An Explosive Welcome - Part 1

"**An Explosive Welcome - Part 1**" is the first episode of Toadal Drama Island Returns. It first premiered on January 5, 2018.

## Synopsis

After the cast is divided into 2 teams of 10, the Screaming Star Sprites and the Killer Koopas, and a tour around the camp, Toad instructs the campers to find his hidden interns.

## Plot

At Camp Wawanakwa, Toad welcomes the viewers to the show, just before he gets interupted by Bobei who lands right next to him. He then orders the intern to play the theme song. After the intro, Bobei tells Toad that him and the contestants drove through a bomb factory and that their van blew up. Toadette then lands next to them and angrily knocks Bombei into the lake where he is pulled underwater by a killer whale. Yoshi then lands on top of her and is displeased with having to compete on the show. He is horrified to see Birdo swimming towards the shore as he threw her into lava earlier. Birdo tells him that she survived because their connection is so strong.

A boat arrives carrying more contestants. Daisy is the first to disembark the ship and greets Toad, asking him when they'll start cooking, to which he replies that this is not a cooking show. Toadsworth and Peach then disembark, with Toadsworth telling Toad that the island has to be 100% safe for the princess, causing Toad to throw him into the lake. Starlow tells the others that he'll drown, so Daisy tries to save him but she pulls out a clown instead. Toadsworth manages to save himself regardless. Mario, Waluigi and Wario arrive on a smaller boat. Bowser, Carl, Boo, Kamek and Wendy then fly to the island, with Carl introducing himself to everyone although they are unable to understand him.

Bowser introduces himself and tells Toad that he shall only be referred to as the winner, before he dismisses this as a joke. Toadsworth tells Peach to run and attacks Bowser who easily crushes him under his foot. Wendy then starts crying much to Boo's annoyance. Bowser orders Kamek to do something, upon which he transforms Wendy into a sentient block.

Immediately afterwards, a Toad clone appears behind Toad. The two confusingly talk to each other until the clone transforms into Peach. She is then crushed by Petey who lands on the dock. The clone turns into Bowser and knocks Petey off. Toad reveals that the clone is actually Mimi and tells her to stop fooling around. As punishment he has Bobei drop a large stone on her. Rosalina is the last to arrive and she excitedly tells everyone that she is ready to compete in the show. Toad then brings the campers to the meshall where Birdo continues to bug Yoshi, causing Boo to tell him that he needs to get a restraining order.

Mimi asks Toad where the bathrooms are, upon which he reveals to her that they're just outside and that they also serve as confessionals. Birdo says that she wants to share some secrets in there, but Yoshi silences her.

Later on, Toad takes the campers to the campfire where he tells them that every day the losing team will be forced to vote one of their members off. He tells them that the safe players will receive mushrooms while the eliminated contestant will have to leave the competition by being blown off the island. The campers ask if this is safe, to which Toad sarcasticly says that it is. Petey jumps in front of the line and says that they could roast marshmallows on the campfire, upon which Mario mentions the marshmallow man.

The contestants refuse to agree to Toad blowing them up (particulary Peach and Bowser) and Boo asks what happened to the Boat of Losers, upon which Toad reveals that some bandits stole it but he killed them with explosives. Kamek asks him what is with all the explosives this season and turns around just in time to turn a bomb into a cake which is quickly eaten by Wario.

Toad then splits the contestants into two teams. He puts Birdo, Boo, Bowser, Mario, Mimi, Peach, Toadsworth, Waluigi, Wendy, and Yoshi onto the Screaming Star Sprites and Carl, Daisy, Goombella, Kamek, Luigi, Petey, Rosalina, Starlow, Toadette and Wario on the Killer Koopas. The contestants complain that he didn't change the team names from the cancelled season but he says that he doesn't need to fix something that wasn't broken. Bobei then runs up to Toad and tells him that the coffee machine is broken, with Toad ordering him to go fix it. He however steps on one of the bombs and is blown away by the resulting explosion. Toad tells the contestants that he trapped the rest of the interns on the island inside a crate so they couldn't escape. Yoshi asks him why he did that, upon which Toad knocks him on the ground with a koopa shell. Birdo attempts to save him but he rejects her help. Toad tells them that their challenge for today is to find the interns and says that he won't do that himself since there's various monsters on the lose. The contestants then leave to find the interns while Toad signs off the episode.

## Cast

* Waluigi and BJ appear but they have no lines.

## Trivia

### General

* The order in which the campers arrived on the island is: Toadette, Yoshi, Birdo, Daisy, Toadsworth, Peach, Starlow, Luigi, Mario, Wario, Waluigi, Carl, Bowser, Boo, Kamek, Wendy, Mimi, Petey, and Rosalina.
* Toad mentions that Bobei is engaged.
* Toad reveals that Blooper went into rehab. Carl serves as his replacement on the show.
* While Toad says that the way of elimination in this season is by being blown up with a bob-omb, this never happens. The two elimination exits end up being the Fling of Shame and the Cannon of Losers.

### Continuity

* The cancellation of the original series is brought up several times. However, it has since been confirmed that the previous show is barely canon to the franchise.
* Toad mentioned that contestants will be removed from the competition with a bob-omb. Far later in "Revenge of the Cameos", Bob-omb Billy explodes and destroys the island.

 Post-Merge