Jurassic World "At Least..." Camp Cretaceous TV episode Written by Bethany Armstrong Johnson Directed by Eric Elrod Release date: December 3, 2021

The campers try to learn where they've been marooned, but uncover more questions than answers. 

Read the story summary at the Jurassic Park Wiki

Didja Know?

Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous is a CG-animated TV series that aired on the Netflix streaming service from 2020-2022 for five seasons and one special. While the first couple of episodes take place before and during the events of Jurassic World, the rest of them take place shortly after that film, and about three years before the events of Fallen Kingdom. Netflix is currently producing episodes of a sequel series, Jurassic World: Chaos Theory, whose first season began in May 2024.

   Each episode of the series opens with the words "A Netflix Original Series" over what appears to be a T. rex footprint in the jungle mud. 

    The Universal Pictures logo that appears after this is altered from the usual to have the Earth globe with a continent that looks very roughly like the supercontinent Pangaea may have looked in the Triassic-Jurassic periods of the Mesozoic era, 200-150 million years ago.

    As the Universal Earth globe spins, a second "continent" seen is actually a stylized DreamWorks Pictures logo (a boy sitting with a fishing pole on the crescent Moon), followed by the Amblin Entertainment logo.

The dinosaur that bursts out of the Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous gates at the beginning of the opening titles of each episode is a Tyrannosaurus rex, possibly the infamous Rexy herself, but we don't see its right side close enough to see if it has Rexy's raptor scars incurred in Jurassic Park.

Characters appearing or mentioned in this episode

Brooklynn

Darius Bowman

Kenji Kon

Yasmina Fadoula

Sammy Gutierrez

Ben Pincus

stowaway compy

Saber-toothed cat

Didja Notice? 

Throughout the episode, the kids refer to the saber-toothed cat as a saber-toothed tiger. Though this is a common misnomer for the prehistoric beast Smilodon, it was not part of the Panthera genus of tigers. One would think that Darius, being a dino/prehistory nerd, would have corrected his friends (however annoying they may have found it!).

The saber-toothed cat seen here is the first bio-engineered mammal depicted in the Jurassic World universe. 

Notes from the junior novelization Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous - The Deluxe Junior Novelization Volume Four by Steve Behling Cover illustration by Patrick Spaziante 2022 Chapter One covers the events of this episode

Didja Notice? 

The kids stumble across the metal limb/claw in the sand much sooner here than in the episode.

During the saber-toothed cat chase, Kenji here runs up behind the beast as it menaces Ben and pulls on its tail to distract it. In the televised episode, he jumps upon the cat's back from the rocks above.

Memorable Dialog

let's go out there and, you know, survive.mp3

Kenji's not taking credit?.mp3

the best "at least" yet.mp3