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Salute Your Shorts

TV·1991–1992·2 seasons, 26 episodes·Nickelodeon·Comedy, Drama·30m

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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.

Cast

Episodes by season

Season0113Episodes1991AiredSeason avg
  1. S01E01Salute Your Shorts S01E01Michael Comes to CampJuly 4, 1991Michael arrives at Camp Anawanna and becomes very popular with some of the other campers. Budnick then forces Michael and Sponge to join a "
  2. S01E02Salute Your Shorts S01E02Zeke The PlumberJuly 4, 1991Budnick 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 u
  3. S01E03Salute Your Shorts S01E03The Treasure of Sara MadreJuly 4, 1991Budnick 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
  4. S01E04Salute Your Shorts S01E04Brownies for Thud MackieJuly 6, 1991After Michael accidentally ruins some brownies that belonged to the camp's meanest kid, Thud Mackie, he needs to do something or face a beat
  5. S01E05Bunk Chief ElectionsJuly 13, 1991At the girls' bunk Telly and Dina each try to bribe Z.Z. to vote one of them as Bunk Chief. At the guys' bunk, as punishment for putting a
  6. S01E06Salute Your Shorts S01E06Toilet Seat BasketballJuly 20, 1991The gang forms a basketball team that must play in a small camp tournament to earn the privilege of representing Camp Anawanna in a big bask
  7. S01E07The Radio Call-In ContestJuly 27, 1991Sponge uses the camp phone without Ug's permission to call into a radio contest. He wins the first round of the contest and a $100 prize. In
  8. S01E08Donkeylips and Sponge Weigh InAugust 3, 1991In order to win a lobster dinner, Sponge and Donkeylips enter the wrestling tournament. Unfortunately Sponge is too light to wrestle and Don
  9. S01E09Budnick and Michael Fake Being SickAugust 10, 1991In order to get out of the daily activties, Michael and Budnick fake being sick. They end up spemding the day in the nurse's station with no
  10. S01E10Cinderella PlayAugust 17, 1991The group must put on the camp's presentation of Cinderella. Dina is cast as Cinderella with Michael as the prince. Telly must play an ugly
  11. S01E11Donkeylips' Crush on DinaAugust 24, 1991Dina leaves a love note for Michael on a painting that she thinks is his. It turns out to be Donkeylips' painting and he is thrilled that th
  12. S01E12Mail Carrier MonaAugust 31, 1991After Ug breaks up with his girlfriend, he starts to crack down on the kids for every little rule violation. When a new mail carrier named M
  13. S01E13The Environmental PartySeptember 7, 1991Z.Z. tires to get the others to clean up the camp. Unfortunately they really don't care. So Dina helps her throw a party to try and raise aw

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season0213Episodes1992AiredSeason avg
  1. S02E01Salute Your Shorts S02E01Goodbye Michael, Hello PinskyJune 26, 1992The gang finds out that Michael had to leave camp because he has the chickenpox. Into his place in Bunk 13 comes a new kid, Ronnie Pinskey.
  2. S02E02Salute Your Shorts S02E02Counselor BudnickJuly 27, 1992It's backwards weekend, and the campers have elected Budnick to be the weekend counselor, while Ug had to be a camper. At first, Budnick let
  3. S02E03Salute Your Shorts S02E03Telly's Tennis MatchJuly 4, 1992Telly, tired of losing to another boy at tennis, thnks she needs a new metal raquet to beat him, instead of her old wooden one. Budnick give
  4. S02E04Salute Your Shorts S02E04Dina and the Rock StarJuly 11, 1992Dina promises everyone that she will get Jamie Mallet Jr., a huge rock star, to perform at the camp dance. She finds out that Jamie is stayi
  5. S02E05Salute Your Shorts S02E05The Cursed SkullJuly 18, 1992The girls decide that they want to be away from each other, so they ask Ug to change the bunk assignments. Meanwhile, the boys find a buffal
  6. S02E06Budnick Loves Dina (1)July 25, 1992Dina is describing to the other girls what her perfect boyfriend would be like. She then realizes that Budnick matches all of her criteria,
  7. S02E07Budnick Loves Dina (2)August 1, 1992Dina decides that she doesn't love Budnick after all, but Budnick still loves her. As a way to get him to stop following her, she tries to m
  8. S02E08Sponge Goes to the MoviesAugust 8, 1992After sleeping through the camp's Club Choice Day, Pinskey ends up in Sponge's computer club. He then decides to use the camp's outside mode
  9. S02E09Salute Your Shorts S02E09The Pinsky-Sponge GazetteAugust 15, 1992Pinskey and Sponge start a camp newspaper. While Sponge is writing actual news stories, Pinskey starts a gossip column, which soon becomes v
  10. S02E10Capture the FlagAugust 22, 1992Donkeylips wants to play on the offensive side of the camp's Capture the Flag team, but even though he knows the strategy, he is put on defe
  11. S02E11Park Ranger MonaAugust 29, 1992Mona Tibbs, the mail lady, has joined the park service to be closer to Ug. He thinks this is good because she will go easy on the camp when
  12. S02E12Ellen Comes to CampSeptember 5, 1992Ellen, Dr. Kahn's niece, comes to visit camp, and Ug orders the campers to treat her like royalty. She is a real brat and the gang is ready
  13. S02E13Anawanna IncorporatedSeptember 12, 1992The campers start a birdhouse company for career day. Dina is appointed leader and Donkeylips is put in charge of production. After seeing h

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