Ant We All Just Get Along

"Ant We All Just Get Along" is the ninth episode of the first season of Total DramaRama. It first aired on Cartoon Network on 22 September 2018.

Overview
Owen and Beth try to save an ant hill that Courtney and Leshawna want to destroy.

Synopsis
Chef Hatchet sees the children are bored and suggests they play Fun: The Game. When Beth and Owen reject the offer, Chef sends them, Courtney, Leshawna, Jude and Izzy outside to play. Beth finds an ant hill and shows it to the other kids though Leshawna isn't impressed and disgusted by the bugs. Owen and Beth attempt to prove that the ants are harmless though Leshawna implores that they squash them. She confesses that she has a phobia of bugs in general and questions why someone would invent a bug zapper if it wasn't meant to be used. Meanwhile, Chef entertains himself with the toys in the daycare.

Back outside, Owen, Jude, Izzy and Beth are mesmerized by the ants while Leshawna insists that they squash them. Courtney sides with Leshawna, claiming that ants in pants isn't sanitary. Jude removes his shorts for the ants though Courtney and Leshawna prepare to attack them. Owen interrupts, asking how adults would stop this conflict civilly. The kids assemble a mock trial, Save Ants vs Squish Ants, whereupon Beth and Owen talk about an ant's strength. Jude decides to rule in their favor until Leshawna says he has to hear her side and claims that ants will lead to rats which inevitably leads to coyotes, scaring Izzy. Courtney also questions if they are fire ants which can burn down the daycare though Beth objects that ants don't fart fire. An ant crawls into Owen's brain and takes it over, claiming that ants want to live peacefully.

Leshawna decides to attack the ant, but Owen stops her from attacking. Jude calls for order in the court but Courtney cites the incident as proof that ants are evil and Izzy says her aunt is evil for pinching cheeks and giving her the worst birthday gifts. Leshawna interrupts, informing them that Beth scooped up the ants and ran off with Owen. The two hide behind a tree but are easily spotted. Courtney advises that they use a car to pursue them while Beth and Owen run up a seesaw only to fall down. She throws her doll, causing the pair to trip. They prepare to admit defeat but Izzy shows up in a car of her own, rescuing them.

Izzy drives them out of the daycare and onto the streets, eventually entering a circus and being shot out of a cannon and back onto the playground. She launches them into the treehouse and knocks over the ladder so Courtney and Leshawna are unable to pursue. Leshawna decides to use the seesaw to launch Cody into the treehouse and grab the bucket for them though he becomes upset. They tell him that they plan to hug the ants, but when they launch him, he flies over the daycare and disappears into the sky. Courtney and Leshawna use make-shift grappling hooks to climb up the treehouse whereupon Izzy tells them to eat the ants. Beth decides to use Owen's underwear as a slingshot to launch them out of the daycare. The bucket lands on top of a girl, interrupting her romantic picnic date.

Beth celebrates her victory, but Leshawna says she wins as the ants are gone. Owen realizes that they all win when Chef calls them back inside for show-and-tell time. Inside, Beth, Cody, Courtney, Jude, Izzy, Leshawna, and Owen watch as Chef uses puppets to explain that he got the class new pets after hearing them play with the ant hill: scorpions. He drops the jar holding them and the kids begin to run around, except Beth, who insists that they are friends. A scorpion pinches her and Beth yells at the others to squash them.

Post credits scene
Chef is reading when Duncan opens his book and takes a out a pair of glasses that look while he is awake while he naps. Owen opens his book and take out a sandwich, Harold opens his book and takes out a smaller book, and Beth takes out a cat from her book.

Cast and characters
! colspan="3" | Non-speaking characters
 * Emilie-Claire Barlow
 * colspan="2" | Courtney
 * Katie Crown
 * colspan="2" | Izzy
 * Sarah Gadon
 * colspan="2" | Beth
 * Deven Mack
 * colspan="2" | Chef Hatchet
 * Scott McCord
 * colspan="2" | Owen
 * Christian Potenza
 * colspan="2" | Jude Lizowski
 * Bahia Watson
 * colspan="2" | Leshawna
 * Wyatt White
 * colspan="2" | Cody
 * Christian Potenza
 * colspan="2" | Jude Lizowski
 * Bahia Watson
 * colspan="2" | Leshawna
 * Wyatt White
 * colspan="2" | Cody
 * Wyatt White
 * colspan="2" | Cody
 * colspan="3" | Duncan
 * colspan="3" | Duncan

General

 * This was the first episode of Total DramaRama not to premiere alongside another episode.