The final three campers must participate in a series of dares invented by the eliminated campers. An unlikely alliance is formed between two campers to eliminate their longtime archnemesis. Eventually, someone finally leaves the island (without their hair), allowing two campers to move on to the final challenge…
Plot[]
The episode opens the morning after Duncan's elimination by Chef Hatchet with the remaining three campers, Heather, Gwen, and Owen, being served an all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast and making several video journals in the confessional. Inside the main lodge, Owen is unsatisfied with the little amount of pancakes he receives and reminds Chef that the breakfast is "all you can eat," causing an enraged Chef to bury him in pancakes, much to Owen's amusement. In the confessional, the semifinalists reveal their thoughts on making it to the final three.
 Gwen |
“ | So I actually made it to the final three. Just goes to show you how far a bad attitude can get you. Yeah, the money would be awesome. But you know what would be sweeter? Making sure Heather loses. If I win, I'm gonna buy Camp Wawanakwa so I can burn it down and turn it into a graveyard! Personally, I've had enough drama here to last a lifetime, I mean… Owen's okay, but eight weeks of Heather was about as much fun as a mouth full of impacted molars. Heather's strength is obviously her bottomless pit of mean. I'm banking on her massive ego to be her downfall. | ” |
 Heather |
“ | Whatever. I knew I'd make it to the end. Big shocker. I just can't believe weird goth girl made it. Luckily, I'm up against the freak show and fatty ginormous, so they may as well just give me the check, I mean, come on. I think we all know who's gonna win. When I win, I'm thinking of my own spin-off series: The World According to Heather. Sure, eight weeks with these losers is cause for insanity, but at least the mother ship knows where Gwen is now so they can retrieve her. And Greenpeace can bag and tag Owen as the hazardous waste that he is. Sure, Owen's dumb luck has won a few challenges, but it's his ability not to be disgusted by anything edible that worries me. And lazy! Ugh. Sloths could take a cue from Slowen! Thankfully, Gwen has no strength. She's just a low-rent gutter punk with dragon breath and ugly hair. | ” |
 Owen |
“ | I wanted to believe it! I dreamt it could be true! And now the day is finally here! All-you-can-eat pancakes! Yes! Pancakes, pancakes, pancakes! Pancakes, pancakes, pancakes! Haha. I'd never win, but if I did, I'd start every day with pancakes! 'Cause they're like little mini-sunshine filled with yummy fun, but all the all-you-can-eat pancakes in the world wouldn't be special without friends to share them. You ever notice how much a toilet seat looks like a pancake? [chuckles, licks] I should probably spit this out. | ” |
After breakfast, the campers meet Chris, who has returned from hosting the award show, and Chef, dressed in a sheer pink dress and matching pink chef's hat, at the outdoor auditorium. Chris tells them that the producers ran out of ideas for challenges so they requested dares from the eliminated campers. He then shows a giant bottle attached to a wheel with pictures of all the other campers for a high stakes game of "I Triple Dog Dare You." Each camper will spin the bottle and the camper it lands on determines the dare; the spinner can complete the dare themselves and win a "get out of dare freebie" in the form of an empty soda bottle or they can pass the dare to someone else. Chris mentions that if a camper refuses to perform a dare without a freebie, they are automatically sent to the Dock of Shame and eliminated from Total Drama Island!
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Gwen's up first, and the wheel lands on Duncan. Duncan's dare for her is to lick Owen's armpit. Chris asks if Gwen will take it or pass, and she passes it to Heather. Heather nervously moves towards Owen's armpit, and he tries to calm her down by telling her to imagine that she's licking an ice cream cone minus the bad odor. This doesn't help much, nor does mentioning the pit hair while in mid-lick, which sends Heather into convulsions. Chris tells Chef that he nearly puked watching that, emphasizing "nearly." Heather gets her turn at the wheel and spins Ezekiel, who dares them to chew their own toenail, slowly. She doesn't hesitate to challenge Gwen with the dare. Gwen sits on a small chair in the center of the stage, takes off her boot and lifts up her foot so that Chef can clip a piece of her toenail off. He then hands her the clipping, and she puts it in her mouth. While chewing, Heather reminds Gwen that she has to do it slowly and Gwen's chewing changes to a slow, forced motion.
