The two teams compete in a twenty-kilometer race and a buffet-eating contest, but they discover that their real challenge is an "Awake-A-Thon" to see who can stay awake the longest. Two campers start to bond, and the first alliance is formed. Meanwhile, another camper is sabotaged by a schemer and is voted off by her team.
Plot[]
Eva attempts to attack Chris but is restrained by Duncan and Geoff.
The episode begins with Chris waking up the two teams with the sound of a loud horn. Leshawna wakes up abruptly, hits her head on the top bunk, and angrily asks Chris if they are keeping farm hours. Ignoring her, Chris announces that the next challenge begins in one minute with a twenty-kilometer run around the lake. Owen asks if there's breakfast, and Chris says there will be after the challenge is complete. A grumpy Eva tries to punch Chris when she hears this, but restrained by Duncan and Geoff.
 Courtney |
“ | Okay, that girl Eva has got to get a handle on her temper. She's only been here one day and she's already thrown her suitcase out a window and broken the lock on one of the bathroom doors. | ” |
 Heather |
“ | I don't run, and I definitely don't run in high-heeled wedges. | ” |
The run begins, with some campers actually running, and others just walking. Heather sees a breathless Owen licking a puddle, but when he tries to explain his condition, she walks over him as she continues, attributing his condition to overeating. Afterwards, the tired campers gather in the main lodge, where an unconscious Noah is carried to a table by Owen, who tries to revive him while his teammates look on in concern. Harold, wheezing to a scornful Courtney that he is having heart palpitations, finishes last, so the Screaming Gophers think they have won the challenge and earned invincibility. Chris interrupts their celebration, reveals that the race was not the challenge, and unveils a delicious banquet for the campers to eat.
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The campers arrive at the banquet, grateful to be eating real food after a week of Chef's disgusting meals. When they are finished, Chris announces the real challenge, called the Awake-A-Thon, where the last person awake wins the challenge for his or her team. The twenty-kilometer run and the banquet should make it even more difficult for the campers to stay awake. When asked by Trent, Gwen predicts that it will take an hour, maybe less, before everyone falls asleep.
Twelve hours into the challenge, Chris finds that all twenty-one campers are still awake, but Owen quickly becomes the first to fall asleep.
 Gwen |
“ | The Awake-A-Thon was definitely the most brutal thing I've ever done in my life. | ” |
Heather forms the first Total Drama big alliance with Beth and Lindsay.
Heather asks Beth and Lindsay to join her alliance, and they agree to do so. Lindsay then innocently asks if Tyler can join it, too, but Heather immediately rejects her idea, explaining to her that he is on the other team.
Heather |
“ | So, my strategy is to get two other campers to form an alliance with me and take to the final three. The only question is who can I find that is either desperate or dumb enough to do whatever I say? | ” |
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On her way to the bathroom, Eva drops her MP3 player, and Heather, well aware of Eva's short temper and conflict with her team, takes it and hides it. Heather explains to a confused Lindsay that this would make Eva angry, which could exacerbate the conflict with her team, get her eliminated, and remove a strong player.
The contestants during the challenge.
The Awake-A-Thon reaches the twenty-four hour mark, and seventeen of the twenty-one campers remain awake, with Bridgette, Noah, and Izzy now asleep. Tyler slowly drifts off, but has a nightmare about Katie and Sadie being mauled by a bear. Chris decides to make the Awake-A-Thon even more crazy than ever by reading fairy tales to the campers, accompanied by Chef dressed in a sheep costume and playing the harp, to lull more campers to sleep. Next, Chris has Chef dress up in a tutu and dance to the music of "The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" in order to make even more campers fall asleep. Despite his attempts to stay awake by tying himself to a tree, DJ falls asleep, taking the tree down with him.
Courtney |
“ | I figured that if I kept moving, I could outlast all of them. I just had to keep my eye on the ball. | ” |
Courtney tries to keep moving in place constantly in order to stay awake, but eventually falls asleep as well. The score is even with four Gophers and Bass awake, then Lindsay and Beth fall asleep.
 Owen |
“ | Did I mention that I ate the entire dish of baked beans and maple syrup? Funny thing about baked beans, they make me sleepwalk. | ” |
Gwen and Trent pass the time by bonding during the challenge.
