"Last time on Total Drama Island…" Chris' voiceover recap once again echoes through the scene, as it will for many more episodes to come, while relevant footage flashes across the screen. Said relevant footage you are gonna have to imagine, sadly.
"Twenty-two campers arrived and learned that they'll be spending the next eight weeks at a crusty old summer camp. The campers were faced with their first challenge, jumping off a cliff into shark-infested waters. And while most campers took the plunge, a few were forced to wear the dreaded chicken hat. At the campfire ceremony, it wasn't even close! Dakota managed to tick off every single one of her team's members, thanks to her unwillingness to help, the constant whining, and the fact that she'll probably get the same sum as the prize money after a couple allowances anyway. It was really unsurprising to watch her walk down the Dock of Shame, but it felt cathartic enough. Who will be voted off this week in the most dramatic campfire ceremony yet? Find out tonight on Total. Drama. Island!"
After the theme song finished playing, the audience gets a wide shot of the cabins, every camper blissfully asleep in the early morning. All except for one, as Rodney was already up, just finished putting on his overalls before stretching his arms up and yawning.
Right as he yawned however, the sound of an air horn blasted through the campsite through a megaphone, startling every single guy in the cabin awake, causing Rodney to cover up his mouth, startled by what appeared to be the sudden loudness of his yawn, before realising it didn't come from him.
We then cut to Amy, still in her sleepwear, looking out the window irritated by the noise.
"It's seven in the morning!" she exclaimed "Do I look like a farmer to you?" before her eyes, and the camera, panned to the right, showing the guys' cabin and Rodney poking out of his window. She then hastily and sheepishly added "N-no offense!" to which Rodney just awkwardly shuffled back inside.
Jump cut to all the campers outside, many of them still sleepy, but some like Dawn, Rodney, Shawn and Jo being up and running.
After Lightning came out and gave Rodney the stink eye, we cut to a confessional from the jock, as he lamented "So, I may have lost that competition 'cause that guy's been liftin' a lot heavier stuff than I have, but whatever! I'm almost as strong as him, but a bazillion times quicker! 'Cause there ain't nothin' quicker than Lightning!"
After we cut back to reality, Shawn was then approached by Mike, who asked him "Dude, where were you during dinner? I know the food is bad, but you shouldn't starve yourself, y'know?" with the scruffier teen going "Well…" before a flashback is shown to the audience.
Said flashback shows Shawn, at a campfire in the woods, with a small sack full of berries and a few fish skewered on a stick, enjoying a meal in solitude and satisfaction. We then cut back to reality, where Shawn tried to brush this off "Don't worry, I ate."
Before Mike could ask any more questions, Chris greeted every camper outside "Morning! Hope you slept well." with Topher answering in kind "Morning, Chris! Hair's looking super! Did you get a new gel?"
"As a matter of fact, I did!" the host replied chipperly, maintaining his smile before speaking again "Okay. I hope you're all ready because your next challenge begins in exactly one minute."
At that notion, many campers jolted awake in surprise, with one camper in particular being more apprehensive than all the others.
"Oh, excuse me. I don't know if that's enough time to eat breakfast…" Owen asked, really tense at the prospect, but Chris then answered "Oh, you'll get breakfast, Owen." to which Owen lit up… right before the host finished the sentence "Right after you complete your twenty kilometers run around the lake!"
This notion caused a wave of groans across the cast, with a few key exceptions, the first one of them speaking out in a very braggadocious way "Sha-easy! Coach had us do runs all the time, man! The Lightning's going gold!"
As Lightning puffed his chest out, Jo then replied with mockery and went up to his face "Hah! Is that so? Well, let's see if you run more than just your mouth, jockstrap!" but then Sky got in between the two of them, trying to calm things down "Now, I'm all for competition, but no need to be hostile about it."
"Of course!" Jo sarcastically replied "I'll make sure to save some dust for you to eat, wonder chick!" but Sky staunchly, and even a little sassily fired back "No thanks, I'm on a diet. Feel free to get my portion."
"Oh, it's on now!" Jo grinned at the two athletes on the opposite team, the three of them locking eyes, all the while Chris and Topher were watching on the sidelines.
"Ah, is there anything better than fresh drama in the morning?" said the younger man, very much enjoying the banter, much like the host, who commented with a chuckle "Hehe. Nope." before addressing every camper "You have thirty seconds, people."
