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Next destination? Tokyo, Japan! The teams must survive a torturous Japanese game show challenge and then shoot a commercial for candied fish. While three teammates clash, two others are forced to work together, and someone continues to believe he may be cursed. In the end, one team's winning streak continues thanks to two quick thinkers, and the losing team is forced to vote off a gentle soul. However someone else sacrifices themselves, to save a friend.

Plot

The episode opens with Team Victory and Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot sitting in the economy-class cabin. Owen is still utterly terrified of flying, and Noah attempts to reassure him by informing him that air travel is one of the safest modes of transportation, unless you're on a death trap. After saying this, a hole suddenly tears open on the side of the Total Drama Jumbo Jet, affirming Noah's statement. Leshawna is nearly sucked out of the plane, until Alejandro saves her.

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Leshawna holding Alejandro after she was almost sucked out of the plane.

After the hole is blocked by a large crate, Harold says that he could have done the same, but he "wants to leave the ladies wanting more," to which Bridgette and Lindsay giggle, and DJ says that what Leshawna wants is more Alejandro. Soon after, Owen gets sucked into the hole and clogs it, preventing any more air from escaping. Owen complains about being stuck, and Leshawna fawns over Alejandro, while Harold is in denial that she's falling for him. Meanwhile, in the first-class section, Courtney is trying to convince her team to make her leader, to which Gwen argues that they don't need a leader, since they are doing well in the challenges and winning. She explains that this is the reason why they need a leader, to keep winning. Heather then adds that her "friend" Sierra should be listened to as well. Courtney then points out that Sierra is seen sifting through Cody's belongings, even sniffing his shoe, causing Heather to nearly vomit as a shoelace goes up Sierra's nostril and comes out through her mouth.

Chris calls them all down to the common area to discuss the challenge. Harold asks if it is a reward challenge, but Chris refuses to divulge whether it is or not. Tyler theorizes to Lindsay that he thinks it's probably going to be a reward challenge, since the last two challenges were eliminations. This excites Lindsay and she expresses her wish of the prize being candy, or shoes, or even shoes made of candy.

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The contestants fall from the Total Drama Jumbo Jet.

Finally, Chris reveals they are going to Japan, and suddenly Chef enters in a Chinese costume, which garners complaints from Harold due to cultural insensitivity. Chris tries to explain, once again, that whoever doesn't sing will be immediately eliminated, but Harold continues to interrupt him. Growing annoyed, Chris signals to Chef, who then slices open the door, forcing the contestants out of the plane. Chris screams that they could have just landed, but Chef thinks that it would have been too boring. As the contestants scream and fall, the bell chimes, indicating the start of a song. Noah is incredulous about the idea, yelling "Seriously?! I mean, seriously?!" at Chris, but Chris insists that they comply, saying that if they sing he may consider saving their lives. The contestants then sing "Before We Die".

After finishing the song, the contestants land in a giant bowl of rice. Harold cheers and says that he knows everything about Japan, which annoys Leshawna. She yells about how everything Harold knows about Japan just sent them "free falling out of a plane." Alejandro, interrupting Harold's comment of already having participated in Sensei Steve's Summer Camp, proves he knows how to speak Japanese, by saying to Leshawna that she is as beautiful as a flower in the foreign language. Leshawna is surprised and giggles about it.

The contestants are taken to a game show studio for their first challenge. It is a huge studio that features an enormous human-size pinball format game. Tyler is really excited about this, saying that he loves Japanese game shows. He high fives Harold, who says his favorite game show is Human Itchi My Car Go-Go, and Harold proceeds to explain that in the show, one has to throw a banana into an open car window. An excited Tyler finishes his sentence, adding that it's all done with a giant shrimp fork. The two high five, and Chris interrupts them with the sound of a gong, which he calls his personal "geek-gong." The challenge is human pinball, where the contestants must be placed inside a pinball with an animal and try to get the highest score for their team. Alejandro volunteers to do the challenge for his team when no one else wants to.

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DJ becomes upset over accidentally injuring T'sing-T'sing.

