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The teams compete in a challenge to sink each other's pirate ships. One of the team captains causes tension by being aggressive with her teammates, and even kicking one overboard, while the other leads his team to victory with a plan based on his teammate's petty feud . When one team's last member's daring attempt at a tie fails, which accidentally exposes a secret, the other team is declared victorious. Despite not thinking she did anything wrong, the bossy team captain ends up being voted off.

Plot

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Emma reveals to Bowie about how she used to live in a beach house with Chase and his friends.

The episode starts with Emma and Bowie in the mess hall, where Emma is pondering why she didn't go home. Bowie tells Emma that he convinced the whole team to vote for Caleb. She is confused about why he did that for her, Bowie tells her he didn't, but tells her to pretend he did and tells her she owes him one because he was sad Caleb was gone. Emma talks about how he should've chosen someone else because they could've had a swimming challenge where Caleb took off his shirt, but that just makes Bowie even more sad.

Bowie then asks about Chase cutting Emma's brakes, and Emma explains how she used to live in a beach house with Chase and his buddies live-streaming crazy stunts. However, Chase broke the number one rule where Emma didn't know she was doing something stupid. Bowie agrees to help Emma take revenge on Chase, and this convinces Emma that the two will get along well.

TDI23 Bowie
Bowie
It's okay to make a friend. On this island, a friend means an alliance. That's Survival 101 in this game.

Meanwhile, Ripper is explaining to Damien that Chris gave him new shorts due to ripping his pants last episode. Ripper then pushes Damien into a bush, showing him that Millie is writing in her notebook "like a nerd." Damien tries to ask him how writing makes her a nerd, but Ripper doesn't listen and takes Millie's notebook. Ripper asks her about what she's writing about. Millie tries to get the notebook back, but Ripper tells Damien to "go long" and throws it to him. Damien catches it and gives it back to Millie.

Ripper tells Damien and Millie to be quiet, then, his stomach starts rumbling. Ripper then lets out a fart, getting Millie and Damien worried as Ripper starts counting. However, Ripper is disappointed when it stops. Ripper shares that the under-18 world record for longest fart is 48 seconds before sharing his record of 47 seconds, adding that beating that record is his life ambition. Millie starts writing this all down in her notebook. Ripper tells them that he thinks saying the steamboats out loud might hurt his chances of beating the record. Damien tries to tell him that trapped intestinal gas can be re-absorbed and released as an exhale but Ripper doesn't listen and calls him a nerd.

TDI23 Ripper
Ripper
Calling out nerds is important. Cause, some nerds, are so deep into nerdom that don't even know they're nerds. They just wander around, talking about algebra or orks, thinking it's okay to do that! It is not.
TDI23 Millie
Millie
Ripper's life ambition is a fart! I don't think I brought enough notebooks!

Chase and Zee are outside their team's cabins and both appear to be hungry. Axel walks over wearing green face paint and a breakfast of dead squirrels in hand, demanding that they eat it. Chase asks how she caught it, and short footage of Axel scaring, killing, and roasting squirrels can be seen. Zee and Scary Girl take it, the latter going under the cabin, but Chase refuses. Axel says that he must eat because a strong team is a winning team. However, Axel does not get the chance to say anything else, as the horn rings for the next challenge. In the meantime, MK seems to be plotting something involving the confessional.

TDI23 MK
MK
Oh, sorry. Hi. Not here to confess. Never gonna happen. Just wanna see how the confession camera works! [unplugs the cable] Yeah, dude! Boom, baby! Here's the dealio for realio: I'm gonna use the phone I took from Julia to download and watch everyone else's confessionals. Oh, and just to be clear, I only want to hear what everyone else is saying. I'm gonna fast forward through most of the pooping. I'm not a weirdo.


