Camp CrunchLabs (2026) s01e06 Episode Script

[Mark] This is Adley sitting on a device
that makes her so weightless,
she can catch a butterfly
floating up in the air.
And here's me using it to dunk.
[screaming]
Welcome back to Camp CrunchLabs.
I'm Mark Rober, and look at us go.
We are officially on week six of
your least boring summer ever in space.
[theme music playing]
[all yelling]
Hey ♪
Hey ♪
[music ends]
And while we're still doing
a little bit of cleanup
from our visits
from the Muppets last week…
- [Kermit yells]
- Oh!
- [exploding]
- Wow!
[Mark laughing]
- [screaming]
- [coughs]
…we're not slowing down.
There are mega experiments
in our final episodes
that have never been done
on the Internet before.
- What?!
- [Mark, slowed] This is crazy.
And word on the streets
is the Internet's pretty big.
Now as a reminder, we've assigned you
three different summer Super Challenges.
You've got a Rube Goldberg machine
like these,
but this year
it needs to somehow include some water.
And then there's the epic slow-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 food.
I gotta say,
I can't wait to see what you guys do,
because you've crushed
these Super Challenges in the past.
In fact, here's just a few bangers
from last year.
[whimsical music playing]
[music ends]
You still have plenty of time to submit
your at-home Super Challenges.
One lucky winner will get bragging rights,
but perhaps more importantly,
a chance to win this bad boy.
A 100% certified Platinum Ticket.
That means you get to come
and hang out with me and my friends
here at CrunchLabs.
All right, well, as you can see,
we are orbiting a new planet this week.
And just remember, those are to scale.
So every week,
as you see the different planets,
they're scaled relative to each other.
So this one's pretty big
compared to, like, Earth and Mercury.
You also might notice it has rings,
and you might think, "Wait a second,
I thought Saturn was the only planet
that had rings."
But that's not actually true.
This planet has them as well,
they're just a little bit less dramatic.
And as you might have guessed,
this week, we're orbiting Uranus.
What? Uh-huh.
Oh. We're all right.
This week, we're orbiting Uranus.
So Uranus is actually blue because
the methane gas in the atmosphere
absorbs red wavelengths of light
and reflects back the blue light.
Now, you might be thinking we accidentally
just put it up there sideways,
but a really fun fact about Uranus is
it's the only planet in the solar system
where the axis of rotation
is in the ecliptical plane.
That's a fancy way of saying this.
Every other planet rotates this way
as it orbits around the sun.
But Uranus, instead of rotating this way,
rotates this way.
It's like rolling.
And the theory is,
originally it was spinning this way,
but it collided
with some other massive object,
and then that turned
its axis of rotation off,
and now it rolls like a soup can as it
orbits around the sun.
And one more fun fact about Uranus,
it was originally named, wait for it…
Planet George.
It was discovered in the late 1700s,
named after the King of England,
King George.
But eventually the scientific community
came to our senses and said,
"You know what?"
"Let's name it Uranus after
the Greek mythological father of Saturn."
And with those juicy space facts
now wedged in your brain,
let's meet today's special guest.
[snaps fingers]
Hey!
I'm at Camp CrunchLabs?
- Mark!
- Shonduras!
- Have a seat.
- This is not your backyard!
- It is not.
- [grunts]
I still need to fix this chair.
That happened last year.
It's okay. It's good to be… in space?
You're currently orbiting
the planet Uranus.
Oh.
Fun fact, Shonduras and Adley are
the only guests from Camp CrunchLabs
who've been back three times in a row now.
I haven't seen Adley. She's been
running around having a fun summer.
Maybe we'll see her later.
I've had quite a few stowaways
on my rocket this year.
- Wait. You think?
- I don't know.
We should just go over to the picnic table
of orbital magnificence.
Is that what it's called?
The orbital magnificence?
- It is.
- Whoa. Whoa.
Don't touch that! Ow!
- Yeah, everything is perfectly calibrated.
- Okay.
I think we got to meet our campers.
- Who's the campers this year?
- I don't know.
- [both] Hey, Mark!
- [Mark] What the heck?
- Niko, you're here too?
- [Mark] Niko's here this year.
