Snot becomes increasingly corrupted with the power that he has, which leads to the character going on a curious Goodfellas riff for a moment. The scene is all good and fun, but it sort of comes out of nowhere and a solid Goodfellas riff has literally been done a hundred times at this point. Snot aping the stylistic narrative of something different like Sleepaway Camp—complete with the bonkers ending—would have at least been a little more unique, albeit a radical direction to go down. That being said, this is literally one scene of the episode. It’s not as if the entire half hour hinges on a played out reference.

As summer goes on and camp intensifies, Steve and Snot more or less become the metaphorical angel and devil on the shoulders of so many impressionable campers. While they both try to mold the next generation of Campawanda youth, Snot finds himself forgetting what it’s like to be a kid and becomes obsessed with structure and responsibility. He forgets what made camp so great to him in the first place. All of that Sprite goes to the guy’s head and he loses sight of who he is for a minute. Meanwhile, Steve can’t stop doing infinitely juvenile things, like the strange performance where he gives Snot the finger, but then takes his hands into his mouth in a bizarre act of backpedaling. It’s one of many delightfully off kilter moments.

As the Steve and Snot rivalry reaches its boiling point, there’s a deeply weird sight gag involving a bar that looks all-too-familiar named Meaux’s. Meaux’s ends up being the place that most of the townies in Despairville congregate (this might be a snide dig at the residents of Springfield over on The Simpsons all being trash, but perhaps I’m reaching). Steve bands all of these neglected townies together and before he knows it he’s turned an innocent panty raid into an all-out riot on Campawanda. This disaster appropriately culminates in both Steve and Snot seeing that they’ve collectively gone too far in both of their extremes. They understand that they’ll be happy if they can just focus less on labels and more on what they love about camp in the first place.

Outside of the campgrounds, Hayley and Jeff find themselves celebrating their anniversary, with Roger graciously offering (nay, forcing) a mass spectacle onto the Smith household. After Jeff finds himself screwing things up with Hayley by forgetting to buy Burning Man tickets (seeing Stan approve of Jeff’s shoddy husbandry is a nice little touch), Roger steps in to save the day. Now, for a show that’s been on for as long as American Dad has, its audience should be trained at this point to expect any act of kindness on Roger’s part to have some sinister undertone to it.

“Camp Campawanda” uses this knowledge within its audience to skew the expectations of what’s going on here. Roger fantastically doesn’t have any evil scheme hiding behind his good deeds this time (the random blood on the floor turning out to be the period blood of some dog is a little suspicious, but it’s so outrageous that I’ll let it slide). Instead he’s left to whine about how chivalry really is dead and how he could have been having more of a rager at his makeshift Burning Man.