The Big Sleep

'''The two teams set out on a twenty kilometer race and eat a buffet, only to discover that wasn't the actual challenge. They must compete in "The Awake-A-Thon," a challenge testing your endurance and seeing how long you can stay awake. The camper who is the last one awake wins for their team. As the first alliance is formed, another camper is voted off the island, due to an opposing team member's meddling.'''

Plot
The episode opens to Chris waking up the two teams by blowing a horn. Because of this, Leshawna abruptly wakes up and hits her head on the top bunk, and, angered by how early she was woken up, asked Chris if she looked like a farmer to him. The scene changes and Chris says the next challenge begins in one minute with a twenty kilometer run around the lake on the campus. Owen asks Chris if there will be breakfast and Chris says there will be breakfast, but after they complete the challenge. Eva gets ticked off at Chris and attempts to punch him, however, Duncan and Geoff hold her back. Courtney says in the confessional that Eva has to learn how to control her anger, stating that Eva threw her suitcase at a window and broke a lock on a bathroom door.

The run begins and some campers make an attempt at it, while others choose not to put in the effort and walk. Heather is one of the people in the latter group and stepped into a puddle that was being licked up by Owen, who was trying to catch his breath and claims to have some sort of condition because of it. Heather walks on top of Owen to get by him. Afterwards, the tired campers are gathered in the main lodge. Noah, who is apparently unconscious, is carried by Owen to a table where he rapidly attempts to revive Noah. When everyone on the Screaming Gophers arrives before everyone on the Killer Bass, they think they have won the challenge and earned invincibility (causing Noah to wake up). However, Chris interrupts them to say the run wasn't the challenge and unveils a delicious banquet for the campers to eat: Turkey, energy bars, cooked beans, maple syrup, gravy, and much more makes up the exquisite meal. The campers gladly eat all of the food, overwhelmed by being able to eat real food after a week of Chef Hatchet's disgusting meals. They all think they have been through enough, but Chris announces the second part of the challenge: the Awake-A-Thon. The rules are that the last person awake wins the challenge for his or her team. The twenty kilometer run and the large banquet of food served to make it more difficult for the campers to stay awake. Trent walks over to Gwen and asks her when she thinks everyone will fall asleep. Gwen responds saying one hour, as a drooling Owen walks by. Gwen then changes her answer and says "maybe less."

Twelve hours into the challenge, Chris notes that all twenty one campers are still awake, but Owen quickly becomes the first one to succumb to slumber. Gwen comments that the Awake-A-thon was the most brutal event she has ever done in her life. Heather muses in the confessional about setting up an alliance to get her to the final three, needing someone desperate or dumb enough to do whatever she says. She asks Beth and Lindsay to join her in the alliance, which they agree to do. On her way to the bathroom, Eva drops her MP3 player. Heather, apparently well aware of Eva's short temper and conflict with her own team already, secretly scoops up the fallen MP3 player, and hides it. Heather banks on this enraging Eva, which will cause her teammates to eliminate her and get rid of one of their strongest members.

When the Awake-A-Thon hits the twenty-four hour mark, seventeen of the twenty-one campers remain awake, with Bridgette, Noah, and Izzy now also asleep. Tyler slowly dozes off and proceeds to have a nightmare in which Katie and Sadie are mauled by a grizzly bear. Chris decides to start reading fairytales to the campers, accompanied by Chef dressed in a tutu and playing the harp in order to lull more of the campers into sleeping. Chef starts dancing and sprinkling "sparkles" over the campers while Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy plays in the background. DJ, despite his attempts to stay awake by tying himself to a tree, falls asleep, taking the tree down with him. Courtney looks to keep moving in place constantly in order to stay awake, but eventually falls asleep as well. The score evens up with four Gophers and Bass awake when Lindsay and Beth fall asleep. Owen is seen sleepwalking in the nude as Trent and Gwen talk to each other to try and stay awake, making it the first time a relationship between the two starts to bud. Owen falls off the thousand foot cliff as his sleepwalking continues.

At the fifty-one hour mark, Gwen, Trent, and Eva notice that Justin has painted eyes to pretend to be awake and Chris disqualifies him. After Owen is shown sleep-swimming upstream with the fish, the scene shifts to eighty-five hours into the Awake-A-Thon. By now, Courtney and Cody have also fallen asleep. Duncan passes the time by causing a sleeping Harold to wet himself by placing his hand in warm water. Duncan is ecstatic when he realizes the old trick actually works. Noah awakens to discover he is cuddling with Cody and kissing his ear, which leads to both of them screaming in horror. Eventually, Chris suggests that the campers who had fallen asleep should take a shower, as everyone was starting to smell by this point. Harold, hoping no one will see that he had wet himself, is more than glad to obey.

By the hundred-hour mark, only Duncan, Gwen, Heather, Eva, and Trent are left awake. Chris uses his last resort: reading to them the history of Canada in pop-up book form. This is boring enough to put Eva and Heather to sleep immediately. Soon after, Trent falls asleep, immensely devastating Gwen. After only the first chapter of the book, it was now down to only one Gopher and one Bass. After a while, Chris decides to give the remaining contestants a bathroom break. Duncan tries to hold it, but concedes when Gwen challenges him to hold it for another ten chapters of the pop-up book. Duncan is later found asleep in the stall and this news is announced mere seconds before Gwen falls asleep as well. Gwen is the official winner of the Awake-A-Thon, giving her and her team invincibility.

