Free Chili

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"**Free Chili**" is the fourth episode of the first season of *Total DramaRama*. It first aired on Cartoon Network on September 1, 2018 alongside "Venthalla", "Duck Duck Juice", and "Cluckwork Orange".

## Overview

*When Owen hides a walkie talkie inside his chili dog, Harold believes it's an alien here to destroy Earth.*

## Synopsis

Owen and Noah play with Owen's walkie-talkies when it picks up a radio advertisement for Yum Yum Burrito. Chef Hatchet, sensing that there are toys from home, questions them, but Noah manages to distract him, citing memory loss. The pair agree to hide their walkie-talkies for the time being though Owen decides to hide his in his lunchbox (as his mother has sewn his shorts shut to keep him from hiding candy.)

Harold and Jude pass by the lunchbox when they hear the radio advertisement transmitting from the walkie-talkie, scaring them. Harold opens the lunchbox and mistakes Owen's chili dog as an alien from another planet which Jude immediately welcomes. Harold becomes paranoid that the chili dog has arrived to dominate the planet, but Jude argues that the alien is on a mission of peace. He enlists Beth to help protect it, but Harold manages to steal the chili dog. Owen realizes his lunch has been stolen, and ends up eating Bridgette, Gwen, Cody and Courtney's lunches after Bridgette offers to share.

Meanwhile, Harold recruits Izzy to interrogate the chili dog with a "good cop, bad cop" routine in order to discover its plans. At the bathroom, Noah runs out of toilet paper and uses the walkie-talkie to call Owen for help (unaware of its current location). Harold and Izzy mistakenly conclude that the chili dog has eaten Noah and vow to make it pay. Noah, having used his vest to wipe, finds Owen among their friends' lunches and chides him for not helping.

Harold and Izzy try to get the hot dog to spit Noah out, but are distracted by a police officer puppet controlled by Jude. Harold realizes the ruse, but Jude successfully rescues the alien and tells Beth they have to send it home. Owen, still hungry, catches his chili dog's scent and follows it outside where Noah reveals himself to Harold and Izzy. The two and Owen corner Jude when Bridgette, holding a balloon, interrupts. Seizing the chance, Beth steals Bridgette's balloon and ties it to the hot dog. Jude watches the chili dog float off, only for it to pop on a nearby branch and get crushed by various vehicles (unrealistically including a train). Owen laments the loss of his walkie-talkie chili dog, causing Beth, Jude, Harold and Izzy to realize they were all mistaken. Unbeknownst to them, a race of alien chili dogs approach Earth.

### Post credits

Noah, Izzy and Duncan chase after Chef, and with the help of Owen, pile on top of him.

## Trivia

### General

* This is the first episode in which Courtney appears but has no lines.
	+ As a result, only Chef Hatchet, Owen, Noah, Harold, Izzy and Jude have appeared and spoken in every episode so far.
* A plush toy of Fang can be seen when Jude uses the puppet to distract Harold and Izzy.
* This episode marks the first time in the franchise where Noah appears without his vest.

### Continuity

* Chef Hatchet mentions his "no toys from home" rule which was first established in "Venthalla".
* Owen uses scent to track food again. ("Venthalla")

## References

* The title is a play on the 1993 Warner Bros. film, *Free Willy*.