| Home is where the heart is. We found it one day in the sink. It hums things late at night, but they are not songs. Welcome to Night Vale. |
| — Cecil |
"Capital Campaign" is the 50th episode of Welcome to Night Vale. It was released on July 15, 2014.
Synopsis[]
The Night Vale Community College begins a capital campaign to fund a new science center. Tourniquet hires a new sous chef, inauguration day for the new mayor, and an update from the otherworld desert.
Plot Developments[]
- Earl Harlan returns from wherever the mute children of the Eternal Scout ceremony took him.
- Carlos: Still trapped in the otherwordly desert.
- Hiram McDaniels and the Faceless Old Woman have been screaming at a gorge that may or may not be Hidden Gorge.
Recurring Segments[]
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Proverb
| Soccer is also commonly known as football, Canadian baseball, American football, violent jogging and World War II. |
| — Proverb |
Trivia[]
- Capital Campaign's cold open was previously posted to the Night Vale podcast twitter account.
- One of Cecil's instructions for the campaign is to shout into the radio one's innermost secrets and violations of the law: this is a reference to George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.