History WhatAnIdiot / TotalDrama

* In "Darjeel With It", Ryan and Stephanie were in dead last, behind the Best Friends, Police Cadets, and the Sisters. They apologize for their feud, and they try to make it to the Chill Zone.\\

'''Instead:''' Ryan announces that he and Stephanie are back together. After the Ice Dancers' penalty was expired, the Daters were eliminated.

'''Instead:''' They do reconcile, but then they go on a shopping spree before anything else, resulting in their elimination.

'''Instead:''' Harold tells Owen that he knows his secret and that he will expose him resulting in the former getting eliminated with 2 votes against 1.

'''Instead:''' Leshawna suggests that in order to save time that any of the other teammates for Team Victory who don't reach the bobsled head straight for the finish line\\

'''Instead:''' She instantly thinks it's useless and throws it out of the plane, just because she can. Look and behold, the very next challenge is to make sausage, a task that would be monumentally easier for anyone who has a meat grinder. After being on this show for three whole seasons, you'd think Heather had learned that the rewards, no matter how useless they might seem at first, always turns out to have a purpose.

'''Instead:''' She loudly says things like "Looks delicious, Chef!" and "Simply scrumptious!", which makes everyone else suspicious and results in Chris forcing her to trade bowls with Sierra during the last course, who wins the challenge instead. Blaineley is voted off that night.

* At the beginning of the All-Stars episode, “Saving Private Leechball”, the members of the Villainous Vultures, including Jo are vying for control of the team.\\

'''Instead:''' She does the same god damn thing, is shocked that nobody puts up with and causes her team to lose the challenge by shooting one of their own teammates. This also leads to her elimination in the same episode.

'''Instead:''' She keeps it and [[BigBad Mal]] gets his hands on it and shows everyone causing her elimination.

'''Instead:''' Amy, trying yet again to upstage her sister, takes the balloon away from her, leading to a fight over it between Amy, Samey, and Jasmine, resulting in the trio getting covered in paint and causing their team to lose the challenge.

'''Instead:''' They do reconcile, but then they go on a shopping spree before anything else, resulting their elimination.

'''Instead:''' They vote off Izzy, possibly because her being unhinged, even though most seem more willing to put up with Izzy than Heather Writers, was it ''really'' this important to keep Heather around for even longer...?

'''Instead:''' They vote off Izzy because... actually, that's not really explained. Writers, was it ''really'' this important to keep Heather around for even longer...?
** Izzy has been shooting everything with darts that episode, so the campers might've had the reasoning to vote off the person who seemed completely unhinged rather than the person who was manipulative but otherwise sane. It's still pretty contrived, though.

'''You'd Expect:''' For the Geniuses to come up with a plan and build the sandcastle without hestitation.\\

* In "Bjorken Telephone", the Vegans, Laurie & Miles have already retrieved the frozen fossil and pushed it out of the cave.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Seeing that the clue doesn't specifically says that they need to chip out the fossil but to bring the fossil to Don at the chill zone, they follow what the other teams do and gain a lead.\\

* In "Hawaiian Honeyruin", Josee recently lost her lucky foot rabbit back at Transylvania but she manage to find a lava rock shaped like a trophy. Before she could run off, one of the locals tell her not to take it as a souvenir.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' For her to listen and throw it away..\\

'''Instead:''' The first part they get right, but then they go on a shopping spree before anything else, resulting their elimination.

* In "You Regatta Be Kidding Me", Duncan wants to do something to prove that he’s still a bad guy..\\
'''You'd Think:''' He’d do something to show that he’s still bad that he’s sure can’t backfire on him.\\

* In "Scarlett Fever" Scarlett has revealed her true evil self and has taken control of the island. \\

'''Instead:''' They try to cast a sleeping spell on them doesn't work, causing their elimination.
* In "Mediterranean Homesick Blues" the Geniuses, Ellody & Mary are to build a sandcastle challenge. This is an elimination leg.\\

'''Instead:''' The Geniuses not only waste their time on writing down long wording formula ''ON THE BEACH'', the sea washes away their formula making them waste even more time trying to perfect their castle without any plans, which results in their elimination.

