Memes / Total Drama

Total Drama

Memetic Mutation in this series.

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• Mr. Coconut^note treated by fans like a proper character ever since his debut where he was Owen's Companion Cube and was even eliminated. Fans like to cite him as the greatest competitor and a Memetic Badass
• Duncan's legs^note the fact that his character design has his torso take up over two thirds of his body while leaving a pair of very stubby legs
• "Marshmallow Eating Freaks!"^note The line that Sadie says as an insult to her team, when she gets eliminated.
• Team E-Scope.^note The trio comprised of Izzy, Noah, and Eva, during "Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island", often hailed as the best Power Trio of Total Drama
• Sadie drops a Whopper with onions!◊
• Sadie our Lord and Savior^note On Tumblr, Sadie has been been referenced as a holy messianic figure that can do no wrong.
• Trent's obsession with #9^note It's become common for fans to add in more behavior and objects associated with #9. Although this joke has become a Discredited Meme after the fandom began using it to turn Trent into an obsessive lunatic which also became an offensive portrayal for OCD sufferers.
• "Next you'll be saying it was Professor Plum in the Conservatory with the bacon sandwich!"^note A line from Courtney said in "Get a Clue" that is very frequently quoted
• "Come fly with us, come die with us."^note Noah's line during "Come Fly With Us", one of the most heavily quoted lines of the season
• "Hear that? That's the sound of hundreds of girls all over the world running and rushing, just desperate to... lock their doors."^note a frequently quoted line which Heather says to Cody.
• The toque-wearing hobo who steals Ezekiel's wallet in the Action special is said to be his father.
• Saying one of Staci's ancestors invented something random.
• "I like waffles too." ^note  Was said by Mike to Zoey as more or less a filler line, but gained traction due to how out of nowhere it was and the Adorkableness of the sentence itself.
• "Get the hook, not the schnook!" ^note A line that Anne Maria says to Mike when he tries saving Zoey instead of winning the challenge in episode 4 of Revenge, it's a particularly popular phrase in the Reddit's Discord server.
• Jo's killer zingers, especially Alehandwalker. It's common for fans to refer to Revenge of the Island and All-Stars characters using the zingers she came up with.
• Brick's "derp face◊" is a common reaction image among fans.
• Chris fucked a plant. ^note One of Larry's babies in "No One Eggspects The Spanish Opposition" looks like Chris, causing Chris to nervously whistle in denial. This led to many works joking about Chris and Larry having, well, conceived.
• On Tumblr, it's become popular to post screenshots of random characters, but with hearts and cupids surrounding them like whenever Rodney gets one of his many crushes. Behold.
• Total Drama High School: the text videos documenting the lives of contestants in high school, are unironically a meme on Youtube and have an ironic tumblr fanbase. Additionally, TD contestants X years later (usually involving bad recolors of the contestants to look "older" and ridiculous stories).
• Danganronpa copied Total Drama^note The two series have been compared for their various similarities: a sadistic host, casts of teenagers with different personalities and talents, the teenagers being motivated to backstab and manipulate each other in order to survive etc. Since Total Drama came out first in the mid-2000s, most fans like to joke that Danganronpa copied their ideas.
  • Also a similar comparison with Squid Game.
• Alright campers, I heard from an anonymous source that SOMEone has been [doing blank] Not. Cool. Dudes.^note A meme involving Chris hearing about one of the campers doing something bad and calling them out for it
  • By extension, the phrase "Alright, campers!" has become something of a Catchphrase of Chris McLean's in the world of memes.
• leshawna ball oc^note Originated from Twitter, where a user discussing treatment of LGBTQ+ individuals asks about another user’s... interesting choice of a profile picture, to which they respond with “leshawna ball oc.” The image itself is often paired with the first few seconds of the A.N.T. Farm theme song.
• Cody: the original simp.^note When the word "simp" started being used in 2020 to describe men who act overly submissive to women in hopes of getting sexual attention, Total Drama fans started using the word to describe Cody and his fruitless attempts to win Gwen's heart.
• "Master Chief, I just have one thing to say to you." "And what might that be?"^note In "Basic Straining," Courtney says this to Chef. The original line that follows is "You really need to take a chill pill!" but it's popular to replace it with something offensive or silly.
