''Salute Your Shorts'' is an American television

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created by Steve Slavkin and produced by

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, which aired on

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from July 4, 1991, to September 12, 1992. Focused around the life of young campers at the fictional Camp Anawanna, the show was based on Slavkin's 1986 book ''Salute Your Shorts: Life at Summer Camp'' that he co-wrote with Thomas Hill. Despite its short run and limited availability on home media, the show was consistently one of the highest-rated cable programs.

Premise

The series is set at the fictional

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, Camp Anawanna (a play on the exclamation "I don't want to"). It focuses on teenage campers, their strict and bossy counselor, and the various capers and jocularities they engage in. The first season focused on the power struggle between upstanding newcomer Michael Stein (Erik MacArthur) and camp bully Robert "Bobby" Budnick (

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) as they vied for the attention of girls at Camp Anawanna. Ronald "Ronnie" Foster Pinsky ( Blake Soper) replaced Michael as the main

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in the second season, countering Budnick as a suave,

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ladies-man. The title of the show comes from a common

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campers play on each other: a group of children steal a boy's

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and raise them up a flagpole. Hence, when people see them waving like a

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, other children salute them as part of the prank. In the first episode of the series, Michael falls victim to this prank. Kevin "Ug" Lee (

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) served as

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to all the children as their dim-witted camp counselor. Dr. Kahn (Steve Slavkin) provided announcements to the campers and staff over the

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as the unseen camp director. Mona Tibbs (

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) made recurring appearances as Ug's love interest. Peripheral campers included Budnick's overweight accomplice Eddie C. "Donkey Lips" Gelfand ( Michael Bower), child genius Sponge Harris ( Tim Eyster), stuck-up princess Dina Alexander (

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), tomboy Telly Radford (Venus DeMilo), and nature-loving Z.Z. Ziff (Megan Berwick).

Episodes

Production

Steve Slavkin was commissioned by Nickelodeon to write a

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based on his 1986 book ''Salute Your Shorts: Life at Summer Camp'' that he co-wrote with Thomas Hill. Nickelodeon was under pressure in 1990 to create original programming that could compete with

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, while also shedding its image as "the

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network". '' Double Dare'' had been a major success for the network since its premiere in 1986, but the channel lacked in-house narrative programming and in-house animation. ''

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'' launched on

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in 1989 and showed there was an audience for children's programming about

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directed the pilot episode of the series, which was filmed at

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Boys Camp in March 1990. It starred Ian Giatti as Michael,

as Budnick,

as Ug, Michael Bower as Donkey Lips,

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as Sponge, Kelley Parker as Dina, Teri Johnston as Telly, and Alexandra Kurhan as Z.Z. Miller had previously directed Bower, Johnston and Parker in his

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''. The pilot aired Saturday, October 6, 1990, at 5:30pm EST on Nickelodeon as the

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''Salute Your Shorts''. The show was re-cast after being picked up to series in February 1991, as many of the young actors had outgrown their roles since the pilot was filmed. The only cast members retained from the pilot were

and Michael Bower. Bower's character of Donkey Lips was the antagonist of the pilot, with Cooksey playing his sidekick Budnick. Their roles were reversed for the series after Cooksey had grown taller than Bower. PondFranCanyon

Filming of the first season's initial order of 6 episodes took place in April and May 1991. The series was allotted $180,000 per episode, which was considered

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. Interiors for the show were filmed inside a

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in Sun Valley. Exteriors were filmed at

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and the

Boys Camp. Some exterior shots of the bunks were done using three-foot high miniatures. The show's music was composed by Ed Alton, who had previously composed the music for ''

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''. The opening

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was a mock Camp Anawanna alma mater composed by Alton, with lyrics by Steve Slavkin. The cast sang the opening theme live over a pre-recorded track of Alton playing the

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. The first season premiered with a special

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broadcast on Thursday, July 4, 1991 (

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), with new episodes airing Saturdays at 5:30pm EST thereafter. Filming for the remaining 7 episodes of the first season took place in August and September 1991. The series was renewed for a 13-episode second season in October 1991. Cast members were flown to

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for promotional appearances at

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in December 1991.

and Michael Bower defeated

and Megan Berwick on an episode of ''

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''.

also joined Berwick, Bower, Cooksey and Lucas for an outdoor

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. Cooksey has said this trip is when he realized how popular the series had become, with fans singing the show's theme song upon seeing the cast. Nickelodeon Studios in Hard Rock Cafe

Erik MacArthur left the show just before second season filming began in April 1992, so his character of Michael was written out and replaced with Blake Soper as Pinsky. Soper was scheduled to play Scotty Rex in the episode "Telly and the Tennis Match" before producers asked him to join the series full-time. Steve Slavkin

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of filming to protest

denying the cast raises for potential third and fourth seasons. Nickelodeon was infamous for underpaying its

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, with

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admitting the network only paid him $150 per episode while starring in '' Fifteen''. Slavkin never returned, and the final two weeks of second season filming were completed without him. The second season premiered with a special

broadcast on Friday, June 26, 1992, with new episodes airing Saturdays at 6:00pm EST thereafter. The series was not renewed for a third season after the network wanted production moved to

, but most of the cast was unwilling to relocate from

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. Nickelodeon was under pressure by parent company Viacom to reduce its budget so that

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could fund production of ''

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''.

