Hawaiian Punch is the twenty-sixth episode of Total Drama World Tour, as well as the finale of season three and the seventy-eighth overall episode of the series.
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 A monumental peak for the million between strategic queen bee and manipulative villain.
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"A little something called victory! So long, sucker!"
— Heather, to Alejandro by virtue of winning the million-dollar case
Plot
Season three has reached its final episode, where one of the final three will win the million dollars. Two runners-up must compete in a tiebreaker to win the last spot in the final two. One moves on while the other is eliminated. The host announces the final challenge, which involves one of Hawaii's active volcanoes. One contestant manages to trick another, bringing them to their ultimate downfall in the game. However, after a misunderstanding, one of them steals the win. But, after an old face reemerges, neither of the final two takes home the one million dollar prize.
Why It's a Punch (And in a GOOD Way)
- This is the first time where 3 players make it to the final episode.
- The fight between Cody and Alejandro to make the final spot in the final 2 is pretty interesting to watch.
- All characters (except Courtney) are extremely likeable.
- Speaking of likable characters, Heather has to have the biggest redemption arc possibly in television history. In Island, she was the most hated contestant by other players (and fans) due to her actions towards other, where she gets her comeuppance by getter her hair shaved off. Dealing with the pain throughout the time, she opened up to Harold on why she was a bully, which was touching. In Action, Heather was being ghosted by others due to her past, and the constant times her wig was falling off her head to where she lost it completely. She was respected more than she did after the incident but not as much since other contestants were treating her like dirt. And in World Tour, her hair grew back (as a short ponytail), and started to redeem herself throughout the season by being friends with Cody & Sierra, teaming up with Gwen against Courtney, voting out Alejandro (although that backfired since Sierra exploded the plane), and attacking Alejandro after he found out she voted for him. Despite Cody being an audience favorite, Heather became one after her brilliant plan to eliminate him by saying Sierra fell into quicksand, thinking it was a vote (but she 100% wins if that was the case).
- The challenge is very interesting, the finalists goes up the volcano and throw a dummy-version of their opponent with only the 2 peanut gallery helpers helping them.
- The song, Verses, is catchy & a good way to end the songs from this season.
- Lots of funny moments.
- Sierra beating up a shark that ate Cody.
- Leshawna flicking off Heather.
- Harold's rapping the episode's song, Verses.
- There is a very salient reason why Total Drama has reached its roots of incorporating creativity, honor, and iconic moments with season finales. First, we may have saw Owen or Gwen crossing the finish line in a rejected race consisting of pole climbing, flag retrieving, board walking while carrying an eagle's egg, and race-running to the finish line (Island) and then Duncan or Beth going through and answering many trivial questions from other faces that could decide to take home the million, and then one finally earning victory from such knowledge as a result to escape the tiebreaker in the aftermath studio (Action). And out of the blue, since this episode is not just any kind of epic finale that could claim the trophy for being the best, it really is the best out of them all. Simply take Heather and Alejandro as the season's determined finalists and put them through a challenge of building sacrifices—log dummies with pineapples as the heads and have one of them throw them straight into the volcano for the million with a romantic "love versus hate" motivational scene in the middle of it. Entangling and merging the pieces of scenery smoothly between challenge, romance and downfall together makes it the most memorable and perfect finale in all of TD history, as opposing to the fact that it has finished off the first generation on a perfect note.
- Heather's ending is the best alternate ending in the series because she became from one of the most hated contestant to one of the most liked players in the series.
Bad Qualities
- Some mean-spirited moments like Heather getting pelted with literal golf balls, & Tyler getting hit with one.
- Alejandro is the official winner of Total Drama World Tour, which is not as satisfying since Heather was the more deserving.
- Also, this is the second finale where the winner didn't receive the money. In this case it was thrown into the volcano.
- Heather's conclusion in World Tour sees her barely getting attacked by a giant magma boulder is nearly disturbing and pointless, luckily she survived in Bigger! Badder! Brutal-er! in Revenge of the Island.
Trivia
- This is the first season in Total Drama that the United States and Canada have two different winners. In this case, Heather wins in the United States and Alejandro wins in Canada.
- This is the first finale in Total Drama which begins with the final three competing, instead of the final two, albeit to resolve the tie in the previous episode.
- This is the only episode in Total Drama to have a non-exclusive scene after the final credits.
- This is the first finale to air in a country before Canada. In this episode's case, it aired first in Australia and the United States.
- This finale marks the second time where the winner doesn't get their money.
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