Camp CrunchLabs (2026) s01e07 Episode Script

[Mark] I filled this room
with 10, 000 balloons,
and all the games we played in them
were so fun…
[man] I'm good.
…that basically…
Squirrel!
…everyone who sees it
will definitely agree…
- You're better than Mr. Beast.
- Better.
Okay.
- Wait. What?! Why would you say that?
- It's true.
Welcome back to Space Camp CrunchLabs.
I'm Mark Rober,
and, man, is this summer flying by.
Don't worry.
Ignore those back-to-school sales.
Keep working on your tan,
because as far as camp goes,
this summer is just gonna
keep getting better and better.
[theme music playing]
- What the--
- [all yelling]
Hey ♪
[slow-motion yell]
Hey ♪
[music ends]
[Mark] Now you should be working
on your at-home Super Challenges,
and you still have time to submit.
But if you some last-minute inspiration,
here's some past submissions to
really get those creative juices flowing.
[upbeat music playing]
Science Bob, what is it?
I may have created, um, monsters.
[growling]
[music continues]
[music ends]
Just incredible.
So, of course,
work with your parent
and get them uploaded
at campcrunchlabs.com.
That, of course, gives you the chance
to win the Platinum Ticket,
and that means you get to come
and hang out with me and my friends
here at CrunchLabs.
Well, here we are today,
pretty deep in the solar system.
Explains why it's a little bit colder.
I really chose the wrong outfit
But what's especially cool
about the planet over the fence today is,
it was discovered by math before
it was actually discovered by a telescope.
So in the mid 1800s, Uranus,
which is where we were last week,
was the farthest known planet.
And then astronomers noticed
sometimes it was moving
a little faster than expected
and sometimes
it was moving a little slower.
But then one astronomer who was thinking
like an engineer thought to himself,
what if there's a planet
we haven't found yet
that's pulling Uranus a little bit from
its gravity as they passed each other.
So they calculated how big
the planet would have to be
and exactly where it needed to be
in the solar system.
And then when they pointed
a big old telescope
at those exact predicted coordinates,
lo and behold, there it was.
Planet Neptune.
Just as the calculation showed.
How cool is that?
Math and science and physics
allows you to make
super accurate predictions like that.
It's the world's greatest
actual crystal ball.
All right, now that we know
a thing or two about Neptune,
let's meet our special guest this week.
[snaps fingers]
- What?
- [Mark] Matthew Beem!
- I was shaving.
- Oh!
This is kind of dangerous, actually.
Can I, uh, brush my teeth
and finish shaving?
- Please. Please.
- Okay. [laughs]
I'd like a clean-shaven Matthew Beem.
[narrator] Two and a half minutes later.
So why am I here today?
- Matthew, you ready for some science?
- Kind of scared.
Do we need safety glasses
and knee pads and stuff?
Oh, there'll be safety glasses.
And, yes, there will be knee pads.
You're so prescient.
Okay, let's head over to the picnic table
of infinite wonders.
Now, of course, it's not just you and me
doing science here.
We got stowaways in the rocket.
- Who do we got?
- [drumroll]
- [both] Hey, Mark.
- [Mark] Hey!
Phoebe and Grayson,
get the heck down here.
The secret stowaway compartment,
pretty big.
We're on week seven,
and they keep coming out.
Now, you know it's about to get good
when I hand you some safety glasses.
Let's go.
So step one,
rub one of these balloons on your head.
- Okay.
- [Mark] Okay.
[balloons squeaking]
Any guesses as to what we're doing here?
Static electricity.
Okay. Now come set it somewhere here
on the spaceship.
- Like a magnet?
- [Mark] It's like a magnet.
Basically, when you rub this
on the balloon,
you get some spare electrons,
and now those electrons are
attracted to the protons on that wall
and they're slowly leaching out.
So the winner of today's episode
is the one whose balloon falls last.
- You guys remember your colors?
- Green.
- Yellow.
- Blue.
Which makes me red.
'Cause I totally remembered
which one mine was.
I'm concerned.
Why are we wearing safety glasses?
I'm glad you asked.
I'm gonna pull these out here.
- You guys nervous?
- How nervous? Scale of 1 to 10.
Five. Don't kill us, please.
If your next statement is,
"Don't kill us,"
I feel like it should be more than a five.
- [chuckling]
- What do you say if it's a ten?
Please don't kill us.
Okay, that's when you ask nicely.
How do you feel about blowing up balloons?
- It's so boring.
- [Mark] It's boring.
- Takes forever.
- [Mark] Takes a lot of lung power.
So we're gonna
do the scientific way today.
