Midnight Quittance

## **Guide**

**Midnight Quittance** is the 36th episode of Season 1 of *Summer Camp Island* and the 36th episode overall.

## Synopsis

Ramona invites Hedgehog and Oscar to participate in a special holiday ritual.

## Plot

Oscar and Hedgehog receive late night invitations to a potluck held at the monsters' house going to be held at midnight. Hedgehog is told to bring pepper, and Oscar is told to bring salt. When they arrive the monsters are preparing for the event known as the Midnight Quittance, which is a celebration of Time itself.

The monsters finish preparing the main course for the night. The group uses magic moon rocks to stop time, and Ramona is seen in the kitchen making final touches for the evening. She and the monsters explain that time originally didn't pass in a linear fashion. It used to randomly change, as people could be an old man one minute and then a baby the next. The first Midnight Quittance happened when some monsters made a soup. In exchange for the soup every year, time would agree to always continue in a continuous pattern.

As the ceremony begins the monsters read some passages about Time. Hedgehog adds the pepper to the soup, but when Oscar is about to add the salt he realizes he forgot it in his coat pocket when Howard took his coat as they arrived. Oscar plans to go get the salt, but he is so tired that he falls asleep on his way to the coat closet. A magical glowing door appears above the table, which is explained to be Time ready for their soup. Since Oscar didn't get the salt in time the ritual failed and the promise to Time was now broken.

Suddenly the scene changes rapidly, as each person in the room is being randomly aged forwards and backwards. Oscar is overwhelmed and suddenly realizes he is experiencing his past and future in a random order. He waits for the moment when Howard took his coat and grabs the salt. Magically he and the rest of the group are pulled back to when the ritual was being performed but Oscar seemingly was the only one to remember when time went haywire. Ramona hints that she still knows what happens and says Oscar did a good job with the salt.

When the soup is finally complete the magical door appears and Time (not seen) lowers a giant straw into the soup and drinks it. Water is the only thing left in the bowl. Everyone added their moon rocks to the water and the ritual ended. Ramona thanks everyone for joining her, and bids them farewell until next time.

## Characters

* Hedgehog
* Oscar
* Ramona
* Lucy (split-time)
* Howard
* Pajamas
* Ava
* Blanche
* Margot
* Mortimer
* Melvin
* Time Baby
* Jabberwock (papier-mâché)
* Time (debut)

## Production Notes

* Although this episode premiered on Cartoon Network on July 14, 2019, it was actually produced in 2018 according to the credits.
	+ The second half of season 1 was initially scheduled for airtime in late 2018, but was delayed until the following summer, so all of the episodes from the second half of the season were produced and meant to air in 2018 but aired in 2019 instead.

## Gallery

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## Videos

The Tome of Time Summer Camp Island Cartoon Network
## References

 Season 2
 Season 3