Series Continuity Error in this series.
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- The duration of the seasons is often contradicted throughout the series. For example, Total Drama Island is said to last 8 weeks, take place weekly (likely referencing that the episodes of the first seasons premiered weekly), take place every 3 days (as a reference to Survivor, one of the inspirations for the show), and take place on a daily basis.
- Those contradictions are not only mentioned, but also can be seen in practice. For example, "The Big Sleep" lasts for several days, "X-Treme Torture" is implied to have at least one free day before this episode, while several episodes pick up right from where the previous one ended.
Total Drama Island
The Big Sleep
- During the run around the lake, Leshawna insults Heather, even though the two apologized to each other in the previous episode and she was shown to have fallen for it, not realizing it wasn't genuine. However, it's possible that something happened off-camera that made her realize Heather's true nature or that she was simply annoyed on Owen's behalf for Heather mocking his weight.
- At the start of the episode, Heather is shown to be sick after being locked in the fridge for a long time in the previous episode. However, not only is she completely healthy afterwards, she was also shown to be just fine in every scene she appeared in after the challenge ended in the previous episode.
- Bridgette and Gwen appear to be best friends in this episode, even though the show never made it clear they were so close before.
- Bridgette is shown to dislike Heather in Paintball Deer Hunter, implying she knows about Heather's true nature, yet in this episode she doesn't seem to be surprised or suspicious when Heather goes out of her way to be nice to her.
- Eva holds a grudge against Bridgette, seemingly for voting her out and telling her she needs to control her temper. However, only Courtney was seen saying something along those lines and it was in a confessional.
- Gwen is still mad at Trent for leaving her buried alive, even though some of the previous episodes, such as Up the Creek or X-Treme Torture seemed to show that she'd already gotten over it.
- The contestants vote for whoever they want to eliminate by just saying their name, even though Basic Straining showed that they need to write their names down. However, it's possible that the method was changed after that episode to prevent the votes from being rigged again.
- Trent is gullible enough to believe Heather, even though previous episodes, such as The Sucky Outdoors showed him being aware of Heather's true nature and her rivalry with Gwen.
- Even though Gwen's words from That's Off the Chain! implied she would vote Heather out with the help of the remaining contestants and this is the first voting ceremony since that episode (not to mention Heather is immobilized, giving another good excuse to vote her off), Heather doesn't even end up in the bottom two.
- Duncan states in the confessionals that due to some conversation she had in the past with Courtney, Leshawna's viewed Duncan as a nice guy and tried to befriend him. Not only was this never shown in any of the episodes prior, but Leshawna is more than fine with voting off Duncan in "Hide and Be Sneaky", several episodes after Courtney's elimination, stating that she didn't trust him.
- Harold seems to be angry at Duncan for drawing a mustache on his face in "Dodgebrawl", even though he liked it there. He also says that Duncan fed Harold underwear hidden in a sandwich, but it was actually Geoff who did that.
- Owen says he's never been on a date with a girl, even though he's technically been on one with Izzy in the woods in Hook, Line and Screamer.
- Every camper but Owen doesn't believe in Sasquatchanakwa at first despite seeing Eva's encounter with him in No Pain, no Game.
- Apparently the writers forgot that Gwen found out Heather had set Trent up and the couple made up during Trent's elimination scene.
- Geoff isn't among the people Gwen considers as sane, even though the two befriended each other in Trial by Tri-Armed Triathlon.
- Heather is completely bald, even though she still had several patches of hair left in the previous episode. However, it's possible that she got to shave the rest of her hair at Playa Des Losers so that her hair would grow evenly.
- This episode contains a sudden death elimination, completely contradicting the several times throughout the season where it is stated that the ousted campers would play a major role in deciding the winner.
- Heather is bald throughout the episode despite still being in possession of her first wig at the time and being reluctant to be seen bald on TV. However, it's possible that Leshawna somehow stole her wig as a part of her prank, so that the others would see her drawing on Heather's head.