DJ is chosen by his teammates, but initially refuses because he is convinced that he is cursed by the mummified dog that he broke in "Walk Like an Egyptian—Part 1". He stated that when he touched it, it exploded, along with the pyramid they were in. Leshawna denies this, saying that DJ was over exaggerating and it just disintegrated. Cody volunteers to do the challenge for his team when Courtney, Heather, and Gwen won't stop arguing about who will do it. Alejandro and DJ are paired up with panda bears for their teams, and Cody and Sierra are teamed up for Team Amazon. Abruptly, DJ's panda attacked him, while Alejandro charms his panda before it is able to attack him. Lindsay, Izzy, Leshawna, and Bridgette thought this action was very cute. Alejandro wins the challenge for his team with his panda, Ting Ting. DJ finishes in second place, after hopelessly trying to run away from his panda, scoring many points by doing this, and gets devastated when he accidentally harms his panda, T'sing T'sing, in the process. Cody finishes in third with kisses all over him from Sierra.

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Cody
[taking gum out of his ear] Is this her gum?! EW!!

The next challenge is introduced after seeing a dubbed version of a Total Drama Action trailer. Chris tells the contestants that the Total Drama series is huge in Japan. Courtney complains about their voices being dubbed in English and Chris explains that it is because the Japanese locals "don't like the cast's voices", admitting he is not sorry about it. The cast is told they must create, direct and produce commercials for Chef's new candy, the Total Drama Yum Yum Happy Go Time Candy Fish Tails, which Chris called, the "Total Drama Yum Yum Happy Go Time Candy Fish Tails challenge of celebration fun," and he says Chef himself will judge each of the commercials.

The teams get to pick props for their commercials. For winning the first challenge, Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot chooses first, and Alejandro finds an alien suit, which Izzy suggests Owen wears during the commercial and everyone agrees to Alejandro's great idea. When Team Victory was coming to pick their props, they pass through Alejandro, who wishes them luck. Harold doesn't accept it, saying he doesn't need luck from him, while Alejandro responds that he knows Harold doesn't need it, since he has superior leadership and visionary skills. Harold gets happy with his comments and agrees.

As Team Victory decide on what commercial to make, Lindsay has an idea with Pad Thai, but Leshawna reminds her that's Thai, not Japanese. Harold tries to reassure Leshawna by explaining his dramatic vision, mixing Kurosawa's pathos with Miyazaki's sense of wonder, which Lindsay thinks she ordered at the "Japanese" place, too.

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The silhouette of Ezekiel hiding in the cargo hold.

Then it's the turn for Team Amazon to pick props, but while Team Amazon is in the cargo hold, see a silhouette that is watching them and then disappears, Team Amazon is stunned by this and Cody asks if it was Ezekiel. The five of them are all visibly frightened, and before Cody can ask who it is, the shape vanishes behind some crates.

Meanwhile, Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot prepares their commercial, with Noah building a small-scale city as Owen stomps. Noah tells him to calm down, while Alejandro tries a candied fish tail, which he immediately vomits.

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Alejandro
Like, rotted fish intestine with a side order of fermented squid and dirty hockey equipment! [pukes]

After this, Team Amazon is still arguing on what to do for their commercial. Gwen thinks Heather's idea for candied fish swimming in the fish tank breaking out and playing basketball is too "Dr. Seuss," so she suggests tossing candy into spinning masks, but Courtney comes up with the idea of using flashing lights and fireworks, which she considers will dazzle Chef. Cody tries to tell them all of their ideas is good, but Heather, Gwen, and Courtney still argue over how they want to do the challenge. They cannot reach an agreement so they each storm off. This prompts Cody and Sierra to handle the commercial themselves.

Chris begins to play the commercials, and Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot shows they've made a Godzilla parody. Owen dresses up as an alien and stomps on the small city, as the rest of the team dresses up as soldiers worrying about what the monster will do to their city. To get the monster to stop, Alejandro gives the monster the Candy Fish Tails and it makes him stop crushing the buildings. The team then sings the slogan that they made up for the commercial.


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Team Victory's commercial, "A Samurai's Lament".

Team Victory reveals their overly dramatic, black-and-white sequence commercial. Harold demands for the film to be a metaphor, but most of the contestants, Chris, and Chef view it as total nonsense. Team Amazon doesn't seem to have a commercial prepared, so Courtney as the team's "leader" begins to tell Chef and Chris that they didn't make one. Cody interrupts saying that they have a great commercial, just have not thought of a title yet. He plays the commercial, which incorporates the ideas of Heather, Gwen, and Courtney with a colorful background and jingle that Sierra sings. Cody did all the filming and said one line.

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Team Amazon celebrates their victory in the second challenge, courtesy of Cody and Sierra.