- Get the heck down here.
- Okay.
I don't know how big
the stowaway compartment is.
Stowaway too big.
[blabbering]
- Adley's back!
- What's up?!
And for the first time ever, Niko!
- [Shonduras] Oh! He got you!
- [Mark] Oh, that was not cool.
[laughing]
My brother.
[Mark] Okay.
We got the whole fam here this week.
Now, we do have some eggs here and…
Wait, Mark, I have some space questions.
Oh, of course. This is the place.
How do you sleep in space as an astronaut?
[smacks lips] Uh…
Who drives the rocket
when the astronauts are off doing stuff?
Also a good question.
How do you use the bathroom in space?
How do you use the bathroom?
These are all great questions,
but I feel like I need
to clear something up.
I didn't actually go to space.
I worked on the Mars Rover
for a bunch of years, but I--
Were you on Mars?
[Mark] I wasn't on Mars either, okay?
I worked at NASA. That's still cool.
What's "Rover"?
Okay, here's the deal, guys.
I didn't actually go to space.
However, I do have
a very good friend who did.
What? Let's just snap him in.
[snaps fingers]
Hey!
- Mark, how you doing?
- [Niko] Whoa.
Chris Ferguson, a real astronaut.
You really went to space?
- Three times.
- That's cool.
- We got so many questions.
- I'm ready.
How do you sleep in space?
Sleep in a sleeping bag
so you don't float away.
They actually pin you to the wall.
It was the softest mattress
I've ever laid on.
- [laughing]
- Just floating there.
I do have to ask… What's in the case?
Funny you should mention that.
I have something I can show you.
This is a neutrally stable, buoyant drill.
If you let it go in water,
it wouldn't sink and it wouldn't float.
[Mark] Got it.
So if I have this drill in water,
it sinks.
If I have this ball in water
and I let go, it floats.
This, if I let it go in the water,
just hovers there like it's in space.
And you really want that
because we also train underwater.
We can't simulate no gravity.
The best we can simulate
is neutrally buoyant.
In water, we can actually
put an astronaut upside down
so he feels like he's floating.
So then when you get to space,
you're kind of more familiar
with drilling something upside down
and having your tools float around you.
Yes, it's all about body position.
That's the whole idea.
- Got anything else in there?
- I have two parts.
- This one's very interesting.
- Adley, what's this?
I think it's for a golf club.
Why do you need a golf club in space?
Well…
Back during Apollo, when we were
sending astronauts to the moon,
there was a famous astronaut
named Alan Shepard, and he loved to golf.
So he asked NASA if he could
carry a golf club to the moon,
and they said, "Absolutely not."
"But maybe we'll let you carry
a small part of a golf club."
So Alan repurposed a moon tool,
which is what this is.
This could be used to pick up a rock.
It could be used to scoop soil,
depending upon what you put here.
Well, Alan got very innovative,
and he put this contraption together,
and he went out on the moon.
And he thought, since there's
very little gravity and no atmosphere,
if he would have hit it perfect,
it would have gone two and a half miles.
[Mark laughs]
[Chris] He hit two golf balls.
The first one went about 25 yards.
- Oh no! [laughs]
- Aw!
[Chris] The second one,
he hit much better.
- Went 40 yards.
- Oh, no!
What if he would've hit it perfect?
[Chris] It would have spent a full minute
in the vacuum of space
as it went to land on the moon.
I want to test out this space golf club.
Kind of a high rough here.
- You got it. You got it.
- Hit the window.
- [Shonduras] Don't hit the window.
- Sounds dangerous.
Yeah.
- Oh!
- [Mark laughing]
- Uh, was that supposed to happen?
- [Mark] Oh, yeah.
I mean, whoops.
Now, Fergie…
That's your astronaut name, right? Fergie.
- Yes.
- Guess what we got?
Some Tang.
Did you have Tang in space?
Tang is very '60s or '70s.
[Mark] Oh!
[Chris] We've sort of graduated
to really good lemonade and orange drink.
[in singsong] I'm in space.
[gulps] Actually,
it does taste pretty good.
What's in your hand right there?
What do we got?
[Chris] This is astronaut ice cream.
- Ice cream?
- Ice cream!
