Picnic at Hanging Dork

The remaining eight contestants travel to Australia, where tension really flares after a past incident. Two people devise a strategy to weaken an opponent which proves to be quite successful, while the other team is divided into two alliances. In the end, due to someone's error, courtesy of a bully, another person takes the Drop of Shame after losing a tie-breaker challenge.
==Plot==
During the ride to their next destination, more tension grows amongst the members of Team Amazon. Sierra and Courtney, who is drumming her fingers in the chair, glare at a worried-looking Gwen, while Cody enjoys a chocolate chip cookie thanks to their first-class treatment. Heather offers Gwen a cookie, and right before Gwen grabs it, Courtney takes it and destroys it with her hand. With Courtney guaranteed Sierra's vote and Cody's total allegiance guaranteed towards Gwen, both girls try to win over Heather as a potential swing vote on the team
Courtney and Gwen are both trying to secure alliances with their teammates in order to vote the other off the game. With Courtney guaranteed Sierra's vote and Cody's total allegiance guaranteed towards Gwen, Heather becomes the potential swing vote on the team. 
As Heather walks through the lavatory, Courtney snags her inside, the lights turned off. Courtney tries to make a deal to vote out Gwen, to which Heather agrees as long as Courtney doesn't throw the challenge, but Courtney lyingly denies throwing it.
Gwen talks to Cody, who is on her side, trying to convince him to vote out Courtney, but his main target is Sierra, as she has stolen all of his underwear. Gwen tells him Sierra can go after Courtney, as Sierra is not the one receiving votes, knowing Courtney will vote against Gwen for sure. Cody reassures her that she is safe with him. 
Meanwhile, the remaining boys on Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot make plans on how to take down Team Amazon. Owen suggests that Alejandro uses his flirtatious charm, since it got Bridgette and Leshawna booted out, which makes Alejandro nervous because his teammates know about his evil ways. Duncan suggests that if he flirts with Courtney, it will distract her and upset Heather at the same time, which will effectively bring down Team Amazon's strongest players. Alejandro agrees with Duncan.
Then, Chris asks all contestants to head to the common area to prepare for landing. Alejandro reaches Courtney by the arm, manipulating her by telling her that he tried to vote Duncan off and that he is a fool for not seeing Courtney's true worth. Alejandro, still acting, says, "What I wouldn't give for a chance to—" and leaves, with Courtney believing what he just said and with Duncan smiling at Alejandro. Heather asks Courtney if she's alright, to which Courtney says she's never been better.
In the cockpit, Chef Hatchet announces that for some reason, the landing gear isn't working properly, much to Chris' disbelief. It is then revealed that a sleeping Ezekiel, sucking his thumb, had nested underneath the Total Drama Jumbo Jet's wheels, preventing the landing gear from deploying normally. As landing is now impossible, the contestants are forced to jump off the plane into the Australian outback. They will then compete in a challenge in catching one of several emus provided, and then ride them to Hanging Rock. Unfortunately, this journey will take almost two days. Courtney gives a half-hearted effort at throwing the challenge by pretending to be unable to catch an emu, but she is foiled as Alejandro brings her an emu himself. While she doesn't like the help in the challenge, she doesn't mind Alejandro's attention. Heather then starts to flirt with Duncan, as her own private revenge. 
Gwen walks besides Duncan, asking her what's with Heather, whom she thinks she just realized Duncan is alive, to which Duncan says she's probably plotting to kill him. Duncan finally mounts his emu but is almost thrown off as Cody knocks him over as he passes by, Duncan yells at Cody angrily, but Cody only blows a raspberry in response. Heather tells Courtney to speed up the pace, but Courtney claims it is the fault of the emu, which Heather says she should command it, as it has the brain of walnut.Courtney then goes on to ask if Alejandro and Heather are a "thing," to which Heather scoffs and says that he wishes. Alejandro then approaches them, flirting with Courtney by telling her that her emu is the luckiest creature on the planet for being able to carry her. Courtney asks Heather if Duncan saw her talking to Alejandro. Heather, irritated, says Duncan is possibly the only one who missed it, and then she tells Courtney to hurry up again.
