Camp CrunchLabs (2026) s01e04 Episode Script

Charge!
[Mark] This is the most epic Nerf battle
we've ever had at CrunchLabs.
And this custom-fabricated, rapid-fire,
multi-weapon Nerf artillery vehicle…
What the…?!
…may just be about
to break 12 world records.
[shouting]
Welcome back to Space Camp CrunchLabs.
I'm Mark Rober,
and this is week four of eight
of your least boring summer ever in space.
[theme music playing]
Hey ♪
[vocalizing]
Hey ♪
[music ends]
Can you believe it? We're basically
halfway through the summer,
and I still haven't figured out how
to roast a marshmallow on this dang thing.
Now, this also means
we're basically halfway
through our mega experiments
for the summer.
[shrieking, laughing]
[classical music plays]
And of course, it also means we're halfway
through the at-home Super Challenges
that you guys have been sending in
at record numbers.
I gotta say,
you guys have been crushing it.
Now, if you haven't yet started
on your Super Challenge, don't worry.
You have until August 8th to submit yours
with the help of a parent
at CampCrunchLabs.com.
For now, here are
a few Super Challenge submissions
from last year
to get those creative juices flowing.
- [snaps fingers]
- [jaunty music playing]
[onlooker] Yay!
[boy exclaims]
[boy] …playing Minecraft on the computer.
[jaunty music continues]
So good!
[whirring]
[laughing]
Dang, you guys
are really bringin' it this year.
As a reminder, we've assigned you
three different summer Super Challenges.
You've got a Rube Goldberg machine
like these.
This year,
it needs to somehow include some water.
And then there's the epic slo-mo shot,
but, of course,
it's gotta have googly eyes.
And then finally, a reverse video,
where you play a video backwards
that somehow incorporates some food.
If you then record yourself
doing the challenge,
with the help of a parent,
submit that video at CampCrunchLabs.com.
That, of course, gives you the chance
to win the Platinum Ticket,
which is an all-expense-paid trip
to come visit me and my team at CrunchLabs
to assist me
in some epic science experiments.
There's a 90% chance I get kicked out
of the neighborhood association.
And if that happens,
I'm blaming it on you.
Now, remember in episode one,
when I told you the planets
over my shoulder would be scaled?
So we started with Mercury,
the tiny little toddler planet,
the smallest planet in the solar system.
Well, today, I'm so proud to introduce
the biggest and baddest and largest planet
in our solar system, Jupiter.
And it's wild to compare the size
of Jupiter
to the size of itty-bitty Mercury.
If Mercury was the size of a pepper flake,
at that scale, Jupiter would be a grape.
It is 13,000 times bigger than Mercury,
and actually even 1,300 times bigger
than Earth.
So welcome to Jupiter.
Now, of course, to get this amazing view,
we're not actually on Jupiter.
We're on one of its moons.
And this is possibly
the most fascinating moon
in the entire solar system,
and here's why.
The surface on Europa is covered in ice,
like, liquid ice,
and water's kind of rare.
And then we also know the core
of Europa is like molten lava,
which means at some point
from the top surface to the core,
there's a nice, cozy 70-degree ocean.
Since we know life formed
on our planet Earth in the oceans,
currently, NASA is working on a mission
to send something out
to Europa to, like, drill in the ice,
to send a submarine down
underneath the ice
to that nice, juicy, warm water,
and then basically see what eats it.
In fact, the first part
of that plan is already underway.
Last year, they launched Europa Clipper,
which is an orbiter
that's gonna go study it.
It won't get there for another five years,
and it's going 78,000 miles per hour.
That's, like, 21 miles per second,
which is just bonkers.
And you can do that because in space,
there's no air molecules to bonk into,
so no air resistance,
no friction, no heating.
It's basically like
the world's greatest carpool lane.
Let's see who I get to share
this beautiful view with
with today's special guest…
- [snapping fingers]
- [music stops]
What the heck?
What the… What?
Oh, Mark, did you just snap me in?
Zach King, of course!
Welcome to Camp CrunchLabs.
- Thanks for having me.
- Yeah, have a seat.
Oh, at least let me help you with that.
- [snaps fingers]
- Thanks, Mark. Way better.
You're welcome. Glad it's finally working.
- Don't keep snapping.
- Welcome to Space Camp CrunchLabs.
Hopefully you weren't doing
anything important.
- I was making a little invisibility video.
- The timing could not have been better.
- Perfect.
- Let's roll the clip.
Let's head over to the picnic table
of unlimited possibilities.
- Oh, we're gonna have a picnic?
- It's kind of a space picnic.
As you can see, it's more of a crate
of unlimited possibilities.
Oh, what? Zach, now everyone knows
what's under box number one.
All right, let's get our camper down here.
Campers, who we got?
- Hi, Mark.
