Sleepover

**Sleepover** is the fifth episode of Season 9 of *Letterkenny*.

## Synopsis

Sleepover activities only; movies, board games and girl talk.

## Cold Open

> Your pal needed a handyman the other day… — Wayne
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Gail reports that her truck wouldn't turn over that morning, and the Letterkenny men at the bar, Jim Dickens, Dan, Daryl, and Wayne, immediately pepper her with questions about the mileage, transmission, tires, windshield cracks, where she fills up, and all other manner of dubiously related car matters. They observe that the dealer has no interest in the customer or car once the sale has been made, and complain about dealers pushing unwanted features and services on them; this soon devolves into rants about the dishonesty and bad character of car dealers.

> Photo of his beer league team for his computer wallpaper. That's no family man. — Jim Dickens
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The dealers, it seems, were smashing snapping turtle's shells with a sand wedge on the golf course when not stealing cookies from Bible Club or stealing flip-flops from the lost and found. Gail comments only that bad gas travels fast in a small town.

> Yeah, turns out the gas cap was just loose, and won't turn over unless she's airtight, so… onward. — Wayne
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## Plot Summary

With long winter nights setting in, the various Letterkenny folk are looking forward to a night in: the Hicks playing Monopoly in the farmhouse, the Skids playing *Sonic the Hedgehog* in the basement, the hockey players settling in for *Hockey Night in Canada* in one of their rooms, and Gail, Bonnie McMurray, and Rosie playing Scrabble at Gail's house. As the Hicks knock Daryl out of the game, Reilly and Jonesy lament the end of the double-header, and Stewart defeats Dr. Eggman without any rings, the ladies conclude that with so many vowels, they must be playing with the French bag of letters instead of the English one.

Daryl makes some poor decisions in Monopoly, and concedes. "Second place is first loser," Wayne observes. They discuss Dan's whereabouts—probably somewhere with Ellen, so probably somewhere with a finger up his bum.

All four groups ponder what movies they should watch for the next activity: Wayne suggests the *Jackass* movies, Roald (jokingly) the *Lord of the Rings* movies, Rosie *Fubar*—which Bonnie has never seen, to her shock, and Reilly and Jonesy some episodes of *Don Cherry's Rock'Em Sock'Em Hockey*.

Each group insists that their tired member *will not* fall asleep. Daryl and the Hicks are agreed that they could get a little more hammered though, and Rosie, for her part, offers to share her pot gummies. Each group gets comfortable, insisting no one will fall asleep; within moments, though, everyone in all the groups is fast asleep: Gail's group on her sofa, the Skids in sleeping bags in the basement, Reilly and Jonesy sharing a bed, and Wayne, Katy, and Daryl crowded into bed as well.

Daryl awakes and whispers to Wayne asking "is there someone that you like?" Irritated, he asks if Daryl is sleepwalking. But Daryl is asking because there's someone *he* likes. Katy wakes, and Wayne whispers

> Daryl likes someone. — Wayne
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Daryl objects to this, since it was not his place to tell, but they observe that Katy was probably already awake. Also, his breath was so bad that it was making Wayne puke.

Stewart farts, and Roald wakens him. "It does smell like it was me," he admits. Roald asks him if he "likes" anyone, and Stewart coyly whispers yes. When asked who, Stewart smirks, and farts.

Gail admits to farting to wake the others up, so they could talk about boys—though it took seven tries. Rosie apparently heard the first one, but listened to the next six without saying anything because the farts got "progressively more captivating." They are interrupted when Bonnie receives messages on her phone.

The hockey players are awake, and each has hit Bonnie up separately from his phone.

> I figured she's always been lukewarm to the idea. So, over time I'd just keep takin' runs at 'er. — Reilly
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"Consistency, not persistency" is their motto, to periodically show interest in "running at" Bonnie—but not so much as to be annoying.

Bonnie has observed, reporting to Gail and Rosie that she could set her watch to their cycle. Rosie asks if Bonnie would ever consider it.

> Bonnie: Reilly or Jonesy?
> Rosie: What's the difference?
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The consider inviting them over. Rosie takes her leave to go crawl in with Wayne.

In the basement, Roald asks Stewart more seriously if there is anyone he likes. Stewart says yes, but that it doesn't matter; she is out of his league. Roald whispers that someone who made love to Aly-cat and Bianca-donk at the same time, so surely no one is out of his league. He finally blurts out the name: Bonnie McMurray.

Daryl names the same.

> Well, ever since Dan got a sweetie there's less competition than there once was. — Daryl
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Katy invites Bonnie over, over Daryl's objections—and Bonnie agrees. Wayne takes his leave to go snuggle with Rosie.

As she and Rosie get set to leave, Gail observes that Reilly and Jonesy are already on their way over as well. Rosie figures Gail will just have to put a little work on them both, which Gail finds agreeable.

Roald encourages Stewart to go to Bonnie. He objects, considering it to be stalking, but considers that she posted she was at Gail's an hour ago on Instagram.

> We are literally asking for stalkers from our social medias these days, aren't we? — Stewart
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Stewart begins ride over, but sees Bonnie driving away. Meanwhile, Reilly and Jonesy arrive at Gail's, throw up their hands, and go in. Bonnie arrives and Katy takes her up to see Daryl, but he has fallen fast asleep. Downstairs, Wayne is putting on his boots as Rosie walks in the door.

