Awesome / Camp Camp

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Season 1

Episode 4: Camp Cool Kidz

• The campers successfully overpowering the counselors and taking over the camp, though considering that Gwen's being distracted by Trash TV she's more of a Play-Along Prisoner.

Episode 11: Camporee

• Gwen's Rousing Speech is actually pretty good... if eclectic.
  Gwen: (cutting David off in mid-sentence) NO! Shut up. You are not going to work together. You're all terrible at it! But we've got something they don't.
  Ered: Sub-par indoor plumbing?
  Gwen: We've got the most bizarre collection of campers with niche talents and ridiculously specific skill sets that Lake Lilac has ever seen! And subpar indoor plumbing.
• The Camp Campbell campers making their comeback.
  • Of particular note is Neil, who only appeared to be a kid who was very interested in science, demonstrating that he has working knowledge of chemistry by making Nitroglycerin.
• Everyone who passed the Flower Scout's obstacle course.

Episode 12: The Order of the Sparrow

• David admitting to Max why he's so oppressively cheerful despite the campers not giving a shit about the place is this crossed with Heartwarming:
  David: You're right Max. Times have changed, whether I like it or not. The campers don't care, Gwen doesn't care, even the founder of this place has better things to do. That's why I'll never stop trying... Because somebody fucking has to.
• Gwen singing the Camp Campbell theme song at the bonfire.

Season 2

Episode 1: Cult Camp

• Max, upon realizing David is too dense to see that Daniel is a psychopathic cult leader, pushes just the right buttons to manipulate David into taking care of Daniel before the campers were sacrificed.
  • Specifically Max makes David paranoid about losing his job by pointing out that Cameron Campbell will likely fire the two counselors who couldn't get the camp under control in favor of the one counselor who did and then willingly gets himself brainwashed to alert David about what's going on with his changed behavior.
• David and Daniel's music battle at the end of the episode for multiple reasons. Besides being a well-made song number for both characters, there's also the fact that during the Breaking Speech of his Villain Song, David not only fights off the manipulations and tactical put downs of a master manipulative cult leader, but actually STOMPS OUT his unsettling background effects, symbolically showing David had the willpower to overcome Daniel's usual mind games and will breaking tactics.
  • Not to mention that David unintentionally saved the campers by making Daniel get too caught up in his Villain Song that he accidentally drinks the poisoned punch.

Episode 3: Quest to Sleepy Peak Peak

• Nerris beats the living shit out of the squirrel army with dice. She throws one so hard that it lodges in a squirrel's head.
  Nerris: Anyone else want a twenty-sided ass kicking?

Episode 4: Jermy Fartz

• Neil tricking the Wood Scouts into taking Jermy instead of the other campers.

Episode 7: Bonjour Bonquisha

• David's entire speech at the end about drifting apart from others and finding real love is awesome enough to potentially top his season one finale speech.

Episode 8: Gwen Gets a Job

• After Max blackmails Gwen and tries to get her fired, she gets back at him by revealing his darkest secret to the other campers.
  Gwen: Oh, and Max has a teddy bear. Eat shit, Satan! (pegs Max in the head with it)

Episode 11: Cookin' Cookies

• The Flower Scouts create and become the leaders of a big-time drug ring, obliviously and completely by accident. It is every bit awesome and hilarious as that sounds.

Episode 12: Parents Day

• Even though Campbell is David's hero, he chooses to blow him off so that he could take Max to eat pizza when he realizes how bad Max's parents were.
• After nearly two whole seasons of dodging authority and strutting himself around like a jackass, Cameron Campbell finally gets what's coming to him as he's grabbed and carted off by Ered's cool gay government agent dads, kicking and screaming the whole time.
  Cameron Campbell: YOU BASTARDS! YOU GODDAMN BASTARDS! Do you know who I am?! I AM CAMERON C. CAMPBELL!! I'm richer than ALL OF YOU COMBINED! I was the prime minister of THAILAND, for Christ's sake!
  Agent Miller: Tell it to your cellmates in Super Guantanamo.

Season 3

Episode 1: The Fun-Raiser

• Upon discovering that David and Gwen have been hiding the camp's foreclosure from the rest of the camp, and stolen the Quartermaster's prized hook hand to manipulate them into trying to make a profit without finding out the truth, Max manages to raise the $1,000 they need in a matter of minutes...by exposing their schemes to everyone they've involved and having the angry crowd pay to see the Quartermaster beat them to a bloody pulp.
• The Quartermaster's reaction to finding out David and Gwen stole his Hook Hand just shows how much the two deserve everything that's coming to them.
  Quartermaster: YOU STOLE AN AMPUTEE'S PROSTHETIC HAND FOR A GODDAMN PROFIT?!
  Gwen: Oh...wow. When you phrase it like that, it really does sound fucking awf— (gets throttled by Quartermaster)
  (later)
  Gwen: We were going to give it back! Swear to god!
  Quartermaster: (brandishing a boxing glove attachment) Swear to me.

