Reality TV Pros

Reality TV Pros refers to the gen friendship that Noah and Owen have on Total Drama. Although this could be seen as early as 2007, it was only after their Laurel and Hardy-esque dynamic in 2010, during World Tour, that their relationship gained notable fanac in the fandom.
In 2015, the two were a duo in The Ridonculous Race, and the term "Reality TV Pros" comes from the show itself as their official team name. Although "Noah & Owen" is a sort of catch-all for their gen dynamic regardless of season, the term Reality TV Pros is distinct and popular with fans.
Many fanworks include the Reality TV Pros as a background pairing to keep in line with canon, and their friendship is the most tagged gen ship in Archive of Our Own's Total Drama category as of 2024. It is also Owen's most common relationship for fanworks on both Archive of Our Own and FanFiction.Net as of 2024, more-so than his canonical relationship with Izzy, Izzy/Owen.
==Common Tropes==
*"Little Buddy" and "Big Guy": Their canonical nicknames for one another.
*Opposites Attract: Owen's cheery and naive. Noah's deadpan and sassy.
*Fix-it: Many fans were disappointed that their friendship in World Tour didn't translate exactly to Ridonculous. In the latter, Noah's often mean to Owen. Fanworks may make Noah endeared by Owen's eccentricities rather than annoyed by them.
*Team E-Scope: A team formed by Izzy during an episode of Island; Owen may join the group in fanworks.
*Works may include their friendship, but pair Noah, in particular, with other characters. Owen may be Noah's wingman.
**Alejandro/Noah works may use Alejandro's canonical hatred of Owen for comedy and/or character exploration.
**Emma/Noah works commonly include their friendship.
**Izzy/Noah works may include their friendship.
**Meanwhile, the friendship is rarely included in Cody/Noah and Duncan/Noah works.
*Fanworks may interpret their friendship as ambiguously pre-slash, letting readers see it either as gen or Noah/Owen.
* Roommates: According with Total Drama creators Tom McGillis and Jennifer Persch, Noah and Owen became roommates after the show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ssTovGkwlY
==Reality TV Pros Fandom==
courtney-deserved-better, a Total Drama BNF overall, has written the Reality TV Pros in many of their fics, such as Operation Nemmahttps://archiveofourown.org/works/35834758 and Not The Worst Movie Nighthttps://archiveofourown.org/works/33984463.
==Example/Notable Fanac==
Reality TV Pros was a prompt for Noahvember in 2023.
===Fan Fic===
*Slippery Slopes (2021-2022), the most kudos'd Total Drama work on Archive of Our Own as of May 2024, features this ship.
* (2021), Owen convinces Noah to attend a party that his crush, Cody, would be attending. It goes better than expected.
* (2023), Noah didn't mean to flirt with Alejandro, it was all Owen's fault that Alejandro got the idea in the first place. It doesn't matter[...]
* (2013) Owen is bored and goes to Noah's house to "play". But when he finds his little buddy sick and alone, he takes up the job of nursing him back to health. 
* (2010) Owen explores his friendship with Noah through poetry.
=== Fan Comic ===
* (2024)
=== Fan Art ===
* (2023)
* (2017)
==References/Further Reading==
* on Total Drama Wiki
Category:Total Drama Gen Relationships
Category:Interracial Pairings
Category:Total Drama Relationships