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-| Season=1
-| Production=105
-| Airdate= [[November 24|24 November]] [[2002]]
-| Writer= [[Murray Miller]] and [[Judah Miller ]]
-| Image = [[Image:Clone High Episode 5 Promo.jpg|250px]]
-| Director= [[Phil Lord]] and [[Christopher Miller]]
-| Guests = [[John C. McGinley]] as Doug Prepcourse.
-| Prev=[[Film Fest: Tears of a Clone]]
-| Next=[[Homecoming: A Shot in D'Arc]]
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-'''Sleep of Faith: La Rue D'Awakening''' (a.k.a. “Sleepy Driving: La Rue D’Awakening”<ref name="pundog">{{cite web | author=Pava, Adam | title= Episode Notes for ‘Sleepy Driving: La Rue D'Awakening’ | format=HTML | work=CloneHighUSA.com | url=http://www.clonehighusa.com/backstage/episode_notes/episode_five.html}}</ref>) is an episode of ''[[Clone High]]''.
-==Plot==
-===Synopsis===
-It’s PXJT season at Clone High. [[Abe (Clone High)|Abe]] and [[JFK (Clone High)|JFK]] are fighting for [[Cleopatra (Clone High)|Cleo]]’s affections, and Abe begins not sleeping in order to help Cleo study. [[Joan of Arc (Clone High)|Joan]]’s concern for Abe causes her to uncover her own dark secret. [[Gandhi (Clone High)|Gandhi]] decides he doesn’t want to take the test, and wants to be a trucker instead. [[Cinnamon J. Scudworth|Scudworth]] is helping the [[Secret Board of Shadowy Figures]] with an evil plot surrounding the PXJTs – a plot that brings the return of [[Mr. Lynn Butlertron|Mr. Butlertron]]’s old rival.
-===Episode walkthrough===
-At the beginning of the school day, Scudworth announces that the PXJTs are coming up. He warns, “Fail the PXJTs and your life will be ruined forever!” However, the thing he seems most insistent upon is that everyone use a #2 [[pencil]] in writing the test.
-Cleo is worried sick about the PXJTs. She has just broken up with JFK for real, and Abe sees his chance to get closer to her. She instantly capitalises on the situation, and makes him run random errands for her. JFK is also capitalising on the break-up; using the opportunity to get sympathy sex from multiple women at the same time.
-At The Grassy Knoll, Gandhi tells Joan he doesn’t want to take the test, because it has no application in the real world. Abe comes in. He has been running errands for Cleo and hasn’t slept in two days. Joan seems concerned, as does a creepy trucker, who tells a story. One night, the trucker was out driving his rig late at night, when he saw a cop driving who was obviously too sleepy to drive. The trucker tried to guide him off the road, but ended up sending the cop’s car off a cliff, crippling him. Gandhi, however, seems fascinated by the trucker lifestyle. That night, he goes home and tells his parents he wants to be a trucker. They try to disown him.
-Scudworth has gone to speak to the Secret Board of Shadowy Figures, who have been running the PXJTs for years, because the lead from the #2 pencils used to answer the questions fuels Scangrade, an evil test grading machine. After this year, Scangrade will finally have enough power to take over the world. Mr. Butlertron, however, is not happy. He went to school with Scangrade (at [[Amherst College|Amherst]]) and has never liked him.
-Abe, who still hasn’t slept, is out on the road at night. He falls asleep at the wheel, but wakes up just in time to swerve out of the way of an oncoming truckload of [[Giant Panda|pandas]]. He tells Cleo about this, and announces that he needs to sleep and can’t study with her anymore. JFK swoops in immediately, willing to help her study (and hoping to win her back). Abe quickly decides he doesn’t need to sleep, and continues helping her.
-Gandhi is now on the road with the creepy trucker. Gandhi believes that trucking is all about sleeping with random women, but the trucker tells him that trucking is all about making choices – ''multiple choices''. Gandhi isn’t so sure, but the trucker tells him a suspiciously PXJT-style question about geography that involves sleeping with random women, and it makes sense to Gandhi... because it’s real.