The next day, Duncan charges at Cody and tries to punch him, but misses his swing and gets knocked flat by a kangaroo's kick. Chef has carved himself a didgeridoo while he and Chris wait for the contestants. Alejandro arrives first, followed shortly by Heather, Courtney and Cody. Duncan arrives via the kangaroo's pouch. Gwen and Sierra finally arrive and Team Amazon wins the advantage in the next challenge: battery-powered sheep shearers instead of rusty garden shears. 
Gwen and Cody then approach Heather. Gwen says she was wondering, but is interrupted by Heather, who says she's not into Duncan, which Gwen finds reassuring. Gwen tries to explain to Heather about voting together against Courtney, but before she can finish her sentence, Heather says she's in, smiling. Cody and Gwen high-five each other as they smirk. Meanwhile, Chris doesn't let the boys go back for Owen, forcing them to wait for his arrival.
The teams are tasked to bungee jump off the cliff to grab a sheep and shear it. Only six sheep have a brand on them, three for each team. The team has to uncover their own brand to win. While Courtney is preparing to jump, Gwen approaches Heather about voting off Courtney. Heather agrees to it quickly. While shearing the first sheep, Team Amazon is forced to sing "Shear the Sheep." After the song, Alejandro and Duncan decide to work together and fake a fight over Courtney to distract her. Owen arrives, just as the first sheep is shown bare: no mark. Sierra offers to go next, but jumps off the cliff without a bungee cord. She is incapacitated for the rest of the competition. Owen grabs a dingo from the pile, whose pain makes Alejandro laugh in the confessional.
Alejandro continues to flirt with Courtney, while Duncan pretends to cry.
Duncan's acting also distracts Gwen, so Cody consoles her by telling her she can cry in his two shoulders, while Heather is seen in the bungee in the back bouncing repeatedly. Gwen asks if Cody can make the pain go away, to which Cody says that if the "pain" is Courtney, she should consider it gone. 
Meanwhile, Alejandro tries to help Courtney win, but she admits that she wants to lose this competition, which pleases Alejandro. 
As Cody is about to jump, Duncan finally gets his revenge by throwing Owen's dingo at him, knocking both of them off the cliff. Cody panics as he falls, which results in him thrashing around and getting himself, and the dingo, tangled up in the line, spinning him around wildly and making him extremely dizzy.
Duncan jumps and easily grabs a sheep. Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot shaves it, and their team logo is shown, meaning they won the challenge and immunity. Team Amazon, due to losing, is forced to go to the Barf Bag Ceremony. Duncan curses himself when he realizes that Gwen is now in danger of elimination. Courtney asks Heather if she is clear on the plan, and gets Heather to assure her she'd vote with her, to which Heather was lying about. Chris goes on to state what the contestants did that episode, and a reason why they could be eliminated. He calls Cody up to vote, who is still delirious due to his dingo-attack, and as a result, has difficulty voting. The others proceed to vote after him.
At the voting, the vote is divided 2-2-1 for Courtney, Gwen, and Sierra respectively. Cody apologizes to Gwen for not voting for Courtney, saying that it was an accident due to his injuries. Since Courtney and Gwen tied for the most votes, they will have to compete in a tie-breaker competition: feed a starving koala cub eucalyptus leaves, without their hands. Due to Gwen's eucalyptus allergy and Courtney's babysitting experience, Gwen loses by a hair and takes the Drop of Shame. Moments before she falls, she insults Courtney by telling her to "suck it Courtney," then takes the fall while Courtney listens on with much joy.
==Cast==
Voice actor 	Role
Christian Potenza 	Chris
Marco Grazzini 	Alejandro
Clé Bennett 	Chef Hatchet
Peter Oldring 	Cody
Emilie Claire-Barlow	Courtney
Drew Nelson 	Duncan
Megan Fahlenbock 	Gwen
Rachel Wilson 	Heather
Scott McCord 	Owen
Annick Obonsawin 	Sierra
*Ezekiel makes a cameo appearance underneath the plane's wheel, but he does not speak.
==Elimination Ceremony==
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===Final Words===
==Still in the running==
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==Trivia==
===General===
*This is the first episode that Team Amazon loses a team member, so as of this episode, each of the three teams has lost at least one player.
