Team Victory: Sadie, Jo, Ezekiel, Sky, Duncan
Team Power: Rodney, Noah, Owen, Izzy, Eva
Team Blizzard: Topher, Ella, Mike, Cody, Heather
Episode 07: Slap Slap Revolution
"New York!" Chris opened to a shot panning up the Statue of Liberty. "The city that eats other cities for breakfast!" Shots were shown of the Brooklyn Bridge and the fountain they'd visited in Central Park, then the montage moved on to show Izzy climbing her team's steel wool rope. "Here our competitors went to great heights to discover New York's finest." Topher was shown making his way up the rope. "From the bosom of Lady Liberty," the statue was shown again, "to the Big Apple's rotten, stanky sewer core," and was followed up by a shot of Team Victory driving their motorboat through the sewers.
"In the end," a short clip from the previous episode's musical number showed the three vibrantly-colored teams racing their carriages together, "Team Blizzard claimed victory, and surprise reward." Heather, Mike, and Cody were shown smashing open the giant apples, and claiming the prizes within. "Which meant no one got booted off, except the meat grinder." A shot of Heather flinging away the meat grinder finished off the recap, and the scene flashed to the host and chef in the cockpit.
"We have fifteen competitors still in the running," Chris told the camera before donning an attempted German accent. "Und ve shall zee who vill win ze one! Million! Bucks, zoon!" He resumed his regular voice to finish the bit while Chef rolled his eyes. "On Total! Drama! Woooorrrrlllddd~ Tooouuurrrr~!"
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The episode began with a shot of the Total Drama Jumbo Jet in flight before cutting inside to the contestants seated in economy class, currently Team Power is on the left wall and Team Victory on the right, with Ezekiel looking sad.
"What's gotten you so down?" Jo asked.
"Y'all know about the golden bling I carry around?" Ezekiel answered.
"Yeah, what about that?" Duncan wondered.
"Someone broke it into pieces eh!" Ezekiel said and pulled out the pieces of his 'Z' bling.
"Why would someone destroy it!" Sadie gasped.
"I don't know," Ezekiel replied. "They must've been jealous of the Zeke and wanted to trip me up."
"I doubt anybody would be jealous of you, and I don't care about your bling, but you shouldn't have had it broken," Jo talked to the homeschooler.
"But still, who would have touched your bling?" Sadie thought out loud.
Confessional: Mike
"Did I break his bling?" Mike panicked in the restroom confessional.
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The scene changed to the economy class of the plane. Ezekiel was sleeping on his seat and snoring. Having sneaked out of first class, Mal reached into Ezekiel's hoodie pocket and evilly smashed Ezekiel's bling with one hand.
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After the flashback, Mike switched to Mal and the villainous alter laughed menacingly.
Confessional Ends
"Five episodes and no eliminations!" Owen cheered as the camera focused on Team Power.
"We did lose Lindsay though," Izzy brought up.
"If we were a steak, we'd be a thirty-two ounce Porterhouse!" Owen said and focused on the other team. "And you guys would be a tiny slice of bologna!" This caused Team Victory to eye him with mad expressions.
"We lost the last challenge," Rodney reminded them. "I should let you know."
"And if it wasn't for that episode being a reward one, we'd be in the elimination room," Izzy said.
"I still don't understand how you didn't recognize our carriage was swapped with a baby," Noah muttered.
"But with Eva on our team, nothing is impossible," Owen remained positive. "Heck, I'm not even afraid of flying anymore. Check this out!" He unbuckled his seatbelts and did a tap dance across the room, causing the plane to shake.
The shot cut outside to show the plane visibly shaking. "Turbule-e-e-e-ence!" Chris announced to Chef in the cockpit.
Owen stopped dancing and tumbled to the floor, Team Victory all screamed with fright, and Rodney flew into the wall before Izzy crashed into him. The wood pieces covering the hole got sucked out, and everyone held on to something to prevent getting sucked out.
"Spoke. Too. Soon!" Owen yelled and flew out of the hole, but managed to hold on to the edges. "Help! Someone, give me an hand!"
Confessional: Eva
"Owen is annoying, but I'm not even thinking about letting him die," Eva seriously said.
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Duncan and Jo were holding on to Owen and pulling him into the plane. After some struggle, they managed to get him inside and Sky pushed a crate into the hole, causing everyone to fall down since they weren't being sucked by the air.
Confessional: Sky
"And that was only our second plane accident," Sky confessed. "I can see why Owen doesn't like flying."
