up from time to time.
* [[Everything's Better with Chickens]]: Inverted. Poor, poor Tyler.
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* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]: The fairytale challenge in ''Action.''
* [[Everything's Worse with Bears]]:
** This show ''loves'' this trope. Even with
** The one in ''Can't Help Falling In Louvre'' had a [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaw]].
* [[Evil Laugh]]: Chris does this often, as well as a few other characters.
* [[Evil Versus Evil|"Evil" Versus Evil]]: Heather (sort of) vs. Alejandro throughout ''World Tour'' {{spoiler|up to the finale, where they actually face each other}}. Lampshaded in ''Versus:'' "Now it's evil versus wicked!"
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* [[Expy]]:
** Harold of Napoleon Dynamite.
** Basically the entire show of ''[[
** Of the 13 new cast members, 3 stand out as expies of real life people: Anne Maria is one to [[Jersey Shore|Snooki]], Sam is one to [[Seth Rogen]] (at least physically), and Dakota is one to [[Paris Hilton]]. In regards to other fictional characters: Jo is an expy to [[Glee|Sue Sylvester]], Dawn is an expy to [[Harry Potter|Luna Lovegood]], Mike is an expy to [[Jimmy Two-Shoes]] (and [[Hey, It's That Voice!|voiced by the same VA]] as well), and B is a [[Race Lift|race lifted]] expy of [[The View Askewniverse|Silent Bob]].
** It's worth noting that the Expy in this show is actually not that subjective but in fact a specialized form of [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]. Many characters were actually based off of real-life personalities appearing on Reality TV shows. [[Survivor|Russell Hantz]] has two expies in the form of Alejandro (Even being turned into a Ratings machine!) and Scott (in terms of idol-play and sabotaging his team.) Several contestants are an expy of the [[I'm Not Here to Make Friends]] or [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy]] who show up on these kinds of shows. Heck, Staci almost makes one wonder if she was inspired by [[Survivor|Coach]].
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* [[Fake Russian]]: Parodied in "Dial M For Merger"; Chris absolutely butchers it before explaining the spy movie challenge. [[What the Hell Is That Accent?|The stumped cast guesses Jamaican, Japanese, Swedish, French and Italian in order,]] and at least one of those might have been closer to how Chris actually sounded.
* [[False Reassurance]]: When trying to cook fugu (poisonous blowfish), Lindsay assures Trent that she knows what she's doing since she took biology; unfortunately Trent [[You Never Asked|doesn't ask]] if she actually ''passed'' biology.
** In "Rock n' Rule", Chris tells he won't electrocute a contestant that plays a wrong note; ''the guitar'' will.
** In "Jamaica Me Sweat", Chirs tell the contestants that the bay they have to dive into is not filled with sharks; it's filled with electric eels ''and'' sharks.
* [[Fan Disservice]]:
** Owen, who frequently appears naked.
** Chef, anytime he [[
** Alejandro jiggling his naked moobs at the confession cam.
* [[Fan Service]]:
** Heather, Leshawna, and Izzy all get a censored nudity shot (Both front AND back for Izzy), though it doesn't cross into [[Ecchi]] territory. There's also Gwen's [[Panty Shot]] listed below, and just about any time the girls are seen wearing something other than their normal clothes.
** Also, Katie and Sadie's bikinis.
** Then there's Alejandro's speedo.
* [[Fandom Nod]]:
** ''World Tour'' has a lot of these, examples include the Courtney/Duncan/Gwen [[Love Triangle]], [[Loony Fan]] Sierra, Noah and Cody returning to the game, Tyler complaining about being unpopular and the way Ezekiel is treated.
** In the second aftermath, Beth is shown [[Total Drama Comeback|eating a cookie.]]
** Hell, in the Celebrity Manhunt special Blainely outright says "Total Drama Comeback".
* [[Fandom-Specific Plot]]: ''A lot'' of the fanfiction out there is about a season where reviewers can apply for a spot on the show.
* [[Faux Affably Evil]]: Chris.
* [[Feminine Women Can Cook]]: Averted by Lindsay, [[Lethal Chef|who totally can't.]]
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*** [[The Big Guy]]: Jo
*** [[The Chick]]: Zoey and Anne Maria
* [[Five Stages of Grief]]: The Seven Stages of Heartbreak that {{Spoiler|Devin}} goes through. (Despite the name, he only goes through five.)
* [[Flanderization]]:
** Among other examples, DJ's cowardice is [[Up to Eleven|cranked up to eleven]] in ''World Tour''.
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* [[Food as Bribe]]: Heather gives Owen a piece of cake in exchange for {{spoiler|voting for Justin}} in "Not Quite Famous".
* [[Foot Popping]]: Gender inversion in the Ex-Files when Gwen and Duncan kiss.
* [[For the Evulz]]: Chris likes to mess with the contestants, a lot of times for no real reason.
* [[Force Feeding]]: Leshawna does it to Duncan as part of the first challenge in "Trial by Tri-Armed Triathlon".
* [[Foreign Queasine]]: The eating challenges in China. Also the Icelandic Feast.
* [[Foreshadowing]]:
** In the intro of ''Total Drama World Tour'' During the human pyramid on the top of the plane, {{spoiler|Ezekiel, Lindsay, Harold, Leshawna, Bridgette and DJ are at the very bottom of the pyramid. Not only are they 5 of the first 7 contestants eliminated from World Tour, they are part of the same team, ironically named [[Non-Indicative Name|Team Victory]]}}. {{spoiler|Also, the human pyramid shows Duncan next to Gwen, and NOT Courtney. Cody is not next to Gwen either. Not only do Gwen and Duncan get together, they remain together.}} {{spoiler|Ezekiel's role in the show is also foreshadowed in the end. After everyone has settled on the ground, Ezekiel unexpectedly falls to the ground. This could be symbolic of his tendency to pop out of nowhere during the season after his eliminations, esp. in the finale where suddenly reappears to steal the case from Heather before falling into a volcano.}} In the same season, {{spoiler|Alejandro's low tolerance for strange food is shown when he tries to eat the candy fish tails in Japan.}}
** Every couple formed in the first season was hinted at in the first episode; if you don't include Duncan and Courtney, within the first 8 minutes of the show.
** A possible and unusually creepy example appears in the TDRI-episode ''Grand Chef Auto'', where {{spoiler|we're transported into Mike's mind and he fights off his other personalities. However, just as it seems he has conqured them all, for a split second a black shadow of a sinister-looking Mike can be seen in the background, hinting that the worst part of Mike's psyche has yet to emerge. [[Big Bad]] for next season?}}
** Lightning wanted to be a team of one and {{spoiler|not only did he almost accomplish that before the merge, after Jo was eliminated he was the last remaining member of his team (if you don't count Scott who switched teams)}}
**In TDAS Mike was convinced that a second blow to the head would fix his odd behavior "like {{Spoiler|a rest button}}". While that didn't work, {{Spoiler|his Identity Disorder is cured by an actual Reset Button in the finale.}}
* [[Four-Fingered Hands]]: Everybody.