**This is also the only episode in which Team Amazon loses a member before the merge.
*With Gwen's elimination, the two models used for Team Victory's walk-off tiebreaker challenge have been eliminated back to back.
*In this episode, Gwen reveals that she is allergic to eucalyptus, making her the sixth contestant to have an allergy to something.
**Leshawna states, and shows due to Heather, that she's allergic to pineapples in "If You Can't Take The Heat…" and mentions to be lactose intolerant in "One Flu Over the Cuckoos."
**Harold states being allergic to crab apples in "Who Can You Trust?"; however, in Basic Straining, he is seen drinking what he thought was apple juice when it was kitchen grease, courtesy of Duncan.
**Ezekiel reveals to have a peanut allergy in "Walk Like An Egyptian - Part 1."
**Cody, as revealed by Sierra, goes into anaphylactic shock when he comes in contact with various bug bites and goat saliva in "The Am-AH-Zon Race."
*When the plane flips over, a a bag of Chef Hatchet's Total Drama Yum Yum Happy Go Time Candy Fish Tails can be seen falling out.
*As of this episode, Total Drama World Tour has been to every permanently inhabited continent.
*Following Tyler’s elimination in the prior episode, every contestant left in the competition makes it to the final four at least once in the series. 
*Alejandro is the only contestant who does not compete in the bungee cord challenge.
*This is the only sixteenth episode of the series that Leshawna does not form an alliance in due to her getting eliminated before episode sixteen.
*Heather and Alejandro are the only contestants in this episode not to be injured in some way.
===Continuity===
*This is the third episode Team Amazon loses a challenge in Total Drama World Tour. 
**The others are "The Am-AH-Zon Race" and "Newf Kids on the Rock" and the first time they actually faced a legitimate elimination.
*Gwen is the first member of Team Amazon to be eliminated. Coincidentally, she was the first member voted off on her team last season, too. This continues the pattern of Gwen being either the first or last member eliminated from her team.
*This is the first time that an elimination vote has ended in a tie, resulting in a tiebreaker.
**It's also the second tiebreaker for an elimination. 
***The first one is for Team Victory in "Can't Help Falling in Louvre."
**This happens again in Chinese Fake-Out, but there was no tiebreaker.
***Coincidentally, Courtney was one of the contestants in both cases.
*This marks the third appearance of Chef's autopilot, seen at the very end of the episode.
*This is the first time in the series that Cody (and technically Alejandro, Courtney and Sierra) have lasted longer than Gwen.
*This episode marks the end of Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot's three challenge losing streak to Team Amazon.
*This is the second episode in which a contestant accidentally votes for someone they didn't mean to.
**The first is when Lindsay accidentally voted herself off in "Rock n' Rule."
*This is the first episode since "Are We There Yeti?" in which Heather flirts with Duncan.
*This is the fifth episode the eliminated contestant was not pushed or thrown by somebody else while taking the Drop of Shame.
*This is the second time that Duncan has indirectly eliminated his current love interest.
**The first is with Courtney in "Basic Straining" (due to his bullying of Harold).
=== References ===
*The episode's title is a reference to Australian novel and film, Picnic at Hanging Rock.
**Interestingly, this episode is renamed "Picnic at Hanging Rock" in Australia.
*The scene where Sierra jumps off the cliff "for Cody" is a reference to the scene from The Omen, in which Damien's nanny jumps off the building doing it for Damien.
=== Goofs ===
*At the Barf Bag Ceremony, once Chef opens the plane door, Sierra's ponytail vanishes for the remainder of the episode.
*When Sierra checks on Cody while he's in the confessional and says, "Cody? Are you okay in there?" the captions say that Gwen says it.
*Both of the interns who were thrown off the plane in a previous episode are shown to be perfectly safe in this episode.
*After Cody grabs the first sheep for Team Amazon, Courtney's eyebrows are missing.
*Duncan's nose piercing switches sides twice.
**Also, when he is about to start fake crying he has two piercings on his right ear where he usually has one. A moment later, one of them disappears.
*When Chris calls Cody to cast his vote, Cody, after falling off the benches, is seen walking past Chris from his right instead of from his left.
*When Cody was voting, some of the passports are shown with the print and picture backwards.
