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'''You'd Expect:''' Raj and Wayne heed to Bowie and Julia's warnings and attemt it one at a time.\\

* When the Skunk Butts are way behind fhe slide challenge, Raj and Wayne decide to do the Toilet Slide together to give them a total of 6 points to catch up.

* Through the challenge, Chase keeps trying to record his perfect intro before he does the challenge.

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* The season's first challenge had two big idiocy moments. To start with, the contestants are playing a supped up game of red light, green light where they are told to stop running when Chef's grandma (who turns out to be a famed baseball player) turns around. The challenge begins and Grandma Hatchet turns around for the first time.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That Millie would stop just like everyone else.\\
'''Instead:''' She keeps running aggressively.\\
'''The Result:''' Grandma Hatchet throws a paintball right at her and she's the first one out.
** Right after Millie is out, Priya is immediately worried about her and wants to help her.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Priya would wait for Grandma Hatchet to turn her back to run over to Millie.\\
'''Instead:''' She runs for her while she's still looking.\\
'''The Result:''' Like Millie, she also gets a direct paintball to the face, knocking her out the challenge.
* When we get to the first Elimination Ceremony, the group are having a hard time deciding who to vote for when Chef starts telling each contestant where they went wrong in the challenge. Scary Girl has also become aware of how creeped out everyone was by her last season.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Scary Girl would just keep quiet and listen to what Chef has to tell her.\\
'''Instead:''' She says no to him and then tells her team that she spent most of the time between the seasons stalking them to learn how to be more normal.\\
'''The Result:''' The rest of the team are more creeped out by her this season and she's the first one eliminated.

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* Upon first starting the Grandma's Footsteps Challenge, Millie's way ahead of everyone else when they all start running and then Grandma Turns around.\\

'''The Result:''' Grandma Hatchet throws a paintball right at her and she's the first one out.\\
* Right after Millie is out, Priya is immediately worried about her and wants to help her.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Priya would wait for Grandma to turn her back to run over to Millie.\\

'''The Result:''' Like Millie, she also gets a direct paintball to the face, knocking her out the challenge.\\
* When Zee participates in the challenge.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' For him to leave his sodas alone just for this challenge.\\
'''Instead:''' He pulls out a can of soda and drinks it while doing the challenge.\\
'''The Result:''' His running causes the soda to fizz over so even when he's standing still, the bubbles still counted as him moving, getting him hit by a paintball and out.\\
* When we get to the Elimination Ceremony, the group are having a hard time deciding who to vote for when Chef starts telling each contestant where they went wrong in the challenge.\\

'''Instead:''' She says no to him and straight up tells everyone how she was trying to learn to be normal to stay in the game, admitting she's watched them to help her.\\

'''The Result:''' The rest of the team are more creeped out by her this season and she's the first one eliminated.\\

* Upon first starting the Grandma's Footsteps Challenge, Millie's way ahead of everyone else when they all start running and then Grandma Turns around.
'''You'd Expect:''' That Millie would stop just like everyone else.
'''Instead:''' She keeps running aggressively.
'''The Result:''' Grandma Hatchet throws a paintball right at her and she's the first one out.
* Right after Millie is out, Priya is immediately worried about her and wants to help her.
'''You'd Expect:''' Priya would wait for Grandma to turn her back to run over to Millie.
'''Instead:''' She runs for her while she's still looking.
'''The Result:''' Like Millie, she also gets a direct paintball to the face, knocking her out the challenge.
* When Zee participates in the challenge.
'''You'd Expect:''' For him to leave his sodas alone just for this challenge.
'''Instead:''' He pulls out a can of soda and drinks it while doing the challenge.
'''The Result:''' His running causes the soda to fizz over so even when he's standing still, the bubbles still counted as him moving, getting him hit by a paintball and out.
* When we get to the Elimination Ceremony, the group are having a hard time deciding who to vote for when Chef starts telling each contestant where they went wrong in the challenge.
'''You'd Expect:''' Scary Girl would just keep quiet and listen to what Chef has to tell her.
'''Instead:''' She says no to him and straight up tells everyone how she was trying to learn to be normal to stay in the game, admitting she's watched them to help her.
'''The Result:''' The rest of the team are more creeped out by her this season and she's the first one eliminated.