'''Even Worse:''' They do it on a steep hill and the frozen fossil slides towards Father and Son, Dwayne and Junior. They only realize that the fossil is gone after Dwayne finds it.
'''Result:''' After Dwayne and Junior check in, the Vegans tries to tell them they stole it but Don refuses to check them in (despite Dwayne's kindness in giving them back), causing them to be in last place. Luckily this is a non-elimination race.
* In "Hawaiian Honeyruin", Josee recently lost her lucky foot rabbit back at Translyvania but she manage to find a lava rock shaped like a trophy. Before she could run off, one of the locals tell her not to take it as a souvenir.\\

'''Luckily:''' Once in Finland they realize the truth; they fly back to Hawaii and toss it back and were last place in a non-elimination leg.

'''You Think:''' He’d do something to show that he’s still bad that he’s sure can’t backfire on him.\\

* In “Sunday Muddy Sundae”, Courtney makes a list revealing her strategy for the game (which alone should count) and showing she was going to betray Gwen.\\
'''You Think:''' After the making the list she'd memorize it then destroy the evidence by burning it, or feed it to an animal, or flush it down the septic tank.\\

'''You Think:''' That Amy would just let Samey or Jasmine fire the balloon because even if they have missed Shawn and assuming he had no balloons left, Team Kinosewak could have won the challenge on a stalemate over Team Maskwak by having more unmarked team members (3 to 1).\\

'''You Think:''' That she would take down Chris’ helicopter, then threaten to let the island explode if she doesn’t receive the million dollars.\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Leonard and Tammy quickly make a dash and reach there on time.\\
'''Instead:''' They tried to cast a sleeping spell on them which obviously didn't work, causing their elimination.
* In "Mediterranean Homesick Blues" the Geniuses, Ellody & Mary are to build a sandcastle challenge and racing for not coming in last.\\

'''Instead:''' The Geniuses not only waste their time on writing down long wording formula ''ON THE BEACH'', the sea washes away their formula making them wasting even more time, which results in their elimination.

'''Even Worse:''' They have to do it on a steep hill which the frozen fossil slides towards Father and Son, Dwayne and Junior as they soon realize it's gone the moment Dwayne founds it.\\
'''Result:''' After Dwayne and Junior checks in, the Vegans tries to tell them they stole it but Don refuses to check them in (despite Dwayne's kindness in giving them back), causing them to be in last place. Luckily this is a non-elimination race.
* In "Hawaiian Honeyruin", Josee recently lost her lucky foot rabbit back at Translyvania but she manage to find a lava rock shaped like a trophy. Before she could run off, one of the locals tell her not to take it as a souvenier.\\
'''You'd May Expect:''' She listens and toss it away.\\

* In "Hello and Dubai", after having enough of Taylor's childish tantrum, Kelly decides to give her a timeout but after both end up in the bottom two, Kelly tells Taylor that she reads the clue that instead of this argument they should be already going shopping by now.\\
'''You Expect:''' They reconcile and head straight to the Chill Zone before going shopping.\\
'''Instead:''' The first part they get right but they go to a shopping spree resulting their elimination.

'''Instead:''' Her ego was so great that she and her partner ends up having so much bad luck even not coming in first place.\\

* Scott, a self-proclaimed master strategist finds the hidden immunity idol. FYI, they're playing with the Survivor: Cook Islands idol rules, meaning that [[GameBreaker one can play the idol ''after'' the votes are read instead of before.]] \\

'''Instead:''' They vote off Izzy because... actually, that's not really explained. Writers, was it ''really'' this important to keep Heather around for even longer...?\\

Note: Wasn't it that she was chased off by the RCMP instead of being voted off..?

