Zuri talks about hollowing out her mattress to hide stuff. People cheat and lie and diss their parents. Xander plays guitar with his fungus-filled toenail-which Hazel kisses. (Ravi calls the camp a cult.) Jorge claims he was abducted by aliens, prompting questions about “probes.” Gladys tells campers that urinating in the lake is just fine, but that defecating in a canoe is inexcusable (something Jorge did). The “demon beast” Kikiwaka inspires goofy “spiritual” rituals. There’s talk of “turn-ons,” one of them being a girl covered with mud. There are references to a place where kids sneak off to smooch. A counselor says the blast, which gets front-and-center screen time, probably killed all life for miles around.
Several jokes are made about the boy’s ability in that arena (particularly on burrito night), and his wind-breaking technique becomes, ahem, instrumental in supposedly driving off the monster Kikiwaka. Someone exclaims, “Thank the gods!” We hear the phrases “diddly squat” and “bloodbath.” Bunk’d – July 31, 2015: “Welcome to Camp Kikiwaka”Įmma, Ravi and Zuri Ross arrive at camp and meet its wacky inhabitants, including Tiffany (a camper living in perpetual fear of her overbearing mom) and Jorge (whose one clear skill seems to be passing gas). Dead animals, attractions to celebtrities and people dying also turn up in various conversations.Ī girl screams into a pillow and mentions shoving a stick up somone’s rear. Other jokes touch lightly and sarcastically on child-labor laws, avoiding the police, getting hurt, hurting others, dating, embezelling and losing limbs. Potty humor is plentiful, as are jokes about personal hygiene. Ravi wants to be the coolest counselor, while Zuri and a new camper named Destiny fight over decorations. The Rosses are now the official owners of Camp Kikiwaka and have relectantly put Emma in charge of the camp. So in fairness, let me say that it’s not like Disney turned around and created a camp-y version of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.Įpisode Reviews June 19, 2018: “Let’s Bounce!” Are We There Yet?Īm I being too hard on the show? Maybe. It almost feels like the Mouse House’s sitcom pitch meeting was mysteriously overrun by Garbage Pail Kids. There’s a gross reliance on potty humor for a wan attempt at laughs, and the morals we see are the sorts that we might expect from National Lampoon: lighten up, have a little fun, don’t let that evil counselor get you down. The show sporadically lauds rule-breaking and authority-flaunting. Most come stocked with at least one strong adult role model, a smattering of well-meaning kids and maybe a moral or two.Īnd on Bunk’d? Well, Gladys, the show’s silly stand-in for an adult, is an embittered crab of a woman, and her mean-girl daughter’s well on her way to being just like her. But Disney has excelled in concocting (largely) inoffensive, (mostly) clean comedies that the whole family can (kinda) enjoy. Time to Unpackĭisney, as much as fans may appreciate Frozen or a ride on the Matterhorn, hasn’t made a truly funny sitcom for years now. Nuts, says Hazel, and makes it her mission to weasel in between the two aspiring lovebirds.Īll of that-and the presence of the mysterious Kikiwaka monster-is just the minimalist backdrop for yet another joke-rinse-and-repeat Disney sitcom. And because camp is weird that way, the cycle seems to be repeating itself: Head counselor Hazel-Gladys’ daughter-has a thing for hunky, guitar-playing counselor Xander, but he’s far more interested in Emma. Ross and therefore harbors a deep grudge against the kids’ mother. Gladys, the camp’s adult Grand Poobah, has never gotten over her own crush on Mr. So it’s clear that Emma, Ravi and Zuri-the latter two officially “counselors-in-training”-must quickly learn to embrace their family’s proud Kikiwaka heritage.īut, alas, Kikiwaka isn’t all just hot dogs and s’mores. Ross’ fabled skills: “Her dream catchers actually caught dreams,” gushes current counselor Lou. Indeed, the camp still reverberates with their magical time, and counselors still speak in hushed tones about the future Mrs.
It was a natural destination, really, given that their parents met and fell in love there as counselors. Bunk’d, a spinoff of Disney’s successful (and marginally better) sitcom Jessie, plucks three of the four Ross siblings-pretty and popular Emma geeky, giant lizard-owning Ravi and the precociously cute Zuri-and plops them down at Camp Kikiwaka, a very camp-like camp set in the wilds of Maine.
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