Confessional Ends
"First class has its advantages," Ella said as she accepted a chocolate from a white stewardess. She was sitting next to Mike in the reclining seats and the boy also took a chocolate.
The stewardess came over to Cody and offered him a chocolate. "Chocolate? Sure! I'll take all of them!" The geek grabbed them all with his hands and swallowed them whole, much to the stewardess' disgust. "Sorry. I just love chocolate."
"And that's how I became the first person to buy a sample of Chris's hair gel," Topher told Heather as the shot cut to the two of them on a couch.
"Great," Heather muttered. "So, you must have some idea of who's going next."
"Honestly, I can't tell," Topher said. "All of the teams have had at least one loss."
"Team Power lost last time, but they got their butts saved by the challenge being a reward," Heather mentioned.
"If we want to keep winning, we either have to keep on trying harder in the next challenges, or slip up the other teams," Topher discussed.
"As long as we stay in first class, whatever works," Heather said.
Confessional: Topher
"This is the time to get rid of Rodney, so naturally, I have to mess with Team Power," Topher claimed. "Team Victory will come soon. I just can't pass up this opportunity."
Confessional Ends
A close-up of the season's world map showed the plane icon weaving its way over Europe, then the scene flashed back into the cabin where Noah was looking at the view outside the window. "Whoa. Aren't those the Alps?" he wondered aloud.
"Achtung, mein wiener schnitzel!" Chris called over the loudspeaker in his German accent, gaining the attention of Team Victory before the shot moved to the cockpit. "In preparation for landing, please unbuckle your seat belts and head to the cargo hold." As soon as his transmission ended, both he and Chef Hatchet snickered.
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The footage skipped ahead to the whole cast assembled on top of the cargo bay doors. "Okay, now what?" Rodney wondered.
The doors opened up beneath and sent the fifteen teens falling into the open air. They all landed safely moments later, plunging one by one into a snowy landscape dotted with conifers. Sadie was the first shown to recover from the fall, but quickly looked up as she heard screaming. She held out her arms and was promptly landed on, and forced back into the snowbank, by Ezekiel.
"Thanks for the save, Sadie," Ezekiel said to his teammate.
"No problem," Sadie's muffled voice came from under him.
The camera cut to another drift as Izzy and Sky popped up out of it. "Are you feeling alright?" Sky asked Izzy.
"We just free falled from the plane, and the snow broke our fall," Izzy said as she brushed the snow off herself.
Nearby, Rodney was sitting on the snow when he heard a voice below him saying "If it's not any trouble, can you get off me?" Rodney obeyed the voice and stood up to see that he was squishing Noah. "Thanks."
The team's attention was drawn skyward by the sudden sound of a fan, and Chris paramotoring down towards them. "Guten tag, und willkommen in Deutschland!" he whispered down to them. "A.k.a., Germany," he added as he swooped past them as the mountaintop rumbled ominously.
"We're in avalanche territory, soooo, you might want to keep it down!" he added in another pass over the contestants.
"What are you even saying?!" Eva asked loudly. The mountaintop was shown rumbling again, and the shot cut back to Mike and Cody frantically covering her mouth.
"Welcome to today's musical challenge!" Chris announced without missing a beat. The music note icon appeared in the corner of the screen with a muted ding, and he continued with "Avoid the Song-alanche! To avoid a potentially fatal tumble down the mountain," he explained while swooping a few more times down the snowy slope, "and a suck-tacular climb back up, you better keep the singing nice and not loud!"
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[The mountaintop was shown rumbling again as a Bavarian folk rendition of the first movement of Mozart's 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik' began to play. The scene cut to Eva, Rodney, and Heather as they opened up the song.]
"Keep it down so we won't get buried!"
[Rodney sang and pinched Eva's lips in the process.]
"Sure, but this song needs to be hurried! Now!"
[Eva responded, the final word said to complete the rhyme and loud enough for Heather and Rodney to shush her for it.]
"Yell on, but you're still out of luck! You suck the lemon chuck!"
[Heather sang next, walking away from the two boys and stopping next to Mike.]
"I hope we lose right now so we can vote you out!"
[Mike sang with a frown that caused the queen bee to grimly frown.]
"When you jump off the plane, I will thank Chris McLean!"
[Ella sung and tiptoed to Heather teasingly.]
"Myyyy bling, got destroyed! I'm mortified! How can I put the pieces back together!"
[The shot cut to a close-up of Ezekiel's face as he sang next. The camera also pulled back to show Jo in front of him looking bored.]