'''You'd Expect:''' Trent would realize that Heather is bullshitting him halfway through her speech, turns around and leaves. Bear in mind that Heather is the girl who's been bullying, sabotaging and plotting against ''everyone'' she could for ''the whole game.'' At no point has Heather attempted to hide her cruelty or the fact that she will screw others over to win. [[SugarAndIcePersonality Gwen,]] in comparison, has made a few sarcastic comments to nice people...and that's it. Even in her more antisocial moments, she was a helpful teammate whom Trent had no real reason to doubt. And yet, on the basis of talking with the ObviouslyEvil AlphaBitch for three minutes...\\

'''Instead:''' They vote off Izzy because... actually, that's not really explained. Writers, was it ''really'' this important to keep Heather around for even longer...?

* After the merge in "Dial M for Merger", Leshawna brings up the alliance proposal between herself, Duncan and Harold from "One Flu Over the Cuckoos". However, the people she brings into her alliance are mortal enemies.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Leshawna, Duncan and Harold to stay strong throughout the merge.\\
'''Instead:''' Duncan and Harold reject Leshawna's offer to form an alliance with Justin and Courtney.\\
'''Result:''' Leshawna gets sent home, through Justin's guys' alliance.
* In "2008: A Space Owen" from ''Action'', Harold discovers that the reason why Owen was brought back into the competition was to be Chris' mole and sabotage the game from drama.\\

'''Instead:''' He thinks he can try to get on Courtney's good side and try to get her in an alliance. This is the girl he cheated on and treated like dirt all throughout World Tour. Naturally, Courtney sends him face-first into a cake.

'''You'd Expect:''' He'd do the strategic thing and wave it in everyone's face, thus discouraging everyone else from wasting votes on him. (This was what happened on Survivior, the guy with the idol was effectively untouchable) \\

'''You Think:''' After the making the list she'd memorize it then destroy the evidence by burning it, or feeding it to an animal, or flush it down the septic tank.\\
'''Instead:''' She keeps it and [[BigBad Mal]] gets his hands on it and shows everyone causing her elimination

'''Instead:''' She tries to blackmail Chris, a selfish sadist with no conscience, to pay her the million dollars by only threatening the contestants' lives. This ensures her elimination, but not before Chris throws evil-wannabe Max out as well.

'''You'd Expect:''' Comes up with a plan and build the sandcastle without hestitation.\\
'''Instead:''' The Geniues not only waste their time on writting down long wording formula ''ON THE BEACH'', the sea brush off their formula making them wasting even more time, which resulted their elimination.

'''Instead:''' They decide to 'take' out the fossil... ''BY PRAYING IT WHILE CLOSING THEIR EYES!!''\\

'''Luckily:''' Once in Finland they realize the truth they fly back to Hawaii and toss it back and was last place in a non-elimination leg.

'''Instead:''' The first part they get it right but they go to a shopping spree resulting their elimination.

* the episode "Search And Do Not Destroy", first season. Heather wants to break up Trent and Gwen's alliance, so she arranges a meeting with Trent at the dock. She then tells Trent that Gwen is a BitchInSheepsClothing who only pretends to like Trent to secure his vote, and expounds at length upon how lonely and afraid she feels [[BlatantLies because no one will be her friend.]]\\

'''You'd Expect:''' Trent would realize that Heather is bullshitting him halfway through her speech, turns around and leaves. Bear in mind that Heather is the girl who's been bullying, sabotaging and plotting against ''everyone'' she could for ''the whole game.'' At no point has Heather attempted to hide her cruelty or the fact that she will screw others over to win. [[SugarAndIcePersonality Gwen,]] in comparison, has made a few sarcastic comments to nice people...and that's it. Even in her more antisocial moments, she was a helpful teammate whom Trent had no real reason to doubt. And yet, on the basis of talking with the ObviouslyEvil AlphaBitch for three minutes, he...\\
'''Instead:''' ...Keeps listening and effectively breaks his alliance with Gwen in favour of believing that Heather is a sad, misunderstood girl. Admittedly, he rejects Heather when she forces a kiss on him, but at no point does he suspect that Heather had ulterior motives for meeting with him, or that she lured Gwen to the beach to see said kiss. \\
'''The Result:''' Gwen undergoes a HeroicBSOD, her friends get angry at Trent, and Trent gets voted off. If his doubt had been caused anyone ''but'' Heather, his reaction could be justified. But it's not.

