Total Drama Island/Lindsay

Lindsay
Total Drama Island
Actor	Stephanie Anne Mills
First Appearance	1x01 - Not So Happy Campers (1)
Series Billing	Main cast
Episode Count	21 (Total Drama Island) 21 (Total Drama Action) 13 (Total Drama World Tour) 1 (Total Drama: Revenge of the Island) 2 (Total Drama All-Stars) Total: 58
Notable Episodes	Not So Happy Campers, Part 1 Not So Happy Campers, Part 2 Phobia Factor X-Treme Torture The Chefshank Redemption One Million Bucks, B.C. Dial M For Merger Get a Clue

Lindsay is a character on Total Drama Island. She is voiced by Stephanie Anne Mills.

Basic Information

Lindsay is a member of Team Victory on Total Drama World Tour, the third season of TDI. She makes her first appearance as a member of the Screaming Gophers team in Season One of the show, and she was the third captain of the Killer Grips team on Total Drama Action, the second season. Like Heather, she comes from a wealthy background and tends toward being vain, but unlike Heather, she is more kind-hearted and friendly. Lindsay is also the Total Drama series' poster girl for the "dumb blonde" stereotype; she is very pretty, has long blonde hair and is big-breasted, but she is also very naïve, absent-minded and dimwitted. She often messes up the names of many of the other participants in the Total Drama series, including Chris Maclean (whom she has called "Kyle" and "Chip"), Leshawna ("Lequisha" and "Lefawnda"), Duncan ("Doug"), Trent ("Todd"), Gwen ("Greta"), Tyler ("Taylor" and "Tyson"), Beth ("Belle"), Eva ("Ava"), Owen ("Omar") and Heather ("Hannah"). Heather, seeking to exploit Lindsay's apparent lack of smarts, recruits her (along with Beth) into an alliance which Heather says she plans to take with her into the late stages of the competition as the final three contestants.

Despite her intellectual weaknesses, Lindsay also has several strengths to her credit, one of the most notable being her skills in water skiing, which she uses to help the Gophers win a challenge. She also develops a crush on Tyler and they quickly develop a romantic relationship, which Heather interprets as a betrayal because Tyler is on the rival Killer Bass team, and Heather warns Lindsay to either dump Tyler or risk getting kicked out of the alliance. Lindsay publicly agrees to do so, but she defies Heather by secretly seeing Tyler behind her back, and she continues to maintain her crush on Tyler after he gets voted off for failing a challenge. Lindsay is initially oblivious to Heather taking advantage of her for her own personal gain under the guise of "friendship", but she starts to become more aware of Heather's true nature over the course of the competition, particularly after one incident where Heather threatens to cut off Lindsay's long hair while she slept (as a result of Lindsay siding with Leshawna against Heather while pranking Heather during a cooking challenge).

Lindsay becomes the 16th camper to be voted off the island on TDI when, thanks to a betrayal by Heather, she is the last player to cross the finish line in a bicycle-racing challenge and, per a pre-race stipulation, she is automatically eliminated from the competition without a campfire ceremony. When Heather displays a non-chalant attitude toward Lindsay's elimination, Lindsay finally loses her temper and she lets Heather have it with a verbal tirade that ends with her cursing at the snobby girl and giving her "the finger" (both censored by the animators), to the delight of the witnessing campers. She subsequently reunites with Tyler at the Playa de Losers luxury resort where the eliminated contestants are staying, but she is still unable to get his name straight or figure out who he is when she keeps calling other players by his name.

Lindsay quickly gets her revenge against Heather during a Triple Dog Dare challenge late in the game when Heather ends up drawing Lindsay's dare—getting her head shaved by Chef Hatchet, which she thought up in retaliation for Heather's earlier threat to cut off Lindsay's hair; Heather refuses the dare by kicking the hair clippers out of Chef's hand, but she ends up partially bald anyway when the clippers come back down on her and, by her refusal of Lindsay's dare according to the rule of the challenge, Heather is automatically eliminated. Lindsay returns, along with all the other eliminated players, to Camp Wawanakwa for the championship final between Gwen and Owen, and she takes part in a scheme hatched by Izzy to enable Owen to win the final by motivating him at the end by using brownies, although Lindsay initially ends up bungling her part of the scheme to Heather's chagrin.