"Beats me! I don't know 'bout your gold! Don't ask me cause I'm not a fixer!"
[Jo sang as she repeated the same melody she'd put her words to. She then said "You could glue them together."]
[The scene cut to Noah and Owen looking at their surroundings.]
"Wait! Something's about to come out! Of my butt and I pout!"
[Owen sang, causing Noah to look at him.]
"A fart is gonna sprout, and sadly, I have no doubt!"
[Owen put his hands behind his butt.]
"Everyone, don't shout, but too much airplane food will make me fart about!"
[Owen panicked and jumped around in an attempt to hold it in.]
"Owen, I beg of you, hold it! Hold it!"
[Noah fearfully begged, the music continuing despite no one singing. Mike, Heather, and Ella were shown looking over with wide, fearful eyes as the music continued, and Sadie and Topher also did the same.]
[Despite his best efforts, Owen's butt couldn't hold it in anymore, and with a pan to the sky, a fart exploded out of his butt.]
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The effect was immediate; the mountain began to rumble, and a sheet of snow on top slid. Noah, Eva, and Ella were shown screaming in terror as the avalanche engulfed them, and several others were shown getting carried down the slope against their will.
Mike was clinging to a terrified deer, but he couldn't hold on for too long and let the deer go. He then noticed a rock in his path and before he could do anything, he hit the rock headfirst, causing him to lose consciousness before the snow eventually covered everyone.
Chris was shown laughing in close-up, the camera quickly zooming out to show him swooping over the jumbled pile of contestant and snow that had accumulated at the foot of the mountain. "Awesome!" he told them as they groaned.
The camera zoomed in to the top of the snow mash, and a figure poked itself out of the snow, but rather than Mike, the person who got out instead was Mal.
Confessional: Mal
"Seems that Mike got hit in the head for the second time this season," Mal menacingly mentioned. "How excellent. That should keep him quiet for good!"
He calmly whistled 'In the Hall of the Mountain King' as he sprayed his hair into Mike's usual style. "Hi, I'm Mike," he said sounding like the comedian before laughing.
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A ripple effect took the scene to Mike's subconscious, where the comedian opened his eyes and groggily looked around.
"Where am I?" he asked before the camera zoomed out to show him chained to a large boulder. "Oh no," he said quietly. "No no no no no!" The camera zoomed out and he yelled "NOOOOOOOOOO!"
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The footage cut back to various contestants climbing up the snowy slope, and the camera focused in on the five members of Team Victory.
"It's a good thing we came out alive from that avalanche," Sadie said.
"I blame Owen completely for it," Jo voiced her opinion. "Can't he just pass gas quietly?"
"It's not his fault eh," Ezekiel said. "He has no control over it."
The shot panned to Team Power, Owen looking exhausted as he hiked back up through the snow.
"I smell… fooood!" Owen sniffed, then increased his pace up the mountain.
The big guy gasped in shock as he and his team reached the top, and Chris was shown standing next to a large pile of what looked like meat and an even larger machine crank. He was wearing a warm leather jacket, a Tyrolean hat, and his usual smug smile.
"Food!" Owen ran to the raw meat. "It's beautiful!" He stuffed his face on it.
"Easy, tiger," Chris said to him as the rest of the cast arrived. "Don't think of this as raw meat. Think of it as raw building materials. Over fifteen hundred species of sausage call Germany home, hence the theme of our most efficient challenge yet!"
"SHUT UP UND STUFF IT!" Chef yelled in a German accent, popping out from behind the meat pile.
"Danke, Chef," Chris said before walking away. "Each team must make a giant German sausage by shoveling meat into the grinder," he explained as the camera zoomed out to reveal the machine crank was in fact a giant meat grinder with a translucent sausage casing already attached; two other grinders and meat piles were stationed nearby, "push it down and grind the mixture out into an oversized sausage casing," he added as he reached and then pointed out the casing. "All without losing a finger or toe."
"What about thumbs? Are they cool?" Owen looked at his thumbs.
"I'm sorry, sausages?" Heather whined. "This is the most disgusting challenge yet!"
"Count yourselves lucky you're not making hot dogs," Chris told her. "No beaks, hooves, or butts in this meat pile." The shot cut to Sky as her cheeks bulged, and she leaned over to vomit just behind Eva. "You'll have to shovel fast," the host continued, "or risk getting stuck with an incomplete sausage. Which will be a lot harder to ride down the hill."
