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* Harold getting Courtney voted off in "Basic Straining" even though it was Duncan making him miserable seems like a weird case of MisplacedRetribution, but then you realize Harold actually wanted to make Duncan as miserable as Duncan had been making him. Duncan detested being on the island and having to do Chef's challenges for the episode, with his relationship with Courtney being the one bright spot for him in the whole thing. If Harold had rigged the votes against Duncan, Duncan would have been fine with not having to participate in more awful challenges like that. Thus Harold got Courtney eliminated instead, knowing Duncan would be much less happy if he had to stay on the island even longer and without his new girlfriend.

* For someone who is shown to be something of a girly girl, Beth is able to handle the Vomit Comet even better than Duncan, in spite of having to stand in vomit and it no doubt smelling utterly foul by this point. However, Beth's bio reveals that she grew up on a farm and enjoyed tending to the animals. Thus, she's probably used to being covered in gross bodily fluids or dealing with gross smells, meaning the only real issue she would have had was with the spinning.

* In "I See London...", it seems strange that Alejandro got so agitated about Noah not trusting him and calling him an eel, even though Heather hadn't trusted him from the beginning and had called him much worse insults. Well, while Heather had simply seen through the facade and then told him right away, Noah had done something entirely different. See, Alejandro's entire tactic is fooling people into believing he was friends with them, and he thought that he had already managed to trick Noah. But now it's revealed that Noah was only ''pretending'' to fall for Alejandro's "friendship" tactic, which means Noah had managed to defeat Alejandro ''[[BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame in his own game]]'', and THAT was what ticked Al off the most.
* Alejandro's dad is an ambassador, so the family travels a lot. [[{{Omniglot}} That's why he was able to a) speak in Japanese for no apparent reason, and b) understand Jerd's clusterfuck of an accent.]]

* In ''Action'', Heather and Leshawna finally got on friendly terms, but they're back to being enemies in ''World Tour'' with Leshawna actually causing lasting physical damage to Heather. Why they got back to being enemies, with Leshawna actually being the main offender? In the 'Celebrity Manhunt' special, we see that, between seasons, Heather and Gwen had been in a blogs' war, insulting and ridiculing each other, and when they got together for an interview, they got into a catfight. Since Leshawna is Gwen's best friend from the series, she had to take a side in this conflict and obviously sided with Gwen, meaning she and Heather are back in bitter terms, with Leshawna being particularly aggressive due to her protectiveness on her friends.

** Though upon rewatching "Greece's Pieces", Courtney was trying to strangle Cody even ''before'' she learned of Gwen and Duncan's betrayal. So it seems more likely that she a) is still deluding herself into thinking that Alejandro likes her, b) thinks Alejandro is her best bet to get some of the money ("worth one fifth of the mil!"), c) looks down on Cody for being "a weakling", and d) her natural aggressive behavior is showing - she probably approves of Alejandro's ruthlessness because it matches her own. Put all that together, and she was likely rooting so hard for Alejandro to win because she would see it as an extension of ''herself'' winning, and after Duncan cheated on her and left her, she was probably desperate to feel like a winner.

* Some of Bridgette's behaviour in ''World Tour'' and the ''Action'' special comes off as OutOfCharacter or hypocritical for her, like falling for Alejandro despite normally being extremely devoted to Geoff or hitting Geoff up for getting close to other girls when she's normally a pacifist. But consider this: back on ''Island'', she said her greatest fear was being alone in the woods, and in the ''Action'' special, she was distraught at having to compete without Geoff. [[HatesBeingAlone Bridgette must be extremely afraid of being alone in general and without the people she loves.]] As a result, she gets distressed and vulnerable when she has nobody she's super close with to make her feel safe and comfortable, and has a deep-seated need for companionship, hence why she can be uncharacteristically clingy sometimes. She was having a huge MomentOfWeakness in ''World Tour'', and Alejandro preyed on her vulnerability, which caused her to fall for him. And she must have been really scared that Geoff was losing interest in her and thinking of leaving her side during the ''Action'' special, which she expressed in an extreme manner. It might also explain why she was making out with Geoff a lot in the ''Island'' special and at the start of ''Action'' - the two had been separated for quite a while between their eliminations on ''Island'', so Bridgette must have been absolutely desperate for Geoff's company when they were finally reunited.

* Why did Courtney ask for Duncan's apology for Gwen despite this being when she hated her the most? Well, it could have been Courtney realized it wasn't ALL of Gwen's fault and felt SOME pity towards her hence why she asked Duncan about the apology. What was the apology for exactly? [[EvenEvilHasStandards For inadvertently putting Gwen in so pain and sorrow and not even showing her any sympathy about it]]. But then why is she still mad at her? Because it was a destruction of trust, she and Gwen genuinely became friends during the time Duncan was away, so of course she's mad at Gwen regardless. This also explains why in All Stars, she still advocates for Gwen to be on the villains team, despite not caring about Duncan anymore, she's still mad at Gwen for betraying her trust and friendship (by cheating, something Gwen herself has suffered through no less).

* Dakota initially seemed to be a shallow character, which is the entire point: Her entire life she was treated as a shallow character by everyone surrounding her, so when Sam spoke to her as though she were a normal person, she felt respected and her character started to gain more depth. It shows that even shallow characters can be good characters and can be considered an {{Anvilicious}} way to tell GiveGeeksAChance.

