Moon Madness

During a rare Blue Harvest Moon, all of the wildlife is affected, causing savage animals to become docile and normally gentle creatures to turn into ravenous monsters that hunt the teams. Someone else is also affected by the moon, wreaking havoc on his teammates, leading one of them to become suspicious and another to remember that they met before. Meanwhile, one contestant starts to warm up to another, as someone else continues to try to make amends. A contestant on the losing team volunteers for elimination in order to escape another's affections, but is instead switched to the other team.
==Plot==
The Heroic Hamsters are eating slop for dinner outside the cabin, which Duncan gags on. As Cameron walks down the stairs complaining, Mike's evil personality, who is hiding underneath, trips him. Mike regains control, but has no memory of what had happened. He helps his friend up and gives him back his glasses, but having suffered from the fall, they split in two. Zoey is shocked by Mike's odd behavior, as she saw what he did. 
Sierra asks Zoey if she is invisible, but as Zoey's attention is still focused on Mike tripping Cameron, she doesn't respond. This leads Sierra to scream in Zoey's ear, temporarily deafening her. Zoey finally answers though she is distant, but a relieved Sierra doesn't notice as she walks back into the cabin.
Meanwhile, Alejandro and Heather argue at the McLean Spa Hotel about his loud breathing through his nose. Alejandro's lack of interest is annoying Heather, who is flabbergasted when he calls her "typical."
	
Outside, Courtney sees a bird resembling Scott, and realizes she misses him. All the while, Scott is searching for the invincibility statue on Boney Island, but runs into some trouble with a bear. He is "rescued" by Chef Hatchet airlifting him away, presumably before he actually finds anything. He drops him rather harshly at the starting line where Chris is about to announce the challenge. Courtney worries and asks Scott if he's okay, and he says he is fine despite his bones crack and gives a painful look, and Courtney brushes it off saying that they've got a challenge to win.
	
Chris explains the "extremely dangerous night time challenge," which turns out to be a homage to the challenge from "The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean." The contestants must race to the other side of the island, with the team with all of its members at the finish line first winning. Duncan remarks that it sounds easy, and Chris reveals that the full moon that night is a rare Blue Harvest Moon, which will cause all of the island's animals to behave unusually. He gives the Villainous Vultures a map for winning the last challenge, and has Chef give bacon hats and sausage tails to the Hamsters before sending them off.
When Mike suggests to Cameron that they follow the Vultures since they have a map, his idea is quickly praised. Zoey then whispers to Cameron that Mike purposely broke his glasses. Cameron confronts Mike about this, accidentally breaking Zoey's request to keep it between them. However, Cameron accepts Mike's apology, and promises to help him should any problems arise with his personalities. While talking, he smashes into a tree, only to be saved by Sierra. Sierra again refers to him as Cody, before pointing out the moon. It turns blue, releasing a ring of radiation that turns normally gentle animals violent, and vice versa. Mike is also affected, at this point changing to his evil persona. 
The Vultures come across an alligator, who confuses them by wagging its tail like a dog, and seeming docile. Alejandro deduces that the moon has caused the animals to become their opposites. Unexpectedly, Heather sweetly compliments him and cuddles the alligator, seemingly affected as well. This new demeanor shocks her teammates, particularly Alejandro.
Birds attack Cameron, Sierra, and Duncan, while Scott gets "taken down by a gang of bunnies." A duck with large teeth walks menacingly towards Zoey, its quacking imitating demonic laughter. "Mike" convinces Cameron to ditch Sierra, though the latter is concerned that it will hurt her feelings. "Mike" then convinces him to grab onto a stick with him so they won't get separated, and runs off dragging Cameron. The Vultures run along, though Scott is still being chased by bunnies.
Heather stays while cuddling the alligator. When she finally moves on, she prances around happily, leading Gwen and Courtney to joke about her being "part wolf." Courtney initially laughs at the joke before remembering she still hasn't forgiven her yet. 
