Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon

The competition is down to the final five, and when the host places the contestants in an aerial-based challenge, three dangerous threats start attempting to outfox each other. However, after an old contestant shows up and steals what was supposed to be hers, the original challenge is changed in order to catch her. In the end, the money is reclaimed and a jock is betrayed by a former alliance member and is catapulted away.
==Plot==
The episode begins with Scott once again running away from Fang, but he is soon caught. Scott initially gives in and tells Fang to finish him off quickly, but an unidentified flying object appears above them, distracting Fang. This gives Scott a window of opportunity to have the upper-hand on Fang, by kicking him in the groin and running back to camp. The object is revealed to be a blimp, which drops the anchor on Scott. While Cameron states that it's not a blimp, but a zeppelin, the board leading onto the aircraft crushes him. Chris then appears and calls the aircraft his "McLean Mobile Air Command Center," and also states this challenge will be an aerial obstacle course.
He brings out Heather to demonstrate the challenge and the contestants all react in shock at the sight of her. Chef puts a jetpack on her as she flies through an obstacle of hoops of fire, and afterwards, falls face-down onto the ground, with her parachute opening up too late. Zoey thinks that this challenge isn't exactly safe, and Chris snaps back saying it's totally unsafe when he also brings up the mutant mountain goats. Zoey decides to quit upon hearing that, but Chris changes her mind by bringing out the million dollars. Scott taunts Zoey by telling her she'd never win it, and she pushes him down.
Chris continues on with the challenge and says that they all have to build an aircraft to use. Despite Cameron seeming worried, Jo forces him into an alliance since her alliance with Lightning dissolved after last episode's incident.
Then the rest of the contestants join in the confessional sessions, one by one, saying, "Anyway, I'm— gonna whoop— everybody else and— take home that million— -dollars for myself!"
The contestants then head over to a junkyard and pick the type of machine they will have to build. Jo gets a hot air balloon, Lightning gets a helicopter, Zoey gets an airplane, Cameron is challenged with a rocket, and Scott, who is last to choose, gets a bird. Chris also brings out the reward for whoever builds their aircraft first, a smoke machine. Jo uses Cameron to her advantage in order to know what to do to get her hot air balloon working. Lightning also asks Cameron for advice, but as Cameron starts listing off the parts Jo stops him, telling Lightning to get his own nerd. Scott tries to figure out how to build a bird when he sees the mutant seagulls. He chuckles as he rips off feathers from their chest and the gulls retaliate back by attacking him. Zoey tries to act helpless because of her machine being an airplane until she finds all her parts laying in the same location, and finally caves, and decides to build it. While Lightning tries to start his project, he finds items Jo needs for her air balloon. He hides them behind a giant fan and a motorcycle, which he eventually realizes are things that could help him build a helicopter. After Cameron finishes Jo's air balloon, she tells him before he goes off on his machine, he must sabotage Lightning, giving him a shovel to knock junk on his machine. Cameron tries to do so, but fails and is flung by the shovel to a rocket engine. Jo tries to see what is taking Cameron so long and finds him completing his rocket. Chris soon announces that Cameron wins the first challenge.
After everyone has built their air crafts, Chris announces the challenge from up above in his zeppelin. Heather is also seen in the blimp, and after Chris mentions his Gemmie awards, she grabs one and hits Chris and Chef with it. They are both thrown off the aircraft while Heather is left on board with the million-dollar prize. 
Chris doesn't seem to care about what Heather does until Zoey brings up that Chris's awards are still up there, leading him to change the challenge to stop Heather instead. Heather uses all of Chris's awards as weapons and throws them to keep the others away. While Chef is seen with the ammo everyone needs to use, mutant goat eggs. Chris states whoever takes down Heather wins immunity, and tells them also to be careful of the goats who are "super ticked." A flashback is then seen of Chef blowing an air horn at the goats to get them to leave their eggs needed for the challenge. Scott is seen talking to himself about how Zoey tried to vote him off and targets her; however, Fang is then shown having caught up with Scott and chases him. Jo is the first to get off the ground with Cameron's smoke machine when she tells him it would be better off with her and as Cameron releases her rope, Fang gets caught in it while trying to get Scott. As the rest of the cast leave the ground, Scott tries to get back at Zoey by jumping on her plane, while Lightning tries to hit the zeppelin, but fails. Lightning tries to make his second attempt when Cameron flies uncontrollably on his machine and passes Lightning, hurling wildly.
The mutant goats, possessing bat wings and fiery breath, are seen attacking Jo's aircraft, and she tells them to go after Heather. Heather sees the goats and comes out to the door with the Gemmie awards, having been enraged by Jo and starts throwing them at her. Lightning and Cameron finally gain control of their machines while Lightning tells Cameron about Jo being a user. Jo then attempts to use Cameron's smoke machine to slow down Scott; however, Cameron reveals he had implanted a bomb in the smoke machine.