In the end, it is revealed that Team Amazon won the challenge, with Chef saying that he picked theirs purely because their commercial featured exploding doughnuts. Team Amazon tells Cody how great he is to which Sierra agrees. She then asks for a group hug, yet yells at everyone, but Cody to back off. Team Victory lost because Chef did not like their idea and told them that they will send someone home, which shocked and confused Leshawna upon learning that this challenge wasn't a reward but a regular one. In economy class, Alejandro consoles a depressed Harold, telling him he still has his honor. Alejandro then tells Harold that Leshawna likes guys with honor, which causes Harold to think.

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Harold quits the competition and takes the Drop of Shame.

Chris tells Team Victory it's time to vote and reminds them how to do so, nodding specifically to Lindsay, who didn't vote in the last episode. However, in the confessional, Lindsay just states her picture is really good and leaves. Then, Bridgette is seen stamping Harold's passport; Leshawna struggles with voting between Harold and DJ; DJ votes for himself; Harold, in a samurai costume, accidentally stamps a beach ball; and T'sing T'sing votes against DJ. Finally, at the Barf Bag Ceremony, DJ is supposed to be eliminated, but Harold quits the game, saying that the team's loss was his fault. He leaves the plane with "honor" by stabbing himself with a fake lightsaber and then falling out without a parachute. Chris throws him one and then the episode ends.

Exclusive clip

Harold Drop of Shame Exclusive

Harold lands in the sumo wrestler's loincloth.

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Harold
This was really for the best. I was starting to get a little claustrophobic in the plane anyway. There's only so many cubic feet of air in the average airliner and so— (grunts) I will miss Leshawna and seeing the world and— gosh! What did this guy eat?! Gosh, was it? Was it? Total Drama Yum-Yum Happy Go Time Candy Fishtails?!


Cast

Voice actor Role(s)
Christian Potenza Chris
Marco Grazzini Alejandro
Kristin Fairlie Bridgette
Clé Bennett Chef Hatchet/DJ
Peter Oldring Cody/Tyler
Emilie-Claire Barlow Courtney
Megan Fahlenbock Gwen
Brian Froud Harold
Rachel Wilson Heather
Katie Crown Izzy
Novie Edwards Leshawna
Stephanie Anne Mills Lindsay
Carter Hayden Noah
Scott McCord Owen
Annick Obonsawin Sierra
  • Ezekiel has a brief cameo appearance; however, he doesn’t speak.
  • Beth, Duncan, and Trent make appearances in the Japanese promo for Total Drama Action, but they don’t speak.
  • Owen's and Izzy's voices are dubbed in the Japanese promo. However, it is currently unknown who voiced them.

Elimination Ceremony

Harold was supposed to receive the last barf bag but quit instead.

Elimination Ceremony 2:
Team Victory
Status Contestant
IN TDWT LindsayTDWT BridgetteTDWT Leshawna
Lindsay, Bridgette, Leshawna
LOW TDWT DJ
DJ
OUT TDWT Harold
Harold

Voting Confessionals

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Lindsay
This is a really good picture of me! (leaves voting booth)


Still in the running

 Duncan
17th
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 Ezekiel
16th
TDWT Ezekiel bw
 Harold
15th
TDWT Harold bw
TDWT Cody
 DJ
TDWT Team Victory
TDWT DJ
TDWT Gwen
TDWT Izzy
TDWT Noah
TDWT Owen
TDWT Sierra
TDWT Tyler

Trivia

General

  • The monster costume that Owen wears for the second challenge is a cross between the alien costume Chef wore in "Alien Resurr-eggtion" and the spider costume he wore in "Phobia Factor" to scare Leshawna. Owen wears the alien costume's head and the spider costume's torso.
  • This is the only episode of Total Drama World Tour where all three teams have the exact same amount of members.
  • According to Carter Hayden, Noah's voice actor, Owen was supposed to make actual monster noises instead of saying "monster noises". However, the production crew felt that this was funny, so they left it in.
    • This is similar to what happened in "Monster Cash" (Action) after Owen finished the buffet, when Scott McCord improvised the line "Call 911."
  • Chris stating that Total Drama is popular in Japan is rather ironic as the show never aired in that country in real life.

