Space Kid is being more spacey than usual, and it's really annoying Max, Neil, and Nikki. Meanwhile, due to a legal loophole, David and Gwen are tasked with faking a moon landing for the would-be astronaut.
Tropes:
- And Then What?: In the post-credits scene, Space Kid can be seen sitting on the dock, watching the reflection of the moon in the water and asking himself, "Now what?"
- Cassandra Truth: Space Kid tries to tell David that his real name is Neil Armstrong, but David just writes down "Space Kid." Come "Parents' Day," we learn that Space Kid, AKA Neil Armstrong Jr. is the original Neil Armstrong's great-grandson.
- Cluster F-Bomb: Max reams out Space Kid for dropping "a shitty toy, in my already shitty potatoes, which are now on the shitty floor!"
- Crippling Overspecialization: Space Kid is very knowledgeable about space, enough so to correct David's book of space trivia. On the other hand, he lists his blood type as "red."
- Curse Cut Short: What Space Kid hallucinates as aliens are in fact Neil and Nikki dressed up and shrieking at him. We briefly see the real-life Nikki yelling, "Space is our turf, motherf-" before the POV snaps back to Space Kid, who only sees an alien shrieking unintelligibly at him.
- A Day in the Limelight: Space Kid finally gets his episode.
- Double Take: When Max launches Space Kid to Spooky Island, Gwen nearly throttles him.Gwen: What have you done?! Do you realize how much paperwork I have to fill out for a dead camper?!Max: Don't overrea- wait, you've had to do that before?
- Even Evil Has Standards: Max nearly killed Space Kid, and even he's disturbed to find out that this isn't the first time Gwen's had to fill out paperwork for a dead camper.
- Gone Horribly Right: Max's plan was to make Space Kid's "launch" so traumatic that Space Kid would never again show any interest in space. Thank's to Max's "astronaut training" however, Space Kid winds up hallucinating so badly that he actually believes in David and Gwen's fake moon landing. By the time he recovers, he's utterly convinced he went to space, and is more passionate than ever.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Space Kid really believes that Max, who hates his guts and who has shown no interest at all in his hobby, wants to help him train to be an astronaut.
- Iron Butt Monkey: When David sees Space Kid exit his "space shuttle" after Max caused it to crash on Spooky Island, he exclaims, "He's alive and well!" Then Space Kid drags himself along the beach, high out of his mind and in obvious agony, and David amends his statement to "Well, he's alive."
- Made of Iron: Max deliberately gives him food poisoning, deprives him of sleep, dopes him up with cough medicine, and puts him through a crash that should have broken every bone in his body, but Space Kid keeps dragging himself forward in pursuit of his "mission."
- Moon-Landing Hoax: Due to the "Space Camp" pamphlet promising a shuttle launch, the counselors have no choice but try and feign a moon landing to placate Space Kid.
- Mushroom Samba: A combination of motion sickness, sleep deprivation, expired astronaut food, and cough syrup has a profoundly unpleasant effect on Space Kid - enough so that he hallucinates actually being in space. He's so high, he doesn't even notice being in what looks like very severe pain.David: It... sounds like he's having a fever dream.Gwen: It sounds like he's going to fucking space!
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Space Kid is gullible, but he's also incredibly knowledgeable about his favorite topic. Knowledgeable enough that he might have seen through David and Gwen's half-assed moon landing - had Max not deprived him of sleep and put an entire bottle of cough syrup into him first, causing him to hallucinate the experience of actually going to space.
- Seen It All: When told that they have to fake a moon landing, Gwen just acknowledges that it seems like the kind of thing they do at Camp Campbell, then swallows a handful of anxiety meds.
- Through the Eyes of Madness: What Space Kid sees is himself confidently striding across the surface of the moon, casually tossing a moon rock in the low gravity and proclaiming that he's sure to go down in history. What everyone else sees is Space Kid crawling out of his wrecked "shuttle," dragging himself along the beach, lifting a seashell in the air while drunkenly screaming "SPAAAACE!" - and then collapsing on the ground in agony.
