The Big Sleep

'''The two teams set out on a twenty kilometer race that wasn't actually the challenge, only to compete in "The Awake-A-Thon." 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
Chris wakes the two teams up by blowing a horn. Leshawna hits her head on the top bunk, angered by how early she was woken up, she 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 gets angry. Duncan and Geoff hold her back however. Courtney says in the confessional that Eva has 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 those people who didn't put the effort in and stepped into a puddle, being licked by Owen, who was trying to catch his breath. Heather walks on top of Owen to get by him. Afterwards, the tired campers are gathered in the main lodge. Noah is seen unconscious and 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. 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 changes her answer and says maybe less.

Twelve hours into the competition, 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 her 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 in 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 has a nightmare in which Katie and Sadie are mauled by a grizzly bear. Chris decides to start reading fairy tales to the campers, accompanied by Chef (dressed in a tutu) playing the harp in order to lull more of the campers into sleeping. Chef starts dancing and sprinkling "sparkles" (possibly "sleeping sand") 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 putting 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 to lull the remaining campers to fall asleep: 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: Gwen and Duncan, respectively. 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. Then it 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 sleeping in a cave as four Sasquatchanakwa look at him. One pokes him with a stick, causing him to fart. The Sasquatchanakwa sniffs the air, then throws Owen out of the cave, leaving Owen there for the rest of the night.

Cast

 * Noah, Cody, Justin, Tyler, Izzy, Bridgette, DJ, Katie, Sadie, and Geoff appear, but have no lines, although Noah, Cody, and Tyler are heard screaming, Katie and Sadie gasp, and DJ yawns when he falls asleep.

Quotes

 * Leshawna: (after Chris wakes everyone up, banging her head on the window) Ow! It's seven in the morning!! Do I look like a farmer to you?


 * Courtney: (in the Confessional Stall) Okay, that girl Eva has got to get a handle on her temper. She's only been here one day and already she's thrown her suitcase out the window and broke one of the locks on the bathroom door.

Heather: Yeah, it's called "over-eating." Look into it. Leshawna: Well, what's your excuse, you skinny, annoying... whew! (leans against a tree) Too tired for insults.
 * Owen: (out of breath) Can't... catch... breath... must... have... condition!

Chris: Okay campers, time for part two of your challenge! Owen: I thought eating was the second part! Gwen: What more do you want from us? Heather: (rubbing her now bloated stomach) Ugh, weird goth girl is right! Haven't we been through enough? Chris: Umm, let me think about that.... no!
 * Campers: (after the buffet, groaning)

Chris: That's right, Gwen! Gwen: Man, he's good.
 * Gwen: So you mean that the twenty kilometer run and the turkey-eating frenzy were just part of your sinister plot to make it harder for us to stay awake?


 * Owen: Stay awake for twelve hours? I could do that in my sleep! Woo-hoo! (falls asleep)

Gwen: (yawns) This is the most boring thing I've ever done in my life. Trent: It could be way worse. Gwen: Oh yeah? How? Trent: I could be stuck here without you to talk to.
 * Gwen: (in the Confessional) The Awake-A-Thon was definitely the most brutal thing I had ever done in my life. (camera cuts back to Awake-a-thon) 


 * Lindsay: (in the Confessional, referring to Tyler) Heather said I couldn't date him. She never said I couldn't like him.

Trent: "She Would Be Loved." Favorite color? Gwen: Midnight Blue. Trent: Ooh, mysterious. I like that. (Gwen blushes and yawns) Trent: No, don't fall asleep now! Quick...favorite movie moment... Gwen: You're gonna think it's cheesy. Trent: I promise I won't. Gwen: Okay, the kiss of the end of that road trip movie, you know, the one with the guy and the three girls. Trent: I know the one! You like that movie? (Owen walks by without his clothes on and Gwen & Trent stare in shock)
 * Gwen: Favorite song?

Sadie: (snores loudly)'' Katie: (exhales; snores very loudly) Sadie: (exhales; snores) (The scene cuts back to Trent and Gwen as Katie and Sadie continue snoring loud) Trent: Cool... they even fall asleep together.
 * Owen: (in the Confessional Stall) Did I mention that I ate the entire batch of baked beans and maple syrup? Funny thing about baked beans... they make me sleepwalk. ''(Cuts back to the Awake-A-Thon, this time to Sadie and Katie, who are fast asleep)

Chris: (drinking a coffee) What is wrong with you people? C'mon, fall asleep already! Gwen: (on her knees, desperately tugging at Chris' shirt) You've gotta hook me up, man! I'll even eat the grinds! ..Anything!
 * Gwen: (yawns) I'd kill for a coffee right now.

