WMG / Total DramaRama

The kid versions of the Total Drama contestants in the new season/spin-off are all clones.

• Considering the stuff Chris gets away with on the show, along with things like the mutations, human cloning wouldn't be too much of a stretch. After all, the producers have some form of government connections (considering they let the show film the contestants in Area 51, and the fact Chris only got arrested once TDROTI was finished), and only butt in when the challenges are too extreme. Fresh has also confirmed the series operates on an 3-year timeline on their Tumblr (which fits with Noah, Owen, and Geoff all being 19 in Ridonculous Race), meaning it's fully plausible that the clones would be toddlers by this point.
  • Further evidence of this is that, in Area 51 of Total Drama World Tour, Cody confronts an alien sack that creates an identical clone of himself. What if Chris is using reverse-engineered alien technology to create the kids?
• As to why, the most likely answer is that the producers and Chris likely want a way of milking the show out while they can (and maybe something about being an secret evil organization). And considering they can't always get a bunch of 16 year olds and the first gen cast are almost in their 20s, what better way to spice things up than by focusing on a bunch of toddler versions?
• However, they're not perfect, as evident by Clone!Courtney and Clone!Owen having different colored eyes than their actual counterparts. So rather than totally shocking the audience by making this an actual season, they're presenting it as an spin-off. Chances are that the challenges probably won't be as dangerous, to both deal with Moral Guardians and expecting the kiddos to get into enough trouble on their own. It's also why the kids look closer to their "real" selves than what they would actually look as toddlers (including Clone!Duncan's hair).
• As for the likely appearance of other Fresh TV show characters (judging from Jude from 6teen being in the promo pic), this can be chalked up to their Total Drama counterparts being obvious AU counterparts and thus the same age as the clones.
  • Perhaps Jude's clone was created using a sample from the vast quantity of blood he donated to try to scam some free donuts in his original show.
• To add onto this, Cody has died in several episodes - only to show up the next time completely alive and well. If we go by the above theory, then this means that Cody did die in those instances and Chris merely replaced him with another clone, or Chris managed to revive him somehow.

Other Total Drama characters from Island will get focus episodes

Since the 12-character cast has been confirmed to only have Island characters (and Jude), there's a chance the remaining Island cast members will still make appearances in some capacity. Since Fresh TV most likely knows about the demand for some of the less popular characters who still have a fanbase, like Eva and (human) Ezekiel, to make a return, chances are they won't be part of the main cast, but may get an episode or two focusing on them instead.

Total Dramarama is a VR simulation that Chef Hatchet is participating in

Given that all the characters are aged down to toddlers with the exception of Chef Hatchet and its been confirmed that this show takes place in an Alternate Universe, its safe to say that Chef's in a VR simulation, having been ordered by Chris to test the technology before getting ready to promote the next season of Total Drama, Total Drama Virtual Reality (or a name similar to that).

Lil' Heather will appear in season 2

• Jossed unfortunately. The cast of Season 2 remains identical to that of Season 1. Wouldn't put it past them to give her a cameo in the future however.

Chris runs a different, much worse daycare

His daycare is attended by Geoff, Justin, DJ, Lindsay, Katie, Sadie, Tyler, Sierra, Trent, Ezekiel, Broseph and Lo.

• There will be some kind of competition between Chef's kids and Chris's kids.
• And by worse, we mean Chris is an even bigger Butt-Monkey than Chef is, because the idea of Chris having his life repeatedly ruined by toddlers is hilarious.
• We might also get characters from Grojband in there as well.
• He'll constantly try to force them into participating in Survivor show-esque games, but none of them really cares since they're kids.

Duncan is constantly trying to escape the daycare because he misses his mom

In the canon verse, Duncan's mom is the only one willing to give him a chance especially in contrast to his father who wants nothing to do with him. So it's more than likely that Duncan truly cares about her and can't stand to be away from her for so long as a child. He also mentions in Germ Factory that getting sick will give everyone a chance to go back home with their mommies.

• Duncan's been seen sucking a pacifier in multiple episodes and pacifiers are known to be comfort items to some children. Could he be using it as a coping mechanism while he's stuck at daycare instead of with his mom?
• Considering that his entire family are cops, his mum might be the only non-cop and thus, the only member that gives him attention.

The remaining Island contestants will be added to the show in later seasons

It seems obvious, considering iconic characters like Heather and Lindsay are absent and the series feels incomplete without the other half of the cast.

• Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the case. There have been no new additions to the cast in Season 2. But considering that we've already gotten cameos from DJ, Trent, Geoff, and Katie, I wouldn't be surprised if we got more from the other kids later on.

The daycare is Chef's personal hell

After dying Chef found himself forced to take care of the kids he's dealt with (and Jude)

• It's also MacArthur's hell.
• And Chris has has own version with kiddie versions of the other eleven teens (and one character from Stoked). His and Chef's punishment in Hell for tormenting the teens in life is to be forever tormented by child versions of said teens.

In a future ep, Chef will become ill and be replaced by Chris

The whole series is just a bunch of stories being told by Duncan.

This would explain how ridiculous some of the plots are, as well as some of the character changes. Duncan was put on trial after blowing up Chris's "cottage" in All-Stars, and sentenced to community service. He was assigned to tell stories to a bunch of children. The officer overseeing this was MacArthur. The characters are all changed to suit how Duncan sees them.

