Ch 1 Bigger! Badder! Brutal-er!
Contestants :Lucina,Shulk,Madison Star,Sheik,Isabel Verducci,Little Mac,Marth,Palutena,Zero,Pit,Villager,Robin,Ike
Elimination : no one
Ch 1 Bigger! Badder! Brutal-er!
The episode begins with an introduction from Luma, who explains that the season will take place once again at Camp Wawanakwa, but this time, the season has a few changes, showing how the island has changed while they were gone. Next, all of the contestants from the past two seasons, excluding Mona, are seen partying on a yacht. However, Luma then announces that they will not be competing this year, with the yacht floating past the island, with Morton screaming "No!" Instead, thirteen new contestants are then introduced from a different yacht arriving to the island.
A quick introduction for each of the new contestants is given. The viewers are first introduced to Lucina and Sheik, the former telling the latter to stay out of her way. Shulk and Madison are introduced, only to be interrupted by Ike. Little Mac catches Madison after she is pushed out of the way by Ike, but drops her to give a salute when his name is announced. Villager and Robin are then introduced, followed by Palutena blows a kiss to the camera. Isabel Verducci is then introduced while applying spray tan, but Palutena pushes her to hog more screen time, but sprays her face in return, and Pit brags about his girlfriend Viridi who invented fake tanner, only for Isabel Verducci to spray her face. Marth is then introduced, but is knocked over by a flock of birds, followed by the final introduction, . Zero But to make a more interesting welcome, Luma activates a bomb, destroying the yacht and causing the cast to fall into the water.
The contestants then had to swim back to shore of the island. Little Mac is seen drowning in the lake, but Ike saves him while calling him a "little girl" in the process, causing Little Mac to protest. Pit starts drowning, as he was wasting his energy telling lies. Shulk and Madison both say that they'll help Pit, but he takes her hand and puts it on Shulk's head, drowning him. Madison saves them both. Meanwhile, Lucina cheers in excitement when she believes she is the first to reach the shore. However, Sheik was already at the shore, since she used a shortcut and didn't even get wet. Little Mac made it on the shore third. Marth, who was unknowingly carrying Zero, makes it to the shore fourth.
Once everyone made it ashore, everyone gets to have a few moments of chatting. Then Luma announces that the contestants should follow a path into the woods, and then signals off a horn to awaken the beasts that have been inhabitants of the island. The cast screams as they run away from the loud rustling in the distance. After they have followed the path, they are united with Luma awaiting at a finish line. The contestants crossing the finish line determined which team they would be placed on, with Villager, Palutena, Ike, Zero, Pit, Robin, and Lucina ending up on the Toxic Rats and Isabel Verducci, Sheik, Little Mac, Marth, Shulk, and Madison on the Mutant Maggots. Luma also introduces the "McLean-Brand Luma Head," which he is going to hide somewhere on the island. It is an item that, when found, will allow the contestant who finds it to stay in the competition even when voted out for the first time.
After that,Luma then gives out rewards for those who crossed the finish line first. Due to Isabel crossing first, her team won a trampoline, and Ike, the second to cross, got a hacksaw. From there, they must cut down a totem pole that is hanging from a tree, with a timed bomb strapped to it, which would detonate in seven minutes, unless they cut it down, slide it down a hill, and place it on a tree stump between the cabins. After the team had both successfully cut down their rope, they then had placed it on the river, where they would ride down a waterfall and onto a slope.
When the challenge begins, Sheik falls into the water after jumping on the trampoline, prompting Madison to calculate exactly where Sheik should jump on the trampoline to reach the axe. Isabel attempts to get the axe, but jumps too hard which causes her to slam between the totem pole and the trampoline until Sheik kicked the trampoline out of the way. Marth then attempts to grab the axe, but couldn't separate the axe from the totem pole, leaving him vulnerable to a mutant squirrel which attacked the entire team. In the process, the squirrel shoots a laser which cuts the rope. Meanwhile, Ike fails at climbing the tree to cut the totem down for the Toxic Rats, claiming there was butter on the tree that Luma put there to mess him up, to shrug off his failure. Afterwards, Zero manages to come up with a solution that involved the entire team stacking up against each other to reach the rope to cut down the totem. This made Zero's teammates, excluding Palutena, impressed with Zero. The Toxic Rats were in the lead and made it down the slope first after both teams went down a waterfall and Zero had his team lean forward to pick up speed and pass the Maggots.
While they were racing on their totems, Morton manages to swim back to the island and asks Luma why the yacht carrying him and his fellow "classic" contestants wouldn't stop. Luma tells him that they would not be competing this season, and Mr.M sticks a bomb on his face, causing Mario to be launched off the island, screaming. The Toxic Rats arrived first and got to choose between a luxurious cabin and a regular cabin akin to the cabins from Total Drama Mario Island. But once the Toxic Rats had chosen which cabin they had wanted, the Mutant Maggots came into the campground soaring and crashed into that cabin, thus destroying it. Even though the Toxic Rats successfully completed the challenge, the Mutant Maggots won because the cabin the Rats chose was destroyed and the Maggots' cabin was the only one left. A new cabin which is just a plain old cabin replaced the new one immediately via helicopter.
The Rats were then taken to the first elimination campfire ceremony of the season, where Luma announced that this time instead of the eliminated player not getting a marshmallow, that player would get the Marshmallow of Toxic Loserdom. Village, Ike, Zero, Lucina, and Robin received regular marshmallows in that order. That left Palutena, who wasn't focused on competing, and Pit, who annoyed everyone by constantly talking. The Marshmallow of Toxic Loserdom went to Pit, who became the first eliminated contestant of the season. Pit asks if that means she has to go to the Dock of Shame, to which Luma replies by announcing that this season's voted off players leave the game by the Hurl of Shame. Pit talks about how the goddess of lighting invented catapults, but before he could finish, Luma hurled him with the catapult.