I know some kids
who are good at eating ice cream.
[Adley] It looks so good.
[Mark] Tell me you have
this a bunch in space.
We generally don't take it. Know why?
Because it's got a lot of crumbs in it.
And crummy food in space is not good
because it goes everywhere.
You know what
one of the best foods in space is?
- Peanut butter.
- Oh!
Peanut butter, we call it space glue
because it just keeps everything together.
Guys, what's the verdict?
I like it, but it's so hard.
- Yeah.
- [Shonduras laughs]
- I need to stop being this--
- [Chris] I gotta go.
- I gotta get these back.
- I don't want you getting in trouble.
- No, me neither.
- I got you.
Wait, his stuff's still here.
We'll ship some of it in the mail with
some ice cream. Then all will be well.
What ice cream?
[Mark] That's a huge bite.
Guys, it's hard to simulate no gravity,
but I have the next closest thing to it.
[heavy metal music playing]
- Oh!
- [Mark] The Coandă effect.
What's that?
- That's the Coandă effect.
- Oh, okay.
- Niko, squeeze this down like this.
- Okay.
[air hissing]
[all] Whoa!
[Mark] You guys have to guess
which do you think will float,
- which do you think won't float?
- Float.
- [Mark] We're thinking floater?
- [air hissing]
That's a float.
- [laughs]
- [crashing]
Uh, egg? Who thinks float?
- Um…
- Who thinks not float?
- Not float.
- I'm a not float.
- It's gonna float.
- Three against one.
I almost hope it does now for your sake.
[air hissing]
- I got it!
- Oh!
- Adley got it!
- [both screaming excitedly]
Adley, you're so right.
We said, the Coandă effect.
This is kind of like if you open
your faucet in the sink,
and you take a spoon
and put it in the water, it curves around.
It's kind of what's happening here.
The air's coming up, hitting that.
As long as it's smooth,
it kind of creates an air pocket.
Just sort of holds it there.
What about like a carrot?
- Okay. Should we test carrot?
- Not float.
- Not float? Who thinks float?
- [Shonduras] No.
- Not float.
- I'm a floater.
[air hissing]
- What?!
- [screaming excitedly]
[Shonduras] How?
That's magic.
- [Niko] Lime.
- Lime?
- This seems like it can't float.
- Easy.
[air hissing]
- Whoa!
- [crashing]
- Over the roof!
- No!
- Who wants to see the baby?
- [kids] Me!
Oh, not the baby!
- Who think it's gonna float?
- Me.
- Okay, hold it right there.
- [Shonduras] Careful, baby.
[air hissing]
[celestial music playing]
[squeaking]
Yes!
The baby's floating! Go, baby, go!
- [all chuckling]
- I was right!
[Mark] A hot dog?
Don't catch it on fire!
Oh, this is perfect.
Okay, that looks good.
- Whoo!
- Aah!
It's an interesting hot dog.
- Yuck!
- [laughs]
- Should we take it to one final level?
- What's the final level?
[marching percussion playing]
- [leaf blower whirring]
- Whoa.
- Can you float me?
- We've played with those before.
[whirring]
Look, he'll float.
Whoo!
He's floating!
[whirring stops]
Yay!
[swing music playing]
[howling]
[Mark] That's the Coandă effect!
[Adley laughing]
[Mark] Whoa! What the--
[leaf blower whirring]
[all laugh]
[music continues]
[Shonduras] Wow!
- [yelps]
- [Mark laughing]
[music ends]
I've got an idea for one final thing.
I like the size of this idea.
You get a leaf blower.
You get a leaf blower.
You get a leaf blower.
I think I know
what's going on with this idea.
We will toilet paper this place!
Niko, count us down.
Three, two, one!
- Yeah!
- [whirring]
[all yelling]
[epic music playing]
[all yelling]
[slow-motion yell]
[all yelling]
- [Mark] Yeah!
- [Niko chuckling]
- [laughing]
- Whoa!
[yelling]
Mission success!
All right, my mummy friends,
it's time for this week's mega experiment.
That wasn't the mega experiment?
That was a teensy experiment compared
to the mega experiment we're about to see.
Three, two, one.
- [snaps fingers]
- Whoa!