*Chris states that Hanging Rock is in the Blue Mountains of Australia, but Hanging Rock is located in the Australian state of Victoria, while the Blue Mountains are in New South Wales, near Sydney.
*When Courtney grabs a sheep while hanging upside down, her hair does not hang down.
* When Courtney states that she is a good babysitter, there is a random scratch mark on Heather's top.
* Alejandro mentions that Heather has never used flirtation as a strategy, but she did this with Trent and Duncan in "Search and Do Not Destroy" and "Are We There Yeti?" respectively.
**However, this is more likely due to Alejandro not being present in the previous seasons and not watching the show.
*When Cody retrieves a sheep for Team Amazon, Heather says "Quick! Start shearing!" and Courtney's eyebrows are missing.
**In the HD remaster, Courtney's eyebrows are fixed but Heather's line is said by Courtney, incorrectly giving her Heather's voice.
==Gallery==
Australia upside down plane.webp|Chef turns the plane upside down in the recap, to represent the next location… the Land Down Under.
Australia land down under.webp|The Total Drama Jumbo Jet flying upside down in the recap.
Australia_heather_courtney_deal.webp|Courtney asks Heather to vote for Gwen.
Australia_heather_finger_cross.webp|Heather reveals she was lying to Courtney by crossing her fingers.
Australia_cody_gwen_planning_first_class.webp|Cody and Gwen plan to vote off Courtney.
Australia cody view.webp|Cody plans the elimination.
IOnlyFellInOnce.webp|Cody admits he only fell in the toilet once.
Australia_duncan_alejandro_owen_economy_class.webp|Team Chris planning strategy in economy class.
Here's a plan.webp|Owen gives an idea to Alejandro.
Australia alejandro voted duncan.webp|Alejandro tells Courtney that he voted Duncan in the previous episode.
Australia courtney after alejandro leaves.webp|Heather questions the motives of Alejandro and the behavior from Courtney.
HowDoesThatHappen.webp|Chris asking Chef how the plane cannot land.
Australia ezekiel landing gear.webp|Ezekiel prevents the landing gear from deploying.
8listening.webp|The contestants listen to Chris.
PAHD.webp|Owen jumps out of the plane.
Australia_interns_chris_emus.webp|The interns bring out the emus for the challenge.
Australia catch the emus.webp|The contestants chase their emus.
Australia alejandro helps courtney.webp|Alejandro helps Courtney onto her emu.
Australia duncan capture emu.webp|Duncan captures his emu.
Gwuncanjoking.webp|Duncan makes a joke about Heather.
Australia_cody_bumps_into_duncan.webp|Cody purposely bumps into Duncan.
Australia cody stick out tounge.webp|Cody sticks out his tongue soon afterward.
Australia_duncan_in_the_distance.webp|Duncan charges at Cody for revenge.
Cody dodge Duncan.webp|Duncan tries to punch Cody.
68-3.webp|Duncan is attacked by an angry kangaroo.
Australia kangaroo pwns duncan.webp|Duncan is kicked by the kangaroo.
Australia chris chef read map.webp|Chris and Chef read the map.
Australia cody emu tired.webp|Cody gets tired on his emu.
Australia alejandro first to arrive.webp|Alejandro is the first contestant to arrive.
PicnicAtHangingRock.PNG.webp|Team Amazon arrives.
Australia courtney alejandro flirt.webp|Alejandro flirts with Courtney…
Australia emu vomit.webp|…which makes an emu vomit in disgust.
Australia_kangaroo_brings_duncan_to_end.webp|The kangaroo brings Duncan to the end of the challenge.
Flirt.webp|Heather flirting with Duncan…
AlejandroJealous.webp|…and Alejandro's upset reaction after seeing this.
HeatherNoticesAl.webp|Heather looks back at Alejandro.
Australia_owen_emu_last_place.webp|Owen, riding two emus, is in last place.
Australia amazon part two of challenge.webp|Chris introduces the second part of the challenge.
LookDownCliff.webp|The cast looks down the cliff.
Australia catch the sheep.webp|The sheep at the bottom of the cliff.
Heather and Gwen.webp|Heather and Gwen strategize before the challenge begins.