Down at the beach, Chris in a pirate get-up explains that today's challenge is pirate-themed. The teams will each choose a captain and will receive a ship. equipped with two functioning cannons that fire with a simple pull of a rope. As the legal team won't allow Chris to use cannonballs, below deck houses cabbages for teams to fire with. Chris notes that cabbages are rich in vitamin K and are great at healing blood clotting. The mention of blood gets Scary Girl excited, which disturbs everyone else, including Chris. The goal is to successfully sink the other one or knock all the players off. Chef arrives to take the campers to their respective teams' ships, when he and Chris get into an argument about who gets the hat and who gets the bird, with Chef upset about the latter since it was being a jerk. In the Frogs of Death's ship. Wayne decides to be the captain since he's the captain of the Snow Owls hockey team. Wayne orders Raj and MK to get the cabbages calling them fruit.

TDI23 Bowie
Bowie
Cabbage isn't a fruit. That's all I came here to say.


Emma offers to take a cannon along with Bowie, which leaves Wayne to assign Julia and Nichelle to operate the other. Julia notes that Wayne paired the two famous people together and believes that it's good for the ratings.

TDI23 Nichelle
Nichelle
I'm famous. I have no idea who she is.


On the Ferocious Trout's ship, Axel and Ripper fight for the role of captain and they rip the hat in half, prompting them to wear each half. Zee gets excited about the idea of two captains, though Axel argues there can only be one captain. Ripper puts it to a vote and to his chagrin, everyone but Zee and Scary Girl votes Axel to be captain. Ripper refuses to listen to Axel, but she then kicks Ripper in the face and knocks him overboard.

TDI23 Axel
Axel
That's how I deal with mutiny.

Chase complains at Axel for kicking Ripper overboard, but she believes he would be in a better mood if he had eaten one of the squirrels, which shocks Damien. The bird on Chef's shoulder is asleep, but Chris loudly starts the challenge with a megaphone and the blunderbuss, waking up the bird and having it bite Chef. The teams start their assault on their enemy ships and at first, Priya dodges the cabbages nicely, but Millie warns her too late and as a result, Priya is knocked off the ship by a cabbage.

TDI23 Priya
Priya
I can't believe I got taken out right away! Mom, Dad, I'm sorry. I know you covered this in my training, but you used melons. I think cabbages are faster.

Upon a cabbage ripping their flag, Axel orders Zee to stitch it up. Chase sees that a cabbage completely missed and gets excited that the aim is horrible. Nichelle notices Emma miss and tells her to aim lower, demonstrating by firing a cabbage at the lower portion of the ship, which hits Millie below deck as she and Damien are preparing cabbages. Julia tells Nichelle not to yell as it ages the neck. Bowie later asks if they want to aim for the ship or at Chase, and Emma says that she still wants to aim at Chase.

Priya and Ripper swim to shore, which surprises Chris as he was expecting them to be attacked by sharks, which surprises Priya. Chris realizes that he forgot to release the sharks and states that he always forgets the sharks, he then releases them. Chris tells the campers that there are now sharks in the water, Damien asks him why and Chris responds "Because I put them there." Damien states that he can't believe that Chris put sharks in the water, however, he doesn't notice the cabbages that are coming towards him and gets knocked off the ship.

Damien, who is now in the water, starts screaming whenever a shark is near him, however, Scary Girl hits a shark with a cabbage, saving Damien. Damien thanks Scary Girl for saving him and tells her that her shot was perfect, then Damien mentions that sharks should not be in fresh water since it compromises the buoyancy of their livers, but as he speaks a shark gets under him, Scary Girl informs him of the shark and Damien flees to shore.

TDI23 Scary Girl
Scary Girl
If the shark ate Damien, he would scream a lot. I like that. But then Damien would never scream again. I don't like that. So I saved him!


Bowie and Emma aim the cabbages at Chase. Nichelle asks them why they are aiming for the contestants, telling them that the goal is to sink their ship, but Wayne tells them that what they are doing is a good strategy. Wayne explains that if they eliminate enough players they will be unable to fight back and then they can bomb their ship until it sinks. Bowie agrees with them and they start firing at the Trout, resulting in Millie falling off. Axel tells everyone that she is going to get more cabbages, however, before she can finish telling them, she gets knocked off the ship.

