The final three head into the "Franken-forest" to get a flower from a dangerous plant. Zoey and Cameron's alliance is tested by Zoey's newfound ruthlessness, but their friendship eventually prevails over competition. Lightning wins, and chooses to send Zoey home so he can pay Cameron back in the finale.
Tropes:
- Assumed Win: Inverted. Cameron thinks Lightning will choose him to go home... only for him to choose Zoey instead.
- Big Bad: Lightning takes up this position after Scott's eliminated and he Took a Level in Jerkass.
- Big "WHAT?!": Zoey and Cameron in response to Lighting eliminating the former.
- The Cameo: At one point, Lightning runs afoul of Ezekiel and accidentally causes him to fall back into the mines.
- Combat Tentacles: Or rather roots/vines that Larry possesses.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Chris really cares about his newly-mutated Venus Fly Trap, Larry.
- Even Evil Has Standards: As Chris fawns over Larry, Lightning says that is very disturbing, and Chef nods in agreement.
- Everything Makes a Mushroom: Zoey is hurled off the island before she receives her Toxic Marshmallow of Loserdom. Chris tells Chef to dispose of it safely, which Chef doesn't take seriously. He drops the radioactive marshmallow in the campfire, which brings about a mushroom.
- Flashback: As Zoey considers leaving Cameron behind, she suddenly flashes back to fun times she had with him and Mike.
- Fluffy the Terrible: The giant mutant plant is named Larry.
- Fool's Map: Lightning assumes that the map is this, despite the fact that it had been put back together incorrectly by himself.
- Graceful Loser: Cameron is content on being voted out by Lightning, until Lightning decides on voting Zoey out instead.
- Instantly Proven Wrong: After Zoey comments that lifting Cameron isn't much different from lifting a doll, a confessional of Cameron pops up with him having set up a scale, saying that he weighs more than a doll. To his embarrassment, he finds that he ways less than a doll.
- Jerkass Has a Point: While Zoey did Took a Level in Jerkass throughout the episode, she isn't wrong that she's doing most of the work between her and Cameron.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk:
- After seeing Zoey get swallowed by Larry while trying to help Cameron, Lightning says he's got to do something. He then grabs the flower and starts running for the finish line.
- As Larry closes in on Lightning, Chris shouts to hurry up. He then clarifies he means for Larry to hurry up and catch Lightning.
- Jerkass Ball: Zoey is more aggressive and abrasive towards Cameron throughout most of the episode.
- Jerkass Realization: Zoey gets one when she figures out how good of a friend Cameron has been to her.
- Lampshade Hanging: Chris points out a finale competition between good friends would've been boring for this show.
- The Load: "Commando" Zoey sees Cameron as this, saying that she is doing most of the work.
- Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: The title is a play on the film The Enchanted Forest and the novel Frankenstein.
- The Power of Friendship: Zoey gives up a chance at a million dollars to rescue a true friend.
- Rule of Pool:
- As a way of demonstrating how toxic the pits of toxic waste are, an intern falls into on of the and is horribly mutated.
- They are also used by Chef to create the Toxic Marshmallows of Loserdom.
- Smart Ball: Lightning eliminating Zoey. He wants major payback against Cameron, but he also is well-aware that Zoey is a far bigger threat to winning the grand prize.
- Shout-Out:
- Zoey makes an improvised slingshot from a dinner fork.
- Larry is an homage to Audrey II, the giant man-eating plant from Little Shop of Horrors.
- When Larry growls, he sounds like the T-Rex from Jurassic Park.
- This Is Gonna Suck: Cameron over having to face Lightning one-on-one in the finale.
- Too Powerful to Live: Lightning chooses to eliminate Zoey after witnessing her “Commando Zoey” persona in order to have an easier time getting the million dollar prize in the finale.
- Wham Episode: Zoey is eliminated instead of Cameron, leaving the final two down to Cameron and Lightning, thereby breaking the tradition of having one contestant of the opposite sex compete in the finale.
- Wham Line: "Actually, I'm hurlin' Zoey."
- Worthy Opponent: Lightning acknowledges Zoey as this, which is one reason why he eliminates her instead of Cameron.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: To the very end, Cameron assumes that Lightning will eliminate him as payback for what happened in the previous episode. Lightning actually wants to face him in the finale in order to really make him suffer.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: Ezekiel manages to find his way out of the mines, but is kicked back down by a lost Lightning (though accidentally).