Owen receives the first freebie.
After Gwen completes her dare, Owen spins the bottle and gets Beth, who dares him to re-chew a piece of Harold's old gum. Owen emphatically accepts the dare, grossing out everyone else. Owen figures the gum must be pretty special and starts chewing, describing the flavor as "full-bodied, a delicate fruity aroma with a hint of citrus, robust yet balanced, summery, and a "crunchy center." The camera zooms onto Harold's picture, which shows him picking his nose, heavily implying that the "crunchy center" is a booger. While Chris and Chef almost throw up, Owen blows a large bubble that bursts and covers himself with bubble residue. Chris awards Owen the game's first freebie and an optional tetanus shot, which Owen declines.
Gwen |
“ | This could be harder than I thought. | ” |
Gwen retakes the stage and spins Cody, whose dare is to stuff a tray of ice cubes in your underwear and let them melt. Gwen doesn't think the dare is too bad and takes it herself. After she completes the dare, she earns a freebie.
Heather has to perform Tyler's dare: eat jelly out of Owen's belly button.
Heather declares that she will take the next dare, whatever it is, as she won't let Owen and Gwen get ahead of her. She spins the bottle and gets Tyler.
Heather |
“ | There is no way I was letting those nerdlings get ahead of me. I mean, how bad could the dare be? I’d already licked Owen’s armpit. | ” |
Unfortunately for her, Tyler's dare is to eat grape jelly out of Owen's belly button. Chef pours nine spoonfuls of jelly into Owen's navel, while Owen comments on how getting two dares like this must suck. Heather gathers her strength, and while it's not shown on camera, she slurps the grape jelly from Owen's bare stomach, returning to frame covered in grape jelly with a disturbed look on her face. Chris puts her on life support for a few minutes while Chris hands out snacks: peanut butter and jelly sandwiches; hearing of which causes Heather to throw up in the oxygen mask. Owen takes his next spin and gets Izzy, to which Owen is ecstatic. Izzy's dare is to give a purple nurple to a sleeping bear. Owen gladly takes the dare, but loses some enthusiasm when he asks, "What's a purple nurple?" Owen goes to the nearby bear cave to perform the dare, which naturally wakes the bear up and causes the bear to attack Owen. Then Owen earns another freebie.
Bridgette's dare: Dress up as a baby.
Gwen spins and gets Harold's dare: lick Owen's toe jam; she passes it to Heather who, fed up with edible Owen dares, uses her freebie to skip it. Heather spins and gets Geoff: drink powdered fruit punch from the communal toilet. Heather dares Gwen who considers whether she should use her freebie but decides to go for it.
 Chris |
“ | So freakin' sick. Chef's going down. | ” |
Chris mixes the fruit punch into the toilet with a plunger, commenting on how gross it is and then hands Gwen a straw. Gwen pokes the straw into the water and takes a long slurp before getting sick and throwing up. Chris and Chef almost throw up as well, but they both manage to swallow their vomit before it comes out of their mouth. While Owen goes up to get the next dare, Heather taunts Gwen, saying Trent will need a fumigation squad to kiss her with her bad breath, to which Gwen replies by belching foul gas in her face, silencing Heather.
Owen spins Cody, whose next dare is to eat dog food, another dare that Owen is glad to take himself. Chris questions why Owen would do it as he has two freebies he can use, or better yet, challenge an opponent, preferably one with no freebies (referring to Heather). Owen says that his dog eats this kind of food and he wants to know what he has been missing. He then takes the plate of dog food, which is still in a can shape, and voraciously eats it. When Owen describes it as "meaty-tasting," proving too much for Chris as he throws up. After Chris pays $100 to Chef, Chef throws up as well, followed by Gwen, then Heather.
