Pilot

Norm, Sheila, Jake and Roxy Wendell are on vacation with Norm's repellent cousin Vernon. While navigating a steep cliffside road, their RV misses a turn and falls straight into the canyon, taking the whole Wendell clan with it. Upon landing safely at the bottom of the canyon (thank goodness for that updraft!), the Wendells meet a whole community of trapped canyon-dwellers, including the wealthy Manderbelts, who angrily confront the Wendells for accidentally breaking their cat's wooden legs with the debris from their crash. Ever the engineer, Norm rigs up wheels for the cat and a flying drill invention that just might pull them out of the canyon, but while Norm and Sheila are at the Manderbelts' attempting to make amends (at least, Norm is), an impatient Roxy takes matters into her own hands, and she ruins the very contraption that could have saved everyone. Meanwhile, Sheila's hot temper and short fuse ensure that the Wendells and the Manderbelts will not be spending their long days in the canyon in perfect harmony.

Norm Wendell, Vernon Wendell, Sheila Wendell, Roxy Wendell, Jake Wendell, Emily Butane, Colton Steel, Sid Butane, Pete, Earl, Royce Manderbelt, Sarah, Frida, Mace Butane, Carol, Reginald Manderbelt, The Widow, Sly Butane, Beverly Manderbelt, Butch Butane, Pristine Manderbelt, Nalappat, Dummy

The Wendell family doesn't usually do too much together; the parents work a lot, and the kids have developed their own lives. This year however, Norm, the Wendell patriarch, has decided to schedule a family vacation. He rents a van and a camper trailer, forces everyone inside, and the family sets off on a week of heavily-scheduled fun.

With all four Wendells in a confined space, motoring between tourist attractions, scenic vistas and the occasional point of interest, the trip turns out to be a disaster - in fact, an actual disaster - Norm accidentally drives the van over a cliff!

The van plummets 2 miles straight down into a canyon. When the Wendells stumble out, they realize that not only are they alive, but also that they are not alone. The same fate has befallen several others before them, and the Wendells are just the newest residents of a community of everyone else that's driven, cycled, sky-dived, or even crashed their NASA landing capsule there.

So, the Wendells live in their camper trailer in the heart of a shanty town of all the other crashed vehicles, scattered wherever gravity set them down. Their neighbors include an astronaut and his chimp companion, a wealthy family (who live in the summer house they were transporting), a has-been British punk rocker and many more. All these characters hope to escape, but until one of their plans actually work, they make up this impromptu community known only as "Crash Canyon". And who knows who's gonna drop in next?!