We cut to a confessional from Justin "Man, Jo's intense. That much stress can seriously strain your looks… If she had looks to maintain, that is." he ended that off with a snotty and vapid laugh.
Cut back to reality, everyone at a starting line, the host armed with an air horn, ready to start things off. Jo, Sky and Lightning had their eyes locked and were ready to sprint as soon as the horn was sounded, which would happen very soon once the host raised it into the air and said "Okay, runners! On your marks, get set… go!"
Right as it sounded off, the three of them bolted ahead of the pack, which wasn't surprising, but still caused some upset to the people who were in their way.
Jump cut later, some campers still running, others walking behind everyone, though regardless, everyone was doing their laps under a scorching sun.
As Lightning, Jo and Sky passed by everyone again, Leonard was panting and wheezing next to Beth, asking "Do you know… how much longer?"
"I think we're… halfway done?" she answered while panting, uncertain of the answer herself, before we shift our focus to Heather, the next victim of the Lightning, Jo and Sky train, as they bolted past her and knocked her to the ground while she wasn't looking.
She got up with a groan and shouted ahead of her "You did that on purpose!" only getting a faint and distant "Maybe!" from Jo, who was already very far.
"I don't run." we cut to a confessional from Heather "And I definitely don't run in high heel wedges."
When we fade back to reality, Heather has come across a fatigued Owen, who was lapping up some river water, panting out words in between each lap "Can't… Catch… Breath. Must… Have… Condition!" before collapsing face-first in the water.
"Yeah. It's called overeating. Look into it." coldly replied Heather, something that the nearby Zoey didn't respond well too, as she called out in between pants "Heather! That… huff… was too… huff… mean…!"
Heather barely registered, only sparing the energy for a single eye roll, before being startled by Chris, riding on top of a scooter, megaphone in hand, passing by everyone and announcing "Pick it up, people! If you're not back by dinner time, you don't eat!"
"Hrr… I hate him so much!" Heather seethed, before using Owen as a bridge to cross through, a cracking noise filling the air with every step, the big guy jolting up in pain after she crossed.
Cut to later in the day, as the three athletic teens were still neck and neck, on the last lap, sprinting for dear life towards the destination cabin… but Jo and Lightning were so busy staring at their goal, with the occasional glance at their competition, that they didn't notice a tree root, streaking across the ground right under feet.
As Sky leapt over the obstacle, the two tunnel-visioned jocks tripped over it, but this sudden shift in movement made them swerve in the air, tackling the other teen mid-leap and causing the whole group to tumble like a ball of tangled yarn towards the steps of the cabin.
The three winced in pain after coming to a sudden halt, but the first to recover and get up was Jo, who looked around to see her competition on the floor, a few inches behind where she got up, and immediately started to celebrate in victory.
"Haha! Yes!" she gloated "Sorry you had to lose to a girl again, Captain Fizzle!" and ran inside the cabin before the others got any comments in.
Sky got up, rubbing her shoulder in pain, but used her other hand to help Lightning up, who was rubbing the back of his head, and asked "Are you ok?"
Lightning, a little awkwardly, answered "Uh… yeah, yeah, I'm good." before quickly resuming his usual posturing "Besides, that dude's full of it! I tied you this time!" to which Sky looked like she was about to say something, but then interrupted herself, shrugged and walked inside alongside the jock.
Cut to a significant amount of time later, every camper but a few have made it to the cabin, and they were all waiting, bored out of their minds, with the host filing his nails during this quiet period.
But it all came to an end, as Owen burst through the door, carrying an unconscious Leonard in his arms, and shouted "Clear a table! Stat!" and he rushed to place the scrawny teen there, trying to resuscitate him.
Then came Dawn, really fatigued and sweaty, as she uttered "Not used… to running…" before taking her place, followed by an equally fatigued and sweaty Staci, the last camper to the cabin.
Jo immediately got up in her face and shouted "What took you so long, pudgy!? You're going home after this!" but the other girl could only babble incoherently, with words that sounded vaguely German before falling on the ground, panting.
While this was happening, Sammy, who until now was looking at Owen trying to reanimate Leonard, paused for a second and came to a realisation. "Hold up… That means we won!" she said, which caused the whole team, including a suddenly awake Leonard to erupt in cheers and celebrations.
