Papa Zola recaps the previous episode, and now he's been challenged to a game of checkers with everyone's freedom at stake. The Sleep Monster declares to make the games a best out of three matches. Despite Gopal getting the idea to challenge the Sleep Monster to a game of checkers from a Papa Zola episode, Papa Zola himself is clueless about the game and loses the first round. By that time, the others start waking up to realise they're stuck to checker pieces.
When the Sleep Monster allows for someone to switch places with Papa Zola, Tok Aba takes up the challenge and wins the second round. The Sleep Monster abuses his advantage over the game happening on his own turf to cheat, but as Tok Aba pulls through, the Dream World deteriorates as the Sleep Monster gets angrier. Tok Aba wins the final round, and the Sleep Monster throws the game board up in rage and attacks everyone, even Adu Du and Probe, with Sleeping Waves. BoBoiBoy and Gopal evade his attacks while Papa Zola deflects it with a checker piece, but everyone else falls asleep.
Papa Zola's leg is injured by a broken piece of board, and Sleep Monster allows them to share a final exchange. Papa Zola gives some words of motivation and his belt to Gopal before he blacks out. Gopal tries wearing the belt to grow to the monster's size to fight him - but gives it to BoBoiBoy instead since he has a better chance of winning. After BoBoiBoy Wind lifts the Sleep Monster into the air with a tornado, BoBoiBoy Earth pummels him upwards repeatedly with earth pillars. BoBoiBoy Lightning leaps high above, turns into BoBoiBoy Thunderstorm, and finishes him off.
In the real world, everyone wakes inside their bubbles and break free. Papa Zola is awake too, surprisingly. He claims that he simply fainted from the injury earlier. Elsewhere, Probe and Adu Du, who had already woken up in their bubble, get as far away from the heroes as possible, so Probe pops them free. Unfortunately they are right over a gorge at that moment and they fall inside.
This episode provides examples of:
- Bait-and-Switch Comment: Gopal remarking on Papa Zola's ability in playing checkers after the latter moves a piece as if it were a knight in chess:Gopal: He's not bad at it, he's just terrible at it!
- Defeating the Cheating Opponent: The Sleep Monster declares that the good guys must beat him in checkers for them to leave his Dream World, but after the first two games are tied, he starts the last game with four king pieces since they were playing on his turf. This doesn't stop Tok Aba from proceeding to play fairly and beating him, much to the Sleep Monster's shock.
- Dream Land: Played with. The Sleep Monster can trap people in floating bubbles which make them fall asleep and end up in his personal realm, the Dream World, where everything goes by his rules. He's at least reasonable enough to allow a best of three matches at chess in exchange for the good guys' freedom, but he tries to cheat, and when that fails, the buildings around them start to crumble as he gets angrier.
- Eye Scream: The Sleep Monster's last checker piece flies into his eye and he screams in pain. By the next round, he's wearing a bandage over his eye.
- Five-Aces Cheater: After losing to Tok Aba in the second round of checkers, Sleep Monster starts the next and final game with four king pieces (instead of none). While the heroes call him out, Sleep Monster counters by saying that since the game takes place in his dream, he can do whatever he wants. He loses anyway.
- Human Chess: Human checkers, rather; the Sleep Monster challenges Papa Zola to a game of checkers with BoBoiBoy and his friends and enemies as the checker pieces. Amusingly enough, Papa Zola tries to move the pieces like one would in a game of chess before he has the rules of checkers explained to him.
- Opponent Instruction: Gopal challenges the Sleep Monster to a game of checkers in exchange for being released from the Dream World per the advice of Papa Zola from his show, but Papa Zola doesn't actually know how to play checkers. 5 minutes later, the Sleep Monster has told Papa Zola how to play, but it is unfortunately for naught as Papa assumes that having his own pieces eliminated first makes him the winner, and thus he loses the first round.
- Thinking Out Loud: While planning on his next move, Tok Aba accidentally vocalises said plans, and only realises when his grandson points it out. Twice.
- Word, Schmord!: In the English version, Adu Du retorts with "Fair schmair!" when it's pointed out that the Sleep Monster using multiple king pieces at the start of the round (of which Adu Du is one of them) is unfair.
