The contestants are put up to a sports movie challenge. Leshawna continues to suffer the backlash from her ill-gotten spa night, while Beth schemes to get her hands on Courtney's PDA.
Tropes
- Accidental Kidnapping: For the wrestling match, Chris buys a ball pit from a local carnaval that has neither been screened nor cleaned. A dirty diaper and a full baby bottle aren't unexpected finds, but Duncan also digs up a genuine baby. Chef rushes in to get the kiddo out of the combat zone and presumably back to its parents.
- Actually Pretty Funny: Beth retaliates against Leshawna's insults by outing her rant to the others. Despite that the contestants shouldn't have access to the internet to know about it, Courtney's lawsuit gives her access to her PDA and they get to watch the footage anyway. Chris is ecstatic about this development.
- Appeal to Flattery: The Killer Grips win the tie-breaker challenge for an inspiring cheer by doing nothing more than chant Chris's name over and over again and holding up an image of him. Chris even calls the "incredible kissing-up" amazing.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Leshawna keeps mocking Beth for having a supposedly imaginary boyfriend. It gets so grating that Beth finally snaps and reveals to the others the clip of Leshawna badmouthing the contestants on the way to her spa trip.
- Bland-Name Product: Chris is revealed to have starred in a movie about badminton in which he played the main character named "Flipper" and gives a speech about "winning one for the flipper", both based on the character of the "Gipper" in Knute Rockne, All American.
- Bring It: After Courtney hits a nerve by feeding him a dirty diaper, Duncan resolves to let go of his attraction to her and fight like the delinquent he is. He takes a fighting stance and motions with his full hand for her to take a swing at him, which he quickly regrets.
- Call-Back: Duncan tries to stay focused on the competition regardless of the fact he's up against Courtney. He cites how ugly things got between Gwen and Trent as the reason.
- Covered in Mud: For one of the challenges the contestants have to crawl through mud underneath barbed wire. It has nothing to do with the sports them; it's actually stuff from a war movie Chris had lying around and decided to make use of.
- Death Glare: The other contestants let Leshawna ocularly know how pissed they are after they see the clip of her trash-talking all of them to her cousin.
- Digging Yourself Deeper: Leshawna ruins the badminton challenge for her team when she shouts to Beth that her boyfriend isn't real, sending the baton-twirler into a badminton fury that Heather can't stand up to. Does Leshawna shut up after that? No, she repeats her belief that Beth doesn't have a boyfriend. Beth's done with her this time and reveals there's footage of Leshawna trash-talking everyone, which temporarily leaves her with no allies after she also says that she didn't think they'd ever know about it, while someone like Lindsay would've let it go if Leshawna had said she was joking.
- Dung Fu: Duncan and Courtney have to wrestle in an unsanitary ball pit wholesome bought from a cheap carnival. Among the things they find in it is a diaper dripping with poop, which Courtney forces into Duncan's mouth.
- Easily Forgiven: Played with. While all it takes is a cheer to smooth things over after what she said on her spa night, Leshawna makes an honest effort to win everyone over, only losing because the Killer Grips made a play to Chris' huge ego.
- Fan Disservice: Chef again crossdresses in this episode during Duncan and Harold's boxing match. This time Chef walks around wearing a purple bikini and lipstick while holding a round 2 card, which disgusts the contestants to the point where Duncan lampshades it.Chris: Round two-oo-oo!Duncan: Ew-ew-ew is more like it!
- "Hey, You!" Haymaker: During their ball pit wrestling match, Duncan gets distracted by a baby he digs up and which Chef quickly comes to take away. Courtney taps him on his other shoulder to get his attention back on her and promptly grabs his face to pull him in for a match-winning chokehold.
- Human Doorstop: The Killer Grips force the Screaming Gaffers to be footsteps in their human pyramid tribute to Chris. The Killer Grips actually win with that move, to the fury of the Screaming Gaffers.
- Hypocrite: Defied by Heather. She takes no offense from what Leshawna said in the clip because she insults people like that all the time.
- Insane Troll Logic: Justin knows what tennis is and what badminton is. Still, when he gets a badminton racquet in his hands he thinks it's a miniature tennis racket, and when he sees the net he thinks it's too high for tennis. Why? Because the challenges are all movie-themed and Justin is certain there never was a movie about badminton.