Sadly, it was all cut short by Chris, who immediately reined them all back "Whoa there! Hold your horses, guys. That wasn't the challenge!" and with those words, the cheering promptly stopped, much to the irritation of the Bass, first voiced by Amy with a baffled "What did he just say!?"
But before any more comments were flung, the host stuck his hands behind a curtain that had been there all along, and quickly opened it while announcing to the tired teens "Who's hungry!?"
Behind it was a buffet table, fit to burst with any and all food one could ever dream of… but don't take my word for it, and instead hear it from the campers themselves, while the angelic music that played during the unveiling keeps running during their confessionals.
First up was Sky. "I know I said I was on a diet, and my nutritionist wouldn't approve, but… come on! After a week of brown slop, I deserved that buffet!" then Shawn "I had no hopes that it would be a regular thing, but… eating good food with a lot of people was a nice change of pace."
Afterwards came Mike, who commented with complete sincerity "That was the best food I've eaten since I got here!" before then asking the camera "You think I could get some of the recipes to give my aunt?" and finally Owen, the most emotional of them all, as he enounced everything with passion "And then I saw it, the buffet table. It was beautiful. There was turkey and Nanamo bars and baked beans and maple syrup!"
The big teen then teared up with joy, ending off the confessional with a choked up "C-can you give me a minute…" which the cameras obliged to, as they lingered on for a little while longer before cutting back to reality.
Now most, if not all campers, were stuffed full, and the buffet table was completely empty, without a single crumb left standing, and the teens were groaning in satisfaction… or maybe due to a stomachache, it was hard to tell which.
The host then came up to them, wearing his trademark cheesy smile and enthusiastically announcing "Okay, campers! Time for part two of your challenge!" and through many of the campers' puzzled reactions, the one the cameras chose to focus on first was Owen, mouth still full of food as he said, confused "I thought eating was the second part…"
After this, came Zoey's, who pleadingly asked "What more do you want from us?" and after a groan, Heather supported her "Pasty's right… Haven't we been through enough?"
"Um… Let me think about that." said the host, very condescendingly and taking a brief pause, before exclaiming "No! It's time for… The Awake-a-thon!"
"The what-a-thon?" wondered Owen, before Chris promptly answered and elaborated further "Don't worry! This is an easy one! The team with the last camper standing awake wins invincibility!"
The realisation then set in on everyone's faces, but the first one to vocalise it was Topher, speaking with a hint of awe "So, what you're saying is the 20k run and the turkey eating frenzy were part of your evil plan to make it harder for us to stay awake?"
"That's right, Topher!" confirmed the host, very proudly at that, which prompted the teen to say "Man, he's good!" as several other campers nodded at the notion, right before Chris told them to "Move, move, move!" while gesturing to the door.
As everyone was walking out, the cameras focus on two campers, who were briefly speculating about the challenge, as Duncan asked Shawn "So, how long do you think it'll be before everyone's out cold?" with the scruffier teen replying promptly with "'Bout an hour, give or take." though as they passed a groaning Owen, he then added "Probably less."
Jump cut to a wide shot of the island, a timer in the corner of the screen, quickly fast forwarding as nine hours pass, the sun's position in the sky changing accordingly, until eventually vanishing, as other stars filled the sky instead.
We then get back down to ground level, watching the teens, illuminated only by the torches and the campfire who were now struggling a bit more to stay away, all of them having visible bags under their eyes, some were yawning, but Owen was oddly energetic and had his eyes wide open.
An oddly soft-spoken Chris voiceover then echoed in the scene "We're now nine hours in with all twenty-one campers still wide awake…" and then Owen spoke up instead, really loudly "Woohoo! Stay awake for nine hours?! I can do that in my sleep! Woohoo!" before promptly falling over, fast asleep, much to the surprise of no one.
A graphic then appeared, showing a tally of the teams, with the Bass going from 10 to 9, accompanied by a bell noise as the number ticked down.
Zoey let out a yawn as she reflected out loud "Man… who'd think having to stay awake would be so gruelling…" followed by a yawn by Mike, as he added onto it with a "Yeah…Though at least, we could talk to each other to pass the time…".
As the two talked amongst themselves, Heather looked away in thought, before we cut to a confessional that would take said thoughts and put them on display for the audience to see.