-Joan confronts Cleo, telling her to let Abe sleep. Cleo says no, claiming Joan’s just jealous. “Normally, yes,” Joan replies, but in this case, she has a dark personal secret that is influencing her judgement, one she doesn’t yet feel comfortable revealing. The night before the PXJTs, Cleo convinces Abe to stay up reading her the PXJT prepbook as she sleeps.
-[[Image:CLONEHIGH-Sleep1.jpg|thumb|right|Abe and JFK fighting over Cleo.]]
-The morning of the PXJTs, the creepy trucker drives up in front of Clone High to drop off “some precious cargo” – Gandhi’s future. Gandhi has realised, with a little help, that he is ready for the PXJTs. Abe, on the other hand, is worse than ever, and ends up sleeping through the PXJTs. He is horribly depressed about this, and JFK tries again to win Cleo back. They decide to settle who gets to date Cleo with a [[drag race]] at Dead Man’s Slick Mountain Cliff Road, that night.
-Abe arrives home to prepare, but Gandhi and Joan are waiting. It’s an [[Intervention (counseling)|intervention]] about needing to sleep. Gandhi tells Abe a story. The night before seeing ''American Pie'', Gandhi was so excited that he couldn’t sleep. Because of this, he fell asleep in the theatre, and didn’t see the scene where the guy has sex with a pie. Joan also has a story. She reveals that during the summer, she was at a sleep-away camp – a camp for people with sleeping problems. She was addicted to not sleeping. Her “judgement was so poor” from lack of sleep that she got a tattoo of a cute [[dolphin]] saying “[[Whassup?|Whaaaazzup?]]” Abe finally decides to go upstairs and sleep. Later on, Joan and Gandhi are watching ''American Pie''. Joan goes to check on Abe, only to find he has snuck out to go to the drag race!
-Meanwhile, Scangrade is marking the PXJTs, when he comes across one that’s written with a #3 pencil. It was intentionally done, by Mr. Butlertron. They decide to have a final battle. Mr. B throws [[German Chamomile|chamomile]] [[tea]] and [[dust]] in Scangrade’s face, but Scangrade uses a [[Wedge (mechanics)|wedge]] to tip Mr. B over on his back, and he can’t get up. He is about to kill Mr. B, when Mr. B asks for one final request – a multiple choice question. He asks, “Are you a)Handsome, b)Smart, c)Scrap metal, or d)All of the above?” Scangrade tries to reason it out, but believes he is a) and b) but not c), so he can’t be All of the above. This causes an error, and Scangrade explodes. Mr. B comments, “The answer is c, you fuckwad.”
-Despite being tired, Abe is ready to race JFK. The first one to cross the finish line gets Cleo. The race starts, but Abe starts thinking about the stories he’s heard: from the creepy trucker, from Gandhi, and from Cleo; and he realises he might have a problem. He pulls over to the side of the road, and takes a nap. JFK speeds past him, but, just before crossing the finish line, his car flips over. Abe sleeps through the night, wakes up in the morning, and triumphantly crosses the finish line and wins Cleo’s heart. He explains why he won, saying, “Because I did the right thing. I pulled over, and I took a nap.”
-Meanwhile, Gandhi meets up again with the creepy trucker, and tells him that he aced the PXJTs. As the trucker leaves, Gandhi asks him his name, which is revealed to be Doug Prepcourse, the man who designed the PXJT prepcourses. Gandhi is shocked, saying, “But Doug Prepcourse died forty years ago.” With a gasp, Gandhi realises the truth. There was no truck – no Doug Prepcourse. It was just Gandhi, all alone, speeding across the freeway in midair at 50 mph. As Gandhi watches, Doug’s truck drives away, and disappears into nothingness.
