Funny / Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous

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Season 1

• The second episode reveals that Kenji thought the Dinosaurs went extinct because, to quote Roxie; "Their farts turned the air trashy"
• Ben's Establishing Character Moment when he slathers on hand sanitizers all over his face as though it were aftershave.
• When Dr. Wu tries to shoo the campers and their counselors out of the Jurassic World lab, Brooklynn tries appealing to his ego: if he lets her film him and the lab, people will know of his accomplishments. He eats it right up and opts for a tour of the place. Looks like Wu hasn't changed a bit.
• When Roxie tries to get Darius to associate with the other campers.
  Roxie: Teenagers can be very accepting if you just give them half a chance.
  Dave: Do they not have teenagers in England?
• When Roxie and Dave leave the kids on their own to talk to Claire, the note they leave also says they left crayons and a kid's menu for them. Disgusted, Kenji scoffs at how the camp counselors treat them like babies. As though to add insult to injury, Ben is drawing with those crayons, genuinely enjoying himself.
  • The note unto itself. The first part is done by Dave, who gives the most "How do you do fellow kids" message ever, done in text-message code and drawn with a thumbs-up dinosaur emoji. ...The second part is Roxie's no-nonsense translation.
• The Running Gag where Ben has a tendency to point out exactly what they need at a moment's notice. The second time it happens, he modestly remarks "It's a gift".
• When the kids finally get access to a vehicle, they immediately strap in, brace themselves... and then realize that everyone's in the backseat. While it's sad that they're still expecting someone to rescue them, their moment of realization "Oh, yeah, we have to drive this ourselves" is darkly humorous.
• When Roxie receives a message from our young heroes, they sum up the events of how their camp was destroyed and they found Bumpy and are being hunted by Indominus rex. When Roxie looks at him, Dave (who's been listening in) gives her a blank-faced look as he gives us this gem:
  Dave: …I got nothing.
• When Roxie steals an unauthorized vehicle, Dave has a blank look that seems to say "I think I'm in love".
• The kids witnessing Mr. Masrani's helicopter fly towards the pteranodon aviary. Kenji goes right ahead at cheering his heart out, believing Masrani will fix everything. ...And then comes the fateful part where his helicopter is attacked and crashes. Although this is normally a sad and ominous scene, Kenji watching on dropped jaw dropped comically reflects how the audience must've felt when they witnessed Masrani's unceremonious and anti-climactic death.
• Kenji referring to his and Brooklynn's kayak as the "CKK", short for "Cool Kids Kayak". Brooklynn is not impressed when he keeps saying that.
• When Roxie and Dave track the kids' trail to the water park area, Roxie finds Kenji's sunglasses and recognizes only Kenji would wear something "this tacky and ostentatious".
  • Dave donning the sunglasses, which happen to be missing a lens, making him look something like a pirate.
• When Ben hands out carob snack bars, everyone is thrilled to have something to eat. ...Until they taste it. Sammy sincerely thinks somebody stole Ben's snack bars and replaced them with dirt. As it turns out, Carob's an acquired taste.
  • Worse, the juice boxes are also carob. Judging by Ben's satisfied expression as he tastes it, he acquired this taste a long time ago.
• When they rattle off Ben's fears, Sammy lists "Whipped cream, for some reason..." To which Ben gives a sincere, wistful "The way it moves." and shudders.
• Although it's a suspenseful moment in the episode, the monorail's automated voice says "Smile! You're in Jurassic World". Fed up with reminders of how blatantly miserable their experience on Isla Nublar has been, Kenji smashes the speaker with his flashlight in retaliation.
• After seeing that the exit from the tunnels to the docks has been sealed, Yaz lets out a groan of frustration that voices what most fans have been saying since the original movie
  Yaz: Can't anyone associated with this place make one good decision?

