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  • Coop's breathless summary of the improbable number of events that happened over the course of the series, even the ones he has no way of knowing about:
    I had to break up with Donna after Yaron tried to make us have a threesome, and then Tigerclaw showed up because Andy stole Katie away from Blake, and they tried to destroy the camp, and then, well, right after that, President Reagan and the U.S. military also tried to destroy the camp, but that was after they also shot Eric, that hermit who lived at camp and turned out to be a musical legend, and then that new counselor, Lindsay? Well, she saved us all because she was secretly a rock magazine journalist, and then Gail blew off Jonas at their wedding, and his name is actually Gene and he fought in Vietnam, and Gene also got beaten up by an assassin named Falcon, who tried to kill Beth and did kill Greg and this guy Jim Stansel, but then he turned out to be good the whole time, which I acknowledge doesn’t really make any sense, and he was only here to protect Mitch, who was turned into a can of vegetables, and then also Ben and McKinley are dating, Susie hooked up with Claude, Neil got laid, Victor didn’t get laid, and Abby had her period. So it was a hard day.
  • Ben and McKinley's Unusual Euphemism conversation about "creativity".
    Ben: Oh my God, I had no idea you were that creative.
    McKinley: Oh, really?
    Ben: Uh-uh.
    McKinley: Oh, I just thought it was so obvious that I’m creative.
    Ben: (stares awkwardly)
    McKinley: I mean, I just thought, ‘cause you’re creative, that you would know that I’m creative.

    Ben: (stares awkwardly and nervously)
    McKinley: Oh, I see, Ben. You don’t realize that you’re creative, too. It’s all right. Whether or not you’re creative, I think you’re really talented.
  • Susie and Ben's obviously doomed romance is hilariously painful to watch—Susie's sexual frustration, Ben lapsing into an awkward Southern accent, the narrowly avoided kisses, and of course:
    Susie: We are a very important couple at Camp Firewood, and couples don't fight!
    Ben: Yes they do! My parents fought all the time until my father killed himself!
  • The most blatant use of Dawson Casting ever, as tweenaged Abby - who is convinced that Boys Have Cooties - gets her first period and hides in a bathroom stall... only to emerge boy-crazy, and played by 41-year-old Marisa Ryan.
  • Victor and Neil's prank phone call to Gene/Jonas begins innocently enough with him claiming that the food has been contaminated with "dick farts" but gets violent very quickly when Victor suddenly blurts out: "I'm gonna kill you and fuck you!"
    • And after they've been caught:
    Victor: He said he's going to kill me. Like a soup. Should I hang up? Should I say thank you?
    Neil: No! No!
    Victor: Thank you.
  • Coop dresses up in drag and takes on the persona of "Ms. Patty Pancakes" in order to save Kevin from embarrassment related to a Potty Failure from a previous scene. That's funny enough, but things become really hilarious when scene segues seamlessly into Coop having an argument with Donna, while still dressed as Ms. Patty Pancakes and waving a excrement-stained pair of swim trunks on a stick in her face.
    Donna: Why are you a woman, Coop?
    Coop: Oh, just because I wanna talk about us, that makes me woman, Donna?
    Donna: Coop, you smell terrible.
    Coop:Yeah well I feel terrible Donna.
    Donna: You smell like shit.
    Coop: Well, I FEEL like shit.
  • Coop is really put through the ringer with his "girlfriend", Donna, who seems to acknowledge in word that they're a couple, but in action, seems to care more about spending time with weird, foreign archery instructor Yaron. Coop is sure she's ready to leave him for Yaron, but then Yaron surprises him by suggesting a threesome...maybe. It's hard to tell with his thick accent and very mixed metaphors.
    Yaron: Coop, in every triangle, the three points come together, to make the shape stronger. The t'ird does not hang off to the side. You, Coop, will be our t'ird.
    Coop: I'm sorry, your turd?
    Donna: He means "third".
    Coop: Because it sounds like he's saying—
    Yaron: No, turd. Like what goes...what, ah, happen, ah...in the toilet.
    Coop: Ah...
    Yaron: You will be our turd.

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