"Alright" Heather reflected "my strategy is to get at least two other people in an alliance. That way, I can secure votes to control the eliminations. The only question is, even if the sleep deprivation might help, who can I find that is either desperate or dumb enough to do whatever I say?"
As the confessional came to an end and we cut back to reality, we see Staci doing… well, less of a handstand and more of a head-stand, with Zoey looking at her quizzically alongside Beth, as she then asked "What are you doing?" and the teen in the pink tracksuit answered, while attempting to stay in balance "Trying to get blood to my head, ya. My grandma did this at night to stay awake… or was it exercise?"
Zoey was still uncertain of this method, and asked again "Does… does it help?" Staci tried nodding to it, but she almost lost balance as she did, so she settled on a "Ya, I think so!".
Beth suddenly got really excited and asked "Can I try?" with Staci getting excited in return, exclaiming "Of course!" and as Beth also got on her head, Heather assisted at the scene with a sly smile and a scheming glint in her eyes, as she then uttered "Perfect." before saying out loud "Staci, Beth, can I talk to you for a sec?".
As she made her way to the two girls, Jo had been watching the whole time, her face not turned towards her, but her eyes were.
Jump cut to later, with Heather, Staci and Beth now being in a space as isolated as possible from every other camper, with the mean girl starting to work her ways with the other two.
"Okay." said Heather "I have a plan to get me and two other people in the final three, and I chose you guys." she then took a pause as the other two were left in disbelief at this reveal, with Staci asking "Really?" with awe and a hint of excitement, before Heather continued "You should know that this is a very big deal. I am placing my trust in you. And trust is a two-way street."
After laying out her terms, the duo nodded profusely, with Heather asking for confirmation "So you'll do everything I say then?" and as the two nodded even more, the camera pans slightly behind them, as a pair of eyes and some tufts of blonde hair pierced through a bush, watching over the whole thing.
Cut to a confessional from Jo, where she mulled over this turn of events "So, she finally made her move… Securing votes is a solid strategy, I'll give her that." She then got her wolfish grin back as she continued "But those two are desperate, and desperate means they're moldable. I'll just take one to the side, plant the seed of doubt and, with some force if needed, and break the alliance apart! As for which to pick… I have a tried and true method."
Cut back to the scene, Jo fully comes out of the bush, rummages through her pocket, taking out a coin and muttering "Heads, Brace-face. Tails, Schnitzel" before tossing it, catching it in mid air and slapping it on her arm. As the coin revealed tails, she then took a glance off screen.
We then cut to Staci and Beth, following behind Heather, until a hand comes from off screen, grabs Staci by the mouth and drags her offscreen in a flash, with no one noticing, with the only noise being the rustling of a bush.
Beth turns towards it, but sees nothing, and instead looks around confused, wondering where her friend went.
Behind that bush, however, Jo and Staci are now facing each other, Jo having lifted her hand from her mouth.
"Sorry about the whole grabbing you thing" she said, not sorry at all "But you need to watch out for that Heather, she'll toss you away at the first sign of trouble." Staci was too intimidated to really speak out in any way, but she was confused at this whole turn of events, which Jo picked up on.
"Most people in this game look out only for themselves, as should you!" she firmly stated "The sooner you learn this, the better. Is that clear?" the other teen just nodded, still scared, but also somewhat compelled by what she said.
"Good." Jo made that final affirmation before walking off, leaving Staci alone with her thoughts, which are made vocal through a confessional cutaway.
"Jo is… mean, and scary." Staci reflected on her words for a bit, looking very concerned and at a loss "But what if she's right… Oh, what should I do…"
As she contemplated her course of action, we cut back to reality, to the Bass side, with Sky doing some light stretching, changing up the exercise every so often, but never straining much at all. Lightning took a look at her from a distance and drew… his own conclusions.
"Sky's workin' out even while sleepy…" he mulled for a second before proudly proclaiming "Ain't no way the Lightning's gonna be outmatched!" and with this, he started to do some jumping jacks.
Heather and her alliance were sitting on the other side, and looked at what Lightning was doing, with Staci speaking out to her allies and saying "Wait, won't he just tire himself out?" with Heather promptly responding "So what? If an enemy's making a mistake, let them make it. We gotta look out for ourselves only, is that clear?"