Season 2

• Apparently, several pages in the guide to Jurassic World are images of Doctor Wu... wearing Turtle Neck sweaters.
  • One of its pages says that aircrafts are prohibited from flying over Isla Nublar. ...which Sammy tries to take back, knowing how discouraging that sounds in their situation.
• One of the Main Street stores has a cardboard cut-out of Brooklynn. It's enough to get a laugh out of everybody else.
  • ...And later, it's used as a Chekhov's Gun when it's used to outsmart Rexy.
• When they're filming Brooklynn's new post, Kenji and Sammy both point out that "Brooklanders" is a weird thing to call her fans. She defensively says she came up with it when she was ten and tells them to move on. Then she addresses her fans and says that now it sounds weird to her too.
• The conflict between Yaz (athlete) and Darius (geek) in "A Beacon of Hope." When Yaz tells Darius that he needs to get out of his own head and have fun by exercising, he says they must have different definitions of fun, so she asks for his. It's learning new dino facts, so he brings her to a park area with trivia on plaques. After excitedly reading off the first one, he offers to race her to the next one... which is less than two feet away. And she was so excited at the prospect of a race.
• Several Compies are on Main Street and Rexy approaches. They decide, quite wisely, to get out of the way of the giant Tyrannosaurus rex.
• Episodes 2 and 7 reveal one interesting fact about Compies: the statement that they'll literally eat anything is true. In this case, the term "anything" refers to pizza, both frozen and not frozen. Who knew dinosaurs like pizza?
  • The Compies pestering the kids for food, so they feed them a good portion of their pizza to appease them. Sammy voices how she's starting to hate them. Funny thing is, in the season 1 finale, Sammy was coddling them and referring to them as the "itty-bitty compy family". Guess they're trying her patience too.
• Rexy spends most of her appearances in Season 2 continuing to smash up Main Street after the climactic fight of the film. Seems she really hates that place. Given that she was badly scarred and almost killed when she was there, who can blame her?
  • Blue, on the other hand, in her several appearances, is merely running around the island apparently enjoying herself.
    • In fact, when the power comes back on, the lights to her pen shine again. Blue, who's passing by, has an unfazed look, as though casually thinking "Huh, I can literally see my house from here."
• In Episode 1, Sammy sneaks into a tree to keep an eye on Rexy. Unfortunately, Rexy stops underneath the tree, looks up directly at her… and then grabs a comically tiny tree branch to take back to her nest.
• Kenji using a butter knife as his weapon.
• While chasing the girls in the genetics lab, Chaos and Limbo accidentally ram into each other and start hissing at each other while letting them get away. Grim corners them outside, but then hears Chaos and Limbo growling inside, and gives one last roar towards the kids before heading after them. Apparently, even dinosaurs have problems with annoying siblings.
• "But that's a season 2 episode. We don't talk about Season 2."
  • Ironically, Sammy is talking about Season 2 of "Esther Stone" during season 2 of this show.
• Not only do the three girls bond somewhat over their mutual "Esther Stone" fandom, but it turns out that Kenji is a fan too. His defensive reaction is hilarious.
• Mitch and Tiff watching on with confused looks as they watch the kids savor having a real breakfast for the first time in weeks.
• Brooklynn trying to strike a conversation with Hap. It's unsuccessful.
• The entirety of Ben's episode, watching this scared cower deal with an environment with no food, no shelter, no human friends, and no hand sanitizer.
  • Ben steadily going crazy with annoyance as Bumpy keeps calling shotgun on the bed because the former is too timid for his own good.
• Ben comparing scars and experiences (leech bite, sunburn), with Hap (crocodile bite, buried alive in an avalanche). It's hard to tell if Hap is earnestly flexing with Ben or if he's exasperated that this scrawny kid dare compare himself to him.
  • This culmination ends with Brooklynn breaking it up by claiming she punched a shark in Hawaii once.
• Kenji voicing he never liked Mitch and Tiff to begin with.
• A slow-mo shot of our heroes escaping the Baryonyxs, and what does Ben do in that time? Rub hand sanitizer on his hands.
• Hap teaching Brooklynn how to ride a motorcycle mid-chase.
• The gang try to lose a trio of Baryonyx by steering their motorcycle into a field of tall grass, which turn out to be a very small patch of tall grass.
• Whatever dinosaur's in E750, it's out of its containment unit and free. …because somebody (looking at you, Kenji) wouldn't leave the blinking green button be.
• In Episode 8, we get a cute appearance of the three Baryonyx - Chaos, Grim, and Limbo - having a snooze, all curled up together like prehistoric kittens.
• Also in Episode 8, when the Gyrosphere stops working a Sinoceratops bashes it to get it moving and Darius and Brooklynn end up briefly involved in a game of dinosaur football between the Sinoceratops and a Brachiosaurus!
• Ben calling Darius "kid".
• Remember when Mitch was geeking out about wanting to see a T. rex's jaws at work? Guess what's the last thing he sees.
  • One can imagine how pleasantly surprised Rexy was (after watching her quarry stampede off) when she found Mitch strung up, waiting for her like a Christmas present neatly wrapped up. All it was missing was a bow.
• Rexy is drawn away by a holographic tyrannosaurus when the power gets restored and immediately starts roaring to assert dominance. The hologram (being stuck in a loop) roars back. From the way the ambient light changes when we cut back, this goes on for several hours before Rexy finally quits, somehow managing to visibly look exasperated.
• Ben's first suggestion for how to deal with Mitch and Tiff is to feed both of them to the Mosasaurus. The others look horrified, and Ben defends himself by saying that he feels they aren't getting enough use out of the Mosasaurus.
• Ben forgets that Darius and Sammy still don't know he's alive, causing him to go through a super-rushed explanation of what he's been up to that leaves them in Stunned Silence.
  Ben: I think I broke them.
• When they find the control room, Brooklynn says it's cold enough "to freeze flowers," since a leaking refrigeration vent was her first clue that there was still power on the island. Ben wasn't with the group when that happened, so he's genuinely confused whether that's an expression.

