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Salute Your Shorts
Title Card
Format	Comedy-Drama
Created by	Steve Slavkin
Starring	Kirk Baily Megan Berwick Michael Ray Bower Christine Cavanaugh Danny Cooksey Venus DeMilo Tim Eyster Heidi Lucas Erik MacArthur Blake Soper Steve Slavkin
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	26 (List of episodes)
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Nickelodeon
Original run	June 1, 1991 – June 29, 1992

Salute Your Shorts is an American comedy television series that aired on Nickelodeon from 1991–1992 and in reruns until 1998.

The series, based on the 1986 book Salute Your Shorts: Life at Summer Camp by Steve Slavkin, is set at the summer camp Camp Anawanna. It focuses on teenage campers, their strict and bossy counselor, and their problems with both the camp and with each other.

The title of the show comes from a common prank campers play on each other: a group of kids steals a boy's boxer shorts and raises them up a flagpole. Hence, when people see the boy's boxers waving like a flag, other kids would salute them as part of the prank.

The show was filmed at Griffith Park in Los Angeles.

Cast

• Kirk Baily — Kevin "Ug" Lee
• Megan Berwick — Z.Z. Ziff
• Michael Ray Bower — Eddie "Donkeylips" C. Gelfen
• Christine Cavanaugh — Mona Tibbs
• Danny Cooksey — Robert "Bobby" Budnick
• Venus DeMilo — Telly Radford
• Tim Eyster — Sponge Harris
• Heidi Lucas — Dina Alexander
• Erik MacArthur — Michael Stein (1991)
• Blake Soper — Ronald "Ronnie" Foster Pinsky (1992)
• Steve Slavkin — Dr. Kahn

Episodes

Season 1: 1991

After the pilot episode was picked up for a full season, all of the actors had to re-audition for their roles.^[1]

1. Michael Comes to Camp
2. Zeke, the Plumber
3. Bunk Chief Elections
4. Budnick and Michael Fake Being Sick
5. Donkeylips' Crush on Dina
6. The Radio Call-In Contest
7. Mail Carrier Mona
8. Donkeylips and Sponge Weigh In
9. Cinderella Play (note: This was the last time the show's theme song was used in its closing credits)
10. Toilet Seat Basketball
11. Brownies for Thud Mackie
12. The Treasure of Sarah Madre
13. The Environmental Party

Season 2: 1992

1. Telly and the Tennis Match
2. Goodbye Michael, Hello Pinsky
3. Counselor Budnick
4. Dina and the Rock Star
5. The Cursed Skull
6. Budnick Loves Dina - Part 1
7. Budnick Loves Dina - Part 2
8. Sponge's Night Out
9. The Pinsky-Sponge Gazette
10. Capture the Flag
11. Park Ranger Mona
12. The Wrath of Kahn, Jr.
13. Anawanna Incorporated

Awards

• 1993 — Best Young Actor Co-starring in a Cable Series — Young Artist Awards (Michael Bower)
• 1993 — Best Young Actress Co-starring in a Cable Series — Young Artist Awards (Heidi Lucas)

References

External links

• Salute Your Shorts at the Internet Movie Database
• Salute Your Shorts at TV.com
• Camp Anawanna — Fan website
• 2006 Interview with Michael "Donkeylips" Bower
• Interview with Michael Bower explaining the 'Awful Waffle'
• Donkeylips and Sponge Weigh In — Episode review