'''You'd Expect:''' Trent realizes that Heather is bullshitting him halfway through her speech, turns around and leaves. Bear in mind that Heather is the girl who's been bullying, sabotaging and plotting against ''everyone'' she could for ''the whole game.'' At no point has Heather attempted to hide her cruelty or the fact that she will screw others over to win. [[SugarAndIcePersonality Gwen,]] in comparison, has made a few sarcastic comments to nice people...and that's it. Even in her more antisocial moments, she was a helpful teammate whom Trent had no real reason to doubt. And yet, on the basis of talking with the ObviouslyEvil AlphaBitch for three minutes, he...\\

'''Instead:''' They vote off Izzy because...actually, that's not really explained.

'''The Result:''' Gwen undergoes a HeroicBSOD, her friends get angry at Trent, and Trent being voted off. If his doubt had been caused anyone ''but'' Heather, his reaction could be justified. But it's not.

'''Instead:''' He is lured away and gets caught. Chris comments on Geoff's idioticy in-universe.

** In the same episode, Blaineley makes an alliance with Chef. During the gross Chinese food eating competition, he gives her delicious food so she'll have no trouble passing the challenge.
'''You'd Expect:''' That she'd keep her head down and finish the challenge so nobody suspects anything and her alliance with Chef can continue.\\
'''Instead:''' She loudly says things like "Looks delicious, Chef!" and "Simply scrumptious!", which makes everyone else suspicious and results in Chris forcing her to trade bowls with Sierra during the last course, who wins the challenge instead. Blaineley is voted off that night.\\

'''Instead:'''...Keeps listening and effectively breaks his alliance with Gwen in favour of believing that Heather is a sad, misunderstood girl. Admittedly, he rejects Heather when she forces a kiss on him, but at no point does he suspect that Heather had ulterior motives for meeting with him, or that she lured Gwen to the beach to see said kiss. \\

'''Instead:''' He thinks he can try to get on Courtney's good side and try to get her in an alliance. This is the girl he cheated on and treats like dirt all throughout World Tour. Naturally, Courtney sends him face-first into a cake.

'''The Result:''' Despite Team Victory reaching the finish line second, they lose the challenge as Bridgette never reached the finish line thanks to her tongue being stuck to one of the checkpoints.

* In the ''World Tour'' episode "Anything Yukon Do I Can Do Better", the first teammate to reach the other side of the lake must pull a dogsled to the finish line whilst picking up additional members at one of the numerous checkpoints throughout.
'''You'd Expect:''' Every team to follow these guidelines to increase their chances of winning.
'''Instead:''' Leshawna suggests that in order to save time that any of the other teammates for Team Victory who don't reach the bobsled head straight for the finish line

* In the episode “Broadway, Baby!” of ''World Tour'', Heather is given a meat grinder as a reward for winning the challenge.\\

* After the merge in "Dial M for Merger", Leshawna brings up the alliance proposal between herself, Duncan and Harold from "One FLu Over the Cuckoos". However, the people she brings into her alliance are mortal enemies.\\

'''Instead:''' Duncan and Harold reject Leshawna's offer to form an alliance with Justin.\\
'''Result:''' They vote off Leshawna with help from Courtney.

'''Instead:''' Harold tells Owen that he knows his secret and that he will expose him resulting in the former getting eliminated with 2 votes against 1.\\

* Before the events of "Million Dollar Babies" and "Super Hero-ld", Leshawna wants to form an alliance with Harold and Duncan. After the former, Leshawna couldn't be trusted by anyone.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Harold and Duncan to stick with Leshawna to make it to the final three.\\
'''Instead:''' Harold and Duncan dump Leshawna and form an all-guys alliance with Justin and Courtney. They agree to vote her off with Courtney's assistance.