Meanwhile, on land, Chris is explaining to Chef that the Frogs of Death are aiming for the players before they aim at the ship. Chris then tells the Trout that they are getting outsmarted by Wayne. Chris tells Chef that he likes hitting people when they're down. Chef's parrot then states that he likes biting Chef. Chef asks Chris if they can switch, however, Chris tells Chef that he likes the pirate hat.

Meanwhile, on the Trout's ship, Scary Girl is dodging the cabbages. Chase tries to tell her good job, however, he gets knocked off the ship, the Frogs of Death are ready to sink the Ferocious Trout's ship and prepare, Chris mentions that the Trouts only have two players left and it doesn't look good at all.

On the Ferocious Trout's ship, Scary Girl and Zee are the only members of their team left on the ship and Zee asks what to do, Scary Girl tells him that they should crash the boat, Zee thinks it's a bad plan but Scary Girl tells him that if they crash the ships and they both sink it will be a tie, but then Scary Girl is hit by a cabbage and falls overboard, leaving Zee as the captain and decides to do what she said and crash. Back on land, Ripper sarcastically tells Axel that she did a "great job", the two then start arguing until the parrot tells them to be quiet. This makes Chris tell Chef that he'll take the parrot.

The Frogs of Death try to shoot cabbages at the ship, but the ship is still standing and Zee continues forward. Everyone starts to brace for impact and Zee covers his eyes, but a seagull perches on the steering wheel, making him crash into a boulder instead. Zee simply stands in place and goes down with the ship like a captain. Chris congratulates the Frogs of Death for their victory.


TDI23 Wayne
Wayne
[Raj]: We came here to win, so, that's what we did.
[Wayne]: Credit to the other team though they uh, play hard you know considering how crumby they are.
[Raj]: Total fart faces.
[Wayne]: Yeah, I think Rajie said it best there, fart faces.
TDI23 Raj
Raj


Chris comes up to the ship, mentioning on how great Wayne's strategy was. He off-handedly says he and Raj should be pirates if hockey doesn't work out. In their confessional together, the Hockey Bros are certain they will go pro, but in the event they don't, they have a backup plan: become beekeepers due to believing syrup comes from bees, not realizing bees make honey and syrup comes from trees.

TDI23 Wayne
Wayne
[Wayne]: If Rajie and I don't make it as pro hockey players...
[Raj]: Which is crazy talk.
[Wayne]: Oh, yeah. cause we're sure making it. but, if we don't well...
[Raj]: We both really love...
[Both]: Syrup.
[Wayne]: So we're gonna become beekeepers.
TDI23 Raj
Raj
TDI23 Bowie
Bowie
Bees don't make syrup. That's all I came here to say.


As Zee swims to shore, a shark goes after him. The shark bites him on his left "leg". Zee shooed it away, but his "leg" was ripped off. Everyone except Chris is horrified on his behalf, but Zee takes this rather well, albeit upset that the shark took his "favorite leg." Everyone becomes confused as to why he is just somewhat annoyed about what happened, with Priya thinking he's in shock. The shark tries to eat Zee's "leg", but couldn't so it just spits it out, showing he isn't injured because the leg the shark took is a removable prosthesis, revealing that Zee is an amputee. As Zee puts it back on, Axel asks why he never mentions that his leg is a prosthetic. He says it's probably because she never mentioned her legs weren't and Axel, not wanting to argue or sound offensive, simply says that is acceptable. Chris then tells the Trout to meet him at the elimination ceremony and that one of them is going home.

TDI23 Chase
Chase
That cabbage hurt. But on the beach, did you catch Emma checking me out? Ooh! Boom! She's still in mad love. Called it!
TDI23 Emma
Emma
On the beach, before Zee started screaming. I couldn't stop watching Chase holding his ribs. I hurt him!

During the elimination ceremony, Chef explains how some of the campers are at risk of being eliminated. Scary Girl was called out for allowing Millie to get hit instead of warning her, which Scary Girl states that it was hilarious. Zee, now wearing shorts, is at risk due to being the last member of his team and accidentally sinking his team's ship, which he could've ended the challenge at a tie.

