Total Drama All-Stars (often shortened as TDAS) and Total Drama Pahkitew Island (; often shortened as TDPI) are the two parts with 13-episode segments that both make up the fifth season of Total Drama. The season was commissioned by Cartoon Network in October 2012, ordering 26 episodes. It is a sequel to Total Drama Island, Total Drama Action, Total Drama World Tour, and Total Drama: Revenge of the Island. The season was produced by Fresh TV in association with the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network and distributed by Cake Entertainment. Owing to the series' premise, the season presents itself as a parody of reality television series, such as Survivor.
The entire season first premiered in the United States starting on September 10, 2013, on Cartoon Network with the first part, while the second part premiered in the United States on July 7, 2014, for a two-week time period. In Canada, the first part premiered on Teletoon during their "Can't Miss Thursdays" time slot starting January 9, 2014,Date of Release Announced for Total Drama All-Stars! while the second part of the season also premiered during their "Can't Miss Thursdays" time slot on Teletoon starting on September 4, 2014. The second half of the season also premiered on APTN in 2015.
Synopsis Similar to Total Drama: Revenge of the Island, this season also consists of 13-episode segments; though, it returns to the traditional 26-episode length of the first three seasons. The winning characters for All-Stars are either Mike or Zoey, and the winning characters for Pahkitew Island are either Shawn or Sky, varying based on the region in which season finale airs. The grand prizes for both parts of this season are both C$1,000,000.
All-Stars Total Drama All-Stars is the first part of the season. Christian Potenza first announced the season in an interview with Tom McGillis (the creator of the series), saying that Total Drama All-Stars would be very similar to Total Drama Island and Total Drama: Revenge of the Island, due to the high worldwide ratings of the latter. Therefore, this part of the season takes place back at Camp Wawanakwa; in a single location once again, unlike Total Drama World Tour. This part is also very similar to the previous season, Total Drama: Revenge of the Island (both being very similar in terms of length, location, features and cameos).
This half is an all-star season which features a return of fourteen contestants from both the first and second generation cast. This is the first season to feature characters from two different generations competing together. The theme for the season is "Heroes vs. Villains", meaning that competitors are separated into teams based on their past performance. Contestants that were relatively kind and good-natured were placed on the "Heroic Hamsters", while contestants that acted antagonistic were placed on the "Villainous Vultures". Both the season's first title, "All-Stars" and the "Heroes vs. Villains" theme take after respective seasons from Survivor.
Cartoon Network's official synopsis describes the first part, Total Drama All-Stars as:
Pahkitew Island
Total Drama: Pahkitew Island is the second part of the fifth season. It was first announced on June 11, 2013, as a "sixth" season, even though it is still part of the fifth season. This part features an entire new cast considered as the third generation of Total Drama characters and takes place at a brand new island, due to Camp Wawanakwa sinking into the ocean in the season finale of All Stars.
Italy was the first country to air Total Drama: Pahkitew Island starting on June 13, 2014; the season aired in North America throughout the second half of 2014. This is the first season to air a new episode every day in the United States. This part was story edited by Terry McGurrin, while Dennis Jackson and Melanie Jackson, series creators of Wapos Bay, also helped write and consult the plot for Pahkitew Island. Total Drama: Pahkitew Island was sponsored by the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, who helped with the Cree translations for the team names and various season references.
A general synopsis from Teletoon describes the second part, Total Drama: Pahkitew Island as:
Plot Both parts feature a fictional titular reality show that follows the competition of fourteen animated teenagers at a fictional island. For Total Drama All-Stars, the original island used in the first season is featured, where the producers say it is located somewhere in Muskoka, Ontario. The second part of the season, Total Drama: Pahkitew Island, features a brand new island which producers say it is located somewhere in Western Canada. The season's animated characters are depicted as campers who participate in themed challenges and must avoid being voted off the island by other fellow campers. At the end of the series, the winning contestant or the last camper to stand on the island will win C$1,000,000. The competition is hosted by Chris McLean (Christian Potenza), who is assisted by the camp's chef, Chef Hatchet (Clé Bennett).
At the beginning of the competition, the fourteen campers are evenly placed into two teams which are themed to the genre of the competition. In each episode, the two teams participate in a challenge, in which one or more campers can win invincibility for their team. The losing team is called to the campfire at night, where they must vote one of their members off the island. The camper with the most votes is eliminated from the competition. At this campfire, McLean passes out marshmallows to the campers who have not been voted off, while the one who does not get a marshmallow is eliminated. That eliminated person must then walk to the island's dock and will be forced off of the island, and told to "never, ever come back", according to Chris.
About halfway through the competition, the teams are disbanded, after which the challenges continue; the winner of each challenge then only receives invincibility for him or herself, whereupon a camper without invincibility is voted off the island. This process of elimination continues on until two players remain on the island. These two players, are now then subject to a final contest. At the end, a camper wins the competition, while the loser ends up being the runner-up. However, the runner-up is the winner in the other ending of the finale, as there are always two endings to Total Drama seasons. This season, along with every other season in the series, is a parody of the reality show Survivor while the host, Chris McLean is very similar to Survivor host Jeff Probst with the evil persona of Fear Factor Joe Rogan.