This causes her balloon to catch on fire and she plummets to into the lake. Zoey tries to use her gears, but they break, causing her machine to flip on her and she slides off the zeppelin and onto one of the mutant goats, using its horns to control it.
On the way back to Heather, as payback for eliminating Mike, she uses the goat's fire breath on Scott, burning his feathers and causing him to fall with Fang falling on him in the process. Soon after, Lightning crashes into the front windows of the zeppelin to get Heather. Heather fake cries to Lightning, saying she just needed the money, and as he almost falls for it, allowing Heather to smack him with the case multiple times and continue flying. Lightning eventually gets up, and as they fight over the case, Heather's elbow hits the steering wheel and causes the zeppelin to fly towards the ground. Heather pushes Lightning away and gets her money, but Cameron suddenly flies into the zeppelin on his rocket, causing Heather to drop the case out the window. Lightning catches it as he plummets, but Chris takes it, and Cameron is seen hanging on the ledge of the window, only to be saved by Zoey and her mutant goat. The contestants land safely in the water while the zeppelin crashes forcefully into the lake with Heather still inside it.
At elimination, Chris gives Cameron immunity as it was his aircraft that took out Heather. Zoey and Scott are also safe, leaving Jo and Lightning at the bottom two. After Chris mentions the loser was voted out with two votes, Jo is seen confident in her alliance while Lightning is worried. However, Jo ends up getting the Marshmallow of Toxic Loserdom. Jo goes over to Cameron and calls him a backstabber, but compliments him as he states that he learned from the best: Jo herself. As she is dragged to the Hurl of Shame, Jo calls Lightning an idiot for not being able to tell that she is a girl. Lightning is shocked by this statement and finally realizes her true gender, just as Jo is hurled and Chris signs off the show.
==Cast==
Voice actor 	Role(s)
Christian Potenza	Chris
Kevin Duhaney 	Cameron
Rachel Wilson 	Heather
Laurie Elliott 	Jo
Tyrone Savage 	Lightning
James Wallis 	Scott
Barbara Mamabolo 	Zoey
*Chef appears, but has no lines. However he is heard screaming, whistling, and laughing.
==Elimination Ceremony==
Elimination Ceremony 10	Elimination Ceremony 10
Status 	Contestant
 	Cameron
IN 	Zoey, Scott
 	Lightning
 	Jo
==Still in the running==
					
						
==Trivia==
===General===
*The Australian title for this episode is shortened to "Up, Up And Away."
*Several of the flying machines resemble vehicles that appear in past seasons:
**Scott's wings resemble the wings used by Tyler and Cody in "" ().
**Zoey's swan plane resemble the swan boats that were used in "." The wings she uses also resemble the ones from Gwen's bike in "" ().
**Jo's hot air balloon resembles Cody's in "" ().
**Lightning's motorcycle resembles Chef's in "That's Off the Chain!"
*With Jo's elimination, Zoey is the only female left on the show.
**In addition, Lightning is the only member of the Toxic Rats team left at the competition (though Scott was initially a member until he switched teams with Jo).
*When Chris "accidentally" triggers the Hurl of Shame during the recap, the female intern's scream is Lindsay's scream reused.
*The contestants talking about their intentions in the confessional is similar to Leshawna, Duncan, Heather, and Gwen's split confessionals "" ().
*The gold tooth Heather received in "" is not present throughout her appearance, nor is it in future episodes. It is possible she had it replaced with a natural-colored prosthetic between seasons.
===Continuity===
*This is the third episode in the series that references the Gemmie awards, and it is the second time they are seen.
**The first is in "," and the second is in "," during the song "Blainerific."
*This is the fifth time Heather has acted weak to gain an advantage on a male contestant. 
**The first is with Trent in "."
**The second is with Duncan in ""
**The third is with Harold in "." 
**The fourth is with Alejandro in "." 
*This is the fourth out of five cameos that are a part of or directly involved in a challenge; in this case, Heather. The other four are: 
**Izzy in "." 
**Lindsay in "." 
**Gwen Dracula in "." 
**DJ in "." 
*The intern being thrown off the Hurl of Shame in the beginning of the episode marks the third time that an intern has been put through the device of elimination. 
**The first is the intern in "." 
**The second was Dakota, who was an intern at the time in "." 
*Heather claims to have been "robbed of the million" in this episode, referring to the events of last season.
*This is the first episode in which Zoey and Cameron receive marshmallows.
*The way Zoey tames the mutant goats after losing her temper is similar to previous situation with the mutant beavers in "." 
*The logo on the Total Drama Mobile Command Center is the same one emblazoned on the Total Drama Jumbo Jet. 