* It's revealed Gwen feels incredibly guilty about what she and Duncan did to Courtney back in "World Tour" --that is, kiss Duncan while he was still dating Courtney. And as a typical DoubleStandard goes, the public turned against her more than they turned against Duncan, even though he's obviously more at fault.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Gwen would pick her battles, take some time off from the cameras, and just break up with Duncan. [[AnAesop Sometimes you can't fix your mistakes.]]\\
'''You'd Also Expect''': Off-camera and away from Chris's sadistic challenges, she and Courtney would talk it out, or fight it out if they want to do the same cathartic wrestling match. Courtney is understandably hurt and heartbroken, but at the very least they could talk things out without the distraction of the competition.\\

* In "Moon Madness", Cameron is getting sick of Sierra harassing him the same way she did with Cody in World Tour. He also is trying to help Mike solve his problem with his personalities this season.

'''Instead:''' Cameron decides to just quit the competition even though that means he won't be able to help Mike with his personalities problem and eliminating Sierra would be a safer choice. Thankfully Chris reveals it to be a nonelimination round and instead swaps him to the Villains meaning he can still help Mike without dealing with Sierra, but it's still a pretty boneheaded move, especially for someone as smart as Cameron and the fact they didn't know about the team swap at the time.\\

* In "Ship For Brains", Zee is the last member of his team left in the challenge and comes up with the idea of ramming the other ship to force a tie.\\

* At the end of "A Star Falls", the Frogs of Death have the lead and only need one more number to win. Nichelle, who went last has both just had her number get blown away and has also been revealed to be a massive fraud who uses stunt doubles for all her big action scenes in her films and TV shows and is naturally upset over the reveal.\\

* In "A Skull Based Game", Scary Girl is able to get a hold of the opposing team's skull after relentlessly charging after Damien on her jackhammer.\\

* Damien has been wanting to get voted out for several episodes, as the new contracts state that contestants are no longer allowed to quit without being saddled with a million dollar debt. However, in "Trust Your Butt", after saving his teammates, he has a HeroicSecondWind and decides he now wants to remain in the game.\\

* In "Stranger Flings", MK has been hacking into the confessional camera in order to spy on everyone and learn their secrets.\\

* In "Chris Better Have My Honey", Bowie and Julia have spent the whole challenge fighting each other for immunity. At the top of Honey Mountain, where the bell that must be rang in order to win the challenge is located, Bowie is able to overpower and defeat Julia.\\

* In "Bad Becaveior", Julia, being in the final four and finding herself with no allies once Millie and Priya kick her out of their alliance, [[EnemyMine chooses to trust Bowie during the challenge]] to vote alongside her and get rid of either Priya or Millie and go together to the finals, ensuring that she'd be safe in case she doesn't manage to win immunity again.\\

* "Total Drama Drama Drama Drama Island"
** In the alternate ending, Gwen prepares to leave with the check, planning to cash it and then split it with Owen so he can have his party. Chris wants her to participate in an additional challenge for more money, one million dollars to be precise. Obviously, Gwen refuses as she has had a lot of humiliation dumped on her, including a temporary breakup with her boyfriend. College debt is no joking matter, after all.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Chris would respect Gwen's wishes, or if he wants her to compete, offer her a cash guarantee or an advantage she can't turn down. At least let her keep the check, which she won fairly.\\
'''Instead''': Chris gets the check torn up ''on camera'' to ensure Gwen won't leave.\\
'''The Result''': Gwen is outraged and, in understandable anger, nearly beats him up. If she had hired lawyers the way Courtney had by next season, there would be indomitable proof that Chris committed fraud thanks to the footage and wouldn't honor his contract agreement. She also realizes that TheCakeIsALie; when she does come back to the show, it's to help out other contestants either out of guilt or obligation.
** All the previous contestants can come back to compete for one million dollars. They have to ally by paddling on canoes. Heather has burned up all the good will with her backstabbing and scheming.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Heather to realize that no one wants to ally with her after she stabbed everyone in the back for the entire game, including [[EtTuBrute Lindsay and Beth]] and pick her battles. She can win this race alone, or figure out who's left.\\
'''Instead''': She asks Lindsay and Beth if they can ally. You know, the same girls she betrayed last season and used for selfish gains.\\
'''Predictably''': Not even being a DumbBlonde erases common sense; Lindsay and Beth turn her down, though Lindsay is gracious enough to wish her luck. Harold is the only one willing to ally with her.