Chris |
“ | Okay. That was so gross! [pukes] Is there nothing these freaks won’t do? | ” |
Heather is dared to kiss Chef's sock puppet.
The game continues on with dare after dare, with Gwen and Heather daring each other, and Owen taking every dare he's given. This includes Owen dressing up as a baby, Gwen kissing a dead fish, and Heather wrestling an alligator; after over sixty rounds, no one has dropped out. Owen has twenty freebies while Gwen still has one and Heather none. Frustrated at how long this could continue, Gwen strikes a deal with Owen: help her take Heather down and in return, Gwen will give Owen a share of the prize money in the case she wins; however, in case Gwen doesn't win, she promises to buy Owen a box of doughnuts. Owen agrees and gives half of his freebies to Gwen, although very surprised, Chris allows it. Heather protests, but Chris says that there aren't any rules against contestants sharing freebies. Owen then whistles into one of his freebies, to the tune of "Shave and A Haircut" foreseeing Heather’s elimination. Heather's torture starts when Gwen spins and lands Courtney, who dares them to drink a blended puree of Chef's mystery meat. This leads to a montage showing Heather performing many challenges:
- Swimming in an inflatable pool of leeches.
- Wearing a chicken hat and pretending to be a chicken.
- Slapping herself in the face repeatedly.
- Eating a live cockroach.
- Kissing one of Chef's socks in the guise of a sock puppet play of the Frog Prince (while the other contestants watch).
- Being fired out of a cannon and into a pig feces pile at point-blank range (while wearing a bucket of said feces on her head).
Heather finally faces her downfall in the game.
Finally, when Gwen spins the bottle and it lands on Lindsay, Heather is relieved, thinking Lindsay couldn't possibly come up with a bad dare. However, she is sorely mistaken when Chris reads the card aloud, which states that she will have her head shaved by Chef. A horrified Heather is put in a barber's chair while Chef menaces her with an electric razor. When she begins to have doubt, Chris tells her exactly what's at stake; have her head shaved to stay in the game or keep her hair and leave without the $100,000. As Chef approaches, Heather panics and kicks the razor out of his hands. It flies in the air and lands on her head. The chair then falls backward as bits of hair fly away. When the chair returns upright, Heather's in shock, with only a few clumps of hair left. Although Heather did get her head shaved (albeit partially), Chris points out that she didn't actually accept the dare, therefore she's disqualified. Her scream can be heard all the way to Playa Des Losers. When asked about the lack of rules by an enraged Heather, Chris says that it's "complicated," but she still loses while Gwen and Owen win. Heather is taken to the Boat of Losers and leaves the island, all while threatening to sue Chris for everything he has and promises to ruin his reputation everywhere. This leaves Total Drama Island's two finalists being Gwen and Owen, who celebrate their long-awaited triumph over Heather.
Cast[]
| Voice actor | Role(s) |
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| Christian Potenza | Chris |
| Megan Fahlenbock | Gwen |
| Rachel Wilson | Heather |
| Scott McCord | Owen |
- Chef Hatchet appears but has no lines.
- All nineteen of the previously eliminated campers have a cameo appearance at the end of the episode, but they do not speak.