- "Just Joking" Justification: After her cruel rant about her fellow contestants is played in full, Leshawna argues that everything she said happened outside of the game and that she didn't know anyone would see it. Lindsay is surprised, because she thought Leshawna was just joking. Leshawna immediately changes her story to go along with Lindsay's, but it's too late for anyone to believe her.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Leshawna's mistreatment of Beth causes the latter to show everyone what the big girl had said about them at the spa reward, and everyone gets mad at her, causing her popularity with them to plummet.
- Let Me at Him!: Lindsay gets angry at Chris when he declares Harold the winner of the boxing match for technical reasons despite that Lindsay knocked him out. Lindsay prepares to take her punches to Chris, but Justin and Courtney hold her back.
- Manly Tears: As Chris recreates his favorite scene from his badminton movie, Chef is moved to tears. In the confessional, he starts crying again.
- Mouse Trap: Chris doesn't tell the Killer Grips about the mouse traps he's hidden in the tires of the tire obstacle course in until they're all several steps in.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Leshawna tries trash-talking Beth during the badminton game to throw her off her game. Instead, because she trash-talked about her boyfriend not being real, Beth becomes so enraged that she plays with more determination and beats Heather handily. She even does it again after Beth wins, which leads to her exposing the video of her badmouthing everyone.
- Now That's Using Your Teeth!: Leshawna provokes Beth during the badminton match by insisting that she's lying about having a boyfriend. Beth shoves all her fury into the match with some incredible winning maneuvers, for one of which she holds the racquet in her teeth.
- Oh, Crap!:
- Beth gasps after getting a look at Courtney's PDA and seeing Leshawna's rant.
- Leshawna is startled when Beth reveals that everything she said about her fellow contestants was recorded and put up on the show's website.
- Overcrank: Played for laughs during the boxing challenge, which Chris requires to be in slow motion. Harold does a good enough job at moving slowly to win the challenge despite getting knocked out.
- Pet the Dog: Heather is the only one not giving Leshawna a hard time about her rant. She insists it means absolutely nothing.
- Pom-Pom Girl: Leshawna goes for the role when her team has to come up with a cheer on the spot. She dedicates hers to all the other contestants, not just to win, but also to convince them to forgive her for the awful things she said about them earlier. While she doesn't win, her kind words and team spirit do get her back in everyone's good graces.
- Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: The title is a play on the film Million Dollar Baby.
- Rousing Speech: Chris reveals he was the coach in a batminton movie and reenacts one of his key scenes. Said scene is a rousing speech to the batminton team to show the Olympic Committee that they deserve a shot because they make batminton not just good-minton, but great-minton! The contestants are less than impressed by the performance, but Chef is moved to tears.
- Shamed by a Mob: Leshawna got this treatment big time by the other competitors after that video of her badmouthing them was played to the point where the contestants where sitting a distance from Leshawna on the bleachers, and her teammates berated her during the Slam Dunk challenge.
- Shark Fin of Doom: While wrestling in a secondhand ball pit, Duncan spots a shark fin poking out from the surface and panics. Courtney is skeptical and picks it up, revealing that the supposed shark fin is just a semi-hardened loose flap of a dirty diaper. She mocks Duncan for being scared by the "big bad diaper shark".
- Shout-Out:
- The music that plays during Harold and Lindsay's boxing match is similar to the music played in the Rocky movies.
- Chris calls Lindsay "Miss Tyson" after biting Harold's marshmallow.
- Sleepwalking: Beth not only sleepwalks, she sleep-twirls. With Courtney's PDA no less, which Courtney saves from damage at the last moment.
- Small Name, Big Ego:
- Chris thinks highly of the badminton film he did.
- The Grips' cheer is entirely built on stroking Chris's ego (in fact, the cheer only consists of the Grips saying Chris's name). It easily wins.
- Tempting Fate: Chris is fooling around in the boxing ring with Chef while asking questions meant to entice the audience to tune in next time, but which also have the effect of annoying Chef. Then Chris asks if he'll take out Chef with his killer uppercut and is promptly knocked down by Chef.
- Trash Talk: The footage of Leshawna during her spa day with Leshaniqua shows her making cruel comment after cruel comment on everyone still in the game. Heather's called desperately mean, Lindsay highly stupid, Justin comically vain, Duncan a spineless wannabe tough guy, Courtney a control freak, Beth's ridiculed for her side-ponytail, and Harold's mocked for thinking he still has a shot with Leshawna.
- Trauma Button: When Justin scoffs at the notion of a badminton movie, Chris angrily says there was one (his own) and that it was great.
- Trrrilling Rrrs: In the role of a Roman Emperor who oversees a gladiatorial match, Chris lets his Rs roll liberally.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Leshawna and Heather by the end.
