This Is The Pits!

The teams are sent down into a cave complex and must navigate their whole team out. One has a hard time trying to impress another while someone's fear causes her team to be separated. Two partners finally reach their breaking point. In the end, no one wins the challenge after disobeying the host's rules, but he decides to make things interesting by splitting up two partnerships.
==Plot==
At Pimapotew Kinosewak's treehouse, Jasmine wakes up on her branch and hops down onto the balcony, using the roof as a landing. This startles Max and Topher out of their sleep. Max confronts her outside, complaining that the noise she made cut short his "delightful" dream of being carried like an Egyptian king. Jasmine mockingly tells him his "servants" have stuck around, in reference to the ants crawling over Max's body. He is appalled by the infestation in his bed and orders Scarlett to remove them. 
Max ends up using a magnifying glass as a "death ray" to burn the ants, but ends up setting his own bed on fire. She smiles smugly while Topher is put off by it all.
At Waneyihtam Maskwak's cave, Sky dreams about a muscular Dave proposing to her to be his jungle queen. She wakes up, and finds that in reality, he is actually offering her some berries. 
	
Sugar takes their bonding as proof that the two are in an alliance. When Sugar tells Shawn that Dave or Sky could team up to vote off her or him, Shawn indicates that he wouldn't mind voting off Sugar. She recommends to Shawn that they form one of their own before it's "game over" for one of them. 
Dave attempts to wipe a berry stain off Sky's cheek, but Sugar beats him to it by spitting on her hand and vigorously rubbing it off. Both of them are disappointed at this development, while Sugar is determined not to allow their relationship to progress. 
	
Sugar's act makes Sky's appetite go away, and Sugar then asks if it'd be okay to eat the rest of the blueberries, getting stains all over her face. Chris calls the contestants to gather for the challenge.
Chris tells the contestants that their challenge is to get into hamster balls and run around the island until they cross the finish line. All of the contestants reluctantly comply, except for Jasmine who has huddled on the ground shivering in terror. 
	
Chris tries to snap her out of it by feigning sympathy, but has little success, so instead he has Chef pick her up and toss her in. Chris and Chef then push the balls into a long drop that sends the competitors down into a cave. Dave exits Maskwak's ball, followed by Sky, who falls on top of him. 
However, Sugar vomits up the blueberries that she ate. Sky realizes just in time and steers clear, but Dave who still has his lips puckered for a kiss, opens his eyes to see a stream of puke fly towards him. Being covered in Sugar's puke causes him to go into another panic attack. Topher thinks Chris has pulled a "host fail" by putting them in a situation that they are unable to be narrated. On a television high up on the cave wall, Chris's image appears informing them of the truth: the balls were a trick to lead them to their real challenge, which is to navigate out of the cave. He points out two bags on the side; one contains useful supplies, claimed by Max for Kinosewak, and the other has random, unhelpful objects, taken by Sky for Maskwak. Along the walls is a series of tunnels, some will help them exit safer and faster than others.
Without warning, Jasmine begins to panic and pounds on the walls. The cave shakes, threatening to collapse on itself. Shawn discourages the way Jasmine is acting before Sugar screams so loudly that it results in a cave in. The contestants scramble to safety. Kinosewak gets separated as Topher, concerned about his hair, knocks Jasmine into a random tunnel, and it is sealed off by rocks. Scarlett leads Max into another while Maskwak sticks together. 
Team Maskwak finds themselves in a seemingly normal part of the cave. Dave and Sky attempt to kiss again, but Sugar interrupts them by belching loudly, which awakens a swarm of bats, causing Dave to kiss a bat instead. 
Next, they find themselves in a room full of glow slugs, one of which Sugar eats in order to provide a light source for the team. 
Meanwhile, Topher provides the still anxious Jasmine with night vision goggles to see. He complains about Chris's stolen phone having no bars. Max and Scarlett find themselves in a room full of stalactites. She finds this strange because of the lack of water on the cave floor. Chris warns them to control their volume as he releases a crocodile. 
As the crocodile bites Max, he screams in pain and it causes the stalactites to collapse. The two are unharmed, however, the crocodile is demolished and its interior is shown to be robotic. Scarlett is intrigued, and attempts to put together a remote control which will allow her dominance over all the other robots on the island. 
Meanwhile, Topher irks Jasmine by narrating her actions, describing the cave in ways that scare her off. They arrive to a room where there is a drop. The bottom is blanketed in fog, thus making it impossible to see. Jasmine fearfully clings onto Topher, causing him to suffocate. He passes out and sends both of them tumbling forwards. Contrary to their earlier beliefs, they are safe, as the fall was only a few deep feet. 
Back to Team Maskwak, the final room they appear in is a room full of crystals guarded by Scuba Bear, now wearing an abundance of jewelry and known as "Bling Bear." Chris warns them not to take any crystals, but Bling Bear pursues them despite no one having stolen anything, confusing Dave and Sky. 
		