- [gasps] Gio!
- Let's go!
- Zach.
- It's Gio.
- You stowed away on the rocket.
- That was a wild ride.
- It is really cold here on Europa.
Like, negative 240 degrees Fahrenheit,
but you seem to be handling it well.
I really chose
to wear short sleeves in a shirt.
That was a good call.
Now, if Gio looks familiar to you,
that's because he recently dominated
a hundred adults on a MrBeast video.
- [up-tempo music playing]
- [Gio laughing menacingly]
- Now, Gio, do you ever fire Nerf blasters?
- Sometimes.
And, Zach,
you're a bit of a Nerf aficionado.
My arsenal's loaded.
All right, this is the vault.
Let's get a little wider.
It's blasters on blasters
on blasters in here.
Is it real though,
or is that just special effects?
[suspenseful music playing]
- No mirrors in there.
- I don't trust you.
Do you guys know
what Nerf actually stands for?
Non-expanding recreational form.
- Wait, did you look it up?
- How did you know that?
- I read it from that.
- Dang it, Gio! What the heck?
- Non-expanding recreational foam.
- Oh, well, I read it wrong.
Back in the '60s, when they invented Nerf,
it was the first ball
that you could throw indoors.
But if I had a piece of popcorn,
that's not gonna break something, right?
Well, it's light and it's small.
- So you have to have this balance, right?
- Yeah.
Zach, since you already opened
box number one…
- Sorry.
- …why don't you lift it? A handkerchief.
Go ahead and throw that
as hard as you can.
And let's decide if that would be
a good indoor recreational ball.
How far do you think I can get it?
- Ooh.
- Oh no!
- Wah, wah.
- You even come with sound effects?
- Yeah.
- Okay, Gio, pull up number two.
- Let's see what you got there.
- [vocalizes]
- [Mark] What is that?
- [Gio] A block of foam.
Your goal is to make it through that hoop.
You think you could do it?
- [Gio] Maybe.
- [Mark] Let's see.
[drumroll]
- Oh… Wah, wah.
- Wah, wah.
- [Mark] I'll do number three.
- [Gio] That's gonna break something.
- Oh!
- [cat yowls]
Dang it! Those space windows
are not easy to replace.
Okay, and the number four.
- Oh.
- It's like a metal.
Oh my gosh. What is this?
Tungsten, one of the heaviest metals
that's not radioactive.
- Wanna give it a throw?
- [Gio] Maybe.
- Oh! Good throw.
- [clangs]
As things got heavier,
we could throw them farther, right?
There's this balance called impulse,
and impulse is a measure
of how much energy
is transferred in a short amount of time.
You don't want something
to be really hard.
- What you want is something that--
- [imitates squishing]
- I would've gone with… [squeaks]
- [squeaking]
[Mark] That's perfect.
And so the Nerf engineers spent a lot
of time finding the right balance
of heavy enough but squishy enough,
balancing the momentum with the impulse.
And I think
we can actually demonstrate that.
We've got a steel plate here.
I've got a Nerf blaster here.
See what you observe real time. Ready?
[Nerf gun whirring]
- Could you see the balls squishing there?
- Not really.
Now let's do that again in slow motion
and see what's actually going on here.
[Nerf gun whirring]
- [imitates whoosh]
- That was actually good.
So that squish is the trick
as to why these can go really fast,
but then not hurt that much.
- Gio, say "lower the rope."
- Lower the rope.
[Mark] Oh, we have SAT GUS
straight from space.
Thanks, pal. There we go.
Gio, are you thinking what I'm thinking?
- Yeah.
- Dim the lights.
- [snaps fingers]
- Glasses.
Hit it.
I said hit it, Gio.
- You had one job.
- What?
- [Mark] Oh.
- [whirring]
[up-tempo classical music playing]
[Mark vocalizing in slow-motion]
[spluttering]
We're saving money this episode
on Gio's sound effects.
[theme music playing]
[squeaking]
[slowed] Wah, wah.
- [Mark] What?!
- [Gio laughing]
How did that not break?
All right, this was just warm-up, folks,
because it's time to head over
to our mega experiment.
- Whoa.
- You know what?
I think for this week's mega experiment,
we need a few more CrunchLab subscribers.
- Whoa.
- Whoa.
Welcome to CrunchLabs.
You ready to play a game?
- [all] Yeah.
- Let's do it.
[Science Bob] For game one,
each player is armed with a Nerf blaster
and must stay outside
of the circle on the floor.
Inside the circle
are butterfly nets on tall handles.
When the game begins, each player
must try to shoot as many Nerf balls
into their assigned net
as they can in one minute.
The player with the most Nerf balls
in their net at the end of the game wins.
Okay. You guys are all in your positions.
Oh, there is one more final rule.
These butterfly nets
are not just on regular stands.
