The contestants are subjected to a surfing movie challenge, first testing their skills in the soundstage above a shark infested pool while being shot at with seagulls, then with a sandcastle building contest and dance off back on the shores of Camp Wawanakwa.
Tropes:
- Abnormal Ammo: Chris uses seagulls in order to shoot at the contestants during their surfing challenge. Only Duncan manages to avoid harm from this.
- Added Alliterative Appeal: When seagulls ruin the Screaming Gaffers' sandcastle, Harold exclaims: "No, there's birds in my belfry! Dang, they busted my buttresses!"
- Beach Episode: The second half, though they only wear swimwear for the first half due to thinking Chris was lying about going to the beach.
- "Be Quiet!" Nudge: Trent tries to defend his atrocious supine dancing by saying it's modernist and interpretive. Duncan retorts that he interprets the dance as being sucky. Gwen nudges Duncan to get him to stop bullying her boyfriend, for whose state she feels responsible.
- Call-Back: Camp Wakwankwa is reachable by bus (even though the very first episode of the series established that the island is only reachable by boat), the camp having previously been revealed to be landlocked (only for this element to be completely forgotten about in later seasons).
- Chirping Crickets: Chris wants to know who'll try the surfboard simulator in a freezing studio first. Everyone keeps quiet and while a cricket initially provides some sound, its hind legs get frozen off.
- Delicious Distraction: The sharks that Chris put into the water during the surfing challenge are distracted by the copious amounts of bacon that Owen brought along with him, turning their attention away from Harold.
- Distracted by the Sexy: Justin has a decent chance at the mechanical surfboard challenge because the sharks in the water below forget about their appetite at the sight of his shirtless beauty. Similarly, Chris temporarily forgets to shoot seagulls at him as part of the challenge. When he remembers to do so and Justin falls, the sharks make sure he gets out off the water safely.
- Friendship Trinket: Beth hands out friendship bracelets to several members of her team. Justin intends on using this to advance himself further in the game.
- Good-Times Montage: Subverted. Chris tries to invoke this, but the campers hatred of their time at camp wawakanwa stops this.
- Grievous Harm with a Body: When Chris runs out of seagulls to shoot at Duncan, he throws a few other props at him before throwing Lindsay right at him.
- You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: Duncan's reaction to Chris throwing Lindsay at him.
- Hand-or-Object Underwear: DJ's turn on the mechanical surfboard comes to an undignified end when a shark jumps up from the pool beneath and rips off his shorts and underwear in one go. DJ runs out of the studio back to the trailer with his hands covering his crotch.
- Hidden Depths: During the party that the Screaming Gaffers are having, Harold is seen doing some really good dance moves.
- I Lied: Subverted. Chris actually told the truth about going to the beach. Owen even lampshades this in the confessional.Owen: Chris actually told us the truth for once? What’s next? Being treated with actual respect?
- Male Frontal Nudity: DJ's swimsuit is eaten off by a shark not long after he starts.
- Manipulative Bastard: Justin, who takes Beth's friendship bracelet in order to get her into an alliance easier.
- Moment Killer: Owen becomes this for Gwen and Trent at the end of the episode.
- Pepper Sneeze: Trent spills pepper on his breakfast, which he takes as a variant of spilling salt and to avert the bad luck coming his way he tosses a pinch over his shoulder. It flies straight into Heather's face, causing her to sneeze uncontrollably.
- Plot Hole: As mentioned above, Island establishes in the very first episode that the only way to get to Camp Wawanakwa is by boat. So because there's no road connected to the island, how was the bus able to get there?
- Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: The title is a play on the film Beach Blanket Bingo.
- Sanity Slippage: Trent begins to suffer from this, due to his ongoing jealousy with Gwen and Duncan getting close.
- Series Continuity Error: Harold claims Trent has had an obsession for number nine since he found out Gwen is into him. However:
- Trent's obsession for the number nine has never been shown on the show before.
- The two were on opposing teams and Harold was eliminated pre-merge, thus making it unlikely he'd know this information about Trent, especially since this is the first time it's ever come up.
- Shout-Out:
- In the recap, Chris quotes "Sk8er Boy" by Avril Lavigne.
- Harold mentions architect Frank Gehry as his inspiration during the sandcastle challenge.
- The car that crashes on top of the stunt dummy is a homage to General Lee from The Dukes of Hazzard.
- All the dances Chris names come from a scene in The Blues Brothers.
- One of Trent's dances is the moonwalk.
- When Trent and Leshawna are dancing due to the tie-breaker, the radio plays "Misirlou," a hit song performed by Dick Dale.
- Sucks at Dancing: Leshawna, which DJ and Heather promptly make fun of in the confessional, but Harold thinks is quite good.
- Throwing the Fight: During the dance-off, Trent pretends to have an injured ankle when he allows Gwen's team to win.
- Totally Radical: Due to the theme of this episode Chris talks this way a few times.
- Unscrewed Salt Shaker: Duncan unscrews both the salt shaker and the pepper shaker on the table of the Killer Grips. Trent is the victim of both pranks, but he's less annoyed about his breakfast being ruined than he is about about being at risk to suffer bad luck.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Owen tells Trent to do something to impress Gwen. He decides to start throwing challenges as a result, which later causes his breakup with Gwen and both his and her eliminations.
