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Kick The Son Of A Bitch now is not a trope, which is as a result of TRS.


* KickTheSonOfABitch: Heather hitting Chris on the head with his Gemmy award then kicking him and Chef out of the zeppelin.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Jo takes the smoke machine Cameron won, and it blows up in her face, thanks to Cameron rigging it to do so.

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* KickTheSonOfABitch: LaserGuidedKarma:
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Heather hitting hits Chris (who used her as a guinea pig in this episode) on the head with his Gemmy award then kicking him and Chef out of the zeppelin.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Lightning, Jo, and Scott all seemed fairly concerned about Heather when she crashed landed while testing the jet packs.



* GreaterScopeVillain: Ezekiel. Had he not fallen into the volcano with the prize money after trying to stealing it in the previous season finale, Heather wouldn’t have tried to steal this season’s $1 million prize case.



* KickTheSonOfABitch: Heather hitting Chris on the head with his Gemmy award then kicking him and Chef out of the zeppelin.



* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The last we see of Heather is right before Cameron crashes his rocket into the zeppelin. She's not shown getting out of it even as it sinks into the water with her still inside.

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The last we see of Heather is right before Cameron crashes his rocket into the zeppelin. She's not shown getting out of it even as it sinks into the water with her still inside. She does turn up alive the next season though.
* WorthyOpponent: Jo admires Heather’s scheming tactics in the confession booth.
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* BerserkButton: Chris couldn't care less about Heather stealing the zeppelin or the million dollars, as he got the former at a discount sale and has no personal claim on the latter. Zoey pointing out that his TV awards are in the zeppelin riles Chris up, though.


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* DelayedSafetyFeature: Chris has Heather slap on a JetPack and demonstrate his intended challenge. As she's flying out of control, Chris insists she'll be fine because the pack has a parachute. Heather ends up crashing face first into the ground and then the parachute deploys.


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* FriendshipMoment: Zoey has one of the goats catch Cameron in mid-air.


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* HopeSpot: After his encounter with the goats, a fried Scott at least lands otherwise unharmed and breathes a sigh of relief. Then he sees he's right in Fang's clutches.


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* JerkassToOne: Since Scott got Mike eliminated, Zoey has been taking out her frustration on him. She acknowledges how Scott really brings the jerk out of her.


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* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Lightning reacts to getting repeatedly hit with a metal briefcase with, at most, some irritation.


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* NotSoAboveItAll: Despite her insistence she was out, Zoey is completely won over by seeing the million dollars. Cameron is also quite gleeful in the confessional at the prospect of winning the big prize.


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* TemptingFate: After hitting the water, Jo observes Scott getting chased by Fang and remarks things could've been worse for herself. Lightning immediately falls right on her.
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* {{Beastmaster}}: Zoey manages to gain the trust of the flying mutant fire-breathing mountain goats, and uses them to blast Scott out of the sky, as well as rescuing Cameron.

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* {{Beastmaster}}: TheBeastmaster: Zoey manages to gain the trust of the flying mutant fire-breathing mountain goats, and uses them to blast Scott out of the sky, as well as rescuing Cameron.
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* ShoutOut:
** The design of Chris's blimp is strikingly similar to that of UsefulNotes/TheHindenburg.
** Cameron mentions Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
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* PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: The title is a play on the song "Up, Up and Away" by ''The 5th Dimension''.
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* PrayerIsALastResort: Lightning falls a long way down from the zeppelin and with nothing better to do with his time, he resorts to praying for a soft landing. He gets both that and, by landing on Jo, a vengeful landing.
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* AndThisIsFor: After Zoey tames the flying mutant fire-breathing mountain goats, she has them attack Scott while saying it was for Mike, who Scott eliminated in the previous episode.

