The contestants arrive at an abandoned film lot and have to outrun a giant monster for their pick of trailers.
Tropes:
- Admiring the Abomination: Owen thought that the monster was cool when he first saw it. He changed his mind when Izzy got interested though.
- Big Eater: Owen eats a table full of prop food, winning the second part of the challenge entirely by accident.
- This Billboard Needs Some Salt: Owen eats the prop food because he mistook it for real food.
- Comically Cross-Eyed: While a giant animatronic monster stomps around, Chris announces that the challenges will be movie-based and the starter challenge revolves around the monster movie genre. Because this is obvious, he ends his announcement with "Duh!" while crossing his eyes.
- Contrived Coincidence: The prop food challenge involved finding a key, which Owen just so happened to have belched up after Chris explained what was supposed to happen.
- Curtain Camouflage: Not a curtain, but Harold clearly hides within the umbrella when hiding from the monster, which Leshawna lampshades.
- Drawing Straws: The girls have trouble deciding on who gets which bed. Mostly, Heather is being demanding and nobody wants to bunk with Heather. Lindsay proposes that they draw makeup brushes to come to decisions, which Beth expands on by declaring that whoever gets a long brush gets a top bunk and whoever gets a short one gets a bottom bunk. Whoever draws the absolute shortest has to bunk with Heather. The thing is, there are eight bunks and only seven female campers. As soon as it's clear who get top bunks and who get bottom bunks, everyone teams up immediately to not be stuck with Heather, which leaves Heather with a full bunk to herself. She's elated.
- Gasshole: Owen lets out a massive fart when everyone is in their trailers at night, sleeping.
- Gilligan Cut: Geoff and Bridgette talk separately in the confessional about how they should stop making out so much and focus on the game. Immediately cut to them making out in the confessional.
- Impact Silhouette: Harold and Leshawna are blown into the sand by the animatronic monster's roar. They leave clear silhouette-shaped holes for the monster to scoop them out from.
- Interspecies Romance: Izzy and the animatronic monster.
- Kaiju: The monster animatronic for the premier's first challenge.
- The Leader: Trent proves himself to be one to Gwen, DJ and Beth, though he gets them stuck at a dead end and getting captured by the monster.
- Make-Out Kids: Geoff and Bridgette. They talk about going away from that but it doesn't last long at all.
- Miraculous Malfunction: The monster malfunctions after handling Owen's intense weight.
- Motion Capture: Chef controls the monster this way.
- Mr. Fanservice: Justin In-Universe, as usual. He manages to get Beth to follow him immediately, get the monster (Chef), to place him down gently, and everyone stares at him when he's in the bouncy castle-prison.
- Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: The title is a play on the song "Monster Mash" by Boris Pickett and his Crypt Kickers.
- Pressure Point: At the start of the race to the cast trailers, Harold chops Trent between the shoulder and the neck to incapacitate him so Harold can get ahead.
- Primal Chest-Pound:
- Screams Like a Little Girl: DJ, at the start of the episode.
- Shout-Out:
- When Chris mentions "42 days, 14 castmates, one heck of a lot of cash", directly referencing one of the opening lines that in Survivor, “39 days, 16/18/20 people, 1 Survivor!”.
- The monster is based on Godzilla.
- Izzy does a Tarzan call.
- When Izzy returns from her date with the monster, she tells it, "Thanks for the date, baby! Don't ever leave me. 'Cause I'd find you!".
- Side Bet: Chris and presumably Chef have a bet whether or not all contestants will make it through the first challenge. Chris loses the bet when everyone gets through.
- Tempting Fate: Gwen does this twice.
- She asks Chris what they'd be doing this season, before meeting the monster. She lampshades in the confessional that it wasn't a good idea to say that.
- She later says that the challenge didn't seem so hard, with no explosions, houses on fire, or killer bears. We cut to shots of exactly those things, with the bear chasing Gwen Trent and Duncan.
- Title Drop: Courtesy of Chris.
- Troll: The monster crushes both trailers instead of just one. Chris also pretends that it's 5am, startling everyone with his megaphone, before reassuring them that it was a "test".