Due to eating baked beans at the banquet, Owen is seen sleepwalking naked, falling off a thousand-foot cliff, and swimming upstream with fish, but is still asleep. Trent and Gwen talk to each other to try to stay awake; a potential relationship begins to blossom, as they learn about each other's interests while trying not to fall asleep.
After fifty-one hours, Gwen, Trent, and Eva notice that Justin has painted his eyelids to look like they're open, so Chris disqualifies him. After eighty-five hours, Cody has also fallen asleep, and Duncan passes the time by getting a sleeping Harold to wet himself by putting his hand in warm water. Duncan is ecstatic when he realizes that the old trick actually works. Noah wakes up to find himself cuddling Cody and kissing his ear, much to his and Cody's horror. Finally, Chris decides to let the campers who have already fallen asleep go and take a shower.
Eighty-five hours later, Duncan, Gwen, Heather, Eva, and Trent are the only ones still awake. Chris uses his last resort: reading the history of Canada in pop-up book form.
Gwen |
“ | Oh, come on! What now? Okay, you know what? Bring it on! | ” |
Duncan and Gwen are the only ones left that are still in the challenge.
This is boring enough to put Eva and Heather to sleep immediately, and, soon after that Trent as well, to Gwen's dismay. After the first chapter, it's just Gwen and Duncan. After a while, Chris decides to give them a bathroom break. Duncan tries to hold it, but gives in when Gwen challenges him to hold it for another ten chapters of the book. Duncan is later found asleep in the stall, and this news is announced just seconds before Gwen falls asleep. Gwen is declared the official winner of the Awake-A-Thon, giving the Screaming Gophers invincibility, and causing the Killer Bass to have to eliminate someone.
Later that afternoon, Eva is seen throwing things out of her cabin window, looking for her MP3 player, and accusing her teammates of stealing it. Heather arrives with the MP3 in hand and gives it back to Eva, pretending to have found it near the campfire pit.
Heather |
“ | Turn a team against their own member, easiest trick in the book. | ” |
Eva tries to apologize to her teammates for the accusation, but is only met with a frown.
Eva is not happy about her elimination.
That night, at the campfire ceremony, Chris gives the marshmallows to everyone except Eva, who is eliminated. After yelling at her former teammates and kicking Chris in the shin, Eva boards the Boat of Losers. Afterwards, Courtney has a marshmallow toast with her teammates and vows that her team will not be in this position again next week.
Courtney |
“ | See? I told you. You can't act like a total raging psychopath and then expect people to just forgive you. No matter how tough and strong and fast you are. She's never gonna have a career if she doesn't get her act together. | ” |
Heather |
“ | So, Eva was one of their strongest players, and now she's gone. I am so running this game! | ” |
Owen is seen sleeping in a cave as four Sasquatchanakwas look at him. One of them pokes him with a stick, causing him to fart. The smell causes them to kick Owen out of the cave, where he stays for the night.
Cast[]
| Voice actor | Role(s) |
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| Christian Potenza | Chris |
| Sarah Gadon | Beth |
| Emilie-Claire Barlow | Courtney |
| Drew Nelson | Duncan |
| Julia Chantrey | Eva |
| Megan Fahlenbock | Gwen |
| Brian Froud | Harold |
| Rachel Wilson | Heather |
| Stephanie Anne Mills | Lindsay |
| Novie Edwards | Leshawna |
| Scott McCord | Owen/Trent |
- Bridgette, Chef, Cody, DJ, Geoff, Izzy, Justin, Katie, Noah, Sadie, and Tyler appear, but they have no lines. However, Noah, Cody, and Tyler can be heard screaming, Katie and Sadie gasping, DJ yawning as he falls asleep, and Chef growling while strumming the harp.
- The cameraman is heard speaking as he checks up on Duncan in the bathroom, but it is unknown who voiced him.
Elimination Ceremony[]
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| Status | Contestant |
| Safe |         Duncan, Bridgette, Courtney, Katie, Sadie, Tyler, DJ, Geoff |
| Low |  Harold |
| Out |  Eva |
Still in the running[]
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Trivia[]
General[]
- The bear and Sasquatchanakwa make their debut.
