Camp Castaways

After a huge flood, the campers float away to a "deserted island" and try to fend for themselves while dealing with the dangers there, as well as enduring each other. Meanwhile, the hosts are having a day of relaxation on the same island. While the final four are separated at first, they eventually wind up back together again and, after someone's mental breakdown, an inanimate object is eliminated.
==Plot==
It's raining at Camp Wawanakwa as the episode opens to Chris, saying that it was a hard thing to pull off, but somehow, the production crew managed to create rain, as Chris figured the remaining campers were getting off way too easy with all the nice weather. He becomes angry after almost getting hit by lightning. At the cabins, Duncan, Gwen, and Heather are lounging around. Gwen and Heather are naturally getting on each other's nerves, while Duncan is whittling a stick and enjoying their bickering, saying it gives him the "warm fuzzies," prompting Heather to call Duncan a "perv." Gwen then glares at Heather, causing Heather to remind her that pouting won't bring Leshawna back. Chris speaks over the loudspeakers and gives the weather forecast as "rain, rain, and more rain, followed by rain." Also, he announces that tomorrow's activities are canceled in favor of going to the craft tent. Duncan comments that even Owen couldn't find anything positive about this weather, when he suddenly notices that Owen is unaccounted for.
The other three campers head off to bed. During the night, the rain begins to wash bits and pieces of the camp away. The next morning, the rain has stopped and Chef rings the breakfast bell, but no one responds. Chris drives up to the main lodge to ask Chef if he's seen the campers and he says no, which is a shame, since he peeled a bag of rotten potatoes for them. Chris looks around and notices that not only are the campers missing, but so are their cabins. Chris suggests a meal, which Chef questions if he actually wants to eat "this slop," referring to the potatoes. Chris meant that they should go to craft services, which Chef agrees to. In the cabin, Duncan wakes up and leaves his cabin, only to walk right into the middle of Lake Wawanakwa. Just beyond him are Gwen and Heather, sleeping in their bunk bed, only to wake up and rolling out into the water. The three have little time to consider their plight when they see freshwater sharks circling them, and race to the boys' cabin, just in time to see the bunk bed getting eaten. All this time, Owen is still in the confessional.
Owen then tries to leave the confessional, but discovers that he is floating in Lake Wawanakwa. The cabin ends up stranded on an island. Meanwhile, the other campers have various theories about their situation: Duncan believes a rescue team will come looking for them shortly; Gwen thinks the show's "stupid" producers won't come looking for them; Heather thinks it's another one of Chris's sick challenges. Heather kicks a rock to prove it's just a prop but only manages to hurt her foot. Back with Chris, he and Chef reconvene at another campsite on the same island the others are stranded on. 
		
		
Meanwhile, Duncan and Gwen argue over whether to stay put or build a raft and leave. Heather reminds them that they're not lost and that this is only Chris's lame attempt of challenging their survival skills, saying that she's onto him, before taking off. Chris sarcastically says he's so scared in the confessional.
	
The confessional booth has landed on a shore, and Owen runs out to the beach he's landed on with joy, but stops when he comes across the gaping jaw of a T-Rex skull. In shock, Owen returns back to the safety of the confessional booth. 
Heather locates a tree house. When she checks it out, she tells Duncan and Gwen that she's found a place to rest, but when she sees a skeleton in front of her, it causes Heather to fall to the ground. When she backs up, she finds the same T-Rex skull that Owen found, scaring her again. For Owen, his fear is eventually overridden by his stomach as he sees coconut palm trees on the beach. Then, Chris and Chef are seen together in the confessional, where Chef asks for an explanation as to why there are palm trees and coconuts in northern Ontario, to which Chris says they were leftover props from the Bigassic Park movie shoot, adding that they are on a budget. Owen goes over and starts eating coconuts until there is one left. He starts talking to himself, and then to the coconut, which he calls Mr. Coconut, telling it they'll survive together, which will happen right after Owen pees, as he tells the coconut. 
Back in the island, Duncan, Gwen, and Heather argue over the skeleton and continue to believe what they originally thought, and while Duncan says that the producers will look for them, but Gwen says that they aren't the sharpest tools in the shed. Back in the confessional with both Chris and Chef, Chris says that he will let Gwen's little comment pass. 
	