## Quotes

* Katy: And stop trying to sell me these purple properties. They're, like, the shittiest properties on the board.
Wayne: They're the fucking MoDean's One of the board.
* Wayne: 'Cause, like, you gotta watch 'em once a year, right? So, like, it might as well be tonight.
* Rosie: Would you ever let 'em in there?
Bonnie: Reilly or Jonesy?
Rosie: What's the difference?
Gail: You outta put some work on that boy, Bonno.
Bonnie: Reilly or Jonesy?
Gail: What's the difference?

## Callbacks and Running Gags

* Bad gas travels gas (The Native Flu)
* A business doing pleasure with you (Great Day for Thunder Bay)
* Quoting No Fear slogans (Les Hiques)
* Don Cherry's Rock'Em Sock'Em 6 (Sled Shack)

## Cultural References

* King's Highway 401 runs the length of southwestern Ontario from Windsor to the Quebec border; the section that passes through Toronto is the busiest road in North America. King's Highway 400, the second-longest road in the province, connects Toronto to Barrie and northwards to Georgian Bay and Sudbury,
* Roald shouting "Sega!" is reminiscent of the "Sega Scream," a recording of a man shouting "Sega!" loudly that was played at the end of television commercials for the Sega Genesis in the mid-1990s, and later for Dreamcast.
* The speed of the titular character of *Sonic the Hedgehog* was a major selling point for the Sega Genesis console, whose Motorola 68000 chip could handle 16-bit processing, providing much faster gameplay than the Sega Master system, Nintendo Entertainment System, and other older, 8-bit consoles.
* Dumps: Donald Dump (Donald Trump), Dumpelstiltskin (fairy tale character Rumpelstiltskin)
* Francophone Scrabble does have more vowels than the original English version, but not many more—44 (A-9, E-15, I-8, O-6, U-6) as opposed to 42 (A-9, E-12, I-9, O-8, U-4).
* "Battle of Alberta" refers to matchups between provincial rivals Calgary and Edmonton, particularly between the NHL's Flames and Oilers.
* "Second place is first loser" is a No Fear slogan.
* Wayne suggests watching "all three" *Jackass* movies, presumably referring to *Jackass: The Movie* (2002), *Jackass Number Two* (2006), and *Jackass 3D* (2010); however, there were additional DVDs, mostly of unused footage, released as *Jackass 2.5* (2007), *Jackass 3.5* (2011) as well as *Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa* (2013) and the direct-to-DVD *Jackass Presents: Mat Hoffman's Tribute to Evel Knievel* (2008).
* *Don Cherry's Rock'Em Sock'Em Hockey 6* (1994), is the longest in that hockey highlight video series (90 minutes, tied with #18), and features a segment on safety tips for young hockey players. It was previously mentioned as part of the hockey players' pre-game ritual. The Rock'Em Sock'Em 5 video includes a music video by techno group BKS, featuring Cherry.
* *I'll Sleep When I'm Dead* is a song by Warren Zevon on his 1976 self-titled album, credited with popularizing the saying.
* *No Sleep Till Brooklyn* is a Beastie Boys song from *Licensed to Ill* (1986).

## Trivia

* An officially licensed Letterkenny-themed Monopoly game, titled Letterkenny Opoly, was released in 2021. Although Wayne dismisses the low-value dark purple properties as the "MoDean's I" of the game, the lowest-value properties in Letterkenny Opoly are the church (corresponding to Mediterranean Avenue) and the McMurrays' house (corresponding to Baltic Avenue). "MoDean's I" is one of the highest-value properties, corresponding to Pacific Avenue.
* Reilly backs Edmonton and Jonesy backs Calgary in the Battle of Alberta. In real life, Dylan Playfair (who plays Reilly) is an Edmonton fan, and his father, Jim Playfair, is currently an associate coach for the Edmonton Oilers, although the elder Playfair also coached for Calgary previously. Andrew Herr, who plays Jonesy, is not a real-life Calgary fan, but Nathan Dales, a Calgary native, is very much so.
* The notion that Reilly and Jonesy are interchangeable, or two halves of the same brain, has previously been alluded to not only with Wayne being unwilling to distinguish one from the other, but in the two of them competing as a single contestant in the Letterkenny Spelling Bee.

## Music

According to Tunefind, the following songs are featured on this episode:

* 20,000 Cans by Indian Warriors
* Robotic Body Shake by Modula
* Robin Hood by Cosmo Doris
* Not About You by Like a Girl
* Shut Up by Like a Girl
* In Mind by Do Make Say Think (nighttime scenes from Letterkenny)
* Walk With Me by Bésé
* Got A Man by Genva
* Blown Away by Boat Culture
* Get in My Car by Broncho (Stewart and Bonnie head out, end credits)

## Appearances

* Wayne
* Jim Dickens
* Dan
* Daryl
* Katy
* Rosie
* Bonnie McMurray
* Gail
* Reilly
* Jonesy
* Stewart
* Roald
* Connor
* Darien

## Gallery

*→ See **32** images from Sleepover at **Images from Sleepover**.*