Jurassic World "Rude Awakening" Camp Cretaceous TV episode Written by Rick Williams Directed by Michael Mullen Release date: December 3, 2021

Dr. Turner helps the campers hatch a plan to get off Mantah Corp Island.

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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

Dr. Turner

Kenji Kon

Yasmina Fadoula

Darius Bowman

Yasmina's mother (in sketchbook only)

Indominus rex (in Yaz's nightmare only)

Toro (in Yaz's nightmare only)

Ceratosaurus (in Yaz's nightmare only)

Scorpios rex (in Yaz's nightmare only)

Sammy Gutierrez

Brooklynn

Ben Pincus

Big Eatie (T. rex mother)

Little Eatie (T. rex daughter)

BRADs

Mosasaurus (in Yaz's nightmare only)

Pierce

Bumpy (mentioned only)

Dimorphodon (mentioned only)

Compsognathus (mentioned only)

Kash D. Langford 

Didja Notice? 

At 1:17 in the episode, notice that the playing cards with which the kids play poker have a dinosaur motif on the backs.

For some reason, the kids still haven't cleaned themselves up since moving into Dr. Turner's domicile on Mantah Corp Island. Doesn't Dr. Turner have any showers there??

At 2:47 in the episode, notice that the throw rug under the coffee table has a DNA pattern motif.

The CG animators seem to have gone an extra step in the design of Dr. Turner's clothing. Notice at about 5:11 in the episode that a vague outline of her bra line can be seen under the cloth of her shirt.

The symbol that appears on the power supply door at 7:45 in the episode is a high voltage electricity symbol, one among a number of variants used in the real world.

The group comes across a Kentrosaurus named Pierce which was raised since it was a baby by Dr. Turner. Pierce goes on to appear in a number of later episodes. 

For some reason, the snowcat vehicle seen in this episode and later episodes are referred to as "snow gliders". Possibly this is to avoid any legal issue with the term "snowcat", as it is a commonly used portmanteau of "snow" and "Caterpillar", "Caterpillar" being a company and brand name.

The two snow gliders have identical frost patches on them, noticeable at 17:49 in the episode.

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 Three covers the events of this episode

No notes.

Memorable Dialog

Mantah Corp is the worst.mp3

hope that Mantah Corp doesn't notice six kids on the plane until we're back home.mp3

we're still Camp Cretaceous.mp3

I've been having nightmares, too.mp3