An idyllic snowy slope was shown, clear of rocks and with a lovely rainbow arcing between mountains in the distance. "Uhh, no, not that hill," Chris said. The shot quick-panned rightward to a darker slope littered with rocky outcroppings and overturned trees. "Thaaaat's the spot," Chris said as a sudden bolt of lightning that struck a spot of bare snow.
"Amazing!" Izzy looked pleased.
"Of course," Chris added as the camera panned over the shocked and gaping faces of the other contestants, "if you had a shiny new electric meat grinder, just plug her into our portable generator and voila! Sausage stuffed in seconds!"
Team Blizzard shot scowls at Heather. "I remember telling you not to throw our grinder out!" Ella scolded the queen bee.
"I didn't see you try to stop me!" Heather defended herself.
"That's because you don't listen to any of us and only focus on yourself!" Ella snapped back and showed anger towards Heather. "You threw our grinder while I was talking, therefore, it's your fault and only your fault!" The two girls scowled at each other.
"Speaking of rewards," Noah spoke up, "is there one at the end of this challenge?"
"Oh, there will be prizes for those who make it down the hill alive," Chris answered with a broad grin. "And, there will be punishment for one sorry loser on the last-place team. Behold," he turned and motioned off-screen, "der penaltyhosen!" The shot cut to Chef, who was holding a small-sized Bavarian tracht, including lederhosen. He was also holding onto an alphorn, which he promptly blew.
"Go, go, go!" Chris said.
The camera zoomed out enough to show the teams arriving at their grinders; Team Blizzard took the leftmost one, Team Power took the one in the back, and Team Victory took the one in front.
"Ezeziel and Jo, you shove the meat to the grinder," Sky ordered. "Duncan and Sadie, you stuff the meat. I'll do the grinding." Ezekiel shove the meat in, and while Sky was grinding, Sadie and Duncan saw the meat slowly coming out.
"This is sick!" Duncan almost threw up, but held it in.
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The scene flashed over to Team Blizzard, where Heather had climbed on top of the grinder with a shovel. "Forget it! Shoving meat into the grinder is dangerous. I'm valuable. Who got us the win in New York?"
"You threw out…" Mal started to say in his normal voice, but quickly cleared his throat and switched to Mike's voice. "You threw away our meat grinder!"
"Heather got offended by that. "Yeah, but I-"
"SHOVE IT!" Heather's team yelled.
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The camera panned to Team Power as Izzy was looking down the hole of the meat grinder. "Helllooo!" Izzy's voice echoed through.
Eva pulled her away. "Cut that out, Izzy!"
"I was just having fun," Izzy goofily said.
"Rodney, grind the meat. Your strength can be useful," Eva commanded, and Rodney started to do just that. "Owen, stuff that casing no matter what," she told Owen who was near the tube.
"Noah, make sure Izzy does not go into the grinder," Eva tossed Izzy down and she crashed into Noah.
"And there goes my pelvis!" Noah grunted.
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The footage switched to Heather packing the meat. She pressed her foot on it and Ella saw the meat slowly pushing out. Heather stopped to hold her vomit in.
"Less bawking, more packing!" Mal ordered as he was shoveling the meat.
"At least I'm doing something!" Heather responded as the camera panned to Topher making a Chris statue out of meat, surprising Cody and Mike.
Confessional: Cody
"Once again, I don't know how anyone could be a fan of Chris, but Topher makes that possible," Cody confessed.
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Meanwhile, Duncan and Sadie were holding the casing as it was nearly stuffed with meat.
"Keep grinding!" Jo said while she and Ezekiel shoveled the meat. "We're almost there."
Having contained his puke for too long, Duncan bent down and hurled profusely.
"Yuck!" Sadie reacted with squeamishness.
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"This is not good," Cody said as Ella looked at a barely stuffed casing. "Since Topher used the rest of the meat, we can't shovel anymore."
"This is why I made meat Chris!" Topher shouted out and leaned on it. "We could use it to sled down the hill." Unfortunately, the statue slid down the hill as Topher fell to the ground.
"I'm guessing that's a no," Ella moped.
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The footage skipped ahead to a zoomed-out shot showing all three teams hard at work, their respective logos appearing above them on-screen. Team Victory were almost done stuffing their meat while Jo and Ezekiel stood on the grinder in order to place the meat closer. Team Power had Rodney shoveling the meat on top of their grinder as Owen was used as the casing. Team Blizzard still couldn't fill their casing despite Ella and Heather shoving in the meat.