Cameron, still holding the stick, talks about how Mike getting hit with a shovel may have triggered his inability to bring out his personalities. "Mike" notes his knowledge and labels him a threat. To keep Cameron from figuring out anything further, he halts abruptly, causing the latter to trip and tumble down a slope. Cameron doesn't realize it was Mike who caused him to fall and apologetically states he "lost his footing." However, "Mike" is nowhere be seen. A seemingly innocent looking bunny appears, but as Cameron smiles at its cuteness it suddenly roars and a whole pack of them close in on him. Sierra saves him just in time by swinging by on a vine and snatching him out of harm's way. Now even more delusional, she refuses to let Cameron out of her sight and weaves a pouch to keep him in so that he can't leave her, carrying him for the rest of the challenge. Duncan also encounters "Mike." Per the moment, he has dropped his façade and is talking a bird into helping him make the others "wet their pants with fear." Duncan once again realizes the familiarity in his voice and demands to know where they have met before. The Mike impostor tries to cover himself with his prior Total Drama experience, but Duncan doesn't buy it. "Mike" then releases the bird to attack him before he can think any further.
The Vultures come to a rope bridge. Gwen leaves, much to the disapproval of her teammates, because she believes it will break, and a "happy" Heather wishes her good luck. 
Seeing his team's hesitation, Scott demonstrates how people cross bridges where he's from — by screaming, running, and flailing his arms. However, he meets a moon-crazy beaver on the other side. At first Scott is uncertain whether the beaver is dangerous, but his question is answered when the animal bites him in the rear end. In his struggle Scott manages to loosen the beaver, but it instead chews through one of the bridge's ropes, leaving it suspended by the sole intact one. The rest of the vultures carefully cross using the side of the bridge. Heather loses her footing but is saved by Alejandro. She taunts him in triumph, reverting back to her usual self.
	
Courtney approaches Scott, who is still having his struggle with the beaver, and intervenes by grabbing it and having it chew through the remaining rope so the Heroes can't cross. She then throws the beaver over the cliff, but it opens a parachute while giving Courtney the finger. At first Alejandro is impressed by her plan, but changes his mind when Heather points out that Gwen is unable to use the bridge should her own idea prove a failure, sealing the Vultures' defeat.
Duncan and Gwen, each being chased by animals, run into each other. Duncan saves them both by using his sausage tail as bait to lure them away, but the two are not together for long. He angers her by asking about Courtney, specifically, what she has been saying about him since the team swap. She angrily tells him that Courtney hasn't said anything about him before walking away. 
	
Zoey arrives at the now-broken bridge, where "Mike" appears behind her about to club her with a stick. As the other Hamsters arrive, he resumes his Mike impersonation, putting an arm around her, and ditches the club. However, Zoey becomes suspicious of him lying when he says that a bear chased him, considering a bear should've been nice under the effects of the Blue Harvest Moon. "Mike" just plays this off as him being an idiot. Sierra comes up with the idea to swing them all over on a rope.
	
Though the Heroic Hamsters all smash into a tree on the other side, they are able to climb up and get close to the finish line around the same time as the Vultures. Believing her team will lose because of Gwen, Courtney screams into the forest angrily. A deer then appears and viciously threatens her. Gwen shows up with enough time to shove a stick in the animal's mouth. Gwen says Courtney would do the same if the positions were reversed, to which Courtney seemingly agrees to. 
After some small talk and the stick breaking, the moon returns to normal, reverting all the wildlife. Alejandro tells Courtney and Gwen to hurry, and Heather smacks at him that they know and that they don't need for him to narrate, calling him "Blah-lejandro." 
Mal also reverts back to Mike, back to their usual behavior. In his confusion, he stands still, letting Gwen and Courtney cross the finish line. The Villainous Vultures claim another win.
