Total Drama World Tour

Total Drama World Tour
The Total Drama World Tour logo.
Country of origin	Canada
No. of episodes	26 (no special)
Broadcast
Original channel	Teletoon
Original run	June 10, 2010 (2010-06-10) – April 24, 2011 (2011-04-24)
Season chronology
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Third season of the Total Drama series. List of Total Drama episodes

Total Drama World Tour is the third season of the Total Drama franchise that began with Total Drama Island and Total Drama Action. The series extension was commissioned by Teletoon from the producers, Fresh TV, Inc.^[1] In this series, fifteen returning contestants and three new contestants are taken on a trip around the world, and compete in cultural themed challenges of countries they visit. An added twist in this season is that they are required to break spontaneously into song, or else be immediately eliminated. The original cast from this and past seasons do not compete in the next season, Total Drama: Revenge of the Island, as there is a new cast. However, nine of these original contestants each have a cameo in the next season, while seven of them return to compete again in the fifth season, Total Drama All-Stars.^[2] This series is rated TV-PG-D in the United States and Australia.

Plot

As with the previous seasons, fifteen returning contestants and three new ones (Alejandro, Sierra, and Blaineley) partake in an elimination-based competition for the grand prize of C$1,000,000, led by series host Chris McLean (Christian Potenza).

In this season, contestants are taken around the world throughout international based challenges and are required to break into song whenever Chris rings a special chime, or face instant elimination. There are 30 songs in total, and every episode takes place in a different location.

As the contestants are eliminated, they take the "Drop of Shame"^[3] by parachuting out of the plane in which the elimination ceremonies take place. When eliminated, they lose the chance at the million dollars (though such an elimination may not be permanent).^[3]

The winner of Total Drama World Tour is Alejandro, while Heather (the runner-up) almost beats him but lost the game by mistake. However, in the American version and iTunes version, Heather wins the contest. Beth, Eva, Geoff, Justin, Katie, Sadie, and Trent do not return to compete; instead, they appear on the aftermath special, sitting in the peanut gallery and on the last episode while cheering for the finalists, Alejandro and Heather.

Episodes

Total Drama World Tour is a Canadian animated television series which premiered on June 10, 2010 at 8:30 p.m. EST on Teletoon and it premiered on June 21, 2010 at 9:00 p.m. EST on Cartoon Network. It aired on ABC3 at 6:40 a.m. in Australia.

Characters

Fifteen of the original characters from Total Drama Island returned: Bridgette, Cody, Courtney, DJ, Duncan, Ezekiel, Gwen, Harold, Heather, Izzy, Leshawna, Lindsay, Noah, Owen, and Tyler. Two new characters, Alejandro and Sierra, joined the cast at the beginning of this season. However Chris hired Alejandro after firing Noah to be his assistant and Sierra was originally hired by Celebrity Manhunt as a superfan to interview the contestants. Additionally, a third new character, Blaineley, was brought on to compete past the halfway point of the season. Blaineley was eliminated in the next episode.

Teams

Unlike the previous two seasons, there are three teams in this season: Team Victory, Team Amazon and Team Chris is Really Really Really Really Hot. Here are the members of each team:

• Team Amazon: Cody, Courtney, Gwen, Heather, and Sierra.
• Team Chris is Really⁴ Hot: Alejandro, Izzy, Noah, Owen, Tyler, and (later on) Duncan.
• Team Victory: Bridgette, DJ, Ezekiel, Harold, Leshawna, and Lindsay.

Note that at the beginning of this season, Izzy was on Team Amazon and Sierra was on Team Chris but they later switched teams in the second episode so Sierra could be with Cody in the same team while Izzy could be with Owen. This is also the second time in which Izzy switched teams; in Total Drama Island Izzy swapped teams with Katie so she could be with her best friend, Sadie. Izzy might have swapped to be with Owen but the episode never said why.

Production

On June 18, 2009, the producers, Fresh TV Inc. told Teletoon to order new Total Drama episodes for an upcoming third season.^[1] This season was to be called Total Drama: The Musical when it first entered production. Keith Oliver and Chad Hicks (two new writers) directed this new season while two new voice actors, Marco Grazzini and Annick Obonsawin had to be hired if they wanted to voice the two new characters, Alejandro and Sierra. The season's title was later changed to the current title, Total Drama World Tour in 2010 due to the singing no longer being the main focus for this season.

Countries visited

This is a list of all the different countries the contestants have visited throughout the challenges and the episode in which they visited that country. Both the United States and Canada are the only two countries which were visited multiple times throughout the season.

Flag	Country	Episode	Location
	Australia	16	Hanging Rock, Victoria
	Canada	4	Yukon
		10	St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
		6	Toronto, Ontario
		12
		18
		19	Niagara Falls, Ontario
		23	Drumheller, Alberta
		25
	Chile	22	Easter Island
	China	20	Great Wall of China
	Egypt	1	Giza Necropolis
		2	Nile River
	France	9	Paris
	Germany	7	Northern Limestone Alps
	Greece	14	Athens
	Jamaica	11	Montego Bay
	Japan	3	Tokyo
	Mexico	25	Tijuana, as part of a race from Alberta, Canada to Hawaii.
	Peru	8	Amazon River, Amazon Rainforest, and Macchu Picchu
	Sweden	17	Gothenburg
	Tanzania	21	Serengeti
	United Kingdom	13	London, England
	United States	5	New York City, New York
		15	Area 51 and Area 52, Nevada
		19	Niagara Falls, New York
		24	Kīlauea, Hawaii
		25
		26

Source for list:^[5]

Music

There were a total number of 30 songs that were sung in this season. A list of all the songs are displayed below, including the episode in which they were sung in. Episodes in green have two songs.

Song titles

This is a list of all the songs that were sung in Total Drama World Tour. The names of the contestants who sang the songs are displayed on the right column. Note that everyone means that every contestant that was active only on that episode, participated in that song. Eliminated contestants do not count as part of everyone.

Reception

Total Drama World Tour has received critical acclaim from critics and won multiple awards including "Best Animated Series", "Best Voice Actress", and was also nominated for several other awards.^{[citation needed]} Much fan controversy occurred as a result of events depicted in this season, primarily relating to the love triangle involving Gwen, Duncan and Courtney. These issues were eventually addressed in a video with the show's creators on Christian Potenza's YouTube channel.^[6]

Media

DVD releases

Australia is the only country that released Total Drama World Tour on home video, which was released on a Region 4 DVD. The first part of the season was released in a Collection 1 DVD on April 3, 2013^[7] while the second half of the season was released in a Collection 2 DVD on August 7, 2013.^[8]

Total Drama Online

Teletoon is hosting a Total Drama World Tour based website called Total Drama Online where people can play games and earn badges to win prizes, but is only available for Canadians.^[9]

See also

References

External links

• Total Drama World Tour Virtual Flip Book from Cake Entertainment
• Trailer on YouTube
• Total Drama World Tour page from Cartoon Network
• Total Drama Online from Teletoon