Perfect Day

Perfect Day is the fourth episode of the fourth season of Ben 10, and the forty-third episode overall.
==Synopsis==
Ben thinks he's having 'the perfect day' only to realize he's been put in a dream world by Enoch and the Forever Knights who are after the Omnitrix. Ben's "dream world" soon becomes a nightmare world, with Ben forced to live out his ultimate terror, being stuck at school! But with Max and Gwen's help, he's able to vanquish his nightmare foes and re-enter the real world where he takes down Enoch, only to reveal an even more powerful knight, the Forever King.
==Plot==
The episode begins with Ben waking up and notices the Omnitrix acting weirdly, but when he sees Gwen fall out of bed, he takes this as an omen that this is going to be a good day. The omen comes true when Max surprises the two of them with a perfectly normal breakfast. Afterwards, Ben and Gwen try to come up with something exciting to do when Gwen suggests checking out the nearby tar pits. Suddenly, A school bus full of cheerleaders arrives and blows a tire. Things only graduate from bad to worse with the on-cue arrival of arrival of SixSix and Vulkanus, but Ben is prepared with the Omnitrix and transforms.
Ben transforms into Diamondhead and fights off the two alien mercenaries. Diamondhead takes a nasty blow from Vulkanus and becomes suspicious when Gwen is worried about him. Vulkanus throws the bus, but Diamondhead catches it with one of his diamond constructs so none of the cheerleaders are hurt. With Ben's help, Gwen is able to cast a spell on one of the dumpsters that she uses to trap Vulkanus and literally crumple him up to the size of a bottle cap. With Vulkanus defeated, SixSix evens the odds by grabbing one of the cheerleaders as a hostage. Diamondhead shoots him and he lets her go. With her safe, Ben fires a shard into SixSix's jet pack, making him fly wayward until he crashes and gets stuck in one of the tar pits. With both warriors vanquished, Ben is able to use another diamond construct to fix the school bus tire and the cheerleaders hail him as a hero. However, just before it drives away, Ben notices Kai Green is among the girls.
Later, in the Rustbucket, Max takes Ben and Gwen to Pizza and Play, and they have the time of their lives. After they finish, Ben shows Max the Omnitrix, and he tells him not to worry. A truck drives past and boxes filled with copies of a brand new Sumo Slammers video game fall out. Ben is initially excited to have a copy of a game supposed to be released in a year but tells Max that he should probably return them instead. However, Max tells him to keep it since the truck's already long gone, and Ben is further enjoying his perfect day while the Omnitrix continues to behave erratically.
Gwen and Max offer to make Ben snacks while he plays at their next campsite. Ben begins to get a little suspicious as to why to the two of them but shrugs it off. Afterwards, another Max and Gwen arrive and tell Ben that it's time to go hero, but he continues to play. Max and Gwen come out of the Rustbucket and grab their doubles and they engage in a fight inside the Rustbucket. Gwen calls for help, but Ben doesn't listen. Ben notices the fight, with each person claiming that the others are fake. Max and Gwen grab Ben and drive away. They explain the weirdness of the situation, starting with how this whole day is a positive reflection on the worst day of Ben's life and ending with the day only getting worse after a sneak attack by the Forever Knights. Ben tries to call denial since nobody just "forgets" a kidnapping attempt by the Forever Knights. But just before Max can explain as to why that is the case, a military jeep comes speeding right towards them.
The truck drives and crashes straight through the Rustbucket, breaking it and half, and Lt. Steel and SACT troopers come out. He says that Max and Gwen are Limax imposters working for Vilgax and Max and Gwen say that Steel is lying. Then, Vilgax arrives and Ben transforms into Four Arms and attacks Vilgax. Four Arms throws Vilgax into his ship, which explodes. Vilgax opens a Null Void portal, but Four Arms takes the Null Void projector, which causes Vilgax to fall in. Steel tells Four Arms to use the projector on Max and Gwen. Gwen points out that Vilgax would try to take the Omnitrix before sending Ben to the Null Void. Four Arms sends the SACT troopers into the Null Void after realizing that Gwen is right. Then, Steel transforms into Enoch and Max and Gwen free themselves and Four Arms is surrounded by Forever Knights. 
Enoch says that having Four Arms to believe that he was experiencing a perfect day was one way to distract him while they removed the Omnitrix and gives him a nightmare is another. The landscape morphs and Four Arms reverts back into Ben. The Tennysons run, but Enoch sends them to Ben's worst nightmare: school. Ben panics while begging Enoch to get him out of here and Gwen explains that the Forever Knights used a dream machine to distract Ben, but Max was able to hijack their signal, allowing him and Gwen to enter. Max says that the dream, and them, will be terminated if they're still there when the Omnitrix is removed. They wander through the hallways and run into Kevin. Kevin then mutates into Kevin 11 and the Tennysons run away with Ben saying that he hates school.
