The teams are merged, and two former players come back to the game in time for a series of painful challenges, where the last one standing wins a trailer and immunity.
Tropes:
- Accidental Misnaming: After doing her first challenge, Lindsay calls Chris "Chip". She also refers to Eva and Leshawna as "Ava" and "Laquisha" respectively during her elimination vote confessional.
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Lindsay votes for Eva because she's "scarier than Heather, Laquisha, and Gwen combined."
- Artistic License – Biology: DJ's torture is to be wrapped up tight by a snake, implying it's a constrictor snake. However, it has large fangs, which only venomous snakes possess.
- Back for the Dead: Eva is one of the campers who comes back in this episode, only to be immediately eliminated.
- Bears Are Bad News: The one Leshawna competes against in the final challenge.
- Big "NO!": Owen pulls one after Chris says that they ran out of marshmallows (presumably from Lindsay's first challenge).
- Bowdlerise: The American airing censored two lines.
- Gwen calls Eva a "freak" in the confessional while voting for her, which was changed to "weirdo".
- Eva calling Leshawna "Sister Thunder-Thighs" was changed to "girlfriend". However, Leshawna's angry response ("Oh, oh, tell me the macho mama with butt-cheeks tighter than my weave did not just say that!") stayed the same, making it seem like a strange overreaction.
- Brain Freeze: Owen's second challenge is to speed-eat several buckets of ice cream. At six seconds of a required ten, he gets a brain freeze, screams, runs, falls unconscious, and thus loses.
- Breaking the Fellowship: The guys, who all part ways after the elimination after bonding for a week. Subverted later with the formation of the guys alliance.
- The Bus Came Back: Izzy and Eva make their return to the game, though Eva's eliminated at the end of the episode.
- By the Hair: For the determination she showed during her first dare, Lindsay gets to choose the next victim and the dare they have to complete. She wants to pass on it, but Eva, who has it out for Bridgette, grabs Lindsay by the hair and pulls her close to give her instructions. Properly intimidated, Lindsay tells Chris to put Bridgette in a barrel of leeches.
- Continuity Nod: Gwen is still unhappy with Trent after the events of "Phobia Factor".
- Cool and Unusual Punishment: Gwen's torture that got her out of the challenge was New Age music.
- Curse Cut Short: A fly lands on Heather's nose and Lindsay tries to help her by smacking it with a rolled-up magazine. Of course, the fly buzzes off just before impact and Lindsay accomplishes no more than hitting Heather in the face. In anger, Heather prepares to give her an earful: "Lindsay, you are a total—" but throws her hands over her mouth when a sudden foghorn announces the return of the guys just as Heather was about to say her insult of choice.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Eva wants to make Bridgette suffer any way she can... for voting her off. Even though Geoff, DJ, and Duncan presumably all voted the same way, and after Eva flipped out at her entire team over losing her MP3 player. What makes it worse is she votes for Heather at the end, indicating she HAD seen the footage showing Heather set her up, and thus had no reason to seek vengeance.
- Enemy Mine: Leshawna and Heather temporarily put aside their hatred of each other to deal with Eva, the bigger and more volatile threat. Both end up voting for her, as does everyone else (with the exceptions of Duncan, who voted for Heather).Eva: (stepping into the girls' cabin) What's with the tape [on the floor]? Somebody better answer me!
Leshawna: Me and Heather got a little territorial. But we're all cool now. Right, Heather?
Heather: (rips up the tape) Absolutely! Want my bunk, Eva? - Facial Horror: The result of Izzy's poison ivy facial.Izzy: (after the wrap comes off) Look how big my lips are!
- Foreshadowing: As Eva is leaving on the Boat of Losers at the end of the episode, she calls out that Izzy lied about being in the woods and tries to say where she really was before being interrupted. This hints at where the eliminated campers go to, which is revealed later in the season.
- Green-Eyed Monster: The girls make no attempt to hide their envy of the boys' managing to head to the 5-star resort after the last episode.
- Groin Attack: Duncan gets a snapping turtle to the groin, but still manages to complete that challenge.
- Hated by All: Because of Eva's volatile temper and the way she threatens everyone, nearly everyone votes for her to leave on the same day that she returns.Heather: Since Leshawna’s immune, there’s no other choice but rage-a-holic Eva. (holds up a photo of Eva with devil horns and a goatee scribbled on her face)
Gwen: Eva’s a freaknote . So, see ya.
Bridgette: (praying) Please, please, Eva! I’m so glad you never air these.
DJ: Eva’s nuts. Sorry, girl.
Geoff: It’s gotta be Eva. Unless I can figure out who snagged my other lucky hat.
Lindsay: (rubbing her freshly waxed upper lip) I just can’t get over how smooth this is! Anyway, I vote off Ava ’cause she’s scarier than Heather, Laquisha, and Gwen combined. - I Lied: When Gwen calls out Chris for breaking his own rule, that contestants voted out aren't allowed to come back [EVER], the host flat out responses with those two words.
- Infernal Background: Eva makes a surprise return to the show. Strong as ever and incredibly angry about getting voted off in the first place, her return is accentuated by an infernal background and Ominous Latin Chanting.
- Instant Leech: Just Fall in Water!: Bridgette is forced to jump into a water barrel full of leeches, but Geoff takes her place (and unsuccessfully lasts for the required ten seconds).
