Jurassic World "Clever Girl" Camp Cretaceous TV episode Written by Zack Stentz Directed by Leah Artwick Release date: May 21, 2021

Compys run off with the campers' only compass and Darius, Kenji, and Yaz have to track it down; meanwhile, Sammy and Brooklynn seek out the secret of "E750".

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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. 

The title of this episode, "Clever Girl", is a callback to a line spoken by Muldoon in Jurassic Park in reference to the alpha raptor of that movie. Here, the title refers to both the raptor called Blue and to Sammy, who reasons out where the secret of "E750" may lay.

Characters appearing or mentioned in this episode

Yasmina Fadoula

Brooklynn

Darius Bowman

Sammy Gutierrez
Kenji Kon

Scorpios rex (mentioned only)

compys

Ben Pincus

Bumpy

John Hammond (mentioned only, deceased)

Blue

Dr. Wu (in video files only)

Simon Masrani (mentioned only, deceased)

JW scientists (in video files only) 

Didja Notice? 

Why is there a Jeep stuck on a rock as seen at 5:07 in the episode? At first, I thought maybe it was supposed to be Dennis Nedry's Jeep that got stuck in Jurassic Park, but it's too close to the JP main building.

Yaz claims that the original owner of Jurassic Park, John Hammond, broke his ankle and then was eaten by compies. Darius corrects her, stating that Hammond died of natural causes and asks her where she heard her version. Yaz says she read it somewhere. This interaction is an in-joke to the events of the Jurassic Park novel by Michael Creighton, where Hammond died in this manner. In the movie, Hammond survived, uninjured.

The Tyrannosaurus skull lying on the floor of the JP Visitor Center is the one that was part of the T. rex fossil skeleton that collapsed at the end of Jurassic Park. However, that skull was shown getting crushed by the Indominus rex in Jurassic World, so its appearance here, whole, is in error.

When faced with Blue in the JP Visitor Center, Kenji whispers, "Darius, remind me how we got away from the raptors last time," and the response is that Dave and Roxie saved them. This occurred in "Secrets". Dave and Roxie are the two counselors of Camp Cretaceous who later evacuated with the last of the island's staff in "End of the Line".

Finding Blue trapped under the overturned Jeep, Kenji suggests to Darius and Yaz that they take advantage of the situation to escape the dinosaur, saying, "Enemy of my enemy and all that." The full proverb is commonly stated as "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." While this has been a proverb in various forms since ancient times, the modern phrasing originated in Gabriel Manigault's 1884 "Political Creed".

As Sammy and Brooklynn enter the secret building, Brooklynn remarks, "This is just like that Esther Stone episode when..." The fictitious TV series Esther Stone: High School P.I was previously mentioned in "The Watering Hole".

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 7-8 cover the events of this episode.

In the televised episode, it is Darius who seals the cafeteria tray onto the hole in the yacht's hull. Here, it is Brooklynn who does it.

The novelization omits a number of scenes in the televised episode, most notably the setup for, and confrontation of, Sammy and Brooklynn with each other.

Memorable Dialog

you know what you get when you feed a pigeon.mp3

welcome to Jurassic Park.mp3