-==Featured cast==
-*[[Donald Faison]] – George Washington Carver ([[#Deleted scenes|deleted scene]])
-*[[Neil Flynn]] – zookeeper
-*[[Judah Miller]] – Scangrade, Monotonous James (the radio DJ)<ref name="pundog"/>
-*[[John C. McGinley]] – Doug Prepcourse
-==Featured clones==
-*[[Julius Caesar]]
-*[[Genghis Khan]]
-*[[George Washington Carver]]
-*[[Catherine the Great]]
-*[[Marie Antoinette]]
-*[[Jesus Christ|Jesús Christo]]
-*[[Paul Revere]]
-*[[Nikola Tesla]] (‘Tesla rules’ is written on the chalkboard)
-*the [[Brontë]] sisters
-*[[George Washington]]
-*[[Nostradamus]]
-*[[Vincent van Gogh]]
-==Deleted scenes==
-*To open the episode, a long montage showing Abe’s morning routine in a very cheesy, [[1980s]] [[teen movie]] way. The idea was everything was going really well, and then, later on in the episode, after Abe stopped sleeping, the montage would be repeated with everything going wrong. <ref name="pundog"/>
-**At one point, it was suggested [[The Pretenders]]’ “Don’t Get Me Wrong” was suggested to be used during the opening montage.<ref name="pundog"/>
-*Originally, the test the students were taking was referred to directly as the [[PSAT]]. After recording all of the dialogue, the writers received notice that they were not allowed to use the name. The writers suggested several alternate names, such as “Pre-SAT” and even “PXAT,” all of which were rejected.<ref name="pundog"/>
-**At an even earlier point, every single time anyone referred to the test, they referred to it by its full name: the “PSAT-NMSQT.”<ref name="pundog"/>
-*Scangrade was also originally referred to by his real name: [[Scantron]].<ref name="pundog"/>
-*Along a similar vein, the creepy trucker was originally revealed to be “Stan Kaplan,” referring to the [[Kaplan, Inc.|Kaplan]] test prep company, and again, the writers were forced to change it.<ref name="pundog"/>
-*A scene where Shadowy Figure claimed the ‘P’ in PXJT stood for ‘pencil,’ as in #2.<ref name="pundog"/>
-*A scene after the Secret Board explained their convoluted plan, where Scudworth went on a long rant about how sensible and obvious a plan it is.
-**The dialogue and some of the animation for this scene were completed. The [[leica reel]] for it can be seen [http://www.clonehighusa.com/backstage/out_takes/leica_outtakes_web/index.htm here] (click ‘scud_scantron’).
-*An extended scene with Gandhi at home, where his mom said, “Bubbela, you haven't touched your kugel. What's this, another hunger strike?”<ref name="pundog"/>
-*A scene where George Washington Carver claimed the ‘P’ in PXJT stood for ‘peanuts,’ and then gave the sleep-deprived Abe some of his invention: [[caffeinated]] peanuts. He then said, “[[Starbucks]] would love to get their hands on these babies, but George Washington Carver’s nuts are not for sale!”<ref name="pundog"/>
-**Joan then found Abe holding a bag of the caffeinated peanuts, and said, “Your nut sack’s not the answer this time, Abe. Not this time.”<ref name="pundog"/>
-**An audio file of Carver’s speech can be found [http://www.clonehighusa.com/backstage/out_takes/sound_outakes_web/index.htm here] (click ‘GWCarver_nuts’).
-*After Scudworth calls himself a ‘pencil pusher,’ and says he should send the joke into ''[[The Tonight Show with Jay Leno|Leno]]'', Mr. B originally said, “Yeah, fucking hilarious. [[Kevin Eubanks]] will bust a nut.”
-**Kevin Eubanks is the over-excited leader of the Tonight Show Band.
-**An audio file of this exchange can be found [http://www.clonehighusa.com/backstage/out_takes/sound_outakes_web/index.htm here] (click ‘MR_B_kevin_eubanks’).
-***This audio clip contains [[Christopher Miller]]’s unfiltered (and uncensored) recording of Mr. B’s voice.
-*A scene of Clone Harriet Tubman writing the PXJTs, and claiming they’re racially biased.