Those happen to be Roombas…
- [kid] No!
- [laughing]
…which means that your targets
are gonna be in constant motion.
- [Gio] Oh, God.
- That sucks.
It also means the floor
is gonna be very clean by the end of this.
[Science Bob] Here we go. Sixty seconds.
- Starting now! [blows whistle]
- Oh!
[action music playing]
[music warps, stops]
- I'm trying to knock down Mark's.
- [screaming] No!
- [Zach] I got 'em! I got 'em!
- [Science Bob] Ten! Nine!
Eight! Seven! Six! Five!
- No!
- [Science Bob] Four!
- [shouting]
- [Science Bob] Three!
Two! One!
Hold your fire.
Well played.
All right, I'm gonna get a scale.
Okay, guys. The count is in.
We did have someone
that absolutely dominated,
with 58 balls in the net,
Mr. Mark Rober.
Hey!
Unfortunately, all of that energy
also went into knocking over his net.
- So he's disqualified.
- What?
- That's a DQ?!
- [imitating buzzer]
So in third place,
with 12 Nerf balls in the net, Zach King.
- Oh! Zach King!
- Third place? Dang it.
- I thought it was way higher than that.
- With 15, coming in second place is Gio.
- [Mark] Wow.
- [Zach] Oh, okay.
And by just one Nerf ball,
in first place with 16 Nerf balls, Hanley.
- Hanley!
- [Hanley] I knew it. I knew it.
Over here, Mark.
- Oh, yeah.
- Over here.
Oh, yeah. Hanley!
[Science Bob laughs]
- That's awesome.
- [Science Bob] Well done.
That was just round one.
We got another game for you.
I think you shouldn't be allowed
to be disqualified from this one, Bob.
I think it should be tumbling
and flexibility.
And flexibility.
- [Zach] Oh.
- [Mark] Whoa.
- Okay. Mark, let's see it.
- [laughing] I'm disqualified.
[Science Bob] Who can see
where we're going with this game?
- [kids] Me.
- [Science Bob] Let me explain the game.
This time, each player wears a backpack
that has a butterfly net
sticking out from the top.
When the game begins,
players must try to shoot
as many Nerf balls as possible
into the other player's net.
The player with the least number
of Nerf balls in their net
at the end of the game wins.
Would you all please take
a step into the red circle?
[kids] Oh no!
You cannot leave the red circle,
or you will be disqualified
from the round.
Here we go. On your mark, Rober, get set…
[whistle blows]
[jaunty music playing]
Bro, you're too tall for this.
Bob, I broke it. No!
[shouting excitedly]
[Science Bob] Watch the line!
Watch the line! Fifteen seconds left!
[Mark laughs]
[Science Bob] Nine! Eight! Seven!
Six! Five!
- [girl shrieks]
- [Science Bob] Four! Three!
Two! One!
[music ends]
- Time's up.
- [girl] Shake out.
[Science Bob] We're gonna count 'em up.
We'll see who--
Oh no!
All right, clearly, in first place,
give it up for Aurora.
- [clapping]
- [all] Aurora!
[Science Bob] And in second place,
the amazing Zach King comes in.
- Yeah!
- [both] Boo!
Parker, in third place!
- Yeah, Parker!
- [all cheering]
- [Science Bob] And the least… Oh, sorry.
- I don't think it's worth counting.
Sorry, that's two in a row.
Two games in a row
I had the most balls in my net, so…
Good news is there's a round three.
For game three,
you will be split into two teams,
the red team and the blue team.
The object of this game
is to get 100 Nerf balls
into the opponent's target.
Easy.
[Science Bob] Before the game starts,
you have 10 minutes to use materials
to set up your space,
creating the maximum resistance
for your opponent.
Although getting shot
doesn't lose you any points…
Each one of you will be given five
of these little sticky grenades.
They're called sticky grenades
'cause they stick to people.
Now, if you get stuck
with one of these sticky grenades,
you're in time-out, no more shooting.
You have to go back to your base,
squeeze your team's chicken…
[honking]
…and wait until it stops screaming
before you can start shooting again.
You have ten minutes to prepare.
- [crickets chirping]
- What are you waiting for? Go, go, go!
[Mark] No, no, no!
Hulk mode activated!
Zach!
Quick, we don't have time to take it
all the way there. I'll roll it!
That wasn't very effective.
What if I stack it?
You wanna hand 'em to me?
- [Science Bob] You can't block the target.
- Aw.
- Knock it down.
- [Science Bob] Five minutes left, people.
[Mark] Target practice.
[shouting]
- That's gonna be Zach King's head!
- [Science Bob] Two minutes.
I don't know how to make a hole.
We don't have a knife. I'll wear…
Let's go. [grunts]
- Aurora, are you good at throwing?
- I'm great at throwing.
