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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* The entire premise of ''[[Salute Your Shorts]].''
* ''[[Psych]]'' combines
* ''Camp Runamuck'', a short-lived '60s sitcom.
* ''Hi-De-Hi'', was a not so short-lived sitcom set in a English holiday camp.
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* ''[[Peanuts]]'' did this every summer, sometimes with insane specialized camps like Sally's "Beanbag Camp" (where all you do is lie in a beanbag, watch TV, and eat junk food) and even a fundamentalist Bible camp. The biggest example may be when all the gang are filling out applications for not going to camp. Everyone's application is accepted. Except, of course, for Charle's Brown's. He gets the letter saying that since his application has been turned down, "therefore, you are to report to the bus stop at 0800 hours."
** The TV special ''It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown'' takes place at summer camp.
** The feature film ''[[Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown]]'' has the gang attending camp and getting involved in a river raft race against a gang of [[Jerk Jock
* In ''[[Shoe]]'', Skyler got sent off, several summers, to what was supposed to be one of
== [[Theatre]] ==
* An obscure example: the off-off-Broadway kids musical ''Everything About Camp (Almost)'' is a [[Troperiffic]] look at everything that can go wrong at camp. In a typical scene, the new kids are sent on a [[Snipe Hunt]], and one of the kids is suspicious. He discovers that not only is he required to go anyway, but he's required to pay for the privilege of going. As with most examples of
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* ''[[South Park]]'' has a weight-loss camp where Cartman is the [[Only Sane Man]] who isn't impressed by the dancing mascot and his perky teenage sidekicks. Unusually, the ending suggests that even though the camp is stupidly run, they mean well and should be supported.
** They revisit the trope in a later episode called Crippled Summer. The camp is for handicapped children, a boy cheats at all of the tournament events, and oh yeah, Towelie is employed there.
* Camp [[Meaningful Name|Wannaweep]] in ''[[Kim Possible]]'' is a
** In a later episode we see Camp Wannaweep reopened and is back to it's
* "Flappy Bob's Happy Camp Learnatorium" from ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' is this, with two overly-eager counselors that are obsessed with making normally fun things as boring as possible.
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