** Oddly, Trent's t-shirt has a ''five''-fingered handprint on it.
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** Geoff and Trent encounter testing dummies with five-fingered hands in the TDA Special.
* [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]]: The final four of ''Island''. Owen is sanguine, Gwen is phlegmatic, Heather is choleric and Duncan is melancholic.
* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: [[Granola Girl]] Dawn and [[Idol Singer]] Ella.
* [[Frying Pan of Doom]]: Chris uses one to knock Owen out during the first episode of ''World Tour''.
* [[Gender Equal Ensemble]]: The contestants are split eleven boys and eleven girls.
** One of the [[Total Drama Island/New World Tour Contestants|New World Tour Contestants]] is a boy while the other one is a girl.
** ''Revenge of the Island'' tips the scale a bit by having seven boys and six girls.
* [[Genki Girl]]: Izzy and Sierra in spades. Lindsay, Katie, and Sadie are tamer examples.
* [[Genre Savvy]]:
** Duncan and Gwen when it comes to slasher and alien monster movies.
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** Due to having watched every episode of the previous seasons, Sierra knows Heather is trying to use her, and is [[Obfuscating Stupidity|going to try and bring her down from inside the alliance!]]
** Duncan and Alejandro are applying this trope to each other.
* [[
* [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]]:
** In universe example: Japan loves the Total Drama Series, but [[Americans Hate Tingle|hates the]] ''[[Gag Dub|voices]]'' of the kids themselves.
**
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: [[Total Drama Island/Radar|It now has its own page.]] Noah puts it best, "No wonder why my little cousins aren't allowed to see this show."
* [[Girl Posse]]: Heather, Lindsay and Beth
* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: Sadie, Katie, Zoey and
* [[Girls Are Really Scared of Horror Movies]]: Averted with Gwen and to a lesser extent, Izzy.
* [[Gold Digger]]:
** Courtney in TDA. She broke up with Duncan after finally getting eliminated, THEN gets back together with him soon after he wins, even having the nerve to say "we're rich!" as if she's entitled to the prize.
** Anne Maria in TDRI. She was only attracted to Ezekiel because he gave her a {{spoiler|giant diamond. Too bad for her, it was fake.}}
* [[Gosh Hornet]]: When Lindsay has to retrieve a key that's stuck in a beehive. Izzy gets it for her by ramming her hand right into the hive, and an angry swarm chases Lindsay into a lake. Needless to say, she's not looking so hot in the next scene.
* [[Got Volunteered]]:
** DJ becomes the victim of this in the Japan episode of ''World Tour''.
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'''Noah''': Force someone to strip him down...
'''Both''': And Tyler, dude, that's you! }}
* [[Gratuitous Foreign Language]]: so far we have Spanish (courtesy of Alejandro), Japanese, and German.
* [[Green Eyed Red Head]]:
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** Gwen was also this in her original design as evidenced by the ''Camp TV'' promo.
* [[Groin Attack]]: Many, especially in the earlier episodes. Most importantly, this is how {{spoiler|Heather defeats Alejandro}} in the finale of ''World Tour''.
* [[Hair-Raising Hare]]: The [[Killer Rabbit]] in ''Search and Do Not Destroy''
* [[Handy Remote Control]] / [[Plot-Sensitive Button]]: Most commonly used by Chris as a bomb detonator.
* [[Harmless Electrocution]]: Played with in ''Jamaica Me Sweat,'' where Tyler gets a momentary shock from an [[Psycho Electric Eel|electric eel,]] and isn't hurt. Gwen, however, gets shocked by ''three'' electric eels and has to be rescued by Alejandro and taken to the infirmary. Played straight in ''The Ex-Files,'' where the guys get shocked by a laser, an electric fence, a clone pod, and an alien, in that order, and don't take any lasting damage.
* [[Hartman Hips]]: Every girl except [[Fat Girl|Sadie]], [[Big Beautiful Woman|Leshawna]], [[Impossible Hourglass Figure|Lindsay]], and [[Fat Girl|Staci]].
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* [[Heartbreak and Ice Cream]]: Sierra in "Can't Help Falling in Louvre," after finding out Cody tried to vote her off.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]:
**
** In season two, Beth and Lindsay fill this role.
** Owen and Noah in season three and the spin-off.
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: Each and every villain gets themselves eliminated due to their own faults and vanities.
* [[Hollywood Atlas]]: World Tour and The Ridonculous Race, in spades.
* [[Hollywood Healing]]: Played around with. The show relies on [[Amusing Injuries]] a lot (see: [[The Klutz|Tyler]]), but it also shows some injuries taking a realistic amount of time to heal, most notably Heather's black eye that took about 2 or 3 episodes to disappear. (see [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]])
* [[Hook Hand]]:
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** Blaineley received a pretty nasty one in season three, being thrown from the plane ''without a parachute'', trapping her in a full body cast, only for her to suffer even more when she has to represent "Team Heather" on the final Aftermath. In the finale, [[Killed Off for Real|she more likely than not died a horrible drowning]].
** Alejandro gets kicked in the balls by Heather, thrown off the volcano, trampled by the rest of the cast, is burned in the lava flow and is revived in the same manner as [[Revenge of the Sith|Darth Vader]].
**Scott is badly injured from a boulder trap and then mauled by Fang so badly that he had to revived in a similar manner to Alejandro. He is then the designated [[Butt Monkey]] of the next season.
* [[Hypocrite]]: Almost every single character has a [[Hypocrite]] moment at some point of the series, but arguably Courtney rates highest in this regard. In the fear challenge, she forces everyone to man up and face their fears to score points for their team, but once her time to face her fear came, she chickened out, costing her team the win. She also talked about playing and winning the game fairly, yet in Action, she forced her way into the game through her lawyers and gave herself numerous perks that gave her an unfair advantage. She also called Owen out on "unfairly getting back into the contest" when she herself did the same thing.
* [[I Lied]]: Chris, when he said that anyone voted off could never come back to the island.
* [[Idiot Ball]]: Leshawna early in ''Island''. Leaving [[Big Eater|Owen]] to guard the food alone? ''Really''?
* [[I'm Not Here to Make Friends]]: Heather, of course. Scott fulfills this trope in ''Revenge of the Island''. Being a spoof of a Reality TV program, this is pretty much par for the course.
** Jo has moments of this, too, but it's more that she has a temper.
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Cody in "Dodgebrawl".
* [[Improvised Zipline]]: Used by every member of Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot in order to cross a river filled with piranhas.