===References===
*The title of this episode refers to the 1967 song, "Up, Up and Away" by The 5th Dimension.
*When the blimp first appears over the camp, Cameron makes a reference to Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, the man whom zeppelins were named after.
*This is the third time that the Gemmie Awards are talked about, and the third time in the series that the Canadian "Genie" awards are referenced.
*Scott's wings and the manner in which he loses them may be a reference to the story of Icarus in Greek mythology.
**This is the second episode to mention the myth of Icarus, after "Greece's Pieces", and they are also the same design as those made by Cody and Tyler.
*The design of Chris's blimp is strikingly similar to that of the Hindenburg , a passenger blimp that was destroyed by fire in 1937 in the Hindenburg Disaster.
===Goofs===
*In the recap, Chris says that they're down to the final four, but there are actually five finalists in this episode.
*When Chris says "Revenge of the Island" in the beginning of the episode, part of his hair is missing.
*When Chef puts a jetpack on Heather, her hair changes to a ponytail momentarily.
*Scott says that Zoey tried to vote him off in the last episode, when he was the only one who got to vote.
*When Heather is holding the million dollar case, the ring on her top is lower than normal and not properly connected.
*When Zoey picks up her card, there is a tear on the top left that constantly disappears and reappears.
*In a version of the episode that is available on Netflix, the frame where Zoey hits the zeppelin is missing and she hits it while still being in mid-air instead.
==Gallery==
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (1).webp|Chris patronizes two of his interns.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (2).png|The episode opens with Scott, who is about to be eaten by Fang…
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (3).webp|…before Fang is distracted, giving Scott time to attack him.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (4).webp|A giant blimp flies over Camp Wawanakwa.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (5).webp|Scott insults the other four contestants.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (6).webp|Chris and Chef Hatchet make their introduction.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (7).webp|Lightning accidentally punches Scott.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (8).webp|Heather makes a cameo appearance…
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (9).webp|…and does not seem very happy…
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (10).webp|…and neither are the contestants.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (11).webp|Heather is introduced to the new cast.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (12).webp|Zoey is excited to see Heather…
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (13).webp|… though Heather labels her as a "loser" and refuses to speak to her.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (14).webp|Heather is strapped onto a jetpack as part of the challenge.
Heather screaming for her life.PNG.webp|Heather screams…
I see fire....PNG.webp|…as she approaches the flaming hoops.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (15).webp|Heather flies through numerous flaming hoops in the sky…
Jetpack runs down.PNG.webp|the fuel starts to cut out…
Heather panic.PNG.webp|…and Heather begins her descent…
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (17).webp|…crashing to the ground.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (18).webp|"Money. Removing all common sense and fear of danger…" —Zoey 
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (19).webp|Scott is pushed aside by an irritated Zoey.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (20).webp|Jo forces Cameron into forming an alliance with her.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (21).webp|Chris introduces the contestants to the junkyard.
Hot airballoon jo.PNG.webp|Jo picks a hot air balloon.
A helicopter lightning.PNG.webp|Lightning picks a helicopter.
A plane zoey.PNG.webp|Zoey picks a plane.
A rocketship cameron.PNG.webp|Cameron picks a rocket ship.
A bird scott.PNG.webp|Scott picks a bird.
Chris smoke machine.PNG.webp|Chef holds the smoke machine…
Chef sprays the campers.PNG.webp|…then sprays the campers.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (22).webp|Scott is attacked by mutant seagulls after he tears off their feathers.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (23).webp|Zoey is initially skeptical that she will find any of her materials to build a plane…
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (24).webp|…but ends up finding a swan boat to use as a fuselage…
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (25).webp|…wings…
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (26).webp|…and a propeller.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (27).webp|Lightning finds parts for his vehicle.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (28).webp|Scott begins to work on his bird.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (29).webp|Zoey works on her contraption…
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (30).webp|…and quickly completes it.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (31).webp|Lightning works on his vehicle.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (32).webp|Cameron is forced to work on Jo's vehicle for her…
Winning is all that matters.PNG.webp|…and is convinced that winning is everything.
Sabotage lightning.PNG.webp|While looking at Lightning…
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (33).webp|…Jo persuades Cameron to sabotage him with no avail.
Eureka squared.PNG.webp|After a failed sabotage, Cameron finds an engine.
Cameron_rocket.webp|Cameron finds an intact jet engine.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (34).webp|Jo is shocked when Cameron disobeys her and begins to build his rocket.
Grasp it firmly.PNG.webp|In shock, Cameron activates the engine…
Be the bird.PNG.webp|…covering Scott in feathers.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (35).webp|Cameron flies around the junkyard on his contraption.
We have a winner.PNG.webp|Chris declares Cameron the winner of the smoke machine.
