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* Parodied in the film ''[[Wet Hot American Summer]].''

* The 1961 film ''[[The Parent Trap]]'' starts out at a semi-utopian version of one of these. Fortunately for the audience, [[It Got Worse]].

* The whole movie ''[[Daddy Day Camp]]''.

** ''Camp Cucamonga'' (1990) is another made-for-TV example.

* ''Indian Summer'' has a group of adults returning to the summer camp of their childhoods at the invitation of the camp's retiring director.

* ''[[Camp Rock]]'' is set at a summer music camp.

* ''Camp Runamuck'', a short-lived '60s sitcom.

* ''Hi-De-Hi'', was a not so short-lived sitcom set in a English holiday camp.

** The Season 14 (1982) opening week of episodes, where Big Bird goes to Camp Echo Rock for a week of fun and life lessons. Each episode opens with video of the camp bus on the way to camp, and sound cues of a cheesy, kiddie camp-type song ("Pean-a budda, jelly!") interspersing a banjo-mixed version of the main theme. The scenes themselves represent the traditional summer camp: A wooded area where Big Bird and his new friends – including an Anything Muppet named Rusty – engage in the requisite swimming, hiking, trying new foods, dealing with homesickness, etc. It is implied that Big Bird spends two weeks at camp (as one of the scenes deals with him writing a letter and wondering what's going on back home), although just three full episodes and parts of the other two – Big Bird leaving in Monday's opener, saying goodbye to his new friends on Friday – are devoted to his time at camp. Camp Echo Rock, by the way, was actually Bear Mountain in upstate New York, and it is presumed that Echo Rock is in that same vicinity.

*** A children's record, "Camp Oonie Koonie Cha," was released in 1981, featuring Big Bird and Oscar at camp. Also, a photo spread and a summary of the "Camp Echo Rock" episodes were published in the June 1983 issue of ''Sesame Street Magazine''.

* ''[[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.

 

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