-**The dialogue and some of the animation for this scene were completed. The [[leica reel]] for it can be seen [http://www.clonehighusa.com/backstage/out_takes/leica_outtakes_web/index.htm here] (click ‘tubman’).
-*After JFK flipped his car, a scene where Nostradamus predicted that Abe would win, and Clone [[Walt Disney]] made fun of him, saying, “Gee, ya think so, Nostradamus? It’s really amazing, how you can ‘predict the future.’”<ref name="pundog"/>
-**In the end, Disney never ended up being a character in any episode of the show.<ref name="pundog"/>
-==References==
-===Historical references===
-* Directly before flipping his car, JFK says, “Nothing bad ever happens to the Kennedys!” It is often said that more bad things happen to the Kennedys than to most families (a belief known as the [[Kennedy curse]]).
-===Popular culture references===
-* The technique of gaining people’s attention with a high-pitched squealing sound (as with the chalkboard opening up) is a reference to the movie ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]''.
-* The PXJT test is a reference to the [[PSAT/NMSQT]], a pre-test for the [[SATs]] that is used to determine eligibility for scholarships. It is hardly a test where failure would cause one’s life to be “ruined forever.” The importance placed on the test suggests something closer to the real [[SATs]], which are used to determine eligibility for acceptance to American universities (such as the fictional Clone State).
-* "Tesla Rules" is a double reference to Nikolai Tesla and to the hard rock band [[Tesla (band)|Tesla]].
-* Gandhi's foster father screaming "I have no son," is a reference to [[The Jazz Singer]].
-* Scangrade is a reference to the [[Scantron]] test grading system that is used to grade [[multiple-choice]] tests, such as the PSATs.
-* Mr. Butlertron’s fight with Scangrade is reminiscent of the fights on ''[[BattleBots]]'', including the use of weapons like a [[wedge]] and a [[circular saw]].
-* When Abe and JFK are arguing who Cleo belongs to, they are in fact reciting the lines from the song, [[The Girl Is Mine]].
-* Abe’s [[train of thought]] in the car is represented by quotes from throughout the episode being restated by disembodied heads that float by him. This technique is often used on ''The Simpsons''.
-* The series of flashbacks at the end of the episode, showing that Doug Prepcourse was never really there, are a parody of a similar set of scenes at the end of ''[[Fight Club (film)|Fight Club]]'', with some contribution from ''[[The Sixth Sense]]'' thrown in there.
-==Trivia==
-* The announcer claims his nickname is “Pun Dog.” Pun Dog is the real-life nickname of Adam Pava, one of the script coordinators on the show.
-* It is confirmed that Gandhi’s foster parents are [[Jewish]]. This is not surprising, considering we saw a flashback of Gandhi’s [[bar mitzvah]] in Episode 3, [[A.D.D.: The Last 'D' is for Disorder]].
-* Scangrade is voiced by one of the writers of this episode, Judah Miller.<ref name="pundog"/>
-* JFK claims the ‘P’ in PXJT stands for ‘Penis,’ while Clone High’s marquee claims it stands for ‘Pageantry.’ In the original script, there were even more suggestions as to what the ‘P’ might stand for (see [[#Deleted scenes|Deleted scenes]]).
-* This episode contains the first (and only) reference to Clone State. Clone State suggests that the clones receive education past high school, but (for some reason) this is done off the premises of Clone High.
-* The song playing prior to the drag race is "[[Understanding in a Car Crash]]" by [[Thursday (band)|Thursday]], seeming to foreshadow disaster.
-* During the drag race the scene cuts to Abe's odometer, which reads "414186.5" miles.  The real Abe Lincoln was assassinated on 04-14-1865.
-==Notes==
-<div class="small">
-<references/></div>
-==External links==
-{{wikiquote|Clone_High#Sleep_of_Faith: La Rue D.27Awakening .5B1.5.5D|Sleep of Faith: La Rue D’Awakening}}
-* {{imdb title|0542913}}
-{{Clone High}}
-[[Category:Clone High episodes]]