Staci nodded, but also looked away in thought, and as Beth noticed the distress on her face, she asked "Is something wrong, Staci?" the other girl turned around, easing up a little after hearing the genuine concern in her voice, and answered "Oh, it's just… the new alliance has me nervous, and…" she briefly stopped to let out a yawn "I'm also sleepy…"
"Yeah I…" Beth then also yawned, as she tried to respond "I'm sleepy too…" and as she did, we cut to a wide shot of the island again, the timer now displaying the 14th hour mark and the moon being quite a bit higher in the sky now.
As the camera pans across the cast on the ground, they were all looking more exhausted than before, with Topher being fast asleep and the first Gopher to be out cold, Lightning was still doing some jumping jacks, panting all the way before eventually falling to the ground, while incoherently saying something about "Super Bowl" and "Sha-bam".
Alongside the Bass counter going down to an 8, while the Gopher counter was showing a 10, Sky groaned and uttered "Ugh… I told him to stop doing that…" before Chris came by to announce "Congratulations, campers! You made it two hours past the twelve hour mark!" he then stopped and thought about what he just said, or rather, when he said it "Probably should have made the announcement earlier…"
He dismissed the thought and returned to the smile not long after "Whatever, time to take things up a notch!" he then put his hand on top of a very inconspicuous white sheet, covering an inconspicuous pile of things, but before any camper could process that, Chef came by, carrying a harp and dressed like a pink sheep.
Chris unveiled a stack of books, and as the other man started tugging on the harp, which prompted a little snicker from the host and some irritation on the man's face, said host opened one of said books and began reading from it… very slowly and monotone.
"Once… Upon a time… There was… Inside this boring kingdom…" As the host's boring reading echoed through the campsite, disparate yawns escaped the mouths of many teens. "A boring village. And inside this boring, sleepy, village… Filled with very boring children… that did very… Boring things."
The camera then showed Leonard and Cody, both having fallen fast asleep, the counters of both teams ticking down once more, 9 and 7. What then followed was a short… inexplicable montage, as Chef was now in a ballerina dress, dancing relatively gracefully for a man his size, while "The Nutcracker" whimsically plays in the background.
The awe of the campers was quickly replaced by sleepiness, after the man threw some "fairy dust" their way, causing every camper hit by it to yawn, and in one case, DJ, to fall asleep.
Sadly, he was trying to keep himself awake by tying himself to a tree, but after the fairy dust hit him and he went to sleep, the tree decided to also give up and fall, not asleep, fall nonetheless, punctuated by a slightly unenthusiastic "Timberrr…" from Shawn as the counter went down to 6.
Cut to the 16 hour mark, campers even more tired, Sky still trying to stave off the sleep by stretching, but other than that, every other Bass was barely hanging on, same on the Gopher's side, with the exception of Shawn, who looked significantly less tired than everyone else.
Heather then turned to Staci, who had closed her eyes for just a bit too long before the other girl nudged her and said "We should talk about our strategy" but not even the nudge could awaken her, and she just fell backwards, completely asleep.
"Ugh…" Heather groaned, before turning around to try and face her other alliance member, but the moment she asked "Beth?" she noticed the girl in braces also completely knocked unconscious, which was finally tallied, the Gopher counter going down to 7, with Heather rubbing her temples in frustration.
We then shift our focus to Mike and Zoey, who were conversing to try and stay awake, but also out of genuine interest to get to know each other.
"Okay…" Zoey thought up a question "How's your school?" with Mike stumbling a bit, trying to find his words "Oh, it's… uhm…" before sighing and tell her completely frankly "I'm homeschooled."
"Oh!" the red haired girl was caught by surprise "Really? How's that like?" and then Mike elaborated a little, now more at ease "I live with my aunt and uncle, who are high school teachers." before getting more upbeat as he talked about them "They're great! really sweet, know pretty much everything and have been really kind and patient with us! Couldn't ask for someone better!"
"That sounds really nice!" Zoey replied, Mike's positivity rubbing off on her, but then a couple questions surfaced in her mind, and thus she asked "Wait, 'us' ?" suddenly, Mike's eyes shot wide open, as he then stammered a response "Oh, uh, did I say 'us'? S-sorry, slip of the tongue I-" he then faked a very convincing yawn before continuing "guess the lack of sleep is, uh, getting to me, hehe…"
While she did notice Mike's shift in behaviour, she elected not to pry further and brushed it off with a "Heh, yeah we've been at this for a while…" but not before asking Mike one more thing "So… If you live with your aunt and uncle, what about your parents?"
