When Earl finds out Dodge wants to go to space camp, it reminds him of his own experience at Chaz Dalton's Space Academy: He loved it, and Chaz is still his greatest hero (Randy says Earl's gay for astronauts), but he stole a space suit and shrunk it in the wash, so he didn't get to finish camp. He wants to make the space suit theft up to Chaz, so he goes back to camp to take care of that list item. Turns out Chaz hasn't aged a day and, even though he isn't mad at Earl and doesn't expect the suit back, Earl goes to the nearest NASA location to see about getting a replacement. They don't have one, but they do have photos of famous astronauts on the wall, including Chaz. But it's not the guy from space camp; it's Booger from Revenge of the Nerds. Earl's pissed, and tracks him down. Turns out this guy actually is more like Booger than our astroNOT, fake Chaz. But when he hears someone's making money using his name, he heads to the space academy with Earl and Randy.

Fake Chaz is actually a guy named Wayne, who used to work for NASA cleaning the space shuttles. Chaz would pay him to make public appearances as Chaz, because the real Chaz hated crowds. Apparently Wayne kept it up even after he was no longer asked to. But Earl's still mad, so the real Chaz takes over the school. But he gets drunk and makes an idiot of himself, so Earl locks him in the closet, and he and Randy run the school. Obviously, they know nothing about space or camps or kids, so it's a colossal failure. Wayne returns, though, to get his half a sandwich that he left in the fridge. The kids get excited when he shows them how to walk on the moon. They ask for his autograph, and he starts to tell the truth, but the real Chaz breaks out of the closet just in time to tell Wayne to give the kids his autograph. He'd read a bunch of inspirational thank-you letters while locked in the closet. So, fake Chaz gets to keep being real Chaz, and Earl gets to ride in a space simulator. He's so gay for space.

In the most minor B-plot ever, Darnell gets to be himself again (Harry Monroe), though Joy says she's not getting used to saying a new name during sex. So we'll probably still know him as Darnell. He is up to over 300 friends on BuddyBook (like MySpace and Facebook before all the old people ruined them) in no time, so he gets Joy to join. Unfortunately, no one will accept her friend requests. So Darnell stays up all night making up fake profiles, and she ends up with more friends than Catalina. Who, by the way, is not in the episode, but is mentioned twice. Which is pretty much as relevant as her appearances in the episodes this season.

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