'''Instead:''' She instantly thinks it's useless and throws it out of the plane, just because she can. Lo and behold, the very next challenge is to make sausage, a task that would be monumentally easier for anyone who has a meat grinder. After being on this show for three whole seasons, you'd think Heather had learned that the rewards, no matter how useless they might seem at first, always turns out to have a purpose.

* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'':
** In the episode "Basic Straining", Harold gets fed up with Duncan's constant pranking and decides to get revenge on him at the elimination ceremony.\\

** the episode "Search And Do Not Destroy", first season. Heather wants to break up Trent and Gwen's alliance, so she arranges a meeting with Trent at the dock. She then tells Trent that Gwen is a BitchInSheepsClothing who only pretends to like Trent to secure his vote, and expounds at length upon how lonely and afraid she feels [[BlatantLies because no one will be her friend.]]\\

** In the Season 1 episode "Hook, Line, and Screamer", Geoff is hiding from the serial killer (really Chef in disguise) when he hears the sound of an ice cream truck.\\

** At the end of the Season 1 episode "Wawanakwa Gone Wild", Heather is left in a position where she is not only vulnerable to elimination, but physically incapacitated (Izzy shot her with a tranquilizer dart).\\

** In "Haute Camp-ture", the eliminated contestants are given the power to vote off one camper who's still in the running. Katie and Sadie get the ball rolling by choosing Leshawna, because they want to hang out with her. The other campers object, saying that they shouldn't eliminate Leshawna if they like her. Unfortunately, just saying "Leshawna" counts as a vote against her.\\

** In "2008: A Space Owen" from ''Action'', Harold discovers that the reason why Owen was brought back into the competition was to be Chris' mole and sabotage the game from drama.\\

** In the episode “Broadway, Baby!” of ''World Tour'', Heather is given a meat grinder as a reward for winning the challenge.\\

** In "Chinese Fake-Out", Duncan wants to make an alliance with someone to advance further in the game.\\

** In the episode "Backstabbers Ahoy!", Dawn realizes that Scott has intentionally sabotaged their team, which cost them the challenge.\\

** Scott, a self-proclaimed master strategist finds the hidden immunity idol. FYI, they're playing with the Survivor: Cook Islands idol rules, meaning that [[GameBreaker one can play the idol ''after'' the votes are read instead of before.]] \\

** At the beginning of the All-Stars episode, “Saving Private Leechball”, the members of the Villainous Vultures, including Jo are vying for control of the team.\\

** In "You Regatta Be Kidding Me", Duncan wants to do something to prove that he’s still a bad guy..\\

** In “Sunday Muddy Sundae”, Courtney makes a list revealing her strategy for the game (which alone should count) and showing she was going to betray Gwen.\\

** In the "Pahkitew Island" episode, "Twinning Isn't Everything", Samey, Amy, and Jasmine spot Shaun from above a cliff and have one balloon left.\\

** In "Scarlett Fever" Scarlett has revealed her true evil self and has taken control of the island. \\

** In the SpinOff ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaPresentsTheRidonculousRace'' episode, "None Down, Eighteen to Go - Part 2", the {{LARP}}ers Team, Leonard and Tammy realize that two other teams are catching up with them on a foot race to the chill zone to not get eliminated.\\

** In "Mediterranean Homesick Blues" the Geniuses, Ellody & Mary are to build a sandcastle challenge and racing for not coming in last.\\

** In "Bjorken Telephone", the Vegans, Laurie & Miles have already retrieved the frozen fossil and pushed it out of the cave.\\

** In "Hawaiian Honeyruin", Josee recently lost her lucky foot rabbit back at Translyvania but she manage to find a lava rock shaped like a trophy. Before she could run off, one of the locals tell her not to take it as a souvenier.\\

** In "Hello and Dubai", after having enough of Taylor's childish tantrum, Kelly decides to give her a timeout but after both end up in the bottom two, Kelly tells Taylor that she reads the clue that instead of this argument they should be already going shopping by now.\\