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	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

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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. Summer camp is a supervised program for children and/or teenagers conducted (usually) during the summer months in some countries. ...

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. Boxer shorts (also known as loose boxers or, imprecisely, as boxers) are a type of underwear worn by men. ...

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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 Soper — Ronald "Ronnie" Foster Pinsky (1992)
• Steve Slavkin — Dr. Kahn
• Gretchen Hill - Nurse Maggi

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Episodes

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

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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

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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

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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)

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Trivia

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• 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 or running into things that caused them to lose too much power. At the end of the episode, Kirk Baily also made a cameo appearance.
• In every episode there is a hidden rubber chicken visible.
• Michael Bower's character was given the name "Donkey Lips" after he was discovered performing sloppy fellatio on an unidentified camera man prior to the production of the first episode.
• 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.
• 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 directed a few episodes of the 2003 Power Rangers series, Power Rangers: Ninja Storm.

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References

1. ^ http://www.gpc-bsa.org/Camping/CampingFacilities.asp

External links

• Salute Your Shorts at the Internet Movie Database
• Salute Your Shorts at TV.com
• Camp Anawanna — Fan website
• 2006 Interview with Michael "Donkeylips" Bower
• Donkeylips and Sponge Weigh In — Episode review