Eventually, they go their own ways. Duncan uses a bow and arrow he made to hunt, Gwen tries to make a raft to escape, and Heather moves into the tree house. Duncan fires his one and only arrow into the air and it flies until it hits Mr. Coconut, which leads Owen to believe that the island is inhabited by "headhunters." Duncan has no idea where his arrow went, making a mental note to make more than one arrow next time and switches to hunting with his knife, cutting up a voracious pack of wild bananas. Duncan collects a giant fruit salad of food and also discovers a nest with a large egg in it. When he returns, Duncan finds Heather eating a chocolate bar, one from Owen's stash that she discovered. Duncan wants her to share, but she dismisses him, telling Duncan it's every camper for themselves, pointing out that they are alone on the island, when a loud roar is heard in the background. Owen also hears the roar and cowers in the confessional. It turns out that Chef is making the noise by blowing a conch shell as a signal that brunch is served for the staff. Gwen finishes her raft and Duncan trades her the egg for a place on the raft, leaving Heather behind. Now completely alone, Heather is terrified.
	
Owen leaves the confessional, now dressed like a long-time shipwrecker complete with a tattered piece of loincloth, a long beard, and brandishing a plunger as a weapon. He goes off to take the fight to the headhunters; instead, he finds the tree house and a terrified Heather, who tries to beat him off by throwing chocolate bars at him. The chocolate brings Owen back to his senses, and Heather is relieved to find a familiar though bearded face.
On the raft, Gwen paddles in a large circle, ending up back on the island. As she comes back to the island, she sees the leftovers from Owen's coconut feast, believing that the island isn't deserted after all. Having failed to get off the island, Duncan reclaims his egg from Gwen. However, a large pterodactyl flies overhead and swoops down to pick up Duncan. Gwen ties a rope around his ankle and is pulled up into the air with Duncan. After flying around for a minute, they are dropped back to the ground just outside the tree house, reuniting the four stranded campers. While Owen gives everyone a big group hug, a large python falls down from the trees, forcing the campers to retreat to the tree house.
At the other campsite, Chris is wondering what the campers are doing right now. Chef comments that anything could have happened by now: mauled by bears, fell off a cliff or starved to death. Worried about a potential lawsuit, Chris decides to check the cameras, prompting Chef to commend Chris for his dedication and being an inspiration. Back in the tree house, the campers are contemplating whether they are going to die here.
Owen suggests that they should confess their sins to clear their conscience. During confession, Duncan reveals what got him into juvenile detention, which he says that isn't as bad as what Heather did, and — while a bit unorthodox — even that wasn't as bad as what Gwen did, "If that is her real name." After the confession, Owen sees smoke out in the woods; the campers decide to take up arms and attack whomever is messing with them, but first, they have to deal with the python waiting outside, so Owen throws Mr. Coconut, knocking it out.
At the other camp, the campers charge in brandishing improvised weapons and decorated in war paint, scaring Chef, while Chris calmly welcomes to their formerly secret production camp. Heather is angry that Chris and Chef were living it up, while they were lost in the woods. The rain returns, and Chris and Chef retreat into their camping trailer; Chris claims he would invite them in, but there's only room for six, even though there are exactly six of them, leaving them out in the rain.
At the campfire ceremony, Chris goes over the challenge and chews them out for splitting up, saying that four heads are always better than one; Owen corrects him by saying five, holding up Mr. Coconut. Chris then moves on to the marshmallows, having exactly four marshmallows on the plate, which Duncan points out as a mistake, due to there being the same number of contestants, but Chris says the number is correct, handing them out to Heather, Duncan, Gwen, and lastly Owen. To Owen's shock, it is Mr. Coconut who is eliminated. Owen refuses to let his coconut friend go, but Chris wrestles the coconut away while Owen cries and throws it down the Dock of Shame, telling Owen to get a grip, since it was frightening him. Then, Heather asks the other campers to keep their confessions a secret, and the others agree. As Mr. Coconut floats away, Owen is heard yelling "Don't worry Mr. Coconut, I shall never let go!"
== Cast ==
Voice actor 	Role(s)
Christian Potenza	Chris
Clé Bennett 	Chef Hatchet
Drew Nelson 	Duncan
Megan Fahlenbock 	Gwen
Rachel Wilson 	Heather
Scott McCord 	Owen
==Elimination Ceremony==
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Status 	Contestant	 	 	 	
 	
