The heroes and villains are pit against each other in a combination of an eating contest and an obstacle course.
Tropes:
- Air Quotes: In response to being slathered with gruel tossed inside their cabin to serve as breakfast, Courtney heads to the confessional to document her opinion that starving to death would be more humane than Chef's "bed-and-breakfast thing", her criticism of which she higlights with air quotes.
- Ant Assault: While Alejandro's munching through the giant pancakes, he is attacked by a nest of fire ants hidden inside the stack. He pushes through the pain.
- Balloon Belly: Scott pigs out at breakfast because he really likes the gruel Chef made. During the eating competition obstacle course, Scott develops a heavy sack belly from the previously consumed gruel and the challenge's giant pancakes. Throughout the challenge, he holds his stomach in discomfort and his weight both stops the rotating log from working and requires the boot to be set to an extra high setting to send him flying.
- Bear Trap: Alejandro encounters a bear trap hidden in a pile of giant pancakes he's eating from.
- Bee Afraid: Sam gets attacked by a swarm of bees when he's munching through a stack of giant pancakes and unwittingly chews down on the beehive hidden inside. The bees go for his face en masse, but despite the injuries this leaves him with, he keeps eating. One bee gets stuck in his clothes and escapes when Alejandro holds Sam back from the finish. Then, it's Alejandro who gets stung in the face.
- Being Good Sucks: Duncan's attitude to being on the Heroic Hamsters.
- Big Eater: Each team gets their own one:
- Alejandro manages to each around a third of the pancakes for the Villains, even managing to disarm a few traps and going through the course twice.
- Sam manages to eat around half of the Heroes' pancake stack, allowing them to catch up to the Villains.
- Bland-Name Product: Sierra mentions going to "twert" something.
- Call-Back: The challenge is a combination of the food challenges from Island and Revenge of the Island, and the obstacle course from Revenge of The Island's "Truth or Laser Shark." A minor one is Courtney's fear of green jelly from "Phobia Factor" in Island, when the pancakes explode green jelly all over her and she flips out.
- Cheaters Never Prosper: Sam's accidental act of cheating both costs his team the win and gets himself sent down the Flush of Shame.
- Facial Horror: Sam gets multiple stings from bees after he takes a bite out of their hive.
- Gag Lips: Duncan's lips get caught in a mouse trap hidden inside the stack of pancakes he must munch through. It leaves him with swollen, red lips that look like he's wearing lipstick.
- I Ate WHAT?!: Sierra finds what she thought were blueberries in the pancakes and eats them, this is when Chris announces that they were really fish eyes, promptly causing Sierra to throw up and lose the challenge.
- I Shall Taunt You: Alejandro does this to the Heroes when it seems that they are going to lose, and continues to do so to Sam during the obstacle course part of the challenge. This only results in Sam catching right up to him and sharing the salad spinner with him.
- Lightning Reveal: Mal appears out of nowhere in the girls' room in the flash of a lightning strike. He proceeds to destroy Sierra's smartphone.
- Lying Finger Cross: Courtney makes a deal with Heather that she'll be the next to give the pancake challenge a try on the condition that if the Villainous Vultures lose, Gwen will be voted off that evening. Heather accepts the terms, but not really as she keeps her fingers crossed behind her back.
- Mobile Shrubbery: While exiled to Boney Island, Cameron dresses up as a fire hydrant for the explicit purpose of getting peed on by a large carnivore. His reasoning is that he'll get to smell like said carnivore and therefore no other animal will dare to go near him. To ensure the success of his plan, Cameron follows around a bear, standing still every time it looks around, until finally it takes a whiz.
- Mouse Trap: While Duncan's munching through the giant pancakes, he encounters a hidden mouse trap that clamps shut on his lips. It leaves him with Gag Lips.
- Pun-Based Title: The title is a play on "food fight".
- Remember the New Guy?: Started in this episode, since Duncan notes for the first time that Mike's voice sounds familiar.
- Scary Stinging Swarm: While Sam's munching through the giant pancakes in, he unwittingly chews down on a beehive hidden inside the stack. The bees go for his face en masse, but despite the injuries this leaves him with, he keeps eating. One bee gets stuck in his clothes and escapes when Alejandro holds Sam back from the finish. Then, it's Alejandro who gets stung in the face.
- Shout-Out:
- Chris says "say hello to my metal friend" after Scott isn't impressed with the challenge.
- Many of the challenges in the obstacle course are similar to those in Wipeout (2008).
- Chris's says "tastes so nice, he ate it twice".
- In the exclusive clip, Sam imagines the world around him similar to Super Mario Bros.
- Thanksgiving Turkey: Scott's upbringing is suggested to be both pragmatic and eccentric. He compares his fullness from overeating to a Thanksgiving pigeon being stuffed.
- Troubled Fetal Position: Courtney's time in the spinner is sabotaged by Mal turning off the safety lock. She spins way harder than she should and is launched out of the device. In the confessional, she holds herself while trembling and looking upwards, revealing that she (thinks she) has seen the future and shall never eat another slice of cake.
- Unresolved Sexual Tension: Between Scott and Courtney, for the first time in this season.
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot: A regular for the series.
