User blog comment:Freefalling Lilacs/Lilac Ranks Total Drama/@comment-1874924-20140201070853

I can't speak to the butt soaking scene, but I can assure you that you're not alone regarding Bridgette. Both I and all the other adults I know personally who saw the episode (ranging in age from early 40s to early 70s) got a chuckle out of the barfing-whilst-handstanding scene, probably because it's so fundamentally absurd.

I think the problem with Izzy is that she got flanderized from TDI's eccentric oddball who occasionally exhibited full-fledged insanity to TDWT's full tilt raving loony. That's probably also part of the reason why her fanfic characterizations are so hit or miss: some writers are going for Early Izzy, and others are going for Late Izzy. LTDI, for example, uses an Early Izzy characterization because that version is better suited to a primarily dramatic story. Poorly handled Late Izzy portrayals are much more likely to turn her into (more of) a caricature.

As for Leshawna, I noticed in Season 1 (and mentioned on her TDI-G&S page) that she and Gwen seemed to be almost a tag team as Heather's foils. Only once (in the Pirate Treasure episode) did Gwen and Leshawna both have major roles in the same episode.

Something else I noticed in TDI and mentioned in TDI-G&S: Bridgette and Leshawna seemed to be the two female campers who were the most widely liked by their fellows.