** Alejandro uses his belt.
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** Tyler uses his pants, but halfway down the line they end up [[Stealth Pun|catching fire]].
** Izzy places Noah in a backpack, wears it, and then slides across using the straps.
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]:
** When reading The History of Canada, Chris says that the North American beaver makes "a '''dam''' fine hat."
** Apparently this joke flew right over the heads of the American censors and the line was changed to "a '''real''' fine hat."
* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: Heather crosses into this territory in World Tour, when it becomes obvious that she'd really like to get on with the backstabbing, but [[Genre Savvy|nobody will give her a chance]].
* [[Inferred Holocaust]]: In the final episode of TDWT.
* [[Informed Ability]]: Oh boy. One wonders if the writers even ''read'' the character biographies at any point.
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** Trent, who has musical experience and is even the lead singer of a band, does not compete in the music-centered ''World Tour''.
** Alejandro, the season's antagonist, eliminates every male contestant (with the sole exception of Ezekiel) in ''World Tour'', even though his charms were to influence women.
* [[
* [[It Tastes Like Feet]]: After kissing Duncan in ''Total Drama Action'', Heather disgustedly declares that he "tastes like street!".
* [[It's Raining Men]]: The theme song for Total Drama World Tour features the castmates falling off the Jet, parachuting to the ground and landing safely ...Except Ezekiel.
* [[Jerkass]]: Almost every single character has at least one [[Jerkass]] moment during the course of the series, but some just take the entire cake.
** Chris. He holds very little regard for the contestants (and even less for the interns) and often laughs at their misfortune. The only reason he ever worries that the contestants might die is because the show would be canceled if they did.
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** [[Bigger Bad|Blaineley from the ''World Tour'' aftermath rivals Chris himself,]] taking sadistic glee in emotionally torturing Geoff and Bridgette.
** [[Token Evil Teammate|Scott]], who often resorts to [[Team Killer|destroying his own team]] to get ahead, [[The Sociopath|showing no remorse for his actions.]]
**Amy, who sees her sister Samey as less than dirt and convinces nearly everyone else to do the same.
**The Ice Dancers, who will do ''whatever it takes'' to secure first place. Even Don is disgusted by their underhanded tactics.
* [[Jive Turkey]]: Leshawna, and on some occasions, Ezekiel.
* [[Just Friends]]: Leshawna on her relationship with Harold
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* [[Kick Chick]]: Gwen near the end of ''Hook, Line, and Screamer.''
* [[Kick the Dog]]: Almost every character does this at some point.
* [[Kick the Son of a Bitch]]: Gwen and Leshawna to Heather
* [[Killer Rabbit]]:
**
** The pandas and baby seals from ''World Tour''.
** The attack corgis from ''I See London'' are an inversion.
**
**Invoked, both straight and inverted versions, by a Blue Harvest Moon in ''All Stars.''
**Literally '''all''' the animals in ''Pahkitew Island''. {{Spoiler|They're actually robots, but still.}}
* [[Know Your Vines]]: Katie and Sadie both squat in poison ivy to pee. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Happens quite regularly, given the [[Troperrific]] nature of the show.
* [[Larynx Dissonance]]: DJ's mom is voiced by the same person who also voices her son and Chef.
* [[Laser Hallway]]: Used in ''Dial M for Merger''. ''Can't Help Falling In Louvre.'. and ''Scarlett Fever
* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: Every antagonist ends up suffering from this, which always leads to a [[Humiliation Conga]].
** In Sugar's case, though it doesn't result in her elimination, she decides to push Sky off a cliff to ensure that she won't be eliminated due to scoring last place in the challenge. Unfortunately for her, Sky ends up receiving a free ride to the top from one of the robot crocodiles.
* [[Last-Minute Hookup]]: Leshawna and Harold
**
* [[Late Arrival Spoiler]]:
** Advertisements inevitably indicate who the remaining contestants are by showing scenes from upcoming episodes, and promotional material during or after a season finale tends to be rather direct about naming the finalists. The worst example is an ad for the third season that revealed the two finalists of the second...when the second season was still in progress with six contestants remaining.
** Some [[TV Guide]]-esque website posted small paragraphs about each episode. Oh, don't worry, the paragraphs don't ''reveal'' anything about the episode they're ''talking'' about: just who was eliminated in the last one.
* [[Latin Lover]]: Alejandro, he even says that his Latin blood keeps him hot in the snow.
* [[Laxative Prank]]:
** Heather does this in the fake finale of the first season. She offers Gwen a laxative-spiked cupcake. {{Spoiler|Unfortunately for everyone wanting Owen to win, Owen eats the cupcake instead...}}
** In the second season, the pizza they all (well, everyone but Leshawna, because "dairy and [her] do not agree.") eat is laced with itching powder and laxatives.
* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]: Chris reads the card that tells the audience not to try the stunts in the show because they were performed by animated teens.
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** Brick has a military drum leitmotif.
* [[Lethal Chef]]:
**
** Also played with by DJ's Momma. She has a seasoning blend that can make any disgusting food palatable; however, when she gets her own cooking show, her cooking is ''literally'' lethal.
**
* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: The characters wear the same outfit 90% of the time, though they are shown in sleepwear/underwear/swimwear when appropriate.
* [[Lisa Needs Braces]]: Beth. She gets them off before the second season.
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** This one actually got started in season one. Cody liked Gwen, who liked and hooked up with Trent, who Heather kissed to make sure he'd be eliminated. Then in season two, Cody left, Trent went insane while Gwen started getting closer to Duncan, and everything went downhill once Courtney came back in the middle of the season...
* [[Love Triangle]]: Several, particularly in season three: Gwen/Duncan/Courtney, Heather/Alejandro/Courtney, Sierra/Cody/Gwen, and possibly Duncan/Gwen/Trent.
**
**Sky/Dave/Ella in ''Pahkitew Island''.
* [[Make-Out Kids]]: Geoff and Bridgette were [[Flanderization|flanderized]] into this in ''Total Drama Action''; however, it's downplayed in ''World Tour''.
* [[Male Frontal Nudity]]: Owen, [[Fan Disservice|far too often]]. Also happens to Duncan in "One Million Bucks, B.C." and Lightning in "The Enchanted Franken-Forest". Don in "I Love Ridonc & Roll". All instances are [[Pixelation|pixelated]].
* [[Maniac Monkeys]]: Mandrills attack the contestants in "African Lying Safari", and DJ gets attacked by some in "The Am-AH-zon Race".
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Chris in spades. Heather in ''Island'', Justin, Duncan and Courtney all in ''Action'', Alejandro in ''World Tour'' and Scott in ''Revenge of the Island'', Mal in ''All Stars'', and Amy and Sugar in ''Pahkitew Island''.