{| align="center"	Heather	Duncan	Gwen	Owen
==Still in the running==
					
							
							
==Trivia==
===General===
*When Owen dances and talks about his "Owen gets jiggy" fantasies, the music in the background is similar to that an upcoming song from Total Drama World Tour, that is, "Lovin' Time" from "."
*It's quite possible that there was no actual challenge intended for the campers as Chris only mentions having arts and crafts for them to do for the day, in addition to no actual contestants being eliminated. While it is likely that Chris intended the campers to be cast away, he seems genuinely surprised by their absence in the beginning of the episode and taken aback by their ability to find him and Chef despite being on the same island. 
===Continuity===
*This is the first time that a character who had not competed previously in the show is eliminated. In this case, Mr. Coconut.
**This is also the first of only three times in the series that something or someone, who is not an actual participant in the competition, is eliminated. The others are: 
***An intern in "Greece's Pieces" ()
***Dakota, as an intern, in "Finders Creepers" ()
**However, since he is generally not considered to be an actual camper, then this is considered to be a non-elimination episode.
***This is the third and final non-elimination episode in Total Drama Island. The others are "Not So Happy Campers - Part 1" and "Brunch of Disgustingness."
*This episode marks the first time that Owen has grown spontaneous and inexplicable facial hair; in which case, he grows a beard. The others are:
**"Monster Cash" (), when Owen spontaneously grew a mustache in the confessional. 
**He grows a beard once again in "Top Dog" after getting lost in the forest for two days, although the volume of his beard is likely exaggerated.
*If one does not count recaps, this is the first episode in which Geoff and Leshawna do not appear.
*This is the third episode that features all of the campers still in the competition using the confessional booth. The others are "Wawanakwa Gone Wild!" and "Trial by Tri-Armed Triathlon."
*Gwen tells Heather that she should vote herself off. 
**Gwen will do exactly this in the next season.
===References===
*This episode has multiple allusions to the movie Cast Away. Examples include:
**Their names are nearly identical.
**It has a similar plot of getting lost on a deserted island.
**Owen's friendship with Mr. Coconut is extremely similar to Tom Hanks' character's relationship with Wilson the volleyball, as they are both inanimate objects that are fairly round, with a red face painted on the front, and a small tuft of grass serving as hair. Both are the main cause of their owners' mental instability and they both are thrown into the sea at the end of the movie and episode.
*Chris mentions a dinosaur movie called Bigassic Park, which is a reference the franchise Jurassic Park.
*Duncan's makeup closely resembles that worn by Gene Simmons of the Glam Rock band Kiss.
*The conch shell that Chef uses to blow into and the campers dressing up as warriors and becoming practically savage by the end of the episode are possible references to the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding.
**This is the first of two references to this novel in the series; the second is in "Top Dog."
*The roars given off by the pterodactyl are the same as the roars given by the giant monster Godzilla in the movie of the same name.
*The incident in the beginning with Gwen, Duncan, and Heather running out of the water is a direct reference to the Scooby-Doo cartoons, even using the same sound effect.
*In the elimination ceremony, Chris mentions valuable lessons the campers learned in the past day, similarly to what's done in Survivor. However, Chris mentions that before the elimination, whereas in Survivor it's done after the elimination.
*At the end of the episode, there is a reference to the movie Titanic when Owen tells Mr. Coconut that he "shall never let go."
===Goofs===
*When the campers fall off of their beds and into the floodwater, Gwen's hair is dry even though her whole head was in the water a few seconds before. In the next couple of shots, her hair is visibly wet.
