During Cartoon Network's broadcast of Total Drama Island, there were numerous edits to support its assigned PG rating. The animation was almost completely 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 (which stands for "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, Total Drama Action, Total Drama World Tour, and Total Drama: Revenge of the Island were hardly edited in comparison to the first season, while Total Drama All-Stars, and Total Drama: Pahkitew Island weren't even touched. 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! and How Deep is Your Love are the only episodes in Total Drama to feature a cut scene. The censorship in the United States is most likely because Canada has a slightly different meaning of TV-PG than the United States.

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They like to comb through and take them all out. And they did. It was such a funny thing because that was the one thing that everybody in the U.S. identified (as) the big difference between Canada and the U.S.



There were all these discussion groups about, you know, "In the Canadian version they say 'suck' 42 times over the series, and it's way better. And Cartoon Network should be ashamed to think that kids can't hear the word "sucks."



It became a big issue for the fans of Cartoon Network, and they were telling the network you don't need to protect us from words like 'sucks' or 'idiot.' As a result, when they launched our second series, 6teen, recently, they barely edited it at all. But it remains to be seen how (Total Drama Action) will be handled this year. – Tom McGillis, 2009 interview with The Star.

Common edits

Disclaimer

In all of the episodes, Cartoon Network completely cuts out the disclaimer at each episode. The disclaimer says "This episode of Total Drama contains scenes of extreme stunts performed by animated teens. Do not try any of what you see here at home. Seriously, you could get really messed up." This line is narrated out loud by Chris.

Edits in the American version

The edits listed above put aside, there were also numerous edits and changes to the episodes which are listed below:

Hide and Be Sneaky is the only episode of Total Drama Island to remain completely unedited in America.

By the time Total Drama Action aired on Cartoon Network, there weren't as many edits. There were nine edits in the 27 episodes of Total Drama Action, as opposed to ninety-four in Total Drama Island. "Suck," "crap," "stupid," "shut up," "screw," "freak," "freaking," and censor bleeps are not edited as much anymore. However, these words are rarely used on Total Drama Action.

Total Drama: Revenge of the Island contains very minor edits, such as copyright references and a disturbing sequence involving Scott's cries. Unlike the previous seasons, several mature elements were reduced or omitted entirely.

How Deep is Your Love The moment when Kitty shivers due to feeling the cold, after saying "First place and not frozen to death" is removed. This is the only edit in the first spin-off.



Edits in European version

Unlike the American version with more common and politically correct edits, some scenes were cut in the European version, with majority of them being made since Total Drama All Stars. As of the fifth season, every scene containing vomiting shown on-screen was removed, with the only exception being Gwen doing so in a recap of The Final Wreck-ening. The poor quality of the censorship caused some important events to be removed, such as Screaming Gophers finding Beth's Tiki idol, or Ezekiel being the reason of Cameron's elimination. Additionally, one scene has been altered and none of the recaps from Total Drama Action, except for the first and the last episode, were shown. Also, only exclusive clips from Total Drama World Tour and Total Drama: Revenge of the Island (episodes 7-12) were shown once, in a marathon.

Ezekiel wasn't shown in the scene from Anything Yukon Do, I Can Do Better. Instead, only the rats were seen jumping off the plane.

Interestingly, despite Europe's strict censure, the scene that was cut in the American version of Broadway, Baby! was left in Europe.