"Oh, they're…" the skinny teen got really quiet all of a sudden, as he looked away and instinctively covered his neck with a hand, while saying with a slight quiver in his voice "...not around." Upon seeing this shift, Zoey immediately felt bad upon asking that question, and tried to course correct "S-sorry Mike, I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable! We could talk about something else if you'd like."
"Yeah I'd… I'd really like that, thank you." Said Mike, exhaling a sigh of relief as he did, before then asking Zoey a question "So, uh… Do you like Dungeons and Dragons?" to which the girl lit up and exclaimed "Do I!" before a jump cut to a different perspective.
Said perspective was with Amy and Sammy, who were sitting next to each other, both of them were barely clinging on to consciousness, before Sammy then lamented "Ugh… Can't…keep it…" and as she closed her eyes and drifted off, Amy tried to lightly shake her awake, while also weakly complaining "No… Don't give up on me again…" but it all came to a halt when… something interrupted that train of thought.
That something being a big, naked Owen, whose bare back and butt covered the whole view of the camera as he slowly streaked, arms outstretched, still snoring, leaving a horrified Amy in his wake.
The teen girl looked to her left, seeing the pile of Owen's clothes, then to her right, watching the naked teen walk off into the night, and finally weakly muttered "..See you in my nightmares…" before falling asleep, the Bass counter going down to 4.
After that show, we cut to an explanatory confessional from Owen, who was a little embarrassed to elaborate, but did regardless "Did I mention that I ate the entire dish of baked beans and maple syrup? Funny thing about baked beans, they make me sleepwalk."
After the confessional, we cut to a final shot of Owen sleepwalking off into the woods, but this time from the perspective of a horrified Heather, but who then seemed to have an epiphany of some sort.
She looked around, a sly grin on her face, before her eyes landed on a long branch, from DJ's fallen tree, as she then took it and walked off in the same general direction as Owen, unnoticed by anyone else.
Cut to the 19 hour mark, Mike and Zoey are on their backs, looking up at the starry night sky, and as a shooting star streaks across it, he pointed at it and asked as excitedly as he could muster "Oh! What was… that?" to which she replied "That was a shooting star, Mike. You've never seen one?"
"Never really stopped to look at the sky, honestly…" he told her, before then raising his head slightly and smiling her way "But I'm glad I am doing this with you now…You're just… the best, Zoey."
As her face also gained a smile, she tilted her head to look into his eyes as well, while they started holding their hands, almost on instinct. We linger on this quiet moment, where they just looked into each other's eyes, smiling, while they drifted into sleep's embrace.
The counter appeared and went down to 5, but the bell sound did not play this time, the editors not willing to ruin the moment, with the only noises filling the air being the crackling of the bonfire, some hoots off in the woods, and gentle chirping of crickets, as the pair slept under the stars.
We then cut to Duncan and Jo, who were intently observing Justin, who has been pretty immobile for hours by now, from the stumps they were sitting on with suspicions starting to arise.
"Look at him…" muttered Jo "Still as a statue. How does he do that!?" and Duncan then commented "Reminds me of a dude I met in juvie. Somehow smuggled in some strong stuff to smoke… Stayed awake for three days!"
"Hold on" said Shawn, who was close by watching Justin as well, as he got up, took a tissue and gently swiped across the edge of the model's eye, revealing it to be makeup.
As the teammates gasped and the culprit was then woken up by the touch, Dawn called out "His eyelids are painted!" which caused the host to rush up to the camera, in surprise and excitement, as he exclaimed "Shut up! Oh, I've gotta see this!" before approaching Justin and watching him blink, a nervous smile on his face.
"That is so freaking cool!" exclaimed the host "But, you're still out, dude." the counter then went down to 4 for the Gophers, much to Justin's dismay, expressed in a confessional we then cut to.
"The prize is good and all…" he said "but this is how I make money." he then gestured to all of his body, before ending it off with "Can't risk damaging the goods…"
As we cut back to reality, the sun is now well up into the sky, as the 24 hour mark has been hit. Panning to the ground, we see Mike fast asleep next to Zoey, still smiling, but then he let out a groan before waking up and noticing his hand in a glass of water.