* [[Manly Tears]]
{{quote|'''DJ:''' ''(to Chef after Duncan's performance makes him cry)'' You're gonna teach me how to be tough? ''(snickers)''
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** Cody falls into the Statue of Liberty's robe. It was cut out of the US version.
** Also, he gets this treatment many times by Sierra
* [[Mass "Oh Crap"]]: All the contestants get one when their bus starts heading towards a cliff and Team Amazon gets one when
* [[Mean Character, Nice Actor]]: Thanks to Christian Potenza's series of [http://www.youtube.com/user/TheChristianPotenza video interviews] of the series' voice cast, we can see that behind the voices of all the [[Jerkass]]es and [[Alpha Bitch]]es populating the show are some of the nicest people in entertainment, particularly Rachel Wilson (Heather), Emilie-Claire Barlow (Courtney), and Drew Nelson (Duncan).
* [[Meaningful Name]]:
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** "[[Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette|Gwen]]" means "white" or "fair."
** Trent? How about [[Nine Inch Nails|Trent Reznor?]] Brings his obsession with the number 9 into a different perspective, doesn't it?
* [[Meat-O-Vision]]: Owen starts hallucinating that his teammates (and Chris) are food items after he gets injured (and then locked in a safe) in ''"Ocean's Eight-Or Nine"''.
* [[Messy Pig]]: In ''I Triple Dog Dare You!'' Heather gets cannon blasted into a pigs' mudpile.
* [[Mid-Battle Tea Break]]: The Confession Cam pretty much serves as this. How else do you explain someone being able to make their way back to it when they're located miles away and in the middle of the challenge?
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** Sam demonstrates his [[Super Reflexes]] in "Runaway Model" by unbaiting one without setting it off. He ends up setting off half a dozen other traps because he accidentally stepped on the trap he just undone.
** Scott finds one in Chris' garbage bag after drawing an undesirable objective in "Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon".
**Duncan finds one in the pancakes in "Food Fright".
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Duncan, Trent, Justin, and Alejandro.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]:
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** Ditto again with {{spoiler|Heather and Alejandro}} in Total Drama World Tour.
** Ditto again with {{spoiler|Cameron and Lightning}} in Total Drama: Revenge of the Island.
**{{Spoiler|Mike and Zoey}} in Total Drama All-Stars.
**{{Spoiler|Sky and Shawn}} in Total Drama: Pahkitew Island.
**{{Spoiler|The Surfer Dudes and the Police Cadets}} in Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race.
* [[Muppet Cameo]]: In ''This is How We Will End it''.
* [[Must Make Her Laugh|Must Make Him Laugh]]: Owen spends the entirety of ''I See London'' trying to make Noah laugh, because "Noah's the funniest guy [he] knows" and Owen wants to "top his honor roll!". [[Ho Yay]] aside, it's actually rather sweet (especially coming from Owen) and
* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]: Played straight in the commercial for the finale, basically referring to the final three contestants as
* [[Naked People Are Funny]]: Unfortunately, it's Owen in this case, though most of the other teens get a [[Pixelation|pixelated]] nudity shot sooner or later in ''Action''.
* [[The Napoleon]]: Duncan.
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** Tyler's incredible finger strength.
** This one is an odd case, because it appeared out of nowhere, was reused in another challenge in a later episode, and then wasn't even REFERENCED when he tried to punch through a metal door.
* [[Nice Guy]]: Geoff (first and third season), Owen, DJ, Trent, Cody,
{{quote|'''Gwen:''' (to Owen) Have you ever had a bad thought about ''anyone?''}}
* [[Nice Hat]]:
** Ezekiel's toque
** World Tour has a lot of these (depending on the country they visit) like Pickelhaubes in the Alps.
**Tom from The Ridonculous Race attempted to promote fezzes.
* [[No Guy Wants to Be Chased]]: Mixed with [[Hypocritical Humor]] when it comes to Sierra and Cody.{{Quote|She's like the stalker girlfriend I always thought I wanted ... until I got one.}}
* [["No. Just... No" Reaction]]: Tyler utters this when seeing the hairstyles Lindsay gives him in ''Can't Help Falling In Louvre.''
* [[No OSHA Compliance]]:
** Camp Wawanakwa after Chris rents it out as a dumping ground to a "nice, family-oriented" bio-hazardous waste disposal company. It also suffers from "No EPA Compliance" due to the adverse effects of said waste to the local fauna and flora.
** The abandoned film lot in ''Action'' may qualify.
* [[Nobody Can Die]]: Exaggerated. [[Reality Ensues|Except when it comes to]] [[Red Shirt|interns]].
* [[Non Gameplay Elimination]]:
** Two in the second season. One quit and one ejection, though neither are normal.
** The third season had
** ''Revenge of the Island'' sees
**''All Stars'' has {{Spoiler|Duncan getting arrested and Cameron leaving as a result of severe injury.}}
**A number of eliminations in ''Pahkitew Island'': {{Spoiler|Amy getting framed by her sister for receiving the majority vote, Ella being disqualified by a personal rule Chris invoked, Scarlett after a failed attempt to underhandedly obtain the million dollars, and Max simply because Chris was sick of "evil" contestants.}}
**And for ''The Ridonculous Race'', {{Spoiler|the Best Friends after Devin is severely injured.}}
* [[Not Good with People]]: Beth is the first type. Her [[All There in the Manual|character bio]] indicates that she genuinely wants to fit in with people, but only really understands how to deal with farm animals.
* [[Not So Different]]:
** Never said on the show but reading the character bios at Teletoon and Cartoon Network reveals how similar several characters are. Like Heather and Courtney.
* [[Not the Fall That Kills You]]: The very first challenge involved the campers jumping off a ''thousand''-foot cliff into water below. Just try complaining about any unrealistic injuries after that.
* [[Notable Original Music]]
* [[Not-So-Imaginary Friend]]: Beth's boyfriend, Brady.
* [[Obviously Evil]]: Alejandro.
* [[Odd Friendship]]:
** [[The Cheerleader|Lindsay]] and [[Not Good with People|Beth]] in ''Island'' and ''Action'', [[Goth|Gwen]] and [[Nice Guy|Geoff]] during the end of ''Island'', [[The Big Guy|Owen]] and [[Deadpan Snarker|Noah]], [[Genki Girl|Izzy]] and [[Only Sane Man|Noah]], [[Lovable Jock|Tyler]] and [[Extroverted Nerd|Harold]] in ''World Tour'', [[Geek|Sam]] and [[Spoiled Sweet|Dakota]] in ''Revenge of the Island''.