GwenCodyHighfive.webp|Cody and Gwen high-five when Heather joins their side.
68-4 (2).webp|Courtney jumps off the cliff to catch a sheep in the challenge, but barely misses.
gwme11.webp|Gwen grabs a cactus instead of a sheep.
Australia cody grabs first sheep.webp|Cody goes next and grabs the first sheep for his team.
Australia_cody_celebrates_first_sheep.webp|Cody celebrates for grabbing an sheep. 
Lastlines.webp|Team Amazon sheers their sheep.
Al Duncan Australia.webp|Alejandro and Duncan grin evilly as their plan to manipulate Courtney succeeds.
Australia alejandro duncan look for owen.webp|Alejandro and Duncan wait for Owen, as they cannot start the next challenge without him.
Australia owen collapses on emu.webp|Owen finally arrives, but crushes the tired emus.
Australia sierra jumps no cord.webp|Sierra jumps, but forgets her bungee cord.
Australia_sierra_jumps.webp|Sierra jumps without the bungee and plummets into the ground.
Australia_owen_grabs_dingo.webp|Owen grabs a dingo instead of a sheep, which he thinks is an already shaved sheep.
Australia duncan cry.webp|Duncan starts to cry…
Australia duncan cry confessional.webp|…but reveals he was faking it in the confessional.
EnemiesTogether.webp|Gwen and Heather work together.
CodyFlirts.webp|Cody comforts Gwen and says he is voting for Courtney.
Australia duncan revenge.webp|Duncan smiles evilly.
Australia cody dingo.webp|Duncan throws the dingo at Cody…
Australia_cody_jumps_dingo.webp|…knocking Cody off the cliff.
Heroic_Heather_Picnic.webp|Gwen and Heather run over and try to pull Cody up, while Courtney happily watches her team fall behind.
Australia team chris logo.webp|Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot finally wins the challenge.
Australia gwen is dead1.webp|Courtney points at Gwen…
Australia gwen is dead2.webp|…and makes a cutthroat gesture at her.
Australia gwen is dead3.webp|Duncan realizes that Courtney plans on eliminating Gwen.
Australia_angry_kangaroo.webp|The kangaroo shakes his fist at the plane.
Australia amazon elimination.webp|Team Amazon in the elimination ceremony.
Australia_sierra_injured.webp|Sierra is injured from her fall.
Australia courtney suspects heather.webp|Courtney whispers to Heather.
Australia courtney suspects heather2.webp|Courtney makes sure that she and Heather are on the same page.
Australia courtney suspects heather3.webp|Heather assures her that they are.
ThanksChef.webp|Cody tries to make his way to the confessional in order to vote.
CrazyCody3.PNG.webp|Cody voting.
Australia heather vote.webp|Heather voting.
Australia gwen vote.webp|Gwen voting.
Australia courtney vote.webp|Courtney voting.
Australia_courtney_dragged_out.webp|Courtney is dragged out of the confessional for stamping Gwen's passport too many times…
Australia_courtney_votes.webp|…but continues stamping anyway.
Australia sierra vote.webp|Sierra voting.
Australia chris tallies votes.webp|Gwen and Courtney's reactions as Chris tallies the votes.
Australia_sierra_cody_all_over_again.webp|Sierra cries after Cody accidentally votes for her again.
Australia tiebreaker.webp|A tiebreaker challenge is introduced for Courtney and Gwen.
Australia_CUTE_baby_koala.webp|The hungry baby koala.
Australia gwen is allergic.webp|Gwen reveals that she is allergic to eucalyptis, which is used for the tiebreaker.
CourtneyFeedsKoala.webp|Courtney feeds the baby koala.
Australia courtney attacked.webp|The baby koala attacks Courtney.
68-8.webp|Courtney celebrates her victory over Gwen in the tie-breaker challenge.
GwenFinallyOut.webp|Gwen is eliminated.
Australia gwen eliminated.webp|Gwen, moments before she takes the Drop of Shame.
Australia_courtney_listens.webp|Courtney listens with a smile as Gwen falls.
Australia courtney celebrates.webp|Courtney fist pumps with joy due to Gwen being eliminated.
GWÉN.webp|Gwen at her Drop of Shame.
==See also==