LetMeTakeThat.webp|Jo says that she should take Cameron's smoke machine since they have an alliance.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (36).webp|Jo scams Cameron's reward from him.
JoIsTheQueen.webp|Cameron praises Jo, saying she is the reason he will succeed…
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (37).webp|…but it turns out that Jo is forcing him to say it.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (38).webp|Meanwhile, Heather, on the blimp…
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (39).webp|…notices the million-dollar case…
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (40).webp|…and forms an idea.
ZoeyScottInsulting.webp|Scott and Zoey insult each other.
NotTheFeathers.webp|Zoey turns on her propeller, ruining Scott's feathers.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (41).webp|Scott attempts to break Zoey's vehicle…
ScottDrag.webp|…and makes it spin out of control.
SadistChrisChef.webp|Chris and Chef watch the two fight excitedly.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (42).webp|Heather knocks Chris and Chef out of the blimp with a golden statuette.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (43).webp|Heather laughs at Chris…
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (44).webp|…and takes the million-dollar case.
SprainedMyStubble.webp|"I think I sprained my stubble." -Chris 
GettingAwayWithMyMoney.webp|Jo becomes infuriated upon seeing that Heather is getting away with the money.
ChrisIsAnOldCartoon.webp|Chris returns after catching his Gemmie Awards.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (45).webp|Chris orders the contestants to stop Heather.
TotalDramaEaster.webp|Chef supplies mutant mountain goat eggs as projectiles.
ChefIsActuallyRelevant.webp|A flashback shows Chef acquiring the eggs.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (46).webp|Heather throws Gemmie Awards at Cameron and Lightning.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (47).webp|Jo states in the confessional that she likes the way Heather plays, but is unimpressed with her "girly short-shorts".
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (48).webp|Chris explains the new challenge to the finalists; stopping Heather.
MoreFangScottBecauseWeActuallyCare.webp|Fang chases after Scott again.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (49).webp|Cameron helps Jo take off.
Sushi_rope.webp|Fang gets tied up into Jo's hot air balloon…
Lamer_shark.webp|…much to Scott's happiness.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (50).webp|Lightning throws an egg at the blimp…
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (51).webp|…and Heather cackles deviously when this does not work.
Propulsion.webp|Scott uses Zoey's plane as a springboard.
Lamer_bird.webp|Fang nearly catches Scott.
Crash_rocket.webp|Cameron crashes onto Lightning's helicopter.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (52).webp|Jo excitedly holds up her eggs.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (54).webp|Jo sends mutant goats after Heather, surprising the latter.
YouWantAPieceOfMe.webp|"You want a piece of me, huh? You want a piece?"—Heather
JoGetsHit.webp|Jo gets hit with Gemmies, and orders Cameron to shield her.
Upupand away.PNG.webp|Lightning telling Cameron that Jo's using him.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (55).webp|Cameron presses a button…
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (56).webp|…and Jo is sabotaged.
Broken.webp|The control stick for Zoey's plane breaks…
Blimp_cat.webp|…and she falls on the zeppelin…
ZoeyFallsOnGoat.webp|…and then on a mutated goat.
Goat_zoey.webp|Zoey takes charge of the mutant goat.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (57).webp|Zoey leads an army of mutant goats to the blimp.
Scottburn.PNG.webp|Scott gets burned by the mutated goats…
fangxscott.PNG.webp|…which makes him land on Fang.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (58).webp|Lightning crashes through the blimp.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (59).webp|Heather takes the million-dollar case.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (60).webp|Lightning asks for the million-dollar case…
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (61).webp|…and after Heather fakes a crying routine…
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (62).webp|…she uses the case to beat him up…
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (63).webp|…and send him flying.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (64).webp|Heather claims that she was "robbed" of the million dollars.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (65).webp|Heather and Lightning fight over the million-dollar case.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (66).webp|Lightning warns Heather to "look out".
Million_dolars_l.webp|Lightning gets the million-dollar suitcase…
Get_chrissy.webp|… but Chris takes it from his hands.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (67).webp|Zoey saves Cameron's life.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (69).webp|The goats fly back home.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (70).webp|The screen flashes over to the campfire Ceremony.
ScottZoeyMarshmallows.webp|Cameron, Zoey and Scott receive their marshmallows.
JoLightningBottomTwo.webp|A confident Jo and a worried Lightning end up in the bottom two.
JoToxicMarshmallow.webp|Jo ducks the Marshmallow of Toxic Loserdom.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (71).webp|Jo is eliminated.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (72).webp|Jo calls Cameron a traitor…
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (73).webp|…but ends up complimenting him on his strategy, anyways.
Sha-what.webp|Lightning's reaction when Jo tells him that she's a girl.
Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon (75).webp|Chris signs off the episode.
==See also==
Category:Total Drama: Revenge of the Island episodes