Izzy came back carrying Noah, and the boy laughed at Team Blizzard's sausage. "Cody and his team's got a tiny sausage!" the schemer made note of it.
"At least my team has a sausage!" Cody replied and this caused Team Power to see that Owen was hooked to the tube and had his body morphed into a sausage.
"So spicy!" Owen moaned after taking his mouth off the machine.
"Dude, that was raw meat!" Chris informed Owen. "Not good!"
Eva growled with fury, but Rodney was there to calm her down. "Do not hit him with a shovel! We can ride him down the mountain since he looks like a sausage!" the country boy suggested.
"Are you sure that would be safe?" Ella wondered after hearing that.
"Owen is stuffed with meat," Chris announced. "I say he's fit for sausage duty."
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"All aboard Der Weiner Express!" Noah chanted, riding the oversized sausage-shaped Owen with Eva and Izzy behind and Rodney pushing it up to the edge of the slope.
"Giddyup!" Izzy patted his body and Eva hopped on when she teetered Owen just past a metal flagpost.
Team Victory arrived next, Ezekiel, Duncan, Jo, and Sadie already riding the meat while Sky pushed. They looked excited, and as soon as Sky got on and the sausage sped off, they whooped in the thrill of it.
"Forgot to mention," Chris called down, the camera looking up from below the drop, "watch out for the rabid mountain goats! They're super deadly!" He chuckled, then told the camera "We brought 'em in special."
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The scene flashed back to earlier footage showing Chef kneeling on top of a metal crate, a nervous and fearful look on his face as he grabbed the lip of the crate's side cover. A mountain goat watched with annoyed disinterest nearby, and curiously a yellow triangle-shaped warning sticker on the crate's side showed a silhouette of a much younger goat.
Chef stood and pulled up the side cover, releasing an adorable goat kid out onto the snowy mountainside. It hopped towards the larger wild goat and bleated cutely, to which the older beast growled a reply.
The baby goat then unleashed a truly savage roar, revealing a mouth filled with dangerously sharp teeth. The older goat looked taken aback, and the shot cut away in discretion as Chef cringed and looked away from the sounds of crunching bones that were coming from off-screen.
The shot cut back to the young goat as it happily slurped up a goat leg, then bared its sharp teeth and leaped away.
The scene transitioned back to the challenge, showing Team Power and Team Victory about neck-and-neck on their sausages. The shot cut to the goat kid standing in their path; it roared ferociously, then jumped at them. The two teams were shown screaming, and the goat was shown jumping straight at the camera with its mouth wide open.
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"Duck!" Ezekiel cried and put his head down. The others quickly complied, and the baby goat sailed right over them. It closed its mouth mid-air and crashed into a tree.
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"Looks like this is all we could afford to pack into this tube," Mal said as Team Blizzard was standing on their flat sausage.
"I know! Jump on it!" Heather said abruptly and made her jump. "Do it!"
"If it gives us a sled, then let's do it," Cody agreed and they all jumped on their sausage until it became suitable enough to be used as a sled.
"Perfect! Now come on!" Heather moved them past the starting line. "Here's where we make our descent!" The meat-sled tipped forward and began its descent.
Team Blizzard saw a ramp in their way and rode through it. They flew in the sky as the sun was shown in the background, but they lost their sled and each of the five members tumbled down the mountain.
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The scene cut back to Team Power, where Rodney had gotten hold of a long branch and was using it as a rudder to steer Owen around rocks.
"Great steering, Rodney!" Owen complimented and got hit by ramps. "Careful, Rod! No, I'm okay!" the big guy said after getting hit multiple times.
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The focus cut to a zoomed-out shot of the finish line at the bottom of the hill as Team Power slid past the banner, Team Victory followed behind them, and the screaming members of Team Blizzard made it to the finish in a cluttered snowball while their sled zoomed past. Afterwards, they crashed into something off-screen.
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The members of Team Blizzard were shown groaning next to a wooden platform. The camera pulled back, showing not only the other two teams in similar situations, but that the platform was a stage where Chris and Chef waited along with four pairs of what looked like dancing game mats.
"Congrats on arriving first, Team Power," Chris told the five. "Way to use Owen's face as a brake pad!"
Owen popped his head out of a heap of snow. "Did we won?" he asked deliriously.
"On to part zwei of today's challenge," Chris continued. "Competitors must learn, and perform, a traditional German dance on this very platform. The mats are rigged to deliver a hilarious and painful jolt every time one of you missteps or I need a laugh. Last team standing wins."
