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* Parodied in the film ''[[Wet Hot American Summer]].'' |
* Parodied in the film ''[[Wet Hot American Summer]].'' |
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* 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]]'' starts out at a semi-utopian version of one of these. Fortunately for the audience, [[It Got Worse]]. |
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* Pugsly and Wednesday are sent to camp against their will in ''[[The Addams Family |
* Pugsly and Wednesday are sent to camp against their will in ''[[The Addams Family|Addams Family Values]]''. |
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* The whole movie ''[[Daddy Day Camp]]''. |
* The whole movie ''[[Daddy Day Camp]]''. |
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* ''[[Friday the 13th ( |
* ''[[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the 13 th]]'' popularized the Summer Camp settings among the [[Slasher Movies]] in the early 80's, with such examples as ''[[The Burning]]'', ''[[Sleepaway Camp]]'', ''[[Madman]]'' and ''Bodycount'' following the suite. |
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* The 1985 made-for-TV film ''[[ |
* The 1985 made-for-TV film ''[[Poison Ivy]]'' starred [[Michael J. Fox]] and was set in one of these. |
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** ''Camp Cucamonga'' (1990) is another made-for-TV example. |
** ''Camp Cucamonga'' (1990) is another made-for-TV example. |
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* ''Little Darlings'' involves two teenage girls making a [[The Bet|bet]] as to which of them will be the first to [[Sex |
* ''Little Darlings'' involves two teenage girls making a [[The Bet|bet]] as to which of them will be the first to [[Sex as Rite-Of-Passage|lose her virginity]] at a summer camp. |
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* ''Indian Summer'' has a group of adults returning to the summer camp of their childhoods at the invitation of the camp's retiring director. |
* ''Indian Summer'' has a group of adults returning to the summer camp of their childhoods at the invitation of the camp's retiring director. |
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* ''[[Camp Rock]]'' is set at a summer music camp. |
* ''[[Camp Rock]]'' is set at a summer music camp. |
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* ''Camp Runamuck'', a short-lived '60s sitcom. |
* ''Camp Runamuck'', a short-lived '60s sitcom. |
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* ''Hi-De-Hi'', was a not so short-lived sitcom set in a English holiday camp. |
* ''Hi-De-Hi'', was a not so short-lived sitcom set in a English holiday camp. |
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* ''[[Sesame Street]]'': |
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** 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. |
** 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. |
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*** 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''. |
*** 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''. |
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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." |
* ''[[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." |
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** The TV special ''It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown'' takes place at summer camp. |
** The TV special ''It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown'' takes place at summer camp. |
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** The feature film ''[[ |
** 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|Jerk Jocks]]. |
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== [[Theatre]] == |
== [[Theatre]] == |
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== [[Video Games]] == |
== [[Video Games]] == |
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* Camp Whispering Rock in ''[[ |
* Camp Whispering Rock in ''[[Psychonauts]]'' has the bad food (Ford ''really'' can't cook), cheesy arts-and-crafts, the [[Jerk Jock]] bully, and more preteen hormones running rampant than you can shake a stick at... But since the counselors are frackin' super spies out to teach the children how to utilize their psychic powers, that pretty much makes up for everything. Including the pyrokinetic cougars in the woods. |
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* ''Friday the 13th'''s Camp setting is revisited in the [[Friday the 13th ( |
* ''Friday the 13th'''s Camp setting is revisited in the [[Friday the 13th (video game)|NES Game]]. |
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== [[Web Original]] == |
== [[Web Original]] == |
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* [http://www.homestarrunner.com/tgs11.html One issue] of ''[[ |
* [http://www.homestarrunner.com/tgs11.html One issue] of ''[[Teen Girl Squad]]'' had three of the girls going to "Camp Firstbassawassa", which had recently installed "working toilet paper" ("I'm gonna miss the oak leaves"). Whats-Her-Face's bunkmate turns out to be an emaciated, diabetic raccoon girl, the boys' camp across the lake turns out to be a "Cosplayover Camp" inhabited by nerds like Sci-Fi Greg, and Whats-Her-Face and the Ugly One get killed by a chainsaw-wielding "Maniac in a Speedo!" |
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== [[Western Animation]] == |
== [[Western Animation]] == |
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