** [[Loony Fan|Sierra]] and [[Dogged Nice Guy|Cody]], in spite of his initial fear of her, after
**A number of teams in ''The Ridonculous Race''.
* [[Off-Model]]: Some of the character heights vary a bit for particular scenes, and that's just the tamer part. Heather has been drawn [http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101125133724/totaldramaisland/images/7/7b/TrentTossHeather.png with her original hair] early in ''Action'', when she was supposed to be bald, and Katie was once ''[http://images.wikia.com/totaldramaisland/images/e/ed/Katie%27s_Missing_Arm_Goof.PNG missing an arm.]''
* [[Oh Crap]]: ''Everyone'' does this at some point or another. If we listed all the examples we would be here all day.
** Just about every contestant that winds up in the bottom 2 for elimination automatically reverts to this expression. It becomes quite satisfying when this happens to a villain.
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Cody, Beth, Cameron and Dawn.
* [[One Steve Limit]]: Played straight until the 12th episode of ''Revenge of the Island'', where one of the [[Red Shirt|interns]] is named Josh. Another character named Josh appeared as Blaineley's co-host in ''Celebrity Manhunt'', only appearing in the ''Action'' special so far. Considering the series has [[Loads and Loads of Characters|more than 40 named main and recurring characters]], this is rather impressive.
* [[One-Letter Name]]: B. Subverted in ''Truth or Laser Shark'' where we find out that it really stands for B{{spoiler|everly}}.
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: "Emily" The Flight Attendant from the fourth aftermath of ''Action'' is quite popular, often being paired with "Billy" the intern.
* [[Only One Name]]:
** Everyone except Chris, Chef, Harold, Cody, DJ, Alejandro, and Blaineley.
** Among the new cast, Brick and Dakota had their last names revealed.
** B has a one ''letter'' name. Well, until we find out it actually stands for B{{spoiler|everly.}}
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Noah throughout the entire series. Gwen and Trent during the first season. Dave {{Spoiler|(or so he thinks)}} in Season 5.2.
* [[Operation: Jealousy]]: Employed for three episodes in a row in season three.
* [[Out of Focus]]: Eva, Katie, and Sadie are the most egregious examples, as they do not get any attention in ''Action'' and ''World Tour'' outside of the Aftermaths.
** Ezekiel, Cody, Noah, and Tyler during ''Action'', but they receive [[Character Focus|focus]] and [[Character Development|development]] during ''World Tour''.
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** Surprisingly averted: DJ for example is non-white and is a total coward. Leshawna (who is black) has gone through a lot of emotional and physical pain. Cameron was a bubble boy until shortly before the competition and finds out the hard way that a butterfly was too ''heavy'' to rest on his head (though, his character was given a [[Race Lift]] in pre-production, so it's unknown if he was always like that.)
** Played straight in ''World Tour''. Team Amazon, which consists of mostly females ([[My Friends and Zoidberg|and Cody]]), won most of the challenges.
* [[Pound of Flesh Twist]]:
* [[Power Trio]]: The show loves this trope. [[Freudian Trio|Geoff, DJ and Duncan]] (season 1), [[Token Trio|Leshawna, Trent and Gwen]] (season 1), [[The Hecate Sisters|Heather, Lindsay and Beth]] (season 1), [[Beauty, Brains, and Brawn|Heather, Courtney and Gwen]] (season 3) and Cameron, Mike and Zoey (seasons 4 and 5.1).
* [[Precap]]
* [[Pretty Fly for a White Guy]]:
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** Also, Ezekiel as a wannabe gangsta.
* [["Previously On..."]]
* [[Prop Recycling]]:
** The wings that Tyler and Cody used in "Greece's Pieces" turn up again in "Up, Up and Away in My Pitiful Balloon", used by Scott in the flying challenge.
** In the same episode, the wings Zoey taped onto her swan boat? They're the wings on Gwen's bike from "That's Off the Chain!"
** Izzy's crown from her second audition tape is worn by Courtney as part of her princess outfit in "The Princess Pride".
* [[Properly Paranoid]]: In ''World Tour,'' it turns out that Courtney's and Trent's fears that Duncan and Gwen were becoming more than friends were pretty understandable after all.
* [[Psycho for Hire]]: Chef Hatchet, and in a way Duncan.
* [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!]]
{{quote|'''Sierra:''' "I! WANT! MY! KISS!"/"RESPECT! MY! CODY!"
'''Tyler:''' "NEVER! LEAVE! A MAN! BEHIND!"
'''Chris:''' "TOTAL! DRAMA! [ISLAND!/ACTION!/WORLD TOUR!/REVENGE OF THE ISLAND!/ALL-STARS!/PAHKITEW ISLAND!]" }}
* [[Put on a Bus]]:
** Izzy and Eva [[The Bus Came Back|reappeared]] once the teams were disbanded, though Eva [[Back for the Dead|gets kicked off in the exact same episode]].
** This is what
* [[Putting a Hand Over His Mouth]]: Sierra does this to Gwen in "The Am-AH-Zon Race".
* [[Pyrrhic Victory]]:
**
** Also,
* [[The Quiet One]]: Justin only has TWO LINES of dialogue in the first season (not counting TDDDDI), and they were both in the first episode. It didn't help much that he was one of the earlier people to be voted off(Episode 5).
* [[Rashomon Style]]: One of the show's [[Total Drama Island/Funny|funniest moments]] is the way DJ retells the mummy-dog incident he had in Egypt.
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* [[Read the Fine Print]]: Chris has all of the campers under contract, and uses the fine print to force them into season 2, dumping heaps of abuse on them without repercussions; no court in any sane world would let such contracts stand.
* [[Reality TV Show Mansion]]: In Chris' new, fake show, "Total Drama Dirtbags." According to Noah, it's entire premise is, "A bunch of jerks live in a huge mansion and get all bored and backstabby."
* [[Record Needle Scratch]]: Used in "The Ex-Files" in the scene with Tyler and the alien. Beardo does one when Dave asks him to stop the imitation fanfare.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]:
* [[Red Shirt]]: The interns. One of them got eaten by sharks (presumably), another one got eaten by scarabs, another two got eaten by bears, two more got frozen in a river in the Yukon, another one got attacked by Courtney when he was in a hot air balloon, another one got pushed off a 100-foot diving board by Chef, one had to go through therapy for months after being cursed at by Izzy, and that's not even counting what probably happened to more interns off-screen.
** Dakota becomes a [[Mauve Shirt]] after her elimination and her dad pays Chris a large bribe.
* [[Revenge of the Sequel]]: Subverted in that the title of Season FOUR, rather than Season Two, is subtitled like this with respect to Season One.
* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]: DJ's bunny, the chipmunks, the squirrels, and even the skunks.
* [[Ring Ring CRUNCH]]: The first morning after Brick switches over to the Toxic Rats, his alarm clock wakes the other guys up extremely early and they all try to get rid of or destroy it.
* [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies]]: Subverted at the end of World Tour. At the beginning of Revenge of the Island, everyone is seen on a yacht, still alive.