TDI23 Zee
Zee
Yeah, but if they kick me off now, they'll never know how I lost my leg. (whispering) I was actually born like this. But when someone asks, I know they'd rather hear a cool story. So, yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm safe.


Chef tells Ripper that he was in the water before the challenge even started, making him no help to his team.

TDI23 Ripper
Ripper
How is that my fault? Axel kicked me overboard! If I'd been there we would've won!


Finally, Axel is at risk for the fact that her first action as team captain was kicking Ripper overboard before going into battle stations.

TDI23 Axel
Axel
Whatever! The team was totally with me on that! And there's no chance I get voted off, I made everyone breakfast!


Chris gives marshmallows to Millie, Chase, Priya, Scary Girl, and Damien. Zee gets the penultimate marshmallow and asks if he can eat it, with Chris replying that he can, much to Zee's delight. Ripper tries to fight Axel for the last one, but Chris reveals he got it anyway, and gives it to Ripper, who rubs it in Axel's face that she's out. Angered, Axel bites Ripper's hand and eats the marshmallow. Ripper demands Chris to do something, so he decides to have Axel mail it back when she's "done with it," disgusting Millie. On her way to the Dock of Shame with her bag, she shoves Chris and complains without taking responsibility.

TDI23 Axel bw
Axel
I don't see how the loss was my fault. I kicked the teammate overboard and yelled orders at the rest of the team to show they were below me. I did nothing wrong!


Axel then tries to escape the Drone of Despair by diving into the water, but it just picks her up and out of the water. As she is being carried away, she promises not to help anyone when the zombie apocalypse comes. Chris fires back saying she's off his Christmas card list before signing off the show.

Cast

Voice actor Role
Terry McGurrin Chris
Deven Mack Chef Hatchet
Tamara Almeida Axel
Brandon Michael Arrington Bowie
Julius Cho Chase
Daniel Keith Morrison Damien
Melanie Leishman Emma
Julia Sype Julia
Barbara Mamabolo Millie
Kimberly-Ann Truong MK
Tymika Tafari Nichelle
Eman Ayaz Priya
Varun Saranga Raj
Fred Kennedy Ripper
Katie Griffin Scary Girl
Jack Copeland Wayne
Gerardo Gismondi Zee
  • Caleb appears in the recap, but he has no lines.

Elimination Ceremony

Elimination Ceremony 2:
Ferocious Trout TDI23 Ferocious Trout
Status Contestant
Safe TDI23 MillieTDI23 ChaseTDI23 Priya
TDI23 Scary GirlTDI23 DamienTDI23 Zee
Millie, Chase, Priya, Scary Girl, Damien, Zee
Low TDI23 Ripper
Ripper
Out TDI23 Axel
Axel

Still in the running

 Caleb
16th
TDI23 Caleb bw
 Axel
15th
TDI23 Axel bw
TDI23 Bowie
TDI23 Chase
TDI23 Damien
TDI23 Emma
TDI23 Julia
TDI23 Millie
 MK
TDI23 Frogs of Death
TDI23 MK
TDI23 Priya
 Raj
TDI23 Frogs of Death
TDI23 Raj
TDI23 Ripper
TDI23 Wayne
 Zee
TDI23 Ferocious Trout
TDI23 Zee

Trivia

General

  • Zee reveals that he was born without his lower left leg and has to wear a prosthesis.
  • Following this episode, Zee wears shorts instead of pants.
  • This is the second episode in the series to feature a challenge revolving around two teams trying to sink each other's ships, with the first being "Sweden Sour."
    • Coincidentally, both episodes were written by Terry McGurrin.
  • According to Terry McGurrin, one of the pitched titles for this episode was "Ship for Brains."[1]
  • This is the only episode where Scary Girl gets a marshmallow.

Continuity

References

Goofs

Error - Chase face

Duplicate Chase's face in one frame.

  • When Chase is avoiding a cabbage fired by the opposing team, his eyes and mouth duplicate in one frame.
  • When Axel is thrown off the ship, half of her captain's hat is missing.
  • When concluding the episode, Chris says that two contestants have been eliminated and thirteen remain. However, fourteen contestants are remaining.

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References

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