Episodes
The first part consisting of thirteen episodes is an all-star season using fourteen returning characters from the two previous seasons, while the last thirteen episodes consist of a new cast introducing fourteen new characters. Both halves with 13 episodes each are part of the 26 episodes that Cartoon Network ordered in 2012. Cartoon Network aired the whole season first starting on September 10, 2013, on Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m. EST in the United States, with Teletoon airing the season later on January 9, 2014, at 7:00 p.m. EST.
This season also features the 100th episode of the entire series which was aired in Canada on February 27, 2014. The 100th episode of the series is the 9th episode of this season, "Zeek and Ye Shall Find". All episodes for the fifth season are 21 minutes and 20 seconds long, all of them much shorter than previous seasons. This is the first season to feature a 20-second intro, as every other previous season had a full one-minute intro section.
Total Drama All-Stars Total Drama Pahkitew Island
All-Stars Characters 7 characters from Total Drama World Tour and 7 characters from Total Drama: Revenge of the Island returned to compete in Total Drama All-Stars. They all competed together during several "Heroes vs. Villains" themed challenges, which means that all the heroes competed against all the villains.Interview with series creator, Tom McGillis (Skip to 1:42) on video
Staff Character Voice actor Description Christian Potenza Chris returns as the host of the series. Clé Bennett Chef returns as the cook and co-host of the series.
Contestants The 14 returning characters who competed in Total Drama All-Stars are Alejandro (Alessandro in VQ), Cameron, Courtney (Audrey in VQ), Duncan (Hugo in VQ), Gwen (Joëlle in VQ), Heather (Marilou in VQ), Jo, Lightning (Dutonnerre in VQ), Lindsay (Tania in VQ), Mike (Michel in VQ), Sam, Scott (Steph in VQ), Sierra (Sarah-Laurie in VQ), and Zoey (Zoé in VQ). +List of Total Drama All-Stars contestants Contestant Label Voice actor Team Finish Original 1 Swap 2 Swap Merged Placement TDI, TDA, & TDWT The Dumb Princess Stephanie Anne Mills 1 TDRI The Over-Achieving Athlete Tyrone Savage rowspan="2" 2 TDRI The Take-No-Prisoners Machine Laurie Elliott 3 TDRI The Nice Guy Gamer Brian Froud 4 TDI, TDA, & TDWT The Queen Bee Rachel Wilson 6 TDWT The Obsessive Uber-Fan Annick Obonsawin rowspan="3" rowspan="2" 7 TDI, TDA, & TDWT The Delinquent Heartthrob Drew Nelson Merge 8 TDRI The Wide-Eyed Bubble Boy Kevin Duhaney rowspan="5" 9 TDWT The Arch Villain Alex House rowspan="4" 10 TDI, TDA, & TDWT The Type-A Emilie-Claire Barlow 11 TDI, TDA, & TDWT The Loner Megan Fahlenbock rowspan="2" 12 TDRI The Trouble-Maker James Wallis TDRI The Multiple Personality Disorder Cory Doran rowspan="2" rowspan="2" rowspan="2" 13 TDRI The Indie Chick Barbara Mamabolo
Elimination Table Contestant Episode 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Zoey In In In In In In Mike In In In In In In In Scott In In In In In In Gwen In In In In In In Courtney In In In In Alejandro In In In Cameron In In In Duncan In In In In In Sierra In In Heather In Sam In Jo Lightning Lindsay
Locations Table LocationsCamp WawanakwaBoney Island McLean Spa HotelCabins Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 6 Episode 7 Episode 8AlejandroCameron, Courtney, Gwen, Mike, Scott, Zoey Episode 9GwenCourtney, Mike, Scott, Zoey Alejandro Episode 10Zoey, MikeCourtney, Scott Gwen Episode 11ZoeyGwen, Mike, Scott Episode 12ZoeyMike
Pahkitew Island Characters
Total Drama: Pahkitew Island features an entire new cast. This is the second time the series completely replaces any existing cast with an all new cast. The new characters competing are Amy, Beardo (Barbu in VQ), Dave (David in VQ), Ella (Eleanor in VQ), Jasmine, Leonard, Max, Rodney, Samey, Scarlett, Shawn (Cédric in VQ), Sky (Kristelle in VQ), Sugar, and Topher (Quentin in VQ).
Staff Character Voice actor Description Christian Potenza Chris returns as the host of the series. Clé Bennett Chef returns as the cook and co-host of the series.
Contestants +List of Total Drama: Pahkitew Island contestants Contestant Label Voice actor Team Finish Original Swap Merged Placement Ep. No. The Human Soundboard Clé Bennett rowspan="2" 14 The LARPer 15 The Evil Twin Bryn McAuley rowspan="3" 16 The Country Boy Ian Ronningen 17 The Good Twin Bryn McAuley 18 The Fairytale Princess Sunday Muse 19 The Chris Wannabe Christopher Jacot 21 The Normal Guy Daniel DeSanto Merge 22 The Quiet Brainiac Kristi Friday rowspan="3" 23 The Super Villain Bruce Dow The Australian Outback Girl Katie Bergin 24 The Pageant Queen Rochelle Wilson rowspan="3" 25 The Athlete Sarah Podemski 26 The Zombie Conspiracy Nut Zachary Bennett
Elimination Table Contestant Episode 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Shawn In In In In In Sky In In In In In In Sugar In In In In Jasmine In In In In In In Max In In In In In rowspan="2" Scarlett In In In In In In Dave In In In Topher In In In In In Ella In Samey In Rodney In Amy Leonard Beardo
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