Episode
Total Drama Island: Basic Straining
Overview
Chef Hatchet makes the teams go through several difficult obstacles designed to make people quit. Another camper is voted off the island.
Details
- Series
- Total Drama Island
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 2007-09-16
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Basic Straining is Episode 12 in Season 1 of Total Drama Island. It aired on 2007-09-16. The runtime is 22 min.
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Episode 11: Who Can You Trust?
The teams take part in a three part competition where trust in team mates could mean the difference between victory and defeat. Another contestant is voted off the island.
Episode 13: X-Treme Torture
Chris has the contestants pair off in the next immunity contest. Another person is voted off the island.
More episodes from this season
Episode 10: If You Can't Take The Heat
The teams compete in a cooking challenge but one person's attitude towards hygiene threatens to doom his team's chances and Heather and LeShawna's conflict reaches a boiling point. Another person is voted off the island.
Episode 14: Brunch of Disgustingness
The two teams are divided up with the guys on one team and the girls on the other. A surprise awaits the two teams for the next challenge.
Episode 9: Paintball Deer Hunter
The two teams compete in a paint ball contest with the teams divided into "hunters" and "deer". Another person is voted off at the campfire ceremony.
Episode 15: No Pain, No Game
Two campers from the past return to the game as the two teams are dissolved and the campers face an excruciating challenge with individual immunity at stake.
Episode 8: Up The Creek
The two teams take canoes to a nearby island and build rescue fires on it in this week's contest. Another contestant is voted off the island.
Episode 16: Search And Do Not Destroy
The campers are off on a scavenger hunt and Heather does something so horrible that it makes even Gwen cry. Another person is voted off.
Episode 7: Phobia Factor
In this episode, each of the contestants face their worse fears. Another person is voted off the island.
Episode 17: Hide and Be Sneaky
The campers play an extreme game of Hide and Seek with Chef Hatchet who hunts them down with a huge water gun. Another person is voted off.
Episode 6: The Sucky Outdoors
The two teams must spend a night alone in the woods in the contest for this episode. Another contestant is voted off the island.
Episode 18: That's Off The Chain!
The campers are challenged to build their own bikes using supplies from the Arts and Crafts lodge and race them in a dangerous motor cross challenge with invincibility at stake.