I've got a balloon here.
I'm gonna put a little bit of this stuff.
- You know what this is?
- Baking soda.
Baking soda indeed. Once I've got it
filled up about that much,
I'm gonna put it
over the top of this bottle.
- Any guesses as to what's in this bottle?
- Vinegar.
- How did you know it's vinegar?
- There's a bottle of vinegar.
Also, baking soda and vinegar…
- Do what?
- They, like, make a chemical reaction.
- That does what?
- Uh, blows up.
[Mark] There's only one way to find out.
Grab one of these. Wait for my count.
We're gonna put it up, and just make sure
the baking soda falls out.
Then we stand back and watch.
First to pop wins.
Three, two, one, go.
Oh boy. Oh boy. Stand back!
- It's not gonna be me.
- Mine's going fast.
- Come on, blue. Whoa!
- [Matthew] Go, go, go!
- This is embarrassing. Come on!
- Purple! Purple, purple!
- [Mark] I might make a comeback.
- Mine's gonna blow up any second.
- Go, yellow!
- [Mark] Yellow's looking good.
[Matthew] Yellow's gonna pop any second.
What is happening?
Oh, how embarrassing.
After all that fanfare,
I don't know if there's
enough of a reaction to pop them.
So we're gonna go off size.
- Me and Mark definitely lost.
- Yeah, we're the losers.
- Oh!
- Oh! Oh gosh!
Second place though…
- I think yellow won.
- [pops]
- Let's go!
- My man!
For our next experiment…
- I'm just gonna go ahead and…
- Whoa.
…clear this off.
Oh. Oh gosh.
Okay. In this thermos is a certain liquid…
- How many things do you have there?
- A lot.
…that is negative 321 degrees Fahrenheit.
Any guesses as to which liquid might be
negative 321 degrees Fahrenheit?
- Prime?
- It's not Prime, Matthew Beem.
[chuckles] Liquid nitrogen.
Liquid nitrogen.
- It is very, very cold.
- I can feel that from back here.
One of the more interesting things
about liquid nitrogen
is that when it turns
from a liquid to a gas,
it expands over 600 times volumetrically,
so we are going to take this balloon…
- [grunting]
- Oh.
…and then put it over this opening.
Oh, wow. It's gonna pop, I bet.
We're gonna see what happens.
As it expands
and evaporates into the gas form,
it fills up this balloon again.
You know how long it'd take
to fill this with your mouth?
[both] A lot.
Just do the easy thing
and get a bunch of liquid nitrogen.
We're gonna set this over here,
pour out the extra liquid nitrogen here.
[Phoebe] Whoa.
[laughing] Whoa! Isn't that cool?
Okay.
At any moment that is going to pop,
so don't be terrified. Okay?
- All right.
- Don't worry, I will.
We're gonna light this.
What do you think will happen
if I put this balloon over the flame?
I need a hypothesis.
- It's gonna pop.
- It's gonna pop?
The fire's gonna go out.
- Matthew?
- I was never good at science.
I'm just gonna say it's gonna pop.
- I have no idea.
- Let's see.
[suspenseful music building]
- [pops]
- [all yelp]
- I was right.
- [laughing] Oh, you were both right.
Oh my gosh. Watch this.
You can relight it with the smoke.
It's actually wax.
- Whoa.
- [Mark] Is that cool?
Watch this. I'll do it again. [blows]
This is a fun thing
you can do at home with a parent.
- See it shoot down?
- That's so cool.
So what's actually happening…
This isn't smoke.
Most people think it's smoke.
- But guess what it is.
- Wax?
It's wax still coming off.
So now that we're relit,
I'm gonna once again put a balloon up.
- What do we think's gonna happen?
- It's gonna pop.
- It would not pop.
- Why would it not pop?
It looks like there's something
at the bottom.
Something at the bottom.
What do you think it could be?
- Water?
- What would keep it from popping?
Water? Why would water do that?
It cools it before it can, like, melt,
and then like pop.
- Grayson, you little genius.
- Oh, yay.
Now you can put on your x-ray vision
and you see what's in the balloon.
- Just normal water?
- Just normal water.
You know how it takes a lot of flame
to boil water?
Water is absorbing that heat,
it's like leaching it out
from the rubber on the balloon
so it doesn't have time to get hot.
Whoa! I guess if you get it close enough,
it carbonizes.
- It'll be a well-done balloon.
- What if you keep the flame on one spot?
[Mark] Let's see. Good question.
- Isn't that weird?
- What? It's not popping.
- [pops]
- [all scream]
[slow-motion scream]
- Okay.