At the elimination ceremony, Scott volunteers for exile, to Courtney's dismay, as Cameron volunteers for elimination, to Sierra's dismay. Chris then announces the twist he had in mind: rewarding the winning team with the eliminated member of the losing team. Thus, Cameron joins the villains, and he is both relieved to get away from Sierra and not getting eliminated. He approaches Mike, who reverts to his evil self, and reassures him that he will still help him with his problem. Cameron nervously greets his new teammates, who stare him down. Chris signs off the episode shortly afterwards.
	
===Exclusive clip===
==Cast==
Voice actor 	Role(s)
Christian Potenza 	Chris
Alex House 	Alejandro
Kevin Duhaney 	Cameron
Emilie-Claire Barlow	Courtney
Drew Nelson 	Duncan
Megan Fahlenbock 	Gwen
Rachel Wilson 	Heather
Cory Doran 	Mike
James Wallis 	Scott/Orange bird
Annick Obonsawin 	Sierra
Barbara Mamabolo 	Zoey
*Chef Hatchet appears, but has no dialogue.
*An intern can be heard screaming, but it is unknown who voiced him.
==Elimination Ceremony==
Although Cameron volunteered for elimination, Chris made the eliminated contestant swap teams instead. No marshmallows were given.
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Status 	Contestant
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==Still in the running==
						
						
==Trivia==
===General===
*This marks the first time since exile duty was introduced that a contestant has gone to Boney Island twice.
===Continuity===
*Chris states the episode's challenge is a reference to the treasure hunt from "."
**Despite this, the challenge seems to be more closely related to "" for several reasons.
***Both challenges occur at night and involve the cast going through the forest.
***The end goal of both challenges is to cross the finish line first. Notably, this was not the goal in "The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean."
***Animal(s) play a large part in both challenges. 
****In "Finders Creepers," the teams are being pursued by a giant spider, and in this challenge the cast is constantly being attacked by animals affected by the moon.
***The "surprise twist" at the end of both involves someone switching teams rather than getting eliminated. Coincidentally, both times the contestants who switches teams at first intends to quit and both contestants were male members of the Mutant Maggots.
****Thus, both are the only non-elimination episodes of their respective seasons.
*Sierra is seen weaving in this episode, being the third time in the series she has done so. She previously revealed to be extremely skilled at the craft in "," and once again in ""
*Sierra placed Cameron in a carrier in a similar fashion to the way she did Cody in "."
*Gwen once again explains the common clichés and scenes occurring in a horror movie. The first time being in "."
*This is the fifth horror-themed challenge of the series, which continues the trend of each season having a horror-themed challenge:
** "" in .
** "The Sand Witch Project" in Total Drama Action.
** "I See London…" in Total Drama World Tour.
** "Finders Creepers" in Total Drama: Revenge of the Island.
** "Hurl and Go Seek" in Total Drama: Pahkitew Island.
** "A Tisket, a Casket, I'm Gonna Blow a Gasket" in Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race.
*This is the first, and currently only, horror-themed episode of the series in which two contestants do not share a mutual kiss.
*Mike reminds Duncan about his cameo in "."
===References===
*The episode's title may be a reference to the eerie phenomenon known as "full moon madness," in which people believe illnesses affect others more frequently when a full moon is out.
* The fact that Blue Harvest Moon event only appears once a while references that it only appears "once in a blue moon," much like the actual Blue Moon and Harvest Moon events.
*The episode in general references the lunar effect, an unconfirmed belief that different lunar phases will influence animal behavior.
*When Chris, from the control tent, signs off the show for the commercial break, the internet meme horror figure Slender Man can be seen on the far left monitor behind him, a reference to the character created by Eric Knudsen under the user name Victor Surge on the "Something Awful" forums.