"Where's the reward you promised?" Rodney asked.
"Patience, mein flower," Chris told him. "Team Power," he declared, turning to Chef who was holding an armful of pickelhaube, "first to arrive, first to get their reward." Chef tossed the helmets to the five.
"These weigh a ton," Noah critiqued after sagging from the helmet.
"Yes they do," Chris said happily. "Team Victory," he said next, the camera cutting to the five as they were tossed ushankas.
"This is not what Germans wear," Ezekiel commented as he examined the hat.
"And, in last place, Team Blizzard," Chris said next, the five getting tossed Tyrolean hats similar to what Chris was wearing.
"Thank you Chris," Topher said to the host. "I'll keep this hat so I can remember to tip it off to you."
"Whatever makes you happy. Now, we need eight people for this," Chris explained, "so two of the teams are gonna have three people dance and the rest sit out. Blizzard and Victory; three dance, two sit out."
Duncan, Sadie, and Sky stepped forward for Victory and Cody, Heather, and Mal stepped forward for Blizzard.
"And Power, since you arrived first," Chris told the other group of five, "two dance, three sit out."
"Two against three?" Izzy wondered after Noah and Rodney stepped up. "How is that fair?"
"You're kidding, right?" Chris said. "And which member of the losing team must wear," he started slipping back into his German accent as the shot cut to Chef, "der penalty hosen?" Chef held up the costume as the eyes of Cody went wide, causing Mal to take notice and smirk.
Confessional: Cody
"Look, I'd do anything to keep Heather from seeing me in a German bikini," Cody panicked in the restroom confessional.
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"I'll do it," Mal declared. "I'm sure it can't hurt."
"If you want to, sure," Cody eagerly let him.
"Funny," Chris said. "I was gonna make you wear them, but now that you want to… Cody, congratulations!" Cody gave him a shocked look that quickly changed to dread as the penalty hosen landed on his head.
"Noooo!" Cody shrieked and tried to get the clothing off him while Mal secretly snickered.
Confessional: Mal
"I never had any intent on wearing that hosen," Mal discussed. "I just volunteered because I know Chris like pain and humiliation, and seeing that Cody didn't want to wear that made it easy."
Confessional Ends
The footage skipped ahead, showing everyone in place with Chef standing nearby just off the raised stage. Mal and Duncan were on the leftmost pair of pads while Noah and Cody stood on the rightmost; Sadie and Rodney were on the back-left pads, and Heather and Sky were on the back-right.
"How are the hosen treating ya?" Noah laughed at Cody's fashion style.
"It feels like someone gave my wedgie a wedgie!" Cody replied.
The two were interrupted by the end of an alphorn blowing right next to them, the camera cutting to Chef who was holding the instrument. "That's German for shu~uut up!" he told them before tossing the alphorn over his shoulder. "Follow my lead and nobody gets hurt," he added, "yet."
A snazzy drumbeat opened the next piece of music, several brass instruments joining in after a few seconds. "Right knee up, left arm swings," he commanded to the melody, demonstrating the motions as he called them out. "Stomp, hop, slap your thighs. Kick your butt, jump and clap."
Confessional: Rodney
"This challenge requires us to slap each other in the face," Rodney told the camera. "I'm not one for physical violence, but since this is required, I have to participate. It's a good thing we're not punching each other, otherwise I would've quit."
Confessional Ends
The footage skipped forward slightly, now showing Rodney and Sadie going through the motions of the dance while Mal was in frame.
"Mike, there's something I have to tell you!" Sadie whispered to Mal.
"What is it?" Mal pretended to care.
"Somebody destroyed Ezekiel's bling!" Sadie said. "I think it must be Heather who did that. I'm telling you this because you're too nice to break people's stuff."
"That is true!" Mal proudly told her. "Too bad for Zeke!"
Duncan had overheard them and grabbed Mal's shirt. "First the Topher manipulation, and now this?!" the punk whispered to Mal. "I know you did that, Mal."
Making sure nobody was around, Mal allowed himself to drop the Mike impression. "You've got that right, Duncan, my old friend!" Mal venomously said in his actual voice.
"You're really back?" Duncan gasped. "No way!"
"No one's gonna stand in my way!" Mal sternly told him. "Not even you!"
Confessional: Duncan
"Oh, man. I knew Mike seemed familiar!" Duncan said to the viewers. "When I was a lowly punk in juvie, he was running the place. And he is bad news."
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The scene re-focused over to Noah and Heather, having a hushed conversation while they went through the motions of the dance.