- [laughing] All right.
Eventually, it builds up enough heat.
We got one more experiment.
We've got a little mini leaf blower here.
We're gonna use
the Coandă effect in action.
What did you just say?
I said, we're gonna use
the Coandă effect in action.
- Okay.
- [laughing]
Matthew, I want you to squeeze
the trigger there. Just hold it there.
- Whoa.
- [Phoebe] What?
It's like a Ferris wheel. That is crazy.
What's up?!
[jaunty music playing]
[music ends]
- Are you guys dizzy yet?
- Yeah.
Our big balloon hasn't popped yet.
Our four balloons
are still stuck to the rocket ship.
So I have a tiebreaker here.
Everyone gets a dart.
You don't want to hit your own.
Technically, you wanna hit
someone else's balloon
because the last one standing wins.
You guys weren't plotting against us,
were you?
- No, definitely not.
- Okay.
I'm definitely about to pop yours
right now.
- You're red, right?
- I'm green.
- No, he's red.
- [Phoebe] No, he's red, I'm green.
All right, Mark,
I'm gonna pop your balloon.
- Oh.
- [Mark] Yes!
Here we go.
- [all] Oh!
- [Mark laughing]
- [Grayson] Yeah!
- [Mark] Oh, but that one stuck back on.
- No!
- [Mark] I'm still alive. I'm still alive.
[buzzer sounding]
[Mark] What?!
One of the things we learned today
is that we are all really bad at darts…
- …except me!
- No! Why?
- Gotta do better this time.
- Yeah.
[Matthew] Oh my gosh.
Apparently, I'm just gonna
have to do all the work here.
No way you do it twice in a row.
- No!
- [Mark laughing]
- Guys, get Mark. Get Mark.
- Last chance.
- [Phoebe] Get Mark.
- I got this one.
[Phoebe] Get Mark.
- Oh!
- Yeah!
- Score!
- Why do I always get ganged up on?
- [kids laughing]
- That's it.
Yes!
It's time to head to our mega experiment,
but this hasn't popped yet.
- So I have an idea.
- [Phoebe] Oh no.
And honestly, I'd ask one of you to do it,
but I'm not sure any of you could hit it.
- [Grayson] Come on!
- Phoebe, you think you can?
- [Phoebe] Yeah.
- Don't miss, and don't hit Nate.
- Okay. Three, two, one.
- Go!
- [pops]
- [all scream]
- [slow-motion pop]
- [slow-motion scream]
[slowed] Oh my gosh!
Well, with that
it should be pretty obvious,
today's theme is balloons,
and by extension air pressure.
So I want you three to line up next to me,
turn around.
That's… Just a half turn. Thank you.
And let's head over
to our mega experiment.
- You can turn around.
- What?!
[Phoebe] Oh my gosh!
[Mark] You are looking
at over 10,000 balloons.
It's like a giant ball pit.
We're gonna be playing
the most epic game of tag.
[kids scream excitedly]
And capture the flag.
- In the ball pit?
- It's not a ball pit.
It's a balloon pit.
And that's a very critical distinction.
- You wanna try it out? Go!
- Yeah.
- I'm goin' in.
- [Mark laughing]
- Aah!
- [Matthew] This is crazy!
[Phoebe] There are so many balloons.
[slow-motion laughter]
[slowed] So many.
[grunts]
I'm good!
[Mark laughing] Oh, there's more!
The cameras are back!
The coolest part about all these balloons
is you can just disappear.
- Now no one knows where I am.
- Found you.
- They already found me.
- It feels like they'd stop you.
But you can just, like, cut right through.
All I can see is balloons everywhere.
Yeah!
[laughing]
[Matthew] This is crazy!
- Marco!
- [all] Polo!
- Marco!
- [all] Polo!
- [Matthew] You'll never find us, Mark.
- Marco!
[Matthew] He's right behind me.
I'm running away from him.
He's not saying anything.
- Marco!
- [Phoebe screams]
[Mark] I got you!
I decided to wait
for you to fall into my trap. [laughs]
All right, Matthew, where are you?
Over here. I'm by a yellow balloon,
if that helps.
That does not help.
Next to an orange balloon.
Again, not helpful.
- I'm over here.
- Here I come. Ready?
Yeah.
Ah! Oh no! I didn't catch it.
Okay. Throw it back.
- I gotta find it first.
- You had one job.
- I found a squirrel though.
- Well, that doesn't help us.
Heck, now that we've got the squirrel,
let's play capture the squirrel.
Three, two, one, go!
Let's go! All right, what's our game plan?