- Courtney finds out that the island's been close to civilization the whole time, with only a wall separating it. However, multiple times throughout the season, the island was shown from a bird's eye view and that clearly wasn't the case.
Total Drama Action
Monster Cash
- Justin claims: "And this year, I'm in it to win it!", along with constantly using the terms "last year" and "this year" in his confessional in the exclusive clip, even though the break between the first two seasons lasted only for two days, as was even acknowledged in this very episode.
- Heather's first wig is shown on the side of her bunk, even though she permanently lost it in the previous episode.
- Contestants are shown to have changed their bunks since Monster Cash. While it can be explained that Bridgette and Geoff's elimination led to a few changes, it shouldn't affect the switches too much, likely just causing one person to now have a bunk for themselves, or causing only one switch. Yet, no one is now sharing a bunk with the person they chose in Monster Cash, with some unexplained switches including Lindsay bunking with Gwen instead of her best friend, Beth, and Leshawna now bunking with her sworn enemy, Heather.
- Heather shows an interest in forming an alliance with Harold, her only potential ally left. However, while they work together during challenges in some episodes afterwards, the alliance is never formed.
- 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.
- When Harold tries to pull an ace of spades with his magic skills, he pulls out a photo of when he was left naked at the Dock of Shame back in If You Can't Take the Heat.... However, the photo depicts Harold smiling evilly, whereas he was embarrassed when that happened, in addition to the fact that his bed and the island (which were behind him from the photo's angle) don't appear and that it would have been impossible for anyone to take the photo, as Duncan, Geoff, DJ and the girls swimming in the lake didn't have any cameras.
- Beth is revealed to be unable to scream as a result of the complications during her operation. However, she's been shown to scream in episodes prior and afterwards.
- Izzy claims she never found Justin attractive. However, she said she once dated him after her first elimination in Island in an exclusive clip for "No Pain, No Game" (although the joke of the clip was that she was lying despite hating liars, she still went with Justin for such a lie), and was hypnotized by his sexiness into giving him the million dollars in the Island special.
- Heather says Courtney had been eliminated "fair and square," even though that clearly wasn't the case. Furthermore, she claimed otherwise in Are We There Yeti?.
- Duncan and Harold are back to hating Leshawna at the start of the episode, even though them forgiving her thanks to her cheer was what spared her in favor of Heather for an elimination in the previous episode.
- Chris claims Courtney was picked because the production crew loves "nasty". However, Courtney only came back on the season because she had won a lawsuit against her wrongful elimination in the first season. Even if Chris meant being picked for the first season in the first place, Courtney wasn't as antagonistic back then.
- Leshawna is eating cheese with Lindsay and Beth even though she stated being lactose-intolerant in One Flu Over the Cuckoos.
- Owen is described in his official bio as being the youngest of three kids, but when we see his brothers in his flashbacks, they're both younger than him.
- Lindsay is said to have unnaturally big feet in this episode, despite her being seen barefoot several times in the series and her feet being shown to be smaller than Courtney’s.
- Courtney uses the communal bathroom in this episode, but Chris mentioned in "One Million Bucks B.C." that her special rules allow her to use her own private bathroom.
- Courtney's mad at Lindsay for voting herself off in the previous episode, even calling her selfish, due to this causing the girls to have a number disadvantage. However, not only did Lindsay vote for herself by accident, but also Courtney must have voted for her along with Duncan for the misplaced vote to cause majority against the two votes for Duncan and one wasted vote for Courtney.
- Also, Courtney admits that the girls (Beth and herself) are outnumbered (2-3) because of this. However, when the girls outnumbered the guys at the merge (at 4 girls and 3 boys), Courtney did have a hand in helping Duncan eliminate Leshawna in Super Hero-ld.
- Despite breaking up with him two episodes earlier, Beth mentions Brady twice and talks as if said breakup never happened by calling him her boyfriend.