- [pops]
- Basically, they have no chance.
[Science Bob] Let the world's most epic
Nerf battle begin in three, two, one!
- [air horn blows]
- Charge!
- Hey!
- [Mark] Get 'em!
Out, out, out, out!
- [Parker] Got ya!
- [Mark] Got you!
- Okay, it doesn't work.
- Go, let's attack!
[screaming] No! Mark!
Get it! Good job, guys!
We gotta get the turkey.
- You gotta hit it. You gotta squeeze it.
- [honking]
[Science Bob] You guys need to score!
They've only got two!
- Got you! Got you! Got you!
- Mark!
- [Mark] Zach!
- What?
- You got two on you. We gotta keep 'em on.
- Mark's super competitive, Zach.
[jaunty music playing]
[Mark laughing]
You can't. I'm in this zone.
[music halts]
Oh, God.
- That's cheating!
- You can't shoot from the neutral zone.
- I'm not in there, am I? Oh.
- You are. Now you're out.
- My bad.
- He runs in, get him.
[Science Bob] It's 30 to 9 right now.
Red team is dominating.
[boy] Oh, crap!
- Wait, where did the chicken go?
- Get Zach! Get Zach!
- [Science Bob] There we go!
- Keep doing what you're doing.
- Got ya.
- Did you though?
- Yeah.
- Gio, be careful.
- [shouting]
- [heavy metal music playing]
- [jaunty music playing]
- Watch out! Watch out for Mark!
[beeping]
[Mark] Get Zach! Get Zach!
- Got him.
- Where's the chicken?
- [honking]
- I need a break anyway.
[honking continues]
- Okay, guys, let's raid him. Go, go!
- [Mark] Here they come!
- [Science Bob] There goes blue.
- [beeping]
Red's holding tight.
- Are you okay?
- [whooshing]
Guys, Mark's comin'.
Guys, get Mark.
- [air horn blows]
- All right, hold your fire!
It's strategy time!
Aurora, good job.
You're our secret weapon.
[Zach] Aurora is giving us a hard time.
She's like border patrol,
just throwing grenades at us.
- We need to step up.
- There we go!
- Where'd my gun go?
- Second half starts now!
- [air horn blows]
- [Mark] Here they come!
[Nerf gun firing]
[Zach] Get Mark! Get Mark!
[pops]
[up-tempo music playing]
- You have to go back to your…
- You can't… You're out.
Yes! Nice try, Zach!
[Zach grunts]
- [Mark] Aurora!
- It's not working! No!
[dramatic music playing]
No! Oh no. That was all for nothing.
I have so many steps in right now.
[Nerf gun firing]
- [Science Bob] Oh, it's a miss!
- Watch out!
- [Mark] Aurora!
- [Zach] Get her!
A standoff.
I'll let you go if you want to go.
- Fine.
- Wait, what are you doing?
You let him go? No!
Guys, get Mark.
- Watch out!
- [Science Bob] Three points away!
Oh no!
[slowed] No!
- [air horn blows]
- Yeah!
- [Science Bob] That's it!
- Oh my goodness.
- We did it!
- Let's go!
Red team forever!
- Blue team, you guys got 63 points.
- [groans]
And, of course,
red team reached 100 points first,
so, congratulations.
Very well fought.
- Where's Mark?
- Where is he?
[dramatic music playing]
- What the frick?!
- [Zach] What is that?
[slow-motion screaming]
Say hello to my little friend!
[Science Bob] Get him, guys!
[Mark shouting]
[darts whistling]
[Gio] Whoa!
[shouting continues]
Okay! I give up!
That means stop shooting.
[Mark groans]
[girl screaming]
I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
- I'm sorry!
- [machine powering down]
All right, everyone. There were
some winners and some losers today,
but in the end,
I had to wave the white flag.
So as a result, the prize for today,
it's a million dollars.
- What?
- It's a million dollars.
You guys can all split it, okay?
- No, there's a trick.
- What?
- Why are you not freaking out?
- Why do you think…
- 'Cause it's you!
- You're Mark!
- Fair point.
- [snaps fingers]
And that's how you save a million dollars.
- Okay, thank you. Appreciate hanging out.
- Oh, you think it's yours?
- Yeah?
- Nice try.
Honestly, that's Zach's fault
for teaching me all those tricks.
Back to base camp on Jupiter.
[exhales]
As a reminder,
we're at the halfway point of the season,
so you still have plenty of time
to submit your at-home Super Challenges.
So work with your parent
and get them uploaded
at CampCrunchLabs.com.
So there you go. It's time
to say goodbye to our largest planet.
So be sure to tune in next Saturday,
where we'll be orbiting a whole new planet
right here at Space Camp CrunchLabs.
[closing theme music playing]
[closing theme music continues]
[music ends]