Sleep Fighter

Sleep Fighter is the thirty-fifth episode of season four (and one hundred-fourteenth episode overall) of Regular Show. It first aired on July 29, 2013.

Synopsis
The guys must help Muscle Man stop fighting in his sleep.

Plot
Mordecai and Rigby are sleeping and Muscle Man comes in and leaps onto Mordecai's bed and starts punching him, Rigby notices and tries to get Muscle Man to stop but he is too strong. The scene shifts to the next day and you see all the park workers are injured except Benson and Muscle Man. Muscle Man protests he never remembered attacking them in his sleep and as the park workers complained about how his sleep fighting issue is a park problem Benson argues that it hasn't affected him so its not his problem. The scene shifts to seeing Benson asleep and Muscle Man entering the room, pulling the sheets off Benson and punching him in the face. Benson is seen the next day with bruises and a black eye. The park workers suggest watching Muscle Man in his sleep to try and see what is causing him to fight in his sleep.

The scene changes to Muscle Man tied up in a bed and video cameras all around him with his walkie-talkie on the nightstand. Benson explains the plan to Muscle Man: they will watch him sleep and if he goes after them Rigby is wearing an old police dog suit to protect them. Benson plays a soothing tune on the walkie-talkie that causes Muscle Man to quickly fall asleep. The rest of the park workers are seen monitoring the video camera screens. Later, Hi-Five Ghost wakes them up to show them that Muscle Man has begun dreaming, they see him thrashing and straining against the ropes and making threats and soon tearing free of the ropes and destroys the cameras in his sleep. Soon the cameras show the park workers staring at the screen and they are confused for a short amount of time only to realize Muscle Man is walking toward their van with cameras strapped to his shoulders. Rigby begs Mordecai not to make him face Muscle Man but Mordecai tosses him out and they close the van. The park workers wince and look away.

The scene changes to the next day and Rigby is holding an ice pack to his head and his face is swollen and bruised. They are thinking of a plan B when Muscle Man comes in holding two suitcases and telling the park workers that he plans to move far away to prevent himself from hurting them but before he could carry out this plan Hi-Five Ghost comes in and says he has something to show everyone. You see a video of an ostrich kicking a ball at a person (the ball just rolls in between his feet harmlessly) and then running up to the person and kicking him in a sensitive area. Hi-Five Ghost says that wasn't what he wanted to show them and then shows them the scene the cameras got when Muscle Man started dreaming. He zooms in to show strange creature shillouettes in the white stripes of the camera, zooming in more to show the sweat on Muscle Man's face to show tiny purple dream monsters in the sweat. Seeing this Muscle Man remembers where he seen it before. He remembers babysitting Starla's niece and sitting on the couch and Starla is leaving, she tells him to watch over the baby and he turns on the TV. There is a creepy show with the purple creatures called Huggstables offering to hug a criminal. Muscle Man changes the channel but it causes the baby to start crying so he switches the channel back to the Huggstable. The huggstables have surrounded the criminal and hugged him causing him to explode in a multitude of sparkles and they remark that "he looks so pretty now". Then they point to a terrified looking troll and rush over to hug him and he also explodes into sparkles. Muscle Man says that they played each episode of this back to back, all 8 seasons with 257 episodes.

This time Skips has an idea, asking Pops if he still had that dream catcher Skips gave him since Pops had nightmares about talking dogs. They tie Muscle Man to the stair banister and Skips instructs that when he begins to dream they should tilt the dream catcher toward him to make the nightmare come out. In Muscle Man's dream, he is in a colorful play area and swarms of purple dream monsters offer to give him a hug and surround and bury him in hugs. The park workers aim the dream catcher at him, shooting out a pink light that sucks out the Huggstables into the dream catcher. Soon the dream catcher gets full because there are so many of them from all the episodes Muscle Man watched in his dream. Skips pulls out a gym bag full of various dream catcher weapons (harpoon, bow, slingshot, mirror, etc.) and the park workers begin to quickly suck back up the dream monsters. When they are all gone, a Huggstable comes out and offers to give them a hug and Skips and the rest of the park workers run off to get Skip's van to suck the giant dream monster into the dream catcher. Benson complains that they should've cleaned up the ramp, but Skips uses it to get above the monster, exposing the giant dream catcher under the van and lands on the dream monster making a large hole in the wall. Muscle Man finally wakes up and says he had the strangest dream that everyone (except Thomas) was in. Benson suggests they all get some sleep but Pops wants a group hug. Mordecai ends the episode by saying "Uh..no thanks Pops."

Characters

 * Mordecai
 * Rigby
 * Muscle Man
 * Hi-Five Ghost
 * Benson
 * Skips
 * Thomas
 * Pops
 * Huggstables (antagonists)
 * Huggstable Leader (antagonist)

Minor Characters

 * Starla
 * Ana
 * Tina
 * Margaret (Mentioned)

Gallery
The gallery for Sleep Fighter can be found here.