- When Duncan and Beth go through the door, they come out on the left side of the Aftermath studio. However in past episodes, guests come out of the waiting room and enter on the left side without going through the set. It is possible that the waiting room can disconnect from the aftermath studio, and it even seemed to appear separately from the studio in "Rock n' Rule".
- This also leads questions as to why the Lame-o-sine is shown driving off into the distance after someone is eliminated.
- This might be solely for the movie-themed aspect of the season.
- For some reason, Heather doesn't wear her afro wig from "The Aftermath: III".
- Chef and Chris are at an airport at the start of the episode, even though this episode picked up from right where the previous one ended. The two were still at the film lot before Beth and Duncan's footrace to the finish line at the end of the previous episode, making it unlikely they were allowed to get a vacation and reach the airport in such a short timeframe.
- Embarassing footage about Chris reveals he is bald and his hair is actually a wig, but the moments when his hair gets wet, uses hair gel, or stands upside down (including in this episode) suggest this is not the case.
- Beth claims she wouldn't date anyone during the competiton despite showing interest to date both Justin and Harold throughout this season.
- There's footage of Gwen laughing at Heather's weigh gain, where they're both on the abandoned film lot but Heather has her short ponytail. She should've still been bald (or at least wear her first wig if the picture was taken before Gwen's elimination and before Heather lost it), considering it's unlikely both were at the film lot between the finale and this episode.
Total Drama World Tour
Walk Like An Egyptian - Part One
- In "Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Action Reunion Special", it's Chef who proposes the idea to make World Tour a musical season. Here, Chef angrily states that making a musical season is one of Chris's worst ideas ever.
- In "Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Action Reunion Special", Alejandro is a blatant Jerkass to everyone. Come the first episode of World Tour and he's playing the charmer and no one acts like they've met before.
- While introducing Sierra, Chris claims she has 16 Total Drama-related blogs. However, back in the special, she mentioned she has a separate blog for each contestant, meaning she'd have at least 22 Total Drama-related blogs.
- Speaking of Sierra, upon meeting Cody, she acts as if she met him for the first time, even though she already did in the special.
- Bridgette almost forgets to cast a vote because she was too busy applying lipgloss to herself, even though "Brunch of Disgustingness" established she prefers the natural look.
- Duncan is described as the first contestant in Total Drama's history to quit the show, even though in reality it was DJ, who quit in "The Sand Witch Project". Technically DJ referred to his elimination as "voting himself off", whereas Duncan outright said he was quitting, so perhaps this just about the wording, even though what DJ did was pretty clearly a quit, since his team won that challenge and thus DJ couldn't be voted off.
- On Harold's footage taken back at Camp Wawanakwa, Heather has her short ponytail from this season instead of her long hair from the first season.
- Leshawna doesn't believe in DJ's curse, even though she easily believed that Beth was cursed in If You Can't Take The Heat....
- Sierra claims that "no team avoids elimination 6 times in a row." However, there have only been 4 team challenges so far, with the first episode featuring a free-for-all challenge and the sixth episode being an Aftermath.
- Heather claims Courtney didn't disagree to throwing out the meat grinder back in Broadway, Baby!, when she in fact did.
- Leshawna is back to hating Heather (in spite of her warning her about Alejandro, no less) despite the two becoming friends after Heather's elimination in the previous season. However, it's possible that their friendship ended once Heather got into her blog war with Gwen seen in the special episode.
- Furthermore, Leshawna claims Heather "has had it coming for three seasons" despite having already punished her for her actions multiple times herself, let alone when someone else did it.
- DJ wants to stop hurting animals by losing and being eliminated from the game. For whatever reason, he doesn't just quit, even though he should be aware of such option, considering he'd already quit in Total Drama Action and witnessed both Duncan and Harold quitting earlier in this season.
- Heather complains that her team wasn't in first class saying that they didn't lose, even though the second place team never sleeps in first class.
- Chris's line "Not so fast, quitter. Thought you could skip out on the game, eh? Thought I wouldn't find you, hm?" doesn't make sense, as Chris accepted Duncan quitting the show and even pushed him off the plane himself. It is understandable if he's mad at Duncan for never coming back to the Aftermath Studio, but he shouldn't be mad about him skipping the game.
