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Salute Your Shorts
Salute Your Shorts is an American television sitcom created by Steve Slavkin and produced by Propaganda Films, which aired on Nickelodeon from July 4, 1991, to September 12, 1992.
Focused around the life of young campers at the fictional Camp Anawanna, the show was based on Slavkin's 1986 book Salute Your Shorts: Life at Summer Camp that he co-wrote with Thomas Hill.
Despite its short run and limited availability on home media, the show received positive reviews and was consistently one of the highest-rated cable programs.
The series is set at the fictional summer camp, Camp Anawanna (a play on the exclamation "I don't want to"). It focuses on teenage campers, their strict and bossy counselor, and the various capers and jocularities they engage in.
The first season focused on the power struggle between upstanding newcomer Michael Stein (Erik MacArthur) and camp bully Bobby Budnick (Danny Cooksey). Ronnie Pinsky (Blake Soper) replaced Michael in the second season, countering Budnick as a suave, preppie ladies-man. Other campers included Budnick's accomplice Eddie "Donkey Lips" Gelfand (Michael Bower), nerdy Sponge Harris (Tim Eyster), stuck-up rich girl Dina Alexander (Heidi Lucas), tomboy Telly Radford (Venus DeMilo Thomas), and nature-loving Z.Z. Ziff (Megan Berwick).
Kevin "Ug" Lee (Kirk Baily), the dim-witted camp counselor, served as antagonist to all the children. Dr. Kahn (Steve Slavkin), the unseen camp director, was heard providing announcements over the public address system. Mona Tibbs (Christine Cavanaugh) made recurring appearances as Ug's love interest.
The title of the show comes from a common prank campers play on each other: a group of children steal a boy's boxer shorts and raise them up a flagpole. Hence, when people see them waving like a flag, other children salute them as part of the prank. In the first episode of the series, Michael falls victim to this prank.
We wanted to bring film techniques to kids' television. It was a single-camera show that was shot on video and put through the film-look process to give kids mini-movies about summer camp that were scored from beginning to end. We gave them a whole new look they'd never had before.
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Salute Your Shorts
Salute Your Shorts is an American television sitcom created by Steve Slavkin and produced by Propaganda Films, which aired on Nickelodeon from July 4, 1991, to September 12, 1992.
Focused around the life of young campers at the fictional Camp Anawanna, the show was based on Slavkin's 1986 book Salute Your Shorts: Life at Summer Camp that he co-wrote with Thomas Hill.
Despite its short run and limited availability on home media, the show received positive reviews and was consistently one of the highest-rated cable programs.
The series is set at the fictional summer camp, Camp Anawanna (a play on the exclamation "I don't want to"). It focuses on teenage campers, their strict and bossy counselor, and the various capers and jocularities they engage in.
The first season focused on the power struggle between upstanding newcomer Michael Stein (Erik MacArthur) and camp bully Bobby Budnick (Danny Cooksey). Ronnie Pinsky (Blake Soper) replaced Michael in the second season, countering Budnick as a suave, preppie ladies-man. Other campers included Budnick's accomplice Eddie "Donkey Lips" Gelfand (Michael Bower), nerdy Sponge Harris (Tim Eyster), stuck-up rich girl Dina Alexander (Heidi Lucas), tomboy Telly Radford (Venus DeMilo Thomas), and nature-loving Z.Z. Ziff (Megan Berwick).
Kevin "Ug" Lee (Kirk Baily), the dim-witted camp counselor, served as antagonist to all the children. Dr. Kahn (Steve Slavkin), the unseen camp director, was heard providing announcements over the public address system. Mona Tibbs (Christine Cavanaugh) made recurring appearances as Ug's love interest.
The title of the show comes from a common prank campers play on each other: a group of children steal a boy's boxer shorts and raise them up a flagpole. Hence, when people see them waving like a flag, other children salute them as part of the prank. In the first episode of the series, Michael falls victim to this prank.
We wanted to bring film techniques to kids' television. It was a single-camera show that was shot on video and put through the film-look process to give kids mini-movies about summer camp that were scored from beginning to end. We gave them a whole new look they'd never had before.