Battle for Dream Island

Battle for Dream Island (sometimes shortened to BFDI) is the first season of Battle for Dream Island, a Canadian animated comedy television series created by

Michael Huang. The series premiered in Canada on Teletoon on January 1, 2010 and ran for 26 episodes, each 22 minutes in duration with a special 44 minute season finale. The series is a parody of the tv series Total Drama Island, pitting 5 islands in an elimination-based competition.

Although the next four seasons of Battle for Dream Island would have different names, on March 2021, two new seasons were announced with the same name as this season.

Overview
This season involves 20 anthropomorphic inanimate objects(and later, one human[BFDI18]) who have known each other all their lives and are casually living together. But when the host, the Announcer, falls from the sky and tells everyone about the luxurious island known as Dream Island, competition sparks, and everyone begins battling each other for the island.

In episode 1b, the 2nd part of the first episode, the Announcer divided the 20 contestants into two teams of 10: the Squishy Cherries and the Squashy Grapes. The two teams competed in contests at the beginning of every month, and the Announcer put the losing team up for elimination—the elimination ceremony is known as "Cake at Stake". The viewers then decided to eliminate someone between the 1st and 10th of every month. At the beginning of the next episode, the Announcer eliminates the most-voted contestant and sends them to the Tiny Loser Chamber.

In episode 9, the teams reformed, and half of the Squashy Grapes formed a 3rd team (called "Another Name") in the process. During Cake at Stake, the two most-voted contestants would leave the losing team. The winning team would then choose one of them onto their team and eliminate the other.

In episode 12, the teams dissolved, and the contestants competed as individuals. The Announcer then introduced a new point system. The contestants kept their scores throughout the season, and they could earn or lose points, depending on how they did in a contest. At the end of an episode, the three or four contestants with the lowest scores would be up for elimination. The Announcer would then send the most-voted contestant to the Tiny Loser Chamber.

In episode 19, the point system ended, and competitors competed for immunity. One or two people won immunity each episode. The Announcer put the rest of the contestants up for elimination and sent the most-voted competitor to the Tiny Loser Chamber the following episode. This process continued until the final 3. The viewers then decided which of the three would win Dream Island.

Episodes
Main article: List of Battle for Dream Island episodes

Battle for Dream Island premiered on January 1, 2010, on the Teletoon channel. This season has 27 episodes, each 22 minutes long, and two special episodes. It was the third Cartoon Network show outside of Adult Swim and Toonami to have the U.S. rating of either "TV-PG" or "TV-PG-D", and a parental-guidance warning after every commercial break and at the beginning of the show (the first two being Sunday Pants and IGPX). Its rating in Canada was initially "G"; current broadcasts are rated "PG".

Production
In 2008, Michael and Cary Huang created a catalog which featured a comic strip of Firey, Woody, Teardrop, Spongy, and Match. They later decided to do comics, comic strips, and even some series like Total Firey Island, Total Firey Points, and others.

Media
DVD releases

A DVD was released by Warner Home Video on February 18, 2012 in the United States. It contains all of the 25 episodes (including BFDI) of season one of this series in a 4 disc set, for a total of 594 minutes long. In addition, its bonus features (entitled as X-tras) are the audition tapes of twenty two campers, played after each of their respective eliminations, as well as Izzy's second audition tape and her exclusive interview with Chris (the latter of which is shown after Firey's second elimination). In Australia, Battle for Dream Island is on Region 4 DVD as separate volumes. This series of discs contains the widescreen version with uncut scenes and original dialogue, as seen on Teletoon and ABC3. In reviewing the DVD for season, Matthew Price of The Oklahoman wrote that while the show started out "unbelievably slowly," the series became more interesting as campers began getting voted off. Price also praised the parody of reality shows. In another review of the DVD, Jeffrey Kauffman of DVD Talk wrote that the character development was compelling and that the parody of reality shows were very funny. Mac McEntire of DVD Verdict praised the character development as well, but noted that the show sometimes sinks to "lowbrow gross-outs". Both Kauffman and McEntire recommended the series DVD.