The Tennysons become trapped in the library. A computer has a test that needs to be passed to open a door. Kevin begins to break in. Ben answers every question with 'C' and a passage opens. The Tennysons run into troll versions of Cash and JT that attempt grab Max and throw Gwen. Ben attempts to transform into Heatblast, but he transforms into Grey Matter instead and he and Gwen make Cash and JT let go of Max and they leave. Grey Matter deduces that the exit is in his gym locker and reverts back into Ben. Suddenly, Enoch, Kevin, SixSix, Cash, and JT arrive, but Ben realizes that he can control his dream and transforms himself into Ultra Ben and Max and Gwen into superheroes as well. Ultra Ben defeats Kevin and Max defeats the bullies. Ultra Ben flies into space with Enoch and throws him into the sun. Enoch awakens from the dream machine. Ben wakes up as well. Ben then gets up and transforms into XLR8. XLR8 fights the Knights and sends Enoch into the dream machine. The machine unexpectedly malfunctions and XLR8 reverts back into Ben. Enoch manages to remove the Omnitrix off of Ben and places it on his wrist. However, that was soon revealed to be Enoch's dream: XLR8 really did put him into the dream machine which never malfunctioned at all. Gwen and Max then meet up with XLR8 before leaving the room together. Afterwards, a Forever Knight dressed in ninja garb arrives and attempts to revive Enoch only to be stopped by another Forever Knight, who decides to leave Enoch to his fate as punishment for one too many failures. He then declares that he will finish off the Tennysons himself.
==Noteworthy Events==
===Major Events===
*The Forever King sets on a plan to defeat Ben.
*Enoch is defeated.
====Character Debuts====
*Sir Driscoll
==Real World Characters==
===Main Characters===
*Ben Tennyson (flashback and present)
*Gwen Tennyson (flashback and present)
*Max Tennyson (flashback and present)
===Antagonists===
*Forever Knights (flashback and present)
**Enoch
**Sir Driscoll (first appearance)
==Dream Characters==
===Main Characters===
*Ben Tennyson
*Gwen Tennyson
*Max Tennyson
===Antagonists===
*SixSix
*Vulkanus
*SACT
**Lieutenant Steel
*Vilgax
*Forever Knights
**Enoch
*Kevin Levin
**Kevin 11
*Cash Murray
*JT
===Other Characters===
*Kai Green
*Ishiyama (video game)
==Aliens Used==
===Dream===
*Diamondhead
*Four Arms
*Grey Matter (intended alien was Heatblast)
===Real World===
*XLR8
==Quotes==
==Naming and Translations==
==Cast==
==Continuity==
*Gwen in Ben's dream mentions Kai breaking Ben's heart after the alien werewolf's defeat, which occurred in Benwolf.
*Vilgax in Ben's dream mentions Ben leaving him in the Null Void, as shown in Back With a Vengeance.
*Enoch's past failures which are mentioned by the Forever King, occurred in A Small Problem, Ultimate Weapon, and The Unnaturals.
==Allusions==
*This basic concept has been seen in many places across science fiction, but considering the heavy ties the franchise has to comics, the Alan Moore written Superman story For the Man Who Has Everything may have been the inspiration, with both also ending with the villain content in their dream worlds.
*The "Pizza N' Play" place in Ben's dream is a reference to Chuck E. Cheese which is a chain of American family entertainment centers which are also restaurants from being pizza place with arcade games to having anthropomorphic animals as one of their mascots.
*Regarding the test scene, the concept of pressing the correct keys to steadily unlock a door with wrong answers causing portions of the floor to collapse while a dangerous threat is slowly making its way in is highly reminiscent of the Bone Organ scene in The Goonies.
==Errors==
*In one frame, a part of SixSix is not colored at all.
*Ben says that the Omnitrix is recharging when he sees Kevin, but the dial is shown to be green. 
*SixSix disappears from the episode after Ultra Ben appears.
Perfect (177).png|Unfinished SixSix
Perfect (1369).png|The Omnitrix is green
==Trivia==
*According to pop-up trivia from the enhanced version of the episode:
**First signs of something wrong - normal food.
**Max and Gwen appear stronger than usual.
**Ben is having too much fun to notice something is up.
**In the real world, Vilgax is never this easy to beat.
**Max was happy having powers for a change.
*As shown in a deleted scene on the Ben 10: The Complete Season 4 DVD, the battle between Four Arms and Vilgax was originally meant to be longer.
==Notes==
==References==
===Production Material===
====Backgrounds====
===Pop-Up Trivia===
===Cartoon Network===
es:Un día perfecto
pl:Idealny dzień
pt-br:Dia Perfeito
ro:O zi perfectă
Category:Episodes
Category:Ben 10 Episodes
Category:Ben 10 Season 4 Episodes
Category:Episodes Directed by Scooter Tidwell
Category:Episodes Aired Out of Production Order
Category:Episodes with Flashbacks