The team retreats and jumps into a pool of water. Bling Bear ceases his attack, perplexing Sky since he is wearing the necessary gear to continue.
After a while longer, Topher's phone detects a signal, and he follows it to get them out. Their exit is later revealed to be a hole dug by gophers. While Topher starts to go back, Jasmine doesn't allow it and uses his head in order to bust them out from underground. Meanwhile, Scarlett and Max load into an elevator that Max locates. Before the doors close, he throws Scarlett's remote out. In the confessional, she declares that she officially hates him. The elevator gives them the ability to safety exit the cave off-screen. 
Sugar finds a large hole in the wall, which they use to escape the cave. Much to the disgust of everyone, it leads out the toilet of the confessional, causing Dave to collapse. Chris expresses his aggravation that neither team actually completed the challenge correctly, so both teams lose. 
At the elimination ceremony, he reveals what would have been their reward, a gourmet dinner, before announcing that it would be the dinner that would be eliminated. Chef then proceeds to set the dinner on fire and burns himself in the process. Chris then notes that one couple is on the verge of entering "smooch town," getting too close, and since he considers that it's unfair and awkward to their teammates, he'll split them up.
	
Although Sky believes that Chris is talking about her and Dave, Chris reveals that the "couple" he is talking about is none other than Max and Scarlett, much to Scarlett's embarrassment as she nervously tries to defend herself that the two of them are not in a relationship. 
	
Therefore, Chris decides to implement a team swap, by sending Max over to the Wâneyihtam Maskwak and selects Sky to replace him on the Pimâpotew Kinosewak, devastating Dave.
	
==Cast==
Voice actor 	Role(s)
Christian Potenza	Chris
Daniel DeSanto 	Dave
Katie Bergin 	Jasmine
Bruce Dow 	Max
Kristi Friday 	Scarlett
Zachary Bennett 	Shawn
Sarah Podemski 	Sky
Rochelle Wilson 	Sugar
Christopher Jacot	Topher
*Chef Hatchet appears; however, he has no dialogue.
==Still in the running==
						