- The first alliance in the series is formed.
- Owen's butt is shown uncensored. For the rest of the series, it is pixelated when shown.
Continuity[]
References[]
- The title of this episode is likely a reference to the 1939 crime novel of the same name, The Big Sleep, or the 1946 film adaptation.
- When Chef Hatchet dances around in a tutu, the song "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy", from the 1892 ballet, The Nutcracker plays.
- Trent's favorite song, "She Would Be Loved," is a reference to a real song called "She Will Be Loved" by Maroon 5.
- Gwen's favorite movie scene is a reference to Crossroads, which starred Britney Spears.
- The challenge in this episode may be a reference to the British reality show, Shattered.
- The shot of a hallucinating Tyler screaming and clutching the sides of his head, along with the eerily colored and streaked background, is a reference to the famous painting The Scream by Edvard Munch.
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 is clearly nowhere near her the previous scene.
- Chris wears shorts when he wakes up the campers. However, when he starts the run around the lake, he is wearing pants.
- Courtney says that Eva was only at Camp Wawanakwa for one day, contradicting Gwen's later statement that they had been eating Chef's food for a week.
- When Gwen and Trent look at the stars, Gwen calls the pulsar "the pulstar".
- When Lindsay asks Heather if she has Eva's MP3 player, Heather's lips don't move when she says "Yeah".
- When Gwen and Trent see Owen naked, their eyes are wide and the bags under their eyes are missing. Their eyes also widen when they think Justin is still awake, but the bags are there.
- Although the Screaming Gophers seem to have won the first challenge, Izzy is not seen with them in the cafeteria.
- When the Killer Bass waves goodbye to Eva, Justin is seen with them, even though he is on the other team.
- When the campers are sitting in the cafeteria waiting for the others to finish their run, the table on the right has Gwen sitting in the inside row. But in the next scene, Beth is sitting there.
- Part of DJ's stomach is superimposed on the table when the camera shows him lying on the table.
- When Gwen talks to Trent while trying to stay awake, the bags under her eyes are gone. However, they immediately reappear in her close-up. Trent doesn't have bags at the beginning of the conversation, but later on he does.
- At one point, the score stands is 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 indicates that six Gopher campers are still awake, there are actually seven awake (Gwen, Trent, Heather, Justin, Lindsay, Beth, and Cody).
- When Owen falls asleep, despite being the first one to do so, the scoreboard shows that the Killer Bass are winning ten to nine.
- Cody has a gap in his teeth, but when Owen farts in his face, he has a full upper row of teeth.
- When Eva smiles when she sees Heather with her MP3 player, her mole moves to the left side.
- When some of the campers fall asleep, they still have bags under their eyes, but when Duncan, Eva, and a few others fall asleep, their bags disappear.
- When Noah and Cody start 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 another one.
- When Owen tries to revive Noah, his ear is missing.
- When Izzy is sleeping, she wears two bracelets, although she usually wears one on her right wrist.
- Eva's hair seems to be longer on the Dock of Shame and when she is boards the Boat of Losers.
- When Eva said, "This lame-o TV show," the closed captioning on Netflix left out the word "lame-o."
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See also[]
- "Not So Happy Campers—Part 1"
- "Not So Happy Campers—Part 2"
- "The Big Sleep"
- "Dodgebrawl"
- "Not Quite Famous"
- "The Sucky Outdoors"
- "Phobia Factor"
- "Up the Creek"
- "Paintball Deer Hunter"
- "If You Can't Take the Heat..."
- "Who Can You Trust?"
- "Basic Straining"
- "X-Treme Torture"
- "Brunch of Disgustingness"
- "No Pain, No Game"
- "Search and Do Not Destroy"
- "Hide and Be Sneaky"
- "That's Off the Chain!"
- "Hook, Line, and Screamer"
- "Wawanakwa Gone Wild!"
- "Trial by Tri-Armed Triathlon"
- "Haute Camp-ture"
- "Camp Castaways"
- "Are We There Yeti?"
- "I Triple Dog Dare You!"
- "The Very Last Episode, Really!"
- "Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island"
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