Jurassic World "The Watering Hole Camp Cretaceous TV episode Written by Bethany Armstrong Johnson Directed by Zesung Kang Release date: January 22, 2021

The boys and girls separate to solve two island mysteries.

Read the story summary at the Jurassic Park Wiki

Notes from the Jurassic Park chronology

According to the novelization, this episode takes place several weeks after the events of "The Art of Chill". The chalk board with hash marks seen in the makeshift treehouse near the beginning of this episode suggests it is 22 days, so a little more than three weeks after.

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 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

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Darius Bowman

Kenji Kon

Yasmina Fadoula

Brooklynn

Sammy Gutierrez

Triceratops (mentioned only)

Parasaurolophus

Stegosaurus

Ceratosaurus

Brachiosaurus

Ankylosaurus

Dr. Alan Grant (mentioned only)

unidentified ceratopsian

Indominus rex (mentioned only, deceased)
Dr. Wu (mentioned only)

Eddie (mentioned only, deceased)

Chaos

Limbo

Grim

Dave (on audio tape only)

Roxie (on audio tape only) 

Didja Notice? 

When Sammy decides to go with Brooklynn to look for the source of the strange sound Brooklyn keeps hearing, Yasmina then volunteers, "I'll go if Sammy is," then sheepishly adding, "And Brooklynn, too." Her eagerness to go with Sammy is a foreshadowing of the romantic relationship that will develop between Yasmina and Sammy in the fifth season episode "The Core".

At 1:51, Kenji throws the empty shower bottle and shouts, "No mas agua." This is Spanish for "No more water."

As Kenji and Darius go up the river to find out what has blocked the water flow, Kenji is seen to be carrying the same butter knife as a weapon he found in the ruins of the original treehouse in "The Art of Chill".

At 4:22, Darius tries to interest Kenji in his notes about the plant and animal life on the island by telling him that the ferns contain neochrome, before he gets cut off by Kenji, who is definitely not interested. Neochromes are light sensitive proteins found in some organisms.

Sammy tells Yaz that her favorite thing is high school, which Yaz is flummoxed by. Sammy mocks her that her favorite thing is "Orange, orange, and orange." This is a reference back to "The Cattle Drive", where Yaz answered Sammy's question of her favorite color, favorite food, and favorite color of food as "Orange, orange, and orange."

Brooklynn tells Sammy and Yaz that once she dropped a scone in front of the queen while making her Unboxing Buckingham Palace video. This would refer to Elizabeth II, queen of the United Kingdom from 1952-2022. Buckingham Palace is a royal residence in London, and the administrative headquarters of the monarch of the United Kingdom.

Sammy, Yaz, and Brooklyn are all fans of the TV show Esther Stone: High School P.I. This is a fictitious program. Brooklyn remarks on the episode of the series where Esther figures out that the superintendent's phone vibrating was actually Morse code. Morse code is a method of communicating via a series of on-off signals such as flashes, tones, or clicks, invented by Samuel Morse (1791-1872). The fictitious series Esther Stone: High School P.I. may have been inspired by the real world TV series Veronica Mars, also about a teenage girl who acts as an amateur private investigator (itself inspired by the Nancy Drew series of juvenile novels).

Darius tells Kenji about a theory of Dr. Grant's that watering holes could be neutral ground for predators and prey under the right conditions (presumably referring to dinosaurs). This is largely a myth originating from fiction writers such as Rudyard Kipling suggesting that predators and prey may observe a truce around water holes in arid environments (such as in Kipling's Jungle Books).

Sammy names the three Baryonyx on the loose on the island Chaos, Grim, and Limbo after a hacker gang in episode 68 of Esther Stone.

Brooklynn finds a manila envelope labeled E750 on the back of a photo frame at Eddie's desk in the genetics lab. Eddie was seen (and killed) in "Happy Birthday, Eddie". Brooklynn first saw reference to E750 on a file folder on Dr. Wu's computer labeled "E750 Clinical Trial Results" in "Secrets".

Notes from the junior novelization Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous - The Deluxe Junior Novelization Volume Two by Steve Behling Cover illustration by Patrick Spaziante 2020 Chapters 9-13 cover the events of this episode.

Didja Notice? 

On page 45, Kenji reveals there is a Jurassic Spa on the island, powered by heat from underground geothermal springs.

In the novelization, the E-750 envelope is found by Brooklynn taped underneath Eddie's desk in the genetics lab. In the televised episode, she finds it on the back of a photo frame.

Memorable Dialog

it's a Camp Cretaceous girl adventure.mp3

Sorry, Kenji do what now?.mp3