Total Drama: Sunset Mountains

Sunset Mountains

**Total Drama: Sunset Mountains** is the ninth season of Drama. This season, it takes place in the Sunset Mountains, a beautiful mountain range. It also takes place along a gorgeously big Lake Reaction.

## Episodes

There are 14 episodes this season.

**SPECIALS: Drama's 150th episode aired this season as the pre-finale episode.**

## Dock of Shame

The elimination exit was revealed to be a boat ride across the neighboring lake, Lake Reaction. It's extremely alike to the TDI exit on the Boat of Losers. This season brought a lot of elements from Total Drama into play, like the dock of shame elimination music, the dramatic tension, and the marshmallow ceremony. This would later be used in seasons down the line.

## Alliances/Confessional

Alliances did not return this season, but the confessional did. It was reintroduced in the second episode, "Locked Away." Brydon is the first to use it this season.

## Opening Sequence

### Episodes 1-6

MUSIC: I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous! I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous!!

The camera swoops down off the highest mountain and speeds through camp. Brydon and Joseph are slap-fighting. The camera swoops through the middle and then Claire and Marissa are talking and grinning. The camera then shows the cast all running away from them, and landing in the campfire pit. They whistle as they sit down and the sign flashes and the theme song.

### Episodes 6-14

The music is the same as the other theme songs. The video is now smoother animation with smoother shadows and better character movements.

The camera rushes out of a bus door and races down through camp. It shows Shirley Tasing Sophia, knocking her out. Wesley shoves her down. The camera switches to the mess hall, where the Anglerfish are being force-fed disgusting food by Claire, while Marissa remains tied up and struggling behind her. A burst of flame erupts in front of the screen, transitioning to the campfire scene. Shirley and Dan are on the front stools. She Tases him, he falls over, she grins, and the camera pans out to show everyone whistling.

## Trivia

* Marissa, the camp cook and co-host, has a really minor role this season, just like she did in the other mountain-related season.
* This is the second season to take place near a mountain/mountain range. The first was Total Drama: Omiyosiw Mountain.
* Sunset Mountains is the last season to be sillier than past ones. Mekapanema and Frye Island had legitimate drama, and alliances, and confessionals, and real eliminations. Total Drama: Camp Ritchatakwa will have the same drama as the original couple seasons.
* The tone of drama and seriousness is taken in the last few episodes this season. More drama, less sadism, and more interaction between the cast is introduced.
* Chris McLean, former host of the show, makes a cameo in The Mutant From the Lake.
* The Mutant From The Lake actually hits 6 pages, longer than any other episode since Total Drama Mekapanema (excluding TV movies and movies). In TV length, the episode is 26 minutes long. It's shorter than a TV movie (10 or 11 pages) but longer than a normal episode (2, 3, or 4 pages).
* This season held the 150th episode spectacular. Season 10 would have the 175th, but it would not be celebrated.
* The fourth wall is broken in 150 Episodes and Counting! when Claire mentions Cartoon Network, the network that airs Drama.