- Ironic Elimination: Eva is eliminated for the exact same reason (her frightening temper) she was last time.
- Irrational Hatred: Eva fixates on Bridgette, and only Bridgette, as the sole reason she got voted off, even though she was only one of several Killer Bass members who voted for Eva to be eliminated last time.
- Know Your Vines: Izzy nominates herself to undergo a poison ivy spa treatment for 10 seconds. She voluntarily keeps it on a little longer and when the wraps are removed her face is all swollen and red. It doesn't stop her from laughing.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Duncan believes Heather was behind Courtney’s elimination even though it was actually Harold who rigged the votes against her.
- Loophole Abuse: Eliminated campers can't come back to the campsite. As host, Chris was able to bring back Eva and Izzy simply because he can. He gives no other explanation.
- Ludicrous Precision: Geoff fails the leech challenge because he lasted 9.999... seconds, one ten-quintillionth of a second short of ten according to the timer.Chris: (after Geoff jumps out of the leech-filled barrel) Ooh! Close shave, Geoff. Nine and nine one-hundred thousandths of a millionth... whatever! It's not ten. You're out!
- Mass "Oh, Crap!": The reaction of the campers after Eva is revealed to come back, and to a lesser extent towards Izzy as well.
- Mêlée à Trois: Chris announces that with the teams merged, it's every camper for themselves going forward. That said, alliances are still possible.
- Mustache Vandalism: When Heather gives her vote, she holds up a photo of Eva on which she's drawn devil horns and a goatee with a red pen.
- Nightmare Face: Izzy opts to take the "poison ivy spa treatment" challenge herself. After the wrap comes off, Izzy's face is swollen to the point where her lips are puffy and can't speak properly.
- No-Sell: Lindsay's torture was "depilation with hot marshmallows". She actually enjoyed it and kept talking about how smooth her upper lip was.
- Nobody Touches the Hair: Lindsay only bailed when Chef was about to give her a haircut with a chainsaw.
- Not Me This Time: Duncan reveals that he believes the Gopher Queen Bee, Heather, is behind the elimination of Courtney, the Bass Queen Bee. For once, Heather is perfectly innocent, as it was Harold who rigged the votes against Courtney to get back at Duncan for bullying him.
- Oh, Crap!: Almost everyone looks alarmed when Chris announces that he's going to publicly air the votes, knowing they nearly all voted for Eva and she's not going to be happy.
- Ominous Latin Chanting: Eva makes a surprise return to the show. Strong as ever and incredibly angry about getting voted off in the first place, her return is accentuated by an Infernal Background and ominous latin chanting.
- Piranha Problem: The final challenge has piranhas as the hazard if Leshawna or Molotov the Bear fall into the lake.
- Prayer Is a Last Resort: Bridgette holds her palms together when she reveals her vote for Eva in the confessional. Eva's been gunning for her ever since she came back that morning, so Bridgette needs to be rid of her as soon as possible. Bridgette's sentiment is a common one, so Eva does get voted off that evening.
- Pun-Based Title: The title is a play on the phrase "no pain, no gain".
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Eva against her former Bass teammates, starting with Bridgette.
- Scary Stinging Swarm: Bridgette has to have an awful lot of bees on her, she completes it successfully. Truth in Television, as bees usually won't sting you if you don't bother them.
- Shipped in Shackles: When the muscular Eva is voted off for the second time, and on the day she returned no less, she becomes very hostile and has to be tied in a straitjacket before she can be shipped off on the Boat of Losers.
- Shoe Slap: The girls are seething from envy that the guys won the previous challenge and got to enjoy a cruise. It is not amended by Owen's kind offer of chocolate-coated cherry blossoms from aboard either and rather than accept it, Leshawna takes off her sandal and throws it at the plate. To Owen's despair, the cherry blossoms gets knocked into the water.
- Shout-Out:
- Izzy does a Tarzan yell as she returns to the island while swinging on a vine.
- The Wheel of Misfortune is a reference to Wheel of Fortune.
- Snakes Are Sinister: DJ's torture is to be wrapped tight by a snake. Considering it's also his phobia, he fails to complete his torture.
- Stock Punishment: Contestants who fail their tortures are placed in stocks, which ends up happening to everyone but Eva and Leshawna.
- Tastes Like Disdain: At the beginning of the episode, the girls are bitter that the guys beat them in the previous episode's challenge and won the prize of a luxury cruise. Owen offers them chocolate-coated cherry blossoms, but Leshawna throws her sandal at the plate and knocks it into the ocean.
- Tempting Fate: One of Owen's tortures is wearing wooden shorts, which he doesn't think is a big deal. Chris then brings out a woodpecker, making Owen scream and instinctively cover his crotch with his hands.
- Too Kinky to Torture: Izzy, who's very excited to be electrocuted by a pair of eels. She's also ecstatic when it comes to punishing herself with a "poison ivy spa treatment", just because.
- The Unreveal: As the Boat of Losers is driving away, Eva tries to tell everyone that Izzy was never in the woods, only for Izzy to interrupt, leaving what Eva would have said a complete mystery.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Trent is missing from the entire elimination ceremony.
- Wheel of Decisions: 10-second challenges are handed out to the campers by means of the Wheel of Misfortune. Whatever challenge the wheel lands on, the camper whose turn it is has to complete it or last ten seconds of it. Refusal or failure mean the challenge ends for them there.