						
==Trivia==
===General===
*Jasmine is revealed to be claustrophobic in this episode, making her the second person revealed to be claustrophobic, the first being Gwen Dracula.
**Curiously, both of them ranked 4th at some point of the series: Gwen in and Jasmine in this season.
*This is the only time where neither team wins invincibility.
**Furthermore, this is the second time overall in the series in which no contestant wins the challenge, the first time being "" ().
*With Max and Sky's team switch, Sugar becomes the last female on the Waneyihtam Maskwak, while Topher becomes the last male on the Pimapotew Kinosewak.
*Shawn appears to have sleight of hand, as he is able to quickly snap a gem without anyone noticing.
*This is the third of the fifth instances where Cartoon Network airs two episodes on the same day. In this case, this episode premiered with "."
**The first time was during Total Drama: Revenge of the Island with "" and "."
**It would happen again during this season with "" and "," and later with "Pahk'd With Talent" and "Lies, Cries and One Big Prize."
** Then, it happened during Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race with "None Down, Eighteen to Go — Part 1" and "None Down, Eighteen to Go — Part 2."
===Continuity===
*The intended prize for the episode is dinner from Darwin's All-You-Can-Eat Food Safari, which Sugar had previously done a commercial for as revealed in her audition tape.
*This episode features yet another team swap. In this case, Max and Sky switch teams.
*The cameo Beardo makes in this episode is similar to Ezekiel's in "" (). Both feature the contestant's image on something. In this case, it is a CD cover.
===References===
*The elevator within the cave found by Max and Scarlett plays Muzak, in reference to what's commonly known as "elevator music" or the company originally known behind it.
===Goofs===
*Several goofs are present when Sky is exiting her team's ball:
**Her right earring is missing.
**Her right arm is missing on one frame and then her left a few frames later.
**On the same frame where her left arm is missing, her left leg cuts into the ball.
*When the Salmons are running away from Bling Bear, Sky has two right earrings.
*Topher states he can't get a signal on Chris's phone while in the cave. However, when the camera zooms on the phone, it has a full signal.
==Gallery==
Wake up.webp|Max and Topher are awakened by Jasmine.
Red ants.webp|Jasmine tells Max that he's covered in red ants.
The ants are dead.webp|Max accidentally sets fire to his bed while trying to kill some red ants.
Pure barf.webp|Sky dreams of a muscular Dave offering her a ring...
Berries or marriage.webp|...when he is actually offering her berries.
Not a couple.webp|Sugar is mad about Dave and Sky and tries to make an alliance with Shawn.
Zombies please help me.webp|"There's no nice way to say this: I'd rather be eaten by a zombie!" - Shawn, about Sugar's alliance offer.
FaceWiping.webp|Sugar uses her saliva to wipe the berry juice off of Sky's face...
First.webp|...and eats the berries.
My balls.webp|Chris forces the contestants to get inside of the two balls.
Falling balls.webp|Chris pushes the balls into a big pit.
CrazySky.webp|Sky falling out of her ball.
Kiss .webp|Dave tries to kiss Sky after she lands on him...
Second.webp|...but Sugar pukes on him...
Secon II.webp|...causing him to freak out.
Beardo CDS.webp|Sky finds a Beardo beatbox CD in one of the bags.
Sky bag.webp|Sky tries to decide which way to go.
KinosewakThePits.webp|Jasmine is eager to get out of the cave.
SugShawnDaveSky.webp|Team Maskwak realizes that the cave is about to collapse.
File:Kill_her_now.webp|Sugar screams, sealing the contestants' fate.
Not the hair.webp|Team Kinosewak is split up between Jasmine and Topher...
Is that hole.webp|...and Max and Scarlett.
SplinterJas.webp|Jasmine wearing night-vision goggles.
Topher host.webp|Topher "hosts" as he and Jasmine try to find their way out of the cave.
BBBAAATTTSSS!.webp|Bats start to spread.
Dave TDPI Rank.webp|Dave kisses a bat.
Slug.webp|Sugar eats a glow-slug....
SugarImABus.PNG.webp|...which ends up making her belly button a light source.
MaxCrocodile.webp|Max attempts to command a crocodile.
Robot croc.webp|Scarlett finds out that the crocodile is a robot.
Interesting.webp|Scarlett tries to figure out the code.
Toph hug.webp|A terrified Jasmine hugs Topher...
Huggy fally.webp|...causing Topher to faint and both to fall.
File:Where_we_are.webp|Jasmine and Topher discover the shallowness of the hole.
Shiny.webp|Shawn puts his team in danger due to his affection towards shiny objects.
ScubaBlingBear.webp|Bling Bear prepares to attack Team Maskwak.
Not so old.webp|Max and Scarlett find an elevator.
Give me that.webp|Max grabs Scarlett's remote...
Rusty useless thing.webp|...and throws it out of the elevator.
Scarlett nooooo.webp|Scarlett is unable to retrieve the machine before the elevator closes.
Hate him.webp|Scarlett's hatred for Max peaks after he throws away her remote.
Bam.webp|Sugar knocks the others into the water.
Bear not.webp|Bling Bear refuses to enter the water.
Putred water.webp|Sugar finds a way out.
Trash people.webp|Maskwak sees their way out.
Run pooers.webp|Shawn, Sky, and Dave run out of the confessional...
Walk pooper.webp|...but Sugar doesn't mind the stench.
Yuck yuck.webp|Dave is left traumatized after learning he climbed through the confessional.
Topher signal.webp|Topher uses Chris's phone to locate an exit.
TopherJasmineCrawling.webp|Jasmine and Topher crawl up a tunnel.
ground dogss.webp|Topher finds some angry gophers.
WereNotGoingBack.PNG.webp|Jasmine refuses when Topher wants to go back down the tunnel.
Battering ram toph.webp|Jasmine uses Topher to bust her way out...
Jaz is outc.webp|... and manages to get her and Topher out of the cave.
DidWeWin.webp|"Did we win?" - Topher, after being used as a human battering ram.
Mands are out.webp|Max and Scarlett arrive last, leading Max to believe that the others took a "faster elevator".
Burn meal.webp|Since there is no winner, Chef burns the intended reward, along with himself.
Why chris.webp|Dave is devastated after hearing Sky will be on the different team.
==See also==