Season 3

• The kids try to get off the island on a raft. They get washed off, leading to the one time since they got stuck on the island that they were modeled as being clean.
• At one point, the Camp Family tried to learn to fly a helicopter. And failed.
• As the protagonists finally get off Isla Nublar at the end, there's a brief shot of Yaz, Sammy, and Ben rather gleefully staring at Darius and Brooklynn relaxed and looking over the sea side-by-side. And at this point, it's hard not to find it satisfying.
• Brooklyn and Yaz's awkward gondola ride. In comparison to Sammy and Kenji laughing and having fun in their gondola, the girls' quality time is quiet and stiff, to say the least.
• Darius trying to guess what Ben's "problem" is so he can start fixing it. Among them is "fear of running out of hand sanitizer". Knowing Ben, it's no surprise when he responds in a deadpan "Not gonna happen". What's more, he suggests he has Autophobia, a fear of being alone. Again, Ben combats this with an aloof "Doesn't everybody?"
• There's something oddly amusing about Wu making a smug yet sophisticated speech while recording his video… only to yell in fright as the Scorpios abruptly runs him down out of nowhere in an almost slapstick-y manner. Capped off by the way the video haphazardly stops at once.
• Darius and Brooklynn trying to scheme a comeback for their prank war against Kenji. Darius's idea of simply stealing Kenji's captain hat is too weak, Brooklyn's scheme to gaslight Kenji into questioning his existence is too intense. But between the two being fed up with Kenji, they feel the more intense, the better.
• When Sammy asks to speak to Brooklynn privately about a personal matter, Brooklynn eagerly asks if she has a secret crush on one of the other campers, which is so far off the mark that Sammy doesn't know how to respond. Brooklynn's guesses at Sammy's "crush" are, in order, Darius, Kenji, and Yaz.
• When one of the compies steals the compass, Kenji tries to trade it for two coins. All it does is make the other two compies run for the coins. Meanwhile, the compy that was holding the compass looks at her two friends and then at Kenji with a look that basically screams "I'm Surrounded by Idiots".
• Kenji messing up one of the most iconic, memorable (not to mention meme-worthy) quotes in the entire franchise!
  Kenji: (nervously, upon seeing Blue emerge from her hiding spot) Clever guy...
  Darius: (Just as nervously) Girl, Kenji. She's a girl.
• When cornered by Blue, Kenji wonders how he and Darius escaped her the last time. Darius whimpers that last time, they had Roxie and Dave to save their bacon. If anything, this is a darkly comedic reminder that half the time they evade danger, it's out of sheer dumb luck.
• Later, Kenji throwing a quarter at Blue, as though expecting her to like the 'shiny thing' in the same fashion as the compies. What's funnier is how she gives him a long "Seriously, dude?" stare, as though insulted that he thinks she's as stupid as a compy.
• After reaching Kenji's penthouse at the very top of a several stories high building the campers, sans Yaz, are incredibly winded causing Darius to complain about how even though they have been running from dinosaurs this whole time they still can't climb a bunch of stairs easily.
• Ben expressing disgust when everyone else quickly gets too comfortable in Kenji's Dad's penthouse, saying they've "gone soft". Funnily enough, not two seasons ago, Ben himself was "soft".
• A kind of Black Comedy in Dr. Wu's video journals when he explains that Misrani didn't give the Scorpios a green light, not because it was too unstable or violent, but because he thought it was "too ugly". Dr. Wu is pretty salty about the whole thing.