Later that afternoon, Eva is seen throwing things out of her cabin's window, looking for her beloved MP3 player. Eva accuses her teammates of stealing it. Soon Heather arrives and says she found the MP3 player next to the campfire pit, then hands it back to Eva, who tries to apologize to her team for snapping and accusing them, but is only frowned upon. That night at the campfire ceremony, Chris gives the marshmallows to Duncan, Bridgette, Courtney, Katie, Sadie, Tyler, DJ, and Geoff. It then comes down to Eva and Harold, and Chris gives the final marshmallow to Harold, meaning that Eva is voted off. After screaming at her former teammates and kicking Chris in the shin, Eva boards the Boat of Losers and leaves the island.

Afterwards, Courtney has a marshmallow toast with her teammates, vowing that her team will not end up in this position again next week. Owen is then seen sleeping in a cave as four Sasquatchanakwas look at him. One of them pokes him with a stick, causing him to fart. One of them sniffs the air, then throws Owen out of the cave, leaving him there alone for the rest of the night.

Cast

 * Noah, Cody, Justin, Tyler, Izzy, Bridgette, DJ, Katie, Sadie, Chef, and Geoff appeared, but they had no lines, although Noah, Cody, and Tyler were heard screaming, Katie and Sadie gasped, and DJ yawned when he fell asleep.

General

 * The campers who used the confessional in this episode are Heather, Owen, Gwen, Beth, and Courtney:
 * All of the campers that used the confessional in this episode made it to the final four at some point in the series.
 * Courtney is the only Killer Bass member to use the confessional, and the first female Killer Bass member to use the confessional.
 * Owen is the only male to use the confessional.
 * This is the first time Heather, Beth, and Courtney use the confessional.
 * The bear and Sasquatchanakwa make their debut in this episode.
 * The first alliance of the series is formed in this episode.

Continuity

 * Even though the Total Drama series is supposed to be a reality show, Tyler and Cody's dreams/hallucinations are viewable. Later on in the series, Owen's dreams can also be seen.
 * This is the first episode in which Emilie Claire Barlow voices Courtney.
 * Gwen has her first one-on-one interactions with both her future boyfriends in this episode.

Goofs

 * When all the campers are standing in front of the cabins, getting ready for the first challenge, Harold is seen walking over to stand next to Eva, but in the next scene Cody is walking over to her and he clearly wasn't anywhere nearby in the previous scene.
 * Chris is wearing shorts when he wakes the campers up. However, when he starts the run around the lake, he is wearing pants.
 * After the buffet, Gwen and Heather appear to have gained a lot of weight, enough to change the shape of their bellies, but when the Awake-A-Thon begins, their bellies have returned to normal.
 * However, it may have been because of the fact that Gwen and Heather went without food for twelve hours that they have lost all of their weight.
 * In the confessional, Courtney says that Eva had only been on Camp Wawanakwa one day, meaning that was how long they were on the island. However, Gwen later says that they had eaten Chef's food for a week, implying that they were there for at least that long. It's possible Courtney recorded her confession in Not So Happy Campers - Part 2.
 * When Gwen and Trent see Owen naked, their eyes are wide and the bags are missing. Their eyes also widen when they think Justin is still awake, yet the bags are still there.
 * The Screaming Gophers apparently won the racing part of the challenge. However, Izzy doesn't appear with the Gophers in the cafeteria.
 * When the Killer Bass are waving goodbye to Eva, Justin is seen with them, though he is not a Bass member.
 * When the campers are sitting in the cafeteria waiting for the others to finish their run, the table on the right has Gwen sitting on the inside row. However, in the next scene, Beth is sitting there.
 * When Gwen is talking to Trent (attempting to stay awake) the bags under her eyes are missing, however, they instantly show up again on her close up. Also, Trent doesn't have bags at the beginning of the conversation, but later on he does.
 * At one point, the score stands at nine Gophers to seven Bass. However, these scores are reversed, as there are nine Bass awake (only Bridgette is asleep) to seven Gophers (Owen, Noah, Izzy, and Leshawna are asleep).
 * When the counter points out that six Gopher campers are still up, there are actually seven awake (Gwen, Trent, Heather, Justin, Lindsay, Beth, and Cody).
 * Before Owen began to sleep during the twelve-hour checkpoint, Chris said that all twenty-one campers were still awake. However, when Owen got eliminated, the scoreboard showed that the Killer Bass were winning ten to nine. The Screaming Gophers still had all eleven teammates, meaning that if all twenty-one campers participated, the original score would have been the Gophers with eleven to the Bass' ten, and later ten to ten after Owen got eliminated.
 * Throughout the series, Cody has a gap in his teeth, but when Owen farts in his face, he has a full top row of teeth.
 * When Eva is turning the cabin upside down trying to find her MP3 Player, she throws Trent's guitar out the window at one point, but Trent is not a Killer Bass, however, she may have been suspicious of the other team as well as her own.
 * When Eva smiles as she sees Heather with her MP3 player, her mole is switched to the left side.
 * When some of the campers fall asleep there are still bags under their eyes, but when Duncan and a few other campers fell asleep the bags disappear.
 * When Noah and Cody begin to wake up, Noah's white undershirt is red.
 * When Geoff is given his marshmallow he eats it, but at the end when all the Bass are roasting their marshmallows over the campfire he has one again.
 * When Chris begins reading The History of the Beaver, he says its chapter one, but he opened up to the middle of the book where chapter one is least likely to be found. This gag is found in many cartoons.
 * When finishing the twenty-kilometer run and most campers are seen at the mess hall, Lindsay is seen at the Killer Bass table.
 * When Eva fell asleep, the bags under her eyes are missing.
 * When Owen tries to revive Noah, his ear is missing.
 * When Izzy is sleeping, she is wearing two wristbands despite usually only wearing one (on her right wrist).