**
* [[Rocky Roll Call]]: In the episode "Are We There Yeti?" the four remaining campers get stuck in a cave after running from Sasquatchanakwa --
{{quote|'''Owen:''' Duncan?
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** A one-episode gag in World Tour: 3 times the women go into the confession bathroom, and say something embarrassing involving a love interest, which is immediately followed by an extreme closeup and them exclaiming "I want that tape back! Give me the tape! How do I ''open'' this thing?"
** "This person will be taking the Drop of Shame! ...Or, they would be, (if this wasn't a reward challenge/[[Rule of Drama|because they'll stir up drama]]/[[Screw the Rules, I Make Them|because I feel like it]]!)
**"The last team to reach the Carpet of Completion ''may'' be cut from the competition."
* [[Sacred First Kiss]]: Subverted hard with Cody, in his [[Be Careful What You Wish For|first kiss]] on the show. He even vomited in the confessional.
* [[Sadist Show]]: Keeps becoming more and more like this. ''World Tour'' fully qualifies as one while ''Revenge of the Island'' takes it [[Up to Eleven]]. Later seasons take it even further...
* [[Scary Black Man]]: [[Lethal Chef|Chef]] [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Hatchet]]
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Connections]]:
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* [[Screw the Rules, I Make Them]]: Chris. [[Rule of Funny|All the way.]]
* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful]]:
** In the second
** Lindsay does a minor version of this in the first episode, when she asks Chris if she could have a cabin with an ocean view since she's the prettiest camper.
* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: Zig-zagged; it's played straight is some instances but subverted in others. Duncan in ''World Tour'' and Anne Maria in ''Revenge of the Island'' play it straight, while Heather in ''Island'' and Zoey in ''Revenge of the Island'' threaten to walk out on a challenge; however, they were convinced to participate.
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* [[Shock and Awe]]: The furless mutant squirrel from ''Revenge of the Island'' can shoot lightning out of its [[Eye Beams|eyes]].
* [[Shocking Elimination]]:
**
** Lampshaded by Chris during
{{quote|'''Chris:''' Okay, that was a shocker. I was shocked, and I knew the answer!}}
* [[Shoo Out the Clowns]]:
* [[Short Run in Peru]]:
** World Tour episodes premiered first in Australia, and future episodes have been leaked out of Youtube ever since.
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* [[Sickly Green Glow]]: Izzy gets one in World Tour after jumping into a radioactive box. She's disappointed there's no radio inside.
* [[Single-Minded Twins|Single Minded Friends]]: Katie and Sadie. Trent even points out that they snore together, one breathing in with the other one completing the snore.
* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: Courtney and Duncan, and later Heather and Alejandro.
* [[Slapstick]]
* [[Slapstick Knows No Gender]]
* [[Sleep Cute]]: A few characters in ''The Big Sleep'' (naturally), Duncan/Courtney and Bridgette/Geoff in ''The Sucky Outdoors'', Harold/Leshawna and Noah/Cody (along with Duncan/Courtney again) in the ''Action'' special ''Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Reunion''.
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** Courtney.
* [[Smarmy Host]]: Chris, taken to humourously sociopathic levels.
* [[Snap Back]]: Most character's injuries are undone in the transition to the following episode. Exceptions include any case where the character lost their hair, the tooth Heather lost from Leshawna beating her up in "Slap Slap Revolution," which had to be replaced with a golden tooth for the remainder of the season, and
* [[Solo Duet]]: Alejandro with his puppet self in [[Villain Song|"This Is How We Will End It]]."
* [[Something That Begins With Boring]]: In ''Camp Castaways''
* [[Southern-Fried Genius]]: The resident [[Butt Monkey]], Ezekiel, seems to be this. It even states in his [[All There in the Manual|online bio]] that he's a typical TV [[Homeschooled Kids|Homeschooled Kid]], who can speak eight languages and was a National Spelling Bee champion. Albeit [[Informed Attribute|we don't see this in the show]], since the writers [[Out of Focus|don't give him much screen time]].
* [[Speaks Fluent Animal]]:
** Izzy does this in the second episode of ''World Tour'' with a camel. No, really. She even named it Ruby.
** Dawn in ''Revenge of the Island''.
* [[Spit Take]]:
** Chris does this to Noah after the latter gives him a cold latté.
** Heather does one when Chris informs her that she has to battle a Sumo wrestler in ''"Phobia Factor"''.
* [[Spoiled Sweet]]: Lindsay, Cody, and Dakota.
* [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad]]:
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** Gwen and Courtney are also fairly notorious, particularly because of the [[Love Triangle]] between them and Duncan in ''Action'' and ''World Tour''.
** Lindsay and Leshawna also tend to get focused on a lot during the first two seasons, mostly due to their conflicts with Heather and Courtney; however, the two are [[Out of Focus|eliminated]] from ''World Tour'' early on.
**
* [[Squee]]: Katie, Sadie, and Sierra are big time squee-queens. Lindsay (and Beth, to a lesser extent) also have some moments.
* [[Stab the Salad]]: Harold does a non-violent variation of this during "Super Happy Crazy Fun Time in Japan". When selecting a someone to vote off he dramatically raises his passport-stamper over his teammates passports and then brings it down... onto a deflated beach ball.
* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Sierra for most of the cast, but ''especially'' Cody. She mentions having called members of his family pretending to be a telemarketer.
{{quote|'''[[Deadpan Snarker|Noah]]''': ''(in complete monotone)'' Ooh, stalker-licious.
'''Cody''': She's like the stalker girlfriend I always wished I had... until I ''got'' one! }}
* [[Stealth Pun]]:
** In the intro to ''World Tour'', Gwen crashes into Duncan and Courtney's [[Shipping|boat]].
** Alejandro calls Owen, "Butter donkey". "Butter" is "fat" and "donkey" is "ass". [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|Think about it.]]
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: The Ice Dancers, at least early on. They attribute this to never knowing when they'll be on camera for their "fans" to see.
**Chris in "A Blast from the Past", as a side effect of using Slowtox to look younger.
*[[Stock Scream]]: The girl screaming in the slasher film in "Hook, Line, and Screamer". The same scream is used after Dakota falls into the mudpit in "Truth or Laser Shark".
* [[Strange Minds Think Alike]]
* [[Stripperiffic]]: A good chunk of the female cast, but especially Heather and Izzy.