We gotta hide this in the perfect spot.
- Where do you want to hide it?
- I wanna hide it…
We'll hide it in the middle.
- What if I throw this somewhere random?
- Yeah. Throw it that way though.
I don't even know where it's at.
I'm gonna find the squirrel.
This is like finding a needle
in a haystack.
[Mark] Grayson, check by the foam pit.
- Where's your squirrel, Mark?
- I'm not telling you.
How am I supposed to find this thing?
I can't see anything.
- [Phoebe] I can't either.
- [Matthew] I'm just walking in a circle.
[Mark] You find it, Grayson?
[Grayson] No.
I don't even know where I am.
- [Phoebe] Where am I?
- You're not even close, Mark.
[Mark] I'm so close.
I don't know where mine's at.
I randomly threw it.
[Matthew] I know
exactly where you'd hide it.
Mark is not even close.
- [Grayson] I found it!
- Yes!
[slowed] No!
No!
- [Mark] Champions!
- [Grayson] Let's go!
We got your squirrel.
I guess my strategy didn't work.
[Mark] It was almost time for
the bounciest game of tag ever. But first…
We're about to race now.
First one to touch the wall. On your mark.
That's me. Get set.
Go!
I'm running. Oh my gosh!
You still bounce. Oh no!
[laughing] Oh! Oh no!
- [Grayson] I made it.
- [Phoebe] I made it.
- [Mark] Who won?
- [Phoebe] Me and Grayson tied.
These kids are tough.
[Mark] With that out of the way,
it was time for the most epic game of tag
you've ever seen.
All right, next one is tag,
and guess who's it?
[Phoebe] Everybody?
No. Me.
[automated voice] Red is it.
- Oh!
- [Phoebe screams]
[laughing] Wow,
it's so much easier to track you.
I'm running!
Gotta get as far away as possible.
I'm gonna go on the clear other side.
- [Grayson] Where's Mark?
- [Mark] I think I'll go for yellow.
- [Phoebe screams]
- [Mark] Oh, yellow.
- [Phoebe screams]
- [Mark] Oh, yellow.
[Mark laughing]
[Phoebe] Oh, no, no, no, no.
- [Phoebe grunting]
- [Mark] Where did she go?
Dang it! All right, blue.
- Get back here, blue.
- [Grayson] Oh, he's coming for me!
I see him. I see him.
[Matthew] Mark is on the other side
of the arena now.
My strategy is working.
- [Mark] Get back here. Oh!
- [Matthew] He's right there. Oh!
[automated voice] Tagged!
I ran into him.
Green is it.
I didn't know where I was,
and I ran into him.
All right, I'm it now.
I see someone. I'll sneak up on him.
- [screams]
- [automated voice] Tagged.
- You're it.
- Oh, you got me.
[automated voice] Blue is it.
- [Grayson] Phoebe, where are you?
- [Phoebe screams]
[in singsong] I'm coming.
I'm gonna start swatting down
since I'm a bit taller
so he can't find me.
[Grayson] Where's everybody?
I can't see.
- Gotta be able to see.
- [Mark] You'll never find me.
[Grayson] I hear you, Mark.
[in singsong] I am coming.
[chuckling] Uh-huh.
I'm right behind blue.
- Ahh!
- I got you.
- Tagged.
- No!
[automated voice] Green is it.
Coming right for Mark. I see him.
- I got him.
- [laughing]
[automated voice] Tagged. Red is it.
[Mark] Where is Phoebe?
- Oh, yellow!
- [Phoebe screams]
[Mark] Phoebe, I'm coming after you.
Where's yellow?
- [Phoebe screams]
- There she is.
- Oh, yellow. [laughs]
- [Phoebe screams]
- [Grayson] Oh!
- We gotta hide from them.
- [Mark] There she goes.
- They're coming. We gotta run.
[Mark] Oh, you're so fast. Where'd you go?
- [Grayson] Okay, Phoebe?
- [Phoebe] Hi. Help.
One minute remaining.
[Mark] Dang it! Where did you go?
- [Phoebe] I'm staying close to you. Ha-ha.
- [Grayson] No.
[Mark] Phoebe, you're a ninja. Dang it!
You just walked right by me. [chuckles]
Bro, Mark just passed me.
- Oh, he's coming.
- Matthew!
[laughing]
I'm full sprint running.
[laughing]
[automated voice] Tagged.
- He got me.
- [laughing]
[automated voice] Green is it.
[Mark] Try and get yellow.
She's impossible.
[Matthew] I'm going for her.
- [Phoebe] I'm gonna creepily stalk you.