*Immediately after Owen and Mr. Coconut leave the confessional stall, Mr. Coconut is hit by Duncan's arrow, leaving holes in its sides. In all of the following scenes, Mr. Coconut has no visible damage.
*When Owen throws Mr. Coconut at the snake, Duncan and Heather have spears. However, when they are in the woods next to Chris and Chef's secret campsite, Heather has a plunger and Duncan has his bow and arrow.
*When Gwen and Duncan fall from the big flying goose, they fall on a palm tree, but in the next scene, they are seen falling in front of Owen and Heather, where there are no palm trees in the area.
*There are many times in this episode where Gwen's hair is not at its proper length:
**When she is sitting on the step of the cabin with Heather.
**When she stares at Duncan in shock after realizing why he went to juvenile prison.
**When Heather accuses her of "Gwen" not being her real name.
==Gallery==
ChrisUmberella.webp|Chris does the usual recap as it is raining.
ChrisStruckByLightning.webp|Chris is struck by lightning, during the recap.
SpearCarving.webp|Duncan carving a spear.
HeathersToeNails.webp|Gwen messes up Heather's concentration on doing her toenails.
SecretStash.webp|Owen's secret food stash.
OwenConfCC.webp|Owen is shocked to find out that he is in the middle of the ocean.
OwenHappyPlace.webp|Owen rocks back and forth trying to find his happy place.
OwenSlapFace.webp|Owen starts slapping himself in the face.
ScoobyDoo.webp|Duncan, Gwen, and Heather run away from a shark in Scooby-Doo fashion.
Heathersinglasseswalk.webp|Heather goes on for a walk.
HeatherCastaways.webp|Heather wearing her sunglasses from the first episode.
ConfWater.webp|The confessional floating in the water, with Owen locked inside it.
OwenSand.webp|Owen opens the confessional door to find that he's on a beach shore and thinks he's back at camp.
OwenDinosaur.webp|Owen runs and sees fossils of a dinosaur and realizes he is in a dangerous territory.
TreeHouseHeather.webp|Heather finds a tree house…
ButGetsScaredOutOfIt.webp|…but gets a surprise after opening the door.
AMereElevenMinutes.webp|After a mere eleven minutes, Owen starts to lose his mental health.
Mr. Coconut.webp|Owen talks to a coconut and gives it a name.
OwenGoesMental.webp|Owen goes insane and befriends a coconut, whom he names Mr. Coconut.
Dunccanhuntbanas.webp|Duncan goes hunting.
2Bananas.webp|Duncan stabs some bananas from the bushes…
FruitSalad.webp|…and uses them in his fruit salad.
HeatherChocolate.webp|Heather enjoys chocolate from Owen's stash.
SinceWereAloneOnTheIsland.webp|The final four hear a dinosaur-like sound…
ChefScares.webp|…made by Chef, blowing a conch shell.
Bye Heather.webp|Gwen and Duncan ditch Heather.
ApologyDitto.webp|Heather "apologizes" to Lindsay and Beth for her actions.
GooseDuncan.webp|A Stymphalian Canadian Goose takes Duncan after he steals its egg.
ChrisLimbo.webp|Chris does the limbo as Chef plays the drums.
436.webp|Chef cradles Chris in his arms.
Reunion.webp|The final four are reunited.
Bonding.webp|The final four have a "bonding" moment.
JiggyFantasies.webp|Owen having one of his "Owen Gets Jiggy" fantasies.
Sisns.webp|Owen tells the others that they should confess their sins. 
HeatherDuncanGwenOwenCoconut.webp|Heather, Gwen, Duncan, Owen, and Mr. Coconut in the tree house.
HeatherMakeUp.webp|Heather wearing tribal make-up.
GwenMakeUp.webp|Gwen wearing tribal make-up.
DuncanMakeUp.webp|Duncan wearing tribal make-up.
OhThat.webp|After hours of isolation, Owen knows it's easy to get past the snake.
MrCoconutSnake.webp|Owen takes care of the snake by throwing Mr. Coconut at it.
CampersRainFinalFour.PNG.webp|It begins to rain on the final four.
OwenFinalMarshmallow.webp|Owen receives the final marshmallow.
ButWhyyyyyyy.webp|Owen doesn't want Mr. Coconut to get eliminated.
IShallNeverLetGo.webp|Owen tries to hold on to Mr. Coconut, so Chris won't take it but fails.
ChrisTakesMC.webp|Chris takes Mr. Coconut and disposes of it.
MCDockofShame.webp|Mr. Coconut bounces down the Dock of Shame.
==See also==
Category:Total Drama Island episodes