Salute Your Shorts
Salute Your Shorts

Salute Your Shorts

1991 2 Seasons 26 Episodes ⭐ 7.3 Comedy Drama

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.

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.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Michael Comes to Camp

Michael arrives at Camp Anawanna and becomes very popular with some of the other campers. Budnick then forces Michael an

EP 2

Zeke The Plumber

Budnick tells the gang a ghost story about the camp's old custodian, Zeke. It is said that Zeke, who had lost his nose i

EP 3

The Treasure of Sara Madre

Budnick finds a treasure map that supposedly leads to the buried cash of the camp's late dance instructor Sara Madre. He

EP 4

Brownies for Thud Mackie

After Michael accidentally ruins some brownies that belonged to the camp's meanest kid, Thud Mackie, he needs to do some

EP 5

Bunk Chief Elections

At 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 puni

EP 6

Toilet Seat Basketball

The gang forms a basketball team that must play in a small camp tournament to earn the privilege of representing Camp An

EP 7

The Radio Call-In Contest

Sponge uses the camp phone without Ug's permission to call into a radio contest. He wins the first round of the contest

EP 8

Donkeylips and Sponge Weigh In

In order to win a lobster dinner, Sponge and Donkeylips enter the wrestling tournament. Unfortunately Sponge is too ligh

EP 9

Budnick and Michael Fake Being Sick

In order to get out of the daily activties, Michael and Budnick fake being sick. They end up spemding the day in the nur

EP 10

Cinderella Play

The group must put on the camp's presentation of Cinderella. Dina is cast as Cinderella with Michael as the prince. Tell

EP 11

Donkeylips' Crush on Dina

Dina leaves a love note for Michael on a painting that she thinks is his. It turns out to be Donkeylips' painting and he

EP 12

Mail Carrier Mona

After Ug breaks up with his girlfriend, he starts to crack down on the kids for every little rule violation. When a new

EP 13

The Environmental Party

Z.Z. tires to get the others to clean up the camp. Unfortunately they really don't care. So Dina helps her throw a party

EP 1

Goodbye Michael, Hello Pinsky

The gang finds out that Michael had to leave camp because he has the chickenpox. Into his place in Bunk 13 comes a new k

EP 2

Counselor Budnick

It's backwards weekend, and the campers have elected Budnick to be the weekend counselor, while Ug had to be a camper. A

EP 3

Telly's Tennis Match

Telly, tired of losing to another boy at tennis, thnks she needs a new metal raquet to beat him, instead of her old wood

EP 4

Dina and the Rock Star

Dina promises everyone that she will get Jamie Mallet Jr., a huge rock star, to perform at the camp dance. She finds out

EP 5

The Cursed Skull

The girls decide that they want to be away from each other, so they ask Ug to change the bunk assignments. Meanwhile, th

EP 6

Budnick Loves Dina (1)

Dina is describing to the other girls what her perfect boyfriend would be like. She then realizes that Budnick matches a

EP 7

Budnick Loves Dina (2)

Dina decides that she doesn't love Budnick after all, but Budnick still loves her. As a way to get him to stop following

EP 8

Sponge Goes to the Movies

After sleeping through the camp's Club Choice Day, Pinskey ends up in Sponge's computer club. He then decides to use the

EP 9

The Pinsky-Sponge Gazette

Pinskey and Sponge start a camp newspaper. While Sponge is writing actual news stories, Pinskey starts a gossip column,

EP 10

Capture the Flag

Donkeylips wants to play on the offensive side of the camp's Capture the Flag team, but even though he knows the strateg

EP 11

Park Ranger Mona

Mona Tibbs, the mail lady, has joined the park service to be closer to Ug. He thinks this is good because she will go ea

EP 12

Ellen Comes to Camp

Ellen, Dr. Kahn's niece, comes to visit camp, and Ug orders the campers to treat her like royalty. She is a real brat an

EP 13

Anawanna Incorporated

The campers start a birdhouse company for career day. Dina is appointed leader and Donkeylips is put in charge of produc

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