Time to kick back! Hollywood is buzzing about how they’re relaxing this summer.
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Although it only had two seasons, the Nickelodeon sitcom Salute Your Shorts has remained a cult classic since it premiered 31 years ago.
The show follows a group of teenagers, as well as their strict counselor Kevin “Ug” Lee (Kirk Baily), who are spending their summers at Camp Anawana. The ensemble cast featured characters including camp bully Bobby Budnick (Danny Cooksey), boy genius Sponge Harris (Tim Eyster), tomboy Telly Radford (Venus DeMilo Thomas), nature lover Z.Z. Ziff (Megan Berwick), snobby princess Dina Alexander (Heidi Lucas) and comic relief Eddie C. “Donkeylips” Gelfand (Michael Bower).
Steve Slavkin, who appeared on the show as Dr. Kahn, adapted the Salute Your Shorts pilot from his 1986 book of the same name. In a 2017 interview with PopSugar, Slavkin said that the show was his big break.
“This is the first big project I ever did. I was 26 years old when I sold the show to Nickelodeon. I’d written a book called Salute Your Shorts with my friend Tom Hill — he and I had met at summer camp together. So he and I wrote a humor book together, and then we sold it to Nickelodeon,” he explained.
The writer added that he knew he was taking a different approach than other sitcom creators at the time. “I tried to jam-pack as much as I possibly could into each episode. I had just come out of film school; I wanted to make a mark, I wanted to do things different, I wanted to put the camera in different places, and I wanted to tell stories a different way. Kids’ television at the time was mostly sitcoms, so we were going to do comedy a different way. We were going to do jump cuts, make little movies, and do it without a laugh track,” he said.
Cooksey spoke to PopSugar along with Slavkin, commenting on his relationship with
Time to kick back! Hollywood is buzzing about how they’re relaxing this summer.
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