Continuity

  • Similarly to "Crouching Courtney, Hidden Owen," Chris mixes up Chinese culture with Japanese culture throughout the episode.
    • During the pinball challenge, Chef is also seen wearing the same outfit that he does in the aforementioned episode.
  • Lindsay doesn't vote for anyone in this episode, as she hugged her passport and walked out of the confessional.
    • This is the second time in a row that Lindsay has messed up the voting.
    • This is the third time overall, as she voted against herself accidentally before in "Rock n' Rule" (Action).
  • The mask seen throughout Team Amazon's commercial is the same one worn by Chef in "No Pain, No Game" and "Hook, Line, and Screamer." It is also similar to the masks worn by the scarers in "The Sand Witch Project."
  • This is the first time in the series that some of the contestants make a reference to the elimination/reward/elimination episode pattern, as in this episode (as well as the next episode), several of the contestants complain about there being too many elimination episodes.
  • This episode marks the first time Alejandro orchestrates someone's elimination; in this case, Harold's.
  • This is the second time in Total Drama World Tour that someone quits, and the third in the series overall.
  • This is the first time where two contestants have voted themselves off in Total Drama World Tour.
  • The horse that appeared in "3:10 to Crazytown," "The Princess Pride," and "Mutiny on the Soundstage" appears again in this episode as part of Team Victory's commercial.
  • This is the first episode where Harold is eliminated, but he isn't kissed by another contestant.

References

  • Harold mentions Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazaki during the filming of his team's commercial, making this the sixth mention of a real person in the series.
  • In the scene where Team Amazon was looking for props, Gwen states that Heather's idea for the commercial was "Too Dr. Seuss."
  • The captions on the Total Drama Action promo can be transliterated into English.
    • なんてすばらしぃの (Nante subarashiino) translates to "How wonderful!"
    • ぱく (Paku) is the Japanese onomatopoeia for chewing.
    • かわいい (Kawaii) means "cute" or "pretty," which is shown when Izzy is flirting with the monster.
    • すごい (Sugoi) means "great" or "amazing," which is shown with the Gilded Chris Awards.
    • 大怪獣 (Dai kaiju) means "[great]/[big] monster," which is shown chasing the cast.
  • Ting-Ting and T'sing-T'sing are most likely named after the famous panda, Ling Ling.
  • The lightsaber that Harold stabs himself with is an obvious reference to the trademark weapon of the Star Wars franchise.
  • Harold stabbing himself through the chest is a reference to the ancient samurai practice seppuku.
  • As Harold leaves, he repeats the line "I think I'll miss you most of all" from The Wizard of Oz.

Goofs

  • There were a few goofs with the passports:
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    Team Amazon's passports are seen instead of Team Victory's passports.

    • When DJ and Leshawna are voting, Courtney, Cody, and Gwen's passports, as well as Heather's in DJ's case, are seen on the sink, even though they are part of Team Amazon. Additionally, Heather's picture has her hairstyle from Total Drama Island.
    • When Lindsay picks up her passport DJ is smiling on his. However, when Leshawna is holding DJ's passport in her hand, he is frowning in the picture; and when DJ is holding up his own passport, he is grinning in the picture.
  • When Tyler and Noah walk past Izzy and Owen hugging at the beginning of the challenge, Izzy seems larger than everyone in front of her, even though she is closer to the back of the room.
  • When Harold is telling Leshawna what their commercial was a metaphor for, the bridge of his glasses disappears.
  • Harold and Alejandro use the word "Samurais" to mean "more than one Samurai". This is incorrect, because "Samurai" is both the singular and the plural form of the word.
  • Pandas are native animals of China, not Japan. Additionally, the panda's names, "T'sing-T'sing" and "Ting Ting," are Chinese names and cannot be spelled this way in the Japanese language.
    • This is, however, possibly due to Chris mixing cultures.
  • The scoreboard used during the challenge has only five places for digits, but after Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot scores 462,000 points, it has six places.
  • When the contestants are first seen falling, Alejandro, Courtney, DJ, Heather, and Izzy appear to be missing.
  • In the second part of this episode, when it enters with Total Drama Action's Japanese commercial, it says "なんてすばらしぃの" and the English translation is "What a Wonderful." It is unknown why this title was chosen for the show. However, this could be due to Chris's lack of knowledge of the Japanese language.
  • After Noah says "What?" after he sees the Japanese commercial, his shoulder and neck are disconnected from his body.
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    The scene where Izzy's arm is missing

    When Izzy comments about Owen being hot in her team's commercial, her hand and part of her left arm are missing.
    • This was later fixed in the remastered version.
  • When Tyler high-fives Harold, the end of his left sleeve is colored white instead of red.
  • When Chris announces the pinball challenge to the contestants, Izzy is missing from the shot.
  • At Team Victory's elimination ceremony, Chef is standing next to Chris holding the tray of barf bags, but when the bottom two are announced, he is nowhere to be seen.
  • In the flashback of DJ breaking the mummified dog, he is wearing a tinfoil hat. In the actual episode, however, he didn't have one on.

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