Jurassic World "Casa de Kenji" Camp Cretaceous TV episode Written by Sheela Shrinivas, Bethany Armstrong Johnson, Lindsay Kerns, and Rick Williams Directed by Eric Elrod Release date: May 21, 2021

The kids seek marine materials for the yacht from Kenji's father's conveniently forgotten penthouse on the 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 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

Kenji Kon
Darius Bowman
Yasmina Fadoula
Sammie Gutierrez
Brooklynn
Ben Pincus
Bumpy

Daniel Kon (in photographs only)

Monolophosaurus

Simon Masrani (mentioned only, deceased)

Scorpios rex

Didja Notice? 

The kids list off a number of problems they have in regards to getting back to civilization via the yacht, including not having a GPS. GPS stands for Global Positioning System, a device that tracks one's location on Earth, or pinpoints another location directionally, from satellite.

The two-wheeled scooters the kids ride to the island penthouse of Kenji's father are Segways (or an off-brand version of the famed two-wheeled personal transports).

This episode is the first appearance of Monolophosaurus.

A golden Xenoceratops skull is on display in the Kon penthouse, a gift from Masrani. Kenji calls it Horatio, and Darius identifies it as a replica of the 60 million-year-old Xenoceratops discovered in Southern China. However, in the real world, the only remnant of the species thus far found was in Alberta, Canada. 

At 5:31 in the episode, Brooklynn admires an abstract sculpture in the penthouse and Kenji warns her not to touch it, because it's a Gati and his father won't even let him touch it. "Gati" appears to be a fictitious sculptor. The sculpture itself looks like it could be an abstract version of a dinosaur head, possibly a species similar to the crested Parasaurolophus.

A framed photograph on the wall of the penthouse depicts Kenji's father in front of the White House, and Kenji says his father plays golf with the president. The White House, of course, is the official home of the U.S. President. The events of Camp Cretaceous take place mostly in early 2016, so the president Daniel Kon would have played with would probably be Barack Obama if the Jurassic World universe has the same presidents as the real world.

Kenji shows Sammie a photo of his father on the cover of Modern CEO magazine. This appears to be a fictitious magazine, though there are a number of websites and blogs using the moniker (also Kenji gives her an aside that his father owns the magazine!).

In the penthouse, the kids find snacks and Kenji brings them bottled water that he says is "from a very exclusive artesian well in Paris. Filtered through diamonds."

In the photo album, Sammie finds a crayon drawing that Kenji made when he was five. It depicts himself, his father, and possibly his mother in front of a house, with a mermaid off to the side. Kenji seems to have some strange obsession with mermaids, as both "Secrets" and "Salvation" have him making comments about mermaids in connection with dreams.

The limousines in the penthouse garage look similar to the popular Lincoln stretch limos of around 2010.

Sammy confides in Yasmina that she is scared to go home because "What if Mantah Corp is mad I failed at spying for them?" Mantah Corp is a rival company to Masrani Global and Sammy admitted to spying and trying to collect island samples for them to keep her family out of debt in "Welcome to Jurassic World".

Notes from the junior novelization Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous - The Deluxe Junior Novelization Volume Three by Steve Behling Cover illustration by Patrick Spaziante 2021 Chapters 5-7 cover the events of this episode.

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Memorable Dialog

the dock near the p-house.mp3

filtered through diamonds.mp3

limos on a jungle island.mp3

we did have a good time before the dinosaurs tried to kill us.mp3