If summer camp was really like this...

This show actually reminded me of all those British boarding school drams, though obviously yankee-fied, with a much looser setting (it was sleepaway camp, not primary education) and a goofy excuse for an authority figure.





You got ten seconds to go or Daddy's gonna nail it to the chair- The Loved Ones

Mine wasn't like that... or maybe it was and I was just too uptight and socially awkward to really let loose and enjoy myself. That's probably what it was.

You saw Dingleberries?

It wasn't.

I remember my first day of camp at some hell hole called Camp Kelly in Georgia.
As I was crossing a rope bridge a kid camp counselor (who ironically resembled Bobby Budnick) yelled at me, "Hey, a--face!" I turned around. "YEAH, YOU! A--FACE!" Two other guys near him laughed.
He was maybe 13. I was 7. Fun times.
I now date women who are 10 years younger than I, but at that age a 6 year difference seemed like 30.
Later after a mandatory swim I returned to the shack where we put clothes. Someone had rubbed my underwear in dirt. It was totally coated.

I never returned to it-- one of the rare times when I successfully defied my parents' desires. When I think about these things it also reminds me of why I hated to be a child because I had 0 autonomy during those years, and I knew it.

Mine was.
Why this show will always be in my memory.