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* AndThisIsFor: After Zoey tames the flying mutant fire-breathing mountain goats, she has them attack set fire to Scott's wings. She lets Scott while saying know it was is payback for Mike, who Scott eliminated in the previous episode.blackmail, violence, and elimination he has inflicted on her boyfriend Mike.
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* NotSoInnocentWhistle: Chris warns the campers for the flying mutant fire-breathing mountain goats, because they're very aggressive as of late. Feigning ignorance, Chef whistles as he recalls that the eggs to be used in the competition were stolen from the mountain goats by him.
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* VillainHasAPoint: In spite of the fact she tries to steal the prize money from the other contestants, Heather is completely right that she won the game (in her endings at least) and deserves the money.

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* CassandraTruth: When Heather and Lightning are fighting over the case with the million dollars in it, Lightning warns Heather to look out behind her. Heather laughs at him, thinking he is trying to [[LookBehindYou distract her with a pathetic diversion]]. But Lightning was legitimately warning her of Cameron about to crash his rocket into the blimp ''and'' them.


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* LookBehindYou: When Heather and Lightning are fighting over the prize money, Lightning spots Cameron's out-of-control rocket coming their way. He warns Heather to look behind her, but she thinks he is trying to trick her even as Lightning runs away himself. Too late for her own escape does Heather notice the incoming danger.
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* TarAndFeathers: Scott has to build himself a set of wings and gets well underway with a whole batch of mutant seagull feathers and a thick glue. However, Zoey is fixing up her flying machine nearby and obliviously gives it a test run. The air blown from the machine travels over and lifts the glue-covered feathers right onto Scott.
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* OverTheShoulderCarry: Jo has just forced Cameron into an alliance when she catches him giving advice to Lightning. She tells Cameron to stop talking, grabs him by the hoodie, throws him over her shoulder, tells Lightning to get his own nerd, and runs off with her ally.
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* CrocodileTears: Heather tearfully pretends to be sorry for stealing that season's prize money to catch Lightning off-guard. He believes her and gets beaten up for it.

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* TheDogBitesBack: Cameron once he’s finally fed up with Jo’s bullying.

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* TheDogBitesBack: Cameron once he’s he's finally fed up with Jo’s Jo's bullying.



* OutOfCharacterMoment: Played for laughs with Zoey. She’s about to quit until Chris reminds her of the million-dollar prize and shows it to her. She goes into a trance and says “money...removing all common sense and fear of danger.”

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* MouseTrap: Scott draws the challenge to build a bird from the bag Chris holds up. He doesn't agree with that and reaches in to draw another challenge, only for two of his fingers to get caught in a mouse trap.
* OutOfCharacterMoment: Played for laughs with Zoey. She’s She's about to quit until Chris reminds her of the million-dollar prize and shows it to her. She goes into a trance and says “money..."money...removing all common sense and fear of danger."
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* CassandraTruth: When Heather and Lightning are fighting over the case with the million dollars in it, Lightning warns Heather to look out behind her. Heather laughs at him, thinking he is trying [[LookBehindYou distract her with a pathetic diversion]]. But Lightning was legitimately warning her of Cameron about to crash his rocket into the blimp ''and'' them.

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* CassandraTruth: When Heather and Lightning are fighting over the case with the million dollars in it, Lightning warns Heather to look out behind her. Heather laughs at him, thinking he is trying to [[LookBehindYou distract her with a pathetic diversion]]. But Lightning was legitimately warning her of Cameron about to crash his rocket into the blimp ''and'' them.
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* CassandraTruth: When Heather and Lightning are fighting over the case with the million dollars in it, Lightning warns Heather to look out behind her. Heather laughs at him, thinking he is trying [[LookBehindYou distract her with a pathetic diversion]]. But Lightning was legitimately warning her of Cameron about to crash his rocket into the blimp ''and'' them.
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* AndThisIsFor: After Zoey tames the flying mutant fire-breathing mountain goats, she has them attack Scott while saying it was for Mike, who Scott eliminated in the previous episode.


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* BigWhat: When Jo is being dragged away by Chef after being eliminated, she calls out to Lightning that he was an idiot and couldn't even tell she was a girl. Lightning, who spent the whole season thinking Jo was a boy, cries out "You're what?!" in absolute shock.


