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1After the reveal of Gwen and Duncan's kiss, tensions run high within Team Amazon. The next challenge takes place in the alien-infested Area 51, guarded by an elite security system. Against all odds, every contestant makes it out alive, some more [[AmusingInjuries injured]] than others.
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4* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Despite not totally trusting Alejandro, Duncan thinks it's incredibly funny when Alejandro hypnotized Owen to give himself a wedgie and sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" while doing the Running Man. Who wouldn't?
5* AffectionateNickname: Duncan calls Gwen pasty after they officially become a couple.
6* ArmorPiercingResponse: Gwen can deal with all the vitriol she's been getting lately, but Sierra calling her "New Heather" hits her where it hurts.
7* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: At the beginning of the episode, Courtney's to-do list includes "pummel Duncan", "pummel Gwen", and "wash socks".
8* BagOfKidnapping: Courtney recalls the events in London and reimagines her and Gwen abducting Duncan in a bag as Gwen shoving her out of the way and abducting Duncan to keep for herself.
9* BigNo: Gwen shouts one in slow motion when Courtney trips her to try to make their team lose.
10* BlatantLies: Even after we see her TantrumThrowing, Courtney insists in the confessional that she still has her pride. She immediately starts crying again.
11* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: As the plane is under attack by [=UFOs=], the lights go out. All that's left to see of the contestants are their eyes.
12* CactusCushion: To get past the lasers protecting Area 51, Team CIRRRRH comes up with the idea to throw a rock one way and run the other way to trick the system. When Tyler does it, he throws the rock as per the plan, but runs without looking and comes to a prickly standstill embracing a cactus.
13* CallBack: The inflatable dummy Chef put in his place in the cockpit, first seen in "Anything Yukon Do, I Can Do Better", returns here when the flying saucers come into view.
14* TheCameo: Ezekiel is also briefly seen in the cockpit of the plane at the beginning.
15* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Owen points out that Duncan has hooked up with two hotties, Courtney and Gwen, assuming everyone else is jealous of him because he has two women in his life, failing to realize that everyone is mad at him because he was unfaithful.
16* DeathGlare: Courtney has a livid one when she hears her team has won again, as it means that Gwen stays for another challenge.
17* TheDissTrack: The song "Boyfriend Kisser" is a thread of death threats and insults towards Gwen for kissing Duncan, therefore destroying his relationship with Courtney. Curiously, Duncan gets very little hate, all of it being directed towards Gwen.
18--> "''You're not my new sister, you're a pus-y gothy nasty blister!''"
19* EnergyWeapon: One of Area 51's main defenses are these. They give the contestants XRaySparks.
20* EveryoneHasStandards:
21** Both Sierra, who is clearly a Gwen/Duncan shipper, and Heather, one of Gwen's enemies, are visibly sickened by the fact that Gwen and Duncan were cheating on Courtney. This is despite the fact that Sierra is a stalker and Heather has done a lot of awful things to Gwen, especially in Island.
22** While Heather wants Gwen gone as much as Courtney, she is clearly livid when Courtney tries to deliberately throw the challenge.
23** Tyler is aghast at the concept of cheating on a loved one, considering it a deep betrayal. When Courtney flirts with him to try to make Duncan jealous, Tyler refuses out of complete devotion to Lindsay.
24* EyeScream:
25** Courtney hit Duncan hard with the bowl to leave a nasty eye bruise.
26** Tyler is about to eat a banana, but turbulence causes the banana to go into his eye instead of his mouth.
27* FloorboardFailure: An alien robot in Area 51 takes out a big gun to shoot Courtney, but the movement causes the floor underneath it to give way. Same for the next floor, and the next floor, and the next floor...
28* FootPopping: As Gwen and Duncan share their second kiss, it's Duncan who lifts his leg to accentuate the moment.
29* GroinAttack: In the flashback, Courtney breaks up with Duncan with a kick to the groin. Tyler later states that he's disgusted by Duncan's cheating and that Duncan, in fact, deserves two kicks.
30* HatedByAll: Gwen and Duncan are the most hated members of their teams as a result of Tyler exposing the relationship.
31* {{Hypocrite}}: Courtney is still rightfully upset with Duncan for cheating on her. But how does she try to stick it to him? She flirts with ''Lindsay's boyfriend'' to make Duncan jealous. Luckily Tyler doesn't bite.
32* IgnoreTheFanservice: Tyler expresses momentary awe that Courtney is hitting on him, but promptly declares, "I couldn't do that to my Lindsay!" D'awwww.
33* IronicNurseryRhyme: Sierra sings one to show her frustration and hatred towards Gwen to the tune of "Rock-a-Bye Baby".
34* {{Irony}}: Heather is delighted how, for once, all the inter-team tension has absolutely nothing to do with anything she did.
35* ItRunsInTheFamily: When Alejandro explains how he learned hypnosis from his uncle Julio, he says that manipulation runs in his family.
36* MadnessMantra: Courtney has one after she failed to get rid of Gwen in this episode's challenge.
37--> '''Courtney''': ''(muttering to herself while writing on a notepad)'' Gothy's going down, gothy's going down, gothy is going down...
38* MaleGaze: While Heather is talking to Cody and Sierra in the warehouse, the camera focuses on Heather's butt for a few seconds.
