Unlike the other three, Total Drama was filled with canon ships and lots of teen romance stuff. And as for fetishes...in the daycare spinoff, there's literally an episode about a fairy that sniffs the farts of the kid characters and practically has an orgasm when he does it. I really, really wish I was kidding. The new season also had an entire episode that was basically a twenty minute fart joke.
Total Drama was also the show that made serialized series profitable in CN's eyes. Much of the 2010s series likely would not have happened without it. It was a serialized comedy, which was not normal as serialization was only really ever for used action, and very loosely at that. It also destroyed much of CN's censorship, allowing for shows like Regular Show to cuss later on.
love how the first recomended video after this ends is a cartoon spergs opinion on why this means CN has no future. Not what Warner had in mind i take it.
I noticed they censored Regular Show on Max when I was rewatching season one recently. They changed "you pissed me off" to "you tee'd me off." They may have changed it at some earlier point, but it annoyed me.
Most cartoons from both the 90s and 2000s deal with romance bullshit. I do recall not caring about Angry Beavers' storyline with Norbert and Treeflower.
Funny how it took a show they didn't even make to do that. And I'm glad it made them looser with censorship, especially since the way they toned down the first season of Total Drama is just hard to watch.
For me, Action is the oddly forgettable middle child of the original series. I think back to Island and World Tour and remember how much I like them, but then I remember there was that third season sandwiched between them. For some reason I just have a tough time remembering Action or what goes on in it, maybe because aside from Gwen and Trent breaking up, so little carries over to World Tour. I don't dislike Action either, even if Courtney really tried to ruin the season, it just sorts of blends into the background for me.
Season 2 is mostly a retread and where character derailment begins, hence why it is not as liked. The Duncan cheating arc began here, which brought down every character involved as Gwen became an asshole, Trent became unnecessarily weird, Courtney an even bigger bitch and Duncan a wannabe bad boy. If I am not mistaken, no one on the writing staff wanted Duncan and Gwen to be a couple, but corporate forced it as they saw two goth characters and went from there. This would explain why that plot line was so poorly handled.
I can't even fathom what they were thinking with Trent. I heard that the writers were pressured to break him and Gwen up because it was realistic for a relationship like theirs (two teens meeting on a reality show) not to last. If they absolutely had to do that, making Trent sperg out and be obsessed with the number nine was the worst way to go about it, and the poor guy never got compete again and redeem himself.
I will give them this, it was good continuity if nothing else. Courtney’s elimination in Island was 100% bullshit thanks to Harold tampering the results to get back at Duncan. Her taking legal action to avoid that kind of tampering was a smart character progression. The issue is that it gets dull and her being caught up in the love triangle drags her down hard.
Oh, it made sense, I just still don't like it. Not like she was the only one to get eliminated unfairly, just look at poor Leshawna. Like I said, the gimmick was unique, but it also let Courtney's entire villainous nature boiling down tot being a brat and holding her phone up threateningly at Chris when she doesn't get her way.
At least it managed to come out in time for Duncan calling Chef a "transgender troll" which is a literal actual quote.