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* PreAssKickingOneLiner: After Cameron finally has enough of Jo, when she tells him to take some shots to the head for her so she can crash the zeppelin, and Lightning encourages him to stand up to her, Cameron calls out "Jo! Crash this!" before detonating the explosive chip he planted on the smoke machine Jo took, dropping her out of the challenge ''and'' by extension the competition.

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* BatmanGambit: After Cameron wins a smoke machine for finishing his flying machine first, Jo scams it off of him. Anticipating that Jo would take the smoke machine from him, Cameron rigged it to explode in her face.



* TheDreaded: The second gen campers are taken aghast when Heather is introduced as the episode's cameo.



* ImpossibleTask: Scott gets one.

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* ImpossibleTask: Scott gets one.one, having to build a ''bird'' for his flying machine.



* LaserGuidedKarma: Jo takes the smoke machine Cameron won, and it blows up in her face, thanks to Cameron rigging it to do so.



* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Subverted. When Zoey threatens to walk out on the challenge for being too dangerous, Chris tempts her with the prize money, leading to the aforementioned OOC Moment.



* VillainHasAPoint: In spite of the fact she tries to steal the prize money from the other contestants, Heather is completely right that she won the game(in her endings at least) and deserves the money.

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* VillainHasAPoint: In spite of the fact she tries to steal the prize money from the other contestants, Heather is completely right that she won the game(in game (in her endings at least) and deserves the money.
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* VillainHasAPoint: In spite of the fact she tries to steal the prize money from the other contestants, Heather is completely right that she won the game(in her endings at least) and deserves the money.
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* CoolAirship: Chris' newly-bought Zeppelin.

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* CoolAirship: Chris' newly-bought Zeppelin. a MAJOR improvement over the Jumbo Jet.
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* TheCameo: Heather

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* {{Beastmaster}}: Zoey manages to gain the trust of the flying mutant fire-breathing mountain goats, and uses them to blast Scott out of the sky, as well as rescuing Cameron.
* TheCameo: HeatherHeather.
* CoolAirship: Chris' newly-bought Zeppelin.


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* FromBadToWorse: Scott gets burned by the mutant mountain goats, and then lands right by Fang, who proceeds to chase him in the water.


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* ImprobableWeaponUser: Heather uses Chris' Gemmy awards to knock him and Chef on the head, as well as throwing at both the other contestants and the flying mountain goats.


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* ThrownFromTheZeppelin: Heather gives this treatment to Chris and Chef in order to get the prize money that was on board.
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* PetTheDog: Lightning encourages Cameron to stand up to Jo, especially since she coerced him into giving her the smoke machine he originally won.

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* PetTheDog: Lightning encourages Cameron to stand up to Jo, especially since she coerced him into giving her the smoke machine he originally won.won.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The last we see of Heather is right before Cameron crashes his rocket into the zeppelin. She's not shown getting out of it even as it sinks into the water with her still inside.
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* GuileHero: Cameron anticipated Jo taking his smoke machine so he rigged it with an explosive just in case.

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* PetTheDog: Lightning encourages Cameron to stand up to Jo, especially since she coerced him into giving her the advantage he originally had.

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* OutOfCharacterMoment: Played for laughs with Zoey. She’s about to quit until Chris reminds her of the million-dollar prize and shows it to her. She goes into a trance and says “money...removing all common sense and fear of danger.”
* PetTheDog: Lightning encourages Cameron to stand up to Jo, especially since she coerced him into giving her the advantage smoke machine he originally had.won.

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* ImpossibleTask: Scott gets one.

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* TheDogBitesBack: Cameron once he’s finally fed up with Jo’s bullying.
* GracefulLoser: Jo actually congratulates Cameron on his tactics to get her eliminated when he says he learned from her.
* ImpossibleTask: Scott gets one.one.
* PetTheDog: Lightning encourages Cameron to stand up to Jo, especially since she coerced him into giving her the advantage he originally had.
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Heather uses her cameo episode to steal the million-dollar prize, prompting the campers to stop her using flying machines of their own creation. Jo and Cameron form a temporary alliance, but her ruthlessness prompts him to vote her out.
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* TheCameo: Heather
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* ImpossibleTask: Scott gets one.

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