Episode 2: Ered Gets Her Cool Back

• In his attempt to prove how cool he is, Harrison conjures two rings of fire and gets a white tiger to jump through them. No one questions where the tiger came from, or where it went.
• Nerris of all people gets one. When Ered is convinced that the only way to become cool again is to take a surely-fatal dive down a halfpipe that not even the Y Games would touch, Nerris convinces her to stand down. In other words, Nerris talked down a suicide. It's not for nothing that Ered declared her the coolest camper.

Episode 3: Foreign Exchange Campers

• At the end of the episode, Neil finally gives Max what he deserves for being a selfish little turd who'd ditch all his friends for ice cream, slapping him in the empty safe where he won't get any.
  Max: (from inside the safe) Y'know what? That's fair.
• In a way, Brian's Simple, yet Awesome plan to get Cameron Campbell's fortune: just wait for the other three to get it and to inevitably start a brawl over it, snatch it during the chaos, and then get out via helicopter before anyone can react.

Episode 4: Nikki's Last Day on Earth

• Nikki angrily rants at Max for not taking her (supposed) impending death seriously, rightfully accusing him of being selfish. While she was not actually dying like the episode implied, it was still a wake up call for Max as well as the other campers because they didn't ask Nikki what she wanted to do for her last day on Earth.

Episode 7: Cameron Campbell the Camp Campbell Camper

• As a way of trying to incriminate David, Cameron tries to convince Max to work with him after initially being impressed by his manipulative skills. Max agrees to work with him...only to turn the microphone behind his back on and getting him to unwittingly confess to some crimes he had committed.
  Cameron: What did you do?!
  Max: Oh, I turned on your microphone because I thought we were already starting! Did your friends on the other end not know about all the other stuff? Gee, I'm sorry, Mr. Campbell. (glares at him) Guess I’m not so "rough around the edges", after all.
• When he (finally) realizes that Cameron has been out to frame him, David effortlessly shuts Campbell down without even raising his voice.
  David: I tried to create the perfect day of camp for you and everything. But your only goal was to hurt me? For something I said when I was just a kid?
  Cameron: "Just a kid"? Kids are diabolical monstrosities that drive you to the brink of insanity! After everything I've done for you, you chose a bunch of kids over me!
  David: That's... that's the job. You really don't get that, do you?
• Rather than being mad at Campbell for trying to frame him, David instead tells Cameron that he is just...disappointed. To a massively self-important egotist like Cameron, this is the worst possible thing he can hear anyone say to him—especially coming from his go-to "fall guy"—which triggers a total Villainous Breakdown.

Halloween Special: Arrival of the Torso Takers

• Daniel's entire revenge scheme is nothing short of ingenious. He takes David's place and starts Gaslighting Max to drive him towards a mental breakdown while a captive David is Forced to Watch.
  • Easy to miss is the subtlety of how Daniel pulled it off. Rather than exposing himself by acting overblown and relying on sheer ignorance to go about unimpeded, he knows to act just off enough that Max genuinely can't tell if David is just messing with him or not. Furthermore he shows a good enough understanding of the psychology of his intended victims that he knows nothing he does to David directly is likely to work and intends a Revenge by Proxy as result as well as knowing exactly which buttons to push in his plan to get Max to do exactly what he wants.
• Max distracting Daniel by requesting that he sing about his religion, then whacking him with David's guitar.
  • Notably Daniel is sharp enough not to fall for Max's trick and even chides him for acting like he's dealing with David. Max does get him to play along by exploiting his pride in calling him lesser than David for not going through with it and does so instantly after Daniel instantly sees through the initial gambit.
• The minute Daniel pulls a knife out and threatens Max with it, David tackles him.
• Max figuring out which David is the real one by exploiting Daniel's lactose intolerance.

Season 4

Squirrel Camp

• Quartermaster vs. Mega-Squirrel.
  Quartermaster: You thought you could defeat me, rodents? I am bred of blood and my grandpappy's toilet wine! Know my rage, insolent curs!
  Squirrel leader: (subtitles) You will scream for mercy as I gnaw upon your eye sockets, usurper!
  Max: (huge grin) THIS IS FUCKING AMAZING!

The Forest

• While you may assume David's chipper and worshipful attitude towards nature would mean that he doesn't have much in the way of actual survival skill, he actually does very well throughout the whole episode, especially considering he was not prepared at all to be stranded in the middle of the forest. He hikes all the way up to a tall plateau, soothes his bee stings with some crushed herbs, lights a campfire (until it's extinguished by circumstances outside of his control), and resists eating some berries he (presumably) knows are poisonous. While there are rough patches, he manages to keep going through each one, and even at his lowest point he still keeps his kind heart by sparing the wolf that tried to kill him just minutes ago. Over the course of a few days, he manages to make a whole campsite, complete with hut, handmade clothes, a bow for hunting, and a tamed wolf companion.

Party Pooper

• Several fans admitted to being impressed that Gwen is allowed to say she's proud of who she is. Especially considering this is Character Development given that Gwen was pretty insecure about herself in previous episodes.