History Recap / CraigOfTheCreekS2E27CrisisAtElderRock

* CabinFever: The Elders' sanity significantly deteriorates when they get stuck under the rock for five days.

* OhCrap: The response when the kids realize if they don't get the Elders out of the rock, they're going to need help from the adults

** JP takes Mark's uniform and tries to cover his shift at work, reasoning that his height lets him pretend he's old enough. Nicole immediately complains to the manager for allowing a child to work there.

* AdultsAreUseless: Even when the Elders are stuck under their rock, [[EnforcedTrope Craig refuses to call his mother for help]]. Kids at the creek do all kinds of things their parents wouldn't allow, so bringing an adult is considered [[GodzillaThreshold an absolute last priority]].

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** JP takes Mark's uniform and tries to cover his shift at work, reasoning that his height lets him pretend he's old enough. Nicole immediately complain to the manager for allowing a child to work there.

* RealityEnsues:

* ShoutOut:
** When the kids arrive at Elder Rock, Mark calls them [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} George, Elaine and Kramer]]. Possibly a joke about how [[Recap/CraigOfTheCreekS1E19KelseyQuest Jerry]] is the only one child Mark has called by name.
** The thing that made them bicker and cause the rock to shift was a series called ''[[Anime/MyHeroAcademia My Hoagie Academia]]''.
** In the same scene, Barry holds up a figurine resembling [[Franchise/TouhouProject Utsuho Reiuji]].

** In the same scene, Barry holds up a figurine resembling [[Franchise/{{Touhou}} Utsuho Reiuji]].

** When the kids arrive at Elder Rock, Mark calls them [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} George, Elaine and Kramer]]. Possibly a joke about how [[Recap/CraigOfTheCreekS1E19KelseyQuest Jerry]] is the only one

** Mark is fired because he hadn't been to work in five days due to being stuck and for sending J.P. to pick up his slack. Also, the fact that JP is too young to be working there as Nicole complains to the manager for allowing a child to work there.

* ChekhovsGun: The episode opens with Craig using a system of tied-together jump ropes to hang off a cliff. The ropes end up being used as rigging for the Creek kid to pull Elder Rock back up.

** The kids acknowledge the stuff they do at the creek that their parents wouldn't approve of, like the Sewer Queen and the Sewer Kids hanging out in the sewers all day, the dangerous tricks and jumps the Ten Speeds perform, and Kit running a business without a license.

** When the kids arrive at Elder Rock, Mark calls them [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} George, Elaine and Kramer]].

* AdultsAreUseless: Even when the Elders are stuck under their rock, [[EnforcedTrope Craig refuses to call his mother for help]]. Kids at the Creek do all kinds of things their parents wouldn't allow, so bringing an adult is considered [[GodzillaThreshold an absolute last priority]].
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: With the Elders trapped under the rock for five days, Kelsey wants to call Craig's mom for help because of how serious the situation is. But Craig points out that if his mom or any other adults see this, they would realize how dangerous the creek is and would forbid their kids to be at the creek anymore. Craig's point is proven right as some of the creek kids arrive to help the Elders because they don't want their parents to know what they do at the creek.
* BystanderSyndrome: As the Creek kids discover the Elders are stuck and running out of food, they watch their livestream, cracking jokes and [[SideBet betting on]] [[BlackComedy who will die first]] in the chat. They only come once Craig giving a RousingSpeech about coming together--and points out they'll all get in trouble if they leave it to the adults.
* CabinFever: The Elders sanity significantly deteriorates when they get stuck under the rock for five days.

** The Elders were trapped under the rock for five days and they would have never been found had Craig and his friends didn't come by to ask them a question on the balls they found.
** After Mark sends J.P. to cover his work shift, J.P. passes by the Trading Tree and tells Kit about the Elders being trapped under the rock, causing her and the other creek kids to watch the Elders' live stream and Craig is able to convince the viewers to help rescue them.

** Because the Elders were stuck under the rock for five days, they absolutely ''reek'' when they finally get out.
** Mark is fired because he hadn't been to work in five days due to being stuck and for sending J.P. to pick up his slack. Also the fact that JP is too young to be working there as Nicole complains to the manager for allowing a child to work there.

** The kids acknowledge the stuff they do at the creek that their parents wouldn't approve of, like the Sewer Queen and the Sewer Kids hanging out in the sewers all day and the dangerous tricks and jumps the Ten Speeds perform.

** In the same scene, a character holds up a figurine resembling [[Franchise/{{Touhou}} Utsuho Reiuji]].

** The thing that made them bicker and cause the rock to shift was a series called ''[[Anime/MyHeroAcademia My Hoagie Academia]]''.

* DiggingYourOwnGrave: After running out of food, the Elders dig and lay down in very undersized graves.

* RealityEnsues: Mark tries to dig out from under the rock using a replica of a shovel from an anime he watched. However, because it's just a plastic prop, it breaks immediately.

** Mark is fired because he hadn't been to work in five days due to being stuck and for sending JP to pick up his slack.

** The thing that made them bicker and cause the rock to shift was a series called [[Anime/MyHeroAcademia My Hogie Academia]].

* CabinFever: Happens to the Elders when they get stuck under the rock for five days.

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