Challenge Results[]
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 Duncan |
Lick Owen's armpit |  Gwen |
 Heather |
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 Ezekiel |
Chew your own toenail slowly | Heather |
Gwen |
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 Beth |
Chew a wad of Harold's gum |  Owen |
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 Cody |
Drop a tray of ice into your undies and let them melt | Gwen |
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 Tyler |
Eat grape jelly out of Owen's navel | Heather |
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 Izzy |
Give a purple nurple to a sleeping bear | Owen |
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 Harold |
Lick Owen's toe jam | Gwen |
Heather |
Used Freebie | ||||
 Geoff |
Drink powdered fruit punch from the communal toilet | Heather |
Gwen |
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Cody |
Eat dog food | Owen |
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 Trent |
Eat hard-boiled eggs while lying down | N/A | Heather |
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 Leshawna |
Walk across a tight rope holding meat above shark-infested waters | N/A | Gwen |
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 Bridgette |
Dress up like a baby | N/A | Owen |
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Kiss a dead fish | N/A | Gwen |
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 Eva |
Wear a beard made out of bees | N/A | Owen |
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 Noah |
Wrestle an alligator | N/A | Heather |
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 Courtney |
Drink a blended puree of Chef Hatchet's mystery meat |
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| N/A | Swim in an inflatable pool of leeches. | N/A | Heather |
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| N/A | Wear a chicken hat and act like a chicken. | N/A | Heather |
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| N/A | Repeatedly slap yourself in the face. | N/A | Heather |
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| N/A | Eat a live cockroach. | N/A | Heather |
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| N/A | Kiss one of Chef's socks in the guise of a sock puppet play of the Princess and the Frog. | N/A | Heather |
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| N/A | Being fired out of a cannon and into a pig feces pile at point-blank range while wearing a bucket of said feces. | N/A | Heather |
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 Lindsay |
Have your head shaved by Chef Hatchet | Gwen |
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Elimination Ceremony[]
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| Status | Contestant |
| Win | Gwen, Owen |
| Out | Heather |
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Trivia[]
General[]
- Like most of the series' antagonists, Heather has a major downfall in the episode she is eliminated:
- This episode's challenge is similar to the challenge in "No Pain, No Game," as both involve campers spinning a wheel to determine what unpleasant challenge they have to compete in.
- The order in which Chris introduces the eliminated campers is: Izzy, Trent, Cody, Justin, Noah, Leshawna, Lindsay, Beth, Tyler, Harold, DJ, Geoff, Bridgette, Duncan, Courtney, Eva, Katie and Sadie, and Ezekiel.
- All former Screaming Gophers are introduced first with the former Killer Bass being introduced afterwards.
- In the shot of Playa Des Losers, the losing campers are standing around the pool in the same positions they were in while voting off Leshawna, except:
- Cody has moved directly in front of Eva rather than beside her.
- Duncan and Leshawna have joined the ousted campers, standing behind Trent and Courtney.
- When Owen shares his freebies with Gwen, Heather says "Ix-nay on the onspiracy-cay," meaning "nix on the conspiracy" in Pig Latin.
- Of the three dares that involve Owen's body (from Duncan, Tyler, and Harold respectively), two of them are performed by Heather. Had she not used a freebie, she would have done three.
- Justin and DJ's dares are never revealed, while Cody is the only camper to have two dares.
- It is unknown which campers invented the dares performed by Heather later in the episode.
- These dares include lying in a pool of leeches, impersonating a chicken in front of a live chicken, hitting yourself in the face, eating a live cockroach, kissing a smelly sock while doing a puppet show, and being shot out of a cannon into pig poop.
- Heather's scalp is a different shape in this episode and in "The Very Last Episode, Really!" than it is in any other episode where she's depicted bald, being square-shaped instead of circular.
Continuity[]
- Heather's fate is foreshadowed three times. Two of these occasions involve Lindsay, the camper whose dare ultimately eliminated Heather:
- In "If You Can't Take The Heat…," Heather threatens to cut off Lindsay's hair if she betrays her again, and Leshawna "talks" to the tiki idol "curse" asking for it to attack Heather in the head, if possible.
- In "That's Off the Chain!" Lindsay presents Heather with an "ugly doll with pretty hair" that she believes resembles Heather.
- The scene prior to the challenge alternating between the three finalists in the confessional is currently the longest uninterrupted confessional scene in Total Drama with a total of seventeen static cuts played in the following order: Gwen, Heather, Owen, Gwen, Owen, Heather, Owen, Gwen, Heather, Owen, Heather, Owen, Heather, Owen, Heather, Gwen, Owen.
- Two of the dares performed by Heather are similar to Beth and Tyler's fears from "Phobia Factor" (i.e., being covered in bugs and facing chickens).
- Lindsay's dare is similar to one of her challenges in "No Pain, No Game" though Chef uses a razor instead of a chainsaw.
- Leshawna and Geoff's dares are similar to the challenges they faced while obtaining their keys in "Search and Do Not Destroy."
