Chomp Chapter 9 Summary

  • Getting ready for the trip, the Crays go to Wal-Mart to buy supplies with secret money Susan left Wahoo for emergencies.
  • When they walk out, a girl named Tuna follows them and asks for a ride. Wahoo knows her slightly from school, but they've never talked before.
  • The guys notice she has a black eye, so Mickey asks who punched her and she says she fell down.
  • Mickey doesn't believe it and asks if her dad hit her.
  • She implies that he did, and that he is also drinking alcohol. Mickey gets mad.
  • Noticing his father's eyes staring at the trailer across the parking lot, Wahoo's nervous that his dad will start a fight that will end badly.
  • Wahoo tells Tuna she can go with them to the Everglades.
  • As Mickey begins walking toward the trailer, Tuna tells him her dad has a gun, so Wahoo shoves some money into his hand and convinces him to go buy food for Tuna instead.
  • Meanwhile, Derek is in his motor coach watching the Alice escape video footage over and over.
  • The new script is being rewritten to add in the alligator attack at the end of the show, so he has to do a lot of other things to fill in the beginning and middle.
  • The director suggests adding in the bit with the snapping turtle and Derek gets angry.
  • The narrator says that at the company party, they show all of Derek's foolish stunts and injuries throughout the year, called bloopers. Derek doesn't go to these parties, but everyone loves it, and even Raven laughs until she cries. The director has saved the turtle footage for this event.
  • Complication: The scheduled place to film the episode gets canceled because the managers found out that Derek was banished from Navajo land, so Raven is in a tight spot.
  • A while back, Derek was taping in New Mexico when he broke a sacred peace pipe scratching his back.
  • The director suggests the national park, but Raven says she doesn't think they are allowed in there.
  • We learn that anther time, in Yellowstone National Park, Derek climbed up and took an eagle egg from a nest to eat for breakfast, which a ranger promptly took from him when he came down. He would have gone to jail because eagles are endangered, but instead paid a ten thousand dollar fine.
  • Raven decides to call the national park to see if they will let the team in, and also asks Derek which animals to have Mickey pack up for the show.
  • Slyly, Derek replies to bring none and that this show is going to actually be real, with real wild animals that he wants to wrestle. What did he just say?
  • Both Raven and the director are super worried. (Okay, we are too.)
  • Oblivious, Derek eats his third donut since lunch and Raven gets a hair full of Monkey poo.