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{{quote|''All the counselors hate the waiters,''
{{quote|''All the counselors hate the waiters,''
''And the lake has alligators,''
''And the lake has alligators,''
''And [[Drill Sergeant Nasty|the head coach wants no sissies]],''
''And [[Drill Sergeant Nasty|the head coach wants no sissies]],''
''So he reads to us from something called [[Ulysses]].''|'''[[Allan Sherman]]''', ''Hello Muddah Hello Faddah (A Letter from Camp)''}}
''So he reads to us from something called [[Ulysses]].''|'''[[Allan Sherman]]''', ''Hello Muddah Hello Faddah (A Letter from Camp)''}}


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* The ''[[Meatballs]]'' films are all over this trope.
* The ''[[Meatballs]]'' films are all over this trope.
* Parodied in the film ''[[Wet Hot American Summer]].''
* 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 1961 film ''[[The Parent Trap (1961 film)|The Parent Trap]]'' starts out at a semi-utopian version of one of these. Fortunately for the audience, [[It Got Worse]].
* Pugsly and Wednesday are sent to camp against their will in ''[[The Addams Family|Addams Family Values]]''.
* Pugsly and Wednesday are sent to camp against their will in ''[[The Addams Family|Addams Family Values]]''.
* The whole movie ''[[Daddy Day Camp]]''.
* The whole movie ''[[Daddy Day Camp]]''.
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** ''Nos jours heureux'' (2006) is a comedy about a group of kids and the adults who try to keep them in line for a whole summer.
** ''Nos jours heureux'' (2006) is a comedy about a group of kids and the adults who try to keep them in line for a whole summer.
** ''C'est pas ma faute!'' (1999): in this one the main character isn't in summer camp but fights against the children who are during his holidays. Summer camp life, though, is still the same.
** ''C'est pas ma faute!'' (1999): in this one the main character isn't in summer camp but fights against the children who are during his holidays. Summer camp life, though, is still the same.
** ''Scout Toujours...'' (1985): a group of unruly scouts manage to break their crazy scoutmaster's leg just before summer camp, so they end up with a guy who has no experience with children. Of course it's played for laugh and everything works out fine in the end.
** ''Scout Toujours...'' (1985): a group of unruly scouts manage to break their crazy scoutmaster's leg just before summer camp, so they end up with a guy who has no experience with children. Of course it's played for laugh and everything works out fine in the end.
** Although most Summer camp movies are comedies, ''La meilleure façon de marcher'' (1976) is the exception. It's a very screwed-up movie about bullying in a closed environment, in which one camp counselor accidentally sees another dress up as a woman and leverages the information to psychologically torture him for months. The children, of course, notice nothing.
** Although most Summer camp movies are comedies, ''La meilleure façon de marcher'' (1976) is the exception. It's a very screwed-up movie about bullying in a closed environment, in which one camp counselor accidentally sees another dress up as a woman and leverages the information to psychologically torture him for months. The children, of course, notice nothing.


== [[Literature]] ==
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Magazines]] ==
== [[Magazines]] ==
* ''[[Mad Magazine]]'' has also done this every summer. One old piece from the 70s had a camp where the only medical supplies are aspirin and calamine lotion, so every sick and injured camper goes untreated...until we meet a lucky boy who's "got poison ivy, and a terrible headache from worrying about it." A more recent strip had [[Butt Monkey]] Monroe sent to a camp that made him long for the [[Crapsack World]] back home.
* ''[[Mad Magazine]]'' has also done this every summer. One old piece from the 70s had a camp where the only medical supplies are aspirin and calamine lotion, so every sick and injured camper goes untreated...until we meet a lucky boy who's "got poison ivy, and a terrible headache from worrying about it." A more recent strip had [[Butt Monkey]] Monroe sent to a camp that made him long for the [[Crapsack World]] back home.


== [[Music]] ==
== [[Music]] ==
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* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' has a darker-than-usual example in Camp Krusty, where the kids are used as slave labor. The tie-in video game ''Escape From Camp Deadly'' featured, among other things, a hide-and-seek game where Bart is Team A and Team B consists of everybody else (that, as well as a very lethal [[Food Fight]]).
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' has a darker-than-usual example in Camp Krusty, where the kids are used as slave labor. The tie-in video game ''Escape From Camp Deadly'' featured, among other things, a hide-and-seek game where Bart is Team A and Team B consists of everybody else (that, as well as a very lethal [[Food Fight]]).
** Also Homer and Marge met each other for the first time as kid on two neighbouring summer camps, but because of mistaken identity, didn't realize it until later.
** Also Homer and Marge met each other for the first time as kid on two neighbouring summer camps, but because of mistaken identity, didn't realize it until later.
* The entire premise of ''[[Camp Lazlo]],'' where most of the humor comes from the happy-go-lucky main character actually enjoying the place.
* The entire premise of ''[[Camp Lazlo]],'' where most of the humor comes from the happy-go-lucky main character actually enjoying the place.
* ''[[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.
* ''[[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.
** 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 Summer Campy in flashbacks (and is responsible for pretty much every one of Ron's neuroses and phobias). By the time of the show, it's no longer Summer Campy and has become an abandoned camp of horrors.
* Camp [[Meaningful Name|Wannaweep]] in ''[[Kim Possible]]'' is a Summer Campy in flashbacks (and is responsible for pretty much every one of Ron's neuroses and phobias). By the time of the show, it's no longer Summer Campy and has become an abandoned camp of horrors.
** In a later episode we see Camp Wannaweep reopened and is back to it's Summer Campy status, this time as a cheerleading camp {{spoiler|which Ron discovers is ''still'' a camp of horrors}}.
** In a later episode we see Camp Wannaweep reopened and is back to it's Summer Campy status, this time as a cheerleading camp {{spoiler|which Ron discovers is ''still'' a camp of horrors}}.
* "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.
* "Flappy Bob's Happy Camp Learnatorium" from ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'' is this, with two overly-eager counselors that are obsessed with making normally fun things as boring as possible.


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