- Okay, we need the wall.
There are so many yellow balloons.
I don't know which one to go for.
I have to jump. Oh!
- All right, go.
- [Phoebe] He's coming for me.
- No, not here.
- [Phoebe] Where is green?
- [Matthew] I got you.
- [Phoebe screams]
[thrilling music playing]
- Aah!
- [automated voice] Tagged.
[slow-motion laugh]
- I got her!
- [Phoebe screams]
[Mark] And with time pretty much up,
we decided this was as good a spot as any
to end the game.
[automated voice] Yellow was it.
- [Mark] Oh, hold on a sec.
- Why are you backing away from me?
[Mark] Uh-oh.
Oh!
[laughing]
- Tag!
- Oh, you got me!
[automated voice] Game over.
[Phoebe] I have cooties.
I have girl cooties. [chuckles]
[Mark] It does look cool though.
[Phoebe] Yeah, it looks like
a bunch of gumballs in a gumball machine.
The only thing about filling a room
with over 10,000 balloons is
you gotta unfill a room
with over 10,000 balloons.
- Oh.
- Oh.
Tell me you have
a science experiment for that.
You guys think this will work?
- That's terrifying.
- Ahh.
If there's ever a zombie apocalypse,
I'm coming here.
- [balloons popping]
- [Mark] Whoa!
- Oh my God.
- Oh yeah.
[Mark] I've always wanted to do this.
A killer bat?
Through 10,000 balloons.
Here we go. Wha, wha, wha…
- [yelling]
- [balloons popping]
[slow-motion yell]
[Phoebe screaming]
- It sounds like fireworks. [laughs]
- It does.
[screaming]
[slow-motion scream]
[slow-motion yell]
Wha, wha!
[balloons popping]
So this kinda works.
- [balloons pop]
- Oops.
I got a more efficient idea, you guys.
- Three, two, one.
- [snaps fingers]
- [Phoebe] Oh my God.
- [Matthew laughs]
Heck yeah! What's on those?
Approximately 168
really, really sharp spiky things.
- [balloons popping]
- [Grayson] What?
- [balloons popping]
- [Phoebe] What? That's so cool.
Okay. You guys get yours.
- Three, two, one, go!
- [balloons popping]
Oh!
[rock music playing]
[music ends]
- So how do we know where our car's at?
- [Mark] We don't.
[powering down]
I think mine's stuck.
[Mark] Well,
we made pretty quick work of that.
Well, campers,
it is way past your bedtime.
Matthew, what's next for you?
I'm gonna go home
and start filming a video
where I build a giant hidden
gaming room inside of my house.
[sighs]
I guess it's back to Neptune for me.
Whew! Well, that was a lot of fun.
Now, we actually have one more…
Oh, just take care of this.
Got some trusty scissors here.
Actually, I want to test something here.
I'm not gonna cut that stream.
This is filled with helium,
and it's really big,
but it is like quite a bit
of pulling force up.
What the heck you think's gonna happen
if I let go of this balloon?
I feel like
because it's filled with helium,
it's just gonna like kind of go
to the ceiling and then flutter out there,
and then just fall down.
Let's see who's right.
Releasing in three, two, one.
- [gas hissing]
- [laughing] Oh.
Oh! So close!
What happens if we do this
with a normal balloon?
Nate, grab me a big balloon like that,
but fill it with normal air.
I want you to blow the whole thing up.
[air filling]
This is what Nate looks like.
Thank you, Nate.
Nate!
Again?
- [air hissing]
- [Mark laughing] Oh.
Nate, blow up another one.
[air filling]
Okay, Nate. This time make sure I have it.
Go catch your breath,
and let's see if it launches.
Here we go. Three, two, one.
- [air whooshing]
- [gasps]
[playful music playing]
Wow. Kind of had a boring conclusion.
So there you go.
Thanks to science
and the power of experimentation,
now we know something
we didn't know two minutes ago.
All right. Quick reminder of this year's
at-home summer Super Challenges.
These, of course,
are those engineering challenges
that you record yourself doing
to win an all-expense-paid trip
to come out here to visit me and my team
at CrunchLabs
for an afternoon of epic fun and science.
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 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 food.
With the help of a parent,
submit that video at campcrunchlabs.com.
While you're working on
that Super Challenge
and, of course,
your weekly Build Box,
I'll be loading up the old rocket
for one final launch
to my favorite planet of them all.
My rocket keys. Where are my rocket keys?
[sighs] Oh, I dropped them
in the balloon room.
Nate, I'm gonna need some help.
- [closing theme music playing]
- [balloons popping]
[music ends]