- This marks the third time that someone has left the island without a campfire ceremony.
- Heather will not get her original hair length back until "Up, Up and Away in My Pitiful Balloon" in Total Drama: Revenge of the Island.
References[]
- This episode's title references the phrase "triple dog dare."
- In the recap, Chris mentions the campers "ran helter" and "ran skelter," a reference to "Helter Skelter" by The Beatles.
- Chris also references Monopoly's Chance and Community Chest cards when he says, "Do not go to a bonfire, do not collect a marshmallow, and do not get to win $100,000."
The Squirrel referencing the Dramatic Chipmunk.
- When Heather is eliminated, a squirrel with a surprised expression turns its head to dramatic music. This is a spoof of a popular YouTube video and Internet meme at the time called "The Dramatic Chipmunk."
- After winning twenty freebies, Owen played "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star."
- He then plays "Shave and a Haircut," ending the song with two armpit farts instead.
Goofs[]
- Chris's pants and sneakers change to shorts and sandals twice in this episode.
- Only thirteen of Owen's twenty freebies are shown on screen; however, some shots show only nine.
- When Chris, Chef, and Gwen are in the bathroom, Chef is seen wearing his normal clothes instead of the pink dress. He is shown wearing it again when Gwen goes off to puke.
- During Owen's reaction, when he heard Duncan's challenge, he is seen sitting next to Gwen even though she is standing by the wheel.
- Owen is shown with armpit hair in this episode when Heather licks his armpit, yet it never was or is seen ever in previous or future episodes.
- Cody's dare was to drop a tray of ice cubes into your underpants and let them melt, but the cubes were instead presented in a bucket.
- When Chef is stuffing Heather's face with hard-boiled eggs, the wheel is shown pointing at Leshawna, even though it is Trent who gave her the dare.
- This mistake happens again when Owen dressed up as a baby. The wheel points between Justin and Beth, when the dare was given to him by Bridgette.
- Right before Chef vomits, the gap in his teeth is missing.
- After Heather sucks the jelly out of Owen's navel, Owen exclaims that she didn't puke this time, but when she licked his armpit, she did not vomit either.
- When Chris says Owen has twenty freebies and Gwen and Heather have none, Gwen is shown to still have one freebie.
Part of Gwen's mouth is missing.
- When Owen asks Gwen what if she doesn't win while teaming up against Heather, part of Gwen's mouth is missing.
- This is fixed in the remastered version of the episode.
- After hearing Lindsay's challenge, as Gwen and Owen high-five, Gwen's waist and torso separate from each other.
- After Gwen takes off her boot to chew her own toenail, the camera pans over to Heather, who is shown to have two pairs of eyebrows.
- When Gwen and Owen were walking to see Heather get eliminated, the tips of Gwen's shirt were missing.
- This is fixed in the remastered version of the episode.
- Chef's tattoo disappears multiple times in this episode.
- When Gwen is dared to lick Owen's armpit, she is standing at the wheel; however, when the shot shows Owen, she is seen standing next to him.
Gallery[]
See also[]
- "Not So Happy Campers—Part 1"
- "Not So Happy Campers—Part 2"
- "The Big Sleep"
- "Dodgebrawl"
- "Not Quite Famous"
- "The Sucky Outdoors"
- "Phobia Factor"
- "Up the Creek"
- "Paintball Deer Hunter"
- "If You Can't Take the Heat..."
- "Who Can You Trust?"
- "Basic Straining"
- "X-Treme Torture"
- "Brunch of Disgustingness"
- "No Pain, No Game"
- "Search and Do Not Destroy"
- "Hide and Be Sneaky"
- "That's Off the Chain!"
- "Hook, Line, and Screamer"
- "Wawanakwa Gone Wild!"
- "Trial by Tri-Armed Triathlon"
- "Haute Camp-ture"
- "Camp Castaways"
- "Are We There Yeti?"
- "I Triple Dog Dare You!"
- "The Very Last Episode, Really!"
- "Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island"
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