- What do you guys think?
- What is this even?
[Mark] This is a custom-built
Anti-Gravitron 28,000.
- So that's how you got ripped?
- That's right.
- It's through this bad boy every day.
- [laughs]
So this crazy contraption
will simulate gravity on other planets.
Adley, have you ever wanted to know what
it would feel like to be walking on Mars?
- Yes.
- Well, we are about to find out.
Because we have Earth right here,
I could step up on the scale.
- And when I hit this…
- [drumroll]
[drumroll stops]
- I said when I hit this…
- [drumroll]
[drumroll stops]
- Nothing's happening.
- [chuckles]
There you go. I got you.
[Shonduras laughing]
172 pounds on Earth.
But now the question is,
what would I weigh on Mars?
- [snaps fingers]
- Okay.
Which one's bigger, Adley?
- Mars or Earth?
- Earth.
So do you think it should have
more gravity or less?
- More.
- [Mark] Good.
Generally speaking,
the bigger your planet is,
the more gravity you have.
So on Mars, it should be less gravity,
which means I should weigh less.
Let's find out for sure.
172 pounds on Earth. And on Mars…
[drumroll]
Only 65 pounds.
- That's how much I weigh on normal Earth.
- [Mark laughs]
The Anti-Gravitron will simulate
what that would feel like.
So if I had your weight
but my same muscles,
this is what it would look like.
- [suspenseful music building]
- [boings]
Whoa! [laughs]
Wow.
- That's cool.
- [Mark squealing]
You look like an astronaut
with a really long metal tail.
[Mark] Let's see. Max jump.
Whoa!
- [laughs]
- That's cool.
You're so high.
- Oh, butterfly.
- Oh, there's butterflies.
- Whoa, it's beautiful.
- Wait.
[boings]
- Niko, you want that white one?
- Yeah.
Well, lucky for me, I'm on Mars.
[grunts] I said I'm on…
Mars.
[groans]
- We need a smaller astronaut.
- I think we need a smaller astronaut.
It's me.
Oh, you're the smallest astronaut?
I'm going to catch
all of my favorite colors.
[Mark] Drop in. Let's go.
- [Niko grunts]
- Yeah, bro!
- Whoo! You're so high up there.
- [Niko laughs]
[Mark] Look at that one up there.
Big jump.
[Niko grunting]
- [cheering]
- Yay!
[whimsical music playing]
[slow-motion cheer]
Good job, dude. Wha--
You forgot to catch it.
- [Mark] Niko!
- [Shonduras] Niko!
- [Mark] Niko!
- Yeah! He got it!
- Okay, Adley, you ready?
- I'm scared.
[Mark] Big jump.
- Whee!
- [Shonduras] Whoa!
- There's more butterflies.
- I want that pink and purple one.
Whoa!
Butterflies don't stand a chance
against you.
Yes! I have a lot of butterflies in here.
Hey, I'm not a butterfly.
- Shaun, I actually have a question.
- All right, shoot.
My question is,
can you catch a football on Mars?
- Probably, yeah.
- You can't even catch a football on Earth.
- Yeah.
- Oh, no.
I'm about to catch a football on Earth.
I can do it.
Okay. Only one way to find out.
Here it comes.
[rock music playing]
[music stops]
- Uh-oh.
- [groans]
- I can do it better on Mars.
- Drop it in.
Okay. This will be easier
once I'm hooked to this
and don't have as much gravity.
Sit in your baby car seat.
- Thanks, Mom. Safety first.
- [chuckles]
[grunts] Okay, you're good. Just jump.
Whoa! I feel like Super Mario.
I wanna live on Mars! All right, yep,
now I'm going to be good at football.
You ready? Right up here, baby.
Here we go. Mark!
- Mark, I'm open.
- He's open.
[slow-motion scream]
- Yeah!
- Shonduras!
- [slowed] Yeah!
- [normal] Yes!
I'm good at sports on Mars.
- Yeah!
- High five!
Whoa.
- Yeah!
- [Mark laughing]
- More sports!
- More sports!
Easy.
- [Mark laughing]
- Whoo!
This is awesome.
I'm, like, half dog on Mars.
[Mark] More sports!