* [[Stupid Sexy Flanders]]: Owen to Justin.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: In
** Brick and Rodney to DJ (
** Dakota to Lindsay (both are rich, spoiled dumb blondes).
** Dawn, Ella and the Vegans to Bridgette and DJ (all
** Jo to Eva (both are jock-ettes).
** Alejandro
** Sierra to Katie and Sadie (all three often [[Squee|squeal]] and are an [[Abhorrent Admirer]] to somebody).
**Dave to Noah (both are [[Deadpan Snarker|Deadpan Snarkers]] who see themselves as the [[Only Sane Man]] on the island)
**Beardo to Staci (both are eliminated first for emitting annoying audio nonstop)
**The Geniuses to Cameron (all three have high intelligence as their defining traits)
**Taylor to Amy/Kelly to Samey (two pairs of family members where one picks on the other {{Spoiler|... until they're fed up}})
**The Adversity Twins to Cameron (all three are physically frail - in fact, [[Development Gag|the Twins use Cameron's old design]])
**Brody to Geoff (no explaining necessary)
* [[Sympathetic Adulterer]]: Duncan and Gwen, depending mostly on your opinion of Courtney or them.
* [[Take a Third Option]]:
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* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: When Chef Hatchet kills Mr. Coconut at the beginning of ''Camp Castaways''
* [[Thermometer Gag]]: "One Flu Over the Cuckoos" does this. When everyone but Leshawna and Duncan are sick, Duncan attempts to put a rectal thermometer in Harold's mouth.
* [[They Plotted a Perfectly Good Waste]]: The buried alive conflict between Gwen and Trent from season one. It was incredibly flimsy and came up in random times, as Gwen wanted to be in the same boat as Trent by the episode after Trent left her buried alive, but suddenly the entire conflict comes up again three episodes later. And after that the entire thing just dissolves and is never brought up again.
* [[Thick Line Animation]]
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** "The Am-AH-zon Race" almost feels like the writers are apologizing to Team Victory, not only giving them the win but giving them the least amount of trouble throughout the hike.
** After a season and a half of forgetting who he was, Lindsay FINALLY remembered Tyler in "Slap Slap Revolution", and it brought back their relationship.
**"Finders Creepers" and "The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean" for the Toxic Rats. The latter is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by Chris:
{{Quote|The Rats win ... for a change!}}
* [[Time Skip]]: ''The Ridonculous Race'' takes place three years after the original series, while the 2023 reboot takes place 15 years after the original series.
* [[Tiny Guy, Huge Girl]]: Cody and Sierra. Shawn and Jasmine. {{spoiler|Sam and Dakota after the latter's mutation.}}
* [[Toilet Humour|Toilet Humor]]: [[Creator's Pet|Owen's]] main schtick, besides [[Big Eater|fat jokes]].
* [[Token Minority]]: Averted. Thirteen cast members are black (DJ, Chef Hatchet, Leshawna, Cameron, Anne Maria, Lightning, B, Beardo, Leonard, Jen, Sanders and the Daters), four are Asian (Heather, Devin and the Sisters), three are Indian (Noah, Dave and Ellody), three Hispanic (Alejandro, Courtney and Brody), one's native Hawaiian (Justin), two are Italian (Mike and Lorenzo), one is Australian (Jasmine) and one's probably interracial (Sierra mentions that her grandparents are German implying at least one white parent).
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: There are several pairings.
** Within the Killer Bass
** Within the Screaming Gophers and later, the Killer Grips
** Within Team Victory: Bridgette (tomboy) and Lindsay (girly girl).
** Within Team Amazon: Sierra and Gwen (tomboys) to Heather and Courtney (girly girls).
** Within the Mutant Maggots
**Within the Villainous Vultures: Gwen and Jo (tomboys) to Heather and Courtney (girly girls).
**Within the Wâneyihtam Maskwak: Sugar (tomboy) and Ella (girly girl).
**The Sisters: Emma (tomboy) and Kitty (girly girl).
* [[Tongue on the Flagpole]]: Bridgette gets her tongue stuck to a flagpole in ''"Anything Yukon Do, I Can Do Better"'' in ''World Tour''.
* [[Tonight Someone Kisses]]
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]:
** Lindsay and Dakota.
**
* [[Too Quirky to Lose]]: {{Spoiler|Owen, who wasn't physically fit, wasn't very smart, and often times was [[The Load]] for his cabin,}} won the first season.
* [[Too Soon]]: The reason ''Revenge of the Island'' was postponed. It was originally meant to air in the middle of 2011, but after the Tohoku earthquake and nuclear reactor failure, the creators decided to re-edit the show to tone down or remove a lot of the references to radioactivity. The whole process took enough time to end up pushing the airdates into 2012.
* [[Took a Level in Jerkass]]:
** Geoff, Justin, Courtney, and to a lesser extent, Leshawna, Owen and Beth in ''Action''.
** Geoff has now toned down the jerkiness, only for Duncan, Cody and possibly Gwen to have gained a level in it.
* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]:
** The ad for one late season two episode revealed that {{spoiler|Owen would return}}. They also shot themselves in the foot by {{spoiler|putting his name into two of the episode titles}}.
** Subverted hard in the commercials showing before ''Island'' went live. They mention that
** The trailer for Total Drama, the Musical (not called "World Tour" at the time), which was released midway through Total Drama Action, basically spoiled the ''Action'' special by giving away the arrival of Alejandro and Sierra, and which of the campers would not be returning.
** Most of the ''World Tour'' previews and trailers have large scale group shots which pretty much confirm which characters make it up to what episode, due to the incredibly obvious backgrounds (pyramids, the Eiffel Tower) most viewers found it extremely easy to deduce exactly which episodes each character is present in.
** They also told us that Izzy and Sierra would switch teams after the first episode of ''World Tour''. However, In their defense, it was only in the next episode.
** And also Duncan returning to ''World Tour'' despite quitting earlier on.
** The trailer for the France episode of ''World Tour'' included a shot of
** [[Rule of Three|Another]] ''World Tour'' trailer ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I4jHKnLAlg this one]) showed off
* [[Everyone Hates Mimes|Trent Hates Mimes]]
* [[Troperrific]]: Obviously, since it's meant to be a lampooning of contemporary reality shows.
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** When pushed too far, Zoey.
* [[Tuck and Cover]]: When the jet explodes in ''Awwwwww, Drumheller'' Alejandro is seen shielding Heather from the blast.
* [[Ungrateful Bastard]]:
** Cody towards Sierra.
** In the special, Duncan wrestles an alligator for Courtney to get back the case with the $1,000,000 in it. Seconds later, he sprains his ankle and she runs off with the case.
** Izzy carries Ezekiel (whom she mistook for a "[[Freaky Is Cool|cool]]" Egyptian mummy) out of a collapsing pyramid, indirectly allowing him to complete the challenge. His response? He struggles to get away from her and doesn't even acknowledge the rescue, let alone thank her for it.
**The Ice Dancers force MacArthur to compromise her attitude toward them, only to cut off their end of the deal.
* [[The Un-Reveal]]: How Duncan landed in Juvie, and some other juicy bits about Heather and Gwen (IF that's her real name).
