#final frame

The episode opens as it's supposed to. The bowlers get abducted, Zari and Nate head off to go camping.

Gary sings a brief song about helping Ava try on wedding dresses that is clearly not part of the actual musical, it's just Gary being Gary. Ava tells him to shut up.

Behrad attempts to make brownies. They go wrong... or do they?

John is all hyped up on his magic juice and has planned a very sexy date for Z2. Behrad has to tell him that no Zs are available right now. B is lonely and John is unable to contain his need to show off his magic, so he's like "You're handsome enough, why not?" Duet/date montage. Nothing happens but it's very steamy and very suggestive.

(Next episode: The Bored On Board hot yoga scene now throws Behrad into full-on gay panic mode and Nate has to talk him down. Everything is 50% more awkward because Behrad refuses to make eye contact with John.)

Meanwhile, at the bowling alley, Spooner sings a heartfelt ballad about learning to love bowling. The second it ends, she accuses Astra of using magic to make her do that. Astra is offended by the suggestion that she would ever experience Spooner singing intentionally. Spooner brings up the princess song. They proceed to chase each other around the bowling alley while Sara and Mick sit there like “…Princess song?”

Meanwhile, at the campgrounds, things are okay but not great. Cut to the totem, where Zari 2.0 and some nosy ancestors are watching things play out. Neither Zari is very impressed by the camping idea.

Bowling has started. Spooner is bugging Mick about his lack of technique. He sings a short song about how everyone needs to just leave him alone already. This song is occasionally reprised throughout the rest of the episode.

On the Waverider, the awkward date has ended. Earth has disappeared. John magicks them across space to find the bowling alley. Gideon has a short song yelling at him for breaking her.

Sara and Spooner try to get Astra to bowl. She's not having it. She starts a punk number about how she didn't leave Hell for this nonsense. The cosmic bowling lights come on, and it becomes a full-on band number (Sara on guitar, Spooner on bass, Mick on drums).

Z2 and the judgy ancestors are now dissecting the terrible camping date in song form. Amaya drops by at one point to see what all the commotion is about and joins them.

Outside of the totem, Zari and Nate are singing a duet. They are periodically interrupted by loud music from the people camping next to them (rock n roll, obviously). The song becomes less and less a duet and more two people singing adjacent to each other until the part where Zari suggests they break up and then they talk things through.

Back at the bowling alley, Ava comes up to the door in her ridiculous wedding dress but isn't allowed in because the game is still going on. Sara comes over and they have a duet through the door. Sara goes on an extended tangent about how she's pretty sure there's something going on between Astra and Spooner.

Earth is saved, everyone joins together in the bowling alley, big happy song and dance number.

Behrad wakes up in the galley in the middle of a plate of brownies.