• Gwanon.^note On tumblr, an anon who really loves Gwen would send questions to different TD fans asking "why Gwen is the best character in the series" or why "X character is worse than Gwen". Sometimes they go a bit too far with their love and heavily insult the fans they were asking. The tumblr users who receive these messages tend to avoid giving them a direct answer preferring to use a witty response or treating Gwanon like the joke that they are.
• Chris's Crimes ^note A screenshot◊ of the sidebar on Chris's Villains Wiki page listing all of his many, many misdeeds has become quite popular since when listed without context it makes him look like a flat-out supervillain.
• Gwen — the original big tiddy goth gf.^note It's become popular for fans to admit they had a crush on Gwen when they watched the series' original run as kids or teenagers. Some (jokingly?) claim that she's the reason they have a goth fetish, along with other goth/edgy female characters from shows that aired at roughly the same time, such as Raven, Sam or Shego.
• Your fave was derailed^Explanation Accusing characters of being "derailed" in later seasons, with that specific wording, is such a common criticism that fans, usually on the show's subreddit, make fun of it by claiming very silly things make a character "derailed."
• This exchange from "Paintball Deer Hunter" has gained memetic status because of how disturbing it sounds out-of-context. ^Context Beth had just said "no" to Heather.
  Heather: If you take it back, you can rejoin our alliance.
  Beth: Take back what?
  Heather: The N-word.
  Beth: I don't wanna take it back!
• The Aletyler video.^note A Rule 34 animation of Alejandro and Tyler based off "Greece's Pieces," which is often brought up for shock value, especially when headcanoning or joking about either of them being into men
• “Alright, campers, today’s challenge is to find a reason to keep going”.^note An image with Chris sadly looking into the ocean announcing his newfound depression
• “Jamaica, they’re trapped down in. Jamaica, they can’t even - japarty!”.^note A line sung by Geoff during “Save this Show” that has become a trending audio on TikTok.
• Beardo's death. ^note In BHultra's video analyzing how every Total Drama contestant was affected by their time on the show, he points that we never see Beardo again after his elimination, coming to the conclusion that Beardo died as a result of being shot out of a cannon. BHultra then encourages the viewer to troll non-fans by claiming Beardo died, which many were more than happy to do.
• Geoff is canonically dickless. ^note His left leg covers his groin, making it seem as if the censors accidentally missed this spot. Some people say he has a Teeny Weenie.
• Die, Die, Die, Die! ^Context In the Italian version of the song “Come Fly With Us” they sing this, which sounds a lot like the English word “die”. They are actually saying “dai”, which translates roughly to “come on”.
• Donly Fans. ^Context His voice actor, Terry McGurrin claimed that after The Ridonculous Race, Don started a website for his fanbase called "DONLY FANS" but after getting multiple requests for pictures of his feet, he quickly took it down. Many people were tickled by the fact this implied that OnlyFans exists in the Total Drama universe, and that Don didn't know it existed.
• Evil Yuri^note The Fan Nickname for Julia and MK in reference to how much chemistry and fun interactions the two girls have with each other while also being an entertaining villain duo for Season 2 of the reboot, causing fans to start treating them as the Evil Counterpart to Raj and Bowie's relationship, or the reboot's version of Alejandro and Heather.
• X was supposed to win but their Voice Actor was unavailable ^note An urban legend about Lindsay supposedly being planned to win Action until her Voice Actress became available at the last minute is frequently spouted as Common Knowledge by fans when there is no evidence this was ever the case. The legend is frequently parodied with characters being planned to win before their Voice Actors became unavailable for absurd reasons.
• Duncan Dies ^note A bizarre fan animation by Antoons featuring Total Drama characters (as well as Abe from Clone High) crying over the death of Duncan. A sped up version is often used.
• Fake Leaks ^note A wide variety of fake screenshots have managed to gain popularity over the years, especially between the releases of Episodes 7-8 and 9-13 of the Season 2 reboot, some of the more infamous being a fake Raj elimination, bald Nichelle, and Millie falling into a volcano. Even after being debunked, the images continued to be spread due to their So Bad, It's Good nature.
• Straight Bowie/"Where my hug at?" ^note A bizarre fan-art featuring an alternate, heterosexual version of Bowie in a white hoodie asking Julia for a hug, frequently quoted and reposted among fans.

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