Duncan was there, standing next to him, as he then exclaimed with a laugh "Haha! Gross, it works! Dude peed his pants!" and when Mike noticed that he indeed peed his pants, he let out an odd gasp, after which he stared daggers back at Duncan.
Much to the punk's surprise, "Mike" stood up, took the glass, and poured the water down Duncan's back, causing him to recoil from the cold, before immediately gasping again, losing his intense stare and looking around in confusion.
"Oh, you did not just do that!" said Duncan in a mix of chuckling, irritation and genuine surprise, but right as he raised his fist, Mike panicked and sprinted out of sight, much to Duncan's protest of "Come back here! Ugh, wimp."
Cut to a confessional from Mike still panicked "Oh man… This is exactly what I didn't want to happen!" before taking out a mirror from his pocket and speaking into it "I know Duncan's not great, but please, don't make it worse!"
We then cut back to reality and pan to other campers waking up, namely Amy, Sammy, DJ, Beth and Staci, before showing the campers that are still awake on both sides.
For the Gophers, it was Duncan, Shawn, and Jo and for the Bass it was all up to Jasmine and Sky.
"Man… I'd kill for a coffee right now…" Jo muttered, by now really tired as well, before the host stepped up to the camera, right on cue with a coffee cup, as he sarcastically told the campers, in between deliberately loud coffee sips "What is the matter with you people? Come on, fall asleep already!"
Jo then got up and approached Chris, shakily holding a fist up and threatening very weakly "You either fork over that coffee… or you're eh… you'll see double for…" before giving up and lamenting "Ugh, too tired for threats…" and falling to her knees, much to the host's satisfaction.
"All right, you five stay with me." he then said, before facing the other campers "The rest of you go get a shower, for heaven's sake. You stink!"
As the other campers took him up on that, the host continued talking to the remaining five after a final sip of coffee, with a hint of seriousness and intensity, a tone somehow more real than he's ever been so far "I didn't want it to come to this. I said that to Chef Hatchet last night, I said, "Chef, I don't want it to come to this. But darn it, these campers are tough." And so… I've come up with the most boring, sleep-inducing activity I can find."
After a dramatic pause, Chris pulled out a book and started speaking very softly and monotone again, as he read out ""The History of Canada," a pop-up book. "Chapter One: The Beaver" National symbol and a "dam" fine hat."
A wave of groans from the campers ensued, though Jo made her feelings a lot more explicit, so explicit that the network censored it, but if you are curious, it started with "f", to which Duncan replied with a nod and a "Well said."
The clock raced forward another two hours, as we cut in during Chris's narration, showing the campers as they fall asleep at different points.
"Which of course, was the precursor for the discussions…" the first one out was Jo, out cold on the floor. "…leading to War" then it was Sky's turn, falling asleep in the middle of a stretching pose "…of 1812." the final one was Duncan, who asked Shawn "Can you carry on?" and as Shawn nodded, the punk declared "then you better win this for us…" as he fell asleep with a loud thud.
It was down to Shawn and Jasmine, the final two, as they stared each other down, while Chris' narration carried on in the background, and then they started talking.
"Sure you don't wanna listen, mate?" asked Jasmine, with almost a taunting tone, in between yawns "He's getting to the peace conference…" with Shawn answering in kind "Nah, already had my fill at school, but you… yawn… make sure to keep an ear out for trade relations…"
The staredown intensified, both keeping their eyes locked on each other as they struggled to keep them open, at one point they even stood up, trying to stave off the torpor, but it was already too late. Their knees gave in, they fell to the ground, then they tried to support themselves with their arms, but as if they had a boulder on their backs, their bodies were forced down as well, they were desperately trying to keep their heads up and eyes open…
As the host glanced at them while reading, he eventually stopped, way too caught up into who the victor would be, that victor then emerged after their adversary collapsed to the ground completely.
Chris then announced the final winner for the audience "And we have a winner!" he rushed to said winner, lifting their arm up into the sky as they slept "Shawn! For the Screaming Gophers!" the soundtrack swelled, playing a fanfare, and although the two teens were still fast asleep, Shawn could almost be heard yay-ing while face-first into the dirt.
