The first Aftermath episode of the season. Blaineley has become a part of the show, and she only encourages the tension between Geoff and Bridgette.
Tropes:
- And Call Him "George": Katie is hugging Trent a little too tightly around his neck when they're introduced as part of the peanut gallery.
- Animals Hate Him: In his montage, Harold is attacked by a moose, squirrel, and a chainsaw-wielding bear.
- Bait-and-Switch: Just when Geoff and Bridgette are about to have it out in the ring, they start making out instead.
- Batter Up!: In the group annoyed by Harold's spouting off random facts, Heather is wielding a baseball bat.
- Blatant Lies: In the only game of "Truth or Hammer" in this season, Geoff claims that he's not mad at Bridgette for nearly cheating on him. He gets the hammer, anvil, and many other things dropped on him as a result.
- Brown Bag Mask: Bridgette comes out of the Green Room with one at first due to feeling too ashamed to confront Geoff after what she did.
- Cargo Ship: In-Universe example. Beth starts flirting with Bridgette's pole after Bridgette and Geoff reconcile.
- Chainsaw Good: In Harold's montage, a bear is holding a chainsaw when it starts getting annoyed at one of his overly-long facts.
- The Chanteuse: Bridgette dresses up as one for her apology song, even Sitting Sexy on a Piano for it.
- Cluster Bleep-Bomb: One of the possible Duncan sighting videos shows a figure falling down a cliff, bleep-cursing all the way down. Geoff comments that the footage isn't of much use to the audience because the show had to censor almost everything the figure uttered.
- Cover Innocent Eyes and Ears: In the "That's Gonna Leave a Mark!" segment, an outtake of "Anything Yukon Do, I Can Do Better", Tyler rides an ice floe but keeps slipping and getting up only to slip again. A polar bear and its cub witness his bumbling and after several falls the adult bear covers the cub's eyes to keep it from seeing Tyler get too injured.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: Harold questions why, after three seasons of competing, he gets such a short montage.
- Epunymous Title: The title is based of the Simon & Garfunkel song "Bridge Over Troubled Water", with Bridgette's name being used as a pun on "bridge."
- Expy: One of the possible Duncan sightings is one the Loch Ness Monster, even being caught in Loch Ness.
- Flat "What": Justin's reaction after Blaineley tells him that the "Drama Brothers" will be getting a reunion in this aftermath. They do get one (albeit with Sasquatchanakwa in Cody's place).
- Foot Popping: Bridgette and Geoff ruin the first ever '"Total Smackdown'' with a demonstration of kiss-and-make-up instead of beating the daylight out of each other. Bridgette adds to the intensity by lifting her leg.
- Frying Pan of Doom: Chef Hatchet is among those annoyed by Harold, and his weapon of choice is a frying pan.
- Funny Foreigner: A short man with a thick beard by the name of Hamish McTavish reports a possible sighting of Duncan at Loch Ness to the Aftermath. Eva is sent over for an interview, but can't make heads nor tails of his heavy Scottish dialect and accent and leaves in frustration, accidentally pitching her microphone into his groin. Additionally, for the duration that Hamish talks, a jaunty tune pipes up.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Geoff over Alejandro putting the moves on his girlfriend.
- Groin Attack: Heather does this to Harold with her knee while he spouts off random facts.
- Groupie Brigade: The Drama Brothers have to run for their lives when they're pursued by a bus full of female fans.
- Hand Gagging: Blaineley is halfway into introducing Bridgette as someone with a kissing problem when Geoff cuts her off by placing his hand over her mouth.
- Happy Dance: During Bridgette's performance begging Geoff for forgiveness, she sings that if he'll give her "one more chance", she'll do her "happy, happy dance". At these lyrics, she does a silly jig, which almost wins Geoff over for how cute it is until he reminds himself that she kissed Alejandro.
- Hypocrite: When Trent calls Duncan an idiot for throwing away a chance at a million. Ironically, Trent cost himself the game by throwing challenges for Gwen in the previous season.
- To make it more painful, Duncan was a finalist in the previous season. If one counts his ending, then he already won Total Drama Action.
- Insufferable Genius: We get to see a montage of Harold being this in Action and Island, ending with everybody in said montage getting ready to pound him.
- Lampshade Hanging:
- When Blaineley asks if they're miffed about missing out on being in the season, the former contestants all say no. Justin says challenges are tough on the body. Beth remarks a free trip around the world isn't worth being tortured and humiliated by Chris and Chef. Later, after a montage of various injuries, Geoff says that's exactly why they'd rather be here in the studio than back in the game.
- The first montage of Harold moments is just from this season, so it's quite brief. He bemoans this, saying he was around for three seasons.
- Loony Fan: Trent is kidnapped by a bus full of schoolgirls after the "Drama Brothers" reunite for the episode.
- My God, What Have I Done?: The main reason Bridgette refuses to leave the green room is her regret over getting played by Alejandro and betraying Geoff.
- Nature Tinkling: In a segment of previously unaired footage of Harold's time on the show, he's being a nuisance to Justin who's in the middle of peeing against a tree.
- Not So Above It All: Blaineley tries to stir up drama while remaining composed, but she "loses her mind" over the Drama Brothers performing.
- Offhand Backhand: In a segment of previously unaired footage of Harold's time on the show, he's being a nuisance to Justin who's busy peeing. Without stopping or looking up, Justin forms a fist and swings to his right to knock Harold out of his personal space.
- Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: The title is a play on the song "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon & Garfunkel.
- A Rare Sentence: This bit when discussing Ezekiel's MIA status:
- Blaineley: "Camera shy? So not cool, Ezekiel."Justin: "You just said "Ezekiel" and "cool" in the same sentence! (chuckles) Hilarious!"
- Red Boxing Gloves: Justin wears a pair when he prepares to beat Harold again.
- Running Gag: Eva says "Ahh, forget this" throughout the episode, twice throwing a microphone on the floor and it bouncing into someone's groin.
- Serenade Your Lover: Bridgette's song to Geoff, "I'm Sorry".
- Shout-Out:
- The photos of Duncan reference the famous Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot sightings.
- The scene in which Owen spots Ezekiel on the plane's wing comes from The Twilight Zone (1959) episode "Nightmare At 20,000 Feet".
- "Baby" gets its name from the famous Justin Bieber song.
- Harold does the moonwalk during "Baby".
- Take a Third Option: When asked if they think a possible sighting of Ezekiel is real or fake, Katie and Sadie say it's a ghost.
- Villainous Breakdown: Blaineley gets one at the end of the episode, after Bridgette and Geoff make up.
- Wimp Fight: Beth, Katie, and Sadie snap-transition from screaming over the Drama Brothers' performance to slapping each other Mêlée à Trois-style over it. A concerned Geoff considers calling security, but leaves it be.