• Duncan himself appears in almost every episode in some way, and is almost always portrayed as the cool rebel who rarely suffers more than a timeout, which he was shown to enjoy.
• Owen was a good friend of Duncan which is why he also appears a lot and rarely suffers in comparison to some of the other characters.
• Duncan still has or had feelings for Courtney, which is why the two get paired up sometimes, but he remembers her as being bossy and always following rules, which applies well to a preschool/daycare environment.
• Still embarrassed by being dumped by Gwen, he turned her into the weird loner kid who no one really talks to.
• Harold is still a geeky loser who everyone regularly mistreats or makes fun of.
• Cody is made out to be the "baby" of the group who also suffers pretty often, because Duncan is embarrassed about being punched out by him in World Tour.
• Izzy is crazy. That's pretty much it.
• Duncan had nothing against Bridgette personally, and as he said in Island, everyone likes her, so he made her into the "nice girl" since she was one of the nicest while he competed against her.
• Duncan may have been jealous of Noah's friendship with Owen, so while the two are still best friends, Noah is shown to be a bigger jerk than his older self. Duncan may have also needed a token "smart guy" and he refused to give Harold that honor.
• Leshawna and Duncan's brief friendship ended in Action. Leshawna in this series is shown to be a younger version of Heather. This may be because Duncan is still holding a grudge against her for the "spa day" incident, where she was being selfish, or because of her friendship with Harold, Duncan's enemy.
• Beth is also shown to be extremely greedy in this series. Duncan is playing up the greedy side he saw in the Action finale because he wants to look better when compared to his rival finalist. Either he doesn't want to lose to a sweet girl due to the embarrassment, or he doesn't want to triumph over a sweet girl because it would make him look bad, depending on the ending.
• Chef Hatchet was one of the few adults in Duncan's life who he respected, which is why he's in charge, but he routinely suffers many misfortunes too, because Duncan doesn't really like him all that much.
• MacArthur's presence is due to her being the officer in charge of overseeing his community service. The two actually develop an unlikely friendship. At first, he didn't like her much, which is why she was miserable in her first appearance, but he eventually warmed up to her.
• Jude's presence is because of his friendship with MacArthur. She mentions that Jen Masterson from 6Teen was her babysitter. It's possible that MacArthur met Jen's other friends, including Jude who would likely be her favorite. She's talked about Jude before, so he included him in his stories.

There will be an episode in which the kids encounter their teenage selves from the main universe

And presumably it will be the Grand Finale. Also because it would be funny and/or adorable to see how the kiddies react to the differences between them and their teenage counterparts and vice versa.

The whole thing is a show made by Chris

Similarly to the clone thing above, the show is Chris's doing. However, here, he was forbidden from ever being a reality show host again after the downright illegal stuff he pulled. However, he still wanted to make the contestants(the ones responsible for said ban) miserable. Hence, the warped personalities they all have on the show. Chris also doesn't know what they are like as kids, so he goes off of what he knows. As for Chef? He got dragged into it, much like the Total Drama norm.

The show is an actual Show Within a Show in the main TD universe

After Total Drama came to an end, Chris decided to make an animated baby spinoff of his hit reality show in order to continue making money while he works on getting the original show revived. However, the contestants had absolutely no say in the show's creation or their depictions as toddlers, so Chris is the only one making profit off these unauthorized cartoon kiddie caricatures of the contestants.

Oh, and in case you're wondering, the contestants used for DramaRama are all aware of the show and their opinions of it are mixed. Owen likes the show; Izzy thinks the whole thing is hilarious; Bridgette thinks it's alright; Gwen despises the show for its depiction of her; Courtney hates it because of the unauthorized use of her image; Duncan thinks its dumb but likes how he's depicted; Noah thinks it is incredibly asinine; Leshawna doesn't like it but mostly just thinks its weird; Harold is more annoyed by its not-100%-accurate depiction of him than anything else; Beth thinks it's okay is weirded out by her depiction; and Cody is confused by the show and its depiction of him.

This entire show is just Chris playing with puppets.

Ok, to be honest I have no real evidence for this, but I can totally imagine this being the season finale twist. Except for one example: In season 3, Chris has been shown to have a tendency for pretending that objects are the people he used to know. It's possible that in reality, Chris is in some insane asylum somewhere in the canon universe.

A future ep will be about the kids going to a Suck E. Cheese's style restaurant.

And several other Total Drama contestants will cameo

Duncan is trying to prove himself to join The Kids Next Door

It's why he is always trying to escape. He wants get noticed by the operatives in the area so that he can have a "get out of daycare free card".

Chris McLean was written out of DramaRama for his past actions in "Total Drama"

Considering the list of actions Chris had pulled in "Total Drama", there is a good reason why he was written out of "Total DramaRama". If Chris was one of the characters aged down, he would be in high school then. If he kept his age intact (like MacArthur and Don), then Chris would most likely be written out.

• I think it's more likely that the writers deemed that he would be "too much" for the child characters to handle. Think about it: If he were their daycare manager or a child among them, chances are, for his pleasure, he would put them through gruelling "trials". Considering his personality it's totally possible.

Smelliot The Fart Fairy will return in a future ep.

And they'll reference the backlash he got

Guesses as to what characters Adapted Out would have been like

• Heather in contrast to Lashawna would have become a lot nicer or at the very least play her positive qualities up.

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