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Will the fifth season of Bunk'd reference the coronavirus pandemic?

posted 5 years ago by MAGolding (1231)
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Will there be a fifth season of Bunk'd?

According to Wikipedia:

On February 24, 2020, it was announced by Disney Channel that the series had been renewed for a fifth season, with production set to begin in fall 2020. Executive producer Erin Dunlap will serve as the sole showrunner for the fifth season. In addition, all of the cast from the fourth season, with the exception of Scarlett Estevez, is set to return.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunk%27d#Production

So unless the coronavirus pandemic causes plans to change, which is quite possible depending on how long and how severe it is, production of a fifth season will begin sometime and the fifth season episodes will be broadcast sometime.

And will any episodes of the fifth season make any references to the coronavirus Pandemic of 2020 which will possibly extend into 2021?

That will be up to Executive Producer Erin Dunlap, the showrunner, and other members of the staff. They will decide if and how to refer to the COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020.

But I can say that if they decide to ignore the existence of the Pandemic, they will have a good reason to. As well as I can calculate it the fictional date of the 5th season of Bunk'd should be in 2018 before the Pandemic, not 2020 during the Pandemic or 2021 after the Pandemic.

See my post https://moviechat.org/tt4591680/Bunkd/5e97fa6b2d834940a46df9a9/Emmaas-Age

In the 3rd season Jessie episode "What a Steal" April 17, 2015, one of the Ross family safes has the combination 3-24-01, standing for Ravi's birthday of March 24, 2001.

In the first Jessie episode "New York, New Nanny", September 30, 2011, it is said that Ravi was just adopted a month earlier. In the first season episode "Gotcha Day", August 24, 2012, it is revealed that Ravi's birth date was in 2011 instead of 2001 in his adoption papers and the Ross family thought they were getting a baby, which means Ravi was adopted after March 24, 2011. In the first season episode "Are You Cooler Than a Fifth Grader?" Ravi should be in the 5th grade and should be 10 to 11, putting that episode in March 2011 to March 2013.

So the first season episode "Christmas Story", December 9, 2011, should be Christmas in 2011 or 2012, and the first season of Jessie should be from 2011 to 2012 or 2012 to 2013.

In the third season of Bunk'd, in the episodes "We Can't bear It!" (June 18 2018) and "Let's Bounce!" (June 19, 2018), Christina Ross buys Camp Kikiwaka and Emma, Ravi & Zuri argue about who should be in charge. Emma says she is 18, implying that Ravi & Zuri are not. Ravi would turn 18 on March 24, 2019, so the third season of Bunk'd has to be in or before the summer of 2018.

I found a Jessie Wiki saying that Emma Ross was born on April 19, 1998, 13 days after Peyton List was born on April 6, 1998.

https://disneychannelsjessie.fandom.com/wiki/Emma_Ross.

So the third season of Bunk'd would have to be in the summer of 2016 if that is correct.

So the first season of Jessie should be in 2011 to 2012, the second season of Jessie in 2012 to 2013, the third season of Jessie in in 2013 to 2014, the fourth season of Jessie in 2014 to 2015, the first season of Bunk'd in the summer of 2014, the second season of Bunk'd in the summer of 2015, the third season of Bunk'd in the summer of 2016, the fourth season of Bunk'd in the summer of 2017, and the fifth season of Bunk'd in the summer of 2018.

The first season of Bunk'd was produced some time before the first episode aired on July 31, 2015. The second season of Bunk'd was produced after it was renewed on February 29, 2016 and before the first episode on August 23, 2016. The third season was produced between August 31, 2017 and when it was renewed and June 18, 2018 when the first episode was shown. The fourth season of Bunk'd was produced between being renewed on December 15, 2018 and the first episode on June 20, 2019. The seasons of Bunk'd have been produced and broadcast later and later after their fictional dates.

It would certainly be hard to make Emma born late enough for the fifth season of Bunk'd to happen late enough to be during or after the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020, and many shows in the Disney Channel Live Action Universe that Bunk'd is part of clearly happen in an alternate universe anyway.

Added Aug 10, 2022. I just saw the begining of the Jessie episode "All the Knight Moves", May 13, 2013. There Emma and Luke suspect that Betram was the "Scuba Bandit" who robbed a yacht 25 years earlier. Emma asks Bertram where he was on the night of August 12, 1987 (which will be 35 years ao ago in 2 days). So this implies than when "All the Knight Movies" was written the fictional date was assumed to be about August 12, 2012 to August 11, 2013.

[–] MAGolding (1231) 4 years ago

In a fourth season episode of Bunk'd called "Three Stars and a Baby", June 28, 2020, Gwen wrote that: "Ava helped me even more than the wolf pack that helped me survive the winter of 2017".

I note that the gray wolf or Canis lupis lives in the wild only in the Northern Hemisphere, so Gwen, who never mentioned traveling outside North America, probably meant she was helped by a pack of gray wolves in the Northern Hemisphere winter of 2017.

The weather or meteorological winter begins earlier and ends later the farther north in the Northern Hemisphere a place is, but the astronomical season of winter begins with the winter solstice, usually on December 21 or 22 of one year, and ends on vernal equinox, usually on March 19, 20, or 21 of the next year.

So did Gwen mean the winter that went from about December 2017 to March or later in 2018, or the winter that began in about December 2016 and ended in March or later in 2017, when she said "The winter of 2017?

According to my calculations in my previous post, the fourth season of Bunk'd should have a fictional date in the summer of 2017, so the only possible winter that Gwen could have meant by the winter of 2017 would have to be the winter that began about December of 2016 and ended in March or later of 2017.

Of course it would typical to speak of the latest passed winter as "last winter" instead of the winter of a specific year, but Gwen sometimes speaks in an unusual manner - she apparently lived with wolves earlier that year after all. And possibly the writer forgot that the fictional date of the fourth season of Bunk'd should in the summer of 2017 instead of 2018 or some later year.

So if a fifth season is ever made, and the writers do want to set it in 2018 before the Covid 19 pandemic, I have not yet seen any episode evidence that would contradict them.

Added 11-29-2020. In "Raven About Bunk'd", July 24, 2020, aired between the third and the fourth seasons of Raven's Home, The characters from Raven's Home head for Camp Champion, Maine but wind up in Camp Kikiwakia instead, and meet the characters in the fourth season of Bunk'd.

So if the fictional order of Raven's Home episodes is supposed to be equivalent to their broadcast order (which isn't certain), and if "Raven About Bunk'd" is supposed to happen between the third and fourth seasons of Raven's Home (which also isn't certain), the fourth season of Bunk'd would happen between the third and fourth seasons of Raven's Home.

And I don't think that I have ever noticed any evidence of the fictional dates of episodes in Raven's Home.

[–] MAGolding (1231) 4 years ago

The fifth season of Bunk'd actually started in January, 2021, despite my suspicion that the pandemic would cancel it. So far I have not noticed any reference to the pandemic as a past or present event, indicating the 5th season episodes seen so far probably happen in 2019 or earlier.

[–] MAGolding (1231) 2 years ago

And see: https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/117985/why-isnt-luke-in-bunkd/117990#117990

[–] MAGolding (1231) 4 years ago

See this question for a discussion of the chronological relationship between BunK'd and Raven's Home.

https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/111764/what-are-the-fictional-dates-of-ravens-home