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Recap / Total Drama: "Ocean's Eight - Or Nine"

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The contestants are thrown into a heist movie... and welcome back one of their own.

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  • 0% Approval Rating: Despite Chris's specific instructions that the Killer Grips cannot vote off Courtney for a week after she joins them, all four of them eliminate her that evening, explaining in so many words that they despise her and her bossy attitude so much that they cannot vote otherwise. Unfortunately, this makes Courtney's vote the only one that counts, and she votes for Owen, so bye-bye he goes.
  • Air Quotes: As he makes air quotes, Justin explains to Lindsay that to "crack open" a vault is a figure of speech and that it means to open the vault by working out the code.
  • Blowing a Raspberry: During breakfast, Heather calls Duncan a vandal and Harold a nerd. Harold shoots back by blowing a raspberry her way.
  • Beauty Breeds Laziness: During the bank heist challenge, Justin tries to use his stunningly good looks as an excuse to get out of putting the getaway car together, because he'll get dirty.
  • The Bus Came Back: Courtney returns to the competition after successfully suing the show because Harold rigged the votes to get her eliminated last season.
  • Call It Karma: Leshawna sees being stuck in the bank vault as payback for her Crocodile Tears to get that spa trip. Of course, it goes on so long that she still starts freaking out.
  • The Caper: The movie theme of this episode.
  • Chase Scene: The finale of the episode.
  • Cutting the Knot: The first challenge requires the teams to breaking into vaults to free a given member (Leshawna and Owen, respectively) and get items needed for a bank heist, but both teams are unable to pick the locks. The Gaffers simply opt to give up and cobble together heist items from Harold's belongings in the trailer, but Beth uses a fragrance that resembles the smell of chicken. As expected, it gets Owen to think there's food nearby and break down the vault door from the inside.
  • Dramatic Spotlight: Owen gets a spotlight shown upon him when he makes his goodbye speech. Nothing else is visible but him in his tuxedo.
  • Extreme Omnivore: Owen eats burglar tools, wheels, poultry flavored perfume, lip gloss, and attempts to eat his fellow contestants.
  • Facepalm: Justin facepalms when Lindsay fails to open the vault with her junior high locker combination, thinking the code is standard issue and calling the vault's refusal to open bad school spirit.
  • Foregone Conclusion: The Killer Grips were explicitly told they couldn't vote off Courtney. They did so, anyway, which nullified their votes, leaving her free to effortlessly kick out whoever she wanted (in this case, Owen).
  • Free Wheel: Chris lets the contestants' imagination run wild when he mentions getaway cars as part of the challenge. Said getaway cars turn out to be loose parts the contestants have to put together themselves. To taunt them further after their disappointment, Chris drives up in a fancy car to give them their instructions and then continues on his way. He doesn't get far before he crashes and one of the wheels of his car rolls back into view.
  • Frivolous Lawsuit: Played with. While Courtney did get extra perks, most of which are seen in the next episode, she also had a legitimate claim to being wrongfully eliminated last season.
  • Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: A starved Owen responds dangerously to any hint or mention of food and Beth takes it upon herself to slap him back to reality. She first does it when the teams meet at the bank and a second time when Owen goes into a trance upon hearing the word "toast".
  • Hand Rubbing: Chris rubs his hands in anticipation when he explains that the contestants have to commit a movie-perfect bank robbery.
  • Heist Episode: The contestants have to participate in bank heist-themed challenges.
  • Hidden Depths: Heather remarks that Duncan is good at putting a go-kart together. He says it's because it's "like stripping a car in reverse."
  • Imagine Spot: Owen's outfit is instantly changed from his usual clothes to a fancy tuxedo when he gets the go to make his goodbye speech. While a lone spotlight separates him from the surrounding darkness, he gives his speech and is awarded his team's chocolate Golden Chrises. As he chews on one, the scene switches back to Owen's usual clothes and normal surroundings.
  • Improvised Weapon: Since the Gaffers failed to get Leshawna out before the Grips got Owen out, Duncan responds by making the necessary bank robbing equipment out of Harold's stuff.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: Courtney is insufferable but for the final challenge works her hardest to get some teamwork going and almost nets the Killer Grips the day's victory. Meanwhile, she has a point that Owen's food addiction cost the team the final two challenges and her vote for him is logical.
  • Loved by All: The Killer Grips are upset that Owen gets voted off by Courtney's one vote, when it's her that all of them want gone. As their protests won't change the outcome, Justin, Beth, and Lindsay encourage Owen to use his last minutes on the show for a speech. He uses it to thank each of them and at the end the three donate their chocolate trophies to him as their goodbye gift.
  • Meat-O-Vision: Owen grows delirious and an appetite when he's locked up in a vault for some time. Once freed, he sees his team and Chris as chicken legs, hot dogs, lollypops, ice cream, cola, and pizza.
  • Not Me This Time: The Killer Grips have to take a break to help Owen through a bout of food withdrawal by feeding him whatever they have on them that's food-like. Once he's back on his feet, Justin notices their bank-robbing tools are missing. Owen burps untimely, provoking his teammates to assume he ate the tools, which he swears he didn't.
  • Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: The title is a play on the film Ocean's Eleven.
  • Prayer Is a Last Resort: It takes some time, but eventually Leshawna realizes her team has given up on rescuing her. She knows she's got her own deceit to blame for that and begins monologuing half to the camera and half to her teammates. As she places her palms together, she proposes forgiveness for her misdeed.
  • A Rare Sentence: Beth advises her team thusly, "Let's go rob a bank before Owen tries to eat us." She realizes that's something she never thought she'd have to say.
  • Secret Diary: Heather has experience opening her sisters' diaries with a bobby pin, so she tries to open the vault with a bobby pin too. It doesn't work.
  • Shout-Out:
  • Something We Forgot: A member of each team is kidnapped and locked up in a vault with tools to rob a bank. The first challenge is to get the teammate and tools out for the next two challenges. The Screaming Gaffers soon realize the first challenge takes them too long, they're still mad at Leshawna, and Duncan has ideas of his own on how to rob a bank. So they leave Leshawna right where she is. By the end of the day, the Screaming Gaffers, Chris, and Chef have yet to remember to free a stressed-out Leshawna.
  • Tap on the Head: During breakfast, Owen and Leshawna are separated from their teams and taken away to be locked up in vaults as part of the day's challenge. Owen is merely tied up during the abduction, but Leshawna is knocked out offscreen and unconsciously dragged away.
  • Troll: Chris lets Courtney pick who wins the bank challenge's first prize; she picks the Screaming Gaffers because they made it to her first. Chris then tells the Killer Grips they get second prize: Courtney.
  • Wham Shot: The bank teller turning out to be Courtney. It sure floored Duncan.
  • Whole-Plot Reference: To Ocean's Eleven.
  • Wimp Fight: Harold and Heather get into a slap fight over who gets to work on getting the vault open. It devolves into weak wrestling and lip-pulling until they fall over and resume the slap fight on the floor.
  • Wrong Genre Savvy: Heather tries to figure out the lock combo by using Chris' narcissism, thinking that he probably set the combination to something related to him. Either he didn't, or it was something more obscure they didn't think of.
  • Wrong-Name Outburst: Courtney is the bank teller and therefore the judge as to which team deserves the loot of the bank robbery. She confidently states it's Duncan before correcting herself and saying it's the Gaffers. Duncan is her love interest and the Gaffers the team he is part of. The Gaffers did make it to the wicket first, but Courtney's image of impartiality gets a notch.

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