* Zoey mentions that she can't stand the boys in her town because they're all stupid, trouble-causing jocks. What Mike personality irritates Zoey the most? Vito, a stupid, trouble-causing jock.

* Chris's particular antagonism to Ezekiel and Dakota always struck me as odd. Sure, their {{Determinator}}/{{Attention Whore}} status would be annoying with how persistent they are, but in comparison to characters like [[TheLoad Topher]] and [[LoonyFan Sierra]], his patience wore out pretty quick on them. But then I remembered how in Broadway, Baby!, [[FormerChildStar Sierra revealed he was an boy band member in the 80s... and afterwards says he was born in 1978]]. Then I remembered how the [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary material]] said that Zeke was an Spelling Bee champ and Dakota used to do beauty pageants, and it all clicked: Chris sees them as representations of his past self, and thus wants to "punish" them to deal with whatever {{Freudian Excuse}} led him to becoming how he is today.

* The intro plays like an almost shot for shot remake of the intro for Island, and who takes the place of Ezekiel, [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption who's always the first one voted off]]... Staci.

* In "Ice Ice Baby," why does Dawn believe Scott when he says that B hates nature? B is a technological master frequently builds motor-powered gadgets that cough smoke into the air, so it's not ''too'' much of a stretch to believe he doesn't care much about the environment, at least not from Dawn's strong environmentalist perspective.

* Duncan's "TookALevelInJerkass" moments makes more sense in that in Season 1, he was more of a "JerkWithAHeartOfGold" and due to that, people outside the show thought of him as a pansy and those who previously feared him, no longer feared him and due to this, he decided to act more like a "Jerkass" to make up for it. However when his character would snap back, as he's no where near nasty enough to say that way for that long.

* In "The Obsta-Kill Course", it's revealed that Mal can force Mike's other personalities to give him their abilities whenever he need them. This is why he hadn't noticed Mike releasing Chester yet since, generally speaking, Chester is the less useful of Mike's personalities and therefore Mal hadn't needed to access him; this also explains why Svetlana was the most afraid of Mal's arrival, knowing that, because of her athleticism, Mal would access her abilities regularly, and this seems to be a painful process.
* Why did Mal forget Mike gave Zoey a necklace? Because Manitoba's punishment was to destroy Mike's most prized memories and dreams, and obviously this included destroying some little details that Zoey noticed and tipped her on who was really in control of Mike's body.

* Throughout the first half of the season, Sugar dislikes Ella for always singing and ultimately gets her eliminated by telling Chris that Ella sang despite being asked by her team not to do so. However, in the episode where Sugar is eliminated, Sugar chooses to sing during the talent show and does it horribly. This means that Sugar was likely jealous that Ella could sing better than her.

* Chris mentions at the beginning of the first episode that it's been 15 years since the first season, yet he still looks the same. Knowing how vain Chris is, it's entirely possible he had cosmetic surgery done to ensure he stayed youthful looking.
* Chris adding a million dollar fine for quitting in the new contestants' contracts (which prevents Damien from doing so when the challenges become too much for him to handle) seems like another instance of him making up the rules as he goes along, but there is some reasoning behind this. Considering how Duncan had quit in World Tour and went completely missing for half the season, which likely cost Chris a lot of money, time, and resources to find, locate, and force Duncan to return to compete in the second half of the season and cameo in Revenge of the Island (for owing him missing screentime), Duncan's quitting was likely too much of an expense for Chris to risk letting happen again, leading to the million dollar fine for quitting being added to avoid the risk of contestants trying to quit and go missing again.

** Apparently 15 years did nothing to challenge this behavior as Chris openly calls 16-year old Caleb "the most gorgeous man alive".

** The bear is growling in anger at her for ruining its another attempt at stealing marshmallow. However, we can see later that she wasn't brutally mauled by it, unlike Cody several episodes ago. Given animals' very human-like behavior on the show and the fact that Heather was sitting topless on top of it, just what did that bear do to her, then? Especially since it may have had a huge time period for casting revenge, assuming Heather only came back in the evening.

* In "[[Recap/TotalDramaITripleDogDareYou I Triple Dog Dare You!]]", Lindsay's dare was for the victim to have their head shaved by Chef. While it ended up being Heather's downfall, it could just as easily have been Gwen's. Even though she made the deal with Owen to get half of his freebies in exchange for taking down Heather, no one could have predicted that happening. If Heather and Gwen both didn't have any freebies, and Heather got the head-shaving dare and made her rival do it, Gwen would have been the one being forced to make a SadisticChoice between having her head shaved or losing the million dollars.
** The reason that Heather had such with a problem with was because of how vain she was. Gwen, on the other hand, isn't as vain. So if she got the dare, sure it would suck, but to her, the money would be much better.

*** Given the reactions of his male teammates who ''applauded'' Duncan for scoring with two girls at the same time, Duncan may have amassed some fanboys who aren't bothered by Duncan being a player, especially if he ended up with Gwen in a relationship (albeit for a shortwhile). That and there are fans who are more likely to [[DoubleStandard blame the girls for ruining the relationship over the guy]].