- Duncan states that the locked door could not secure his and Gwen's privacy, even though Chris breaking it in advance was exactly what led to Duncan entering the confessional while Gwen was still inside, followed by Tyler. Not to mention, Duncan himself stated earlier that the lock was broken.
- Alejandro claims flirtation has never been a part of Heather's strategy before. However, flirting with Trent and Duncan was a part of her trick that got them eliminated in the first season.
- During the song, Blaineley claims she interviewed Cody for Celebrity Manhunt. However, it was actually Josh who interviewed the Drama Brothers back in the special.
- Courtney expresses fear of the sharks despite eagerly getting into (and winning) a brawl with three of them in the previous season.
- Duncan claims he dislikes soccer, even though he showed interest in it in "The Sand Witch Project".
- Bridgette says she hasn't seen Geoff in 44 days (since the last Aftermath). However, with the reward for winning challenges being just one night in the first class and DJ saying they'd only have to bother with him for just one more day in "Newf Kids on the Rock", it's more often implied that this season's episodes take place daily.
- Cody is seen digging Sierra out of the rubble as if she had been buried by the plane parts in the explosion. However, she is seen sitting on the ground away from the wreckage in the previous episode immediately following the explosion.
- Sierra tells a fireworks salesman not to tell anyone that Cody is facing Heather in the final three. However, the Aftermath episodes are shown to be aired live, with the guests getting to call and raising a million dollars fund once. As a result, the regular competition episodes are implied to be aired rather quickly after they're recorded and edited. This means that the viewers should already be aware of who's in the final three of this season, especially since the very previous episode was an Aftermath one centered around the final three.
- It's possible (though unlikely, given how much of a fan she is of the show) that Sierra isn't aware how long it takes for the episodes to be aired in-universe. Alternatively, she might just not be aware in case of this season, as she hasn't got to attend any of the Aftermath episodes and the broadcasting schedules could have changed since last season. She may have just wanted not to reveal any spoilers just in case, not being aware whether the last two episodes have been aired yet.
Total Drama: Revenge of the Island
Runaway Model
- Zoey falls for Scott's fake crying about his team voting off Dawn behind his back, even though in the previous episode he promised in front of everyone, including the members of the Mutant Maggots, that the Toxic Rats will vote her off for stealing others' belongings.
- With Chris saying Duncan owes him screentime, the show once again forgets that Chris accepted Duncan quitting the show and pushed him off the plane himself.
- Scott says that Zoey tried to vote him off in the last episode, when he was the only one who got to vote.
- Chef says that has been waiting to be the Hurl Master, even though he had already hurled a few contestants in previous episodes.
Total Drama: All-Stars
- Gwen says in several episodes that Duncan wasn't Courtney's boyfriend at the time that he kissed her in World Tour, despite it being pretty obvious, and even stated by Gwen herself in Greece's Pieces that yes, he was and henceforth did cheat on Courtney.
- Alejandro mentions being in the Drama Machine for a year in a few episodes. However, a year has passed since the finale of Revenge of the Island. A huge amount of time must have passed between the finale of World Tour and the premiere of Revenge of the Island as Heather's hair grew back to its original length from a short ponytail. This means Alejandro actually had to have been in the Drama Machine for anywhere between a year and a half to two years. An explanation could be that he lost track of time during his recovery, but then again, Heather doesn't contradict him.
- The gimmick of having challenges pay homage to challenges from past seasons, often mixing elements of a few ones in one. It's properly used in the first couple of episodes (although some could argue some officially recognized references are forced, such as "Saving Private Leechball" not really having anything to do with "Full Metal Drama"), only to almost completely disappear as of the merge, with the only post-merge episode officially using this gimmick being ''The Obsta-Kill Course". That's even though several episodes could actually be unoficially considered as a reference to a past one.
