History TearJerker / CampCamp

* Gwen [[InelegantBlubbering breaking down crying]] when she thinks she's going to lose her job at camp after being rejected by literally every other job she applied for.

[[caption-width-right:350: "I told you... ''[[ParentalNeglect They didn't care...]]''"]]

*** Heck, the juxtaposition of Max and Harrison's parents make Max's situation even sadder. As terrified as they are of their son, Harrison's parents love him enough to visit him, unlike Max's parents.

[[caption-width-right:350: "I told you... ''[[ParentalNeglect THEY DIDN'T CARE...]]''"]]

* Gwen breaking down crying when she thinks she's going to lose her job at camp after being rejected by literally every other job she applied for.

[[caption-width-right:350: "I told you.... ''[[ParentalNeglect THEY DIDN'T CARE...]]''"]]

[[caption-width-right:350: "I told you. ''[[ParentalNeglect They didn't care.]]''"]]

** Cameron makes David and Gwen pretend to be Max's parents until his actual parents arrive. Not only do they never show up, but as David and Gwen find out, unlike all the other kids whose parents signed them up for activities they liked (or at least in Harrison's case, for activities that would benefit them), Max's parents didn't sign him up for anything at all. [[ParentalNeglect They just didn't want him around.]] Luckily it's followed up by one of the series most [[Heartwarming/CampCamp heartwarming moments]].

[[AC: Party Pooper]]
* The episode seems to be building up to Gwen snapping and letting her dad have it in absolute anger. Instead she ultimately just ''starts sobbing''. And the reason she was acting so prickly around her dad? She thinks he's ashamed of her.

*** David reaching his RageBreakingPoint [[spoiler:picking a large rock and threatening to crush the wolf's skull as he cries and yells at her for not leaving him alone. The wolf being ready to accept her death and David crying even more as he slams down the rock shows how hard the experience was for him.]]
** The ending of the episode [[spoiler: has David being attacked by a MamaBear but he is saved by the wolf he spared and befriended in the previous scene. While she saves David, she is fatally injured and David buries her.]]

* When Daniel returns as the Wood Scouts' counselor, David and Max both seem legitimately scared of him. David's fear is even obvious enough that everyone is openly concerned about him, even Max. It doesn't help that the Wood Scouts' antics under Daniel clearly make all the Campbell campers uncomfortable even ''before'' he tries to sacrifice Nikki to summon his god.
** On the Wood Scouts' side of things, they clearly all like David a lot, especially Pikeman and are clearly devastated when he reveals that he doesn't care about them at all.

* While "Max Is Not A Good Person" mostly plays Max's attempts to deny his CharacterDevelopment for laughs, several fans have noted that he's likely denying it because it came about because of [[TrueCompanions his newfound support system]] which he can't even recognize actually exists because due to ParentalNeglect, he's ''never'' had anything resembling that kind of support.

* In "Dial M For Jasper" we find out Jasper vanished after a fight with David, who thinks it's his fault his friend left as is brought to tears just seeing Jasper in an old picture. Worse, ''David doesn't know he's dead.''

** There's actually a blink and you'll miss it moment where Neil ''starts crying'' when Max calls him and Nikki "temporary friends"; he blinks them away so fast lots of fans [[RewatchBonus missed it the first viewing]] but that just makes it ''sadder''. And Nikki's [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness uncharacteristic anger at Max]] is painful as well.

** There's actually a blink and you'll miss it moment where Neil ''starts crying'' when Max calls him and Nikki "temporary friends"; he blinks them away so fast lots of fans [[RewatchBonus missed it the first viewing]] but that just makes it ''sadder''.