39* MisspellingOutLoud: Tyler calls Duncan a "jerk with a capital G" for cheating on Courtney.
40* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Chris makes an announcement to "all players and brooding goth chick" to attend the elimination ceremony. Gwen's the player who got her team the victory that day, but it's overshadowed by the hate she has garnered from cheating with Duncan.
41* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Owen gets taken prisoner when the teams infiltrate Area 52. Alejandro and Duncan couldn't care less, but Tyler ditches the challenge to save Owen. He locates Owen's cell and tries to bash through the door with his bare hands to the rhythm of [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Never! Leave! A Man! Behind!]]" By coincidence, trying to save Owen gets Team CIRRRRH ahead in the challenge and Owen is freed through other means.
42* NonSequiturThud: Tyler runs into a landmine and gets blown a good distance away. When he crashes, he barely consciously wonders why the purple meatball is playing the piano.
43* OcularGushers: In two scenes where Courtney cries, her tears shoot out of her face; during the scene where she struggles to write in her journal and in her confessional when she tries to get a hold of herself after her break up with Duncan.
44* OperationJealousy: Courtney attempts to flirt with Tyler to make Duncan jealous, similar to how she flirted with Justin to make him jealous in Season 2 (minus the cheating back then). She's not successful this time around.
45* PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: The title is a play on the show ''Series/TheXFiles''.
46* PragmaticVillainy: PlayedForLaughs. When Courtney sees Heather getting sucked into what seems to be a portal to a different dimension, she says this before pulling her out:
47--> '''Courtney''': Hmm, she is a pain... ugh, but I need her vote to get rid of Gwen. (proceeds to pull Heather out of the portal)
48* RecordNeedleScratch: Used in the scene with Tyler and the alien.
49* RejectedApology: Duncan apologizes to Courtney for his cheating, only to immediately get kicked in the groin right afterwards.
50* RevengeBeforeReason: Courtney becomes obsessed with getting revenge on Gwen and Duncan to the point of being happy to risk losing just to get Gwen eliminated.
51* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Courtney screams "I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE!" and it becomes obvious that she will stop at nothing until she gets it.
52* SanitySlippage: "Gothie is going down, Gothie is going dooowwn, Gothie is going down..." while making a list.
53* ShoeSlap: In an attempt to make Duncan regret cheating on her, Courtney tries to flirt with Tyler despite the fact that he already is with Lindsay and loyal to her. While Tyler is performing some hanging leg lifts, Courtney throws a few compliments his way. However, one of Tyler's shoes slips off and accidentally but fittingly hits Courtney in the face.
54* ShoutOut:
55** Sierra's anti-Gwen song shares a melody with "Rock-a-bye Baby".
56** Chris' line about blaming a casualty on a "freak weather balloon accident" is a reference to the Roswell Incident.
57** The Black Box warehouse resembles the warehouse seen in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' and ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull''.
58** The robot that Courtney stumbles upon looks like a Rock 'em Sock 'em Robot, only it is a different color.
59** The portal Heather gets sucked into looks like the ones in ''Series/StargateSG1''.
60** Tyler and an alien touch fingers like in ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', the aliens then attach themselves to Alejandro and Tyler's faces like the [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Facehuggers]].
61** Tyler's line of "Don't probe me, bro!" is a parody of the University of Florida Taser Incident.
62** Cody touches a pod which an alien clone of him emerges from, much like the pods from ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'' and the green slime that covers Cody and Sierra after it gets squeezed to death is similar to the green innards that are seen coming out of Film/{{The Thing|1982}} in a scene of the movie of the same name.
63** The makeup that Owen gets forced on him by the Area 51 machinery makes him look like ''[[Film/TheDarkKnight The Dark Knight's]]'' depiction of the Joker.
64** After being hypnotized by Alejandro, Owen sings "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer and dances the "Running Man".
65* ShutUpKiss: Duncan to Gwen.
66* SideBet: Duncan and Alejandro make a bet for five bucks whether or not Alejandro can hypnotize Owen. Alejandro learned hypnotism from his uncle and so wins with ease. Duncan is impressed and doesn't mind losing.
67* SmellyFeetGag: After learning about Duncan's and Gwen's cheating, Courtney writes herself a to-do list. It starts with pummeling Duncan, proceeds to pummeling Gwen, makes a detour with a reminder for Courtney to wash her socks, and then she stops writing to cry uncontrollably.
68* TantrumThrowing: In her breakup with Duncan, Courtney is seen on the floor, crying, kicking, throwing spaghetti and screaming like a toddler who got told "no".
69* TeamKiller: As Gwen is running toward the finish line with a glowing box, Courtney intentionally trips her to make the Amazons fail the challenge, guaranteeing Gwen would be eliminated. However, the box flies into the air and lands in Chris' hands, allowing the Amazons to win.
70* TemptingFate: The good kind. When Alejandro says that an alien artefact isn't going to fall out of the sky, one promptly falls on Tyler's head and bounces into Al's arms.
71* ThereWasADoor: Duncan and Alejandro try to tell Tyler that there was a door-like opening in the electric fence, only for Tyler to [[ElectricTorture painfully climb the fence]] anyway.

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