Teletoon air date: 12/1/2002
MTV air date: 2/17/2003
Written by: Murray Miller and Judah Miller
The PXJTs, Clone High's regional aptitude test, is coming up and the clones are all in a panic. Still desperate to get on Cleo's good side, Abe agrees to help her study and develops a serious sleep deprivation problem, forcing Joan and Gandhi to intervene. Meanwhile, Gandhi gets some unexpected PXJT prepping from a mysterious trucker and Mr. Buttlertron butts heads with the school's cocky Scranton machine, Scan Grade the Magnificent.
Nothing bad ever happens to the tropes:
- All Men Are Perverts: And how! None of the male characters do anything in this episode unless it's for the prospect of sex. JFK and Abe compete for studying time with Cleo in the hope that she'll reward them with sex, and even Gandhi and his trucker friend agree that a major part of trucking is finding random female hitchhikers to sleep with.
- Always a Live Transmission: The On the Next segment has the narrator screw up his line and curse himself for also spoiling the ending of The Sixth Sense for his friend, then lampshade the implications of his flub being in the episode.Why do we do this LIVE?!
- Answer Cut: Joan tells Abe not to drive while sleep deprived after he crashes into an animal cracker display at the supermarket, but Abe sarcastically reassures her that he's not going to crash into a big truck of animals. Cut to every panda in existence being loaded onto a truck and the wrangler warning the driver to watch out for other drivers who are sleepy.
- Brick Joke: During his Hurricane of Euphemisms, JFK mentions that the P in PXJT stands for "penis." When the clones go to take the test, the school's sign has a disclaimer reading "The P stands for Pageantry."
- Broken Aesop: Parodied. During Abe's intervention, Gandhi tells him that his own sleep deprivation made him miss the signature scene of American Pie when Jim has sex with a pie because he was too excited to sleep the night before. However, Abe reminds him that he could just rent the video, which Gandhi promptly runs out and does. He's later seen in hysterics watching that infamous scene.
- Cerebus Retcon: Parodied. The camp that Joan tells Abe she was at during the summer in the first episode? Turns out it was sleep-away camp! That's right: a camp for people with sleeping problems!
- Cluster F-Bomb: Mr. B drops several (censored) f-bombs at his rival Scan Grade.
- Dead All Along: Doug Prepcourse, the trucker whom Gandhi befriends, turns out to be dead—which meant Gandhi was actually floating in midair while in his truck.
- Dramatic Shattering: Parodied. Somehow, the #2 pencil that Abe drops from exhaustion while writing the PXJTs shatters into a million pieces like it was glass.
- Drugs Are Bad: So is Sleep Deprivation.
- Embarrassing Tattoo Joan has one — a cartoon dolphin saying "Whazzup??!!" on her ankle — as a result of her extreme sleep deprivation, which she shows to Abe to persuade him to sleep."My judgement was so poor I actually paid money for this!"
- The End: There's apparently one at the end of the prepcourse book.
- Flipping the Bird: All the remaining pandas in existence flip Abe off after he narrowly misses them on the road.
- G-Rated Drug: Sleep Deprivation. It's not exactly fatal in real life, but it's sure not pleasant.
- Hurricane of Euphemisms: How JFK tries to convince Cleo to let him be her study buddy."I can stay up all night long! I, er, excentuated the up and also the, er, long for what I hope are, eh, obvious reasons! So let's get back together and bone up on the PXJTs! (whispering) Guess what the "P" stands for? (Shouting) PENIS!"
- Hypocritical Humor: When Joan tells Abe to get some sleep at the grocery store, Abe snaps at her that he dosen't take orders from anyone. He then promptly answers a phone call from Cleo asking Abe to order her some sushi.
- Impact Silhouette: When Joan goes to check on Abe, she opens the door and we get a shot of a window, implying that he lept out it. However, it then pans over to an Abe-shaped hole in the wall, which is how he really escaped the bedroom.
- Incoming HamIIIIIINFIDELS!! It is I: SCAN GRADE, THE' MAGNIIIIIIIIFICENT!!!
- Jerkass Ball: Mr. B becomes incredibly persnickety and profane upon Scan Grade's arrival.
- Jewish Mother: Gandhi's stereotypical Jewish parents. When he tells them that he wants to be a trucker, his father declares "I Have No Son!!" and his mother goes to hang herself with "the good noose."
- Logic Bomb: Mr. B defeats Scan Grade by giving him a multiple choice question he can't answer.Mr. B: Are you a). Handsome, b). Smart, c). Scrap metal or d). All of the above?
Scan Grade: That's easy! I'm A and B, but not C... but... WAIT! YOU CAN'T FILL IN TWO OVALS!!
''(Has a melt-down and explodes)
Mr. B: The answer is C... you f**kwad. - Say My Name: Parodied when Joan whispers instead of yelling Abe's name when he falls asleep during the test.
- Serious Business: The PXJT tests. According to Principal Scudworth, fail them and your life is ruined forever!
- Single Tear: Scan Grade somehow manages to shed one when Mr. Butlertron manages to destroy him via a Logic Bomb.
- Sleep Aesop: The episode intends to show the dangers of sleep deprivation by treating it as a G-Rated Drug to the point of having Joan attend a sleepaway camp.
- Sleep Deprivation: A rather accurate depiction, though obviously exaggerated for comedy.
- Slow and Steady Wins the Race: Parodied. Abe wins the drag race by pulling over and catching up on his sleep... also because JFK's car inexplicably flipped over.
- Stealth Pun: JFK and Abe, two former Presidents, compete for a date with Cleo with a drag race. A presidential race, if you will.
- Tears from a Stone: Scan Grade, a robot, manages to shed a Single Tear before self-destructing due to Mr.Butlertron's Logic Bomb question.
- Tempting Fate: When in the lead of his and Abe's drag race, JFK forgets his family's infamous curse and gloats "Nothing bad ever happens to the Kennedys!" at which point his car immediately flips over and wrecks.
- Waxing Lyrical