My wife does this.
I should be able to do it.
Next on the plate is Adley McBride.
She's going for the home run.
- [Mark] The pitch.
- Duw!
- Ooh!
- [Adley] Whee!
- [all exclaim]
- Oh! Yes!
Home none!
[Mark laughing] Oh, wow.
- Yes!
- You're spiking everything.
To Mars!
[Mark] Enough fun and games.
It was time to use
this wonder of engineering
to answer some real scientific questions.
Namely, can I dunk a basketball
on another planet?
But to answer that, we first have to ask…
Can I dunk on Earth?
- What do you think, Adley?
- No way.
- I don't know about this one.
- If Steph Curry can do it, I can do it.
[groovy music playing]
- [music warps]
- [Mark] Oh no!
That's not even a dunk.
So we know I can't dunk on Earth.
Confirmed.
Question is, can I dunk on Jupiter?
So here's Earth compared to Jupiter.
- Which is bigger, Niko?
- Jupiter.
Way bigger.
Will I weigh more on Jupiter
or more on Earth?
- Jupiter.
- Way more because it's so big.
- Niko, do the honors.
- [drumroll]
- I weigh 173 pounds on Earth.
- [dings]
[Shonduras] Whoa.
435 pounds.
- I'm yoked on Jupiter.
- [laughs]
Now the question is,
can I dunk on Jupiter?
This is exactly what it would be like
if I tried to jump and dunk.
- [straining] Oh!
- [creaking]
Are those your ankles?
- [laughs]
- Oh. [laughs]
You can't even be a couch potato
on Jupiter.
I can't even stand up.
Teamwork to get Mark
to stand up on Jupiter.
Oh, I got it.
- That's Mark on Jupiter with teamwork.
- I got it.
Get off Jupiter. Oh!
I'm not hanging out with you on Jupiter.
Adley, show me
what I would look like on Jupiter.
[groaning]
Okay, the final weigh-in.
Here's the Earth. Here's the moon.
A little bit smaller.
You think I'll weigh less on the moon
or more on the moon?
- [both] Less.
- You guys are so smart.
Adley, do you want to hit the button?
- Yeah.
- Oh, Niko did it.
Okay. On the moon…
- [dings]
- …28 pounds?
On the moon,
I would probably weigh like zero pounds.
- How much do you weigh on Earth, Niko?
- Forty-six.
That means you weigh like 8 pounds.
That's like what a gallon of milk weighs.
I could just pick you up
and pour you into my cereal on the moon.
Okay, I'm on the moon now.
This feels a lot lighter.
I barely have to jump.
- I'm ready to see this.
- Here we go.
[triumphant music playing]
[all cheering]
Easy!
Give me a windmill here.
[screaming]
"How do you dribble on the moon?"
is the question.
You really gotta throw it down.
[slow-motion cheer]
[upbeat music playing]
- Whoa! Yeah!
- [Shonduras] Yeah!
Just like coach said.
Here we go. Here we go. Hoo!
[music stops]
[slow-motion yell]
Oh, I didn't even-- Oh! [laughs]
[Shonduras] No hanging
on the rim. Penalty.
You can really hang on the rim
on the moon.
- Niko!
- Throw it up, Niko.
Throw it up to him.
[cheering]
Niko!
[Shonduras] Moon wins!
All right, campers.
Well, thanks for coming out today
and helping me prove definitively
while I may not be able
to dunk a basketball on Earth,
I can do it on the moon.
- That counts for something, right?
- I was impressed.
- Was that cool, Niko?
- Nope.
- [laughing]
- Well, you know what?
It's way past your bedtime.
You got to get back to this planet.
Your poor mom is worried.
- But I have more space questions.
- [snaps fingers]
All right, we've returned to the backyard
as well as gravity. This feels good.
Now you still have some time
to complete
your at-home Super Challenge.
Then get it submitted
by working with your parent
to upload it
at campcrunchlabs.com
so you can blow my mind
with all your creativity.
All right. Well, that's it.
Time to pack up my backyard
and head to the very next planet.
Oh, look at this.
[heavy metal music plays]
It's green.
[whirring]
[music ends]
[closing theme music playing]
[music ends]