"And why exactly is your problem today?" Noah asked.
"My team hates my guts and I can't find out who tricked Topher!" Heather said. "This is ridiculous!"
"I don't feel so hot!" Sadie complained while doing her dance slowly.
"Perfect time to test this baby out!" Chris said and pressed the button on the remote control in his hand, leading to Sadie being electrocuted.
"I'm still dancing!" Sadie called out and resumed her activity.
"These things are set up to shock us?" Rodney said in panic.
"Only if you stop dancing!" Chris gave a reminder before the camera panned over to Topher making a sausage out of grinded meat.
Confessional: Topher
"Making something out of raw meat is nasty, even if it is to ensure that another team loses," Topher gagged.
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Chris pressed the button again, and the camera zoomed out to show all eight dancers getting shocked at the same time. "It's challenge time!" he declared.
Heather, Sadie, and Noah were shown stumbling around the stage in literal shock, and Sky said "I feel like a sausage, but extremely overcooked," before getting zapped again.
"Last person standing on the platform wins the challenge for their team," Chris told them before the camera cut in close and he whispered "This is gonna be fun!"
The shot zoomed back out as Chef pressed another switch, which caused hydraulic pistons to extend and raise the dance mats high into the air with the contestants already on them. Cody and Rodney were on the far left mats, while Noah and Sky were on the far right. Mal faced off against Duncan on the back-left, and Sadie and Heather squared off on the back-right to round things out.
The music started up again, and the contestants stared at their mats in shock for a second before beginning.
Heather and Sadie were shown first, the two slapping and kicking each other in unison. The shot zoomed out again, showing that all four pairs were slapping each other and several were complaining about it.
Noah and Sky's duel was shown first, the two raising their hands to strike. Noah went to strike, but Sky held his hand and slapped him off the platform.
Rodney made a misstep and was shocked for it, causing Chef and Chris to laugh. Rodney was shocked one last time before getting serious. He raised his arm and then delivered a slap that sent Cody flying off the platform.
"Oh no!" Heather gasped after seeing Cody fall off, but this gave Sadie the chance to give off a barrage of slaps and knees that sent Heather hurtling off into the snow.
Meanwhile, Duncan and Mal were shown battling furiously. Duncan had the upper hand and it caused Mal to get annoyed. He came up with an idea, and he kicked Duncan in the groin. The delinquent kneeled down to hold his groin, but it got him shocked and he fell off the mat.
Confessional: Duncan
"I almost got Mal off the mat!" Duncan grunted as he held his groin. "Why do they always go for the kiwis!"
Confessional Ends
The footage skipped ahead a few minutes to show the dance mats rising for the second round; Rodney versus Sadie on the left, and Mal versus Sky on the right. Their teammates were shown watching from the sidelines.
"Don't lose your footing, Sadie and Sky!" Ezekiel encouraged his teammates.
"Stay on the platform, Rodney!" Eva called out.
"I don't wanna do this to you, but it's for the sake of the game!" Rodney told Sadie before slapping her off of their mat.
Everyone focused their eyes to Sadie falling to the ground, and Topher took this opportunity to take the sausage out of his pocket and throw it in front of Rodney's feet.
"I think I broke my fingernail!" Sadie moaned as she stood up.
Rodney heard that and got worried. "I'm sorry, ma'am! I didn't mean to-" he ran over to where Sadie was, but slipped on the sausage, and while the sausage flew off into another direction, Rodney flew off of the mat and landed in the snow.
"Rodney, what was that about?" Noah wondered and went over to check on the country boy.
Rodney got his face off the snow and woozily looked at Noah. "I don't know what just happened!"
Back at the challenge, Sky and Mal were watching what had just happened to both Rodney and Sadie.
"So it looks like it's just me against you," Sky stared down who she thought was Mike with playful competitiveness. "I won't go hard on you since we're friends, but I won't be soft."
"You don't have to do anything. I'm already safe from elimination thanks to those two," Mal assured the athlete before jumping off the platform.
"Team Victory wins again!" Chris announced.
"All right!" Sky cheered. "First class, here I come!"
Ella went over to Mal. "Why did you immediately get off the platform?" the fairytale princess questioned the comedian in her view. "We could have won first class for the third time in a row."
"When Rodney got off his platform, I knew that would put his team into last place," Mal stated. "We've already been in first class for two episodes. We can win it again next time."
Confessional: Sky
"Mike helped Team Victory achieve victory today!" Sky said and laughed at her pun. "Wow. Mike's comedic nature is rubbing off on me."