  • Fridge-Funny: This might explain why he's particularly bitter over Misrani wanting "bigger, cooler, scarier" dinosaurs. He's offended (on his own dinosaurs' behalf) about being rejected over being "ugly". The Indominus rex was one big response: "Is this pretty enough for you, huh??"
• Kenji casually ordering Ben to fetch toilet paper for the trip home feels comically topical when one bears in mind that, just last year, everybody was scrambling around for toilet paper during the epidemic. It's like a man dying of starvation watching another man ordering a waiter for his meal.
• While packing up for their trip home, Brooklyn happens upon a canned good of Carob. Remembering the last time they tried it, she hesitates for a moment before she throws it to the side. And then she looks up to find she's been caught red-handed by a wide-eyed Darius. …Who replies "You did the right thing."
  • On top of that, there's the Black Comedy implying that Brooklyn and Darius would sooner risk starvation in the foreseeable future, if only they don't have to eat Carob.
• Ben promises a diversion in the form of blowing up a gondola, telling Darius to cover his ears as it's going to be a really big bang. Cue a pathetically small pop and a barely visible flame.
  • Becomes a Brick Joke when, while the boys argue about how they're running out of time to create a distraction for Scorpios rex, when they least suspect it, the diversion DOES deliver a big, deafening KA-BOOM!
• Although strangely sweet, there's something surreal about Kenji comforting a poisoned Sammy by MOOING like a cow.
  • Fridge-Funny: This may not have been intentional, but it does feel like a Shout-Out to the first movie where Lexy nervously said "I like cows."
• Yaz being nice and encouraging towards Sammy, Kenji, and Brooklynn. It's so out of character that it freaks them out, and even Sammy is convinced she's hallucinating.
  Kenji: Your kindness is killing us.
• Sammy returning back to her old peppy self! ...Before she vomits her guts out. Considering she was poisoned and cured in the last twelve hours alone, it's hard to believe vomiting is the least of her problems.
• Brooklynn, Sammy, and Yaz fawning over a baby ''Brachiosaurus'' despite Kenji's objections.
• Blue's reaction towards there being TWO Scorpios rexes in front of her. It's the dinosaurian equivalent of Oh, Crap!.
• Everyone being sick of Ben's story about defeating Toro in Season 2.
• Yaz says the original Jurassic Park buildings are cursed, bringing up the way John Hammond died in the original novel. Since that's not at all what happened in this version, Darius is quite confused where she got that idea, and she says she "read it somewhere."
• Darius, Yaz and Brooklyn being witnesses to the mercenary from "Fallen Kingdom" narrowly escaping Rexy. Our heroes cheer on his success at escaping. …Only to watch him be eaten by Mosasaurus right after.
• Darius and Brooklynn throwing a rock at Rexy, as if that's supposed to take her down. She's been through worse. They immediately lampshade at what a horrible idea it was.
  Darius: This was a horrible idea.
  Brooklynn: You're right.
• Upon reaching the lab, Wu tells his mercenaries they'll need to clear some debris blocking the entrance. One of the mercenaries asks if Wu plans on helping which Wu reacts to with a head tilt and expression that screams 'I think you know the answer to that and it's no.'
• While she's captive to Dr. Wu and his mercenaries, Brooklyn purposefully makes a nuisance of herself by noisily banging Dr. Wu's umbrella onto the nearby pipes. Dr. Wu asks her to stop, to which Brooklyn says she'll stop when he swears off making monstrous dinosaur hybrids and wearing multiple turtlenecks in his autobiography.
• The way one of the Scorpios rexes climbs on top of a flipped-over Limo only to fall off and then proceed to kick the vehicle in annoyance.

