Installments:
- Total Drama is Survivor meets Drawn Together with elements of Fear Factor (some of the challenges are similar), Clone High (in terms of artstyle and parodying teen stereotypes), and Degrassi.
- Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race is Total Drama World Tour meets The Amazing Race.
- Total DramaRama is Total Drama Island meets Baby Looney Tunes meets The Jungle Room or The Ocean Room and Hanamaru Kindergarten.
- Or Total Drama Island meets Baby Looney Tunes as filtered through the sensibilities of Teen Titans Go!.
Characters:
- Total Drama:
- Chris McLean is Jeff Probst meets post-Flanderization Peter Griffin.
- Gwen is Kimberly Ann Possible meets Abby Sciuto meets Sam Manson.
- Trent is Wyatt Williams meets Brock.
- Owen is SpongeBob SquarePants meets Pumbaa.
- Or he's Chris Griffin meets Po.
- Cody is Spike meets Oscar.
- Courtney is Tracy Flick meets Lydia Rodarte-Quayle.
- Duncan is Jim Stark meets Paulie Walnuts.
- Or, he's Rodrick Heffley meets Lars.
- Heather is Regina George meets Steve Fleming.
- Noah is Daria Morgendorffer meets Jaime Lannister.
- Izzy is Woody Woodpecker meets Pinkie Pie
- Bridgette is Gidget meets Ariel.
- DJ is Eduardo meets Dave the Barbarian.
- Harold is Napoleon Dynamite meets Steve Urkel.
- Leshawna is Lafawnduh Lucas meets Tamika Jones.
- Lindsay is Elle Woods meets Karen Smith.
- Beth is Miyuki meets Stormer.
- Or she's Meg Griffin meets Mabel Pines.
- Tyler is Kevin Thompson meets Goofy.
- Alejandro is Santiago meets Francis Urquhart.
- Sierra is Matoi meets Irving meets Yuno Gasai (without the murderous tendencies).
- Or she's Giffany meets Stan Mitchell.
- Blaineley is Diane Simmons meets Marina Del Rey.
- Mike and his alters can best be described as the souls of Peter Parker, Old Man Jenkins, Rainbow Dash, The Scout, The Sniper, and The Joker all Sharing a Body.
- Mike himself is Flippy meets Kevin Wendell Crumb.
- Jo is Sue Sylvester meets Cruella De Ville.
- Lightning is Freddie Mitchell meets the Scout.
- Zoey is Cady Heron meets Elsa.
- Or Katniss Everdeen meets Mary-Jane Watson.
- Dakota is Charlotte LaBouff meets Paris Hilton.
- Dawn is Luna Lovegood meets Aerith Gainesborough meets Fluttershy.
- B is Silent Bob meets Ferb Fletcher meets Fat Albert.
- Max is Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz meets Mr. Lunt.
- Alternatively, he's Dr. Evil meets Bling Bling Boy.
- Sugar is Honey Boo Boo meets Owen meets Sailor Moon.
- Dave is Jean-Bob meets Dipper Pines.
- Alternatively, he's Frank Grimes meets Mitch Martin.
- Ella is Isabella Garcia-Shapiro meets Snow White meets Madison Spaghettini Papadoulos.
- Sky is Jen Masterson meets Courtney.
- Nichelle is Dakota meets Pacifica Northwest.
- Scary Girl is Harley Quinn meets Izzy meets Drama Rama!Gwen.
- Damien is Wasabi meets DJ.
- Ripper is Eric Cartman meets Muscle Man.
- Zee is Shaggy meets Jude Lizowski.
- Chase is Charlie Kelly meets Gaston.
- Julia is Heather meets Chloe Bourgeois.
- Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race:
- Don is Phil Keoghan meets Dipper Pines.
- Devin and Carrie are Dharma & Greg meet Sally Brown and Linus Van Pelt.
- Sanders and MacArthur are Sarah Ashburn and Shannon Mullins meet Bunk and McNulty.
- Taylor and Kelly are Anna and Tess Coleman meet Tracey and Amanda De Santa.
- Emma and Kitty are Elsa and Anna meet the Squid Sisters.
- Stephanie and Ryan are Donna Tubbs and Cleveland Brown meet Duncan and Courtney.
- Owen and Noah are Timon and Pumbaa meet Tommy Callahan and Richard Hayden.
- Alternatively, they're Ren and Stimpy meet Greg and Rowley.
- Jay and Mickey are Cuphead and Mugman meet Jimmy.
- Jacques and Josee are Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale meet Alejandro and Heather.
- Geoff and Brody are Squirrel and Stubs meet Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar.
- Dwayne and Junior are Goofy and Max meet Clark and Rusty Griswold.
- Dwayne himself is Clark Griswold meets Homer Simpson (but without the Jerkass qualities the latter has).
- Chet and Lorenzo are Drake & Josh meet Alexis and Krystle Carrington.
- Rock and Spud are Tenacious D meet Jay and Silent Bob.
- Laurie and Miles are The Goode Family meet various characters from Portlandia.
- Total DramaRama:
- The show's version of Gwen is Crimson meets Lucy Loud meets Mandy.
- The show's version of Bridgette is the Bridgette of the original series meets Bubbles.
- The show's version of Courtney is the Courtney of the original series meets Anais Watterson.
- The show's version of Duncan is the the Duncan of the original series meets Bart Simpson.
- The show's version of Cody is Butters Stotch meets Kenny McKormick.
