Salute Your Shorts

Infobox Television
show_name = Salute Your Shorts


caption = Title Card
format = Comedy-Drama
camera =
runtime = 30 minutes
creator = Steve Slavkin
developer =
executive_producer =
starring = Kirk Baily
Megan Berwick
Michael Bower
Christine Cavanaugh
Danny Cooksey
Venus DeMilo
Tim Eyster
Heidi Lucas
Erik MacArthur
Blake Soper
Steve Slavkin
narrated =
country = USA
network = Nickelodeon
first_aired = June 1, 1991
last_aired = June 29, 1992
num_episodes = 26
list_episodes = List of Salute Your Shorts episodes
website =
imdb_id = 0101190
tv_com_id = 3566

"Salute Your Shorts" is an American comedy television series that aired on Nickelodeon from 1991–1992 and in reruns until 1998.

The series, based on the 1986 book "Salute Your Shorts: Life at Summer Camp" by Steve Slavkin, is set at the summer camp Camp Anawanna. It focuses on teenage campers and their problems with both the camp and with each other.

The title of the show comes from a common prank campers play on each other: a group of kids steals a boy's boxer shorts and raises them up a flagpole. Hence, when people see the boy's boxers waving like a flag, other kids would salute them as part of the prank.

The show was filmed at Griffith Park in Los Angeles.

Cast

*Kirk Baily — Kevin "Ug" Lee
*Megan Berwick — Z.Z. Ziff
*Michael Bower — Eddie "Donkeylips" C. Gelfen
*Christine Cavanaugh — Mona Tibbs
*Danny Cooksey — Robert "Bobby" Budnick
*Venus DeMilo — Telly Radford
*Tim Eyster — Sponge Harris
*Heidi Lucas — Dina Alexander
*Erik MacArthur — Michael Stein (1991)
*Blake Sennett — Ronald "Ronnie" Foster Pinsky (1992)
*Steve Slavkin — Dr. Kahn
*Gretchen Hill - Nurse Maggi
*Kyle Harrell - Zeke the plumber

Episodes

:"Main article containing episode summaries at List of Salute Your Shorts episodes."

eason 1: 1991

# Michael Comes to Camp
# Zeke, the Plumber
# The Treasure of Sarah Madre
# Brownies for Thud Mackie
# Bunk Chief Elections
# Toilet Seat Basketball
# The Radio Call-In Contest
# Donkeylips and Sponge Weigh In
# Budnick and Michael Fake Being Sick
# Cinderella Play
# Donkeylips' Crush on Dina
# Mail Carrier Mona
# The Environmental Party

eason 2: 1992

# Telly and the Tennis Match
# Goodbye Michael, Hello Pinsky
# Counselor Budnick
# Dina and the Rock Star
# The Cursed Skull
# Budnick Loves Dina - Part 1
# Budnick Loves Dina - Part 2
# Sponge's Night Out
# The Pinsky-Sponge Gazette
# Capture the Flag
# Park Ranger Mona
# The Wrath of Kahn, Jr.
# Anawanna Incorporated

Awards

*1993 — Best Young Actor Co-starring in a Cable Series — Young Artist Awards (Michael Bower)
*1993 — Best Young Actress Co-starring in a Cable Series — Young Artist Awards (Heidi Lucas)

Trivia

* The pilot episode originally aired on another Nickelodeon television show, Special Delivery.
* After the pilot episode was picked up for a full season, all of the actors had to audition for their roles again.
* An "awful waffle" is an oft-mentioned form of camper-enforced punishment on the show. Despite large amounts of assumptions of what one may be, the closest scene on the show to describe an awful waffle involves a falsely accused camper of stealing things who begins to receive the punishment. The camper is held down on a table, someone grabs a racket, and someone gets syrup. The camper is let go before the awful waffle takes place. Michael Bower later explained that the racket would be pressed on a camper's bare stomach to make a waffle imprint, and then syrup would be poured on him.

External links

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* [http://www.public.iastate.edu/~spires/Camp/ Camp Anawanna] — Fan website
* [http://www.ink19.com/issues/march2006/interviews/michaelRayBower.html 2006 Interview with Michael "Donkeylips" Bower]
* [http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1718495 Interview with Michael Bower explaining the 'Awful Waffle']
* [http://www.sydlexia.com/systheweighin.htm Donkeylips and Sponge Weigh In] — Episode review