History WesternAnimation / TotalDramaIsland

* LaxativePrank:
** Heather does this in the fake finale. She offers Gwen a laxative-spiked cupcake. Unfortunately, Owen eats the cupcake instead...

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Has caused a huge PeripheryDemographic among older teens and adults. Contains truckloads of comic violence, pixellated nudity shots, and constant GettingCrapPastTheRadar. For ages 8-12.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Courtney rates highest in this regard. In the fear challenge, she forces everyone to man up and face their fears to score points for their team, but once her time to face her fear came, she chickened out, costing her team the win. She also talked about playing and winning the game fairly, yet in Action, she forced her way into the game through her lawyers and gave herself numerous perks that gave her an unfair advantage. She also called Owen out on "unfairly getting back into the contest" when SHE HERSELF DID THE EXACT SAME THING.
** Not to mention that she tried to flirt with Tyler, who already has a girlfriend...when she was still upset about Duncan cheating on her with Gwen.

* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler: Heather in the ''World Tour'' ending.]]

* TedBaxter: Blainely has an extremely high opinion of her host skills which have so far included such achievements as getting fired from one show, getting escorted off set from another after throwing a tantrum and causing $500,000 worth of damage to the Aftermath studio after setting off an animal stampede.
** To quote Blaineley herself: ''"What?? Who am I? Who am I?!? Who are you?! I'm the host of the Puppy Bachelorette! I was nominated for a Gemmie award. I interviewed you for Celebrity Manhunt! It's a fact and scientific that I'm still Blainerific!"''
** Courtney.

Let's not forget in Season 1 when Lindsay told Heather off.....and shot a bird.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Courtney rates highest in this regard. In the fear challenge, she forces everyone to man up and face their fears to score points for their team, but once her time to face her fear came, she [[DirtyCoward chickened out,]] costing her team the win. She also talked about playing and winning the game fairly, yet in Action, she forced her way into the game through her lawyers and gave herself numerous perks that gave her an unfair advantage. She also called Owen out on "unfairly getting back into the contest" when SHE HERSELF DID THE EXACT SAME THING.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Courtney rates highest in this regard. In the fear challenge, she forces everyone to man up and face their fears to score points for their team, but once her time to face her fear came, she chickened out, costing her team the win. She also talked about playing and winning the game fairly, yet in Action, she forced her way into the game through her lawyers and gave herself numerous perks that gave her an unfair advantage. She also called Owen out on "unfairly getting back into the contest" when SHE HERSELF DID THE EXACT SAME THING.

* LetsGetMikey: DJ becomes the victim of this in the Japan episode of ''World Tour''.
** Also happens to Tyler in "I See London".
-->'''Noah''': If we're gonna find that clue...
-->'''Owen''': There's only one thing to do.
-->'''Noah''': Force someone to strip him down...
-->'''Both''': And Tyler, dude, that's you!

* Hypocrite: Courtney rates highest in this regard. In the fear challenge, she forces everyone to man up and face their fears to score points for their team, but once her time to face her fear came, she chickened out, costing her team the win. She also talked about playing and winning the game fairly, yet in Action, she forced her way into the game through her lawyers and given numerous perks that gave her unfair advantage. She also called out on Owen "unfairly getting back into the contest" when SHE HERSELF DID THE EXACT SAME THING.

* ConspicuousCG: The CombiningMecha: style raccoon composite. [[CrazyAwesome You]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome heard]] [[BeyondTheImpossible me]].

** '''DJ's version:''' DJ, wearing Harold's tinfoil hat for some reason, pats the mummy dog. [[MadeOfExplodium It explodes.]] [[BeyondTheImpossible Then the pyramid explodes too.]]

* UrbanLegendOfZelda: When Island ended, there were rumors going around that characters other than Owen or Gwen had won in certain countries. The most [[BeyondTheImpossible extreme example]] would be [[WeHardlyKnewYe ''Ezekiel'']] in certain parts of Asia.

** [[OrIsIt Or Was It?]] Alejandro is basically an {{Expy}} of Justin with side order of MagnificentBastard like Heather. He's essentially a rectification of the failure of Justin and Courtney in ''Action''.

* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler: ''World Tour'' ends like this,]] with shades of DownerEnding as well.

