Salute Your Shorts
Salute Your Shorts is an American comedy television series that aired on Nickelodeon from 1991 to 1992 and in reruns until early 1999. It was based on the 1986 book, Salute Your Shorts: Life at Summer Camp by Steve Slavkin. The series, filmed at Franklin Canyon Park and the Griffith Park Boys Camp within Griffith Park in Los Angeles, was set at the summer camp Camp Anawanna. It focuses on teenage campers, their strict and bossy counselor, and the various capers and jocularities they engage in. The title comes from a common prank campers play on each other: a group of kids steals a boy's boxer shorts and raise them up a flagpole. Hence, when people see them waving like a flag, other kids would salute them as part of the prank.
Overview
Salute Your Shorts is an American comedy television series that aired on Nickelodeon from 1991 to 1992 and in reruns until early 1999. It was based on the 1986 book, Salute Your Shorts: Life at Summer Camp by Steve Slavkin. The series, filmed at Franklin Canyon Park and the Griffith Park Boys Camp within Griffith Park in Los Angeles, was set at the summer camp Camp Anawanna. It focuses on teenage campers, their strict and bossy counselor, and the various capers and jocularities they engage in. The title comes from a common prank campers play on each other: a group of kids steals a boy's boxer shorts and raise them up a flagpole. Hence, when people see them waving like a flag, other kids would salute them as part of the prank.
Episodes
1. Michael Comes to Camp
Michael arrives at Camp Anawanna and becomes very popular with some of the other campers. Budnick then forces Michael and Sponge to join a ""secret club"" along with him and Donkeylips. As part of the club initiation, Sponge and Michael go to steal something from the girls' cabin. In a rush to avoid getting caught Michael takes, and then accidentally breaks, Telly's glasses.
2. Zeke The Plumber
Budnick tells the gang a ghost story about the camp's old custodian, Zeke. It is said that Zeke, who had lost his nose in an accident, was unable to smell a gas leak, which killed him. Budnick tells the group that whoever touches Zeke's plunger, will have horrible nightmares haunted by Zeke. Of course, everyone had bad nightmares that night. And so the entire group, with help from Ug, set up an elaborate plan to get revenge on Budnick.
3. The Treasure of Sara Madre
Budnick finds a treasure map that supposedly leads to the buried cash of the camp's late dance instructor Sara Madre. He sells two copies of the map: one to Michael and Sponge, and another to Z.Z., Dina, and Telly. In order to find the treasure, the groups must go across the camp doing odd dance steps. As the groups try to be the first to the treasure, Donkeylips and Budnick find that watching the hunt is hillarious.
Cast & Crew
Michael Bower
Heidi Lucas
Venus DeMilo Thomas
Danny Cooksey
Kirk Baily
Henry Laster
Kent Flankman
