The final four must hook each other to a crane and face their own worst fears in the Boxes of Terror, with the last one standing in the middle of the circle by themself earning not only immunity, but a place in the finale.
Tropes:
- Absurd Phobia:
- Julia's fear of getting old herself is understandable, if not pretty vain, but her fear of old people on top of that is pretty ridiculous and even Chef notes that she's as shallow as a kiddie pool.
- The first of Wayne's biggest fears, namely that he one day may have to face Raj playing for a different team, subverts this since it’s actually a pretty deep fear and a possible sign of separation anxiety. But his second fear, the mascot of his own hockey team, is pretty silly since it’s basically just a big goofy owl costume. Subverted during the episode, as Wayne overcomes both of these fears and makes peace with them.
- Priya, a teenage girl and one of the most competent and badass players in the competition, is revealed to still be afraid of thunder and lightning.
- Averted with Caleb, as his biggest fears are snakes and clowns. An annoyed Chris lampshades how "basic" his fears are, before announcing that the fear he must face in his box is a snake dressed as a clown.
- Afraid of Lightning: Priya is afraid of thunder and lightning, so her box of terror recreates a storm and even zaps her with electricity.
- All for Nothing: Caleb has been voting with Julia to keep her from targeting Priya, but the moment he snakes the win from her, Julia goes ahead and gets Priya eliminated with the immunity idol. It didn't matter anyway; Julia admits she would've double-crossed him anyway, but telling him he should've kept his word leaves him feeling like Priya going home was his fault.
- Bait-and-Switch: When it seems that Julia is about to be eliminated, she reveals that she has the immunity idol, which means that all three votes Julia received didn't count, and the only one that does is hers, which means Priya is the one that is eliminated.
- Beary Friendly: After Wayne overcomes his fear of his best friend Raj playing on a different hockey team than him, represented by a bear wearing a Raj face mask, Wayne hugs the bear and the bear actually hugs back.
- Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Since Caleb is scared of clowns and snakes, Chris decides to get creative and bring a snake dressed as a clown, or a clownsnake as Caleb calls it in the confessional.
- The Bus Came Back: Gerry and Pete appear in this episode after their time on The Ridonculous Race as part of Julia’s fear of old people. The old lady with them is Leshawna's grandma, as seen in Total DramaRama.
- The Chew Toy: The show reminds us how hard the interns have it when one gets dropped in one of the terror boxes and the other gets inside a mascot suit full of spiders.
- Five-Second Foreshadowing: While Wayne is lamenting the loss of his best friend Raj, a sad song is being played. During this, Wayne can briefly be seen wearing ears buds, and he promptly takes them out revealing he was listening to the song, noting he should stop listening to it since it is just making him miss Raj more.
- Going Commando: Priya appears to fit this trope, as with the wedgie mentioned below, no underwear could be seen as Priya was lifted by her pants.
- Heroic BSoD: Wayne spends the first minutes of the episode depressed by Raj’s elimination from the previous episode.
- History Repeats: Barely averted. Just like in the previous season, Julia gets voted off in second-to-last challenge, but this time she uses the Immunity Idol, forcing Priya to get eliminated.
- Honor Before Reason: Caleb is torn the entire episode between his agreement with Julia and helping Priya win the challenge, as well as lying to both of them and keeping the lies.
- Kindhearted Simpleton: Wayne. Easily the nicest contestant left, he is able to befriend the bear and the intern dressed as his team's mascot that Chris put in his box of terror, and make peace with his fears, however, it takes him the entire episode to realize that Julia doesn't want to be friends with him after all, after she sends him to his box of terror three different times.
- Mass "Oh, Crap!": Wayne, Caleb and Priya all freak after realizing that Julia has the immunity idol, meaning that her vote will be the only one that matters.
- Reality Show Genre Blindness: The normally savvy Priya admits she shouldn't have filled the app with her actual biggest fear despite the well known tendency of the show of taking advantage of that.
- Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: Even though Chris said that all you had to do was face your fears and stay outside the box of terror for the win. Wayne, however, conquers his fears too quickly for Chris' liking and so Chris has him thrown into Caleb's box out of spite, most likely costing Wayne a win.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Priya was the previous season's winner, a powerful player, and half of the only couple left in the game, both halves being strong on their own. Honestly, Caleb, Julia was never going to honor her deal with you. It's a wonder how this is the first time she was pegged for elimination all season.
- Touché: No one expected Wayne to make it to the final three, not even Wayne himself.
- Troubled Fetal Position:
- The second time Wayne is thrown in his box of terror, it's revealed that he's afraid of his own hockey team's mascot. At one point, he's on the floor in a fetal position sucking his thumb in terror as the intern in the costume is dancing around to scare him.
Intern: Whooo wants a huuug?Wayne: Not me! (goes back to sucking his thumb)- Caleb has this reaction in the confessional after facing the snake clown in his box of terror.
- Wedgie: Julia gives Priya one during the challenge in an attempt to win. According to Chris, it doesn't count, however.
