Salute Your Shorts

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Salute Your Shorts
Title Card
Genre	Comedy-Drama
Creator(s)	Steve Slavkin
Starring	Kirk Baily Megan Berwick Michael Bower Christine Cavanaugh Danny Cooksey Venus DeMilo Tim Eyster Heidi Lucas Erik MacArthur Blake Sennett 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
Links
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Salute Your Shorts was 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, was set at the summer camp Camp Anawanna. It focused on teenage campers and their problems with both the camp and each other.

The title of the show comes from a common prank campers play on each other, where a group of kids steal a boy's boxer shorts and raise 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.

Salute your Shorts vol. one along with Hey Dude Season one will be released fourth quarter 2007.

1 Cast
2 Episodes
- 2.1 Season 1: 1991
- 2.2 Season 2: 1992
3 Awards
4 Trivia
5 External links
6 References

[edit] 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

[edit] Episodes

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

[edit] Season 1: 1991

This season was centered on the character of Michael Stein

[edit] Season 2: 1992

This season was centered on the character of Ronnie Pinsky

[edit] 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)

[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, but ended up losing in the 3rd stage to the video game wizard "Mongo". At the end of the episode, Kirk Baily also made a cameo appearance.

In each episode there is a hidden rubber chicken visible.

Danny Cooksey, Blake Sennett, and Michael Bower are all musicians. Cooksey and Sennett are both rock artists and Bower is a rapper.

An "awful waffle" is an oft-mentioned form of camper-enforced punishment on the show. The process involves holding a camper down on a cafeteria table, lifting up his or her shirt, and pouring an entire bottle of maple syrup on his or her stomach. Also, a tennis racket may be pressed against the person's stomach, making a waffle pattern in the skin. Campers tend to react to the term with visible fear, due largely to its unknown nature.

Camp Anawana was the name of a real camp in New York (note different spelling — though there is a Camp Anawanna — same spelling — that is a Boy Scout camp in the Pittsburgh Area. ^[1]).