*The bunnies on the island becoming wild and ferocious is a reference to the 1972 horror film Night of the Lepus. They can also be a reference to the Killer Rabbit from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
*The episode may also be a reference to the horror film The Town That Dreaded Sundown, with murderers who killed only during the moonlight, most notably with the duck that wears Cameron's hat which has eyeholes, similar to the mask worn by the moonlight killers.
===Goofs===
*When the Heroic Hamsters are about to reach the other side of the bridge with a liana, Mal's dark circles around his eyes are missing.
*The side of which Zoey's flower is on changes throughout the episode.
*The watch on Chris's hand disappears or appears throughout the episode.
*Some of the sausage tails disappear and reappear throughout the episode.
*When Heather leans toward Alejandro, her shoulder is lower than usual. Furthermore, the color inside the ring of her top is in her skin color despite being outside of the outline of her body.
*When Courtney says "Gwen?" on the scene where the Vultures run from left to right, Courtney doesn't talk, but Heather mouths it.
*When the Vultures are terrified by "Nice Heather" hugging the alligator, Courtney's freckles momentarily disappear.
*In the previous episode, Sierra fixed her broken phone for "emergency repairs," but in this episode, her phone is still broken.
==Gallery==
GrossFoodHeroes.webp|The Heroic Hamsters eating their dinner.
BrokenGlassesCam.webp|Cameron's glasses break after he trips.
MikeGrabCamLeg.webp|Zoey saw what really happened.
SierraFreakOutPhone.webp|Sierra is still sad about not having her phone.
SierraScreamZoey.webp|Sierra screams to see if she's not invisible.
WhistleWhileYouEat.webp|Heather yells at Alejandro for whistling from his nose while eating.
HeatherTypicalReact.webp|Heather's reaction after Alejandro calls her "typical."
Moonmadness4.webp|Alejandro reveals that he is trying to distract Heather.
TDAS05-02.webp|Courtney pines for Scott as a bird resembling Scott looks on.
ScottLookIdol.webp|Scott is scared off by a bear.
ScottDroppedStart.webp|Scott is dropped on the starting line with the others.
DonkeyWearingAWig.webp|Courtney compares Scott to something cute like a "donkey wearing a wig."
ChrisExplainRules.webp|Chris explains the challenge.
VillainsGetMap.webp|Chris gives the Vultures a map since they won the last challenge.
5.9.webp|The Hamsters get bacon hats and sausage tails.
MikeFollowVillains.webp|Mike wants to follow the villains since they have the map.
ZoeyTellCam.webp|Zoey tells Cameron that she saw Mike break his glasses.
ListenYou.webp|Alejandro and Heather get into a fight before the challenge begins.
SoSorryCam.webp|Mike admits something is wrong with him but does not know what.
CamCrashTree.webp|While running, Cameron crashes into a tree.
SierraCarryCam.webp|Sierra grabs Cameron and calls him Cody once again.
BlueMoonAppear.webp|The Blue Harvest Moon appears.
BunnyRoar.webp|The moon has an unusual effect on the wildlife.
Zoeysuspects.webp|Zoey suspects something is wrong.
EvilMikeConf.webp|Mal in the confessional after taking control of Mike.
Everybody loves me.webp|Mal impersonates Mike.
HeatherNice.webp|Heather starts acting unusually nice.
HeatherHugGator.webp|A "moon affected" Heather hugs an alligator.
ScottCourtneyGwenReact.webp|Scott, Courtney and Gwen's reactions to Heather being nice.
SierraAttackByBirds.webp|Sierra is attacked by birds.
ScottAttackByBunnies.webp|Scott claims he isn't afraid of bunnies, but is then attacked by them.
HoldOnToStick.webp|"Mike" telling Cameron to grab onto a stick.
Gwuncney laughing.webp|Courtney and Gwen laugh at Gwen's joke…
LaughOrNot.webp|… but Courtney remembers that she still hasn't forgiven Gwen.
Recall.webp|Cameron recollects that Mike was hit in the head during Evil Dread, and it may have been the cause.
