Salute Your Shorts

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Salute Your Shorts

Title Card
Format Comedy-Drama
Created by Steve Slavkin
Starring Kirk Baily
Megan Berwick
Michael Bower
Christine Cavanaugh
Danny Cooksey
Venus DeMilo
Tim Eyster
Heidi Lucas
Erik MacArthur
Blake Soper
Steve Slavkin
Country of origin Flag of the United States United States
No. of episodes 26 (List of episodes)
Production
Running time 30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel Nickelodeon
Original run June 1, 1991 – June 29, 1992
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

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 in Griffith Park in or near Los Angeles.

Contents

[edit] Cast

[edit] Episodes

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

[edit] Season 1: 1991

  1. Michael Comes to Camp
  2. Zeke, the Plumber
  3. The Treasure of Sarah Madre
  4. Brownies for Thud Mackie
  5. Bunk Chief Elections
  6. Toilet Seat Basketball
  7. The Radio Call-In Contest
  8. Donkeylips and Sponge Weigh In
  9. Budnick and Michael Fake Being Sick
  10. Cinderella Play
  11. Donkeylips' Crush on Dina
  12. Mail Carrier Mona
  13. The Environmental Party

[edit] Season 2: 1992

  1. Telly and the Tennis Match
  2. Goodbye Michael, Hello Pinsky
  3. Counselor Budnick
  4. Dina and the Rock Star
  5. The Cursed Skull
  6. Budnick Loves Dina - Part 1
  7. Budnick Loves Dina - Part 2
  8. Sponge's Night Out
  9. The Pinsky-Sponge Gazette
  10. Capture the Flag
  11. Park Ranger Mona
  12. The Wrath of Kahn, Jr.
  13. Anawanna Incorporated

[edit] Awards

[edit] Trivia

  • The pilot episode originally aired on another Nickelodeon television show, Special Delivery.
  • In the pilot episode, Sponge Harris was played by David Tom.
  • After the pilot episode was picked up for a full season, all of the actors had to audition for their roles again.
  • Michael Bower, Danny Cooksey, and Venus DeMilo appeared on Wild and Crazy Kids in 1992 as part of the Salute Your Shorts green team.
  • Michael Bower and Danny Cooksey (yellow team) faced off against Megan Berwick and Heidi Lucas (red team) in a special Season 2 charity episode of Nick Arcade. Bower and Cooksey won the opportunity to go into the video game and cleared the first two stages (Haunted Museum & Enchanted Flight), but ended up losing in the third stage to the video game wizard "Mongo" because Bower kept standing still and Cooksey kept getting hit by Mongo. At the end of the episode, Kirk Baily also made a cameo appearance.
  • In every episode there is a hidden rubber chicken visible.
  • 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.
  • There is a Boy Scout camp in the Pittsburgh Area called Camp Anawanna. [1]
  • There was a summer sleepaway camp in Monticello, New York called Kutsher's Camp Anawana from the 1960's until 1992.
  • In the episode, "The Radio Call-in Contest", Sponge Harris quite clearly says "I'm pissed off because I'm not as smart as I thought I was." The profanity was never removed from the episode.
  • The band Rilo Kiley featured a song called "Salute My Shorts" as a hidden track on their album Take-Offs and Landings. This is in reference to the fact that band member Blake Sennett (Blake Soper) played character Ronnie Pinsky on the show.
  • Steve Slavkin, the show's creator, also wrote a few episodes of the 2003 and 2004 Power Rangers series, Ninja Storm and Dino Thunder.
  • Professional wrestler Chuck Taylor uses the Omega Driver as his finisher, but calls it the Awful Waffle.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Camping Facilities & Maps

There is a New Jersey based Ska band called Awful Waffle. Who take their name from this show.

[edit] External links