** Basically the entire show of ''[[{{Sixteen}} 6teen]]''. Also the characters: [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Duncan = Jonesy]], [[SpoiledSweet Lindsay = Caitlin]], [[TheSnarkKnight Gwen = Nikki]], [[CloudCuckooLander Geoff = Jude]], [[TheDeterminator Courtney = Jen]], [[StraightMan Trent = Wyatt]]/[[ShallowLoveInterest Stone]], [[GranolaGirl Bridgette = Starr]], [[SingleMindedTwins Katie/Sadie = Khaki Clones]], [[DrillSergeantNasty Chef = Ron/Coach Halder]], [[ExtrovertedNerd Harold = Darth]], [[StrangeGirl Izzy = Lydia]], [[TheLibby Heather = Tricia]], [[{{Jerkass}} Justin = Hunter]], [[DeadpanSnarker Noah = Wayne]], [[BigGuy Owen = Carl]], [[{{Geek}} Beth = Julie]], [[SassyBlackWoman Leshawna = Serena]], [[ButtMonkey Cody = Talon]], [[JerkJock Tyler = Charlie Dobbs]], and [[HairTriggerTemper Eva = Leda]]. *really big breath* Considering they were both made by the same company (Fresh TV) and a lot of the voice actors and actresses were the same...

** [[TheLibby Heather]]. She became less of a jerkass in ''Action''... [[VillainDecay Kinda.]]

* TheLibby: Heather.
** Eva was originally meant to be the thin, mean girl, referring to why her name sounds like "evil".

* LoveDodecahedron: The most frustrating subplot of ''World Tour''. StalkerWithACrush Sierra likes HopelessSuitor Cody, who likes TheSnarkKnight Gwen, who likes BadAss Duncan, who likes Gwen back even though he's been dating {{Tsundere}} Courtney for about two years, and once they break up Courtney falls for BadassSpaniard Alejandro, who loves TheLibby Heather, who likes [[spoiler:her prize money more than Alejandro]]. Brain hurt, yet?

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Thanks to Christian Potenza's series of [[http://www.youtube.com/user/TheChristianPotenza video interviews]] of the series' voice cast, we can see that behind the voices of all the [[{{Jerkass}} Jerkasses]] and [[TheLibby Libbies]] populating the show are some of the nicest people in entertainment.

** [[TheLibby Heather]] is probably named after the movie {{Heathers}}.

* MinionWithAnFInEvil: One of the only reasons you should feel sorry for [[TheLibby Heather]] is that she has to deal with [[DumbBlonde ridiculously naive Lindsay]] and cheerful [[NotGoodWithPeople farm girl Beth.]]

-->"I'd like to ''[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean bunk]]'' under her."

->''I wanna be famous!"''

* ArchEnemy: Heather is this to several campers, especially Gwen. Also, season three newcomer Alejandro has the official title of "The Arch Villain".

** Ezekiel in "Come Fly With Us"

* AwardBaitSong: "I'm Sorry".
* AwardSnub: An in-universe example occurs during the ''Action'' special [[spoiler: when the characters don't win the Gemmie award for "Best Reality Ensemble"]]. However, this could have just been a part of [[spoiler: Chris' XanatosGambit to get them on season three. A gemmie is nice but another season is better]].

* BlackAndGrayMorality: During ''Action'' and ''World Tour.'' Harold even lampshades it during the ''World Tour'' finale:
-->'''Harold: '''"Now it's evil versus wicked."

* InformedDeformity: Duncan. He has shorter and skinny legs than the other normal sized men on the show, even Geoff and DJ. His legs are as long as everyone's lower knee.

** Apparently this joke [[CompletelyMissingThePoint flew right over the heads of the American censors]] and the line was changed to "a '''real''' fine hat."

* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The final four of ''Island''. Owen is sanguine, Gwen is phglemic, Heather is choleric and Duncan is melancholic.

** Basically the entire show of ''[[{{Sixteen}} 6teen]]''. Also the characters: [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Duncan = Jonesy]], [[SpoiledSweet Lindsay = Caitlin]], [[OnlySaneWoman Gwen = Nikki]], [[NiceGuy Geoff = Jude]], [[TheDeterminator Courtney = Jen]], [[StraightMan Trent = Wyatt]]/[[ShallowLoveInterest Stone]], [[GranolaGirl Bridgette = Starr]], [[HeterosexualLifePartners Katie/Sadie = Khaki Clones]], [[DrillSergeantNasty Chef = Ron/Coach Halder]], [[{{Geek}} Harold = Darth]], [[StrangeGirl Izzy = Lydia]], [[TheLibby Heather = Tricia]], [[{{Jerkass}} Justin = Hunter]], [[DeadpanSnarker Noah = Wayne]], [[BigGuy Owen = Carl]], [[{{Geek}} Beth = Julie]], [[SassyBlackWoman Leshawna = Serena]], [[ButtMonkey Cody = Talon]], [[JerkJock Tyler = Charlie Dobbs]], and [[PerpetualFrowner Eva = Leda]]. *really big breath* Considering they were both made by the same company (Fresh TV) and a lot of the voice actors and actresses were the same...