* In "Hide and Be Sneaky", the contestants have a hide-and-seek challenge, where they have to hide from Chef. If they're found, they can get invincibility by helping Chef find another contestant. Heather and Lindsay, who are in an alliance, are found, and Heather finds Owen and DJ "hiding" on the mess hall's roof. Lindsay suggests [[DumbassHasAPoint that each of them take one of the boys back to Chef, so they both get invincibility.]]\\
'''You'd expect:''' For Heather to agree. If Lindsay has immunity for that challenge, she stays in the game longer and can continue helping Heather. It should be noted that Lindsay is Heather's ''only'' alliance partner at this point.\\
'''Instead:''' Heather snaps at her, [[EvilIsPetty "I've got a better idea! Find your own!"]]
* Also in "Hide and Be Sneaky", the goal of the challenge is to avoid getting found by Chef and getting sprayed by him.\\
'''You'd expect:''' For Gwen to try and find a good hiding spot where she can't be found.\\
'''Instead:''' She proceeds to hide under a grass mound that is in a relatively open space, where she risks being found or injured if she gets stepped on, especially by someone as big as Chef.\\
'''The Result:''' Inevitably, while searching around, Chef steps on her, prompting her to yelp in pain and reveal herself.

'''You'd Think:''' That Max would watch silently with everyone else so he can gleefully watch her blasted off the island.\\

'''Instead:''' He heags that with her being eliminated, he's the only evil contestant left and he can be the villain now..\\

Sometimes in ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'', contestants make stupid moves- and more often than not, that ends their game.

* Bowie has broken up Millie and Priya's friendship via revealing Millie's plans to write a not-so-flattering book about the cast. Millie, who has since realized that she enjoyed Priya's friendship, wants to make things up to her.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Her to do what ultimately wins her back Priya's friendship later in episode-reveal what the last page of the book, which Bowie ripped out, said. Namely, that Priya was an amazing friend.\\
'''Or:''' Throw the final challenge so that Priya can advance to the end and maybe try to take Bowie out so that she has an easier time winning. After all, nothing says that you value your friends like giving up a million dollars for them.\\
'''Instead:''' She takes advice from [[FatBastard Ripper]] to sabotage Priya so that Millie can pull an EngineeredHeroics gambit by having Priya jump from her own raft to Millie's.\\
'''The Result:''' When the lake the final 3 are supposed to row over turns out to be lava instead of water, Priya ends up nearly dying from Millie's sabotage and even then, the EngineeredHeroics attempt only succeeds in pissing Priya (who ended up jumping onto ''Bowie's'' raft anyways) off more.

* In "Bad Becaveior", Julia, being in the final four and finding herself with no allies once Millie and Priya kick her out of their alliance, [[EnemyMine chooses to trust Bowie during the challenge]] to vote alongside her and get rid of either Priya or Millie and go together to the finals, ensuring that she'd be safe in case she doesn't manage to win immunity again.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That because [[ArchEnemy Julia and Bowie are always at each other's throats and have spent most of the merge trying to get each other eliminated]], Julia would be extra-cautious around Bowie. After all, she did betray him during "Dial BB for Big Bird", so who can guarantee her that he won't try to backstab her as well?\\
'''Instead:''' Possibly due to ExhaustionInducedIdiocy from crying all night, she chooses to fully trust him.\\
'''The Result:''' Turns out Bowie, being a much more sociable person than Julia (who compares having friends to having zits), had struck a deal with Priya and Millie to get rid of Julia, slowing Julia down during the challenge and allowing either Priya or Millie to win immunity. While not without a few hiccups, the plan is a success: Priya wins immunity, and her, Millie and Bowie vote for Julia, getting her eliminated.

'''Instead:''' She chooses to fully trust him.\\

* Bowie has broken up Millie and Priya's friendship via revealing Millie's plans to write a not so flattering book about the cast. Millie, who has since realized that she enjoyed Priya's friendship, wants to make things up to her.\\

'''Instead:''' She mockingly calls Julia a "buttknuckle" when it seems like she's going to get voted out in episode 6, [[INeverSaidItWasPoison a term Julia has only ever used in the confessional]].\\

'''Instead:''' He stops to gloat to Julia over how he is going to win the challenge, and to rub more salt on the wound, tells her that most of her followers are bots.\\