Season 4

• The Black Comedy of, while on the boat, Sammy happening upon the paintings of Mitch and Tiff as they were in life. It doesn't help that one of them was Tiff and Mitch making out while the former is wearing nothing but a bikini and a leopard skin.
• Another Black Comedy is Kenji checking to see if he and his friends or ghosts are not when they find themselves mysteriously in the middle of a desert, as though worried they're in purgatory. It's as though he's expecting them all to be in an episode of Lost.
• Our introduction to Mae Turner. It's one thing for the group to see their first human since Dr. Wu and the mercenaries. It's another thing when she stares at them flabbergasted, mid-eating her sandwich right next to a pair of Tyrannosaurus rex.
• Although it's supposed to be a sad and heartwarming moment, when Yaz shares she's been having nightmares about dinosaurs, everyone else reveals they've been having them too. Compared to Yaz's nightmares, the rest have nightmares that are even more surreal. Sammy has nightmares of fire-breathing compies, Brooklyn's is of dinosaurs that could read her mind, and Kenji's is about fighting for the arm rest with a Scorpios rex.
  • Kenji's dream seems like a Mythology Gag to Alan's Nightmare Sequence about a raptor calling his name on the helicopter.
• Mae voicing that she's starting to dislike the BRADs, while Kenji remarks "Starting to?" as he and the others never trusted these robots who kill any intruder without question in the first place.
• Ben mistaking Yaz distracting him from Brooklynn and Kenji as her flirting with him. A great Cringe Comedy scene comes out of it when he confronts Yaz over "her feelings" and lets her down gently, saying he's still in the middle of finding himself and can't get involved with anyone. Yaz's reaction is priceless and doesn't bother to clear up the misunderstanding.
• When Ben tries to treat an injured Mae, out of reflex she punches him in the face due to the pain. And when Ben suggests they try a different approach and she promises not to punch him, she punches him again.
  • Ben reassures her that he can help because "Antiseptic is [his] middle name." Just a little delirious from her injuries, Mae takes him seriously and shares her own middle name, which is Welsh for "rainbow."
• Pteranodons are freed in one of the biomes and for the first time, the fact that the horizon is actually a projection on a steel wall gets into play and one of them unexpectedly crashes on the invisible barrier.
• Faced with the Spinosaurus, the Spinoceratops babies try to roar at him. The larger dinosaur actually looks nonplussed for a moment^note Maybe recognizing his own roar? before roaring right back. The babies wisely book it.
• The fact that the roar on the boat heard at the end of the third season in a Cliffhanger ending that had many viewers worriedly speculating the identity of the creature (including a third Scorpius Rex), only for it to be a Compsognathus.
• When Darius and Kash are playing a hacked version of the videogame Darius played to get into Jurassic World, one of the Lose screens has a Tyrannosaurus rex break into a dance number after eating the player character, which baffles even Darius with how utterly silly it is.

Season 5

• A hospitalized Mae hallucinating about how strange spoons are.
• This Brick Joke two seasons in the making:
  Mr. Kon: Hey! Where's my Gadi?
  • Kenji's response? He blames the dinosaurs and says he tried his best to save it.
• Ben wastes no time in becoming Yaz's wingman to help her confess her romantic feelings for Sammy.
  • Before he finds out, Yaz talks to him about their friends (Bumpy and Sammy) and asks him about ever being more than friends. Ben promptly responds that Bumpy is an Ankylosaurus and he's a human, so it wouldn't work out.
  • He comically imitates Sammy's accent to help Yaz practice her declaration.
  • He does his best in giving Yaz and Sammy a romantic moment by giving them some space and quietly signs to Yaz.
  • When Yaz finally decides to tell Sammy, Ben gives her an ecstatic two thumbs up from afar while being completely unaware of his own footing, causing him to stumble onto a bush.
• While it's also a tearjerker considering the circumstances, Sammy switching between siding with Ben and Yaz in condemning Kenji or agreeing with Brooklyn in blaming Kenji's dad can be rather funny.
• Although it could be Black Comedy since Toro was Brainwashed and Crazy at the time, Kenji fist-bumping him is a bit funny.
• When the more grown-up Darius decides to make a reply one of his video's comments, the more grown-up Kenji interjects since the first rule of the internet is "never reply to the comments".
• During one of their weekly video chats that takes place a few years after their adventures, Yaz boasts to Darius and Kenji that she is getting the hang of Sammy's lassoing lessons. Sammy's cringe and headshake say otherwise.
• During the otherwise serious fight between Big Eatie and the Spinosaurus there's the unintentionally hilarious moment when, after the larger theropod yanks her to the ground by her tail, Big Eatie's foot shoots into frame and kicks him square in the face.
• Darius tries to sneak up on a goon controlling Toro by climbing up a tree to jump on the guy. He sets himself determinedly, heroic music swells... And he thuds to the ground a good three feet short of where he aimed.

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