- Like everyone else, Heather and Courtney aren't aware that Alejandro is inside the Drama Machine. However, they both look annoyed at the robot when it holds Heather in its arms in "Bigger! Badder! Brutal-er!", which only makes sense if they know it is Alejandro and that he chooses Heather over Courtney.
- Scott mentions he thought the robot could talk. The only occurrence when the Drama Machine talked was when Alejandro was inside it in the exclusive clip of "Hawaiian Punch", which would suggest Scott actually watched that clip and should've known about the robot's true identity. However, he's unaware of it, like everyone else.
- The challenge is to find seven buried pieces of a landmark model and put it together. Lightning costs the team the victory by exclaiming they've got all seven pieces when in fact they only had six, thus wasting precious time. However, the Villainous Vultures actually found either nine or ten pieces. First one by Heather, then Scott, then Gwen, then Jo (stolen by Lightning), then Lightning (taken by Jo), then Lightning again (he's got two pieces, but one of them might be the one he stole from Jo), then Alejandro, then Lightning again, and the final piece is found by Heather and Jo.
- Jo is one of the possible candidates for elimination for reasons of running an "annoyingly pushy campaign" to get Lightning voted off. She literally said one line during breakfast about this, and it was no more than a suggestion. A suggestion Scott agreed with and Heather and Alejandro weren't even present to hear.
- Heather confronts Jo over getting Lightning voted off because for the day's challenge he could've outrun the other team to the supply crates. Jo just lets her say that, even though Jo as per the very first episode of Revenge of the Island is faster than Lightning.
- Although Jo only got to display her marksmanship once in Revenge of the Island, she landed a tough hit from one speeding boat to another with full confidence she could pull it off. It makes no sense that she'd be as incompetent as to shoot a cannon with all of her allies in front and then act surprised one of them got hit.
- Courtney claims that after the whole love triangle fiasco, she didn't miss Duncan and missed Gwen instead. However, throughout World Tour, especially the episode where Gwen was eliminated, this clearly wasn't the case.
- Chris mentions that he threw Ezekiel into the volcano in "Hawaiian Punch", when in actuality Ezekiel fell in on his own terms accidentally and his altercation with Chris only happened in the ending where Alejandro wins.
- In addition, Chris was shown tied upside down with his hair dangling down yet it was revealed in the Action finale that Chris was bald and that his hair was a toupee, which if it was still the case, the toupee would have fallen off in this situation.
- Despite what Scott was told and what she claims, Courtney never once kissed Alejandro.
- Additionally, this once more brings up the inconsistencies between how much time has passed between seasons as Courtney says the kiss was years ago while Alejandro states that he was in the Drama Machine for a year after the events of World Tour.
- Alejandro's surname is stated to be the plural Burrosmuertos, while it had previously been said to be the singular Burromuerto.
- Courtney claims that this is the farthest she's ever made it... Seemingly forgetting that she made it to 4th place in Action.
- Courtney can't digest her disgusting sundae despite the World Tour episode "Chinese Fake-Out" establishing that she has a very strong stomach.
- Despite saying she's lactose intolerant in Action Courtney eats the sundae (well, tries to) without displaying any symptoms related to this condition.
Total Drama: Pahkitew Island
So, Uh This Is My Team?
- Sugar is embarrassed about being seen farting. However, in any other episode afterwards, she's completely fine with it and even uses it as her weapon in "Sky Fall".
- Although Chris has stated that contestants' belongings have been lost in the blimp's crush, Sammy is seen wearing her pajamas in "I Love You, I Love You Knots" and Sugar is seen wearing her "craptry" outfit in the semi-finale.
Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race
Mediterranean Homesick Blues
- Rockers are seen getting their first Travel Tip before the Sisters. But in the previous episode, Sisters ranked 10th while Rockers ranked 15th.
- Kitty tells Owen that Emma's breakup with Jake occurred three years ago. But in "French is An Eiffel Language" she says that their breakup was two years ago.