Lindsay ends up moving on, along with 13 other players, to Season Two after they end up in a tie while in pursuit of a $1,000,000 briefcase, put into play by Chris during the post-show bash, as part of Chris announcing the new season. On TDA, she drives her fellow contestants to distraction by continually forgetting that Tyler is not on the show anymore every time she keeps bringing him up in conversation as if he is still on the program, prompting the irritated players to remind her. Lindsay assumes the captaincy of the Killer Grips from Justin (by "promoting" herself to Admiral) during a military movie challenge, and later has the position taken from her by the recently returned Courtney up until the team merger.

Lindsay becomes the 12th castmate eliminated in "Rock n' Rule" where, after she devised a plan to get Duncan voted off, she gets distracted by Beth and then accidentally votes herself off. Everyone is shocked except Duncan, to which he laughs rudely at her misfortune. Beth apologizes to Lindsay as she blames herself for getting her sent home. Lindsay actually takes her elimination in stride when she tells Beth that she is actually there for friends rather than money and bids farewell to everyone as she heads into the Lame-o-sine.

Lindsay qualifies to take part as a contestant in TDWT during the Celebrity Manhunt special, then she joins Team Victory during the season premiere. Not surprisingly, even though she reunites with the newly-returned Tyler this season, Lindsay still cannot get his name right.

Trivia

• Lindsay's name in the show's French-language version, L'île des Défis Extrêmes, is Tania
• In the original demo reel for TDI, Lindsay originally assumes the role that would later be taken by Heather—that of the spoiled, stuck-up rich girl [1]; after Heather was introduced during series development, she was given Lindsay's original personality and Lindsay received her present sunny-yet-naïve personality

Quotes

• Chris: (introducing Lindsay to the show) Everybody, this is Lindsay! (the scene then cuts to Lindsay's boots and the camera moves up her body to her head, as sultry R&B music plays in the background)

Chris: (aside to the audience, regarding Lindsay) Not too shabby!

Lindsay: (sweetly) Hiiii! (walks over to Chris) Okay, you look so familiar!

Chris: I'm Chris Maclean. (his introduction does not seem to register with a puzzled-looking Lindsay, so he tries to jog her memory) The host...of the show?

Lindsay: (thinking she now knows) Oh, that's where I know you from!

Chris: (figuring Lindsay still doesn't get it) Uhh... yeah.

• Heather: (to Lindsay and Beth, at the Screaming Gophers' mess hall table) So, let's go over the rules one more time. Number one: I am the captain of this alliance, so I get to make the rules. Number two?

Lindsay: Breaking the rules can result in getting kicked out of the alliance?

Heather: (approvingly) Good. Number three: I can borrow any of your stuff without asking, but my stuff is strictly off-limits.

Lindsay: (seemingly unsure) I dunno about that last rule.

Heather: That's cool. I can change it... I can also find someone else to take to the final three with me.

• Lindsay: (angrily, to Bridgette after she slips on her own vomit on stage and falls on Tyler) Hey, puke on your own boyfriend!

Heather: (curtly, to Lindsay) On your own what, Lindsay?!

Lindsay: (sheepishly) Uh, I didn't say boyfriend.

• Lindsay: (in the Confessional Can, after Tyler's elimination) Aww, I'll never forget our time together, Taylor—uh, Tyler. (blows Tyler a good-bye kiss) Byyye!

• Lindsay: (in the Confessional Can, after Heather and Beth argue) I totally admire Belle for standing up to Heather... (seeming worried) But she's sooo dead now!

• Lindsay: (to Heather, after Heather cheats her way to the win in a bike racing challenge) But I won. I even built your bike.

Heather: (in denial, to everyone else) I don't know what she's talking about. (to Lindsay) You should just leave with your dignity intact. It'll make you seem much more cuter in the instant replays.