Gwen: (in the confessional) Oh, come on! What now? Okay, you know what? Bring it on! Chris: The History of Canada. A pop-up book. Chapter one, the beaver. National symbol and a "dam" fine hat.
 * Chris: I didn't want it to come to this. I said that to Chef Hatchet last night. I said, "Chef, I don't want it to come to this." But darn it, these campers are tough! And so, I've come up with the most boring, sleep-inducing activity I can find.

Duncan: I've held it this long, sweetheart! I can go all day. Gwen: Yeah, but can you hold it for another ten chapters?
 * Chris: Before we continue on with the story, who needs a bathroom break?

Chris: (clutching his leg) OW! Have a good night sleep tonight. You're all safe.
 * Eva: (sarcastically) Nice, really nice. Who needs this stupid TV show anyway?! (kicks Chris in the knee)


 * Courtney: Bye-bye, Eva. (Eva throws a spear at Courtney, which barely misses her) Touchy!


 * Eva: (as she is leaving on the Boat of Losers) I guess my temper did get the better of me... again. But whatever, it's their loss. They just lost their strongest competitor; I hope they realize that!


 * Courtney: (at the bonfire) To the Killer Bass! And to not ending up here again next week!

Trivia

 * Title Reference: This episodes title is likely a reference to the 1939 crime novel of the same name, The Big Sleep or the 1946 movie also named The Big Sleep.
 * This is the first episode where Emilie Claire Barlow was the voice of Courtney.
 * The campers in the confessional in this episode are Heather, Owen, Gwen, Beth, and Courtney.
 * All contestants 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.
 * This is the first time Heather, Beth, and Courtney use the confessional.
 * 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 be seen.
 * Heather forms an alliance with Lindsay and Beth in this episode, making Heather the first competitor in the Total Drama series to form an alliance.
 * When Chef Hatchet is dancing around in a tutu, the song is Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy from the ballet The Nutcracker.
 * Trent's favorite song, "She Would Be Loved," is a possible reference of a real-life song named "She Will Be Loved" performed by Maroon 5.
 * Gwen's favorite movie scene is a reference to Crossroads, which starred Britney Spears.
 * Justin is found cheating, foreshadowing his antagonistic role in Total Drama Action.
 * The Bear and Sasquatchanakwa make their debut in this episode.
 * This is first episode where two same characters of the same gender "kiss" (Cody and Noah).
 * This is also the first "kiss" of the series.
 * The challenge in this episode may be a reference to the British reality show, Shattered.

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 near by in the previous scene.
 * Chris is wearing shorts when he wakes the campers up (Heather even comments on this). However, when he starts the run around the lake, he is wearing pants. However, Chris' superficial personality may have made him feel like changing his 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. The eyes also widen when they think Justin is still awake, yet the bags are still there. (However, Owen being nude may have been more shocking.)
 * The Screaming Gophers apparently won the racing part of the challenge, however Izzy doesn't appear with the Gophers in the cafeteria.
 * When the Bass team are waving good-bye to Eva, Justin is seen with them, though he is not a Bass member. Justin is also seen in the same scene earlier when Eva throws a spear.
 * 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 then 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 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 are still awake. However, when Owen got eliminated, the scoreboard shows that the Killer Bass are winning ten to nine. The Screaming Gophers still have all eleven teammates, meaning that if all twenty-one campers participated, the original score should 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 see's 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.
 * At the end of Gwen's confessional ("Oh, come on! what now? Okay you know what? Bring it on!"), she goes back to her original pose from the beginning of the confessional.
 * When Chris begins reading The History of the Beaver, he says its chapter one, but he opened up to the middle and chapter one wouldn't be in the middle.
 * When finishing the twenty-kilometer run and most campers are seen at the mess hall, Lindsay is seen at the Killer Bass table.
 * The contest hits the twenty-four hour mark in the middle of the night, even though the contest actually began during the day.
 * However, technically they'd been awake all day, so they'd been awake for twenty-four hours.
 * 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).