LostMyFooting.webp|"Mike" makes Cameron fall again.
eyed bunny.webp|Cameron is surrounded by bunnies.
Cody saves Trent Number 2 from Cody's GF.webp|Sierra saves Cameron from the moon affected bunnies.
SierraCamBasket.webp|Sierra makes sure that she and Cameron are not separated again.
GwenNotCrossing.webp|The villains find a bridge and decide whether it is safe.
SeeYouOnTheOtherSide.webp|Gwen does not want to go through the bridge and decides to go around.
Good luck, Gwenny!.PNG.webp|Heather, still "moon affected", wishes Gwen good luck.
A little more chaos.webp|"Mike" wanting to use the bird to help him with his evil plans.
MikeDuncanConvo.webp|Duncan confronts "Mike", knowing he has heard his voice before.
Duncan MM.webp|Duncan tries to remember where he knows Mike from.
EvilMikeLaugh.webp|Mal laughs evilly at Duncan.
HeatherComesUpWithAnIdea.webp|"Moon affected" Heather decides that someone brave should cross first.
Scott says there's nothing to be afraid of.webp|Scott crosses first using his "special method"…
BeaverEatScottHand.webp|… but a beaver attacks him.
THE BRIDGE IS DYING.webp|The beaver chews one of the bridge's ropes.
AleHeatherCourtneyCross.webp|The rest of the Villains (minus Gwen) cross the bridge.
StillCared.webp|Alejandro saves Heather after she slips.
ChompThisFreak.webp|Courtney forces the beaver to cut the bridge loose.
Middle finger.webp|The beaver makes an offensive gesture to Courtney after being tossed down the cliff.
DuncanThrowsBird.webp|Duncan saves Gwen by throwing his sausage tail.
DuncanAskGwenforCourtney.webp|Duncan inquires about Courtney.
TeenieTinyBrain.webp|Duncan's question irritates Gwen.
Not_jealous.webp|Duncan thinks Courtney is not interested in Scott.
MikeClubZoey.webp|Mal about to hit Zoey, before being interrupted.
Cooconcameron.webp|Sierra and Cameron get back with "Mike" and Zoey.
Mal lying to the team.webp|"Mike" says that a bear chased him away…
Caught a lie.webp|… and Zoey notices that he just lied to everyone.
Sierra has an idea to cross the chasm..webp|Sierra has a plan for crossing the chasm.
Trouble if Sierra is the only one..webp|Cameron explains that he thinks trouble will happen if Sierra is the only one with a plan.
SierraPlan.webp|Sierra's plan seems to be to swing over the chasm using a rope…
HamstersCrashTree.webp|…but they end up smashing into a tree.
VulturesFinishLineTired.webp|The Villainous Vultures (except Gwen) reach the finish line first…
CourtneyAttackByDeer.webp|… but a moon-crazed deer attacks Courtney.
GwenSaveCourt.webp|Gwen saves Courtney from the deer.
HamstersClimbUp.webp|The Hamsters manage to climb up.
BlueHarvestMoonDissappear.webp|The Blue Harvest Moon disappears.
Back to normal.webp|The deer calms down.
MalDissappearsAndMikeStops.webp|Mike is himself again.
VillainsFinishFirst.webp|Gwen and Courtney about to cross the finish line before Mike.
VillainsWinMoonMadness.webp|The villains win again.
SorryBabe.webp|Scott departs for Boney Island again.
Cameron volunteers.webp|Cameron wants to be out of the game.
SierraInABall.webp|Sierra tries to get Cameron to stay.
SendOverToTheVillains.webp|Chris says that Cameron is now on the Villainous Vultures team.
HelpFromTheOtherSide.webp|Cameron promises to still help Mike with his problem, unknowingly talking to Mal.
GreetVillains.webp|The Vultures don't seem very happy for Cameron joining their team (except Gwen).
==See also==
Category:Total Drama All-Stars episodes