Lindsay: (protesting) But we were gonna go to the final three together.

Heather: (nonchalantly) Guess we're not!

Lindsay: Aren't you even sad? We're BFFs.

Heather: Yeah, for the contest. I mean, it's not like we're gonna be best friends for life or anything.

Lindsay: (in the Confessional Can, gasping in shock at Heather's comment) I can't believe she said that!

Linsday: (to Heather) I can't believe you just said that! But we pinkie swore. You mean, I've been helping you all this time and you didn't even like me?

Heather: Uh, truth? (Lindsay nods) Not really, no. (everyone then glares at Heather, to which she feigns indignation) What? We're not here to make friends. We're here to become celebrities, remember?

• Lindsay: (angrily, to Heather) You really are mean! And all that bad stuff people say about you is true! Like how you're a two-faced, back stabbing, lying little... (flashes middle finger at Heather as a long "bleep" sound is heard by the home audience)! I always told them they were wrong. I stood up for you because I thought we were BFFs. But they're RIGHT! You really are a two-faced, back stabbing, lying little... (another long "bleep" sound is heard)! And guess what? I don't want to be BFFs anymore! I'd rather spend the day staring at Owen's butt than shopping with you! And P.S... your shoes are tacky!! (Heather then gasps in shock)

Gwen: (as everyone else laughs and shows their approval of Lindsay's tirade) Yeah! You tell her! (Owen laughs, then a nearby loon laughs)

Heather: (indignant) Oh, go jump in the piranha pool!

• Lindsay" (at Playa de Losers with Tyler) I love being a loser, this is soooo much more my style. If I'd known how phat this place was, I would had gotten my butt kicked off in the first episode. Plus, now Tyler and I can hang out! (kisses Tyler, then immediately forgets who he is, to Tyler's chagrin) Which one's Tyler?

• Lindsay: (at poolside) Okay, let's talk about Lefawnda.

Everyone else" (correcting Lindsay) LESHAWNA!

• Lindsay" (in her audition tape for the show) I'm pretty and smart, and I get along with everyone—even the ugly girls. I love camping, even though I've never gone. I have bikinis for every season—even the ones not listed on the calendar, and I'm bilanguagal—I speak fluent English and American.

• Lindsay (to Beth, during a war movie-themed challenge) If we live, I was thinking I should totally be our team's admiral!

Beth: Admirals are in charge of sailors, generals are in charge of soldiers, generally!

Lindsay: But, "admiral" sounds cuter! So, now, I'd like to be called "Admiral Lindsay, Her Hotness", okay?

• Lindsay: (to the trailer door, as her face is scanned by a scanner) Door? It's me Lindsay, from this morning! You remember!

Courtney: (in frustration over Lindsay's dimwittedness) Door, meet doorknob.

Lindsay: Oh, yeah!

• Lindsay: (singing off-key) Ooo, your face, in my glands. Ooo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, oo, it's you and meeee! And you and me makes weee. You and me-e-e-e-e-e-e-eee, like butterknives we're free! We're freeeee!

Courtney: Would you please shut up! It's "like butterflies", not "butterknives." And everyone knows you picked Duncan for your movie reward last night as retaliation! That murder-mystery challenge is over; you can stop massacring that song!

Lindsay: I was not mascara-ing anything except my eyelashes, Courtney.

Courtney: (in frustration) Oh, stop playing dumb, Lindsay!

Lindsay: (resuming her off-key singing) Oo, oo, oo! Like butterknives we're free!

Courtney: (to Beth) She's not playing, is she?

• Lindsay: (in the Lame-o-sine after her elimination) Getting kicked off the show may be the best thing that ever happened to me! Now I can devote my time to something real meaningful. Like, helping the poor look better! I see them on the street and think, uh, with some blush, some eyeshadow, okay and a lot of foundation, I could work miracles! And I'd have a line of skin care products named....Lindsay! And I'd make sure that none of them are tested on animals. Well, at least not the cute ones!