Total Drama Wiki

Cartoon Network is the only television channel to air Total Drama in the United States. Its programming mostly consists of cartoons (as the name implies), but the channel has also aired live-action shows in the past. Total Drama Island has been one of the first Cartoon Network shows that has been rated TV-PG (although others regard Space Ghost: Coast to Coast to be the first, even though it moved to adult swim in 2001), even though Teletoon created it.

Total Drama Island formerly aired on the network’s Har Har Tharsdays block before June 11, 2009, replaced by the second season, Total Drama Action. Total Drama World Tour ran as part of Cartoon Network’s Monday night comedy block beginning on June 21, 2010. Total Drama: Revenge of the Island would later premiere on June 5, 2012, followed by Total Drama All-Stars on September 10, 2013. Total Drama: Pahkitew Island debuted on July 7, 2014 and aired for two weeks advertised as a “Two Week Summer Showdown.” Continuing this trend, the spin-off series, Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race, aired for a month on September 7, 2015 in 5:00 EST timeslot before being moved to a 7:00 EST timeslot.

Edits to the series

During Cartoon Network‘s broadcast of Total Drama Island, there were many edits to maintain its assigned PG rating. The animation was almost entirely untouched; mainly the edits would be to correct dialogue. However, this has caused some lip syncing errors and problems in acting, as it usually sounds like the voice actors went back to change the words. For instance, tones in a sentence would sound different, or the lip-syncing would be off. On an original trailer for Total Drama Island on Cartoon Network, on the top left-hand screen, its rating is TV-PG-DLS. They kept the D (mild suggestive dialogue) but edited out most of the content that could have gotten it the L (infrequent coarse language) and the S (some sexual situations).

However, subsequent seasons were hardly edited in comparison to the first season, while Total Drama All-Stars and Total Drama: Pahkitew Island were left entirely untouched. This was most likely due to the network realizing that they were getting a larger age-ranged audience outside its original age 8-12 demographic.

Broadway, Baby! was the only episode in Total Drama where there was a deleted scene. The censorship in the United States is most likely because Canada has a slightly different meaning of TV-PG than the United States.

Aspect ratio

Total Drama Island and every season following it has been aired in a widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio on Teletoon (in Canada) and at least Total Drama World Tour has been broadcast the same way on ABC3 in Australia (as well as K2, the Italian channel which broadcast Total Drama: Revenge of the Island). However, in the United States, every Total Drama series has been cropped to a 4:3 aspect ratio, which was the normal standard for all television shows before the era of HDTV. However, Cartoon Network has now been gradually airing several other shows in their original 16:9 ratio; why they continue to crop the Total Drama series is unknown. Though most of the time the cropping has not affected the viewing experience of the show, certain scenes will look completely off-focus, such as one in Beach Blanket Bogus where Chris is about to use his automatic machine gun to fire seagulls at Gwen.

Cartoon Network allows the viewing of Total Drama episodes via their website. However, their video player is built for a widescreen presentation. To get around this with their cropped editions of the episodes, all of the footage is stretched out, enlarged, and cropped even more to mimic a widescreen format. Sometimes, it can look fairly convincing if the scenes are simple and focused on the center, but other times the faux widescreen is very obvious to the viewer.

However, this is no longer the case since Cartoon Network aired Total Drama: Revenge of the Island in 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio, making it the first season to do so. Total Drama All-Stars, Total Drama: Pahkitew Island, and Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race were also aired in 16:9 format.

DVD

Total Drama’s first season was released on DVD on August 18, 2009 by Cartoon Network, and the second season was released only in Australia on November 2, 2009. Despite claiming that the first season DVD features all twenty-seven episodes and cast interviews, Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island was not included and was replaced by the TDI Rundown, and the cast interviews are really the character auditions. Many people weren’t happy at this. Some of the edits were removed and some original dialogue was retained, but most edits were left in. Despite this, an advertisement from Amazon.com, along with the summary on the back of the box saying “crappy,” a word that was replaced in most episodes, had suggested that the DVD would be uncut.

Network branding

Total Drama Tuesdays

Total Drama was such a hit on the network that Cartoon Network started to design blocks and special marathons around it. Total Drama Tuesdays was a short-lived block that debuted in early 2009, after the conclusion of Total Drama Island’s original run on the network. The block would pair episodes of Total Drama Island with two other Fresh TV-produced shows, 6teen and Stoked. The programming block aired on Tuesdays. Branding was designed by Stuart Golley and Candice House.

