The Sleep Eater

Season	Episode
1	13b

Broadcast Information

Airdate

June 5, 2008

Production Code

113b

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"The Sleep Eater" is the 27^th episode of Season 1 of Chowder and the 27^th episode of the series overall.

Synopsis[]

Chowder disturbs his "Appetite Clock" by eating snacks before bed. This causes him to turn into a monster at night and eat all the food. Mung and Schnitzel must work together to keep Chowder awake all night and away from food to reset his Appetite Clock and stop him from turning into the monster.

Goofs/Trivia[]

This episode (along with it's sister episode "The Vacation") premiered on Cartoon Network the same day as the series premiere of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack.
The music from Michael Jackson's Thriller is played in this episode.
This is the first time Chowder is a monster; he becomes a monster again in The Poultry Geist.
This episode is similar to an Ed, Edd n Eddy episode, A Glass of Warm Ed, in which Ed eats while sleepwalking.
At the end of the episode, Chowder, Mung Daal, and Shnitzel know about the audience to be here next to them.
Techincally, Truffles IS in this episode, but Chowder might not notice all the scripts for the entire episode.
When Shnitzel and Mung try to stop Chowder's monster form and Chowder puts them in his mouth and chews them once again in this scene, Mung and Shnitzel are puppets.
Beginning with this segment, the series animation style and humor would change significantly due to some of the original crew from the series departing. The varies on some character designs and the breaking of the fourth wall more than usual.
When Mung tried to stop Chowder as a monster he shouted "You Shall Not Pass!" referencing Gandalf in Lord of the Rings.
Chowder breaks the fourth wall because he said Truffles is not in this episode.
Curiously, this isn't the first time in that Chowder ate a food during the night time, in Mung on the Rocks, Chowder and Mung were eating a cake that the former kept in his pillow during the night, yet both don't suffer a damage in their Appetite Clocks and they don't turned in Sleep Eaters.
Mung's warning is a direct reference to Gremlins. Namely "don't feed them after midnight."
Chowder's Sleep Eater transformation loosely resembles a werewolf.
Cloffee would later be used again in The Heavy Sleeper.
This is the first time Truffles is heard during the puppet credit sequences, though she isn't seen.

Gallery[]

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Season 1	The Froggy Apple Crumple Thumpkin • Chowder's Girlfriend • Burple Nurples • Shnitzel Makes a Deposit • Grubble Gum • The Cinnamini Monster • Certifrycation Class • The Sing Beans • The Wrong Address • The Wrong Customer • Mahjongg Night • Stinky Love • The Thrice Cream Man • The Flibber Flabber Diet • Gazpacho Stands Up • A Taste of Marzipan • The Puckerberry Overlords • The Elemelons • At Your Service • Chowder and Mr. Fugu • The Vacation • The Sleep Eater • Sniffleball • Mung on the Rocks • The Heavy Sleeper • The Moldy Touch • The Bruised Bluenana • Shnitzel and the Lead Farfel • The Thousand Pound Cake • The Rat Sandwich • Chowder Loses His Hat • Brain Grub • Shnitzel Quits • The Broken Part • The Meach Harvest • Banned from the Stand • Créme Puff Hands • The Apprentice Games
Season 2	The Arborians • The Garage Sale • Panini for President • Chowder's Babysitter • The Fire Breather • The Flying Flinger Lingons • Hey, Hey It's Knishmas! • Chowder's Catering Company • The Catch Phrase • The Hot Date • Shopping Spree • The Party Cruise • Won Ton Bombs • The Big Hat Biddies • The Deadly Maze • Kid Shnitzel • Gazpacho Fights Back • The BLT's • The Trouble with Truffles • The Dinner Theater • Big Ball • The Brain Freeze • The Snail Car • The Lollistops • Endive's Dirty Secret • Big Food • Paint the Town • The Blackout • The Dice Cycle • The Chain Recipe • The Garden • Sheboodles • Gazpacho Moves In • My Big Fat Stinky Wedding • Apprentice Appreciation Day • The Grape Worm • A Faire to Remember • Tofu Town Showdown
Season 3	Hands on a Big Mixer • The Blast Raz • The Spookiest House in Marzipan • The Poultry Geist • The Apprentice Scouts • The Belgian Waffle Slobber-Barker • A Little Bit of Pizzazz! • The Birthday Suits • The Heist • The Prank • Old Man Thyme • Chowder's Magazine • Weekend at Shnitzel's • Taste Buds • Gazpacho! • The Toots • Chowder Grows Up