Confessional Ends
The footage resumed on a shot of Chris and Chef on-stage, addressing the three teams standing on the snow. "Team Victory, fresh-baked strudel awaits you in first class," he told the five on the right.
"Aw yeah!" Ezekiel cheered while Jo and Sky high-fived each other.
"Team Blizzard," Chris told the five in the middle, "you're in not-winner, not-total-loser purgatory. Team Power," the host told the final group on the left, "you're voting someone out." The team shared a nervous look.
Confessional: Izzy
"How did Rodney fall off the platform if nobody was on it?" Izzy scratched her head. "I wasn't paying attention to what was happening at that moment. Still, I'm going to vote him off. I don't hate him, but I like the other members of my team more."
Confessional Ends
The scene flashed to the plane in flight, then to Owen eating a big sausage that had a stench coming out of it.
"Tell me those aren't the same sausages you ate during the grinding challenge," Noah said as he and Eva walked to where he was sitting.
Owen stared at his sausage and his teammate awkwardly, but Eva broke the silence. "Don't worry about that. We have an elimination ceremony to get to."
"And who are we going to target today?" Noah raised his eyebrow.
"It's going to be the odd person out," Eva concluded.
Confessional: Rodney
"Thanks to me, one of my teammates is gonna get voted off," Rodney said. "I wonder who."
Confessional Ends
The five members of Team Power were already seated in the elimination room, and the host was standing before them with a tray of season's symbols of safety.
"I have four barf bags full of the finest peanuts never allowed to be handed out on commercial planes due to allergy-induced lawsuits," Chris said, ending with a short wink at the camera. "Time to vote who gets 'em!"
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"Okay, the votes are in," Chris told the five as the scene flashed back to the elimination room. "Rodney," he said, causing the tall boy to smile. "You may or may not get a bag after I give the first one to Eva!"
Eva caught her prize with a neutral expression while Rodney slumped.
"Noah and Izzy," Chris said, "you get the second and third ones." Noah and Izzy caught their snacks with smiles.
"Owen," the narcissistic host said as he idly tossed the last bag in his hand, "you're one of the funniest characters on the show, but you let your appetite consume you. Pretty good reason to send you packing."
"Rodney," the host continued, "you could have won for your team by staying on the platform, but you let your concern for people's well-being consume you. Pretty good reason to not keep you here. So, the last bag goes to..."
"Owen," Chris finally announced, tossing the final barf bag to the big guy.
"I'm not surprised that I'm the one leaving," Rodney said as he stood up. "You guys are more connected to each other than you are with me."
"And we're out of time!" Chris interrupted with a smile, forcibly shoving a parachute pack into Rodney's arms then pushing him over to the open doorway. "So long! Farewell! Auf wiedersehen! Good night!"
Rodney held on to the plane to say one more thing. "Good luck with the rest of the game!" he told his former team before taking his hand away from the plane door and fell out of the plane with a scream.
"Can Team Power continue to keep their natural bond?" Chris asked, the usual ending music starting up as the shot cut back to him and the remaining four members of the team in question. "Find out next time, on Total!" the shot cut outside to the image of Chris on the plane's tail fin as the first blaring note played. "Drama!" the shot pulled back just enough to show the edge of the wings. "Woooorrrrlllddd~ Tooouuurrrr~!" The final shot showed the plane flying off to the left, and nothing more.
(Roll the Credits)
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(Bonus Clip)
"After what happened with me being framed last season, being voted off for costing my team the challenge is something I prefer," Rodney exclaimed as he floated downwards through the chilly air courtesy of his open parachute. "And plus, I get to go help my family raise money to buy a replacement bus."
He landed on the same mountain the meat grinders were on and said "What a safe landing."
It was then that the same mountain goat kid from earlier appeared and bleated cutely at him. "And it gets better. Hi there, baby goat." The goat kid growled and pounced on him, and the camera cut to the side of the mountain as he yelled in terror.
Team Victory: Sadie, Jo, Ezekiel, Sky, Duncan
Team Power: Noah, Owen, Izzy, Eva
Team Blizzard: Topher, Ella, Mike, Cody, Heather
Author's Note: Yeah, Rodney is now eliminated thanks to Topher and his overly caring nature. Rodney was fun to write for last season, but this time he needed to go for the sake of the rest of the cast. So Mal has finally taken control of Mike, we'll see how that comes into play later on.
18th: Shawn
17th: Amy
16th: Lindsay
15th: Rodney