* [[The Un-Smile]]:
** Heather does one in ''World Tour'' when Sierra invites her for a group hug.
** Eva does one in the alternate ending of ''Island'' after {{spoiler|Gwen wins.}}
* [[Unspoken Plan Guarantee]]: Anytime someone tries to get an antagonist voted off. If it's the antagonist organizing the vote, it goes off without a hitch.
* [[Unwitting Instigator of Doom]]: Owen to Trent, with his advice about how to please Gwen. Also Tyler in "Greeces' Pieces"
* [[Up to Eleven]]: According to the creators, one of the main ideas behind the show: to take a bunch of elements from shows like ''[[Survivor]]'' and ''Fear Factor'' and ramp it up to impossible things like jumping off the thousand foot cliff, "because it's animation and we can get away with stuff like that".
* [[Urban Legend of Zelda]]: When Island ended, there were rumors going around that characters other than Owen or Gwen had won in certain countries. The most extreme example would be [[We Hardly Knew Ye|''Ezekiel'']] in certain parts of Asia.
* [[Vasquez Always Dies]]: Hotheaded tomboy Eva is the first girl to be voted off.
* [[Verbal Tic]]:
** Ezekiel. Yo, he's the only one that talks like a stereotypical [[Canada, Eh?|Canadian, eh]]?
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* [[The Voiceless]]: B.
** In ''Action'', Ezekiel and Tyler fill in this role because they do not speak at all in the season(not counting CMTDARS).
* [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot]]
** A few [[Vomit Discretion Shot]]s too.
** There was also a couple of cases of [[Vomit Chain Reaction]]
* [[Voted Off the Island]]
* [[We Can Rule Together]]: Alejandro {{spoiler|offers this to Heather as a way to prove his love, "Together we can take over the world," then she [[Groin Attack|rejected it]].}}
* [[We Cannot Go on Without You]]: Several challenges are lost this way, such as Chris refusing Team Chris Is Really, Really, Really, Really Hot from continuing the Amazon challenge while they were missing Owen.
* [[We Will Not Use Photoshop in the Future|We Do Not Use Photoshop In The Present]]: The photo Alejandro fabricated to make Sierra vote for Heather.
* [[We Will Meet Again]]: Ezekiel delivers one while managing to hang on to the plane after his ''World Tour'' elimination.
{{quote|'''Ezekiel:''' I'm not going anywhere! This game's mine, eh! MINE!}}
* [[Whale Egg]]: Mutant fire-breathing goat eggs are part of the challenge in "Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon".
{{quote|'''Cameron:''' [[Lampshade Hanging|Goats don't lay eggs.]]
'''Chris:''' They also don't breathe fire. Unless they live here. }}
* [[Wham! Episode]]:
** ''I See London'', in which everything was fairly normal until
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: Songs about a person [[Tongue on the Flagpole|stuck to a pole]], stripping down guards ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]), shearing sheep, and others never were so awesome.
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]:
** What happened to Brady?
** What happened to DJ's second pet bunny?
** In Action:
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Cute?]]:
** Duncan gets his pet tarantula sent to him near the end of ''Action''. No amount of Duncan [[Right-Hand-Cat|holding and stroking it]] or [[Pet the Dog|genuinely showing affection for it]] could have protected it.
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* [[William Telling]]: Inverted in an episode of '''''Total Drama Island''''' where the contestants have to shoot crabapples from a slingshot in order to knock arrows off their partner's head.
* [[With Friends Like These...]]: In ''Anything Yukon Do, I Can Do Better'' Bridgette gets her tongue frozen stuck to a pole. It doesn't even seem to occur to her close friends Gwen and Courtney to help. Okay, she was on a different team but still, that's [[Incredibly Lame Pun|pretty cold.]]
* [[The Worf Effect]]: Team Victory in ''World Tour''. Among their advantages in the competition, they had six people on their team, while the other teams had five, of those six, five of them were in the final 10 in ''Island and/or ''Action'' and competed in the first three seasons.'' Despite this, Team Victory was quickly wiped out in six straight elimination episodes. Four of those eliminations were caused by the new [[Big Bad]] Alejandro to quickly establish how much of a threat he was.
* [[World Gone Mad]]: While the universe they exist in is relatively sane, the Total Drama show-verse is very much this. [[Only Sane Man|Saner]] characters like Gwen will occasionally [[Lampshade Hanging|hang a lampshade]] on how odd and/or psychopathic almost everyone related to the show is.
* [[World Limited to the Plot]]
* [[Would Hit a Girl]]:
** Duncan explicitly states that he has no issues with fighting a girl. {{spoiler|Doesn't stop Courtney from kicking his butt though.}}
** Likewise, Cody attacks Courtney during the ''World Tour'' finale,
** A more comical version would be Harold, who has had slapfights with both Heather and Courtney in ''Action'' and ''Island'' respectively.
* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]:
** Justin invokes this near the end of the ''Action'' episode ''The Princess Pride'' when he refuses to swordfight with
** Tyler also refused to hit Courtney in "Greece's Pieces". The exact same thing happens.
* [[X Meets Y]]:
** ''[[Drawn Together]]'' meets ''[[Survivor]]''. {{
** ''Total Drama World Tour'' is ''[[Amazing Race]]'' meets ''[[American Idol]]''.
*** Or is that ''[[Canadian Idol]]''?
* [[Xanatos Roulette]]:
** The "Winners Special" which was actually an overcomplicated plot for the ''Island'' powers that be (both in and out of universe) to use for the purpose of making the second season.
** The ''Action'' special had elements of this too, especially with the introduction of Sierra and who would actually {{spoiler|win the Gemmie.}}
** Both Heather and Alejandro are guilty of plans that would have backfired horribly if not for events beyond their control that they couldn't have anticipated. In particular, Heather's plan in "Search and Do Not Destroy" required her to be randomly awarded invincibility to save her from elimination, and Alejandro's plan in "Anything Yukon Do, I Can Do Better" required Bridgette to stay stuck to the flagpole even after leaving the area to keep her from revealing him to the other contestants.
* [[Yandere]]: Sierra for Cody.
* [[Yank the Dog's Chain]]:
**
** The ''World Tour'' finale
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Duncan (green mohawk), Gwen (teal highlights), Sierra (purple hair){{spoiler|, and Dakota (bright green [[Anime Hair]], post-mutation)}}.
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]:
** Heather towards Lindsay in "That's Off the Chain".
**
** Chris says that about the original cast in the first episode of ''Revenge of the Island''.
**
* [[Younger Than They Look]]: DJ, Leshawna, Trent, Alejandro, Sierra, Brick, and Jo.
* [[Your Cheating Heart]]: Gwen and Duncan kissing in a bathroom stall. Also Bridgette and Alejandro in the Yukon.
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