Spring Break ’09

A few months later in April 2009, Chris hosted a special marathon called “Spring Break ’09”. It featured the first sneak peeks of Total Drama Action on Cartoon Network, along with other shows that were new to Cartoon Network during 2009.

Cartoon Network used to feature Noods, human-like creatures that were Cartoon Network’s advertising staples, that has been made into various Total Drama Island characters. Heather, Gwen, DJ, Chris, Harold, Cody, Trent, Chef, and a bear have all been created as Noods. If a colored ball hits a Nood, they turn into whatever color that ball was, or they change into a camper who wears that color. For example, a Nood that gets hit with a ball the color of Heather’s shirt will turn into Heather, or a Nood that touches an object blue will turn into the color blue. The look changed a bit in early 2010, not using the animation bumpers as much, but using live action. The Noods were retired along with the logo in May of 2010.

After the Noods and the old Cartoon Network logo were retired, the next (and current) era was called the CHECK it era. “CHECK it” appeared after the Cartoon Network logo in bumpers or advertisements involved Cartoon Network, as of June 2010. There are blocks and squares in the background, and it has more of a retro feel. The Total Drama series had bumpers for prime time, new episodes, and if they were on next or later. The “CHECK it” bumpers were later renamed to the “YEEEEAUHHHH!” bumpers and were retired in May of 2013.

Biographies

Online

The Cartoon Network website has had games and a show page for Total Drama Island, Total Drama Action, Total Drama World Tour, Total Drama: Revenge of the Island, Total Drama All-Stars and Total Drama: Pahkitew Island.

Games

There are also several games on Cartoon Network’s website. They are The Big Picture, Best Game Ever, Drop of Shame, H-Bomb’s Killah Beatz, Flight Simmerator, Chomp Sewey, Total Pandamonium, Splat! Oberfest, Oh No U Di’n’t!!!, Toxic Targets, and Rain of Terror.

A game called Cartoon Network TKO on the website features Chef and Duncan as playable, fighting robot characters.

FusionFall was an online game created by Cartoon Network that was closed down permanently on August 29, 2013. The game featured Cartoon Network characters and allowed avatars to be customized with shirts and weapons, through special codes. Such items based on Total Drama World Tour include:

Total Drama World Tour team shirts

DJ’s shirt

Duncan’s shirt

Leshawna’s shirt

Owen’s shirt

Trent’s shirt

Video

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Total Drama Island’s video banner.

Total Drama Action’s video banner.

Total Drama World Tour’s video banner.

Total Drama: Revenge of the Island’s video banner.

Total Drama All-Stars’ video banner.

Total Drama: Pahkitew Island’s video banner.

Trivia

Websites

Below, are images of the showpickers that are seen in the Cartoon Network navigational bar on the top of most Cartoon Network pages. The showpickers have Chris’ face while the season is occurring, but when the winner is announced, the winner will be the showpicker instead. However, this is not the case for season three and onwards as a of 2014 Sky‘s face was on the showpicker .

Showpicker

Description

The original Total Drama Island showpicker before the redesign of Cartoon Network’s website in 2011.

The newer Total Drama Island showpicker before the redesign of Cartoon Network’s website.

The Total Drama Action showpicker before the redesign of Cartoon Network’s website.

The Total Drama World Tour showpicker before the redesign of Cartoon Network’s website.

The Total Drama Island showpicker after the redesign of Cartoon Network’s website.

The Total Drama Action showpicker after the redesign of Cartoon Network’s website.

The Total Drama World Tour showpicker after the redesign of Cartoon Network’s website.

The Total Drama: Revenge of the Island, Total Drama All-Stars showpicker.

The Total Drama: Pahkitew Island showpicker.

Applications

Cartoon Network released four Total Drama applications that were available on iTunes for download (on iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch) on August 2, 2010, but have since been removed.

In this Fart Blaster, one can send different kinds of farts to their Facebook friends. Some of the farts available to send are:

• Northern Explosion
• Grand Central Gasser
• El Farto Supremo
• Crumpet Trumpet
• Parisian Poot
• Stinky Sphinxy
• Tokyo Toot
• Deep Sea Doody

After one picks the kind of fart they want to send, they have to pick the friend that they want to send it to. The friend will get a notification that they have been blasted.