- Noah is already back to being attracted to Emma and prioritizing her over the race, even though he claimed at the end of "I Love Ridonc & Roll" that he's off Emma for good to focus on the competition and this is their first interaction since.
- In My Way Or Zimbabwe, Geoff reveals he uses superglue on his hat, rendering it unable to fall or be pulled off, but in this episode, he manages to pull of off and give it to Brody. It’s most likely he managed to thaw off the glue, making his hat able to be pulled off again.
- Owen mentions he's not sad about being eliminated since he'd already won a million dollars, despite the original prize of Total Drama Island being 100,000 dollars and Owen having lost the money he won in the "Total Drama Drama Drama Drama Island" special. It's possible, however, that he won a million dollars on a different, unmentioned show, as both of them have been on multiple since their last appearance in the main series, and it was only stated that Noah had lost every reality TV show they've been on.
- Geoff says that he and Brody had trouble with the Komodo dragons last week referring to Got Venom. But at the start of the episode, Don refers to the Goths as "Yesterday's winners".
- In the first episode it was said that Ryan and Stephanie met each other two months and six days prior to the series. Here, dialogue from Ryan says that they've known each other for at least a year.
- In the Police Cadets' ending, part of MacArthur's body is still outside of the Carpet of Completion, but they still win, despite Don telling Gerry in "French is an Eiffel Language" that the contestant's entire body has to be on the carpet. Additionally, Sanders isn't even standing on it.
Total Drama Island (2023) Part 1
Meet the Victims
- Chris states that it has been fifteen years since Total Drama first premiered in the Summer of 2007, and in Priya's introduction, her parents were stated to be huge fans of the original Total Drama series and trained their daughter since her birth (literally) so she can enter the show and win. However, 16-year old Nichelle is shown to have appeared in a recent movie with Rock and Spud appearing as extras. This messes with the timeline since both Rockers look exactly the same as they appeared in Ridonculous Race, which aired in 2010, only three years after the original Total Drama Island.
- Bowie openly mocks Julia for yelling at animals in front of everyone when she enters the main lodge, even though in the previous episode he promised to keep her outburst a secret and there was no indication he decided to betray her thus far.
- The campers act like the confessional is their only bathroom, even though the communal bathroom was seen in the first episode of the season, albeit used by the island's wildlife.
- Chase mentions that he rescued Emma's cat when it was stuck in a tree. However, the fact that Emma has a cat contradicts her saying that she always wanted one in "Launch Back of Notre Game".
Total Drama Island (2023) Part 2
Taking It to the Rim Reaper
- Damien claims the lesson he's learnt last season is to overcome his fears by not facing them (illustrating the point by putting a blindfold on). However, this is not the lesson he's learnt in "Jurassic Fart" at all.
- Chris has a Bad Hair Day as a result of MK stealing his hairdryer, forcing him to get help from Chef to fix it with a hairstyling chair. However, this contradicts Action's finale "Aftermath IV: Who Wants To Pick A Millionaire", where it's revealed that Chris is actually bald and wears a toupee. Given the Time Skip however, Chris may have had a hair transplant since then.
- Despite claiming last season that the contract now forces contestants to owe the show a million dollars if they were to quit, Nichelle is allowed to quit in this episode with no indication that she'll have to pay any sort of money.
- One of the biggest examples is Owen's return. Despite the reboot taking place fifteen years since the first season, Owen looks exactly the same as he did on Island and no one comments on how out of place his physical appearance is.
- Since Chris counted Ripper hitching a ride on a Drone of Despair with Axel as him quitting, the show once again forgets to indicate that per the updated rules from last season the quitter will have to pay a one million dollars fine.
- The Drone Of Despair was revealed to be unable to carry two people at the same time as it fell into the lake when Ripper held onto Axel’s legs while she was being taken by the drone. This contradicts “Severe Eggs and Pains” in which the drone was able to carry Wayne and Raj easily on a medical stretcher.
- As a Continuity Snarl, the confessional is nigh indestructible throughout almost the whole episode, even though it was easily destroyed even earlier within the same season.