We cut to later, the Killer Bass girls that didn't make it to the final two walking back to their side of the cabin, mulling over the challenge, the first one at this being Sky "Man… for a few days I'm gonna go to sleep at 10 pm…" with Sammy continuing "...and I'm not getting up until 10 am…"
But right as Amy opened the door to the cabin, the sight of what was inside caused all of them minus Dawn, who merely gasped in shock, to erupt in horrified screams… their cabin was a mess, all of their blankets were wrapped in one place, but that place wasn't a naked Owen's ass, which was facing the door, completely bare.
Owen then woke up, tried untangling all the blankets in front of his face, but after he did and realised the situation he was in, he started screaming as well, before jumping out of an opened window out of the cabin, sprinting off into the distance.
Heather then approached the cabin, perturbed by the noise "Ugh, what's all this shouting about?!" she lamented, "Some of us are trying to sleep!"
Amy then explained, horror still in her voice "W-we saw Owen, the big guy. He messed up our cabin and slept there! Naked!" Sammy then questioned "Ew… why would he do that!?" before Dawn told the others "He sleep-walks, so it would seem…"
Heather's voice then got calmer, as she mulled over the situation out loud "Wow, that's awful! Hope something like this doesn't happen again…" before walking back to her cabin, and once her back was turned, a sly smile appeared on her face.
Cut to a confessional from Heather, where she confidently explained "Turn a team against their own member, easiest trick in the book." and then cut to a flashback of Heather, at night time, poking Owen with a tree branch at a distance, to nudge his sleep-walking into the girl's side of the Bass cabin.
After closing the door behind, hearing the noise of shifting blankets and wood creaking beyond it, she chuckled and said "Sure would hate to be you…" before walking away.
We then cut to a bonfire ceremony for the Bass, as Chris started his dramatic exposition, with the occasional shots to the still tired Bass, some of them barely hanging on to consciousness still.
"You've all cast your votes and made your decision." he said "There are only 9 marshmallows on this plate. When I call your name, come up and claim your marshmallow. The camper who does not receive a marshmallow must immediately return to the Dock of Shame, catch the Boat of Losers, and leave. And you can never come back. Ever."
As he announced the marshmallows, the campers went in to collect them "The first marshmallow goes to… Jasmine. Rodney. Amy. Sammy. Sky. Dawn. Leonard. DJ."
Lightning and Owen were left, the two nervously eying the final marshmallow, as Chris then announced "Campers, this is the final marshmallow of the evening, and it's going to go to…"
The two teens glanced at the treat, then each other, as the dramatic music swelled in intensity, before Chris uttered the one who would be spared, which was… "Lightning. Owen, the Dock of Shame awaits you, dude."
"Aw man…" said Owen, defeated, while Lightning got his treat "I guess that's fair, but… Sorry about your cabin." he apologised to the girls before taking his leave, as the host told them "Have a good sleep tonight. You're all safe."
Cut to a couple confessionals from the Bass, first up being Lightning "Man! Lightning didn't think the fat guy would be the first one to throw away his clothes! Heh, pretty ballsy of him…" after a brief moment, his eyes shot wide open after he then realised what he just said.
"Wait, cut tha-" the editors obliged his request, and cut him off, going to a confessional from Amy instead.
She simply rubbed her temples and said "Oh my God… I'm gonna see that in my nightmares TWICE!" and then an apologetic Dawn "Sorry, Owen. The others would be a lot more comfortable without the risk of another… incident."
A final confessional was then shown, from Heather, who was reflecting on her play "While Owen wasn't the greatest player, this place will at least smell better without him. I think I did everyone a favour."
After that, we cut to Owen walking down the pier, with Rodney, Dawn and Leonard waving him goodbye, which he enthusiastically replied before hopping on the boat. As said boat drove off into the horizon, we then cut to the Bass making a toast by the bonfire with their marshmallows.
"To The Killer Bass!" said Jasmine "And to not ending up here again next week."
With that line, the episode fades to black...
Man, I know having Owen out second will get me crucified, but really, I had no other choice. For the narrative I have in mind, no other Bass character was as disposable, and also the Bass had to lose because there was no way in hell anyone would have beaten Shawn, as much as the somewhat intense climax would have you believe otherwise lol.
Anyway, hope you enjoyed it, and I'll see you in Episode 4.
ELIMINATION ORDER
22nd) Dakota (The Fame-Monger)
21st) Owen (The Party Guy)