Reception

Critical

''Salute Your Shorts holds a 75% "Fresh" rating among critics on

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. Craig Tomashoff of ''

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'' gave the series premiere a rating of B+, comparing it favorably to ''

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''. Lynn Heffley of ''

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'' described the series premiere as, "...a general celebration of crudity, stupidity and irrelevance." The Twizard ranked the first season episode "The Clinic" as the best of the series, further explaining that the episode, "...breaks down the psychology of Budnick’s aggression and shows him at his most vulnerable". Randall Colburn of '' The A.V. Club'' praised the second season addition of Blake Soper as Pinsky, arguing that while he was not a clear protagonist like Michael was during the first season, his neutrality strengthened the ensemble.

Awards

The show was nominated for Outstanding Young Ensemble Cast in a Television Series at the

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on December 1, 1991.

was nominated for Best Young Actor Starring in a Cable Series at the

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on January 16, 1993. Michael Bower won Best Young Actor Co-Starring in a Cable Series at the

on January 16, 1993.

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was nominated in the same category.

won Best Young Actress Co-Starring in a Cable Series at the

on January 16, 1993. Megan Berwick and Venus DeMilo were nominated in the same category.

Ratings

The show was the second highest-rated cable television series with children aged 6–11 at the start of its second season in 1992. Despite being in reruns for four years, the show finished as one of the 15 highest-rated

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series of 1996. The show last aired on

June 7, 2004, after winning a fan vote as part of the network's 25th-anniversary

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programming.

Cultural impact

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has preserved the first season episode "Sponge Saga" in its

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archive. The museum curates select television programming for its, "artistic achievement, social impact, or historic significance".

recorded the album ''

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'' with his band

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during filming of the second season in 1992. The song "Devil in the Angel" was written by Cooksey and

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for the two-part episode "Budnick and Dina in Love", but was left out of the show due to time constraints. Blake Soper and Michael Bower sang backing vocals on the album. Following the show's cancellation,

offered Steve Slavkin the opportunity to write and produce '' Running the Halls'', which aired as part of their Saturday Morning TNBC block in 1993. Ed Alton composed the show's music,

served as director, and Michael Bower guest starred in "The Big Kiss". Blake Soper wrote and performed the song "Spectacular Views (Salute My Shorts!)" with his band

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, which was featured as a

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on the

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release of ''

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'' in 2001. Cooksey sang backing vocals on the album. Awful Waffle is a

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band that was formed in

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, in 2006. That same year, professional wrestler Chuck Taylor innovated a piledriver called the Awful Waffle as his finishing move. Both are references to a prank of the same name from the first season episode "First Day". Rilokiley

Cooksey reprised his role of Budnick in 2007 for the "All My Friends"

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, which was the first single from '' A Few More Published Studies'' by

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. Jason Zimbler (''

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''),

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('' Double Dare'') and

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(''

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'') co-starred in the video. The show's theme song was sampled in the track "Salute Your Shorts" on the 2009 album ''Snick @ Nite'' by

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. "Anawanna Blues" is a song referencing the show and its characters from the 2012 album ''This American Way of Life'' by The Downrights. Cooksey, Bower, Slavkin and Venus DeMilo were featured in the 2018 documentary ''The Orange Years'', sharing their experiences on the show and exploring its place in

history. ''

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'' referenced the series in the title of their 2020 episode "Salute Your Sllort". A retrospective documentary about the series titled ''Forever Anawanna'' is in production, and will feature new interviews with the original cast and crew.

Reunions

Members of the cast and crew reunited on September 15, 2012, for a Comikaze Expo

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. In attendance were Andrea Sherman (script supervisor),

, Ed Alton (composer), Erik MacArthur,

, Larry Shapiro (associate producer), Michael Bower, Steve Slavkin, Tim Eyster and Venus DeMilo. Megan Berwick did not attend and sent a video message. A 25th-anniversary reunion occurred on May 28, 2015, during Everything Is Festival at Hollywood Theatre. In attendance were Erik MacArthur,

, Megan Berwick, Michael Bower, Steve Slavkin, Tim Eyster and Venus DeMilo.

did not attend as he was recording an album with the band Shelter Dogs.

and Steve Slavkin appeared on June 9, 2017, as part of the

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. Members of the cast reunited on August 20, 2019, for a ''Salute Your Shorts'' trivia night at Nickelodeon's ''

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. In attendance were

, Megan Berwick, Michael Bower, Steve Slavkin and Venus DeMilo. Michael Bower and Venus DeMilo appeared on October 12, 2019, as part of the

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after party at

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. They performed the ''Salute Your Shorts'' theme song onstage with The Flux Capacitors.

Distribution

Reruns of the show continued airing regularly on

from 1993 to 1999. The series was never released into

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, but has aired on other Nickelodeon branded channels.

in the

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aired reruns of the show from 1993 to 1994.

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aired reruns of the show in 2003 as part of Camp GAS.

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aired reruns of the show from 2011 to 2015 as part of

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Home media

The complete series has never been released on any form of home media. When TVShowsOnDVD.com shut down their website in May 2018, ''Salute Your Shorts'' was the #1 user-voted television show that had yet to see a physical release on DVD or

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. Tim Eyster attempted to work with the rightsholder on a DVD release, but it was determined the cost of music licensing and

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to the cast would make such a release unprofitable. As of 2022,

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has twelve episodes of the show available for online purchase.

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and

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offer ten of those same episodes.

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{{Former Nickelodeon original series 1990s American single-camera sitcoms 1990s American teen sitcoms 1990s Nickelodeon original programming 1991 American television series debuts 1992 American television series endings English-language television shows Television series about summer camps Television series about teenagers Television shows based on books Television shows filmed in Los Angeles